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Ali Hiller Rorick recently moved back to New York City after spending two years in Cambridge, MA while her husband was in graduate school. They spent five weeks traveling around Japan and Europe, and met up with Jenna Dodds, who is currently living in London but moving back to New York City this fall, for a weekend in Bavaria!
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Tessica Glancey 3726 Connecticut Avenue NW, Apt. 105 Washington, DC 20008 215-534-6406 tessicaglancey@gmail.com
Greg Francfort continues to live in New York and work at Bank of America as a Research Analyst covering the restaurant industry. He subsists almost entirely on Big Macs and Whoppers. He is very excited for the wedding of Brody Sanford and Bryanna Mayes ’09 next year.
Theo Brown and Alexa Maher are excited for another fall at PDS. Alexa spent the summer road tripping out west to National Parks across the country. Tess Glancey continues to work on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. She serves as Communications Advisor for the Majority Staff of the House Homeland Security Committee. The highlight of her job is staffing her boss Chairman Michael McCaul at Tess Glancey ’08 with his television Wolf Blitzer interviews in studio. She also had a chance to chat with Wolf Blitzer at the CNN studios in D.C. She attended the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio in July, where she was a part of the large communications operation responsible for booking surrogates on TV.
Emma Morehouse Hatcher, her husband Marshall, and their dog, Bell, moved to Memphis in March and have jumped into the world of young entrepreneurs. Their fledgling business is an adult intramural sports league and social club featuring ultimate Frisbee, softball, flag football, basketball, dodgeball, and trivia nights. Memphis Sports Revolution was launched in early June and will host its first season in early August. Check it out at www.memphissportsrev.com and pass the word! Marshall will be teaching at Presbyterian
Day School in the fall and is looking forward to working with Steve Hancock, PDS’s former Middle School head, again! Pat Murphy has been working in New York over the summer as an editor for a political documentary project. In June a film he directed, Psychedelia, played at the New Jersey International Film Festival and won the award for Best Documentary. Later in the summer, he headed out to Los Angeles to work on a movie and backpack in the Sierra Mountains. Hannah Epstein has been continuing to work for NFL Films, working as a cinematographer on the NFL/ Hannah Epstein ’08 at HBO show “HardKnocks. work
2009
Ashley Smoots 2201 St. Clair Drive NE Atlanta, GA 30322 267-987-9448 asmoots@gmail.com Vinay Trivedi 239 Park Avenue South, Apt 9D New York, NY 10003 267-229-2425 vt1090@gmail.com From Ashley:
Rachel Bristol married David Arnold in Portland, Maine on August 6th.
Spenser Gabin is currently working as a freelance videographer, photographer, and documentarian. He just spent six months working on a permaculture farm in Costa Rica while developing their marketing (photos and videos mostly). He joined a company called Blacksheep (http://weareblacksheep.org/, website under construction) that’s focused on gathering investors to regenerate a lot of the degraded cattle land in the region and he’s done quite a bit of marketing and advertising work for them. Recently Spenser started his own podcast on the side as well and he plans on doing more documentary and marketing
work for environmental, political, and social causes in the coming years. (http://spensergabin.com/blog/)
When Sara Cook is not working full-time at her job as a media planner for a pharmaceutical ad agency in Philadelphia, she makes and sells abstract oil paintings. She had a show hanging at a brewery in New Hope in the spring and currently has pieces hanging in La Va Cafe on South Street in Philadelphia. Sara had a showing of her work at an artist’s studio for FirstFriday in Old City on September 2nd. She has been taking ceramics and jewelry making classes, as well. Sara would love for people to check out her artwork on saracookart.com and feel free to contact her at saracookart@gmail. com to meet up with any other artists or chat about painting/art shows! Also, Sara will be the maid of honor in her sister Ellen Cook’s ’06 wedding on New Year’s Eve — shout out to her!
Class Notes
Allie Crouse moved from Boston to Denver at the end of August. She still is employed by Education First, supporting international exchange students in the US during their academic year abroad. She hopes to visit Boston and Maine regularly to visit her twin Nina Crouse and sister, Carly Crouse Nicholas ’05 and new niece Charlotte.
Andrew Krech graduated from Elon University in 2013. He worked as a photojournalist in Wilkes-Barre, PA for two years before moving to Greensboro, NC, where he currently works as a photojournalist for the Greensboro News & Record newspaper.
After teaching history Andrew Krech ’09 at the Emma Willard School in Troy, NY for two years while earning her MAT and New York state teaching certification, Devon Light-Wills spent this past year back in Princeton training, teaching, and performing various circus arts. She currently teaches at Circus Place in Hillsborough, NJ, and specializes in aerial fabric, trapeze, lyra, acrobatics, contortion, tight wire, and hooping. She plans to return to her academic teaching career after living out her childhood dream of circus performing for as long as her body allows.
Devon Light-Wills ’09 in the “Creature” pose in aerial fabric Max Popkin is living in Philadelphia and is the Director of Leasing and Marketing for Modern Recycled Spaces.
Arial photo of VerdEnergia, taken via drone by Spenser Gabin ’09
Sara Sherman earned her master’s in clinical psychology in Chicago in July 2015 and is currently there working on her doctorate in clinical psychology, with an emphasis in children & adolescents. She regularly engages in FALL 2016