Richard Norman (03) attended Napa Valley College and currently works in a winery in Napa, CA. Veronika Chan (03) is working for a global company that prides itself on diversity and global networks— synonymous with her experiences at SAS, a melting pot of many cultures. Victor Mahillon (03) is working as a recruiter at a venture capital firm. Wes Schmidt (03) is a certified floodplain manager for the FEMA Map Information exchange, helping to minimize flooding hazards around the United States. Andrew Bertasso (04) is working at DIRECTV in ad sales. He has been married for 4 years and had his first child last October. Elizabeth Gawlik (04) graduated in May 2008 from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently working at Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Heather Wigmore (04) has just started a new job at the Trisha Brown Dance Company in New York. Silvia Bernardini (04) lives in New York and works at Ernst and Young. She frequently meets up with former SASers on weekends. Lesley Fredin (04) graduated from George Washington Law School this year and is working at Wilmer Hale in Washington, DC.
Notes & Quotes
Nicole DeFord (05) is happily employed at STATS. She is most active with their SportVU business and spends a lot of time in Green Bay for the NFL and Houston, Dallas and Oklahoma City for the NBA. She took a short trip home to Asia in April, visited Srinual in Chiang-Mai and checked in at SAS. Says her mom, Shelley, “Only third-culture Asian kids would fly to Asia for four days!”
Chelsea Park (06) visited Singapore over the Christmas holidays. She is an executive with Samsung Electronics in Korea. During her SAS days, she was a volunteer at the Leprosy Home, and she wanted to do something for the residents when she visited. The director of the home suggested that individual hong baos would be most appreciated, so Chelsea left a contribution at SAS, which the high school volunteers divided into individual packets and handed out to the residents. The director announced that the gift was from an SAS student who had visited them in years past and was still interested in their well-being. Pictured above is Lim Ah Lee receiving a hong bao from Gu Hyug Kwon (11) and Jason Li (12). Chantale Wilson (05) is a master’s/Ph.D. candidate in industrial/organizational psychology at the University of Akron. She keeps in touch with Kay Miyoshi (05) back home in Dallas. Alexander Lloyd (06) graduated from Dartmouth in June 2010 and now works for Healthcare Chaplaincy in New York City. He plans to attend medical school in the near future. Benjamin Spalter (06) is working in corporate development at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Joshua Velson (06) is currently at the Cornell Graduate School of Chemical Engineering in Ithaca, NY after graduating with a bachelor of science degree from MIT.
Caitlin Albany (05) and Kay Miyoshi (05) have been best friends since sixth grade. Caitlin attended Saint Mary’s College and is now working at JP Morgan Chase in Columbus, Ohio.
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University majoring in entomologist and environmental studies. Clare graduated from Lehigh University, majoring in global studies, English and Russian. Elizabeth is currently studying at Smith College, MA. Ellen Wuest (07) is in an occupational therapy graduate program at Boston University’s Sargent College. Mallika Rao (07) graduated in May 2010 from NYU with a degree in religious studies and minors in French and South Asian studies. She writes a food blog in her free time at www.maltartare.com. Nicole Schmitz (07) worked as a copy editor last summer at World Scientific in Singapore. She is studying history at Wheaton College in Massachusetts.
Kristin Liu (06) lives in New York City and is interning at the Met in the education and Asian art departments. She loves it.
Ryan Fenwick (07) graduated from Santa Clara University in June 2010 with a major in finance and a minor in international business.
Liz Bowers (06) is working at Nexx Systems in Massachusetts.
Michelle Schmitz (07) received a grant from the University of Chicago Human Rights internship program to work with UNAIDS in Malawi. She graduated in June with a BS in biology and a minor in statistics and human rights.
Priya Ashok (06) is studying law at Northeastern University. Sarah Breeden (07), Clare Ryan (07) and Elizabeth Breeden (09) visited SAS in June. Sarah graduated from
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