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four years in Atlanta as much as I did at South Kent (though they were quite different experiences). I am still in Atlanta, working at a Cognitive Linguistics Systems lab as a under/pre-graduate researcher. I am preparing to take the LSAT in June and will continue my academics in the States for a couple more years. Due to my bad knee I was unable to fulfill my service in the military. Doo, Sung-Wook,and Paul Oh are all in the army and... Doo looks different now. Like Todd Gennings. You might not be able to recognize him at the first sight. My best to all my SKS teachers. I would love to come by for this coming five year reunion, but I won’t be in the States to join in. However, I will be eventually coming to the Hillside.”
environment. Hope to see everyone this summer!”
Daniel Rheinbay visited South Kent this summer. He writes: “I figured it was about time to show my girlfriend the place where I spent one of the most wonderful years of my life :) We spent a couple of days with Andrew Fink in Boston, a few days in Manhattan, spent a week with Tano DiMarco and his wife in Rome, NY, took a day trip to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, and finally headed back to Kennebunk to take a whale watching tour. I was enrolled in a corporate-linked study program and majored in business information systems which, among other things, took me to Auckland for four months last winter. I received my B.S. in September and decided to stay with the corporation, so I joined the IT Governance Department of Daimler in Stuttgart. I am hoping to make it to the Hillside for my five-year reunion. I’m thrilled to find out what everyone’s been doing during the past five years. I would love to see South Kent re-join the ASSIST program. I’ve served on the board of the ASSIST Alumni Club for the past five years and have met quite a few South Kent ASSIST alumni, all of whom would love to see South Kent giving ASSIST scholars the opportunity to spend a year in such a wonderful learning
Will Goldsholl continues to follow his broadcasting trajectory initiated with South Kent’s Advanced Media Group (AMG). “Though this time,” he notes, “I’m getting paid for it! Unfortunately this is so low-tech compared to what the South Kent’s AMG guys do that I work solo with just a mic and comp, and the webcasts are practically impossible to watch. Nothing near AMG calibre but still fun. Caught a few casts this year from the SKS guys. You all just keep getting better. Not sure how you do it!”
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Kyle Berry: “I am currently in my final semester at Methodist University in Fayetteville, NC. On the golf team for the #1 ranked Division 3 team in the country. Following a seven month internship, I will graduate in December 2010 and be a certified PGA Professional.”
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Byron Vega played a significant role on the University of Kentucky’s nationally ranked men’s soccer team this fall as a freshman. Byron balanced his responsibilities to the tune of a 3.5 GPA and was accepted into the school’s engineering program.
Former Faculty Doug Denham ’65: “I am busier now than I have ever been before… it’s not supposed to work out that way when one is nearing retirement, but such is life and the circumstances I’m in at the moment. Not only am I teaching a full load, but I’m also Dean of the ninth grade at AA (174 squirrelly ones that I watch over)… and coordinator for the 8th and 9th grade Spanish teachers to boot! Was in SKS in early July spending a night with the Browns. Visited the School for a couple of hours. The place looks great. New dorm (next to my old abode) was awesome! Dina is in San Francisco with her husband and two kids and holding their own rather well. Bill is in Washington shepherding congressional and senate VIPs to far off lands and doing things he’s not supposed able to talk about too much. He’s now a Lieutenant Colonel in the USAF. All is well here. “ Christopher Hurshman is in the second year of his graduate program at Yale in comparative literature. “I continue to learn more and more about less and less and, before long, I will know all there is to know about nothing. Until that point, I watch anxiously as the job market for humanities PhDs collapses.” Former faculty Pixie and current faculty, Woody Brown, recently returned from a four-month teaching exchange with the Guang Ming High School in Shanghai. More details and beautiful photography are available on their trip blog, at http://woodpix. wordpress.com. Chad Mills lives with his partner, Robyn, and dog, Ruby, near Hanover, NH. He writes: “I have to admit that the first place I look when I get the SKS magazine is to see what students have done after they left SKS. So now it is my turn. I left South Kent to follow a passion and do an in-depth study of organic farm-
Former faculty member Chad Mills enjoying a reflective moment on a beach in Tulum, Mexico.
ing. I spent two season teaching at the Farm School in Athol, MA. I spent many hours with my hands in the dirt, driving tractors, and tending to sheep, pigs, chickens, and cows. In March as I was helping to bring a lamb into the world, I felt I was understanding nature. Then in August we had a freak hail storm that destroyed half of our crops. I realized that I still had much to learn. I continued my study of organic farming on a 50-acre vegetable farm in Vermont with a farmer who started the Vermont organic movement 30 years ago. Again I realized I had much to learn. This fall as the farm wound down, I took a job teaching at Hartford Career and Technology Center in Hartford, Vermont. It is great to be back in the classroom but a little difficult to be inside, away from the natural world. After four months as a public school teacher I had a recurring thought: there was still so much that I wanted to learn. The moral of this story? It is never too late to learn something new. Do it well.”