visiting for years. Joe and Monica met while they were working summer jobs on Cape Cod and maintained a longdistance relationship through college – him at B.C. , her at Elon. They are living on Beacon Hill in Boston and are very excited to start their lives together.
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Joseph Jasinski started his first journalism gig in August as a sports writer for The Herald newspaper in Jasper, Ind., about an hour from where he went to college in Bloomington. He says, “So far, covering high school basketball in the Hoosier state has been a memorable experience for me.”
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John Howie has been promoted to associate in the corporate strategy section of JP Morgan Chase in New York.
’08
James Hurlbert is living in Germany on a Fulbright grant and traveling around Europe. Bo Burnham was included in the January 2013 Vanity Fair comedy issue which was guest edited by Judd Apatow. Bo was featured with other rising comics Apatow says are doing great work right now. You can also see a clip of Bo and the others on the Vanity Fair website.
’09
Christopher Leone is working on social media coverage for the Global Rallycross Championship which runs racecars at X Games and the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, among other places. Drivers include Tanner Foust (who also hosts Top Gear in the U.S.), Brian Deegan (a freestyle motocross legend), Ken Block (driver in the famous Gymkhana videos) and Travis Pastrana (who debuted at X Games in his teens and has raced everything from motocross to NASCAR). Chris’ posts can be found on their website, www.global-rallycross.com. Andrew Hannigan backpacked through Brazil in February 2012, and was there for Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. He trekked through Chapada Diamantina National Park in central Brazil and spent a week in the Amazon. He is a senior at Dartmouth majoring in computer science and writing his senior theses in algorithm design. He is music director of his a capella group, the Dartmouth Cords. He’s enjoying his senior year including lots of pond hockey and skiing. Next year he will be working for MDT Advisers in Boston. Chris Fitzpatrick serves as president of the Boston College Model United Nations Club. This winter they hosted their inaugural conference for high school students. As former president of St. John’s Prep’s MUN, and the secretary-general at the 2009
Bo Burnham ’08 (far left) as pictured in the January 2013 issue of Vanity Fair.
SJPMUN Conference, he was delighted to welcome the Prep delegation to BC for this event.
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Dan Simeone is a communications and cinema studies major at Northeastern University. He recently completed his first co-op job with Lunchpail Productions in South Boston. Eric Clopper is physics and mathematical economics double major at Colgate University. He is working on a graduate level energy technology textbook at Harvard University and will spend the spring semester at the University of Wollongong in Australia. Just back from Australia is Danny Walsh, who studied for a semester in Melbourne and then spent a month backpacking and living in the mountains of New Zealand. Danny is now in a co-op semester at Northeastern working as a biomechanical engineer and doing research and development on surgical devices in the field of sports medicine. He is also working with a startup non-profit called the B.Good Family Foundation through which local Boston runners fundraise with the help of a corporate sponsor, b.good, to run the Boston Marathon. Funds raised will provide grants to individuals who are
trying to effect positive change in the community.
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David Peters is a sophomore at Boston College majoring in psychology and on a pre-medicine track. He’s hoping to go to medical school and become a pediatrician. David serves with the AHANA Leadership Council Volunteer Corps. He went to an academically low achieving part of Mississippi with that group to volunteer in schools and after-school programs, to learn first-hand about the education gap and education reform, and to host panel discussions about college and preparing for college at both a charter school where students are strongly considering college and a local public high school where most students are not even considering applying to college. He also volunteers weekly at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in the emergency department with the radiology team. He is a member of BC’s all-male step team called “SC”, a predominantly African-American step dance team which is perhaps the most popular performing arts group on campus.
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