class notes… Photos (L to R): Ned Lederer ‘05 measuring handicapped kids for wheelchairs; Alex Simon ‘09 directed Como Estabamos starring Drew Connick ‘09; Middlebury Toads: Nick Orr ‘10, Max Hoffman ‘10, Alex Macmillan ‘10, Sebastian Schell ‘10, and Ian Bearden ’12
ing places in this world and recently we took the show to a stage that has never been available to us previously—television! Light Wire Theater auditioned for America’s Got Talent and I was with them. If you could, please spread the word and keep watching!!” (Go to blogs.thacher.org/classnotes to watch their audition.) WARD C. SORRICK has recently made a big career transition; he moved from store manager at AT&T to account manager for an online video production and marketing company in San Francisco called RockBridge Productions. He is also working as producer on four independent feature films under a company he co-founded called Electrum Films. You may catch him visiting and working in Los Angeles when he is not running around northern California with a film crew! He wishes the best to his fellow Toads and offers his place in SOMA to anyone visiting the Bay Area. Or contact him to rendezvous for food!
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Pantanal, and Sao Paolo. We plan to travel to Buenos Aires and through Argentina in December, then cross into Chile via Patagonia, where we will trek for a while. We’ll continue traveling in Chile through February. The plan is open-ended; so if any fellow alums have recommendations for places to visit, trek, or volunteer on that general route, please let me know!” MARK O. WOLCOTT writes, “I moved to San Diego in August, drawn by warmer weather and a change of scene— apparently the wrong direction since so many of you are moving to the Bay Area. It was amazing catching up with you all at reunion, and I hope to see more of you (and other fellow alums) in the next few years. Give me a call/ Facebook message if you’re ever in town!”
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NED F. LEDERER is working in Khovd, Mongolia, a town of around 30,000 that is considered the seat of civilization for about 1,000 miles in any direction. DACKORY A. HILL shares, “This August, I started my new position as College Preparation Coach with a nonprofit in St. Louis called College Bound, an AmeriCorps program. I’ll be assisting high school students through the college process, preparing to take the ACT, finalizing college lists, completing applications, filling out FAFSA applications, and reading financial aid award letters. I have a newfound appreciation for all of the hard work that Mrs. Morales-Kent and Mrs. Meyer put into each class, ensuring that each student attends the best-fit school. In May, I received my Master’s of Public Policy Administration from University of Missouri-St. Louis and, once this service year is over with College Bound, I plan to take the next step towards becoming a certified teacher, specifically math. (Shout-out to Wales and Hancock!) It’s been a year of development for me, finishing school, starting a new job, getting baptized, but I think I will be able to handle it all very well. Can’t wait until the next reunion so I can see BILLY IRWIN’s new baby, but by then the baby will be four and talking!” ANNA M. REESER details, “After graduating from Berkeley and then working for a year with MORGAN SMITH ‘85 and SARAH LAVENDER SMITH ‘86 at Morgan’s litigation graphics firm, I am now on a six-month adventure in South America. My boyfriend, CJ, and I arrived in Colombia in September, where we are currently volunteering at ProAves’ El Dorado Bird Reserve in the Santa Marta Mountains. We see a different species of bird every day and help with research on the rare Santa Marta red-crested tree rat. I am learning to do field biology and to speak Spanish, as well as hiking, writing, and drawing in the downtime. In November, we will fly to Brazil and spend time in Rio, possibly the
KRISTEN R. FINDLEY posted a school record at the 2012 Vanderbilt Invitational in the 1500 meter with a time of 4:17.45 moving her from 69th in the nation to 5th. Congrats, Kristen! ALEX L. SIMON wrote and directed a short film starring DREW CONNICK that they filmed in Barcelona, Spain, this summer. Como Estábamos is about a bipolar man and his serendipitous friendship with an older foreign woman and will be finished by December. Filming was made possible by funding from the Chappell Lougee grant. After completion, they will submit the film to several film festivals and hope for the best!
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KYLE L. MONTES and ROBBIE S. YEAGLE hiked the John Muir Trail in its entirety this past summer!
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