Caroline Kwon, who graduated in May 2011 from Wellesley College, has been accepted by Teach For America, the national corps of top recent college graduates who commit to teach for two years in under-resourced urban and rural public schools. She is teaching physiology to 150 East Oakland high school students of the San Francisco Bay Area, many of whom are English language learners. At Wellesley, she majored in biological sciences, served as a mentor for the Science Club for Girls (an afterschool program that gives young girls, especially those from groups traditionally underrepresented in the science and math fields, the opportunity to do hands-on experiments and activities in a nurturing and interactive environment), and wrote her senior thesis for the Department of Biological Sciences. In 2011, Teach For America received nearly 48,000 applications, and 11 percent were accepted—the most competitive application process since the organization was founded in 1990. Caroline is joining the incoming group of 5,200 new teachers. Emily Lang, Sandra Hough, Michelle Aueron, and Anna Porges are working with the Office of Alumni & Development to plan their 5th Reunion in May 2012. Being their first milestone Reunion year, they look forward to celebrating their 5th in Pingry’s Sesquicentennial Year!
Mai-Yin Picard graduated from Cornell University in May 2011, where she majored in mathematics and economics and was a sister of Alpha Phi. Mai-Yin continued to dance and perform ballet with Cornell’s Impact Dance Troupe and in many Cornell Dance Department shows. She spent a semester abroad in Sydney, Australia where she studied at the University of
Ryan Sellinger graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dickinson in May 2011 with a B.A. in political science. He is working for U.S. Senator Robert Menendez in Washington, D.C. for one year before attending law school. Katherine Sheeleigh graduated from Harvard University in May 2011 and received the Harvard Radcliffe Athletic Prize for outstanding athletic and leadership qualities. Read more on page 41.
2008
Henry Burchenal is enjoying his time at Hamilton College where is an economics major. He is also one of the leading scorers on the Continentals Varsity Lacrosse team.
2009
Brendan Burgdorf, a junior at Bucknell, was named to the Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy Watch List. Read more on page 41. Taylor Demkin writes, “Last summer, I interned in NYU’s Pediatric Plastic Surgery department. I was able to attend various pediatric craniofacial surgeries, such as cranial vault remodeling and jaw distraction surgeries, as well as attend daily instructional lectures pertaining to health care issues. I gained a lot of experience.” Ian Martin-Katz is enjoying his junior year at Dartmouth College, where he is majoring in economics and government. He spent last year’s winter quarter in Barcelona and is enjoying participating on Dartmouth’s Varsity Men’s Heavy-Weight Crew Team. He spent his fall semester interning at an investment bank in New York City.
2010
Alexandra Cheng had a fantastic freshman year at Cornell University in the College of Engineering. She is a member of the women’s crew team. Over spring break 2011, she and Kristin Scillia spent a week in Paris. Alex Daifotis, a sophomore at Princeton, worked full-time last summer as a software development intern at zocdoc.com, based at their offices in SoHo. ZocDoc is a venture capital-backed web startup which recently raised a $50 million round of funding at a 700 million-plus valuation. Funding was provided by such people as Mark Benioff (founder, salesforce.com), Jeff Bezos (founder, Amazon), and Vinod Kholsa (founder, Sun Microsystems). ZocDoc focuses on solving the problem of quickly booking patients with available doctors. For more information, check out www.zocdoc.com.
Eric Hynes, a senior at Gettysburg College and a member of the men’s soccer team, was honored by the Centennial Conference as Offensive Player of the Week in September 2011. Read more on page 41. Aly Kerr is in her senior year at Yale where she is majoring in economics and playing on the varsity squash team. She spent last summer interning at Morgan Stanley in Manhattan. Jordan Shelby is in her senior year at Washington and Lee University and spent last summer interning at LaForce+Stevens in NYC. She helped with many of the day-to-day public relations activities on the Beauty/Lifestyle team, where Maggie Porges ’05 is a LaForce+Stevens Account Executive. Ben Spicehandler writes, “I am in my senior year at Colgate University. Last summer, I worked on the Real Estate Credit Risk Management team within the investment bank at JP Morgan in New York City. I thoroughly enjoyed the challenging working environment.”
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Jason Leeds graduated from Haverford College in May 2011 with a degree in economics. He is living in NYC and working at Goldman Sachs Co. in their Debt Capital Markets division.
Sydney. She is working in NYC as an analyst at Deutsche Bank and spent two months of the summer in London for her training. She is now living in Chelsea with Ishita Bali.
Kristin Scillia ’10 and Alexandra Cheng ’10 in Paris.