CLASS NOTES
2002 Alexis Fraser Hallissey wrote, “After graduating from Wilmington Friends School in 2002, the four years at Cornell University studying history, minoring in French studies, and completing requirements for dental school Erika Kurtz ’99 and Leslie Rosenberg Chalal ’00, husband Isaac, went by quickly. her daughter, “Izzy.” daughter Ceci, and son Shai Louis. While at Cornell, I joined Delta Delta 2000 Delta, and served as the House Manager for Leslie Rosenberg Chalal wrote, “My family one year. My studies in history encompassed returned back to Philadelphia after five years primarily World War II history, French film, of living in Brooklyn, as my husband accepted and French history, specifically around and a job offer with Spring Creek Investment after the Occupation. In my fourth year, I Management. Shortly after relocating, we wrote my honors thesis on Scotland’s case welcomed our second child, Shai Louis, who for independence from the United Kingdom. was born on April 18th. Big sister Ceci is relI graduated Magna Cum Laude from Boston ishing her new role and in love with her baby University School of Dental Medicine in 2010, brother. I am currently enjoying my family and continued to complete a General Practice and look forward to resuming my practice as Residency in General Dentistry at St. Francis a family medicine physician assistant after the Hospital in Hartford, CT. Following the comsummer.” pletion of the program, I worked as an associAndrew Milford had his fiction piece, ate at Epping General Dentistry in Epping, “Cannon,” published in The Schuylkill Valley NH. In August 2013, my husband, Dr. Journal this June. The story is set in the Brendan J. Hallissey, DMD, and I married in a Brandywine Valley near Friends School, and Celtic ceremony at Wentworth by the Sea near the opening should tempt high school friends, our home in NH. WFS alumni in attendance “Charles Fairhurst was the sort of guy who were Adrienne Monley, Kate Lester Mowery, could sit next to you in a high school science and Sarah Lester ’04, and Betsy Nickle, who class….” Unfortunately, the story is not yet attended Wilmington Friends until 1998. online, so we can’t share a link, but it is excitMost recently, I purchased a dental practice in ing news for Drew and for WFS. Drew is also Kittery, ME, in January 2015; the practice is working on a film project. half a mile from my husband’s dental practice, also in Kittery…I’ve learned some hard les-
Alexis Fraser Hallissey ’02 and her husband, Brendan, with WFS alumni Sarah Lester ’04, Kate Lester Mowery ’02, Adrienne Monley ’02, and Betsy Nickle, who attended WFS until 1998. Alexis Fraser Hallissey ’02 outside her dental practice in Kittery, ME.
sons in business management and maintaining an effective and comfortable work-life balance….now, I am devoting my energy completely to my practice, renamed Foreside Family Dental, as a tribute to the practice’s location in the Foreside district of Kittery, a fishing and lobstering community with a fervent restaurant scene near the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Our team has been working hard to update the practice’s technology and care protocol....we offer a Smile Saver
Class of 2015—Where Are You Now? Julia Blumberg is attending High Point University and studying International Relations and Spanish. She wrote, “I have had a successful freshman year at HPU. I had the opportunity to meet and speak with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple. I also had the opportunity to hear Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, and Marc Randolph, co-founder of Netflix, speak at my university. I also am the Executive Coordinator for the inaugural Panther Dance for the Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation. This event will take place in the spring of 2017, and I am very proud to start this at my college as I am continuing the tradition of the inaugural dance at WFS that I also helped to start as a part of the committee. My freshman year has been very exciting!!” Julia’s thoughts on Friends included,
56
Summer 2016 • QuakerMatters
Julia Blumberg ’15 with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple.
“Friends has prepared me very well for college, and I could not imagine being at another school for my high school education. I had a number of leadership roles such as running the Blood Drive my senior year, which was very rewarding, and I thank Sarah Stock-Patterson for all her help. I also won the Howard W. Starkweather Award, and I would not have found something that made me so happy if it weren’t for WFS. Friends taught me to care about my community, and that’s why I loved doing service. I also loved my teachers and thought they all worked hard to get me to understand the material. What I really love about Friends is that you can freely speak your mind and they want your voice to be heard. This really helped me in my college classes.”
Jimmy Carney is at Tufts University studying Computer Science as well as playing rugby and enjoying being a part of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. He wrote, “My favorite part of my WFS experience was the ability to participate in a variety of activities, mainly sports, theater, and robotics. This allowed me to learn how to interact with different types of people and has helped me to make friends in college.” Jimmy participates in Relay for life, Read by the River, and Coalition for Autism Support. Elijah Jabbar-Bey is attending Pomona College. He wrote, “Back home in Delaware for the summer to relax and spend time with family and friends. I am currently interning in the Jones House.”