Commencement 2o11 - Friends' Central School

Reunion 2011 » Class of 1986
» (Front, from left) Josh Broker, Jamie Freundlich, Melissa Shuman Zarin, Karon Kramer, Hisun
Rim, Andy Cohen, Richard Grossman, Jackie Bitensky, and Katie Meyers Kasmer; (back, from left)
Joel Perloff, Grover Washington III, Frazier Sinkler, Laura Meloney Dugan, Ben Kell, Anja Jefferis
Levitties, Andy Backover, and Steve Chanin
1989
Rachel Newman Schwartz welcomed
her daughter Eleanor Blanche on
September 23, 2009.
Eleanor Blanche Schwartz, daughter of Rachel
Newman Schwartz ’89.
Reunion 2011 » Class of 1991
1994
Melanie McCarthy Frick attended the
Harvard University Graduate School of
Education’s Principal Center for a week
in June. School leaders from all over
the world engaged in intense workshops
pertaining to the Art of Leadership.
“I am excited to use the information
learned at Harvard with my students and
teachers during this upcoming school
year at Springfield Township High
School,” she writes. “I hope everyone
from the Class of 1994 is doing well!”
» (From left) Joy Clairmont, Max Kaufman, Tamara Thomas Smith, Julie Nathanson Holcomb, Aimee
Taxin Rubin, Alex Miller, Helena Miller, Laura Forman, Dean Griffith, Atif Ahmad, and Michelle
Goldstein Kitchen
1995
Ellen Rink married Bradley Young on
February 1, 2011, at Sandals Grande St.
Lucian, St. Lucia, West Indies. Ellen is a
preschool teacher at the House at Pooh
Corner in Houston, Texas, where the
couple resides.
Alumna Competes in “Toughest
Footrace on Earth”
Meredith Bobroff Murphy ’96
completed the Badwater
135-mile ultramarathon,
billed the toughest footrace
on earth, in July. She
finished the race in a little
over 46 hours.
Meredith Bobroff
Murphy ’96
completed the
Badwater 135-mile
ultramarathon,
billed the toughest
footrace on earth,
in July. She finished
the race in a little
over 46 hours. After
having crewed
and paced other
runners in the
past, this year
she was finally
selected to run the
invitation-only race
for the heartiest
80-90 people who
compete each year.
“It was an amazing journey and a thrill to
compete and finish this race,” she writes.
The temperatures peaked at 120°F, and the
course transverses multiple mountains.
The race begins at Badwater Basin (280 feet
below sea-level), located in Death Valley,
Calif., the lowest point in the U.S., and
finishes 8,300 feet up Mount Whitney, Calif.,
the highest peak in the continental U.S. The
race features a cumulative ascent of 13,000
feet!
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