Commencement 2o11 - Friends' Central School

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ALUMNI/AE NEWS
Notes from Friends
on “Hart of Dixie,” a new show airing on
the CW network this fall.
Laura Umbrecht graduated from
Georgetown University in May and has
begun her first year at Columbia Law
School. “Much love to FCS and the
Class of 2007!” she writes.
2008
Logan Brenner is the 2011-2012 Vice
President for Clubs and Organizations
at Skidmore College. Last spring she
spent a semester abroad on South
Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands,
with the School for Field Studies. She
studied marine resource management
there and used SCUBA to monitor coral
reefs. She won the Barry M. Goldwater
Scholarship in 2011.
Mary Stroman was named a captain
of the Washington College swimming
team for the 2011-2012 season. Stroman
was named to the 2010 Centennial
Conference All-Sportsmanship Team
and is a four-time medalist at Centennial
Conference Championship meets,
including three gold medals at the 2010
Logan Brenner ’08 studied marine resource management on South Caicos during her semester
abroad last spring.
championship. She is a member of the
school- and conference-record 400 and
800 freestyle relay teams.
Mary Stroman ’08
2009
Andrew Kelly has interned the past
two summers at Simeone Foundation
Museum in Philadelphia. The museum
collection, assembled by neurosurgeon
Frederick Simeone over a 50-year span,
contains more than 60 of the rarest and
most significant racing and sports cars
ever built, such as an original 1964 Shelby
Daytona Cobra Coupe valued at more than
$7 million. Kelly is a junior mechanical
engineering major at Johns Hopkins and
was recently profiled by the JHU Gazette.
Catherine Weingarten completed her
sophomore year at Bennington College,
and this fall she is studying advanced
playwriting in London with NYU’s Tisch
School of the Arts.