2010 - Jefferson Scholars Foundation

the fellows
Alex Douglas
Forrest
Darden Foundation Fellow
Darden School of Business
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (B.S.)
Stanardsville, Virginia
Alex is an active member of the
Finance Club and the Hispanic
American Network at Darden.
This past year, he and another Darden student successfully launched
a “High School Interview and Career Counseling Workshop” that brought
approximately 40 local high school students to Darden for a day of mock
interviews and career-related discussions. They hope to make this into an
annual event. After completing the first year of business school, Alex will
spend his summer in New York City, interning at Rothschild, a privately
owned investment bank.
Jack Clark
Herndon III
John L. Colley Jr. Fellow
Darden School of Business
University of Virginia (B.S.)
Nashville, Tennessee
Clark and his wife Becca welcomed a
new addition to the family, Isabelle
Grace Herndon, born 1-1-10. Clark
just finished his first year at Darden as
a Jefferson Fellow, and is interning over the summer with Friend’s Life (www.
friendslife.org), a small non-profit in Nashville, Tennessee. During his second
year at Darden, Clark will serve as the President of the Raven Society, and as a
second year partner for the Community Consultants of Darden. He will return
to Bain & Company in Atlanta full-time in the fall of 2011.
Gabrielle
Kathryn Lee
Miller
D.N. Batten
Foundation Fellow
Department of Spanish
University of Notre Dame (B.A.)
Vienna, Virginia
Gaby continues to prepare for her
masters comps, which will take place
in spring 2011. After tutoring student athletes throughout the 2009-10
academic year, she now looks forward to teaching Spanish classes to
undergraduates in the fall. Gaby will spend the summer in Valencia, Spain, in
order to receive a Celta certification to teach English as a foreign language.
Sarah Anne
O’Halloran
Edgar Shannon Fellow
Department of Music
University College Cork (B.A.)
(M.Phil.)
Queens University (M.A.)
Tralee, Ireland
Sarah O’Halloran is a composer,
currently concentrating on integrating
dramatic and theatrical elements with her musical practice. Her main teacher
this year was Matthew Burtner. Before joining U.Va., Sarah was a resident
artist at Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Florida, in a residency led by composer
Mark Applebaum. Last fall, she studied creative writing and performance
with playwright Heather Woodbury in New York. Sarah is the adjudication
panel chair for the installation category of International Computer Music
Conference. Her piece Cat House was selected for the conference and was
performed by the composer at the Miller Theatre, Columbia University, in
June 2010. Sarah was also involved in collaboration with Justin Paxton, an
undergraduate choreographer, for the Spring Dance Concert. The Department
of Music’s Digitalis concert included her first piece for laptop ensemble,
which was played by more than 200 performers. Sarah is also a member
of the 2010-11 Music Arts Board. She will spend part of the summer in her
native Ireland working on a dramatic musical piece based on the Selkie
myths of Ireland and Scotland. She will also be filming interviews for a music
and video piece on St Finan’s Hospital.
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