Fall/Winter 2010 - Pingry School

apartment in Manhattan since
June 1. Remarkably, they are
still friends. It might have
been a seven-bedroom apartment
had their good friends
Chip Shaffer and Rob
Trangucci not decided,
respectively, to enroll in law
school at UPenn and to
work as a solar market
research analyst at PHOTON
Consulting in Boston.
Don Castle is working in
New York City for a start-up
software company located on
Madison Square Park, an area
of the city referred to as
Silicon Alley. Since the company
is so small, he participates
in all areas of business,
from technical design to client
consulting and sales and
marketing. He spent his free
time last summer relaxing in
New Hampshire after spending
the summer of 2009 traveling
in Egypt and India.
Nicole Daniele spent the
summer in analyst training i
n New York City with J.P.
Morgan’s Private Bank. For
a few months this fall, she
was in Chicago on a special
assignment (Anthony
Feenick ’06 was also there on
the project). She sends many
thanks to everyone who
attended the Class of 2005’s
5th Reunion in May—it was
a huge success.
Christina Denitzio is busy
working for The Blackstone
Group’s alternative asset
management division and
was training for her first halfmarathon
in October.
Brad Fechter worked for
Enviroscapes, an environmental
restoration firm, and then
moved to Colorado and lived
in Beaver Creek for six
months. He is happy to be
back at Pingry as a permanent
substitute for the year and
plans to pursue a graduate
degree in psychology next year.
Sarah Filipski is working as
a research technician in a
Neuroendocrinology lab at
Rockefeller University in New
York while she interviews for
medical school.
Maggie O’Toole writes: “I left
my job to attend Parsons The
New School for Design. I am
pursuing a career in interior
design. I recently ran the New
York City half-marathon and
ironically ran into Pingry girls’
varsity soccer head coach
Andrew Egginton and classmate
Amanda Pagoulatos as
I was crossing the finish line.
And then it was great to be
back at Pingry for the alumnae
soccer game to see Coach
Egginton and play with my
old teammates.”
Maggie Porges writes: “The
Pingry Class of ’05 had a mini
reunion in Spring Lake,
New Jersey over Labor Day.
Maggie O’Toole, Catie Lee,
Pamela Lang, Nicole
Daniele, John Stamatis, Eric
Schonberg, and I all relaxed
by the pool and enjoyed a
lovely Labor Day reminiscing
about Pingry and our new
lives post-college.”
Eric Schonberg is a secondyear
law student at New York
Law School in Manhattan. He
lives in East Midtown with
Evan Sprenger and John
Moore. In addition, he tries to
hit the golf course as often as
possible with Brad Fechter
and John Stamatis.
John Stamatis is working as
an underwriter for Zurich NA.
During the summer of 2010, he
moved to New York City,
where he lives with friends
from college. In his spare time,
he plays soccer for the New
York Athletic Club and enjoys
playing golf and seeing live
music around the tri-state area.
2006
Dana Van Brunt and Julie
Johnson live together in New
York City. They are excited to
be members of Pingry’s SCLS
(Second Century Leadership
Society). Brian Combias ’06, Julianne DiLeo ’06, and Park Smith ’06 at Denison in 2010.
5 th
Reunion
Marissa Bialecki graduated
magna cum laude from The
George Washington
University in May 2010.
She majored in psychology,
minored in Spanish and journalism,
and won an award
her senior year for the “Most
Active” member in her
community service sorority,
Epsilon Sigma Alpha. She’s
working in Washington, D.C.
and enjoying being done with
school—at least for a while.
Outside of work, she writes
her own food blog, www.
bonappetitfoodie.com, which
chronicles her “culinary journey”
and includes restaurant
reviews, original recipes, and
interesting tidbits in the world
of food. She’s looking forward
to the 5th Reunion this year.
Brian Combias is working
at FOX for FOX Sports
Interactive Media as a sales
planner in New York City.
He enjoyed catching up with
old friends at the alumni
soccer game in September
and is looking forward to
reconnecting with the Pingry
community after graduating
from Denison University
this past May.
Brian Combias ’06, Julianne DiLeo ’06, and Park Smith ’06 at Pingry in 2006.
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