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All Stars Around the Diamond
Steve Balsamo ’11
(Atkinson, New
Hampshire), Spencer
Montgomery ’11
(Kensington, Prince
Edward Island), and Josh
Gallant ’12 (Exeter,
New Hampshire) were
named Lakes Region
League All-Stars. Despite
these honors, Balsamo
and Montgomery
plan to play hockey in
college at Hobart and
William Smith Colleges
and the University of
Prince Edward Island,
respectively. Gallant will
be back on the diamond
for his senior year at
Brewster.
First Team Lax All Stars
Lacrosse players Jimmy Murphy ’11 (Duxbury,
Massachusetts), Trey Adams ’12 (Akwesasne, New
York), Calder Billings ’11 (Bridgewater, Vermont),
and Patrick Eaker ‘11 (Redding, Connecticut) earned
First Team All Stars this spring. Next spring Murphy
will play for the University of Hartford, Billings for
the University of Vermont, and Eaker for Marist
College. Goaltender Adams will return to Brewster
for his senior year.
For the girls, Emma Jones ‘11 (Wolfeboro) and Sarah
MacDonnell ’11 (Quispamsis, New Brunswick,)
earned All Star lacrosee team honors. Jones plans to
play lacrosse and soccer at Susquehanna University.
MacDonnell will play ice hockey for the University of
Connecticut.
Dearborn Competes in
World Mountain Running
Championships
Former Bobcat runner
Krisztina Dearborn
‘11 (Mirror Lake, New
Hampshire) competed
in the World Mountain
Running Championships
in Tirana, Albania, on
September 11. She led
her U.S. teammates and
placed 24th out of 45
female runners in the 4.5
km up/down lap course.
This summer, Dearborn became one of three women
and four men selected to the under-19 U.S. Junior
Mountain Running Team.
She is a sophomore at Central Connecticut State
University where she is a member of the crosscountry
and indoor and outdoor track teams. Until
June 2011, she had never run a mountain race.
“You definitely have to get your mind out of the
track setting and think about your strength rather
than your speed to get yourself up the mountain,”
she said. “This is beyond what I could have imagined
a year ago,” Dearborn said. “It’s unbelievable.”
CEO Drouin Raises
$1.2M for Startup
In July Nate Drouin ’10 was the subject of articles in
Bloomberg News and Boston Business Journal. Drouin,
originally from Wolfeboro, is CEO of Fundraise.com,
an online fundraising company that he launched
in March 2011. In July, the company was infused
with $1.2 million from investors. Fundraise.com is
marketed as an easy to use fundraising platform for
charities large and small spanning a variety of causes
and fields including education, politics, sports, and
faith-based organizations. Drouin expects Fundraise.
com to generate more than $2 million by the end
of 2011.
Campbell Part of 9/11
Composition for Symphony
Brewster music director
Andy Campbell was
commissioned to
compose a piece for
the New England Wind
Symphony for their
concert honoring the 10th
anniversary of 9/11. In creating the composition,
Campbell worked closely with Clayton “Skip” Poole,
the music director for the symphony, and Elliott
Markow, the guest violin soloist.
It is an arrangement of Scott Joplin’s Solace, a fitting
title for the piece that was performed at the Capital
Center for the Arts “Salute to the American Spirit”
concert on September 11.
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