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COMMUNITY SERVICE EVENT
AT GAINING GROUND
April 25, 2009
Frances Denny ’00 is a photographer in New York City. This is a piece
called, “Self Portrait with Nun’s Chest”
pre-modern world and United States
history in addition to coaching basketball
and lacrosse.”
2000 10th Reunion
Class Representative:
Jessica Whitman
Whitman.jessica@gmail.com
Frances Denny writes that she is
“happily working as a fine art and
portrait photographer in New York
City. My website is www.francesdennyphoto.com—take
a look at some of
my work. I would love to hear what
you think.” Frances took this past
summer off to assist photographer
Joyce Tenneson in mid-coast Maine.
Fellow New Yorker Caroline Goldsmith
is teaching three- and fouryear-olds
at a nursery school on the
Upper East Side.
2001
Class Representatives:
Diego Alvarado
Daalvarado@suffolk.edu
Ben Bullitt
bbullit@gmail.com
Becca Spiro, who will be an intern at
Park during the 2009-10 school year,
writes that during the summer she
was in Chicago, interning for the education
department at the Art Institute.
“Since my internship was paid, it was
very time intensive and involved giving
tours to visitors ranging from
kindergarten students to senior citizens.
I felt challenged and rewarded
every day. There were seven other
interns like me and we were each
responsible for doing research on the
objects we presented and creating lesson
plans and/or presentations that
were age-appropriate.” For Becca, one
of the best parts of the job was walking
around the museum before it
opened to the public. “It was such a
privilege to be in an empty gallery
and have priceless artwork all to
yourself!” Becca is very excited to
return to Park for the school year.
2002
Class Representatives:
Alex Lebow
alexlebow@gmail.com
Alejandro Alvarado
aalvarado@wesleyan.edu
Katherine Brustowicz graduated
from Bates College in May 2009. She
is now working at Children’s Hospital
in Boston as the data research
coordinator for the Orthopaedics
Department with the upper extremities
unit. In May, Will Faulkner
graduated from Tulane, Phi Beta
Kappa, with honors in linguistics and
Latin American studies. In the summer
of 2008, Will spent a month in
Rio de Janeiro, taking Portuguese in
the mornings and teaching English
in a favela (slum) in the afternoons.
On an unseasonably
sunny, warm day
in April, twenty Alumni
and friends gathered Planting: Deon Wolpowitz P ’18
and Minnie Ames ‘86
at Gaining Ground in
Concord, Massachusetts for a day of community
service. Together, they planted, tilled,
and watered over 100 vegetables plants that
will ultimately be
given to food pantries
in the area. It was
great day of fun, sun,
and giving back to the
community.
Cope Crew: David Wilson ’06,
Eliza Cope ’04, Comfort Halsey Cope,
and a college friend of Eliza’s.
Top Row: Peter Johannsen, Eliza Drachman-Jones ’98, Allison Morse ’89,
Minnie Ames ’86, Amy Lampert ’63, Julia Lloyd Johannsen ’93, Kathrene
Tiffany ’96, Katherine McManmon ’94, Eliza Cope ’04, David Wilson ’06,
Eliza’s college friend, Shanti Serdy ’87 and her two children, Shira ’18,
and Seth. Bottom row: Nina Frusztajer ’79 and her three children,
Hugo, Camilla, and Zeno.
The Park Bulletin | Fall 2009 45