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Arts Connect partners with PierceCounty Juvenile Court and uses handsonarts, creative writing, service learning,public presentations and philanthropyto help girls overcome the risk factorsthat lead to recidivism. “This work isincredibly rewarding, and I am constantlyinspired by the resiliency of thegirls and women I work with,” saysFalchuk. “They have endured horribleabuse and loss and have not had accessto opportunities for creative expression.But they are still at it, still trying tobetter their lives.”In addition to working on herown art, several years ago Falchuk wasappointed by the City Council to theSeattle Arts Commission, a citizenadvisory group to city government.She lives in Seattle with her husband,Brett Hamil, and their dog, Wheezy.Though more than 3,000 milesaway, she thinks of Nobles often. “Duringmy senior year, Bob Freeman andVisual Arts Teaching Fellow JonahSchiller let me curtain off a sectionof the drawing studio and use it as mypersonal space. It’s where I learned thestudio habits I have today. It’s a storyI tell my friends to give flavor to whatNobles was like—a place where everystudent’s dreams mattered.”S O U T H E r N M O S TGordon Grant ’58HONOLULU, HAWAiiWe expected Hawaii to show up whenresearching the school’s westernmostgraduates, but were surprised to learnthat our Honolulu natives are situatedfarther south than any other U.S.residents.After many years in Japan andseveral more in New England, GordonGrant ’58 and wife Fusako decidedto settle in Hawaii, where today theirdaughter and grandchildren also live.Gordon Grant ’58 and wife Fusako withtheir grandchildren, Amory and OwenGentle weather, friends and a chance toteach history and literature at PunahouSchool in Honolulu made the switchattractive and effortless. Grant says,“The subtropics have spoiled us insybaritic ways: the aroma of bakingpineapple, ocean swims on New Year’sDay, celebratory sunset mai tais.”Of his time at Nobles, Grantrecalls fondly classes with RichardVanKleeck: “I can still hear his voice,telling us a tale of how some Germanscholars, admirers of the EnglishRomantic poet William Wordsworth,called on ‘this talented, but notoriousegotist’ to ask him to explain a difficultpassage in his work. Wordsworth receivedthe Germans graciously, readthe passage, and said: ‘I cannot recallwhat I meant when I wrote it, butI remember it was the finest thing Iever wrote, and you cannot do betterthan devote your lives to the discoveryof its meaning.”S O U T H E r n b O N U SHannah Gardener-Fisch ’96MiAMi, FLOriDAWhen Andrew Fisch got a job in Miamiin 2006, his wife Hannah Gardener-Fisch ’96 thought “with the weatheralone, it couldn’t be half bad.” And,while they both miss the faster paceand general vibe of New England,Miami’s sunny days and broad multiculturalismmake the city a great placeto raise their 2-year-old daughter.After graduating from DartmouthCollege, Gardener-Fisch worked asa public health consultant for a Cambridge,Mass., company. One day sheoverheard a co-worker talking aboutattending graduate school to studyepidemiology and thought it soundedinteresting. It seemed like a great wayto combine two interests, statistics andmedicine. Gardener-Fisch studied atthe Harvard School of Public Healthand now works as an epidemiologistat the University of Miami’s MillerSchool of Medicine in the NeurologyDepartment.E A S T E r N M O S TCharlie Davis ’49GOULDSboro, MaiNEA true Mainer knows the phrase“downeast” has nothing to do withdirection; it refers to a way of life specificto a region where “lobstahs” ruleand the ocean breeze and tides set thepace. Charlie Davis ’49 has traveledthe world, but says the pull of theHannah Gardener-Fisch ’96 and husband Andrew12 l the NobLES Bulletin l Spring 2011