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Alumni News, continuedAUR Alumni in London: News from Madeline Marie Feicht“Our AUR community is strong; even after graduation and outside of Rome. AUR Alumni in London havehad two reunions, which are turning into a monthly trend. Those of us in England are: Cait Bagby (Kings College),Alexsandra Petrova (SAE Institute), Alessandro Batazzi (Bristol), Dana Phelps (UCL Alumna), Martina Demopoulou(Royal Holloway), and Claire Tinguley-Rubin (Sotheby’s Institute of Art), Madeline Feicht (Oxford Alumna), Valentinode Sousa (University of East London Alum), and Catie Smith. In October, Catie, Valentino, Cait, Alexsandraand I met up for a drink at the Princess Louise Pub. For those who were just beginning their graduate programs,it was nice to see familiar faces shortly after arriving in London. For those who have graduated and are working inLondon, meeting up with some alumni meant reconnecting and finding out what is happening at AUR.The Princess Louise pub is divided in small rooms and it was hard to find everyone, but once we did, wegot a room off the main bar and chatted of old times and shared advice about living in the UK, from visas to thegloomy weather! Actually, even for those of us hooked on the Roman sun, we were pleasantly surprised that Londonis not as gloomy as the Italians make it out to be! Some left after the pub to study, but Madeline and Alextook a tour of the British Museum down the road. All in all, it was great to get together and we planned to meetup again soon.In November, Cait, Valentino, Petar Stoykov, and I met up at an Irish pub called Waxy O’Connor’s inSoho. Petar is still studying at AUR, but was visiting London to check out graduate programs. He spoke with usabout our programs, advice on applications and his visits to a few universities in England. We wish him all thebest in his applications and hope to see him back in London as an AUR Alum soon!We are planning a get-together in December at Be@One in Covent Garden before some of us head backhome for the holidays.”AUR Alumna Creates Soccer Clinic for GirlsAnastasia Safarian, who graduated from AUR in 2008with a degree in Business, was a dynamic, active student. She wasCaptain of the She-Wolves, Vice President of the BizClub, studentassistant, ResGrad and was active in the Student Government.Now Anastasia lives in Rome and works for NGO Bioversity.She continues to "give back" to the community as a memberof AUR's Campus Girl Scouts, and recently organized a Soccer Clinicfor 4th and 5th grade scouts. At the Training Conference for GirlScout volunteers in October, which Anastasia attended, she decidedto hold a soccer clinic to build girls’ confidence and teach them leadershipskills, sportsmanship, teamwork.The clinic was held at The American Overseas School of Rome and was a huge success.One of the participating Girl Scout leaders, Martha Klinck, said "Anastasia taught the girls so much morethan technique, she showed them that girls can do anything and all the better when girls are leading!!"AUR Campus Girls Scouts was launched in 2008 and is the only chapter outside the United States.The CGS worked with the Rome homeless shelter at Termini Station, participated with the Rome Girl Scouttroops in World Thinking Day, and sponsor annual holiday parties for Girl Scouts, where they work withthe girls in teambuilding and creative activities."Thanks again for connecting the Campus Girl Scouts with our troops. They have proven to bean extremely valuable resource for all the Girl Scouts in Rome," says Ms. Klinck.18