Class Notes

C O N C O R D A C A D E M Y M A G A Z I N E S P R I N G 2 0 1 0and working for Grey Global Group, theadvertising agency that brought the ETrade baby to the world. Pook Panyarachungraduated from Brown in May.Matt Paley graduated from Bard College;he is cofounder of St. Eliot & Co., afilm collective, through which he is collaboratingon a year-long project withMatt Deitch, Paul Liebesny, BrianBarth ’06, and Peter Warren ’06. JessicaStone is working toward her MBAat the University of Denver and living inVail, CO.2006Class Secretaries: Maura FitzGerald,mfitzgerald@oxy.edu; Andrew Wolf,abw72@cornell.eduNot Receiving Emailsfrom CA?If you are not receiving eNewslettersand other emails fromCA, please check your spam,bulk, or junk folders and allowconcordacademy.org as asender address.78tices in Massachusetts. Celie works asthe coordinator of media and communicationsfor the dean of students at BU,and after graduation hopes to work as acommunications specialist for awomen’s health organization or as aninternational advocacy journalist. It’sbeen a busy four years for Lily Lamboy,who completed a course in governmentand ethics at Smith and wrote her thesison male claims to constitutional procreativeprivacy. She spent her collegeyears as an intercollegiate debater, travelingfrom California to Thailand to competeworldwide. Next year, she’ll beteaching elementary school with TeachFor America in Newark, NJ. FrancesJames is a neuroscience major and studioart minor. Last spring she studied inScotland and ran a marathon for breastcancer. She spent last summer interningwith the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky.It was there that she decided tobecome a nurse practitioner, and afterspending next year finishing prerequisites,she will apply to nursing school.Maura FitzGerald is in sunny Los Angeles,where she is graduating from OccidentalCollege with a BA in theatre. Hersenior comprehensive project was stagemanaginga production of Buried Child.Outside of work, she was her sorority’srush chair, where she planned tworecruitments that garnered the mostpledges in the college’s history! Thissummer, she will be road-tripping it crosscountry, exploring as many cities as possible,and hopes to end up back on theeast coast come fall. She is hoping towork in casting or sports public relations,so if you know anyone who can help her,please let her know. Leah Munsey-Konops graduated in May with degreesin art history and theatre from CaseWestern Reserve in Cleveland. She hasworked as the university’s costume shopmanager and performed with IMPROVment,Case’s premier short-form improvisationalcomedy troupe. Leah returnsthis summer to Iowa City, where shewill work with the Riverside TheatreShakespeare Festival. Chris Maire doesn’thave a job . . . yet. Madeline Raygraduated from Brown; her senior thesisin anthropology was about recentchanges to prostitution law in RhodeIsland. She helped run the Brown Associationfor Cooperative Housing whereshe lived her senior year. She plans tostay in Providence if she can get one ofthe dozen jobs available in the state.Andrew Wolf graduated from Cornell,where he wrote his thesis on the economicsof the living wage. Last summer,he worked for the Service EmployeesInternational Union in NY as a researcher.Dorian Storbeck graduated from SmithCollege, where she majored in psychology.Since fall 2008, she worked withher adviser and professor, Randy Frost,Ben Sullender ’07, playing Ultimate Frisbee for Carleton CollegeEnjoying her final year at Middlebury,Jess Bruce has been focusing on Americanstudies and geography. She spentlast spring studying sustainable developmentat an eco-village in India, whichinspired her to pursue work in the fieldsof sustainability and social enterpriseafter graduation. “It was great to seesome of you at the CA event this winter.”August Felix is a junior at Batesmajoring in environmental studies withan economic minor. He is on the Batesski team. As part of her final semester atDuke, Caroline Griswold wrote her thesison ballet pedagogy and went to“many, many” auditions. She hopes tobe dancing professionally in a contemporaryballet company or in musical theatre,but at the moment has no official planspost-graduation. Janet He is spendingher senior year traveling—trips to Braziland Cambodia/Laos, related to her seniorthesis on hydropower development inSoutheast Asia. In April she ran theBoston Marathon, and starting in July,she will be working in NYC at an investmentmanagement firm. She’d love tomeet up with any CA folks in NYC thissummer. Celie Hart is graduating fromBoston University’s College of Communicationwith a BS in broadcast journalismand a specialization in women’s health.Last semester, she interned for WBUR,Boston’s NPR news station, and producedan hour-long show on birth praconissues related to compulsive hoarding,culminating with a special studiesproject looking at the role of indecisivenessand other cognitive deficits on thedisorder. “I am excited to relocate to SanFrancisco after graduation, where I willjoin my sister, Devon Storbeck ’03.”2007Class Secretary: Rufus Urion,rufusurion2011@u.northwestern.eduMia Boynton spent the spring in Madurai,Tamil Nadu, India studying religionand art history. Alp Ermis writes, “I’mdoing a six-month internship at OracleCorporation in Burlington, MA. Feelsgreat to have no classes.” Jack Glenn isstudying music and making rock ’n’roll atWesleyan University. He is “being carefulto get good grades for his parents.”Emily Howe returned to Bates afterspending the fall in South Africa, whereshe studied community health. She ismajoring in English and plans to go tomedical school. “I’m in transitionbetween Johns Hopkins and some placeI’ll find more agreeable,” writes MaxLahey. “I am working this semester andsummer as a multimedia technologyintern at Oceana, an ocean advocacygroup.” Cathy Marques says, “It’s niceto be back at Davidson after spendingthe fall abroad in Buenos Aires, but Imiss the cheap wine every day.” She isdouble-majoring in political science andSpanish and will live in Washington, D.C.this summer—“hopefully with an internship.”John Nordin is studying sustainabledevelopment at Columbia. He has“picked up the habit of dressing up likehomeless people in order to infiltratetheir social circles.” Jeff Olshan is double-majoringin classics and Egyptology.“I spent a month in Rome for a summerprogram and am thoroughly enjoyingBrown.” Kiefer Roberts writes, “Lastfall I spent a fantastic semester studyingabroad in Copenhagen. I am looking forwardto completing my college tenure inorder to return asap.” Ben Shapiro-Kline says, “I am having a pretty goodtime at Johns Hopkins, though they’reworking us very hard. I spend my freetime finding the sketchiest parts of Baltimorewith friends. There are plenty ofparts to explore.” Nick Morgan performedalmost daily through May at theMuseum of Modern Art in New York,remaining still for an hour or more at atime—an accompaniment to the retrospectiveof artist Marina Abramovic.“Basically it is just like any othermuseum exhibit, with a little label foreach piece, etc., except the art is alive!It's a very experimental thing for such abig museum to do.” He hopes some CAfolks caught his performance. KristianShaw spent her spring studying at theJohannes-Gutenberg Universität-Mainzin Germany. Before going overseas, sheworked with Susan Adams in the CAGerman department for five weeks as ateaching assistant. Maeve Stevenson isa junior at Beloit College, where she ismajoring in women’s and gender studies.“I’m a proud member of the sororityAlpha Sigma Tau and participate in theinterfaith and girls’ empowermentthrough-mentoringclubs. I will be studyingabroad at the National University ofIreland, Galway in the fall.” SorenStockman spent the spring semester in