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CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008of Fertility and Sterility and received anhonorarium from the American Societyof Reproductive Medicine! She movedto a gorgeous apartment in downtownCleveland with a view of the CuyahogaRiver. She also rang in the New Year ona beach in Sao Paolo, Brazil, andreturned to the U.S. rested, tan, withthree very full suitcases, and a newfoundlove for Brazil. Colin Levy finishedhis first year at Boston College LawSchool. Despite what many say andthink about law school, he is enjoying it,thanks in large part to the number oftruly great, bright, and caring people thathe has met. He also performed in theLaw Revue, a show that makes fun ofthe law school and some of its morewell-known personalities, quirks, andprofessors. Colin is working for a smallfirm in Boston this summer as a summerassociate. If anyone else is in theBoston area and wants to catch up, letColin know! Peter Li is waiting for peopleto holla’ at him in NY. Laura Lively’sbig news is that she became happilyengaged to her fiancé, Michael Stabler,on June 29 by New found Lake, near herparents’ home in NH. She’s excited tohave Jocelyn Ronda, Laura Erban,Natalie Krajcir, and Alexandra de Juniacin her wedding party, and KristenJorgensen, Liz Stahl, Polly Anderson,and Sarah Antos in attendance. Lauraenjoyed her last few months as an internationaldialogue observer and democracyresearcher before starting as ananalyst at the DoD. David Rabinowitzfinished his second year of teaching(Teach for America) at KIPP: GastonCollege Preparatory, a school in ruralNorth Carolina. He taught eighth gradescience. David returns to being a studenthimself, attending graduate schoolat NYU, where he will work toward aPhD in the history of art. Kian Wilcox iscurrently a software consultant for theChicago Tribune. Since moving to theWindy City in the fall of 2007, Kian hasbeen learning to play the guitar (which Igot the pleasure of hearing over thephone) and having a great time. Thankyou to CA for putting together a wonderfultime at our fifth reunion in 2007.Speaking on behalf of my classmateswho attended, being on campus felt justlike being home — we appreciated yourefforts and enjoyed seeing each otheragain. Also, a special thank you to SarahAntos’ family for hosting our after party!2003 5th reunionClass Secretaries: Stephanie F. Bowen,steph.bowen@gmail.com; Heather G.Reid, reidh@bc.edu; Christie L. Wilcox,wilcoxcl@eckerd.eduHope Crocker is a 2007 corps memberin Teach for America; she lives in Harlem82and teaches eighth grade English in theSouth Bronx. Steve Harris has beenperforming with the slunk rock groupMeatgod and working on a cultural andcritical exegesis on the apocalyptic andpost-apocalyptic works of Walter M.Miller, Harlan Ellison, and William S.Burroughs. He is working on his master’sin English literature, which willhopefully bring him to the SequentialArts and Comics Track PhD program atthe University of Florida two years fromnow. Whitney Leonard is finishing upher last year at Williams. She’s beenkeeping busy with classes, the OutingClub, the student environmental group,and a thesis on environmental economics.Whitney is looking into a career inenvironmental policy and is planning todrive across country this summer.Heather Reid graduated from BostonCollege in May 2007 and spent lastsummer teaching sailing and racing onthe weekends. Heather loves her job atFidelity Investments, in real estate marketing.She has not left the art worldbehind; she continues to work at JudyAnn Goldman Fine Art on the weekends.Heather constructed a dress out of Lord& Taylor shopping bags for the store’sannual design contest. Her work was ondisplay at the downtown Boston store inthe spring of 2008. Alex Worgaftik is inher second year of work at the NationalFair Housing Alliance in Washington, asproject assistant to the vice president ofpublic policy, communications, andenforcement. Following graduation inMay 2006, she moved from DupontCircle to the historic U Street corridorand loves her diverse neighborhood.Alex heads to law school in August.2004Class Secretaries: Elena Mead,elena.mead@tufts.edu; Samantha Siegal,ssiegal08@amherst.eduMandy Kolbe went on Macalester’sjoint geology/poli sci department trip toJordan and Cyprus in January. “Wewent swimming in the Dead Sea andvisited Mount Nebo, where Moseslooked out and saw the Promised Land.The most amazing part of the Jordan legwas our day trip to Petra, a very old tradingcity with buildings carved out of thesandstone valley walls. We walkeddown the Siq to a building called theTreasury (featured in Indiana Jones andthe Last Crusade). We also stayed in thecapital of Cyprus, Nicosia, and visitedarcheological sites in both the north andsouth of the island. On a day trip toPaphos (the birthplace of Aphrodite), thedirector of the Cyprus American Archeo -logical Research Institute, Tom Davis,gave us a tour of a settlement destroyedin an earthquake just outside of Paphos.Since then, Mandy has been working onher honors thesis and trying to find away to relax during senior spring. ElenaMead is going to Europe, where she’llvisit Maya Gupta in Oxford and see theEnglish countryside. After England, shewill travel hundreds of miles to roamlarge and small museums of art, tryingto see as many countries as possible.She has her BA in art history and filmstudies, and plans to live in Bostonwhile searching for a job as a bartender.Sarah Seegal loves Vassar, though shemisses everyone at CA and is lookingforward to a summer in Boston, NY, orSan Francisco. Even amongst her summerplanning, Sarah still takes time toreconnect with fellow CAers, includingMatt Roosevelt, Rebecca Patterson,Sarah Straus, and Minh Dinh.2005Class Secretary: Christine Kue,c.lakue@gmail.comCasey Freedman spent her junior yearin gorgeous Salamanca, Spain. She hada blast, traveling around Europe andSpain. Her goal is to become fluent inSpanish. “I couldn’t have done it withoutSteve Cambria!” She hopes to use herSpanish skill at Bowdoin this summer,tutoring local kids in Spanish or workingfor the psychology department. AjieAkers and Shara Zaval spent their fallsemester abroad with the InternationalHonors Program, a program similar toCITYterm, an urban studies program.They stayed on home stays in Argentina,India, and China. Ajie says: “I really loveChina and want to learn Chinese and goback at some point! It was a wild andcrazy trip, but I’m so glad to be homenow.” Ajie then spent her secondsemester back at Barnard and acclimatingto life in the States. She is learninghow to cook, working as a writing fellowat Barnard, and playing Super SmashBrothers on her N64 (purchased oneBay). “I don’t know what I’m going todo with my life, but right now I’m interestedin sustainable development andinternational development, and whateverI do, I would like to write on the side.But after I graduate, I plan on movingout to the Bay Area for a while to figureit all out.” No breaking news from AlyseRuiz. “Classes are pretty normal.” Sheis finishing up an urban studies programat Brown. Ehjeen Kim is a double-majorin music and Japanese at Wellesley. Sheis going to Vienna this summer to studymusic and German and is very excited.“I’m ready to basically live in the ViennaState Opera House.” At this point, sheis unsure what she wants to do, butmusic is definitely her passion. “I wouldlike to take a year off to pursue somethinggastronomy-related before goingoff to grad school for music theory.”After taking a year off after CA, BethOlesen finished her sophomore year atScripps College. She is a humanitiesmajor and will be an RA next year. Sheis traveling to South Africa this summerwith Student Movement for RealChange, which runs educational andrecreational day camps; they teach inprimary schools and complete communitydevelopment projects, such ashealth days targeting HIV/AIDS and STIs.Another major goal is to get runningwater to the villages where Beth will bestaying. Always helpful, Tory Hayesspent the month of January teaching atthe local middle school. “It was awesomeand exhausting. Other than that,life in Vermont is freezing but great.”Kimmy Kung is in a five-year master’saccounting program at the University ofWisconsin-Madison. She is staying anextra year in Wisconsin and then willtake the CPA exam. Bryan Hobgood isstill working hard at Columbia University.“I am directing a show for the ColumbiaMusical Theatre Society, as well asstarring in a musical theatre song cyclecalled Edges.” Brian is majoring inchemical engineering and teaching highschool students who are seeking helpin math and English in preparation forcollege. Amanda MacLellan is studyingEnglish and education at Barnard. “Ispend most of my time interning for amedia literacy organization in Man -chester, NH and constantly running intoCA alums in NYC.” She has beennamed a Truman Scholar, one of just 65from 595 nominated from 283 collegesand universities. Amanda’s field of interestis education. Pook Panyarachunis loving every moment at Brown. Shehad her first solo art show, titled“Illumina tions,” on Valentine’s Day. “Theshow featured oil paintings inspired byilluminated manuscripts and religiousicons that I saw and studied during mygap year in Greece and Italy.” ManyCA alums showed their support andattended the reception, traveling far distancesfrom Columbia and Bard campuses.Using her Boarding Councilexperience from CA, Pook is also aboard member of Buxton InternationalHouse, one of Brown’s housing programs.“Being a board member is somuch work, but I love it. If any CA kidsare interested in seeing what dorm lifeis like/what Brown is like, Buxton is agreat way of experiencing that. Theyshould feel free to contact me. Wethrow REALLY classy parties and do funthings.” Pook also manages to find timeto play club lacrosse and is interning atthe Hanart Gallery in Hong Kong. AdamFried spent his first semester at theUniversity of St. Andrews in Scotland. Ithas been a “total blast.” Always beingmodest, he reports that “beyond that, I