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On October 23, <strong>2018</strong>, Middlesex alumni and family gathered in Portland, OR, to honor former faculty member<br />
Elliott Trommald (on left), who taught history from 1985 to 2000. At the event, Senior Master and Major Gifts<br />
Officer Paul Harrison (on right) announced the establishment of the Elliott C. Trommald Fund for Faculty.<br />
“For the first time in his illustrious career as a historian, Elliott was speechless!” Paul reports.<br />
Nick Kafker has been doing a<br />
lot of spelunking. He visited the<br />
Skocjan Caves in Slovenia and is<br />
now considering speleology as a<br />
profession. He knows it’s tough to<br />
find your place in this world, but<br />
his place might be underground!<br />
Catching us up on the past<br />
five years, Brian LeMeur reports,<br />
“I enrolled at Colorado College in<br />
September 2013. After two years of<br />
enjoying classes and playing music,<br />
I decided to transfer to NYU to<br />
go to Steinhardt to be in the Music<br />
and Performing Arts Professions<br />
Jazz Instrumental Performance<br />
Program. After a year or so of<br />
missing my more academically<br />
oriented classes, I decided to sign<br />
up to finish the English major I<br />
started at Colorado College. I graduated<br />
in May with a bachelor of<br />
music degree and majors in instrumental<br />
performance and English<br />
and American literature.” Brian<br />
also won the NYU English Department’s<br />
Burns Prize, which is the<br />
given to the student who writes the<br />
best paper on Scottish poet Robert<br />
Burns. He recently started a job as<br />
a sales development representative<br />
at ZocDoc.<br />
Andrew Matos, now a lieutenant<br />
in the U.S. Army, is training<br />
to be a UH-60M Blackhawk<br />
A Giants ballgame in San Francisco drew many Middlesex connections<br />
—alumni, students, and parents—to AT&T Park on July 29, <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
helicopter pilot and will be stationed<br />
in Ft. Drum, NY, this fall.<br />
’14<br />
Playing defense for Dickinson Men’s<br />
Lacrosse, Henry Gans’ team won<br />
the Centennial League Championship<br />
over third-ranked Gettysburg<br />
last May. Henry also earned the<br />
Unsung Hero Award for the <strong>2018</strong><br />
season.<br />
Rowena Schenck was offered<br />
a Fulbright to research climate<br />
changes in New Zealand. A biochemistry<br />
and biophysics major<br />
at Amherst College, she is headed<br />
to the University of Otago, where<br />
she will look at the physical and<br />
chemical characteristics of New<br />
Zealand fjord cores, with the intent<br />
of recording carbon burial and<br />
wind variability—findings that<br />
can help predict climate changes.<br />
Following her Fulbright, Rowena<br />
plans to pursue a Ph.D. in earth<br />
sciences, focusing on biogeochemistry<br />
of coastal environments and<br />
continental margins.<br />
’16<br />
At Colgate University, Abby<br />
Burden earned the spring <strong>2018</strong><br />
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence.<br />
Students who receive a term<br />
grade point average of 3.3 or higher<br />
while completing at least three<br />
courses earn this honor. Abby is<br />
currently majoring in economics.<br />
’17<br />
Back home after his freshman year<br />
at Columbia, Chad Arle returned<br />
to performing with Concord Youth<br />
Theater’s Young Adult Company<br />
last summer, appearing as Officer<br />
Barrel in Urinetown.<br />
Ally Kriss earned the spring<br />
<strong>2018</strong> Dean’s Award with Distinction<br />
at Colgate University. Students who<br />
receive a term grade point average<br />
of 3.6 or higher while completing<br />
at least three courses during the<br />
spring <strong>2018</strong> semester earn this<br />
honor.<br />
MIDDLESEX fall <strong>2018</strong> 45
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