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Raquel Alonso ’06 and Jonathan Lenz ’06
attending Oktoberfest, she met up
with classmates Ashley Cyburt
and Will Richardson.
Sarah Kirk spent the fall semester
of her junior year in China working
on her Chinese language skills. In
October she presented a paper at
an academic conference on public
administration. She returned to
Middlebury for the spring term.
Molly McGaughan is spending
her spring semester studying at
Queen Mary College in London.
She is happy to be able to spend
time with Lawrence Jewkes and
to travel to Florence, Italy to see
Cassie Coggeshall.
Scott Simontacchi spent the fall
semester at Williams College,
Mystic Seaport’s Maritime Studies
Program. He is back at Vanderbilt
for the spring.
Doug Vollmayer spent the
spring semester of his junior year
studying at the University of Leeds
in England. He has interned at
MSNBC and CBS over the summers,
and was accepted to the Schreyer
Honors College at Penn State
University. Doug hosts Penn State’s
late-night talk show, and works on
a number of news programs for
the school on the production end.
2006
Sophomore year at Penn is going
very well for Raquel Alonso. She
is enjoying her classes and is now
a declared communications major
with a concentration in culture.
Raquel is looking forward to going
to Colombia this summer with her
roommate to perform independent
research through a Penn grant. She
reports that Jonathan Lenz is also
doing well at RPI, making the dean’s
list. He and Amit Bhatia intend to
travel to Japan this summer to
study Japanese.
Ben Cohen was elected sports
editor for Volume 104 of Duke
University’s The Chronicle.
Louis Neblett is working in IT
support, solving technical issues
for various companies while
attending the University of Delaware.
2007
Karina Puttieva had two of her
poems published in The Haverford
Review. The poems were originally
inspired by an IB extended essay
and by a text from a Newark
Academy AP/IB English class.
Eric Rattner was a member of the
gold medal-winning, USA boy’s
baseball team at the 11th Pan
American Maccabi Games in Buenos
Aires, from December 26 through
January 2. Eric is a freshman at
Syracuse University.
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