SPRING 1999

Class Agent: Joshua Lichtman

FALL 1999

Class Agent: Lee Taylor

SPRING 2000

Class Agent: Monique Johnson

Monique Johnson is training for the Spartan Sprint race in a few weeks. It’s an obstacle course race that involves 5+ kilometers and 15+ obstacles.  It’s the closest thing to an Island School run, bike, swim morning workout. Monique says to all her S’00′ers changing the world one day at a time… keep up the good work and she hopes you are enjoying the liberty of life wherever you are in the world! 

FALL 2000

Class Agent: Richard Woodhull

SPRING 2001

Class Agent: Nina Kumar

FALL 2001

Class Agent: Mary Coleman Farrell

Meg Bunn will be starting an executive MBA program at UVA’s Darden School of Business this coming fall. She met up with Mary Coleman Farrell in NYC in May. Mary Coleman Farrell recently moved to Richmond, VA with her husband and two children. 

SPRING 2002

No Class Agent, email alumni@islandschool.org if you are interested

FALL 2002

Class Agents: Mike Cortina, Skyler Hopkins, Sara Rodell

Lindsey Gael has been living in the Boston area for almost a year now and is settled into a nice life here. She works for the Cambridge Housing Authority in their Development and Planning Department, the work is very fulfilling with a good balance of working on technical financing/building issues and then also managing the human side of housing. CHA pushes the envelope with green building practices so its nice to be with an organization that is paving the way on some of these practices. Outside of work, Lindsey tries to get out to the White Mountains and other wild places for hiking (or whatever other outdoor sport is in season) as much as possible. Lindsey is getting married, next October. Alessandra Echeverria is enjoying life in Atlanta. She spent the weekend at Lake Lanier with her boyfriend and his family. They brought their dog Frank for his first lake trip. Frank was less than impressed with swimming but he took a real liking to boat rides by Monday morning. Alessandra and her boyfriend went to a nearby CrossFit yesterday to honor our heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice by doing a workout called Murph. It’s a difficult workout but it’s a very special experience that she looks forward to each year. Alessandra is applying to a few internal promotions at Teach For America for fiscal year 2016. She’s keeping her fingers crossed that she gets a director-level role. Alexander Deblois is still living in Brookline, MA outside Boston. He recently resigned from my job working with clients on Corporate Sustainability projects – focusing on energy, water and supply chain management. He is currently studying for the Chartered Financial Analyst level one designation as a 2015 Level 1 Candidate in the CFA Program. His hope is to enter the investment management space to focus on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) or sustainable/impact investing. Emily Hardej is back in Boston (well South Shore for now) but working in the financial district/downtown crossing area of Boston, if anyone is in the area or visiting let her know! Emily has loved getting to know Boston all over again, it’s a great city. She has recently began working in commercial real estate with a company called CBRE- New England. It’s totally new for her so she has really enjoyed getting to learn more about the business. Emily has  been working out, running, and taking yoga classes consistently. There have been a tremendous amount of weddings and engagements and babies … so that’s always fun! Congratulations to anyone from our class who has been recently engaged! Horatio Smith still has his my catering business based in Lyford Cay. Business is good so he is thankful. Horatio enjoys hearing from F’02 and hopes many of them comes to the on-island reunion in September. Laura Fleck is still living in Marblehead, MA (just north of Boston) and working in Beverly at a diagnostic company. She works on developing molecular diagnostic tests for infectious diseases. Laura also teaches for the night school at Northeastern University; she enjoys both lab work as well as teaching. As far as life events go, Laura got married in October and became an Auntie in November :). Nick DelVecchio is still out in Denver enjoying life as we head into summer out there. Unfortunately these are his last few months in Colorado; it’s been an amazing run, although he am looking forward to moving back to the east coast at the end of July and settling down in Cambridge for a few years. Nick will be starting business school at MIT in the fall, and is definitely excited about the change of pace, as well as getting back into the classroom. Other than that, Nick recently left his job at the engineering consulting firm, took the PE last month and have been traveling quite a bit lately. He just returned this morning from an RV trip to the Indy500, which was quite the spectacle. Looking forward to plenty of Red Rocks shows, camping trips, and cheesy Denver bucket-list items until his departure.

SPRING 2003

Class Agent: Melissa Buck

FALL 2003

Class Agents: Kylie King Ebbutt, Kate Parizeau

Kylie King Ebbutt just finished up the school year teaching 7th grade English Language Arts. She and her husband have been living just outside of Nashville, TN for about a year now and loves it! She is looking forward to her summer off and a trip back to Michigan where she will hopefully have a chance to see Cam Powel (F’04).

SPRING 2004

Class Agnets: Bekah Klarr, Candice Springs Hipp

Bekah Klarr is still working as a full-time outdoor writer and traveling frequently with her dog Goose. Their favorite places are Texas and Michigan and are looking forward to spending the summer in northern Michigan again this year. Recent adventures include two trips to South America so far this year. Bekah gets back to Eleuthera often and is really looking forward to the on-island reunion in September. Izzy Cannell has spent the last year in Seattle since graduating from my Master in City Planning program at UPenn last spring and she is thoroughly enjoying the new city and new job!  Izzy works as an urban planner in a small consulting firm and loves being able to take in views of the Puget Sound, Olympic Peninsula and Mt. Rainier from her desk every day as well as the opportunity to travel around the state for work. Unfortunately she will be missing the on-island reunion but envies anyone that is able to make it down to Eleuthera. Steady onwards! Charley Friedman got married in 2013 and now lives in Portland, Maine with his wife Victoria and dog Ollie. He has been working hard to grow Flowfold, the outdoor gear brand he launched that builds tough and lightweight carrying accessories. He founded the business in 2010 with friends Devin McNeill and Nick Power. The company has since reached over 45,000 customers and is sold in more than 350 outfitters.  You can keep up with his business venture by following @flowfold on Instagram or visiting www.flowfold.com. Candice Springs Hipp got married on May 2nd in Pawleys Island, South Carolina to her now husband Will Hipp. Candice wanted her favorite place, Eleuthera, to be represented at her wedding so she served Kalik, the beer of The Bahamas, and conch fritters at the reception. She is looking forward to attending the Island School reunion with her siblings and parents in September and to show her husband the Island School for the first time. She and her husband will reside in Greenville, South Carolina. Jensen Lowe is still working for CipherHealth, a healthcare technology company based in New York City. Jensen lives in Manhattan currently and is hoping his Island School friends living in the city get together soon! He’s also hoping to make the trip to Eleuthera for the big reunion in September.

FALL 2004

Class Agents: Patrick DiLoreto, Katie Garratt, Jen Groverman Olechowski

Cam Powel is still living in Boston and working for The Island School. However, after the winter she had in Boston, she’s questioning why she doesn’t work on Eleuthera full time…Cam recently got together for brunch with some fellow F’04 alumni in the area including, Nick Emmons, Lucy Minott and Stephanie Pitts. Cam will be at the on-island reunion in September and hopes some other members of F’04 will be there too!

SPRING 2005

Class Agents: Jane Kinney, Peter Meijer

Isaac Reyes is doing well and misses everyone and every rock and tree and creature from SP’05. Nonetheless, he is enjoying life in NYC for the most part (been there since June ’14) but of course misses Boston sometimes and people like Miles Douglass not being around. He requests that you definitely let him know if you’re in NYC, and he is happy to catch up. He is also excited to attend the ten year reunion in NYC during the second weekend in June! Miles Douglass is living in Boston and working as buyer for Boston Organics, an organic food company that does home and office deliveries in the Boston area. He does not see IS kids nearly enough but would like to remedy that situation. He is looking forward to a fun summer after such an awful winter up north. Rachel Clement is also living in Boston and enjoying the city life. She begins my new job in June as a On-premise Sales Representative for the Martignetti Company promoting a selection of fine wine and spirits from around the world. She is excited for the new career move and hoping to visit some beautiful vineyards in the near future. Katie White is also lives in Massachusetts and is currently living in Cambridge. She is excited to meet up with Monique for drinks soon if she ever returns from her travels to Africa. Monique Guimond is wrapping up five years of work at a fun Healthcare Design start-up in Boston and Rwanda called MASS Design Group. She will be taking the summer off in Maine to welcome her niece and nephew (twins courtesy of Chloe Farrell S’00!!!). She will be heading to MIT Sloan in the fall to pursue an MBA. Jane Kinney sadly had to leave her dream job in Mission Control at NASA due to unforeseen circumstances. She is currently working for a real estate development company, which she hates, but is back in Dallas with her family which is nice. She is reevaluating her life and will hopefully start in a new direction soon! She looks forward to attending both the NYC reunion in June, as well as the on-island reunion in September!Over the last year, Caroline Giguere (nee Springs) hasn’t moved or changed jobs so she is still living in Greenville,SC and working for Greenville Health System in a physician practice as a Cardiac Device Specialist. This summer she will be heading back to Eleuthera for a family vacation and to enjoy the on-island reunion in September!  She can’t believe 10 years have passed since our time at IS in the Spring of 2005.  Not a day goes by that she don’t think about all the memories she made at The Island School! Ellen Oshinsky spent the winter as a ski instructor at Deer Valley Resort in Utah. She begins her Master’s in Elementary Inclusive Education at Teachers College at Columbia University this summer. She hopes to reconnect with ISers while in NYC! Melissa Nixon recently graduated from dental school and is starting as an associate at a private dental practice in Florida this June. Joan Cusack is currently living in Los Angeles, working in social media. She recently got married and honeymooned in South America, where her favorite destination was Patagonia –  she highly recommends trekking down there! After a year and a half working for an NGO in Afghanistan, Peter Meijer is moving back to New York to start business school at NYU in the fall. He’s excited to be closer to so many lovely SP’05ers (of whom there were none in Central Asia). Alec Faggen says hello to all Island Schoolers! She is still in medical school. Right now she is studying for my medical boards, so unfortunately  has not much to report besides the fact that she is rapidly losing her mind trying to memorize every drug interaction and nerve in the body. She hopes everyone is well. Aaron Hamm has been back from Costa Rica for about a year now. He is working odd jobs here and there. He just started classes for an elementary education teaching certification in language arts and science at Ferris State University and loving the little rescue dog that he found on the beach in Costa Rica. Her name is Lycah. She came to his classes everyday and the kids would read books to her.

FALL 2005

Class Agents: Stephanie Chaston, Justin Drazin, Anne Sholley

Kara Quirke is moving to Alaska next month to work as a biologist studying marine mammals. She has been living in Washington state since 2010 when she moved there for school and then stayed after graduation because it is so beautiful with lots of hiking, sailing and mountain climbing.  Stephanie Chaston is still living in South Boston until the end of the month – then I’m moving to Cambridge. She spent all of her free time this winter skiing and shoveling.  Drew Fink says his time in Boulder with Colton “Colty Colt” Coughlin has been awesome, but he is packing up in a month and moving to Cambridge, MA to get his MBA at Harvard. He’ll be there for 2 years, and is looking to seeing much MUCH more of the Boston crew! Antonia Leavitt (Pryor) had a very exciting spring. On April 18, she got married to a wonderful guy named Will Leavitt. They both graduated in May of 2015, he from Wharton with an MBA and Toni from Yale School of Nursing as a family nurse practitioner. After graduation, they are moving to Fort Worth, Texas! If anyone is ever in the area, please reach out. Leah Downey is moving up to Cambridge, MA in August to start a PhD in political theory at Harvard.  Justin Drazin is heading to law school in NYC. He would love to see more Fa05ers as the months roll on towards our 10th anniversary. Time flies! David Blake is still up in Michigan slingin’ hard cider, apples and doughnuts at the farm! He’s traveling a lot with the family’s hard cider events and getting into new states. The family farm is just about to open up the cider mill for strawberry season and farming, planting, etc. David also got engaged over Christmas and is working on plans for wedding in northern MI and honeymoon to Thailand! Besides that he’s just trying to get in a couple camping trips this summer. Be on the lookout for the new Blake’s Hard Cider video! Brittany Sherman is married with two boys (two and 9 months). She is working with her sister-in-law at her law firm contemplating whether on not to go into law herself. She is still living in Nassau and not sure if she will be able to be make any of the reunions, but if she can she will. Annie Sholley is still living in Cambridge, MA and now works in the Grad Affairs/Development office at Noble and Greenough where she and several other F’05ers went to high school. This summer she and her manfriend have ambitions to travel to Iceland and Montreal and a few places in between. She is THRILLED to hear that so many FA’05ers are moving to Cambridge. Luke Cherrington is in LA playing with startups. He recently ran into Nate Wellin who has been traveling around SE Asia and now back towards Maine.  If anyone comes through southern CA, let him know. He’s planning to head back through DC/MD this summer, and likely up to burning man in August. Michael Kratz has had a busy year: he and his wife Ellen were married, got a dog, and bought a house. He’s on board a ship 8 months a year for work as a Bridge officer. He dreams of taking a job on a research vessel and moving down to IS for a semester to run the dive boat. Colton Coughlin is still working for a Civil Engineering firm in Boulder, Colorado and has been in the position almost two years in a few short months.  He had an enjoyable ski season with Drew Fink, his family, and his girlfriend Dani.  He says it has been great having them live in the same town.  He was also able to see Drew Melby and Kylie Atwood over new years in Beaver Creek, CO. He will be traveling this summer to more weddings than he can count. Most weddings will be in Portland, OR so let him know if you’ll be in the area! Nick Zbitnoff recently got back from the Philippines. He still works in Alaska all year saving up money for his next big trip. Starting sometime next year he is going to spend a year backpacking across south and Central America. Olivia Jacobsen recently made a career change from management consulting to nursing, and she’ll either be attending Quinnipiac, University of Rochester, or Vanderbilt in the fall. She’s kind of lived all over in the past year – started the fall in Charleston and got to see Dave Seamans for one lovely evening before her boyfriend got so rudely traded to another farm league hockey team in Kansas City. But, they ended up loving it there too! Now they’re spending the summer in Palm Beach, so if anyone is around make sure to give her a ring – they’ll have extra space! Jac Battjes recently met up with Dan Shea in Peru! Her big news is that after almost 4 years in Chile, she’s moving back to the USA in July!! No real plans yet, so she’s hoping to bop around the states for a while trying to see people she haven’t seen in years, go to a few weddings, and start the job hunt! She will probably be in Boston and NYC. Jake Cerf is still living in San Francisco, rooming with brother and F’04 alumnus Bart and working in the tech scene.  His whole family is out there now and his sister is expecting a girl in a few weeks so he’ll be an uncle x2 in no time!  He is heading to Italy on Wednesday to reunite with his Italian roommates from his study abroad days and to get to know a few new places (hiking in Dolomites, hanging in Porto Fino). Dave Miller is working in Tech and have been spending the last few months in NYC.  He’s looking forward to getting back to Boston by the end of June and would love to get together with everyone in the area. He’s also hoping for a Charleston trip this fall and hopes to see Dave, Big Mike, and anyone else down there. Lizzie Votruba earned her Masters in January and is living in Cleveland now working as an intern for a land conservancy. She is hoping to move out west again soon, looking into conservation jobs in Colorado, Montana, Idaho or Wyoming to fund her love of fishing and skiing. She got to see Eleanor Anderson a few months ago which was simply wonderful (she is kicking butt making art in Jackson, WY), and would love to see more of you guys.

SPRING 2006

Class Agents: Taylor Hoffman, Wes Norton

FALL 2006

Class Agent: Sydney DeVos

SPRING 2007

Class Agents: Tom Bunn, Dominique Keefe

Mark Portman started graduate school for aquaculture and marine policy at the University of Miami’s marine institute last fall after working for the USDA in fish nutrition research for a couple years in MT. Mark is neglecting graduate work and heading back for a third season guiding for a fishing outfitter in Mongolia this summer. He loves being back by the ocean, and it’s giving him some serious flashbacks to his time in The Bahamas when he first got to IS. Sam Rosen has continued fishing after college and is currently (and shall continue to) be on a 8:4 month regime where he runs his lobster boat for 8 months and then takes off traveling for 4 months. These 4 months have recently meant hiking, fishing, traveling, and teaching scuba in a variety of places. Sam is currently in New Zealand and will be returning for the fishing season in several weeks. Lindsay Becker recently took an incredible trip down to Roatan, Honduras and went scuba diving with some college friends. She has to say it wasn’t quite the same without Annabelle and the old dive shack and the boat that would break down in the middle of the ocean, but it was quite spectacular. It certainly made her think of all of you! After graduating Mauricio Lopez moved to Chile to work for a boutique investment banking firm for almost 2 years. (This was a great experience, Chile is a place he highly recommends). Mauricio then moved back home to Colombia (after 8.5 years) and started working for BCG opening their first office in Colombia. This too has been a great experience but as you can imagine quite far from the ocean. Henry Zimmerman has been surfing around a bit- he worked in Utah outside Zion national park for a small residential architecture firm right after he graduated and got to go hiking in the canyon every weekend- couldn’t be further from the ocean. Henry actually couldn’t stand it despite it being so beautiful and about a year and a half ago he moved up to Seattle where heh as been working for a large commercial firm on a new skyscraper going up in the city. And!, Henry sold the owner on putting solar panels on the top of the tower!! Super cool! Not something he ever expected he would be doing but it’s nice being near the ocean and the mountains. Matt Wetherall is a week away from finishing up his first year of medical school at Tufts, which has been going really well! He is participating in the Maine Track Program, spending his first two years primarily on the Boston Campus, before moving to Maine for the entire clerkship period in year three/rotations in year four. The highlight of living in Boston so far has been a chance encounter with Julianna Lord on a morning run which has resulted in a wonderful reconnecting of friends with her – if you are ever in the area let Matt and Julianna know! Robert Little has been working for himself as a video guy since graduating college. He has been trying to work on as many environmental pieces as possible, but cool projects never pay like the commercial ones do. Luckily he has been decently successful with the commercial stuff and that has given him the flexibility to work on some more nonprofit and ecology education projects. The job is busy, but life right now is even busier right now. Robert got married last year and just a few weeks ago he and his wife found out we are having a kid. Its kind of crazy how things move along, but there it is. Robert can’t wait to bring his kid out into the wild and start teaching him or her all about what he learned at The Island School. Sam Howard got married on May 23rd! And will start medical school at Michigan state on June 15th! Sam bounced around a lot because he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do. He had the incredible opportunity to go on a few medical missions trips which really opened his eyes to a lot. He fell in love with the medical field and now he thinks he wants to be an orthopedic surgeon. Tom Bunn has really enjoyed being back at The Island School in a teaching role. It’s a great feeling to give back to something that has given him so much. Tom will be back stateside this summer and is always up for a reunion! Dominique Keefe just moved from NYC to San Francisco in February to join a new solar team at NRG Energy, where she is working as a financial analyst to acquire solar projects.  This is the first time she has lived on the west coast, and so far she is really enjoying exploring a new city and taking advantage of all the mountains and beaches in the area.  If anyone’s ever visiting out here, definitely give her a shout!  

FALL 2007

Class Agents: Stan Burnside, Robby Spalding

Julie Thomsen is living in a cabin in Grand Teton National Park. She is in a graduate program at the Teton Science Schools. She is studying to get her Master’s of Science degree in natural science education. She takes kids on hikes while teaching them ecology and geology. Besides Eleuthera, she can’t think of a better place to teach outdoor education! Nina Fisher spent a year traveling and working after she graduated from Lafayette. She started physical therapy school this past week. Emily Lovejoy spent the past year working and traveling in Australia. She recently moved to Washington, D.C., where she is working in the Recruiting Department at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP. Sam Lagor recently finished his master’s thesis in geology at the University of Vermont. His research proved that a giant body of magma crystallized during the exact same time as the mountain formation event known as the Acadian orogeny. This research will encourage geologists to reconsider the timing and nature of granite formation in Vermont and New Hampshire. He will be in Burlington through the summer. He hopes to start working in environmental remediation this September.  Jennie Meglathery passed her licensing exam to become a Licensed Practical Nurse in August of 2014. She then continued through the Registered Nurse program at Vermont Technical College. She got married in September, and is expecting a baby boy in June. After becoming an RN, she will pursue a Bachelor’s degree in nursing, and then a Master’s degree in Nurse-Midwifery. Nicky DePaul is currently living in Los Angeles and working at Locent, a tech company that helps merchants sell products and services through text messages. He recently published a hilarious web comic with Frederator Studios (producers of “Adventure Time”). He volunteers with SeedLA, an organization that provides pro-bono strategic consulting services to environmental and public health non-profits. Rob Spalding is living in Boston and working at Boston Medical Center. He works in the cardiac electrophysiology lab, where doctors fix electrical conduction problems inside the heart. He helps the doctors during surgeries by measuring the voltage and timing of the heart’s electrical conduction. 

SPRING 2008

Class Agents: Ned Adriance, Becca Williams

Phoebe Hyde is living in Boston in the North End and working as a consultant for FactSet. It amazes her what a real lifetime bond is formed at the Island School and she is so happy that we were able to have a reunion in NYC this past February after 7 years! It’s all about showing up SP08 – keep it going! Becca Williams finished her first year of law school at University of Michigan. She is working in Detroit this summer and getting her yoga teacher certification during the weekends. After graduating from Davidson in 2013, Ned Adriance has been living in Washington D.C. for the past few years working in the press office of Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. He is so looking forward to being back on Eleuthera in September for the on-island reunion! Tucker Blake is currently stationed in Okinawa, Japan at 3rd reconnaissance battalion. He is living right on the ocean and getting to explore all of Southeast Asia.  He finished combatant dive school in March and is currently working on his master diver certification. Kendall Axt recently accepted a job with the Peace Corps. She will be leaving for Fiji in august 2015 to promote environmental awareness and healthy lifestyle practices amongst Fijian youth. She is extremely excited for this next chapter in her life but is super bummed that she won’t be able to attend the upcoming alumni reunion! Michael Siladi has officially been graduated from college for two years and enjoying the “real world”. His father recently retired and he has taken over the family business of remodeling and building houses.  The hard work has been paying off!  He has been able to take trips to places such as Canada, Utah, and New Orleans with friends to explore the communities and culture.  While work is fun and tough, he is always looking forward to the next adventure as well.  Lastly, he is looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion in September as well as be back on the improved and expanded Island School campus. After graduating from Bates last spring, Emilie Geissinger has finished her year as a Biology Teaching Fellow at Noble and Greenough School and will be a Flats intern at CEI this summer. Grace Lucas is currently living in NYC and working at a luxury pr firm called Nike Communications.  She spends most of her time working and visiting friends/family (including several island school friends).  She is looking forward to possibly visiting Eleuthera this summer because she’s passed on the love for the island school to her best friend from college who is working there this summer.  She misses her semester and island school!  She can’t wait to be back in september for the reunion! Kit Norris moved to NYC a little over a year ago now and is loving the big city – where S’08 hosted a big reunion recently. He also really enjoyed meeting up with the NYC Island Schoolers from S’08 on our exact 7 year anniversary of going to IS (March 4, 2015). Grace Lucas, Halle Biggar, Ryan DeVos and Kit met up for a beer at flat iron hall and just reminisced for a few hours. It’s always nice to be reminded that the connection is still strong.

FALL 2008

Class Agents: Hadley Dawson, John DiLoreto

Valeria Zhao is graduating from Dartmouth in June and will be moving to Boston after a summer of traveling. She’d love to meet up with anyone who happens to be in Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, or Singapore! Hadley Dawson moved to San Francisco and has enjoyed seeing lots of pugs, pretending to be a surfer girl, and exploring the city as a total newb. Most days she is confused about what to wear after going to school in Maine. She loves meeting new people in this city of unfamiliar faces so if you are in SF, let her know! Maddie Andres graduated from Colorado College this May and will be spending the summer traveling around eastern Europe with friends. Next year she will be working with the geology department as a paraprofesstional, leading field trips and organizing labs. She is excited to stay in the west and gain some teaching experience. Thanks for doing this! Vatasha White will be graduating Smith College Spring of 2015 (a couple of weeks). She will be moving out to NorCal for work at GE Software as a software development leader. Vatasha also started playing tennis recently and she absolutely loves the sport. Margot Goldstein is an analyst at Goldman Sachs and living in Salt Lake City, Utah. She hopes to make it to the Island School reunion in Sept! Leslie Panella just finished her second to last semester at Middlebury College studying neuroscience and global health. Leslie will be spending the summer in Vermont doing research and hiking if anyone wants to come visit! Tyler Goddard will be starting his senior year at Elon University (finally) in the fall. He is working for Keller Williams and Next Step Realty currently so if anyone needs help finding housing in the city or really anywhere for that matter hit him up. Also to anyone visiting NC during the school year feel free to swing through. Chrissy Maruyama is currently living in the city of the Great Salt Lake and working in a research lab at the University of Utah. Outside of work, Chrissy has been playing club ultimate frisbee with “Elevate”, skiing, camping, and missing the ocean. Simon Mann-Gow graduated from Lewis and Clark College with a degree in International Affairs. He is currently living in Portland, Oregon, though he will likely be moving back to the east coast in 2016 to pursue a career in international security. Kevin Delaney is in his last year studying marketing in Sydney. He is also working part time for Tribe Marketing and amislooking to get a job in advertising in Australia after graduation. Sage Scheftel is living in Denver, working on Governor Hickenlooper’s legislative team and part time for a non-profit called The Global Livingston Institute. Todd Carson is currently living in South Boston. He is making the move down south this summer to New York City to work in Times Square. Todd and Brian Kiley still have regular sleepovers. Conor Hunt has been working as an instructor at Weaponcraft in Maine. In August he will be starting Basic training for the military. John DiLoreto has had a great first year post grad living in Manhattan and working at JP Morgan. John met up with Chris Kachadoorian, Sarah Tarika, Marty Morris, & Jane Rew for dinner in NYC this past winter. John has also run into other IS alumni Katie Delaney and Sage Disch throughout NYC. John is looking forward to getting out to the beach this summer, planning a F 08′ reunion in NYC, and hopefully heading down to Eleuthera in September. Marty Morris is currently working at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City in the Department of Surgery doing clinical research. He just finished taking Post-Bacc courses at Columbia and is in the process of applying to medical school. Chris Kachadoorian graduated from Duke University in 2014 and joined Accenture as a Management Consultant in New York. He keeps the IS spirit relevant by leading his office’s Eco Volunteering Team- through which he has helped organize outdoor education events with community organizations around the city. After graduating from Colorado College, Sarah Tarika moved back to the east coast. Sarah currently lives in NYC and works at Faherty Brand, a beach inspired, eco-friendly, sustainable clothing company.  Sarah has enjoyed reconnecting with her F’08 friends in NYC. Alex Keefe graduated from UMaine with a finance degree and is currently in Quebec. He would like to congratulate Jack’s dreads on graduating. Scott Chaston is living in the South End of Boston doing commercial loan review for banks in New England. He graduated from BU and he owns more Island School t-shirts than collared shirts. Adi Baker received her Bachelors in Studio Art from Colorado College. She is currently living in Portland, Maine with her favorite people and cat, surfing the Maine coast, and dipping her toes in the Design/Fine Art/and Education fields.

SPRING 2009

Class Agents: Christine Brittain, Whitney Powel, Matt Vetter

Brian Porter graduated from UVA and will be heading to Brandeis in August to pursue a graduate degree in philosophy. Mollie Young graduated from Middlebury College in May 2014 and moved to Ne York City.  She currently works in Public Relations at Weber Shandwick in the Corporate Practice. She says, “While it is nothing like being on Eleuthera, I am loving living in the city, surrounding by so many friends and lots of new adventures.” Whit Powel graduated from Denison University and is heading down to Eleuthera in June for her 3rd consecutive summer at the Island School teaching during Summer Term.  She will continue to build on the previous summers’ food system and sustainability curriculum while also fulfilling the role of Dean of Students.  After Summer Term, she is moving to New Canaan, CT where she will be an Apprentice Teacher at New Canaan Country School teaching in the middle school and coaching middle and upper school athletics. Colin Braun will be interning this summer at the White House doing project engineering and construction management.  He will be graduating from UC Davis in March with a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Matt Vetter, Christine Brittain, Heather Hoffman, and May Henderson all reunited on Eleuthera this past month to visit their siblings during Spring 2015’s Parents Weekend.

FALL 2009

Class Agents: Alexis Sommerfield, Christian Wierda, Catherine Wilson

This fall Catherine Wilson will be a senior at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she is double majoring in Political Science and Peace, War, & Defense. This summer she is interning for a Congressman in D.C. and would love to see and catch up with any IS alumni in the area! Eva McKinsey is still at Colorado College studying Political Science; however, she spent last semester in Peru and Chile on a studying abroad program. Eva loved South America so much that she is heading back down in a couple weeks to spend the summer in Argentina working at the US Embassy. Stephanie Dawson just graduated a week ago from Colgate University, where she studied International Relations. She will be moving to New York City this summer to start her next chapter in life! She has no long term plans, except to keep exploring her interests and to travel whenever she can. Adriana Banta is graduating from Barnard College, Columbia University in May 2015 and will be working at William Morris Endeavor (WME) starting in late June. She spent last summer interning at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in Los Angeles and this past fall Adriana wrapped up her second season with “Saturday Night Live.” She will also be traveling post graduation to Bali – keeping up her scuba certificate!

SPRING 2010

Class Agents: Hannah Cope

SUMMER 2010

Class Agents: Grace Dennis, Ariel Verbrugge

FALL 2010

Class Agents: Chris Daniell

Clay Bales is going into his junior year at a small liberal arts school (Hampton-Sydney) in Virginia double majoring in econ/business and Spanish, but currently studying abroad on the Chilean/Argentinan border in the andes mountains. Clay has an internship at a big company in Virginia Beach after this program. Chris Daniell is going into his last year at Connecticut College, while taking classes and doing thesis work with the US Coast Guard Academy. Chris be spending the summer at CEI working with the shark research and conservation program. Meghan Kachadoorian, Catherine Pirie, Brandon Gell, and George Giannos will also be working on the cape.

SPRING 2011

Class Agents: Ami Adams

SUMMER 2011

Class Agents: Henry Ogilby

FALL 2011

Class Agents: Anika Ayyar, Grace Fowler, Griffin Hunt 

SPRING 2012

Class Agents: Lauren Maida, Matti McAlpin, Hannah Piersiak

Matti McAlpin is currently a sophomore at Clark University majoring in psychology with a double minor in education and gender studies. She works as an academic assistant to Professor Michael Addis on psychological research which has fueled her interest in engaging in research on men, masculinity, and mental illness as well as influencing her efforts to reduce stigma associated with mental illness on campus. She is currently an intern in the youth and development programs of Massachusetts based non profit Screening for Mental Health.  Taylor Lundeen has spent the last year as a Post Grad in the Comparative Arts program at Interlochen Arts Academy and will be attending University of Michigan next year. Casey Rutherford has just finished her freshman year at the University of Miami and she loves it! She is a marine science and biology major. Casey will be at home for the summer but goes back to Miami in August to move into her apartment! Peter Graham is starting his Junior year at Colorado State studying Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism. He spent last summer interning with the Bahamas National Trust doing Conch surveys on the Little Bahama Bank, Genetic research on the Seahorses in Sweetings Pond (the one next to the Hatchet Bay Caves in Eleuthera) and, helping the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park Wardens. In addition to that Peter has bought a boat and plans to start doing Fishing Charters. Lauren Maida is going into her junior year at Lehigh University, majoring in Marketing and minoring in Environmental Studies.  One of Lauren’s greatest accomplishments this year was being elected Chapter President of her sorority, Pi Beta Phi, and beginning her term this past January.  She also recently moved to Newtown, Pennsylvania. Ann Marie Carroll is currently at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine in Trinidad. She is in her second year with one more to go and is studying Biology.

SUMMER 2012

Class Agent: Ben Charo

FALL 2012

Class Agents: Cate Ellison, Lauren Gould, Lexi Welch

Caroline Jones has just completed her first year at University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia as an environmental studies major. This summer, she will be working with the Western Reserve Land Conservancy group as a Zero Waste intern in Cleveland, Ohio. Additionally, she plans on traveling to the Caribbean for a 17-day sailing trip that is based on college leadership skills. Accompanied by fellow Island School ’12 classmate, Lauren Catena, Caroline will also be receiving her Advanced Open Water SCUBA certification. Since embarking on her college journey, Caroline has been initiated into the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and she is looking forward to her sophomore year at Richmond this upcoming fall. Cam Peck has just completed his freshman year at Florida Southern College as a double major in environmental sciences, marine biology. He is also minoring in business. Additionally, Cam played for the Florida Southern lacrosse team as a midfielder. Cam was also initiated into the Sigma Chi fraternity at FSC and this summer he is working as a sustainable commercial fisherman in conjunction with a local fisheries management program off the coast of his home, Newport, Rhode Island. He also enjoys coaching lacrosse to 9 year olds in his area and is excited to embrace his sophomore year in the fall. Having just completed her freshman year at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, Lexi Welch is looking forward to a busy summer and an exciting start to the upcoming school year. This past year Lexi was initiated into the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and she was an active member of the environmental club at TCU. She also enjoyed tutoring local middle school students in English in the Fort Worth area. This summer, Lexi will be splitting her time between her family’s new home in Tucson, Arizona, and Annapolis, Maryland, which is her hometown. This upcoming fall Lexi will become an active member of Army ROTC at TCU and she is planning on declaring her major in criminal justice while declaring a minor in environmental studies. Following her graduation from TCU, Lexi is currently considering enlisting in officer candidacy school for the United States Navy following time spent in the United States Peace CORPS. Cate Ellison is now a rising sophomore at Colorado College. During her first year, she joined the ultimate frisbee team and she is also currently involved in the GlobeMed club at her school. GlobeMed works to promote global health equity worldwide. Next year, Cate is thinking about declaring her major in sociology. She is excited to spend this summer with her family. Along with several of her Island School Fall ’12 classmates, Lauren Gould has just said goodbye to her freshman year of college. She is currently attending College of Charleston in South Carolina. This past year, Lauren joined the Zeta Tau Alpha chapter at Charleston. This summer, she will be working as a camp counselor at Kieve Summer Camp, located in Maine. James Boyce is a rising sophomore at University of California Santa Cruz and he is planning on declaring a double major in business management economics and environmental studies. This summer, James will be going on a 5Gyres expedition (like Island School and CEI employee, Kristal Ambrose) from Bermuda to New York. James will be studying plastic pollution in the North Atlantic Gyre. The remainder of James’ summer will be spent at home on Abaco where he plans on working but most of all, spending time with his family. Hannah Lessles has just completed her freshman year at Amherst College and this summer she is interning in the emergency room department at a local hospital. She is currently majoring in pre-med. This spring, Katie Holmes is graduating from high school and this upcoming fall, she plans on embarking on a gap year in Indonesia and later, Madagascar before she begins her college career. In Indonesia, Katie is planning to travel, hike, do volunteer service, and stay with local families on home stays. In Madagascar, Katie is excited to be working as a marine conservation volunteer. Hadley Edie has just finished her freshman year at University of Wisconsin, Madison. This past year, Hadley played club lacrosse at UW Madison and she was also initiated into Chi Omega. This summer Hadley is looking forward to working as a camp counselor. Along with many of her fellow Island School classmates, Eunna Oh has just completed her freshman year of college, and with flying colors. She is attending Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida and has stated that her first year was “an amazing experience.” Eunna is in the 3/2 accelerated management program at Rollins and will therefore finish her undergraduate in three years. She hopes to earn her MBA after two additional years at Rollins. This past year Eunna was also initiated into the Chi Omega sorority at Rollins and as a sophomore next year she stands to fill the Sisterhood Chair position for her chapter. Eunna is also excited to earn her Advanced Open Water SCUBA certification through her school later next year. She is excited to reunite with Island School classmates and friends from home this summer and she is looking forward to maintaining her academic track. Korinna Garfield is looking forward to graduating from Wellesley High School in June and she is excited to be heading to Williams College this upcoming fall. She plans on majoring in environmental policy with a focus in justice and law. Korinna will also be playing lacrosse for Williams. This summer Korinna has will be interning with the appellate tax board and she is also planning on traveling to Peru. She is planning on hiking Machu Pichu and later this summer, Korinna is also planning on traveling to the Galapagos Islands where she plans to spend most of her time SCUBA diving. She is very excited for this upcoming year. Isabelle Swearingon successfully completed her freshman year of college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and is currently planning on continuing her college career at Davidson College in North Carolina starting this fall. Isabelle will also be spending some time studying abroad this summer in Italy and she plans on teaching art for the remainder of the summer. She is looking forward to her new chapter that lies ahead at Davidson this upcoming fall.

SPRING 2013

Class Agent: Ben VanderWeide

SUMMER 2013

Class Agents: AJ McIntosh, Tim Gronet

Catherine Fleming will be attending the University of Virginia in the fall. Andrew Sommer will be attending SUNY Oswego. Abby Smith is going to the University of Richmond. Both Margot Werner and Ken Park will be joining the freshmen class at Cornell University. Jacey Sullivan will be attending University of Wisconsin. Noah Pollack will be enrolling at Tulane University.

FALL 2013

Class Agent: Griffin Andres

Chris Teufel won the animal sciences division of the Maine State Science Fair conducting research on cichlid fish behavior and its implications in aquaculture, and he received a grant to continue that research. He is also pursuing a certification to become an EMT taking night classes at his local fire department. Ella Hartshorn is taking a gap year to be a snowboard instructor and she will be attending Colorado College the year after that. Charlie Zachau will be attending University of Maine Orono next year to study civil engineering. Nora Teter is working on research at the Natural History Museum in New York City doing research on the common starling and their invasiveness. She is also raising a pair of pigeons named Bonnie and Clyde for a neighbor. She will also be attending Colorado College but next fall. Lyndsey Silverstein will be attending University of Wisconsin – Madison. Liah Burbridge will be attending UNC Wilmington, majoring in either environmental studies or biology. Chase Haylon will be attending the NYU Tisch School for theater next fall. Krissy Truesdale will be getting her MBA in Sustainable Business at Clark University. Max Thompson will be attending Albion College studying business and sustainability. Gibson Cushman will be attending Montana State to study Aeronautical Science/aviation and business. Gretchen Meyer will be attending Trinity College. Morgen Montgomery will be attending Tulane University. Brooke Endzel will be going to University of Alabama. Kiley Knott will be attending Duke University and she is thinking about majoring in neuroscience. Asher Dawson will be going to Santa Clara University. Duncan MacGregor will be going to Bates College. Lyndell Giffenig will be attending University of Richmond after taking a gap year to work on her tennis game.

SPRING 2014

Class Agent: Abby Gordon

This year has been pretty quiet for Patrick Friend, but Patrick and Charlie Mount’s soccer team won western New England’s division and then Patrick destroyed his knee so he’s just working and getting it back. (He ran for the first time the other day!) Patrick’s team became State Champions for history bowl and he actually wrote this update en route to nationals. This summer Patrick was invited to come continue his IS research at Bowdoin College. He will be working with a professor on studying populations of anadromous fish species in the Gulf of Maine and its estuaries, especially the Kennebec River. In addition to that, he will be working on doing chemical analysis of the substrate of mudflats that have been affected by the invasive green crab. Patrick will be using some of the information he gathers when he writes his global thesis on international fisheries regulations and alternative fish farming methods. Faith Isham’s junior year was filled with school, soccer, theater, snowboarding, and tennis.  Her year started with a record-breaking season for the girls soccer team.  Immediately after the season finished she began practice for her schools production of Legally Blonde in which she played a murderous stepdaughter with a tragic perm named Chutney.  This winter she resumed her job as a snowboard instructor and was overjoyed with the amount of snow Vermont received this year. This fall she will play on her schools tennis team.  Recently, Faith was selected as one of two American’s to go to the United World College in Norway, which is an intense two-year international school. She will finish high school in Norway and looks forward to meeting people from other countries and going on more outdoor adventures.  Besides spending this summer traveling around Europe and Israel, Hugo Wasserman will be attending Reed College next year, where he plans to study philosophy. In this past school year, Abbe Easton has reestablished the environmental club at her school. Abbe and her club members have worked to better distribute their waste that their school produces. In their most recent project, the club built a garden on campus. Below is a picture of Abbe and the club planting some spring herbs! Carlos Sanni went to the LJM Maritime Academy and is studying to be a marine engineer. He has about four month left of school before sea time. In swimming, he improved his mile time to 12 minutes and is a swimming beast compared to everyone else, “like if you did take my boy Sir Leigh and add a dash of The Maxey.”  Carlos also has the opportunity to work with B.R.E.E.F. anytime he can to assist them in their coral restoration. Since Robin Grathwohl returned home from The Island School last spring she has really tried to bring her experience into her everyday life. This past summer Robin worked on an organic farm. This school year Robin is the Sustainability Representative of her House at school and she works with the sustainability council to plan school wide events. This coming summer, she has a Welles Grant from her school to do a study on the imports and exports of fish in her hometown. In the coming year Robin hopes to do more work regarding sustainability at her school. She is happy with what she has done since she has returned from The Island School and is looking forward to what is still to come. Bella Walton is finishing up her senior year at Pingry and heading off to Tulane University in New Orleans next year! She is missing The Island School everyday but going on a new adventure to college, which she is so excited about! Since returning to Minnesota from the Island School, Abby Gordon has been busy beekeeping, photographing, exploring and most importantly… putting a plan together for the next few years! After graduating from high school Abby is taking a gap year before college. Her plans include: returning to The Island School as communications intern, traveling to Hawaii, working as an Intern in Oxford, England with The Children’s Radio Foundation and finally backpacking in the UK and Western Europe. After this year of adventures and learning, Abby will be attending Lewis and Clark in Portland, Oregon for college. But before all the fun begins in August of this year…Abby has a summer adventure bucket list of 187 things to keep her busy! Josh Lachs has been pretty busy at his school implementing a composting system for his cafeteria’s kitchen. He is heading the steering committee for it and they are almost done building the bin. If all goes well, his principal is going to give them the go ahead for a bigger system for the entire cafeteria next year. In addition to that Josh has been talking with his engineering teacher about putting in an aquaponics system for his school’s greenhouse next year and she is really into it. Josh is thinking of taking a gap year WWOOFING across America. Next year Colin Horgan will be attending Hamilton College in upstate New York,about 45 minutes east of Syracuse. He plans to either double major in Math and Computer Science or Math and Econ and will be running all three seasons for Hamilton (cross country in the fall and track in both the winter and spring). Since attending The Island School Kayleen Rice has started taking college classes though Running Start, a program that allows high school students the choice to take classes at a college. She is just finishing up 45 credits and next year plans to switch schools to get the most out of her senior year and high school education. Over the winter Kayleen’s Cheer squad went to competition for the second year in history, which was pretty exciting! The Island School helped Kayleen to be more confident in myself and my learning, and since has helped her to step out and take on more challenging adventures. Next Year Leah Charash will be a freshman attending the Lehigh University college of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Leah will likely major in something along the lines of Environmental or BioMedical Engineering, and hopes to look at marine ecosystems specifically as a minor or later on in graduate school. Lehigh was her top choice, and she ended up applying and getting in Early Decision. Lean still thinks about The Island School every single day, and hopes to take a gap year during undergrad to return for an internship at CEI. She found it really difficult transitioning back into the ‘real world’ after IS (especially because her appendix ruptured within 48 hours of Leah returning to the country), but she understands why the experience had to be 100 days. It is a challenge to maintain the principles and morals that Leah developed during her time on Eleuthera, but she works hard at it every day. IS taught Leah to make decisions for myself, not based off of what she had to do to impress or please those around her. This has led to Leah choosing the University that is actually right for her as a whole person, and has also given her the courage to quit a sport where she felt like an outsider in an unkind community and pick up Ultimate Frisbee. Leah misses each and every person who impacted her experience, and she wishes the best of luck for future students! Greta Poler is going to Amherst College in the fall, which she is super excited about. Jake Atwood reports he’s doing well and is going to Bates College next year. He’s hoping that any rising seniors from Spring 2015 semester thinking about Bates will come visit (and anyone else is more than welcome of course). Jake also going to work at a camp on Lake Winepesauke this summer. He’s pumped for the next reunion and hope we have it soon and of course misses everyone a lot.

SUMMER 2014

Class Agent: Eliot Schulte, Clay Star

FALL 2014

No Class Agent, email alumni@islandschool.org if you are interested

SPRING 1999

Class Agent: Joshua Lichtman (If you are interested in helping Joshua out with his Class Agent duties, please email alumni@islandschool.org)

FALL 1999

Class Agent: Lee Taylor (If you are interested in helping Lee out with his Class Agent duties, please email alumni@islandschool.org)

Greetings Fall ’99 classmates. It’s shockingly been 15 years since we were on-island, and based on the updates that came in it sounds like everyone seems to be off doing great things in life! On to the specifics… Kempie Blythe continues her work as an international experiential educator leading semester and summer programs abroad for gap-year students (primarily in Morocco, Jordan, West Africa, and North India). She wrote her update from South Arica where she was winding down her most recent trip and his headed back to the bay area until her next adventure begins. Anthea Dexter-Cooper is living in Vermont and has apparently decided that morning exercise is for wimps… as she will be competing in a 50 mile trail race in September. Stephanie Falconi continues to find her way underwater as she just returned from a snorkeling trip to the keys with her boyfriend and family. In addition to her duties as an Island School board member, Francesca Forrestal is ploughing through her PhD in Marine Biology and Fisheries, and is otherwise enjoying the good life in Miami with her husband Ian – who apparently has caught the IS bug and is visiting this winter in order to help set up a coral nursery at the Cape Eleuthera Institute. Alyssa Maloney continues to make sure the US military functions properly as an engineering consultant based in Norfolk, VA. Katie Miller Willie is loving the creativity in her new role as the marketing director of her family business, LockNet – and is living in Kentucky with her husband and 2 ½ year old daughter, Sarah. Shawn Parell wrote her update from an airplane while flying back from leading a yoga and trekking retreat in Chapada Diamantina in Brazil. She lives in Santa Fe, NM with her husband, Russell. Molly Pickall has been staying in close touch with her IS classmates, making the trek to California for my wedding and is rumored to be enrolled in Shawn’s upcoming yoga retreat in northern New Mexico. Julia Rogawski is living in New York City, where she practices law. Julia also shares my amazement that it’s been 15 years: “15 years – that is nuts! Where has all the time gone?” As many of you have probably already noticed from Island School emails, Barrett Summerlin and Thatcher Spring have joined forces to start a new company – Gear Launch. The new enterprise helps develop and sell custom apparel, and you may have noticed they are the source of the Island School’s new 15 year t-shirts! Thatcher and Barrett are both based in San Francisco. James Miles Fisher is engaged to be married to Lucette Blodgett this June in Beverly Hills, California. Jon Cotton F’99 is a Groomsman. The couple met two years ago after being introduced by a mutual friend. Miles proposed while the two were living in New York – he was shooting a TV show for Comedy Central and she was working for HuffPost. The couple reside in Brentwood, CA. Back in New York, Corydon Wagner is still kicking a** and taking names in the film business having recently shot commercials for Microsoft and Sony and is signing clients from LA to Paris! Daria Szelag worked as a pediatric nurse for 6 years in Tucson, AZ. This weekend she is graduating with her Masters of Science in Nursing from the University of Arizona and will soon be a certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. Daria got married in December 2012 and had a baby boy last September. As for Lee Taylor (please forgive the 3rd person reference), I’m living in Boston with my wife, Andrea, and am preparing for the new addition to our family. We’re expecting our first in September, and as soon as we know the sex I’ll be able to complete his/her Island School application… All the best to everyone from Fall ’99, and give me a shout when you come through Boston (301.537.2008). – Lee

SPRING 2000

Class Agent: Monique Johnson (If you are interested in helping Monique out with her Class Agent duties, please email alumni@islandschool.org)

Jimmy Patrick is enjoying the family life. Monique Johnson laughing loudly and stepping on the stars. Jaime Neely is keeping it cool in aviator sunglasses. Mike Brown is overjoyed as he prepare a new home for his baby girl coming in September. Louise Kiefer is dancing in the raindrops. Suzy Newbery is working hard, writing, and doing some teaching. Ryan Eavey is working at the Santa Monica bike taxi. Andy Monk is selling the keys to success. Christie Roberts is enjoying life and playing flag football. Ellie Rogers is travelling the globe while riding motorcycles. Emily Cummings is inventing the wheel of life. Susan Lintern is enjoying the married life. HT Rice is thinking real hard about how to deliver the good news. Dan Cambria… gone fishing. Tyler Gambal is trekking the globe. Lizzie Rosenberg is embracing life one day at a time. Samantha Gladis is continuing to be fabulous in the big city of NYC. Sarah Swett is jumping on the moon and chasing rainbows. Mary Assini is making a difference. Chloe Guimond is enjoying the married life. Abby Lowell is getting married soon. Abby Jenkins is exploring mountains and capturing nature. Sarah Lucas is leading the youth of tomorrow. Meg O’Sullivan is healing hearts. Alta Buden is conquering the museum business. Katie Stratton is touching hearts and minds. Javier Piggee is inspiring young minds. Glendaly Munoz is dancing in the rain. Elizabeth Tocci is performing medical miracles. Sally Yazwinski is tending the fields of dreams.

FALL 2000

Class Agent: Richard Woodhull (If you are interested in helping Richard out with his Class Agent duties, please email alumni@islandschool.org)

SPRING 2001

Class Agent: Nina Kumar (If you are interested in helping Nina out with her Class Agent duties, please email alumni@islandschool.org)

FALL 2001

Class Agents: Meg Bunn, Mary Coleman Farrell

Meg Bunn is still living in NYC and recently moved to the Upper Eastside. She continues to work at JPM private bank. For the past two years, she has been part of The Philanthropy Centre, which provides private clients and their families with innovative advice, thought leadership and collaborative opportunities. Meg is still in touch with Mary and the two met up for brunch a few weeks ago! Sofie Malinowski just started a new job at American Prairie Reserve (APR) in Bozeman, MT. APR’s mission is to create and manage a prairie-based wildlife reserve that, when combined with public lands already devoted to wildlife, will protect a unique natural habitat, provide lasting economic benefits and improve public access to and enjoyment of the prairie landscape. When fully assembled it will be the largest wildlife reserve in the lower 48 states. APR hired Sofie as the new Development Manager. There are two other IS alumnae that she sees in Bozeman – Annie Owen and Molly Pickall. Sofie also recently got engaged and is getting married June 20, 2015. Mary Coleman Farrell lives in Washington, DC with her husband, Stuart, her 15 month old, Thomas, and her dog, Pete. She is a stay at home mom and spends her time hanging out with her family and volunteering with The Junior League of Washington, Lawrenceville School, University of Virginia, and Daughters of the American Revolution. Mary recently saw fellow Fall ’01 classmate Meg Bunn in NYC! Charlotte Rand has been running a program based out of the University of Connecticut for the last three years that connects high school students with specialized training and environmental monitoring projects in their community. She will be starting at Vermont Law School in the Fall and plan to study Environmental Law. Alex Proelss still working at Sperry Top-Sider as the Senior Marketing Brand Manager. It’s been an amazing 7 years growing a basic boat shoe company into a global performance and lifestyle brand. In the bit of time off she is taking advantage of travel opportunities – a week in Amsterdam, skiing in Park City, and volunteering at beach cleanups on the east and west coast. Alex is living in Boston and also recently became an aunt.

SPRING 2002

Class Agent: None–please contact alumni@islandschool.org if you are interested!

FALL 2002

Class Agents: Mike Cortina, Skyler Hopkins, Sara Rodell

Horatio Smith is still in the party planning business. He has his own company and does wedding and parties. He tries to make his way to The Island School at least 2 times a year and says the place looks awesome! Taylor Lalemand changed jobs in December. She was working for a non-profit based in Boston, the Consortium for Energy Efficiency, which works with utility energy efficiency and demand response programs to centralize the purchasing power of utilities to help drive the development of high efficiency products and the implementation of highly efficient practices across North America. (A good example of this would be the rebate programs for high efficiency refrigerators that some utilities and department stores provide.) Now, Taylor is still doing similar work with utilities and the grid, but for a company called EnerNOC. She’s finally not working such crazy hours, and life is pretty sweet. She had a great winter snowboarding in Maine and Vermont whenever she could escape the city to get to the mountains. Taylor is really hoping to go back to Eleuthera, after all these years. Alex Deblois is still living in Boston. He works for a public affairs firm called VOX Global located in DC. He primarily works on the corporate responsibility and sustainability team, working with clients on energy, supply chain, and fleet/transportation programs. Lucy Zimmerman is living in Cleveland finishing up her MA in the Humanities from the University of Chicago. She works part-time at the Cleveland Museum of Art as a curatorial research assistant in modern European art. They can’t hire Lucy full time just yet so she also works as a private chef for clients who have dietary restrictions to help pay the bills. Lucy reports that overall life is good, and if anyone finds themselves in the Midwest, to give her a holler! Not a day goes by that Jess Blackwell doesn’t think about her amazing time at Island School. After IS, Jess went off to film school at USC and had a pretty awesome time. She worked as an editor for a couple years after before deciding that she didn’t enjoy the LA lifestyle and missed the seasons and beauty of the East Coast. Jess is back in Princeton now photographing multimillion dollar homes for Sotheby’s and learning how to design and build furniture on the side. Once Jess’s boyfriend finishes his Ph.D., the two of them will be moving somewhere and the excitement of having the world so open gets the best of her sometimes! Anyone have any suggestions for interesting cities to look into? Preferably near a coast so Jess can get back to diving and kayaking. Charlie Miller works for a small local mutual savings bank as a loan officer in Portland, Maine. He has been back in Maine for about 2 years now and loves every minute of it. Charlie has caught the golf bug in the past few years and recently joined a local club. If anyone needs an eating and drinking tour of the city you know who to call! Kristy Bullard has a degree in General and Special Education and has been teaching for about 5 years now at one of the primary schools in New Providence, Bahamas. She was a stingray diver at Blue Lagoon Island for a year but she really loves teaching and even more she loves her summers off. Kristy actually lived and taught in Eleuthera for a few years and most recently in Abaco and she is moving to another island in the new school year. She loves the Family Islands of The Bahamas. There is nothing compared to being surrounded by the most beautiful and secluded beaches in the world. Kristy gets to see Horatio and Dane from time to time. She also saw Vicky a few times when she made Nassau trips. Life is great otherwise and she actually has been to Island School with some friends and camped out on the beach. Everton Joseph graduated from the College of the Bahamas, then went on to get his Masters of Ecology and Evolution at SUNY Buffalo. He graduated at the height of the recession and so he switched I to food science. He probably had a hand in any Kellogg’s fruit bars you may have eaten in the last 2 years. Now, Everton calls Richmond VA home! He’s still working in food science but started an ecological landscape design company that specializes in ecologically friendly and sustainable designs that matches the clients’ needs and wants. It would be great to get back to Eleuthera and do some diving there! Laura Fleck is still living in Marblehead, MA, but did finally finish grad school in October. She started working as a Postdoctoral Fellow for a diagnostic company in Beverly, MA in March. I work on optimizing and developing new diagnostic tests for infectious diseases. Laura also teaches night classes for the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern to help pay the bills. As far as other life events go, she is getting married in October, so 2014 has turned into a very busy but exciting year! Laura had the pleasure of meeting up with Mike and Taylor at the Island School reunion in Boston in January 2013, but have otherwise admits she has been terrible at keeping in touch and thinks a reunion in Eleuthera sounds amazing! Michael Sewell graduated from Georgia Tech in 2009 with a Mechanical Engineering degree and immediately moved to Alaska for an engineering job in the oil and gas industry. He lived in Anchorage for 3.5 years living the whole Alaska lifestyle with camping, fishing, hunting, skiing, snowmobiling, rafting, etc. For the last 3+ years he has been working an engineering job in Prudhoe Bay, AK on a 2 week on, 2 week off rotational schedule that has allowed him to do tons of traveling during his time off. Some of the highlights of his travels are Italy (twice), London Olympics, India, Hawaii (5 times), Belize, Mexico (twice), and multiple trips all over the lower 48. Last July Michael got burned out with traveling and picked up and moved to Denver. The drive from Alaska to Colorado was awesome–he highly recommends it! He still works in Alaska on the rotational schedule, but I spends his time off hanging out in Colorado enjoying all the things he did in Alaska but with sunshine and warmth. Alessandra Echeverria graduated from Trinity College in 2008 and joined the Teach For America New York 2008 corps. She taught elementary school for 3 years, got her masters in teaching, and then joined Teach For America staff full-time. She has had a number of different roles, but for the past 2 years Alessandra has been on their New Site Development team helping TFA to build relationships in communities and launch new regions. Her specialty is teacher certification. She travels quite a bit and actually has a final interview (fingers crossed) next week to take a on a new role that would allow her to focus on training and developing other TFA staff in her areas of expertise. Alessandra has lived in New York since she graduated college but is moving to Atlanta on May 31. Sara Rodell is living in Austin, came back there from NYC 2 years ago to try her hand at a start up. So far it has been a pretty interesting ride, lots of highs and lows. Sara has always been focused on gifting. At first she built an app to make it easy to treat someone to lunch, coffee or a drink but changed after it became too onerous to have to deal with a network of local merchants. She launched their new site, Loop & Tie in November and it’s been much more successful than the first product ever was! With Loop & Tie you go on to the site and choose how much money you want to spend on a gift and enter your recipient’s email. They never see what you spent, but get to pick a gift from the collection. The focus is on corporate gifting where there’s a ton of waste with buying everyone the same lame gift basket. Sara’s company can make that process faster and make sure that each person gets what they want After 5 years in Boston working in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector and needing a change of scenery, Jess Baylor moved to New York City in August to pursue a Master of Science in Organizational Change Management at the New School. Jess says she gets a lot of confused looks when she says that. Think human capital strategies or organizational development. She loves the degree and is loving being in New York. Jess will finish the degree in 2015 and is not sure where she will be next, but she hopes to keep trying new places. (As many of you have done!) As for Ashton Haney, she is living in her hometown of Myrtle Beach, SC finishing up an RN program this August, then on to her BSN, Master’s…Nurse Practitioner is her end goal. It’s been a slow decision process for Ashton to finally get the ball rolling with a career in nursing, but after trying her hand in several different fields she thinks she has finally found her niche with a passion for OB and Women’s Health! While still in school she’s working as personal trainer at a local gym and is also having a blast teaching hip-hop group exercise classes there as well…in other news, Ashton absolutely loves being a proud Aunt of three sweet little ones, Maybin-3, Malachi-2, & Marcus-2 months! Blessed beyond words & Life is Good! Ashton did make it back to Eleuthera during her undergrad (feels like forever ago) and had a blast building reefballs for a summer with Mike Cortina as their supervisor–fun times! Nick Del Vecchio is out in Denver these days. After four years in the concrete jungle of downtown NYC, he decided to pack up and head west for the mountains and sunshine. After a two month long road-trip, Nick ended up at the foot of the Rockies. It’s been a great two and a half years out there; he looks forward to many more. Nick worked for an engineering consulting firm in NYC, specializing in energy analysis and sustainability for new construction projects, and has been working remotely for the same firm since relocating to Denver. Nick has also been fortunate to make it back to Eleuthera these past few years as part of the Alumni Advisory Board (AAB). He finds it pretty remarkable to see how far the organization(s) has come since Fall 2002. Although the AAB has recently dissolved, there are always opportunities for alumni involvement, should anyone have the urge. Currently Caitlin Hoffman is in Philadelphia. After graduating from Penn State, she lived in Honduras for a year working in a public hospital. She lived with a family and spent her days working on sanitation/personal hygiene projects for families with kids diagnosed with cancer. After a coup happened when she was there, her project was cut short by a month and she had to be basically evacuated out of the country. Afterwards, Caitlin got a job at the Philadelphia Health Department working in STD/HIV control. She is a bilingual public health official looking at disease outbreaks, developing health campaigns and running some small internal projects to help curb our city rates of infection. Once she is done with her thesis this summer, she will have a Master of Public Health from Emory. Like a lot of you, Caitlin is also looking to go somewhere new and exciting with her degree but hopefully staying in the sexual health/education area. Caitlin’s sister Taylor actually works for the Island School so she gets to hear alllllllll the good gossip and new developments with IS. It is pretty amazing how far they have come. Caitlin has been down there three times since Fall 2002 and plans to head down next spring as another family member of hers is attending. If anybody needs persuading, play cards against humanity with Maxey and she promises your trip will be worth every penny. Zindzi McCormick is living in San Francisco, where she works at YouTube as a product manager. She pretty much professionally watches YouTube videos. Zindzi moved out to SF two years ago, after spending three years in New York after graduating from Brown. She is getting married in November and has definitely thought about a honeymoon in Eleuthera… crazy to think it’s been a decade since she has been back! James Byun has been in DC since finishing Hopkins. Actually, he and Skyler Hopkins randomly did an internship together during college and have continued to run into each other in DC throughout the years. He also lived close to Mike Cortina so they would chill every so often too.  James ended up doing investment banking for a few years and left to go work at an internet startup last summer. He is headed off to UCLA to go to business school this fall. He is hoping to get into design consulting or product management. Emily Hardej recently just moved back to the Boston area and is working in Boston City Hall for the the Public Works Department. She lived in New York for 9 years before that after graduating from Hofstra and has enjoyed getting to know Boston now. Emily is still figuring things out but is considering going back to school for radiology. Kathryn Hyde moved to NYC after graduating college where she worked for a year before going back to school for nursing. She got her BSN at NYU and then moved back to Portland, Maine to work as a cardiac RN for a few years before she and her fiance went on a traveling journey. They roadtripped from Maine to California, flew to Vietnam where they volunteered with disabled children in Hanoi for about a month and then travelled about Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand) for a few more weeks. They then returned to southern California, where they took travel/contracted jobs (3 month assignments) in LA. Kathryn worked at USC medical center. After about 5 months in LA, her finace (who is a Speech Pathologist) got a job in San Francisco, so they moved to northern Cali and she worked at Stanford Hospital. This winter they drove back across the frozen country to New England because her sister had a baby and Kathryn and her fiance are getting married. Kathryn currently works in Boston at Mass General, however they will be moving to back to Portland, Maine and will try to stay in once place! Kathryn will be starting as an RN in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Maine Medical Center and is planning to go back for her Nurse Practitioners degree sometime in the next year or two. She is getting married this August and will have one of her Island School buds, the beautiful entrepreneur Miss Sara Rodell, standing beside her as she does so! After working for IBM as a consultant in the Energy & Utilities sector for a few years Skyler Hopkins decided that sitting in an office staring at a computer was not his cup of tea. So, he pulled a Del Vecchio and took the summer of 2012 to drive cross-country to Los Angeles. (Side Note: If any of you haven’t been to Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Bryce Canyon or Zion National Parks you need to get it together go…NOW!) Once he got to LA, Skyler spent some time writing, producing and acting in a few small productions but quickly decided that was also not so much his cup of tea. He started coaching lacrosse when he first got out here as something to do for fun and have slowly been coming around to the idea that despite his best efforts to deny it, nothing makes me happier than coaching, teaching and working with kids. Skyler and his best friend started their company Catch! Lacrosse (Shameless Plug – www.catchlacrosse.com) in January and have been working non-stop to turn this into something that can actually support us. Lacrosse is just blowing up on the West Coast and they feel there is a wide open place in the market for good coaches to help kids really learn how to get better. He’s not sure how much longer he will want to be in Los Angeles. Running your own business in exhausting and chasing kids around a lacrosse field usually puts him out around 9pm every night but he couldn’t be having more fun. Alison Ercole currently lives and works in Philly as a full time as an RN at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in the Trauma and Orthopedic Department. She is also going to school at Penn and will be graduating with her Masters of Science in Nursing in June so then she can get my Nurse Practitioner license in psych-mental health. Alison may continue working as a RN though because she really enjoys it. Alison participated in the Broad Street Run in Philly last weekend, which was her first big run since the 1/2 Marathon 12 years ago! Although she hated it at the time, she is so thankful for all the grueling stuff they had to do for Maxey back in the day. Although, she wishes she had a running partner like Emily Brown with her for this one! Ryan Bates graduated from Wake Forest in 2008 and had the fortune of going to undergrad with Miss Lucy Zimmerman, so they shared some laughs together from 2004-2008. From there, Ryan went to law school at Duquesne in Pittsburgh, passed the bar in 2011, and has been in private practice ever since. He lives in rural PA, a bit west of Allentown and a bit north or Reading, in a small town called Orwigsburg. He works in Pottsville, and if that name isn’t ringing a bell, Ryan could step outside right now, throw a baseball and be able to hit the Yuengling brewery. Ryan’s practice is very small town, potpourri law from criminal, to contracts, to domestic, to injury, etc., spending a lot of time in the courtroom. The hours are long, but he can’t complain. His dream/goal is to work hard now and eventually get his golf game back in order to become a teaching professional somewhere. Lindsey Gael graduated from UPenn with a Master’s in City Planning last year and is currently in NYC working as an urban planning consultant. Her firm does a lot of development and planning of public spaces–designing and improving parks, waterfronts, civic buildings, etc. Lindsey is actually moving up to Boston at the end of May and is very excited to be moving to a smaller town with a slower pace of life. Lindsey was in Boston in January for The Island School’s 15th Anniversary Celebration and met up with Mike. It was pretty crazy to see the massive crowd of IS alum assembled there and to see the community and energy that Maxey has helped create. As soon she got back from her semester on Eleuthera, Nina Sherburne transferred to a small specialty high school called the School of Environmental Studies where she my classes took place outside, at the Minnesota Zoo, on the road, or in other unconventional locations. After her time at The Island School Nina couldn’t have it any other way. She then attended the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma WA where she studied environmental policy and the history of science. All the while, she spent her breaks and summers working with children, getting them outside and in direct contact with the natural world. So right before Nina graduated she decided to shift her focus to helping our younger generations develop an environmental ethic. Since 2009 Nina has a preschool teacher in DC at Georgetown University doing just that. A little over a year ago Nina got the chance to work with Christian Henry, the principle from Deep Creek Middle School, and a few others as they considered opening an early childhood environmental program from the children of Island School staff.  It was great to connect with IS people again and help support such an awesome initiative! In her free time Nina volunteers with two divestment campaigns, GU Fossil Free and DC Divest where they are trying to persuade the Board of Directors at GU and the DC City Council to take their endowment and pension funds, respectively, out of the fossil fuel industry.  The road to a more stable climate will take a lot more than this type of action, but for now she is enjoying the work and being a part of the movement. Nina is going to Hawaii for a long trip in June and it will be the first time she has been diving since Eleuthera! Oliver LaFarge is first mate on a beautiful 60 year old wooden sailboat currently sailing through Greece. He got this job back in 2004 and has been sailing this boat seasonally all over Europe and the eastern North America from Canada to Norway to the Bahamas. He was actually cruising in the Bahamas and were tied up in Harbour Island long enough for him to hitch down to IS. After about a dozen rides Oliver found the campus was deserted because it was the day all the kids left and the teachers were all out partying. He had about half an hour where he had the place to himself and just walked around thinking of all the good times. Later on got to say hello to some folks. When he’s not cruising Oliver is living with his girlfriend in a house they bought a couple years back in Burlington, VT. His girlfriend is going on her third term as a VT state rep. Together they have a devastatingly sweet dog they rescued last year and Oliver works at a boatyard restoring old boats. The winters are long and he has taken up ice fishing. Oliver also wants to say to Horatio that not only does he still have that Coca-Cola t-shirt he gave him but attached is a pic of Oliver wearing it yesterday!

SPRING 2003

Class Agent: Melissa Buck (If you are interested in helping Melissa out with her Class Agent duties, please email alumni@islandschool.org)

Spring 2003 has been a busy class of people! Engagements, marriages, babies, and graduate degrees seem to be the recurring themes for this update—congrats to everyone on your amazing adventures!

Alex Penny is still living in New York and swears she has nothing exciting to report, except that she is loving life. Ali Hoffman is also still living in New York working for Blackrock. She’s spent the brutally cold Northeast winter escaping to Vermont to ski and sunbathing in Florida and Aruba. She also recently headed out to the Hamptons to celebrate Logan Morris’s bachelorette party. Logan is getting married this June in Princeton. She’s looking forward to visiting Eleuthera at some point this year to show her fiancé Tom the pink sand at Lighthouse, conch shells at Brittney island, and the marina where we all secretly devoured 5 snickers bars in a row during our free time. Samantha Ashley Demartino is currently splitting her time between DC and London as she writes her PhD in Economics at the University of Sussex in the UK with a focus on incentives to motivate people to conserve the environment. She’s also working for the World Bank on sustainable development projects and Innovations for Poverty Action on behavioral analysis of households in randomized impact evaluations of international development programs. As if that didn’t keep her busy enough, she’s also teaching yoga, photographing and painting, and trying to learn acrobatics in her spare time. She was excited to see Brenna Leath while in North Carolina last year and hopes to see more IS alums soon. Brenna is working at SAS, a Business Analytics and Business Intelligence Software group, for the past 6 months as a development editor/project manager in their press. She’s in the process of buying her first house in downtown Raleigh, NC and continues to play music several nights a week (listen at thehellno.bandcamp.com). She recently started a second Girlsschool-inspired metal band and has been enjoying performing the national anthem at a lot of sporting events lately. This summer she’ll be traveling to play gigs in South Carolina and Tennessee and then headed up to Canada for a family reunion. Melissa Buck recently relocated from snowy Boston to foggy San Francisco. Melissa is working at Goodby Silverstein & Partners, an ad agency, working on Nickelodeon and Häagen-Dazs and living in the Pacific Heights neighborhood. She’s planning to go to Napa soon and hopes to see Samantha Rudd who is working as the General Manager at Clos Pegase Winery in Napa Valley. Anyone care to join for a wine tasting? Before Melissa left Boston, she was excited to see several IS alums at the 15 year celebration at the New England Aquarium, among them Skylar Miller and Greg Henkes. Skylar just completed a year of field work out of the Cape Eleuthera Institute and is now back in Barbados at UWI finishing her master’s thesis on coral reef fish recruitment patterns in Eleuthera. She got engaged in December and will be moving to Boston in the fall to stay. Greg was married last year and is living in Baltimore finishing up his PhD at Johns Hopkins. Molly Carter is graduating from the Rice MBA program on May 16th and gearing up to get back to work after a break this summer. Apparently it’s been a big spring in the love world for Spring ’03. Keenan Grayson, Madeline Bierbaum, and Kira Castro all reported they got engaged in the past month! Keenan is living in Charleston and working for Benefitfocus. Madeline is living in NYC, working as a special education teacher and works with students with severe autism. After completing the NYC Teaching Fellows program in 2010, she’s now going back to school for her Master of Education in Educational Leadership at the Summer Principals Academy at Columbia University. She’ll graduate in July and plans to teach for a few more years before hopefully opening up a progressive school for students on the autism spectrum. Kira Castro is living with her fiancé in Raleigh, NC and working as a research associate for a contract research organization, providing support to federally funded research studies at the National Institute of Dental and Cranofacial Research. She is also studying to get her personal training certification through NASM and plans to sit for the exam later this year. Brenna Hughes is in med school in Chicago and is getting married Memorial Day weekend on Southport Island in Maine to a childhood friend. They’ll be starting off the weekend in proper Island School style with a 5K the morning before the wedding. Fellow S’03er Sally Elliott is a bridesmaid in the wedding, and Sally will be celebrating her own nuptials this July! Vicky Kahn finished law school in DC last year and moved back to NYC this past fall. She is working as a lawyer in capital markets. Now that she’s settled into the city after her move, she’s looking forward to reconnecting with fellow IS alums in the area. Jen Purviance (Boone) and her husband welcomed their second son into the world this spring. Carter Jones Purviance was born on April 15th. Big brother Boone loves having a baby brother! With an expanding family, Jen and her husband are also building a new house, so there is plenty to keep her busy in Casper, WY! Lydia Russell-Roy is finishing her second year of med school at UNC-Chapel Hill and is excited to spend her third year living in Asheville, NC. Kelsey Jones is living in North Haven, Maine and just completed her first year of grad school where is she working toward her Masters in Expressive Arts Therapy. She is hoping to begin a community therapy practice that serves the Maine island communities.

FALL 2003

Class Agents: Kylie King Ebbutt, Kate Parizeau

Connor Boals recently joined CNN in New York City where he works as a producer for CNN Digital Studios, developing new content for CNN’s digital and television properties. He loves riding his bike. Mary Sugiyama is still living and working in Milwaukee,WI as an art education coordinator at a non profit called Walkers Point Center for the Arts. She is getting married August 28, 2014 to Nicolas Sanchez at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum in Milwaukee! She makes frequent trips to Chicago as that’s where her fiancé currently lives if anyone wants to ever meet up! Kylie King Ebbutt is nearing the end of her first year of teaching 6th grade English in Grand Rapids, MI. She and her husband Dan just sold their house and are moving to Nashville this summer for Dan’s new job. She is excited about the move and can’t wait for a new adventure in Tennessee! Tim Hoisington is currently in the Peace Corps in Nicaragua, working in the environment sector. He is teaching environmental science in the primary schools and doing fuel efficient stoves and ovens in his free time. Camden Hauge has been living in Shanghai for a year and a half, 3 months of which she took out to travel around SE Asia, backpacking through Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar. She is trying to explore as much of this part of the world as possible while here, having also recently been surfing in the Philippines and visiting friends in Australia. She is currently still working in advertising, and running a monthly Supperclub (Shanghai Supperclub -shsupperclub.com) on the side. Maggie Crosland recently moved from Los Angeles to Chicago to start a position at the Art Institute of Chicago as a researcher in the European paintings and sculpture department. Trygg Larsson-Danforth is currently living in Baltimore, MD. He is heading to UNC in the fall for business school where he will be working towards an MBA. Katherine O’Koniewski (Mel) is about to finish up her first year at Michigan Law. She will be heading back to Boston this summer to intern with the MA Attorney General.

SPRING 2004

Class Agents: Bekah Klarr, Candice Springs

Candice Springs recently moved from Charlotte, NC to Greenville, SC and works for Greenville Health System as a Project Coordinator for their Clinical Integration Network. Candice is so happy to finally be back in the same town as her identical twin sister Caroline Springs Giguere (S’05), who got married in March of 2013. Also, Candice has been enjoying serving as the Class Agent for Spring 2004 and is so proud S‘04 achieved 2nd place in CONCHtribution. Candice is hoping to plan a trip to Eleuthera soon with her family as the last time she visited the Cape was in December 2012. Hayley Plack lives in Washington, D.C. and works at the National Gallery of Art in their research institute. She attended Katie Hudson‘s wedding in October 2013 along with Cat Weiss and Lizzie Horvitz. Izzy Cannell is currently finishing her last semester of a Masters in City and Regional Planning program at UPenn’s School of Design, with a concentration in Land Use and Environmental Planning. She will be graduating in May and is currently looking for Planning jobs in the Northwest! Bekah Klarr is alive and well. She has loved being involved with IS via the Alumni Advisory Board and also can’t believe it’s been 10 years since SP’04 all met on (a much less developed) IS campus on a windy day on Eleuthera. Bekah has lived in sunny Denver for the past two years but is contemplating a move soon – stay tuned. She received her private pilot’s license last year in the Denver area and is planning to advance her flight skills this summer while hopefully living at the family lake house in northern Michigan (cheap rent). She has developed a new hobby/profession freelance writing about women in the hunting and fishing community and hopes to further her writing resume this year. She enjoys striving to represent the hunting community in a fresh way. Bekah has a faithful four-year-old Border Collie mix named Goose who co-pilots for her often in the skies and on the road! The five Klarr siblings convene in Texas (where S’02 Abby lives) and Michigan often to talk about their love of IS. Bekah recently returned from a week on Eleuthera fishing with her Grandmother and brother Nathan (S’11) everything is the same on the island – steady sunward! Jensen Lowe is enjoying living in New York City and working for CipherHealth, a healthcare technology company that helps hospitals reduce preventable readmissions and improve the patient experience. Before starting at CipherHealth, Jensen was in the Philippines for 27 months, where he was using as a Peace Corps Volunteer, using his Island School skills as a Coastal Resource Management Volunteer. Lizzie Horvitz is currently pursuing a joint-Master of Environmental Management and MBA at the Yale School of Forestry and the Yale School of Management. She still keeps in touch with numerous Island Schoolers and is looking forward to making it back on the Cape at some point soon. In May of this year Sarah Bailey will graduate from Stony Brook University with her Masters in Marine Conservation and Policy. She was recently awarded the first annual J.R. Schubel Fellowship from her school for her work and commitment to work towards increased communication between scientists and their research to members of the community. She has also been awarded an internship with NOAA (with less than 20 nationally selected students each year) and will be working in NOAA’s Narragansett Laboratory with Dr. Jon Hare focusing on fishery stock populations with recent climate change events. She hopes to visit the Island School again soon, as her last visit in 2012 as a Marine Ecology Mentor was incredible to come full circle and become part of the staff. Moving forward she is hoping to either continue furthering her education and working towards a Ph.D or obtain a job in conservation biology. Hilary Keefe is loving life in NYC, living in the West Village and working in advertising at Conde Nast. She visited Eleuthera in the Fall where her youngest brother, Peter (F’13), was the 4th and last of the Keefe family to experience IS – amazing trip, obviously! She is looking forward to summer and hopefully seeing everyone again soon! Hillary Bunn is living in New York working at Gagosian Gallery and missing the Cape more than ever after this brutal NYC winter! Mallery Stone recently moved to the South End in Boston after living in Hawaii for 3 years (amazing scuba diving and surfing)! She loves her job as a sales representative for a medical device company where she runs software to help surgeons navigate spine surgeries. Mallery also studies nutrition through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition as a hobby. She misses the beach and sunny weather of the islands, but will look forward to spending time on Cape Cod and SE Connecticut shore this summer! Chris Carson is currently a second-year law student at the University of Kentucky College of Law in his hometown of Lexington, KY. This summer he will return to Washington, DC to work. Chris enjoys traveling and FaceTiming with Trip McDermott. He is not married or engaged. Trip McDermott is currently living in downtown New York City. Much like the Island School, he embarked on a new adventure as a part of a team of eight starting KLR Group, an Oil & Gas focused investment & merchant bank. Since April of 2012, the firm has grown to 30 people and has offices in New York City and Houston, Texas. Trip has continued his passion for the energy sector from the Island School through college, and has made it his profession. In his free time he sails competitively in and outside of the United States. In addition to sailing, he continues to SCUBA dive and ski. He is looking forward to getting back to Eleuthera to see the developments since his Spring semester in 2004. Trip’s sister Dr. Cristin McDermott also attended the Island School in Spring 2002 and is currently living in Pittsburgh, PA finishing her residency at the Children’s Hospital as a Pediatrician and Child Psychologist. Keep on keepin’ on. Kaila De Maria (was Pearlman when at the Island School) is living in Syracuse, NY where she and her husband have been for the past year after living in California for almost four. She currently works as a Prekindergarten teacher but has recently been accepted to nursing school, which she will attend full-time beginning in the fall. Her new goal is to become a nurse and then a nurse practitioner as means of helping the country’s neediest communities combat pervasive health problems. This career change is a perfect example of the lessons Kaila learned at the Island School- two of which include the importance of getting out of your comfort zone in order to grow and improve and to relentlessly strive to make our communities a better place in which to live. She misses the Island School and thinks about its impact on her life every day!

FALL 2004

Class Agents: Patrick DiLoreto, Katie Garratt, Jen Groverman

Kate Gibson is still living and working in NYC, and will be getting married in July of this year. She is proud to have 3 lifelong Island School pals in her wedding as bridesmaids, including Stephanie Pitts, Cam Powel, and Kristin Paterakis. Despite the relentless, freezing cold winter in Boston this year, Cam Powel still chooses to live and work for The Island School from there, even though she could be working in The Bahamas. She had a blast catching up with the Fall ’04 crew in NYC for the Spring Thaw in April and is looking forward to reuniting with even more Fall ’04ers at Kate Gibson’s wedding this July. She and Katie Garratt ran a half-marathon together in Newton, MA this fall and have since taken a long hiatus from running. Cam looks forward to putting those running shoes back on and potentially finding another half-marathon for them to tackle together! Kathryn Arffa is happy to be back in The Bay Area after working at a farm and partner restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard for the season. Come visit at Scribe Winery, a small sustainable vineyard and winery in Sonoma! Patrick DiLoreto is happily going on 5 years in NYC, still busy working for a global fashion and apparel company. He continues to compete in the NY Road Runner races each year, a lifelong passion inspired while at the Island School and is excited about his entry in the 2014 NYC Marathon in November. He saw a lot of Kathryn Arffa upon her visit home over the winter Holidays in NYC. He frequently sees other IS friends in NYC, and just recently attended a reading by Derek Walcott with Kate Gibson. He looks forward to fierce competition with Cameron Powel in catching Kate Gibson’s bouquet at her wedding this summer – WATCH OUT CAM. After 3 years in the Bay Area, Kirsten Sheu moved to Winston-Salem, NC this past summer where her boyfriend is in med school. She’s currently in her 4th year as an elementary school teacher. She’s looking forward to seeing Laura McLaughlin at Laura’s wedding in early may, and Maggie Thomas this summer in New York City. Taylor Fargo has been living in beautiful Lake Tahoe, CA for the past two years working for the Sierra Nevada Alliance, an environmental non-profit. She has thoroughly enjoyed living in the Sierra and getting to know the West coast and all it’s magnificent landscapes, but misses the East coast and being close to family and friends. Taylor has started to look for a job in the sustainable agriculture arena and plans to move east by the end of this year. Bunk-mates for life, Hannah Mauck and Taylor continue to plan for their commune where they will live with their families and home-school their future children. Katie Garratt is going on 3 years in NYC this summer. She left the corporate world to pursue a job in the tech industry this year and couldn’t be happier! She’s looking forward to reuniting with her Fall ’04 classmates this fall to celebrate our 10 year anniversary.

SPRING 2005

Class Agents: Jane Kinney, Peter Meijer

Once again we find that spring 05’ers have managed to spread themselves throughout the world working in multiple fascinating industries. Ellen Oshinsky is a high school English teacher in Bogota, Colombia. She is looking forward to applying to graduate school soon, thinking of pursuing a Masters in primary education or social work. After Aaron Hamm finished college, he moved to Costa Rica and found a job teaching first through third grade at an international school in Guanacaste. Below is a blog that explains more about what Aaron is up to: http://pursuitforthemarrow.wordpress.com/. Max Siegal landed a job as a naturalist and staff photographer for Lindblad/National Geographic Expeditions. He works on their expedition cruises around the world teaching the guests about the biology of the area and how to improve their photography. It’s a great way for him to travel, pursue his passion in photography, and meet amazing people around the world! To see his portfolio of images from around the globe, visit his site at www.maxwilderness.com. Katie White returned from a year abroad in Laos and has started a new job, splitting time between Massachusetts and Florida — just a short trip from Ft. Lauderdale (i.e. kind of close to Eleuthera?). She has actually been dreaming of a trip back there one of these days. Other than work, she is attempting some running, and re-adjusting back to life in the US — mostly trying to spend as much time catching up with friends as much as possible. Peter Meijer is currently working for a humanitarian aid organization in a conflict area overseas. He misses getting the chance to see Alec Faggen, Erica Stine, and Lauren Willson in New York – along with Shannon Pincus in DC, of course – but will be home before too too long. Back in New York Alec Faggen is finishing up her first year at Cornell medical school in NYC. The morons (aka her classmates) elected her president of the school so her life has been a bit hectic, but she is having a ton of fun. If anyone finds themselves in the New York area she would love to meet up with them. She was able to see Peter and Caroline not too long ago, and reports that it was magical. Caroline Springs Giguere is currently living in Greenville, SC and working for Greenville Health System as a Cardiac Device Specialist. She has been happily married for a year now and is enjoying life as a 25 year old. She misses Eleuthera every day and hopes to visit again soon! Mellisa Nixon was also recently married (in October to Jared Burns). She is in her fourth year at dental school at University of Florida. She has been studying too much in preparation for her dental boards. Travis Verdier is finishing up his second year as a structural engineer at a logistics solutions firm – a position which he plans to leave in June. In early July he will embark on a journey to the Pacific Northwest to enjoy the scenery and to find a new job either in Portland or Seattle. Sarah Miller graduated from Tulane this past December with a Masters in social work. She is now working as a refugee health caseworker in Columbus, Ohio. She loves her job and is enjoying getting to know the new city and surrounding areas. If any ISers are passing through the Midwest her door is always open! Stephen Boatwright is still in Columbia, SC and halfway through getting his Masters of Divinity in Academic Ministries at Columbia International University. After graduation he plans on getting a Ph.D but has not determined the school. He recently became engaged to Holly Gerbec and their wedding date is set for July 26th. He reports that life is good! Jeremy Church just finished his last day in the United States coast guard aviation. He is moving back to Georgia to return to college and start a metal fabrication company. Also, he and his wife are starting a small, personal farm with their own pond in an attempt to become more sustainable. Abby Conroy is still living in NW Connecticut. She is working on her Masters in Conservation Biology through Green Mountain College in Vermont. Miles Douglas is working as a buyer for an organic food company that does home and office deliveries in the Boston area. He is still living in Boston and enjoys bumping into fellow IS kids around the city. He hopes to make a trip back to Eleuthera at some point in the near future! Molly Cousins loves her new job at Bright Horizons – she is on the Digital Marketing team doing equal parts SEO, site design, web analytics, and content marketing. She still lives in Cambridge and she and Kevin FitzGerald are planning to get a puppy this spring! She, Melissa, and Alec are planning a trip to Eleuthera in August for Kayak Trip 3.0 & an early 10-year IS anniversary. Fingers crossed that they can still handle the land crabs! Scott Aland returned home after two years on Eleuthera in August (sad) and just recently accepted an offer to attend Boston University for graduate school next fall. He will pursue a Master’s in Business Administration and a Master’s in Public Health as a Global Health Management student and hopes to return to resource-constrained settings (like Eleuthera) to promote healthcare initiatives in the future! Everyone should come visit Beantown! Rachel Clement is on the move again, back up to Martha’s Vineyard, MA to spend a beautiful summer in the sun. Beyond that is another adventure with more updates to come. Brett Simon is moving to Brooklyn in June and plans to pursue a MS in Interior Design at Pratt. Leah Miller is living in Los Angeles and managing operations at a Medical Scribe company in El Segundo. She has been enjoying the SoCal way of life and traveling as much as possible. She still has a vase filled with sand from Lighthouse beach in her living room. If you’re ever in LA, she wants you to hit her up!

FALL 2005

Class Agents: Stephanie Chaston, Justin Drazin, Annie Sholley

Eleanor Anderson currently is the 2014 Design Fellow at her alma mater Colorado College where she is going full-tilt making printmaking, fiber and ceramic art. She is excited to spend the summer living in a yurt with her boyfriend in Kelly, WY and teach art classes at the JH Art Association in Jackson Hole. She plans on spending some time backpacking, fly fishing and sketching the Tetons! Kylie Atwood is still living in DC and working for CBS News, primarily for Bob Schieffer and Face the Nation. On weekends she is working on reporting and hopes to someday be a reporter for CBS. This year she ran her first marathon in NYC! She credits her love of running to the Island School. She recently took a trip to the Bahamas with her family in the Berry Islands on Great Harbour Cay, where her mom is helping the local school to start a garden! So far they have eggplants and a few other things. They are still working out a few kinks but the kids are loving it. Caroline Ball is living in sunny San Diego, CA. She has been there for about a year and a half and loving every minute of it! She works for a commercial real estate firm doing tenant representation which is what she’s been doing since she graduated in 2011. She has a 1.5-year-old German Shepherd named Buck. He is full of energy and a HUGE goofball. Amelia Barisone moved up to Lake Tahoe after college in Santa Barbara. She spent an entire season on the slopes skiing and snowboarding. She ended up loving Tahoe and stayed longer than expected. She is now in San Francisco working as a nanny and taking photography classes. Her end goal is to lead photography centered trips. She wants to teach people photography skills in picturesque places all over the world. In June she will be heading to Nicaragua! Her boyfriend, Casey, got an engineering position at a resort down there and she has decided to tag along. She will be working in the travel department of a resort and will also teach yoga! Jac Battjes is still living in Santiago, Chile (where she recently got to hang out with Drew Fink and his girlfriend) and working at EY in Risk Management. She is still working on applications for MBA programs, but has decided to hold off starting until 2015. She was back in the states over the summer and toured some East Coast MBA programs, where she ran into Dave Seamans in Charleston! She also recently renewed her SCUBA certification in the freezing 50 degree water off the coast of Chile and will be diving in Easter Island this April!

David Blake is working as the General Manager at Panera Bread in Birmingham, MI. He is looking to open his own restaurant franchise of some sort or start something of his own in the near future. Recently, he made it out to San Diego to visit his brother (another IS alumus!) who is in school for Marine Recon. He was in the Bahamas for the week of Easter and happy to get out of the brutal winter weather. His youngest brother is hoping to go to IS in a couple of years and David will have a good reason to go back! Jake Cerf is living in San Francisco where he works at a four-person video advertising startup called VideoGenie. When he’s not working, he enjoys going for runs in Golden Gate Park with his brother, roommate, and fellow IS alumni (F‘04) Bart, tearing up the city with friends from college, and journeying to the Peninsula and Marin for outdoor adventures. Jake recently made his first trip to SE Asia where he went to Vietnam and Thailand to visit a college friend living in Ho Chi Mihn City, and has another trip to Europe planned this summer. Stephanie Chaston has finally traded in her flip-flops and sunny Miami winters for snow boots and Boston weather. She completed her Master’s from the University of Miami in December in Coastal Zone Management—following in Maxey’s footsteps! She is currently working as a Staff Scientist for ESS Group, Inc., a Rhode Island-based environmental and engineering consulting company. She is traveling to Las Vegas in June and is always looking for her next trip. Luke Cherrington is living in Los Angeles but is fairly bi-coastal for work. He has been growing a startup for the past 2 years, and he’s managing the business side. The company is like Dropbox but for businesses not people. He has been fortunate enough to cross paths with Jake, Fink, Lizzie, Colton, Nate, Katie, Amelia, and Yager over the past year or two. Jackie Codair is working as a Consultant at a small management consulting firm in Boston called Vantage Partners, which specializes in relationship management and negotiation strategy. She is getting married in September! Anne Sholley will be a bridesmaid and Kylie Atwood will also be there! She and her fiancée bought a house outside of Boston last year, where they live with their Australian Shepherd, Toby! Colton Coughlin lives in Boulder, CO. He just celebrated one year in his new condo after it being built, and is still doing finish work on it. He is a Civil Design Engineer and has focused on roadway design in Transportation Engineering. Spending the winter snowboarding in the mountains of Colorado and wakeboarding next to his house in the summer.

He will be headed to Costa Rica in April and has been lucky enough to see Maggie Regan and Dave Miller recently as well as talked with Drew Fink and Nick Zbitnoff. Colton hosted an Island School “Have One of Us” happy hour in Denver and met students from other semesters and plans to continue hosting this event in the future. Kat Dembergh will soon be attending nursing school! It has been a dream of hers for the past two years and she is thrilled to make it a reality. She is back in Idaho after spending a year in New York City–where she ran into fellow Fall 05er Maggie! Chris Della Rocca has been living in Connecticut managing a Shake Shack and is heading to Brooklyn, NY to open another branch right across the street from Barclay’s Center in early July. Leah Downey graduated from UNC Chapel Hill last May and is now living in London, finishing up a Masters degrees in Economics & Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has no idea what might come next, but most likely she will continue to avoid real jobs and go on to get her PhD.

She is enjoying her time in the UK very much, the best part probably being her part-time job at a local pub pulling pints. She is not getting married and does not have a dog, but does spend a lot of time thinking about the collapse of capitalist society. She will finish up her time in London in late September and plans on traveling to Croatia, Turkey, Germany, Switzerland, Scotland, and a couple places in between. Justin Drazin is living in the Big Apple, where he works for a real estate development company called Delos Living. The company is based on the concept of human sustainability and designing, building, and programming interior spaces that are solely focused on the health and wellbeing of the inhabitants. If anyone is interested, we do have two condos in NYC for sale that we built (one is $45 million and one is $50 million, so readily accessible to pretty much all of us). Justin also continues his passion of writing, and has two more books coming out in 2014. His first book Albert and the Amazing Pillow Monsters had a great debut, winning the 2013 Mom’s Choice Award Gold Medal for Best Bedtime Story, the 2013 Gelett Burgess Award for Best Bedtime Story, and was a Finalist for the 2013 Cribsie New Arrival Award. He recently traveled to Miami to celebrate his grandmother’s 90th birthday and has been seen frequenting bars across Manhattan with the infamous Margaret Regan. He also encountered a fellow IS’er at the gym, where he was spotted wearing the Island School Fall ’05 sweatpants, while trying to get “Maxey-Huge” and training for the NFL Regional Combine (which he participated in at the NY Jets Practice Facility). In his many future travel plans, getting back to Eleuthera sits at the very top. Drew Fink is currently in Patagonia. He left his job at Bain in August and started slowly making his way down to Southern Chile in his pickup truck, eventually landing in Puerto Natales, where he works at a biomass energy company. He also spends a good amount of time working at a local foundation, where they are trying to develop and fundraise for sustainability projects in Torres del Paine National Park. He will likely leave Patagonia in mid-May, and from there, who knows! Before going down to Chile, he was fortunate enough to return to Eleuthera for the Alumni Advisory Board meeting in October, and the changes that have happened are quite incredible. Hallig House is beautiful, and clearly provides a space with a new use case for professional events on campus. In the past year he has seen Colton in CO, Dave Seamans on Martha’s Vineyard, Katie Romanov in CA, Leah in SF, Luke out in LA, and Ms. Jac Battjes in Santiago! Cassidy Hannigan moved back to Myrtle Beach, SC from Hawaii in the summer of 2012 to further pursue her career as an animal trainer. The following winter she landed another dolphin training internship in Key Largo, which was beyond amazing! When she got back last summer she finally got her dream job as an animal trainer in Myrtle Beach at a dinner show attraction called Pirates Voyage, owned by Dolly Parton Entertainment. She works with and trains 11 macaws, African-crowned cranes, Indian Runner ducks, doves, and 5 dogs for the shows. During the winter season she gets to work with camels and a donkey for the Christmas shows. She was offered a position as a performer (acrobat/aerialist) for the show because of her competitive gymnastics background. She also adopted a Great Dane named Mongo last summer! In the future she plans to move west, perhaps working with the dolphins at SeaWorld in San Diego! Henry Hatch is currently living in NYC with his girlfriend Sammi and working in Business Development for a distributed renewable energy company called Urban Green Energy. After graduating from Colorado College with Eleanor, he traveled through Europe over the summer and then moved to NYC right as hurricane Sandy hit. Olivia Jacobsen moved back to sunny Santa Barbara in January after a year and a half in NYC and a year in San Francisco, and is in the middle of taking Anatomy and Physiology classes. She is loving her time in the cadaver room. Once she’s done this spring, she will be applying to Nurse Practitioner programs. She is still working (remotely) for an NYC-based management consulting company mostly as a recruiter with a few other interesting tidbits thrown in to keep her busy!

Chris Keally is still living in Washington DC and working at the State Department. He had the chance to travel out to northern California last summer for a road trip with some college friends. His plans for the next year include traveling to Turkey in the summer, as well as doing a better job of exploring the greater DC area. Michael Kratz graduated from NY Maritime with his Masters in International Transportation Management and a USCG Unlimited 3rd Mate. He is out of school and working as a deck officer on a ship in the Gulf of Mexico. Just watching the tuna swim by with no fishing rod. Hoping one day they’ll put wind farms off the coast of SC so he can work out of Charleston. Hanna Kruckman is working as a research technician helping collect lesser prairie chicken data, a species that may be listed as threatened this month in remote western Kansas. When she is finished with fieldwork, she will head back to Manhattan, KS, which is literally nicknamed “The Little Apple,” where she has been living since January 2013. Last year she took a break from school to get more work experience. When she is not working, she is usually out with her boyfriend hunting, fishing, or drinking Bloody Mary’s. This July she is headed back to school to get her master’s at Eastern Illinois University. Her thesis research will be looking at habitat selection and movement of blue and channel catfish on the Wabash River. Cordelia (or Delia) McKusick is on contract as a co-creator at Inanitah.org. It’s a Tantra, Yoga, and meditation center and Eco village on the island Ometep, in Nicaragua. She teaches yoga, and offers life coaching sessions, as well as manages volunteers and general daily organization. She is there with her sweetheart who organizes permaculture projects on their organic farm. They will be moving to Costa Rica in May where Cordelia will go to massage school after looking at a property in Panama to open a similar dream as Inanitah. Drew Melby is living in Baltimore, MD with his wife, Jessie. He works for an investment company called T. Rowe Price. He met his wife Jessie in college, and they got married in July 2012. They are moving out to Madison, WI this coming summer for work. They will be joining Hanna soon in representing that part of the country! Dave Miller is currently living in Boston working for Boulder based tech startup called PivotDesk. This has allowed him to travel out to the main office in Boulder and spend some awesome time with Colton. He was also fortunate enough to see Anne a few months ago at an IS get together in Boston. He completed the Boston Marathon in April! He worked with Cam Powel (F ’04) to get some pretty cool needle pointed IS hats made by a friend’s company (Harding Lane), so be sure to look for those coming soon! Toni Pryor is in the masters in nursing program at Yale where she is studying family medicine with a minor in oncology. She left her job at Memorial Sloan Kettering in May 2013 to travel all over the world to 10 countries in 10 weeks, 5 of which were at a clinic in rural Tanzania. The medicine in east Africa reminded her of the lack of medical resources on Eleuthera. After school, Toni may avoid working like Leah and pursue PHD/DNP programs. She feels lucky to know people all over the country and the world to reach out to when she leaves Connecticut in May 2015. Maggie Regan has been fortunate to hang out with some IS friends in NYC and Boulder over the past year. She is living and working in NYC and sees Justin Drazin on the reg. She finished at NYU in December of 2012 and graduated this past May! She has been living in Brooklyn (Greenpoint) for nearly 2 years and after busting her butt in a hipster Williamsburg restaurant, she was hired (by one of her customers) as the Client Experience Manager for a real estate startup called Suitey! If anyone ever needs help relocating to the city, hit her up!

Dave Seamans is working at Merrill Lynch helping people with their finances, and living in Charleston, SC. He got a golden retriever named Gus! He lives and works downtown and spends most of his free time hanging with Gus. He will be attending Big Mike’s WEDDING in May and hopefully visiting Drew in Martha’s Vineyard this 4th of July. He loves wearing his IS stuff around to see who will stop him to talk about the best place on earth–Eleuthera. He has been fortunate to have seen Colton, Luke, and Jac recently. Dan Shea is still working as a structural engineer just outside of Boston where he has been for two years. He is waiting to hear back from a few MBA programs for Fall 2014. He is the best man at his cousins wedding in the fall so his travel plans revolve around a bachelor’s party in New Orleans sometime in June. Anne Sholley is working in Somerville, MA at Recover Green Roofs, LLC, a design/build firm that specializes in green roofs, rooftop farms, and living walls. She recently moved a mile up the road from Cambridge into Union Square in Somerville (all the cool people are doing it). She is healthy and happy and feels like her roots are taking shape after being in the area for almost three years. She feels especially lucky to see Jackie Codair every so often for dinner and is honored to be a bridesmaid in her upcoming wedding. Eliza Templet is currently living in Burlington, Vermont. She is working as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse, Case Manager for the Visiting Nurse Association of Vermont. She is eager to expand in her recently found passion–dual-diagnosis/addiction medicine-nursing. Until January of this year she was working as an acute alcohol and substance abuse detox nurse in a 41 bed outpatient rehab facility. Unfortunately, due to financial strain the facility had to eliminate all nursing staff moving from acute care to sub acute. This has motivated her to dive into furthering her professional career in this facet of nursing. She will be moving to Somerville in mid-May to begin her new nursing position at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA! She also has four-legged travel companion–a 3-year-old lab named Granger! Lizzie Votruba is currently living in northeast England and working towards a Masters in prehistoric archaeology at Durham University. After completion in September of 2014, she hopes to pursue a career in the field, and she dreams of researching human origins in Africa. If this doesn’t work out, she will happily return to the mountains and go fishing and skiing. Danny Waldman graduated in May and headed home to get his shoulder re-done. He was hired to coach a high school lacrosse (Henryclaylacrosse.com). He’s been coaching year-round, tutoring high schoolers, and frolicking in open fields with his best friend Ajax (a German Shepherd pup). He also paints on commission, so if anyone is making bank and has empty walls in their apartment… letta brotha know. Nick Zbitnoff is currently backpacking in Europe for a couple months and was lucky to do the same in Asia and Africa for almost half of last year. He is still working in Alaska during the summer months to make money for traveling. He will hopefully be able to meet up with Leah soon in London.

SPRING 2006

Class Agents: Taylor Hoffman, Wes Norton

While he may have been the last one voted cacique, Shane Gary is the most recent SP’06 visitor to Eleuthera! He finished at Colorado State this past December with a major in anthropology and a minor in environmental science. After he graduated, he took off for Utila in Honduras for his scuba instructor’s course and returned back to Eleuthera to help with certifications. He even got to certify Doug Parizeau’s brother! He will be back in Colorado this summer guiding rafts down The Poudre, Clear Creek and Colorado Rivers out of Fort Collins. Both Taylor Hoffman and Maggie Cissel are currently working for The Island School. Maggie (soon to be Auntie Maggie!) returned to the campus this past fall as a Communications Associate just as Taylor was leaving Eleuthera to work for The Island School in Boston. Wes Mize, Doug Parizeau, Steve Cargill, and Derek Shooster all live in Boston as well. Wes is a civil engineer at FST, Doug is an Investment Associate at WindHorse Capital Management, and Steve says he works at Experian Data Quality but no one ever sees him! Derek is working full time as a property manager at Charlesgate Property Management while also enrolled as a full time student at Boston University’s Metropolitan College for a Master’s in City Planning. He recently just biked the Boston Marathon route round trip for the second year (52 miles!). Let’s hope he had a better bike than those on Eleuthera! Maya Tepler, Cassie Siegel, Luke Tubergen, Jimmy Nannos, and Adriana Misoul are all living in New York City. Maya is pursuing her acting career in the city but supports herself waitressing. She ran her first marathon last fall and didn’t pass out once (she only does that around Farrell..). Cassie is working full time as a commercial real estate broker at CBRE. She is getting back into running shape and encourages anyone to do a half marathon again with her! She also lives minutes from Luke with her adorable Australian Shepherd, Skyy. Luke also lives with a little furry friend, Charles Bartholomew Bass, a little Cairn Terrier. He works for AEA Investors, a private equity firm, and is involved in several nonprofits. He is currently mentoring a student from the Bronx and wishes him luck on his SATS! Justin Livingston works for a digital ad agency in Atlanta but will be moving to Manhattan this May! Megan Gallivan is currently in Minnesota working at General Mills but will move to New York City in August to get her MBA at NYU Stern. In a world of her own, Kelsey Moody lives in San Francisco and works at Tiedemann Wealth Management as a financial analyst. She will move back to the east coast one day, we all know it. Outside of the big cities, Anna Elam graduated from Lewis & Clark College with a degree in biology and now is living the good life in Montana teaching at a Montessori school. Kelsey Head recently took a big leap of faith, quit her job of four years at an environmental education program, and now works as a carpentry apprentice studying restorative and historical architecture and building. She lives in Burlington, VT with her partner Zach and their cat Frankie. Although in Vermont, she still makes her way to an island somewhere to scuba dive and bring back memories of Eleuthera! Hayden Stebbins recently finished his masters at Schumacher College in the UK, biked from England to Venice and back, using ancient trees as his waypoints. He then moved to Bhutan to work with the Gross National Happiness Centre. While living in Connecticut for the past few months, he has recently decided to move out west in pursuit of a career relating to ecological restoration/restoration agriculture/holistic management of rangelands in late April. He is planning a big cross country road trip this Spring, so if you find yourself anywhere between CT, Texas, Seattle, and Wyoming, give Hayden a call! Wes Norton recently moved to Seattle and began working at Woodland Park Zoo. He has spent a lot of the winter skiing the Cascades with Cooper VanVranken SP ’08 and is looking forward to a summer of more adventure.  Lastly, Leighton Cusack reached out to buy a 15 year shirt and prevailed through technical difficulties!

 FALL 2006

Class Agents: Sydney DeVos, Lexie Marino

Kelsey Muller is currently living in Bozeman, MT focusing on work, skiing, and her new border collie puppy. She will be starting a masters program in biomedical engineering next fall. Molly Lloyd graduated from college in May and is now working at the Federal Reserve in DC. Chris “Beans” Megrue is graduating this year from Dartmouth College with an Environmental Studies major and is going to be working in Davenport, Iowa next year for an agriculture data start up working to build a network of farmers and a platform with which they can use to evaluate their methods and see if other techniques exist that they could use. Beans just started this spring building a vegetable garden at his parents’ house and plans to grow way more food than he could possibly ever eat. Abram Dawson lives in San Francisco and for the past year and a half has been working at SV Angel, an early stage tech investment firm. He spends most of his time in the city, but he tries to spend as much time as possible in Lake Tahoe and/or on the east coast. Tom Weaver recently left his job spreading democracy in Pakistan with the Washington, D.C. – based NGO, the International Republican Institute, to pursue a career as a software engineer. After graduating from Penn last May, Bridget Ercole is now an ICU nurse at Georgetown. Molly, Hanna, Tom, Lily and Bridget had a nice little reunion in DC in the fall! Meghan Weiler is graduating grad school and getting her masters in counseling psychology from Northeastern. Mackey Violich is a research assistant with the Shark Research Team at CEI. She is teaching a research class to The Island School students on deep-water scavenger fauna, using baited traps that go down to 500-1200m deep in the Exuma Sound. Sage Disch graduated from Haverford College in May 2013 and is currently living in Philadephia working as a Management Consultant for Accenture. Sage is also starting a men’s fashion company with her brother and cousin called Ace & Everett, initially producing the finest American made dress socks. Henry McNamara is living in Manhattan, working for a venture capital firm investing in early stage tech startups. He and fellow ISer Abram Dawson do a fair amount of work together from separate VC firms and Henry sees him and other Fall 06ers in SF during regular business trips. Henry often ponder what Matt Thomas spends his days doing as he drifts off to sleep on a nightly basis… Henry keeps up with Sam Miller and Sage Disch when he’s in NYC and look forward to seeing more Fall 06 in the coming months. Sam Miller has been living in NYC the past two years working in finance and is currently launching a food blog called Slammer Style Food for people who love food and enjoy cooking. Living the Gauntlet lifestyle every day. After graduating from Bard College with a degree in Environmental and Urban Studies, Hanna “Mitch” Mitchell made a brief stint in NYC to perfect her latte skills. She is now working with Greenpeace in Charlotte, NC to bring cleaner cheaper energy options to North Carolina through a community solar initiative. She still thinks of the Island School frequently as a catalyst for personal growth and inspiration for the value system that motivated many of her educational and professional choices. When not working, she may be found on her yoga mat, out salsa dancing, or exploring a new running trail. Lexie Marino is living in Grand Rapids, MI and working in the financial services industry. You can typically find her with fellow ISer Sydney DeVos. Tristan McCormick lived the dream in Portland, Maine this summer, worked at an engineering firm this fall, lived on couches up and down the east coast for a few months this winter, and just started a new position as a software engineer in Minneapolis. Alexandra Patane managed to hit 200% of her sales quota and save up enough funds the last year and a half to do something worthwhile. After all the hard work, and enough time behind a desk, she decided to take a much needed gap year. She has already spent a month in Brazil, and has since been a ski bum in Mammoth, CA. She’s heading to Costa Rica next week with some friends, then Thailand. In June she will be going back to Sweden to celebrate the Swedish Midsummer. Alex is leaving the rest of the year open to figure it out as she goes, but she is planning to end the year (or likely longer) working somewhere as a Divemaster…hopefully the Maldives, (inspired by Edd and Annabelle’s time spent there.) She plans to get in as much diving as she can before then! Nick Ognibene is in his first year of law school at the University of Michigan after working in Sierra Leone last year.

SPRING 2007

Class Agents: Dominique Keefe, Scottie Thompson

Juanita Andersen is about to graduate from Northwestern U this June as a Theatre/Latino Studies major, and plans on staying in Chicago to act professionally. Dominique Keefe moved back to NYC from Montreal in January and is working in energy finance. She is excited to be back! Hilary Walecka is finishing up her first year of her Masters at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at UC Santa Barbara. It’s an interdisciplinary and professional 2-year program. Hilary says it’s an awesome program and she would definitely recommend it! Maddie Hensen is currently finishing my term as a naturalist intern at the Laurentian Environmental Center. She has had a wonderful time teaching elementary and middle school students about outdoor survival, local flora and fauna, archery, snowshoeing, and ice fishing. As her time there come to an end, Maddie is preparing to Juno Beach, Florida where she will be doing sea turtle research and conservation work with the Loggerheard MarineLife Center. She is very excited for this new opportunity and will be working with another Island School alumnus from one of the Island School’s college research programs. Matt Ayres is living in San Francisco, graduating from Connecticut College this spring and working on his United States Soccer Federation class A license. Also he would love to organize an Island School event in SF!

FALL 2007

Class Agents: Stan Burnside, Robby Spalding

Meeta Prakash is working in DC for a healthcare consulting company. Currently, she is studying for the MCAT. Meeta reports that DC is great, and she loves exploring the area. She is still playing frisbee with a spring league and excited to go to Kenya for a cousin’s wedding in a month! Nina Fisher was studying abroad in New Zealand this past year and will be graduating from Lafayette this May. She plans to go to physical therapy school next year. Sam Lagor moved to Burlington to pursue a MSc in Geology at University of Vermont. He is trying to figure out how some granite magma rose up through the crust as the Green Mountains were being built up…cool stuff, lots of time in the hills this coming summer. Stan Burnside is currently working as a stingray trainer for Disney Cruise Lines in the Bahamas. This past spring he received his Wilderness First Responder certification. Meredith Kaufman is working for a nonprofit called bicycles against poverty and will be moving to Uganda in July. Her organization micro finances bikes to people in rural parts of northern Uganda. For the past 10 months Meagan Gary has been back on Eleuthera working as a research assistant on the sea turtle project. She is working at CEI for two more months and then in August Meagan will be starting a MS program at Florida Atlantic University where she will continue studying sea turtles! She hopes to actually be doing her fieldwork for her masters at CEI. Henry Towbin is in New York, working at the Natural History Museum. He works in their imaging lab doing CT scans and electron microscopy. Henry says he has a lot of fun because he gets to work with samples ranging from dinosaur bones to meteorites. Alexio Brown is in Nassau doing my last semester at the College of the Bahamas. In the fall, he will be graduating with a BA in biology. For the past 2 weeks Alexio worked on Blount Small Ship Adventures as an onboard naturalist for their Bahamian out-islands excursion. For the past 6 months Robby Spalding has been training to operate cardiac rhythm management technologies. These technologies are used in surgical procedures for people who have irregular heart rhythms, the most common being atrial fibrillation. In March, Robby was hired by Boston Medical Center as an Electrophysiology (EP) Lab Technologist. His job is to help out with EP procedures like pacemaker implants and radiofrequency ablations. Robby will be living in Boston, so let him know if you are ever in the area!

SPRING 2008

Class Agents: Ned Adriance, Becca Williams

Tucker Blake graduated last year from Albion college with a bachelor’s in Fine Arts. Now he is currently in the Marine Corps station at camp Pendleton California. His is in the advanced infantry training battalion in the Basic Reconnaissance Course. He gets to do tons of fun amphibious training where he can gets put all the skills I learned at Island School to the test. Ollie Engebretson is both excited and sad to be finishing his fourth year at UVA. Next year he is deferring for a year and heading out to Jackson Hole before starting at UVa Law School. The last two years have been a whirlwind, as Becca Williams has been teaching in NYC and pursuing her Masters in Teaching English. As the school year and her course work wraps up, Becca is looking forward to a relaxing summer before heading to law school in the fall. She hopes everyone from S’08 is doing well and that they can meet up sometime in the near future. Emilie Geissinger is currently doing an ecology and evolution course in the Galapagos. She will be graduating this spring from Bates with Owen Minott and Maggie Carey. Emilie hopes to spend the next year teaching biology. Helena Witte graduated from Dartmouth this past June. She is living in Washington D.C. and working at an EdTech startup.

FALL 2008

Class Agents: Hadley Dawson, John DiLoreto

Maddie Andres is finishing up her junior year at Colorado College as a geology major. It seems as though every year I have spent out west I have spent less and less time on the east coast. This summer she received an internship in Glacier National Park doing climate change research on alpine lake sediments. I am so happy to have one final year to live it up at CC. Kevin Delaney just finished up a 6-week internship at CEI where he worked on the Flats Ecology research project before transferring from Villanova University to pursue his interest in studying Marketing at the University of New South Wales. He is now living and studying in Sydney, Australia. Hadley Dawson is nearing the end of her four years at Bates College: bittersweet, but looking ahead to new challenges and experiences. She is extremely excited for this upcoming summer, where she will be participating in the MiddCORE program at Lake Tahoe and will then be teaching as a Summer Term Alumni Mentor at the Island School. She is very grateful for being able to spend the summer at the Island School and to gain experience working with students. Leslie Panella is currently studying abroad in Copenhagen and enjoying the opportunity to travel around Europe. She will spend the summer working in a neurology lab at the Cleveland Clinic, and is excited to go back to Middlebury for her senior year. For her junior year, Dana Del Vecchio has spent the year abroad in Haifa, Israel and Amman, Jordan. Each country is incredibly different from the other, but the semesters have complemented each other nicely. Having taken the Arab-Israeli conflict class freshman year, she wanted to put a real face to the conflict. She spoke with Israelis and Palestinians, studied Arabic and did some independent traveling to the Palestinian territories (Ramallah, Bethlehem and Jericho). Her spring semester in Jordan exposed her to Arabic and has convinced her to consider moving to Jordan after graduation. Right now, she is interested in working in an education department of a refugee organization. Cicely Moreau is graduating from Case University in May with a BA in Music and Biology. She will be spending the summer performing in Italy with the Oberlin in Italy opera program before traveling around Europe, and will then be taking a year off to explore before pursuing graduate school. Alexander Keefe is graduating this spring from the University of Maine. At the end of March, Cordelia Kenney participated in Occidental College’s first ever TEDx event as a student speaker, giving a talk entitled “Reimagining Death.” She recently completed an honors project for the History Department that analyzed the United States’ first federal law to criminalize abortion and contraception. She also writes for Occidental’s newspaper (all of her articles are available online) and she is on the Leadership Council of the national nonprofit organization, Peer Health Exchange, at Occidental. Following graduation in May, she will be in Melbourne, Australia for the summer and plans to return to Washington, D.C. to work on international women’s rights and reproductive health. Valerie Zhao is finishing up her junior year at Dartmouth and is looking forward to spending her summer living at home. She will be working at Kaiser Permanente’s Innovation and Advanced Technology Center and studying for the MCAT. If anyone is in the San Francisco Bay Area this term, let her know!

SPRING 2009

Class Agents: Christine Brittain, Whit Powel, Matt Vetter

Christine Brittain is a junior at Emory, studying psychology. This summer, she will be studying abroad in Sweden at Uppsala University. Heather Hoffman is a junior at Duke. This summer, she will be working as a teaching fellow at Breakthrough Collaborative in Brooklyn, NY while living in Manhattan. Heather hopes to see some fellow S’09ers while there! Sarah Kistner is working for an IT staffing company called Talener. Sarah will graduate from Colgate with a double major in psychology and Spanish. At Colgate, Sarah was really involved with the ski team and her sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma. Eduardo Lopez will be working this summer at the Environmental Defense Fund in DC. He will be working with the “REDD+, supply chains, indigenous peoples” project. This involves looking at why deforestation occurs given stress from the cattle, soy and oil palm industries. It also involves finding ways to get the local communities/indigenous peoples to engage in sustainable development. The area of focus is the amazon in Brazil. Whit Powel is finishing up her junior at Denison University, where she is captain of the women’s lacrosse team. She is looking forward to working as a Senior Interviewer in Denison’s admissions office starting next fall. This summer, Whit will return to Eleuthera as a Human Ecology teacher for the Summer Term at Island School. After an amazing summer during Summer Term 2013, she is excited to go back and build on last summer’s experience! Lulu Stelle studied abroad in Rome and is now in London. She’s a biology major (inspired by Island School) and is working in NYC at the Natural Resources Defense Council in their oceans program this summer. Nic Strain is an English major at Middlebury. He will be a senior next year and this summer will be working at Wheelhouse Creative, a trailer production company in NYC. Krissy Taft is working at an environmental firm in Boston for the summer and will be graduating from Middlebury after next semester/fall. Jake Verter is a sophomore at Williams College, pursuing a double major in biology and English. Jake also runs cross country. He spent this past January at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA working to develop a small molecule inhibitor of the MYC pathway. MYC is a transcription factor which, when mutated, leads to unchecked cell growth and proliferation– cancer. This summer, Jake will be working in a Boston neurobiology lab and will spend all of next year abroad at the University of Oxford! There, Jake will take English literature courses, but also plans to study biomedical ethics and cell signaling. Christiana Whitcomb will be interning for the NYC Department of City Planning. She is a senior at Bowdoin, studying government and visual arts. Joe Sukup is currently in Peru until June studying globalization and indigenous cultures. At Wabash College, he studies Spanish language and Literature along with studio art.  This summer, Joe will be working at Camp Laurel in the Summer up in Maine. When he returns, Joe will be in the process of applying for a Fulbright Grant to teach in Europe and for Teach for America, along with some other teaching fellowships. Joe going to go into teaching and hopefully get to teach at the IS but hopes to work his way up into Education Administration.

FALL 2009

Class Agents: Alexis Sommerfield, Chip Wierda, Catherine Wilson

Erica Russell is at Calvin College in GR, Michigan studying recreational therapy and will graduate in May 2015. She hopes to work with children and young adults with special needs. She plans on doing graduates studies in either occupational therapy or applied behavioral analysis. Eva McKinsey is currently attending Colorado College and studying Political Science. She loves being at CC because she gets to play in the woods all the time and explore an unfamiliar part of the country. Catherine Wilson is finishing up her sophomore year at the UNC Chapel Hill and is double majoring in Political Science and Peace, War, & Defense with a minor in Philosophy, Politics, & Economics. She is also currently training for a half marathon that will be in June!! Duncan Saunders is playing lacrosse at UNC and is majoring in Management and Society with a minor in history. While going to school at Colorado State University, Sam Mackenzie is getting a Wildlife biology degree. He recently started a water polo team, which he is hoping to compete with in his last few years of college. He is also working in the Smith-Knapp plant ecology lab, where they are studying the effects of climate change on the Great Plains. Will Kister is currently an accounting and finance major and the University of Delaware. He has been interning for JP Morgan for the past 6 months. Chip Wierda is finishing his junior year at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He is studying history with a minor in English. His summer plans are to get his wilderness first responder certification (inspired by IS), spend three weeks in the Caribbean through a program called Seamester, and travel around the western United States for a month pursuing beauty and interesting stories. He has no clue what he wants to do when he graduates college, but he’s okay with that. Liza Morse will be working at Grinnell college’s Conard Environmental Research Area this summer. She will be banding birds, tagging butterflies, planting native prairie plants, and taking care of a heard of goats responsible for removing invasive species, among other things. She will also be taking some R7R time before heading into her final year at Grinnell!

SPRING 2010

Class Agent: Hannah Cope (If you are interested in helping Hannah out with her Class Agent duties, please email alumni@islandschool.org)

Nick Lanza has spent his senior year at Prescott College traveling through Norway, Chile, and Patagonia, Argentina as well as biking, climbing, and surfing in California and the south western US. After spending the past two summers teaching Island School Summer term, Nick will return this summer for summer term and stay on as the new Marine Ecology teacher for the upcoming year. Maddie Hawk spent some time in London and Paris this year, and is heading to Korea for the summer to learn Korean so she can speak with her grandparents in Korean. On return from Korea, she will be heading to Denmark to study abroad for the fall semester. Evan Lutvak is producing music albums, designing plays, organizing concerts, and generally killing it as he has been since he rapped to us for his Who Am I presentation. Steve Normington is majoring in Broadcast Journalism at Elon University and has secured an internship with the Carolina Panthers for this summer. Grace Bender is studying abroad this semester in Costa Rica, researching zoonotic parasites and enjoying the different pace of life. She will be spending the summer at the Mountain School in Vershire, VT working on the farm crew. Micky Mittermeier is in Queensland, NZ at the moment. His visited-country count is at exactly 70, with his most recent visits being Togo and Benin. This summer he plans to spend eight weeks backpacking from Singapore to Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia, which will take his country count to 76. Erin Baker is also abroad in New Zealand this semester. Hadley Sachs is in Cape Town, South Africa this semester studying philosophy and politics. Lucy Triedman was doing shark conservation research in Fiji then traveling in NZ this past summer. She is currently studying social movements and human rights in Buenos Aires. For a few weeks in May she will be researching tourism in Patagonia. Sean McGurl has spent the past few months in Brazil studying music and plans to stay there through the World Cup. Rennie Meyers plans to spend this summer doing anthropological research on the aesthetics of sustainable tourism and development out of UMiami-Rosenstiel in Nassau, Abaco, and Eleuthera this summer. Hannah Cope has been at school at the University of St Andrews in Scotland this year. She has been competing in British Show Jumping competitions and also riding on the university’s equestrian team. She will also be President of the Polo Club for the 2014-2015 year, which involves organizing everything from weekly lessons for members to traveling around the UK to compete in tournaments, and also playing chukkas on St Andrews’ iconic West Sands beach. It has been a horse-filled year for Hannah!

SUMMER 2010

Class Agents: Grace Dennis, Ariel Verbrugge

Grace Dennis is currently spending her junior spring studying tropical island conservation and working on my Spanish with the School for Field Studies in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Grace is excited to spend this summer working with the Environmental Stewardship department of Royal Caribbean in Miami before returning to upstate NY in the fall for her senior year at Colgate University.

FALL 2010

Class Agent: Chris Daniell (If you are interested in helping Chris out with his Class Agent duties, please email alumni@islandschool.org)

Chris Daniell is participating in a Marine-science oriented study away at Wood’s Hole marine biological laboratory in the fall.

SPRING 2011

Class Agents: Ami Adams (If you are interested in helping Ami out with her Class Agent duties, please email alumni@islandschool.org)

Ami Adams going into her senior year at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona majoring in marine biology. She has spent the last year and a half at the school’s field station in Bahia Kino, Sonora, Mexico studying the Gulf of California, specifically the effects of commercial fisheries as well as shrimp aquaculture in the Midriff Island region. Ami looks forward to returning to the Island School this year for summer term as the marine ecology student mentor.

SUMMER 2011

Class Agents: Mackenzie Carlson, Henry Ogilby

Hana Bendy joined the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta at Yale University. This summer, she is going to Lima, Peru to study Spanish. This fall, Corey Coffey will be joining the freshman class of the University of Florida. Courtney Good will be going to Australia to study abroad next spring semester. Tiffany Hanson is playing for Princeton’s Women’s Rugby Team.  This coming summer, she will be moving to Florida. This summer, Tiffany will be completing the Fullbridge Program in New York City. Maggie Winchester will be studying abroad in Morocco next semester. Henry Ogilby is working for Chipotle as a marketing rep. He says he gets lots of free, good food from good places. Denali Balser joined the cross country and track team at UVM and will be living in Oregon this summer with a friend. This year, Olivia Erdman qualified and competed in nationals for collegiate ski races, participated in a alternative spring break building and fixing homes for Hurricane Sandy victims. This summer, Olivia will be conducting research looking at invasive turtle species in the area. Bazl Taliaferrow-Mosleh is currently enrolled in an engineering program and is getting his real estate license over the summer. Blake Turner was a talent escort at the CMA Awards for Luke Bryan. Clayton Meyer is a Division I rower at Cornell University and also a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. Mackenzie Carlson joined the cycling and club running teams at Dartmouth college and is involved in Christian Union on campus. She also enjoys doing math, working as a physics research intern, and will be going to Cape Town, South Africa next winter to do research in astrophysics. Taylor Nichols is currently enrolled at Miami University in Ohio, which he says has been incredible. He also went to Africa which was amazing. Ariel Potter will be going to Colorado College next year. Last summer, she worked in a Bolivia as an English teacher. Julian Perez will be joining the freshman class at Texas A&M University at Galveston in the fall. He has done last of diving in the New York Harbor and can’t wait to try some cave diving while at A&M!

FALL 2011

Class Agents: Anika Ayyar, Grace Fowler, Griffin Hunt

Sam Saccomanno is having a blast at Colorado College, where she recently got WFR certified and spent a month in Italy for an Italian Cinema class. She’s still dancing, boxing, and doing acrobatics. This summer she’ll be in Bolivia working with The Foundation for Sustainable Development and another NGO called Warmi. She’ll then be traveling around Peru before returning to CC for RA training. Emily Peters is having a great time at the University of Vermont, where she is studying Environmental Studies. She’s been busy as an outing club leader and a DJ at 90.1 WRUV FM Burlington, and will be a camp counselor at Wavus Camp for Girls this summer. Grace Fowler is at Colby College studying Environmental Studies and Education and dreams of returning to The Island School someday soon. She’s a member of the rugby team, the environmental club, and a leader in the outing club. She learned to fly fish this winter in a JanPlan English class in California. She’s also getting her LEED Green Associate accreditation and will be conducting research on pollinator relationships and climate change at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado this summer. Tessa Tracy is excited to attend Barnard College in the fall! She’s been busy this year with the Marine Conservation Club at her high school and has fundraised money for the New England Aquarium Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Program. She’ll be living in Nicaragua this summer while working on a development project and teaching kids English. In the last two years many things have happened, to Jack Foote. He claims he remains the klutzy, accident-prone Jack you all came to know but now is slightly larger and wiser now and a proud owner of a full beard. He has been accepted to both Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida as well as Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu, Hawaii. Jack is partial to West Palm Beach. He is planning on a double major of Marine Biology and Art. That’s right, since IS he has discovered a talent for the visual arts within himself with a specialty for sculpture and pencil art, as well as but not limited to: Ink, Paint, Spray Paint, and Charcoal. Some of his pieces have been recognized and won awards as well as earned a place in art shows. Jack is also in the process of completing a Portfolio to be judged for college credit with all the pieces are of the various creatures that inhabit the Oceans. He misses all of Fall 2011 greatly and the Island School and Eleuthera fill his daydreams often. He can’t wait to visit his brother during his semester in the fall. Benji Beardsley will be taking a Gap Year after graduating high school this spring. He is excited to be enrolling in a NOLS program in India for the first semester of his Gap Year, and will likely participate in a Spanish program in Central America for his second semester. Inspired in part by his IS experience, he will be earning his rescue or master diver certification this coming summer. Benji will be attending Trinity College (Hartford, CT) beginning in the fall of 2015. Griffin Hunt is just finishing his freshman year at Trinity College (Hartford, CT), where he was elected by faculty into both the Guided Studies Program and the Writing Associates Program. Though undeclared, he is planning to pursue a major in Public Policy and Law with an emphasis on environmental regulation. He spent this past summer working as a Communications Intern back at the IS campus, where he produced videos (including the CEI trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBR4jdNYBqY), took photographs, and created promotional materials for all facets of the organization. Griffin is ecstatic about returning in June as a Summer Term Alumni Mentor to support the human ecology team and to again work alongside teachers from his own semester. Just wrapping up her freshman year at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), Annie Bryan is a sister in the Alpha Phi sorority. An ambitious young lady, she plans on majoring in psychology, with a double minor in entrepreneurship and marketing, and serves as an eco rep in her dorm. Annie hopes to visit IS soon to play with Fritter.

SPRING 2012

Class Agents: Lauren Maida, Matti McAlpin, Hannah Piersiak

In the Fall of this year, Matti McAlpin moved to Punta Gorda Toledo, Belize and began an internship as a lab and field research assistant with the Toledo Institute for Development and the Environment. She focused primarily on a fresh water study determining the impact of a dumpsite on the Rio Grande River, using stable isotope and trace elemental analysis of aquatic species of multiple trophic levels. She also worked on a project trying to development a market for invasive lionfish in the Toledo district of Belize through community outreach. Matti later moved back to The Bahamas to intern for the Cape Eleuthera Institute as a SCUBA dive and lab assistant looking at larval settlement in Eleuthera, Bahamas. She will be attending Clark University in the Fall to study Biology. Kira Akka-Seidel has been loving her freshman year at UCSC! She’s on the club soccer team there, which has been a lot of fun playing against other schools in California. She is double majoring in environmental studies and legal studies (planning on going into environmental law). When at home Kira has been working at the frozen yogurt shop in her town. Lauren Maida is in the home stretch of her freshman year at Lehigh University, where she is studying Marketing and Environmental Studies. She is involved in the Marketing Club, Dance Marathon PR Committee, and is a newly initiated sister of Pi Beta Phi sorority. She is very excited to spend her summer exploring Greece, and then sailing in Lavallette, NJ. Max Spencer will be joining the University of Florida’s Class of 2018 next year! Go Gators! Natalie Grune will be attending Lafayette College next year, hoping to major in Neuroscience and Psychology. She is excited to be going back to Island School in a couple weeks for her senior internship, working with the sea turtle team!! Kyle Titsworth is finishing his first semester at the University of Vermont. He joined UVM Rescue, which is a state licensed advanced life support ambulance that services UVM, Burlington and the greater Burlington area. Kyle became an EMT last march, inspired by his teacher Rachel Shapiro after leaving Island School. This past summer, Casey Rutherford went to Fiji to study Bull Sharks on Shark Reef Marine Reserve. She will be graduating high school in May and will be attending the University of Miami. Casey plans on double majoring in Marine Biology and Marine Science with a Chemistry minor. This summer she is going diving with Great Whites in Isla Guadalupe, Mexico. Abby Anderson is a freshman at UC Berkeley and is planning to major in molecular environmental biology major. One fun thing she’s involved in is a club that works with kids with cancer and raises money for them to attend summer camp. Next year Tamara Pletzer will be attending the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She will be majoring in economics and mathematics and having a great time! After graduating from Noble and Greenough School last June, Sarah Allison worked as a canoe counselor at a girls sleep-away camp in Vermont, leading multiple-day canoe trips throughout NH, VT, and ME. She is currently a freshman at University of Southern California, majoring in Environmental Studies. On campus Sarah is a member of Delta Gamma sorority, the environmental affairs organization, and social workers for environmental justice. She is anticipating the start of the summer when she will be headed back down to Eleuthera as an intern in the shark research and conservation program at CEI. Tai Massimilian has had a really great senior year being a cheer captain and getting accepted into the University of Texas at Austin for Fall 2014. After graduating from Hockaday in May, Tai will be working in North Carolina and vacationing with her family in Nantucket this summer. She is then heading to UT for rush week before classes start. Tai is majoring in public relations with a focus on Business and she can’t wait to get started! Hook em horns!

SUMMER 2012

Class Agent: Ben Charo (If you are interested in helping Ben out with his Class Agent duties, please email alumni@islandschool.org)

FALL 2012

Class Agents: Cate Ellison, Lauren Gould, Lexi Welch

SPRING 2013

Class Agents: Ben VanderWeide (If you are interested in helping Ben out with his Class Agent duties, please email alumni@islandschool.org)

SUMMER 2013

Class Agents: AJ Alcindor, Tim Gronet

 Many of the Summer Term 2013 class members are headed off to college in the fall. Gabi Jackson will be attending Niagara University. Jess Castelo is joining the freshman class at Washington and Lee University. Taylor Rado is headed off to Union College. Savannah D’Orazio will be attending Occidental College. Randi Block is going to Hillsdale College. Haley Stokas is going to Lewis & Clark College. Hector Altamirano is leaving the mainland of the United States to attend University of Hawaii. Juliette Alexandra is headed to Connecticut College. Chase Goldston is be attending Colby College in the fall. Emily Boring has decided to join the freshmen class at Yale University next year.

FALL 2013

Class Agent: Griffin Andres (If you are interested in helping Griffin out with his Class Agent duties, please email alumni@islandschool.org)

SPRING 1999:

Class Agent: Joshua Lichtman

FALL 1999:

Class Agent: Lee Taylor

SPRING 2000:

Class Agent: Monique Johnson

Mike Brown is in the process of moving to Charlotte, NC with his wife Liz and their puppy McKenna. He is starting a new product management job and looking to move from a small apartment to an actual house. Mike looks forward to changing things up and try out a new city and hopes to catch up with fellow Island Schoolers passing through the Charlotte area! Ryan Eavey is pedicabbing in Boston, Austin, and New Orleans. He is also working at Hubway this summer. Monique Johnson is in the process of applying to business school and is looking forward to the summer. Suzy Newbury is finishing up her Ph.D. She got to see Andy Monk in LA this past fall, and spent some quality time with Chris, Pam, and Christian at Francesca Forrestal’s wedding. Fun times! Elizabeth Rosenberg is still in NYC, living downtown and working in merchandising for J. Crew. Elizabeth and her mother, Dee, went on a girls surfing trip to Costa Rica in March which was really fun. In a few weeks, they are going away with her father to Greece and Turkey in a few weeks which should also be a cool adventure! She loves living in the Big Apple but not curing any diseases quite yet…Abby (Jenkins) Watson moved to Madison, Wisconsin with her husband in 2012 but recently moved back to Portland, Oregon. She workw for a cycling apparel company called Rapha and spends most of her free time cycling.

FALL 2000:

Class Agent: Richard Woodhull

Andrew Thaler received his PhD in Marine Science and Conservation from Duke University last August and is currently teaching an environmental communications class through the Duke Environmental Leadership program. He was also part of the team that recently discovered the world’s deepest hydrothermal vents in the Cayman Trough. Gretchen Goodrich recently got married to Andrws Curtis on July 1 2012, and is moving from China to Indonesia to teach Middle School Science & Math at Jakarta International School. Kristi Rudick is working as a pediatric nurse practitioner at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in the Department of Urology. Richard Woodhull is getting his MBA at GW while also working as an Impact Investing Associate for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the US Government’s development finance agency. Shira Gasarch recently switched coasts and moved out to San Francisco to start a new job.

SPRING 2001:

Class Agent: Nina Kumar

FALL 2001:

Class Agents: Meg Bunn, Mary Coleman Farrell

Mary Coleman Farrell lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, Stuart, her 4 month old son, Thomas, and her Bichon Frise, Pete. She is currently a stay-at-home mom and volunteer with the Junior League of Washington and her alma maters. Gracie Payne currently lives in Gainesville, FL where she has worked for the University of Florida for the past three years. During her free time, she enjoys gardening, riding horses, and playing banjo. She also picked up a second job serving in a local bistro. Ryan Levhin-Coon lives in Austin, TX and has been hosting a lot of couchsurfers through couchsurfing.org. He offers any of our classmates a place to stay if they are ever in Austin. His couchsurfing profile is: http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/rlevihncoon/. Rob Naeny is in the process of finishing his Masters of Professional Science in Aquaculture at the University of Miami. He is currently working at Open Blue Sea Farms in Panama in their hatchery taking care of live feed production and larval rearing of cobia. Ana Metghalchi lives in London where she works as a Merchandiser for Burberry. Amory Bliss got married to her husband, Andrew, in August 2011. They just bought their first home in Norwood, MA. Amory teaches 2^nd grade in Newton, MA and is in her fifth year of teaching. She reports that life is good! Meg Bunn lives in New York City and is in her 6th year of working for the J.P. Morgan Private Bank. She currently works at The Philanthropy Centre at J.P. Morgan where she runs the donor advised fund program. She is a member of the Alumni Advisory Board for Island School and a co-class agent for Fall ’01. Alex Proelss lives in Boston and works for Sperry Top-Sider as a brand manager. The company’s Passion for the Sea has allowed her to stay engaged with ocean activation through a partnership with United by Blue. For every t-shirt sold in the capsule collection they clean up a pound of trash from the sea or coastline. They’ve done 5 clean ups in the past year and cleaned up over 30K lbs of trash. Outside of work she is continuing to enjoy Boston’s spring and training for her second Tough Mudder obstacle course.

SPRING 2002:

Class Agent: Please contact alumni@islandschool.org if you’re interested in volunteering to be a Class Agent!

FALL 2002:

Class Agents: Mike Cortina, Sara Rodell

Mike Cortina still stays involved with Island School regularly and enjoys the yearly trips to eleuthera with the Alumni Advisory Board (AAB). He’s currently living in Washington DC and looking forward to summer on the Jersey Shore. Arshia Rassi is in her second year of medical school in Philadelphia. Right now, her life is consumed with studying for boards but once those are over in a few weeks she will start clinical rotations and is super excited about having the chance to see real patients. Everton Joseph is based in Richmond running an ecological landscape design company, Blue Skies Ecoscaping. After graduating from Trinity College in 2008, Allie Echeverria joined the Teach For America New York corps and taught 4th and 5th grades in Brooklyn and the Bronx for three years. Allie joined Teach For America full-time staff in 2011 and is now the Manager, New Site Development. Her team is responsible for creating new TFA regions around the country and she absolutely loves her work. Allie is also a long-distance runner. She has completed three marathons, three 50Ks, and ran her first 50 miler on May 4. Nina Sherburne is teaching at Hoya Kids Learning Center at Georgetown University. She is also getting involved with food justice initiatives, urban gardening groups, and fossil fuel divestment campaigns. Oliver La Farge is currently a crew member aboard a boat in Croatia. For the next two months, he will be cruising to Greece and Turkey.

SPRING 2003:

Class Agent: Melissa Buck

Greg Henkes is in his final year(s) of a doctoral program in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. He recently got engaged to his girlfriend, Erin, and they are currently planning a wedding for this fall. Greg was recently in Hawaii for an archaeology conference, but spends most of his time either in the laboratory or horsing around with his two dogs, Ruby and Nepal. Brenna Hughes is in Chicago and in her first year of medical school. She is loving it and if anyone makes it to the midwest for work or fun, she wants you to give her a call! Alexandra Penny is still living and working in NYC. She runs into fellow S’03er Ali Hoffman from time to time. Ali Hoffman is living in NYC and working in sales at BlackRock, where she frequently runs into Andrew Gough (S’04). She got to watch bunkie Courtney Terrell Lemmon walk down the aisle last May, and is looking forward to being a bridesmaid for Logan Morris’swedding next June. She is also hoping that Diana Wade won’t spend all her time “dormir”-ing when she is home for a month this summer from her adventures in Paris. Hey Neighbs! Courtney Terrell Lemmon graduated last spring with a Masters in Clinical Psychology. She and her husband Jon got married May 12, 2012 (happy anniversary Court!) in Cleveland, OH and moved to the Bay Area that fall. Courtney works as an in-home mental health therapist with at-risk kids and her husband works for Oracle. They love San Francisco and were excited to attend a SF IS alumni event right when they got out there! She also randomly ran into Sam Rudd and Tom Sterling the month they moved out there. What a small world! Melissa Buck is working at Hill Holliday, an advertising agency, in Boston where she works on the Bank of America account. Work keeps her traveling around the globe (literally!) with trips so far this year to LA, Hong Kong, London, San Francisco, Charlotte, and New York. She was thrilled to get to see Ali Hoffman recently during one of her trips to the Big Apple. This summer she’ll be traveling to Detroit, San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago so be sure to let her know if you’re living in any of those areas! Taylor Voorhees is working on his research at URI – yellowfin and bluefin tuna physiology.  He’ll be defending his thesis by next May.  He’s also in the planning stages of developing a small-scale aquaculture operation at a girls’ school in Tanzania that his sister (Jessie, Sp06) taught at.  And, of course, he’s surfing as much as he can! Kelsey Jones is living in Maine on the island where she grew up, and in typical island fashion, she has a variety of jobs and activities to keep her busy. She is doing some childcare, coaching middle school and high school cross-country, working with the community theater and music programs, performing with various musical ensembles, and this summer will begin a graduate course in Expressive Arts Therapy through Lesley University. Sky Feuer moved to England in 2010 to get a masters in genetics from University of Cambridge. According to Sky, the masters quickly turned into an excuse to live in Europe and travel to fun places like Lithuania, Corsica, and Russia. In the fall of 2011, Sky moved to San Francisco to start her PhD in biomedical sciences with a focus on reproductive biology at UCSF. Jen Boone Purviance had a baby! John Boone Purviance (future IS class of Spring 2029) was born September 8th. Jen, her husband, and baby Boone are living in Casper, WY. They welcome guests anytime! Keenan Grayson is living in Columbia, SC and working as Director of Membership at the SC Pharmacy Association. She passes along news of her fellow S’03ers from South Carolina… apparently Tommy Andrews is living in California “doing something with acting or modeling” and Jacob Rice‘s dad was elected to Congress in this past election! Samantha Ashley Demartino recently left her job working at the World Bank in DC in the Sustainable Development department to start a PhD in the UK. She is in the Economics development program but looking at how to incentivize behavior toward conserving the environment, with a focus in East Africa. She continues to consult for development organizations on the side, but is enjoying being a student again. She also recently became a trained yoga teacher and is looking to bring the practice to outside communities. Brookes Moody got her MFA in creative writing last year at The New School in NYC. She wrote her thesis partially on Derek Walcott and how the concept of place operates in his work. Just recently Brookie launched an online poetry magazine with a friend (www.themackinacmagazine.com). She also got her 100-ton captain’s license and is living on a boat (I mean, are any of us surprised?) in CT working in marketing for a marina group. Diana Wade will be celebrating four years in Paris come September. She’s been teaching English in a bilingual school for the last three years, and working one or two nights a week in a lively bar. May has been a big month for Diana– first trip to the beautiful island of Corsica and she signed a lease on a new apartment with her beau of two years. Brenna Leath earned her Masters of Arts in English with a focus in Film Studies in 2012 from North Carolina State University, where she wrote her Capstone project on the influence of punk style in queer cinema. Since graduating, she’s been working at NC State Libraries managing services in their Digital Media Lab. Outside of work she’s spending a lot of time on her music and performing with her band The Hell No ((http://www.reverbnation.com/thehellno). In 2013, Brenna has been focusing a lot on her fitness goals; so far in 2013, she has raced in her first triathlon and competed in the Reebok Crossfit Games Open. Brenna hopes to travel more this year too; she leaves for Miami and a 7-day Caribbean cruise next week! Skye Miller started her Master’s Degree in Natural Resource Management at The University of the West Indies in Barbados and is excited to be back at CEI conducting fieldwork through the end of this year!

FALL 2003:

Class Agents: Kate Parizeau, Kylie King Ebbutt

Katherine O’Koniewski (Mel) has been working in MA/DC politics since graduating from Northwestern in June 2009. She worked on Elizabeth Warren’s campaign as her Deputy Finance Director and is now working on Katherine Clark’s Congressional campaign as her Finance Director. She is likely heading back to school in the fall for a JD/MBA program. Julian Gonzalez is in his last semester of law school at Catholic University in Washington D.C., looking for a job as an environmental lawyer post-graduation. He wants everyone Fall ‘03 to know that the nickname “Hoo” has stuck all throughout high school, college, and now law school! Maggie Crosland graduated from Bowdoin with a degree in art history in 2010, and directly after graduation moved to London to do her Masters in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she graduated in 2011. Maggie stayed in London for another year and then she was accepted to a position at the Getty in LA and moved there last September. She loves my job and feels very fortunate to be able pursue a career as an art historian. She will definitely be in LA until September and then she will likely be back either on the East Coast or in England! Mary Sugiyama graduated from Alma College, Alma, MI in 2010 with a BA in Education and a BFA in Art and Design. She has been working at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee, WI for almost 3 years now. Mary is a non-profit arts administrator and also teaches art classes and residencies throughout the city. She just bought my first house back in October, so she plans to be in Milwaukee for a while! Right now it’s just Mary and her dog Rufio–enjoying Lake Michigan, Wisconsin winters, short commutes to Chicago, and summers in the city of beer and festivals. Camden Hauge is currently in Shanghai after her company transferred her there from the London office, where I had worked for 2 years after she graduated from University of St Andrews (Scotland). Camden works in advertising for Saatchi & Saatchi. Ali Howard actually moved to London just before Camden moved to China (worst timing!) but they still got to pal around a bit before she left. So far, Camden is loving Shanghai! Ali Howard was transferred to London a year ago with Yelp to open up their first international office and she is managing a sales team here. Ali reports life is good and full of royalty, cricket, tea, and grey skies. She will be moving to Brooklyn this summer to help out with our NYC office and looks forward to being back in the US. Chrissie Wallace a trauma nurse at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in the Emergency Department in Myrtle Beach, SC. She also coach a little girls soccer team on the side. John Fitzpatrick graduated from Lawrence University in 2010 with a degree in History. He also wrestled for my college’s team. He got involved with the YMCA and the YMCA Outdoor education Program and has been travelling the country teaching Environmental Education to kids. John worked for a year in the San Juan Islands and has spent the last two years working in Greenville, SC. He is currently looking to move to San Diego to work at one of the largest YMCA camps in the country. Kylie King Ebbutt graduated from Valparaiso University in Indiana with a BA in Secondary Education and English. She got married last July to her husband Dan and they spent their honeymoon back on Eleuthera! They just bought our first home in Grand Rapids, Michigan where she teaches 8th grade. Chris Scott is a social worker working with previously homeless and low income Veterans of all ages and branches in New York. It’s awesome, but also tiring. Chris is about to get her Masters in Social Work in May. She just had an amazing vacation with Tim Hoisington in Nicaragua where he’s doing the Peace Corps. He is in I am in the environment sector where he teaches environmental science in the primary schools and he hopes to be starting different environmental projects in the community soon. He will be creating a school nursery with the kids, school garden, and compost…PCULT! He has been there about 7 months and still has about 1 year 7 months left. Travis Yates is finishing his AA in forestry and wildlife management this spring in Georgetown, SC. Then he will be working at Eden Hall Plantation in Greenwood, SC through the summer as a wildlife manager and forestry intern. In the fall, he is going to Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Amanda Frew works for The Artist Book Foundation, in New York, publishing monographs and catalogue raisonnés of contemporary artists. She is currently fundraising to establish a program of donation of art books to underserved libraries. Liz Kistler is in her first year of medical school at the University of Rochester. It has been really wonderful. She says she took her time getting here; she only decided I wanted to go into medicine after I finished undergraduate. Liz lived in Thailand for a while after she graduated, working in HIV advocacy, then lived in Maine for a bit before doing all of her pre-med coursework in 12 months. She says it was tough, but it got her to where she wants to be! Lindsay Miller has been working in the Hunt/Fish and Military/Tactical division of Under Armour since she graduated, and she loves it! It has introduced her to a whole world in the Outdoors – learning to hunt has been a great addition to her long list of hobbies! Miles McAlpin was in southeast Asia working at a couple NGOs and doing some freelance video work. Then he moved back to Boston where he have been working for an online clothing retailer Karmaloop.com while working to get his own line off the ground. Miles will be leaving Boston soon to either get back into teaching or finally put his environmental studies degree to work. Dana Gulley I graduated from UVM in 2010 and was a Congressional National Parks fellow for 6 months working at Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island and on Capitol Hill. She has been working at Riverkeeper as their Community Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator for the past 2 years. They are an environmental non-profit that has been cleaning up the Hudson River and protecting NYC’s drinking water since 1966. She absolutely loves it there. Dana just got a kayak last week and is looking forward to lots of kayaking on the Hudson River this summer! She also is applying to law school this fall and hopes to end up at the University of Washington in Seattle come fall 2014. Phil Arias passed away on October 23, 2012, leaving behind his family, his daughter Sophie (who is now 18 months) and his wife. He was a terrific Husband and Father and he was loving life. He talked about The Island School in some capacity in almost every conversation we have ever had; he loved you guys dearly and appreciated the impact you had on his life. Hopefully Sophie and I can make it down to Eleuthera one day, and I’d love nothing more than for her to go there. Thanks for keeping me included in the group. Stay in touch! (Written by Philip’s wife, Shannon Arias) Brie Spinetto works at an ad agency that’s putting a really awesome stake in the ground around sustainability marketing and their capabilities and passion for it. It’s a super hot topic that hasn’t really found it’s way into the ad/marketing industry in a mainstream way yet, and is something that’s apparent in all of their clients, so now they get to showcase their EE marketing ability to all audiences and have it be a core capability which is AWESOME. Sophie Danforth has been living in Wyoming the past few years, biking and skiing as much as she can. This summer she will be heading to nursing school at Johns Hopkins. Katherine Cissel moved to NYC in the fall because she got a job at Hirschl & Adler Galleries – an art gallery in Midtown. Before that she was managing a small start up art gallery in Southport, CT for three years. Katherine likes what she’s doing, but is always seeking new adventures – traveling new places, cooking new dishes, drawing new things, finding new fun ways to work out – “psycho-esque”. She is keeping her life interesting and appreciating what she has! Connor Boals graduated from UVM. Did some writing. Then went to Columbia Journalism School. Did some more writing. Picked up a camera. Moved to Guatemala. Made some videos. Moved back to NYC. Brooklyn this time (Ali, let’s hang out when you get here). He’s been working in online news video for a while. Just left Reuters to take a new job with NowThis News, a new startup. Connor tries to travel whenever he can. As of September, Emily Zuckerman is living in Paris, working and training in a circus apprenticeship program at Academie Fratellini. It’s a 3-year program, with only 24 apprentices in total, mostly from around Europe. Emily’s specialty is aerial rope, but she also works in acrobatics, theater, dance, and writing. When Emily grows tired of living European-style she is planning to bring a full length circus-theater show back to the US, so stay tuned! Christopher Fernander is in his last year of my contract with the Royal Bahamas Defense Force military. He has had the privilege to train and work with various branches of the US militaries and law enforcement agencies, and different Caribbean forces. Now he is in a vocational college in Bahamas doing a course on land base welding. Next year he will be heading to Holland College in Canada to complete my certification in commercial diving. From there he doesn’t know what is next, but he looks forward to taking a break from island life. Austen Levihn-Coon is coming up on 4 1/2 years here in Washington, DC where he found himself after graduating from Middlebury College and working on President Obama’s ’08 campaign in Warren, MI and then Fayetteville, NC. He has transitioned from grassroots campaigning to online campaigns and facilitating the use of technology for social justice. He currently works with a small company called Fission Strategy focused on creative uses of technology to support campaigns and organizations such as Define American, ONE, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, JStreet, and Power of Wind. Austen develops campaign strategies and manage the creation of websites, Facebook Apps and Mobile Apps. Caitlin Gerrity is still living in Hong Kong and loving Asia! She will probably live out here for another 2 years at least. She left her job at Credit Suisse at the end of February to take a position with Macquarie, an Australian bank. She has three months in between jobs so Caitlin has been making the most of the time off! Among other travels, Caitlin is just coming to the close of 2 weeks in Singapore where she did an Ashtanga Teacher Training course with Chuck Miller – it was an incredible experience and really changed the way she thinks about yoga, and may have planted the seed to actually teach it some day. For the past year my boyfriend Max (who she met in HK) has been living in Tokyo, so Caitlin has been lucky enough to spend lots of time exploring Japan which is a really incredible, though sometimes truly crazy, country. He is moving back to Hong Kong today though, so they are very excited to be in the same city again!  Caitlin gotten pretty into CrossFit over the past two years and is actually how she met Max! Their gym in HK, CrossFit Asphodel, has qualified a team for the 2013 CrossFit Games Asia regionals, so she will likely be traveling to Seoul at the end of May to compete with the team and is excited for a fun challenge. John Wood left college and became a cage fighter for two years, but it wasn’t as much fun as he thought it would be. He has been the conditioning coach for the team and they have been introduced to psycho workouts. Now John is trying to become a SEAL. He already has his ticket to BUDS, 2 months in boot camp, 7 weeks at pre BUDS, 6 months at BUDS, and 6-18 months at SQT. Catherine Klem graduated from Middlebury in 2010 and spent the next 2.5 years living in western Mass. and working for Overland leading hiking and biking trips in the summer and doing logistics, marketing, web design etc. during the rest of the year. This January she moved out to Colorado where she is a math apprentice at the High Mountain Institute (there’s a priceless pic of high school Emily Zuckerman and Sophie Danforth on the wall where I live). She is loving teaching classes, skiing, mountain biking, running and competing in tris as much as she can. Most importantly, Catherine just accepted a job to be a math teacher at The Island School starting this fall! Which means she will be moving to Eluethera in August and will have couch space with all of your names on it should anyone want to visit! Kate Parks Scheafer is married (but still ‘Kateparks’ and still oddly sign most things KP) and is living in Dallas, TX. Her husband is in PA school here so they moved last May. After working in advocacy in Charleston, she couldn’t quite find a compatible environmental group in Dallas so she transitioned to teaching and is working in a public school. She teaches Biology and Environmental Systems (and is learning spanish from her students). Education is a whole other beast of policies and politics but she is learning a lot… and her high schoolers keep her on her toes! After graduating in 2009, Ella Stiler-Cote moved to Austin, Texas where she taught Kindergarten for 3 years. She absolutely loved Austin and teaching, but really missed New England. So, about a year ago, Ella moved to New York with her dog and bought a little house in Westchester county, which is outside of the city. She started grad school last fall and is working on a masters degree in Applied Behavior Analysis and Special Education. Currently, Ella is teaching children of all ages in a hospital setting, most of whom are oncology patients or undergoing transplants so she is learning a lot about the medical field. Working with this population of students every day puts her life into perspective! Trygg Danforth went to Yale to play baseball and graduated in 2010. He played well enough in college that he was fortunate enough to be drafted by his home town squad, the Boston Red Sox, in the 2010 draft after he graduated. Trygg ended up playing Minor league baseball for two seasons and had an amazing experience, met a lot of awesome people, including some big leaguers, and made a ton of memories.  After he “retired” at the young age of 24, he moved to DC and worked for Trout Unlimited for almost a year, got a dog, and played a lot of softball on the national mall trying to relive the glory days. Last summer Trygg moved up to Baltimore to work as an analyst for a company called Ecosystem Investment Partners. Long story short, his company invests in large scale wetland, stream and endangered species habitat restoration projects all over the country which provide high quality offsets to developers who are required to offset their wetland, stream, ES habitat impacts. Since graduating from Dickinson in 2009, Lindsey Wakeman Officer has lived in NYC. In college, she interned at Cosmopolitan and was fortunate enough to start her career at Harper’s BAZAAR magazine. She has been working in the marketing department ever since, copywriting and managing video production on the business side. She got married to my husband–Dan Officer–in August 2011 and can hardly believe it’s almost been two years. They both love to travel and take advantage of the Big Apple.

SPRING 2004:

Class Agents: Bekah Klarr, Candice Springs

FALL 2004:

Class Agents: Patrick DiLoreto, Katie Garratt, Jennifer Groverman

Cassie Nemzoff has been living in the NYC area since graduation from NYU in 2010. After a (poor) decision to move to Hoboken for a year, she is now living in Midtown. For the last 2.5 years Cassie has been at PwC doing healthcare consulting predominantly locally (a lot of reform-oriented work). Fall 2004 is everywhere! In the last 2.5 years she also managed to run into Lucy Minott in Union Square and SoHo, Katie Garratt on the PATH train, Kelley Gates in the East Village, and Kate Gibson on Madison Avenue! Kate is currently living in NYC, and is lucky to see several Fall 04′ers and other IS alumni on a consistent basis. She is currently in transition at work and is set to start at a new job at WebMD as a digital healthcare account manager in early May. Kate is very excited to be returning to Eleuthera in late June and will be staying on campus for a weekend. She plans to run the loop, jump off of high rock, and consume as many conch fritters as possible! Cam Powel is still working in alumni relations and development for The Island School out of the Boston office, alongside Hannah Mauck. Cam recently became an aunt and is looking forward to spending time with her niece and the rest of her family this summer for her sister’s wedding in northern Michigan. But first, she has to tackle her very first Tough Mudder in June. Julie Harwood attended the Coast Guard Academy following her graduation from Lawrenceville in 2007. She has been promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade and will be transferring this summer and starting her new job as the Executive Officer of the USCGC BERNARD WEBBER out of Miami, FL. Julie has had a great tour in Newport, RI on CGC JUNIPE, where she is currently located. She traveled to the Arctic for a 2 month patrol and helped with Hurricane Sandy response but she is extremely excited for her new job. Taylor Fargo is currently working as an AmeriCorps member for the Sierra Nevada Alliance’s Sustainable Sierra Communities Program and living in South Lake Tahoe, CA. Her term concludes in September, after which she plans on pursuing a career in environmental consulting and potentially attending graduate school in 2014.

SPRING 2005:

Class Agents: Jane Kinney, Peter Meijer

Erica Stine is currently living and working as a designer in New York City. She started her own business, Turul NYC, that designs and builds limited edition furniture from antique (and reclaimed) materials. Erica often sees Lauren Wilson who has been living in NYC since she has returned from the Far East. Lauren is entering the profession of a “slasher” (writer/personal assistant/urban farmer etc.) and missing all the island school folks! Lauren occasionally crosses paths with Peter in Manhattan. After graduating from Columbia in May of 2012, Peter Meijer is currently working in the veteran service community in New York. He is on the Board of Directors of Student Veterans of America and also serves as Strategic Partnerships Coordinator for Team Rubicon, a nonprofit disaster response and humanitarian aid organization that mobilizes veterans to respond to crises. Peter deployed with Team Rubicon to South Sudan to work in refugee camps this past fall before coming home to New York in time for Hurricane Sandy. Before, during, and after Sandy Peter worked full time with other veterans preparing evacuation shelters, conducting search and rescue, and coordinating volunteer cleanup crews for months after the storm. He also recently joined the Board of the Cape Eleuthera Foundation and is excited to represent recent-ish alumni as CEF looks towards the future. Alex Winterbottom Smith is also living in New York where she is an Assistant Buyer at Bloomingdale’s. Alec Faggen has transitioned out of her previous job working as the business development manager for the Drucker Institute. She will start medical school in August at Cornell and would love to see in spring 05’ers if they are ever in Manhattan! While many of our classmates are in NYC, almost as many are living nearby in Boston. Miles Douglas is one, where he is working for an organic food company. He tries to see other IS kids as much as possible #bostonstrong. Anna Farnum is also in the area where she’s lived since graduating college, and works at a PR firm that services technology startups. Kendra Margulies recently moved to Boston and is attending graduate school at Mass College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in the Physician Assistant program. She is in her second year of the program working on clinical rotations. Issac Reyes is trying to start a career in health care administration, preferably at a hospital. He misses everyone and thinks of IS often. Anyone around Boston or New York should feel free to reach out. Brett Simon is also in Boston as he recently graduated from Boston University with an MS in Public Relations. He soon hopes to move to either New York or LA. Other spring 05’ers include on the east coast include Rachael Clement. After graduating from Eckerd College, she worked seasonally as a Deputy Shellfish Constable in her hometown on Cape Cod. In between seasons she traveled around the US from the beautiful vineyards in Napa Valley, CA to the vast mountain ranges in Vermont. She has settled in Baltimore, MD for the time being and is in search of a job opportunity in the environmental field. Last August, Nick Engebretson graduated from the University of Virginia with a MS in commerce. He is currently living in Arlington and working in DC. For the past six months he has been doing technology consulting work for Accenture. Kevin Fitzgerald and Molly Cousins are both living in Cambridge, MA. Molly works downtown doing marketing, social media and SEO at Carney Sandoe, a job placement agency for independent schools (Island School is one of their clients!). Travis Verdier visited a couple months ago and they had a great time catching up! Travis is working in Grand Rapids as a structural engineer. While getting his graduate school applications together he has been participating in a multitude of activities including mountain biking and volunteering at local environmental action groups. Aaron Hamm graduated from Central Michigan University, Cum Laude, (Honors College) after 5 years this past December. For his final year he was an Environmental Education Intern for 30 weeks at theSmithsonian Institution in D.C. He is currently substitute teaching k-12 as well as life guarding at the MCA. He is hoping to soon move to one of the coasts. Down south, Stephen Boatwright graduated from Coastal Carolina University in May of 2012 with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and is currently attending Columbia International University in Columbia, SC pursuing his Masters of Divinity with a focus on Ministry Leadership. Upon graduation he hopes to travel the world to share the message of the gospel. Over the past year, Caroline Springs Giguere moved to Greenville, SC and started a new job as a Cardiac Device Specialist at Greenville Health Systems. She is working at an Electrophysiology practice called Arrhythmia Consultants running their pacemaker, implantable cardiac defibrillator, cardiac rhythm management clinic. Also, on March 23rd, 2013 she married Kent Giguere (now an honorary spring 05er) in Myrtle Beach, SC. They are now living in Greenville and enjoying married life. Even further south, Alice McCurdy recently graduated from a Physician Assistant program in Miami, FL. She is currently job hunting in California and plans to work in Family Practice. She recently became an aunt and loves her new niece Eden. She misses Island School life and thinks about Spring 2005 often! Mellissa Nixon is in her second year of dental school at University of Florida where she will start seeing patients this summer. She is engaged to Jared Burns (soon to be an honorary spring 05er) who she will marry in October. Sarah Miller is in New Orleans pursuing her masters in social work at Tulane. She is working at a hospital and really enjoying her job and getting to know a new city. She thinks of all the ISers fondly and hopes to make it to a reunion soon! Nick Keeney is a graduate research assistant in oceanography at Louisiana State University developing numerical models of toxic algae and fish, to study nutrient loading and harmful algal blooms in estuaries. He is also a producer and station assistant for Baton Rouge Community Radio. Jane Kinney recently moved to Houston where she has her dream job working for NASA at Johnson Space Center. She is training to work in Mission Control for the International Space Station. She would love to give anyone who is willing to stop by Houston a behind the scenes tour! As our classmates have always been rather adventurous, we also have some alumni who are living overseas. Katie White is currently on a one year fellowship, through the Princeton-in-Asia program, working for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Laos. As part of the WWF-Greater Mekong regional team, she work on issues of sustainable hydropower on the Mekong river, supporting governments in siting and designing dams to maximize profit while minimizing damage to ecosystems and rural livelihoods. She is also helping kick-start the WWF-Green Economy program, which works to influence policy and investments in the Greater Mekong Subregion for sustainable growth. All eerily similar to IS work In between projects, she spends her time mixing up tones in the Lao language, ordering “friend” instead of “pork” at dinner, and playing in a ukelele band with Aussie, Irish, English, and Austrian expats, who are also working in the development community. Max Siegel recently finished up a 10-month Fulbright grant studying sustainable lobster farming in south Vietnam, it was an amazing experience both culturally and educationally. Since returning home, he has been working full time on a career in travel photography, going to places as far as Antarctica, Patagonia, Nepal, Africa etc. – his work can be found at www.maxwilderness.com for those who’d like to have a look. Ellen Oshinsky is currently living in Bogota, Colombia interning at the Museum of Modern Art of Bogota (MAMBo) and the Opera de Colombia. She is hoping to continue her stay in Colombia teaching English. If any ISers find themselves in Colombia, please touch base!” Sandy Feuer graduated from Colorado College in 2011 with a BA in Environmental Policy. Since graduating, he has been traveling the world, and working on a commercial fishing vessel in Alaska. He is currently living in Portland, Oregon, but about to spend a month backcountry skiing in California, and then returning to Alaska for work. In August, he is spending a year in Zambia working with a group called Grassroot Soccer. GRS uses the power of soccer to educate, inspire, and mobilize communities to stop the spread of HIV. He can’t wait for his African adventure! It has been so wonderful hearing about all of the amazing adventures that our classmates are up to. Keep a look out for info on a, hopefully, upcoming reunion.

FALL 2005:

Class Agents: Stephanie Chaston, Justin Drazin, Anne Sholley

Eleanor Anderson graduated from Colorado College last May and is currently living in Brooklyn,
NY. She is finishing up a fellowship at the Textile Arts Center, where she has been studying
fiber arts and textile design. When she finishes her fellowship, she is going to work at a dude
ranch in Wyoming for the summer. She dreams about scuba diving frequently. Caroline Ball is living in sunny San Diego, working for a commercial real estate brokerage firm. Amelia Barisone is living in San Francisco working as a nanny. She recently ran into Luke Cherrington at Coachella! Jaclyn Battjes is living in Santiago Chile working for Ernst & Young. She has been prepping for the GMAT and hoping to head back to school (and the USA) in the near future. She has been doing Maxey proud and continued her running regiment as she ran the 10K part of the Santiago Marathon. David Blake is working at Panera in Detroit. He bought a house last summer, a real fixer upper! Jake Cerf is loving life out in San Francisco. He is working in the startup world, which is a lot of fun. Stephanie Chaston is living in Miami finishing up her masters in Coastal Zone Management. She is working as a naturalist at the Biscayne Nature Center. She hopes to move back to the northeast in the fall and reunite with everyone in the area. Colton Coughlin graduated in 2010 from the University of Portland with a degree in civil engineering. He currently lives in Boulder Colorado and is working for Eldorado Climbing Walls and TruBlue as the global supply-chain manager working on sourcing parts in Asia Australia and England. Chris Della Rocca is living in Connecticut working as a manager at Shake Shack. Kat Dembergh visited New York in January and never left! She is currently taking a break from school and enjoying New York. Leah Downey is finishing up her last semester at UNC Chapel Hill. She’ll be heading off to London next year to get her masters in Economics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Justin Drazin graduated from Columbia in December with his Masters of Science in Sustainability Management and is working in commercial real estate development, construction, and management as well as doing independent sustainability consulting and distributing his first children’s book, Albert and the Amazing Pillow Monsters! Drew Fink took the winter off to live and ski in Colorado, and then returned back to work at the beginning of March. He saw a lot of Colton then, and Lizzie Votruba a few times. He was just in Boston two weeks ago at an Island School Alumni Advisory Board (AAB) meeting. He is currently living in San Francisco, California. Cassidy Hannigan spent the winter in the Florida Keys working with dolphins at Dolphins Plus. She is currently back in Myrtle Beach lifeguarding at the beach, working as part of the dive team at Ripley’s Aquarium of Myrtle Beach, and working as an animal trainer at Petco. She will be moving to California to continue pursuing her career working with marine mammals. Michael Kratz is in graduate school in NYC getting his masters in international transportation and his 3rd mate unlimited coast guard license. He hopes to go work in the Gulf of Mexico on a ship when he’s done. He just got back from 3 months on a supply boat in the gulf. He’ll be headed out on the school ship bouncing from New Orleans to Newfoundland to Ireland to Italy to Malta to NYC. Cordelia (Delia) McKusick spent time living on a farm in Nicaragua, which was a sustainable spiritual community. Now she is back in Massachusetts for the summer working as a nanny and teaching a yoga class. She is hoping to teach meditation in prison. Toni Pryor is living in New York working as an oncology nurse at memorial Sloan Kettering. She is about to start studying at Yale in the family nurse practitioner program. She will be spending the summer working as a medical volunteer FAME, a medical clinic in rural Tanzania. Dan Shea is living in Medford with a buddy from college. He is working as a Structural Engineer at TEC, Inc. He designs and repairs the bridges up and down 93 and 495. Maggie Regan is living and working in Brooklyn, NY and hangs out on her off days with Drazin. She and Drazin have been trying to reconnect with Carley Welke and Colohan for a NYC IS reunion. Anyone else around should get in touch. Danny Waldman is finishing up his last semester at Middlebury and will be graduating with a double major in Architectural Studies and American History. He got a German Shepherd puppy named Ajax back in January and has been raising and training him to be a boss. Ben Yeager is living in New York and working for William Morris Endeavor, a talent agency, in the literary department. Last summer he sailed from Ireland to Greenland and wrote an article for a sailing magazine, Cruising World. Anne Sholley is living in Cambridge, MA and works at Recover Green Roofs, LLC, a green roof design/build firm based in Somerville. Brittany Sherman is living happily in Nassau with her husband of one year and their beautiful baby boy, Menelik Anthony Andrew Fox. Nick Zbitnoff continues to travel the world: he is about to depart on a trip to India and Nepal, followed by a three month stint in Africa. When he is not traveling, he works in his home state of Alaska. Olivia Jacobsen is living in New York and working at a small (boutique, as they say) management consulting firm. Chris Keally has been living in Washington, DC for the past year and a half. He is working at the state department. Drew Melby lives in Baltimore right now with his wife Jessie. (He got married last June!) He’s working at T. Rowe Price as a Retirement Specialist. He travels around and give presentations on employee retirement plans (401(k)s, etc…). But mostly he spends his days dreaming about life back on Eleuthera! : )

SPRING 2006:

Class Agents: Taylor Hoffman, Wes Norton

Duncan Davis is living in Manhattan and working in Midtown. Definitely a huge switch from Vermont! Flora Drury is currently working as a marine naturalist for an eco-tour company (Pacific Whale Foundation) in Maui. Whales, dolphins, manta rays- its been great! “Missing the east coast though so thinking its close to time for me to move home.” Kelsey Head graduated from the University of Vermont in May, 2012 with a BS in Environmental Studies. She has since become the Program Assistant for an educational program that teaches students about watershed science and stream ecology throughout the state of Vermont, called the UVM Watershed Alliance. She says, “its a fancy title for all the fun I have mucking around in streams and rivers with kids!” Kelsey is also working as a Research & Outreach Assistant on a mercury project based in Burlington, VT, specifically looking at the risk of exposure to methylmercury for consumers of canned tuna. Kelsey has also spent the last year getting out on multi-day bike trips, tons of snowboarding, brewing beer, and boating around Lake Champlain! Andrew Keefe is living and working in NYC as well, and would love to see anyone who’s there. Will McCalpin has been working in Brooklyn at a wind energy developer about 4 blocks away from Jack Murray and they’ve been chilling a bunch recently. Jimmy Nannos is currently deployed to Kuwait as a Platoon Leader with the 1-104th Cav out of Philadelphia doing security operations as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. In his civilian side he llives in NYC and works for a company called Breadcrumb. It’s an iPad based POS system for restaurants, clubs, bars, etc and they were bought by Groupon last year so its growing rapidly and he loves it. Other than that Jimmy is looking forward to coming home from this deployment. Molly Spector is currently studying law in Townsville, Australia, where she has been living for the past 3 years. It’s a small tropical city on the Great Barrier Reef and just a short trip away from some incredible diving! She has one more year of study here and is considering moving to Vancouver after she graduates. Molly has enjoyed plenty of travelling during breaks from uni, including volunteering on Andros in The Bahamas, Roatan, Honduras where she became a dive master, a ski trip to Japan, a couple of weeks in both New Zealand and Hawaii, and a month in Malaysia and Sri Lanka. This June she will be taking my Birthright trip to Israel and is looking forward to future adventures and seeing more of the world! This past summer Hayden Stebbins taught back at The Island School, then has spent this year pursuing a MSc Sustainable Horticulture and Food Production at Schumacher College in the UK. He has no idea what’s next, but will probably be stateside in May. Armelle de Vienne is still living in Hamburg, Germany working at Schlange & Co.- a Corporate Social Responsibility consulting company and really loving it. She also just moved into a new apartment and has a spare mattress if any Island schoolers feel like going on a little Euro trip. Armelle is in the process of planning a dive trip sometime in September so if anyone wants to join, let her know! Since graduating from the University of Mary Washington in 2011, Jessie Voorhees has been living and teaching in Tanzania– first at a secondary school for vulnerable girls in Morogoro (Sega Girls Secondary School- check them out!), and is now teaching 2nd grade at a small primary school in Zanzibar. Also far from home, Maggie Cissel is having huge success with her Look Out Loud project! In the past year, she has spent time in India, the Philippines, and Guatemala working on her photography/video project. You all should check it out because it is some truly amazing work. Althea Smith, Doug Parizeau, Wes Mize, Derek Shooster, and Steve Cargill are all currently living in Boston. Taylor Hoffman can’t wait to join them in Boston as she transitions from a year spent on Eleuthera as a Research Teaching Fellow to the Associate Director of Admissions. She will miss the shark and turtle research, but looks forward to many more reunions between Spoggers! For the last two years Wes Norton has been living on Deer Isle, Maine as an Island Institute Fellow. He splits his time between the local elementary school and the island’s historical society. This past summer Wes was able to take his skiff over to Vinalhaven to see Flora and he is looking forward to another summer on Penobscot Bay.

FALL 2006:

Class Agents: Sydney DeVos, Lexie Marino

SPRING 2007:

Class Agents: Scottie Thompson, Dominique Keefe

FALL 2007:

Class Agents: Stan Burnside, Robby Spalding

Henry Towbin is graduating from Oberlin College. He has been researching high temperature metamorphism in subduction zones. He will be running the mirco-imaging lab at the Museum of Natural History in New York. There he will work with electron microscopes to help with research. Sam Lagor will be graduating from St. Lawrence University with a major in Geology and a minor in French.  He has been completing an honors thesis under Dr. Jeff Chiarenzelli on the extent of deformation on metamorphosed gabbroic rocks in the Adirondack Highlands and Grenville Province. Next year, he will be starting a Masters program in Geology at the University of Vermont under Dr. Laura Webb. Nicholas Depaul will be graduating from Johns Hopkins University with a major in Sustainable Globalization and a minor in Creative Writing. He recently co-founded a start-up design company called something dangerous. Frankie Graziano will be graduating from University of Michigan and is currently applying to medical schools. Francis Joyce will be graduating from Bowdion College with a degree in biology. This summer he will be working at the Maine Dept. of Conservation with their Natural Areas Program. Alexio Brown is going into his last year at the College of The Bahamas, earning his degree in biochemistry. He plans to go to Australia for his masters. He has been involved in many conservation projects in the Bahamas such as; Young Marine Explorers and Costal Ecology Research. Carina Fish will be graduating from Harvard College this May. She wrote her thesis on coral reef stressors, doing a case study on two reefs in Indonesia. Liza Calkins attends Boston University and is currently studying abroad in Venice. Meagan Gary will be graduating from Colorado College this spring. She will be returning to the Eleuthera to work with Annabelle Brooks as a research assistant for 6 months.

SPRING 2008:

Class Agents: Ned Adriance, Becca Williams

Phoebe Hyde is graduating from Elon University this May & moving to Raleigh where she will be working for Credit Suisse starting in July, right after a family trip to Greece & Turkey! She has had an incredible four years of college and has loved living in the south but is planning to move back to Boston after about 2 years in Raleigh to be closer to my family! Phoebe misses everyone at The Island School so much & still thinks about everyone and the impact that the program has had on her life on a regular basis. Aimee Comeau recently felt a calling to minister to people in the Middle East, and is interning in a Global Missions Dept while studying Arabic. She anticipates spending the next few years of my life working with refugees in Turkey, God willing! Heather Delantey is currently studying abroad in Australia with the SIT World Learning: Rainforest, Reef, and Cultural Ecology program. She is on the last portion of my trip, which is a 5-week independent study period. For her independent study, she is researching anthropogenic effects on Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in the Port River in Adelaide, South Australia. Becca Williams has spent the last year living in NYC and working as an English teacher in Brooklyn and getting her masters in English Education. I’m not sure what her plans will be in the future but she has enjoyed working with the kids in Brooklyn

FALL 2008:

Class Agents: Hadley Dawson, John DiLoreto

Jake Koetsier is currently studying Marine Science as a junior at Eckerd College. He has been doing research with a professor on cannabinoid receptor expression in the Florida Lancelet and will continue his research this summer. Jake volunteers at the Florida Aquarium and works in diet preparation for the bird exhibits. Jack Massey is in Botswana doing wildlife conservation and is an Environmental Studies Major at UVM. This school year, Simon Mann-Gow did a domestic study program in DC during the fall, where he interned with Senator Wyden and returned to Lewis and Clark campus for the spring semester. This summer he will be traveling Europe for nearly a month, and taking a summer course at Lewis and Clark. Patrick Lamontagne is studying international studies and economics at Bishops University. This summer, he is headed down to the Caribbean to teach diving. John DiLoreto is a rising senior at Villanova University, studying finance and analytics. He will be interning at the Warner Music Group record label this summer in NYC and looks forward to reconnecting with Island School friends in the city. John sees Kevin Delaney often at Villanova and the two have continued to be good friends. Melanie Koch is a Junior at Tulane University pursuing a double major in Public Health and Environmental Studies. She was recently accepted to the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine combined degree program to receive her Master of Public Health in Global Environmental Health Sciences. This summer, Melanie will be interning in NYC with the Clinton Foundation. Bradley Watson is finishing his senior year at the College of Charleston and spent this past Thanksgiving day with Chris Berry in North Carolina. He is spending the summer working as a research assistant at the Kellogg Biological Station of Michigan State University and plans to continue studying and working in agriculture and plant biology. Valerie Zhao took an off-term this winter and went to India to complete a yoga teacher training and to explore the country. Traveling alone was such an amazing experience for Valerie and she cannot wait to plan her next trip abroad! She is currently studying Biomedical Engineering and Economics, and will be at school this summer along with the rest of her sophomore class. If anyone is near New Hampshire this summer, she would love to see you up there! Alexander Keefe attends UMaine and is studying finance and engineering. So far, he has managed to get four other kids he knows to go to IS, which he thinks makes me sound like a missionary. Cicely Schonberg is about to start her senior year at Case Western Reserve University, studying biology and music performance. She is involved in Greek Life (Sigma Psi Sorority), and is starting a term as Vice President of Membership Development this fall. She is hoping to eventually pursue research in environmental marine biology, and will hopefully continue in opera theater as well. After graduation, Cicely intends to take some time off either in the Peace Corps or Teach for America before applying to grad school. Jane Rew is currently studying Economics and Environmental Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She recently was named captain of the Hobart and William Smith sailing team as voted upon by her peers. She is looking forward to competing in the upcoming collegiate national sailing championships in St. Petersburg, Florida. She enjoys long walks on the beach. Todd Carson is studying international business/finance/languages and playing lacrosse at Rodger Williams University. Chris Kachadoorian is currently studying public policy and markets and management studies at Duke. This fall, he studied abroad in Madrid. Hadley Dawson is finishing up my second year on the Women’s Crew Team at Bates, after starting as a novice her sophomore fall. The team is nearing the end of their season (crazy!) but are getting ready to gear up for Nationals in early June! Hadley is majoring in Environmental Studies with a focus on social change and policy. This summer she’s working with an environmental research group that studies how environmental toxins affect human health, specifically breast cancer. Chrissy Maruyama is completing her junior year at Colorado College (along with 4 other lovely F’08 ladies). Besides enjoying the outdoors and taking classes for her Biology major, Chrissy has dedicated a great deal of time to their D1 Women’s Ultimate Frisbee Team! Also on the team, is IS alum, Madison Andres. This summer, Chrissy will be doing genetics research at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, as well as finding as much pickup volleyball and frisbee as possible. Maddie Andres Is loving life as a sophomore at Colorado College. She is a Geology major and is part of the Women’s Ultimate Team. She loves living in the Rockies. Charlotte Francisco is at Lewis and Clark University (along with Simon Mann-Gow) and is a coxswain for the Women’s Crew Team. Vatasha White currently attends Smith after taking a year off. She is double majoring in engineering and computer science. For the summer, Vatasha will be doing research in the computer science department, which entails curating a data base of proverbs with future hopes of being able to generate her own. She also will be teaching at the Smith Summer Science and Engineering Program, helping one of her professors with his robotics course. Sage Schaftel is double majoring in Environmental Analysis and Anthropology at Pitzer College, running track, and interning with a Food Justice group in California. This summer she is working at a camp in Maine. Sage hopes to see everyone soon in the near future! This past fall Margot Goldstein studied abroad in the amazing city of Perth, Australia for five months. Now back stateside, she is studying marketing and management as a junior at the University of Denver, where Maddy Cunningham and Monica Deircks also attend. This summer Margot plans to have her third internship in Chicago, IL. Leslie Panella is a sophomore at Middlebury College studying neuroscience with a global health minor. This summer, she is probably going to be a research assistant at a lab in Boston. This past winter, Leslie and Alexa Lesenskyj saw John DiLoreto when he visited Middlebury during J-Term.

SPRING 2009:

Class Agents: Christine Brittain, Whit Powel, Matt Vetter

Christine Brittain is now studying at Emory University in Atlanta. While she is undecided on a major, she is choosing between Environmental, Psych, Comp Science and hopefully minor in Philosophy. She joins Whit Powel as another Class Agent with Matt Vetter for Spring 2009. Matt Vetter is finishing his junior year at Dartmouth College. This summer, he will be working for Dodge and Cox in San Francisco, and hopes to return to San Francisco after graduation.  Whit Powel is finishing up her sophomore year at Denison University. She is double majoring in Communication and Environmental Studies and is playing lacrosse for the women’s varsity team at Denison. After classes and the lacrosse season ends in May, Whit will head down to Eleuthera in June to serve as a Summer Term Mentor for the 2013 Summer Term at Island School. She is so excited to get back on the island and to work with students at a place that means so much to her. After two great years at Duke, Heather Hoffman is excited to be spending the next semester away from Durham in Geneva to study with a Global Health and Development Policy Program. Before leaving, though, she can’t wait to spend four weeks at Dartmouth completing the Tuck Business Bridge Program with classmate May Henderson. They both can’t wait to have a month together with classmate Hayley Brown, who will also be in Hanover for her Sophomore Summer. Lauren Ledingham recently declared a concentration in Health and Human Biology at Brown University and looks forward to interning in a hospital and working at Biotechnology Company in Boston this summer. Next fall, Lauren is studying abroad in Copenhagen and can’t wait to become a part of the Danish culture and visit other European countries as well. Mattie Reid is currently finishing up her sophomore year at Bucknell University and is studying geology. She is also currently working on a research project in New Mexico, looking at Proterozoic rocks. Joe Sukup is currently finishing up his sophomore year at Wabash College. He is working on getting his BA in Spanish Language and Literature with a Minor in Studio Art at Wabash. Joe is a Student Athletic trainer for the athletics here and pursuing his paramedic certification. Next year Joe will be studying in Buenos Aires, Argentina and will be focusing on international business while there, hopefully working on establishing a chain of SCUBA diving Shops on the Latin American coastlines in the future. Paige Tarrant is wrapping up her sophomore year at University of Richmond in the business school with a business administration major and a concentration in marketing. Paige will stay in Richmond this summer with an internship and plans to study abroad in Vienna, Austria for the Fall 2013 semester.

FALL 2009:

Class Agents: Alexis Sommerfield, Catherine Wilson

SPRING 2010:

Class Agents: Hannah Cope

Evan Lutvak is writing music for a PBS documentary. The film is about a play “Project Shattered Silence” which will be going up in Clearwater, Florida this summer. Evan is also in the cast of the play. Bridgette Foster and Hannah Cope were bunkmates at The Island School and both spent the fall studying abroad at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Micky Mittermeier and his family climbed a previously unclimbed mountain Van Der Wijck Top in Suriname. He actually just returned from Suriname a few weeks ago as well as Trinidad and Tobago, hitting his 68th country. He has another expedition potentially next summer to walk from Kwamalasamutu to Tepu, two trio Indian villages. Walking along the ancient hunting trails. A walk no white man has ever done.

SUMMER 2010:

Class Agents: Grace Dennis, Ariel Verbrugge

Rosy DePaul is currently finishing up my senior year at The Archer School for Girls and will be heading to Bates College in Maine next year. After graduation, Rosy will be going to Hawaii and South America to celebrate! She is extremely excited to begin college in the fall and is am hoping to intern at The Island School in the coming summers. Eliza Wright-Fairbainks just finished up a gap year in which she spent one semester sailing across the Atlantic and the other semester at CEI’s gap program which was incredible. Now, Eliza has begun work for the summer and is looking forward to school in the fall. Ariel Verbrugge just finished her first year of college at the University of Michigan where she hopes to major in Neuroscience and Spanish. Ariel participated as a Captain in Dance Marathon at UM. This summer she will be in Grand Rapids working and taking summer courses. Kate Hamilton is currently a sophomore at the University of Portland studying Environmental Ethics and Policy. Although she is not quite sure what exactly she wants to do with her major yet, she says that The Island School helped her realize that she loves being surrounded by nature and wants to do all that she can to preserve it! Kristin Treat is studying Marine BIology as a freshmen at FIT. She absolutely loves the program, and plans to further my studies in Shark Research and Conservation thanks to the work she completed at The Island School. CEI fueled her interest to study these misunderstood creatures and she can’t wait for future research opportunities. Kristin hopes to return to Eleuthera as an intern soon! Grace Dennis is studying Environmental Geography as a sophomore at Colgate University and spent the last two summers interning with the shark program at CEI. The Island School sparked her interest in field-based, experiential learning and she will be headed to Bocas del Toro, Panama next spring to study tropical island biodiversity and conservation. After The Island School, Tessa Crews was inspired to become an active member of the local and organic food movements in her community. She completed her high school senior research project on the efficiency of Hydroponics systems in compared to traditional agricultural practices. Now at UVA, she maintains leadership roles in Slow Food and the Morven Garden, two organizations that are meant to make healthy food more accessible to students.

FALL 2010:

Class Agents: Chris Daniell

SPRING 2011:

Class Agents: Ami Adams, Evan Wood

SUMMER 2011:

Class Agents: Mackenzie Carlson, Henry Ogilby

Denali Balser is currently a senior in high school. Largely due to The Island School I’m going to be majoring in Environmental Studies. This summer she is going to intern for an interior design company, which she is looking forward to. Upon finishing her senior year, she is excited for summer break and the start of college! Mackenzie Carlson will be graduating this spring and looks forward to attending Dartmouth College this fall. She plans on studying math, physics, and sustainability. Currently, she is busy training for her first ultra marathon and listening to TED talks while bicycling. Hope Saulter is about to return home to Maine for the summer after finishing up her freshman year in Florida, at Florida Southern College where she is majoring in Sports Psychology. Hope has joined the sorority Alpha Delta Pi and become very involved with their philanthropy working with the Ronald McDonald House. Over the summer she plans to work at a restaurant on the water and spend time volunteering in the Ronald McDonald house near her home town. This year she completed my first Tough Mudder race and plans on training again for one next fall. Maggie Winchester is currently enrolled in a program at Vermont Technical College that allows her to complete her freshman year of college at the same time as her senior year of high school. She will graduate from the program in early May and then transfer to the University of New England to study marine biology. Since IS, Hana Bendy has been taking a lot of hip hop classes, choreographing student dances, and working hard in school. This past summer Hana interned for a gastroenterologist, both researching for her and watching her do endoscopies and colonoscopies. She is really enjoying second semester senior year, and she has been working on giving out $70,000 dollars in small grants from SHAPEfund, an organization Hana is involved with. Hana can’t wait to study at Yale next year, where she hopes to be pre-med and major in psychology, cognitive sciences, or one of the natural sciences. Courtney Good is busy studying at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She is a biology major and education minor.  After returning from Island School Henry Ogilby helped to found his school’s first sustainability group, focusing on initiatives like recycling and a solar array for our gym and hockey rink. He will be studying at Princeton University next fall and is looking forward to majoring in Environmental Science. He still spends most of his free time rowing, but has recently taken an avid interest in photography. He wishes he could go back to IS knowing what he knows about a camera now!

FALL 2011:

Class Agents: Griffin Hunt, Grace Fowler, Anika Ayyar

This year Tessa Tracey has been leading the Marine Conservation Club at her school which has taken a lot of her energy. In general, she has been really interested in film and is currently making a documentary about a small community in El Salvador. Tessa is still unsure about her exact summer plans except that she am going to Ireland in the beginning but she hopes to get a job when she gets home! This year AJ Wetherald has mostly been working and keeping her grades up. She took a college course on drawing the human figure and applied to nine colleges. She ended up deciding to go to Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida and she and Claire Russell will be roommates next year along with their puppy! Her intended major is Environmental Science with a minor in fine arts. Good luck to everyone headed to college this fall, crazy how time flies! Tori Suslovich is finishing up her first year at the University of Tampa, majoring in Biology and minoring in Chemistry. She has really enjoyed my first year and has grown a lot as a student; she has been challenged but has adapted pretty well and made a lot of great friends. Tori is also a part of Student Government, Beta Beta Beta (Biological Honor Society), and Delta Zeta Sorority. This summer she is working at the Paul Center for the second year in a row as a 1:1 Assistant for a little girl with Down’s Syndrome. Tori is also volunteering at the Seacoast Science Center at Odiorne Point in Rye, NH and working towards her goal of running a half marathon. Sam Saccomanno will either be going down to Death Valley to work with NASA in May or going to Craters of the Moon with them in June! Next year Maddie Phillipp is going to Dalhousie University. This summer she is staying in her home town then heading to Canada and hopes to visit her brother in Iceland. Next year Jamie Perritt is going to Villanova University on a pre-law track. This summer she is working in Princeton and working in alumni relations back at Lawrenceville. Brendan McDonnell is doing a homestay in Köln, Germany for the better part of the summer before moving back to Florida and (hopefully) starting Dual Enrollment at a local university for senior year. This summer Kate Maroni has a job as a hostess in Prouts Neck, Maine, and is hoping an internship she applied to with National Geographic works out in the end! Ian Huschle is doing a 50-day NOLS trip in Western Australia this summer before he heads to Colorado College for his freshman year. Charlie Sandor graduated high school in the middle of January and for the past four months has been interning at the boathouse at The Island School learning about boat mechanics. He was accepted to Eckerd College and will be starting this upcoming fall semester. The Island School has kept Charlie busy but he is enjoying his time down there! has enjoyed his time on Eleuthera Eleuthera has been great and they have certainly been keeping me busy here! Will Sturrup is a sophomore at Florida International University. He has worked in different student and professional departments at FIU including Hall Council, a student led organization which creates and hosts events for students that live on campus to make their experience at college interactive and enjoyable, which he is the Vice President. Will took part in The Academy of Leaders, a semester-long certificate program that develops personal empowerment, organizational skills, understanding of diversity, professionalism, conflict management and civic responsibility. He is now a part of a LEAD Team that promotes and supports leadership development by coordinating the Academy of Leaders program. Will also works in the office of Multicultural Programs and Services, and is leading the intiative to reactivate the Stonewall Pride Alliance at the Biscayne Bay Campus, which is a student-led LGBTQ club. On the academic side of things, Will is working in a Marine Biology department lab studying the ecology of connecting environments.

SPRING 2012:

Class Agents: Hannah Piersiak, Lauren Maida, Matti McAlpin

Lauren Maida will be attending Lehigh University in the fall, and is planning on majoring in Marketing with a minor in Environmental Studies. Kira Akka-Seidel is going to University of California- Santa Cruz and plans to major in Marine Biology. Kyle Titsworth has decided to go to University of Vermont and although he is not sure of his major, he is going on the Pre-Med track. Max Gordon is headed to Appalachian State University in the fall and I will be majoring in International Business. Emma Kimball is going to the College of the Atlantic and, in true Island School fashion, is majoring in human ecology and focusing on marine biology. Felipe Gomez will attend University of Virginia in the fall to study Environmental Thought. Hannah Piersiak recently decided on Colby College for the fall where she plans to double major in global studies and psychology with a minor in education. Matti McAlpin is taking a gap year next year and hopes to spend her time traveling and studying marine science.

SUMMER 2012:

Class Agent: Ben Charo

FALL 2012:

Class Agents: Lexi Welch, Cate Ellison, Lauren Gould

Following Lanti Von Der Schulenburg‘s semester at The Island School, she switched schools and is now a sophomore from Aiglon College to the Lyford Key School in Nassau. Currently, Lanti is volunteering at a middle school in Nassau that is very similar to Deep Creek Middle School, which she enjoys very much. This spring, she will be part of an expedition on North Eleuthera through GGYA. In addition, this spring Lanti will also be heading back to her hometown of London but she will be returning to the Bahamas for the majority of the summer. Since leaving The Island School, Lanti has discovered that she hates to golf but has found that she loves cricket, and she believes she has a true talent for it. Though her transition into a new school has been somewhat challenging, Lanti is excited to see and reconnect with fellow Island School students sometime this summer. Since returning from the Island School, James Boyce has resumed school as a sophomore at Forest Heights High School on Abaco. Additionally, James has participated and volunteered within his community since his return from being away. This past month James went out with John Durban, a predominant figure in the study and research of marine mammals. Durban, who has done work in the past with orca whales in Alaska and Antarctica and works for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, came to the Bahamas to research bottlenose dolphins. James had the opportunity to work with Durban and participate in his work with dolphins around the island of Abaco. James is still in school and is looking forward to summer. Since her return to Cleveland and her school, Hathaway Brown, Caroline Jones has been very active in sports and in school. In March, she went on numerous college trips and began the college process, driving and flying up and down the east coast, scoping out Middlebury, Boston College, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, where she stopped briefly to see Lexi Welch, and Wake Forest. She spent her preseason for varsity lacrosse in Florida at IMG and moved on to spend some time in Naples Florida with friends from her team. Next year as a senior, Caroline will be serving in the largest and most important leadership role at her school as co-chair of Hathaway Brown’s annual charity event. This summer, Caroline plans on taking physics to get ahead for senior year and she also plans on participating in volunteer work. In addition, she will be traveling to Italy this summer with her family. Recently, Jack Rumery has been accepted to the very first youth conservation council in the state of Michigan. The group does work for DNR and Jack is extremely excited to be part of such an important and exciting project. Jack has also resumed school at Forest Hills Eastern High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan and is looking forward to having some free time this summer. Since coming home, Lilly Ganske has visited many colleges including American University, Wake Forest, Elon, William and Mary, and George Washington. She is also planning on going to Belize this summer to scuba dive! She is extremely excited for her diving trip and has continued to run since returning from Island School. She is a junior this year at the Laurel School in Cleveland, Ohio. Nathanial Millard has been diving in the Grand Caymans since returning home to Michigan from the Island School and has started his Advanced and Rescue Diver certifications. He is looking and applying at different military schools, including the Virginia Military Institute. Since returning, Nathanial has also gone camping and skiing. As an avid tennis player, Fiona Cerf has resumed her position on her school’s tennis team and has continued to play this spring. She has been volunteering at a local childcare center for homeless and less fortunate children, and this summer, Fiona plans on taking a month long surfing trip down the Washington and Oregon coast. She is hoping to travel to Spain as well this summer to teach students English. Fiona is planning on pursuing her tennis career in college and has begun the recruitment process. She has been in communication with coaches affiliated with Claremont and Pitzer and she hopes to earn a spot on either team. Fiona is looking forward to summer and all of her exciting plans as she wraps up her year at Garfield High School in Seattle. Since coming home, Jake Varsano has made a big difference in his community in Hamilton, Massachusetts. This school year, Jake has been working with the environmentally friendly clothing company, Recover, through his school. Jake has also been working on running for a grant to purchase renewable energy sources for his own home. He is also playing varsity baseball this spring and is looking forward to ending his junior year at Pingree Academy. Even after his semester at the Island School, Chris Foote continues to pursue his passion for the environment and the ocean. This summer, Chris plans to traveling to Belize with fellow Island School classmate, Ryan Schendal for six weeks with the Blue Ventures program, training students to recognize the importance and value of the reefs and complex ecosystems in Belize. They will be diving for the majority of the program and are excited to have the opportunity to participate in it together. Chris is also playing lacrosse this year for his school and is looking at Duke, Yale, Vanderbilt, Tulane, University of Virginia, Middlebury, and Georgetown. After returning home, Cate Ellison resumed her rigorous activity in both school, and her community. Recently, Cate has been to New York City to participate in a human rights rally. Cate is also a member of the sailing team this year and was manager of the wrestling team at Nobles and Greenough School this past winter. She also plays brass in the blues band at her school and continues to fuel her passion for music by singing in the gospel group at her school as well. Upon returning home from IS, Isabelle Swearingen has become very active on and off the water and in her community. Participating in sailing this year as a sophomore at Greens Farms Academy, Isabelle also spent time in Washington D.C and participated in a Save the Children event. She also helped raise money for the cause by holding a run and walk. Isabelle is planning on writing a global thesis on shark conservation next year for her school. This summer, Isabelle hopes to have the opportunity to go to Nicaragua with the Save the Children program. She will also be working as a lifeguard and volunteering at a local river ecology center. Extremely dedicated and committed to her career in softball, Lauren Catena has been very busy this school year rebounding from a semester away. She is looking at playing softball in college and is beginning the recruitment process. Lauren has been playing softball this spring all over the country, traveling with her team. She has talked to coaches at Boston University, Amherst, and University of Pennsylvania. Lauren is an all-state player for her school’s softball team so she travels constantly to play her favorite game. This summer, she will be going to Nevis in the British Virgin Islands with fellow Island School classmate Harrison Glatt. Lauren is looking forward to the summer and her upcoming senior year at Newark Academy. Returning from Island School in the middle of the season, Chapin Atwood jumped right back into her school’s ski team. At the end of the season, the Nobles Ski team won the ISLs! Since then, Chapin has been volunteering at a local middle school where she helps tutor younger students. She is also planning on volunteering at a local community garden so she can help become more sustainable within her own community in Dedham, Massachusetts. During her spring break in March, Chapin returned to the Bahamas with her family and also visited the Island School. More recently, Chapin has been preparing for the SATs and she has been focusing on her college application process. This summer, she is helping her mother lead a community service trip to South Africa. The trip is a trip that gives families the opportunity to participate in community service and fellow Fall 2012 classmates Hadley Edie and Kaitlin Ball will be going on the trip as well. Chapin will also be traveling to Croatia with her family this summer as well. Returning home from his semester away in the middle of the basketball season, Connor Konynenbelt spent most of his winter playing tirelessly for his school’s team. His team went to the Michigan state semi-finals and he is currently playing lacrosse for his school in Grand Rapids as well. This summer, Connor is going to be training for the upcoming basketball season of his senior year at Grand Rapids Christian High School, and he will also be working with his father’s company. Upon coming home to New Jersey from the Island School, Harrison Glatt began a new baseball season this spring. He is hoping to play division three baseball in college and is looking at schools like Middlebury, Colby, and Washington University is St. Louis. Harrison is also planning on playing baseball this summer and he is excited to be able to attend several baseball showcases this summer as well. Additionally, Harrison will be working at a summer sports camp for younger athletes. He will be traveling to the British Virgin Islands this summer with former Island School classmate, Lauren Catena. Directly following her adventure at the Island School, Katie Holmes embarked on a whole new adventure, only this time she was catching planes and trains and taxis in France. Katie spent Christmas and New Years in France with twi different host families, traveling along the coast of France, spending time with one of these families in a coastal town called La Rochelle. In La Rochelle, Katie attended a French school as well. Before leaving the coast, Katie spent Christmas and New Years there, which she said, was, “So different and exciting!” Moving away from the coast, Katie took a train and moved inland to the city of love and light, Paris. She spent four days in Paris with another host family before returning home, this time with the intention of staying in Vermont. After adjusting back into school and life back home, Katie helped start a social entrepreneurship club at her school. This spring, Katie is playing lacrosse for her school and she is looking forward to the days of summer that lie before her. In her time back home in Dedham, Massachusetts following her semester abroad, Hadley Edie has become even more of a leader in sports, in school, and within her own community. This winter, Hadley raced on the ski team for the Nobles and Greenough School. Hadley also hopped on a plane and headed south on a school community service trip in New Orleans over spring break. This spring, Hadley is playing tennis for her school and she is focusing on photography and marine biology in the classroom. This summer, Hadley is excited to be going to South Africa with her family and Chapin Atwood, Kaitlin Ball, and their families as well. Hadley plans on looking at schools down south for college and is looking forward to her exciting plans this summer. Since returning and transitioning back into life at home and at school after the Island School, Lexi Welch has fallen back into the swing of things as a junior this year at the Gunston School. After returning from the Island School, Lexi did a series of presentations about her semester abroad. This spring, Lexi is playing varsity lacrosse for her school and is shooting competitively on a rifle team. Upon coming home from the Bahamas Lexi resumed her position as the co-president of the photography club and as the school’s student photographer. She is a member of her school’s environmental club and helped organize a fundraiser at her school to raise money for the Cape Eleuthera Institute’s sea turtle research program. She continues to try to spread awareness concerning the protection of sea turtles worldwide. This spring, Lexi will also be spending a week in Washington D.C feeding the homeless. Additionally, Lexi will be assisting the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve in surveying horseshoe crab populations within the Delaware Bay. Recently, Lexi also won first place in the Eastern Shore of Maryland Regional Poetry Contest and she was inducted into the National Honors Society. Lexi is looking at University of Arizona, Wake Forest, Texas Christian University, University of San Diego, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and University of Santa Cruz. Since coming home from four months in the Bahamas, Phoebe Shaw has resumed her place on the field this spring and is playing varsity lacrosse for her school in Hamilton, Massachusetts. Maren Roberts has been running track for her school, Woodrow Wilson High School. On the team, she is a stellar athlete and runs for both the one and two mile divisions. In addition to Maren’s athletic achievements and aspirations since coming home, she has also been biking and she is currently working at a local sports and fitness health club. Upon coming home, Maren has reconnected with many of her friends and she is enjoying the second half, and end of her junior year. This summer, she is looking forward to reconnecting with her Island School friends and spending time in the gorgeous city she calls home. This spring, Cam Peck has been playing varsity lacrosse for his school and has a jam-packed summer ahead of him. Cam will be working at the Newport Shipyard and he will also be participating in a Bluefin tuna research and conservation program through the University of Rhode Island. The program focuses on how we can farm raise Bluefin tuna. This summer, Cam plans on continuing to do work with the Clean Shores program which promotes the cleaning of shorelines. The program is aimed at professional yacht crews that travel the world. In addition, Cam will also be coaching a lacrosse summer camp. Although he is looking forward to all of his summer plans Cam says, “Most importantly, I’m looking forward to seeing all of my fall 2012 family.” Since returning to her hometown of Towson, Maryland, just miles from the city of Baltimore, Lauren Gould has shared her Island School experience with her friends, family, and fellow classmates. Since returning to school as a junior at Towson High School, Lauren has presented a series of informational presentations about her time at Island School and the work she completed through the Cape Eleuthera Institute. Lauren also gave her shark physiology research presentation to her classmates and teachers. For her human ecology project at the Island School, Lauren worked with other students to bring honeybees to the Island School campus to achieve the goal of producing our very own Island School, and local honey, and to help rebound declining bee populations. Bringing her efforts and knowledge home with her, Lauren plans on trying to raise honeybees in her very own backyard. This summer, Lauren is looking forward to visiting several colleges and she is especially looking forward to having reunions with all of her Island School friends. Since returning home, Kelly McCarthy has been thriving at her school as a sophomore this spring. Recently, she joined the environmental action committee at her school and they have been working to get Exeter to divest from using fossil fuels. Kelly is also working with fellow Island School fall 2012 and Exeter students Nora Cullen and Brian Byun to make biodiesel for Exeter’s school buses. Although they are in the early stages of the project, they are excited to continue to pursue it. Kelly is also playing soccer the team for Amesbury and they are currently two for two. Sam Hastings is currently playing baseball this spring as a sophomore at Hanover High School and has continued to be sustainable both at home and at school following his Island School experience.