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sympathies of sailors [and] all the peculiar congenialities arising from a common pursuit.

VOLUME XXVI, NUMBER I SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2011

IN THIS ISSUE: STUDENT LEADERS…2

Arts and habits,revisited

New faculty, new students, new art books, new garden...

New year!Five new faculty members, nearly

50 new students, hundreds of amazing art books, one new garden and three delightful Barred Rock hens will be among the novelties as the school year opens -- FA’s 35th anniversary!

Two new teachers will join the sci-ence department. Ms. Rachel Neurath will teach geological and environmental science. She earned her B.A. in earth and environmental science from Smith College and her M.S. in earth science from Dartmouth College. During her time at Smith, Ms. Neurath spent a semester in the Williams-Mystic Mari-time Program. In addition to classes and research at Mystic Seaport Mu-seum, Ms. Neurath did on-site research in the Straits of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, studying impacts of Hurricane Katrina, and in the Pacifi c Northwest, studying fi shing issues including the impacts of shipping and hydroelectric dams. For her master’s degree, she researched how harvesting of trees af-fects the carbon storage of a forest. Ms. Neurath enjoys kayaking, hiking and sailing and will be coaching MS girls’ soccer and JV girls’ lacrosse.

Th e start of a new school year is a good time to remind ourselves why we are in the important business of educat-ing young people and why Falmouth Academy’s culture is established by remarkable teachers who encourage conversation, hard work, direct and per-sonal interaction, and imagination.

Former FA Headmaster Bruce Buxton regularly printed the famous statement about educational purpose written more than 150 years ago by William Cory, the Master of Eton.

I am following Mr. Buxton’s tradi-tion because Cory so clearly addresses the nature of a serious education and the eff ort required to obtain it. Fal-mouth Academy is not merely about informing students; it’s about encour-aging students in the eff ort necessary for their own life-long education. Our teachers embrace the complexities of Cory’s description and delight in off er-ing our students intellectual challenge and delight.

In 1860, William Johnson Cory, the Master of Eton, wrote that at a great school

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FROM THE HEADMASTER

GAMGAMFA celebrates

35years!

1977-2012

The GAMPublished nine times a year for the community of Falmouth Academy

Integrating science, humanities, athletics & arts for grades 7 through 12

David C. Faus, HeadmasterMichael J. Earley, Director of Admissions

Sarah Pring, Director of DevelopmentBarbara Campbell, Alumni Director

Tucker M. Clark, Assistant to the HeadElenita Muñiz, Publications Director

In its admissions and fi nancial aid programs, hiring process, and in all school programs,

Falmouth Academy does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender,

national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or physical handicap.

7 Highfi eld Drive ▼ Falmouth, MA 02540508.457.9696

[email protected]

acquiring knowledge as in making mental eff orts under criticism. A certain amount of knowledge you can indeed with average faculties acquire so as to retain; nor need you regret the hours that you have spent on much that is forgotten, for the shadow of lost knowledge at least protects you from many illusions.

But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment’s notice a new intellectual pos-ture, for the art of entering quickly into another person’s thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regard-ing minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.

Above all, you go to a great school for self-knowledge.

Th e faculty and I welcome new and returning students to another rewarding year in the vibrant Falmouth Academy community. We will support you as you are “making mental eff orts under criti-cism,” and we will celebrate your large and small successes with you.

- David C. Faus

Mr. Faus has announced a few changes in administrative staffi ng for the 2011-12 school year.

Mr. Ben Parsons assumes some of the Dean of Students’ responsi-bilities, particularly those addressing student activities and the advisor pro-gram. Mr. Don Swanbeck will con-tinue to deal with school discipline as he transitions into the role of History Department Chair, a position that he will assume in 2012-2013.

In preparation for Mr. Swan-beck’s move, Mr. Faus has appointed Mr. Mike Earley as Assistant Head of School, a title that he will share with Mr. Swanbeck during the 2011-12 school year to assure a smooth transi-tion for the following year. Th is shift will allow Mr. Swanbeck to have a more academic focus. Mr. Earley will continue as admissions director.

Also, Mrs. Stephanie Mastroian-ni, LISCW, will take on the position of school counselor in addition to her teaching responsibilities.

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Arts and habits, revisited(continued from page 1) Administrative changes

FA Summer Programs experiment: how high can you stack a coil pot? Th ese

boys were part of the Clayworks class taught by Sarah Caruso.

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A historic mo-ment in the an-nals of Falmouth Academy occurred this summer with the creation of the FA Alumni Council. As FA celebrates lits 35th anniversary, how timely to engage our 1,492 alumni more formally with the school.

Alex Walsh ’88 serves as president. Ben Baum ’99 and Katie (Plumb) LiVigne ’01 are vice presidents, and Sarah (Mastromat-teo) Spillane ’94 is secretary. Th ey will serve for three years in these positions.

“Th e council’s goal is to foster great-er alumni engagement with the school,” said Barbara Campbell, Director of Alumni and Parent Relations. “We are excited that this group has volunteered to share their management and lead-ership skills in support of Falmouth Academy.”

Th e FA Alumni Council will work to expand alumni networking opportuni-ties, increase alumni participation in giving and events, nurture new alumni leaders, and enrich the lives of alumni and current students through shared connections.

As the Alumni Council began its initial meeting, they shared memories of FA. It was striking to see their passion-ate connections with the school and their pleasure with this new mechanism for sharing that passion.

Th ey also mentioned what FA had given to them. “I do a lot of work based on values which I learned at Fal-mouth Academy,” said Jenny Putnam ‘83.

“Th e tools I learned here are to think rigorously and clearly,” said Yuki Honjo ‘90. “I’ve spent my life abroad and became concerned about thinking through problems clearly. It’s a privi-lege to contribute here to a thinking America!”

Mareana Tiapula ‘99 coaches FA basketball. “I enjoy giving back to FA. I work with students and communicate that connection,” she said.

Th e Alumni Council will start out with two committees. Th e develop-ment committee will work on strategies to increase alumni participation in the Annual Fund. Th e outreach committee will evaluate current alumni events and consider how to increase leadership and the relevance of FA alumni program-ming. Other task forces will be formed to shape the council and its mission.

Except for the offi cers, members will serve for one year with the option of ac-cepting a three-year term next year. Th e second meeting of the council will take place in January, 2012.

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New Alumni Council will “Engage, connect and sustain”

[seated, left to right] Bridget Miskell ‘07, Alyssa Gantz ‘03, Sarah (Mas-tromatteo) Spillane ‘94, Yuki Honjo ‘90 [standing] David Faus, Ashbel White Joyal ‘99, Andrew Kingman ‘00, Jenny (Olson) Putnam ‘83, Alex Walsh ‘88, Mareana (Ricci) Tiapula ‘99, Ben Baum ‘99, Katie (Plumb) LiVigne ‘01. Missing from picture: David Tamasi ‘90 and Sean O’Neill ‘04, who phoned in from Washington. Other members who could not at-tend this inaugural meeting are Scott Brown ‘89, Cady Cummings-Audette ‘98, David Mandeix ‘03, Amy (Ballentine) Stevens ‘96, and Christian Valle ‘94.

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Mrs. Lalise Melillo will again off er a Shakespeare course for adults this fall, with fi ve sessions from September 26 through October 24. “Th is year we will study Mac-beth,” Mrs. Melillo said, “though I should defer to my theater friends and refer to it as ‘the Scottish play’ because of its association with unlucky events in the theater.”

One of the shortest of Shakespeare’s plays, Macbeth compresses time, moving rap-idly and drawing us into the central characters’ decisions and descent in “this most searching of all Shakespeare’s portrayals of human self-desctruction.” (Peter Saccio)

Th e course will examine the play’s taut and balanced structure and powerful language; view selections from fi lms; and discuss some of the varied visions of the play that actors, directors, and critics have suggested. “Always,” said Mrs. Melillo, “we will be attentive to the reasons that Macbeth, as he moves toward tyranny and, fi nally, nihilism, continues to maintain his ‘hold upon our terrifi ed sympathy,’ as Harold Bloom describes it.”

Mrs. Melillo teaches FA’s rhetoric course and heads the History Department. She has taught Shakespeare for many years, including past adult courses at FA on Hamlet (2006, 2007), Henry V (2008), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2010).

Th e course will meet on Mondays sfrom 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., and it is designed for anyone who is interested in Shakespeare. Participation in previous classes is not required. Th e cost of $195 includes the edition of the play that the class will use. Space is limited. Please call Tucker Clark at 508-457-9696 x.222 to register.

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“Something wicked this way comes… Shakespeare for adults continues this fall at FA

Who’s new in the student body?These are new students enrolled as the GAM went to print:

7th gradeStephanie Aviles, East SandwichOlga Bernier, ChilmarkPatrick Best, Vineyard HavenLuisa Bocconcelli, Woods HoleSophie Broderick, East FalmouthSamuel Bumpus, Woods HoleJustin Bushway, East Falmouth Lachlan Cormie, Vineyard HavenIsabel Davern, East FalmouthJesse Dawson, Oak BluffsCollin DelSignore, East FalmouthWilliam DiCroce, East FalmouthTomasz Dvorak, Woods Hole

Lizzie Feldmann- DeMello, Falmouth

Rafe Sanger, Woods HoleKayla Sheehan, BourneBrendan Smith, HanoverKayla Tashjian, HatchvilleQuinn Van Tol, East Falmouth Eliza Van Voorhis, MattapoisettPearl Vercruysse, AquinnahWilla Vigneault, West Tisbury

8th gradeEllis Densmore, West FalmouthKunaal Rajagopal, Bourne

9th gradeKatie Armstrong, West BarnstableVictoria Avis, MashpeeMackenzie Rogers, CataumetJillian Schwartz, Falmouth

In addition, we are thrilled to welcome back former students Pippa Ryan (to the senior class) and Julia Guérin (to the sophomore class).

Samuel Graber-Hahn, Vineyard HavenThéo Guérin, EdgartownLena Hanschka, Vineyard HavenKai Herbst, Buzzards BaySydney Johnson, West TisburyMary Kate Jones, Falmouth Jack Jordan, East FalmouthAdelaide Keene, ChilmarkRegina Ledwell, Falmouth Mia Leonard, SandwichNoah Lovell, FalmouthAlex Manos, Falmouth Alex Marquez-White, CataumetSophia McCarron, Vineyard HavenEthan Mendez, Vineyard HavenCelia Patterson, Falmouth Charlie Peters, FalmouthSteven Prevett, BourneMeghan Remillard, East FalmouthCole Rowsell, East Falmouth Ω

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Ms. Jenifer Alai will teach chemistry. She is currently an adjunct professor at Cape Cod Community College. She earned her B.S. in chemistry at St. Lawrence University and an M.S. in analytical chemistry from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Ms. Lucy Nelson is FA’s new fi ne arts teacher. She earned her B.F.A. from Denison University and her M.F.A. through a joint program of Tufts Uni-versity and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She taught at the museum school for two years before moving to Sedona, AZ to head the arts department at Verde Valley School, an International Baccalaureate high school. She is very excited to move back east, nearer to family, and “fell in love with Falmouth Academy” when she visited in April. She’s looking forward to the Art-in-Humanities projects, having taught something similar at VVS. “We sstudied Persian and Indian miniatures and the students were challenged to paint a miniature to illustrate one of the books they had read. I’m delighted that the MFA, with its fabulous collection of Indian art, is so close to FA!”

Mrs. Alexandra Karolinski is a famil-iar face to many at FA, as she has been a substitute teacher in the French Depart-ment on occasion. She earned an M.A. in Communications from the Uni-versité Louvain and an M.A. in social work, also in Belgium, and an M.A. in French literature from the University of Arizona. In addition to subbing at FA, Mrs. Karolinski has taught at Falmouth and Bourne high schools. She will be teaching French IB and French III.

Mr. Troy Davies joins FA as Tech-nology Coordinator. “I learned most of my basic technology skills from study-ing Computer Shopper magazines when I was a teenager,” Mr. Davies said. “I pored over them in the days when I couldn’t aff ord a computer!” He also learned through college and technical

courses, working for 12 years for Altair Engineering as a network administrator and for Barracuda Networks in com-puter, network, and email security. In addition, Mr. Davies has a theater back-ground, having spent two-and-a-half years at Second City Conservatory in Chicago studying comic improvisation. He has appeared in Shakespeare plays at Jeff Daniels’ Purple Rose Th eater, in the All-Star Comedy Show Down at Go Comedy in Michigan, and most recently in an ensemble production of Th e Th irty-Nine Steps at the Cotuit Center for the Arts. Mr. Davies and his wife, Stephanie Weaver (new director of the Cape Cod Conservatory of Music and Arts) are both Canadians and so, he said, “hockey players by birth.”

Th e school also welcomes 50 new students. Th e seventh grade will be three sections. We print the updated list of new students on page 4: say hello to them when you return.

Also check on the school’s grand veg-etable garden and keep an eye out for our new hens, three charming Barred Rock ladies living high on the hill.

Query: what do snuff boxes, spoons, clocks, doll houses, fi sh decoys, quilts, daguerreotypes, weather vanes, fi re-arms, pottery, guitars, buttons, whaling, painted trays, glass, and money have in common? You can fi nd books on each of these, plus many other aspects of American arts in the fabulous new collection of art books in the Buxton Library. Mr. Mark Hollander, who gathered these books over the years in his antiques business has donated them to Falmouth Academhy. Now, he says, “they have found a good home. You can fi nd 300 years of American life in these books.” As with the original bookshelves in the library, Mr. Frank Bowles built and donated the handsome additional shelves needed to house this very large collection.

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New faculty, new students, new books, new garden... New year!(continued from page 1)

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Falmouth Academy Refrigerator Calendars September 2011 October 2011

• August 31: Student Testing This is for late admission math placement and for returning students who did summer course work. Stu-dents who need to attend this session will be notified by Mr. Earley or Dr. Bradley.

• Faculty Mega-Meeting Day: 9:30 a.m.: Full Academic Committee 11:00 a.m.: Full faculty meeting Remember your summer reading reports. Also, Bookworm submissions will be welcomed! 12:30 p.m.: Faculty luncheon provided by school 1:30 p.m.: Department meetings 5:00 p.m.: 7th grade teachers and new faculty dinner meeting (location to be announced.)All-School Trip to Marconi Beach --

Wednesday, September 21

Start thinking of sand sculpture ideas now...

Parents Back-to-School Night -- Tuesday, September 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Meet all your children’s teachers and learn about their courses!

Falmouth Academy Refrigerator Calendars September 2011 October 2011

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• Fall Open House! Saturday, October 22, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

We welcome all who are curious about Falmouth Academy to join us. Ex-plore the campus and building, meet faculty, students and current parents. Ask about our curriculum, and community life, and fi nancial aid, and the arts program, and athletics, and the admissions process. We’re here to answer all your questions. Please call admissions director Mike Earley at 508-457-9696, x224. No reservation is required!

Parents Back-to-School Night -- Tuesday, September 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Meet all your children’s teachers and learn about their courses!Yearbook Picture Day

Friday, September 9

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Th e Simon Sinfonietta will com-mence its eighth season at Falmouth Academy on September 17. Th e pro-gram will include works by Brahms (Academic Festival Overture), Beethoven (Symphony No. 2 in D Major) and Mendelssohn (Violin Concerto with soloist Jorge Avila).

Subsequent dates for the Sinfo-nietta are February 18, 2012, March 31, and June 2. All concerts take place at Falmouth Academy.

Tickets are $40/per person ($10/student); $140 for a season ticket for one; and, $500 to be a patron (two tickets for each concert in preferred seating plus a listing in the program).

Call (508) 457-9696 ext. 302 or visit simonsinfonietta.com to purchase tickets. Ω

Simon Sinfonietta September concert

Our 2010-2011 admissions season was hugely successful. We received the most applications since 2005, enrolled the most new students since 2006 (including the largest 7th grade in recent memory), and we will have the most students ever in a single class from Martha’s Vineyard (12 in the 7th grade).

Falmouth Academy continues to provide an education and experience that no other school in this area can. Th e richness and rigor of the intellectual training we off er along with the small scale of the school make us unique. Ev-ery student and teacher here can know every other member of the community, which leads to connections and engage-ment impossible in a larger school. As the schools around us seek to grow and duplicate themselves, we will retain our gathered, personal atmosphere, where every student is known and nurtured.

When school starts again, we will begin the admissions process for the 2012-13 school year. I hope that all members of the FA community – parents, teachers, alumni, parents of alumni, current students, and trustees – will continue to encourage families to inquire into the school. (Ninety per-cent of our inquiries come from families who have a personal connection with someone at FA -- neighbor, babysitter, soccer parent, sailing buddy… you are our best advertising!)

Interested families can call me anytime or complete the online inquiry form on the admissions page of the FA website: http://falmouthacademy.org/index.php/admissions/info_re-quest_form/

Please also invite your friends and neighbors to attend one of our open

houses. Th e dates of those are:

• Fall Open House, Saturday, Oc-tober 22, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

• Scholarship Exam, Student Panel, and Faculty Forum, Saturday, January 21, 8:30 a.m. to noon.

• Spring Open House, Saturday, May 12, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

We plan to host four informational coff ee hours this fall as well, in Edgar-town, Marion, Sandwich, and Duxbury. We will let you know the dates and times of those events soon.

As always, please be in touch with me if you have any questions or new names for the admissions process.

-Michael J. Earley Director of Admissions

Such a successful admissions season --and now on to a new one!

FROM THE ADMISSIONS OFFICE

fi nancial aid program and, among other things, complete a long-awaited project to improve the girls’ athletic fi eld and add granite bleachers.

Th ank you to our Science Fair sponsors who donated $10,100 to sup-port Falmouth Academy’s rigorous all-school, independent research program.

Th ank you to our trustees, all of whom increased their previous support for a total Board of Trustees’ increase of 50 percent – a phenomenal vote of con-fi dence in our faculty and the school.

Th ank you to the Class of 2011 who supported the Annual Fund with a senior class gift of $2,843.

Th ank you to our alumni who re-sponded to a $5,000 challenge gift from a fellow FA graduate, resulting in more than $10,000 in contributions, many from new alumni donors.

Th ank you to our remarkable faculty almost all of whom again joined with parents and friends to support the Annual Fund.

Th ank you to the boards of eleven foundations for recognizing the impor-tance of Falmouth Academy’s work by selecting us as a worthy recipient for more than $128,000 in grants.

As you can see, our Annual Fund exceeded $450,000 because members of the entire Falmouth Academy com-munity joined together, each making a gift, ranging from a few dollars to $25,000. We know you are careful with your budgets and have many choices for your charitable dollars, so thank you all for choosing to support this distinctive school.

In a small school, each gift, like each student, is important for the extraordinary quality of the Falmouth Academy experience. Your support allowed us to continue to off er an un-usually personal, deep, and imaginative education for all of our students. Ω 9

We have been awed by the generos-ity of FA parents, alumni, friends, trust-ees, students, and faculty. You helped us not only meet our Annual Fund goal but exceed it. Th ank you to each of you!

Th e Falmouth Academy Annual Fund makes up the essential ten percent of our operating budget that is not covered by tuition. Every dollar we raise provides direct and immediate support where the school most needs it. Every student benefi ts directly from this support.

In the past few years, Falmouth Academy, like many other non-profi t institutions, was challenged by the dif-fi cult economy. But with your support, our 2010-2011 Annual Fund was the strongest ever. We increased it by twen-ty percent over the previous year and reached an all-time high of $454,605.

Th ank you to everyone who re-sponded to our Annual Fund drive last fall and throughout the year. Each gift, large and small, immediately went to work to support the daily operations of the school.

Th ank you to all who supported the spring Making Waves Auction. Th e re-sults refl ected your tremendous eff orts. Th e evening was lively and creative AND raised $50,000 for the Annual Fund! Th e auction included a special auction ‘lot’- where each hand raised made a winning bid that has delivered new technology to our library including several new computers now installed and awaiting the students’ arrival in September.

Th ank you to our senior parents who joined together to give $29,000 for faculty development initiatives. Th ey added to the Senior Parent Gift Fund Endowment and provided seven teach-ers with study opportunities to foster their imaginations and FA’s dynamic culture of learning.

Th ank you to our friends who stretched to help us strengthen our

Annual Fund closes at record high --THANK YOU!

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a friend travelled around Asia. He did stop by Google’s Beijing office to take a peek! Check out his blog: http://www.facebook.com/l/7e694JOP_eNfyvJ4lo_ATWMVIuw/jooandmoo.dorsianyc.com/

Another pair of FA alumni also find themselves working at the same company: Tessa Rudd ’02 and Jay Mc-Quillan ’01 are employed by Chitika Inc., an online advertising and research company. Tessa is the director of online advertising and Jay is head data analyst.Tessa said, “It’s so nice to have a famil-iar--and brilliant--FA friend on board.” Tessa spent some time in St. Augustine, FL for the wedding of Julie Aubrey ‘02. Her sister Shelley (Aubrey) Stormo ’95 was maid of honor. Julie married Joe Kador in a beautiful beach-side cer-emony.

Dana Burns ‘06 (above, congratu-lated above by George Soros, Central European University’s co-founder and honorary chairman of the board) earned a Master of Arts degree in human rights law from the Central European Univer-sity in Budapest, Hungary. As the top student in her class, Dana received the Excellence in Academic Achievement Award during graduation ceremonies which took place in the Hungarian Pal-ace of Arts in Budapest. While studying

at the Central European Uni-versity, Dana served as an intern

in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in The Hague. The ICTY is a United Nations court of law dealing with war crimes that took place during the conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s. Dana received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude and with University Honors in international studies from the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. In September, she will begin a one-year degree program at the Leiden Law School at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where she will pursue a Master of Laws degree in advanced public international law with a special-ization in international criminal law.

Best wishes to Colleen (Bull-man ‘93) and Dan Dunn on the birth of their daughter Callie Kassandra (at right) in June. She joins big brother Cullen and already shows FA spirit!

Congratulations to Katie Paiva ’07, who was accepted into Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts in their Professional Photography program. Katie graduated this year from Drew University.

Megan Schwarzman ’90 was fea-tured in the cover story in onearth. The article is about the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry, where Megan teaches and conducts research. She has identi-fied toxicity tests that could be used to determine whether certain chemicals alter biological pathways relevant to breast cancer and therefore raise the risk of the disease. Read the full article at: http://www.onearth.org/11sum

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Jeremy Gantz ’00 was married to Caitlin Elsaesser on June 18 in Bath, ME. The ceremony took place in a public park and the reception was at the Maine Maritime Museum. Jeremy reported that many FA alumni were present, including Ryan Gantz ’95 (best man #1), Alyssa Gantz ’03 (a brides-maid), Jake Harding ’00 (best man #2). Steve Ritchey ’00 DJed the reception with his personal soul record collec-tion. Jessie Gerson-Neider ‘00 and Liam Stanton ‘00 rounded up the FA contin-gent. Jeremy and Caitlin plan a Sep-tember honeymoon in Turkey. Jeremy continues to work as Associate Editor/Web Editor of In These Times, a national monthly political magazine. Caitlin is in a Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration.

Jake Harding ‘00 was married to Michele Corriveau earlier this summer. Jake is waiting to become an “official” resident of Canada. He said, “My beautiful wife Michele is a chiroprac-tor and we have just moved to Ottawa where she is working at a practice in the Byward Market.”

Congratulations to Margot Wilsterman who was named 2011 Class Agent. Margot, who served as the most recent president of Student Council, wrote in her senior self-por-trait essay: “Through my family at Falmouth Academy, I have learned to understand who I really am. As a seventh grader, I became en-

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Alumni News

Krista Pidgeon ’05 (center, above) was married to Paul Toms in June. She told us classmates Kacie Kelley, Katie Palmer, Liz Fereirra, Rachel Mandeix and Molly von der Heydt represented half of her wedding party! Pictured above are Liz, Katie, Kris-ta, Kacie, Emily Dunham ’04 and Rachel. Krista is a corporate recruiter for CSN Stores in Boston.

Margot’s senior self-por-trait – Come see the others in the Class of 2009 Gallery.

thralled by the idea of student govern-ment. After the first meeting I was hooked. I remember I was beaming, thinking to myself, ‘This is what I can be good at.’ Student Council enables me to help people, promote causes and keep things running smoothly even when my thoughts are on their own schedule. It has made me a better per-son.” Margot will attend Connecticut College in the fall.

[at left] Janet Kearsley helped Katherine Scho-field ‘01 celebrate her ordination in Dennis in June. Katherine is Min-ister for Campus

Outreach at United University Church at University of Southern California. Mrs. Barbara Campbell also attended to wish Katherine well.

Rosie Gray ’08, a senior at New York University, has been hired as a full-timre blogger for The Village Voice. The Voice noted that her work is “on point, savvy and hilarious.” See Rosie’s blog at: http://blogs.village-voice.com/runninscared Ω

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Maria Catoline ’94 has been named Director of Development and Strate-gic Partnerships for Alliance for Cli-mate Education in San Francisco. The organization’s mission is to educate high school students on the science behind climate change and inspire them to take action to curb global warming. Check out their web site: www.acespace.org.

Matt Gove ’05 will be heading to the University of Oklahoma to study tornadoes and severe weather and will be chasing storms. The Eckerd College grad said, “I will be taking both un-dergraduate and gradu-ate-level courses, but the plan right now is to have a master’s degree by the time it’s all said and done.”

Congratulations to Bob Koneru ‘92 (at right) and his wife Elizabeth on the birth of their daughter, Isabelle Grace.

Zoltan Szego ’02 is still in Japan and enjoying

it a lot. “After finishing my Master’s at Tokyo University, I started working at Google’s Tokyo office. I work on the mobile version of Youtube.com. Google is a great environment to be in, working with so many smart people around me, and seeing these huge systems func-tion from the inside is fascinating. The office is located in a high-rise in central Tokyo, so I get to enjoy the excellent views of the city every day.” He said that during the earthquake and nuclear scare in March, he was, by coincidence, visiting the London office. By now the

worries are over and daily life in Tokyo is back to normal apart from a widespread call to conserve energy, he noted.

Following his graduation from Columbia University, Ben Mann ’07 disclosed that he, too, will be working for Google but out of the New York office. During the spring and summer, Ben and