Class of 2006

Merit Webster and Justin Yi coexisted all summer in Manhattan, where Justin hooked Merit up with a friend of his, and enjoyed an epic "Korean Weekend" with Gabe Worgaftik and Andrew Park. Several other visitors included Louisa Rockwell, Jeff Bakkensen, Claire Collery, Owen Remeika, Tobey Duble, Chris Sargent, Gordon Murphy, Tobey Duble Simon Keyes and Daniel Adler ?05. They ventured up to the cape to celebrate a combination of Claire's, Merit's, and America's birthday, where they saw Julia Littlefield and Tom Tassinari. Tobey worked at a camp for autistic kids, and spent time with Sarah Linnemann,  Sam Woolford, and Jeff Bakkensen around Andover. Jeff spent the summer taking classes in Lisbon, and is now back at Georgetown playing rugby.

Gracia Angulo spent the summer in China, where she worked at an orphanage, then traveled to Beijing for the Olympics with Alina Chen and Caroline Pires.  They were interviewed by TV Brasil at the Beijing Zoo. Caroline Pires decided to transfer from Georgetown to Wellesley, where she is now in the class of 2011 with Clara Wilder '07.

This summer was Lisa Donchak?s third as a sailing instructor.  In July, she also crewed for Michael Whalen (Daniel Whalen?s dad) while Michael ran the Badwater 135, a 135-mile footrace in Death Valley.  She also worked as a reporter at the Democratic National Convention, and will be studying at Oxford during the fall.

Marty Schnure spent half the summer hiking the High Sierra Trail and the other half working in the northern Adirondacks. Rosie duPont visited her in Keene Valley, NY.

Alison Holliday is studying abroad in Florence and Paris for the year.  She spent her summer working at Brigham and Women's Hospital.  Chris Sargent and Kat Chen stayed with her one weekend in Marblehead, Catherine Wright came to visit, and Martha Durant, Pete Kalmakis, Alison Occhuti, Katie Faulkner, and Chris Sargent had a reunion at Fire and Ice.   Many of them are regulars at Uno?s Karaoke Monday Nights in Cambridge, and Katie, Chris, and Scott Morgan went to Maine for a weekend. She also had dinner with Laura Schoenherr ?07 and Katie Koh ?05.

 
Max Parsons spent his summer in Berlin on a grant to research molecular physics.  While in Germany he met up with Constantin Calavrezos.  He also spent a few days at Cambridge University with Patrick Jiang '05.

John Lippe was abroad in Strasbourg, France working on a Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Project.  He met up with some friends in Pamplona, Spain and ran with the bulls- not the smartest move he?s ever made, but one he?ll never forget. When he got home he celebrated his 21st with his friend and their two moms in Vegas.

John Badman IV was in Texas wrangling bulls at a dude ranch.

Lindsay Dewhirst spent the summer in Beijing studying Chinese.

Connor Flynn was in military training for the summer, traveling with the Navy from San Diego, CA to Sasebo, Japan, then training in jets in Norfolk, VA, then with the Marines in Camp Lejeune, NC.  He also got engaged to his girlfriend, the soon to be Kamila Flynn.  Congratulations, we believe you are the first of us to get engaged.

Caroline Tobin is in Copenhagen studying child development. She spent the summer working on "Heal the Rift 2008,? to generate a new atmosphere of optimism and understanding between Muslims and Westerners. She also hung out with Amy Prosper and Alex Wolf in New York City. Amy Prosper also went up to Rye Beach to visit Brianna Tay.

Olivia Mascheroni spent her summer working on advertising campaigns, and also helped set up a New Orleans summer program called "Reel Earth" which helps local children make documentaries improving their neighborhood?s environment.

Olivia also made her own short film ?Tag,? which she is currently submitting to festivals.

Dina Burkitbayeva saw Anne Kim  in New York City.  She also visited San Francisco, where she had lunch with Ali Holliday and Brendan McManus ?05. Later, Dan Bacon, Merit Webster and Jeni Lee showed her around town.

Jungmin Son spent her summer painting in Providence, and plans to return to RISD in the fall to paint and whatnot.

Faaez Jafarey, Dave Heighington and Brian Foye all worked at Andover for part of the summer. After that, in late July he went to Pakistan for 5 weeks, where he saw cousins, interned at Citibank, observed the ongoing political madness, and got food poisoning.

Paul Englehardt was an intern in Washington DC this summer for Congressman Thaddeus McCotter of the 11th District of Michigan.

Jeff Zhou, Ben Lasman, Jae Han, Desmond Bonhomme-Isaiah, and Ben Kuller had the bertha Bailey reunion at the beginning of the summer.  Afterwards, Jeff went to Ohio for the summer to work.  Back in Boston, he saw Justin Lee, Khaki Burke, and Jung-min Son. He worked on a Non Sibi Day project with Ashley Calhoun and Katie Faulkner.

Kevin Olusola was at Peking University during spring semester.  He went to Central Conservatory for one of my courses and studied Chamber music, in addition to taking Cello lessons from the Principal Cellist of the China Philharmonic. During his spare time, he regularly did Tae Kwon Do, Mixed Martial Arts, and taught 5th grade English.

After that semester, he stayed in China to study 2nd year Chinese on a language fellowship that My Khanh Ngo also received. While there, he met up with Chip Schroder ?08 and My Khanh.  He intends to keep on taking Chinese, along with his pre-med classes.  He is considering going back, so that he can better understand the Chinese health system and Chinese traditional medicine, and use original documents in his research.

Andrea Coravos worked in Guatemala over the summer for Soluciones Comunitarias,, a development organization. She trained Guatemalan entrepreneurs to supply rural communities with essential life items, including pure water and eye glasses. This fall she?s studying economics in Berlin at the Humboldt University.

Claire Fox is closing in on a year of interning and volunteering at a local film forum.  She spent most of my summer working on a video project through the University of Washington.

Elizabeth Finnegan saw Ben Levenback, Paul Voorhees, Sam Levenback, Eunice Kim, Matt Longley, Zach Cafritz, Livy Coe, Rashid Galadanci, and Nick Ingaciola at a graduation party for Nick and Sam.  She also went to China, where she  saw Susan Ho  and Michelle Miao.

She also went up to Korea where she saw Jung- Min Son, but failed to see Jasmin Baek. 

Then, for Ben Levenback's birthday in D.C., she saw Carly Williams, Ishani Vellodi, Emma King, and Jesse Seegers ?05.

Emma King is sharing an apartment with Jane Henningsen at UVA.  Emma and Jane also invite anyone who wants to visit Charlottesville to come down for the Foxfield Races in the spring.  Emma is also in a debate society with Erin Lanzo.

Paul Voorhees is in Shanghai for the term, and has run into Susan Ho several times, and Dan Meller ?04 once.  He also has plans to go to Beijing to see Komaki Foster ?07 and Danny Silk ?07.