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David Chase (amidships with yellow hat) in Tanzania 2006

Alumni

  • Marin Reinhardt (1995) continued her education at Northfield Mount Hermon School and earned her B.A. Degree from Savannah College of Art and Design, with a degree in Industrial Design with a concentration in furniture design. During high school and college she rowed competitively, winning the Head of the Charles Regatta twice. In 1999 she sang on a world tour of the Pacific Rim countries. Her work, influenced by such tropical travel, has been entered in international competitions. Marin resides in Savannah, and loves to paddle her kayak with the dolphins of Tybee Island, GA. (June, '05)
  • Elizabeth Pecce (1997) attended Nauset and graduated from Wheaton with a BA in Physics. She plans to go to grad school and go into clinical research, leaning towards Optics or Scientific Writing. Nine years after a Tae Kwon Do seminar at CCLCS, Liz is a third degree black belt and has been teaching Tae Kwon Do for 6 years. (June, '05)
  • Katrine Burkitt (1998) is attending MASSART in Boston, where she lives, and majoring in painting, with a minor in filmmaking, thanks to working with Jim Peters!! (June, '05)
  • Katie Cedarbaum (1998) was the first alum to apply for a job at CCLCS!
  • Todd Wooster (1998) majored in English at Dartmouth College; hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in the summer of '05.
  • Zoe Brennan-Krohn (1999) went to Sturgis, then graduated from Phillips Exeter. Lived 2 yrs in Kilkenny, Ireland, working on a therapeutic farm and school for children and adults with special needs and at a Waldorf school. Student at Brown University. (June, '05)
  • November Sky Freyss-Cole (1999) went to Nauset where she visited Haiti three times before graduating. Sky attended Friends World Program of Long Island University, studying in Costa Rica, London, Nicargua, Cuba, Guatemala, Panama, Northern Ireland and Cape Town, South Africa. As part of her studies, Sky did photojournalistic documentation of her surroundings and experiences in Bo-Kaap, the Muslim community where she lived in Cape Town. Read More
  • Brendan Kemp (1999) is on a team whose entry is a finalist in the national mtvU GE Ecomagination Challenge! See "UMass Human Power Plant" at http://www.ecocollegechallenge.com/
  • Jamie Martin (1999) is getting his PhD in history at Harvard. Jamie graduated from Yale and went to Clare College, Cambridge University (UK) on a Paul Mellon Fellowship for work in political thought and intellectual history. He was an election observer in Mauritania. A trip he made into ravaged Nahr el-Bared in January, 2008 provided research for his April 14 article, "How Iraq spawned wider terrorist chaos", which was featured at Salon.com. Read More
  • Adam Schuman (1999) credits CCLCS for much of his success, and for his "constant desire to 'look outside the box'". Adam attended Marion Military Institute in Alabama for one year prior to attending the US Naval Academy. He expects to graduate in the Spring with a BS in economics, and to commission as an officer in the US Navy or Marine Corps. He is President of the Jewish Midshipmen club, and is on the Regimental Honor staff, helping to promote honesty and build the character of our country's future Naval Officers. Adam is available to field any questions about military life in the Service Academies. (December, '07)
  • Sarah Stewart (1999) is pursuing her second master's degree in school counseling (her first was in middle school humanities) and will be interning at Newton North High School next year.
  • Anna Geueke (2000) graduated in 2008 from Boston College with a BA in Political Science. She recntly exhibited a collection of her photographs to raise money for the programs of uniteforsight.org to prevent blindness. She writes, "In 2006 I had the opportunity to study at the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana, for four months. During this time I traveled extensively and volunteered with Respect Ghana at a Liberian refugee camp. It is during this trip that the photographs of this exhibit were taken." Anna is now preparing to earn another Bachelor's degree, this time in Nursing. (April, 2009)
  • James Merrill (2000) recently had an article published in the Catholic University Law Review.
  • Jessica Rimington (2000) was an active participant in The Children's Earth Summit Declaration and the Cape Cod Sustainability Youth Action Summit. She later founded the One World Youth Project. Cape Cod Life did an article on Jessica. She is attending Georgetown University. Read More
  • Hilary Burkitt (2001) is attending UMASS Dartmouth's College of Visual and Performing Arts this coming fall, and hopes to major in photography. (June, '05)
  • Emily Corrigan (2001) has a blog.
  • Joe McGrath (2001) was an active participant in The Children's Earth Summit Declaration and the Cape Cod Sustainability Youth Action Summit. Read More
  • Cara Scichilone (2001) graduated from Bishop Stang High School. Cara travelled with a Christian youth group to Honduras where she helped build a church which was a great experience for her. She's teaching at a pre school in Dennis and studying Early Childhood Education at 4C's. (June, '05)
  • Mari Reed (2002) graduated Nauset High in 2006, and is now a junior at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. studying International Politics and East Asian Studies. She writes: "I'll be returning to China this summer as an education 'best practices' delegate through a program sponsored by the Luce and Fulbright Foundations. As part of my project for this program, I'll be making a presentation in Chinese to Chinese educators and officials at several international education conferences regarding the US Charter School Movement. My project will talk a lot about my own personal experience at the Charter School - especially the project-based and community-based aspects of the school. (April, '09)
  • David Chase (2003) On April 29, 2007, Jane Goodall called Dave up on stage at Western Connecticut University and announced his appointment as the Youth Leadership Fellow for the Jane Goodall Institute. Dave will spend one year working out of the JGI US headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, working on youth programs and traveling with Jane to speak about the JGI's youth programs around the country. Then, in the fall of next year, he will begin college at St. Mary's College of Maryland. In Dec, '07, David travelled to Rome, Italy for the 8th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates Read More
  • Kim Probolus (2003) graduated from Smith College in 2011 and has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach high school English in South Korea. She leaves in July, 2011 for one year.
  • Audrey Wright (2003) continued her music and violin studies at Walnut Hill, and is now a first-string violinist with the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra at the New England Conservatory in Boston and recently won the top award available in Cape Cod Symphony Young Artist's Concerto Competition. She's been accepted at the Boston Conservatory, New England Conservatory and the Royal Academy of Music in London. Wright doesn't want anyone to think she's a child prodigy though. She said her successes have been more about hard work and determination than anything else. "It wasn't something I got frustrated at, I always found it interesting, and never got bored with it," she said, "I've known where my priorities are and I have a good sense of how I'm going to accomplish everything." Audrey will never forget the Japan Homestay trip of '03.
  • Kyra Berzinis (2004) with Cape Cod Rowing Club teammates, competed in the 2007 South African National Junior Championships. Read More
  • Tina Scichilone (2005) was recently honored at a Faneuil Hall ceremony in the MA celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day honoring female athletes in the Commowealth. Athletes are chosen because they are positive, contributing members of both their teams and their schools. Tina is the goalie on the Nauset High School varsity field hockey team and is a member of the school swim team.
  • Leah Hayden (2007) I graduated from Sturgis in 2011 and now majoring in Elementary Education and French at the University of Maine at Farmington. I am president of the French club there and played varsity division 3 volleyball last fall. I am also a member of the women's rights club at school and am attending a women's rights conference in the fall and help raise awareness of women's issues worldwide. Read More
  • Nathan Scalise (2008) received the 2012 Superintendent’s Excellence Award from Nauset High School. See details.
  • Annabel Zinn (2008) received the 2012 Superintendent’s Excellence Award from Nauset High School. See details.
  • Eliza Spilsbury (2009) writes that as of October, 2011, she is a junior at The Kent School in Kent, CT. Eliza's been a member of the USA Junior National Rowing Team for 2 years and this summer she raced at the World Championships in Eton, England on Dorney Lake - the course that will be used for the 2012 Olympics. "I am looking forward to working hard to make Junior National Team again next year so I can compete in Bugaria."

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