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67 F A L L 2 0 15 ALUMNEWS I also just found out a monthly film magazine in Seattle called Bright Wall/Dark Room will be publishing one of my film essays this August." 2011 CLASS AGENT Alexa Cajiga acajiga93@me.com Katherine R. Difede 91difede@cardinalmail.cua.edu SAVANNAH DOMINGUEZ recently graduated from Bentley University and is working outside of Boston for ISlide Inc. as an intern in the Marketing Department. ALEXIS FERRARO joined the Boston Celtics as an inside sales representative, a six- month sales program for recent college graduates. ASHLEY RAMKISHUN graduated from George Washington University this past May with a bachelor's in criminal justice (Magna Cum Laude). She is working at Rothwell, Figg, Ernst, & Manbeck as a litigation paralegal. SARA STRICKROOT writes, "I am with CP+B Headquarters in Boulder, CO as the agency communication intern." ERIKA VAZQUEZ-BACARDI recently joined Miami-based PR firm TURKEL Brands as a social media intern. 2012 CLASS AGENT Giancarlo S. Falconi g.falconi@umiami.edu Biraaj M. Mahajan bmahajan@bu.edu SAM BERK, studying at Macalester College, has been named first-team All- Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. According to Macalester Athletics. "Berk had a breakout season as a junior, ranking 11th nationally in doubles per game (0.51) while leading the Scots with a .384 average. He also led Macalester in hits (43), doubles (17) and multiple-hit games (13), which included five three-hit games and one four-hit outing. Berk's batting average this season was 121 points higher than his career average over his first two season and, after collecting 33 hits, three doubles and 19 RBIs in 122 at bats over the previous two seasons, he had 43 hits, 17 doubles and 26 RBI in 112 at bats this season. He earned Macalester's most valuable offensive player and most improved player awards and has been selected by teammates to serve as one of Macalester's two co-captains for the 2016 season." ASHLEY DU FEU graduated from UCF in just three years with a 3.75 GPA. According to her father, Scott du Feu, "Wow! She worked so hard, ending her time there with a 4.0 final semester." CANDACE MOO is currently interning with Christopher Kelly Design in New York. SEBASTIAN NICHOLLS is working as the chief of staff and programming director of the Georgetown Sustainable Oceans Alliance. NATHALIA PENTON spent this past spring interning at the World of Chinese Magazine in Beijing, China, where she wrote weekly for the magazine's website on China's environment, politics, and culture. Nathalia planned on spending her late summer as China program director of summer 2015 for Learning Enterprises International, to help lead 17 volunteers into rural China to teach English to underprivileged students. Nathalia is currently a senior at American University. SEAN RAMRAS writes, "I've spent this summer as a research assistant in a Cancer Metabolism Laboratory in New York, where I have been working On May 15, 2015, Palmer Trinity School was proud to host its seventh annual Alumni College and Career Day. e Class of 2016 met with 11 returning Alumni who talked about their careers in areas such as nursing, law, education, banking, retail, film production, and aviation. ey also shared their impressions of college and life after college and reflected on fond memories of Palmer School and Palmer Trinity School. Alumni visitors were divided into four classrooms where they hosted round-table discussions with different groups of juniors. After their presentations, the Alumni gathered in the Private Dining Room (PDR) to catch up with a few of their favorite Palmer Trinity School teachers. SPECIA L THA NKS TO THE FOLLOWING A LUMNI WHO PA RTICIPATE D IN THE E VE NT: Jan Sokol-Katz '81 Hart Baur '82 Daniel Diaz-Leyva '98 Carlos Huerta '01 Fernando Bonet '03 Ian Wogan '04 Olee Fowler '05 Martin Jensen '05 Lauren Adamo '08 Lauren Franklin '08 Stephen Ludovici '08 P T S A L U M N I A S S O C I AT I O N A L U M N I C O L L E G E A N D C A R E E R D AY

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