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Colleen Barber was selected the 2004 College Division At-Large Academic All-American of the Year by the College Sports Information Directors of America. The former field-hockey phenom is a research assistant with Boston VA Healthcare System in Jamaica Plain, MA.

Christina Bonenberger participated in a centennial regatta held by the St. Louis Rowing Club in June. Her parents were especially proud, since another club member, Christina’s great-grandfather, George Dietz Sr., won a gold medal in that sport in the 1904 Olympics. His trophy was donated to the rowing club during the regatta.

Alex Wolff spent the summer working in Saratoga and enjoyed a brief vacation in Cape Cod with friends. She is now a counselor at New Dominion School in Virginia, a wilderness therapy school for troubled adolescents.

Sarah Kensley is teaching English in Italy in the Ligurian Riviera bordering France. “It’s lovely, although I’m worried about the political situation,” she says.

Darren Herman has been busy launching new ventures at FortuneCity.com and has recently positioned MyPhotoAlbum.com as one of the top Internet destinations and services rated by major trade magazines. In addition, he is developing his latest personal venture, InGame Partners, in the field of adver-gaming. Darren is splitting his time between NYC and Westchester County, while working in the occasional Hamptons weekend.

For Rebecca Harper, being out of school was a shock. “I kept telling myself to relax and enjoy the summer because it’s probably going to be my last summer vacation—but that proved very difficult while simultaneously trying to organize my life.” Rebecca lives in Manhattan, where she is pounding the pavement for a job in the arts.

Jocelyn Arem is spending her first postgraduate year in Saratoga Springs, developing a project to preserve and document the history of Caffè Lena, under the auspices of Caffè Lena Inc. and the Saratoga History Museum. Jocelyn is creating a Web site and has initiated an oral history project, registered the café as a historic site, and created a permanent archive in the Saratoga History Museum that will eventually be deposited at the Library of Congress. She encourages anyone with Caffè Lena stories or archival materials to share to visit www.restlessdragonfly.com and www.caffelena.com and to contact her at j_arem@skidmore.edu.

Meg Williams moved to Lawrence, KS, with Eric Rosenfield ’03 to begin a graduate program in American studies at the University of Kansas. Jessica Shaw is a first-year student at Albany Law School. She says she “misses Saratoga every day” and welcomes hearing from classmates at j1shaw@skidmore.edu.

In Santiago, Chile, Camila Lertora works at a battered women’s shelter and teaches English. When the four-month position is over, she will return to the US and settle in Syracuse, NY, with Jonathan Nardozzi, who is pursuing a PhD in biochemistry at SUNY Upstate Medical University.

Rachel Arnheiter (rachel_arnheiter@yahoo.com) started a master’s program at the Columbia University School of Journalism in August.

Kaoru Utada (kutada04@hotmail.com) is a reporter and director’s assistant at NHK Enterprises America Inc. (Japan Broadcasting Network) in Manhattan. He has interviewed sports luminaries including Jason Kidd, Cal Ripken Jr., several members of the St. Louis Cardinals, and Yankees’ bench coach Willie Randolph.

Lisa Piccirillo began teaching fourth grade at Lake Avenue Elementary School in Saratoga Springs in September.

Chris Ryan and Monet Cruz spent several months this past summer traveling through Ireland, Spain, Italy, and Holland. They moved to Manhattan’s Upper East Side in August to start jobs “in the real world.”