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2003

Elizabeth Juncker
ebj207@nyu.edu

C. J. Feehan received her master’s in liberal studies with a creative writing concentration from Dartmouth College, and has successfully extricated herself from the world of academia—for the time being. She bade farewell to her adjunct position in communications at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, NH, at the end of May and was looking forward to a capricious summer of reading and writing in the NYC area.

Since last September Neil Kernis has been working as a kindergarten teacher in Istanbul, Turkey. Securing a job at one of the most prestigious private schools in the city, with almost no experience, Neil calls the adventure “extraordinary in almost every way.” He plans to teach in the former USSR or Brazil in the coming years.

Angelo Rufino left his job at the US Securities and Exchange Commission in Philadelphia, to take an analyst position with JPMorganChase’s in their internal consulting division in Manhattan. The job centers on a two-year program in which he will be rotating through various areas of the bank, focusing on strategic and process management.

In Manhattan Stephanie Mahon has been working as lead salesperson for Amore Pacific, a Korean skin-care company, at its flagship boutique. She helps with marketing and customer development.

Rick Spies is program assistant with the Pan American Development Foundation, which is affiliated with the Organization of American States and does humanitarian and developmental work in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Caitlin Kilts is teaching chemistry at Mother Cabrini High School, a Catholic girls’ school in the Bronx. Her roommate Robin DePesa is an admissions officer and counselor at Long Island University.

Adams House pals Andy Kirshenbaum, Justin Cranshaw, and Lauren Terwilliger all live in Washington, DC. After a stint as a field organizer for the John Edwards for President campaign in Iowa, Andy is now a program associate at the Center for Voting and Democracy in DC, where he also assists Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. in promoting a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote. Justin is a software engineer with Argon Engineering in Fairfax, VA, where he works on digital signal-processing algorithms in mission systems for the military. Lauren is a lab technician for the Smithsonian Institution’s conservation genetics program at the National Zoo, where she assists resident Smithsonian scientists in oconservation research.

Dorothy Zarren lives in Cambridge, MA, and works at Tufts-New England Medical Center in the outpatient psychiatry department. She had an art show at Evos Art Institute in Lowell this spring.

Vani Becidyan (Limabeetle99@yahoo.com) is pursuing a master’s in interior design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

Dayna Safran-Muller and husband Chip welcomed son Elijah in February 2003. “The family is doing great,” says Dayna, who welcomes contact from her old pals at daynamsm@yahoo.com.

Elizabeth Isralowitz is in a master’s program at Columbia’s Teachers College. This spring she was hoping to raise enough funding to spend the summer in Tanzania with the nonprofit group Cross-Cultural Solutions, conducting research on cultural beliefs about disability and their effect on the education of children with special needs. Elizabeth can be reached at ebi2102@columbia.edu.

As for me, I have been student-teaching seventh-grade science at East Side Community High School in Manhattan—and enjoying every minute of it!