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NEWS ABOUT RECENT ALUMS

CLASS OF 2008

Katherine Yeaworth, assistantship program in Creteil, France

CLASS OF 2007

Lisa Allen, cum laude

Cassandra Jo Brooks, cum laude

Sarah McNeer Brooks, summa cum laude

Alexandria Lauren Brown

Juilet Elizabeth Caviness, magna cum laude

Jaclyn Clair Celebrezze, cum laude

Michelle Ghaznavi Collins, magna cum laude

Christopher Anthony Corbett, summa cum laude

Sabine Andree Dabady

Carter Thomas Davis, summa cum laude, Medical School, Louisiana State University

Carolyn Arnold Dobson, summa cume laude

Shannon Elizabeth Donnelly, magna cum laude

Anna Lea Fogleman

Amy Marie Fruehwald, summa cum laude

Shelby Deneen Gambrell

Sara Helene Godchaux, magna cum laude

Alyson Campbell Grant, summa cum laude

China Alexis Irwin, summa cum laude

Chase Christopher Jaycox,

Rachel Anne Kaminer, magna cum laude

Matthew Kirwan Langsen, magna cum laude

Lourdes Milagros Leal-Orteiza, cum laude

Jessica Lee Lindsey, cum laude

Adrienne Kristina Manuel, TransAtlantic Master's Program, UNC Chapel Hill/Sciences Po Paris

Stephanie Anne Marienau, magna cum laude, International Development master's, George Washington U.

Sarah Watts Mashburn, summa cum laude

George Henry Repeczky

Gregory Gerard Roberts, summa cum laude

Jay Michael Salato, summa cum laude

Louise Armistead Schumacher, cum laude

Jennifer Marie Stockstill, cum laude

Amanda Ellice Tacker, magna cum laude

Jay Tseng, cum laude, Medical School

Stefanie Claudette Winston, cum laude, Law School, Emory University

Jane Washington Wise, magna cum laude

Italian Minors

Brittani Lynn Holland, magna cum laude

Kathryn Alden Lichty, magna cum laude

Tyler Joseph True, magna cum laude

Class of 2006

Amanda Lynn Ackerman

Nicholas Stephen Arnold, cum laude

Julia Elizabeth Bay, magna cum laude

Michael Lee DeLisle, summa cum laude

Anne Elise Fettig, summa cum laude

Catherine H. Gallagher

Elizabeth Walker Greenwell, magna cum laude

Brittany Leigh Hafen, cum laude

Anthony Hamod

Arlynn Alice Ilgenfritz, cum laude

Brittany Brianne Murray, summa cum laude, Fulbright fellow at Sciences Po, Paris

Jordan Pyda, cum laude

Megan Diane Russell, magna cum laude (MA student at NYU in Paris)

Courtney Margaret Shipper, magna cum laude

Sonya Joy Stowerby, cum laude

Elizabeth Anne Steedley, summa cum laude (graduate student in English at Johns Hopkins U.)

Catherine Stroud,cum laude (internship in Deauville, France)

Scott Parker Tolbert, summa cum laude

Brigitte Quyuh-Mai Tucker

Jacqueline V. Wachsman, cum laude

Katherine Barry Wells, cum laude (internship in Paris)

Jacqueline M. Wilde, magna cum laude

Tessa Janine Wolf

Class of 2005

Julia Bensfield is enjoying working in her hometown of Washington, DC, for PEN/Faulkner, a literary nonprofit that gives an award for American fiction each year.

Amanda Gould is currently teaching English at a French lycée in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Amy Townsend accepted a job offer from Vineyard Vines. She writes, "If you are curious about what they make their website is www.vineyardvines.com. I'll be starting out as an operations assistant and just learning the company, but by Christmas I should have moved to their production department. I'm just thankful to have found a job that involves one of my passions, sewing and design."

Class of 2004

Emily Bond (2004) spent part of the summer after graduation working in a summer French program for young children offered by the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute. In the fall, she will be going to China where she will be teaching English in the city of Shanghai.

Negar Mohammadi writes of her new job: I'm working for Accenture, a consulting company, in New York and as they saw on my internal resume that I had majored in French, they assigned me to a project in Paris working with the Galleries Lafyette. I was here once a few weeks ago for a week and now I'm here for about a month, living in a hotel. I feel like Eloise! But a corporate Eloise! The consultants I'm working with have been doing this project with them for a few years now so I just jumped on to assist in presentations and meetings, doing a lot of translations and presentations. All in French! I can honestly say, Madame Porter, that the vocabulary and subjects we covered in French for Business have come in handy more than I ever imagined!!

Gina Russo (2004) will spend the 2004-05 year teaching in Deauville, France

Maribeth Schroeder (2004) will spend the 2004-05 year teaching in Deauville, France

Class of 2003

Lindsey Alberhasky (2003) is an English teacher at the Lycée Robespierre in Arras, France.

Jenny Bernard (2003) is teaching English at a lycée in France.

Courtney Cole (2003) spent the past year in New York City where she appeared in a week of segments of "As The World Turns," as the winner of the college competition carried out during the school year. She also worked in a NYC high school and enjoyed it so much that she has decided to pursue a career in teaching. Courtney has been accepted for a master's program at DePaul University in Chicago where she will prepare to teach at the high school level, combining her interests in French and in theater.

Rebecca Folmar (2003) is a 2005 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She is employed in Raleigh, NC, as the director of communications for a public policy nonprofit, benefitting children statewide.

Christin Harper, 2003 grad in French, has received a French government assistantship to teach English in Versailles during the 2004-5 academic year. Christin has just completed an assignment in Vermont with Americorps.

Cami Isaac (2003) is Director of Student Recruitment and Alumni Clubs at Vanderbilt University. cami.isaac@vanderbilt.edu

Leslie Larson (2003) is living in Paris and studying at the University of Paris and Sciences Po.

Laura Liddell (2003) will attend Vanderbilt University Law School beginning in the fall of 2004.

Keith Luckett (2003, Vanderbilt-in-France 2001) will earn the M.D. degree from University of Kentucky in May 2007. He keeps up his proficiency in French and is currently studying Spanish to prepare to work with the rural poplulations in Ecuador in spring 2007. Keith expects to practice medicine in developing countries frequently after completing his residency (maybe at Vanderbilt?).

Lisa Travis (2003) is a graduate student in French at RiceUniversity.

Class of 2002

Precious Boone (2002),  has been accepted at Cornell University law school, where she also hopes to link French studies to her law studies.

Rebecca Folmar (2003) is a graduate student at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She will be in NY this summer doing an internship with DIAGEO, an international corporation that is the world's leader in premium drink brands. rfolmar@email.unc.edu

Esther Larson (2002) earned a M.A. in French Civilization from the New York University program in Paris. She is continuing her graduate work in political science, with an emphasis on international affairs.

Daniel Bar-Nahum (2002) earned a MA in Judaic Studies from the Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies in Cleveland, OH. sonofnahum@hotmail.com

Classes prior to 2002

Marcia Larson (2001) is in College Station, TX where she is preparing for an internship at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 2004. marcialarson@cox.net

Jamie Tarpley (1992) earned a Ph.D. in French from the University of Pittsburgh in December 2003.