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Greetings from Parker!
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Meg Taylor
Head
mtaylor@parkerschool.org
Alumni News
Joel Olzack '11 is taking David Cooperstein '07's position as Parker's Computer Club master. Joel has been leading the Friday afternoon Club since February. David, who commuted from Long Island for several years to teach the Computer Club, has been busy hiking the Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail and is planning to attend Claremont McKenna College in the fall. Joel is a sophomore at Tech Valley High School.
The Fullem sisters, Abby '07, Emma '05 and Zoe '03 have all spent a year abroad on Rotary Exchange programs: Zoe in Ecuador, Emma in Taiwan, and Abby in Turkey. The family has just returned from a travel holiday visiting Abby who will attend Haverford College in the fall. Emma goes to Pomona and Zoe is graduating from Macalester.
Amy Elitzer '02 is at Columbia working on a master of public health in health management. She graduates in December. Hannah Scranton '99 owns and runs two cafes in Lima, Peru. Jesse Pickard '98 has an app company, Mindsnacks, that teaches foreign language through games. It has been a top seller in the education app store! His company is based in San Francisco.
Jon Lord '97 is working on a masters in Security Studies at Georgetown with a concentration in Intelligence. He says, "It's a lot of fun!"
Class of 2008
Lydia Youngman graduated from Emma Willard. She is working as an assistant at Parker this summer then heading off to Hong Kong and to Johns Hopkins for the fall. Koa Lopez-Paguyo was salutatorian of his class at Darrow. He will be attending Brandeis. Jonah Schaffer went to Albany High and will be attending SUNY Plattsburg this fall. Jasper Marynczak will be heading to University of Vermont after graduating from the Lab School at Bethlehem. Kenan Worden will be joining him there. Gabe Stallman graduated from Doane Stuart and will be studying music at Schenectady County Community College. Phil Curran was the speaker for this year's Parker graduation. He was valedictorian at Chatham High and will be attending Cornell. Talia Zisman went to Emma Willard and is heading to Bates. Jen Nelson graduated from Shenendehowa and is going to St. Rose. After Albany High Emma Rugoff is attending Hudson Valley Community College.
Class of 2005
Dan Schroeder is attending Cooper Union as a painter. He has donated paintings for the Parker benefit auction for the past two years. Both paintings were sold to the parents of Malcolm Lasky who is still writing and Phoebe '06 who goes to Trinity College. Meirav Levy-Bernstein is attending Columbia.
Class of 2000
Rachel Leibson is a member of the Board of Trustees and will be joined next year by Morgan Lindsay. Rachel is a postpartum and gynecology RN at Albany Med and is getting married this fall. Morgan is attending medical school and is in El Paso for the summer with the military.
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returning to camp.
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Parker alumni helping out at camp: Max '09 attends Simon's Rock College, Zali '10 will be attending high school in Hungary for the coming year and Nora '10 will be a Junior at Emma Willard. Lydia Youngman '08 is also assisting.
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 | Ashley Cora Rodregez '08 and Karshunna Wallace '07 visited with Susie Merrett.
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Emma Raider-Roth and Talia now living in Ohio.
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 | | Efrain Pontaza-Santander '08 attends Darrow. He and his Dad ran the annual 5K Trail Run hosted at Parker. |
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Nick Stoneman came to visit from Shattuck-St.Mary's School in Minnesota. He is pictured here with J.C. Glendinning and Mark and Susie Merrett.
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Simona Gumaer '04 did some observing at Parker as part of her studies to become a teacher.
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 | Jonah Schaffer and Gabe Stallman '08 came to graduation.
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Hannah Scranton '99 and family with Susie Merrett and Carol Oko.
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Lots of alumni parents came to the Bee Bop, this year's benefit auction. Can you tell who's who?   
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Have a wonderful summer!
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