Alumni News

Class of 2012

What will they be doing after graduation:

MAJORS

Ahmad, Nabeela
Anderson, Christopher Owen - Audition for music graduate school
Backus, Taylor Claire
Barclay, James Laurence
Brewbaker, Catherine Garner
Cloum, Caitlin Lee
Cook, Emily Carlton – Law school at University of Georgia
El-Khattabi, Omar
Eure, Elizabeth Clayton
Harbom, Lise Juliana
Herrmann, Stefanie Caroline
Hunter, Zachary David
Mate, Keri Robyn – Architecture masters at Washington University in St. Louis Sam Fox School
Mayo, Chloe Elizabeth
McGrath, Kyle Victoria
McIntyre, Catherine Marie
McLain, Tessa Carril
Measom, Kate Cinnamon
Nattermann, Una Wen-lii
Ormaza III,Efren David
Powell,Grace Patricia
Rose,Andrew David
Shavzin,Claire Louise
Summers,Marquis
Szentirmai,Eszter - Medical School at Vanderbilt University
Tchiengang, Steve
van Stolk,Heather Elizabeth
Werther,Steven McBride
Williams,Julia Coplan

MINORS

Brolley,Kate Aoife
Cilia,Juliette Grace
Clark,Kathryn Margaret
DaSilva,Bryann Donnelly – Master in Public Policy at Harvard University
Davis,Gyanba Ekua
DeBell,Elizabeth Tyler
Ebanks,Brittany Joyce
Fetherstonhaugh,Alison Sheila
Gootee,Emily Kathleen
Hockemeyer,Kathryn Grace
Hooker,Jamie Elizabeth
Houston,Richard Lee
Leung,Cho Yee
Marshall,Blair Lewis
McConnaughey,Jocelyn Hope
Ochoa Vargas,Rosamary
Oliver,Briana Valeria
Randall,Abigail Eliza
Sagan,Sarah Baron
Simmons,Haley Elisabeth
Sterrett,Jeffrey Patrick
Taylor,Elizabeth J.
Taylor,Natalie Renae
Voss,Allison Andree
Weaver,Alexander M
Wertheimer,Lia Serradell
Williams,James Robert
Xu,Tim

Class of 2011

Naatuere Ajanaku
Christopher Anderson
Courtney Anigian
Aja Bain
Emily Bajorek
James Barclay
Christopher James Barry – Working not sure where.
Eilleen Begley – Med school pre-requisite classes at Syracuse University.
Elizabeth Cook
Emily Cook
Mary Dawson
Patrick Duncan - Teaching English in a foreign country or sailing the seven seas.
Kate Gilbert - Interning for a non-profit called Falling Whistles which raises awareness for the war in Congo.
Benjamin Goodman
Carmen Hazim – Traveling: going to Lebanon for the summer.
Lise Harbom
Savannah Hicks
Zach Hunter
Candice Jones
Calla Ketchens
Danielle Kruglag
Anna Lynch
Kery Mate
Chelsea Mayo
Russell McCord
Kyle McGrath
Julia McGuire
Catherine McIntyre
Tessa McLain
Kate Measom
Mathew Murphy
Claire Nowlin – I’ll be doing the Peace Corps as an education volunteer in either Central Asia or Eastern Europe.
Rebecca Rattray - Graduate school in physics at Virginia Tech.
Brett Rudis – Investment banking analyst at Bank of Montreal.
Elyse Sadeghi – Teaching English in Deauville.
Margaret Shanley
Andrew Silverstein
Hanna Simonson – Teaching English in Paris for 1 year, then studying international law at Stetson.
Patrick Smith
Eszter Szentirmai
Timothy Thurman
Salem VanderStel
Taylor Wilson - Working for Capgemini (consulting firm) in Atlanta

Class of 2010

Kristy Hamilton will start medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in July 2010.

Class of 2009

Ellie Mix, Cum laude, bilingual paralegal at Geraci Law, LLC (Chicago, IL).

Class of 2008

Amy Leone, MA in public policy at the LBJ School at the University of Texas
Katie Shuford, Peace Corps in Togo
Katherine Yeaworth, asistantship program in Cretiel, France

Class of 2007

Carter Thomas Davis, summa cum laude, Medical School, Louisiana State University.
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.
Jay Tseng, cum laude, Medical School.
Stefanie Claudette Winston, cum laude, Law School, Emory University.

Class of 2006

Brittany Brianne Murray, summa cum laude, Fulbright fellow at Sciences Po, Paris.
Kathryn Peters, presently pursuing a Master of Public Policy (concentration in International and Global Affairs, class of 2011) at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Megan Diane Russell, magna cum laude (MA student at NYU in Paris).
Elizabeth Anne Steedley, summa cum laude (graduate student in English at Johns Hopkins University).
Catherine Stroud,cum laude (internship in Deauville, France).
Katherine Barry Wells, cum laude (internship in Paris).

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.
Amanda Kern “After working for three years for a specialist in 19th and 20th century painting at Aguttes auction house at Hotel Drouot in Paris I have just moved to London to be with my fiance (who is coincidentally French!).  After the wedding, I will be attending the Courtauld Institute this fall for my masters in art history.”
Heather McNeil Tedder, MA,  completed  first year of PhD work at LSU, and now teach high school French in Boone, NC.  I also got married and am expecting twins!
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.
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

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.
Jamie Tarpley (1992) earned a Ph.D. in French from the University of Pittsburgh in December 2003.
Polly Freeman Lyman (1975) Wrote an essay about her time with Vanderbilt-in-France in 1975: http://pollyvousfrancais.blogspot.com/2007/11/chez-les-rougier.html

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