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Hobart Popick ’85 was recently made a partner in the law firm Langrock & Sperry, in Burlington. He graduated from UVM and Suffolk Law School. He and his wife and two children live in South Burlington.
Aaron Jackson ’89 was named poet laureate of Jersey City, NJ in 2004, and currently works at the famous Strand bookstore in New York City. You can find out more about his work at www.middlepoet.com.
Kelsey 
Burns ’91 has worked for the past ten years leading young people in trips around the world for Putney Student Travel, Governor Peter Shumlin’s company. She recently married Michael Doku, a Ghanaian musician. They live in Brattleboro.
Abby Provencher Ringer ’92 just started the RN program at UVM, and is working as an LPN at Timber Lane Allergy and Asthma in Burlington. She and her husband remodeled the house she grew up in. They have two children, so she is quite busy.
After graduating from Middlebury College and UVM Medical School, Jordan Sax ’92 is now working as an Emergency Room physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD.
Zim Pickens ’92 is living in Kathmandu, Nepal, studying the philosophy of perception and the Tibetan language and preparing to write his thesis.
Anais Mitchell ’93 received a Grammy nomination for the artwork on her CD Hadestown, a folk/rock opera based on the myth of Orpheus. Well-known artists Ani DiFranco and Greg Brown performed on the CD. Visit anaismitchell.com.
Bay Danforth Jackson ’93 delivered twin girls Scarlet and Magnolia on May 16, 2011. They join their brother Zealand and dad Joe at their home in Lincoln.
Tim Miller ’94 is working as a media analyst in the Greek prime minister’s office. He had an interesting experience recently when he had the opportunity to brief a journalist from the New York Times in Athens on the economic crisis. The reporter turned out to be none other than Rachel Donadio, sister of David ’93! They had a laugh when he told her that the only formal training he had ever received in government communications was when David and he ran a presidential campaign for a pretend candidate for one of Kathy’s explorations classes, in the third grade.
Sadie MacKillop ’95 just finished her MS in speech language pathology at UVM.
Dwight Swift ’97 graduated from Davidson College as a physics major. Dwight participated in a number of extracurricular activities and completed an airplane instrument rating. He plans to fly as a bush pilot in Africa.
Elizabeth Ganley-Roper ’01 has fulfilled her dream, first expressed as a third grader at Bridge School, of living in Italy. After graduating from Hampshire College, she moved to Venice, where she teaches English, and writes about food – in Italian.
Hilary Hammond
Hillary Hammond ’01 just graduated from UVM last spring and is using her new knowledge to bring her family’s farm, Doolittle Farm, into the 21st century!
Doug Woos ’01 graduated from Swarthmore College last May with high honors in computer science, and minors in math and philosophy. He is living in Brooklyn, NY, and working as a software engineer for an Internet start-up company. He thinks that he will attend graduate school in computer science after working and enjoying NYC for a few years.
Several Bridge School alumni have participated in United World College, a challenging and selective education experience for the last year of high school and first year of college. UWC accepts only 50 students a year, most from outside the U.S. Many Bridge students and graduates have studied at UWC, including Charles Barstow who is now at Connecticut College, Tahl Mayer who earned a BA and MA from Brandeis and Annabelle Maroney ’02 who is at NYU. They all studied at the New Mexico campus. Currently Margaret Stratton ’04 is studying in Swaziland and Sophie McKibben ’05 is studying in Norway.
 Sophie McKibben |
 Margaret Stratton |
 Margaret Stratton |
Tim Woos ’04 is in his second year at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He is studying composition with Richard Danielpour, and continues his piano studies. He will be playing piano as a member of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra this fall. This past summer he spent a month at the Aspen Music Festival and had a great time.
Middlebury Union High School’s recent production of “Guys and Dolls” featured several Bridge School alumni from the class of ’06, including Holden Amory playing the lead role of Sky Masterson, Joseph Neidorf as Harry the Horse, and stage manager Tina Friml.
The current co-captains of the Middlebury High School Football team are both Bridge School gradates: Marshall Hastings ’06 and Austin Quesnel ’06. No wonder the team is doing so well this year!
Casey Vanacore ’07 has participated in many peace walks beginning when she was 14, with groups of Buddhist nuns and people of other faiths, covering over 400 miles. Her longest walk was 200 miles, staying with host families along the way. Casey said she began participating “because I like the idea of people living in harmony with one another.”
Kaitlin Leroux ’07 won the title of 2011 Vermont Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year for her extensive community service, as well as the excellent job she did presenting herself at a statewide competition with most participants much older than her.
Jonas Hastings ’08—Jonas Hastings recently attended a weeklong 4H Team Congress for leadership and citizenship in Washington, D.C.
David Dregello ’10 is assisting in the after-school “Bridge Buddies” program as his community service project at the Gailer School.
Olivia Lane ’11 received recognition from the Friends of the Art Museum at Middlebury College in 2011 for her artwork. She was the youngest person to do so.
Julian Kesner ’90 and his wife Abbie (a Middlebury College grad) live in Denver, where Julian is vice president of communications at the Colorado Hospital Association. We appreciate all the work he has done by maintaining the Bridge School alumni Facebook page.
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