Alumni News


1990
Congratulations to Jon Miller and his wife, Andra who welcomed Caleb Dean Miller into their lives on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2009.

1991
Justin Brown is back in Washington, D.C. after two years working for the New York Office of Emergency Management. He is currently putting his background as a paramedic and firefighter to good use as a Battalion Chief with the Washington, D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department. Stay tuned for whatever Justin takes on next!

Lauren Shapiro and her husband, Kevin (Congratulations and best wishes to you both!!) live in Madison, Wisconsin. Lauren and her husband are 40% of the group, The Monsters of Poetry; a non-profit group devoted to showcasing contemporary poetry and fiction. Check out their website www.monstersofpoetry.org and facebook page.

1993
Congratulations to Jeremy Mooser and his wife, Andrea, who welcomed a daughter, Callie, into their lives on February 5, 2011. Callie is joined by her big brothers, Alex and Lucas. Congratulations to the Mooser family!

1998
Stephanie Simiola Dinnen and her husband, Chris, are living in Clinton, CT after five busy years in rural Ohio. Stephanie is working in the Psychiatry Department at Yale as a Senior Research Coordinator. She is also working on a Master of Science in Gerontology at the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts. Of particular interest to her is implementing ways to humanize caregiver relationships among long-term patients. Chris and Stephanie are the parents of two-year old, Wyatt, who they hope will one day follow in his mother’s footsteps as a Cold Spring student.

Thomas Lipp is pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He has been awarded a Stanford Graduate fellowship and is also a recipient of a highly coveted National Science Foundation Fellowship. He previously lived in the Washington, D.C. area where he regularly saw another CSS alumni, Leland Milstein.

Janine Lipsky is living in Jamaica Plain, MA and in the first year of graduate school at Boston University School of Public Health. She plans to become involved with community health education after graduation.

Ana Vollmar is living in Portland, Maine and is a student at the Birthwise Midwifery School in Bridgton, Maine. She is specifically interested in becoming a homebirth midwife.

1999
Ben Helfand is working on an M.S. degree in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Ben presented his first abstract to the Society for Epidemiologic Research at their June conference in Seattle. He still plays intramural soccer!

Janna King is working locally at Campus Customs where she juggles web design, administrative and sales responsibilities. Non-working time is spent taking an on-line course at the Gotham Writer’s Workshop and working on a young adult novel.

Sasha Steinberg - After graduating from Vassar College Phi Beta Kappa in 2009, Sasha was awarded a Fullbright Research grant to study art, contemporary culture and politics in Moscow. Sasha’s reflections on his studies can be viewed at his website www. ahsasha.com

Ben Wormser is a first year medical student at Temple University School of Medicine. Ben says medical school is a lot of work but he’s lovin’ it!

2000
Deb Gruen graduated from Yale University in June and is a first year student at Georgetown Law School.

2001
Adam Slater is a senior at Georgia State where he is an honor student in their International Baccalaureate program majoring in Business Administration and Accounting. Adam plans to pursue an MBA and to eventually acquire his own manufacturing company. Adam is still an avid soccer player.

Colin Sullivan is a fourth-year mechanical engineering student at the University of Massachusetts. He worked at Merrill Lynch in New York City as an intern over the summer.

2002
Maya Fiellin is a junior at James Madison College majoring in Public Health and minoring in Spanish. Maya lived in Guam over the summer where she participated in an HIV public health program. The objective of the program was to prevent the spread of HIV through public awareness and education.

Ryan Hamelin is a junior at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts for Film Production. He writes movie reviews for TheCinemaSource.com and his reviews are incorporated into Rotten Tomatoes “tomatometer.” Very cool.

Zachary Newick is a junior at Princeton University. Last year he was awarded the Francis Biddle Sophomore Prize for the most outstanding essay in his class.

2004
Yedidya Ben-Avie is spending a year in Israel and will attend Brandeis University next fall. He graduated from Cheshire Academy in June.

Zack Biemesderfer graduated from Hamden Hall Country Day School and is an engineering student at Roger Williams College.

Will Blasini graduated from Cheshire Academy and is a freshman at Skidmore College. As a Cheshire student, Will was active in the drama department. In addition, he also performed in the New Haven Theater company’s production of A Civil War Christmas last winter.

Cory Collins
is attending Guilford College in North Carolina. He graduated from Hamden Hall Country Day School where he was a member of the varsity football team for two years.

Harrison Congdon graduated from Hamden Hall Country Day School; where he was very active in their drama department. He is an engineering student at Lafayette College.

Eliza Doolittle graduated from Hopkins and is attending the University of Edinburgh. She is considering pursuing a degree in Psychology.

Miles Johnson graduated from Hamden Hall Country Day School where he played varsity basketball and soccer. He is majoring in Business at High Point University. His closest friends are Will Blasini, Harrison Congdon and Danny Pfau from his CSS days!

Maddie Kern
graduated from Hopkins in June. She is attending Tulane University, majoring in biology and thinking about a career in dentistry. She was a member of the Elm City Girl’s choir for 12 years which might be the group’s record!

Matt Kramer is majoring in engineering at Lafayette College. He graduated from Hamden Hall Country Day School in June.

Danny Pfau, a June graduate of Nortre Dame High School, is a student at Fordham University. He is interested in sports and orthopedic medicine.

Emilio Roth graduated from Wilbur Cross High School after attending Hamden Hall Country Day School for several years. He is attending Iona College and is interested in studying child psychology.

Ariel Weiser
is in the Honors Program at the University of Michigan. She graduated from Wilbur Cross High School.

2007
Arnesh Jajoo, a junior at Hopkins, was awarded the Harold Shelton Kirby Science Prize last year for excellence in science.

2008
Max Bloom was the recipient of two Hopkins awards: the John B. Smith award for excellence in English and the Junior Latin Prize for outstanding scholarship in Latin. Max is a freshman this year.

Kristen Forscher
attends Guilford High School where she is a freshman this year. She is a member of the National Junior Honor Society and attended the Audubon Arts Drama Camp over the summer. She still sees her former CSS classmates Liam Hodson, Annie Jonathan and Tommy Pfau regularly.

Harper Hansen attends Hamden High School where she is a freshman this year. Harper is still involved with gymnastics, although more cautiously since a, fortunately, not-too-serious back injury several years ago.

Annie Jonathan is a freshman at Guilford High School. Her favorite subjects are geometry and language arts (remember the novel she began as a sixth-grader at CSS?). Annie plays softball with the Shoreline Sting League.

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