Class Notes

I am thrilled to announce that my first feature film, Charlie Victor Romeo, was featured in the New Frontier program during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, January 17 - 28 in Park City, UT.

Charlie Victor Romeo /U.S.A. (Directors: Robert Berger, Karlyn Michelson, Screenwriters: Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, Irving Gregory) — An award-winning theatrical documentary derived entirely from 'Black Box' transcripts of six real-life major airline emergencies brought to the screen with cutting-edge stereoscopic 3D technology. Cast: Patrick Daniels, Irving Gregory, Noel Dinneen, Sam Zuckerman, Debbie Troche, Nora Woolley.

If there's one thing that CCA & ITP reinforced in me... it's to reach for the tools... figure 'em out... bend them to your will... and then go do something no one's ever done before.

Here's a bit from Indiewire about CVR @ Sundance: (http://www.indiewire.com/article/sundance-curiosities-5-more-observations-on-the-2013-lineup-from-found-footage-horror-to-transmedia).

Molly MacGregor '00 recently moved back to Cape Cod after living in Lake Tahoe for 4 years. She has purchased Cape Cod Coffee Roasters in Mashpee and is eagerly learning the art of coffee roasting from master roaster Demos Young. She urges you to stop by, say hello and take a tour of the roasting facility next time you are driving along Route 130 in Mashpee.

Emma Lebica '04 wrote the following note to CCA:
I have been out in San Diego for about 4 years.  I moved out to complete my Masters in Social Work at San Diego State University and ended up getting a great job after graduation with a private foster care agency working with young children. Also some fun news, I recently got engaged to a former CCA student, Keenan Thomson, who is also living out in San Diego. We are hoping for a wedding back east in Summer 2014!

Hope all is well with the CCA community :)

Best,

Emma

Chelse Curtis ’05 was featured in an ad for Titleist ProV 1 recently.

Matt Sidman '05 is in San Francisco working for a social media company.

Sarah Doyle ’06 wrote this letter to CCA recently:

Since graduating from CCA, I went off to Hopkins to study International Studies and French. While there, I received two research fellowships: an African Studies fellowship to facilitate a summer teaching internship in Liberia where I went to learn about the general structures and challenges of their education system. The second was a Clinger Fellowship that allowed me to spend 3 months in Liberia researching the decentralization of the education system, comparing developments in the rural and urban sectors. I spent my Junior year abroad at Scienes Politiques et economiques in Paris (one of the Grandes Ecoles of France) where I received an International Diploma in French and Law. I graduated in 2010 with General Honors and Major Honors in both French and International Studies.

In October 2010 I joined the Peace Corps in Rwanda as an education volunteer. I just finished the two year commitment at a rural secondary school in the southeast of Rwanda. I did a lot of administrative advising (strategic and action planning mostly), taught English, had a girls club, and an English club. Additionally, I taught advanced-level English at the Ministry of Justice to many Supreme Court justices and their staff. I was the director of two girls camps that reached 100 girls and taught them about life skills, leadership skills, career development, and more. They then went back to their secondary schools to create girls clubs that spread the lessons they learned at camp. I was the Project Development Chair for the Gender and Development Committee, where I started two partnerships with the Nike Foundation's Girl Hub and Sustainable Health Enterprise (SHE), which is working on menstrual health and hygiene.

After finishing those two years, the Peace Corps Rwanda Country Director asked me to stay on for another year as the National Gender Coordinator and Peace Corps Volunteer Leader. As the NGC, I am the head of the Peace Corps Gender and Development Committee, which is comprised of PCVs from all of the Health and Education groups in country. We are working on creating a project manual for volunteers to use if they want to do GAD projects, facilitate a Training of Trainers and an annual debrief for the GLOW (girls leading our world) and BE (boys excelling) camps that run across the country throughout the year. This year we will also be holding an event for the Kigali Marathon where PCVs choose a boy and a girl from their community to train with and then participate together in running the relay marathon and participate in a healthy living workshop. I also sit on the US Embassy's Inter-Agency Working Group on Gender where all US agencies (USAID, CDC, PC, and State) work together to collaborate on the different projects we are doing. Additionally, I am working full time at the Nike Foundation's Girl Hub (part of their Girl Effect project: girleffect.org) on influencing policymakers and government officials, creating partnerships with other organizations, assisting the social communications team, and seeing how PCV and Girl Hub projects can work better together. I'll be in Rwanda until the end of 2013 then will hopefully be returning to the US to pursue a Masters in Public Policy.

Anne Mumford '06 is planning a spring 2014 wedding with her fiancé Pramode Chiruvolu. She is a 2010 graduate of Johns Hopkins University with a degree in Psychology. She is the Director of Admissions and Outreach for the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego.

Dan Sidman '07 is in Busan, South Korea teaching 5th Graders. CCA's 5th Grade teacher, Mrs. Vandemoer, is looking into a way to have the classes connect. He also writes a blog for the Cape Cod Times.

Drew Frayre '08 recently graduated from UMASS Amherst. He joined Geordan Whitman ’10 at CCA’s production of Beauty and the Beast in May.

Martin Greenberg ’08 just graduated from the Isenberg School of business at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a degree in finance. He started a full-time job in New York as a financial analyst for IBM.

Chris Curtis '10 is working with the Yankees in baseball operations and loving it. Last summer, he worked with a Yankee scout for the Cape Cod Baseball League. Chris will be a senior at Fordham in the fall.

Luke Blanco ‘11 is enrolled in an interesting program that educates students on all the properties of all the substances known to man that are used to make things. That way he can offer advice on what is the best material to use when making something.

The Olsens (Will ’17 & Katie ‘11) had a holiday party this past winter and several CCA students (past, present and future!) were there.