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2014
1-Will Galloway enjoyed reconnecting with his former Priory teachers before heading back to college.
2-Lexie Garrity is a Medicine, Health, and Society Major on the Pre-med track. Last November Lexie was chosen to perform a TEDX talk at Vanderbilt university on Learning Disability and the Professor-Student Relationship.
Lexie’s talk is available to watch and share: https://www.tedxvanderbiltuniversity.com/speakers/lexie-garrity/
3-Chris Gregory studied his fall semester in Tours, France and enjoyed his classes in French, Gastronomy, Music, Theater and Organic Chemistry. On weekends he travelled with friends all over France to deepen his experience and enjoyed sites like the Château de Chenonceau.
4-Non Kuramoto is currently a third year theater major at Northeastern University where she has become involved in the theater community both within school and in the greater Boston area. At Northeastern, she has performed in productions of Antigone, Columbinus, and The House of Bernarda Alba. She has also taken interest in the production aspect of theater, and has done a variety of off-stage work from lightboard operator to designing. Whenever she is not at work or in a theater, she can be found telling jokes as a stand-up comedian in basements of bars and at comedy clubs.
5-Sarah Reid spent her summer in an internship with Morrissey-Compton Educational Center, working with a psychologist on her research. She was excited to return to Princeton to study psychology and Italian in the fall. Sarah and her brother Alex, stopped by to say hello to everyone at Priory.
2015
1-Milla Bevens is a Chemistry (biochemistry) major at Willamette University. She is in the college’s premedical program and volunteers at the local hospital’s emergency department. In her spare time, she has been exploring the Oregon coast and enjoying other outdoor activities.
2-James Phelps enjoyed the visit of Priory’s College Counselor Dorothy Kowal in December at the University of Redlands. James is majoring in Biology with a minor in Chemistry.
2016
1-Nicholas Jaeger decided to defer acceptance to Harvard and will be joining the class of 2021. He has been appointed to a Fellowship at Harvard’s Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, where he is working to publish original research on funding in California’s domestic violence prevention infrastructure. Nicholas hopes to share his paper, and to leverage it to further spread the women’s rights conversation and raise more money for the Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse (CORA). He was recently elected to a two-year term on CORA’s board of directors. He continues to speak and teach about domestic violence, a cause he was passionate about while at Priory.
2-Mirthia Prince Figuereo has been very busy at Barnard. She joined various clubs on campus including the French Cultural Society, Mujeres, and the Columbia Democrats.
After graduating from Priory, 3-Mike Fitzgerald spent a majority of his summer at his family’s cabin on Lake Ontario in upstate New York. There, he and his sister Shannon ‘19 spent their days swimming, boating, tubing, water skiing, painting a small garage, attempting to play the Uilleann pipes, playing basketball, Pokémon Go, and overall having a great time. He also flew to Cork, Ireland to scout out where he is currently living and attending university for one year.
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