We are pleased to offer the following brief profiles of our graduates, the Class of 2010. Please join us to honor their graduation on Sunday, June 13, 2010, at 1 p.m. in the Kellogg Music Center, Bard College at Simon’s Rock.
Evan Crispell will attend Sarah Lawrence College, New York, in the fall, where he plans to study history, anthropology, and literature. His senior project, advised by Mrs. Robbins, is a research paper examining colonialism in Peruvian literature. Evan spent the fall semester of his junior year in Peru. Last year he interned at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
Darius Graeff will attend SUNY Albany as a pre-med student. His senior project has been an internship with the Barka Foundation, including organizing a fundraising “Walk for Water” at Monument Mountain Regional High School on May 20, 2010. Last year he interned at the Great Barrington Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Tilo Jackson’s senior project is an internship with renowned baker Richard Bourdon at Berkshire Mountain Bakery. Tilo will work next year at the Small Building Company, Monte Alban, and Berkshire Mountain Bakery, while taking courses at the Waldorf High School for a Postgraduate year, before applying to college.
Elizabeth Orenstein will attend the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, next year, where she plans to study classics. Her senior project is a solo dance, choreographed by Bettina Montano at Berkshire Pulse. Last year she interned at Berkshire Living Magazine.
Chloë Rohn will attend College of the Atlantic, Maine, next year, where she plans to study oceanography and marine biology. Her senior project has been a study of oil painting with Housatonic painter Kate Knapp.
Anna Sierau has studied dressmaking with Maria Fili this spring, making her own graduation dress, and she has also interned at Harmony Hill Stable in show riding and training with Aimee Boyer and Kasey Brehm. She will work and travel next year, after which she plans to attend Cazenovia College, New York, or William Woods College, Missouri, to study special education. Last spring she interned on a “youth farm” in Germany.
Other college acceptances for the Class of 2010: Barnard College, Bennington College, Evergreen College, Goucher College, Hampshire College, John Cabot University, Leslie University, New York Institute of Technology, Pace University, and Simmons College.