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class notes done freelance writing for online travel and food publications. Kendra works as a freelance writer, and is seeking a fulltime writing position. examples of her lively writing—about new york, france, and more—can be seen at http://kendrawanderlust.wordpress.com/. ventures, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, and the commissioner of the new york city Department of information Technology and Telecommunications.” rachel Williams is president of the student body at Goucher college. 2006 2009 to Zach malter who congratulations 2011 was elected Student body president of Wesleyan University for the 2011-2012 academic year. conductivity of the particles may make them useful in a variety of products, from windows to solar particles. John Liss is taking a gap year to explore the real estate industry before entering Harvard in September 2012. a licensed salesperson, he is working at Gumley Haft Kleier, where Samantha Kleier forbes ’90 and Sabrina Kleier Morgenstern ’94 are executive vice presidents. $ exciting news from ben sann: “i founded a website called bestparking.com in 2006, while attending Horace Mann. i came up with the idea while watching an episode of Seinfeld in which George refuses to pay for a parking space. i then rode around (during senior year) on my three-speed bicycle documenting all the parking facilities and their rates throughout Manhattan. over the past five years, much has changed. We now employ 10 full-time employees and 50+ part-time rate surveyors, and have expanded to 18 cities and 79 airports throughout north america, with 47 more cities coming in 2011. bestparking. com is visited by over 150,000 loyal users each month and our iphone, android, and blackberry apps have been downloaded onto over 100,000 devices. our api and XMl feeds (our core data) is also distributed via licensing agreements with Google and Microsoft. recently, bestparking won the “investor’s choice” and “3rd place overall” awards at the nyc big apps competition, backed by the city of new york and bMW i ventures: http:/ /www. youtube.com/watch?v=ywybJZkpy28. The award was presented by Mayor bloomberg, and the judges included prominent vcs, ceos, and city officials, including fred Wilson of Union Square Katie dinan won the Gold Medal in the adequan fei (international equestrian federation) north american Junior and young rider championships (encompassing the US, canada and Mexico) in lexington, Ky on July 31, 2011. sophie miller was one of 70 high school graduates from 15 countries accepted to study at the Weizmann institute of Science in rehovot, israel through the international Summer Science institute (iSSi). Working in organic chemistry Miller assisted a phD student who was examining a new conductive polymer recently discovered at Weizmann. Miller participated in harvesting the nanoparticles of the polymer dissolved into a solution. The Horace mann magazine Winter 2012 57 http://kendrawanderlust.wordpress.com/ http://kendrawanderlust.wordpress.com/ http://www.BestParking.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwyBJZkpy28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwyBJZkpy28

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Horace Mann - Winter 2012

Horace Mann - Winter 2012
Contents
Letters
Greetings from Dr. Tom Kelly
Greetings from Melissa Parento ’90
Horace Mann School’s 125th Anniversary Observances Begin
Strategic Thinking
New Initiatives in Institutional Research and Admissions
HM's New Director of College Counseling
Timothy HO and Monica Merlo are 2011 Tina and Dave Bellet Teaching Excellence Award Winners
Langfan Oratorical Contest, 2011
Horace Mann School Graduates 178 in June, 2011
Alumni Council Corner
Bookshelf
Class Notes
Memorials
Philanthropy and You

Horace Mann - Winter 2012