Alumni News

(Use alphabetical list at right to read about other alumni)

Anna Clinch (class of 2006) Anna is currently attending Burris Laboratory High School where she is a hurdler on the track team and plays the violin in the school orchestra. She also takes Japanese.

Carol Cogswell Fleck is currently finishing her graduate degree in school counseling. She was married in 1994 to Alan Fleck, and last year, on tax day, gave birth to son Theodore. As she reflects back on her life, she realizes what a positive impact NCCL had on her. She thinks the most important thing she learned was to think for herself, and for that she is grateful to Ann and the other teachers who helped her, Mary, Betsey, Jean (who taught sewing), Ray, and especially Marilynn who helped her explore her creativity.

Matthew Cohen is an honor roll student at the Charter School of Wilmington. He was one of the top 25 sophomores in Social Science, so he went on a trip to Washington D.C. sponsored by the Rotary Club. He was honored as a Rising Star for academic excellence during his freshman year. Matt played soccer for Charter this past fall and was co-captain of the Junior Varsity team. He is also involved in various cubs, including peer leaders, Amnesty International, newspaper, and debate club. Recently he was picked as one of ten Charter School students to be interviewed by Channel 7 News about the September 11th attacks. In his free time ("which is not a large amount of time"), he enjoys reading, visiting friends, watching movies, and doing community theater. Last spring, he did The Zoo and Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer with the Ardensingers, and plans to do Yeoman of the Guard with them this spring.

Ben Connor has signed up for another tour of duty in the Marines and will soon become a Sergeant. He has been stationed in Hawaii and Australia and is now in San Diego.

Andrea Corbett is a sophomore at Wilmington Friend's School. She was a delegate in France for People to People and a cadet at the Space Academy at UD.

Chris Cornell graduated from Haverford, May 2001 with a degree in Biology. While at Haverford he spent his junior year in France. In his spare time he was on the lacrosse team and played guitar with a punk music group. After graduation he worked in construction and performed with his band Gibbons. Chris has now moved to San Francisco to perform and find work in the biology field.

COTTER, CHRIS (as of 2007) is an Associate Account Manager at Burson Marsteller’s interactive division in NYC. He lives in Hoboken, NM and will be starting law school at New York Law.

Chris Cotter is an Associate Account Manager at Burson Marsteller’s interactive division in NYC. He lives in Hoboken, NM and will be starting law school at New York Law. (Chris graduated from Kennett High School where he was active in the choral and jazz band and played hockey. He graduated from the University of Delaware in 2004 with a B.A. in International Relations.)

Kelley Cotter (Class of 2000) is at Temple University where she is an English/creative writing and Spanish major. She tutors students at the school’s Creative Writing Center. She will be studying in Spain and traveling in Europe this summer. Kelley was inducted to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior. (Kelly graduated from Kennett High School where she was in the musical A Secret Garden and played volleyball. She made the Distinguished Honor Roll her first semester. She is currently (2004) attending Temple University Honors College. Her college application included an essay on NCCL.)

Brenna Crowther (Class of 2002) is a junior at the University of Delaware in fashion merchandising. She has been working at Bloom on Main Street in Newark for the past year. (Brenna is attending Newark High School. Brenna likes to read, play volleyball and listen to music in her spare time. She made the NHS Women's Tennis Team and won most of the doubles exhibition games that she played. She went to Orlando with the NHS Chorus and sang in a statewide competition which placed 6th nationwide. She will be working with Debbie Hegedus, NCCL's art teacher, at Camp this summer (2004) as an art assistant. The Shaver's Creek camping trip will hold a special memory for Brenna. She says, "I think the graduating class, and the rest of the class as well, learned great team building skills at Shaver's Creek. We learned not just to memorize things but to ask questions and understand things, and why they work.")

Jennifer Curtis (Class of 1976) runs her own business (www.curtis-consulting.com) and specializes in managing projects that develop and foster tools for sustainable agriculture. She is married and has a daughter. They live close to many in the Granda family and, in fact, the children are being raised as cousins. Jennifer enjoys traveling, yoga, gardening, and sharing meals with friends and family. She completed a graduate program at the University of North Carolina.

Matthew Curtis was in the April 1995 issue of Philadelphia Magazine as one of the up and coming 30-year-olds and under in the city! He and his wife Amy are the proud parents of a daughter, who was born in October 1999. He is director of Public Interest Graphics, a company that does nation-wide advertising for non-profit groups.

Meg Curtis is married and and is expecting a baby boy in February 2002. She has graduated from the University of Pennsylvania as a nurse-midwife, has passed the boards and is beginning a job in a hospital in New Jersey. She has had a paper published in the Journal of Nursing.

Jasmine Cutter (Class of 2005) is attending Carleton College in MN. She plays soccer, frisbee, and ice hockey. She loves college, but hasn't decided on a major yet. She will be working in the school's arboretum this summer (2010) learning how to chain saw. Jasmine graduated from the International Baccalaureate Programme at Mt. Pleasant High School.

Williem (Will) Daniel (Class of 2003) is attending Newark High School. What he'll remember most about NCCL is "the people I met here, and I think that I will be able to keep in touch with most of them."

Doren Day Tenerowicz married David Tenerowicz in 1988. They have a daughter, Hanna Grace who was born in October 1993 and is a "joy". She and David both teach Tai Chi and planned a fall move to Colorado.

Colin Dentel-Post graduated from Cornell University and was working in regional planning.(Colin is attending the Charter School of Wilmington. He is literally burning up the track and was named Most Valuable Player for the school! He was also honored for having the highest cumulative average among all of the athletes at Charter.)

Aaron Dentel-Post (Class of 2002) is attending Newark High School. Aaron's favorite subjects are writing, art and science. Highlights of his years at NCCL include the camping trips and the apprenticeship experience because these are not offered in public schools.

Carol Dilley (Class of 1975) Carol Dilley is Director of Dance at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and is enjoying her first full sabbatical starting Fall 2010! She will spend most of the next year in NYC where her partner, John Casey, is a professor. They are very much looking forward to a more consolidated lifestyle. Carol is still performing and choreographing and has some works posted on youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/cdilley2#p/u Previous news: Carol Dilley received tenure at Bates College in Lewsiton Maine in 2009 and is looking forward to her first sabbatical year starting this summer (2010). She will spend most of the next year in NY with her partner of almost 25 years, John Casey, who is a professor in Manhattan. They are very much looking forward to a more consolidated lifestyle. Carol is still performing and choreographing, with upcoming projects in Australia and Sri Lanka as well as the usual more local events. After dancing in Barcelona, Spain, New York City, Seattle, and Sydney, Australia, Carol is now Director of the Dance Program at Bates College in Maine. She and her longtime partner, John, are working out creative solutions to the logistics of global living, which includes time in Australia, time in Maine, time in Barcelona where they spent most of the 1990’s, and time in NYC where John is now teaching. She is still performing and recently started making dance videos which you can watch on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlfyCGrL6Hs. (Carol has lived and danced in Barcelona, Spain, New York City, Seattle, Tokyo and Sydney, Australia. She has her MFA in dance from the University of Washington in Seattle. After an eight year stay in Barcelona, running her own dance company and teaching internationally, and a two year stay in Seattle for a Master's degree, Carol joined her partner of 16 years in Sydney, Australia. She has recently taken a faculty position as Director of the Dance Program at Bates College in Maine after a two year stint of freelance dancing in Sydney. She and her longtime partner, John, are working out creative solutions to the logistics of global living, which includes time in Australia, time in Maine, and time in Barcelona where they spent most of the 1990's. For the moment however, Carol is very excited to be on the same coast of the same continent as her family and so many old friends and John is enjoying a semester of winter sports and research. She is still performing and keeping up her international ties.)

Kathryn Dilley Maycock says, "I am busy with my 3 increasingly tall sons. We are proceeding with our 2nd degree Black belts in Karate. My husband Sid (a Chiropractor) likes to say that the oldest will somehow end up entertaining millions, the middle one will be a professional athlete, and the youngest one will be a pimp (he is always looking for a good time). I left the airline business after 22 years when things just got too insane. Now, every day I can say "Thank God I'm not at the airport anymore!" I trained as an EMT in order to get a job in county emergency management as a 911 dispatcher for fire and ambulance. I like the job, but the emergency management people are a whole different breed. The job also reimburses for school, so I am finally in college. Better late than never, I always say, and my parents have been very patient." (Kathryn is very busy caring for her three young sons and husband and spending her evenings at the ticket counter of Northwest Airlines. She and her boys take karate and soon will be black belts.)

Lindsey Downes is attending Newark High School, where she is an Honor Roll student and a cheerleader. She is also a member of the school chorus which recently performed at Disney World. Lindsey continues to enjoy dancing and riding.

Drake Dwornik graduated from Newark High in June 1999.

Beth Egan Scarpulla has been living in CA since 2000. She currently works for Johnson & Johnson (2009). She has 2 boys, Zach (3.5) and Jake (1.5). For fun,she is running (planning to run her 4th marathon in Dec 2009), biking and playing roller hockey.

Juliette Enright Fiechtner(Class of 1988) moved to Arizona in 1994 and traveled through Europe and Central America over 6 years. She married a US Air Force Captain Matthew Flechtner in 2006 and is expecting her first child. She opened her Salon in 2005 located directly across from the University of Arizona.

Nathan Fariss graduated with honors from Rising Sun High School in 1996. He then attended the Kansas City Art Institute, first as a photo major, then shifting into computer graphics and video. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in May of 2000, from KCAI, and received the Honorable Mention (2nd place) in the BFA show there for a film/animation piece he completed his senior year. He now works at a small production house in Kansas City (http://www.realme.com/), doing 3D animation and special effects for broadcast TV as well as sports animation for stadiums. Aside from work he keeps busy with a bit of photography, as well as various musical "tinkerings" which mostly involve turntables and his computers.