Morgan Kelly, a junior at Lynchburg College, is participating in a SEA Semester Program Aboard a Tall Ship. Morgan successfully completed the prerequisite shore component earning academic credit for curriculum in oceanography, nautical science, and maritime studies. Morgan developed a research project that will be tested and completed aboard SEA's 134' sailing school vessel. Morgan will be sailing round trip from Key West, FL with a possible port call in Samana, Dominican Republic—a journey of approximately 3000 nautical miles and six weeks at sea. During that time, in addition to collecting data for a research project, Morgan will help provide weather observations to a national database, learn to chart the course of the vessel using celestial navigation and serve as the Junior Watch Officer (JWO), taking full command of the vessel during a watch.
–February, 2008
Melissa Landry, 2005 winner of the Jefferies Award of Merit, had an unbelievable senior year and is now attending LSU (Louisiana State University) this fall. She served as President of her Student Council, Governor of the Louisiana- Mississippi-Tennessee Key Club, Governor of Louisiana Girls. State, Louisiana's first delegate to Girls. Nation held annually in Washington (she spent time with President Bush and met with several Congressional members), National Merit Scholar, selected as one of ten students to participate in LSU's Business School Initiative in China, and was St. Scholastica's Valedictorian. –October, 2007
Jill P. Denham (formerly Conroy), finished law school in 2003 at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She passed the Illinois Bar Examination and is currently practicing law at the firm of Daley and George, LLP in Chicago, Illinois. She got married in New York City this past June to Craig Denham. –October, 2007
Farrah Lazare Forrest graduated from medical school at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYCOM) in 2001 where she earned her D.O. (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine) degree. She finished her residency in Pediatrics in 2005 at University Hospital at Stony Brook, and is currently doing a fellowship at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY in Pediatric Gastroenterology. She passed her Pediatric Boards in 2004 and became a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP). She recently got married in August 2006 and is living in Manhattan. –October, 2007
Jackie Peteraf graduated from Drexel University last June and has been working as a stock portfolio assistant for a private investor in Philadelphia. –October, 2007
Ben Budish, who majored in trumpet performance, will graduate a semester early this December. After many arduous auditions and fiercely competitive interviews, Ben won a position playing with the Louisiana Philharmonic. At just twenty years old, he is their youngest member ever! –October, 2007
In her senior year at the University of Chicago, Rachel Fremont has been accepted to medical school. –April, 2007
Thomas Kenyon won a Royal Institute of Naval Architects (RINA) design award for his team's design, construction, functional testing, and explanation of their model bulk carrier/cargo ship. Thomas is studying Ship Science at the School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton in England. –April, 2007
After graduating in June from Dartmouth, Annie Daher will spend a year doing community service work in the Marshall Islands before applying to law schools. –April, 2007
Ben Budish, a junior at the University of Michigan, recently performed in both "Singing in the Rain" and "Chicago." Ben is the Principal Trumpet in the Detroit Civic Orchestra and is the head of the trumpet studio. He will be spending this summer performing at the Brevard Music Festival in North Carolina. Since receiving his BS degree in Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology from UCLA in 2005, Joseph Cao has been working as a lab technician studying Parkinson's disease genes in fruit flies. This September, he will start graduate school at UCLA. –April, 2007
Alexandra Wolles was nominated for the "Teacher of the Year" award in the Alameda school district. –April, 2007
