West Chester Friends School

Welcome to our Alumni News Page!

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Recent  Updates...Keep 'Em Coming!

Kinnie Knowles Pearce '57 has recently moved from Denver, Colorado to St. Louis, Missouri, where she now lives very close to her son. She looks forward to visiting West Chester several times a year to visit her mother, Alda Knowles, and to “see old-time friends who I know from Friends School Days, all those years ago!”

We were delighted to visit recently with Peter Furlong, who was in T. Kathy Bollinger's fifth grade at WCFS in 1989-1990. Peter is a musician who currently lives in Albany, New York and was in the area, so he stopped by! He remembered his time at WCFS as a happy and productive one...and remembered being particularly inspired by T. Rege. He was thrilled to know that T. Rege was, in fact, on campus and that he could see her! T. Rege recognized Peter immediately and they reminisced about concerts and a music festival from that year. Keep in touch, Peter!

Serafina Youngdahl-Lombardi '94 is living in northern New Mexico, farming, gardening and meditating.  Her sister, Becca Youngdahl-Lombardi '95, lives nearby.  Serafina and her partner recently welcomed baby Joshua Sol-Fiore Lombardi Roberts . You can reach Serafina at serafina3333@yahoo.com or P.O. Box 92, Tesque, NM  87574.

Christopher Lewis '00 has graduated from Muhlenberg College and will begin an internship in neuroscience research at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Louisa Diffey '02 and Samantha Moog '02 vacationed together in Budapest (see photo). Louisa is a junior at the University of Denver in International Studies and French, and is spending her junior year abroad at l'Universite' des Science Politiques in Paris. Samantha is a junior at Middlebury College, studying abroad at Marseille in the south of France.

In June, Julien Reddick '05 will begin an internship with Dr. Jonathan Brody in the pancreatic cancer research laboratory at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.

Lauren Reilly '05 is a senior at Mercersburg Academy where she has appeared this year in “Bye, Bye Birdie,” and “Rumors.” She played Lady MacBeth in a University of the Arts pre-college program production of “MacBeth.”

Alex Horne '06 won third place in the 30-pound class of combat robots with his robot, Phoenix, a flipper combat robot, at Motorama Robot Conflict. The event, sponsored by the Northeast Robotics Club (NERC) is the premiere robotics combat event on the East coast. Alex is a junior at Westtown.

Aliyah Chase, who attended WCFS with the Class of 2006, recently returned for a one-day student teaching opportunity with T. Connie's class (see photo). Aliyah is a junior at Center for Arts and Technology.

The Class of 2004 News

Grace Diliberto is attending Bard College. She recently enjoyed an internship at the Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Elizabeth DiFilippo graduated from Sanford School and is enrolled at Salve Regina University, in Newport RI. She played #2 singles and #1 doubles for the women's varsity tennis team, and was selected this fall for All Conference in the Coastal Athletic Conference, a tremendous achievement for a freshman!

Tracey Durnell graduted from Westtown and is attending Widener University.

Sarah Glessner graduated from Villa Maria Academy and is attending University of Scranton to study nursing. Sarah completed 15 years of dancing with Harrison Dance Studios in West Chester.

Westtown graduate Caylin Haldeman is currently at Global College, an accredited program of Long Island University through which students spend four years abroad, each year in a different country.   For her first year, she is in Costa Rica; next year will be in India and then on to China.

Nikki Mancuso graduted from East High School. She is studying interior architecture and design at Philadelphia University.

Wendy Morrison graduated from the Baldwin School and is enrolled at the University of Virginia. She was a National Merit Finalist. Wendy highly recommends going to a challenging, all girls school, and feels it really made a difference for her!

Kevin Myers graduted from Westtown and is attending Lafayette College.

Kieran Nelson graduated from Westtown and attends Pennsylvania State University.

Sean Novak graduated from Westtown and is studying at Muhlenberg College.

Alyn O'Brien graduated from Wilmington Friends School and attends Ithaca College, where she plays on the Ithaca Women's Club Lacrosse team.

Nyan Oliver graduated from Woodstock Union High School and is enrolled at the University of Vermont.

Kay Wade graduated from Tome School and is attending Loyola University in New Orleans. She studies a double major, in music industry (business) and Latino studies, with a minor in journalism.

Jack Webster graduated from Westtown and is studying at Tufts University.

Alyssa Young graduated from Westtown and attends Bryn Mawr College.

Kevin Alloway and Bella Dieckmann, who attended WCFS, graduated from Westtown and are attending the University of Richmond and Johns Hopkins, respectively.

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