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Alumni, please let us know what you are doing, teaching/working and/or going to school!  We will post your information on the Alumni News page as well as publish it in our annual Newsletter.  Please send your alumni news (including your name, year of graduation, and program of study) to smabrouk@frc.mass.edu; please use the subject line "FSC Alumni News for Newsletter/Alumni News Page".

Alumni News from 2004:

• Jennifer Jordan is teaching middle school mathematics at Cathedral Grammar School in Boston. She plans to begin work on her master’s degree in elementary education in January.

• Andrea Prova is currently teaching in a long-term substitute position at the Sherborn Public Schools. She is teaching in an integrated preschool classroom and she really enjoys it. She is considering beginning her master’s degree in Special Education soon.

• John Meany teaches freshman and sophomore Algebra I classes at Gardner High School. He is the assistant boys varsity soccer coach and the head coach of the boys junior varsity ice hockey team.

• Gordon McLean is completing his first year of teaching mathematics at Marblehead High School. He is teaching Algebra II to sophomores and juniors and he plans to return there next year.

• Steve O’Leary has been teaching at Ashland High School for two years. He is looking forward to teaching a project-based Visual Basic Class next year.

• PJ Yim is working as a mathematics teacher at Leland High School in San Jose, California. He is also the math coach plus the club advisor for Samulnori/Pungmul (traditional Korean percussion) Club. He is thinking about graduate school in architecture.

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• Jennifer Lumb is currently working at Long Creek Development Center as a mathematics teacher. She loves her job.

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• Sue Ekberg has just completed twelve exhausting weeks of student teaching at Ambridge Junior High School in Pennsylvania. She is also the assistant track and field coach at Ambridge Junior High. She will receive her teacher’s certification from Robert Morris University as soon as she passes the state exam.

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• Aaron Gong continues to work at the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick. He is an Equipment Specialist/Provisioner on the Field Services/Field Feeding Team in the Integrated Logistics Support Center. He is involved in the process of recording and cataloging spare and repair parts associated with their equipment. He also assists in the review of maintenance procedures and technical documents.

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• Kevin Jackson-Mead is working at McDougal Littell (a division of Houghton Mifflin) in downtown Boston. He has been working on state-customized teacher’s editions for middle school and high school books. He reports that they are gearing up to start a major revision on teacher’s editions, ancillaries, and technology products. He is happy to talk to anyone who might be interested in textbook editing as a career.

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• Steve Bairos works as a Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Data Translation and is responsible for verifying the operation and performance of a wide-range of data acquisition and image processing software products.

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• Daniel Lopes is a lease analyst at T.J. Maxx in Framingham, but does work pertaining to other TJX chains such as Marshalls, HomeGoods, and A.J. Wright. His primary responsibility is to reconcile Common Area Maintenance (CAM) billings sent to the company by the company’s landlords throughout the country. He is currently training to perform all general accounting functions for the T.J. Maxx chain rent and CAM accounts.

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