In this video, watch as Mary Pols ’82, a reporter for the Poland Press Herald, enjoys a freshly caught brook trout during a recent ice fishing outing on Lower Range Pond in Poland, Maine. Read her accompanying article about the current ice fishing season, which even includes a few traditional New England fish recipes.
Rafael Cortina ’09 was named to MSN Latinzine’s “10 Latinos to Watch in 2014” list. At age 22, Mr. Cortina won a Student Academy Award for Bottled Up, a film he produced as a senior at Occidental College.
Mr. Cortina was profiled in the latest edition of the Bulletin. His article, and the rest of the magazine, can be read online here.
Among others named to the list were GLEE actress Naya Rivera and Julian Castro, the mayor of San Antonio, TX.
Samantha Fallon ’12, a defender on UMass Boston’s Women’s ice hockey team, was named MVP of the women’s 7th annual Codfish Bowl Tournament.
The former athletic director of Boston State College (now UMass Boston) James Sullivan and former hockey coach Ed Barry began the Codfish Bowl Tournament in 1965 as an annual showcase of Men’s Division III hockey teams from New England.
The 2-0 victory was the first tournament championship win in the 10-year history of the UMass Boston Women’s ice hockey program.
Highlights from the game, including Ms. Fallon’s first period goal, can be seen in this UMass Boston Athletics video.
As a portion of his senior thesis, Hampshire College senior Jack Spagnola ’10 has produced Collaboration, a comedic play about a couple, both of whom are writers.
The wife, Melissa, has just received news that her worldwide bestselling novel is now being made into a movie, and she is ecstatic. When Stew, her struggling screenwriter husband, hears that his pilot will not be getting picked up by HBO, he is devastated. Collaboration is a new comedy that explores what happens when you keep a little too much from your spouse, and tell a little too much to someone who may not exist.
Mr. Spagnola’s play will run from January 24 to 26 and January 30 to February 1. Click here to learn more and for the entire 2013-14 Hampshire College Theatre season schedule. Tickets are available online here.
She considers herself an artist and a humanitarian. However, when Kinda Hibrawi ’96 began Zeitouna, she became a woman of all trades.
In 2013, after a Greek museum made budgetary cuts and cancelled an exhibit of her paintings, Ms. Hibrawi co-founded Zeitouna, a program of creative workshops for refugee children in Syria and Turkey. During these weeklong periods, she and her team use art, sports, and creative writing to help these children heal from the wounds of being torn away from their homes and forced to grow up in a refugee camp.
How and when did you come up with the idea for Zeitouna?
It’s an interesting story where, out of despair, comes hope. I came across a documentary on HBO called “Sing your Song,” a biography of Harry Belafonte. I had no idea of his philanthropic work, the things he did for Africa, and the awareness he brought. I remember being so inspired at the end of it and thinking, “Why isn’t anyone bringing this awareness to Syria?”
