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Alumni Award: Mickey Meyer ’03

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Photo by Joanna Chattman

Michael “Mickey” Meyer ’03 received the Alumni Trailblazer Award in a ceremony in the Phillips Stevens Chapel on May 14, 2016. Nick Hill ’17 presented the award.

Created in 2015 for the school’s 175th Anniversary, the Alumni Trailblazer Award is presented to an alumnus or alumna of the school under the age of 40 who has demonstrated significant professional achievement and contributions to his or her profession and/or community and continued promise of success in the future.

Meyer is the cofounder of JASH, a comedy community with roots in both the digital and television world and featuring such clients as Adam Carolla, Norm Macdonald, Sarah Silverman, Tim & Eric, Reggie Watts and Michael Cera.  Meyer is also a founder of Can’t Do Nothing, an effort to create action through content around various non-profits. He has met with President Obama and various other White House officials such as Joe Biden and Valerie Jarrett as part of the White House’s Entertainment advisory group.  He has been named to Forbes Magazine’s 30 under 30 list as well as the Hollywood Reporter‘s Next Generation Executives under 35 list. He has also won Sundance, multiple Cannes Lion’s in the advertising space, and a Streamy for his work with the White House.  Prior to JASH, Mickey was the head of the Comedy Network and then executive producer at Maker Studios, Inc. where he created content for YouTube channels like Epic Rap Battles, Bad Lip Reading, Good Neighbor and Kassem G.

While at Williston, Meyer played ice hockey, baseball, and soccer, and served as a peer educator, proctor, and gold key member.  Following graduation, he attended the University of Colorado Boulder for one year before transferring to the University of Southern California.

Meyer lives in El Segundo, CA, with his wife Terra and two boys, Knox and Logan.

Congratulations, Mickey!

 

Jayne Brassington ’97

Jayne BrassingtonAfter working in established practices across Scotland for over 8 years, Chiropractors Jayne Brassington ’97, Tess Brady and Alyssa Paris have opened a new clinic in the heart of Stockbridge.

Edinburgh Chiropractic Clinic has opened just in time to help you shake off the winter blues and get healthy for an active spring. With a great location in North West Circus Place, Edinburgh Chiropractic Clinic is open and ready to treat a variety of conditions suffered by Stockbridge locals. Read More

Colin D’Amour ’03, Margaret D’Amour ’04, Christian D’Amour ’07

Christian D'AmourIt was the one of those rites-of-passage moments. It could have been any one of us.

Son is in search of his first job at age 15.

Dad drops him off in the parking lot of the neighborhood supermarket, tells his son to ask for the manager and says he’ll wait in the car.

The son is on his own. He goes inside, asks for the manager, is told the manager isn’t in, and the teenager becomes so flustered he tosses his job application on the counter and flees the store, not quite knowing what to do.

“I told my father to just drive,” remembers Colin D’Amour with a huge grin on his face about when he got back to the parking lot and jumped in the car. Read more.

Paul McNeil ’01 and Sally Ekus ’03

Paul McNeil and Sally Ekus Family Fun ImprovTake some fun, kid-friendly entertainment, mix it with professional-grade improvisational theater, and voilà! you have the “Happier Family Comedy Show” — a brand-new, monthly event — designed especially for kids by the folks who’ve kept their parents in stitches for years and featuring Williston alumni Paul McNeil ’01 and Sally Ekus ’03

The “Happier Family Comedy Show” will take place every third Saturday at the 121 Club in the Eastworks building at 116 North Pleasant St. in Easthampton. Each show will feature performers ready to knock each sock off, one at a time. Read more.