{"id":1338,"date":"2015-01-28T12:19:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T16:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2015-01-28T12:20:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T16:20:03","slug":"new-orleans-alumni-dinner-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2015\/01\/28\/new-orleans-alumni-dinner-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Alumni Dinner Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, January 27, I had dinner with Sebastien Bonnot &#8217;08, Shamanth D\u2019Souza &#8217;10, Christine McBride &#8217;92, Hudson Coley &#8217;08, and his girlfriend Emma at <a href=\"http:\/\/capdevillenola.com\/\">Capdeville<\/a>, a fabulous little restaurant that was recommended by Christine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1339 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0131-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0131\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0131-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0131-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0131.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This was a lot of fun and the food was simply outstanding.\u00a0 I had duck and strawberry wontons along with mac and cheese with truffle oil!<\/p>\n<p>The funniest part of the evening was when Christine and Sebastian both realized that they worked for the same events company, Solomon Group.\u00a0 They spent a while talking shop and who they worked with.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian came to Williston Northampton as result of Hurricane Katrina.\u00a0 When the storm displaced all the kids here, Williston Northampton took Sebastian in.\u00a0 After his sophomore year, he left to return to New Orleans, but quickly realized his school wasn\u2019t being rebuilt quickly, so he came back as a midyear boarder and ended up graduating from Williston Northampton\u00a0 He now does events management.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Christine has worked all over the world doing events, including the NBA All-Star Game and last year\u2019s Food Network Food &amp; Wine Festival in NYC.\u00a0 She was excited to hear we were doing a celebration for Couchie and said she would try to make it back this Reunion for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0133.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1341 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0133-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0133\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0133-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0133-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2015\/01\/IMG_0133.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hud is working with the Tulane Athletic Department, doing video editing for all their teams and working on advertising. I had them all download the EverTrue app.<\/p>\n<p>Shamanth, who is from India, came to Williston Northampton from Saudi Arabia since his parents were working for ARAMCO. He attended Loyola and graduated last year.\u00a0 His sister is currently a student at The University of Richmond and loving it.<\/p>\n<p>They all wanted to hear all about what was different at Williston Northampton, which alumni that they knew were doing what, and I gave them all pub glasses at the end of the night which they loved.\u00a0 We had some great conversations about Mardi Gras (a week of debauchery) and food (fried oysters, popular NOLA drinks).\u00a0 Sebastian, having grown up in New Orleans, had some great stories about growing up here and attending the Mardi Gras parades.<\/p>\n<p>Next up:<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"contentElementTitle ui-accordion-header ui-helper-reset ui-state-default ui-corner-all\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.williston.com\/page.cfm?p=699#\">Miami, FL Alumni Brunch on February 22, 2015<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"contentElementTitle ui-accordion-header ui-helper-reset ui-state-default ui-corner-all\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.williston.com\/page.cfm?p=699#\">Vero Beach, FL Alumni Cocktail Party on February 23, 2015<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"contentElementTitle ui-accordion-header ui-helper-reset ui-state-default ui-corner-all\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.williston.com\/page.cfm?p=699#\">Alumni and Parent Winter Park, CO Ski Event March 12-13, 2015<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"contentElementTitle ui-accordion-header ui-helper-reset ui-state-default ui-corner-all\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.williston.com\/page.cfm?p=699#\">Vermont Alumni Event on April 10, 2015<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"contentElementTitle ui-accordion-header ui-helper-reset ui-state-default ui-corner-all\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.williston.com\/page.cfm?p=699#\">San Francisco Pub Night on April 23, 2015<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"contentElementTitle ui-accordion-header ui-helper-reset ui-state-default ui-corner-all\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.williston.com\/page.cfm?p=699#\">Santa Barbara Winery Weekend on April 25, 2015<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"contentElementTitle ui-accordion-header ui-helper-reset ui-state-default ui-corner-all ui-state-hover\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.williston.com\/page.cfm?p=699#\">Ward Medal Assembly on May 1, 2015<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, January 27, I had dinner with Sebastien Bonnot &#8217;08, Shamanth D\u2019Souza &#8217;10, Christine McBride &#8217;92, Hudson Coley &#8217;08, and his girlfriend Emma at Capdeville, a fabulous little restaurant that was recommended by Christine. This was a lot of fun and the food was simply outstanding.\u00a0 I had duck and strawberry wontons along with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2015\/01\/28\/new-orleans-alumni-dinner-recap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Orleans Alumni Dinner Recap<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}