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Your advice counts!
Pomona College alumni in French, Spanish and Romance
Literatures are urged to register with the Career
Development Office’s Career Advisors Database as volunteers
who will share their career information with current Pomona
College students. Graduates with majors in French and
Spanish tend, more than in other disciplinary areas, to be
involved in a wide variety of careers, national and
international. As such, they constitute a rich and valuable
resource for those students who also wish to make the
commitment to gaining mastery in foreign languages. (www.pomona.edu/cdo)
Getting a jump start on career opportunities
Pomona College’s award-winning Career Development Office has
extensive information about career opportunities with
foreign languages, international internships and
opportunities to live, work and travel abroad. Some services
are available on-line, while the CDO’s in-house library
provides up-to-date publications and resource materials. To
check out these services, log onto the Career Development
Office website at:
www.pomona.edu/cdo.
Becoming a member of the Alumni Association
For graduates of the College, the official Alumni page
offers information about news and events, alumni
communities, services and resources, travel opportunities
offered by the College and much, much more. Check out the
site at:
www.pomona.edu/alumni.
Pomona graduates in French and Spanish have had this to say
about what they are currently doing. Send us news about you!
Catherine John
Graduation Year: 2005
Last Update in June 2005: For the 2005-2006 school year, I
am attending a one-year program at Bordeaux III Departement
d'Etudes Françaises Langue Etrangère, and it's called
Diplôme Supérieur d'Etudes Françaises. The semester starts
in October and I will be going over to France in September
to find housing. The program ends in mid-June.
Anne Paprocki
Graduation Year: 2005
Last Update in October 2005: Anne Paprocki moved to New York
City after graduation. She first worked at Penguin
Publishing as a subsidiary rights intern. In August she
accepted a position at Cambridge University Press as an
editorial assistant. She is currently working on a
ground-breaking series of ESL textbooks for adult immigrants
to the US. She lives in Brooklyn with three other Pomona
grads.
Alexandra Thompson
Graduation Year: 2005
Last Update in October 2005: Alix Thompson spent the summer
after graduation doing translations for Professor Saigal and
traveling in France. She won a grant from the French Embassy
to spend 10 days hiking in Chamonix in July. In August she
moved to New York City and now works for a high-end French
furniture company in Manhattan as the CEO's executive
assistant (www.grange.fr). She keeps up her French by
translating business correspondence for the company. She
lives in Brooklyn with three other Pomona grads.
Phuong-Thai García
Graduation Year: 2001
Last update in February 2007: I majored in Spanish at
Pomona. I also took all the pre-med classes, but by Fall of
my senior year, I realized that I loved Spanish so much that
I wanted to continue studying it, and I decided to go to
graduate school. Pomona prepared me well, and even the
graduate level classes in grad school were quite manageable
after having written papers for Pomona’s Spanish classes and
after […] my senior thesis. After earning my degree, my
husband and I moved to the Chicago area to teach at Lake
Forest Academy. This is my fourth year teaching Spanish, and
we love the environment here at LFA.
Michael Salisbury
Graduation Year: 2000
Last Update in June 2005: Michel Salisbury est venu à Pomona
sans avoir jamais pris un cours de français. Mais pendant sa
deuxième année, et à cause de l'inspiration de Peggy Waller
la magnifique, il a décidé de se spécialiser en littérature
française. Il a passé une année à Paris hyper-chouette quoi.
Allez les bleus! Il a écrit sa thèse sur le rapport entre «
Une Saison en Enfer » de Rimbaud et La Chute de Camus. Et
puis, par miracle, il a trouvé une façon d'utiliser son
français quand il est allé en Afrique pour faire le Corps de
la Paix (Peace Corps) au Mali. C'était deux ans fantastiques
et durs et il est revenu avec des membres de fer, la peau
sombre, l'œil furieux. Maintenant il vit à St Louis et de
temps en temps il essaie de parler un peu de français, mais
malheureusement c'est devenu assez rouillé. If you'd like to
be in contact with Mike, contact mwaller@pomona.edu for his
email address.
Jessica Hartl
Graduation Year: 1997
Last Update in October 2005: Since graduating from Pomona,
where my interest in working/living overseas blossomed as a
result of studying in France, I have aimed to travel as much
as possible, but there is still a lot of world out there to
explore! […]I decided to take on a Master's program, which I
finished in May 2004. My degree was in International Peace
and Conflict Resolution, through a great little program at
Arcadia University just outside Philadelphia. I now have a
position as Program Coordinator, Council of Organizations at
the United Nations Association of the USA. I have only been
in the position a short time, but am enjoying the work so
far!
Anthony Rogers
Graduation Year: 1995
Last Update in June 2005: I work for the Santa Barbara
County Department of Public Health as a family physician. I
speak exclusively Spanish with about 70% of my patients. I
have only used my French once, during my trip to French
Polynesia for my honeymoon!! Despite my lack of French use,
I am still extremely pleased with my choice of Major. I knew
back then that I wanted to be a doctor, and that I would
probably not end up working with Médecins sans Frontières
(although still my favorite charity), but I still chose to
major in French. Why? In order of most to least important:
amazing department/faculty, fascinating culture, beautiful
literature, challenging process (learning a foreign
language, then writing and reading critically with it), and
100% opposite of my intended eventual career.
Laurie Guggenheim
Graduation Year: 1990
Last Update in June 2005: When I graduated from Pomona, I
was fortunate to receive a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. I
had an incredible year abroad, working with the Deaf
Community in Paris and Toulouse, France. I've been in
Berkeley for the past 5 years--grew up here, so it was a
'home' sort of place to settle (after jumping around for
school and adventures in DC, Oregon, Hawaii, New
Mexico...and Mexico!) In just a couple of weeks I'll be
leaving my job at the CA School for the Deaf and heading to
Portland, Oregon. I love the diversity, the weather, and
especially my friends in CA, but I'm looking forward to a
slower-paced area. It's an exciting time of transition!
Anne Thompson Adams
Graduation Year: 1972
Last Update in June 2005: I've spent most of the 33 (!?!)
years since graduation as either a volunteer board member or
paid staff person at a number of non-profit organizations in
Seattle. I am currently the Vice President of Resource
Development (fundraising and public relations) for Family
Services of King County. I have visited France twice since
college -- in 1992 when my husband (Greg Adams '73)and
friends ran the Paris Marathon, and in 1999 during Greg's
sabbatical with our daughters Elizabeth and Katie. On each
trip, I stopped briefly in Besancon to see how it had
changed since Experiment in International Living days.
Elizabeth is a senior at Williams College, and Katie is a
senior in high school considering Pomona and several other
options for 2006. |
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