Summertime, and the livin’ is . . . pretty darn interesting for the 15 teens who were Central City Flower Girls for 2008.
The recent high school graduates were presented last Saturday night as part of the Yellow Rose Ball that helped launch the Central City Opera’s 76th season.
Alexandra Scripps Groos, for example, is off to Paris, where she’ll work for the next several weeks. Then it’s off to the West Coast to enroll at the University of California at Los Angeles. A fourth-generation native Coloradan, Lexy is the great-granddaughter of the late architect Temple Hoyne Buell, whose works include the Historic Paramount Theater and Cherry Creek Shopping Center. Her parents are Catherine Chase Groos and the late Alexander Groos.
Lexy’s cousin, Elizabeth Helen Craig Pickard, has a summer internship at a local museum. Liz’s grandfather, the late Atwill Gilman, was for many years chairman of the Central City Opera House Association board.
Megan Elizabeth Zajkowski is no stranger to foreign study, having spent last summer at Oxford in England. Come fall, the former student at Colorado Academy departs for Scotland and her freshman year at the University of St. Andrews.
Working as a camp counselor in Texas will be keeping Sarah Grace Ammons busy before she starts her freshman year at Southern Methodist University; travel lies ahead for Allison McDonald Bathgate, whose itinerary includes trips to New York City, Maryland’s eastern shore, Los Angeles and Maui.
SMU also is the college destination for good friends Elizabeth Ashton Eliot and Georgia Pynchon Grey, both graduates of Colorado Academy. Elizabeth is a counselor at CA’s summer camp while Georgia is teaching kayaking and canoeing at a camp in North Carolina.
Elizabeth Anne Marsico, who will play Division I tennis for the University of Southern California, is celebrating her graduation from Cherry Creek High School by traveling to Europe with her family, as is Samantha Rand McMillan, who was on the Headmaster’s List at Kent and will attend Tulane.
Erin Anne McGonagle, is working at the Apple store in Cherry Creek Shopping Center before enrolling at Williams College. Olivia Sullivan Ross is gearing up for her freshman year at Johns Hopkins University, where she’ll play field hockey.
Arianna Milan Gerdes left Kent with four of her photographs accepted in its permanent collection; she’ll attend the University of Notre Dame. Work and travel will keep Haley Marie Sorensen busy before taking off for New York, where she’ll be on the Syracuse University rowing team. Boston University, and its lacrosse team, beckons Ann Marie Stookesberry; Allison Louise Welsh will play lacrosse at the University of California at Berkeley.
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