ALUMNI
Over 21? Then come to EATS08, our annual fundraiser! Young alumni from the classes of 1997 to 2000, you can attend for free!
Send us your news! Send us your photos!
And send us your current mailing address--we have several
alumni events in the planning. Email us at alumni@tpschool.org
Join the TPS Alumni Association Facebook group! So far, more than 150 TPS alums have joined.
Melissa Braff '03 and Dischord Perform at TPS
On April 25, Melissa Braff donned her TPS t-shirt and brought her Penn a cappella group Dischord across the river to perform at TPS. The 30-minute concert was fantastic and especially apreciated by the current members of TPS's Mesure for Measure. We'll post information soon about how to order Dischord's cds.
TPS Crosses the Schuylkill
On April 17, the Mar Bar on 40th & Walnut hosted a get-together for TPS alumni who are now students or recent graduates of Penn and Drexel. Coordinated with the help of Lee Jacobs '00, a Penn senior, about a dozen TPS alums took a break from their studies for a few hours to spend some time with each other and some of therir former TPS teachers - Judith Parker, Emily Marston, Steve Bartholomew, and Dan Lai. They also had an opportunity to meet Amy Vorenberg, TPS head of school.
TPS High School Reunion, December 7, 2007
More than 65% of our alumni in theTPS
Classes of 2004 to 2007 attended our reunion. The 73 returning alumni reconnected with friends
and former teachers, played a little basketball, and sang some a cappella – "I'm Not Perfect" and "Yellow Submarine" – with Measure
for Measure.
We were so delighted to have our high school alumni back at TPS and so pleased that TPS still feels like "home" to so many of them.
Here are some pictures from the afternoon.
Richie Decoatsworth '00 Local Hero!
Richie, a rookie Philadelphia police officer, is recovering from wounds sustained on September 24, 2007, when a driver he had pulled over fired birdshot at him at close range.Top police officials, including Commissioner Sylvester M. Johnson and Homicide Inspector Joseph Mooney, called Richie's pursuit of the gunman heroic; though seriously wounded, RIchie had run after the suspect for several blocks.
Third Annual TPS Homecoming
Our over-21 alumni were invited to the third annual TPS Homecoming at Black Sheep Pub and Restaurant on Friday, November 23. About 30 alumni attended – ranging from the class of 1987 to the class of 2001. Another 25 had to decline the invitation – with comments such as "wish I could be there," "would love to come but I'll be in San Francisco," "unfortunately I'm in the middle of the desert in Egypt . . . bad timing," "will be working in New York," and "I would love to come but I am currently living 6000 miles away in Israel."
Here are a few pictures from Black Sheep Pub (note there was a particularly great turnout from the Class of 1997).
Julian King, Adam Burgos, Judah Ferst, Amanda Pitt –
all Class of 1997
Andrea Korb '00, Leah Sandals '99, Jacob Cooper '99, and Molly Swartz '98
Alicia West and Beth Connor - both Class of 1997
Recent News
Justin Pearlman '84 is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research Advancement at the University of Southern California.
Danny Traub '85, a photographer living in China, had two photographs published to accompany the cover story in the New York Times Sunday magazine (4/2/07).
Sarah Dry '87 lives in England, where she is a postdoctoral fellow at the Economic and Social Research Council; Sarah’s research area is the history of government science and safety in Victorian Britain. Her book Curie was published in 2003.
Michael Lissack '91 sent us this photo, apparently
taken before the Miami Heat won the NBA FInals. 
Natasha MItchell '93 will be joining the TPS MMiddle School teaching team next year. She will teach 7th and 8th grade science.
Tanya Banks-Christensen '94 is the first full-time female captain of the historic tall ship Quinnipiack.
Alison Steele ’94 has left the Concord Monitor to join the staff of The Star-Ledger in Newark, NJ.
Mengda Zhu '94 works for an online interactive design firm as lead interactive designer and project manager.
Jishnu Gupta '98 recently stopped by TPS. Jishnu lives and works in Connecticut; he is an aerodynamics engineer at Sikorsky. Here he is with one of his favorite TPS teachers:
Angela Hang '98 is teaching 7th and 8th grade science in New York City. She reports that teaching "has brought back a lot of memories of TPS."
Leah Sandals '99 is a communications associate with Homes for the Homeless, a not-for-profit organization based in NYC that provides housing and services for previously homeless families.
Zach Marks '01 was featured in the January 31, 2007, New York Times in January 07 as a "dining hall gastronome." Zach writes a food column in the Yale Daily News, in which he offers practical tips for livening up dining hall food. He has been approached by a publisher to write a students' guide to dining hall food.
Nathan Sandals '01 is a Senior Sports Editor and Associate Online Editor of the Michigan Daily.
TPS High School Reunion, December 8, 2006
More than half of our alumni in theTPS
Classes of 2003 to 2006 attended our reunion. We
hope they enjoyed reconnecting with friends
and former teachers, playing a little basketball (and hockey
in the Middle School!), and singing some a cappella with Measure
for Measure. Here are some pictures from the afternoon.
         
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