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Class of 2005
Class of 2006

Class of 2005

Justina Barrett
Prior to settling in Delaware, Justina found the choice between residing in Pennsylvania or Washington, DC, a difficult one. Raised in northeastern PA, she studied history and education at Bryn Mawr College, utilizing the archives at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to write her thesis on the educational role of museums. Her interest in museums directed her to DC to a position at the Textile Museum, where her legacy includes staff croquet parties. Vibrant as DC life was, she wanted to explore a career in museum education and thus crossed the Mason-Dixon Line again to serve as Curator of Education at Wheatland, the 19th-century home of President James Buchanan. Shortly before arriving at Winterthur and thus marking a milestone in her lifelong love of the era of Thomas Jefferson, Justina returned to Washington to work for a civic education foundation. She is fascinated by politics, pirates, and croquet.

Melissa Buchanan
Mel grew up in an Indiana town, the child of parents who planned many a family vacation around historical tourism. She completed her undergraduate degree in American Studies at Yale University concentrating in Arts and Material Culture. There, she took 17th- and 18th-century American material life classes that sparked her interest and introduced the idea of Winterthur as a mecca of such glorious things. After graduation, Mel returned home to Madison, Indiana to spend a year working with the Westerly Group, Inc., historic preservation consultants. While working on a National Historic Landmark nomination for Madison, she became interested in historic preservation issues as well. Mel and her trusty '89 Toyota often venture on road trips, believing that any destination within one time zone is an easy weekend get-away.

Dana Byrd
Peripatetic, Dana was born in Philadelphia, raised in Washington, DC, and earned her BA in the History of Art at Yale University. To pursue her passion for teaching, she moved to St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware, where she learned that an object-centered approach to the study of United States history kept her teenage students fully engaged. From the Frederick Douglass manse in Washington, DC, to the Museum of the City of San Francisco, Dana has never met a historic house or museum she did not like. She hopes that her work in the Winterthur Program will allow her to further explore the intersection of social history, material culture, and museum education. During her free time Dana enjoys reading, knitting, tennis, scuba diving, and traveling whenever possible.

Emily Cline
Two constant childhood games on her family's tree farm in rural southwestern Pennsylvania helped cement Emily's future: playing dress-up and acting out local and family stories. At age thirteen, Emily began volunteer work at the Meadowcroft Museum of Rural Life, where she experienced such varied activities as exhibit development, rodent control, collections inventories, living history interpretation, and herding cattle in a thunderstorm. Emily's family encouraged her to study historic clothing and research early American foodways. Such interests led to Catawba College where she majored in History and Theater Arts. Emily held an undergraduate internship in the textile collection at the Senator John Heinz Regional Pittsburgh History Center. She was also an intern at Old Salem where she secured a full-time position after graduation from Catawba. Here she used period techniques to research and create gowns, bonnets, and accessories for use in the 1840 Vogler House. Now Emily is glad to be living back in rural, wooded hills at Winterthur. In her free time Emily enjoys creating (and wearing) historic clothing, re-enacting eras from the 1750s-1896, and cooking.

Rachel Delphia
Rachel is thrilled to have finally found her academic niche in design history and material culture. Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Rachel earned a BFA in Industrial Design at Carnegie Mellon where she combined her love of art and problem-solving. However, she realized that she had forgotten about her insatiable appetite for the humanities and found her way to the English Department for an MA in Literary and Cultural Studies. Though she has chosen to study objects for a living, she can still be found designing and building furniture in her spare time. Rachel has worked as an exhibit designer and researcher at COSI Studio in Columbus and at the Pittsburgh Childrens Museum. While in Pittsburgh, she also collaborated with fellow students and Family Communications Inc. to help create fun, educational signage about roller coasters at the historic Kennywood Amusement Park. During her two years at Winterthur Rachel is looking forward to absorbing as much as she can about American furniture and craftsmanship.

Jennie Gallagher
A native Delawarean, Jennie resides in the suburban community of Hockessin. In the spring of 2003, Jennie graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Delaware earning a BA in Art History, a BA in Fine Art with a concentration in painting, and a minor in American Material Culture Studies. During her undergraduate career, Jennie worked after school and several summers teaching childrens art classes at the Delaware Art Museum and Wilmington Friends School. She also had the opportunity to spend a semester studying at the Maryland Institute, College of Art. Recent internships in the Education and Public Programming Departments at Winterthur and the Delaware Art Museum allowed her to combine her love of studying art objects and working with children. Outside of the classroom, Jennie enjoys playing soccer, learning to golf, and painting.

Elizabeth Garrett
As a native of Charleston, Elizabeth had early exposure to historic architecture and southern decorative arts. She graduated from the College of Charleston with a BS in Anthropology and an emphasis in Archaeology. She subsequently worked several years with the Charleston Museum as an archaeologist on urban and suburban historic sites in and around Charleston. After months of travel in Europe and a two-year stint in Seattle, Elizabeth returned home to begin working for a decorative arts appraiser specializing in furniture, silver, and paintings. This hands-on exposure to objects as well as two summers spent studying at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts cemented her desire to pursue graduate studies in this field. In her free time Elizabeth enjoys traveling whenever possible, eating good food, photography, reading, and taking apart furniture.

Megan Giordano
Megan graduated from Messiah College in May 2003 with a degree in History. She volunteered at NARA in Philadelphia and local Historical Societies, but summers in windowless archives taught her to appreciate contact with the public. During her junior year, Megan interned at the James and Ann Whitall House at Red Bank Battlefield. At this historic house museum, Megan worked closely with the curator and gained invaluable hands-on experience giving guided tours, writing grants, creating presentations, and herding fourth graders and then keeping their attention. Devoted to public history, Megan needed to learn how to effectively interpret objects from the past for a general audience. Fortunately, Megan encountered a professor who was excited about material culture and how such studies could inform and expand the task of the historian. She hopes someday to return to the challenging world of small sites and local history, but for now Megan is happy to be back in the Delaware Valley. A lifelong resident of a small South Jersey town, Megan attended Padua Academy, a high school just a few miles from Winterthur. When she actually puts down her books, she can be found gardening, watching interminable (preferably British) costume dramas, or arguing the calls on ESPN's Hockey Night.

Nicholas Schonberger
Nicholas was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, spent his early youth in Washington, DC, and survived his teen years in Bloomfield, Connecticut. He was introduced to the world of antiques during long detours to and from diving meets around the mid-Atlantic region. Before long the former Delaware Valley under-9, 1-meter champion became more interested in these diversions than competition, gradually phasing out athletics in favor of object hunting. While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Nicholas received his BA in Art History in 2003, he realized he could merge his interest in objects with academics. During his time in Madison, Nicholas held research internships at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, and the Wisconsin State Historical Society. Nicholas spends his free time visiting family and friends, searching for rare sneakers and Welsh hip-hop records, along the East Coast and in the U.K. He is an avid supporter of both the Philadelphia 76ers and Arsenal Football Club. Nicholas also enjoys the comedy of Steve Coogan, and is partial to a pint of bitter.

Bobbye Tigerman
Bobbye became passionate about functional art while working in the European Works of Art Department at Sotheby's New York. As an art history concentrator at Harvard University, Bobbye focused her coursework on architectural history and urban studies. Most recently, she earned a masters degree in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where she studied the representation of Victorian urban life and researched the reception and perception of the underground railway in the nineteenth-century popular press. She has worked in several museums, most recently as a researcher on an Arts and Crafts exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and on an exhibition of Frank Gehry's recent work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Bobbye plans to focus her studies at Winterthur on modern architecture and decorative arts, particularly California design, and Jewish material culture. During her stay in Delaware, she hopes to immerse herself in gardening, woodworking, and Delaware's antique offerings.

Class of 2006

Kimberley Ahara
Kimberley grew up in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, but calls Washington D.C. home. After several years at school in South Africa and in New York City, Kim studied art history at UCLA and worked at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. She completed her degree at the City College of New York and worked with books and manuscripts at Swann Auction Galleries. Recently, she was a researcher and writer for the Navy Museum's new Cold War Galleries in Washington D.C. For fun, Kim visits places of living history and travels with her husband.

Kathryn Beckham
Katy grew up in Salem, Oregon, and earned her B.A. in art history at Pomona College. Her passion for art history was cemented during a semester of study in Rome. She wrote her thesis on a previously unknown collection of Native American ledger drawings and was awarded the Louisa Mosely Prize in art history and a Hart Research Grant. After graduation, Katy moved to Seattle and worked in fashion design. She is delighted to be at Winterthur and once again studying objects and collections. In her spare time, Katy enjoys watching movies, traveling, and pestering her cat, Lemur.

Amy Bogansky
Like most children raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Amy was exposed at an early age to the area's historic sites and museums. But unlike most, she dragged her parents along for visits. Eventually, Amy abandoned the burbs for Manhattan where she attended Columbia University and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in art history. To gain experience in the art world, Amy worked at the Frick Museum, the Organization of Independent Artists and Art & Auction Magazine. When not pursuing her scholarly interests, she travels, plays a mean game of darts, and writes fiction.

Derin Bray
Derin hails from York, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of the York Peppermint Patty and home to the Weight Lifting Hall of Fame. He received a B.A. in history from Yale University, where he focused his studies on early American history and material culture; he wrote a senior thesis on the colonial revival in Newport, R.I. At Yale, Derin worked at the Garvan Furniture Study, assisted with the Rhode Island Furniture Project, and was a high jumper for the Yale track and field team. In his spare time he enjoys basketball, reading, and playing poker with friends and family.

Melissa Engimann

Jane Marion
A native of Rock Hill, South Carolina, Jane grew up taking family vacations to historical sites. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Converse College with a B.A. in history and art history. Jane has volunteered at Historic Brattonville, participated in the Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship Program, guided at Walnut Grove Plantation, and was an intern at Morris Museum of Art. These experiences shaped her desire to work as a museum educator and her love of southern decorative arts, particularly textiles, folk paintings, and furniture. Jane enjoys Jane Austen films, dabbling in needlework, and traveling.

Lisa Minardi
Born and raised in rural Montgomery County, Pa., it was only natural for Lisa to develop a passionate interest in Pennsylvania German culture and arts. Lisa earned her B.A. in history and museum studies at Ursinus College where she studied 18th-century family life and a collection of fraktur for her honors thesis. She became interested in historic preservation while doing research on the Frederick A. Muhlenberg house. Lisa is also interested in 18th-century clothing, a topic she studied in the Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship Program, and has made several historical costumes to wear while demonstrating open hearth cooking.

Deanne Redick
Dee Redick grew up in Franklin, Pa., and nurtured her interests in material culture in local antique stores. Besides contemplating her B.A. as a member of the Robert E. Cook Honors College at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, she has worked for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission at Washington Crossing State Park and participated in the Goschenhoppen Folk Festival. Dee spent a semester abroad in Manchester, England, where she studied with the zoological curator of the Manchester University Museum; she learned that she prefers decorative and fine arts to "dead animals." To relax, she watches Comedy Central, travels, and plays sports.

Caroline Riley
Caroline spent her formative years in Cincinnati, taking trips to museums and working as an intern at the Cincinnati Art Museum. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Boston University, earning a B.A. in art history and history. She enjoyed the combination of American history and art and undertook an internship at the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum. When not at Winterthur, she plans to travel to art museums, historical sites, and house museums on the east coast. She also plans to visit flea markets to add to her collection of ceramics, glass, and prints.

Elizabeth Stoner
Eliza graduated Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Delaware with an Honors B.S. in art history and English. She assisted at the Brandywine River Museum, was a teaching assistant, and acted in student theater. Enthusiastic about travel, she dabbles in farm work when not overseas visiting museums and eating crepes. A riding instructor and trail guide, she served as president of her local 4H chapter, competing with her sheep O'Flaherty and her thoroughbred Ozzy. She feels certain that H. F. du Pont would approve of her interests in decorative arts and livestock.

	Class of 2005

	Justina Barrett Prior to settling in Delaware, Justina found the choice between residing in Pennsylvania or Washington, DC, a difficult one. Raised in northeastern PA, she studied history and education at Bryn Mawr College, utilizing the archives at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to write her thesis on the educational role of museums. Her interest in museums directed her to DC to a position at the Textile Museum, where her legacy includes staff croquet parties. Vibrant as DC life was, she wanted to explore a career in museum education and thus crossed the Mason-Dixon Line again to serve as Curator of Education at Wheatland, the 19th-century home of President James Buchanan. Shortly before arriving at Winterthur and thus marking a milestone in her lifelong love of the era of Thomas Jefferson, Justina returned to Washington to work for a civic education foundation. She is fascinated by politics, pirates, and croquet.

	Melissa Buchanan Mel grew up in an Indiana town, the child of parents who planned many a family vacation around historical tourism. She completed her undergraduate degree in American Studies at Yale University concentrating in Arts and Material Culture. There, she took 17th- and 18th-century American material life classes that sparked her interest and introduced the idea of Winterthur as a mecca of such glorious things. After graduation, Mel returned home to Madison, Indiana to spend a year working with the Westerly Group, Inc., historic preservation consultants. While working on a National Historic Landmark nomination for Madison, she became interested in historic preservation issues as well. Mel and her trusty '89 Toyota often venture on road trips, believing that any destination within one time zone is an easy weekend get-away.

	Dana Byrd Peripatetic, Dana was born in Philadelphia, raised in Washington, DC, and earned her BA in the History of Art at Yale University. To pursue her passion for teaching, she moved to St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware, where she learned that an object-centered approach to the study of United States history kept her teenage students fully engaged. From the Frederick Douglass manse in Washington, DC, to the Museum of the City of San Francisco, Dana has never met a historic house or museum she did not like. She hopes that her work in the Winterthur Program will allow her to further explore the intersection of social history, material culture, and museum education. During her free time Dana enjoys reading, knitting, tennis, scuba diving, and traveling whenever possible.

	Emily Cline Two constant childhood games on her family's tree farm in rural southwestern Pennsylvania helped cement Emily's future: playing dress-up and acting out local and family stories. At age thirteen, Emily began volunteer work at the Meadowcroft Museum of Rural Life, where she experienced such varied activities as exhibit development, rodent control, collections inventories, living history interpretation, and herding cattle in a thunderstorm. Emily's family encouraged her to study historic clothing and research early American foodways. Such interests led to Catawba College where she majored in History and Theater Arts. Emily held an undergraduate internship in the textile collection at the Senator John Heinz Regional Pittsburgh History Center. She was also an intern at Old Salem where she secured a full-time position after graduation from Catawba. Here she used period techniques to research and create gowns, bonnets, and accessories for use in the 1840 Vogler House. Now Emily is glad to be living back in rural, wooded hills at Winterthur. In her free time Emily enjoys creating (and wearing) historic clothing, re-enacting eras from the 1750s-1896, and cooking.

	Rachel Delphia Rachel is thrilled to have finally found her academic niche in design history and material culture. Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Rachel earned a BFA in Industrial Design at Carnegie Mellon where she combined her love of art and problem-solving. However, she realized that she had forgotten about her insatiable appetite for the humanities and found her way to the English Department for an MA in Literary and Cultural Studies. Though she has chosen to study objects for a living, she can still be found designing and building furniture in her spare time. Rachel has worked as an exhibit designer and researcher at COSI Studio in Columbus and at the Pittsburgh Childrens Museum. While in Pittsburgh, she also collaborated with fellow students and Family Communications Inc. to help create fun, educational signage about roller coasters at the historic Kennywood Amusement Park. During her two years at Winterthur Rachel is looking forward to absorbing as much as she can about American furniture and craftsmanship.

	Jennie Gallagher A native Delawarean, Jennie resides in the suburban community of Hockessin. In the spring of 2003, Jennie graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Delaware earning a BA in Art History, a BA in Fine Art with a concentration in painting, and a minor in American Material Culture Studies. During her undergraduate career, Jennie worked after school and several summers teaching childrens art classes at the Delaware Art Museum and Wilmington Friends School. She also had the opportunity to spend a semester studying at the Maryland Institute, College of Art. Recent internships in the Education and Public Programming Departments at Winterthur and the Delaware Art Museum allowed her to combine her love of studying art objects and working with children. Outside of the classroom, Jennie enjoys playing soccer, learning to golf, and painting.

	Elizabeth Garrett As a native of Charleston, Elizabeth had early exposure to historic architecture and southern decorative arts. She graduated from the College of Charleston with a BS in Anthropology and an emphasis in Archaeology. She subsequently worked several years with the Charleston Museum as an archaeologist on urban and suburban historic sites in and around Charleston. After months of travel in Europe and a two-year stint in Seattle, Elizabeth returned home to begin working for a decorative arts appraiser specializing in furniture, silver, and paintings. This hands-on exposure to objects as well as two summers spent studying at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts cemented her desire to pursue graduate studies in this field. In her free time Elizabeth enjoys traveling whenever possible, eating good food, photography, reading, and taking apart furniture.

	Megan Giordano Megan graduated from Messiah College in May 2003 with a degree in History. She volunteered at NARA in Philadelphia and local Historical Societies, but summers in windowless archives taught her to appreciate contact with the public. During her junior year, Megan interned at the James and Ann Whitall House at Red Bank Battlefield. At this historic house museum, Megan worked closely with the curator and gained invaluable hands-on experience giving guided tours, writing grants, creating presentations, and herding fourth graders and then keeping their attention. Devoted to public history, Megan needed to learn how to effectively interpret objects from the past for a general audience. Fortunately, Megan encountered a professor who was excited about material culture and how such studies could inform and expand the task of the historian. She hopes someday to return to the challenging world of small sites and local history, but for now Megan is happy to be back in the Delaware Valley. A lifelong resident of a small South Jersey town, Megan attended Padua Academy, a high school just a few miles from Winterthur. When she actually puts down her books, she can be found gardening, watching interminable (preferably British) costume dramas, or arguing the calls on ESPN's Hockey Night.

	Nicholas Schonberger Nicholas was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, spent his early youth in Washington, DC, and survived his teen years in Bloomfield, Connecticut. He was introduced to the world of antiques during long detours to and from diving meets around the mid-Atlantic region. Before long the former Delaware Valley under-9, 1-meter champion became more interested in these diversions than competition, gradually phasing out athletics in favor of object hunting. While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Nicholas received his BA in Art History in 2003, he realized he could merge his interest in objects with academics. During his time in Madison, Nicholas held research internships at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, and the Wisconsin State Historical Society. Nicholas spends his free time visiting family and friends, searching for rare sneakers and Welsh hip-hop records, along the East Coast and in the U.K. He is an avid supporter of both the Philadelphia 76ers and Arsenal Football Club. Nicholas also enjoys the comedy of Steve Coogan, and is partial to a pint of bitter.

	Bobbye Tigerman Bobbye became passionate about functional art while working in the European Works of Art Department at Sotheby's New York. As an art history concentrator at Harvard University, Bobbye focused her coursework on architectural history and urban studies. Most recently, she earned a masters degree in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where she studied the representation of Victorian urban life and researched the reception and perception of the underground railway in the nineteenth-century popular press. She has worked in several museums, most recently as a researcher on an Arts and Crafts exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and on an exhibition of Frank Gehry's recent work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Bobbye plans to focus her studies at Winterthur on modern architecture and decorative arts, particularly California design, and Jewish material culture. During her stay in Delaware, she hopes to immerse herself in gardening, woodworking, and Delaware's antique offerings.

	Class of 2006
	Kimberley Ahara Kimberley grew up in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, but calls Washington D.C. home. After several years at school in South Africa and in New York City, Kim studied art history at UCLA and worked at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. She completed her degree at the City College of New York and worked with books and manuscripts at Swann Auction Galleries. Recently, she was a researcher and writer for the Navy Museum's new Cold War Galleries in Washington D.C. For fun, Kim visits places of living history and travels with her husband.

	Kathryn Beckham Katy grew up in Salem, Oregon, and earned her B.A. in art history at Pomona College. Her passion for art history was cemented during a semester of study in Rome. She wrote her thesis on a previously unknown collection of Native American ledger drawings and was awarded the Louisa Mosely Prize in art history and a Hart Research Grant. After graduation, Katy moved to Seattle and worked in fashion design. She is delighted to be at Winterthur and once again studying objects and collections. In her spare time, Katy enjoys watching movies, traveling, and pestering her cat, Lemur.

	Amy Bogansky Like most children raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Amy was exposed at an early age to the area's historic sites and museums. But unlike most, she dragged her parents along for visits. Eventually, Amy abandoned the burbs for Manhattan where she attended Columbia University and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in art history. To gain experience in the art world, Amy worked at the Frick Museum, the Organization of Independent Artists and Art & Auction Magazine. When not pursuing her scholarly interests, she travels, plays a mean game of darts, and writes fiction.

	Derin Bray Derin hails from York, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of the York Peppermint Patty and home to the Weight Lifting Hall of Fame. He received a B.A. in history from Yale University, where he focused his studies on early American history and material culture; he wrote a senior thesis on the colonial revival in Newport, R.I. At Yale, Derin worked at the Garvan Furniture Study, assisted with the Rhode Island Furniture Project, and was a high jumper for the Yale track and field team. In his spare time he enjoys basketball, reading, and playing poker with friends and family.

	Melissa Engimann

	Jane Marion A native of Rock Hill, South Carolina, Jane grew up taking family vacations to historical sites. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Converse College with a B.A. in history and art history. Jane has volunteered at Historic Brattonville, participated in the Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship Program, guided at Walnut Grove Plantation, and was an intern at Morris Museum of Art. These experiences shaped her desire to work as a museum educator and her love of southern decorative arts, particularly textiles, folk paintings, and furniture. Jane enjoys Jane Austen films, dabbling in needlework, and traveling.

	Lisa Minardi Born and raised in rural Montgomery County, Pa., it was only natural for Lisa to develop a passionate interest in Pennsylvania German culture and arts. Lisa earned her B.A. in history and museum studies at Ursinus College where she studied 18th-century family life and a collection of fraktur for her honors thesis. She became interested in historic preservation while doing research on the Frederick A. Muhlenberg house. Lisa is also interested in 18th-century clothing, a topic she studied in the Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship Program, and has made several historical costumes to wear while demonstrating open hearth cooking.

	Deanne Redick Dee Redick grew up in Franklin, Pa., and nurtured her interests in material culture in local antique stores. Besides contemplating her B.A. as a member of the Robert E. Cook Honors College at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, she has worked for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission at Washington Crossing State Park and participated in the Goschenhoppen Folk Festival. Dee spent a semester abroad in Manchester, England, where she studied with the zoological curator of the Manchester University Museum; she learned that she prefers decorative and fine arts to "dead animals." To relax, she watches Comedy Central, travels, and plays sports.

	Caroline Riley Caroline spent her formative years in Cincinnati, taking trips to museums and working as an intern at the Cincinnati Art Museum. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Boston University, earning a B.A. in art history and history. She enjoyed the combination of American history and art and undertook an internship at the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum. When not at Winterthur, she plans to travel to art museums, historical sites, and house museums on the east coast. She also plans to visit flea markets to add to her collection of ceramics, glass, and prints.

	Elizabeth Stoner Eliza graduated Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Delaware with an Honors B.S. in art history and English. She assisted at the Brandywine River Museum, was a teaching assistant, and acted in student theater. Enthusiastic about travel, she dabbles in farm work when not overseas visiting museums and eating crepes. A riding instructor and trail guide, she served as president of her local 4H chapter, competing with her sheep O'Flaherty and her thoroughbred Ozzy. She feels certain that H. F. du Pont would approve of her interests in decorative arts and livestock.