March 26, 2018
Ben Humphries ('18) has accepted the Morehead-Cain Scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina. The M-C is the first merit scholarship program in the United States.
Humphries will join Emma Astrike-Davis ('14), Caroline Woronoff ('13), and Izaak Earnhardt ('10) as recent CA Morehead-Cain alums.
A list of all merit scholarships offered to members of the senior class will be posted in May.
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March 23, 2018
NC State Park Scholar Lindsey Wrege (’17) has been featured in Walter Magazine for her work, along with her sister Kailey (’20), running a community dance group for individuals with special needs. Wrege is studying biomedical engineering and has recently expanded her service work by opening up a pop-up coffee shop, 321 Coffee, to provide work experience for special needs adults.
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March 13, 2018
John Guerra ('14) will be playing for NC Central in a First Four game of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The NCCU Eagles won their second consecutive MEAC Championship against top-seeded Hampton, helped by Guerra's 12 points and five rebounds. The winner of Wednesday's contest against Texas Southern gets West #1 Seed Xavier in the first round.
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March 13, 2018
UNCW senior center Rebekah Banks has been named as the winner of the Colonial Athletic Association Women's Basketball Scholar-Athlete-of-the-Year Award.
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March 1, 2018
Emma Astrike-Davis (’14), far right, and Morgan Goetz (’15), far left, were honored as UNC-CH Athletic Director’s Scholar-Athlete Award recipients at the UNC-CH basketball game against Miami for being the top scholars on their Varsity teams (Emma – XC/Track, Morgan – Field Hockey).
Back in the day at CA: Emma cheering for Morgan, CA Track teammates on the 2013 State Champion 4x800m Relay team!
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February 20, 2018
Morgan Goetz (’15) was named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Team for Field Hockey. She was one of six UNC-CH players named to the squad.
The Tar Heels won the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship, the team’s 20th, and reached the final four for the 22nd time overall and ninth year in a row.
Goetz is majoring in biomedical engineering. She started every game in 2017 and won the team’s Unsung Hero Award.
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December 6, 2017
Cary Academy will have its first alumna address the graduating Class of 2018 at its commencement on May 25.
Lianne Gonsalves (’06) has been with The World Health Organization’s Department of Reproductive Health and Research in Geneva, Switzerland since 2013. As a technical officer, she works on the Department’s sexual health portfolio, as well as on research to improve young people’s sexual and reproductive wellbeing outside of health facilities.
As a Boren Fellow in 2012, she researched integrated population, health, and environment programming while living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Before that, she taught English at a language institute and worked on youth sexual health promotion as a Fulbright recipient in Caracas, Venezuela.
She earned her MSPH in social and behavioral interventions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2013 and has a BS in biological sciences and a BA in international studies from North Carolina State University (2010), where she was a Park Scholar.
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October 13, 2017
Congratulations to Emily Lane ('17) for being named Southern Conference Runner of the Week! The Furman first-year student paced her team with a third place finish in the Gene Mullin Invitational.
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My favorite part of being the alumni coordinator here at Cary Academy is following the paths that our 1,600+ alums take after they graduate. The diversity of choices is amazing. We have lots of lawyers—I’m a bit partial to them since I graduated from law school myself. We have doctors and nurses; PhD’s in fields ranging from physics to literature. We have solar panel designers, installers, and maintainers. We have river keepers, expedition guides, and travel writers. We have lots of engineers, programmers, business gurus, and teachers. There have been more than a few alumni professions that I have had to Google just to figure out what they actually do.
While there is a lot of diversity in the paths taken by graduates of Cary Academy, there are a few consistent themes that start to appear when you see as many paths as I do. First, our graduates work really hard. There is no shortage of work ethic in this group. Second, our graduates are pretty good at following their passions. While some graduate Cary Academy knowing exactly what they want to do, most find their passion along the way. Finally, whatever their paths, graduates of Cary Academy tend to be leaders.
I truly believe that the best way to judge a school is to look at their alumni population. By that metric—along with many others, I should add—Cary Academy is one of the best schools in the country. Cary Academy doesn’t teach for a test—our students are instead taught that asking questions and really understanding the why is the goal. If a Cary Academy student has a passion, they are encouraged to follow it and be successful doing it. Cary Academy graduates think creatively, ask lots of questions, and solve problems. Do you know what sort of person that sounds like? Someone who will excel no matter which path they choose to follow.
The journey of life can be bumpy; it can wind in all sorts of directions and turn you around a few times. To find your passion and have success in those conditions requires a solid foundation. I’m proud to say that I graduated from Cary Academy in the very first graduating class. My foundation is solid, which is something I have in common with the 1,600+ other Cary Academy alumni. I cannot wait to see all the different paths our future alumni will choose.
Written by Kathleen Mason, Alumni Coordinator
