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Playing for Real, Beverly Leon ’10

A young soccer player’s dream: stepping out on the green pitch as her name echoes around the stadium to the roar of the crowd. Student-athletes in all sports pursue this feeling, hopeful to play at the collegiate level and maybe, someday, to go pro. For the majority, the dream remains just that — particularly for female athletes, whose professional opportunities are limited. And even elite competition is a mix of highs and lows. “Women’s soccer, at the professional level, is in transition. It’s really difficult to think long-term as a player,” says Beverly Leon ’10, who most recently played as a...

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Coaxing Pinot Noir to Be Its Best Self, Web Marquez ’97

Web Marquez, a relaxed, plaid-shirted California entrepreneur, and his cheery Entlebucher Mountain Dog, Stevie (a female Stevie), are clearly at home in this cool, high-ceilinged cavern of a barn, with muscular towers of oak wine barrels surrounding them. Web has set up a slender, rectangular table with ready glasses, matched with opened bottles of Anthill Farms wines, evidence of his craft. The Sonoma winery that he and two partners started in 2004 has attracted attention across the country. Food and Wine Magazine named Anthill Farms Winery its Most Promising New Winery in 2009. Web tries to get at the...

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Handmade: How Bunny Mauran Merrill Turned Crafting into a Career, Bunny Mauran Merrill ’79

Bunny Mauran Merrill might just own the best-smelling barn in Vermont. Duck under the cobwebs into the dimly lit, 19th-century, red wooden barn — be sure to stop and say hello to Helen, the goat matriarch of the place — and follow the scents of lavender, bergamot and lemongrass to a door in the far left corner. Inside you’ll find a cozy workshop; metal racks hold thousands of discs of soap, laden with essential oils, waiting to be wrapped in cheesecloth and shipped out. Shaped like honey-colored hockey pucks, the hand-crafted goat milk soaps were the first products from Elmore Mountain Farm Soap...

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A Friend of Foodies, Bruce Shaw Knows the Trends, Bruce Shaw ’70

If you’re feeling virtuous, you may want to climb the four flights of stairs to reach The Food Loft in an old Boston building that has harbored many enterprises over the decades. But be warned, ceilings are high here. The elevator’s a treat, anyway: tucked beside the lobby, a dark door pulls open to reveal an iron, accordion gate. Choose your destination, close the gate and hum while your linoleum-floored cab ascends confidently. Inside The Food Loft, warm kilim rugs, comfortably chic furniture, burgeoning bookcases and a dazzling collection of wall art and sculpture surprise the first-time guest. It’s...

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by Amy Kurzweil ’05 My mother likes to tell this story: It was Parents Day at Milton, honors math class, and there I was, for the whole class, gaze fixed on the margins of my notebook, doodling. This was the latest in a subtle but long-suffering rebellion. I quit Math Club after sixth grade. At Milton, I’d forgone chemistry to fit two studio art and two creative writing classes into my schedule, plus dance. I was not going to be an engineer, an astrophysicist, or a doctor. Now I doodle for a living. I also teach, and I let...

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