Alumni Spotlight

After eight years as a senior development officer at Williams College, Bost was promoted to the newly-created position of Associate Vice President for Presidential Advancement. This entails stewardship of principal gifts in close coordination with the President and Vice President for College Relations to advance the strategic priorities of the College. “I love working at one of the top liberal arts colleges in the world,” says Bost.

Daryle Bost ’86 Williams College Administration

“I loved my time at Green Vale and to this day, it’s the time of my life that had the most impact on who I am today over 30 years after graduating.”

The essay that helped admit Adrienne Coleman ’17 to Dartmouth was one of five nationwide to be selected for publication in the Times’ ninth annual “College Essays on Money” feature. Eligible essays focus on money, work, or social class and “celebrate how meaningful it can be to talk openly about money and write about it in a way that makes a reader stop and wonder about someone else’s life and, just maybe, offers a momentary bit of enlightenment and delight. Adrienne, elected by her peers to speak at Green Vale’s 2017 graduation, chose to write about the sexism she faced while trying to earn money waitressing during high school. “I realized how my notions of equality had been somewhat theoretical — a passion inspired by the words of Malala and R.B.G. — but not yet lived or compromised,” she writes. “The restaurant has become my real-world classroom, the pecking order transparent and immutable.“ Adrienne Coleman ’17 Essay Published in The New York Times

With strong family roots in Argentina, Juan Pablo Reynal has spent his professional life engaged with celebrating, sharing, and promoting various treasures of that country. First, he was involved in travel and tourism, especially in Patagonia where he managed South America's premier ski resort, Catedral Alta Patagonia.

In the early 00’s he started a publishing company dedicated to promoting outdoor recreation and wrote several books, including the best selling "Fly Fishing Patagonia" series, and produced television and film series as well.

Juan Pablo Reynal ’84 International Soccer Promoter

A book about Argentina's most important soccer, or “futbol”, team, El Corazon de Boca, led him to move into the realm of futbol exclusively. Through his companies Onside Entertainment and FXE Futbol, he is heavily involved in promoting and developing the sport at all levels. They arrange for top-tier South American teams to play exhibition games throughout the US, including at Daytona Speedway. In 2019 he acquired a professional soccer franchise in the U.S. and is developing a stadium complex in Ft. Lauderdale.

In December, Zach Cunha ’91 took the oath of office to become the United States attorney for the District of Rhode Island, following nomination by President Biden. A lawyer for two decades, Cunha has spent most of his career with the Department of Justice, serving in the U.S. attorney's office for Rhode Island, Massachusetts and the Eastern District of New York, where he was first appointed as an assistant U.S. attorney. In 2010, Cunha received the Department of

Justice’s highest honor, the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service. Eric Holder recognized Cunha for work on the prosecution in United States v. Pfizer, the largest health care fraud settlement ever achieved by the United States at the time. After Green Vale Cunha attended Friends Academy, Brown University, and The George Washington University School of Law.

Zachary A. Cunha ’91 U.S. Attorney for the State of Rhode Island

“It’s been thirty years since I left Green Vale, but I still carry things I learned there with me every day — it was an exceptional education.”

Waterboys is a non-profit started in 2015 by NFL star Chris Long who sought to involve other professional athletes in meeting a goal of building 32 sustainable water wells in East Africa - one for every NFL team. Today, the Waterboys mission is to provide sustainable access to clean drinking water for 1 million people worldwide. They offer event platforms for various groups to join forces and fight the global water crisis through fundraising and awareness. One such sub-group is the Waterboys Young Professionals Committee (YPC), started by Peter Wilson ’03 in 2019. Wilson recruited a group of 12, including Ripley Hartmeyer ’06 and Jack Wheatley ’08, to complete a six-day trek in February to the 19,341’ summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, to support YPC’s goal of raising $45,000 (the cost

to build one well). With the help of 400 donors, including many from the Green Vale community, the YPC group raised $55,000. The hikers each covered their own expenses for the trip so that all of the proceeds went to Waterboys. “Summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro was an unforgettable experience. Our time in these areas reminded us of how lucky we are and just how much work there is to be done,” says Wilson. Since returning from Tanzania, having connected first-hand with the schools and villages impacted by Waterboys projects, the YPC has increased their overall goal to $100,000 via additional events in New York. For more information, visit www.waterboys.org/group/ypc.