Meet Hillyer Students

Masayuki Kobayashi

A native of Japan, Kobayashi was raised in Florida than moved to Connecticut in middle school. At the age of 14, he was the youngest person in the field at the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship.
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Danielle Montalbano

Since the age of four, freshman Danielle Montalbano has loved the sound the edges of her skates make on the ice. The love of that sound, along with a lot of natural talent and hard work, helped bring Montalbano closer to her dream of being an Olympic figure skating participant.
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Daniel Baird-Miller

"You have to learn how to draw first," Daniel Baird-Miller was told when, as a junior majoring in sociology with a five-course schedule, he walked into the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford and asked how he could become an art major.
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Sara Rutman

Indiana Jones may have been better at fighting bad guys than he was at being at archaeologist, but it was his archaeological skill, such as it was, that fascinated Sara Rutman as a young girl and inspired her to think that one day she might pursue a career in archaeology and history.
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Julie Shiller

In order to challenge herself, Shiller decided to study at the University of Cape Town in South Africa during the spring semester of her junior year. “I was intrigued by South Africa’s history and by its race, ethnic, and gender issues,” she says.
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Kelsey Larochelle

Mold everywhere. Furniture upended. Waterlogged books and family pictures. That’s how Kelsey Larochelle describes the scene inside a house in New Orleans where she volunteered with other Hillyer students in a clean-up effort during their spring break.
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Jessica Fine

Jessica Fine is one of those lucky people who’ve known what they wanted to do since high school. Fine, who graduated from Hillyer in 2005, got behind a television camera when she was a junior in high school and fell in love.
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Jared Kallet

Jared Kallet is fluent in the language of equity sales, stock fluctuations, and banking transactions. His fluency stems from summer internships for investment banking firms based in New York City and for the Fox Entertainment Group in Los Angeles.
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Bret O’Neal

Bret O'Neal loves cars, the environment, and business. And he thinks he has a good idea about how he can combine all three into a career.
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