Denison in the Blogosphere (10/14/10)

Cara Scarmack ’05 (pictured right), one half of the Wildwood Sisters duo

We’re always hunting down interesting Denison-related content on the interwebs, and, periodically, we’ll share the best of this content with you on TheDEN. In today’s fix of Denisonia, it’s all about alums. We’ve got one  pondering the state of U.S. education, another planting bluegrass seeds in NYC, and still another talking business with that whippersnapper from Facebook.

Failing schools, educators challenged by new film

KIAH-TV Houston
Ashleigh Fritz ’07, a sixth grade teacher at Houston’s YES Prep, rocks a Denison t-shirt while giving an interview about her charter school. While at Denison, Fritz majored in economics, served as ambassador of the Paving the Way pre-orientation program, and won a Distinguished Leadership Award.

Bluegrass in the Big Apple

MySpace Music
Cara Scarmack ’05, a theatre and communication major while at Denison, performs as one-half of the bluegrass-folk duo The Wildwood Sisters. Check out their official MySpace page for audio and video. (Props to Patricia DiFranco ’06 for the tip)

Zuckerberg friends Bodenheimer

New York Times
George Bodenheimer ’80, president of ESPN and of ABC’s sports division, pictured having your run-of-the-mill morning chat with the president/CEO of The Walt Disney Company and the founder of Facebook and his COO.