Jesika Holmes ’09 Named Player of the Week

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Jesika Holmes ’08

Jesika Holmes ’09

Roxbury Community College freshman and Hyde-Woodstock graduate Jesika Holmes ’09 has been named Division III Player of the Week by the National Junior College Athletic Association. Holmes earned the honor by leading the Roxbury Lady Tigers to a 79-53 win over the Dean College Bulldogs, a Division II team. Holmes dominated play with 22 rebounds and 36 points. Lady Tigers Head Coach Mark Leszczyk called Holmes’ feat “one of the most incredible individual performances that I have ever had the pleasure of watching.” Woodstock Girls Varsity Basketball coach Pam Bertschy added, ” The Hyde community is very proud of her. Her natural leadership and toughness as a competitor make her the complete package. ” Read about Jesika’s game-winning play and her NJCAA honor.

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richardcurran

Born in 1949, Rich "Spider" Curran grew up in Fall River, MA, and graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1981. He owned and ran a textbook production and design company from 1995 to 2004. In 2004, Richard and his wife, Sharon, moved to CT to join the faculty at Hyde-Woodstock, where Richard taught studio art, AP Art History, English, and was the Ropes Course instructor, and Sharon was the school's librarian. In 2008, the Hamer Curran family moved back to Cambridge, MA, where they have lived in an intentional community called Cambridge Cohousing since 1997. They have two children, Jeff '04, a media studies major at The New School, and Nora '10, a senior on the Woodstock campus.

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