The Lasell Visiting Alumni Program brings alumni home to Pomfret to share their time, talent, knowledge, and real-world experiences with students and faculty. Visiting alumni typically spend two or three days delivering presentations, hosting small group discussions, and engaging with students informally.
Dr. James Rothman ’67
James Edward Rothman is an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2013. He is the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Yale.
Bennett Konesni '00
Bennett is the co-founder of Sylvester Manor Educational Farm on Shelter Island, NY. Along with his uncle Eben Ostby ’73, he helped turn an estate that has been in his family more than 360 years into a not-for-profit educational farm that focuses on preserving, cultivating and sharing the place, its stories, and a culture of food.
Funding for the Lasell Visiting Alumni Program is made possible through the generosity of the late Chester Lasell ’54. “I was heavily influenced by my education at Pomfret," Lasell says. "With its caring faculty and its ability to cultivate a student’s creativity and independence, I learned the value of listening to and learning from others. It just seemed natural to create a program that would benefit the students in the same way.”
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