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| Carolyn Pickman |
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Alumni Spotlight
Carolyn Pickman (BHS, Class of 1968)
Carolyn Pickman works throughout the N.E. area as a casting director and teacher. Over the past several years her company, C.P. Casting, has helped hundreds of local actors land jobs in feature films, T.V. dramas, commercials and educational projects. Carolyn has taught on-camera acting workshops at many performing arts institutions and universities including Boston University, Emerson, Trinity Conservatory, Brown, and A.R.T. Conservatory. A short list of her casting credits includes “Good Will Hunting”, "The Departed", "21", This Side of the Truth", and "The Surrogates". She is a proud member of the Casting Society of America. In 2004, she was awarded the Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Local Casting for Clint Eastwood’s “Mystic River". In 2008, she was awarded the Artios Award for Ben Affleck's "Gone, Baby, Gone".
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| Natalie (Sherman) Segal and family |
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Alumni Spotlight
Natalie (Sherman) Segal, (BHS, class of 1938)
Natalie (Sherman ) Segal graduated from Brighton High School in 1938. She attended Staley College and after college taught elocution lessons. She married her sweetheart Mike Segal a Brookline High graduate and a saxophone player, and had three daughters. Natalie maintained a family and a career which included a variety of jobs: Sherman Paper Products, E. M. Loews theatre’s, N.E. Appliance News, Newton City Hall Legal Department, and Dazians where she designed costumes. She successfully sold Real Estate for 3 years and was inspired by the work she performed at the Perkins School for the Blind. Natalie raised her three daughters to be very musically inclined. Natalie now lives in California with her youngest daughter who is a prominent Jazz singer, composer, and teacher. Natalie boasts that this chapter of her life is fascinating. Her life is full of music and she socializes with the elite jazz musicians in LA who are all ages and are multitalented. Although she feels that California is crazy she laughingly admits that “eventually one fits in with the crazies!!!!”, and nothing shocks her any more. In spite of the crime rate and political differences she has with some of the Politicians, she states it is worth the differences to live in California rather than in the east where it is cold and not as much fun as there. Natalie suffered a couple of mini strokes in 2006 but considers herself in pretty good shape in spite of the dead brain cells. At age 88 she considers herself pretty lucky. Natalie is living an extraordinary life and it has been a honor to be able to share her story.
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| Dr. William P. Marchione |
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Alumni Spotlight
William P. Marchione, Ph.D. (BHS, class of 1960) Having graduated from Brighton High in 1960 with the benefit of summer school credits (on that account 1960 alumni won’t find Bill the yearbook!), he attended Boston University where he earned a BA in History & Government, and then George Washington University, where he earned a MA in history. “History has always been my passion, even when I was in Grade school. It was just about the only thing I was good at back then. There are some people who would suggest that’s still the case.”After completing graduate school Bill took a job as a teacher of American History in the Norwell Public schools, remaining there until 1998. In 1983 he was elected a member of the Boston School Committee, representing Allston-Brighton, serving during his tenure as Chair of the Subcommittee on Curriculum and Instruction. In the intervening years he carved out a career for himself as a Boston historian, writing and lecturing on local history topics, especially the history of Allston-Brighton, the community into which he was born and in which he has lived all of his life. He first became involved with the Brighton-Allston Historical Society in 1970, shortly after its establishment, and has held the post of President ten times over the years.He is married to the former Mary Ann Cuggino of Brighton. They have two children, David and Karen.
David graduated from Brighton High in 1985.In 1994 he earned another degree, a Ph.D. in Urban History from Boston College.He has served on the Boston Landmarks Commission since 1995, the city agency that oversees the administration of Boston’s Landmarks Act.After his retirement from Norwell schools in 1998, he began teaching part-time at area colleges. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at MassBay Community College, teaching courses in American History.Over the past two decades he has written five books, hundreds of published articles, and has developed a long list of lectures on Boston area topics. His books have included “The Bull in the Garden: A History of Allston-Brighton”; “Images of America: Allston-Brighton”; “The Charles: A River Transformed”; “The Italian-Americans of Greater Boston: A Proud Tradition”, and his latest, “Allston-Brighton in Transition: From Cattle Town to Streetcar Suburb”, is due to appear this April.At the moment, the most exciting project he is working on is the “Brighton-Allston Heritage Museum” which opened on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at the lower level of the Veronica Smith Senior Center at 20 Chestnut Hill Avenue, just outside of Brighton Center. One of his hopes for the Heritage Museum is that it will establish a close working relationship with the local schools and that teachers will be motivated to bring their classes to the Museum on a regular basis.
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