Lizette Faraji ’09 and Paul Breucop ’06
"The department actually played a surprising role in how our lives turned out. Paul and I met because he was giving a speech on Plato’s Symposium, and somehow that turned into a nineteen-year conversation we never stopped having. Fr. McCarthy officiated our wedding back in 2013.
We moved to southern California in 2019, and life has been full. I am still working in the publishing industry--I'm now at Macmillan Learning, producing custom Achieve courses for STEM instructors. It’s a very different world from Classics, but the habits of close reading, clear thinking, and deep curiosity--first forged by the fires of Hephaestus...I mean...first forged by the fires of translating hundreds of lines of Latin for homework--still show up in my work every day. Paul is still practicing law as a partner at Collins + Collins LLP and could run rhetorical circles around Cicero at this point.
We have two kids, Phoenix (8) and Rhett (6). Phoenix has started learning Latin, which feels full circle. It’s been a long time since we were in those classrooms, but the department still has a way of threading itself through our lives."
—Lizette Faraji ’09 and Paul Breucop ’06