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Molly W. Swallow, daughter of Dr. Peter and Lucia Swallow of Farmington, completed the health careers program at Harvard University. This August she will start Duke University School of Medicine’s Master of Science/Physician Assistant Program.

Swallow is a 1998 graduate of the Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone and a 2002 graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. Previously employed in the surgical/trauma ICU, Swallow is living in Boston and working in pediatrics.

Sally W. Swallow, daughter of Dr. Peter and Lucia Swallow of Farmington, was named the 2007 winner of the Beucher Concerto Competition at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt.

Upon receiving the award, she won the honor to perform “Glitter and Be Gay” from Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” with the Middlebury Orchestra during the spring concert. She also received a cash prize and her name is engraved on a commemorative plaque in the Center for the Arts.

For her capstone senior work, Swallow recently completed her honors thesis on the musical, “Cabaret,” in which she played the female lead, Sally Bowles.

Swallow had been a dean’s list student, member of the alpine ski team and a member of the a cappella group, the “Mamajama’s.”

Swallow will sing the National Anthem for the commencement ceremony at Middlebury College, on May 28 when she will graduate cum laude with a joint major in theater and music.

After graduation, Swallow will move to New York City where she will perform in the Potomac Theater Project’s production, “No End of Blame,” by contemporary British playwright, Howard Barker, at the Off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company-Stage 2. After that, she will continue to pursue a career in theater, voice and musical theater.

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