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Melanie Hancock, class of 1998, will graduate in June with a BA in Anthropology. After graduation, Melanie plans to travel and hopes to spend a year working in Australia. She is hoping to take a master’s in anthropology on her return.
Anne Mecham, class of 1998, has received grant funding to continue an environmental study of the IslandIronwood,atreethatusedtogrowoverthenorthwesternUnitedStates. Itisnowfoundonlyonfour oftheChannelIslands. SheisdoingDNAfingerprintingofthetreesonthedifferentislands. Thegrantwill allow her to do more to determine the extent of diversity on each island. Anne will marry Jacob Hawkins on June 29, 2002 in a garden wedding in Santa Barbara.
Terrell Virgil, class of 1998, will be graduating in May with a degree in Business Administration from the University of the Pacific. Terrell plans to pursue a management career with the Walgreen’s Pharmacy corporation and on June 9 will marry Millie Kimpton, whom he met at UOP.
Suzi Kovacs, class of 1998, spent the first semester of her senior year studying in Budapest, Hungary, at the Pazmany Peter Catholic University. She traveled to several European countries, participated in Habitat for Humanity Hungary, was interviewed on Hungarian TV, and saw Former President George Bush Sr. receive an award and give a speech. She hopes the knowledge of Central European history and politics she acquired will be helpful in starting a career in that field.
Doug Kirkland, class of 1998, will be graduating from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University this month. At that time, he will also be comissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. Doug will then recieve training in space and missles at Vandenburg Air Force Base.
Michael Mastman, class of 1999, is traveling in Central America for the semester. He spent approximately one month in Nicaragua overseeing donations made by his student co-op to the organization ofranchersandfarmers. HeisnowspendingamonthlearningK’lche,aMayanlanguage,andworkingon hiscookingskillsinGuatemala. NextmonthhewillparticipateinaGlobalExchangeprograminCuba.
Tina Lally, class of 2000, has joined Alpha Phi sorority at Loyola Marymount and is continuing to work with charities in the Los Angeles area.
Jeff Lin, class of 2000, was in the Bay Area to interview for a summer internship and stopped by the campus. Jeff is a Computer Science/Electrical Engineering major at Carnegie Mellon University. NVIDIA flew him to the Bay Area, and Microsoft flew him to Seattle the following weekend to interview there.
Helene Nguyen, class of 2001, attended the Model United Nations in Montreal in late January, wheresherepresentedHarvard. Whilethere,shemetKevinYost,classof1999(aformerMUNteammateat the Priory) who was representing the United States Naval Academy at the same conference.
Ross Anderson, class of 2001, worked last summer for one of the Stanford Hospital pathology labs involved in cancer research. He did antibody staining on tissue samples for a study the group intended to publish. Before leaving, Ross repaired the lab’s centrifuge for concentrating RJNA, reducing processing time threefold.
Roxanne Lundin-Crittenden, class of 2001, writes that Colorado College is a wonderful place and shelovesitthere. ThepeoplearegreatandsheisenjoyingherclasseswithProfessorPickle,areligion teacher, and Professor Kester, who teaches chemistry. She also signed up for sax lessons. She says that she enjoys dorm life and finds herself hanging out in the hallways at night because if she sits there long enough, somebody interesting inevitably comes along and they end up talking well into the early hours of the morning. SheenjoyshearingfromherfriendsatthePriory,sokeepthoseemailscoming,shesaid.
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