KALEIDOSCOPE - UWC-USA

Fall 2004 Volume 30 

CEC 

Engages Us 

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Graduation 

2004 

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U N I T E D W O R L D C O L L E G E 

U . S . A 

Armand Hammer United World College of the American West 

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Some of the many faces of the Bartos Institute for Constructive Engagement of Conflict 

IB Teacher 

Workshops at 

UWC-USA 

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Top Left: CEC Community 

Service. Top Right: Peace 

Jam. Middle Left: Peace 

Jam. Bottom Row: Service 

at Santa Fe School for the 

Arts. 

Montezuma 

Reunion 

2004 

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What I Did 

Last Summer 

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Montezuma 

Post 

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The Bartos Institute 

for the Constructive 

Engagement of Conflict 

Engages Us 

The Bartos Institute for the 

Constructive Engagement of Conflict 

(CEC) was established to formalize 

and develop UWC-USA’s commitment 

to fostering in its students the 

skills, attitudes and commitment necessary 

to address conflict productively. 

Housed in the Montezuma Castle 

and Davis International Center, the Bartos Institute was made possible through the generosity of Celeste and 

Armand Bartos in 1999. All UWC students are involved in the CEC curriculum during some part of their time here. 

This provides opportunities for students through which they grow in the understanding of all aspects of conflict prevention, 

management and respectful resolution. Students become aware of the links between personal character, 

academic knowledge, ethical leadership and constructive approaches to conflict. 

CEC activities during the 2003-2004 academic year: 

Annual CEC Retreat 

The purpose of this annual retreat is 

to welcome and introduce all first 

year students into the principles of 

CEC. It is led by 30 to 36 second 

year leaders. An attitude of mindfulness 

toward conflict is introduced 

and reinforced in events throughout 

the academic year. 

CEC Leaders and Global Issues 

With guidance from Ravi Parashar, 

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UWC-USA Economics Instructor 

and Global Issues Coordinator, CEC 

leaders facilitated discussions in 

small groups following the UWC- 

USA Friday evening Global Issues 

series. Using their skills, academic 

knowledge and understanding of 

global issues, the CEC students recognized 

the role critical thinking, 

personal character and an open mind 

play in conflict management. Events 

included the film series A Force 

Throughout the school year, students are involved in a 

series of activities based on the Principles of the 

Constructive Engagement of Conflict: Conflict is part 

of the human condition. Many positive things have resulted 

from conflict. More often it is destructive. The constructive 

engagement of conflict offers the potential for 

personal growth, the likelihood of better relationships and 

a greater chance for resolution of problems. 

Through CEC training, students strive: 

� To listen with undivided attention. It means listening 

with not only my ears by with my eyes, my mind, 

and if possible, my heart. 

� To communicate in a manner that reflects the 

dignity and worth of every person. 

� To explore and examine differences. 

� To search and listen for the other one’s truth. 

� To problem-solve collaboratively. 

Student CEC leaders. 

More Powerful and speakers such as 

Francisco Letelier, Chilean artist 

and activist and Ahmed I. Samatar, 

Dean of International Studies from 

Macalester College. 

CEC Community Service on Las 

Vegas, NM 

Using games and age-appropriate 

exercises, more than 50 students 

taught the principles of Active 

Listening to 180 students at an elementary 

school in the local town of 

Las Vegas. CEC faculty member, 

Selena Sermeno, provided a special 

training session for the elementary 

school teachers. 

Expanding the Base: Training at 

other UWC Schools 

In March 2004, six CEC student 

leaders traveled to Duino, Italy to act 

as delegates in the Bartos Institute’s 

training on the UWC campus there. 

Accompanied by Bartos faculty, and 

UWC Adriatic faculty Ann Hill, students 

from Chile, Macedonia, United 

States, Dominican Republic and 

Great Britain facilitated groups and 

exchanged ideas with students from 

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Ravi Parashar, Economics Instructor with 

Chilean Muralist, Francisco Letelier. 

the UWC of the Adriatic. At the end 

of this week-long program, 34 UWC 

Adriatic students committed to 

active involvement in an ongoing 

CEC program and one UWC-USA 

student will work with the UWC 

Adriatic students in the fall. 

Peace Jam 

Peace Jam brings Nobel Peace Prize 

Laureates to different locations to 

work directly with high school students. 

Of 39 student mentors in the 

2004 event in Santa Fe, 34 were 

United World College CEC leaders 

who had prepared all spring to 

assume these leadership/mentor 

roles. This year our students had the 

honor of working with Nobel Peace 

Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchu 

United World College-Seeds of Peace Conference, March 2004 

UWC-USA hosted a conference with Seeds of Peace/UWC graduates in March. Seeds of Peace empowers young people 

from conflict regions beginning with an international camp experience for young teenagers each summer in the 

U.S. Many SOP participants have later matriculated at the UWCs. Sponsored by donor Nancy Dickenson, nine 

UWC/SOP graduates came together with the UWC-USA community for a weekend exploration focused on the possibilities 

of peace-building in the face of continuing hostility in their worlds. During the weekend, Nancy Dickenson 

introduced her new documentary, Home 

of the Brave, a moving account of the 

civil rights movement in the U.S. 


Tum of Guatemala. Of the almost 

500 students from around the 

Southwest who participated, 54 were 

from the UWC-USA. Bartos Faculty 

Selena Sermeno served as Rigoberta 

Menchu Tum’s translator. Several 

UWC-USA students were invited to 

carry on with Peace Jam to help with 

upcoming events in Argentina, India 

and South Africa. 

Service at Santa Fe School 

for the Arts 

Twenty first-year CEC leaders provided 

a day of international cultural 

exchange at the Santa Fe School for 

the Arts. The school serves children 

ages three through thirteen, from 

many nationalities with differing 

physical abilities, and aims to teach 

children from a global curricular perspective. 

Art as a Channel for the 

Constructive Engagement of 

Conflict 

In the spring The Bartos Institute 

hosted Chilean Muralist and Human 

Rights Activist Francisco Letelier. 

Working with all 60 CEC student 

leaders, Letelier depicted how art 

plays a role in managing conflict in a 

Palestinian lawyer Maha Taji (R) and 

Israeli peace activist (and UWC/SOP parent) 

Yaffa Maritz (L) (pictured with Selena 

Sermeno) presented their personal experiences 

of the elements of peace-building. Some of the organizers of the 

UWC/Seeds of Peace Conference. 

UWC-USA President Phil Geier, Nobel Peace 

Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum and 

Bartos Institute leader Selena Sermeno. 

constructive way, particularly when 

dealing with conflicts where major 

personal losses are involved. Letelier 

also delivered the keynote address at 

the final Global Issues program of 

the year. 

Activities of the Bartos Institute are 

coordinated and led by Dr. Selena 

Sermeno. Dr. Sermeno has a Masters 

of Divinity, a Masters of Arts and a 

Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology 

from Temple University. She is a 

native of El Salvador and has served 

as consultant to humanitarian groups 

engaged in post-conflict societies. 

Two UWC/SOP grads, Koby Sadan (Israel, 

Nordic UWC) (L) and Ibrahim Khader 

(Palestine, UWC-USA) who spoke about 

“Life after the UWC” pictured here with 

Bobbie Gottschalk, Seeds of Peace 

Executive VP. 

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“. . . here, [at the United World 

College] we learned to live incessantly 

torn between contradictory 

beliefs and bittersweet emotions. 

On the one hand, we were blessed 

to witness and join in on the most 

heartening displays of fraternity. 

We saw people surpass the bitterest 

ethnic, economic, and national 

divides so frequently and effortlessly 

that memories of groundbreaking 

friendship became commonplace 

to us. Israelis and 

Palestinians comforting one 

another after an attack from 

either side; Chileans and 

Bolivians putting aside territorial 

claims; Indians and Pakistanis 

boisterously, humorously chatting 

over the dinner table; all 

these memories are a dime a 

dozen. Instead, we hold dear the 

lighthearted fun of dodging water 

balloons and snowballs swooshing 

through our dormitory hallways, or 

of ending a retreat discussing mediation 

skills with a massive, 150people 

group hug. It was not the 

moments of great political signifi- 

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Graduation 2004 

The 2004 Graduating Class. 

Sally Martin 

Prize-winning Address 

by Isaias Chavez '04 (Colombia) 

cance, but rather those of deep personal 

connections, that shaped our 

lives here. 

On the other hand, however, I think 

we all felt occasionally that life in 

the United World College could be 

as harsh as it was joyous, at times 

more frustrating than enriching. To 

do our experience justice we 

should also remember the times 

when no matter the warmth surrounding 

us, our motto, ‘building 

bridges’, felt rather like ‘putting up 

glass panes’-panes to isolate ourselves 

from what we so nonchalantly 

called ‘the real world.’ 

Often, we couldn’t bear the strain 

of being in the Diaspora, part of a 

community cut off from its homeland. 

When the most important 

political debates developed in our 

home countries, we were jumping 

in our chairs, itching to participate, 

but we could only sit and watch. 

When atrocious tragedy occurred, 

our hearts twisted in pain, a pain 

augmented threefold by helplessness, 

by distance, by the sting of 

not sharing in the suffering. 

Isaias Chavez (Colombia). 

When we returned to our families, 

we found them carrying on 

with lives that could only partially 

accommodate the new versions 

of ourselves. For some, our 

house, our customs, and our cultural 

identity no longer felt quite 

‘ours.’And so, we were saddened 

by the sense of being, even at 

home, homeless. It is not without 

cost that we became ‘citizens of 

the world.’ 

Perhaps this frustration led us and 

leads us to be skeptical about our 

efforts to enrich one another. We 

asked ourselves, are we representatives 

or exceptions?-for all too 

often our best intentions clashed 

with the general beliefs of our 

country. Reality shocked us and 

told us that maybe the rapport and 

hopes that we had built were a bit 

too large for the actual world. I will 

never forget my seventeenth birthday 

here at the college: among my 

dearest friends, among the people 

that were reinventing me with their 

insight, their humor and humaneness, 

I received news of a bombing 

UNITED WORLD COLLEGE U . S . A 

Graduation Photos by Don Gray.

in my hometown that killed 

dozens, mangled hundreds, and 

only by chance spared my parents. 

A week later, I would join these 

same friends from around the globe 

in the biggest anti-war demonstration 

in recorded history. But I 

couldn’t stop thinking about those 

back home who couldn’t demonstrate; 

they were too busy rescuing 

their loved ones from the rubble, or 

worse yet, mourning them. 

That day I felt like many of us feel 

sometimes: unduly privileged. This 

sense of privilege often led us to 

see ourselves up there, ‘in the ivory 

tower’, looking for a rope that 

could take us back down to ‘the 

real world.’ I am convinced that our 

frustration at feeling detached, 

privileged, or stagnant is in fact 


Left: Vareeya Thangnirundr (Thailand), singing in the African Chorus. Middle: Amanda Monnye (South Africa) and Elisabeth 

Ndour (Senegal) saying goodbye. Right: Liz Tan and Shelby Davis on stage during graduation program. 

such a rope. We tend either to overlook 

this frustration, or we are paralyzed 

by it. No, we should choose 

neither alternative. Instead, today I 

want to praise this frustrating 

choice that we face, for it keeps us 

real. I am thankful for my time at 

the United World College not in 

spite but precisely because of its 

shortcomings. 

My discontent with having been 

removed far too long from the 

‘real world’ branded me, as I 

hope that it has branded all of us, 

with an inescapable question: am 

I doing enough? Well, let us be 

glad about feeling that we didn’t do 

enough, for this feeling will compel 

us to do much more than 

enough. In retrospect, let us thank 

the dissatisfaction that we’ve been 

hoarding. Let us cherish this dissatisfaction 

because it will become the 

prod that jabs our ribs and prevents 

us from sitting down while we wait 

for our ideals to implement themselves.” 

The Sally Martin Prize recipient is 

selected by a faculty review committee 

and is awarded to the student 

who writes an essay that best 

expresses the meaning and value of 

the UWC experience. This competition 

is open to all graduating students 

and the authors of the essays 

remain anonymous to the faculty 

committee until the prize is awarded. 

The Prize is made possible through a 

gift given in memory of former 

neighbor and friend of the UWC, 

Sally Martin. Isaias will matriculate 

at Harvard University this fall. 

Left: Victor Kai-Rogers (Sierra Leone) accepting diploma from President Phil Geier. Right: Aneth Kasebele (Tanzania) and 

Mary Alcantar (Philippines) saying goodbye. 

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Excerpts from Featured 

Graduation Speaker, 

Elizabeth Tan '87, 

New Zealand 

Assistant Director, 

Lord of the Rings, 

Whale Rider 

Liz Tan in graduation procession 

with Vice President, Adriana Botero 

“Standing here, it feels like yesterday 

that I was seated where you 

are now. Sad at the thought of saying 

goodbye to all my friends, 

excited and terrified at the future, 

at the prospect of leaving this bubble, 

a place that had nurtured and 

challenged me for two years. The 

IB’s were finally behind me (and it 

was too early to start worrying 

about results). If I remember rightly, 

I definitely hadn’t had enough 

sleep and it’s quite possible that I 

was just the teensiest bit hung over 

- though not officially of course! 

When President Geier invited me 

to speak at graduation I was rather 

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embarrassed. You see, I have 

struggled in the past to reconcile 

the expectations of my education 

here with my career in the film 

industry. But here I am. And for 

two reasons: 

First of all, my two years at 

Montezuma remain the most 

intense, most rewarding period of 

my life. I know this place, this 

experience, changed my life. 

President Geier’s invitation to 

speak had, therefore, all the weight 

of a royal command. 

And secondly, I thought it was 

important that I give voice to my 

thoughts about what we as graduates 

OWE to this education. You 

are all about to make choices about 

your future. What do you owe to 

the national committees, to the 

people who gave time and money, 

to the students who didn’t get a 

place, to parents who loved and 

supported you, who sent letters, 

and care packages and listened to 

your home-sick phone calls. And 

what do you owe yourself? 

This is a privileged education. 

Most of you, like me, were here on 

full scholarship. An education like 

this isn’t cheap. And there is a 

sense of moral debt, too. This is an 

elite education. There are only ten 

United World Colleges with some 

thirty thousand graduates worldwide. 

We were chosen over others. 

We felt like we were supposed to 

make a difference. 

There was a time when I felt that 

some occupations were more 

‘worthy’ than others - that it was, 

in some ways, a waste of the time 

and money spent on my education 

for me to work in the film industry 

when my classmates were working 

as doctors and social workers, psychiatrists, 

scientists and teachers. 

But over time, I’ve come to a different 

understanding of what I owe 

this education. 

I believe what we - my classmates 

and I, and now you as the 

most recent graduates - owe to 

our time here is to live aware, 

questioning lives as citizens of 

the world. And you can do that 

whether you are an architect in 

Paris, a social worker in Wales, a 

mother in London, a teacher in 

Washington DC, a bond trader 

in New York or an Assistant 

Director in New Zealand. 

The film industry has a glamorous 

image. But there is more to the 

film industry than the celebrity 

machine. The telling of stories, 

both true and fictional, has been 

important to all societies since 

men and women first sat around a 

fire at night. It is a way to remember 

and to pass on knowledge. And 

it is a way to understand each 

other. It is also a way to entertain, 

to make us laugh or cry, to take us 

out of skins and into another 

world, or to see through different 

eyes. Sometimes it can be a 

weapon too. And it can bring about 

change in more powerful and subtle 

ways than legislation or demonstrations 

because it speaks to our 

hearts. 

You have had access to a fantastic 

education - one that did not stop at 

the classroom, but continued in the 

dorms and at meals, during community 

service and wilderness pursuits: 

you have learned to think, 


and to question, that there are often 

different and valid points of view. 

These are gifts. And they are 

gifts that can be put to use no 

matter what you decide to do 

with your life - the world needs 

people who ask questions and 

who think for themselves in ALL 

walks of life. I think more 

important than what you do, is 

how you do it. Do something you 

enjoy, that you find fulfilling and 

challenging and that will flow 

through to those around you. The 

world needs you - whether you 

decide to become a politician or an 


academic, or a lawyer or a fireman 

or a businesswoman or a filmmaker 

or raise children. 

I wish you every success as you 

step out into the world. Each of 

you will have challenges and 

dilemmas to negotiate. But you are 

equipped with invaluable tools: an 

understanding that there is more 

that unites humanity than divides 

it. In the words of Ralph Waldo 

Emerson: ‘What lies behind us and 

what lies before us are but small 

matters compared to what lies 

within us.’ Within you lies the 

courage to do right as you see it, to 

Tash Hilt (U.S. - Arizona) receiving diploma from Jim Taylor, UWC-USA Board Chair. 

Greg Walsh, departing Director of Admissions and University 

Counseling, with President Phil Geier during graduation. 

stand up against injustice and 

never compromise what you know 

to be true. Good luck.” 

Liz Tan, a 1987 graduate of UWC- 

USA has worked in visual media 

since graduating from American 

University in 1994. As Assistant 

Director, Liz’s credits include The 

Lord of the Rings Trilogy: The 

Return of the King, The Two 

Towers and The Fellowship of the 

Ring and Whale Rider, the film she 

considers to be “the high point of 

my career so far.” 

Nao Munemura (Japan), Erick Ruiz Araya 

(Costa Rica) and Makhethe Mpoti (Lesotho). 

The following departing faculty were recognized 

during the 2004 graduation ceremony: 

� Charlie Clements, Bartos Institute 

� Leon DeOliveira, Physics 

� Scott Kempen, Math 

� John McLeod, Community Service 

� Kate Pruitt, Wilderness Intern 

� Greg Walsh, Admissions and University 

Counseling 


UWC-USA Dedicates Its Resources to Improving 

North American Public Education 

The United World College-USA again 

hosted the International Baccalaureate 

Teacher Training Workshops, in 36 

subjects this summer. These workshops 

include 17 hours of classroom 

instruction designed to prepare teachers 

new to the IB Diploma curriculum, 

teachers with limited IB experience, 

or experienced IB teachers in disciplines 

where the curriculum is undergoing 

change. Focusing on the exploration 

of IB subject curricula, the 

workshops also cover teaching methods, 

the process of assessment and the 

format of examinations. 

IB Workshop at UWC-USA: Math Studies. 

The IB is an internationally recognized 

diploma program, leading successful 

candidates to admission at the 

most competitive colleges and universities 

worldwide. Currently, over 500 

schools in the United States have IB 

programs and every year about 50 new 

schools are authorized by the IB 

Organization (IBO) and IB North 

America (IBNA) to start IB programs. 

This summer the UWC-USA hosted 

nearly 850 teachers in these workshops. 

Most of the teachers who come 

to the workshops are from American 

public schools and come to improve 

their teaching skills. Hannah Tyson, 

UWC-USA Faculty and IB 

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Workshops Instructor states, “This is a 

very practical opportunity for teachers. 

People tell me that the workshops 

really give them more confidence and 

clarity about what they are doing.” 

Tonya McIntyre, high school math 

teacher and department chair from 

South Carolina states, “I think it also 

helps other teachers, probably on an 

unconscious level. Teachers may think 

that other kids [non-IB students] can 

go no higher in their studies; but it 

challenges those teachers to think differently 

about their students.” Claudia 

Hesse, a High School IB literature 

teacher from 

Florida has also 

seen very positive 

results since the 

IB program started 

at her school. 

She explains, 

“Since we started 

teaching IB at our 

school, we have 

sent students to 

great schools 

Jill Stewart and Claudia Hesse. 

which would not even look at us 

before the IB.” So the IB not only 

improves the quality of education for 

IB students, it benefits non-IB students 

as well. 

The IB program not only provides 

internationally recognized standards, 

but also a curriculum which includes 

international subjects. IB students 

therefore gain a greater understanding 

of countries and cultures outside of 

North America. Jill Stewart a high 

school teacher from Alberta, Canada, 

new to the IB, agreed. “In the IB, the 

students explore what’s universal as 

well as what’s unique to the human 

condition.” Tonya McIntyre believes 

this is a key aspect of improving the 

quality of education for all students at 

her school. She says, “My kids are 

being held to the same standards as 

other kids across the country as well 

as other countries. The IB gives kids 

an understanding of other people’s 

ideas and beliefs around the world . . . 

We hear our kids talking more about 

international topics and how others 

see the United States.” 

The United World College-USA has 

exclusively dedicated its campus each 

summer to providing IB Workshops 

for over a decade. Thousands of teachers 

have attended the workshops and 

many return to take them again. These 

teachers take home what they learn to 

use in their IB (and non-IB) classrooms 

and to share with fellow 

teachers. For these teachers, 

attending the IB Workshops on 

the UWC-USA campus in New 

Mexico is a unique experience. 

Not only is this a beautiful location 

with 

first-rate 

facilities, it is 

also a place 

where teachers 

get to feel 

honored and 

valued in a 

Tonya McIntyre. 

profession 

which is not 

always highly 

recognized. “Our workshops are different,” 

says Eyad Shabaneh, UWC- 

USA Faculty and IB Workshops 

Summer Programs Director, “The 

workshops are at a slower pace, so 

teachers have more time to digest 

what they learn. Here we teach the 


same number of hours (17) as the 

other IB teacher training programs, 

but we do it over four days instead of 

two and a half days.” This slower pace 

also affords teachers more time for 

connecting with other teachers and 

exchanging ideas. Many participants 

agreed this is one of the reasons they 

chose to attend the workshops here at 

the UWC-USA. 

One other advantage to UWC-USA’s 

workshops is exposure to UWC-USA 

recent graduates employed by the 

school to assist with the workshops. 

This year, the graduates came from 

Lesotho, Palestine, Romania, 

Swaziland and Uganda. Each week 

these students talked about their experiences 

at the UWC-USA and in the 

IB program. Later many participants 

enjoyed opportunities to talk more 

with the students. 

The UWC-USA takes pride in bringing 

its expertise and global perspectives 

to the public education sector. 

“The whole college works together to 

make these workshops successful,” 

says Eyad Shabaneh. “I would like 

more people to come and share the 

experiences, enjoy the setting, the 

international aspect and the quality of 

our workshops.” 

You can find more information on 

these workshops on our web site: 

www.uwc-usa.org. 

“Here before the rest of us!” Phil Geier and Dave Bennett at 

dedication of Bennett’s Boiler House on May 27, 2004. 

New Faces on Campus 

Katie Giddings - Wilderness Assistant, Assistant 

Resident Tutor 

Katie comes to us from Ottawa, Canada with an undergraduate 

degree, a post-graduate certificate in Eco- 

Adventure Tourism Management, an Advanced 

Wilderness First Aid certificate and a Wilderness First 

Responder certificate. She is fluent in Spanish and 

French. Katie’s extensive experience in outdoor activities 

includes canoeing, hiking, rock climbing, biking, backpacking and crosscountry 

skiing. 

Shaun Mabry - Services and Activities Coordinator 

Shaun is a 2001 graduate of Mahindra UWC of India 

and a 2004 graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute 

and State University with a B.A. in Geography and a 

minor in Spanish. He is fluent in Spanish and proficient 

in Hindi. For the last three years, Shaun has served on 

the U.S. UWC Selection Committee. Shaun’s experience 

includes hiking and trekking leader, fire service 

and volunteer with reforestation efforts in Mexico, earthquake relief and 

working with the mentally challenged in rural India. 

Tim Smith - Director of Admission/University 

Advising 

For the last eleven years, Tim has been living and working 

in Varna, Bulgaria. After two years as a Peace Corps 

volunteer, Tim taught English as a second language at 

the American College of Sofia for nine years. While 

there, Tim worked to find funding and establish an 

English language library for the school. He presented 

methods for teaching literature, taught SAT prep and counseled secondary students 

through the college application process. His previous experience 

includes the International Education Center in Denmark and the American 

Forum for Global Education in New York. 

Bennett Boiler House Dedicated 

David Bennett, Director of Plant Services, was the first 

employee hired by Dr. Armand Hammer after the initial 

purchase of what was to become the UWC-USA campus. 

Hired as the entire security staff, Dave has worked 

for the college longer (and probably knows the history 

better) than any other employee! It is fitting that the 

newly renovated maintenance building now honors 

Dave. 


Early in August, the United World College-USA celebrated 

the 20th reunion of the first graduating class of 1984 

and welcomed back alumni from all classes but especially 

the classes of 1989, 1994 and 1999 celebrating their 

15th, 10th and 5th reunions. Almost 200 graduates, 

friends and former faculty spent three to five days in 

Montezuma enjoying each other, the campus and many 

memories. 

“The turn-out was by far the largest ever and has set in 

motion some welcome thinking by graduates about how they 

can be more involved and more helpful to the school.” UWC- 

USA President Phil Geier 

Throughout the reunion, graduates were treated to a wide 

variety of activities including a perspective on UWC- 

USA today with President Phil Geier; mini classes led by 

faculty members Ravi Parashar, Hannah Tyson and Alan 

Wicks; Sebastian Canyon and Hermit’s Peak hikes; rock 

climbing; tours of the Castle and campus; an excursion to 

Santa Fe; special evening events; children’s and family 

activities; and were surprised by a chance to listen to U.S. 

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The largest alumni turnout - from classes 

'84, '85, '86, '88, '89, '90, '94, '95 and '99. 

'94 Class Agent Aly Kassam Remtulla 

and President Phil Geier. 

MONTEZUMA REUNION 2004 

Presidential candidate, John 

Kerry and Vice-Presidential 

candidate John Edwards 

when they happened to visit 

Las Vegas during the weekend 

of reunion. On Sunday 

evening, after entertainment 

by 1994 grad Tony Purvis 

and faculty member Ron 

Maltais and a formal banquet 

in the Castle, music, dancing 

and reminiscing continued 

until the early hours of the 

morning. Although it was dif- 

ficult to say goodbye again, graduates were thankful for a 

chance to see their classmates and to appreciate the 

improvements made to their old stomping grounds on the 

UWC-USA campus. 

“Our class was thrilled with the reunion and energized by 

being back in Montezuma in an even more beautiful environment 

than the one we remember.” Aly Kassam Remtulla '94. 

Judi McDonald '84, her daughter Katerina, Carlo Sauvinet '84 

and guest Dana Sherman, Luis Amor '84 his wife 

Itzamna Vazquez and son Ecab Amor. 

Chatting with friends 

on the Castle Veranda. 

Singer Tony Purvis '94 performing 

in the Castle Lobby. 

UNITED WORLD COLLEGE-USA 

Reunion Photos by Don Gray.

A Grand Success! 

Earlier in the year, UWC-USA Trustee Bill Moore 

issued a challenge to the four reunion classes (1984, 

1989, 1994 and 1999). If alumni gave or pledged a 

total of $20,000 to the UWC-USA Annual Fund 

before August 9th, Mr. Moore would match each dollar, 

thereby doubling the value of each gift. Before the 

reunion began, alumni from the four classes gave or 

pledged just over $16,000 to the Annual Fund. During 

the reunion, an additional $9,000 was raised totaling 

$25,000. With Mr. Moore’s matching funds, this 

translates to a gift of $45,000 to the college! 

Thank you to UWC-USA Trustee Bill Moore and to 

all participating alumni of the four reunion celebrating 

classes for exceeding the 2004 Reunion 

Challenge. Special distinction was awarded to 1994 

2004 Reunion Challenge 

Class Agent Aly Kassam Remtulla, recipient of the 

Bill Moore Prize, given in recognition of the Reunion 

Class Agent with the 

highest class participation 

in the UWC- 

USA Annual Fund. 

While dates for next 

year’s reunion are not 

firm yet, due to the IB 

schedule, dates will 

be posted on the 

school web site at 

www.uwc-usa.org as 

soon as they are 

known. 

Top left: Celebrating heartily with old friends at 

Sunday’s banquet. Top right: UWC Staff, Beth 

Johnson and Mark Zieg '84 celebrating his raffle 

gift. Lower 

left: Michael 

Stern '89 

and friends 

in recognition 

of his 

services to 

the UWC- 

USA and the 

occasion of 

his marriage 

to Pamela 

Paul. Lower 

right: Bertran 

Kan '84 wins 

The Castle 

in the West 

written during 

the 

Castle 

Restoration. 

President Phil Geier and 

Charles Wong '84. 


W h a t I D i d L a s t S u m m e r 

I spent the summer working as an athletics specialist at 

Camp Echo, a sleep-away camp in Upstate New York. I 

lived in a cabin with sixth grade girls and was part of an 

international staff with counselors from countries like 

South Africa, and activity coordinators from countries 

like Australia --much like the climate of the United World 

College. It was the chance of the lifetime as I got to plan 

activities for all age levels, serve as the girls’ basketball 

and softball coach for all tournaments, and be a counselor 

and support for kids who were away from home for the 

Meghan Jennings (in middle) with Camp Echo summer campers. 

first time. I got to join in all kinds of fun, including a carnival, 

many talent shows, rope courses, jello wrestling, horseback riding, and even a mock Olympics. Peter Yarrow 

of Peter, Paul, and Mary taught the “Don’t Laugh at Me” school program meant to eliminate bullying and situations 

in which peer pressure endanger the welfare of school age children. - Meghan Jennings '05, USA - Virginia 

I returned to Washington DC three years after my first 

Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) experience 

to volunteer at the annual World Leadership Congress 

(WLC). Dedicated to excellence in leadership, volunteerism 

and learning, over 450 participants from 20 countries 

spent a week attending panels of outstanding leaders 

from different communities, participating in community 

service and interacting with each other. My involvement 

in the program as part of the behind-the-scenes Team 

Alumni was a small contribution that collectively 

ensured the success of the 2004 HOBY WLC, a definite 

highlight of my summer. - Diana Tung '05, Australia 

From left to right: Dave Skilling (Pearson), John Storer (Waterford) 

Magan Savant (LPC), Cameron Hunter (SEA), Renee Danielson 

(RCN), Andrew Mahlstedt (MUWCI), Knut Gundersen (Atlantic), 

Cristina Leban (Adriatic), Elizabeth Morse (AW), Mike Watson 

(Waterford). Lucy Cole from the international office was also present. 

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I went to Iceland over summer, and drove around the 

island with my father and sister. The nature was very 

spectacular; we walked on glaciers and went horseback 

riding, the absolute best way to see Iceland. - Kamilla 

Friis '05, Denmark 

Diana Tung (on right) with HOBY Alumni. 

We visited Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Southern 

Africa as a part of the UWC Linking Coordinators 

Conference. It was very interesting to see another UWC, 

meet with the students, go to college assembly, eat meals, 

talk with teachers, and explore ways to help each other 

with shared information and resources. - Elizabeth 

Morse, English Instructor and Alan Wicks, 

Mathematics Instructor 

UNITED WORLD COLLEGE U . S . A

W h a t I D i d L a s t S u m m e r 

Brighton Mudzingwa (in middle) with fellow 

Teton Science School students. 

[I attended] the High School Field Ecology Course at the 

Teton Science School last summer. I was part of the team 

which investigated if there was any difference in the 

quality of stream habitat between the residentially developed 

and agriculturally developed areas of Spring Creek. 

It gave me joy as the results of the experiments we conducted 

were something which was really going to be 

taken into account by interested parties before developing 

either residentially or agriculturally. 

Our visit to the Yellowstone and the Grand Teton 

National Parks was the best thing that happened to me 

over [the] summer. I saw bison, wolves, elk and owls in 

addition to the amazing hot springs, geysers and waterfalls. It was so breathtaking that I went on to do a Natural 

History Research and Presentation on the Old Faithful geyser. - Brighton Mudzingwa '05, Zimbabwe * 

I was awarded a scholarship for Experiment in 

International Living. Now South Africa does not only 

mean Nelson Mandela for me but also a whole set of emotions, 

challenges and discoveries that I experienced 

throughout this five weeks. My home stay was my most 

meaningful experience in South Africa. My host mother 

taught me how to make “fat cakes.” I really got close to her 

though the discussions we had in a mid language between 

Africans and English. My host dad loved to spend entire 

nights sharing with me the history of their community. I 

Justin Wend-boma Karfo at Cape Point, South Africa. 

also miss the soccer games I had with my two brothers of 

five and nine. It was with great emotion that we assisted the ceremonies they had when the community lost one of its 

chiefs who died during our home stay. This was a poor community who shared with us their treasures which are generosity, 

faith and “Ubuntu” or togetherness. - Justin Wend-boma Karfo '05, Burkina Faso * 

This summer I participated in Summerbridge 

Cincinnati, a branch of The Breakthrough Collaborative, 

an academic enrichment program for promising middle 

schoolers who attend struggling schools. The teachers 

are all students themselves in either high school or university. 

This summer was my second summer teaching 

math to rising sixth graders. I taught two sections, each 

of six or seven students. The program is challenging and 

immensely rewarding for both the students and the teachers. 

- John Cameron Wulsin '05, USA - Ohio 

Aleyda McKiernan, Spanish 

Instructor, traveled to the 

Czech Republic, Russia 

and Great Britain this 

summer. 

Aleyda McKiernan in front of the 

Church of Our Savior on the 

Spilled Blood-St. Petersburg. 

Through Experiment in International Living, I spent 

four weeks in China. After experiencing Tai chi sessions, 

the Great Wall of China, breaking language and 

cultural barriers, meeting Chinese students my age and 

traveling throughout Southern China, my perspectives 

and values will not be the same. For me the most meaningful 

and significant part of the journey was our two 

home stays. Being part of Chinese daily life opened a 

unique opportunity for me to explore something so different 

than I am used to. Different manners, lack of 

common language and different environment made me 

realize what a smile is for--to fill the wordlessness and 

connect people when a common language does not 

exist. I also experienced similar feelings which I assume 

other people experience when traveling in poor countries: 

the fact of how fortunate we are in Europe and the 

U.S. I think everybody should have a chance to see 

what poverty really is and therefore realize how privileged 

we actually are. - Santeri Halonen '05, Finland * 

* Participation made possible by generous donors. 


MONTEZUMA POST 

1984 

Ed Burns 

2317 Todville Road 

Seabrook, TX 77586 

emburns@houston.rr.com 

Sandra Thomas 

2 Harbour View Road 

Port Chevalier, Auckland 

NEW ZEALAND 

sandra.thomas@xtra.co.nz 

Ed Burns stills works for NASA while 

living near Houston. In October, he transferred 

to the Space Shuttle Program to 

work on ‘Return to Flight’ efforts following 

the Columbia accident. His new position 

keeps him hopping on planes to other 

NASA Field Centers in Florida and 

Alabama. (So if you run into him in the 

airport in Orlando, he’s working rather 

than going to see Mickey Mouse). He 

recently celebrated his fifth wedding 

anniversary (unfortunately alone, since his 

wife was unable to attend the 2004 

Reunion). No children yet, but plans are in 

the works (stay tuned). The two recently 

bought 30 acres near Ruidoso and should 

have something built before Ed’s 25th 

reunion (start planning to attend). The capstone 

of his year was the 2004 Reunion. 

Ed says, “Getting to see almost a third of 

the class back in Montezuma, many with 

their families, was fantastic.” He recently 

completed course work for a Master’s in 

Engineering. Now he just needs to write a 

long paper. Another highlight of the year 

was a visit to Rome in March, capped off 

by a wonderful dinner with Eugenio 

Ruggiero. Kyle Landauer readily admits 

he’s not been the best in keeping in touch 

with fellow alumni over the years. 

However, after attending his 20th reunion 

this summer, he promises to keep in touch 

more. He’s now an orthopedic surgeon 

practicing in the LA area for nearly six 

years, after completing his internship/residency 

at the University of Southern 

California. Lilian Ortega is living in 

Santiago and working in a non-profit 

organization involved with investments, 

promoting development of small and 

medium-sized firms. She is married to 

Emilio and has two children: Fernanda (7) 

and David (4). She would love to hear 

from any classmates who come to Chile. 

Offi Susser writes, “After 11 years of 

doing high-tech marketing, I’m finally 

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back to working in the philanthropic world 

as program manager of the Rich 

Foundation (and UWC scholarships are on 

the list!).” Offi and her husband bought a 

house big enough for their four children 

(two hers and two his) and are an Israeli 

version of the Brady Bunch. Sandra 

Thomas is still working in higher level 

family law with a small general practice in 

South Auckland - mostly legal aid work 

which possibly doubles for community 

service. Her last wilderness trip was a half 

day sea kayak to Brown’s Island in the 

Waitemata Harbour and for Project Week 

Jorge Ricci 

It is with great sadness that the class of 1984 heard of Jorge’s 

death suddenly last year from an invasive brain tumor. Jorge will 

be remembered as a “true Siberian” according to Paul Grimes 

who lived in the dorm known as “Siberia” back in 1982. Lilian 

Nunez advises that after UWC, Jorge won a scholarship to study 

Aeronautical Engineering in Buenos Aires, Argentina which he did 

for six years. After graduation he worked a couple of years in a 

related field but then transferred into the management field. He 

stayed in Buenos Aires but visited his family in Peru constantly. 

The last time Lilian heard from Jorge he was working as the manager 

of a significant Buenos Aires downtown hotel where he 

seemed quite happy with his job and life. According to Lilian, he 

never married but had lots of friends and was as cheerful and 

friendly as all remember him in Montezuma. As for all of us, 

Montezuma was one of Jorge’s most meaningful experiences. 

Lilian says, “He remembered all his friends from UWC with great 

emotion.” 

Jorge’s family can be contacted at: 

Mr. and Mrs. Ricci 

CL Pisac 115 Urb. 

Higuereta 

Santiago de Surco 

Lima, PERU 

Lilian Nunez, Alejandro Otero, Dorota Ratusinska, Jorge Ricci, Kyle Landauer 

and Hilda Bautista holding up the beautiful Latin woolens 

that Jorge had shrunk in the laundry! 

Photo from 1984 Yearbook. 

this year she and partner, Matt Whineray, 

are having their first baby. Consequently 

she didn’t attend the 2004 Reunion but 

hopes everyone (including the class of 

1989 from her teaching days) had a wonderful 

time. On April 5, Lousewies van 

der Laan and her husband Dennis became 

the proud parents of a son, Helix 

Hesseling. She says, “He’s gorgeous” and 

she’s “glad to have four months off from 

the Dutch Parliament to give him a good 

start in life.” 


2004 Reunion Attendees Class of 1984 

Luis Amor, Charles Barnett, Hilda Bautista, Brett Boddington, Edward 

Burns, Marcelo Calliari, Agneta Eiklenboom, Piotr Girt, Paul Grimes, 

Suzanne Holste, Bertrand Kan, Mark Larrimore, Kyle Landauer, Leroy 

Leng Lim, Helene Manaud-Conter, Judi McDonald, Shaunna Meyer, 

Amit Mohindra, Zafer Mudar, Shiru Mwangi, Ahmadou Moustapha 

Ndiaye, Eugenio Ruggiero, Carlo Sauvinet, Kathe Shaw Bassett, 

Andre Tisi, Lousewies Van der Laan, Kim Vickers, Amadou Wane, 

Dolly Warotamasikkhadit, Charles Wong, Ricardo Zemella and Mark 

Zieg. Stephen Wilson '85 and Tony Spearman Leach '86. 

1985 

Helen Durham 

29 Goodhope Street 

Paddington, NSW 2021 

AUSTRALIA 

hdur4534@mail.usyd.edu.au 

Francisca Acevedo-Gasman had a baby 

girl, Regina, on January 23rd. Francisca, 

Carlos and Regina continue to live in 

Mexico City where Francisca works for a 

Mexican government agency, CONABIO, 

dedicated to biodiversity. Francisca traveled 

to Chile in September where she 

spent time with Lilian Nunez ‘86. The 

Ferrari F-1 team sponsored Saif-Deen 

Akanni’s Ph.D. studies in Aerodynamics 

which he completed in 1999. Following 

his studies, he accepted a job as Head of 

the Computational Fluid Dynamics 

Department for the Swiss Formula One 

Team - Sauber where Saif-Deen spent 

three years. In 2002, he resigned from 

Ferrari F-1 to consult in the Aerospace, 

motor sport and competitive yachting 

industries to the likes of Airbus Industries 

researching high speed wing design. 

Charlotte Brenner Zeile recently traveled 

to India on business but unfortunately 

failed to meet with Sophie Moochala ‘86 

in Mumbai. Charlotte and Bernie definitely 

plan to attend the 2005 Reunion next 

year with hopes their three children will 

bear with them during the long flight. 

Oskari Jääskeläinen and his wife have 

been living in the San Francisco Bay Area 

for three years and returned to Helsinki, 

Finland in August. They’ll both be working 

at mobile phone companies (of 

course): Eira as a research engineer and 

Oskari as a building engineer. Daniel 

Kampel’s daughter, Julia, was born on 

June 29th. Both she and her mother Silvina 

are in perfect health. Meanwhile Daniel 

continues to work as an economist for the 

Banco Provincia Buenos Aires, a state- 

owned Argentine bank. He is also associated 

with CEDES, an independent social 

research institution. Riccardo “Foca” 

Maggi moved to the Development aid area 

of the European Commission, married 

shortly afterwards (no causal link) and 

became a father in February. Foca writes 

that his son, Carlo is doing fabulously 

apart from the fact that he looks Swedish 

(blond hair and blue, blue eyes). Sanjay 

Mandahar’s first daughter, Teesa, was 

born in Oct 2001 in London. Sanjay currently 

lives in a suburb of Boston, and 

enjoys time with friends (from MIT and 

INSEAD) and with his brothers and their 

families. Sanjay exited the technology 

venture capital business about 5 years ago 

and decided to start his own consultancy, 

helping technology startups beyond the 

startup phase. Sanjay is CTO and board 

member of a digital broadcast software 

company in Ireland as well as a technology 

consultant in medical imaging for a 

Boston-based hospital. In February of this 

year, Paul Moore finally stopped working 

for the Department of Justice, and drove 

across country to San Francisco, where he 

started working for a private law firm. 

More importantly, on April 24th Florencia 

Cudos and he were married in a quiet civil 

ceremony in their backyard in San 

Francisco. Daniel Kampel introduced 

Paul to Florencia two years ago when he 

went to Buenos Aires on vacation. Arthur 

Ndhlovu still lives in Zambia, consulting 

for several financial institutions. Arthur 

and his girlfriend were blessed with a 

lovely baby girl on April 23rd. Her name 

is Nkosazana Lisa Ndhlovu. Carolina 

Perez is working a lot and watching her 

kids, Manuela (10) and Felipe (4) grow up 

quickly. Carolina is soon changing her 

two places of work to one. She says, “The 

new institution is growing, has money to 

work with and seems to have a good 

future.” Caroline Sim’s daughter 

Kimberly started Grade 1 in school. She 

writes: “I am a stressed out working mother. 

It is hard to juggle a career, rush home 


to spend some quality time with Kimberly, 

tuck her in bed by 9 and then get around to 

doing the housework that is waiting to be 

done. But it is worth it as she is doing great 

in school.” Caroline was recently promoted 

to Head of Interbank Sales in the 

Swedish bank. Panji Tisna had the pleasure 

of a visit from the legendary Andrew 

Maclehose (UWC Former Faculty) and 

wife Heather in Bali. Andrew had just finished 

his teaching term at UWCSEA and 

was on his way home to Wales. It was so 

nice to see them: they visited Panji’s home 

in the village, where they had lunch and a 

long chat, went to see Balinese children’s 

music and dance competition at the Bali 

Art Festival and visited museums. Panji 

and his wife, Laksmi, continue to enjoy 

life and work in Bali, which is somewhat 

busy and only sometimes hectic. Panji 

teaches American students taking 2-3 

months study tours in Bali, promotes 

Balinese fine artists/performers and 

attends many ceremonies and rituals. Panji 

will soon go to Merano, Italy, with a 

Balinese artist who is attending an Art 

Biennale, then visit Switzerland as well as 

a couple of other cities in Europe. Emma 

Tucker still edits the weekend section of 

the Financial Times. Her three boys are 

wonderful - fanatical rugby and football 

players/supporters. England’s defeat of 

Australia in the Rugby World Cup final 

was a highlight of the year and changed 

her six year old forever - he is now known 

as Jonny (as in Wilkinson) rather than by 

his real name, Billy. Emma saw 

Paul Moore '85 and his wife, 

Florencia Cudos. 



Jacqueline Bell in Paris earlier this year 

and also caught up with Michelle 

Cartwright ‘84 traveling to London on 

several business trips. After ages of medical 

training, Ph.D. research and specialist 

training Sven Van den Hazel recently settled 

with his wife (Afke) and both kids 

(Timo and Carmen) as a gastroenterologist/hepatologist 

in a small teaching hospital 

in the far east of the Netherlands. Sven 

says, “The area is truly beautiful and 

amazingly empty for such a densely populated 

country. It is one of the few places in 

the Netherlands where it is actually worth 

having a mountain bike. Anyone interested 

in testing the hills on either side of the 

Dutch-German border is more than welcome 

for a ride.” 

1986 

Rebecca Lloyd 

Erikastrasse 57-A 

Hamburg, 20251 

GERMANY 

rebecca.lloyd@de.pwc.com 

Melanie Weston 

40 West 15th Street, Apt. 5A 

New York, New York 10011 

chineygirl@aol.com 

Teresa and Ivor Frischknecht welcomed 

Tasmin Lucille Engelhard into the world 

on July 10th in Pasadena, CA. Everything 

went spectacularly well and both baby and 

mom are in excellent health. She’s already 

been hiking with dad in his “manly sling”. 

Both mom and dad are surprised at how 

fond they already are of someone who 

wakes up several times per night. Anju 

Nohria and her husband Bharat Anand 

(AD ‘84) are the proud parents of Rhea 

Ivor Frischknecht’s ‘86 daughter, Tasmin 

Lucille Engelhard born July 10, 2004. 

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Diego Pérez Salicrup’s ‘86 son, Andrés 

Pérez Andresen born April 11, 2004. 

Ann Schroeder ‘86, daughter Katiana (2) 

and husband Jason. 

Anand, born May 12, 2004. Diego Perez 

Salicrup proudly announces the birth of 

Andrés Pérez Andresen born on April 

11th. He was 3.7 kg and 51 cm. Ann 

Schroeder and her husband married in 

1999 and had their daughter Katiana in 

2002. After her birth, Ann resigned her 

position at the Bank of New York to take 

care of Katiana full-time. The family splits 

their time between Connecticut and their 

ranch in Arizona. After fourteen years in 

the US and thirteen in Italy, Sophia de 

Sousa returned to live in London. She is 

finding it remarkably easy to readjust, due 

to her near-by family and having a 

Londoner at her side. Sophia is managing 

a voluntary/non-profit youth organization 

called the Winchester Project in Northwest 

London, serving approximately 2,500 children 

and young people a year. She reports, 

“It’s a very challenging and interesting 

role and I’m enjoying it immensely.” 

Birgitte Woehlk Laursen still works for 

the Nordic Council of Ministers as a political 

advisor. She recently married Steen 

Laursen on May 11th. The two are expecting 

their first child in early October. She 

stays in contact with Saif-Deen Akanni 

‘85 who’s still in London. 

1987 

Arild Drivdal 

adrivdal@uwc.net 

(email only per his request) 

Karen O’Leary 

Beragh Hill House 

60 Beragh Hill Road 

Derry BT48 8LY 

NORTHERN IRELAND 

K.OLeary@CaldwellRobinson.com 

Carla Castellanos de Bass is 5 months 

pregnant with twins, the babies are due in 

November and both Carla and her husband 

Ron are very excited about the impending 

arrival of their children. Carla advised that 

she talked to Esra Colduroglu a few 

weeks ago. Esra recently had a baby boy 

and is living in California. She keeps in 

regular contact with Jacobo Perez 

Herrera. Mandy Garber is living in 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and after having 

trained as a physician is working with HIV 

patients but is increasingly moving into 

the research area. Erica Hess Ramus now 

has two sons – Dakota (11) and Brandon 

(8). The family usually has a teenage 

exchange student visiting; recently, a girl 

from France and a boy from Uzbekistan. 

Next year, a German girl will be staying 

with the family for 10 months. Erica now 

owns a publishing company that produces 

a local lifestyle magazine and also books. 

She also sells real estate! KC Kung 

reports that he and his parents have been 

living in Singapore for over a year; they 

are enjoying their time and taking advantage 

of Singapore’s location to travel 

regionally. Karen Taylor is living in 

Washington and has plans to visit Ireland 

in May 2005. She hopes to meet up with 

Karen O’Leary at that time. Karen has also 

been in touch with Michael West. He and 

his wife Annie are the proud parents of 

their second son, Oliver Ryan West. Taru 

Virtanen still works for the Prime 

Minister’s office. However, she hopes to 

give up commuting and move to Helsinki 

soon. Her daughter Aada (6) started preschool 

in September and her son Aapo (8) 

started his second year in comprehensive 

school. Tara reports, “Although I’m still 

interested in sports I’m currently recovering 

from a knee operation. My son is 

upholding the family tradition as a keen 

ski jumper.” To accommodate the arrival 

of their third daughter Juliet, Isobel Trop 


and family are moving to a larger home. 

Mieneke Van Dixhoorn and her husband 

have been following the Holland soccer 

teams during Euro 2004 at the Holland 

House in Johannesburg. 

1988 

Ben Thompson 

3324 Castle Heights Ave, Apt. 217 

Los Angeles, CA 90034-2731 

bent@lobo.net 

Marco Balam-Almanza married 

Guadalupe Garcia on April 12, 2003 in 

Mexico City. After the religious ceremony, 

they celebrated their wedding with a 

Mexican party with mariachis. Tobor 

Kovári and family recently moved to the 

country. They now live in the picturesque 

small town of Szentendre, just 10 miles 

north of Budapest. His girls Lotti and Lili 

are entering their teenage years. Tibor 

says, “If any of my UWC friends still want 

to see the entire family at home they’ll 

have to hurry and visit soon.” Tibor works 

in the music service business he started 

seven years ago, traveling between 

Prague, Warsaw, Budapest and the rest of 

Central Eastern Europe. Anna Kventsel 

finished her dissertation and traveled to 

India, visiting temples in Andhra and 

Madras. She’s now in Cambridge for a 

year-long research fellowship, to be followed 

by Fulbright studies in the United 

States. Freya Robinson Giffen and her 

husband Simon are the proud parents of 

Aran Giffen born August 13th. “He is gorgeous 

and we are completely smitten”, 

says Freya who is a trust manager for a 

law firm in Bermuda. Mariana Siebold 

still pursues her art, and had a gallery 

showing of her paintings in early August. 

She, her husband Rodolfo and Valeria (5) 

just celebrated the family’s youngest child 

Rebecca’s first birthday. Norfolk, Virginia 

is treating Carl St. Remy and his family 

well. His little girl Lilly is a year old and 

Lisa Hartrich ‘88 spends her 

days resolving labor disputes 

between public employers and 

labor unions, as an administrative 

law judge, mediator and 

arbitrator for the state of 

Washington. 


Marco Balam Almanza ‘88 and 

his wife, Guadalupe Garcia 

celebrating 

their wedding day. 

Carl St. Remy’s 

daughter, Lilly. 

“all over the place.” Matt Svoboda married 

Hung-Yun Chu this past August in 

Eugene, Oregon. A host of UWCers 

attended including: Klaus Desmet and 

family, Gal Roth and family, Mudit Tyagi 

and his wife Amy, Cesar Sanz-Rodriguez 

and his wife Marian, Arild Drivdal ‘87, 

Reed Baumgarten ‘89 and Lisa 

Hartrich. Matt and Hung-Yun met six 

years ago at the University of Oregon’s 

School of Music. Both graduated from the 

program, Hung-Yun received her doctorate 

in Piano Performance and Matt received a 

dual Master’s in Conducting and 

Composition. Matt says, “Anyone near 

Eugene, Oregon is welcomed to stay with 

me or us.” Ben Thompson starts his third 

and last year at UCLA this fall where he’s 

working on an MFA in Screenwriting. He 

and Ann Petit (UWC Former Faculty) 

are expecting a little boy at any moment. 

When Zak Weisfeld is not helping his 

wife Joey raise their little boy Asher, he’s 

busy producing his company’s new cable 

TV show, Snapped. 


Mariana Siebold ‘88 and 

her children, Valeria 

and Rebecca. 

Matt Svoboda ‘88 and his 

wife, Hung-Yun Chu. 

1989 

Gina Neff 

858 Moraga Drive, Apt. 3 

Los Angeles, CA 90049-1671 

ginasue@panix.com 

Aran Giffen born August 13, 

2004 and his two very proud 

parents, Freya Robinson ‘88 

and Simon Giffen. 

Mudit Tyagi ‘88 and Amy 

Karon '95 on their wedding 

day in Madison. 

Yuko Furuya returned to Japan after a 

wonderful gathering with classmates in 

Montezuma at the 2004 Reunion. Mukul 

Kumar is living in Washington, D.C. 

where he gives strategy advice to Chief 

Technology Officers of companies as part 

of his job as the managing director for the 

Information Technology practice of the 

Corporate Executive Board, www.executiveboard.com. 

Lieke Luttmer and her 

husband Pieter Ewoud are the proud parents 

of twin boys, Douwe and Renze, born 

in November 2003. Lieke is on leave from 

her marketing position with the largest 

Dutch supermarket, Albert. They still live 

in Amsterdam. 

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Yemi Aguda, Giovanni Bacareza, Khaled Bodoor, Michael Buckley, 

Yuko Furuya, Sara Koplik, Alon Magen, Peter Marangu, Nancy 

Melia Webb, Delphine Menard, Ronnie Moreno, Gina Neff, Michael 

Stern, Sarah Walsh, Victor Williams and Donna Yost. Sandra 

Encalada ‘88 and Bill Wong '90. 

Pamela Paul and Trustee Michael Stern 

‘89 on their wedding day. 

1990 

Lance Meister 

122 Summer Street 

Waltham, MA 02452 

lanceandgabi@comcast.net 

Alia Al-Matari married on January 29th 

in Amman, Jordan. Her husband is an 

American diplomat, posted to Stockholm. 

Alia recently became a US citizen. 

Zulfiqar Ali and his wife bought a new 

house in London. Erick Argueta moved 

back to Guatemala to run an advertising 

business. Rachel Mordecai, a graduate of 

Pearson College and Michael Brown 

married last August and are now living in 

Minneapolis. With a double-UWC 

connection, all visitors are (of course) 

welcome. Paola Asbun gave birth to her 

third son a few months ago in Texas. She 

moved from Bolivia with her husband and 

children a few years ago. Kyira Brooke 

Korrigan is still in Vancouver running her 

Jackson Alexander Riggs son of Jenny 

Lovitt Riggs '90. 

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own yoga studio (the Smiling Buddha, 

www.smilingbuddha.ca). Her work specializes 

in spinal injuries, neurological 

conditions and Indian oil massage. She 

says, “I love what I do and living in 

Canada. America is craaaazy.” Henry 

Evertts is still in Europe with his partner 

Steve and Picard (their dog) managing a 

hotel for a large chain. Sonia Farina 

returned to Paraguay. She and her two 

children, Mariana and Fernando, are living 

with her parents for a few months until her 

house is finished. Still living in Houston, 

Sandra Gastanaduy and David Collison 

had their first baby girl a few months ago. 

Malgorzata Gnoinska is currently pursuing 

a Ph.D. in History, more precisely 

Cold War History, at George Washington 

University in Washington, DC. She’s been 

living in DC for about four years now. She 

reports, “It’s great, but the only drawback 

is that my husband lives on the West 

Coast. He’s doing his Ph.D. in Japanese 

Literature at UC Berkeley. Luckily, we’ll 

be living together again this coming fall in 

Japan.” Catherine Jheon lives in Toronto 

and works as a journalist. Her specialty is 

food. “I go on the radio and talk about 

cheap restaurants.” Jenny Lovitt-Riggs’ 

son, Jackson Alexander Riggs is now 15 

months old, walking everywhere. Jenny 

says, “He is wonderful, and the whole 

experience has been much more fun and 

joyful than I ever expected.” Her other 

baby, Nota Bene (shoes for women) is also 

taking off. The company was launched 

officially in February with nine stores 

Rami May-Ron '90, his wife, Rona and 

daughter, Ariel. 

already from New York to San Francisco, 

Minneapolis to Orlando. “It is gives me a 

great sense of accomplishment to think 

that because of a blister I got on the way to 

a briefing, professional women now have 

access to beautiful shoes they can walk in 

comfortably.” Robb Magley is a staff 

reporter for a small paper in Colorado, still 

writing books and running sled dogs in the 

winter. Robb says, “Everything is going 

quite well, and I haven’t felt the urge to 

climb any bell towers recently.” Nadejda 

Marques and her family live in the Boston 

area. Rami May-Ron and his wife Rona 

had a miracle daughter, Ariel. The family 

now lives in Jerusalem where they bought 

their first house. Lance Meister and his 

wife recently purchased a condo just outside 

Boston. Kyriell Muhammad lives in 

San Francisco and changed his name to 

Kyriell Noon, so if you hear that name 

being bandied about, it is in fact him. 

Anasol Munoz and her husband Alejandro 

recently bought a house. Their first baby is 

due in February 2005. She says, “We are 

very happy and nervous; these mixed emotions 

are getting me a bit confused but I 

guess everyone goes through that stage.” 

Marietta Ng’s daughter Marielle (6) is in 

first grade, reading and writing in Spanish. 

Marietta still works at the Panama Canal 

as a chemist. She’s close to completing 

her Master’s in Environmental 

Management. Liliana Ortega Lopez 

moved to Spain after getting married in 

March (the same week as the terrorist 

attacks). Cristiam Rodriguez is in DC 

working for IDB. He lives with his partner 

Bill and is very happy. Sarah Stamp 

Kenningham welcomed Ryan John 

Kenningham into the world on June 4th - 

both mother and baby are well. She continues 

to work for the Fourth World 

Movement in Brussels. Literary agent 

Sonia Verjovsky is working on several 

Sarah Stamp Kenningham '90, Ryan John 

born June 4, 2004 and family. 


publishing projects: interesting essays by 

journalists and recovering a long-forgotten 

Mexican cult writer from the thirties. She 

has a nine-month-old son, Tristán, and is 

still living in Mexico City where all are 

welcome to visit. Stephanie Walton started 

her Master’s this fall along with working 

full-time. She says, “It’ll be a challenge!” 

1991 

Max Jones 

813 Independence Drive 

Albaster, AL 35007 

misterplow@mindspring.com 

Noam, small brother to Jonathan (3), 

joined the family of Daniela Beran and 

Eran Bar-Am on July 7th in Bonn, 

Germany. Eran is working for a strategy & 

marketing consultancy 

based in Bonn, 

specializing in the 

pharma industry. 

Brian Bava married 

his long-time girlfriend, 

Amy 

Sessions in Boise, 

Idaho on July 2nd. He 

still keeps busy at Kimball Union 

Academy in New Hampshire, where he 

works in the Admissions and College 

Counseling departments, serving as a 

coordinator for the international students 

and as both a dorm head and senior class 

advisor. Paul Bjerk is two years into a 

doctorate program at the University of 

Wisconsin, Madison. He spent the last few 

years doing everything from writing to 

being a bike messenger in St. Paul, to 

teaching in Tanzania. He can currently be 

found in Dar es Salaam and is hoping to 

steer Tanzanian students toward UWCs. 

Sara Breslow is a doctoral student in the 

Environment Anthropology Program at the 

University of Washington. This fall, she 

will be conducting field work dealing with 

salmon habitat restoration in Washington’s 

Skagit Valley. Tracey Carter is in Los 

Angeles, working on a doctorate in 

African History at UCLA. She hopes to 

return to the San Francisco/ Oakland area 

when she completes her studies and after 

she travels to and around Africa working 

on her degree. Tracey and her partner, 

Emily, have a daughter named Ella who is 

almost a year old. Tracey writes that Ella is 

“the best thing ever.” Andrea Cavina, 

now in the Eastern Alps, is working in the 

atom business. “So if you have any old 

atomic bombs lying idle in your backyard 

or any plutonium you just want to get rid 

of, just send it on over.” Ian Chisholm 

and his family – wife Anne-Marie, sons 

Jameson and Oscar and daughter Rose are 

returning to Western Canada. Ian has spent 

the last 5 years as Chief Executive of 

Columba 1400, an international leadership 

and community development charity 

based on the Isle of Skye, off Scotland’s 

west coast. Ian reports that on Vancouver 

Island they will be much closer to Anne- 

Marie’s sister, Catherine Daniel (AW 

'90). Nynke de Jong van Schalkis is in 

Holland with her husband and their two 

children, Emma and Sam. Nynke worked 

with her husband in a sailing enterprise for 

the last several years, and now owns a 

small business selling stained glass windows 

and lights of her own design. She 

stays in frequent contact with Hannah 

John Manton '91 is finishing his doctorate in History at Oxford this 

year. He plans to continue his research on twentieth-century leprosy 

control in Nigeria over the next three years. 

Davies, and reports that Hannah is definitely 

“still mad” and running a restaurant 

and design business in Swansea, Wales. 

Abdalla El Ebiary still lives with his wife 

of three years in NYC. He would appreciate 

a chance to meet other UWCers, especially 

the classes of '90 – '92, while passing 

through NY. Caitlin Garland Curtis 

is looking forward to the arrival of her first 

child. Her last “pre-baby trip” with her 

husband Ross took her to Vancouver and 

San Francisco before she returned to 

Bermuda, where she continues to work 

with UWC admissions and fundraising 

efforts. Tarra Hassin and Brian Lax '92 

both live in Albuquerque and will be getting 

married this fall in Canada. Flannery 

Haug Burke divides her time between 

Los Angeles (where she is teaching history 

at California State University, 

Northridge) and St. Louis (where her husband 

works at Washington University). 

She will have an article about Santa Fe 

published this fall in the Journal of the 

Southwest. Minette Hillyer is finishing 

her dissertation in Film Studies at UC 

Berkeley. She writes that she’s “crossing 

all fingers and toes” in hopes of finishing 

within a year. Ellen Hubrecht is a personnel 

manager (“I hire and fire and pay 


people, basically”) for a large tour company 

in Belgium. Her time away from work 

is spent with her daughters, Emma and 

Margaux, and her husband Dave. Max 

Jones, class agent extraordinaire, urges 

any and all of his former classmates to get 

in touch with him (at 

max.jones@gmail.com) to share updated 

addresses and email information, as he and 

Mike Taylor are trying—somewhat successfully, 

to their shock—to assemble a 

definitive contact list for the class of 1991. 

Max is starting his ninth year of teaching 

high school in Auburn, Alabama. He also 

continues working as an Assistant 

Examiner in IB English. He traveled to 

Costa Rica this spring and hoped for a random 

out-of-the-blue run-in with long-lost 

classmate Guillermo Araya Chang. 

Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. He has 

gotten to see Adam Kleinberger '92 several 

times over the past few years and is 

happy to report that 

Adam is doing well 

and starting graduate 

school this fall 

in Boston. John 

Knox is in Oregon, 

recovering from an 

injury he sustained 

while working in the 

Peace Corps. Lisa Krassner married her 

longtime partner Miriam in a beachside 

ceremony near Boston, where she still 

works for the Boston Museum of Fine 

Arts. Guests in attendance at the July 4th 

event included Flannery Haug Berke and 

Tarra Hassin. Yanna Kreske is still living 

in Denver with her husband Will and 

her son Sam. She works in the IT depart- 

Tracey Carter’s '91 one-year-old 

daughter, Ella. 



ment of Duke Energy Field Services. 

Andre Machado was recently married to 

Sandra Bliacheriene, a fellow physician 

(they met in the operating room, believe it 

or not). The wedding was held in Sao 

Paulo. Both Andre and Sandra are now 

practicing in Cleveland, Ohio, as part of 

their continuing medical careers. Guests at 

the wedding included Mariana Baptista 

'95, Kurt Stuermer '90, Ricardo 

Albertin (PC’93), Dora Cavalcanti ‘89, 

Mauricio de Arruda ‘88, Fausto Trigo 

‘87, and Paula Nunes (PC’93). John 

Manton and his wife Marion are the proud 

parents of Evie Isobel, born in May. Cecile 

Menard lives in Melbourne, Australia 

with her partner Ian and works as an executive 

assistant for a large public transport 

company. She writes, “We are planning to 

stay here until they kick us out or we get 

bored, whichever comes first.” She has 

managed to catch up with Ashley 

Crossland and Adam Kirk '90 during her 

time in Australia. Ahtziri Molina 

returned to Mexico after spending several 

years in England, where she received her 

doctorate in Sociology and visited Alex 

Wisch from time to time. She now works 

for a research center in Xalapa, Mexico. 

Her job involves working with local artists 

and attending exhibitions, concerts, and 

performances on a regular basis. She 

writes: “Hard work, but someone has to do 

it!” Hiromi Nishihara recently moved to 

San Diego from San Francisco and works 

as a corporate tax manager. Sulona 

Reddy lives in Johannesburg and hopes to 

have her MBA degree completed very 

soon, “if all goes according to plan.” She 

has been in touch with both Thepidi 

Moremong and Thandi Njobe '90, also 

living in Johannesburg. She also ran into 

Christian Olsen one evening – he was in 

South Africa for a business trip before 

returning home to Denmark. Jay 

Schlechte and his wife, Sheila, celebrated 

their fourth wedding anniversary this year. 

Jay has completed his doctorate in 

Chemistry and works at the Kansas 

Polymer Research center. Hillel Soifer is 

still at Harvard, working on his doctorate 

in Latin American politics. He is currently 

in Lima, Peru, conducting research for his 

dissertation. Anneke Swinehart is still 

happily ensconced in San Francisco, taking 

classes towards certification in 

Landscape Architecture and 

Environmental Planning. Kyriell 

Muhammad '90 lives around the corner 

and is roomies with her cousin. Rebecca 

Rogers '92 left the neighborhood (sob!) 

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for love and adventure in Washington, 

D.C. Anneke’s loss is Aura Kanegis ’92 

gain! Minette Hillyer is still in San 

Francisco, busy with her Ph.D. studies at 

UC Berkeley. Anneke and Minette see 

each other at film festivals, birthday parties, 

and for the occasional drink. Kyira 

Korrigan '90 visited California (and 

Anneke) several times this year to teach 

yoga seminars and to obtain massage 

training. She now knows how to find the 

best taqueria in town. Michael Taylor 

lives in New York City and is one of the 

newest members of the UWC-USA board. 

He stays in contact with many of his classmates, 

and in mid-June was able to spend 

time with Trevor Hallstein, Alex Wisch, 

Minette Hillyer, Sam Opitz, Uli Kratz 

'92, Mauricio Abbrizzio '92 and Lea 

Johnson '92. Hiro Uchida and his wife, 

Emi finished their third year in the doctoral 

program at UC Davis. Hiro’s studies 

take him back home on occasion, as he is 

conducting research on Japanese fishery 

management, which he reports is “another 

experience of finding your own country.” 

After obtaining an MBA in Finance from 

Columbia University in 2003, Henry 

Webb and his wife Ivette moved to Detroit 

where he’s working at an automotive company. 

Henry says, “Everyone is welcomed 

to visit us in Detroit!” 

1992 

Liliana Lezcano Frutos 

Benjamin Constant 835 c/ Ayolas 

Edificio Jacaranda - 4th Floor 

Asuncion 

PARAGUAY 

liliana.lezcano@berke.com.py 

A little over a year ago, Rebecca Cadwell 

Day and her family relocated across the 

greater Dallas metroplex and happily settled 

in Allen, Texas. In October, the family 

welcomed a new bundle of joy, Cassidy 

Ann, into this world. Now, at 12 months, 

she and brother Erik (2) keep the family 

busy. Her husband, Lincoln, is currently a 

stay-at-home dad, and enjoys his time with 

the kids. Rebecca still works at Texas 

Instruments, where she has transitioned 

into a role as an IT Project Manager. She 

manages some of the larger IT software 

projects, which she is truly enjoying. 

Carla Castañeda completed her first 

Sprint Triathlon on July 18th and looks 

forward to more triathlons in the future. In 

August, she visited with Kori Woodard, 

Tore Eikenes’ '92 and Riini Kallio-Koski’s 

'92 wedding day in Finland. 

partner Ray Horyn and daughter Emily 

Morgan Horyn. Heather Deutsch just 

graduated with a degree in City Planning 

and moved to Washington, DC where she 

looks forward to catching up with old 

friends. Tore Idar Eikenes married Riina 

Kallio-Koski in Finland on August 24th in 

2003. Kristine Hauge Storholt '92 was 

present with her newborn daughter Ada 

(five weeks old!). After moving around all 

over the world for the past two and a half 

years, Tore and Riina are finally settling 

down near London’s Gatwick airport for 

the foreseeable future. Riina is finishing 

up her second Master’s in Human 

Resource Management. Sidy Fall '92 is 

still in Senegal, teaching English in 

Senegalese public schools for the past six 

years. He says, “It’s a challenging job, but 

I enjoy it.” Kimi Jackson works at 

Colorado State University as an attorney 

for students. She’s also camping and hiking 

with her spouse, Gary. During the 

past year she had the pleasure of running 

into Nghia Nguyen '93 at an immigrant 

worker rights rally in Denver. Last year, 

she attended the 10-year reunion for the 

class of '93 and enjoyed seeing many of 

her first years. You can see pictures at 

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/daniel_pringle 

/tales/USA2003II.html. In June, Kimi visited 

Pedro Medina (UWC Faculty) at his 

sister’s house in southern Colorado. She 

says, “Pedro hasn’t changed a bit, and is 

still taking care of the campus and 

befriending the students.” They went for a 

nice hike and saw some of the places 


where Pedro worked as a young man in 

Colorado. Yohei Kawabata married in 

May '04 and currently works as a buyer of 

aircraft material. Katerina Klimsova 

turned 30 in May. Life for her now is really 

different than in the early '90s. She says, 

“My children are now three and five. It’s 

so much fun to be their mum. They were 

difficult as babies but now they’re so wonderful.” 

Katerina just completed her first 

year as a teacher trainer at the local university. 

Jessica Kosfiszer just moved to 

Dallas, TX. Visitors are welcome! Uli 

Kratz moved from 

Germany to New 

York where he’ll 

work with a bank 

over the next twelve 

months. Brian Lax 

and Tarra Hassin 

'91 will be married 

this fall in the countryside 

outside of 

Montreal. They live in 

Albuquerque where their home is 

ALWAYS OPEN to visitors (especially 

from UWC). Brian is still working in air 

ambulance work, moving ill or injured 

patients around the world in Lear jets and 

also teaching EMTs and Paramedics for 

UNM Medical School. Tarra is working 

with a not-for-profit that treats adults with 

chronic mental illness as a group facilitator. 

Tarra and Brian spend their free time 

traveling locally, working on their house, 

exercising their Rhodesian Ridgeback 

(dog), hiking, camping, rock climbing, and 

PLANNING THEIR ESCAPE. They plan 

a major adventure starting on Jan 1, 2006 

for two years around the globe. Definite 

destinations are: Europe, India, South 

Africa, the Amazon River, Australia and 

New Zealand. Brian says, “We’ll be contacting 

UWC people in each place.” After 

the trip they plan to pick a spot to live and 

make babies. Brian and Tarra have been in 

recent contact with Albuquerque resident 

and attorney Feliz Rael '93 who is getting 

married to her man, Erik, also an attorney. 

They enjoyed spending time with Megan 

Hill '93, who now lives in Albuquerque. 

Megan is working for UNM’s College of 

Arts and Sciences and plans to buy a house 

in Albuquerque later this year. Norton 

Francis ‘88 is also an alum with whom 

they spend time. He and his partner, Anne 

live near them in Albuquerque. Anne 

works in Santa Fe for the State 

Government along with Sara Koplik ‘89 

and, just to complete the circle, Tarra 

works with Sara’s mom. They try to get 

together with all of the above every month 

or two for dinners, etc. Last time, they 

also met up with Mike Taylor '91, who 

was in NM for the graduation and caught 

up with them in Santa Fe for dinner. They 

also stay in touch with Rachel Lundgren, 

who is in her first year of Residency as a 

Trauma Surgeon through the University of 

Washington network of hospitals in 

Seattle. Rachel graduated as an MD from 

UNM in the spring of 2004. Cecelia 

Tholse also contacted them recently 

from Sweden and is doing well. Xavier 

Carla Castañeda '92 was awarded a Rotary World Peace 

Scholarship with the University of Bradford, UK. The two-year master’s 

level program focuses on dealing effectively with obstacles, 

such as war, famine, poverty, and disease that currently impede international 

cooperation and peace. 

Furtado '92 sent them an email from 

Ethiopia, where he is now installed with 

the Canadian International Development 

Agency. He and his bride, Carrie-Lee 

moved there from their home in Ottawa in 

August. Wolfgang Loeber '92 is doing 

well and keeps in touch from Vienna 

where he has changed jobs from law to 

real property. Tarra and Brian went to 

Boston (July 4th) and then on to 

Newburyport to the home of Lisa 

Krassner '91 and her partner Miriam. On 

a recent business trip to Los Angeles, 

Brian got together with Nour Scandar, 

and Emeka Dillibe '93 for dinner. 

Accompanied by Nour’s mom and sister, 

Tarra’s dad, and Emeka’s beautiful young 

daughter, the gang went to Madre’s restaurant 

in search of owner Jennifer Lopez. 

Food was great but Jennifer was nowhere 

to be found. Nour is changing jobs back 

home in Egypt and doing very well. 

Emeka continues to build his empire of 

group homes for troubled youth in the Los 

Angeles area and is as driven and charming 

as ever. Chris Palm is still in 

Singapore running B2G, a fine art gallery 

and imaging company dealing in photography. 

He’s traveled this year to Myanmar, 

New Zealand and India. He’ll be off to 

Bolivia this December to witness a couple 

of other UWCers get married. Bertha 

Camacho '93 and Harald Tuckermann 

'92 were married last March by state in 

Harald’s home-area of Palatinate. The 

church ceremony will be held in Bertha’s 

Bolivia, the city of Cochabamba, on 


December 30th, 2004. Heathcliffe Riday 

finished his Ph.D. and post-doctorate at 

Iowa State University last December and 

took a position as the new forage legume 

breeder with the US Department of 

Agriculture - Agricultural Research 

Service at the US Dairy Forage Research 

Center on the University of Wisconsin 

Campus in Madison, Wisconsin. He’s married 

and has two kids. After over seven 

years at Deloitte in Boston, Ajay Totlani 

'92 finally figured out what he wanted to 

do when he grew up. He moved to 

Chicago this fall to 

enter the University 

of Chicago’s MBA 

program. He tried 

to convince the now 

retired Mukul 

Chadda to invest in 

his education but it 

didn’t fit in his asset 

allocation strategy. 

Adam Kleinberger 

and Ajay had a great summer in 

Cambridge, Massachusetts. Samir 

Koirala is married and completing his 

post doctorate at Harvard. He claims he’s 

researching the neurological patterns of 

mice. His wife, Christine claims he’s married 

to them. Anyone in or visiting 

Chicago over the next two years will 

always have a place to stay at Ajay’s student 

abode. 

*Photo correction 

from last issue: 

Kaleidoscope 

Winter 2004, Volume 29 

Montezuma Post, Page 24 

Bottom right photo: 

Christina DiLena '92, husband 

Benoit Finck and their baby. 



1993 

Bertha Camacho 

Casilla 6199 

La Paz 

BOLIVIA 

bcamacho_74@yahoo.com 

Katrin Bennhold works as a reporter for 

the International Herald Tribune. She is 

thrilled about the change. Tamas Orban 

'93 and she are very happy and this change 

allows them to stay in lovely Paris. She 

says: “We’re hooked...!” Tamas started a 

post doctorate position at EMBL in 

January. She also adds that Paris is clearly 

attracting some other UWCers as well: 

Miguel Rivera '92 moved there last year 

to work for the Mexican delegation at the 

OECD. They had a mini-reunion when 

Carla Castaneda '92 came into town. 

Nicole Gerber '94, who also lives in Paris, 

joined them as well. Melanie Bush 

reports that last year she moved from 

Washington, DC to Austin, Texas to begin 

a Master’s in Public Policy at the 

University of Texas. She is continuing her 

work as a community organizer on transportation 

and housing in low-income communities. 

Bertha Camacho was in Cuba 

during last year’s reunion conducting 

research. She finished her Master’s in 

Development Studies and is still living in 

Germany. Harald Tuckermann '92 and 

Bertha married in March having a small 

celebration with lots of beer, music and 

Palatinate wine. They are preparing a bigger 

celebration in Bolivia at the end of the 

year. Gema Diaz '91 attended the wedding 

and was Bertha’s witness. Uli Kratz '92 

who recently moved to New York and 

Mirjam Leuchtenberger '92 were at the 

party as well. In the fall, Bertha will be 

going back to Cuba for two months to 

evaluate a rural development project 

implemented by a German NGO. Harald is 

still in Sankt Gallen working toward his 

Ph.D. and doing lots of running. He ran up 

to the Zugspitze in July and participated in 

a couple of other marathons in Switzerland 

and Germany. Bertha also heard from 

Diego Angemi '94 who lives in Kampala, 

Uganda where he works as an economist 

for the Italian Finance Ministry, and from 

Marcelo Burgoa '92 who is still living in 

San Francisco. Jason Coady and his wife 

are moving, since he’ll be starting a new 

job, teaching at The Hill School in 

Pottstown, PA (near Philadelphia). He’ll 

be teaching math, living in the dorm while 

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coaching soccer and lacrosse. In his spare 

time, he’s studying for his Master’s at 

Wesleyan University and hopes to finish 

next summer. Filipa Cunha still works as 

a financial reporter and just celebrated Ula 

Suyumov’s and her daughter’s birthday. 

She invites everyone to come to visit in 

Lisbon. Tala de los Santos reports that 

last year’s reunion was a lot of fun. “It felt 

weird to think that 10 years had passed. 

The funny thing is that once we were 

there, things just started falling into place. 

Like having meals in the cafeteria, as if it 

is so normal to sit across from these people 

you haven’t seen in years! It was a bit 

painful leaving, not knowing when you are 

going to see everyone again.” After the 

reunion, Kalpa Shah, Olga Centeno, 

Nadejda Marques and she had another 

mini-reunion in NYC. “It was fun, just 

hanging out”. In July, Tala started working 

as a business development officer with the 

international non-profit organization 

PATH, improving the health of women and 

children in developing nations. She is still 

pursuing her MBA at Seattle University, 

and hopes to be finished by March 2005. 

Tala also organized a potluck for the UWC 

Seattle group. She says that for her it was 

a way to meet the different UWC folks in 

the area: “It was great! It is lots of fun 

sharing stories with folks from other colleges 

and years. Hopefully, it will generate 

interest in more get-togethers.” Juan 

Carlos Fuenmayor reports that in 

January, he started an MBA at INSEAD on 

the Singapore campus where he had the 

opportunity to get together with Joyceline 

See. In May, he moved to the campus in 

Fontainebleau, France and has been hav- 

ing lots of fun partying in chateaus in the 

area. He spent the summer in Madrid 

working for a Spanish bank and is now 

back in France until his graduation in 

December. He hopes to stay in Europe 

afterwards but he is not sure yet on the 

exact location. Nella Hengstler writes: 

“After studying law in Austria, I had an 

exchange year in Southern Spain and did 

an internship in Brussels. I have been 

working as Deputy Austrian Trade 

Commissioner in New Delhi for one and a 

half years now. I love India and managed 

to meet up with Kalpa Shah in January, 

when she came home. We both attended 

her brother’s wedding in Bombay. I also 

met Tinley Namgyel '94 and Gisele 

Cuglievan '94 who was doing volunteer 

work in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and 

Delhi and who recently married her 

French boyfriend. I will be here for another 

one or two years. In September, Zulfi, 

my boyfriend, and I will be going to 

Austria for vacations.” Nella invites everyone 

who is passing by New Delhi to stay 

with her and she wishes to get in touch 

with other UWC students living in the 

area. Chiko Tanaka Ikeda is still at 

Goldman Sachs Japan, juggling work and 

life with her two dear boys (1) and (3). 

She had a great time at the reunion last 

summer and would like to know how 

everyone is doing. Chiko writes, “Meeting 

our dear old friends was exciting. The 

interesting thing was that I had very good 

time not only with those who I used to 

hang around but also with the people I didn’t 

speak with much at the time of UWC”. 

Kirstin Johnson Ambach celebrated her 

baby girl, Elke’s first birthday. Kirstin just 

Pinar Karaca '94, Vuk Mandic '94 and their daughter, Mina Mandic. 


graduated from law school. She invites 

everyone to stop in the Seattle, 

Washington area and visit her and her family. 

Ferdi Menga enjoyed last summer’s 

reunion pictures that Daniel Pringle put 

on his web page. He states: “I couldn’t 

make it for the reunion, as my sister married 

just on those days”. Ferdi has been 

living in Germany for the last 4 years – 

most of the time in Tuebingen, part of the 

time in Bochum, where he met with 

Bertha Camacho and Harald 

Tuckermann '92. Now he’s trying to finish 

his Ph.D. in Philosophy. Simbai 

Muzamba is still in Philadelphia, working 

for the same company. He is now involved 

with the Philly UWC network and recently 

met with some UWC graduates from 

Pearson at his place. Antoine Picard celebrated 

his one-year wedding anniversary 

with Heidy. He also started working at 

Google, as a software engineer, after five 

good years with Adobe. He reports that 

work at Google is fun and exciting. He’s 

running into a lot of people from undergrad 

at Stanford. Daniel Pringle is due to 

complete his Ph.D. in Arctic and Antarctic 

Sea Ice in November of this year. His doctoral 

studies involve fieldwork in 

Antarctica and Alaska. He is, however, 

looking forward to getting a job soon. He 

is still rock climbing and playing soccer 

and is the student liaison for his soccer 

club. He recently took great satisfaction in 

signing up many international semesterabroad 

students this year. He is playing 

soccer with German, Dutch, Malaysian 

and Saudi players. He is looking forward 

to his travels to Italy with his girlfriend in 

February 2005. Neil Pyper moved from 

London to Oxford last year and now works 

as a Latin America editor at Oxford 

Analytica, which is an international political 

and economic consulting firm. Several 

UWC graduates actually work there, 

though none from UWC-USA! He is very 

happy in his new job, and really enjoys living 

in Oxford. He has also recently started 

studying again, and is doing a part-time 

undergraduate degree with the Open 

University, specializing in Economics and 

International Studies. He recently spent 

time with Melinda McFate Wittenburg, 

who visited him in Oxford, and with 

Daniel Hope '92 who lives in London, 

where he works as an actor. JoAnne 

Sickeri received her MD degree in 2002 

and is currently in her final year of residency 

in Internal Medicine at the 

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. 

In July '05 she will start her fellowship 

training in Rheumatology. She says that if 

anyone is in Pittsburgh, they are welcome 

to visit! Kalpa Shah has been in Ecuador 

since June doing an internship. Besides 

that, she is still in graduate school in New 

York. Nitzan Shoshan is currently in 

Israel and will be spending all of next year 

in Berlin, before moving to Mexico for a 

while. Ulugbek Suyumov still lives in 

Lisbon, Portugal where he enjoys spending 

time with his daughter Beatriz (8), who 

just finished the second grade of school. In 

June he participated in an international 

event, Euro 2004, that has created a temporary 

UWC-type environment in 

Portugal. There were many Dutch, 

German, English, Greek and Russian visitors. 

The main attraction was the Russian 

magnate, who came with his two boats, 80 

people staff and a helicopter. Ula is still 

actively involved with the UWC movement 

in Portugal, even though the main 

challenge seems to be attracting the 

younger generation UWC graduates to 

contribute. He works at Banco Espirito 

Santo, in the Operational Risk 

Management area, which he enjoys very 

much. Ula says: “After a 10 year career in 

the financial and consulting industry, I am 

hoping to start contributing directly or 

indirectly to the development of the 

Eastern European markets.” Demet 

Tuncer was in New York for the Turkish 

parade as the emcee for the event before 

she went to Ecuador in May. She was 

invited by the Ecuadorian government for 

the Miss Universe pageant. She visited the 

Galapagos and the Amazon and got to 

swim with sea lions and saw lots of birds! 

After Galapagos she went to Cuenca, a 

very small but cozy city. After her trip to 



Aasim Akhtar, Nicole Allen, Diego Angemi, Artti Aurasmaa, Rita 

Babihuga, Stephan Bandelow, Loes Becu, Danyue Chen, John 

Christodouleas, Nadia Christodoulou, Olivier Cottray, Ben 

Eichert, Joao Quinta de-Fonseca, Ana Fraile, Roberto Garcia 

Verdu, Nicole Gerber, Frederico Gil Sander, Teresa Gingras, 

Sulav Giri, Eva Ran Hoffman, Amy Holtzman Piechock, Agnieszka 

Kajrukszto, Sashe Kanapathi, Niraj Kumar, Martin Laird, Jason 

Lees, Hedvig Ljungerud, Ana Yosseth Mata Quesada, Christophe 

Mikolajczak, Minoru Naito, Amrita Narayanan Bruce, Taly Noam, 

Albert Otti, Oscar Owens, Pamela Parsa, Scott Pearce, Federico 

Perez Sanchez, Jovan Petrovic, Caterina Presi, Tony Purvis, Aly 

Kassam Remtulla, Katie Romich, Richard Rowley, Preeta 

Samarasan, Stale Sandberg, Ian Shore, Annelise Sprenger, 

Jeremiah Stevens, Patnarin Stirapongsasuti, Tomoyo Sumida, 

David Tagge, Cathryn Tonne, Brett VanVeldhuizen Hendrickson, 

Pilar Weiss, Emily Wylde and Karina Zidan. Kathryn Homgaard 

Shaffner '95 and Bela August Walker '95. 

Ecuador she started preparing herself for 

the new TV season. She is still not married, 

very focused on her career. Demet 

writes: “I am happy with my job, VERY 

happy! I like the fame although it gets very 

tiring at times, but I am doing what I have 

always wanted to do.” Last February, 

Melinda McFate Wittenburg met up 

with Neil Pyper in Oxford for a wonderful 

reunion. They hadn’t seen one another for 

nine years. Then in July, she was a member 

of a Missions team from Atlanta for the 

Russian United Methodist Church in 

Estonia where she worked for a week at a 

children’s camp in Kohtla-Jarve with a 

few more days in Tallinn at a children’s 

shelter. She writes, “It was a blessed, spirit-filled 

experience, and as the only 

Russian-speaker for twenty-two 

Americans, I kept busy. I am in love with 

Tallinn and plan to return next summer for 

a longer stay.” Her next project is to learn 

Estonian! In the meantime, she’s still 

teaching primary school, raising her 6year-old 

son and writing whenever she 

remembers. 

1994 

Aly Kassam-Remtulla 

48 Brooks Avenue 

Arlington, MA 02474 

617-548-7039 (cell) 

aremtulla@stanfordalumni.org 

After dabbling in numerous real estate and 

renovation projects in Montreal’s super 

trendy plateau neighborhood, Nicole Allen 

and her husband Yong decided that 



Ryan Connor Douglas, son of Lee Bruce 

Douglas '94. 

Montreal was too limiting for their careers 

and have settled in Astoria in New York 

City. They are looking forward to having 

beautiful trilingual Eurasian kids and a 

really cool artist studio and home. Olivier 

Cottray finished a Master’s in Geographic 

Information Systems and Remote Sensing 

at Cambridge University, after which he 

got a job as a cartographer and aerial photographer 

for the British Antarctic Survey, 

spending four months in Antarctica over 

2000/2001. Three years later he started a 

consultancy in GIS focusing on environmental 

modeling and disaster management, 

mainly in Africa. Olivier was 

recently engaged to Ania, a Polish woman 

who runs his local coffee shop. Gisele 

Cuglievan was married to Charles 

Ouvrard on January 24th. They met in the 

Amsterdam airport on a flight from Lima 

to Paris. She and Charles have recently 

returned to Peru where they will make 

their home. Lee Bruce Douglas is living 

in the San Diego area with her husband 

Ken, who is a submarine officer in the 

Navy, and their son Ryan (born March 

2004). They plan to move to New York in 

August 2005 when Ken gets out of the 

Navy. Frederico Gil Sander worked as 

an investment banker after college and is 

now working on his Ph.D. at Princeton 

where he is studying the political economy 

of development, particularly mechanisms 

of political accountability, corruption, and 

international credit markets. For the last 

four years Teresa Gingras has worked at 

PATH (The Program for Appropriate 

Technology in Health), a non-profit, health 

technology organization dedicated to 

improving health in the developing world. 

She is in the procurement department and 

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handles purchasing and import/export 

logistics. Last year she bought a condo in 

the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle 

and is soon to be an aunt for the first time. 

Sulav Giri is living in Auckland after finishing 

a degree at Auckland University 

(BCommerce in Information Systems) and 

has become immersed in the stress-laden 

world of information technology. He 

picked up motorcycling as a counter measure 

to the stress and now spend lots of time 

and money exploring the amazing New 

Zealand countryside. Eva Hoffman married 

Ben Hoffman whom she met when 

she was a volunteer coach for the swim 

team at Oxford. The couple now live in 

Leicester where she is conducting genetics 

research. Tatiana Jimenez was working 

for Hewlett Packard but after three years 

of a promising career, was elected councilor 

in her town. She is now responsible 

for development cooperation programs, 

coordination of civil society participation 

(economic and logistic support) and institutional 

relations. Sashe Kanapathi 

moved back to Malaysia after eleven years 

away. He is currently a software development 

manager at an investment software 

company. He is enjoying getting to know 

his family again. Martin Laird is completing 

medical school and plans to apply 

for surgical training this year. He’s considering 

a career in orthopedics (muscles and 

bones), which will require six to nine more 

years of training. At some stage he’d love 

to do some overseas aid/relief work. 

Liane Lohde is working for a think tank 

doing work on gender, poverty and 

inequality. Vuk Mandic and Pinar 

Karaca Mandic received their Ph.D. 

degrees from UC Berkeley this summer – 

Pinar in Economics and Vuk in Physics. 

They are moving to Los Angeles where 

Pinar will work as an associate economist 

at the RAND Corporation, a non-profit 

research institute. She will be doing 

research in health economics, labor economics 

and law economics. Vuk will be 

returning to California Institute of 

Technology as a postdoctoral fellow. He 

will be working on an experiment that 

searches for gravitational waves. Their 

daughter Mina turns two in September. 

Mollar Nkiwane, happily married for four 

years, is living in Portland, Oregon where 

she works for a non-profit organization 

that supports school districts. She hopes to 

complete a Ph.D. in Economics in the 

coming decade. Felix Olale is still pursuing 

an MD/Ph.D. at NYU. He is working 

on his Ph.D. thesis in Developmental 

Genetics and hopes to finish clinical rotations 

soon. He enjoys New York City’s 

vibrant lifestyle and culture. Albert Otti 

is working for a Japanese newspaper in 

Austria writing about issues of nuclear 

proliferation. He hopes to finish his 

degree at Vienna University in the coming 

years. Pamela Parsa is the Animal 

Husbandry Coordinator of a non-profit 

educational organic farm called Hidden 

Villa. It is a stronghold of radical notions 

of small-scale agricultural community and 

environmentalism located in the heart of 

Silicon Valley. Federico Perez Sanchez 

spent the first seven years after 

Montezuma in medical school. After a 

two-year stint of medical research in 

Colombia, learning about the mechanisms 

of bacterial resistance, he began his residency 

in internal medicine at Case 

Western Reserve University in Cleveland. 

The first year was an intense experience, 

but he hopes things will be less stressful in 

the coming years. Marilla Pettman Swift 

lives with her husband Graeme in New 

Zealand, and lectures in sports science and 

outdoor recreation at the local polytechnic. 

She is also training their dog Koru to be a 

wilderness search and rescue animal. 

Caterina Presi is teaching and working on 

her Ph.D. at the University of Leeds. She 

enjoys the freedom of thinking and the student 

contact that the job provides 

(although the students drive her crazy and 

sometimes a Ph.D. is a never ending 

story). She and her husband João 

Fonseca live in Huddersfield, which is a 

short drive from Leeds and Manchester 

where they both work. João is a materials 

scientist studying the deformation of 

metals. Ian Shore is on a two year 

secondment to Vancouver from the 

London office of PricewaterhouseCoopers 

where he has worked in corporate finance 

since finishing university. Annelise 

Mollar Nkiwane '94 and Scott 

Hanselman on their wedding day. 


Sprenger is working as a policy analyst 

for the Dutch Ministry of Education and in 

September moved to the Ministry of 

Social Affairs to work on a project to 

reduce youth unemployment. She continues 

to be active in the Dutch UWC 

National Committee. Jeremiah Stevens 

moved to New York to teach at the School 

for Democracy and Leadership opening in 

Crown Heights, Brooklyn this fall. The 

school offers students an intensely different 

experience of public education, bringing 

together an unparalleled group of 

smart, dedicated teachers, a rigorous academic 

curriculum and partnerships with 

social activists throughout the city. 

Svetlana Tselikova has been living in 

Moscow for the last ten years. She began 

work as a paralegal and is now working for 

Hines, an American property management 

company. She is also keeping fit by working 

as a gym instructor. Brett 

VanVeldhuizen Hendrickson lived in 

Buenos Aires for a year after UWC. After 

completing his B.A. at Columbia 

University, he went to seminary in Texas 

to become a Presbyterian minister. While 

there he met and married his wife Alex 

Hendrickson, also a minister. They served 

a small church together in rural Kentucky 

and adopted a son, Thomas. They recently 

moved to Arizona where Brett will 

begin a Ph.D. in Latin American Religious 

Life. Pilar Weiss and her boyfriend Chris 

bought a home in Las Vegas, Nevada 

where they both work for a labor union 

that represents hotel and casino workers. 

Pilar’s role is assistant political director for 

the union. Karina Zidan works in marketing 

and enjoys the opportunity to travel 

to Europe for work which allows her to reconnect 

with UWC friends. She is still living 

in Cairo with her husband and spending 

as much time with her family as she 

can. 

1995 

Kathryn Holmgaard Shaffner 

5316 Brookstone Lane 

Virginia Beach, VA 23455 

kafryn99@yahoo.com 

Mohammed Abu Zaid is living in Boston 

and recently enjoyed the annual summer 

retreat to Cape Cod with UWCers Carlos 

Varela, Jim Bowen, Kevin Park, Luke 

Pustejovsky (all '96) and other UWCers 

at Jim’s home there. He soon will be 

launching a small startup for software 

solutions called Zanzitek.com. Anthony 

Agadzi, after “partying like a rock star in 

beach land”, finished a year of training in 

internal medicine in Miami Beach. He 

moved to San Francisco where he will pursue 

ophthalmology at a training program 

at the University of California, San 

Francisco. He welcomes anyone “ever 

considering a jaunt in the bay area.” 

Isabel Astroza Zuñiga is living in the 

small town of Quemchi on Chiloe Island 

South of Chile where she is a general 

physician at an urban primary health center. 

She and her husband, who is also a 

physician, are expecting a baby at the end 

of October! Isabel and her new family 

plan to stay in Chile for two years or more 

until they pursue further medical studies, 

either pediatrics or geriatrics for Isabel. 

Martin Clutterbuck is back in Buenos 

Aires after cavorting through the four corners 

of the world. He is working in both 

food export and hedonism, perhaps finding 

more success in the latter endeavor than 

the former. Estelle Davis hosted two current 

UWCers at her place in Los Angeles 

this spring. In November 2003, Marija 

Dokmanovic Chouinard married her 

longtime friend and colleague, Roland 

Chouinard, in a beautiful Eastern 

Orthodox ceremony. Roland and she met 

at a career conference in biotech industry, 

and instead of taking Roland’s job offer to 

join his company, she accepted his offer to 

get hitched. Marija is finishing her Ph.D. 

studies in Molecular Genetics of Diabetes 

and Obesity. Jonathan Gallinas is working 

for Electronic Arts in the video game 

industry. He is enjoying life in Vancouver 

though he spends most of his time working. 

Rashna Ginwalla recently moved to 

Philadelphia to begin her residency. She 

welcomes guests to Philly once her INS 

paperwork finally comes through and she 

has a real apartment. Bethan Grillo 

Simpson lives in Mexico City with her 

husband where she heads the Latin 

American program at an international 

human rights organization. She ran into 

Azzurra Carpo in the Lima airport 

recently. She also met up with Subina 

Shrestha in Mexico City in March. 

MuRan Heo is living in Seoul where she 

and her band recently produced their first 

album. Kathryn Holmgaard Shaffner 

continues to work at the Hampton Roads 

Naval Museum and Battleship Wisconsin 

in Norfolk, Virginia which recently served 

as a backdrop for the John Kerry campaign. 

She is now the Director of 


Education for the battleship. Kathryn welcomed 

her husband home from the Persian 

Gulf aboard USS Enterprise in the spring. 

The two spend most of their free time 

working on the Virginia Beach home they 

purchased last March. Bradley Haumont 

is still in law school at Creighton; first in 

his class! Graduation plans are in the 

works for May 2005. Philip Nikolov '95 

married a beautiful woman named Jasmina 

Kwater (4 days after Marija Dokmanovic 

Chouinard’s wedding). Amy Karon 

married Mudit Tyagi ‘88 on June 5th in 

Madison, Wisconsin for the third time. In 

January of 2003, the couple traveled to 

India where they were married in two different 

ceremonies on the same day. Clio 

Knowles works for an international hotel 

company, based in Fort Lauderdale, 

Florida. In between work and traveling, 

she is a volunteer kayak guide with the 

Full Moon Kayak Company and participates 

in numerous road bike races and 

charity rides. In her spare time, she also 

volunteers with a Sierra Club group called 

Inner City Outings, which takes underprivileged 

kids from the city and introduces 

them to the great outdoors. Her door is 

always open if anyone decides to visit the 

Sunshine State. Julia Lee Hong Looi 

Drouart and her husband recently moved 

to Los Angeles after living in Tokyo for 

three years. They met in New York where 

they lived for two years while working for 

Merrill Lynch. They recently enjoyed a 

holiday to Maui, Hawaii and are already 

planning another journey to the south of 

France. Dustin Lipson is back in 

Stamford, Connecticut after spending a 

year or so in Australia with the woman to 

whom he recently became engaged. He is 

moving quickly up the corporate ladder at 

Haakon Nordang '95 and Ana Fonseca '95 

wedding in Lisbon, Portugal in July '03. 



Bela Walker '95, Teresa Bernheimer '96 and Maz Moloto '96 in New York City. 

GE Capital and travels frequently to all 

parts of the world. Dustin and his fiancé 

recently purchased a house in Stamford 

and are planning a summer wedding. At 

last contact Kaisu Luiro was finishing 

medical school in Helsinki and engaged. 

She and her fiancé were planning to travel 

to Cape Town and Johannesburg, South 

Africa before returning home to settle 

down. Willan Mendoza is living in Santa 

Cruz, Bolivia where he is the IT manager 

for a company that exports meat to Peru. 

He travels frequently to La Paz and is 

enjoying being single. Haakon Nordang 

and Ana Fonseca wed on the 5th of July 

last year in Lisbon, Portugal. Benedicte 

Lovald and Jaoa Duarte '96 served as 

maid of honor and groomsman, respectively. 

Ana and Haakon now live in 

Washington, D.C. where Ana works at the 

Corporate Executive Board. Haakon is 

sad to admit that he works for the World 

Bank, though he is on the more progressive 

side working in Social Development. 

Next year he will share an office with fellow 

Socialist Club member Liane Lhode 

'95. Haakon also reports that Pontus 

Ohrstedt married Natascha, a Colombian 

UWCer from Atlantic on the same day that 

he and Ana wed and that Benedicte 

Lovald is busily working on her Ph.D. in 

Psychology at the University of Toronto. 

She lives there with her two main squeezes 

– a great guy named Damon and an enormous 

Great Dane. Melvin Rader had 

much to report after being MIA for a few 

years. After traveling to England, Turkey, 

India, Thailand and Mexico during his 

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undergraduate studies at Oberlin College, 

he lived in Boston and earned his Master’s 

in Agricultural Policy at Tufts University. 

He married last summer and he and his 

bride then journeyed to Australia to study 

the agricultural effects of climate change. 

Melvin plans to move back to Boston this 

year while his wife finishes her last year of 

medical school at Harvard. Victoria 

Ransom is very busy with an outdoor 

adventure travel company that she started 

recently with her boyfriend. They specialize 

in sports trips (snowboarding, skiing, 

mountain biking, surfing, rock climbing 

and kayaking) to the South Pacific, 

Europe, North America, North Africa and 

South America. Though she started the 

business to escape the office, she finds that 

the more successful her entrepreneurship, 

the more time she spends shuffling paper. 

You can find her at www.accesstrips.com 

and can email her at 

victoria@accesstrips.com for a special 

UWC discount. James Redmond is living 

near Austin, Texas with his wife of 

nearly three years. He recently received 

his survey license. He visited with 

UWCers Adam Chavez and Mohammed 

Abu Zaid at Alan Tsang’s wedding last 

summer. Andrej Salner is enjoying single 

life in Bratislava where he recently 

began work on his Ph.D. Carolina 

Salvador is pursuing her Ph.D. in 

Nanotechnology at Oxford. She recently 

finished her studies at Trinity College of 

Dublin where she was also working as a 

research assistant at Media Lab Europe, 

the European research partner of MIT 

Media Lab. She hasn’t had much UWC 

contact and is looking forward to getting 

back into the loop. Arlene Santos 

McCain resumes medical school at 

Eastern Virginia Medical School in 

Norfolk, Virginia after a summer spent in 

North Carolina with her husband. Sarah 

Sellers Mayle and her husband recently 

bought a house in North Carolina and are 

discovering that home ownership is no 

small chore. Their son three is a small 

baseball enthusiast. Sarah and Corey thoroughly 

enjoy watching him grow. Joe 

Stevens is living in Bristol and working 

for the BBC in their wildlife filming 

department. He traveled this summer to 

Belize City to do several weeks of filming. 

He went via New York where he met up 

with other UWCers in the area. Levi Toth 

is living in Luxembourg translating and 

revising legal texts for the European 

Parliament and married this past August in 

Sopron, Hungary. He has occasional contact 

with Mike Leach who is living in 

Budapest at Central European University 

and also with Matthias Keuck who is living 

in Cologne. Hili Tsfari is in Toronto 

planning her wedding to her boyfriend of 

two years. Carlos Varela is living in New 

York where he attends City College. He 

works as a caterer and a bartender for the 

lavish events of the NYC aristocracy and 

also is a wedding and portrait photographer. 

Carlos is not married, though he has 

been dating a Venezuelan graduate of the 

Pearson UWC for the last two and a half 

years. He visited Luis Castellanos, who 

is a new father, recently in San Diego. 

Congratulations Luis! Bela Walker 

worked as a law clerk in the southern district 

of New York City after graduation 

from Columbia Law. She relocated to 

Montana to clerk for the ninth circuit court 

of appeals after attending the August 

reunion in Montezuma. She reports that 

“Roma Kessaram is working as a real 

lawyer now – doing criminal defense work 

for legal aid in Manhattan.” James 

Wisener enjoyed a summer of sailing in 

Ottawa where he has been living and 

working for the last five years. He was 

busy earlier in the summer helping 

Canada’s Green Party prior to the June 

election. He followed this with a break 

and a road trip to Calgary. 


1996 

Brittany Marr Ladd 

3147 Buttercup Lane 

Evergreen, CO 80439 

brittanyladd@yahoo.com 

Gert Danielsen 

Ringduevegen 4 E 

N-2032 Maura 

NORWAY 

gertico@yahoo.com 

Alison Quin 

9 Wyena Street 

Rye, VIC 3941 

AUSTRALIA 

banambirr@hotmail.com 

Maria Almond survived her fourth year at 

Harvard Medical School. She plans to 

take a fifth year for a Master’s in Public 

Health with dreams of escaping the ivory 

towers and heading into the field. Her minimal 

time off has been spent working with 

women community health workers in 

Puebla, Mexico. The other UWCers in the 

Harvard medical community: Kerunne 

Ketlogetswe '97, Yassine Daoud '95 and 

Josser Delgado Almandoz help her stay 

sane. Jonna Anderson graduated from 

MIT in 2001 with a Master’s in City 

Planning. She is now living in Berkeley, 

California, doing community organizing 

for the Sierra Club. She’ll be busy this fall 

working to defeat George Bush and elect 

local environmental candidates. She also 

volunteers for a great organization that 

promotes environmental education 

through the arts (www.riverofwords.org). 

She married Nicholas Papaefthimiou in 

July 2001. She’d love to hear from classmates 

in the Bay Area. Laura Anderson 

is still in Medellín, Colombia working 

with Chemonics International on a forestry 

project. She was promoted recently and is 

now the Operations and Support Manager. 

She also sees Pontus Ohrstedt '95 periodically. 

Vicente Behrens has been living 

in Miami for more than year with his girlfriend, 

Andrea, who is also an MD from 

Venezuela. He’s working as a research fellow 

at the Orthopaedic Institute. He’s 

about to take the STEP 1 examination in 

order to apply for a residency program. 

Philippe Bergeron lives the bachelor life 

in a basement flat in London. His film 

Terrified Times Today was released in 

August. Jim Bowen just finished his first 

year of law school and is working on community 

economic development at a legal 

services center in Boston this summer. 

Tobias Breidthardt moved to Zurich and 

is specializing in internal medicine, with 

an emphasis on endocrinology and 

nephrology. Due to long work hours he 

had to give up field hockey, but started 

running and triathlon. Tobias has already 

competed in two half marathon races and 

two short distance triathlon races. He 

enjoys Switzerland very much - not only 

due to the great chocolate and cheese fondue 

– but counting on visits from 

Sebastien De Halleux and other skiers in 

winter. Alba Cabral just visited David 

Garcia. They toured Guatemala, taking a 

look at some interesting Mayan archaeological 

sites like Tikal and Ceibal. 

Michael Cope had such a superlative time 

in London over New Year’s that he’s now 

said goodbye to Los Angeles and moved 

there permanently. Catherine Cronin is 

still working for Random House 

Children’s Books in London, and enjoying 

life as much as ever. Gert Danielson 

thrives in B.A.s, tangoing, studying and 

working at the Norwegian Embassy. He 

parties with Martin Clutterbuck '95 and 

recently met with Mariana Bautista '95 

and Carla Tennenbaum '97 in São Paulo. 

After completing her Master’s from the 

London School of Economics in July 

2003, Anupreeta Das joined Outlook, a 

weekly general interest national news 


Back row: Akindele Hickling '96, Philip Nikolov '95, Emily Wylde '94, Terra Louise Ussery 

'96 and Chao Lu '04. Front row: Roma Kessaram '95, Jasmina Kwater (Phil’s wife) and 

Maria da Silva '04 in New York. 

magazine based in New Delhi. She now 

attends McGill University in Canada on a 

full scholarship under the Sauve Scholars 

program. The Sauve Scholars is a ninemonth 

non-degree program that allows 

scholars to carry out independent research 

and writing on issues of global concern. 

Her proposed area of study is the Indo- 

Canadian diaspora, the political economy 

of culture and identity. She deferred 

admission on her Master’s (yes, her second) 

in Journalism at Boston University 

and the Columbia University Graduate 

School of Journalism, and hopes to attend 

either school in fall 2005. Sebastien De 

Halleux is the happiest person on earth 

now that he’s engaged to his girlfriend 

Auriane. Both live in London and recently 

enjoyed a visit of Terra Ussery, Alison 

Quin, Aleem Siddiqui, Rosa Bruno, 

Tobias Breidthart, Carianne Gran, 

Catherine Cronin, Mike Cope, Phil 

Bergeron and others. Sebastien has left 

management consulting to work with 

Kristian Segerstrale for his ever expanding 

mobile gaming company Macrospace. 

Their mobile games are sold from China to 

Brazil, and running the business is proving 

challenging but intensely fun. Josser 

Delgado started his one-year medical 

internship at a community hospital in 

NYC, and completed his training in radiology 

in Boston this July. Josser says “It’s 

definitely exciting to start a new phase in 

my life and career!” Bojan Djordjev met 

with Catherine Cronin at a barbecue in 



Germany in May where he was finally 

properly updated on the course of lives of 

his classmates. Currently he is developing 

fundraising strategies and tactics for his art 

enterprise while living and working as a 

theatre director in Belgrade. Nancy Egan 

visited the New York area in August. 

David Garcia is currently managing a forest 

garden and sustainable tourism program 

for Counterpart International in the 

Chisec/Cancuen area, in northern 

Guatemala. Bashar Hamdan, who had 

once joked about college students on the 

5-6-7-8-9 year program, is finally finishing 

off his college career - soon. Bashar is 

working in IT for a major law firm and 

temporarily living in Cleveland with his 

wife and two sons, Abdullah and 

Abdulrahman. Akindele Hickling and his 

wife Allison had a wonderful year. Most 

recently, their first child, Ajani Alexander 

Hickling, joined their family on July 1st, 

2004. This fall Akindele started a Master’s 

in Architecture at Pratt with advanced 

standing, on the anniversary of establishing 

a design services company, 

“sekanidesign.com,” that he started in late 

2003. Akindele reports that in the past year 

he met with many UWCers in NYC, 

including: Chao Lu and Maria da Silva 

'04, Gabby Moore, Rashna Ginwalla, 

Roma Kessaram '95, Lerato Molefe, 

Surbhi Sharma, Gert Danielson, Kevin 

Park, Maz Moloto, Josser Eduardo 

Delgado Almandoz, Alba Cabral '96 and 

the usual suspects in the New York area. 

On a rainy June afternoon in Soho, 

Akindele ran into Adriana Botero, 

Fernando Mejia (both UWC Faculty) 

and their family, including his old classmate 

Juan Mejia '96 with his wife and 

sister. Jessica Hoff is in graduate school, 

and started playing ultimate (frisbee) 

again. In January she even ran into a 

UWC team at a Tempe tourney - very cool. 

Rochelle Johnston is in Toronto right now 

doing consulting work with child rights 

and youth engagement NGOs. She’s off to 

Harvard to do a Master’s in Education 

with a focus on preventative interventions 

with at-risk youth. After having very little 

contact with fellow UWCers - except of 

course Andrew Wanjohi '95 - she had a 

wonderful visit in Boston with Luke 

Pustejovsky (thanks for the place to stay), 

Jim Bowen, Lerato Molefe and Kevin 

Park. Chad Jones is baking peach cobbler, 

reading bell hooks, starting Swahili, 

refining Spanish and preparing for another 

election debacle. Tal Kedar is studying 

for his Master’s in Computational 

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Mini UWC Reunion in London. Left to right: Carianne Gran '96, Nadia Christodoulou '94, 

Philipe Bergeron '96, Catherine Cronin '96, Terra Louise Ussery '96, Dario Betti '95, 

Tom Dibaja '97, Malin Johansson '98, Renu Badiani '97, Anke Schlevoigt '97 

and Sarah Connolly '97. 

Linguistics in Tel Aviv. Brittany Ladd is 

enjoying her first summer off from work, 

after a rewarding year as a Montessori 

middle school teacher. She and her husband 

Brian enjoyed traveling this year, 

including a spring trip to a small Mexican 

coastal village and a summer bike tour in 

Alaska. Brittany competed in her first 

triathlon in June, and she is in the process 

of researching graduate programs for a 

Master’s in Education. Iris Marlovits 

spent the winter of 2004 working and 

enjoying Vienna. She took a few days off 

in May to visit London where she stayed 

with Risana Zitha '95 and had an 

absolutely fantastic time. In London she 

was also able to catch up with Anke 

Schlevoigt '97 for a short coffee break and 

got in touch with Catherine Cronin and 

Annalies McIver. A one-week summer 

vacation led her to Hamburg where she 

enjoyed the hospitality of Northern- 

German folks although the weather suggested 

winter rather than summer. Iris has 

nothing much planned for the remaining 

half of the year but hopefully offers bed & 

breakfast to UWC people crashing into her 

flat in Vienna. Maz Moloto is “still living 

in NYC, still loving it, though getting old! 

I’m happy to review applications from 

potential sugar daddies. Please forward 

names judiciously, otherwise I may be 

forced to go back to graduate school ... 

slightly overrated, so happy to take the 

path less traveled.” Corrine Ng is hosting 

a family in the great city of Melbourne, 

Australia. She is still working with HSBC 

and really enjoys her role. “No plans for 

next holiday yet, but I’m currently obsessing 

about the idea of traveling to Italy 

(south coast) early next year.” Kevin 

Park is in New York City where he is 

working as a piano technician for a dealership 

in Manhattan. “I see myself being 

here for the foreseeable future but you 

never know, right?” Since receiving her 

Ph.D. last year in International Relations 

and Global Affairs in Florida, Cintia 

Pecellin is now living in Madrid where 

she established a translation agency. She 

is engaged to a wonderful Spanish architect 

and plans to elope to Las Vegas before 

the end of the year. Luke Pustejovsky is 

living in Cambridge, MA with his wife, 

Katie, and working at an early-stage, technology 

focused venture capital firm. 

Along with Jim Bowen, Luke is organizing 

the Boston UWC Alumni chapter, 

which holds monthly ‘world affairs’ 

events. He invites all graduates coming 

through Boston to get in touch with him. 

Gauri Rajbadya just completed the summer 

term of his graduate architecture program. 

He writes, “It is very similar to a 

boot camp in that your studio teacher is 

God and you have no life other than 

designing models in the studio. The word 

sleep is not in the vocabulary. But, amidst 

all that I am having a great time. Some day 

I’ll look back and feel great about all this.” 

Arvin Robles helped his school in acquiring 

a generous grant from the HK government, 

and will design an innovative ITbased 

curriculum for senior elementary 

students. Hence, he has also been promoted. 

After school hours, he continues 


A UWC '96 gathering in London with Sebastien De Halleux, Tobias Breidthardt, Aleem 

Siddiqui, Catherine Cronin, Carianne Gran, Mike Cope and Kevin Park. 

indulging in his creative vices, including 

voiceover work for academic publishers, 

choreography for corporate entertainment, 

and performing in professional productions 

around Hong Kong, including a Bob 

Fosse revue All That Jazz and Strindberg’s 

play Miss Julie, which is now in talks to 

tour across Asia. It has been more than a 

year and half now that Guillaume 

Rougale and his wife have been in Turkey. 

Guillaume worked with the United 

Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 

both in Ankara and Nicosia (Cyprus) for 

about a year. He is currently writing a 

novel. If you want to keep up to date on 

his whereabouts, you can visit his website: 

http://grougale.free.fr. In September, 

Devika Sahdev joined Warwick 

University to study law and will consequently 

be in the UK for the next three 

years, at least. She enjoyed the last two 

years in New Delhi immensely and was 

glad to reconnect with India. “I met 

Hakon Nordang and Joe Stevens (both 

'95) in February of this year when they 

came here on work (separately), which 

was fantastic. Now I’m looking forward to 

getting back to college and also catching 

up with UWCers in the UK and elsewhere.” 

Not much has changed for 

Kristian Segerstråle. He’s still pretty 

busy and doing the same stuff as before: 

leading a busy life in London working for 

Macrospace – traveling the globe and 

playing mobile phone videogames for a 

living. Not surprisingly, he has few complaints 

for the moment. He frequently sees 

Sebastien De Halleux, Aleem Siddiqui, 

Carianne Gran, Catherine Cronin, 

Mike Cope (all '96) and Nicola Mai '97 

and has also seen some of Tobias 

Breidthardt, Rosa Bruno, Emily Croot 

Larbi-Jones (all '96) Subina Shrestha, 

Dario Betti, and Martin Clutterbuck (all 

'95) over the past year. Surbhi Sharma 

recently became engaged and is busy planning 

for her wedding next summer. She 

continues to live in New York where she is 

working on her doctoral thesis and taking 

evening classes in interior design for fun. 

Aleem Siddiqui is living in London finishing 

up a Master’s in Quantitative 

Finance at Imperial College. He is planning 

to stay in London for a few more 

years and invites any UWCers in the area 

to drop him a line. Keiko Sugiyama 

resigned from JP Morgan and is now with 

a Japanese Trust Bank, where she’s in 

charge of documentation. Laura Taylor 

Kale is happy and moving on to new 

adventures. In the last two years, she has 

visited Senegal, Niger, Ethiopia and Brazil 

for study and pleasure. Last year she graduated 

from Princeton with a degree in 

Public Policy focusing on International 

Development and Demography. She 

joined the U.S. diplomatic corps last 

September and has been in training since 

then (studying Hindi) for her assignment 

to New Delhi. In August, she traveled to 

New Delhi where she will work in the U.S. 

Embassy for the next two years. She 

plans to continue her passions of gourmet 

cooking and baking and folk art collection 

while pursuing her career in diplomacy. 

She saw Lana Nasser in California this 

summer and Lerato Molefe in 

Washington, DC. She notes that anyone 

visiting New Delhi in the next two years is 

welcome to contact her. Enrique Torres 


is living in Europe and having an excellent 

time. After graduating with a dual 

Master’s in Engineering and International 

Business, he decided to stay close to both 

fields. He started working in the Pharma 

Supply Chain in Germany and then made a 

career move to Plastics Technical Sales for 

the European and MEAF regions. Work 

and life are great, although after noticing 

other classmates getting married and with 

children, he has started to seriously consider 

this option! Ding Wei writes, 

“Unfortunately, there really is not much 

new going on in my life. I would really 

love to meet our classmates who now live 

in New York area (now that I am SO close 

by in New Jersey).” After obtaining a 

Master’s in Law and Diplomacy from the 

Fletcher School, Takeomi Yamamoto is 

now working at the Permanent Mission of 

Japan to the United Nations. He is a 

member of the political section and enjoying 

meeting with many interesting people 

at the UN. Also, he’s amazed with the 

dynamism and cultural diversity of New 

York City. He is looking forward to meeting 

with many UWCers there. 

1997 

Renu Badiani 

211 Buckley Road 

South Gate, Wellington 6002 

NEW ZEALAND 

renu@paradise.net.nz 

Serap Bindebir 

1111 Arlington Blvd., Apt. 442 

Arlington, VA 22209 

bindebirserap@hotmail.com 

Raquel Fraga-Encinas 

9314 Cherry Hill Road, Apt. 1125 

College Park, MD 20740 

raquel@astro.umd.edu 

Farabi Abdul Fatah is now based in 

Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia. Tracy 

Andrews lives in Portland, Oregon with 

her boyfriend and their three cats. She is 

currently working two jobs: childcare and 

field work surveying for marbled murrelets, 

an endangered bird in the northern 

Oregon coast range. She is also a collective 

member in a community-owned bookstore, 

and is starting to do bicycle repairs 

on the side, learning some basic sewing 

and carpentry skills, reading a fair amount, 



and contemplating going back to school to 

study botany or Pacific Northwest ecology 

in a few years. She catches up with Carrie 

Jones '96 fairly often and spent some time 

with Nancy Egan '96 this winter/spring 

while she was living in Portland and working 

for the ILWU. Renu Badiani lives in 

Wellington, New Zealand working as a tax 

and finance lawyer. She’s had a few travel 

opportunities through participating in an 

International Client Counseling 

Competition (run through common law 

jurisdiction law schools), one of which 

was held in Durban, South Africa in 2003 

which she and her partner won. 

Attending these competitions has given 

her an opportunity to fulfill class agent 

duties in person. While in Durban, as an 

added bonus, she was able to spend some 

time with Sandhya Jithoo '98 who is 

studying medicine in Durban. This year 

she attended the competition, held in 

Glasgow, as a judge. As part of that trip 

she spent a week in London, where as part 

of a First Tuesday at Six gathering she met 

with Sarah Connolly, Tom Dibaja, Anke 

Schlevoigt and Malin Johansson (all 

'98). Coincidentally, some of their second 

years also turned up - Phillipe 

Bergeron, Carianne Gran, Catherine 

Cronin and Terra Louise Ussery (all '96) 

and so the UWC gathering turned into 

quite a large mini-reunion dominated by 

the UWC-USA graduates. She also 

caught up with Mike Alcock '98 and 

Carrie Mollatt. Over Christmas last 

year, Renu met up with Matthew 

Hallanger '98 in Hawaii, as both agreed 

that this was a viable meeting point halfway 

between Wellington and North 

Dakota, and on her return home, caught up 

with Iris Marlovits '96 who was passing 

through Wellington on her tour of New 

Zealand. Idan Ben-Horin is still at the 

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studying 

medicine. Idan visited Rome and 

Florence in August at the invitation of a 

discussion forum for Israeli, Palestinian, 

Russian and Albanian students. He 

recently caught up with Julia Keutgen 

who is currently working for the Belgian 

Development Office and Bahiyeh Astani 

Lake '98. He reports that Peter Harmat 

finished medical school, lives in Budapest 

and married this past August. Serap 

Bindebir has been working at the World 

Bank, traveling to Paris and Toronto while 

studying towards her Master’s in 

International Education with a concentration 

on education policy at George 

Washington University. She hopes to grad- 

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uate next May. Serap met with Cecilia 

Decara who came to Washington, DC for 

an internship on Capitol Hill. Cecilia is 

doing very well and is also completing her 

Master’s in Copenhagen. Jamie 

Browning is still married “to the coolest 

person in the entire universe who is sometimes 

also known as Amanda Riehl '99”. 

Jamie is working at UCSD in student life 

where he pretends he never left college. 

Additionally, he’s on the editorial board of 

the San Diego Street Light, which is the 

sold-by-the-homeless-newspaper here 

(like The Big Issue, except not nearly as 

professional on account of it’s published 

out of his living room). He reports, “It’s 

great fun to be able to spread that Marxist 

propaganda to the unwilling paper-buyers 

of San Diego.” A new addition to Jamie 

and Manda’s family is an adorable beagle, 

named Shelby. Bradley Chisholm spent 

his summer in the Rocky Mountains working 

for an organization representing people 

who cannot afford legal counsel. This 

fall, he returned to the University of 

Congratulations and best 

wishes from the Class of '97 to 

Jacob Hesse, Rafida Mohd 

Yussop, Sarah Connolly and 

Baha Jabarin who all recently 

became engaged. 

Calgary for his second year of studying 

law. Sarah Connolly moved to London, 

where she is working as a research analyst 

based in the Diplomatic Service of the 

Foreign Commonwealth Office. Bibiana 

Cuintaco Gonzales finished her degree in 

Economics and Industrial Engineering last 

year and is working in Bogotá as a financial 

consultant. She caught up with Ed 

Doe '96 in February as he was passing 

through. Tyler Davis and his partner are 

currently in Bunaken National Park in 

North Sulawesi, Indonesia where Tyler 

will be for the next year working on 

socioeconomic and anthropological studies 

for the University of Washington. He 

says learning Indonesian is a great deal 

easier than Russian but living on a four 

kilometer by one kilometer island takes a 

great deal of adjustment and that weekly 

trip to town for e-mail is deeply appreciated. 

Cecilia Decara recently returned to 

Denmark after five months as a fellow 

with House international relations in the 

U.S. Congress. While in Washington, 

DC, she had the chance to meet up with 

Eneza Mnzava, Serap Bindebir, 

Wangari Kebuchi '98, Jon Vegard 

Larssen and Beatriz Diaz Acosta. She 

moved to the southern part of Denmark 

and plans to finish up her Master’s within 

the next year. For the past couple of years 

Mauricio Delfin had been working in 

Lima. Now, he’s created an independent 

non-profit organization called Realidad 

Visual that works on arts and new media 

projects in addition to cultural development 

programs. He’s also directing a couple 

of video-documentaries that should be 

coming out soon and organizing the Eighth 

International Festival for Video and 

Electronic Art in Peru. Finally, he’s planning 

to travel to NY for his Master’s in 

media studies in 2006. Tom Dibaja is currently 

studying politics in London. This 

past February he caught up with Wallace 

Wahome Muchiri '96 and Sbonelo 

Mkhize, and was at the mini-reunion in 

London during April. Aram El Rabadi is 

living in Michigan and recently completed 

his Master’s in Finance at Eastern 

Michigan University. Alex Fane reports 

that after doing a season at Whistler where 

he was a bouncer at a nightclub, he decided 

to move back down to Vancouver to 

pursue his music and apply to law school. 

He has finished a demo which he has sent 

to several record labels, and is now waiting 

to hear from them. In September he 

headed to Saskatchewan to study law with 

plans to transfer back to Vancouver after 

one year. Pablo Flores Villar has been 

living between Paraguay and Brazil for the 

last 15 months working for an American 

company as a management consultant. 

He visited Maria Rodas last May and is 

planning to visit again in October. 

Raquel Fraga Encinas moved to Crofton, 

Maryland. She is applying for a research 

position at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight 

Center so that she can finish her Master’s 

thesis with them. She completed her last 

class at the University of Maryland, so 

then she can fully concentrate on her 

research. Patricia Gallardo Aas Rincon 

is living in Oslo, Norway, with her 

daughter Sara, working on her Master’s in 

Programming after getting her Bachelor’s 

last summer. She is working as a “group 

teacher” teaching other students in various 

programming courses for a few hours a 

week and correcting assignments. She 

will be catching up with Islam Youssef 

'98 who is passing through on his way to 

Tromso, Norway. Belin Garrido attended 

a summer school negotiation course at 


Humbolt University in Berlin. Mary 

Alice Grant is working as the 

International Marketing Coordinator for 

Putumayo World Music in NYC. With 

contacts in 70 plus countries, she’ll be 

traveling quite a bit overseas. She’s also 

doing some freelance writing for a couple 

of publications, teaching herself 

Portuguese and the harmonica. A whole 

slew of her second years visited including 

Dipta Shah, Eneza Mnzava and John 

Brooks. Thomas Henage conducted 

research this summer at the University of 

Wisconsin in Madison, and started his 

graduate studies there this fall. He is in 

the physics department, currently working 

on a quantum computing application. His 

wife, Emily is enjoying life as a full-time 

mom with their daughter Hannah (2). The 

three love living in Madison though they 

have yet had to survive a Wisconsin winter. 

Baha Jabarin is working for a software 

company in Kingston, Ontario. He 

married in August. Kerunne Ketlogtswe 

started her third year at Harvard Medical 

School and is now familiar with call 

schedules and delivering babies in her 

Ob/Gyn rotation. She met up with Eneza 

Mnzava in Boston this spring while he 

was visiting the US on business from 

Tanzania. Jon Vegard Larssen and 

Beatriz Diaz Acosta moved to Seattle, 

Washington in August. Beatriz completed 

her Master’s in Computer Science in June 

with a thesis on US License Plate 

Recognition and recently started with 

Microsoft. Jon Vegard got his Master’s in 

Aerospace Engineering and is still working 

on his Ph.D. In March, they caught up 

with Tyler Blake Davis and Cecilia 

Decara. Nicola Mai is still working for 

the UK Treasury and lives with Aleem 

Siddiqui '96, so their house is often a 

meeting point for many UWCers, especially 

from the class of 1996. Jubilee 

Miremba moved to Denver, Colorado 

and works for a multi-national semiconductor 

company as a programmer and as a 

software test engineer. Rafida Mohd 

Yussop is living in Malaysia, currently 

working as a teacher. She has been doing 

some work-study since last year and 

reports that the experience is great. 

Carrie Mollatt living in Putney (West 

London) is working for Elsevier as an 

assistant editor for a biotechnology magazine 

and an internal editor for a new journal 

- Drug Discovery Today: Disease 

Mechanisms. Her work travels take her 

mainly to Spain, and she visited Rome and 

Prague this summer. She met up with 

Eneza Mnzava and Tom Dibaja, along 

with some of Eneza’s friends from 

Waterford and also with Mauricio Delfin 

while he was in London staying with 

Jessica Horn. Dinesh Moorjani usually 

based in Hong Kong, spent a couple of 

months in San Francisco last year, working 

with Bear Stearns as a stock analyst in 

US equities and Asian technology stocks. 

Flora Monsaingeon moved to Beijing 

(from Paris) to continue learning 

Mandarin. She is currently working for 

an American public relations firm. 

Sebastian Ocampo is living in Rosario, 

Argentina and is studying psychology, 

teaching English and participating in a literary 

workshop. He recently caught up 

with Gert Danielsen '96 who is now 

studying in Buenos Aires. Rhys Prinzing 

recently returned to Seattle, Washington to 

work in welding inspection, after completing 

his Associate’s in welding inspection 

in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He caught up with 

Mei Mei Chan in Chicago. Anke 

Schlevoigt is working for CAFOD in 

London as a quality assurance and work 

planning officer. Her most recent UWC 

visits other than the mini-reunion have 

been with Mauricio Delfin and Iris 

Marlovits. Dipta Shah is studying 

International Affairs in New York with 

plans to complete his studies in December. 

Sean Smatt lives in Paris and is working 

for a merchant bank. Yerim Tejada visited 

the UWC-USA campus while attending 

last year’s reunion festivities. Carla 

Tennenbaum exhibited some of her 

design work in Italy at the Brazilian 

Embassy and also in Amsterdam last 

September/October, in her first trip to 


UWCers in London, Yumna Hari Singh, Marthe Lot Vermeulen, Mustu Barma, Amie 

Ferries-Rothman, Angela Lytton and Pierre Monteux (all '98). 

Europe after spending the last five years in 

Brazil. She also spent some time in 

Barcelona as part of the trip. Daniele 

Vidoni is pursuing his Ph.D. at Boston 

University in the University Professors 

Programme. Areeya Vimayangkoon 

Tip is now working for a technology start 

up company in Boston, after finishing her 

MA and MS in Computer Science at 

Boston University. She has been in touch 

with Boon Lin Lee and Margaret Lau 

'98. Boon Lin Lee is living in Kuala 

Lumpar working for an investment banking 

boutique firm and plans to catch up 

with Rafida Mohd Yussop and Farabi 

Abdul Fatah. Wanda Troszczynska 

van Genderen moved from Brussels to 

Pristina, Kosovo, where she is working 

with the United Nations Transitional 

Administration (UNMIK). She is working 

in a Serbian minority enclave, 

Grachanitsa, and is in charge of coordinating 

donor efforts there. Chuck 

Warpehoski works at the Interfaith 

Council for Peace and Justice in Ann 

Arbor, Michigan. His biggest challenge is 

presenting a voice for justice in 

Israel/Palestine that is both interfaith and 

assertive. His wife, Nancy Shore, is six 

months away from getting her MSW from 

the University of Michigan. When she 

finishes they plan to spend a month on the 

Iberian Peninsula to celebrate. Daniel 

Wilkins is mid-way through his Ph.D. in 

past climate change at the Australian 

National University in Canberra. He is 

currently tutoring this semester (which he 

reports may be confusing for his students, 

as he is tutoring in a different topic from 

his research). He plans to travel overseas 



next year for a conference, destination yet 

to be decided. Arianne Zwartjes lives in 

Tucson, Arizona and is working with an 

empowerment program for gay and lesbian 

youth while also volunteering with 

the Search and Rescue team. Over the 

New Years Leah Simmons-Davis came to 

visit, and is currently working as a fierce 

firefighter in northern California. 

1998 

Jay McKinnon 

499 Poplar Avenue, Apt. 3 

San Bruno, CA 94066 

jay@openDNA.com 

Pierre Monteux 

470 Route des Oliviers 

Domaine de la Peyriere 

06250 Mougins 

FRANCE 

pierrevmm@yahoo.com 

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Siu-Fung Yau 

75 West End Ave., Apt. P10F 

New York, NY 10023 

sy192@columbia.edu 

Rio Adamson Towner and Tatjana Bruss (both '98) in Seattle. 

Rio Adamson Towner lives in Eugene, 

Oregon where she enjoys painting and 

other artistic projects. Rio volunteers 

with Planned Parenthood, specifically 

involving political 

issues and legislative 

action and with a 

Catholic community 

services organization 

working in housing, 

utility assistance and 

general low income 

assistance programs. 

Besides all the voluntary 

work, Rio has a 

‘real job’ as a waitress 

in order to pay 

her bills! For the past 

two years, Michelle 

Aitken has been living 

in Kenya where 

she works for a 

wildlife management 

research program. 

Michael Alcock 

works for British 

Airways in the UK. 

He will become a 

licensed aircraft 

engineer after another 

year of training. 

Mustansir Barma 

claims that nothing 

much is new for him 

- he is still working 

for HSBC in London. 

Karla Bjelanovic is 

in Italy, finishing up 

her Master’s in math. 

Lena Boesser 

Koschmann enjoys working as a law 

enforcement ranger in Lake Mead 

National Recreation Area, right outside of 

Las Vegas, Nevada. She was promoted to 

Field Training Officer this fall, responsible 

for training new recruits. Lena lives in a 

beautiful big house inside the park, with a 

lake view and a great neighborhood of 

friends and co-workers. This summer 

John Brandsema toured with five of his 

classmates (from Dalhousie Medical 

School) in an all-male acappella group. 

They sang for long-term care facilities and 

learned about geriatric care in addition to 

the community concerts. The tour covered 

all of the Maritime Provinces. After 

attending the five year class reunion in 

2003, Tatjana Bruss decided to change 

her return ticket and stay for a few more 

weeks. She flew to Seattle and stayed with 

her getaway brothers Fran and Paul Taylor. 

Rio Adamson Towner came over for a 

few days. Her next stop was in Atlanta 

where she met up with Raquel Ormsby 

whom she claims has turned into the most 

inspiring person – helping Tatjana embark 

on a new adventure – opening a Board 

wear shop for girls in Munich, named 

Chica’s, selling fashion and hardware for 

snow, surf and skate brands. She advises: 

“If you have a dream - go for it!” Mei 

Fong Chan traveled all over Asia for business, 

spending two months in Mumbai 

training new hires and attending client 

meetings. Martin Doe graduated from 

McGill University with a Bachelor’s in 

Biochemistry. He began his law studies at 

McGill this fall, so he will be in Montreal 

for another three to four years. Wojciech 

Domanski is now working at Ripplewood 

MidOcean Partners, a New York-based 

private equity firm. Amie Ferries- 

Rothman is finishing her Master’s in 

Russian Literature. She plans to work 

soon. Miguel Fidalgo moved to North 

Carolina to work for a hedge fund company. 

Julianne Fraser Cooper is enjoying 

her family life in Saranac Lake, NY. This 

summer she enjoyed hiking, canoeing and 

kayaking with her husband, Rob and her 

baby girl, Joy. She mentions that Joy is 

getting big, crawling into everything and 

keeping her busy! Julianne is working as a 

translator for the State of New York at 

Sunmount DDSO and freelance writing 

for a local paper. She met with Alison 

Gilman briefly at the Denver, CO airport 

for an hour back in April and ran into 

Maria Rodas '97 while visiting NYC this 

summer. Alison Gilman enjoys life in 

Julianne Fraser Cooper '98, husband Rob 

and their daughter, Joy. 


Cindy Picard, Wangari Kebuchi, Marta Junqueira, Sheila Leach 

(all '98) and Valerie Gerber '99 together in Madrid. 

Denver with lots of access to the outdoors. 

She works as an administrative assistant in 

Neonatology at The Children’s Hospital in 

Denver. Matthew Hallanger is now a 

paramedic in Grand Forks, North Dakota. 

His plan is to work there for a year before 

moving on, probably to the west coast. He 

spent his winter break in Hawaii touring 

around Oahu, Maui and the big island with 

Renu Badiani '97, where he discovered a 

love of snorkeling that’s totally wasted in 

land-locked North Dakota. In mid-July, he 

met Maggie Baldwin '99 for lunch in 

Fargo as she was passing through. Shafee 

Jones Wilson just finished her first year of 

three years in Landscape Architecture at 

UNM in Albuquerque. Andreas Kirkeby 

Fidjeland lives in London with his girlfriend 

Dolly. He is mid-way through his 

Ph.D. in Computing. He claims he hasn’t 

made any major breakthroughs in computer 

architecture yet, but it could happen 

any time. Yumna Hari Singh recently 

moved to London. She is working for 

Cadbury Schweppes. Malin Johansson 

finished her studies and is currently working 

in Kew Gardens in London. Margaret 

Lau still lives in Washington, DC. 

However, she is thinking of returning to 

school next year for a Master’s in Public 

Health. Pierre Monteux is still enjoying 

the London life and has decided to remain 

there for a while. He often meets with 

Andreas Fidjeland, Amie Ferries- 

Rothman, Mustu Barma, Patricia 

Schofield and now Yumna Hari Singh. 

He recently had the occasion to see 

Angela Lytton, Marthe Lot Vermeulen, 

Sarah Connolly '97 and Malin 

Johansson. He is currently finishing his 

Master’s in Interaction Design. Before he 

turns to a full time employment he wants 

to take a trip to Australia for six to eight 

weeks. So, if you’re interested, please contact 

him. David Omar Osman finished 

his university studies and started working. 

He is also keeping himself busy with his 

music. Look for his album with his guitar 

tracks in the stores! Cindy Picard works 

as receptionist at the Canadian Embassy in 

Madrid. She lives with her boyfriend as 

well as two cats. In March Wangari 

Kebuchi visited Cindy. The two of them 

had a ‘girly night’ out together with Marta 

Junqueira, Sheila Leach and Valerie 

Gerber '99. Wangari Kebuchi also visited 

Bahiyeh Astani Lake who lives in 

Valladolid. Cindy enjoyed visits from 

Carlos Dominguez and Lindsay Michael 

'99 this year. Zdenek Remr finished his 

studies and moved back to Prague. Craig 

Samford and his girlfriend, Amy, relocated 

to Charleston, South Carolina from 

Berkeley, California. He claimed that 

there was a little bit of culture shock 

besides adjusting to the heat and humidity 

in South Carolina. Patricia Schofield 

still works for the British Government. 

She recently announced her engagement to 

long-term boyfriend Dan. They plan to 

marry in a year’s time. Evren Sungur has 

been working excessively since his company 

spun off from the parent company. 

However he managed to travel back to 

Turkey for a short vacation this summer. 

While Evren was in Washington, DC for a 

business trip, he met up with Serap 

Bindebir '97 who works at the World 


Bank, as well as Cecilia Decara '97 who 

happened to be in town that day. Sasa 

Tkalec studied financial and business 

math at the University of Zagreb and led a 

national higher education anti-corruption 

project in Croatia for an NGO called 

Monitor Statistica. Since September 

2004, Sasa is satisfying his nine-month 

civil service duty (instead of mandatory 

military service) with the City of Zagreb, 

in which he serves in a polyclinic for the 

protection of children – assisting with 

translation, administration and research. 

Konrad Von Hoff finished his law studies 

at the University of Berlin after spending 

some time in Geneva. He hopes to study 

at a university in the U.S. for an LLM 

degree starting in summer 2005, as he 

looks forward to going abroad again. 

Steve Watkins is stationed in South 

Carolina with the Navy’s nuclear propulsion 

program. He was enlisted as a thirdclass 

petty officer as of summer 2004. 

Upon completing his degree in Nuclear 

Engineering, he’ll receive his officer commission 

and start working on submarines. 

Beate Wegscheider is really happy with 

her boyfriend, Cord, who she’s been with 

for two years now. Beate received her MD 

degree and worked for one and a half years 

in the Medical University of Graz 

Department of Ophthalmology Lab (for 

free). Siu Fung Yau still works for the 

same firm in New York. She enjoyed a 

relaxing week-long vacation this summer 

in the stunning Canadian Rockies, where 

she hiked around and saw many big wild 

animals. Ishin You quit his Ph.D. studies 

in Math at the University of Washington to 

return to China. He now works for L.E.K. 

Consulting in Shanghai. He reports, “After 

12 years of living abroad, everything in 

China is new and fresh.” 

1999 

Amanda Riehl 

7275 Charmant Drive # 315 

San Diego, CA 92122 

riehl@panda.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu 

Sabrina Das 

Flat 3/6/1 

St. John’s Court 

Howden Road West 

Livingston 

West Lothian EH54 6PP 

Scotland 

sabrina@uwc.org.uk 



Sabrina Das '99 spent the summer working as a volunteer doctor in 

rural Guatemala, where she trained traditional midwives and health 

workers in women’s health. She will be working in Scotland for the 

next year doing a rotation in Surgery, Medicine and Pediatrics. 

Maggie Baldwin made a road trip out of 

the 2004 Reunion and met up with Matt 

Hallanger '98 in Fargo, ND. Following 

that, she headed to Seattle to meet with 

Gwyneth Mogg Hall and to check out 

grad schools. Yes, we can all breathe a 

sigh of relief that Maggie has finally 

decided to go back to grad school… no 

more cookery school, car crashes, or meeting 

random Albanians on the streets of 

Italy. Andres Bonnet is a fifth year medical 

student in Bogotá. He is due to start 

his intern year next year. Norma Correa 

is now an anthropology graduate. She 

says, “John Geffroy should be proud of 

me!” She is leaving Lima to live with the 

Asháninka tribe in the Central Amazon for 

three months to research the social impact 

of information and computer technology 

in indigenous contexts. Additionally, she’s 

working as a research assistant in a project 

to improve the socio-economic situation of 

the Afro-Peruvian population and as an 

Assistant Professor. As the president of 

the Peruvian UWC National Committee, 

she attended the National Committee 

Regional Conference in Quito last March, 

where she caught up with Adriana Botero 

(UWC Faculty), Christian Proaño '98, 

and Tamara Pinos '00. She works closely 

with Alfonso Alegre '98 in the National 

Committee. She was also happy when 

Lourdes Jaramillo and Marta Junquera 

'98 stopped by in Peru for a visit. Norma 

is in close contact with Alexa Muñoz 

Smith who is currently in Mexico after 

spending some time in New York and in 

Spain developing her career as an actress. 

If you type “Alexa Damian” into Google, 

you might find her fan page! Maytav 

Dagan and Elad Rachevsky have finally 

finished their military service in Israel and 

spent the past few months on the road in 

Latin America. Maytav extended his trip 

to include the US and London, where he 

managed to meet up with Ruth 

Tomlinson, Charlie Sprenger, Ben 

Melkmen '98, Mustu Barma '98 and 

Simonas Vileikis. Joep Damen spent the 

past year as a researcher in Economics but 

found it did not suit him at all! This 

September, he started a Master’s in Health 

Economics, Policy and Law in Rotterdam. 

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Sabrina Das just graduated from Glasgow 

Medical School and celebrated her final 

exams in style with Lindsay Michael and 

cheap vodkas in a dingy student night 

club. Paul El-Meouchy is moving to New 

York City to start a new job as an actuary 

for Deloitte Consulting. Last summer, he 

traveled to Corsica with two of his fraternity 

brothers to hike the GR20 – 125 miles 

(200 km) of stunning scenery. It was the 

hardest thing he had ever done! It took 

them 11 days though it normally takes 

about 15-18 days. He also traveled 

through Cote d’Azur, Italy and Paris. 

Adamje Feeney-Ruiz graduated last May 

from DePauw University with a degree in 

Political Science. In August, he started at 

the Indianapolis School of Law. In his 

search for a suitable law school, he visited 

Smriti Lakhey and Chris Cammack '00. 

In the end though, he decided to move 

back to Indiana to live in his cabin with his 

dog! He is currently working as the 

Finance Director for Dr. Marvin Scott’s 

US Senate Campaign in Indiana, trying to 

unseat Democratic Senator Evan Bayh. 

Adamje is eyeing 2008 as his first run for 

US Congress! Vilma Ferreira graduated 

from UNM and will now be attending the 

University of Dallas for a Master’s in 

Psychology. Vilma says, “Wish me luck! 

And please come visit.” Mark Hanudel 

graduated from Yale University last year 

with a degree in Molecular Biology and 

plans to attend medical school at Harvard 

University next year. This summer, he led 

a group of 30 college students on the 

Habitat Bicycle Challenge, a cross-country 

bicycle trip to raise money and grassroots 

awareness for Habitat for Humanity. 

They departed New Haven, Connecticut in 

late May and 63 days later crossed the 

Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. 

Tiffany Jackson is studying for her 

Master’s at the University of Pittsburgh 

Graduate School of Public and 

International Affairs. Johanna Kallio is 

due to graduate at the end of the year with 

a Master’s in Economics, that is, if she finishes 

her thesis. She says, “It’s difficult to 

write since I’m really enjoying my parttime 

job in consumer finance (product 

development and marketing).” She also 

started sailing! Johanna regrets that she 

wasn’t able to attend the 2004 Reunion but 

welcomes all to visit her in Helsinki. 

Noelle Kerr is studying media and communications, 

specifically TV and broadcasting. 

She is also doing some freelance 

work in her spare time. Natasha 

Ketabchi spent the past year interning at a 

New York City bank, where she also managed 

to finish her thesis and graduate from 

university. Sally Kwok is a graduate student 

in the department of Brain and 

Cognitive Science at MIT conducting 

brain research involving memory and 

learning. She misses all her teachers! 

Noah Long spent this past year in Boston, 

working at a renewable energy non-profit 

organization. He started a Master’s at the 

London School of Economics prior to his 

plans for law school. His little brother 

joined UWC-USA this fall… the legacy 

continues! Trina Lynskey is in Tokyo 

teaching English. She seems to have a lot 

of free time, though, as she has also been 

traveling all over Asia – China, Laos, 

Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia. She is 

unrecognizable as she has stopped smoking 

and even climbed Mount Fuji! Mayra 

Madriz has been working for the San 

Francisco school district. This fall, she’ll 

start her Master’s in pursuit of a career in 

development with a focus on Latin 

America. Gwyneth Mogg-Hall lives in 

Seattle with her husband, pursuing her 

Master’s in Public Health, with a focus on 

Social and Behavioral Sciences. Anna 

Muller is still finishing her apprenticeship 

in carpentry. She is active in a local political 

group and with ATTAC in Germany 

while also refurbishing her home. Upon 

completing her studies next summer, she 

plans to travel to North and South America 

to visit UWCers. Nyoko Muvanga graduated 

from Smith College with a 

Bachelor’s in Economics. She is currently 

in the Cayman Islands living with 

Dorothy Scott and helping out with the 

Cayman Island UWC National 

Committee. She is also hanging out with 


Alfredo Achecar, Maggie Baldwin, Cesar Augusto Cardoza 

Gutierrez, Tiffany Jackson, Noah Long, Charles Sprenger, Damien 

Stankiewicz and Fernando Sztrajtman. 


Joel Rose '00. She will be leaving soon, 

though, for South Africa, to study Law at 

the University of Cape Town. Dorothy 

Scott is completing her training at a law 

firm in Cayman. By March 2005, she will 

be a Cayman attorney. Last June, she had 

the pleasure of being the bridesmaid at 

Crystal Lemke’s wedding in 

Pennsylvania! She says, “Crystal was the 

most calm and collected bride ever!” 

Betsy Odom lives in Houston while working 

as an artist. She makes woodland 

creatures and barnyard animal sculptures, 

as well as more elaborate tape paintings, 

still designing the odd chia pet for some 

extra cash! She had her first solo exhibition 

at Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas in 

May with two others shows in Houston at 

a gallery called ArtScan and at the 

Lawndale Art Center. Have a look at her 

images at www.barrywhistlergallery.com. 

Huseyin Ozhan graduated from 

Macalester College with a major in 

Economics and a minor in Mathematics. 

He worked for The National Pension and 

Social Providence Fund as a financial analyst 

for a year. He is now in Ankara working 

as the personal assistant to the CEO of 

Turkish Petroleum Pipeline Company, 

experiencing the steepest learning curve 

ever while working more than 14 hours 

per day. In September he started a 

Master’s in International Focused Energy 

Economics in Bilkent University, Turkey. 

He managed a brief but nice meeting with 

Natasha Ketabchi, Matt Cowan and 

Meisan Lim in New York City last 

February. Niels Pedersen is at the 

University of California San Diego on a 

one-year exchange program in 

Communication Studies. Lisi Ruhs is 

writing her last essay for her degree in 

Spanish Literature and Communicating 

Science, at the University of Salzburg in 

Austria. She’s working as a part-time 

receptionist in a little hotel in Salzburg. 

Last February until June, she studied at the 

University of Granada in Spain as an 

Erasmus student. Lisi invites all to come 

visit, for a “free, private Sound of Music 

Tour”! Laura Servin graduates in Human 

Resource and Economics next semester. 

She lives with her husband in Wichita, 

Kansas and is now considering an application 

to medical school. Charlie Sprenger 

has been teaching Economics at the 

University of Abomey-Calari in Benin, 

West Africa. In September, he started his 

Master’s in Economics at the University 

College London. Damien Stankiewicz 

lives in New York City while studying for 

his Ph.D. in Anthropology. His field of 

interest is European Culture. Fernando 

Sztrajtman recently moved to the countryside 

of Brazil – Rio de Janeiro. He says, 

“It’s been a very interesting experience.” 

He enjoyed the 2004 Reunion and his trip 

afterwards to London, Denmark and 

Turkey. Ruth Tomlinson is completing 

her degree in law at the London School of 

Economics and had a crazy time when 

Lindsay Michael dropped by for a visit. 

Lindsay also passed through Scotland, 

France, Spain and Italy, where she managed 

to catch up with a few UWCers. 

Apart from her big trip, Lindsay is now 

working in Montreal as a journalist for the 

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She 

graduated from McGill University last 

year with a degree in opera, but ditched the 

‘prima donna world of opera’ for the exciting 

world of news reporting! Simonas 

Vileikis works in Belgium as an independent 

consultant in European transport and 

tourism. He says that everybody is welcome 

to visit him in Brussels and that the 

beer is excellent! 

2000 

Mahdi Bseiso 

6202 Mayflower Hill 

Waterville, ME 04901 

mwbseiso@yahoo.com 

Javier Lopez Aranguena 

15004 La Coruna 

SPAIN 

javierlopeza@yahoo.es 

Jimena Blanco graduated from Randolph- 

Macon Woman’s College and moved to 

Washington DC, where she lives together 

with Chris Cammack and Firend Zora 

'99. She was pleased to see her mother for 

graduation, since the two had not seen one 


In August, the Hospitals Auxiliary Board of Bermuda awarded 

Merate-Kristos Place '00 a one-time $100,000 scholarship to 

attend medical school. In celebration of the HAB’s 50th anniversary, 

the one-time scholarship is bestowed to a deserving Bermudian student 

with criteria based on marks, community involvement and an 

essay submission. “I have a love for patient interaction and a fascination 

for the human body,” said Merate-Kristos. “I’ve always had a 

motivation and a fascination with this field and the life-long learning 

aspect it requires. When I return to Bermuda I hope to be the best 

doctor I can be for all my patients and for Bermuda.” 

another in more than a year and a half. In 

May, Maggie Baldwin '99 visited her, and 

Jimena was able to celebrate Giselle 

Fernandez’s birthday together with Ivana 

Tasie-Nikolic, Liliane Ndong, Firend 

Zora '99, Chris Cammack and Jeremy 

McGaffey '01. Also, Natasha Ketabchi 

'99 and Maytav Dagan '99 dropped by 

her place some weeks later. She has also 

met with Ibrahim Khader and Smriti 

Lakhey '99 to attend the Eurocup 2004, 

and hosted Caroline Schmutte for a week 

after she graduated from Dartmouth. 

Mahdi Bseiso graduated from Colby 

College in May with a B.A. in Computer 

Science and Music. During the summer he 

traveled through Canada, the US and 

Jordan, after which he moved to New York 

City and recently started work with 

Deloitte and Touche as an Associate in 

Dispute Consulting. Guinevere Casey- 

Ford graduated from Rice University in 

May, with a degree in Biology and History. 

She plans to attend medical school in 

Rochester, NY next year, but decided to 

spend a year in Madrid before starting 

medical school. She lives in a flat with 

eight other people from various different 

countries (oddly, most of them are not 

Spanish... it sounds like UWC all over 

again), sharing a room with her lovely 

Spanish boyfriend and teaching English. 

She invites everyone to visit, “you will be 

welcome to my 2.3 square feet of floor 

space!” Lucy Cheah has been living with 

Emma Martensson for two months as she 

is now studying at the Stockholm 

University for her Master’s. Diana 

Denham graduated from Brown in May, 

and will be spending the next year in and 

around Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. While 

there, she’ll work for three months with an 

NGO that uses theater as a medium for 

social change and the remainder of the 

year making a short documentary about 

some innovations in local democracy in 

northeastern Brazil. After a great 2003 



summer traveling through Japan, Israel 

and Europe, Gisele Fernandez completed 

her last year of college, graduating in 2004 

with a Bachelor’s in Economics and 

International Relations from Lake Forest 

College. Immediately following, she 

interned at an NGO called Council of the 

Americas in Manhattan. She now works as 

a research assistant at CGAP (Consultative 

Group to Assist the Poor), a microfinance 

unit sponsored and housed at the World 

Bank. Sarah Green reports “I just graduated 

from York University – 4th in my 

class, somehow!” Yoomie Huynh graduated 

from Georgetown University in May 

and works for a private engineering company, 

contracting with the Industrial 

Technologies Program at the United States 

Department of Energy. She plans to stay 

in DC for the next two years before moving 

to the west coast to pursue a Master’s 

in Criminology. Jonathan Jones graduated 

from the University of Michigan, Ann 

Arbor in December 2003 with a B.S. in 

Microbiology. Since then, he has been 

working at U of M conducting research in 

a microbiology lab. In the fall of 2004 he 

started a Ph.D. program in Microbiology 

and Immunology at Stanford University in 

California. Ayal Kantz enjoys life working 

as a youth counselor in a small village. 

He finds the job challenging. Next October 

he will be taking classes in an anthropological 

school, after which he is hoping to 

travel in the Far East. He sends his love to 

everyone. Marie Kolling finished her first 

year of anthropology at the University of 

Copenhagen. This summer she, along with 

two friends, worked as a volunteer in a 

refugee camp outside of Khartoum, Sudan. 

In August, she returned to Copenhagen 

where Fernando Sztrajtman '99 is planning 

a visit. While in Madrid last New 

Year’s Eve, Marie met with Johanna 

Poutanen, Yngvild Blaker, Erika 

Kulnys-Brain, and Guin Casey-Ford (all 

'00). Javier Lopez Aranguena finished 

his fourth year of his double degree in Law 

and Business Administration. He works as 

class delegate and member of the Law 

College Senate. During the summer, he 

took a course at Fordham University in 

NYC. This fall, he joined the British law 

firm Linklaters for an internship in their 

central office in London. Shamola 

Laboedan is back to school after completing 

a one-year internship. Her graduation 

is next June, and she’s really looking forward 

to it. Shamola still teaches local 

school kids the gumboot. Gabriel Lopata 

is in Melbourne, Australia finishing his 

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Bachelor’s in Computer Science. When 

not studying, he’s involved in the local 

UWC selection committee, actively participating 

in selections and serving as webmaster. 

Gabriel looks forward to seeing 

many of his classmates at the 2005 

Reunion! Emma Martensson reports 

from Sweden, “I live in Stockholm, still 

working towards my undergraduate degree 

at the Stockholm School of Economics 

where I work half-time at the Student 

Union in international matters.” In 

January, Emma met up with Miguel Nieto 

Cifuentes in Mexico City. Then in 

February, she visited with Ida Hagtun '01 

in London and Aaron Anderson in Ann 

Arbor, Michigan in March. She continues 

to work actively with the Swedish 

National Committee. Over the last four 

years, Roshin Mathew worked in both 

Washington D.C. and South Africa; 

watched while a horse received acupuncture 

therapy, visited many roof tops as her 

alter ego, Rawanda Razmataz, and developed 

a love for photography. She recently 

graduated from Reed College and will be 

living in Japan for the next year, staying in 

Kochi-Ken. Roshi plans to visit China, 

Thailand, Vietnam, Honk Kong and 

Singapore. Andres Mogollon graduated 

in April from the University of Florida 

with a Bachelors of Design in 

Architecture, summa cum laude. “It feels 

great to be done with school. I’m searching 

for a job in architecture for a year in 

order to use my Optional Practical 

Training authorization. Then, I plan to 

return to school for my Master’s in 

Architecture. So beware because I might 

just be coming to a city close to yours to 

work or to study in the next couple of 

years, if you’re in the US.” While traveling 

through India and Nepal this year, 

Alisha Musicant met with Darshan 

Shrestha. She is finishing her B.A. at 

Antioch College. Liliane Ndong works at 

the Urban Institute in Washington, DC and 

is studying (part-time) for her Master’s at 

Johns Hopkins University. Karin Neira 

obtained excellent grades in her fourth 

year at the Law College where she’ll graduate 

next year. Karin is happily dating a 

two-meter tall member of the Chilean basketball 

national team. Miguel Nieto graduated 

from Macalester College, in 

Minnesota, majoring in Economics, 

Psychology and Neuroscience. He now 

works at the Minneapolis office of Deloitte 

Consulting in the Strategy and Operations 

division. He hopes to hear from UWCers 

in the area. Adrienne Norris writes from 

Iraq: “I’m still in the sand box (or Iraq as 

it’s officially known). Things are going 

fairly well. I stay on a military base, so 

I’ve never been shot at. The accommodations 

aren’t too bad. I live in a trailer with 

my roommate, the food’s okay and they 

recently opened a pool. They try to keep 

things as comfortable as possible, considering 

the situation. I’ve been working on 

my art and have been getting into computer 

graphics. I’m still in the beginning 

stages, but I’m a quick study and have 

been getting a lot of help from websites on 

the subject.” She wishes everyone well 

and hopes to see a lot of people at the 2005 

Reunion. Tamara Pinos is about to graduate 

from Universidad Catolica del 

Ecuador, where she will hopefully obtain 

her Computer Engineering degree by next 

November after she finishes her thesis. 

“I’m still practicing modern dance and 

also tango, a bit of yoga and learning how 

to design jewelry”, she says. Merate- 

Kristos Place graduated from Emory 

University in Atlanta, Georgia last May. 

She received a B.A. in Psychology, summa 

cum laude. In the fall, she started medical 

school in London at the Guy’s, King’s and 

St. Thomas’ School of Medicine (King’s 

College London). Joel Rose graduated 

from Emory University in May with a 

Bachelor’s of Science in Biology with 

High Honors (magna cum laude). He completed 

an Honor’s Thesis in Biology where 

he worked at the Measles Lab of the 

Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. He 

is currently in the Cayman Islands and 

Nono Louise Harhoff '02 and 

Ben Dryden '02 . 


about to embark on the next chapter of his 

journey in becoming a physician, by 

attending the University of Connecticut 

School of Medicine. This past summer he 

visited with Nyoko Muvangua '99 in 

Cayman. While there, he performed with 

Nyoko’s band, Love Culture, a Christian 

reggae band at Cayman’s first BET Jazz 

Fest. Kate Saldin graduated in December, 

and went to work as an English teacher in 

Barcelona, Spain, where she is having an 

amazing time. She traveled back to Idaho 

this fall to teach full time at a small independent 

school that just started the first IB 

program in the state. Caroline Schmute 

graduated from Dartmouth. She traveled a 

bit and visited Firend Zora '99, Chris 

Cammack, Jimena Blanco, Anais Borg- 

Marks, Maytav Dagan '99, Noah Long 

'99, and Ibrahim Khader. She plans to 

catch up with Gerfried Aigner, Lucas 

Josten '01 and others nearby. Later this 

year, Caroline will begin management 

consulting in Germany, possibly in 

Munich. She says, “I am pretty excited to 

have a job, it’s tremendously hard to find 

anything in Germany right now!” While in 

Caracas last April, Rick Slettenhaar met 

with Daniela Emmerich Lopez. He also 

visited with Samir Mastaki '01, Madiha 

Tariq and Inna Poliakova at the Boston 

UWC Reunion. Later, Ana Prokic traveled 

to Boston for a visit. In May, Rick 

went to Princeton to see Maga Preciado- 

Lopez and Ben Rice-Townsend '01. Rick 

graduated Harvard College and traveled to 

Vietnam as a travel writer for two months. 

In October he begins a Master’s in 

European Politics at Oxford (Corpus 

Christi College). Maria Spini is getting 

closer to graduating from college. She’s 

preparing her thesis about movie dubbing 

and subtitling. In addition, she’s busy 

working as a freelance translator for 

Italian television – translating documentaries 

and other TV products from English 

to Italian. She says, “Actually I feel a great 

need to go to some English speaking country 

and practice the language a bit, as in 

the past few years my favorite place for 

trips and summer work has been Spain.” 

After graduation, Maria plans long trips to 

catch up with other UWCers. Jormquan 

Suwanketnikom works as a research 

assistant in the radio communication lab at 

the University of Illinios – Urbana 

Champaign. She plans to apply to graduate 

school next year (maybe in Europe), most 

likely to study electrical engineering. She 

is also considering ways to save money in 

order to attend the reunion next year! 

Madiha Tariq graduated from 

Middlebury College in May 2004. She 

works at Abt Associates, Inc. in 

Washington, DC consulting for health policy 

in various third world countries, currently 

focusing on Eritrea. She plans to 

raise funds to attend graduate school in 

film and media with long-term plans 

working as a documentary filmmaker. 

(Madiha has already made one short documentary). 

Following her study-abroad 

semester at Oxford, England, and a brief 

but memorable Roman Holiday, Ivana 

Tasic-Nikolic spent most of the summer of 

2003 working for the Serbian government, 

Ministry of International Economic 

Relations – Department for European 

Integration. She found it highly rewarding 

to be part of the reformist team working to 

re-build her country and strengthen its 

relations with Europe and the world. Upon 

her graduation this spring, she now works 

for a law firm in Washington, DC, learning 

about the rule of law and the US system, 

and of course about politics. Ivana 

lives with Gisele Fernandez and spends a 

lot of her free time with fellow UWCers - 

Madiha Tariq and Liliane Ndong. Elena 

Valenzuela graduated in December '03 

with a B.A. in Communication then 

moved to San Francisco, CA. She’s working 

with the Oakland Raiders, responsible 

for their Hispanic website (www.raidersenespanol.com). 

Recently, she located a 

new apartment in Alameda right next to 

the beach. So anyone wanting to visit is 

more than welcome! Ignacio Vieitez 

completed studies in physiotherapy. After 

a well-deserved holiday on the beaches of 

southern Spain, he will start working in 

Madrid, and probably start his graduate 

studies. Adelina Voutchkova graduated 


from Middlebury and begins graduate 

studies at Yale University in Chemistry. 

She plans to remain in the US for the next 

four or five years, so you know where to 

find her. Althea Wilson completed four 

wonderful years at Trent University, where 

she graduated with B.S. honors in 

Economics and International Political 

Economy. This fall, she started a Master’s 

in Economic Development at Vanderbilt 

University in Tennessee. 

2001 

Deidre Ann Ciliento 

2 Cypress Road 

Lake Hopatcong, NJ 07849 

deeg82@hotmail.com 

Chi Fung Ng 

Flat F, 18/F, Block 10 

Royal Ascot, Fo Tan, NT 

HONG KONG 

imaginejeff@hotmail.com 

Akiko Terai 

Macalester College 

1600 Grand Avenue 

St. Paul, MN 

aterai@macalester.edu 

Angela Vignoli 

Via aprilia 15 

04012 Cisterna di Latina 

ITALY 

angelavignoli@hotmail.com 

Liza Anderson was in Denmark this summer 

as a fellow with the Humanity in 

Nono Louise Harhoff '02, Anita Molina '02 and Patrick Sam '03 



Left to Right: Adriana Nordin Manan '03, Nahal Zebarjadi-Sar '03, Vikram Anand '04, Rita Kaufmann '03, Pablo Escotto '03, Fatou 

Sagnag '03, Tamara Andrews '04, and Alikhan Abdimadijov, '03 in New York. 

Action Program, researching how to build 

understanding between secular Danes and 

Muslim immigrants. In July she preached 

her first sermon at the Anglican cathedral 

in Cairo, Egypt. She will be a senior at 

Swarthmore College, where she is majoring 

in religion and peace studies. In May, 

Maja Bulatovic graduated together with 

Lani Visaisouk from the University 

College Utrecht, Netherlands with a 

Bachelor’s of Science in Biology. She is 

now attending a special four-year medical 

school program in Utrecht - taught partly 

in Dutch, partly in English (yes, she 

speaks Dutch fluently now). She says, 

“I’m truly looking forward to this challenge.” 

Lani Visaisouk enrolled in a 

medieval history Master’s program, also 

staying in Utrecht. Anne Jurkowski studied 

Marine Biology in Costa Rica, New 

Zealand and the US over the past year, and 

is now completing a thesis on the 

American Lobster. She was also named a 

Udall Scholar (for environmentalism) and 

looks forward to graduating from Smith 

College next spring! Cristina Matos- 

Albers graduated this past May from Ohio 

Wesleyan University. She received her 

B.A. in Journalism and Spanish (Latin 

American Literature) in addition to a concentration 

in photography. She now lives 

in NYC, where she works for ABC News, 

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as a production intern for the weekly news 

show 20/20. Mark Napierkowski writes, 

“I spent the summer as I always do, working 

at a summer camp here in upstate NY 

as the challenge course director and the 

assistant program director. Two years in 

New Orleans was long enough, so I moved 

to Buffalo, NY this fall to attend school.” 

While studying abroad in Chile, Akiko 

Terai briefly visited Valdivia where she 

met with Karin Neira '00. Moritz 

Waldstein Wartenberg is leaving Vienna 

for Paris to commence a three-year ESCP- 

EAP Grande Ecole Master’s Program in 

Economics with the second year in 

London and the third year in Berlin. 

2002 

Dafna Herzberg 

3 Levona Street 

Rehevot, 76350 

ISRAEL 

dufi10@hotmail.com 

Michael Janda 

80 Gordon Street 

Lane Cove, NSW 2066 

AUSTRALIA 

aw00mjan@uwc.net 

Ingrid Stige 

Djupvik 

Frauske, N-8200 

NORWAY 

ingrid_stige@hotmail.com 

Kathie Chong returned to work at BASF 

for a semester. Unlike in IUB 

(International University Bremen) where 

students do internships during summer 

holiday, the University in Mannheim 

requires a semester-long internship. She 

writes, “I haven’t been home for two 

years, so I hope to visit this Christmas. I 

miss the food in Hong Kong; if I do not go 

home soon the vegetarians around me will 

have to continue suffering from all my 

meat talks.” Ines David writes, “I’m 

studying at the University College in 

Utrecht and just returned from an incredible 

exchange semester in Rio de Janeiro. It 

was amazing!” Jim Pautz is now embarking 

on that same exchange program in Rio 

de Janeiro. While traveling Ines saw 

Andy Dykema in Salvador, Bahia. Andy 

was participating in a two week liberation 

theology summer course through 

Macalester, where he studies. Ines also had 

the pleasure of a visit from her former 

roomie Araceli Mendiluce '03 from 

Bolivia. Her luck continued when a couple 

of weeks later Krista Kateneva came to 


visit. Ugo Gragnolati is at Turin 

University studying Economics, Territory 

and Environment. He’s also teaching CEC 

at a local high school hoping to make a difference 

in the long run, while in the short 

run he teaches English to pay for his 

numerous trips in Europe. The last trip was 

to Portugal where he met Josè Paixao '01 

who guided him through an adventurous 

trip on the best beaches of the country. 

Judit Koppany visited Kyoto, Japan 

before returning to Utrecht this fall. Nono 

Louise Harhoff studies International 

Relations and Development Studies at the 

University of Sussex, where she was 

joined by Camilo Casas’ little sister 

Sophia this year. Nono visited with 

Charlotte Meyer, Jessica Mowles, Ali 

M’Rabti, Patrick Sam, Hanna 

Sankowska, Fonu Bain-Vete (all '03), 

Roeland De Wilde, Emma Tilquin, 

Anita Molina, Justine MacWilliam and 

Ben Dryden (all '02) in Holland. Nono 

also met Zaheed Essack '01 and Camilo 

Casas-Rozga several times in the past 

year since the two study in England. Ryan 

Richards started his spring break with 

Ilona Johnson '02 and Ann Jurkowski 

'01 followed by a stunning African 

Development Conference hosted by 

Nangula Shejavali '02 and Milos 

Jovanovic '03. For the next year, Ryan 

will be in Puebla, Mexico studying 

International Development. He would love 

to meet up with some UWCers. After a 

great year studying Social Sciences at the 

University of Oslo, Ingrid Stige starts her 

first year at the Norwegian Academy of 

Music with Voice and Music Education as 

her principal study. She joined the 

Norwegian UWC National Committee. 

Ingrid reports that Axel Rosenberg '01 

and Ida Nordheim Hagtun '01 moved to 

Oslo this fall. Ingrid saw Ugo Gragnolati, 

Romina Marchese and Aleksa Jorga in 

Italy this past April, and Petra Kovacevic 

in Croatia in June. She’s hoping to see 

more of UWCers soon! Murilo Tanouye 

is in his second year at the University of 

Sydney in Australia, studying for a 

Bachelor’s in Music. His principal study is 

the classical guitar. At the end of the year, 

he’ll play for a solo recital and a concert 

with a guitar orchestra. He visits with 

Chian Karagoz '01 now and then, as he 

also lives in Sydney. 

2003 

Adriana Qubaia 

Middlebury College 

MC Box 4010 

Middlebury, VT 05753 

adriana.Qubaia@uwc.net 

Denise Jennings 

OCMR 0976 

Oberlin, OH 44074 

denise.jennings@oberlin.edu 

Erin Axtell worked for the National Parks 

on a trail crew in Colorado this past 

summer before returning to Colorado State 

University this fall to continue her premed 

studies. Puzzled at life’s 

unreliability, Danilo Caputo decided to 

follow Kanye West’s advice and drop out 

of school in San Francisco. In September 

he instead started a one year course in 

Berlin, where he will “meditate upon the 

philosophical validity of the exquisite 

lyrics that can be found in rap music”. 

Until recently Pablo Escotto worked with 

the Fund For Public Interest Research 

Group, a non- profit designed to help other 

non-profits develop campaigns, fundraise, 

build membership and raise public 

awareness. He’s also worked with 

different organizations including: 

Greenpeace, Save the Children and the 

Human Rights Campaign. Currently, 

Pablo lives in NYC attending the Gallatin 

School of Individualized Study at NYU. 

Mika Kassama attends university in 

Finland majoring in literature and working 

at the school’s library. Adriana Nordin 

Manan returned to Malaysia, took her 

driving test and is happy to report that she 

passed! She also attended quite a few 

conferences, one of which was about 

AIDS. Flavio Priore, living in Rome, is 

not quite sure dinosaurs are the ultimate 

love of his life any longer. This sudden 

realization descended upon him after 

watching the disappointing Jurassic Park 

4. He also affirmed that he might even 

consider a career in “stonology”, rather 

than one in the “appallingly commercial 

field of paleontology”. Adriana Qubaia 

returned to Jordan where she is enjoying 

good Arabic food after two long years. She 

interns at the Solidarity Center in Amman 

working together with United Students 


Against Sweatshops. Hussan Syed 

worked at the Young Leaders’ Conference 

- International 2004 in Karachi, Pakistan 

endorsed by MAP. Approximately 211 

young people participated from 71 

educational institutions in Pakistan and 

abroad. 

2004 

Kris Cortez 

119 Birchwood Lane 

Cadillac, MI 49601-9776 

k_onstar@hotmail.com 

Claire Chun 

8A Kings Road 

268057 

SINGAPORE 

claire.chun@uwc.net 

Brien-Courtney Darby 

16 S. "C" Street 

Herington, KS 67449 

briencourtney@hotmail.com 

Margarita Capi 

Rauga "Myslum Shyri", Pall 47 

AP. 14 Shkall 1 

Tirane 

ALBANIA 

margarita.capi@uwc.net 

News from Former 

UWC-USA Faculty 

Since arriving in Leysin, Switzerland 

Dottie Steward (former UWC-USA faculty) 

has taken up mule skinning. She 

writes, “We actually have what I think 

may be the world’s first high school mule 

racing team. If anyone is interested in hiking 

or mule riding in the Swiss Alps, contact 

me!” 

2004 Reunion Attendees 

Former UWC-USA Faculty and 

Staff 

Margaret Summerfield and 

Jaqueline Tellier. 


Lockwood Library 

Dedicated 

On May 25, 2004 the United World 

College-USA honored President 

Emeritus Ted Lockwood and his 

wife Lu by naming the school’s 

library the “Lockwood Library.” 

Ted Lockwood was the founding 

president of the United World 

College-USA when it opened in 

1982 and served in that capacity for 

eleven years. Lu Lockwood served 

the college in countless ways, 

including editor of the Montezuma 

Post. Before coming to the UWC- 

USA, Dr. Lockwood was president 

of Trinity College in Hartford, 

Connecticut. Ted and Lu are now 

enjoying retirement in Stowe, 

Vermont. 

Ted and Lu Lockwood in front of the newly named Lockwood Library. 

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