1996 Rhodes Scholars Elected

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District I - New England
Massachusetts Priya Radhakrishnan Aiyar

Degree: Harvard University: A.B., Social Studies, 1996
Career Goals: Law
Oxford Course: M.Phil., Politics

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior, Priya has won numerous national debate awards and teaches public speaking and debate to high school students during summers. She is president of The Advocate, Harvard's literary quarterly. Among her awards are the Harriet Taylor Prize for the best essay written by a female sophomore Social Studies major, the Detur Prize for academic achievement, and the John Harvard and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Scholarships. Priya has tutored elementary school students living in Boston-area housing projects, and has provided college counseling to Cambridge high school students. She volunteered at Greater Boston Legal Services where she helped combat illegal evictions of low-income housing tenants. She enjoys contemporary fiction and poetry.
Massachusetts Jeremy Asher Dauber

Degree: Harvard University: A.B., Social Studies, summa cum laude, 1995
Career Goals: Academics or entertainment
Oxford Course:D.Phil., Modern Jewish Studies (19th and 20th century Hebrew and Yiddish Literature

Chair of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, Harvard's campus Jewish community center, Jeremy was also director of several plays, including Larry Shue's The Nerd. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, he was editor-in-chief of Mosaic, Harvard's journal of Jewish studies, and director of development for PEN (Partners for Empowering Neighborhoods), an adult education program in the Boston area. Jeremy has been columnist for both the Harvard Crimson and From Left to Write, a new on-line journal of liberal opinion. Jeremy's honors include the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for excellence in undergraduate work, the Wolf Lewkowicz Award for best undergraduate or graduate in Yiddish studies, and the John Harvard Scholarship for academic achievement. He is a National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar, a Josephine de Karman Fellow, and a Sholem Aleichem Fellow. He carried out post-secondary study of Jewish texts at the Sha'aluim Institute in Israel. His interests include piano, guitar, and squash. He is currently working as a consultant for a nonprofit foundation specializing in Jewish educational policy, and is collaborating on a film noir screenplay.
Vermont Tracey L. Jones

Degree: Norwich University: B.A., English/Communications, 1996
Career Goals: Marine Officer, then anthropology or education
Oxford Course: B.A., Human Sciences

A member of Alpha Chi, Tracey is president of the local chapter of Sigma Tau Delta and a recipient of the Communications Council award for excellence. She is news editor for The Guidon, Norwich's school newspaper. In l995 she completed Marine Corps Officer Candidate School, and is executive officer of Foxtrot Company in Norwich's Corps of Cadets. Tracey was a disc jockey for three years and has been active with Norwich's theater group The Pegasus Players, whom she directed last semester. In summers which are not filled by the Marine Corps, she volunteers at the Ulysses, PA Senior Center. She enjoys hiking and is looking forward to travel.
Vermont Tobias Hamilton Ayer

Degree: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: B.S. Physics, Linguistics, 1996
Career Goals: Academics
Oxford Course: M.Phil., General Linguistics and Comp. Philology

Toby is "a hair's breadth" away from being able to juggle nine balls, an "important and not-insignificant accomplishment" for a member of the M.I.T. Juggling Club. Since l987 he has been associated with Circus Smirkus, a New England travelling youth circus where he has performed for six summer seasons. He won a gold medal at the Head of the Charles Regatta as part of the l993 varsity heavyweight crew and received a gold at the l993 Champion Collegiate Regatta. He won the l994 first place M.I.T. prize for science writing for the public. He is a member of Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics students' honor society, and a Burchard Scholar in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Toby cooks all his own vegetarian food and bakes bread, including sourdoughs. He bicycles around Cambridge and Boston, and enjoys reading. He is fluent in French and Russian, and lists Picasso, Russell, Chomsky, Buckminster Fuller, Whitman, Prevert, Dylan, Tennyson, Yeats, and Keats among his favorite figures.

District II - Middle Atlantic
Delaware Jennifer Danella Oliva

Degree: U.S. Military Academy: B.S., International Politics, 1996
Career Goals: Military/ security policy and strategic studies
Oxford Course: M.Phil., International Relations

Jenn is a Truman Scholar and a Distinguished Cadet, as well as a Superintendent's Award winner for academic, military and physical achievement. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and holds the Department of Physical Education's Bronze Star. Jenn was a summer intern at the Department of State in the Office of Defense Relations and Security Assistance on the Asia-Pacific desk. She is particularly interested in Far East Asian affairs and recently travelled to Japan. She is a member of the Cadet Public Relations Committee and carries out alcohol and drug abuse counseling as an ADDIC representative at West Point. She has crewed and played Division I softball and now plays lacrosse. She has chosen to go into the military police in the regular army and hopes to teach social science and work at the Department of State or the Pentagon on security/ strategic policy.
Pennsylvania Samantha Ann Salvia

Degree: Old Dominion University: B.S.C.E., Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996
Career Goals: Environmental Engineering and environmental policy
Oxford Course: B.A., Politics, Philosophy, and Economics

Sam is a three-time Academic All-American in field hockey, captain of the Old Dominion field hockey team, and a former member of the U.S. national team and the U.S. under-21 team. She is a member of Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society and the Old Dominion Athletic Advisory Board. She participated in the U.S. Olympic Festivals in St. Louis in l994 and in San Antonio in l993. Sam has won the Old Dominion Presidential Scholarship and participates in the Academic Honors Program. She made the CAA All-Conference First Team for three years and was a CAA Scholar-athlete for four years. During the summer of l995 she worked for an environmental engineering firm; in the summer of l994 she volunteered at a residential camp for handicapped children.
West Virginia David Victor Bonfili

Degree: Harvard University: A.B., Government, 1996
Career Goals: Politics or public policy work
Oxford Course: M.Sc., Human Geography

Dave is a Truman Scholar and a recipient of a Mark DeWolfe Howe Fund Grant for Civil Rights Research. He received a Steiner Public and Community Service (Project Development) Grant to set up a computer literacy program for adult learners. He holds a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Scholarship and after Oxford will attend Nuclear Power School before spending six years with the Nuclear Submarine Fleet. Dave is cofounder of the Movement to Reform the Undergraduate Council, a group of candidates committed to structural reorganization of the Harvard Undergraduate Council. Dave has been coordinator of the Study Groups Program at Harvard's Institute of Politics. He interned in the office of Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV. He has been an overnight volunteer in a student-run homeless shelter in Cambridge and a member of the coordinating committee of a model United Nations simulation for 2500 high school students. Last summer he spent a month on a sailboat with members of the Danish Navy in waters off the Danish coast. Dave enjoys running, twentieth century American literature, nineteenth century Russian literature, and information technology policy.
West Virginia Carolyn Gretchen Conner

Degree: West Virginia University: B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1996
Career Goals: Academics
Oxford Course: B.A., Physics and Philosophy

Carolyn has spent three summers working for NASA at Marshall Space Flight Center, designing space telescopes. Her work with hundreds of high school students to emphasize the fun of math, science, and engineering has included programs to take college students into high school classrooms and to bring high school students to the engineering campus. She is currently president of the West Virginia University Alpha Chapter of Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society. She is vice-president and has been president of the W.V.U. American Astronautical Society. Carolyn is ranked first academically in her class (4.0 / 4.0 GPA). She is a West Virginia University Foundation Scholar and a NASA Fellow. Her special interests include hiking, basketball, and Baptist Campus Ministry activities. She is Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Fraternity publicity officer and a member of Phi Kappa Phi and the Golden Key National Honor Society.

District III - Southeast
Georgia Robert Matthew Sutherland

Degree: University of Georgia: B.S./M.S. Biology/Ecology, 1996
Career Goals: Research in Ecology, conservation and sustainable resource use
Oxford Course: D.Phil., Ecology

A University of Georgia Renaissance Scholar interested in science and classical philosophy, Rob holds a UGA Foundation Fellowship. He was selected to study ecology in Costa Rica during the summer of l995 through the Organization for Tropical Studies. He is a member of the USA-Today All-American Academic Team and Beta Beta Beta National Biological Honor Society. Rob studied field ecology in Arizona and New Mexico in l993. He is an avid mountain biker, backpacker, and gardener. He is currently pursuing a combined degree program in biology and conservation ecology and sustainable development. His thesis involves the photographic monitoring of two coral reef sites offshore from Key West, Florida. He plays electric cello and trombone in an aspiring Athens garage-fusion/ progressive rock band and is also a trombone soloist with a university jazz ensemble.
North Carolina Adam Hamilton Russell

Degree: Duke University: B.A., summa cum laude, Cultural Anthropology, 1995
Career Goals: Teaching, writing, illustration, ethnography, research
Oxford Course: M.Phil., Social Antropology

At Duke University, Adam wrote an honors thesis linking chaos theory, narrative, and bodybuilding. He taught a student-organized class on cultural sexuality and captained the Duke Rugby Club.
Tennessee Laura Nell Hodo

Degree: Brandeis University: B.A., History, 1996
Career Goals: Medicine/surgery
Oxford Course: Modern History, 16th and 17th century British History

Nell was elected to Phi Beta Kappa during her junior year and is a member of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society. She won the 1994-95 Maggie Cooks Community Service Award and is coordinator of the Brandeis chapter of Amnesty International. She has been resident advisor for two years and is a member of the university chorus and chamber choir. She is active in theater; her favorite production is Macbeth. Nell is a Robb Scholar. Besides courses in her major, she enjoys courses in Spanish and Latin American as well as premed studies. Last summer, Nell travelled to Guatemala with a medical team from Brown as a translator and general assistant.
Virginia Mark Patrick Embree

Degree: Virginia Polytechnic and State University: B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics, 1996
Career Goals: Research in scientific computing and national scientific policy
Oxford Course: M. Sc., Mathematical Modelling and Nemrical Analysis

Mark is a member of the Youth Apostles Institute, a Catholic association dedicated to serving youth, particularly high school students. He is president of the University Honors Associates, an organization motivating Honors Program students to create and lead service projects. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa, as well as director of the Honors Volunteer Tutoring Program. Mark holds the Barry Goldwater Scholarship for research science and a Microsoft Corporation technical scholarship. He is a teaching assistant for honors seminars in scientific computing and a course entitled "Conflict and Consensus in Society." He has conducted research at the Naval Research Laboratory in artificial satellite theory. His interests include studying and writing poetry, African literature, and antiquarian books.

District IV - Great Lakes
Illinois Mark Wu

Degree: Harvard University: Joint A.B., Social Studies and East Asian Studies, 1996
Oxford Course: M.Sc., Economics for Development

Mark is president of the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, which organizes an annual student-run academic conference in Asia. The 1995 conference was held in Jakarta, Indonesia and was attended by 120 students from 13 nations. He is a Monbusho (Japanese Government) Scholar and spent l993 studying on a fellowship at Kyoto University, where he was a member of the aikido team and ran the Senshu International Marathon. Mark is a Phi Beta Kappa member, a John Harvard Scholar, and a Harvard National Scholar. He has tutored Vietnamese immigrant children and has coordinated Harvard's Asian-American Cultural Month. He received a Rosovsky Fund Grant for summer thesis research and served on the Steering Committee organizing the New England Preparatory Conference for the U.N. Fourth Conference on Women.
Indiana Kristen Gwen Fountain

Degree: Princeton University: B.A., Philosophy, 1996
Career Goals: Academics, social activism, poetry
Oxford Course: B.Phil.

Kristen is concentrating on bridging academic disciplines through her minors in creative writing and environmental studies. For her senior thesis in creative writing, she is working with both a philosopher and a feminist historian of science. She has guided more than 50 Princeton students and staff on hiking, backpacking, canoeing, and cross-country skiing expeditions. She helped found a student-run eating and dining cooperative. Kristen has participated in campus education projects for gay and women's rights and in protests against the Contract with America and Proposition 185. She is a disc jockey for WPRB Princeton of the World Music Show, which features traditional and traditionally-influenced music. Her special interests are gardens, gardening, and black and white photography. She is looking forward to meeting fellow vegetarians and long distance runners in Oxford.
Michigan Dayne Allen Walling

Degree: Michigan State University: B.A., Social Relations, 1996
Career Goals: Sustainable urban development policy
Oxford Course: M.Phil., Sociology

A Truman Scholar, Dayne is founder and current chair of the James Madison College Student Senate, the representative college government. He held the 1995 Genevieve Gillette Fellowship, an Honors College undergraduate research grant which he used to study community mobilization around environmental issues in Flint. Dayne is a member of Environmental Problem-Solving, a neighborhood-based AmeriCorps community development initiative. He is a member of the board of directors of the Great Lakes International Conference Association, which provides model United Nations conferences for high school students. He is editor of Logos: A Journal for Free Spirits, an M.S.U.-based academic and creative journal for undergraduates. Since its 1991 inception, Dayne has participated in Operation Brush-Up Flint, an effort to paint 100 houses and public buildings in one day. He enjoys basketball and biking, as well as backpacking, canoeing, and rock-climbing.
Ohio Ahmad Atwan

Degree: Harvard University: A.B., Economics, 1996
Career Goals: International business or foreign service
Oxford Course: M.Phil., International Relations

Ahmad is Fellows Committee Chairman at the Institute of Politics and cofounder and treasurer of the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Alliance. He is an intern at the Middle East Institute, as well as editor of the Harvard Crimson. He has taught English to elementary school children in the West Bank. He holds a John Harvard Scholarship. Besides being a member of the freshman crew, Ahmad has also played intramural soccer and tennis. He has travelled throughout Europe and Asia.

District V - Middle West
Iowa Ramin Toloui

Degree: Harvard University: A.B., Economics
Career Goals: Foreign policy and international law
Oxford Course: M.Phil., International Relations

Ramin holds the John Harvard Scholarship and Detur Prize for academic achievement and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior. As editor-in-chief of the Harvard International Review, a quarterly journal, he interviewed Jeane Kirkpatrick and Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese political dissident and winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. He has served as community outreach director of the Small Claims Advisory Service to provide legal information to the economically disadvantaged on issues including consumer and landlord/tenant law. He has taught weekly international relations classes in Boston-area high schools for the Harvard Program for International Education. Ramin served on the Board of Directors of the Harvard International Relations Council, Inc., a 300-member student corporation. His senior honors thesis examines the effect of international trade on income inequality in Japan from the middle of the nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II. He plays intramural basketball and softball.
Minnesota Abigail Noble

Degree: Macalester College: B.A., English, 1996
Career Goals: Academics
Oxford Course: B.A., English

At Macalester, Abbey is a Dewitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar and holds the Ward Prize for excellence in English as well as the McKhenzie Scholarship in history. She is a rape crisis counselor for St. Paul Sexual Offense Services, a mediator for the Macalester Judicial Forum, and a resident advisor for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. Abbey is a friendship tutor, providing social and academic support for high school girls under suspension. She teaches English as a second language to Hmong women attending Lakewood Community College. She is a speaker for the Macalester Admissions Department and a childcare provider for the weekly Twin Cities Quaker Meeting. Abbey is interested in adolescent girls' academic and social issues and plans research in children's and young adults' literature. She enjoys vegetarian cooking and Milan Kundera novels.
Missouri Eric Robert Greitens

Degree: Duke University: A.B., Ethics, 1996
Career Goals: Work with non-profit humanitarian organizations
Oxford Course: M.Phil., Philosophical Theology

During the summer of 1994, Eric lived and worked in Croatian refugee camps while helping Bosnian Muslim children through the Project for Unaccompanied Children in Exile. In 1995 he worked throughout Rwanda and in Goma, Zaire with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Regional Support Unit for Refugee Children. He is a Truman Scholar and two-time winner of the John Hope Franklin Award for Documentary Studies for his photography. He received the Benenson Award in the Arts for artistic achievement, innovation, and promise in photography. A 1993 Trent Foundation Award supported Eric's study of joint ventures and political economy in Beijing and Changchun, China. Eric is editor-in-chief of Eruditio, the academic journal for Trinity College. He is chairman and founder of the Mayor's University Advisory Council in Durham, chairman of the Duke University Honor Council, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Eric has participated in National Collegiate Boxing Association and Golden Gloves events.
South Dakota Ben Ray Sharp

Degree: University of Chicago: B.A., Biology, 1996
Career Goals: Conservation and land management policy for the Western United States
Oxford Course: M.Sc., Environmental Change and Management

A varsity wrestler and three-time letter-winner, Ben is an Eagle Scout and a Barry Goldwater Foundation Science Scholar. He received the ARCS Foundation Scholarship from the National Science Organization and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. He is a wildland firefighter and was selected as a member of a Type l fire crew. He has spent three summers fighting forest fires for the National Park Service and hopes to return to active duty this summer in Arizona. Ben is a bowhunter and fisherman and enjoys caving and rock climbing.

District VI - Gulf
Alabama Letitia Marie Campbell

Degree: Davidson College: B.A., Political Science, 1996
Career Goals: Academics
Oxford Course: B.A., Theology and Philosophy

Letitia attended the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum in Beijing as a representative of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. She is chair of the Women's Issues Committee of Davidson's Student Union and was a participant in the World Council of Churches Global Colloquium on Women's Theology (the "Re-Imagining Conference"). She is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and was a 1992 Presidential Scholar. She holds the Agnes Sentelle Brown Award for character and intellectual ability. Letitia's foreign travel includes a semester spent in India studying history, culture, and architecture and a summer in Malawi researching attitudes toward AIDS and family planning. This summer she will study civic organizations and democratization in the Czech Republic. She plays the flute with the Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra. She is a member of Reach Out, a campus service organization, and was 1993-94 project coordinator. She is active in the Women's Ministry Program of the Presbyterian Church (USA). She has been a coordinating committee member and co-moderator of the National Network of Presbyterian College Women. This year as chair of the Women's Issues Committee she organized the first Women's Film Festival at Davidson.
Louisiana Philip Charles Skelding

Degree: Columbia University: B.A., Chemistry, 1996
Career Goals: Academics
Oxford Course: D.Phil., Chemistry

A Seagrams Scholar, Philip is one of two student representatives on Columbia's 1995-96 Faculty Committee on Instruction. He has been a member and chair of the Commission on Elections, Nominations, and Appointments. He spent his junior year abroad at New College, Oxford, reading chemistry. Among his activities are Community Impact GED tutoring, rowing, participation in the Columbia/ Barnard Mentor Program, and work with the Tulane Prison Project. Philip is cochair and hike-leader for the Hiking Club. He enjoys canoeing, frisbee, and other outdoor activities. He recently began homebrewing and feels lucky to have grown up in New Orleans, where he says he obtained beads from this year's Mardi Gras for the other scholars-elect.
Mississippi Alice Siau-In Chen

Degree: Harvard University: B.A., English, 1996
Career Goals: Physician and poet
Oxford Course: B.A., Biology

Alice chaired and expanded CHANCE, a public service tutoring and mentoring organization for disadvantaged high school students in the Boston area. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa during her junior year and is one of two students in her class granted permission to write a Creative Thesis of original poems for an honors degree in English. She served as principal illustrator for Julius Cruse's Illustrated Dictionary of Immunology. She holds the Detur Prize for academic achievement and was a 1992 Presidential Scholar from Mississippi. A published poet, Alice has studied with Louise Gluck, Henri Cole, and Carl Phillips. She has taught poetry analysis and composition to high school students through the Duke University Talent Identification Program. As a pianist, Alice held high school state titles and continues to give recitals. Her summer research includes the study of mechanisms of cellular interaction with Endotoxin Neutralizing Protein at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
Texas Ana Luise Unruh

Degree: Trinity University: B.S., Chemistry, 1996
Career Goals: Scientific and policy work in water remediation
Oxford Course: B.A., Earth Science

Ana was a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Summer Student Fellow where she researched ocean circulation change. She is cofounder of a chemistry demonstration program at the San Antonio Children's Museum, president of Mortar Board, and president of Alpha Phi Omega, a coed national service fraternity. She is a member of the All-Conference soccer team, assistant soccer coach for a 10-year-old girls' team, and has played in two Division III National Championship Soccer Tournaments. Ana is a Murchison Scholar at Trinity, where she conducted two years of chemistry research which was presented at two regional meetings of the American Chemical Society. Her department awards include the Chemical Rubber Company First Year award, the organic chemistry award, and the Monsanto Junior Achievement Award. She was a member of Alpha Lambda Delta, a first year honor society, and is a Blue Key National Honor Fraternity member. She enjoys teaching soccer and science to children.

District VII - Southwest
Arizona Michelle Diane Gavin

Degree: Georgetown University: B.S.F.S., International Politics, 1995
Career Goals: Foreign Policy
Oxford Course: M.Phil., International Relations

A Truman Scholar, Michelle initiated an investigation of the Air Force Academy's SERE training program that became the basis of a 20/20 lead story and resulted in the cancellation of the program. At Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, she was a Peter F. Krough Scholar and a 1994 National Security Education Program Scholarship winner. Michelle currently works for the Senate Sub-Committee on Africa, focusing on Central and East African issues. She has organized briefings for the Washington press corps on nuclear nonproliferation issues for New York University's Center for War, Peace, and the News Media. In 1994 while studying in Cameroon, she investigated and researched a failed development project. She has worked for Operation Hunger, Inc., writing grant proposals for the American affiliate of South Africa's largest relief and development organization. She is an outdoors enthusiast and especially enjoys backpacking and hiking.
Nevada Malaika Marie Williams

Degree: Whittier College: B.A., Biochemistry and Psychology, 1996
Career Goals: Medicine, particularly organ transplant surgery
Oxford Course: B.A., Physiology

Malaika was an Abbott Scholar in the Mayo Clinic's Summer Undergraduate Research Program. She is co-author of a clinical research paper, "Does Sympathetic Activation Blunt Nitric Oxide-Mediated Vasodilation in the Human Forearm?" First in her class with a 4.0 GPA, she is Whittier College's top senior chemistry/ biochemistry student. She is a Golden Nugget Scholar, holder of the John Stauffer Science Scholarship, and was twice named Whittier's Most Valuable Field Athlete. Malaika is the college record holder and conference medalist in the hammer throw and was All-Conference in both hammer throw and high jump. A member of Whittier College's Academic Standing Committee and an Orientation Week leader, she is also active in the Student Alumni Association, Psi Chi (the honorary psychology club), and the Chemistry and Psychology Clubs. Besides track and field, she plays intercollegiate volleyball and basketball.
California Juan David De Lara

Degree: Pitzer College: B.A., Sociology/Labor Studies, 1996
Career Goals: Academics
Oxford Course: M.Phil., Sociology

Juan is an American Sociological Association's Minority Opportunity School Transformation (M.O.S.T.) Fellow and a U.S. Department of Education McNair Scholar. He is also a Pitzer College Student Senate Convenor and chair and founder of the Student Labor Action Group. He hopes to earn a doctorate in sociology and to teach at a major university.
California Alvan A. Ikoku

Degree: Stanford University: A.B., Human Biology, 1996
Career Goals: Medicine and public health
Oxford Course: M.Phil., Comparative Social Research

Alvan received an American Heart Association Summer Research Grant and has conducted clinical and scientific research at Cornell, Stanford, and U.C.L.A. Medical Centers. He is a California State licensed phlebotomist. Currently a participant in Stanford's Honors Program in the Humanities, his thesis concentrates on Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, and the linguistic construction of the self. Alvan is resident assistant at Ujamaa, Stanford's African-American theme dorm. For three years he tutored chemistry and for four years he tutored biology at Santa Monica College, U.C.L.A., and Stanford. He is a medical volunteer at an Inglewood cardiovascular clinic. From the age of ll to l7, Alvan lived in Nigeria, his parents' native country. He loves to play tennis.

District VIII - Northwest
Oregon Angelina Maguerite Foster

Degree: Stanford University: A.M., International Policy Studies, 1996
Career Goals: Women's Health Care in the Middle East
Oxford Course: M.Phil., Modern Middle Eastern Studies

A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Angel holds the Biological Sciences Department's Excellence in Teaching Award, the International Relations Department's Thesis Distinction Award, the D. Sherman Green Memorial Fellowship from the DACOR Bacon House Foundation, and the Barbie Fields Memorial Scholarship. She received a Dorot Travel Grant and an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Major Grant for field research in the West Bank and Cairo. She has interned at the World Bank, at the Palestine Red Crescent Society, and at the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo. She has studied colloquial Egyptian and Modern Standard Arabic. Angel is an advocate at the YWCA Rape Crisis Center and is active in the new student orientation program at Stanford. She has been president of the Stanford branch and secretary general of the Southern California Conference of the Model Arab League. From 1992 to 1995, she was president of the Stanford Model United Nations. She enjoys directing, acting, running, aerobics, and singing with Counterpoint, an a capella group.
Alaska John Barnaby Nicholas Marsh, IV

Degree:Cornell University: A.B., Environmental Studies, Economics, Social Policy, Ethics, 1996
Career Goals: Scholar/Statesman
Oxford Course: D.Phil., Behavioural Ecology

For two summers Barnaby was a Scientific Research Intern at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, where he received grants from the National Museum of Natural History and the National Science Foundation for work on the classification of fishes and morphometric differences in vultures. He was president of the Ecological Conservation Society and has been a volunteer lecturer on ornithology and conservation biology in the Cambridge public schools. He is book reviewer for The Ibis, the Journal of the British Ornithologists' Union, and is foreign literature reviewer for Recent Ornithological Literature. He is a member of the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board in the College of Arts and Sciences, was a participant in the Model United Nations of Oxford University, and spent his junior year at Pembroke College, Oxford. Among his favorite sports are crew, basketball, tennis, soccer, swimming, skiing, golf, and jogging. His other interests include photography, classical music, and cooking. During his childhood in Alaska, Barnaby was schooled at home by his parents before he attended college.
Montana Jennifer Elizabeth DeVoe

Degree: Montana State University: B.S., Directed Interdisciplinary Studies, 1993
Career Goals: Primary Care Medicine/Public Health/Health Policy
Oxford Course: M.Phil., Social History of Medicine

As a summer VISTA volunteer, Jenny coordinated Seattle Emergency Housing's teen program. She carried out research at the School for Pregnant and Parenting Teens in Harlem, NY, and was an Albert Schweitzer Urban Fellow in Health Education at the Urban School. She held the Health Policy Fellowship at the office of Senator Max Baucus (D-MT). She was a member of two USA Today All-Academic Teams. Jenny received graduate fellowships from national honorary societies Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Lambda Delta, and Alpha Epsilon Delta. She enjoys volunteer work with children and adolescents and hopes to find opportunities to work in clinics and schools while she is in England. Her husband is interested in environmental policy, soccer, and fly-fishing.
Alaska Rachel Eyre Hall

Degree: Stanford University: A.B., East Asian Studies
Career Goals: Public servant specializing in East Asian Affairs
Oxford Course: D.Phil., Modern Japanese Studies

Rachel is a Truman Scholar, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a University Undergraduate Research Scholar. In 1995 she was a presenter at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. She has studied Japanese at the University of California Davis. A certified massage therapist, she is coordinator of the Sacramento AIDS Foundation Massage Therapy Program. She was also initiator of the massage therapy services program at Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying in India. She holds a Presidential Sports Award for Varsity Rowing.

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