| District I | |
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| Maine
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Bryan Shiloh Graham
Degree: Tufts University: B.A., Economics, 1997 |
| Bryan is a Fulbright Scholar at ANU where he is conducting research on mineral dependence
and socio-economic development in the Pacific region; he recently completed a study,
"Exchange Rate Management in Papua New Guinea" for the Institute of National Affairs in Port
Moresby, Papua New Guinea. As a student at Tufts, Bryan was a member of Phi Beta Kappa
and held the Lewis Manley Prize for economics and athletics as well as the Charles Bludhorn Prize for excellence in
economics. He has worked as an investment intern at the United States Agency for International Development and
was granted Title VI funding for fieldwork on economic growth in Bolivia. Bryan was the 1997 3000-meter Eastern
Collegiate Athletic Conference Champion and a member of Tufts' varsity cross-country team which placed seventh in
the 1996 NCAA Division III Nationals. Bryan is a member of the Baha'i faith, which considers work done in the spirit
of service to humanity a form of worship. He enjoys writing poetry, scuba diving, and playing the guitar. His favorite
guitarists are Robbie Robertson and Richard Thompson; his favorite vocalist is Bob Dylan.
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| Massachusetts
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Laura Tavares
Degree: Wellesley College: B.A., Religion, 1998 |
| Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year, Laura holds Wellesley's
Three Generations Writing Prize and currently teaches a writing class. She was elected to the Student Council to the
Board of Trustees, where she is working as a member of the Buildings and Grounds Committee
to preserve the historic campus landscape. Laura has lived in Germany and Ecuador and is
fluent in German and Spanish. She has volunteered teaching English in rural Ecuador, and has
conducted field research in indigenous myth and cosmology in Quickua-speaking communities
of the Ecuadorian sierra. Her other volunteer activities include peer counseling and assistant
teaching. Laura has worked in arts education and administration at the Boston Ballet and was a research assistant on
a Lilly Endowment project on American Protestant hymnody. She enjoys swing dancing, gardening, landscape architecture, hiking,
and cooking. Her favorite authors are Annie Dillard, Emerson, and Proust.
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| New Jersey
|
Julia Raiskin
Degree: Harvard University: A.B., Social Anthropology, 1998 |
| Born in Russia where she lived until she was 13, Julia spent the summer of 1997
conducting research at the "Telephone of Trust," a Moscow psychiatric hotline. Her
work there was sponsored by the Harvard Dean's Award, the Schaffield Prize of the
Anthropology Department, and the Radcliffe Traveling Fellowship; it appears in the
Harvard Review and Perspective, the campus magazine of political opinion. Julia is president of Perspective,
a John Harvard Scholar, and an undergraduate fellow of the Center for International Affairs and Russian
Research Center. She received an Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Certificate for academic merit. Julia volunteers
with McLean Psychiatric Hospital's occupational training program and at Partners in Health, a non-profit
organization dedicated to providing health education and supplies to underprivileged communities in Boston,
Haiti, and Peru. She enjoys dance, swimming, travel, and pottery.
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| Rhode Island
|
Andrew Castiglione
Degree: U.S. Naval Academy: B.S., History, 1998 |
| As the highest ranking midshipman (student) at the Naval Academy, Andy is brigade
commander responsible for 4,000 students. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, and has
completed Army Jump School (airborne) at Ft. Benning, Georgia. He enjoys outdoor
sports like scuba diving, fishing, sailing, and hiking. He is looking forward to visiting
the beaches of Normandy, site of the June 6, 1944 Allied landing in World War II.
Andy would also like to visit and dine aboard the H.M.S. Victory.
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| District II | |
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| New York
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Roy E. Bahat
Degree: Harvard University: A.B., Social Studies, 1998 |
| As president of the Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc., Roy is responsible for the
student-run human services and social action agency which serves 10,000 clients in the
Boston area. He helped to found University Neighborhood Initiative of Washington,
DC, a nonprofit provider of educational services for public housing residents; UNI has become an AmeriCorps
program. Roy is currently teaching reading and math to third and fourth graders living in Mission Hill, a
Boston public housing development; he also teaches a sixth grade Holocaust history class.
Roy is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He holds the Detur Prize, awarded to the top four percent of sophomore students. He wrote, produced, and performed in The Real Class of 1998, a parody of first-year life at Harvard. He is fluent in Hebrew and spent a large part of his childhood in Israel; he has worked for Israel Policy Forum where he wrote updates on Israeli politics for legislators and policymakers. In 1994 he was national champion of policy debate. He enjoys fishing, weightlifting, most card games, and ballroom dance. |
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| New York
|
Rachel Simmons
Degree: Vassar College: A.B., Political Science and Women's
Studies, 1996 |
| As Vassar's student assistant to the college president, Rachel functioned as student
body liaison. She was news editor and then managing editor of Vassar's weekly, The
Miscellany News. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Rachel also held the Julia Flitner
Lamb Award for excellence in political science.
Rachel has just completed an Urban Fellowship with the City of New York where she served as an aide to the
Deputy Lawyer for Operations. She is now Deputy Finance Director with Representative Charles Schumer's
campaign for the United States Senate. Her volunteer work includes service as an advocate and caseworker at
Dutchess Outreach, the largest human services agency in Dutchess County, NY; in 1995 she was named
Outstanding Volunteer of the Year. Rachel enjoys running and rollerblading all over New York City, and is
interested in issues associated with queer theory, alternative families, and assisted reproduction.
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| Pennsylvania
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Julie Haya Levison
Degree: Wellesley College: B.A., History, 1998 |
| Julie is co-author of Magic Sites: Women Travelers to the Americas, a forthcoming
anthology of the journals and travel writings of North American and European women
who journeyed to Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is currently coordinating research and
composing a chapter on the history of the leper community on Easter Island; her history honors thesis treats
social responses to leprosy and syphilis in 15th- and 16th-century Europe. She spent the summer of 1996 at
the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia on a fellowship to study the interleukin 12
receptor. At Wellesley, Julie held First Year Academic Distinction. For two years she was student representative to the Nominating and Finance Committees of the Wellesley College Board of Trustees; this year she
chairs the Student Council to the board. She is also the first student to become a board member of the
Wellesley Center for Research on Women, the largest women's research institute in the country. Julie's
volunteer activities include translation work at the Maria de los Santos Health Center which serves Philadelphia's
Latino population. She holds a varsity letter in soccer and established Wellesley's first running club. She is
fluent in Spanish and enjoys photography, ballroom dancing, and watercolor painting.
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| Pennsylvania
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Joy Yu-Ho Wang
Degree: Messiah College: B.A., English, 1998 |
| President of Messiah College's chapter of Amnesty International, Joy volunteers for
the Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center where she interviews immigrants detained in prison who have political asylum claims. She also participates in the weekly
Habitat build of the York International Friendship House Project. At Messiah, she
holds a four-year full-tuition academic scholarship. Joy is editor-in-chief of The Swinging Bridge, the college newspaper, president of the Philosophy Club, and the first
varsity singles player on the women's tennis team. Hiking, photography, table tennis, and poetry are among
her hobbies.
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| District III | |
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| Delaware
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Douglas M. de Lorenzo
Degree: University of Delaware: B.A., on Cognitive Science,
M.A., in Linguistics, 1998 |
| Douglas' senior research concentrates on spatial language in children with Williams syndrome and the syntax
and semantics of the copula (be) in Indonesian. As a Bundestag-Congress Youth Exchange Scholar, he spent
his senior year of high school with a family in Heidelberg. He spent the summer of 1995 at Tianjin University
in China and the early part of 1996 as a visitor-monk at Disentis Monastery in Switzerland. For seven months
of 1996 he was Operations Officer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
based in Vienna, Zagreb, and Sarajevo where he focused on the enfranchisement of 650,000 citizens of
Bosnia-Hercegovina living abroad during their first post-war election. In May 1997, Douglas was hired by
the Refugee Policy Group to join a mission to Liberia to assess the prospects for refugee participation in that
country's post-war elections. This March he will make a pilgrimage to the holy Mountain of Athos in Greece.
He plans to spend this summer in Nairobi as volunteer at the Nyumbani Orphanage caring for children with
HIV. Douglas' heroes are Fritjof Nansen, Noam Chomsky, and Fred Cuny. He enjoys skiing, hiking, and
"almost any sport that does not involve running." He is interested in Chinese and eastern European cinema,
enjoys learning languages, and has recently taken up photography.
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| North Carolina
|
Jonathan Tepper
Degree: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: B.A.,
History and Economics, 1998 |
| Jonathan has spent most of his life in Latin America and Europe and is fluent in Spanish, Italian, and French. In 1996 he was awarded the Lucius E. Burch III Fellowship
which funded his study of Ladino (a dying dialect of 15th-century Spanish mixed with
Hebrew) in Spain and Israel. That summer he worked as an intern at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In 1997 he received the Class of 1938 Fellowship which
sent him to London to conduct research for his honors thesis on the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. As
a Hansard Scholar, Jonathan worked in the House of Commons as research assistant to Quentin Davies, M.P.
In addition to his history thesis, he is writing an economics thesis on the correlation of employment growth in
Germany and Spain and its significance for European Monetary Union. He has been the business manager for
Company Carolina, a student theater group; he appeared in its productions of Lysistrata and Taming of the
Shrew. Jonathan volunteers as translator at the UNC Hospitals and at the Carrboro Community Health Clinic.
His interests are Old Spanish philology, Renaissance Italian literature, and hiking.
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| North Carolina
|
John Tye
Degree: Duke University: B.S., Adaptive and Intelligent
Systems, 1998 |
| John created his own major at Duke combining coursework in computer science,
psychology and economics. He is co-founder of LEAPS (Learning through Experience, Action, Partnership and Service) which integrates community service and
undergraduate classes. He is also active in Project WILD (Wilderness Initiatives Learning at Duke) which
sponsors wilderness trips and experiential education classes. His travels include a summer spent as undergraduate intern at the Santa Fe Institute and the 1997 fall semester during which he worked in an orphanage
in Honduras. John describes himself as "fascinated by the emergent properties in physical systems" and says
he hopes "to live as pure as the driven slush," and to lose his allergy to cats. He enjoys writing.
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|
| Virginia
|
Micah J. Schwartzman
Degree: University of Virginia: B.A., Government and
Foreign Affairs, 1998 |
| A Truman Scholar and an Echols Scholar, Micah is writing his thesis for the government honors program on issues in contemporary liberal political theory. He was the
vice-president of both the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society and the Hillel
Jewish Center. He also coordinated the pool of oral advocates who investigate and argue cases under U.Va.'s
single sanction honor system. Micah has carried out research with Dr. Amitai Etzioni at the Institute for
Communitarian Policy Studies at George Washington University and was editorial assistant for The Responsive Community. To counter student apathy and conservatism, he helped found and served as managing
editor of Critical Mass: A Journal of Progressive Politics. He is the student representative to the Faculty
Senate Committee on Educational Policy and the Curriculum. For his contributions to the university community, Micah was chosen by a committee of peers to reside during his fourth year in one of the original dormitory rooms built by Thomas Jefferson on the University Lawn.
In 1996 Micah traveled to Germany with a group of Jewish students sponsored by the German Federal Government and International Hillel. He recently toured Israel with United Jewish Appeal's Winter Mission and
will spend part of this summer in Jerusalem studying Hebrew. Micah is a "military brat" who enjoys coaching
high school debate, reading Jewish philosophy, dancing prep-step, playing chess and basketball, and snow
skiing.
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| District IV | |
|---|---|
| Georgia
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Scott Adam Hershovitz
Degree: University of Georgia: B.A. in Political Science,
M.A. in Philosophy, 1998 |
| As chief justice of the Student Judiciary, Scott hears and decides cases arising from
student conduct violations at the University of Georgia. He is a Fellow at the Center
for the Study of the Presidency and has developed a model of the redistricting process
which can be used to predict the impact of racial gerrymandering on minority influence. He is co-author of
"Strategic Intelligence and Environmental Security" and author of the honors thesis "A Critique of Absolutism in the Antiabortion Movement." During the summer of 1995 he worked in the Georgia Governor's
Office. Scott has also conducted opposition research for political campaigns.
Scott was named by the Georgia Legislature as 1997 University System of Georgia Outstanding Scholar; he holds honors as a 1997-98 Outstanding Senior Leader and a Governor's Scholar. Through the Reading Is Fundamental Program, he has tutored elementary school students. Scott was a member of the varsity college bowl team, is devoted to Braves baseball, and likes pizza and raquetball. |
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| Louisiana
|
Noam Scheiber
Degree: Tulane University: B.A. in Economics, B.S. in
Mathematics, 1998 |
| A Truman Scholar, Noam is currently serving as adjunct policy analyst for the Government Accountability Project in Washington, DC, a non-profit organization dedicated
to research and advocacy of issues relating to military spending. His op-ed pieces have appeared in The
Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, and The San Diego Union-Tribune. He holds a grant from
the Coca-Cola Foundation for research into strategic delay in federal budget negotiations. Noam has been
editor of The Arcade, and contributing editor of both The BrouHaHa and Void Where Prohibited. In 1995 he
interned for Congressman Cleo Fields and in 1996 he was campaign volunteer for Senator Mary Landrieu.
He is currently president of the Tulane chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon, a national economics honor society,
and a member of Tulane's student academic judiciary committee. He is student representative to the Tulane
University Senate Committee on Teaching Quality. He has volunteered for Project Desire, mentoring disadvantaged elementary school children. Noam is fluent in Hebrew. He is an avid runner and is keenly interested in Russian literature and music.
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|
| Tennessee
|
Anne Katherine Jones
Degree: University of the South: B.S., Chemistry and
Mathematics, 1998 |
| A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Anne holds the Benedict and
the Louis George Hoff
Memorial Chemistry Scholarships. She belongs to Omicron Delta Kappa, a national
leadership honor society, and won the Chemical Rubber Handbook Company Award
for Attainment in General Chemistry. She tutors chemistry and mathematics and is
lab assistant for both general chemistry and the class, "Chemistry and Art." She spent
the summer of 1996 conducting research in synthetic organometallic chemistry at Wake Forest University
and the summer of 1997 researching bioinorganic chemistry at the University of Minnesota. For the past two
years she has carried out research in homogeneous catalysis at the University of the South. Her mathematical
interests include knot theory and its application to chemistry.
Anne is president of the Community Service Council which oversees community service activities in Sewanee, president of Community Building Community which sponsors joint activities for local children and college students, and president of the Organization for Cross-Cultural Understanding. |
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| Tennessee
|
David Carlisle Latimer Degree: Vanderbilt University: B.A., Physics and Math, 1998 Career Goals: Research and teaching in theoretical physics Oxford Course: M.Sc., Geometry, Mathematical Physics, and Analysis |
| David entered Vanderbilt as a Dean's Select Scholar and is now a McMinn Honor
Scholar, a Vanderbilt College Scholar, and a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. His research on cardiac electrophysiology has been published in several conference journals. In cross-country, he
is a varsity letter winner and a GTE Academic All-American. David has completed a marathon and enjoys
spelunking. He is active in the winter and spring track clubs. Through Gamma Beta Phi, an honor and service
society, he enjoys spending time with elementary school children to help them catch up with their classes and
volunteering at the local Ronald McDonald House.
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| District V | |
|---|---|
| Illinois
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Kirsten Parker
Degree: University of Chicago: B.A., Anthropology and
Political Science, 1998 |
| Kirsten is co-founder and president of the University of Chicago's chapter of Amnesty
International. Last summer she interned at the United States Embassy in Belize and
travelled in Central America. She is co-chair of the University of Chicago Community Partnership tutoring/
mentoring program for the Randolph Towers housing project. For Alpha Phi Omega coed service fraternity
she has served as alumni relations chair and vice-president in charge of service. On the basis of her grade
point average and activities, she was elected student marshal and member of the Maroon Key Society. Kirsten
has been president of the Yoga Club for three years. She won the National Library of Poetry's Third Place
award for original poetry. She enjoys painting, cooking, and travelling.
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|
| Michigan
|
Fiona Rose
Degree: University of Michigan: B.A., Classical
Archaeology, 1998 |
| Fiona is a Truman, James B. Angell, and Otto Graf Scholar. She is president of Adara,
the University of Michigan's senior women's honor organization, and is the youngest
student body president the university has had. She was named Glamour Magazine's
1997 College Woman of the Year. In January 1997, she was a featured speaker in an
Oval Office press conference with President Clinton and Secretary of Education Richard Riley. She founded the Child Care Scholarship program, a $200,000 annual fund to support students with
children. From 1994 to 1996 she was a member of the university's women's crew; she is a competitive runner
and third-place finisher in the 1997 10K Big Ten Run. Fiona spent the summer after her junior year in
Pompeii, Italy on a British archeological dig. Her volunteer activities include tutoring deaf students, and
organizing a service visit to build a school in Managua, Nicaragua during the 1998 spring break. She is
vegetarian.
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|
| Kentucky
|
Leslie Kendrick
Degree: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: B.A.,
English and Latiin, 1998 |
| As the first-ranked senior at UNC, Leslie is president of its Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa. She is a John Motley Morehead Scholar and winner of the Albert J. Suskin
Prize in Latin, and holds both the National Council of the Teachers of English award
in writing and the Classical Association of the Middle West and South Scholarship
for undergraduate excellence in classics. She is co-president of the UNC Women's
Issues Network which established a women's center on campus. Leslie co-chairs the Student Undergraduate
Teaching Awards group. For Lehigh Valley Summerbridge, an affiliate of the national academic enrichment
program for at-risk seventh and eighth graders, Leslie is literature department chair and advisory board member. Leslie has volunteered teaching English at Wake Summerbridge in Raleigh. She also volunteered in the
Orange County schools and has reported on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board for the Daily Tar Heel
where she is news and editorial writer and freelance columnist. She is staff member of Cellar Door, UNC's
literary magazine. This April Leslie will help organize UNC's first North Carolina Literary Festival; she
enjoys reading contemporary North Carolina authors like Lee Smith, Doris Betts, and Fred Chappell. Leslie's
studies have concentrated on the connections between English literature and the classical tradition. Her
senior creative writing thesis will be a book-length manuscript of poems. In her free time, she enjoys playing
piano and clarinet, crocheting, and running.
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| Illinois
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Ebrahim Patel
Degree: University of Illinois: B.A., Sociology, 1996 |
| While Eboo was at the University of Illinois, he held honors as the Outstanding Sociology Undergraduate, Undergraduate Humanitarian of the Year, and winner of the
Excellence in Leadership Award. He conducted a seven-week field study of American intentional communities. Eboo also developed a nonviolent conflict resolution course which he taught in
elementary school. After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1996 he taught literature, social studies
and writing to urban minority high school dropouts in Chicago. Eboo is currently employed as an outreach
educator and teacher trainer for the Chicago Academy of Sciences. He lives in an artists' and activists' cooperative which he helped create. He plays guitar and is excited to become part of Britain's turn-of-the-century
pop music revival.
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| District VI | |
|---|---|
| Iowa
|
Adeel Qalbani
Degree: Princeton University: A.B., Economics, 1998 |
| Adeel's thesis focuses on international portfolio investments in emerging markets. His
independent research on the balance of payments crises and the effects of monetary
policy on stock prices has been supplemented by summer internships in investment
banking on Wall Street. In high school, Adeel attended Boy's State and Boys' Nation.
He plays men's tennis at Princeton and is passionate about golf. (He continues working to lower his 15
handicap.) Adeel also enjoys weightlifting, snow skiing, and basketball.
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|
| Kansas
|
Jonathan N. Winkler
Degree: Kansas State University: B.A. in English, B.S. in
Mathematics and Physics, 1998 |
| Jonathan is a 1995 Goldwater Scholar, a 1993 Kansas State Presidential Scholar, and a
member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Golden Key National Honor Society. His scientific
work includes summer research at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. In 1996 he
optically evaluated collimator grids intended for installation in a Fourier X-ray telescope to be launched into
orbit as the high Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager. In 1997 he prepared Voigt profiles for a spectrum of
hydrogen absorption lines toward quasar Q0302-003 for comparison with helium absorption data taken by
the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph last December; the comparison may shed light on the early evolution of the universe. Jonathan also interned at the Duke/ North Carolina Engineering Research Center for
Emerging Cardiovascular Technologies in 1995.
In addition to his research, Jonathan is opinion columnist for the Kansas State Collegian and editor of the KSU College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program newsletter. He holds the 1994 and 1995 Clark M. Brink Essay Prizes. His other activities include work on the Lou Douglas campus lecture series committee and duties as secretary and webmaster of the Physics Club and as secretary of the Mathematics Club. He enjoys travel, reading, map study, still photography, and automobile repair. |
|
| Minnesota
|
Jacob Sullivan
Degree: Yale University: B.A., Political Science and
International Studies, 1998 |
| A Truman Scholar, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a Coca-Cola National Scholar,
Jake is editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News. He is in the process of developing and
directing a new journalism program for inner-city high school students. In 1997 he was a featured speaker in
Seoul at the Korea University symposium on western campus journalism. Jake is research assistant to Professor Bruce Russett and to Leslie Gelb, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. A member of the Yale
Debate Association, he was ranked fifth nationally in 1997 and represented Yale at the World Debate Championships in Greece. In 1997 he was a member of the second-place national Yale Mock Trial Association.
Jake is coach for a Minneapolis city boys' soccer team and coxed two years for the Yale Lightweight crew. In his spare time he watches his sister's soccer games (as she plays for the Yale varsity) and plays intramural soccer and hockey himself. Jake comes from a big Irish family who love international travel; he credits them with his passion for international affairs. He enjoys late-night debates on esoteric subjects and is a "died-in-the-wool Olympics junkie." |
|
| Missouri
|
Narayanan Kasthuri
Degree: Princeton University: B.A, Molecular Biology and
Public Policy, 1996 |
| Bobby is a 1997 Howard Hughes Medical Student Investigator working on visualizing axonal activity of the mouse neuromuscular junction. His senior thesis at Princeton
was a critique of the national AIDS research agenda of the National Institutes of
Health Office of AIDS Research. His junior thesis for the Woodrow Wilson School
of Public Policy focused on financing global environmental protection and reforming the United Nations.
Bobby was a member of the Princeton Honor/ Discipline Committee and a member of the Barnes Jewish
Hospital's Ethics Committee. He has taught science to middle schoolers and AIDS awareness to elementary
school children. In St. Louis he participates in the Big Brother program. He enjoys running and is a cigar and
whiskey aficionado.
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| District VII | |
|---|---|
| Colorado
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Gregory Scott Patrick Criste
Degree: Colorado College: B.A., Classics, History, and
Politics, 1998 |
| As a Boettcher Scholar, Gregory earned a full scholarship to Colorado College. He
spent his junior year studying abroad at Gonzaga University in Florence, Italy. He
holds the 1997 Guggenheim Prize on War, Violence, and Human Values for his essay
on World War One trench poetry; he received the 1997 Colorado College Political
Theory Prize for his essay on the Greek notion of justice in the Peloponnesian War. He
won the 1997 Colorado College Award for Excellence in Instrumental Music (classical piano). His performances as an Irish stepdancer include national and international competitions and a work as a featured dancer
with the Salt Lake Symphony. As a professional actor, Gregory has appeared with regional theater companies and in dinner theaters, including the stock theater College Light Opera Company in Cape Cod. His roles
have ranged from Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to Henrick in A little Night
Music, Nanki-Poo in The Mikado, and Kenneth in Call Me Madam. He is a cantor, music minister, and
catechist for local Catholic congregations; he sat on the Denver Archdiocese's advisory board to the Vatican
regarding the Pope's 1993 visit for World Youth Day. He enjoys skiing and hiking in the Colorado Rockies,
travel, and theater.
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|
| Idaho
|
Valerie MacMillan
Degree: Harvard University: A.B., Government |
| A 1994 Presidential Scholar, Valerie is writing her thesis on the high level of political
participation among Hispanos in northern New Mexico. Her biggest project of 1997-98 has been serving as managing editor of The Harvard Crimson, the campus daily,
where she is also responsible for training new staff members. During her term, the newspaper has been
distributed free to undergraduates, has instigated a financial aid program for the all-volunteer staff, and has
begun publishing double sections three times a week. Valerie proofreads manuscripts for the Electricity
Policy Group at the Kennedy School of Government. She spent the last two summers working in natural
resource policy, first at the Idaho Governor's office and then at Idaho's Division of Environmental Quality. A
member of the campus Women's Leadership Network and the Idaho Women's Network, she was featured in
a booklet celebrating the silver anniversary of women at Harvard. She has taught civics at an inner-city high
school; as a veteran swim teacher she specializes in teaching children and teens with a fear of the water. She
is a lay reader for the Episcopal Chaplaincy, and has been a member of the Woodbridge Society of International Students.
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| Montana
|
Gretchen Rohr
Degree: Macalester College: B.A., Political Science and
COmmunications, 1998 |
| Gretchen served as vice-president and then as president of Macalester's student body,
and is now a member of the president's Steering Committee on Multiculturalism. She
coordinates and chairs Shades of Color, a student-alumni organization focusing on
the struggles and accomplishments of women of color. She is chair of the HIV and
AIDS Action and Awareness Coalition, and was a member of the board of direction of a low income housing
project for people living with AIDS. As coordinator of the Minneapolis HIV/AIDS Public Policy and Advocacy Volunteer Program, she oversees the weekly distribution of bleach kits, syringes and condoms.
A Truman Scholar and winner of the Hubert H. Humphrey Minnesota College Oratory Contest, Gretchen holds the Macalester Dean's Award. She interned with District Court Judge Michael Davis and with the National Center for Youth Law. Two of her articles were published in Youth Law News. She is currently developing a program in tandem with the Public Broadcasting Service and the Boys' and Girls' Club to teach teenagers to video-document their lives. Gretchen is assistant editor of The Way Home, a documentary on women and race. She is a member of the Black Liberation and Affairs Committee and the Student Coalition for Diversity. She is currently carrying out an independent study of critical race feminism and completing her honors thesis entitled " Cultural Neonationalism in the African American Community." Gretchen plays the piano and bassoon. |
|
| Oklahoma
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Blaine Greteman
Degree: Oklahoma State University: B.A., English |
| Blaine holds university, college, and departmental scholarships at OSU. He devoted
a research grant to the study of the Grapes of Wrath's political, cultural, and psychological legacy in Oklahoma. He helped found Papyrus, OSU's undergraduate creative magazine, and is an editorialist for the campus newspaper and The Oklahoma
Observer. Blaine apprenticed with The Milton Quarterly, a national scholarly journal. In 1996 he won an Academy of American Poets Prize; his poetry has just been accepted for publication.
Blaine enjoys hiking and camping in the Grand Canyon and Yosemite National Parks, and playing the guitar
and piano. His summer odd jobs have included everything from hot-tar roofing to house painting. Blaine
enjoys tutoring at the local junior high school and notes that "the best thing about this whole [Rhodes] process
was meeting so many people who were actively interested in making a difference in their world."
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| District VIII | |
|---|---|
| Alaska
|
Owen Wozniak
Degree: Harvard University: B.A., History and Literature,
1998 |
| A John Harvard Scholar, Owen is an Art Board member of the Harvard Advocate and
co-curator of an exhibition of student art. Owen lettered in rowing; his crew triumphed
in the 1994 Harvard - Yale boat race. His volunteer work includes participation in the
Peace Games, a program to teach anger management skills to schoolchildren. He interned in the New York
City Government's Housing Preservation and Development Agency where he redesigned the rent collection
and building management strategies of the 7A Program, which places mismanaged apartment buildings in the
hands of tenant administrators.
Owen has travelled throughout eastern Europe and is interested in the history and politics of that region. His other interests include literature, film, snowboarding, and mountaineering. As part of an orientation program for first-year students, he led a seven-day backpacking trip. He is very interested in environmental issues, particularly questions of wilderness preservation in Alaska. |
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| Hawaii
|
Cullen M. Taniguchi
Degree: Occidental College: A.B., Chemistry, 1998 |
| A Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, a junior inductee into Phi Beta Kappa, and an Occidental College President's Scholar, Cullen has maintained a 4.0 grade point average. He
holds a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Award, the American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award for Analytical Chemistry, and honors as Occidental's
1995 Outstanding Organic and 1997 Outstanding Physical Chemistry Student. His
research centers on the development of cost-effective and environmentally benign synthetic methodologies
to produce pharmaceuticals in single enantiomer form; its goal is to create safer and more effective drugs by
eliminating all mirror-image isomers.
A timpanist in the Occidental/ Caltech Orchestra, Cullen is also a classical guitarist. He is a member of the rugby and karate teams and was nominated to the National Residence Hall Honorary for his work as a resident advisor. He is "a proud product of the public school system of Hawaii," and while in high school was appointed an ex officio member of the House of Representatives by the Governor. He hopes to combine this government experience with his scientific background to influence the policy affairs of science. |
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| Oregon
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Laura Provinzino
Degree: Lewis and Clark College: B.A., History and
International Affairs, 1998 |
| Laura is now chair of the College Honor Board, after having worked on the Academic Integrity Task Force to rewrite Lewis & Clark's honor code. She was elected
to the Robert B. Pamplin., Jr. Society of Fellows and holds Barbara Hirshi Neely and Ben B. Cheney Foundation Scholarships. As a summer intern for Senator Paul D. Wellstone, she focused on international and
labor issues and contributed to his speech on discontinuing most favored nation status for China. Her honors
theses are entitled "Mitchell v. United States: Indian Rights" and "Truth versus Justice: Acknowledging or
Prosecuting Crimes against Humanity." Since 1995 she has been student liaison to the International Affairs
Advisory Committee. Laura received a program grant for Native American history research to initiate an
Oregon ethnic anthology series, and spent the 1996 autumn semester studying in Oaxaca, Mexico. She is
editor of the Meridian, a journal on international and cross-cultural issues. Laura was a junior inductee of the
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society. She lettered on the women's varsity tennis team and won the 1995
regional scholar-athlete award. Her outdoor experience includes whitewater rafting and a month-long wilderness expedition through northern Minnesota's Boundary Waters. She is interested in Latin American film
and Indonesian martial arts.
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| Washington
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S. Kristine Abrams
Degree: Brown University: B.A. in Philosophy, B.S. in
Neuroscience |
| Kristi received two grants from the Royce Fellowship Program to research philosophers' and physicists' changing perceptions of scientific objectivity, and to create the
syllabus for a new course on the philosophy of biology. She organized a group study
project comprised of one professor and one undergraduate each from philosophy and
cognitive science to examine and critique representational theories of language. A
member of Phi Beta Kappa, she holds the Curt John Ducasse Premium in Metaphysics. Her neuroscience
laboratory research includes study of activity-dependent plasticity in the visual cortex of developing kittens.
Kristi is rookie lineplayer of the year in rugby, and is an avid basketball and football player. She loves hiking,
especially in the Cascade Mountains. Kristi is a violinist; this fall she performed the Brahms C minor piano
quartet and the C minor piano trio. She is currently working to create a black reparations movement at Brown
and is an active participant in a campus socialist group. Recently she has "moved from a particular feminist
perspective to a more general sympathy for and identification with radicalism and socialism." She may
eventually enter academics.
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1999 Rhodes Scholars Elected
1997 Rhodes Scholars Elected
1996 Rhodes Scholars Elected
