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Sarah Anderson

Sarah Anderson

Graduation Year: 2010

Area(s) of Focus: Biology, French

Favorite Food: Scones with jam and cream

Favorite Movie: A Very Long Engagement

Weird Fact: I like falling because, for a second,

                   it feels like flying.

Favorite Quote: "The debt that each generation owes

                         to the past, it must pay to the future."

                                              --Abigail Scott Duniway

 

 

Misty Brum

Misty Brum

Graduation Year: 2010

Area(s) of Focus: Anthropology, English

Career Aspiration: To run the anthropology wing of a museum.

Favorite TV Show: Bones

Favored Activity: Playing Frisbee

Interesting Fact: I went an archaeological dig in                                    Moquegua, Peru.


 

Shanna Bude

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Graduation Year: 2010

Area(s) of Focus: Foreign Language, History

Favorite Movie: Star Wars

Favorite Book: Tale of Two Cities

Unusual Fear: Falling out of an airplane

Interesting Fact: I would learn every language in the world

                         if I could.


 

Lucy Burgchardt

Lucy Burgchardt

Graduation Year: 2010

Area(s) of Focus: Anthropology, French, Chemistry

Favorite TV Show: Hustle, Mad Men

Favorite Book: Love in the Time of Cholera

                            by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

Interesting fact: I am a reformed vegetarian, and I ate a deep-fried                             guinea pig while in Peru.

Favorite Quote: "It is absurd to divide people into good

                         and bad. People are either charming

                         or tedious." -- Oscar Wilde

 

 

Cady Cummings

Cady Cummings

Graduation Year: 2010

Area(s) of Focus: Communication, Theatre, Dramatic Literature

Favorite Movie: The 10th Kingdom

Hidden Talent: I can wiggle my nose like Bewitched

Career Aspiration: Public Relations

Favorite Quote: "Anyone who lives within their means

                         suffers from a lack of imagination."

                                            --Oscar Wilde

 

 

Patty Determan

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Graduation Year: 2011

Area(s) of Focus: Sociology-Anthropology, English, Spanish

Favorite Movie: Steel Magnolias

Favorite Book: Persuasion

Unusual Fear: Squirrels

Interesting Fact: Was once nearly crushed by an 

                           automatic sliding door at Target.

Patty is currently studying abroad!

 

Holly M. Doyle

Graduation Year: 2012

Area(s) of Focus: History, Latin

Favorite Band: The Academy is . . .

Favorite Color: Yellow or Hot Pink

Interesting Fact: Is from CO, but does not ski

Favorite Quote: "The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of

                         larger ideas, never returns to its original size."

                                                        --Oliver Wendell Holmes

Holly is currently studying abroad!

 

Jacqie Fingerson

Graduation Year: 2010

Area(s) of Focus: History

Career Aspiration : Museum Director

Favorite Movie: Big Fish

Interesting Fact : Used to have a thick Southern accent

Favorite Quote : "What doesn't kill you only makes

                            you stronger."

 

Megan Heath

Graduation Year: 2012

Area(s) of Focus: Business Management, emphasis in Law

Career Aspiration : Lawyer

Favorite Books: Corelli's Mandolin, A Time to Kill

Interesting Fact : Is from a town with no stoplights

Favorite Quote : "Women that aspire to be equal to men in

                          business lack ambition." --Timothy Leary

 

Julia Heinrich

Julia Heinrich

Graduation Year: 2011

Area(s) of Focus: English

Career Aspiration: English teacher, writer, ...and to one day

                           run her own tea shop.

Favorite Book: The Secret Life of Bees, The Phantom Tollbooth

Favorite Film: Love, Actually

Favorite Quote: "One of the advantages of being disorderly

                       is that one is constantly making exciting

                       discoveries.'' --A. A. Milne

 

Ross Heintzkill

Ross Heintzkill

Graduation Year: 2010

Area(s) of Focus: Politics and Government, National Security Studies
Favorite Food: My mother's anything
Favorite TV Show: House MD
What are you proud of: My handwriting
Favorite Quote: "I know not all that may be coming,
                        but be it what it will, I go to it smiling."
                                          --Herman Melville

 

 

Sarah Hopkins

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Graduation Year: 2011

Area(s) of Focus: English, Communication, Civic Advocacy

Career Aspiration : Educational Reform/Alternative School

                              Programs

Favorite Food: French Fries

Favorite TV Show: That 70's Show

Interesting Fact: Was attacked by a beaver when she was little.

Sarah is currently studying abroad!

 

John Ingemann

Graduation Year: 2012

Area(s) of Focus: English

Career Aspiration : Author, Camp Director

Favorite TV Show: Robot Chicken

Favorite Musical Groups: Radiohead, Coldplay

Interesting Fact: "I know more about zombies than anyone

                          I know."

 

Rachel Jenks

Rachel Jenks

Graduation Year: 2010

Area(s) of Focus: History, Business

Favorite Musical Group: Jars of Clay

Favorite Book: Jane Eyre

Weird Quirk: I alphabetize my movies, CDs, and books

Favorite Quote: "We have captured magic in a shoe!"

                                          --Elizabethtown

 

 

 

Rachel Kezeske

Graduation Year: 2012

Area(s) of Focus: English, Math, French

Favorite Color: Green

Favorite Movie: Zoolander

Favorite Book: To Kill a Mockingbird

Interesting Fact: Loves ping pong

 

Terrah Jones

Terrah Jones

Graduation Year: 2011

Area(s) of Focus: Chemistry

Favorite Food: Pork Fried Rice

Favorite Book: Tangled Webs by Anne Bishop

Favorite TV Show: Mythbusters

Interesting Fact: I am a twin.

 

Phil Mack

Phil Mack

Graduation Year: 2010

Area(s) of Focus: Philosophy, Art History

Favorite Food: Sushi

Favorite TV Show: Mythbusters

Favorite Book: The Catcher in the Rye

Favorite Quote: "Try to learn something about everything

                         and everything about something."

                                           --Thomas A. Huxley

 

Russell Maly

Russell Maly

Graduation Year: 2011

Area(s) of Focus: Undeclared

Favorite Movie: Superbad, Inside Man

Favorite TV Show: House

Weird Fact: Generally enjoys writing papers.

Favorite Quote: "Even a broken clock is right two times a day."

 

Alex Momich

Graduation Year: 2011

Area(s) of Focus: Mathematics, Spanish, Sociology

Career Aspiration : Statistician

Favorite TV Show: Burn Notice

Favorite Movie: Everything is Illuminated

Interesting Fact: Does not have a driver's license

 

Deano Pape
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Deano Pape

Favorite Class to Teach: Film Criticism

Favorite TV Show: 24

Favorite Book: Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi

Sitting on my desk are: Ashes of bad students

Failed Career Aspirations: Stand-Up Comic

Favorite Quote: "Democracy is the theory that people know what                         they want, and deserve to get it, good and hard."

                                          --Mencken

 

Elissa Peterson

Graduation Year: 2012

Area(s) of Focus: Psychobiology, French, Art History

Favorite Colors: Green and Violet

Favorite Movies: Comedies and Horror

Weird Fear: Swimming in lakes

Interesting Fact: Is double-jointed in both elbows

 

Elissa is currently studying abroad!

 

Brittany Preischel

Graduation Year: 2010

Area(s) of Focus: Psychobiology

Favorite Food: Her Dad's lasagna

Favorite Movie: Boondock Saints

Favorite Books: The Time Traveler's Wife, Water for Elephants

Interesting Fact: "I got very lost in Paris and almost had

                          a heart attack!"

 

Missy Porath

Missy Porath

Graduation Year: 2010

Area(s) of Focus: Communication, History

Worst Fear: Dogs

Favorite Movie: Superbad

Cool Fact: I worked on a NASA project in high school

Favorite Quote: "A person should not believe in an 'ism',

                         he should believe in himself."

                                    -- Ferris Bueller's Day Off

 

Emma Robinson

Graduation Year: 2012

Area(s) of Focus: Spanish, English

Favorite Book: The Princess Bride

Favorite Movies: Anything Disney or Tim Burton

Weird Fear: Mannequins

Interesting Fact: Owns around 250 pairs of earrings

 

Erin Schaick

Graduation Year: 2012

Area(s) of Focus: Communication

Career Aspiration: Public Relations

Favorite Food: Mom's cheesecake

Favorite Musical Group: Journey

Favorite Quote : "Screws fall out all over. The world is an

                           imperfect place." --The Breakfast Club

 

Katrina Schauland

Graduation Year: 2012

Area(s) of Focus: Leadership Studies

Favorite Food: Mom's homemade stir-fry

Favorite Books: Brave New World, 1984, Heidi,

                         Lord of the Rings, etc.

Worst Fear: Sleeping through her alarm and getting to class late

Interesting Fact: Has never had a haircut

 

Emily Sheeks

Graduation Year: 2012

Area(s) of Focus: History, Spanish

Favorite TV Show : The Office

Favorite Food: Rice

Favorite Word : Defenestrate

Interesting Fact: "I exist as I am. That is enough."

                          --Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"

 

Celena Simpson

Celena Simpson

Graduation Year: 2010

Area(s) of Focus: Philosophy, Art and Art History
Favorite TV Show: Seinfeld
Favorite Book: Tracks by Louise Erdrich
Interesting fact: I've been hit by a car
Favorite Quote: "Life shrinks or expands according
                        to one's courage" --The Artist's Way

 

Jason Smith

Jason Smith

Graduation Year: 2011

Area(s) of Focus: Undecided
Favorite TV Show: Rescue Me
Favorite Movie: Dazed and Confused

Worst Fear: Snakes

Favorite Quote: "To give anything less than your best is

                       to sacrifice the gift." --Steve Prefontaine

 


 

Jessica Solverud

Jessica Solverud

Graduation Year: 2010

Area(s) of Focus: English, Communication
Career Aspiration: Dean of Admission
Hidden Talent: I'm certified to drive a forklift
Weird fear: A closet where the hangers
                    face different directions
Favorite Quote: "Pride goes before destruction and
                        haughty face before a fall."
                                         --Proverbs 16:18

 

 

Vicky Weber

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Graduation Year: 2012

Area(s) of Focus: Communication, Politics & Government

Career Aspiration: Librarian

Favorite Movie: Animal House

Favorite Book: East of Eden

Interesting Fact: "My car has been passed down through

                          three generations."

 

Talley Yake

Talley Yake

Graduation Year: 2010

Area(s) of Focus:English, Psychology
Favorite Movie: Empire Records
Worst Fear: Spiders
Interesting Fact: I love comic books
Favorite Quote: "Anyone who has never made a mistake
                        has never tried anything new."

                        --Albert Einstein

 

 

 

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