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Sarah Anderson

Sarah Anderson

Graduation Year: 2010

Major(s): Biology

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

 

Jessica Bierman

Jessica Bierman

Graduation Year: 2008

Major(s): History

Favorite Movie: The Goonies

Weird Fears: Backless stairs and feet

Favorite Food: Chocolate

Favorite Quote: "Never jump into a pile of leaves

                         with a wet sucker" --Linus

 

Hannah Bober

Hannah Bober

Graduation Year: 2009

Major(s): Art History

Favorite Books: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

                         and Through the Looking Glass

Favorite TV Show: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Favorite Musical Artist: Buddy Holly

Favorite Quote: "One's never alone with a rubber duck"

                                             -- Douglas Adams

Tyler Brunette

Tyler Brunette

Graduation Year: 2008

Major(s): Undeclared

Favorite Movie: SLC Punk

Favorite Book: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Other Languages Spoken: Kiswahilli

Interesting Fact: I'm really bendy!

Lucy Burgchardt

Lucy Burgchardt

Graduation Year: 2010

Major(s): Anthropology

Favorite TV Show: Hustle

Favorite Book: Love in the Time of Cholera

                            by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

Interesting fact: I'm a reformed vegetarian

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

                         and bad. People are either charming

                         or tedious." -- Oscar Wilde

 

Gwendolyn Casey

Gwendolyn Casey

Graduation Year: 2010

Major(s): Undeclared
Favorite Color: Bright Yellow
Favorite Movie: 300
Hidden Talent: I am a blackbelt in Taekwondo
Favorite Quote: "Life the life you're given, make the life you want."

Irene Compra

Irene Compra

Graduation Year: 2010

Major(s): Economics

              French

Favorite Color: Pink

Hidden Talent: Knowing celebrities height

Cool fact: My birthday is on Halloween

Favorite Quote: "In three words I can sum up everything

                         I've learned about life: it goes on."

                                          -- Robert Frost

Cady Cummings

Cady Cummings

Graduation Year: 2010

Major(s): Theatre

              Communication

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

Parissa DJangi

Parissa DJangi

Graduation Year: 2008

Major(s): History

              English

Meaning of First Name: Angel  (in Persian)

Guilty Pleasures: Musical theatre and celebrity gossip

Career Goal: To be a novelist

Favorite Quote: "Follow your bliss." -- Joseph Campbell

Julie George

Julie George

Graduation Year: 2009

Major(s): Psychology

              Spanish

Career Aspiration: Child Psychologist

Weird fear: That I eat spiders when I sleep

Weird fact: I was legally a midget for 6 months

Favorite TV Show: Gray's Anatomy

Ross Heintzkill

Ross Heintzkill

Graduation Year: 2010

Major(s): Foreign Languages
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

Rachel Jenks

Rachel Jenks

Graduation Year: 2010

Major(s): History

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

Brittany Kaufman

Brittany Kaufman

Graduation Year: 2009

Major(s): Psychology

Favorite Book: The Awakening  by Kate Chopin

Favorite Sport: Water Skiing

Random Hobby: My friends and I make films and enter

                         them in film festivals

Favorite Quote: "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just

                         to love and be loved in return" --Moulin Rouge

Lauren Kelly

Lauren Kelly

Graduation Year: 2010

Major(s): Biology
             English
Favorite Movie: Liar, Liar
Weird fear: Sand in my shoes
Interesting fact: I set my alarm clock for weird times (eg 8:11)
Favorite Quote: "The person who knows how to laugh at
                         him/herself will never cease to be amused."

                                         --Shirley MacLaine

Jenan Kharbush

Jenan Kharbush

Graduation Year: 2009

Major(s): Biology

              Chemistry

Favorite Disney Movie: The Lion King

Biggest Fear: Anything with more than four legs

Favorite Food: Cheese Fondue

Favorite Quote: "You can sleep when you're dead-- Life is for the

                        living, so you better get up and go to class"

Liz Kunde

Liz Kunde

Graduation Year: 2009

Major(s): English

              Communication

Biggest Fear: Birds

Favorite Book: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Favorite Food: Cheez-its

Favorite Quote: "Love, having no geography, knows

                        no boundaries." -- Truman Capote

Sarah Leeman

Sarah Leeman

Graduation Year: 2010

Major(s): Business Administration
              English
Favorite Musical Artist: Damien Rice
Favorite TV Show: What Not to Wear
Worst Fear: Car accidents
Favorite Quote: "I never saw the point of being sad when
                        you can choose to be happy."
                                          
--Megan McCafferty

Phil Mack

Phil Mack

Graduation Year: 2010

Major(s): Undeclared

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

Deano Pape
Director

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

 

Brandon Parrott-Sheffer
Center Manager & Mentor Coordinator

Brandon Parrott-Sheffer

Graduation Year: 2008

Major(s): Psychology

              History

Biggest Fears: Police Cars and Hippos

Favorite Author: Chuck Palahniuk

Cool Skills: Knitting and Stained Glass

Favorite Quote:  "The world doesn't owe you anything

                          it was here first." --Mark Twain

Missy Porath

Missy Porath

Graduation Year: 2010

Major(s): Politics & Government

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

Bryan Schneider

Bryan Schneider

Graduation Year: 2008

Major(s): History

              Economics

Career Aspiration: Archivist

Favorite food: Lemon-Lime Gatorade

Favorite color: Light Urple

Favorite quote: "Do work son."

Kelly Schweiss

Kelly Schweiss

Graduation Year: 2009

Major(s): German

              Psychology

Favorite Book: The Giver by Lois Lowry

Favorite Food: Dark Chocolate

Favorite Music: Pretty much anything but rap!

Favorite Quote: "The meeting of two personalities is like the

                         contact of two chemicals-- if there is any reaction,

                         both are transformed." -- Carl Jung

Celena Simpson

Celena Simpson

Graduation Year: 2010

Major(s): Undecided
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

Jessica Solverud

Jessica Solverud

Graduation Year: 2010

Major(s): English

              Religion
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


Lizzie Stoudt

Lizzie Stoudt

Graduation Year: 2009

Major(s): English

Favorite Movie: October Sky

Favorite Band: The Beatles

Favorite Book: Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky

Interesting Fact: I was the 2006 Waukesha County Fairest of the Fair

Favorite Quote: "The future belongs to those who believe in

                        the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt

Jodi Strahl

Jodi Strahl

Graduation Year: 2009

Major(s): Anthropology

Favorite Book: Arrow's Fall by Mercedes Lackey

Favorite Movie: Gladiator

Favorite Song: Kyrie for the Magdelene

Weird Habit: Randomly breaking into song everywhere

Favorite Quote: "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for

                        you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

Talley Yake

Talley Yake

Graduation Year: 2010

Major(s): 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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