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Physical Plant

Dedication

"Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated tc
something. " -Jose Ortega y Gasset

The Physical Plant Crew

"It is traditional that each edition of the
Yamacraw be dedicated to a member of the Oglethorpe
community. The dedication is made to a person who
exemplifies what is best about Oglethorpe, a person
who embodies the unique personality and spirit of
Oglethorpe University."

Perhaps it is most appropriate in a book
entitled The Social Order that the dedication of the
2006 Yamacraw goes not to an individual, but to
an entire group of people. The custodial services,
grounds, and maintenance crews all who call the
Physical Plant home are the people who keep the
campus of Oglethorpe operating at its most basic and
essential levels. Custodial services keeps us from
living in the abject squalor into which we, as college
students, naturally tend. What's more, they do it with
professionalism, grace, and courtesy. The grounds crew
makes sure that we are able to maintain our little oasis
of green in the midst of the big city. The maintenance
staff keeps the lights on and the water running, and
when things go bump in the night, they are there next
morning to fix it. And when our clubs host events on
campus, they make sure we have the supplies we need.

This intrepid group of people are led in their
service by those whose names are familiar to any of us
who have suffered a clogged sink, a busted bathroom
light, a ladybug or cockroach infestation, or any other
of the many perils of living in campus housing. Jim
Ledbetter, Renae Glass, Manny Bonilla, Sharon Roth,
and many others work tirelessly to keep the campus

operating so that we may live and work and study in the
best facilities possible. At the same time, they help tc
organize and facilitate the building of newer and better
facilities that will carry this institution well into the
twenty-first century and beyond.

These are the people who deserve our continuing
thanks for giving of themselves for us:

Maintenance

Mr. Michael Gdalevich

Ms. Renae Glass

Mr. Mark Hood

Mr. Jim Ledbetter

Mr. Jason Warner

Mr. Robert Wisenbaugh

Mr. William Zarouk

Custodial Services
Mr. Manuel Bonilla
Mrs. Silvia Calvillo
Ms. Dorothy Crite
Ms. Thu Nguyen
Ms. Latifa Omerovic
Mrs. Emma Valadez
Mrs. Mary Wyatt

Grounds

Mr. Brian Delinski

Ms. Sharon Roth

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4 Retrospective

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'History is the version of past events that peopl

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ave decided to agree upon'' - Napoleon Bonaparte

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Administration, President Schall,
Faculty and Departments

Personalities

"Of all men 's miseries the bitterest is this, to know so
much and to have control over nothing. " - Herodotus

Provost and

Senior Vice

President

Dr. Chris Ames

Associate

Provost of

University

College and

Deputy to the

President for

Community

Relations

Vice

President

for Student

Affairs

Ms. Annie Hunt Burriss

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Vice

President for

Business and

Finance

Director of

Institutional

Research

Ms. Marilyn Fowle

Ms. Janet Maddox

Vice

President for

Enrollment

Mr. David Rliodes

Executive Vice

Director of President for

Marketing Development

and Public and Alumni
Relations Relations

Ms. Kelly Robinson

Mr. Peter Rooney

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Dr. Schall

A new President with new ideas

The 2005-2006 school year
marked a significant change in the
Oglethorpe community. At the
beginning of the academic year,
the school welcomed Dr. LaiTy
Schall, the school's 16th president.

The first year of Dr. SchalFs
presidency revealed his dynamic
character as an institutional and
community leader. President
Schall was a regular fixture at
Oglethorpe events ranging from
the Eggs-am breakfast, where he
served students as they prepared
for finals, to intramural volleyball,
which he played with some
students early in the fall 2005
semester. Students often remarked
on the president's involvement
in the student community.

"I think he has taken
a proactive approach to OU
community involvement," said
Jason Soby, a sophomore. Laura
Callender, also a sophomore,
added, "He's really been taking
the time to listen to the students
and get ideas from them and
participate in our events
like the Eggs-am breakfast."

In addition to student
involvement. Dr. Schall's
presence as a leader for the
community was demonstrated
after Hurricane Katrina hit the
Gulf Coast states. Hand in hand
with Angel Flight, Dr. Schall, his
wife Betty, and many students
immediately came together to
purchase and organize supplies for

the displaced residents of the Gulf
Coast. The president himself rode
with the supplies to Baton Rouge
to deliver them. He took the
school motto to heart, and proved
it himself by making a difference.
President Schall also served
Oglethorpe as an excellent
institutional leader. He openly
discussed the improvements that
need to be made at the school and
worked to change the Oglethorpe
community for the better. As
president. Dr. Schall began
efforts to reconnect with alumni
and increase fundraising, and he
actively participated in plans for
campus building improvements,
including the location for
the next residence hall.

Left The President and his wife, Betty.

Below: Dr. Schall speaks with a parent during
Parents" Weekend.

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The importance of
increasing the student population
has also been high on the President's
list. Dr. Schall, in one of his many
"Letters from the President" emails,
promised that he would personally
work to make the Oglethorpe
experience rewarding and engaging
for all students. The President also
noted that diversity of all kinds is
important on campus. He said that
students, faculty, staff, and trustees
may be different from each other
in every way but must develop
ways to bridge those differences.

As a part of his effort
to increase awareness of all
Oglethorpe has to offer. Dr. Schall
spent two weeks in the northeast
on a recruiting trip through New
York, Pennsylvania, Washington
D.C., and Maryland. By talking
to admissions counselors and
prospective students. Dr. Schall
hoped to educate others on the
benefits of an Oglethorpe education.

In addition to his efforts
at serving the community and
improving the student body. Dr.
Schall also developed a habit of
doing one thing that university
presidents are rarely known
for - communication with the

students. Through the fireside
chats he held several times and
the aforementioned "Letters from
the President," Dr. Schall has
created a space in which students
feel comfortable bringing him their
concerns and compliments alike.
Dr. Schall came to
Oglethorpe for three reasons: the
school's reputation, community,
and location. He frequently cites
the varied course listings and
challenging curriculum as the top
reasons that Oglethorpe is such an
exceptional academic institution.
Often quoted as saying that he felt
at home at Oglethorpe on his first
visit. President Schall said that
the character of the student body
is responsible for the welcoming
atmosphere. Dr. Schall is also a
great fan of Atlanta's rich culture
and history, as well as the city's

Above Left: President Schall speaks with
students during a Fireside Chat.

Above: Soccer Star Schall proves his abilites
during the Salmone Soccer Tournament.

opportunities for students.

In the end, Oglethorpe's
16* president had a challenging,
yet successful, first year in office.
Before officially beginning his
term, he said, "I expect to have
hundreds of challenges, but I have
a strong sense of focus and I enjoy
relating to people. I also enjoy my
work and believe in incorporating
these ideals into eveiything I do."

As his actions have proved.
President Schall has held true to his
word. Oglethorpe looks forward to
whathewillaccomplish in the future.

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Mr. James A. Bohart Music

James A. Bohart, a professor of music, has been at Oglethorpe
University since 1 972. His mother was a school teacher who played the
piano, and his father was a railroad worker who played the trombone.
He has had a passion for music since he was six years old. Professor
Bohart has served on the Core Curriculum Board since it began ten
years ago. In his spare time, he is the Musical Director and Coordinator
of the Choral Guild of Atlanta, the oldest choral guild in Atlanta.
Since Bohart's father and grandfather were both railroad workers,
he enjoys creating and collecting model trains and woodworking.

Dr. Jeffrey Collins Art History and study Abroad

Dr. Jeffrey Collins is the Director of the Oglethoipe University Study
Abroad (OUSA) program. He helps students study and travel around
the globe in their college years. He also gets to participate in many of
the OUSA short-temi trips. In addition, Collins teaches a number of
anthropology, independent, and art history courses, including Art and
Culture. The Core Curriculum is "a unique opportunity," he said. "So
much of modem education is scattered-sot, diluted, and haphazard-
the Core synthesizes, integrates, and challenges you to think the
great thoughts. Stay with it, and it will serve you all your life."

Ms. Jena JoliSSaint Philosophy

Professor Jena Jolissaint, an Oglethorpe alumna, re-joined the
Oglethoipe community this year when she came to teach philosophy.
She became interested in philosophy while reading Nietzsche in
her freshman Core class here and still holds an interest in Gennan
philosophers, especially Schelling. Jollisant is particularly interested
in the question of sexual difference in images of nature according to
these philosophers. Outside of class, she enjoys running, yoga, and
movies, especially the Starlight Drive-in in Atlanta. Professor Jollisant
and her sister hosted three cats this year belonging to friends displaced
by hurricane Katrina. She hopes to continue teaching in the future.

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Ms. Catherine Kelley Art

Catherine Kelley moves fast whether across a room or through new
material. And little wonder, for her interests are so varied. Though last
year she immersed herself in ancient art and literature for a class taught
jointly with Dr. McFarland, this year she has turned her restless mind
toward feminist art of the 70s and 80s. In fact, one of the reasons she came
to Oglethoipe was the freedom to teach all kinds of art rather than being
imprisoned in a specialty. And Kelley is a lifetime student as well as a
teacher: Maybe during this school year, you sat by her Ancient Greek!

Mrs. Lee Knippenberg Theatre

Professor Lee Knippenberg is well known on campus for her theatrical
talents. For over a decade. Professor Knippenberg worked to build the
theatre department at Oglethoipe which has since earned the reputation
of a well-rounded program dedicated to students and to the production
of good theatre. Currently serving as a part-time adjunct instructor
in theatre. Professor Knippenberg specializes in theatre histoiy and
acting. In fact, some of the most popluar theatre classes are the char-
acterization classes taught by Professor Knippenberg. In addition to
all this. Professor Knippenberg finds time to act with her students, be
the mother and taxi service of two children, and the wife of Ogletho-
rpe's own Dr. Knippenberg (whom she met right here at Oglethorpe).

Mr. Alan Loehle Art

Oglethorpe's professor Alan Loehle is much more than the professor
students see a few times a week. His experiences, such as his solo
shows in galleries in New York and Manhattan, bring so much to
the classroom that students could not otherwise see. "He is able
to make real world connections when discussing the pieces we
are working on," said Senior Kara Glielmi. For Loehle, "art is a
filter for life," and he attempts to "address the human condition,"
as is evident in his work. Originally from Georgia, Loehle moved
back down here from N.Y. to get more space to create. In 1989, he
worked with Lloyd Nick to create the art program at Oglethorpe.

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Dr. Deborah Merola Theatre

One of the newest additions to the faculty. Dr. Deborah
Merola found the opportunity to help develop the theatre major,
as well as to continue its excellent tradition at Oglethorpe,
particularly alluring. She brings a vitality that is directly connected
to her interests interdisciplinary, intercultural, and international
integration to the program. In pursuit of these special interests,
she spent the summer before beginning employment here working
to bring Dr. Miroslaw Kocur from Poland to Oglethorpe as a
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence. Her work has strengthened
the connections between Georgia Shakespeare Festival, the
Oglethoipe theater department, and the broader Atlanta community.

Dr. Philip J. Neujahr Philosophy

Oglethorpe's resident philosopher Dr. Philip Neujahr has many
interesting things to say about his life. For instance, in his younger
years, he fought in Vietnam for nine months and made it to the
level of Lieutenant in the anny. Aside from being a Kant and
Aristotle aficionado, he is also a master swimmer and has gained
many awards throughout his life including being the 3rd place
winner of the 50-meter breaststroke for the 40-44 age range.
He held one swimming record for several years in the "Dixie
Zone" (the Southeast) and another record for the Pacific Coast.

Dr. Barton R. Palmer Film studies

Dr. Palmer is a man of many interests; he cannot seem to restrain
himself to one field of study or even to one school! Although as
a visiting professor at Oglethorpe he teaches such classes as "Sex
and Gender in the Cinema" and "Film Adaptations of Novels,"
he originally studied the Middle Ages. In fact, he eventually
collected a double set of degrees six in all to accommodate his
dichotomous interests. Still, Dr. Palmer comfortably and affectionately
spans the apparent gulfs between Medieval French poetry and
modem movies and the one between Clemson and Oglethoipe.

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Dr. W. Irwin Ray Music

When Dr. Ray chose to teach at Oglethorpe, it seemed a natural
decision; his father studied pre-dentistry here and Dr. Ray respected
the university. Midway into dental school himself, however. Dr.
Ray was faced with a more difficult choice: finish his degree or start
over and study music, his passion. Though now conducting. Dr.
Ray is still partly a scientist. "Fm amazed at how the components
of a score translate into sound that can produce such emotion in
humans," he says. Outside of conducting. Dr. Ray enjoys reading,
photography, rescuing animals with wife Cristy and son Garrett,
and spending time with their miniature Dachshund, Gretta.

Dr. Anne Rosenthal communication and Rhetoric

Dr. Anne Rosenthal acquired her degree in communications at
Purdue University. It was both her liberal arts background and the
intimate atmosphere of a small college that influenced the Minnesota
native's decision to join the staff of Oglethorpe University in 1997.
The avid rock collector, who has frequented the shores of Lake
Superior and Thunder Bay, Canada, believes that the Core is what
makes Oglethorpe distinctive while simultaneously helping it to
"produce leaders for a public world." Dr. Rosenthal is quick to
admit that although she has enjoyed helping this year's graduates
"find their way" in such a world, she is reluctant to see them go.

Dr. Seema Shrikhande Communication and Rhetoric

Dr. Seema Shrikhande became a member of the Oglethoipe family
in the fall of 2002 after acquiring her Ph.D. in communications
from Michigan State. Few would guess that Dr. Shrikhande, a
journalism enthusiast, once considered another profession: advertising
and market research. However, the few months that she spent
exploring the field convinced her that her place was in teaching.
She watches the students develop and is excited about the senior
class. "They're planning their futures and I expect them to go out
and do wonderful things," she said. In her free time, she likes to
be with her son, make pottery, and advertise her culinary talents.

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Dr. Stephen B. Herschler Politics

Dr. Stephen Herschler's interest in Asia began when, as a
child, he was fascinated by his grandfather's collection of artwork
from places like China and Japan. Dr. Herschler is still fascinated
by cultures, especially those that are the most alien to him. He is
especially intrigued by how language influences how we think and
what happens when different cultures come together. Dr. Herschler
loves fusion food and music and stated that he is "happy every time
he goes someplace he hasn't been before." He chose to teach at
Oglethorpe for the small school student/teacher relationships, but
also because the Atlanta location provides a "big, diverse city to
explore"... and Atlanta's sizeable Asian population is certainly a plus.

Dr. Kendra A. King Pontics

Dr. Kendra A. King is relatively new to the Oglethoipe University
community. She aiTived here in 2003 after teaching for several years at
the University of Georgia. She received her B.A. from Colby College
and her Ph.D. in American Politics from Ohio State University. Her
specialty interest in politics is in the field of African-American Politics.
Aside from her expertise in the field of politics. Dr. King is also quite
adept in the fields of cooking and writing poetry. In addition to all these
activities, she even finds time to pursue her interest in playwriting!

Dr. Joseph M. Knippenberg Pontics

Dr. Joe Knippenberg's passions might be talking and teaching politics,
but his interests are hardly limited to the ivory towers of Oglethorpe. He
tries to keep two books open at a time beyond school reading and
has a soft spot for what he's dubbed the "academic novel." In addition
to teaching a class of savage fourth, fifth, and sixth graders at his church
eveiy Wednesday night. Dr. Knippenberg has been a contributing
member of the blogosphere for around two years. And at home?
Among other things, he is a self-proclaimed rabid swim team dad.

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Dr. Nicholas B. Maher History

Originally from Boston, Dr. Nicholas Maher spent a few of his youthful
years in Denmark, where he also plans on spending his sabbatical.
Previous to teaching at Oglethorpe, he had never lived in the South.
He found the students engagement in the class quite impressive and
the Core, he felt, really sei-ved as a glue for learning, allowing him
to make references to books he is confident everyone has read. Dr.
Maher really has quite the adventure on the weekends during which he
windsurfs, repairs old cars and motorcycles, and enjoys woodworking!

Dr. Alexander M. Martin History

Dr. Alexander Martin still remembers when Dr. Joe Knippenberg
took him around Oglethorpe for the first time. "He greeted every
person we passed by name, and I thought, 'This has got to be a
setup,'" Dr. Martin said. He said that this intimacy of Oglethoipe
is something that he has liked since he came to Oglethorpe in
1993. Dr. Martin also enjoys continuing in his research and has
published two books and various articles. Outside of life as a
professor, he has become a hobby gardener, enjoys being with
his wife and two kids, and still travels to Germany and Russia.

Dr. John D. Orme Politics

Dr. John Orme is just the kind of professor the Oglethorpe community
is proud to have - a professor who really wants to communicate
effectively to the students. He said that when he teaches the Human
Nature Core course, he continues to think about how he is teaching; he
is concerned that it actually connects with the students. "Human Nature
is the course I wish I could've taken as an undergrad," he said. When
not teaching the Core or classes on history, politics, or war. Dr. Orme
enjoys being active in playing baseball or basketball, reading fiction and
participating in book clubs, and playing piano and composing music.

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Dr. Bradford W. Smith History

Dr. Bradford Smith did not realize for the first few years of college that
he would end up studying history. "I kept finding I was taking history
courses on the side and found that I really enjoyed them and did well
in them," he said. Finally, he declared his major his senior year. His
study of history has allowed him to focus on a broad range of topics.
At Oglethorpe, Dr. Smith helped to develop the current Core program
and is vei"y proud of it. "There's nothing else like it in the country,"
he said. When not teaching history and Core classes. Dr. Smith
enjoys being with his wife and three sons and going to football games.

Dr. Keith H. Aufderheide chemistry

After attending the Culver Military Academy near Chicago, Dr. Keith
Aufderheide attended Wilmington College. He earned his Ph.D. at
Miami University and had a choice to make: a school in Niagara, N.Y.,
or Oglethorpe in Atlanta . . . the weather alone was reason enough to
bring him here. "While others may find Dr. A. intimidating, I really
think he's pretty funny," said student Monjuri Aimee. In his spare
time. Dr. Aufderheide plays the piano and he enjoys woodworking.
In fact, he has been making furniture for approximately 1 5 years now.

Dr. Brool<:e Bourdelat-Parl^s Biology

An Oglethorpe undergraduate of 1995, Dr. Bourdelat-Parks is nowl
one of our professors in the science department. After completing
her graduate studies at Georgia Tech and a few years of lab work.
a teaching position opened up here. She jumped at the opportunity
because she knew she wanted to teach at an institution like this anc
spread a different form of teaching. She really loves the core, bui
is aware of the fact that this wasn't the case until she was gone
Bourdelat-Parks does not currently teach core, but given the time
she would like to learn more about the Human Nature course

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Dr. Charles L. Baube Biology

Ever since he was a child watching "Wild Kingdom" and catching
bugs and snakes. Dr. Charles Baube has loved science. "I always
knew [my career] had to revolve around biology - I know: nerd,"
he said. In graduate school, he discovered a love for teaching and
decided to focus on it as a career. Outside of class. Dr. Baube enjoys
making models of airplanes, trains, and cars and bicycling. His
wife and two young sons manage to keep him busy and, judging
by the pictures proudly displayed on his website, very proud.

Dr. John A. Cramer Physics

Dr. John Cramer of the Oglethorpe Physic department came from
up north Rhode Island to be exact. Moving to Texas for college,
he eventually came to Atlanta about 25 years ago for a teaching
position at Oglethorpe. When Dr. Cramer amved, it was mostly
up to him to rebuild the introductory lab from the ground up.
When he's not busy teaching or preparing to do so. Dr. Cramer
works on his shell collection, enjoys hunting and fishing, and on
occasion you can even catch him singing at Boar's Head! And
few would know that he in Who's Who in Science and Theology!

Dr. Roarke E. Donnelly Biology

Dr. Roarke Donnelly has been an assistant professor of biology at
Oglethorpe since 2003. He received his undergraduate degree at
Lawrence University and his Masters from Utah State University.
He received his Ph.D. in ecosystem science and conservation from
the University of Washington in 2003. "I am primarily interested in
identifying ways that private landowners, public land managers, urban
planners, and policy makers can conserve or restore biodiversity in
urbanizing landscapes," he said. He also said that his research provides
students with exciting ways to be actively involved in research, too.

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Dr. Michael K. Rulison Physics

Dr. Michael Rulison has been interested in science since an early
age. "As a kid I was always taking apart and rebuilding radios,
blowing stuff up, plugging things into the wall sockets," he said.
"So, I wanted to know how the world works." He became hooked on
teaching during graduate school and, after his experiences in large
state institutions, was attracted to Oglethorpe by "the opportunity
to work closely with bright, motivated students." He fulfills this
desire both in class, and through such organizations as the Society
of Physics Students and the College Republicans. An avid amateur
astronomer, he also enjoys backpacking and other outdoor activities.

Dr. Daniel L. Schadler Bioiogj

Dr. Schadler has been a plant aficionado much of his life. In 1 967, he was
the National Winner of the Horticulture Project. In Kentucky, he was
recognized as the Outstanding 4-H Club Boy for the Louisville Courier-
Journal newspaper. He graduated summa cum laude from Thomas
More College in 1970 with a double major in biology and chemistry.
His first job after graduating from college was as a research associate
at the University of Wisconsin. He created several different techniques
that are still in use there today. In 1975, he left U of W and interviewed
at Oglethorpe on August 12. He began teaching a month later!

Dr. Monte W. Wolf chemistry

While one of Dr. Wolf's main academic concerns is the motion
of matter, motion equally occupies him outside the classroom; he
has not only completed fourteen marathons, but he runs around
thirty-five miles a week. The distance from Oglethorpe to Lenox
and back, a mere six miles, constitutes an invigorating jog for Dr.
Wolf! For a man constantly on the move, you'd think Georgia's heat
and humidity might be too much for him, but Dr. Wolf describes
Atlanta as Goldilocks's city of choice, considering his other long-
term residences in southern California and northern Minnesota.

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Dr. John S. Carton Psychology

^hile Dr. John Carton was on sabbatical this year, he managed to stay
Dusy. Being a father of two young children, he said, took up most of his
ime, and he spent the rest working at his private practice, swimming,
A'atching television and movies, and (to the delight of several students)
inally reading the Harry Potter series. Dr. Carton plans to return to
Dglethorpe for the 2006-2007 school year, where he enjoys being a part
jf the psychology department. "Nothing brings me more satisfaction
han observing students setting goals and reaching them," he said.

Dr. Amanda G. Gewin Psychology

Professor Amanda Gewin enjoys teaching students who care about the
subject, and she has found in her first year in the Oglethorpe psychology
department students who care. She loves the appeal her subject has
for its students and especially enjoys watching her students having
"aha!" moments, making connections, and learning about themselves.
Outside of class, Gewin enjoys running and has recently discovered
an enjoyment of scrap-booking. Since she was a double major in
English and psychology, she is also an avid reader, and her favorite
authors include Virginia Wolf, John Irving, and Jeanette Winterson.
Professor Gewin lives with her husband and two very spoiled dogs.

Dr. Elizabeth C. Johnson Education and Psychology

Dr. Elizabeth C. Johnson arrived at Oglethorpe in 2000 and took
the position of Associate Professor of Psychology. She received her
B.A. in Behavioral Biology from John Hopkins University and then
went on to pursue her Ph.D., which she received at the University
af Georgia. Her office is probably one of the most distinctive in
Hearst since she has a large stuffed rat hanging on the door. That
would be Sniffy the Rat. Anyone who has taken one of her psych
;:lasses will certainly learn about him. And if anyone is ever in
the mood for a game of Ultimate Frisbee, she's your woman!

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Dr. Caroline R. NoyeS Education and Psychology

As child, Caroline Noyes used to read through her mother's old
psychology textbooks in her spare time. In her reading she discovered a
love of the subject, particularly abnormal psych, which has stayed with
her to this day. In her own words, "I was a geek." She went on to graduate
from a selective liberal arts college like Oglethorpe, and it was her fond
memories of this "intimate" educational setting that brought her to OU.
These memories, in concert with her field of study, have made her very
devoted to establishing rapport with her students. "When students feel
that they know you, it provides a sense of safety in which to take risks."

Dr. Brad L. Stone socioiogj

Though he was bom in Salt Lake City, Dr. Stone never stayed in one place
for any extended period of time, living anywhere from San Francisco
to New York with many stops in between. His ambition brought him
to Brigham Young University for his undergraduate studies. Dr. Stone
had the opportunity to serve as a visiting professor at a few universities.
And it was his time at another university that really allowed him to
compare Oglethorpe students. What he realized is that Oglethorpe
sophomores are often as knowledgeable as seniors elsewhere!

Dr. Alan N. Woolfolk sociology

Dr. Alan Woolfolk is perhaps best known as the director of the Core!
program, a post he was offered in part because of his interdisciplinary
interests. Central among these interests is an abiding love of
film. He recognizes the influence certain movies have had on his;
life, and uses this as a way of connecting with his students. "li
view the teaching of film as a way of expanding their cultural!
literacy in a direction they already know and understand." Away
from Oglethorpe he helps tend his wife's "menagerie," which
ranges from fish to a show horse. Maurice (their bearded collie)
has even been known to hang out in his office during exam weeks.

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Mr. Christian Y. Benton Accounting

It took Professor Christian Benton two tries to make Oglethorpe
his home. The Division V accounting professor and new ODK
advisor first served as a facuUy member from 1988-1989 while his
wife earned her second Master's degree at Emory. He then returned
in 1999 to replace his predecessor, Keith Baker. Few realize that
this Nascar, Cubs and Steelers fan once considered a career in the
military, but the quality of Oglethorpe students most influenced
his decision to return. "I've taught at a lot of other schools," he
said, "And I think Oglethorpe has some of the finest students."

Dr. Cassandra C. Copeland Economics

She is one professor who is in demand -Dr. Cassandra Copeland,
the Associate Professor of Economics. She has been teaching at
Oglethorpe since 2000, and she believes that "the students here
are exceptional." Dr. Copeland originally wanted to be a marine
biologist, but the demand for that type of career was not high;
so she found her way to another love - teaching. Outside of her
teaching role. Dr. Copeland is a part-time consultant for the Southern
Company, and she loves to travel around the world, play tennis,
attend music festivals, and hang out with her friends. And she says
that she loves college football. "I'm from Florida; it's in my blood."

Dr. Lynn M. Guhde Business Administration

Dr. Lynn Gudhe is the Associate Professor of Business Administration.
During her spare time, she enjoys traveling, boating, hiking, and
reading. She decided to teach at Oglethorpe after she taught for years at
larger schools. "I wanted to try a smaller, liberal arts college," she said.
Dr. Gudhe likes a liberal arts education because it gives students the
opportunity "to study beyond their major and explore disciplines and
topics they might otherwise have missed." While some people have
typical pets like cats or dogs or even lizards. Dr. Gudhe's owns a horse.

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Dr. Bruce W. Hetherington Economics

Dr. Bruce Hetherington started out in college as an accounting major,
but said that since he was "anal-expulsive rather than anal-retentive"
he switched to economics his junior year. He knew within two weeks i
of coming to college that he never wanted to leave and still loves
the atmosphere of the university, affectionately referring to college
students as "nineteen and stupid." Outside of class Dr. Hetherington
is a self-proclaimed history buff and prefers the term "Civil War
living historian" to "Civil War re-enactor." He is the father of two
grown sons and twin three-year old girls, and said that he goes home
to his second job every day helping with his wife's catering business.

Dr. Peter J. Kower Economics

"1 play a little basketball in a 40+ league that is, years not inches of
vertical jump ~ and tiy to read a few books besides The Little Engine
That Coiildy So said the hilarious Dr. Peter J. Kower, an assistant
professor of Economics who joined Oglethorpe in 2002. He has two
dogs: Charlie (who uses a heart to dot the i in her name). Pepper, and a
cat named Izzy. Dr. Kower decided to teach at Oglethorpe because he
wanted to be at a liberal arts school that focused on teaching and learning
- and, he added, "I thought the academic buildings looked very cool."

Dr. William F. Straley Business Administration '

When Professor Wilt Straley arrived at Oglethorpe in 1990, he brought
along experience from banking and five degrees from Georgia State
and Auburn University. "Since I've been here, I have rather fallen in
love with the place," he says. He enjoys interacting one-on-one with
students and says that Oglethorpe students have a great advantage
because of the Core curriculum. This man of adventure pilots planes,
scuba dives, snow skis, and travels to places like Europe and Antarctica.

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Dr. J. Dean Tucker Econmics and Business

Dr. Dean Tucker is no stranger to "the Social Order" at Oglethorpe, hi
fact, he's taken almost every Core class. His love of teaching comes in
part from this desire to stay academically challenged, but even more
from his students. "Interaction with students keeps you young," he
said; and Dr. Tucker, who has been involved in Playmakers and has
had magic as a hobby since junior high, is certainly young at heart. In
addition to these hobbies. Dr. Tucker enjoys cooking, collecting
coins, stamps, and baseball cards, and is an avid Cubs fan. He is
an advisor to APO and OCF, and a member of Alpha Psi Omega.

Dr. James M. Turner Accounting

Dr. James Turner says he is a "bona-fide Georgia peach." He
entered the world at Crawford Long Hospital, graduated from UGA,
and worked sixteen years as a CPA in Atlanta. When he decided
to pursue a Ph.D., he went to Georgia State. When he became a
professor, he preferred a teaching school to a research school, and
Oglethorpe proved a perfect match. True to his roots. Dr. Turner
is a die hard NASCAR fan, and a devoted follower of the #24 of
Jeff Gordon. When not listening to the combined horsepower of 43
stock cars, he enjoys a variety of music, especially rock and roll.

Dr. J. Lynn Gieger Education

A native southerner. Dr. Lynn Gieger was raised and educated in
Jackson, Mississippi. Following graduate school at Duke University,
she taught high school in Delaware at the school where Dead Poet s
Society was filmed. After earning her Ph.D. at the University of
Georgia, she pursued a career at a "small liberal arts college with
access to a big city." She fit right in here at Oglethorpe. Over the
past three years. Dr. Gieger had not yet had the opportunity to
teach in the Core, but this past spring, she had her first shot at it. In
her spare time, she serves as a judge in official beer competitions.

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Dr. Beth Roberts Education

Dr. Beth Roberts - the Vera A. Milner Professor of Education, Division
Chair of Education, and the Director of Teacher Education - spends
most of her free time reading -"everything from poetry and fiction
to instruction manuals, if that's all that I can find!" she said. Before
working at Oglethorpe University, she was an elementary teacher right
out of college and then decided to go to graduate school to become a
professor once her own children entered school. She chose to come to
Oglethorpe because she saw the opportunity to develop the teaching
program. "My own philosophy about what teachers need to know
and be able to do matches nicely with the university's mission."

Ms. Ginger Williams Education and Field Experiences

Ginger Williams earned her undergraduate degree at Georgia Southern
in elementary education and her Master's in early childhood at Mercer
University. In 1 996, she opted for a career change after having taught
young children for twenty years. "There were times during my teaching
career when I became very frustrated and wondered if [teaching] was
the right career path for me," she says. But she has enjoyed her time
at Oglethorpe. "[The Core] helps students see conventions across
the disciplines. ..We produce well-rounded individuals." She still
finds time for her hobbies: walking, hiking, reading, and traveling.
Lately, she has frequented state parks in Georgia, but her most
memorable trips have been to Paris, England, Scotland, and Alaska,

Dr. William L. Brightman English

Dr. William L. Brightman is well known around Oglethoipe University.
After working as a ski instructor to pay for his undergraduate studies, he
graduated with a B.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
He began working at Oglethorpe in 1975 as a Professor of English. In
his spare time, he enjoys gardening and reading and, at least once a
year, he takes a trip to Europe. He is most famous around Oglethorpe
for often probing his students with the question, "Why?" Don't expect
to make a comment in his class without hearing this at least once!

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Dr. Robert B. Hornback English

iaving just spent a spring and summer as a fellow researching,
lis he put it, "lost comic traditions. . ..that turn out to be not so lost
jifter all" at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Dr. Hornback returned
Oglethorpe to teach Narratives of the Self, Ancient Literature,
Shakespeare, and Medieval and Renaissance Literature over the
course of this school year. When asked how he felt the Core affected
pglethorpe students, he replied in the good-natured and affectionate
one so typical of him: "Our Core can sometimes be a bit like
;wimming or piano: their parents told them that they would thank
hem someday. . .and their parents were right."

Dr. Rebecca C. Hyman English

Like many professors at Oglethorpe, Dr. Hyman came here because
she loves to teach. And like many Oglethorpe students, she exudes an
active curiosity. For example, Atlanta attracted her in part because she
had never been before. Beyond scholarship, she has a deep personal
interest in human rights: on any given evening you might find her
hanging out with activist groups, participating in church basement
meetings, or busily writing political tracts at east Atlanta coffee shops
in many ways embodying an Oglethorpe ideal of practicing theory.
Nevertheless, as much time as she devotes to others, she still manages
to find time for herself, whether by gardening or playing with her cats.

Dr. Jeanne H. McCarthy English

Two years after earning her Ph.D. in English from the University
of Austin, Professor Jeanne McCarthy found herself drawn to
Oglethorpe. Quite a bit of Professor McCarthy's time outside of
Oglethorpe is consumed with writing and researching her field.
Renaissance drama. Although she enjoys the travel that her research
requires (i.e. the British Library in London), Professor McCarthy
somehow finds time to tend her garden and paint. Her life is clearly
just as hectic now as it was when she attended boarding schools in
Bahrain and Rome and was a member of her college's sailing team.

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Dr. Linda J. Taylor English

Dr. Douglas McFarland English

Here are your three hints: he teaches Greek, he comes from the
west coast, and he's the "cat with a BARK!" Who's that professor?
Introducing ... Dr. McFarland, whose presence Oglethorpe has
been blessed with for the past thirteen years. Originally drawn to
music in the sixties, the popular music of the day did not interest
McFarland, which in turn led him toward classical music. He took
up playing the classical guitar, which he spent five years performing
at the San Francisco Conservatory. And did anyone know we had a
male sorority advisor? Yep, Sigma Sigma Sigma has Dr. McFarland!

At one time. Professor Linda Taylor seriously considered becoming a
social worker. However, by 1975, after she had earned her Ph.D. in
literature from Brown University in Rhode Island, Professor Taylor
knew that Oglethorpe University was the place for her. Most of her
time outside of the school is spent with her 17 year-old foster daughter
or gardening and writing poetiy and prose. At Oglethorpe, she most
enjoys challenging her Nairative of the Self students to include narration
about themselves in the literature that they explore during class.

Dr. Victoria L. Weiss English

Dr. Victoria Weiss has dabbled in a bit of everything at Oglethorpej
"I've had the chance to do everything I ever wanted to do here," sht
said. And the list is extensive - from director of the theater progran
when she first came to serving as the interim provost and also doinj
fundraising. Currently, she is part time faculty and finished in 200(
her second year of teaching after a hiatus from the teaching part o
Oglethorpe. She also runs the Office of Student Success and ha
facilitated the weekly Student Coffee Hour. While life at Oglethorp'
takes a lot of her devotion. Dr. Weiss enjoys singing at her church and als<
believes that giving back to others through volunteering is important

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Dr. Mario A. Chandler Spanish

"I've always thought in the back of my mind that I wanted to write,"
Dr. Mario Chandler readily answered when asked about himself being
a Spanish professor. "But I never pursued that seriously." After earning
a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, Dr. Chandler settled down to
teach at Oglethorpe. But whenever school is not in session, Dr. Chandler
is finding someplace international to visit. However, students can rest
assured that he will return. "This group is a very strong, very intelligent
and prepared group of students," he said. "I'm very happy with that."

Dr. Jay LutZ French

A man of many languages. Dr. Jay Lutz's hands are constantly in
flight. A sentence from him seems incomplete without some sort of
gesticulation, whether he is speaking in French, Swedish, or English.
This year, he is continuing the tradition of Swedish language courses
offered at night which are open to the wider Atlanta community. In
fact, these non-credit courses represent the continuation of his personal
interest in Sweden since high school. But Dr. Lutz's interests are not
restricted to the study of language. He also teaches "Great French
Actresses and their Film Roles," which is being taught for the first time
as a regular course rather than a special topic, due to its popularity.

Dr. Viviana P. Plotnik Spanish

"My true passion is European cinema," said Dr. Viviana Plotnik. Clearly,
this Associate Professor of Spanish does not confine her interests to
teaching Spanish courses at Oglethorpe. Dr. Plotnik enjoys painting in
her spare time and says that her "favorite thing in the world is to travel
to other countries." Dr. Plotnik always envisioned herself being in an
academic setting, and she loved coming to Oglethorpe. "There was
no Spanish program in 1 994 so it was exciting to have the opportunity
to build a minor first and then a major from scratch," she said.

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Dr. Robert Steen Japanese

Dr. Robert Steen, the Associate Professor of Japanese, began
teaching here at Oglethorpe University in 1995. Before he became
a part of the university's faculty, he worked in publishing over
in Japan before he went to graduate school. "I went to a small
liberal arts school myself, and I wanted to stay in that tradition,"
he said in explaining his decision to teach here. "And Oglethorpe
seemed to be a good fit." In his spare time, he enjoys taking care
of his two cats, playing chess, and working on his 1986 Honda.

Dr. Robert A. Blumenthal Mathematics

Name that Oglethorpe Professor of Mathematics for sixteen years. You
know, the pianist? Dr. Robert Blumenthal was born, raised, and educated
in the north where he attended the University of Rochester. What
brought him so far down here? He was originally caught by the sense
of focus that Oglethorpe had on its undergraduate students, something
impossible to find at a larger university. "As lifelong learners,"
Dr. Blumenthal said "the students most likely will not recognize
the value of the Core cun'iculum until later in life." Nonetheless,
Dr. Blumenthal said that the Core is "integral to the mission of
the school and embodies to perfections the liberal arts education."

Dr. Ronald L Carlisle computer science

Dr. Ron Carlisle clearly works with both sides of the brain. "1 think I
initially became interested in mathematics because it is such a nice neat
and tight structure, in which assumptions are spelled out in detail, and
then results are derived logically from those assumptions," he said. But
he also enjoys playing the recorder, the viola de gamba, performing with
the Oglethorpe Singers, and reading, particularly books on Japanese
history and culture and Zen Buddhism. In the past. Dr. Carlisle has served
as Faculty Secretary of ODK and Faculty Advisor of Phi Eta Sigma.

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Dr. John C. NardO Mathematics

Since his arrival at Oglethorpe, Dr. John Nardo has been very
involved on campus and in the community. He was one of the
faculty members who lobbied for domestic partner benefits, and he
helped to start the Safe Zone project. He is also the faculty sponsor
for Alpha Chi and Alpha Phi Omega, a supporter of OUTlet, and
organizer of the Lynwood Park tutoring project. "It's very important
to give back to the community," he said. In his spare time, this self-
proclaimed "bibliomaniac" loves reading books, especially mysteries,
thrillers, and Hany Potter. Dr. Nardo lives in Atlanta with his
domestic partner Robert and "spoiled rotten" Maltese Miss Peepers.

Dr. Philip D. Tiu Mathematics

Dr. Philip Tiu is well known for his energy and devotion to mathematics,
and it should be no suiprise to learn that this attitude stems from a place
deeper than a number and variable coated blackboard. In his own words,
"Mathematics, at its heart, is a pursuit of both truth and beauty. For
me, that is motivation enough." He credits puzzles given to him by his
father for this discoveiy, and in his spare time he still enjoys puzzles,
as well as crosswords, reading and serving as advisor to Phi Eta Sigma.

Part-time and Adjunct Faculty

!Ms. Jane Davis - French
iMr. David Dempsey - Communication
iDr. Lionel Gall - French
1 Ms. Julia Hanrahan - Business
Ms. Veronica Holmes - Core
Dr. Carole Katz - Sociology
Mr. Michael Krom - Core
Mr. James McClung - Core
Mr. Daniel Marshall - English
Dr. Tracy L. Mitzner - Psychology
Ms. Dawn Owens - Education
Mr. David Patterson - Communication

Ms. Deborah Payne - Mathematics

Ms. Sigrira Perret-Gentil - Art

Ms. Martina Pfeiler - German

Dr. James Rissler - Core

Dr. Jon M. Saulson - Education

Dr. Susan Scally - Education

Dr. Jane West Sinner - Education

Mrs. Margaret Smith - Core

Dr. Kristy Sorenson - Psychology

Dr. Michael Strizhevsky - Mathematics

Dr. Allison Wolf - Mathematics

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Kocur

Oglethorpe's Fulbright Scholar in Residence

Dr. Miroslaw Kocur spoke in
between bites, his unruly hair
flying as he gestured energetically
with his hands. " [A performance]
is a meeting between spectator
and artist. ...and then it disappears.
It's difficult to say if youVe
ever accomplished anything
in the theatre," he said before
enthusiastically spooning another
mouthful of food into his mouth.

That is the way that Dr. Kocur
approaches everything: with
enthusiasm - especially when it
comes to his love for the theatre.

Dr. Kocur, Oglethorpe University's
present Fulbright Scholar in
Residence, has devoted his life
both to his wife Dagmara and
to bringing ancient Greek and
Roman drama to life.

Dr. Kocur 's connection with the
theater has given him a chance to
experiment with various types of
arts. He has taken his turn at both
writing and directing. From 1987
until 1990 he served as the director
of the Second Studio of Wroclaw,
the former site of the Polish
Laboratory Theater. Since then.
Dr. Kocur has
been reinforcing
his reputation as
.^ an international
force.

He has exercised
his directing

talents in many
countries. He is
known world-

wide for transforming pla;
into something new by addir
his own twist to the translatio
Critics have praised his avar
garde reconstruction of tradition
Greek and Roman pla)

Dr. Kocur, affectionately calli
Mirek by friends, has also receiv*
recognition for the books he h
written. Since the 1980's Dr. Koc
has been focusing his writing <
the historical and cultural aspec
of the theatre. For example, 1
book, entitled Ancient Gre
Theatre, received the 2001 B(
Academic Book Award from t
Polish Ministry of Education a
is the standard text used in Poli
institutions of higher leamu

Dr. Kocur was bom in Wrock
Poland. He fondly recalls his ye:i
as the only child of Jan and Ar?
Kocur. They were not rich, Koii
said, but he always had everythi
that he needed. "He was spoile'
said Dagmara Koiu
and they both bis'
into infectious laughr

Dr. Kocur compalc
the cultural divers^)
of Wroclaw to Jii
Francisco, "Everyboc^i
from somewhere." t
Kocur described it a 2
city of "twenty-four hii

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5tic activity." It was in Wroclaw,
artistic mecca of southern
ind, that Kocur made what he
s his "accidental choice" to
Dme involved in the theatre.

Kocur earned his M.F.A. in the
lartment of Play Directing at the
atre Academy of Krakow, and
le there in 1 986, Kocur served as
inslator of ancient Greek texts.
Kocur also originally served
i civil engineer, but he soon
overed that the theater would
lis "only channel to freedom."
rything else was subject to
riction by the government.

ing a time when martial law
still being strictly enforced
'oland. Dr. Kocur and his wife
le the pivotal decision to visit
United States for a year. They
e as the first non- Americans to
:hosen to receive the "Artists
Residence in Communities"
It from the California Arts
ncil. It was also then that
' met Oglethorpe University's
I Dr. Deborah Merola.

vas many years before they

again. Dr. Kocur spent the

"s in between mastering his

directing teclmiques. He worked
extensively with his teachers and
mentors, Jerzy Grotowski and
Tadeusz Kantor. He also earned
his Ph.D. in Philology in 1999
from the University of Wroclaw.

Dr. Merola, in her new tenure as
Director of the Theatre Department
at Oglethorpe, noticed little
change in Dr. Kocur when they
did finally reunite. "I could little
believe that he was not still the
enfant terrible of Polish theatre.
And indeed, Kocur remains a
force of nature: as youthful,
revolutionary, funny, and brilliant
as ever (and his hair as curly),"
she said. With Provost Christopher
Ames, she worked to have Dr.
Kocur instated as Oglethorpe's
Fulbright Scholar in Residence.

Dr. Kocur spent the fall semester
at Oglethoipe. Kocur had his

hand in several productions,
including his own original voodoo
tribal staging of Aristophanes'
Women at the Thesmophoria.
Oglethorpe was honored to host
such a distinguished director.

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Admissions

Oglethorpe's Admissions office is headed up by David Rhode:
Throughout the year David and his staff work to bring high quaUty studeni
on to the Oglethopre campus; encouraging college-seeking high schoc
seniors to sign on the dotted line and take advantage of what OU has to offe

Alumni

The Alumni office is a forgotten office to many current Oglethorpe students.
Little do these students know that their relationship with this office becomes
much more intimate upon graduation. Not only does the OU Alumni office
maintain strong relationships with the alumni, they are also very involved
in supporting several campus organizations, such as the Yamacraw.

Registrar

Located on the Lower Level of Lupton Hall, the Registrar is a famil'r
office to the students and faculty of Oglethorpe. The Registrar is t;
place where grades are processed, transcripts are printed, and classs
are scheduled. Although some students have a love hate relatic-
ship with the Registrar, all realize what an important office they a;.

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Bookstore

\h, the bookstore! Open during the Fall and Spring semesters in the
)asement of Hearst, the OU bookstore provides students, faculty, and
itaff with all required texts, "just for fun" books, as well as general
supplies and sundry items needed by students, such as those ever-
so-fashionable Oglethorpe track pants and sweat shirts, binders,
lotebooks, bumper stickers, mugs, vanity plates, and so much more.
\dding to the plethora of shopping options are the goodnatured
)ersonalities of the bookstore staff and students who spend their time
loing inventory and generally making the bookstore a fun place to be.

Financial Aid

Located in the lower level of Lupton, the Financial Aid office
coordinates the approval and packaging of all student financial
assistance. Oglethorpe scholarships and grants as well as state and
federal programs are monitored. The office is also responsible for Work
Study assignments, other loan processes, and collection and certification
of eligibilty. Interested students must know, this office holds the key
to how much "extra fun" you will be able to afford each semester.

Business Office

Dpen every day, the Business office is an office feared by some
ind loved by others. Fear, rooted in unpaid bills and love,
"ooted in paychecks, reimbursement checks, checks of all shapes
md sizes. A word to the wise, never forget to pay your bill.

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Library

Student Affairs

The collection of books, periodicals, microforms, audiovisual materi-
als, and computer databases in the Philip Weltner Library is enougli
to keep any moderately interested student busy for hours. Special
collections, including archival materials of Oglethorpe University, are
available for the students, faculty, and staff to enjoy. Also the famous
24-hour room is available for all "night owls" and all crammers

Located in the Emerson Student Center, the Student Affairs office
is the information center for all students, both residents and com-
muters. The center houses the offices of the Dean of Students,
the Director of Residence Life, the Greek Life Coordinator, the
Student Activities Coordinator, the Director of Campus Safety,
the Health Center, Career Services, and the Counseling Center.
All of these services are vital to the OU student population,
providing infomiation, care, and entertainment. Without this
office Oglethorpe's students would surely be much less satisfied.

Bon Apetit

Bon Apetit is a relatively new phenomenon of OU. Hired bi
Dean Tim Doyle, Bon Apetit has proved themselves well in th
last two and a half years. Although it seems to be impossible t!
satisfy all of the students at once, the variety of food provide
combined with the friendly staff and colorful additions to th
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IT Services

IT Services; no one but the people who work in the office really
understand how the OU network and computers systems operate.
Without this office OU students would likely still be handwrit-
ing papers and utilizing the United States Postal Service for their
long distance communications. However frustrated students, fac-
ulty, and staff get with their own personal computers, it cannot be
denied that everyone owes a lot to these dedicated computer geeks.

Maintenance, Housel^eeping and Grounds

The Physical Plant is located in the low building across the park-
ing lot from Greek Row. Resident students are all familiar with the
task of requesting maintenance for their room, and are even more
familiar with the cheerful response e-mails for OU's own Renae
Glass who works under Jim Ledbetter, the head of maintenance.
While Jim manages his maintenance crews, Manny Bonilla, and
Sharon Roth handle the housekeeping and grounds, respectively. All
these people and departments deserve a giant round of applause.

Campus Safety

The Campus Safety department which operates around the clock is
located in the Welcome Center at the entrance to the campus. The
Director of Campus Safety, Russ Drew, has an office in the Emerson
Student Center. Campus Safety personnel are responsible for patrolling
the campus, locking or unlocking buildings, summoning help for the
pohce or fire departments, assisting in medical emergencies or call-
ing for aid, enforcing parking regualtions, and reporting all security
occurrences on campus and providing campus infonnations. Most of
these things are accomplished quite, the only thing that many students
will argee is not successfully enforced is the rather unpopular stop
sign at the side gate. Most students have given it up as a lost cause.

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Seniors and Underclassmen

"Whac is a friend? A friend is a single soul
dwelling in two bodies. " - Aristotle

Courtney Roberts

Senior Class President, 2005-2006

Courtney Roberts, the senior
class president, was originally
from Fairhope, Alabama,
although her family now lives
in Snellville, Georgia. Her
major is communications, and
her minor is business with a
focus on marketing. Courtney
has been very involved in
Panhellenic activities. She is
a member of Chi Omega and

has served as the Panhellenic
Public Relations Director,
been on the Panhellenic
Recruitment Committee,
and acted as Chi Omega
Treasurer and Chi Omega
Secretary. She ran track
her freshman year and is a
member of the soccer team.

Jeremy Abernathy

Art History &
Japanese Studies

Honors Program, Chi Phi

Helena Adams

Communications and
Rhetoric Studies

APO C02-'04)

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Jenee Amodeo

j Communications

jistrumentalist of the Year
i3-'04, University Singers
i (President, '05-'06,
ommunications Director
'03-'05), University
Chorale

Eli Arnold

Archaeology

Amnesty International,
Outlet

David Anderson

Class of 2006

Kionne August

Psychology &
Communications

Sigma Sigma Sigma,

Psi Chi, ODK, Order of

>mega, OSA, RA, Urban

Leadership Scholarship

Recipient

Carla Banderas

Class of 2006

Miranda Atnip

English

Chi Omega, Personae

Gratae, OSA Senator ( '02-

'04), Order of Omega, '06

for OU Campaign

Jonathan Baker

Economics

Kathryn Barrett

Art History &
French

OU Playmakers

Seniors

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Michelle N. Beeken

Business Administration

Sigma Sigma Sigma,
Panhellenic Committee,
Circle K, International
Club, Economics Club

Rachel Bohan

English

Liselle Bovell

Biology

Oglethorpe Caribbean

Students Association,

Sigma Zeta Honorary

Society, International Club

Miriam Claire Brown

English

Storniy Petrel (Editor-in-
Chief), Tower (Editor),
Playmakers, ODK (Vice-
President), Sigma Tau
Delta, Phi Eta Sigma,
Blackwell Scholar,
Who's Who

Brittany Bennett

English

Outlet, ECOS, FMLA,

OU Winds, Japanese

Culture Club, Liberal Art

Symposium, Phi Eta Sign

Honor Society, Sigma Ta

Delta, Alpha Chi Honor

Society, Dean's List

Adonis Bovell j

Physics & i

Mathematics i

OSA Senator ('03-'06),
Oglethorpe Caribbean
Students Association,
Alpha Chi, Sigma Zeta,|
International Club, Sigm
Pi Sigma I

i
Robin Brooks
Class of 2006 i

Mark Burke

Class of 2006

Seniors

2005-2006

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People 39

Joshua Burr

usiness Administration

Basketball, Baseball,
tCappa Alpha, Student

Athletic Advisory
'ommittee (President),

FCA (Captain of
leadership Team), RA

harles Carmichael

Philosophy

Conor Carey

Mathematics

James Cassell

Class of 2006

Veer Chahwala

Chemistry &
Biology

Jon Carter

Politics

Track and Field (co-
captain). Stormy Petrel
(Sports and Humor Editor),
OSA Senator, OU Winds,
Rich Foundation Urban
Leadership Program

Jonathan Chadwick

Business Administration &
Economics

Andrew Clark

Class of 2006

Seniors

40 People

The Yamacraw

2005-2006

David Close

Class of 2006

Willie Cone

Class of 2006

Benjamin Corey

Biology

Outlet, River Rendezvous,
Playmakers

Jewelia Dakin

Spanish &
Communications

Mary Cogan

Biopsychology

Seniors

Matthew Corbett

English i

Stormy Petrel, Joumalis
Writing Award, APO,
Economics Club

Ariel Crooks

International Studies i
Art History

Stormy Petrel (Feature;
Editor, Hindsight Editc
Cartoon), Fencing Clu'
Phi Theta Kappa, Dear

List, Honors Program!

Outlet, Monadai Awar

Laura E. Darnel]

Biopsychology '

Sigma Sigma Sigma!

(Education Director '0

Panhellenic (VP '04~

2005-2006

The Yamacraw

People 41

anessa Dauberman

Class of 2006

Jonathan Davis

Class of 2006

Ramiro Duran

Class of 2006

Mandy Eckerl

Psychology

i Chi (co-president), OU
Bookstore

E. M. Rebecca Davis

Business Administration

Amanda DeGrave

Engineering

Outlet, Circle K

Tara Duttenhaver

Communications and
Rhetoric Studies

Kimberly Edmiston

Accounting

Sigma Sigma Sigma,

Playmakers, Alpha

Psi Omega, Oxford

Scholarship, Earl

Blackwell Scholarship,

Accounting Society

(Treasurer)

Seniors

42 People

The Yamacraw

2005-2006

Lisa Elaine Ellis

Business Administration

Circle K International,

Business Honorary

Society, OU Bookstore,

International Club, Dean's

List, Who's Who Among

American Colleges and

Universities

William Daniel Erwin

Biology

Sigma Alpha Epsilon (past
president and secretary).
Order of Omega, Soccer,

Co-Chairman '06 for

OU Campaign, Phi Delta

Epsilon

Lee Freidenstein

Claaof2006

Yasmin Epple

Class of 2006

Will Galloway

Communications

OCF, OU Bookstore

Kristy Evans

Communications

APO, University Singer

and Chorale, Sigma Sign

Sigma, Phi Theta Kapp

Dean's List, Personae

Gratae !

Jessica Fugett |

Psychology j

Susan Galvan

Class of 2006

Seniors

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People 43

iarsha'l E. Gilliam

i

j Economics &

j Business

Sigma Sigma Sigma,

Economics Club

(President)

Colin Gray

English

Jessica Griffin

Communications and
Rhetoric Studies

Sigma Sigma Sigma
resident), OU Dancers,
3K, Phi Delta Epsilon,
Upha Chi, Mary Jane
Kohler Scholarship
ipient. Honors Program

fanyAmber Hatfield

Spanish

PO, Outlet, OSA( '02-
04), Track and Field,
Wind Ensemble

Kara Glielmi

Psychology

Soccer

J. Travis Griffin

Philosophy

Chi Phi, University Singers
and Chorale

Ryan Hanlin

Biopsychology

Chi Phi, RA, chess
enthusiast

Roland Havasi

Business Administration

Soccer

Seniors

44 People

The Yamacraw

2005-2006

L^ Geoff Hetherington

History

APO, SPACE (Student

Professional Association of

Georgia Educators)

Jesse Hinson

Theatre

Dean's List ('03-^06),

Playmakers Rookie of the

Year ('02-'03), Playmakers

MVP('03-'04, '04-'05),

Georgia Shakespeare

Festival (3 seasons)

Alena Hrebickova

Politics

Phi Theta Kappa

Scholarship, "Night to

Remember" dancing

perfonnance. Dean's List,

International Grant Award

Jennifer Ann Iddings

Biology

Outlet, Phi Delta Epsilon

(Treasurer, '05-'06), OU

Ambassadors, Sigma Zeta,

Dean's List

James A. Hill

Mathematics &
Spanish

Delta Sigma Phi Fratem
(President), Alpha Chi
ODK Emerging Leade
Award

Jennifer Hofstette

Political Philosophy

APO, Outlet, Storm>
Petrel, Tower i

Deirdre Hubban

Biology

Phi Delta Epsilon, Bla;
Student Caucus, Studtl
Ambassadors, Ogletho '
Fund

Annemarie Ippoli)

Economics

i
Sigma Sigma Sigma, C^
Student Ambassadoi

Seniors

005-2006

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People 45

efanie Jo Janssen

Politics

Mandi Jones

Politics

Delegate for the
itemational Mission

Medicine, Phi Delta
3silon, Homecoming
Court ('04)

Thad Kennedy

siness Administration

Delta Sigma Phi,
Accounting Society,
lident Ambassadors,
iss Country, Track and
Field

Caroline King

Art History

APO (President)

Cliristiana Jolinson

Biology (Pre-med)

ODK (President), FR

President ('02-'03),JR

President ('04-'05),RA,

Urban Dance Steppers, OU

Cheerleaders, Phi Delta

Epsilon, Sigma Zeta, Phi

Eta Sigma

Rachel Jones

Class of 2006

Tom Kennedy

Accounting

Track and Field,
Accounting Society

Svetlana Kovalenko

Class of 2006

Seniors

46 People

The Yamacraw

2005-2006

Laura Dee Kraich

International Studies

Presidential Scholar,
Dean's List, Residence

Life, SPANK, OU

Cheerleaders ('03-'04),

OU Playmakers, Study

Abroad (The Hague

University)

Abigail Kurland

Psychology

Psi Chi, University

Singers and Chorale,

Canine Companions for

Independence Puppy

Raiser, Phi Eta Sigma

T.A. Lawrence

Class of 2006

Katie Lohmann

Biopsychology

Phi Delta Epsilon, Student

Ambassadors, Personae

Gratae

Michaela S. Kunz

Biology

International Club, Ph
Theta Kappa Scholarsh

Ashley Lakey

Class of 2006

Lauren Leonard

Business Administrati i

Kate March

Class of 2006

Seniors

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People 47

i Grace McGee

I Biospsychology

{Sigma Sigma Sigma

Kelly L Moran

Mathematics

OU Dancers, Cross
intry. Alpha Sigma Tau,
OSA Senior Senator

Mayur Nayee

Biology

P Oglethorpe Student
issociation. Phi Delta
Epsilon (President),
emational Club, Sigma
Zeta

amie Oglethorpe

Politics

irliamentarian. Prison
iscipline Committee,
eneral, Philanthropist

Bisell McWilliams III

English

Student Ambassadors ( '02-

'04, VP Publicity '03-'04),

OCF, College Republicans,

Dean's List, Alpha Chi,

Yamacraw (Photographer

'03-'04, Editor-in-Chief

'04-'06)

Jodi-Ann Moses

Accounting

International Club,

Caribbean Student

Association, Circle K,

Accounting Society

Nhan Nguyen

Class of 2006

Piercen M. Oliver

Chemistry

RA, IT Services Web

Workstudy, Sigma Zeta

Honor Society, Alpha Chi

Seniors

48 People

The Yamacraw

2005-2006

Sarah Opp

History

Sigma Sigma Sigma,

ODK, Alpha Chi, Order

of Omega (President),

Panhellenic VP, Phi Eta

Sigma, University Singers,

University Ambassadors,

JEO Scholar

Tamara Perry

Class of 2006

Rachel Parton

American Studies &
History

Dean's List, Alpha Chi
SPANK (Vice-Presiden
German Tutor

Robert Peterson

Class of 2006

Roja Pondicherry-Harish

Class of 2006

Mallory Pusch

Class of 2006

Sean C. Raleigh

Psychology

APO, Psy Chi

Ronald Remingto;

Physics & !
Mathematics

Sigma Alpha Epsilon, . (
Scholar

Seniors

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People 49

Apolline Riblier

Comunications

Eugene Rivers II

^Communications and
Rhetoric Studies

A, VP Programming
.rd, SO Class President,
\ of the Year, Student
Ambassadors, OSA
'rogramming Board,
Who's Who

Scott Royalty

Communications

ketball, FCA, volunteer
Boys and Girls Club

David Rigdon

English

Fessica Sammons

itemational Studies &
French

Jeffery Rowe

English

Chi Phi, Personae Gratae/
Student Ambassadors

Terrance Ruth

Class of 2006

Leah Sanders

English

Circle K, OU Singers,
ODK Dean's List, Yam-
craw (Copywriter, '04-'05;
Copy Editor, '05-'06),
Stormy Petrel (Bubble
Editor, '05), Phi Eta
Sigma, Core Sympoisum

Seniors

msmssm-

50 People

The Yamacraw

2005-2006

h

Mary E. Seagrave

Sociology

University Singers, APO,
Psi Chi, Dean's List

Richard Stengard

Accounting

Accounting Society
(President)

T. Michelle Stringer

Economics

OU Economics Club,

Omicron Delta Epsilon

National Economic Honors

Society

Marie Sutherland

Theatre

OU Playmakers.

"slummin' it, working for

the man, and occasionally

sleeping"

Kirbie Lee Smith

Biology

Basketball, Chi Omega
Petrel Council, FCA

Mariyandi Stracha

Accounting

Track Team, Accountin
Society, Caribbean Studs
Association

Stephanie Stroud:

Psychology

Student Ambassadors,

volunteer at Boys anc

Girls Club, student

teaching at Narrie J. Hai;

Elementary

Kyle Aaron Taylol

Art I

OCF, FCA, Track and
Field

Seniors

ll

sf

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People 51

harmaine Turner

Biology

I'ommunity Service:
labitat for Humanity,
;ast Cancer Walks, and
\merican Red Cross

arleton Walmsley

Art History

Dean's List, Student
ervisor/Manager at OU
Museum of Art

eredith Whitworth

Theatre

laymakers. Alpha Psi,
J Singers and Chorale
Manager '05), ODK,
Yamacraw (Layout
iter '04-'06), RA Staff,
ampus Service Award
'04-'05), Dean's List

Alice Veciunca

Class of 2006

manda Lee Wheat

Psychology

Chi, Alpha Chi, Phi Eta '^
ma, on and off campus
volunteering

Allen Whitehart

Class of 2006

Kelli E. Weatherall W.

History

JEO Scholar, Honors

Program, Sigma Sigma

Sigma, RA

Tiffany Williams

Biopsychology

Seniors

52 People

The Yamacraw

2005-2006

John Michael Wilson

Economics

Feed America Music

Foundation, Oglethorpe

Musical Association

Anna Wolfe

Class of 2006

Richard Wright

Class of 2006

Connie Yip

International Studies

(Asian Concentration) &

Spanish

Circle K, International

Club, Tennis Team, OSA,

Student Ambassadors,

Dean's List, University

Scholars

Brett Wise

Accounting

Arleen Wren

English

Whit Yelton

Business Administratis

I

Basketball, Kappa Alf a

(Officer), Programmi ;

Board, Economics Soc't]

Hannah York

English

Seniors

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Kyle Luedtke

Junior Class President, 2005-2006

"I wanted to become more involved
with Oglethorpe. I also knew this
would be good leadership experience.
After positive encouragement from
my friends, I knew this is something
I really wanted undertake," Kyle
Luedtke said of her decision to nm
for junior class president. Kyle is
from Savannah, Georgia, and she was
attracted to Oglethorpe for its location

in Atlanta, great scholarships,
small campus, and chance to get
to know professors. She is doing
an individually planned major in
pre-pharmacy with a concentration
in chemistry and plans to go to
pharmacy school after she graduates.
She loves the friends she had made
at Oglethorpe and has enjoyed
getting to know the professors.

Keith Griffin

Sophomore Class President, 2005-2006

"I know this might sound nerdy, but
I love politics," Keith Griffin said.
"I love taking a stance, and I love
debating - but not when it gets out of
control." Keith is majoring in politics,
and he is also minoring in history.
He would like to attend law school
after graduation from Oglethorpe
and then become an environmental
lawyer. Besides being the sophomore

class president, Keith is also a Chi
Phi brother, a member of ECOS
and the International Club, and a
CFA. Keith is from Lawrenceville,
Georgia.

Gonzalo Yahuitl

Freshman

Gonzalo Yahuitl is a freshman from
Snellville, Georgia. He looked at being
class president as a way to get to know
Oglethorpe quickly. "I wanted to get
involved in an activity where I can
serve my community - the freshman
class - and get to know everyone
in Oglethorpe. I found that student
government was the opportunity that
I was looking for." At Oglethorpe,

Class President, 2005-2006

he loves the accessibility of the
professors and the close-knit
community of students. Gonzalo
is majoring in international studies
with a minor in communications.
"I have an interest in politics, and
international studies as my major
will help me to learn more about it
and lead me in that direction that 1
am planning," he said.

Underclassmen

54 People

The Yamacraw

2005-2006

Leah Abel

Bethelhern Abera

Cynthia Aby

Elisabeth Adelson

Henna Agad

EricAgel

Susan Ahn

Monjuri Aimee

Akalework Akalework

Tanesha Alexander

Olga Alexeevets

Katherine Allen

Kelly Allen

Sara Almqvist

Felicia Alston

Joel Alzola

Fauzia Amlani

Won Ah An

Ashley Anderson

Jessica Anderson

Joseph Anderson

Richard Anderson

Jeremy Andersson

Jayme Andrews

Tiffani Andrews

Domenica Antonucci

Celine Aoyama

Kathryn Armstrong

Brett Arnold

Max Arrechea

Cheryl Atkinson

Zachary Atkinson

Aaron Avellanosa

Kathryn Bachman

Adam Bailey

Terry Bailey

Evan Baker

Leah Balch

Patricia Baldwin

Anne Baiter

Sandra Banderas

Revee Barbour

Leisa Barcroft

Catherine Barson

Newal Basha

Jacqueline Bass

Jessica Bates

Ariel Bavennan

Nana Bekoe

Cynthia Belinga

Rose-Gaelle Belinga

Travis Belton

Brittany Bennett

Maria Berg

Cierra Berry

Abigale Berwager

Underclassmen

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Bhagwati Bhakri
Mai7 Bidgood
Jessica Binkley
Marga.et Bitter
Sarah Blair
Athanesha Blake
Patricia Bolton

Jessica Bonham
Lamona Bowden
Danielle Bowles
Traci Boydston
Laura Braddick
Gillian Brady
Saye Braucht

Benedicte Brebion
Anna Breedlove
Grayson Biggs
Quichelle Brimidge
Matthew Brisendine
Kathryn Brogdon
Hannah Brooks

Anastasia Brown
Kardea Brown
Kathryn Brown
Juan Buenestado-Gallego
Heather Bui lard
Charles Burkhart
Britton Butler

David Butler
Elizabeth Byers
Deborah Byrd
Erin Byrne
Michelle Calderon
Lindsey Callaway
April Callen

Santa Claus
Laura Callendar
Jacob Camp
Megan Campbell
Taylor Cannon
Jonathan Carll
Ajnanda Carpenter

Kira-Marie Carr
Carlos Carthen
Scott Casey
Miriam Cash
Barbara Casteel
Deborah Chandler
Michelle Chaney

Stephanie Chapman
Moise Charitable
Nekisha Charles
K_asey Cheng
Brian Chimiklis
Dongjai Cho
Jiwon Choi

Underclassmen

56 People

The Yamacraw

2005-2006

Lyndsey Clark

Shaneika Clark

Catherine Clarke

Kemoy Clarke

Courtney Clayton

Kristy Clodfelter

Lakendra Coach

Megan Cobb- Young
David Cohen
Eric Cohen-Greenberg
Daniel Cohl
Jessica Cole
Franchesca Collins
Jody Collins

Whitney CoUins
MillicentCone
Taryn Cooksey
Ashley Cooper
Genna Cooper
Zoe C ooper

Brittany Corbett

Brooke Corker

Jennifer Cornelius

Lydia Cornelius

Ellen Corsello

Annie Cowan

Dela Coward

Jason Cree

Phillip Crews

Sherrie Crews

Jaclyn Crissey

Aaron Cross

John Cross

Sara Cross

Corey Crummell

Tareq Dabdoub

Stephanie Dagesse

Tiffany Dail

Austin Dalbo

Brian Dandois

Jessica Daniel

Rozaan Daniel

Stephanie Darden
Jason Darland
Kori Dan-
Richard Dasque
Andrew Davenport
Constance Davis
Mallory Davis

Mercella Davis

Varietta Davis

Elizabeth DeFreezer

Andrea Dean

Corin Deans

Jack

Emily DeiaiTne

Underclassmen

1

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Dacian Dejeu
Cheree Delaney
Genevieve Dempre
Tiffany Desrosiers
Lydia Diamantis
Danielle Diamond
Rachel Diamond

Antonetle Diao

Spade

Eric Dickinson

Jamie Dillon

David Dobbs

James Dolive

Nicole Dombrow

Chiquita Douglas

Ellic

Winston Douglas

Yvonne Dmyeh

Igor Dubovoy

Jason Duchac

Zachary Duensing

Brendan Dumont
Mario Dunkel
Carter Dunn
Stephanie Dunnigan
Anthony Dykes
Anissa Edmondson
Alexandra Edwards

Andrew Elliot
Erica Ellis
Molly Ellis
Timothy Ernst
John Esterline
Allison Evans
Dylan Evans

Jarrod Evans
Megan Fabick
Morgan Falconer
James Farrell
Brickford Faucette
Sean Femandes
Rafael Ferrele

Excel Fields

Nikita Fields

Bud

Lily Fincher

Anna Findley

Sarah Finkel

Laura Fitzgerald

Eric Fladland
Erm Flynn
Lauren Folger
Claire Fontaine
Susan Forbes
Tiffany Forbes
Endia Ford

Underclassmen

58 People

The Yamacraw

2005-2006 i

James Fowler
Sean Freeman
Dominic Fried
Ryan Fulgliam
Deborali Fulkerson
Robert Fulkerson
Morgan Fuller

Victoria Fuller

Francesca Funderburk

Sarah Fuqua

Jon Gabriel

Justin Gagne

William Galloway

Alexei Galperin

Claudia Gamez

Valjean

Rachel Gandy

Alicia Garcia

Rachell Garcia

Johannah Garon

Kimber Garrison

Julia Gates

Uncle Carl

Krystal Gayle

Frewieny Gebremeskel

Selamewet Gebremeskel

Jamine Georges

Tahnee Gerard

Stephen Gennany

David Getz

Gia Gibbs

Lauren Gibson

Asma Gilani

Jarred Giles

Strphanie Gill

Mary Claire Gillis

Carlos Gimenez

Paul Golden

Irasema Gonzalez

Bookworm

Jennifer Gordon

Lindsey Gordon

Jessica Gowan
Kristina Grace
Benjamin Grad
Tiffany Grady
Melissa Grammonl
Jessica Graner
Jhana Grant

Brittany Gray

Joesph Green

Lakrisha Greene

Nicholas Greenfield

Meghan Greer

Adam Greim

Alexis Grier

Underclassmen

J

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Morgan Griffin
Gary Grimes
V ing Guan
Fric Gulley

Tsedeniya Hailemaskei
Stephanie Hall
Carlv Hallman

Jennifyr Hammontree
Meagan Hanes
Louise Hanley
Emily Hannigan
William Hardage
April Harris
Crystal Harris

Lauren Harris
Martha Harris
Reva Harris
Christopher Harvin
Charlynn Hayes
Ned Heller
Gabriel Henderson

Shan ice Henry

Liinim Henslee

Rachel Hensler

Jennifer Hernandez

James Hess

Amber Heyman-Valchanov

Adam Higginbotham

Bertha Hill
Calen Hmrichs
Megan Hodge
Lydia Hot'stetter
Adam Holzwarth
Erik Home
William Horton

Ste\en Horzevvski
Ratana Hou
Jacob Hoyer
Shu-Yuan Hu
Stephanie Huffstutler
Nayisha Hugh
Adam Humar

Arthur Ilabayev
Saber Iqbal
Yuiko Ishida
Craig Jackson
Har\'ey Jackson
Marian James
Sadia Jannath

Akele JetTers
Candice Johnson
Jailyn Johnson
Jordan Alex Johnson
Shenae Johnson
Brandy Jones
Carmen Jones

Underclassmen

60 People

^smfmmmmm^

The Yamacraw

2005-2006

Ch'.istopher Jones

Elizabeth Jones

Rachel Jones

Shana Jones

Taymah Jones

Tiffanie Jones

Sandhya Joshi-Flesher

Kathleen Jost

Noelle Jozefowicz

Roxanna Jozefowicz

Soumya Kantamneni

Benoy Kazani

Jennifer Keck

Robert Kee

Jennifer Keller

Caitlin Kelly

Pele

Anna Kertuner

Sarah Kennedy

Bryan Kennicott

Nadine Keris

Stephanie Kemer

Magda Khoury

Charlotte Kilboum

Jessica Kilgallon

Clayton Kimbrel

Julia Kincaid

Ashley King

Joshua Kinsey

Emily Kirby

Lara Kirchner

Aleksey Kirillov

Weston Kirk

Leigh Kite

Ausrine Klicius

David Knorr

Valarie Kobrovsky

Amel Komic

Kelly Korell

Russell Kramer

Fatbardhe Krasniqi

Colin Kress

Michael Krueger

Katherine Kuhn

Katie Kulavic

Veronica Kulwicki

Melusine Labbaye

Maik Lachmann

Melinda Lahr

Amie Lane

Denise Lane

Walker Lane

Stephanie Laubscher

Amber Lawson

Audrey Lazar

Luciana Lazzarino

Underclassmen

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Underclassmen

Phu-Tho Le
Florian Le Foum
Matthew Leazer
Molly Lee
Elizabeth Lee-Hev
Marina Lenehuk
Anna Lester

Philip Levine
Ailsa Lewis
Jason Lewis
Jessica Lewis
Michael Lewter
Beth Lindahl
Anina Lindsay

Eric Link
Sherine Lobban
Kevin Logan
DeAri Loggins
John Lombardy
Rhiannon Loomis
Soubahn Louangvilay

Gloria Love
Maya Lovelace
Richard Lovett
Amy Lowe
Guillaume Lucq
Jeffrey Lura
Jane Lurie

Yway Lwin

Joseph Lyda

Sarah Lykens

Emily Macheski-Preston

Rachael Maddux

Wendy Madill

Ashley Maehr

Kenneth Magness
Kayleigh Maier
Halley Malison
Stephanie Mallen
Stephanie Malms
Michael Malone
Alfonzo Mantilla

Lydie Marc
Jonathan Marcantoni
Charles Marie
Alycia Marotto
Elliott Martin
John Martin
Kandace Martin

Pytor Ilych
Jessica Martinez
Bleshette Mason
George Matter
Curtis McLeod
Cameron McAllister
Barbara McBride

62 People

The Yamacraw

2005-2006

Kira McCabe

Jeremy McCall

Latoya McCants

Alexander McCarthy

Alan McClamand

Sarah McCollum

Jonathan McConnell

Phillip McCrary

Cathryn McCrimmon

Cameron McDougald

Robert McGee

Racquel McGhee

Michael McGowan

Craig McKee

Lynette McKinncy

Richard McWhorter

Joshua Means

Samantha Meaux

Meagan Meekin

Ember Melcher

Lakshmi Menon

Jordan Mertens
Michael Meyer
Samantha Miller
Jeffanne Millien
Lauren Milligan
Stephanie Milligan
Benjamin Fvlinor

Erica Minson
Sumbul Mirza
Tehmina Mizra
Camesha Mitchell
Traci Mitchell
Lynz Mitial
Ashley Money

Francesco Monteleone

Courtney Moor

Alana Moore

Cliff Moore

Lindsey Moore

Colin Moran

Jessie Morris

Matthew Morris

Rachel Morris

William Mosley

Rachel Moss

William Mueller

Robert Muhic

Srijita Mukherjee

Michael Muller

Harriet Muluhya

Sharese Muse

Melvin Nash

Jose Navarro

Wessen-Cemine Neguede

Brittany Nesmith

Underclassmen

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Thuy Nguyen
The Pied Piper
Kathleen Nichol
Amanda Nichols
Tyler Nichols
Casey Nicodemus
Alyssa Nielsen

Antoinette Niland
Jessica Nilson
Nancy Nix
Gwinn Nixon
Cameron Northcutt
Radia Nusrat
Max Nystrom

Ashley Obregon
James Odom
Maurice Oguejiofor
Yoko Okubo
Christina Ongor
Anne Oredeko
Jamie Osmanson

Nicolas Outrebon
Keisha Pace
Christopher Page
David Page
Suzanne Page
Daniel Pages
Travis Palladino

Eric Palmer
Christopher Pape
Cecile Parages
Hubert Pare
Jessica Parker
Joesph Parker
Kyle Parker

Marvin Parkman, Jr.
Zack Parris
Ashley Pate
Sundcep Patel
Aimec Paulk
Robert Pavelka
Kathleen Pedro

Derin Pekin
Rosa Perez
Shavonda Perryman
Joshua Phillips
Oliver Phillips
Angela Phua
Dons Phua

Maggi Pigram
Yuri Pikul
Arturs Pilkevics
Jorge Pinto
Achary Pitts
Jennifer Plant
Matthew Piatt

Underclassmen

64 People

The Yamacraw

2005-2006

M5 riam Poirier

Ricardo Pomales

Clayton Pond

Jessica Pond

Amber Ponder

Elena Ponizhaylo

Lache Pool

Kelly Poor

Caitlyn Post

Jason Potts

Kayla Pulley

Courtney Purvis

Triinu Puvi

Mark Raczynski

Megan Rader

Lauren Rafferty-Boyd

Alllison Rains

Rashonda Ravenel

Carly Reed

Sedele Reed

Robert Reitze

Rachel Renz

Brandon Rhodes

ApoUine Riblier

Brandy Rich

Donald Richard

Kathleen Richards

J. Richardson

Elizabeth Richmann
Kiera Robbins
Adam Roberts
Natina Roberts
Sunny Rodgers
Ashley Rogers
Ebony Rogers

Brent Rose

Joushua Rosendahl

David Ross

James Rowe

Chelcie Rovvell

Terrance Rubin

Anthony Rudd

Alejandra Rurz

Victoria Ruth

Anthony Sabala

Elga Sanchez

Marcus Sandelowsky

Janine Sander

Niesha Sanders

Antonio Santayana

Ashlee Sapp

Priscilla Scarpaci

Joy Schambach

Jenny Schwab

Deyorma Scott

Gregory Scott

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Lauren Scanitin
Micah Seehorn
Sharaya Seidic
Ahmad Shaedd
Trevor Sheffield
Carrie Shirah
Jeonii-Ki Shon

Shanequa Shuler
Bradford Sill
Devon Simons
Ashia Sims
Enjoli Sims-Theodore
Jamie Smelley
Ashley Smith

Michael Smith
Nuhia Smith
Robert Smith
Ryan Smith
Sinoma Smith
Jason Soby
Leticia Solana

Steven Sorci
Udara Soysa
Sarah Sparks
Paul Springman
Alix Stalnaker
Buddy
Rashida Starks

Samantha Starratt
Hillary Steele
Brandyn Steen
Darce Stelly
Maurice Stephens
Jason Stokes
Nadia Stone

John Storz
Sarah Strausser
Brooke Suddith
Matthew Suggett
Maki Sugita
Jeffrey Sullivan
Sarah Summerfield

Kimberly Summers
Mallory Summers
James Sutherland
Carolyn Sutton
Daniel Swanick
Christina Swindall
Ashley Taylor

Judith Taylor
Ali Tecmcn
Alesha Tentinger
Ryan Tesnow
Christie Thiem
Anthony Thompson
Ashley Thompson

Underclassmen

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Chiis Thompson
Jewel Thompson
N.a'herine Thompson
Lauren Thompson
Lauren Thompson
Mallory Thompson
Deneisha Thornton

Cara Tillotson

Jann Tipton

Julia Titova

Adam Tomhn

S.E. Trammell

James Travers

Emily Treuman

Sara Trohcanto

Delali Tsaku

Stevie Tucker

Andrew Tulowitzki

Irene Turner

Nicholas Turner

Mouser

Sean Tuttlc

Nathan Tyre

Jill Ulicny

Harry Underwood

Taylor Urbanski

Maziar Vafadari

Katherine Valentin

Eckhardt Van Der Lindc

Megan Van Doran

Zachary Vanhoven

Nicole Vaner

Julie Vaughan

Morgan Vawter

Maria Vazquez

Julian Vega

Andrea Vinson

Jonathan Visconti

Tamara Voxnaes

Hyde Walker

Lindsey Walker

Kasce Wall

Emory Walton

Andrea Ward

Theodore Ward

Powder Puff

Joshua Washburn

Tresa Washington

Samuel Waters

An'renae Watkins

Megan Watson

Alexander Watterson

Nicholas Watterson

Jonathan Weininger

Katherine Weisz

Roshika West

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Anna West-Hammer
Steven Whitaker
Derald While
Jaime White
Nicholas White
Ronald White
Johana Whitehill

Christopher Whitniire
Joshua Whorton
Katherine Wildenhaus
Charlie Wilder
Hannah Wiles
Kimberly Wiley
K.im Wilkerson

Justin Willard
Chad Williams
Christopher Williams
Carren Williams
Henry Williams
Kourtney Williams
Lauretta Williams

Matthew Williams
Nicole Williams
Robert Williams
Michael Willis
Erika Wilson
Jennifer Wilson
Michelle Wilson

Arion Winfield
Talia Witherspoon
Kimberly Wokoinaty
Alexander Wolff
Andrea Wood
Renee Wood
Adrienne Woodall

Mathew Woodruff
Haitao Xu
Zachary Yeager
Susan Yi
Hannah York
Patrick Young
Sonya Zafrani

Christian Zavala
Rachael Zellner
Duo Zhou
Sean Ziegler
Sara Zipperer

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'^'^ Leadership Clubs, Hurricane
Kacrina, Student Government

Cjovernment

"Man is bv nature a political animal" - Aristotle l

Hurricane Katrina

OU Extends a Helping Hand

Many Oglethoipe students
spent their Labor Day weekend not
relaxing at some lakeside barbecue
but offering their time and hands
to Angel Flight of Georgia in an
attempt to relieve the plight of
Hurricane Katrina's survivors.

^'-rraighout the year.
Angel f", :_. .. an organization
of volunteers, provides air
transportation to people for

medical treatment. In order to
meet the heightened need after
Humcane Katrina, Angel Flight
partnered with the Oglethorpe
community. President Larry Schall
and his wife Betty Londergan led
a brigade of Oglethorpe volunteers
in purchasing over $50,000 worth
of supplies, and Angel Flight
pilots then shipped these much-
needed goods to Mississippi,
Alabama, and Louisiana,
'it was an amazing
experience just being involved in

collecting and loading supplies
onto the Angel Flight planes here,
let alone being invited to actually
go on one of the flights and see
how things were on the other end.
I met people who had been pulled ;
out of their houses the night
before and arrived at the shelter
still wet from the floodwaters,"
said Oglethorpe junior Rachael
Maddux, who traveled with Dr.
Schall on one of the flights. "That
added a whole new dimension to
the experience that you just can't
get from passively watching a
tragedy unfold on television."

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Oglethorpe continued

collect donations of goods
ad money for Angel Flight to
(fstribute to Katrina survivors
lell past Labor Day weekend. The
[diversity also offered extended
['[mission deadlines and priority
;iass placement to college students
jliose education was interrupted
P the hun'icane. At least 10
;|splaced students, including
bberto Gimenez, attended or
le still attending Oglethorpe
itil their home institutions
iuld get back on their feet.

Gimenez was studying at
:[e University of New Orleans
ihen Katrina devastated his city,
fter the hurricane, Gimenez
plied and was accepted to
iglethorpe but could not find
I way to get to Atlanta until
Is. high school friend Luis
pminguez, a current Oglethorpe
ident, and Betty Londergan
und him a seat on an Angel
ight plane returning to Atlanta.

Oglethoipe's partnership

ith Angel Flight proved just

rewarding as it was needed.

any thanks to all the students,

ulty, and staff who "acted as

igels in the lives of others."

This fall many of

lethorpe's students banded

gether in aiding the victims

Hurricane Katrina. Once

they realized the extent of the
damage done, various student-
run organizations mshed to help
people who were displaced after
the natural disaster. Service
clubs and fraternities like Circle
K, the Feed America Music
Foundation (FAMF), and Chi
Omega made a conscious efforts
to raise both awareness and funds
for their individual charities.
Phu Tho Le, president of
Circle K, said, "When I just heard
what was happening with Katrina, 1
couldn't help but feel oveiAvhelmed
with grief and wanted to help
terribly. I didn't know how I could."
However, she did help. Le, Ben
Minor (President of FAMF) and
Amanda Nichols (Vice-President
of Service for APO) set up tables
outside the cafeteria to collect
donations for the American Red
Cross. About $366 dollars, mostly
in the fonn of change, was raised,
and Lowe's then agreed to double
the amount raised and contribute
it to the cause themselves.
Members of Chi Omega
raised money for the Red Cross by
holding their 5"" Annual Carnation
King Pageant. Chi Omega
president Miranda Atnip explained
their decision, "My executive

Above: AmandaNichols and Jessica Graner
(APO) with a cartload of SPAM.

Above Left: Ben Minor (FAMF) assists in
the unloading of supplies.

Far Left: Dean Dolye helps load supplies
while LaiTy Schall and wife Betty pay the
bill, and the entire party gathers for a group
picture.

board and I decided that in light of
recent events donating to the Red
Cross would be a great way for our
chapter to be involved in the Katrina
relief." At the end of the fundraiser
approximately $400 dollars was
raised for the cause. Competitors
in the pageant paid $25 dollars to
participate in evening wear, talent,
swim wear, and interview portions.
Despite all of the work that
each individual organization put
into raising funds for Hun'icane
Katrina Relief each member
gave credit to their supporters:
Oglethoipe University's students.

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Oglethorpe Student
Association

The mission of the
Oglethoipe Student
Association is to

enhance the Oglethoipe
experience by acting
as advocates for
student concerns;

advancing relationships
between students and
administrators, alumni,
and the world beyond;

and presenting quality
programming that

is both educational
and entertaining.

In addition to

representing student
concerns to the school
and helping fund clubs
and organizations

and their events on
campus, OSA uses
the Student Activity
Fee that all students
pay to put on events
of its own throughout
the year including
Homecoming,
Dead Day's Eve,
Senior Party, and

Stomp the Lawn.

Oglethorpe's Inter-
Fraternity Council,
or IFC, exists to
foster cooperation

and communication
between the social
fraternities with each
other and with the
school. In addition to
working to organize
fraternity recruitment
in the Fall and Greek

week in the Spring, IFC j
holds regular meetings j
to discuss any issues,
that are important toi
the Greek community,}
including the scheduling !
of Fraternity social i
events, maintenance of;
the Fraternity houses,}
and the relationship!
between the school and;
the Fraternities. i

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Dr. Brad Smith

As interviewed by Kelly Poor

j Entering the twilight zone

pf Hearst's third floor I was not
reallv sure where to start looking
for Dr Smith. Fortunately. I was
following Amanda Nichols who
quickly informed me to look no
further than a giant cardboard
chair taking up considerable space
outside of Dr Smith s office door
Or Smith assured me that it can
withstand body weight, but I was
J3 little waiy to test it out. Passing
'the corrugated throne, I entered the
hffice and opened my notebook...

i

Why did you choose history? Was

H always obviously perfect for

vou?

! "Yes and no." He initially

I

mtended to double major in German
hnd philosophy, but "history was the
pne disciphne that allowed me to do
iinything" in terms of literature,
philosophy, and other interests.

How did you end up at
Oglethorpe?

A friend who was hired
for a one-year position at OU
recommended Dr Smith to replace
her With the variety of academic
titles he has held, Dr Smith recalls,
"I had the pleasure of sitting and
interviewing for my job two years
in a row." He also recalls one
of his favorite early memories of
Oglethorpe, and tells of how Dr
McFarland used to play guitar in
his office. "Maybe this will shame
him into starting again."

Exactly how many languages are
you familiar with?

"First, Gennan. 1 formerly
studied Swedish, and then I also
formerly studied Old Norse. And
of course, once you can read one
of those, you can pretty much
read them all.... French, but I've
lost the speaking
really. Latin. I
did Greek at the
end of grad school.
Czech. The last
couple of years,
Fve been working
to study Hebrew."
Dr Smith also
tells me that eveiy
nu)rning he copies
a few verses out
of Genesis into
Hebrew, Latin, and
Greek.

If you could live during any time
period in any place, when and
where would you choose?

"I really like now because
I like plumbing and flush toilets.
There's a lot I like about the
eighteenth century, which I see as a
really nice combination of earthiness
and culture, very down to earth. If
there's one period in history 1 can't
stand, it's the nineteenth century.
Victorians were such snobs."

A^oit' / ask Dr Smith about his
hobbies... other than trans latijig into
three languages before breakfast.
He tells me about his three children,
ages seven, four and seven months.
When Dr Smith isn 't teaching at
Oglethorpe, he's tackling the task
of being a dad. "The middle one is
insane. We always called him comic
relief baby." This may lead the more
paranoid among us to question just
exactly how our parents described
us when we were too young to
understand. . .

There it is. Dr Smith translates in
the early morning for fun, follows
Universit}' of Michigan football,
builds ship models, and enjoys
spending time with his kids. You
are bound to have some common
subject in which to talk to him. And
if you trek all the M'ay up to Hearst
to sadly discover he is not there, you
can always just take a bit of a rest in
that ^iant cardboard chair

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OUTlet

OUTlet is Oglethorpe
University's LGBTQ
organization,
participating in many
events throughout

the year, including
National Coming Out
Day, AIDS Walk,
and National Day of
Silence. We are a social
and emotional support
group for gay men,
lesbians, bisexuals,
and those questioning
their identities on our
campus. We serve as

an educational outreach
and community

service organization
promoting education
and equality for lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and
transgendered people.
Most of all, we are
an active and positive
image and voice for
gays and lesbians on
campus. As the old
saying goes, "We're
here, we're queer, and
we won't disappear!"

Oglethorpe students
have probably seen
small rainbow stickers
bearing the word
"Safezone" around

campus, but many
may not know exactly
what they signify. For
those who don't: "It's
an attempt to make
our campus a place
where everybody has a
voice."

Safezone is a program
that many college
campuses have

implemented for the
lesbian/gay/bisexual/
transgender (LGBT)
community as well as
other minority students.

As OU's Stephanie
Phillips says, "A lot
of these people are
invisible on campus
and can't identify
other people like them
easily . . . The program
is basically a way
to provide a visible
support network on
campus." Safezone is
specifically meant to
be a network of trained
individuals who can
provide crisis help and
work with (and within)
the administration.

As Phillips says,
Safezone is a way of
making "our campus a
place where everybody
has a voice."

Safe Zone

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Alpha Chi

Alpha Chi is a
coeducational society
whose purpose is to
promote academic

excellence and

exemplary character
among college and
university students

and to honor those
who achieve such
distinction. Its name

derives from the first
letters of the Greek
words for truth and
character. To be eligible
for membership in
Alpha Chi, students
must be in the top 1 0%
of juniors and seniors at
Oglethorpe University;
all majors and degree
types are welcome.

The Omicron Delta
Kappa Society is the
national leadership

honor society for college
students, faculty, staff,
administrators, and

alumni that recognizes
and encourages superior
scholarship, leadership,
and exemplary character

Membership in ODK is
a mark of the highest
distinction and honor
Emphasis is placed on
the development of the
whole person, both as a
member of the college
community and as a
contributor to a better
society.

Omicron Delta
Kappa

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Teams f Star Athletes, and

Dancers

Sports

"For when the One Great Scorer comes to write against you name,
He marks-not that you one or lost- but how you played the game "
~ Grantland Rice

Men's Soccer

The Stormy Petrels The Stormy Petrels Tlie Stormy Petrels The Stormy Petrels ~ The Stormy Petrels The Storm

Another season has passed
for Oglethorpe soccer. As quickly
as the light bulbs dirn out on the
scoreboard at John P. Salamone
Field, the 2005 season has also
come and gone for all 3 1 men's and
women's soccer players. Over a
span of three months, the program
has seen a resurgent men's team
take back its rightful place among
the SCAC conference's elite, and
a retooled women's team battle
towards a bright future as potential
conference champions.

The pace seemed

overwhelming the first week of the
season for a men's squad returning
all but one stailer from a 1 2-7 team,
which placed second in the SCAC
the previous year. Consecutive
shutout losses on the opening
weekend were a wake up call to the
veteran men's side, as they would
win five of their next seven games
entering conference play.

In conference, led by senior
captains Chris Freidenstein and
Mark Raczynski, defense took
center stage. The Petrels won their
first four conference games. Zeros

would become the trademark of r
nearly impenetrable Stormy Petre
defense that would go on to leac
the SCAC conference with sij<(
shutouts. :

Although the men finishec-
in second for a consecutive season
consistency has been established
Two of the best finishes in schoo
history in back to back years havf
revived the program. The futun
seems even greater for a tean
that is only losing two players t(
graduation, and has become hungr
for the conference championship, j

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Women's Soccer

The Lady Petrels -- The Ladv Petrels - The Lad\- Petrels -- The Lad\- i\>trels -- The Lad\' Petrels - The Lad\- Petrels --

The women's 2005 season was
jled by a youth movement. Senior
defender Kara Gleimi and junior
midfielder Stephanie Chapman
jvvere the only upperclassmen in
la starting lineup comprised of
talented first and second year
J3layers. What the Lady Petrels
jiacked in experience, they made up
for in skill and the ability to make
bther teams play according to their
iggressive style.

I When 2004 3rd Team

j\ll-SCAC goalkeeper Ashley
jVIoney went down with a season

ending injury, even more freshmen
were called into action and their
contributions were cnicial. This
was evident in Oglethoipe's
climatic 2-1 overtime victoiy
against Rose-Hulman, in which
freshman Julie Vaughan scored
a game tying goal with minutes
remaining in regular time. In
overtime, another newcomer,
forward Janine Sander, scored the
game winner. With this resounding
victory, the women showed that
their inexperience should not be
taken lightly.

The experience gained by
the underclassmen and the loss
of only one player to graduation
ensures that a strong core of players
will return for next season. Now
that they are past the obstacles of
inexperience and injuries, the 2006
women's team will be ready to
make a push for the conference
crown.

All told, three months of fast
paced soccer have culminated
with an air of optimism for the
Oglethorpe Soccer Program.

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Men's Basketball

The Stormy Petrels The Stormy Petrels The Stormy Petrels The Storm\' Petrels The Stormy Petrels The Storm

After placing fourth in the
SCAC regular season last year, the
best finish in eight years, the men's
basketball team hoped to retain
their momentum in the 2005-2006
season.

Despite playing their
toughest non-conference schedule
in a decade, the men started strong,
winning 9 of their first 13 games.
Among the victories were two
wins over rival Emory, which
was the Petrels' first sweep of the
Eagles in eight years. In addition,
the men traveled to Maryville and

beat the Scots, who had won 20 of
their last 22 games. A highlight of
the year was the Petrel's upset of
SCAC contender Southwestern.
Moreover, about half the men's
contests were decided in seven
points or less, which demonstrates
the competitive nature of the team.
The Petrels are the smallest team
in the conference and play with a
four-guard line-up; they lead the
SCAC in turnovers forced, steals,
and turnover margin. A strong
finish in the regular season will
solidify the Petrel's presence in

the SCAC Tournament, where the
men have the potential to play with
any opponents they face.

Anchoring the men's team i
this season were senior Josh Burr '
and junior Eric Dickinson. Burr
became the SCAC all-time leader
for three point field goals made
half way through the season and
should sufficiently surpass the
previous record by the end of
the year; Dickinson has used his
experience to exceed his numbers
from last season and will finish as
the league's leading scorer.

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ml ^^ \ '^ ;

Women's Basketball

The Lady Petrels -- The Lady Petrels - The Lad\- Petrels -- The Lad\' Petrels -- The Lad\' Petrels -- The Lady Petrels

[ The women's basketball

jeam, coming off a disappointing
1)4-05 season because of injuries,
itarted the 2005-2006 season
looking to do one thing: win. Win
ivas exactly what the Petrels did. In
|ust his second year as head coach,
lion Sattele guided the women
jo victories in 12 of their first 13
jontests, matching by midseason
jhe previous record of total wins
!a a season. Noteworthy victories
include wins over Bridgewater,
[imory, Maryville, Rhodes, and
liCAC powerhouse Trinity.

For their hard work,
in midseason the Petrels were
recognized with their first Division
III national ranking. The women
advanced on the D3hoops.com
Top 25 as far as 22"'' and continued
to receive votes for the remainder
of the year. The Petrels also
broke onto the USA Today ESPN
Division III Coaches' Poll, in
addition to placing as high as
second in the NCAA Regional
Rankings for the South Region,
giving the young team hopes for an
NCAA Tournament bid.

The Petrels' returning
leadership and added depth have
allowed the women to play an
up-tempo, heavy pressure game
that has kept opponents on the run,
literally. With several injuries to
upperclassmen, the Petrels have
relied on newcomers to step up.
Katie Kulavic has had a breakout
freshmen year, pacing Oglethorpe
offensively and garnering SCAC
Player-of-the-Week honors three
times so far. She will no doubt be
a strong contender for Rookie-of-
the-Year.

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Men's Tennis

The Stormv Petrels -- The Stormy Petrels -- The Stormy Petrels - The Stormy Petrels -- The Stormy Petrels - The Storm

The Oglethoipe Stonny
Petrels look to be improved for
the 2006 Season. The addition of
Sophomore Eckhardt VanderLinde
has softened the loss of Daniel
Close, a 2005 ALL-Conference
Player due to graduation. He
will be pushed by Jr. Drue
Malone, Honorable Mention All
-Conference in 2005, for the top
of the line-up. Drue has worked
hard to improve his all around
game. He is working hard on his
speed and conditioning, which will
enable him to get to the ball early
enough to hit his big shots.

Junior John Esterline
returns as a two-year starter in

the top half of the line-up and
will fight to challenge Drue and
Eckhardt for the top spot. His
serve has improved as well as
his groundstrokes. His good
hands give him an advantage at
the net. Sophomore Derin Pekin
returns after a solid freshman
year. He combines finesse with
power making him tough to beat.
Freshman Gabe Henderson has
cracked the starting line-up after
the Fall season and gives us added
depth. He looks to improve and get
stronger throughout the season.
Sophomore Brick Faucett was
the most improved player on last
year's team. With that experience

under his belt, he should be solid
at the end of the line-up.

Freshmen Ricky Pomales,
Carlos Carthen, and Senior Chris
Pape, have all shown improvement
after the Fall Season giving us
quality depth. Any of them could
step up and break into the top six.

We have had a great start
going 4-1 losing only to highly
ranked Piedmont College 3-4. We
have a tougher schedule in 2006
despite which we look to improve
on our 13-9, 8th place conference
finish from 2005. "This is my
strongest team to date" according
to Coach Howell. "We could finish
in the top 5 of the conference."

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Women's Tennis

iThe Lady Petrels -- The Lady Petrels - The Lady Petrels -- The Lady Petrels - The Lady Petrels - The Lady Petrels

The Women's Tennis Team
j'ill have a rebuilding year ahead.
[)ue to the loss of Tiffany Williams
b graduation, and Sarah Lykens
nd Maggie Khoury to the Studies
jibroad Program, we will be faced
I'ith replacing these valuable
ilayers. Jr. Co- Captain Antoinette
liland returns for the 3rd year to
;ad this young, inexperienced
|;am. She was Honorable Mention
Ul-Conference each of the last two
ears. Her consistency and finesse
pake her a tough competitor.
Sophomore Katie Kuhn, will
pllow her in the line-up. Katie
he is willing to do whatever it
ikes to keep the point alive, even

if it takes 3 hours!

Sophomore Ashley Cooper
returns with good volleys, and
improved footwork. She will
anchor the doubles line-up at #3
with newcomer Jessica Fugett. Sr.
Co- Captain Sara Ziperer will be
asked to move up from #6 and play
#4 and will rise to the challenge as
she has worked out all summer. She
has much more pace on the ball
this season to go with her quick
feet. Freshman Jamie Dillon joined
the team as a way to stay in shape
after her successfiil soccer season,
and we are glad she did! Using her
exceptional feet, she has improved
tremendously and will only get

better as the season progresses. Sr.
Jessica Fugette is new to the team
and will give us great efforts at the
#6 position. Sophomore Mallory
Summers is also new to the team
and is improving and see some
action this season.

Although this team lacks
experience, they will fight hard and
improve as the season progresses.
They have great leadership with
Antoinette and Sara. We hope to
match last year's 11-6 record and
improve on our 10th place finish in
the conference. Thus far, we are a
surprising 2-0 in the early Spring
Season.

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Men^s Golf

The Stormy Petrels -- The Stormy Petrels - The Stormy Petrels -- The Stormy Petrels - The Stormy Petrels -- The Storir

The men's golf team began
its fall season like it ended play last
spring, when it finished seventh at
the 2005 NCAA Championships
last May. The Stormy Petrels
placed second in the Tom O'Briant
Memorial held at the Cardinal
Country Club in Greensboro, NC.
Senior Joe Green took second
individually and freshman Joseph
Lyda finished fourth overall.

The Petrels competed
in the Greensboro College Fall
Invitational and the Gordin
Collegiate Classic and finished

fifth and fourth, respectively. Joe
Green again took second in the
Gordin Classic.

The men concluded their
fall season with a first place victory
at the Jack Shadwick Invitational
held at Cross Creek Plantation in
Seneca, SC. The Petrels combined
to shoot 300 and gained the
advantage on the 18 team field,
including national powerhouse
Methodist College. Sophomores
Matt Suggett and Taylor Urbanski
tied for second after both lost in a
playoff.

At the end of the fall
season, the NCAA Division III
Golfstat power rankings ranked the
Petrels fourth nationally. The Golfi
Coaches Association of Americai
coaches poll ranked Oglethorpe
even higher at third place. They
had a record of 223-6 in their fouri
fall competitions. The men were
9-2 versus the top 25 teams in the
nation that they went head to head
against in the fall. Moreover, the
Petrels' 297.38 scoring average
was third best in the South region
and 12* best nationally.

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Women's Golf

|Tie Lady Petrels The Lady Petrels The Ladv Petrels The Ladv Petrels The Lady Petrels The Lady Petrels

After finishing the 2005
aring season strong, the women's
If team continued its improved
pay this fall. They won their first
t|amament in school history at the
[jmtre College Fall Invitational.
Oi their way to first place, the
'lormy Petrels combined to shoot
4 5 and broke the previous school
rpord in tournament play by an
Eiiazing 28 strokes. Freshman
Eige McCoUum broke a school
tpord with her low round of 78.
j The team followed with
tjo more consecutive first place

finishes. At Sewancc, sophomore
Julia Gates won her first collegiate
toumainent and all five team
members were placed on the All
Tournament Team. The Stomiy
Petrels placed sixth at the Ben^
College/Stonebridge Invitational,
which was the best finish in the
three years the team has been
attending the event. The team
also had three players finish in
the top 25 individually. Moreover,
the women took fifth place at the
NCAA Fall Preview, a feat which
moved the women up to 2L' in

Golfstat rankings, which is the
highest rank in team history.

The women's team is young
but talented, consisting of four
sophomores and three freshmen.
Despite their youth, the players
have shown great mattirity. In
fact, after the fall season the team
was ranked eighth in Freshmen
Class Impact by Golfstat. In the
spring, the women will look to
further improve their game, and
Oglethoipe will cap off the year
when they host the NCAA Division
III National Golf Championships.

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Baseball

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The 2006 baseball
team looks to be stronger this
season with the combination of
experienced returners and talented
new recruits. In 2005, though the
Petrels did not qualify to go to
the SCAC Tournament, they did
finish second in the league for
least batters stmck out per game
and, among conference-only game
statistics, were fourth in RBIs per
game. The Petrels graduated Brad
Sims, who was named a 2005
AU-SCAC Third Baseman and
was third in the SCAC last season

with eight home runs. Sophomore
Tim Ernst was also a member of
the 2005 AU-SCAC Outfield and
led the SCAC in batting average
(.464), on base percentage (.565)
and was second in stolen bases
(19).

Returning guidance and
new support should enable the
Petrels to continue to develop their
game. After the loss of three seniors
from the 2005 squad, Oglethoipe
will return three seniors, seven
juniors, and three sophomores
from last year's team. Second-

year head coach, Dan Giordano,
has added nine talented additions
to the developing program which
should give the Petrels greater
depth in 2006. This season, Ronnie
Deck also begins his first year as
Assistant Coach and will serve as
the Recruiting Coordinator for the
Petrels as well. After last season's
hiatus, the Petrels will work hard
to make the most of their talents
and perhaps return to the SCAC
Tournament in 2006.

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The 2005 volleyball team

I continued to develop its program,

I returning six players and adding

I four new freshmen. The young

Petrels had a growing season,

with seven members first years

I or sophomores. Despite their

! youth, the Petrels opened up

I their year with a 3-1 win over

Agnes Scott and played a season

of hard-fought matches against

formidable competition. In recent

years, the women have struggled

in conference play, finishing in

tenth place the last two seasons.

Nevertheless, in 2005 the Petrels
were second in digs per game
(18.83) in these AC.

Part of their success was
Junior Katie Kelly, who also
finished the year second in the
SCAC for digs per game (5.48).
Kelly cun-ently leads Oglethoipe's
career records for digs per game
(4.12), is third in kills per game
(2.75), and fifth in service aces per
game (.46). Sophomore Jessica
Anderson lead the league in digs
per game (6.21) and freshman
Sharaya Seidel finished sixth in

assists per game (7.15). Lone
senior Tiffany Williams completed
her fourth season for the Petrels
and is presently fifth in the school's
career record for blocks per game
(.399).

Dan Giordano completed
his third season as head coach of
the Petrels. To add greater support
to the team, he also obtained the
help of Danielle Nonnan, who
served her first season as Assistant
Head Coach.

The Petrels had a growing
season, but the future is bright.

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Cross Country and Track & Field

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The Fall 2005 Cross
Country teams had three seniors,
Jon Gabriel, Joel Alzola, and Thadd
Kennedy. The remaining members
of the squads have the opportunity
to return for future competition:
Steve Horzeski, Travis Belton, Matt
Moms, Brent Rose, Phillip Crews,
Ryan Fulgham, Chris Williams,
and Gonzalo Yahuitl for the men
and Gillian Brady, Newal Basha,
Erin Barcroft, Lydia Diamantis,
Deborah Lubbc, Brandy Rich and
Christie Thiem for the women.

The season began in
Tennessee at the University of the

South Invitational and included
meets at Mercer and Toccoa Falls,
as well as three meets in Atlanta.
The teams finished a re-building
year at the SCAC Championships
at the Hendrix College course in
Conway, Arkansas.

The Spring 2006 Track
& Field Season has barely gotten
underway as the Yamacraw goes
to press. Both the men and women
won the first meet of the season on
a dreary, cold, and rainy Saturday.
The men beat Queens University
of Charlotte, West Georgia and
Chattahoochee Tech. The women

won as well, more than doubling
the point total of their nearest
competitor. The women's squad
consists of Andrea Vinson, Gillian
Brady, Newal Basha, Lynette
McKinney, LaToya McCants,
Heather Bullard, Wendy Madill,
Lindsey Callaway, Cierra Berry
and Hannah York. The men's
squad consists of Jon Gabriel,
Jon Carter, Joel Alzola, Thadd
Kennedy, Elijah Green, Justin
Willard, Nana Bekoe, Pete Martin,
Kyle Taylor, Jose Navarro, Kyle
Parker, Michael Muller and Arthur
Pilkevich.

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Josh Burr

Senior Male Athlete Exclusive

; Josh Bun- is a senior guard for
I the men's basketball team from
I Fayette County High School.

He is majoring in Business
I Administration and minoring in

economics.

Why did you choose to play for
OU?

I transfened here my
freshman year. It was closer to
home and my parents could come
see the games. I knew it was a great
school, so it would help my career
too. One of the big things was just
the type of guys that were here on
the team.

Do you have any personal goals
for the season?

Yes, to win a conference
championship, just because I've
been so close, and it would also

lead to an appearance in the
NCAA tournament. I'd also like
to have my best season record-
wise and then tiy to be a better
player overall.

What is the best thing about
being a student-athlete at
Oglethorpe? Worst thing?

The worst is trying to find
a way to juggle academics and
athletics, because it is tough. The
best is probably that you have a
bunch of people who just play
because they want to since we
don't receive any scholarships,
and you also establish really close
relationships with your teammates.

What's one memory or game
you'll never forget?

Probably the buzzer
beater I made against RJiodes my
sophomore year, and probably
playing in the conference finals my
sophomore year.

What are you hobbies/interests?
What do you like to do most in
your spare time?

Videogames... 1 love
music, downloading music or
listening to music... Just doing
stuff to my car. I like my car a lot.

Plans after graduation?

My plans are to be an
athletic director or work in sports
administration at some level.

If you could do anything, what
would it be?

Own an NBA team.

Favorite tv show?

Probably Saved by the
Bell. It always has been. Nothing's
really taken its place. Either that or
BET's Comic View.

Do you have any advice for
freshmen or newcomers to OU?

Try to absorb as much as
you can form here because it's so
diverse. T17 to be involved as much
as you can, and tiy to make as
many contacts as you can, because
that really is how most people get
their jobs.

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Infinite

In 2005-2006, Oglethorpe's
athletic department reaped
the first benefits from a long-
terni partnership with Infinite
Sports Perfomiance (ISP) that
began last March. Infinite

Sports Perfonnance brought to
Oglethorpe athletics its expertise
in training athletes to become
stronger, faster, and smarter. The
company was founded in 2003 by
Melvin Williams Jr. to give athletes
and teams the extra-edge through
personalized programs. With
stronger, more conditioned athletes
and facility improvements, both
part of the agreement with Infinite,
it is hoped that teams will reach the
next competitive level.

The attraction of such
a partnership was the benefits
Oglethorpe and Infinite each stood
to gain. Infinite's strength and
conditioning services and high-end
equipment were just the ticket for
Oglethorpe's Athletic Department.
Infinite, on the other hand, acquires
not only space to work out their
clients, but also a great location in
a thriving metropolis from which

to do business.

To date, ISP has supplied
new Freemotion weight training
equipment in Schmidt, finished
the new high performance
rehabilitation/training room,

including state-of-the-art

equipment, and provided

hydrotherapy equipment for the
new wet room. Aside from the
agreement, ISP has generously
chosen to bestow new backboards,
nets, basketballs, rims and
volleyball gear for Coaches
Giordano, Sattele and Ponder's
programs.

With ISP's help, it is hoped
part of the future will be more
competitive teams. Infinite is
training OU athletes for success.
"As far as goals are concerned, my
goal for OU athletics is simple, the
best Division III athletic program
in the region and soon the country,"
stated Williams.

He continued, "We believe
that there is no opportunity greater
than the one before you each day.
Each day, in athletics, you have
to move towards perfection and

dominance. If you do not make
evei7 effort to succeed, you will
fail at the hands of a more prepared
foe. As we speak, the majority of
OU's athletes have taken to that
philosophy wholeheartedly."

Athletic Director Jay
Gardiner commented, "It's hard
to find a partnership that truly is a
win-win, but I think we've found it
with our partnership with Infinite."

Overall, Infinite and
Oglethorpe have found a mutually
beneficial relationship that has
no tangible disadvantages to
either partner. Infinite is feeling
comfortable in its new home at
Oglethorpe, and is already fulfilling
its goal to "make a difference."

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Courtney Roberts is a senior
forward for the women's soccer
team from Shiloii High School.
She is majoring in communications
and minoring in business.

Why did you choose to play for
OU?

I wanted to go to a small
school in the state of Georgia, and
I wanted to do public relations. I

Courtney Roberts

Senior Female Athlete Exclusive

knew that here I could get a good
chance at getting internships, and I
knew 1 could take classes at other
schools if 1 needed to, and I knew 1
could play soccer here.

Do you have any personal goals
for the season?

Being a senior, 1 want to
really leave everything out there. 1
want to look back on my four years
knowing that I played well and
be proud. Last season, 1 basically
played injured all season, so this
season 1 want to leave on a high
note and make up for last year.

What is the best thing about being
a student athlete at Oglethorpe?

The best thing is that you
get to have the student life but also
a sports life too. You get to be a
collegiate athlete, you get to say
you are a collegiate athlete, and
you get to travel on the school's
dime. You get to have a different
collegiate life that I wouldn't
trade.

When you were young, what did
you want to be?

Well, actually I've wanted
to do public relations ever since
I was in the 8"' grade. I'm one of
the weird kids who have always
known what they wanted to do.
When 1 was really little, 1 think
I wanted to be a teacher or an
interior decorator.

If you could travel anywhere,
where would you go?

1 want to live in Australia
sometime, even if it's for just a
couple months. That's my dream
destination.

Do you have any advice for
newcomers to OU?

Get involved. As much as it
stinks to have the "bubble," enjoy
it while you can. Take advantage
of the school and Atlanta. 1 can't
believe I'm a senior right now. I
don't want to be an adult; it's gone
by so fast.

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Khayos

Khayos, formerly

known as the Urban
Dance Steppers, has
played an active and
integral part in the
development of student
spirit at Oglethopre
since its conception in
2003. It was fomied
with the idea of
creating a dance team
with more cultural
and rhythmic flavor
in its performances.
The group perfonns

at various functions
throughout the

school year including
volleyball and

basketball games.

Homecoming, and

Stomp the Lawn.
They also provide
a large amount of
support for the Athletic
Department and can be
seen cheering on our
teams from the stands.

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The OU Dancers, which
has been in existence in
its current fonn since
1998, has always taken
pride in representing
the best that OU has to
offer. The dancers are
well rounded students
who share a strong
dedication to success
and a love of dance. In
addition to dancing at
basketball games, again
this year the team was
honored to represent
Oglethorpe in the USA
Collegiate National
Competition in Las
Vegas. The Dancers

fundraised over $3000
and spent over 4 months
preparing a place-
winning routine which
was also performed
for the Homecoming
Game. The team this
year was comprised of
the "elite six": Jessi
Sammons (Captain),
Nikki Parker, Emily
Treuman, Brittany

Gray, Jessica Anderson,
and Kelly Moran;
with Coach Lauren
Montagno and Advisor
Charlie Baube leading
the team to victory for
the 8th year in a row."

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The OU cheerleaders
are a group of young
ladies who coUectivley
have and show school
spirit. They provide
spirit at all home games
and at school related
functions. It is their sole
purpose to pump up the
team players for men
and women basketball.
The the executive chain
of the cheerleaders
consist of : coach, team
mangers, captain and
co-captain. This year's
squad is wonderful and
has laid the foundation
for next year's squad.
Go PETRELS !

Dorough
Delinquents

Duke has the Cameron
Crazies, Oglethorpe
has the Dorough
Delinquents. Named
after the Dorough Field
House, the Delinquents
have taken the campus
by stonn. This insane
group of students dress
in their basketball
best and heckle the
opposing teams. Some
of the best outfits
include 70's Man, The
Patrol Guard, Little
Man in a Rowel, Aloha
Man and of course Mr.
USA waving his huge
American Flag. So grab
your Sunday best, put
some holes in it, paint
you face and head on
over to cheer on your
Petrels.

Cheerleaders

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Homecoming, Greeks, Scnoirs,
Clubs, and Dead Day

Living

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by
what we give." -' Sir Winston Churchill

Homecoming

"A Red Carpet Affair"

In the days leading up to
Homecoming 2006, the Oglethorpe
community was abuzz with
anticipation. Girls chatted about
how to do their hair, what dress to
wear to the dance, and whether they
should hope for a date or just plan to
go stag. We're not sure exactly what
the guys were talking about. Maybe
basketball-after all, it is the sport
that occasions such a gala.

But above all, Oglethorpe
students were talking about the
venue for this year's event the
High Museum of Art in midtown
Atlanta.

Holding the dance at the
High was a last minute decision
by Programming Board, but it
was obviously the right one.
Oglethorpe has typically held its
fonnals in less prestigious settings,
and the announcement of the High
immediately caught everyone's
attention. Students who usually
attend and enjoy the vent were
even more excited by the High, and

Top: Rachael Maddux poses with
Andy Warhol's Marilyns.

Above; Cliff Moore and Alexandra
take command of the dance floor.

Above Right: Amanda Nichols, Kelly
Poor, and Helena Adams review the
night's revelries.

for those who were undecided oni
attending, the venue itself became
the deciding factor. Junior Kelly
Poor insisted, "It's the only reason
I'm going."

The "classy" factor wasn't,
the only draw of the location.'
Tickets to the event allowed students
a free viewing of the modem art
exhibit during the first hour of the
event, and many students went for
the sole purpose of viewing the
gallery. Definitely not your typical
motivation for attending a school
dance- but hey, it's Oglethorpe!

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In addition
to the fancy
environs, many
students agreed
that the food was
excellent. Selection
was limited to a few
varieties of gounnet
sandwiches and
some desserts, but
who knew that roast beef and green
tomato went so good together? A
cash bar also provided many "of
age" students with the fuel for their
loose-hipped dance f^oor moves all
night.

A pleasant surprise in the
evening was the attendance of
University President Dr. Lany
Schall. During the hour or two
he stayed at the High, Dr. Schall
mingled with the students,
conversing with them in that
easy and amiable way that has
so endeared him to the student
population of Oglethoipe.

At the end of the evening,
Dean Doyle took the microphone
to host the presentation of the
Homecoming Court and the Senior
Walk. The court of 32 nominees
was naiTowed down to 10 finalists
before the winners were announced.

Junior Sean Freeman was crowned
Lord Oglethorpe, and Senior
Christiana Johnson was awarded
Lady Oglethorpe. Both were the
nominated representatives from
Khayos, Oglethorpe's step team.

As the newly-crowned
couple danced, the Seniors lined up
for their big moment. This tradition
parades each senior across the floor
in front of the gathered assemblage,
and as usual, this year's walk
revealed the diverse personalities
of the senior class as each senior
in turn swaggered, shuffled, or
stumbled across the dance floor.

For such an annually-hyped
event, especially this year with
the added draw of the location,
Oglethorpe's 2006 Homecoming
was definitely "A Red Carpet
Affair" to remember.

Top Left:: Amanda Nichols and Bisell
McWilliams pause for a picture en
route to the dance.

Top Middle: Rachael Maddux and
Miriam Brown mug for the camera as
Dr Schall looks away in amusement.

Top Right: Lord and Lady
Oglethorpe, Sean Freeman and
Christiana Johnson.

Above Left: Kelly Poor delights in the
wonderful foods offerecf.

Above: Laura Callender dances the
night away.

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Miss Yamacraw

A Tradition Reborn

A decade of tradition
has returned to Ogletliorpe
after a fifteen year absence.

The Yamacraw hosted
the Miss Yamacraw Pageant in
Lupton Auditorium on December
1. This pageant was an annual
tradition from 1981 to 1987.

In 2005, the pageant
made an elegant reappearance.

"The first run of the Miss
Yamacraw Pageant was successful
for the better part of a decade, and
considering the success in recent
years of Chi Omega's Carnation
King and of the spring Drag Show,
we recognized that pageantry is a
viable attraction on this campus
and that a traditional pageant for
women was nowhere to be found,"

Left: Miss Yamacraw, Senior Krystal Evans.

said Bisell McWilliams, senior and
editor-in-chief of the yearbook.

The first pageant, held in
1981, was hosted by local radio
celebrity Steve McCoy and Gwen
Chambers of the Fashion Institute
of Atlanta. There were two runners-
up, and Sheila Marx was crowned
the first Miss Yamacraw. While in
existence, the pageant thrived as
an arena in which female students
could demonstrate their talents.

"Talents seen during
the talent portion have included
performances of Bette Midler
songs and Tennessee Williams
monologues and have ranged
in uniqueness from crocheting
to clothing design as displayed
in a mini-fashion show
during the contestant's time
on stage," McWilliams said.

McWilliams discovered
the past Miss Yamacraw Pageant
last year, but time constraints and
pressing deadlines prevented him
from re-instituting it. Yamacraw
staff member Amie Lane, a
freshman, also unearthed records of
the pageant while looking through
old yearbooks and decided to help
get it started. Soon, McWilliams
and Lane found other support.

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"We did a little poll
id found great enthusiasm for
e idea," McWilliams said.

A panel of four judges
;cided the outcome of the pageant,
nelle Smith of Student Affairs
id Nurse Cathy Grote, as well as
glethoipe professors James Bohart
id Mario Chandler, comprised the
metrating but personable panel.

The Yamacraw planned the
igeant as a fundraiser. "Tradition
;ing such a powerful force at
glethorpe, we decided first to
ok back to past years to see what
"evious yearbook staffs had done
raise money," McWilliams said.

The pageant serves another
inction as well - allowing
udents to show their talents and
"oups to show off their members.

Kristy Evans, crowned Miss
macraw 2005, certainly embraced

the idea of representation. She
spoke wamily of Alpha Phi Omega,
which she represented during the
pageant. "APO sometimes gets a
bad rap for the fraternity part of
'service fraternity." But we're such
good friends because we share a
deep dedication to helping people."

She also "shone as an
individual" during the pageant
and not just because of her iridescent
gown. The interview in particular
revealed her thoughtful and deep-
seated interest in awareness of
global issues. She said, "Many
countries are self-interested, and
the U.S. is hardly an exception,
but aiding the often ignored
parts of the world, especially
Africa, could be beneficial to
stronger regions by evcntualK
building economic relationships."

Kj'isty, who is a senior this
year, plans to enter UGA's graduate

program in mass communications
with a concentration in advertising
next year. Evidently pageantry
is only one facet of her talent
for articulation and connection.

Let us all hope that the
Miss Yamacraw Pageant is here
to stay for at least another fifteen
years!

Above: Krystal Evans recieving her crown
from volunteer Kionne August.

Above Left: Judges James Bohart. Mario
Chandler, Janelle Smith, and Cathy Grote.

Left: Contestants Krystal Evans (Alpha Phi
Omega), Catherine Barson (Tau Iota Tau),
Brandy Rich (Chi Omega), and Marian James
(Sigma Sigma Sigma).

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Kappa Alpha

The Kappa Alpha
Order was founded
on December 2 1 ,
1865 at what is now
Washington and Lee

University. The mission

of KA is to create a

lifetime experience,

which centers on

reverence to God, duty,

honor, character, and

gentlemanly conduct

as inspired by Robert

E. Lee, our spiritual

founder. Parties have

ranged in theme from

"Apocalypse Now" to

Mardi Gras. KA is

an active participant

in Greek Week and

in the Interfratemity

Council.

The Sigma Alpha
Epsilon Fraternity is
a leader in the social
development of college
men. Our values have
been embraced by more
than 280,000 men since
our founding in 1856,
making Sigma Alpha
Epsilon the largest
social fraternity in
North America.

The mission of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
is to promote the
highest standards of
friendship, scholarship
and service for its
members based upon
the ideals set forth by
the Founders and as
specifically enunciated
in its creed, "The True
Gentleman."
Every year, the
Georgia Eta chapter

of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon creates and
works a haunted house
for visiting children,
as well as putting on
numerous social events
throughout the year for
the enjoyment of both
its members and the
Oglethorpe community.

Sigma Alpha
Epsilon

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The Alpha Nu chapter
of the DeUa Sigma
Phi Fraternity was
originally founded in
1835 in Milledgeville.
GA, and after both the
Civil War and World
War I the chapter
was reinstated at
Oglethorpe. Today,
as we enter this new
century, we at Alpha
Nu are proud to carry
the torch handed
down by the brothers
who came before us.
Delta Sigma Phi is
continuing to grow,
and currently boasts
a membership that is
involved on campus

and in the
community.
More
importantly,
the ideals of
Delta Sigma
Phi are alive
in the hearts
of every
one of our
brothers.
Almost
eighty years
ago, a group
of men with
foresight
and courage
established the Alpha
Nu chapter of the Delta
Sigma Phi Fraternity at
Oglethorpe University.
Today, we follow
in their footsteps,
"that the world may
ever be convinced of
the sincerity of our
purpose."

Chi Phi

The Chi Phi Fraternity
is a values-based
organization founded
on the basis of Truth,
Honor & Personal
Integrity. These are
timeless values which
guide the fundamental
purposes of the
Fraternity.

Today, our crest
and their badge are
public symbols for
the brothers of Chi
Phi, symbols that are
instantly recognizable

to members, but still
appropriately obscure
to outsiders. They
communicate our proud
history without overt
bragging.

Covert symbols

and deeply rooted
fundementals of

virtue and truth,
honor and integrity,
bind us together in a
brotherhood that is
strong and timeless.

Delta Sigma Phi

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Order of Omega

The Order of Omega
was founded at the
University of Miami
in the fall of 1959 by
a group of outstanding
fraternity men, who
felt that individuals in
the Greek community
should be recognized
for their service to
the fraternity system
and the University.

The Chapter of Miami
had long desired for
their organization to
expand to other colleges
and universities.

The Chapter gave
its sanction to Dean
Patrick W. Halloran to
make initial inquiries
and to further grant
charters to universities
that were accredited and

interested in the purpose
of The Order of Omega.
On February 9, 1967, a
Chapter was chartered
at the University of
Southern Mississippi.
There are now over
three hundred chapters
111 the United States
with approximately ten
additional campuses
that are petitioning the
national.

The constitution

was approved by
the Organizations

Committee on April 14,
1 959, the recognized
founding date. The
Order of Omega voted
to become a co-ed
organization in the
spring of 1977.

Alpha Sigma Tau
is about people. It's
about the sisters that
are connected as
friends for generations.
Alpha Sigma Tau is
about sharing things
important to us. It's
about sharing our
sisterhood with others.
It's about being proud
of what we believe in
as sisters.

Alpha Sigma Tau is
about commitment.
It's about pledging
our efforts to our
communities to make
them better places
and our energies to
our futures. It's about
committing ourselves
to each other and the
ideals of Alpha Sigma
Tau.

Facing life's challenges

and working together
as sisters, we learn to
develop, in each other,
strengths and positive
values. We share with
each other cultural
advantages, and use
new and emerging
technologies to keep
our members educated
and poised for success.

Fostering lasting

friendships, a key
means of support
among collegiate

women, has been the
goal of Alpha Sigma
Tau from its founding.
But we enjoy a deeper
sense of friendship
through our common
bonds of sisterhood.
Alpha Sigma Tau
is friendship for a
lifetime and everlasting
sisterhood!

Alpha Sigma Tau

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Sigma Sigma
Sigma

Sigma Sigma Sigma
is a national women's
sorority with 90,000
members. We host
chapters on 107
college campuses.

We believe, as our
National President

stated, that 'Tri Sigma
is friendship. We value
the lifelong connection
that we have with one
another. Tri Sigma
is strong womanly
character. We value
that we challenge one
another to be the best
she can be. Tri Sigma is
high ethical standards.
We value honesty and
integrity as a way of
day-to-day living."

The vision of Sigma
Sigma Sigma will have
a strong and vibrant
future that will ensure
a positive and enriching
sorority experience
for our members;
including: partnership
with the Foundation,
fiscal strength, character
growth, alumnae

involvement, and

nationally recognized
programming.

Epsilon Theta strives to
live up to the standards
of our organization and
to strengthen our bonds
of sisterhood.

To value the talents of
women... to encourage
them in realizing their
greatest potential.

These are the principles
upon which Chi Omega
was founded in 1895
at the University of
Arkansas. Now, over
a century later, these
founding principles
are just as relevant.

Chi Omega Fraternity
was founded at a
time when women
were just becoming
visible on our nation's
university campuses.
These early collegiate
women were destined
not only to manage
home and family
they would establish
a foothold as leaders

in the community and
the business world.

Today, Chi Omega is
the largest women's
fraternal organization
in the world with
300,000 initiates and
169 collegiate chapters.
Since its beginning,
Chi Omega has
nurtured its members
by providing them with
unique opportunities
in leadership, in
scholarship, and in
life-long friendship.
Ours is a distinguished
histoi7...and our

most vital role has
been the preparation
of young women to
achieve their highest
possible aspirations.

Chi Omega

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Alpha Phi Omega!

Circle K

International is a world-
wide organization
that provides college
students with
opportunities to serve
their communities,
gain leadership skills,
and socialize with
other college students.
Circle K has existed
on the Oglethoipe
campus at many points
in the past. After a
hiatus, Oglethorpe
Circle K started again
several years ago after
a determined group
of students brought
this organization into
existence at Oglethorpe
once again. It is now
a strong organization
of students who
want to help the
Atlanta community.

Oglethorpe
Circle K exists primarily
to help students find
places to volunteer in
the Atlanta community.
A few of the activities
include playing with
and teaching children
at places such as the
Brookhaven Boys and
Girls Club, preparing
food at the Atlanta
Community Food

Bank and Project Open
Hand, and stocking
the thrift store of the
St. Vincent de Paul
Society. Additionally,
Circle K is a great place
for Oglethorpe students
to meet and gives
Oglethorpe students
the chance to meet
other college students
through inter-clubbing.

Circle K

Alpha Phi

Omega is a National Co-
ed Leadership and Ser-
vice Organization based
on the Scout Oath and
Law. The Oglethorpe
Chapter, Mu Mu, began
at Oglethorpe Univer-
sity in February 1958
and was re-chartered in
1976. Since then, we've
been one of the largest
organizations dedicated
to serving the school, the

community, the nation, I
and our organization.
An all-inclusive colle-
giate fraternity. Alpha
Phi Omega is com-
mitted to being the
foremost student-run i
organization in devel-
oping lifelong leaders,
instilling lasting friend- i
ships, and fostering i
a lifetime of service
to all people. We do
over 40 projects every j
semester, and have accu-
mulated an average of :
over 1 000 hours a year.
Some of our
major projects include:
Trick or Treat in Traer, j
Red Cross, American i
Cancer Society, Lyn- j
wood Park mentoring,
ushering around campus.
Trees Atlanta. Good-
will, and much more.

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Feed America
Music Foundation

Feed America Music
Foundation is a non-
profit organization
dedicated to helping
raise money to supply
grants to homeless
shelters so they can keep
offering their service
to those who need it.
FAMF raises money
by compiling songs of
lesser-known bands
and musicians onto
cds and hosting shows
and concerts that give
a variety of artists an
opportunity to show off
their music to a greater

audience. Ultimately.
Feed America Music
Foundation hopes

to raise people's
awareness about the
growing problem of
homelessness, help
supply funding to those
who are trying to help
homeless people, get
a variety of lesser-
known music out to
more people, and
support both the arts
and community service
by taking a role in both.

Ujamaa aims to
enrich the awareness
of black cultures at
Oglethorpe University
and the Metro-Atlanta
area. We recognize
both the need for
unity among black
students and a strong
relationship among
all undergraduates.
Furthemiore, we

pledge to be active
productive members of
the global community
by participating in
philanthropy, political

activism, social events,
lectures/guest speakers,
creation/distribution of
publications, etc. for the
benefit and promotion
of the African
Diaspora. Moreover,
we strive to promote
diversity, appreciation,
integrity, development,
and community

interaction between
blacks and students
of all ethnicities and
backgrounds.

Ujamaa

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Chess Club

The Chess Club
strives to allow and
encourage the playing
of chess and provide
those interested with
the necessary materials
to do so. Furthennore,
we intend to enlighten
the Oglethorpe

community through
chess. Remember,
mating is fun. ...at least
in chess it is!!

Core Karate is a
structured Martial Arts
curriculum with the
goal of giving students
the strongest foundation
of knowledge and
experience in American
Freestyle Karate, as
well as other similar
disciplines, available
outside of a fonnal
school. We also host
fitness and self-defense
classes all on the OU
campus.

Karate Club

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Dead Day

Dead Day. The one day
nost students anxiously await
nd yet somehow dread. It is the
:ay in which there are no more
lasses to attend and yet (perhaps
nfortunately), tells you that finals
re just around the comer. So,
lost students try to deny the day's
xistence by going to a blow-out
arty the night before the Dead
)ay's Eve Party.

The party this year was held
t the Leopard Lounge, a nightclub
Dcated in Midtown. It ended up
eing a very cool place to entertain
moderately sized group of college
ids because it offered a nice variety
f rooms to hang around and dance
1. About 200 Petrel students
ttended the soiree, and it seemed
lat most of them enjoyed the party.

On actual Dead Day, the
;ality that finals are definitely
n their way set in, and the mad
aper writing and intense studying
egan. The Academic Quad lay
lostly desolate as many students
3und their way to the nearest study
3om or cubby hole in the library,
r decided to fonn their own little

study tents in their dorm rooms.

The only thing that kept all
of the stress-laden students from
falling into the abyss was the fact
that the semi-annual Eggs-AM
Breakfast happened that night. The
Eggs-AM Breakfast included the
famous kick-$#@ hash browns
made by Dr. John Nardo and Dr.
Cassandra Copeland. Oglethorpe
President Dr. Schall, Director of
Alumni Relations Barbara Heni7,
and Professor of English Dr. Weiss
also helped out with the food line.
The breakfast gives a chance for
students to talk to their peers and
professors about any upcoming
finals. It was also a good time to
have a pajama contest, which went
very well with Dean Doyle as the
host.

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Oglethorpe Seniors

Another year gone by

"Through its curriculum
and general atmosphere,
Oglethorpe has encouraged
open-mindedness, an attribute
I find to be indispensable in all
pursuits. 1 simply hope that it is
one that I will continue to foster
independently after leaving the
university."

-Amanda Wheat

"Oglethorpe has been a great
experience for me. I love the
faculty and the Core program
almost to the point where I don't
even want to graduate. 1 keep
thinking, "There's so much more
to learn!" Still, I am graduating,
and I honestly feel that the things
I have learned and the people
I have met here have made me
a better person. I am exited to
move on to the next chapter of
my life, but I will always remain
a little sad that my time here at
Oglethorpe is
done forever."

-Geoff
Hetherington

"I can't believe the time has
come to graduate and move on
to the next chapter of my life. I
have loved my past four years
at Oglethorpe and the memories
that accompany them will always
hold a special place in my heart.
This school has given me so
much more than an education.
It has provided me with great
friendships, athletic competition,
daily challenges, allowed
me to be a part of numerous
organizations, and has helped
prepare me for all aspects of life.
Even though I am sad to leave,
1 look forward to giving back to
Oglethorpe in any way that I can
and becoming an active member
of the Alumni Association."

-Courtney Roberts

"Oglethorpe was
neither a home nor
was it my favorite
place to be; but it was
at Oglethorpe that I
found what I had been
looking for."
-Meredith Whitworth

Above: James Hill and class president Courtney Roberts
decorate ornaments for the class Christmas Tree.

Above: Meredith Whitworth works
on the yearbook.

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Above: Mayur Nayee does his part to
decorate the Senior Christmas Tree as
Miranda Atnip rejoices in the joy of the
season.

"In the 4 years we've been
at Oglethorpe, we have all
accomplished something
noteworthy and out of the ordinary,
either as individuals or as members
of campus organizations. 1 have
realized though that none of us are
indispensable and we will soon
be forgotten, only to be replaced
by future classes, whose legacies
too will be fleeting and transient.
What Vd like us, as seniors, to
take away is that, we should not
abandon our endeavors simply
because h will not be historically
recorded. Instead we should
persevere without the expectation
of remembrance, and take pleasure
in the fact that we are contributing
meaningfully to our respective
communities."

~ Mayur Nayee

Above: Mandy Eckerl enjoys a laugh during
Quadfest.

"The most memorable times of
my life will always be the crowd
at our home basketball games and
the support that our team received
from the student population. I will
always remember the road trips
with the squad and how we grew
as a family over the years."

-Josh BuiT

"Oglethoipe has taught me that we
are only as great as the challenges
we place on ourselves."

-Kionne August

Above: Josh Burr, star athlete. Resident
Assistant, and apparently future Hilfiger
model.

Above: Sean Raleigh relaxes on the quad
between classes.

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Honor Socktks, Student Workers,
and Core JV

Science and Business

^'Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what.
is not so. " -Galileo Galilei >

i

: 1

University Accounting
Society

"Our group of members
was founded in order to allow
accounting majors to interact with
other accounting majors outside
of their classes and help them
gain connections with members
of accounting firms and other
companies so that they can find
employment after graduation. We
have evolved a lot over the years
and now we are cuirently involved
in a service project with Cafe 458
(a non profit soup kitchen) and
we also host two receptions for
accounting majors to mingle with
business professionals in order to
obtain employment. Our plan for
the spring of 2006 is to host a raffle
at one of the basketball games in
order to help get people out to
enjoy each other's company as well
as support Oglethoipe athletics."

^'^;w^S'?..^

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Core IV

Core IV, every Senior must
ake it, many Seniors resent it,
ilmost all seniors manage to pass
t. In truth it is what some would
:all a necessary evil and what others
A'ould call the "God send" of the
3ore program. However, the one
universal truth about Core IV is
hat it is indeed in a class of its own.

Unlike many of the other Core
classes which focus on the nature of
lumans and society. Core IV focuses
3n the nature of science which can,
m some instances, be a far more
:angible course of study, thereby
ippealing to certain students. In
addition. Core IV does not only
focus on nature from a different
angle than the other Core classes,
but in this case students may choose
between two different perspectives,
the physical and the biological.

That, in a nut shell, is the
basic concept behind Core IV; but
ask any student who has taken it and
they will tell you that this class is
[more than a change of perspective.
iSo what is this deeper benefit of Core
|lV? It is at this point that we arrive
at our original dilema, that there is
very little agreement among seniors
regarding the benefit of this odd little
:lass. Is the change refreshing? Does
t provide a satisfying conclusion
;o seemingly endless semesters
Df the Core? Or is it merely an
excuse to include the sciences in
an attempt to meet the overarching
goal of liberal arts education?

These questions are not

likely to be answered soon or to
anyone's satisfaction, and it does
seem as though Core IV is here to
stay. But to what end? Perhaps it
is best to consider Core IV as the
final gauntletl; the last race to run
before one can say "I have arrived!"

I

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Phi Delta Epsilon

Mission Statement:

To foster and achieve
bonding among
physicians of high
moral character
devoted to education
and philanthropy for a
lifetime.

Guiding Principles:

Philanthropy, Deity,
Equity & Education

Motto:

"Facta Non Verba,
Deeds Not Words"

Precepts:

To promote fellowship
and mentoring, equality,
and unity.. To promote

the highest scientific
and educational

standards in the field
of medicine. To
promote the highest
standards of ethics
in the practice
of medicine,

medical teaching,
and research.. To
promote nonprofit
group service to
the community.. To
promote discussions
at all Fraternity
levels of current
social and economic
issues as related
to the practice
of medicine.

Psi Chi is the National
Honor Society in
Psychology, founded in
1929 for the purposes
of encouraging,

stimulating, and

maintaining excellence
in scholarship, and
advancing the science of
psychology. Induction
into Psi Chi requires
standards of academic
achievement for those
majoring or minoring
in Psychology. Psi
Chi functions as a
federation of chapters

located at over 1,000
senior colleges and
universities in the
USA and Canada. The
Oglethorpe Chapter
began in 1985, and
within the past year, it
has worked to become
more active on the
Oglethorpe campus.
Events sponsored by
Psi Chi include an
informational meeting
for majors and minors,
movie nights, and a
game night.

Psi Chi

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Economics Club

Led by the
incomparable Dr.
Bruce Hetherington,
the Economics Club
spends its time delving
ever deeper into the
somewhat murkey
realm of financial
guesswork, studying
the trends of economics
in society, how systems
have changed, and
how those changes
affect many different
groups of people.

However, it
somehow seems that
this group does not

exist only for academic
growth and gratification;
as evidenced by the
lively and successful
fundraiser this year that
involved the removal
of Dr. Hetherington's
famous, or rather
infamous, pony tail.
Though usually
a quiet and understated
club on Oglethorpe's
campus, it does seem
clear that this group
of budding econimists
certainly knows how
to have a good time.

The Society of Physics

Students __ _

is an

organization

for all

people

interested

in science,

particularly

physics

majors, to

meet and

collaborate.

Our goal is to

encourage others to

learn about science

and physics. We

are also a forum for

science students

to gain knowledge

through the exchange

of information and

ideas.

Society of
Physics Students

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Tales of a homecoming court nominee

A case study of the 'typical' Oglethorpe student

By Miriam Brown

"// only took you 'til
your senior year of college to do
something normal! "

When I told my mom that
I was on homecoming court, this
is what she had to say. She was
kidding. I think. But slie's right,
hi all my high school experience,
1 stubbornly resisted "nornial." I
refused to join clubs (except for
that brief stint in the Drama Club,
which was only okay because
the cool kids still shunned it.) I
wouldn't hang out with anyone
my own age. And I most definitely
did not go to homecoming events,
games or dances or anything else.
For that matter, you couldn't get
me within a two hundred foot
radius of the gym during a pep

rally or football game.

I spent most of my time
hiding out from other classes,
and more specifically from other
students, with about ten kids who
worked on the lit mag staff. For
the first two years, they put us in
a closet. Literally. There were
ten of us, in a janitor's closet.
By my senior year, though, we
were moving up in the world.
We were granted the dungeon,
a large, drafty room that served
as the entrance to the In School
Suspension area. It became a
class hobby to monitor the mold
that grew up the walls. Does this
give you any idea of the pride my
school took in its aspiring literary
talent?

While other girls at school
practiced walking in heels and
learned to match up outfits, I saved
up for my first pair of Doc Martens.
Combat boots were the thing to
have, and Doc Martens were at
the top of the list. At fifteen, I not
only wore those shiny black boots
to school every day, I also refused
to take them off at home, insistent
on breaking them in. In fact, I
can remember wearing them to
church, telling my mother that the
choir robes were long enough that
no one would even notice.

For that matter, I also
lived in boys' clothes for as long

as I could. My then-boyfriend
(complete with matching boots)
lent me his long black hoodie,
covered in patches that he had
safety pinned on. (I remember
fondly that in addition to the band
logos, there was a large patch
advertising CLOROX.) With
baggy jeans and gray tee shirts, I
gleefully discovered that I could
look more like Kurt Cobain than
Courtney Love.

So, in retrospect, maybe
it's no wonder that my mother
was surprised when I asked her to
come dress shopping with me this
year. After all, I'd sworn up and
down that I was getting married
in those Docs, and she should just
get used to the idea. It might go a
long way toward explaining why
she brought out the credit card and
told me to get whichever shoes I
wanted.

Well-meaning as my
parents were, and as much as they
gave me space to make my own
fashion statements, I think they're
a little relieved to see that I've
grown up to be "normal" after
all. They insisted on buying the
dress, on getting pictures. When
my mother found out that Bisell
wouldn't be on hand with a
camera, she threatened to show up
at the dance. (Thanks for staying
home. Mom!)

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Above: An impressionist photograph of
Joe McConnick with a work of modem
art at the High.

But the thing is that I didn't
actually grow up normal. It sounds
totally nonnal to call your parents
and tell them you need to buy a
dress because you were nominated
for homecoming court. But let's be
honest here: this is Oglethorpe. The
other homecoming court nominees
weren't there because they'd won
major popularity contests, because
they wear short skirts, or because
they threatened someone in the
bathroom in between classes, a la
Gilmore Girls.

It's Oglethorpe. Some of us
nominated ourselves. Sometimes
no one else would agree to do it.
Sometimes there weren't any other
boys in the organization, anyway.
And even those of us who had sort
of hoped to be nominated were
giggling about the whole thing,
looking nervous at the Friday night
basketball game, groaning about
the effort involved in dressing up.
A lot of us didn 't dress up, because
we had other places to be that night;
on the teams, or perfonning at half
time, or in the middle of a play in

Above: Sometimes the evening is just
more fun when you're not trying to show
off for anyone.

Conant. And, to top off the irony,
I was only nominated because I'm
part of the Tower staff. You know,
that same group of misfit kids I was
hanging out with in high school.

The thing is, most of us
didn't change that much between
high school and college. We just
found a place where it's okay to
be weird. Where the popular kids
don't make fun of you because you
like to read: in fact, there's been
a total 180. Now, kids who don't
read (for class or otherwise) get
funny looks from the rest of us.

It's only at a place like
Oglethorpe that it would be okay
for me to be on the homecoming
court. Here, a lot of us realize

Above: Even at Homecoming. Kira McCabe
cannot resist the allure of the art world.

Far Left: Matt and Miriam pretending to
be nonnal.

that we wouldn't have been caught
dead doing this with the popular,
preppy kids from our high schools.
Here, we can all get out on the
dance floor and collectively prove
that we really have absolutely no
rhythm. Here, we have the chance
to get all dressed up, but we're
more concerned with acting silly
all night than we are with making
sure not to chip our nail polish.
But shh, don't tell my mom- she
thinks I'm a grown up now.

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Student Employment

Petrels hard at work

Some people might say
that going to college is a full-
time jobor at least should
be. Nonetheless, many college
students find it necessary to work
- to ftind the education, to pay
rent, to have cash for spending.

Some students go a step
fiarther. They don't just get a job;
they become their own boss. Jenee
Amodeo and Mike Smith are such
students. In some form or another,
they have become both boss and
employee.

Amodeo works as a
private contractor for a company
that connects music students
with music teachers. This allows
her the freedom to form her
own schedule, use her skill as a
violinist, and still participate in
student life.

"Because I'm a commuter,
it'd be really tough for me to do
a part-time job anywhere else,"
Amodeo said. Working as a
private contractor has allowed
the necessary flexibility. "This is
a good way for me to get through
classes and still make money,"
Amodeo said.

Smith works roughly 20
hours a week in his lawn-care
business, Michael's Lawn Service,
and almost 40 hours at Wolf
Camera, all while taking 18 credit
hours at Oglethorpe. "You have
to manage your time really well,"
he said. "You have to have time
to do your work and get it done.
There's no messing around."

Other students find it
simpler to take advantage of
work-study programs that allow
them to easily
schedule their
working hours
around their
classes, without
the hassle of
a commute
to work.

James Hill

and Amanda
Nichols both
have work-
study jobs and
find that for

them, it's the best way to combine
school, work, and a social life.

"Working on campus is
an advantage for me because it is
convenient for my lifestyle," said
Hill, who works in IT Services. "1
love the hours I am able to work
because it allows me time to study
and relax with friends and family
at night and on the weekends."

Nichols, who does work-
study at the library, enjoys the
fact that "I can walk to work from
class, so I don't have to deal with
traffic. A lot of times my friends
show up either to visit me because
1 work on campus or just because
they are in the library."

Both Nichols and Hill say
they enjoy the lack of a commute,
and the way that working on
campus allows them to interact
more with various people in the
Oglethorpe community. "This
opportunity has allowed me
to make both professional and
personal relationships with many
great people," Hill said. Also,
working on campus makes his job
more fulfilling and meaningful. "I
feel a personal connection with
the people I help and 1 feel it is my
duty to make an extra effort to find
a solution to their problems."

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The third category of
students takes a more traditional
route: off-campus employment.
They prefer not to take the extra
responsibility of being self-
employed, but they may not be
eligible for work-study jobs or
they may have personal reasons for
working off campus.

Kristy Evans, who has
worked at a lawyer's office and
at Victoria's Secret, is just such a
student. She is not eligible for work-
study, "But even if I were eligible,
I would still pursue an off-campus
job because I think it supplies
more real-world experience, since
you have to interact with people
and customers other than your
classmates and professors." Evans
feels that this experience will be
helpful in easing the transition from
^college student to college graduate.

! Aside from the different

lexperiences that working off-
icampus may offer, sometimes
[Students find it refreshing to get out
jof the Oglethorpe "bubble."
I

I Geoff Hetherington is

lanother student who appreciates
!the benefits of working off-campus.

Though he doesn't like having to
drive through traffic to Awards
Atlanta (a company that makes
trophies, signs, plaques, etc), he
enjoys being able to make his own
hours, make more money than he
could with a work-study job, and he
likes his co-workers. Plus, "I also
get to use exciting power tools."

Some of these students
have found jobs that will equip
them with skills that will be useftil
after graduation and others are
earning money to pay bills or to
have savings when they need them.
Whatever their reasons for working
and for choosing their particular
jobs, these Oglethorpe students
have proved that it is possible to
combine their studies with work
and still have time for a social
life while doing a great job at all
three.

Top Left: James Hill, computer fixer
extraordinaire.

Top Middle: Amanda Nichols reshelves
books at the Weltner Library.

Top Right: Geoff Hetherington assembles
trophies at Awards Atlanta.

Above Left: Mike Smith takes a break from
yard work.

Above: Kristy Evans shows off the charm
that has helped make her a success.

Far Left: Jenee Amodeo. \ iolinist.

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Student Publications, Core

Literature

"When the I'becomes 'he' or 'she' literature begins." ~

Dr. Brightman

The Core

A Fair Criticism

It's lunchtime in the
cafeteria. Above the clatter of
forks hitting plates, the voices
chatter recklessly. The topics are
varied the funky, fun styles at
Anthropologic; what insanity a
professor recently thought up as
an excuse for a paper; the new
movies (anything from Get Rich
or Die Trying to The Lion, the
Witch, and the Wardrobe and Walk
the Line); how the Oglethorpe
sports teams are doing; and the

scandal at last Friday's frat party.
And, in the midst of it,
special words ring out, distinct
and calm. It's Oglethorpe,
and the play of these words is
familiar. There are the phrases
and buzz-words: "the self,"
"state of nature," "the blank
slate," "historicity," and "space-
time." And there are the authors:
Augustine, Shakespeare, Aristotle,
and Marx. The students even
speak of the fictional characters
like they are friends and the made-

up events like they are true. "If 1
were Penelope, I wouldn't have
waited..." and "Odysseus is such
a cad" or "Well, Plato thinks..."
and "Aristotle would say."
Ah, the Core!

Oglethorpe students
often grow to have a love-hate
relationship with the Core.
Struggling through some of the
books, one might wonder why
this is important. Sometimes it
even takes until the last year, the
senior, to see how it all connects.

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Beginning even in the
very first year of Core, in the class
"Narratives of the Self," important
ideas begin to rise out of the books
all students read. The questions
that Augustine faced as he began
to adhere to a new moral code help
students ponder what they believe,
whether they have beliefs similar
or very different to Augustine's.
Likewise, students look at Don
Quixote and think about how he
developed morally by adopting
the chivalric code he read about
in books. These two men - one a
person, another a character - devel-
oped as "selves" very differently, and
they are only two among many that
Oglethorpe students explore in the
first year The way that the self is
found becomes more complicated
than the students probably ever
expected. What will their path be?

Then, further connections
are fonned. John Locke's contract
theory, studied in the first semester
of Human Nature and the Social
Order, suddenly pops up again
in Core III; and it all becomes
actually quite relevant to cun-ent
happenings. Students even begin
to consider their own theories
of human nature and society. Is
society primary or is the self?
Does one naturally enter into
community, or is society based
on contract because of needs?
But that's not all. It's not
merely about the good books read
in the first year or the study of the
way mankind forms community
and understands history. Oh no, it's
not merely that at all. There's more!
In the last year of Core,
in Science and Human Nature,
students learn about the way

people have considered their world
and how these beliefs affected
the development of science.
The play between belief and
society comes into focus. Pure
philosophy is no longer the only
thing that one sees as relevant to
cultures; instead, science becomes
important, too, in the consideration
of how societies are shaped.
The non-sequential
elements of the Core cun-iculum
likewise feed into this learning
experience by showing how beliefs
are expressed. Through the Art
and Culture or Music and Culture
Core classes, students consider
the relationship between belief,
society, culture, and art. How
does a person's understanding of
life - his conscious or unconscious
beliefs about the nature of man and
society - play out in his artistic
creations? What does he see and
want to re-create, and what defines
"beauty" to various societies?
One could not leave out
GreatldeasofModemMathematics,
either. The humanities majors
break into a sweat the first day of
class, and the science and math
majors think the Core has finally
catered to their niche. Well,
both are right - and wrong. This
special class develops reasoning

Above: Molly Ellis and Amanda Nichols,
both deeply engrossed in their studies.

Far Left: Ashley Suddith, Matt Corbett, and
Kelly Moran.

abilities as well as math skills; and
along the way, students get bits of
history lessons that further show
how society develops its learning.
There is nothing quite
like the Core. It challenges and it
provokes. It compels thoughtful
analysis and questioning of one's
own assumptions. So, while
Oglethoipe students continue
to lament it while secretly
loving it, it goes on being just
what it is: the essence of the
Oglethorpe academic experience.

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CORE I

Literature and OU

Literature is, like the
Core, a binding feature at
Oglethorpe. In some form or
another, everyone gets a slice of it.

Oglethorpe students begin
by reading a few of the greatest
works in the first year because of
"Narratives of the Self." In the
first semester, all freshmen are
reading the Odyssey, and Homer

binds each to another. Freshmen

may have the tale most recently

in their minds, but upperclassmen

remember the days - some fondly

and others with pain - of working

through Homer's great work. Did

Odysseus find himself, and what

does such a searching process

look like? Later on in the year,

the conversations take new turns.

Having worked through some

books of intervening centuries,

freshmen arrive at Shakespeare

and take a look at Othello. New

questions circulate: Was lago at

fault or Othello (or both)? Did

Othello love her, the jealousy

being a manifestation, or was he

a raging brute? Then, at a quick ;
pace, students look at the dark
and disturbing tale of Beloved.
After the first year,
academic literary life takes various

routes. Some students will not ,

continue on in studying the great

works of literature; they turn their j.

attention primarily to the sciences, |

to history, and to psychology, '

while continuing on in the Core ,

program. Others do, in fact, j

become English majors or minors :

or take a few English classes j
along the way. But everyone who
came in as freshman is bound

together through the literature. \

So Homer, hat's off to

\ ou for the special glue you give :

to the Oglethorpe community! i

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The Tower

The Tower is Oglethorpe
University's literary magazine,
comprised of work by Oglethorpe
students and designed, created, and
printed on campus. The Tower has
recently grown, now publishing
a full issue in the Fall and Spring
semesters, rather than the single
issue per year of the past. Each of
these issues uses a unique layout,
designed by the Tower staff, to
collect and display fiction, essays,
poetry, and visual art from the
Oglethorpe community. The Tower
takes its name from the Lupton
Bell Tower, where the offices were
originally located.

The Tower aims to provide
an outlet for artistic expression
in the Oglethorpe community
by publishing a magazine of
student work. In addition to our
publications. The Tower provides
a regular workshop environment
where student writers can meet
to critique and encourage one
another. We are also responsible
for running two events each year;

Night of the Arts, held each fall, is
a chance for OU students, staff, and
faculty to share their talents through
perfonnance. The evening includes
a display of visual artwork, as well
as poetry, monologues, and musical
compositions.

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Top Left: Miriam Brown, Kathleen
Pedro, Ale.xandra Edwards, and Rachael
Maddux celebrate the release of the fall
issue at IHOP.

Above: Jeff Lura and Allison Martin
during the celebration dinner

Top: Kathleen Pedro packing up Towers for
distribution.

Above: Alexandra Edwards reads the fall
issue. .

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The Stormy Petrel

The Stormy Petrel has been
Oglethorpe's student-mn newspaper
since 1919. We have gone through
many revisions, from developing
new layouts to creating new
sections, as a long line of editors
have tried their hand at mnning the
paper. The 2005-2006 year brings
us all the way to our 81" volume.

The purpose to the Stormy
Petrel is to provide news to the
Oglethorpe community, particularly
the news that relates to what happens
on our own campus. This year
marks our second as a weekly, rather
than bi-weekly, publication. For the
2005-06 school year. The Petrel

also implemented a new section:
Life in the Bubble. This section,
replacing the more ambiguous
Features section of previous years,
is designated specifically for
infonnation about life on and around
the Oglethorpe campus. The page
includes candid photos, interviews
with professors and students, and
spotlights on campus events, among
other features. In addition to Life in
the Bubble, The Stormy Petrel has
six other weekly sections: News,
Opinions, Arts & Entertainment,
Sports, Humor, and Hindsight.

Top: Co-Editors Rachael Maddux and
Miriam Brown.

Above Left: Molly Ellis and Dallas
Greene.

Far Left: Mallory Davis and Rachaej]
Edmondson

Left: Kira McCabe and Eckhardt van dei^
Linde.

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Top Right; ( Back ) Jon Carter. Molly Ellis, Mal-
lory Davis, Rachael Edmondson, Ben Minor,
Kna McCabe (Front) Hannah York, Matt Cor-
bett, Eckhardt van dor Linde, Andrea Wood

Above Right: Ben Minor

Top Left: Dallas Greene

\bove Left: Matt Corbett

Above: Jon Carter and Jessie Pond

Left: Jon Carter, Molly Ellis, Miriam Brow n.
Ben Minor

Ritiht: Jessie Pond and Andrea Wood

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"Being on yearbook staff was one
of my most fulfilling Oglethorpe
activities. Sometimes the rewards
appeared 'small,' as when a scenic
photo appeared in the office after I
complained to Bisell about the lack
of windows. The note read, "Here's
your window." It also boosted my
resume and helped me land my first
job. There were the hard parts and
stressful times, too; but isn't that
just like being at Oglethorpe? Yet
as I love my years at Oglethorpe,
so am I happy that I was part of the
yearbook staff Enjoy the book!"

-Leah Sanders

Copy Editor

2006

"Oh. . ..the yearbook. Last summer
when Bisell asked me if I was
willing to be Photography Editor, I
remember my initial reaction was,
'Are you sure you want me? This
is Dallas, remember?' But I guess
he was sure, and I'm glad, because
I have loved every moment of it."

-Dallas Greene

Photography Editor

2007

"The greatest sign of success this
year is the fact that I didn't have to
do much. I had wonderful editors
and staff, and this book is theirs.
Their vision, their planning, their
work. I facilitated, guided where
necessary, and filled in the gaps. The
2005 Yamacraw was my baby, but
the 2006 Yamacraw rightly belongs
to everyone who worked on it."

-Bisell McWilliams III

Editor-in-Chief

2006

"T cannot pretend that I have loved
every minute of this yearbook fiasco,
but I would be lying if I said I didn't
have fun.

-Meredith Whitworth

Layout/Design Editor

2006

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The Yamacraw

A Letter to the Masses

Editor-in-Chief

Bisell McWilliams III
Layout/Design Editor

Meredith Whitworth
Copy Editor

Leah Sanders
Photo Editor

Dallas Greene
Proof Editor

Miriam Brown
Staff Advisor

Mark DeLong
Jostens Rep

Sandra McCarthy
Layout Staff

Amanda Nichols

Alexa Anderson
Copvwriters

Hannah York

Chelcie Rowell

Jennifer Cornelius
Photographers

Amie Lane

(Assistant Editor)

Laura Callender

Jessie Nilson
Contributing

Emily Gantert

Rachael Maddux

Molly ElHs

Kelly Poor

Rachael Edmondson

Udara Soysa

Jennifer Hofstetter

Dear Masses,

We are writing this on behalf
of all student publishers; we believe
that you must understand why we do
what we do.

In case you have forgotten,
we are the Yamacraw. We strive to
provide an accurate and entertaining
representation of each year at
Oglethorpe, covering its events,
issues, attitudes, and people. Led
by our Editor-in-Chief, senior Bisell
McWilliams III, we do our best.

While working diligently
in our office in the basement of
the Emerson Student Center, we
intrepid Yamacraw editors and staff
members focus on the possibility of
a few peaceful moments in the midst
of publishing chaos. Although
such a moment has yet to arrive,
we do feel confident that excessive
amounts of silliness should suffice
for the present.

Despite the overwhelming
evidence against us, we do indeed
work hard to provide you with this
book eveiy year. In contest with
our regular class schedules and
responsibilities every deadline is
met, eventually. Each spread is
designed, built, edited, submitted,
and edited again, all within five
short months. This being the case we
beg your leniency and forgiveness.

In truth we work for this book
because we love the satisfaction
that comes with completion and
the opportunity to give something
unique to our fellow students and to
the school. We do not regret a single
hour spent, tear shed, book thrown,
or silly moment; and we thank you
for your support.

Yours Very Sincerely,
The Yamacraw Staff, 2006

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Dr. McFarland

As interviewed by Kelly Poor

Introducing Dr. Douglas
McFarland, Chair of the
English Division and w}y joker
extraordinaire.

Where are you from, and what led
you to Oglethorpe?

Dr McFarland tells
of living in Berkeley prior to
relocating to Brookhaven. He then
mocks my openly literal question
and claims that Route 66 led him
here.

Wait for it. I think, there has
to be more:

"I was convicted of a
felony in California, and this was
my punishment." There you have
it, ladies cmd gentlemen. You never
know when Dr. McFarlcmd and his

sarcasm will strike, but I guarantee choose?
you that it will be interesting.

What exactly drew you to
your profession ?

"I have always been
deeply involved with books,"
he articulates. He then tells of
a summer in high school during
which he read an entire book per
day. I stare at him with some
mixture of awe and envy.

What is your favorite course to
teach?

"Greek. And Nabokov."

If you could live anywhere in the
world during any time period,
where and when would you

"Tomorrow in Paris."

What do you consider to
be your greatest academic
accomplishment? "

"I don't like that question."
This fi'om a mem who is currently
translating into the English
Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin
Historia Regum Brittaniae.

Alright, what do you consider to be
your greatest accomplishment?"

"Raising daughters." His
face assumes cm exaggerated and
pensive expression. Here it comes:
"I'm sort of torn between Pride
and Prejudice and King Lear.'"

Do you have any particular advice '
for Oglethorpe students?

"Stay cool, but care."

What if you 're not cool?

Dr McFarland 's express ion
relays that he does not hold out
much hope for those who so
miserably fail to be interesting.

There you have it, and if
you 're looking for some very good
laughs and a surprise or two, sign
up for Core SOL Latin. Greek, or
some Special Topics class the next
time pre-registration rolls around.

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The Writing Center

Last fall, Oglethorpe revived
its Writing Center, a program
designed to help students revise and
improve their writing. Oglethorpe's
original writing lab, "he Writing
Company, was instituted in the
1980's and tutors aided students
with writing and composition
classes across Oglethorpe's entire
curriculum. The idea for

reviving the Writing Center came
from recent faculty discussions
of needed student services
at Oglethoipe. Furthemiore,
Provost Ames strongly asserted
that Oglethorpe should offer
writing support and professional
development programs to students
in all disciplines. In consultation
with the faculty, Ames decided to
refocus the course-specific tutoring
previously offered by the Academic
Resource Center to a writing center
in which the tutors are offered
opportunities for training in writing
across all disciplines.

Above: Brittany Bennett and Jewelia Dakin i
paper.

The primary purpose
of The Writing Center is to
provide Oglethorpe students with
confidential and personal assistance
with any written assignment, at
any stage of the writing process,
for their courses at Oglethorpe or
for professional development. Peer
tutors are trained to be responsive
to students' particular needs, to
help students identify strengths
and weaknesses in their writing,
to guide students to resources on
basic academic requirements, and
to help students build confidence in
their academic and creative writing
skills. Students can either come to
The Writing Center with a specific
focus, ranging from beginning their
task, to improving or clarifying an
argument, to working on style or
grammar, or they can simply ask for
feedback on their work.

According to Jeanne
McCarthy, Visiting Assistant
Professor of English at OU
and head of the new
Writing Center, there
are many advantages
to the program. "One
advantage of having
students tutoring students
is that such tutors
are familiar with the
courses, the professors,
and the academic culture
[of Oglethoipe]. Their
knowledge can help
demystify the writing
process and what may
seem to be, at times.

the

overwhelming

Above: Tutor Rachael Maddux reads
through a paper.

demands of an academic culture.
The peer tutoring sessions provide
an opportunity to discuss papers in
a low-stress environment, without
the pressure of grades hanging over
either the tutor of the tutee."

Furthemiore, McCarthy
believes that there is a special
symbiotic relationship between the
tutor and the tutee. "The benefits of
such exchanges are not merely one-
way. Tutors learn from the sessions
as well. After all, good writers like
to give and receive feedback, and
whether one is self defined as a
writer or not, the opportunity to
discuss ideas and to watch an idea
take shape is inevitably rewarding
and enriching."

McCarthy has taken
personal responsibility for enriching
students' writing experience at
Oglethoipe. "1 would like the
Center to be a place where students
can find answers to questions and
take advantage of all the small and
profound opportunities to learn
available while participating in the
broader academic community of
writers at Oglethorpe."

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Performance Clubs, Culture Clubs,
Boar's Head, and Night of the Arts

Art and Culture

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an
artist once he grows up. " - Pablo Picasso

Student Coffee Break

Cafe Oglethorpe is hot,
suhry and lacking air-condhioning.
Nonetheless, Oglethorpe students
continually venture in and out
of the room. Some students are
staying to sit and talk. They are
drinking coffee or lemonade, and
they are enjoying free candy. Dr.
Victoria Weiss is greeting people,
asking questions and listening.
It's the Student Coffee Hour on a
Tuesday afternoon, and students

are enjoying a break from the
routine.

In its second year, the
Coffee Hour was a haven for
friendship, relaxation and
conversation. Sometimes, people
simply needed to get away; other
times, they just wanted to get
some coffee without having to use
their Flex Dollars, or they lived
off campus and do not want to
pay for coffee. Regardless of why
students came to
the Coffee Hour,
all Oglethorpe
students needed
a place to feel
welcomed, and
Tuesday from 2
P.M. to 3 P.M. is
one place that they
did.

Weiss
started the Coffee
Hour in the fall
semester of 2004
as a place for

students to come to talk to one
another and to her. She said that
it is important for students to
feel that they can connect with
each other and that students want
a place to feel at home. "It's
important to have those kinds of
things in place," Weiss explained.
Students can depend on her being
there every week, even if they do
not come each time.

Weiss heads the Office of
Student Success, and she works to
keep students satisfied and happy
at Oglethorpe. The Coffee Hour
is one way she decided she could
interact with students, listen to
their concerns and respond to
them.

'This is home for a lot of
the year, for a lot of the people.
Home is a place where the door
is always open to you, and people
are always interested in what you
have to say," Weiss said. "And
you have to bring a little bit of that
to the campus."

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T Facebook

The Social Order goes digital

On May 14"\ 2005, after
months of neglect, Oglethoipe
University was finally admitted
into the ranks of America's college
elite.

As we would be
announcing on our long-lost high
school buddies' "walls" for weeks
to come, we were FINALLY ON
FACEBOOK!!!!

For the uninhiated,
Facebook.com is a website where
college students can create a profile
listing their personal interests
and contact infonnation, and then
connect with other students at any
other school that's also part of the
Facebook network. On Facebook,
you can create "groups" that center
around common interests, share
photos with your friends, plan
and advertise parties, and even
see a visual map of your social
network.

In the months since
Oglethorpe "got on" Facebook,
hundreds of students and alumni
have joined. New friendships
and, undeniably, other kinds of
relationships, have blossomed
thanks to the ease of "friending"
other Facebookers based on mututal
interests and other presumed
indicators of compatibility.

However, perhaps because
it's so easy to do, many have fallen
prey to one of Facebook 's most
ridiculous aspects- the tendency

to "friend" people with little to no
discretion, regardless of whether
you were roommates freshman
year or if you discovered their
existence only second before you
clicked the "Add as Friend" link
on their profile.

Indeed, one of the
unintended effects of Facebook
is the way in which it's changed
many of our impressions about
Oglethorpe. Once you get a few
"friend requests" from supposed
OU students that you've never
actually seen or heard of it's a bit
harder to buy into the idea of the
campus as the tight-knit "bubble"
that eveiyone claims it to be.

Despite this fact (or
perhaps in light of it), a strange
new kind of unity has developed
on campus since Oglethorpe got
in on the Facebook trend. Yes
indeed, it's a strange feeling
to be standing in the grill
line behind a person that
you've never talked to or
made eye contact with, yet
whose hobbies, interests, and
class schedule you were just
browsing through last night.

Does knowing that
33 of your classmates think
they can hypnotize you with
their belly, and that 15 of
those people also claim that
pants are a suggestion, not a
rule (as per the group names)

make you a better person? Does it
make you happier, or make you
more likely to make a life, make a
living, make a difference? No, not
hardly.

But Facebook is a testament
to the fact that, even on a campus
as small as Oglethorpe, we pass
by many of the same people every
day without so much as sharing
a smile, let alone exchanging
even basic personal infonnation.
While random acts of gratuitous
"friending" takes this anti-social
tendency to the opposite extreme,
perhaps the small slice of access
that Facebook provides us with to
the inner-workings of our fellow
Petrels is a good thing, not just
a dorm-room fad for attention
whores and bored college kids.

(Who is that guy in the
upper left-hand corner, anyway?)

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Oglethorpe University
Singers and Chorale

Making music one day at a time

Oglethorpe University Singers is
the primaiy musical organization
at Oglethoipe University. The
ensemble provides for the study
and perfomiance of significant
choral literature within the liberal
arts context of the University and is
open to students of all disciplines.
The mixed-voice concert choir of
approximately thirty-five voices,
under the direction of Dr. W. Irwin
Ray, is in constant demand for
perfonnances in the community
and often obliges. In the past
year the Singers have perfomied
for Dr. Large's farewell dinner.

Oglethorpe Presbyterian Church,
Boar's Head, the annual Fall
Concert, and more.

The members of University
Singers rehearse three hours
each week and for their labor
receive one hour of academic
credit and the pleasure of the
activity itself Their repertoire
includes sacred and secular
literature, both accompanied and
unaccompanied, ranging from the
fifteenth century to the present.
It is likely not untrue to state
that every member of University

Singers, past and present, departs
at the end of each year with some
feeling of satisfaction in the work
accomplished and the music
created.

President
Jenee Amodeo

Vice President
Abigail Kurland

Secretary Treasurer
Krystal Evans

Manager
Meredith Whitworth

Communications Director
Rachel Zellner

Section Leaders

Meredith Whitworth

and

Travis Griffin

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The University Chorale is the
audition chamber choms drawn
from the membership of the
University Singers. The skill
and musicianship of the Chorale
allows for the perfonnance
of more complex and virtuosi
music; therefore, repertoire is
predominantly literature for one-to-
two voices per part. This wonderful
chamber group rehearses one and
one half hours per week and for
their time often receives the respect
of the OU community and their
peers.

Members

Jenee Amodeo - mezzo soprano

Aaron Cross - tenor

Laura Callender - alto

Austin Dalbo - baritone

Krystal Evans - alto

Travis Griffin - baritone

Abigail Kurland - soprano

Meredith Whitworth - soprano

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OU Playmakers

Act well your part.

It is the philosophy of
Oglethorpe University's Theatre
program that there is no better
theatre training than the liberal arts.
The greatest theatre practitioners
and thinkers are those who are
able to assemble knowledge from
a wide variety of fields in order
to identify and convey artistic
goals. It is the program's goal to
train theatre students in all aspects
of the discipline during their

four years at Oglethorpe. Just
as the liberal arts environment
provides the student with insight
into and understanding of a
variety of subjects, the theatre
program strives to make students
fluent in all of the component
aspects of theatre, enhancing
their thinking, collaborative, and
artistic abilities. Students

majoring in theatre at Oglethoipe
University concentrate their efforts
in the areas of
performance
and directing.
A faculty with
extensive
academic and
professional
experience
teaches a

wide-ranging
curriculum,
providing the
student with

a rich variety of perspectives
from which to learn. Courses in
performance, directing, stagecraft,
theatre history, theory, singing,
and dramatic literature, as well
as regular special topics courses
in areas such as film criticism,
feminist theatre, and filmmaking,
provide students with a wealth of
studio and classroom experiences.
In addition, our distinctive
internship program allows
students the opportunity to hone
their skills in both professional and
laboratory settings. Most notably,
Oglethorpe's relationship with the
Georgia Shakespeare Festival, the
professional theatre-in-residence
on our campus, provides students
with direct access to professional
acting opportunities, as well as
some of the most sought-after
professional theatre internships in
the southeast.

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Live theatre is a vital pan
of tlio liberal arts atmosphere at
Oglethorjoc. The theatre program's
official performance company,
the Playmakers. is one of the
oldest campus organizations at the
University. Mounting a season of
4-5 full productions per year (some
of which are student directed), the
company is dedicated to providing
laboratory opportunities for student
actors, technicians, designers, and
dramaturges that embrace a wide
range of styles, historical periods,
and points-of-view. Productions
sometimes include childrens'
theatre, musical theatre, and guest
artists. With auditions open

to all faculty, staff, and students,
the Playmakers have mounted
several excellent productions in
the last several years including
student directed productions
such as The Dinosaur Play (Kat
Barrett) and Love Letters (Meredith
Whitworth), faculty productions
The Dining Room, The Odyssey
of Modest}' Forth, and Top Girls.
Each play brings a new challenge
to the Playmakers, who rise to the
occasion with pride and talent.

Top Let: Luciaiia Lazzarino gazes
ponderously into the nothingness in the
Women al the Thesmophoiia.

Top Right:CHff Moore moctcs Rebecca's
suffering in the Thesmophoria.

Above Left: Theatre students enjoy
learning the art of puppetry froin the
master puppeteers of Sandglass Theatre.

Left: Aaron Cross ponders the possibilities
of puppetry during a workshop.

Far Left: Luciana Lazzarino, Rebecca,
Cliff Moore, Mike Willis, and Brent
Rose; just part of the cast of Women at the
Thesmophoria.

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Student Directing

New directors discover the ins and outs

Sing to Me Thrgouh Open Windows

&

The Conquest of Everest

by Arthur Kopit
directed by Jesse Hinson

The Boy - Tyler Nichols

The Clown - Brent Rose

The Man - Bob Unger

Miss Almenside - S.E. Trammell
Mr. Almenside - Ben Minor
Chinese Solider - Bob Unger

Sing to Me Through Open
Windows & The Conquest of Everest {.
performed Friday, February 10,;
2006 through Saturday, February 11,
2006. Imaginative sets, costumes,
lighting, and sound enhanced the
quality of the performances and
helped to create an aura of dark!
humor appropriate for the plays.

Director Jesse Hinson
worked tirelessly and well to pull
of this unique production. A senior, ;
Jesse is no stranger to the theatre but (
is always finding new challenges
in his field, not the least of which
was this project. Hinson comments
on his initial experience with these,
plays in his program notes saying he, I
"considered it an act of serendipity."

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Both Jesse and Meredith feel it necessary to thank those among
their peers, professors, and mentors who supported and taught them
through the ins and outs of directing a production. Although Jesse and
Meredith managed to pull off well planned shows, both claim that they
could not have done so alone.

Special thanks must therefore go to Chadwick Yarborough,
Technical Director and teacher; Lee and Joe Knippenberg for support
and patience. Bob linger for unfailing inspiration, Debora Merola and
Oglethorpe University for production support, Marie Sutherland-Lawless,
S.E. Trammell, Kat BaiTett, Jhana Grant, Brent Rose, and all those
students who worked on these productions either through work-study,
stagecraft, or the goodness of their hearts.

Love Letters

by A.R. Gumey
directed by Meredith Whitworth

Melissa - Charlotte Knippenberg
Laura Callender
Lee Knippenberg

Andy - Liam Knippenberg

Jesse Hinson

Bob Unger

Love Letters perfonned
Thursday, September 22, 2005
through Saturday, September 24,
2005. This staged reading was
produced in an unusual fonn
combining specific directions of

the playwright with the artistic
vision of director Meredith
Whitworth and her cast.
The result of four weeks
hard work was an intimate setting
for a simultaneously dark and
sentimental play. The tireless
efforts of Whitworth, her cast,
and her crew paid off well and

all involved took away different
impresions and lessons. Whitworth
speaks of the experience saying,
"I knew it was a success when an
audience member told me afterward
that the play had made him cry."

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Alpha Psi Omega

Several outstanding
members of the
Playmakers, Oglethorpe
University's theatre
company, are also
members of the Chi
Kappa chapter of Alpha
Psi Omega, the National
Honorary Dramatics
Fraternity (Co-

Educational). Students
who have demonstrated
outstanding
commitment to the
Playmakers in any
number of capacities,
and who hold

distinguished academic
records, are invited
to join during their
sophomore or junior
years. Selection is
based not only on
achievement, but also
on collaborative spirit,
maturity, and artistic
dedication. The current
members of Alpha Psi
Omega include seniors
Kimberly Edminston,
Jesse Hinson, Marie
Sutherland- Lawless,
and Meredith

Whitworth.

Sigma Tau Delta's
central purpose is to
confer distinction upon
students of the English
language and literature
in undergraduate,

graduate, and

professional studies.
Sigma Tau Delta
also recognizes the
accomplishments of
professional writers
who have contributed
to the fields of language
and literature.
One of the largest
members of the

Association of College
Honor Societies, Sigma
Tau Delta has over
600 active chapters,
more than 900 faculty
sponsors, and inducts
approximately 7,000
members annually.

Our members have
the opportunity to
be recognized for
their outstanding

achievements, enrich
their education, help
them make career
choices, and advance
their careers.

Sigma Tau Delta

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Nfight of the
Arts

True to tradition. The
Tower Ogletliorpe's very

own magazine of arts and
literature held an annual
Night of the Arts to celebrate
and display the artistic talents of
students, faculty, staff, and even
alumni. The Night of the Arts
features two main attractions:
an exhibition of the visual arts
and a performance portion.

This year's theme was
Vaudeville to match the Tower's
Fall 2005 issue, and the night
certainly lived up to its theme's
suggestion of artistic variety.
The performance portion
alone boasted a mind-boggling
miscellany: Dallas Greene's
spirited dramatic interpretation
explaining the world's love-
hate relationship with itself;
Alex Edwards's piercing
apostrophes to mysterious male
figures; and Josh Washburn's
mournful, lingering rendition
of "Hey Ya," and many others.

Potentially abrupt

transitions from scathing
humor to dramatic sonatas
to thoughtful poetry were
smoothed by a receptive and
obliging audience, who never
neglected to parenthesize each
performance with enthusiastic
applause. This year's

audience was also particularly
welcoming and forgiving
of victims of nervousness.

The evening's decoration
created a cozy ambience which
undoubtedly reinforced the spirit
of laughing and companionable
creativity. This mood extended
beyond the room of the
perfonnance portion into the
art exhibition, where attendees
perused displays of students'
paintings and photographs
while happily munching on
the provided hors d'oeuvres.

The evening's

unassuming but undoubted
star was Mario Dunkel, whose
perfomiances began and
concluded the night and spanned
not only three musical molds
(jazz, classical, and the college

quintessential: Dave Matthews)
but also two instalments
piano and guitar The lyrics
to "Christmas Song," his last
number, perhaps most perfectly
sum up the Night of the Arts:

"So the story goes, so
I'm told the people he knew
were drinkers and jokers, all
soul searchers like you and

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An International Perspective

Studying in the U.S. breaks preconceived notions

By Udara Soysa

Six months ago in a rainy
evening in Colombo, Sri Lanka,
I received an email from the
Georgia Rotary Student Program
stating that I had been selected
for a full one-year scholarship.
Immediately, all my family
members were competing to read
that email. They were overjoyed!

My initial reaction was
somewhat ambiguous. 1 also
had received a partial four-year
scholarship to attend a college in
West Virginia. I was not sure which
to choose, the Rotary scholarship
or the West Virginia one. I was
stuck in a mental quagmire.

1 finally decided to accept
the Georgia Rotary Scholarship. In
a few months. I was on my way to
Atlanta, Georgia. All 1 knew about
Georgia in the Southern USA was
that it is a conservative place where
Asians are not very welcome.

This is the stereotype created in
Sri Lanka by the world media.
However, a few days after arriving
in America, I found out that the
media was "DEAD WRONG".

I was greeted by an
enomious group of Rotarians in
the airport waving Sri Lankan
flags and calling my name.
This was soon followed by
hand-shaking and hugging, and
shortly my first American meal. I
immediately felt very comfortable
with my "new found family".

Before arriving, I assumed
that the American Rotarians
would be very formal people. So
I took extra efforts before arriving
to read books on proper table
manners and proper speaking
behavior. But quickly I realized
I again was "DEAD WRONG".
My American Rotarians were
fun, easy-going, and cool people.

I was assigned three host
families whom I soon realized
were equally wonderful people.
Living with a host family was a
scary idea for me before coming,
although I had lived with families
of my friends in India, Pakistan,
and other countries. However,
1 soon knew that my fears had
been imaginaiy and ludicrous.
My host mom and dad (Ted and
Delores Johnson) never let me
feel as a stranger. 1 was treated
as their own son, if not better.

Finally, school began.

Although I had met many
American students before, I had
never met so many at one time,
nor had I experienced any long
term personal interactions with
them. Most of my contacts had
been online. But this time it was
real life, meeting and talking with
countless American students and
with students from many parts of
Europe. I already have established
good friendships with so many of
them. This actually I feel is the best
part of my education in the U.S.
As I complete my first
month in college, I feel as if I
have gained years of experience.
My first memories of Atlanta and
my life at Oglethorpe will remain
forever with me as I continue my
education and later return to South
Asia.

Above: Maki Sugita, Triinu Puvi, and
Udara Soysa

Above Left: Udara Soysa and Antonette
Diao.

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Japanese Culture
Club

The Japanese Culture
Club has been reserving
the Dolive Theater
on Monday nights
for the past couple
of years to spread
knowledge about Japan
through live action
and animated film
showings. Each week
the members gather for
dinner off campus to
discuss current events
and recent discoveries.

We also attend Anime
Weekend Atlanta,

Dragon*Con, and other
various conventions
involving Japanese
animation. The Philip
Weltner Library now
has manga (Japanese
graphic novels) in its
collection, thanks to
donations from the
Japanese Culture Club.

The International Club
is an organization
open to the entire
campus; it's main
purpose is to in\ol\e
and unite people of all
cultural backgrounds
to share aspects of
their cultures with
the entire Oglethoipe
community. The

club puts on

numerous campus-
wide social events
which highlight

cultural diversity in
the form of dances,
dinners, foreign-film
screenings, outings to
clubs in Atlanta, and
of course, our main
event, and one of the
largest on campus.
International Night!

International
Club

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Arts, OU and Atlanta

Theatre Works

The coming of the new
year also brings an exciting
development in Atlanta theatre
circles and in the lives of several
Oglethorpe faculty, staff, students,
and alumni. The creation of
Theatre Works Inc., a domestic
non-profit organization of Georgia,
marks the fulfillment of great
expectations for all involved.

Theatre Works is an
amateur theatre company whose
mission is to provide opportunities
for entertainment and education
through the production of "family
friendly" theatre and the potential
for acting camps and classes. This
mission is what makes Theatre
Works unique and special to all
those involved.

The idea for Theatre Works
was first dreamed by OU staff
member Bob linger and Professor
Lee Knippenberg, both of whom
saw the market for family theatre
in Atlanta and have the desire
to make it happen. The group

includes several
OU students,

including seniors
Jesse Hinson and
Marie Sutherland-
Lawless, OU
alums Amy
Tenehan Huskey,
Amy Lester,
Jessie DeMarie,
and Meredith
Whitworth, and
other friends and
family members interested in
using their talents in the arts.

"Everyone involved seems
so excited and willing to step
through this process," says OU
alum Meredith Whitworth, "I
know that I am overjoyed to have
the opportunity to pursue what I
love with people I respect and in
an environment that is well suited
to my personality and talents."
All the members of Theatre Works
are excited to move forward with
this process and hope to have
the support of their friends and
colleagues at OU as they work to
fulfill their mission.

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Top Left: Lee Knippenberg and Bob
Unger in Love Letters.

Top Right: Meredith Whitworth in the
children's production The Dinosaur
Play.

Above: Amy Lester and Lee
Knippenberg in Dancing at Lughnasa
in 2004.

Left: Marie Sutherland-Lawless in The
Odyssey of Modesty Forth.

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Fellowship of
Christian Athletes

We are an organization,
focused mainly on
athletes but welcoming
of all, that is devoted to
creating an environment
that introduces the man
of Jesus Christ through
fun and entertaining
meetings where we
have guest speakers,
music, and games.

V\'e are an organization
thai aims to create an
environment whore
anyone can come to
fellowship and hear
the Gospel of Jesus
C'lirist. We try to
spread the message ol"
faith, hope, and love
in our evei'yday lives
and in our eveiyday
interactions with others.

Oglethorpe

Christian

Fellowship

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Boar's Head

Pigs, Kisses, and Holiday Wishes

Oglethoipe University held
its annual Boar's Head Ceremony
on the chilly evening of December
9, 2005. Derived from the holiday
traditions of English colleges,
the Boar's Head ceremony at
Oglethorpe serves as the initiation
ritual for Omicron Delta Kappa
(ODK), Oglethoipe's highest
honor society. It is also a holiday
concert and feast and one of
OU's longest standing traditions.

The new initiates carried
a decorated litter bearing a real
roasted boar's head into Conant

Theatre, where it was given
the place of honor on the stage
throughout the ceremony. A book
by Aristotle placed in the boar's
mouth served as an allusion to the
English legend of the boar's head,
in which a student kills a boar
by ramming Aristotle down its
throat. ODK members Sarah Opp
and Miriam Brown recounted this
legend at the start of the ceremony.
After the concert, the new ODK
members completed their initiation
by kissing the boar's head.
The holiday concert this
year featured
(as always)
the Oglethorpe
University
Singers and
Chorale, the
return of the

ever popular Salvation Army
brass ensemble, and the debut
perforaiance of the Oglethorpe
University Winds, directed by
student Jon Carter. The program
included Christmas classics such
as "Still, Still, Still," "Chestnuts
Roasting on an Open Fire," and
"White Christmas," as well as
classical pieces, Hebrew prayer
"Ose Shalom," and some more
non-traditional holiday tunes
such as "The Twelve Days After
Christmas." Oglethorpe professor
and ODK member Dr. Victoria
Weiss had the honor of giving the
faculty reading this year, in which
she informed those gathered
of the true history of wassail.
The Christmas tree outside
of Conant, which has its own
special role in the ceremony

Above: Laura Callender plays flute with the newly foraied
Oglethorpe University Winds.

Above: The crowd gathers in the chilly evening air for the light-
ing of the tree.

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since it is lighted immediately
following the concert portion of
the evening, was lovingly adopted
by the president of the University
Singers, Jenee Amodeo. A

few dedicated members of the
University Singers worked the night
before the ceremony at making the
lighting of this year's tree special.
"We were out in the freezing rain
for hours," said Singers member
Kristy Evans, "so it better look
good!" The University Singers
hope to make decorating the tree
their own Boar's Head tradition.
The "feasf following Boar's
Head was notable for one thing:
candy! Garlands that decorated the
lobby of the Conant Center were
hung with ornaments containing
candy, though many of these had
disappeared by the end of the

evening. Tables around the lobby
overflowed with sweets fit to make
your teeth rot. Everything from
cookies to gigantic lollipops were
also present, along with a plentiful
supply of bite sized candy some
students refeired to as "exam food."
This year's Boar's Head
was one of firsts. It was the first
ceremony under new president Dr
Schall, the first to feature edible
ornaments, the first performance
of the new wind ensemble,
and the first lighting of the tree
decorated by the University
Singers. The night focused on
origins: the origins of the feast of
the Boar's Head, the origin of the
ceremony at Oglethorpe, even the
origin of wassail. It was a night
in which to remember, though,
especially for the new initiates, a

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Above Left: The University Singers
perfonn.

Above: Alex Johnson, Anne Baker, and
James Hill kiss the pig.

Below Left: Members of the Salvation
Amiy Brass Ensemble.

night in which to look forward.
The eleven student initiates
for ODK this year were Anne Baiter,
James Albert Hill, Annemarie
Ippolito, Alex Johnson, Rachael
Maddux, Kira McCabe, Mayur
Nayee, Piercen Oliver, Courtney
Roberts, Leah Sanders, and Kelli
Weatherall. There were also two
new faculty/staff initiates, Candace
Maddox and Nicholas Maher

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Parting thoughts

Hindsight

^'Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries,
know people. Let your memory be your travel hag. " - Alexander
Sol^henitsyn

Hindsight does not mean perfect vision

By Leah Sanders

If hindsight is 20/20,
shouldn't my vision eveiy day
be approaching nearer and nearer
to perfection, at least in looking
back on my years at Oglethorpe?
After all, as a graduating senior
I can look back at the past
three years at Oglethorpe and
begin to understand it... right?

Unsurprisingly, and very
fittingly, I don't quite know the
answer. There's a little bit of
"yes" and a whole lot of "no."

When 1 agreed to write
this article, I thought I was ready
to approach the subject. 1 knew
I didn't have anything brilliant,
nothing earth-shattering, to

say. But my idea was good; it
would be an interesting article,
at least, and enjoyable to read.

Or so I thought.

I sat down to write the
article. My fingers raced across
the keyboard, throwing the ideas
together. Yes! This could be
good! The idea was there, and
it began to evolve on its own.

But after 600 words, I re-
read what I had written. It wasn't
even on its way to approaching
the realm of the brilliant. Maybe
it had the germ of a good idea. . .
but 1 had no proof that this little
seed could ever be something
I would want published. It
was, in fact, a very poor piece.

So, I set it aside. I let it idle,
hoping that while I let my mind
dwell on the other issues at hand
(namely, the too many activities
at Oglethorpe that were sucking
away my life), my brain would
figure out what to write. When
I returned to it, the article would
be ready to shine or at least be
ready to approach the acceptable.

But a week later, when

I re-read the 600 words, I was
even less impressed than when I
had first typed it. All that I had
written had somehow lost its
appeal, and I wondered if the idea
was even salvageable. I knew
there was no hope when my sister
asked me, "So, what exactly is
the point that you're trying to
make?" I really had no answer.

Where was the perfect
vision of a senior scanning
the past four years? Maybe
it was just an illusion?

And that process trying
to understand one aspect of
Oglethorpe college life, having
an idea about it, and then failing
to reach a satisfactory conclusion
reiterated something that had

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already been on my mind: there
is so much that I thought I would
have answered by now and
which instead remains a mystery.

Looking back on four years
at Oglethorpe, I still don't know
what it all means. How has it shaped
me in a way that no other place
could? How have I changed? What
has been my place in it? And what
have the years been together and
what has each meant alone?

With a bit of 20/20
hindsight, is it possible to
catalogue my time at Oglethoipe?

When I came to Oglethoipe
in the fall of 2002, I had vague
notions of what college would
be like. I was nervously excited.
People had readily told me what
it would be like, and most of the
prophecy was very encouraging.
'it will be the best years of your
life," they said. Pretty sweet, no?

But things turned out to be a
lot harder than 1 ever imagined that
they might be. It wasn't because
Oglethorpe is a bad college but
simply because sometimes and for
some people, the college transition
(or maybe just college life) isn't
easy. And it most certainly wasn't
for me, especially with other things
that were occun'ing in my life.

Toward the end of
my freshman year, though,
things seemed to look up. And
sophomore year really was better.
But even though there were
really good things and I began to
be comfortable at Oglethoipe, 1
continued to light battles. It was
an interesting mix of emotions, of
conflict and peace, of happiness and
pain. It was something that I also
came to realize is veiy common

in life, in my own and in others.

My junior year was better
than all the rest, undoubtedly.
I lived with one of my best
friends, I learned to relax a
little bit over my schoolwork,
and I felt that Oglethorpe was
fully and finally a good home.

So that brings me to my
senior year. It's an overwhelming
one, the busiest thus far. I am so
close to the end, but just not close
enough; I count down the weeks.

But even though I
can easily dissect the years at
Oglethorpe into the neat little
categories, with summers having
always acted as strange divisions,
I am still at a loss to look back
and understand it. I come away
with many questions unanswered.
Why was my freshman year so
hard? Why has eveiy year been so
different and unpredictable? My
hindsight just isn't very good. Yet.

I wonder how much better it
will be once I leave. I can envision,
in some ways, that my understanding
will increase. With a little wisdom,
I can decipher some hidden codes
and unlock a bit of the mysteiy.
But 1 know that so much of the
years have slipped away from me.

and my attitude toward Oglethorpe
has been ever evolving. Will a
changed life stage take me to such
new perspectives on Oglethorpe
that my memory will confiise
me about what I experienced?

They are hard questions
and maybe ones that don't have
to be asked. Maybe I want
too much understanding and
instead have only questions.

So, I guess I can say
that I have learned at least one
thing to pass on to those behind
me: Writing a hindsight article
is no easy task, if you are really
seeking to understand something
about your time at Oglethoipe.

But maybe this place of
mysteiy is just where I need to be.

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Advertisements and Senior

Congratulations

Classifieds

"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete
promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. " - Bdl Cosby

Wbe S^tomj^ Petrel

says congratulations to this year's

staff and contributors on a job

well done, and good luck to our

graduating seniors:

Miriam Brown

Jon Carter
Matt Corbett

Ariel Crooks
Leah Sanders
Hannah York

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The Oglethorpe University Bookstore
Congratulates the Class of 2006

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Congratulations Class of 2006

from the

Oglethorpe University National Alumni Association

Alumni Office

Second Floor, Lupton Hall

404-364-8893

alumni@oglethorpe.edu

We look forward to your active involvement
in the Alumni Association.

The following are just a few of the many
benefits available to Oglethorpe alumni:

Use of computer labs and computer network
Free alumni email account for your lifetime
Circulation privileges at the Library
2-for-l tickets to select Georgia Shakespeare

shows
Free or discounted admission to most Arts

& Ideas events (theatre, music, lectures)
Free access to Oglethorpe athletic facilities
Discounted university conference rooms and

other rental facilities
And much more...

We hope you will come back to campus often
to attend networking events, wine tastings,

alumni athletic gatherings and, of course, our
annual Alumni Weekend festivities. Join us!

Barbara Bessmer Henry '85
Director of Alumni Relations

404-364-8443
bhenry@oglethorpe.edu

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54

Anderson, David

37

Anderson, Jessica

54, 88

Anderson, Joseph

54

Anderson, Richard

54

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54

Andrews, Jayme

54

Andrews, Tiffani

54

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ica 54

Aoyama, Celine

54

Armstrong, Kathrvn 54

Arnold, Brett

54

Arnold, Eli

37

Arrechea, Max

54

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54

Atkinson, Zachary

54

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37, 69, 103

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37, 103

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54

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54

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Bailey, Adam

54

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54

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54

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37

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54

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54

Baiter, Anne

54, 137

Banderas, Carla

37

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54

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54

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54

Barrett, Kathryn

37, 129

Barson, Catherine

54

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54

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54

Bates, Jessica

54

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54

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54

Belinga, Cynthia

54

Belinga, Rose-Gaelle 54

Belton, Travis

54

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38, 54, 121

Bennett, Brittany

38, 54, 121

Berg, Maria

54

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54

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54

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55

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55

Binkley, Jessica

55

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55

Blair, Sarah

55

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55

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38

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55

Bonham, Jessica

55

Bovell, Adonis

38

Collins, Whitney

56

Bovell, Liselle

38

Cone, Millicent

56

Bowden, Lamona

55

Cone, Willie

40

Bowles, Danielle

55

Cooksey, Taryn

56

Boydston, Traci

55

Cooper, Ashley

56

Braddick, Laura

55

Cooper, Genna

56

Brady, Gillian

55

Cooper, Zoe

56

Braucht, Saye

55

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56

Brebion, Benedicte

55

Corbett, Matthew

40, 113, 117, 140

Breedlove, Anna

55

Corey, Benjamin

40

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55

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56

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55

Cornelius, Jennifer

56, 119

Brogdon, Kathryn

55

Cornelius, Lydia

56

Brooks, Hannah

55

Corsello, Ellen

56

Brooks, Robin

38

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56

Brown, Anastasia

55

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56

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55

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56

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55

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56

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91, 115,

116, 117, 119, 136, 140

Crews, Sherrie

56

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55

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56

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55

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40, 140

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38

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56, 125, 127

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55

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56

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39, 76, 85, 103

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56

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55

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56

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55

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55

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56

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55

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56

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55

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56

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Dakin, Jewelia

40, 121

Calderon, Michelle

55

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56, 125

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55

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56

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55

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56

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55

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56

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91, 119,

125, 129, 136

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56

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55

Darland, Jason

56

Campbell, Megan

55

Darr, Kori

56

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55

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56

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39

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Carll, Jonathan

55

Davenport, Andrew 56

Carmichael, Charles

39

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56

Carpenter, Amanda

1

55

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41

Carr, Kira-Marie

55

Davis, Mallory

56, 116, 117

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39, 117,

136, 140

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56

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55

Davis, Varietta

56

Casey, Scott

55

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41

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55

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56

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39

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56

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55

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41

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39

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56

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57

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55

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57

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55

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55, 75

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57

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55

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57,84

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55

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57

Cheng, Kasey

55

Diamond, Rachel

57

Chimiklis, Brian

55

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57, 132

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55

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57, 132

Choi, Jiwon

55

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57,76

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39

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57

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56

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57

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56

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57

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56

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57

Clarke, Kemoy

56

Douglas, Chiquita

57

Clayton, Courtney

56

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57

Clodtelter, Kristy

56

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57

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40

Druyeh, Yvorme

57

Coach, Lakendra

56

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57

Cobb-Young, Megan

56

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57

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40

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57

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56

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57

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56

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57, 131

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56

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57

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56

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56

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41

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56

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41

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57

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58

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59

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41

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58

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59

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58

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59

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57, 115, 131

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58

James, Marian

59

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57

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58

Jannath, Sadia

59

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57,

113,116,117,119

Grace, Kristina

58

Janssen, Stefanie Jo

45

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42

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58

Jeffers, Akele

59

Ernst, Timothy

57

Grady, Tiffany

58

Johnson, Candice

59

Esterline, John

57

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58

Johnson, Christiana

45, 91

Evans, Allison

57

Graner, Jessica

58,

69

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45,91

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57

Grant, Jhana

58,

129

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59

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57

Gray, Brittany

58,

88

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59

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42,

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43

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59

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58,

80

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59

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57

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58

Jones, Christopher

60

Falconer, Morgan

57

Greenfield, Nicholas

58

Jones, Elizabeth

60

Farrell, James

57

Greer, Meghan

58

Jones, Elizabeth

60

Faucette, Brickford

57

Greim, Adam

58

Jones, Mandi

45

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57

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58

Jones, Rachel

45, 60

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57

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43

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45,60

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57

Griffin, Keith

53

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60

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57

Griffin, Morgan

59

Jones, Taymah

60

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57

Grimes, Gary

59

Jones, Tiffanie

60

Findley, Anna

57

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59

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60

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57

Gulley, Eric

59

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60

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57

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Jozefowicz, Roxanna

60

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57

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59

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Flynn, Erin

57

Hallman, Carly

59

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60

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57

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59

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60

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57

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59

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60

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57

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59

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60

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57

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43

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60

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57

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59

Kelly, Caitlin

60

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58

Hardage, William

59

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60

Freeman, Sean

58, 91

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59

Kennedy, Sarah

60

Freidenstein, Lee

42

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59

Kennedy, Thaddeus

45

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58

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59

Kennedy, Thomas

45

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42

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59

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60

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58

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59

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60

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58

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59

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60

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58

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43

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60

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58

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43

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60

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58

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59

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60

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58

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59

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60

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58

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59

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60

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Henry, Shanice

59

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60

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58

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59

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45,69

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58

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59

Kinsey, Joshua

60

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42,

58

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59

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60

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42,

58

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59

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60

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58

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44, 111

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60

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42

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60

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58

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59

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60

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58

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59

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60

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58

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102

110

111, 137

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60

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58

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59

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60

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58

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44,

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60

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58

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59

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60

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58

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44,

119

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45

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58,

81

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59

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60

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58,81

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59

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60

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58

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59

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60

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58

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59

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60

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59

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60

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58

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59

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60,77

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58

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59

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60

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58

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44

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46, 124,

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58

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59

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58

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44

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60

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58

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44

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60

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58

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59

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60

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58

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59

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46

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58

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59

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60, 119

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60

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58

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44,137

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60

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Lee, Molly 61
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Levine, Philip 61

Lewis, Ailsa 61

Lewis, Jason 61

Lewis, Jessica 61

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Lindahl, Beth 61

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MacHeski-Preston, Emilv 61

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Malison, Halley 61

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Marc, Lvdie 61
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March, Kate 46

Marie, Charles 61

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Martin, Elliott 61

Martin, John 61

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Matter, George 61
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62

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63

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62

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63

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62

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63

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62

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63

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63

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62

Pape, Christopher

63

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62

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63

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62

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63

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62

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63

Menon, Lakshmi

62

Parker, Joseph

63

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62

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63

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62

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63

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62

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63

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62

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48

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62

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63

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62

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63

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62,

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63

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62

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63

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62

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63, 115

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62

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63

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62

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63

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62

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62,

75

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63

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62

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48

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62

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63

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62

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63

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62,

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63

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62

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63

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62

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63

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63

Morris, Jessie

62

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63

Morris, Matthew

62

Pinto, Jorge

63

Morris, Rachel

62

Plant, Jennifer

63

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47

Piatt, Matthew

63

Mosley, William

62

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64

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62

Pomales, Ricardo

64

Mueller, William

62

Pond, Clayton

64

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62

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64,117

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62

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64

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62

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62

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64

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64

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62

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62

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63

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63

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64

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63

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103

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63

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64

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63

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64

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63

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64

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63

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64

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63

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48

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63

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64

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63

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64

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63

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64

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64

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63

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64

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63

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64

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64

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63

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49

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48,

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49

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63

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64

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63

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64

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63

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64

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64

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49,88

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64

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64

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64,75

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49, 118,

119, 137, 13

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64

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64

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64

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64

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64

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64

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64

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64

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65, 110,

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65, 119,

132

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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65

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Watterson, Nicholas 66

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West-Hammer, Anna 67

Wheat, Amanda 102
Whitaker, Stex'en 67
White, Derald 67

White, Jaime 67

White, Nicholas 67
White, Ronald 67

Whitehart, Allen 51
Whitehill, Johana 67
Whitmire, Christopher 67

Whitworth, Meredith 51, 102, 118, 119, 124,

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Whorton, Joshua 67
Wildenhaus, Katherine 67

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Wiles, Hannah 67

WUey, Kimberly 67
Wilkerson, Kim 67
Willard, Justm 67

Williams, Chad 67
Williams, Christopher 67

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Williams, Kourtne\' 67

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Williams, Matthew 67
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Wilson, Erika 67

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