CLASS OF 2016
RYAN JOSHUA CAIN WITH HIGHEST HONORS
EUNBIE EMMANUELLE COE WITH HONORS
Yale University
Wellesley College
Rarely do we come across an artist or a
There is a certain lightly restrained
scholar as skilled, as driven, and as self-
effervescence to Eunbie that invigorates
aware as Ryan. He is better than we might
everything and everyone with whom she
ever imagine a student to be, yet he is more
associates. It’s in little things like the Cate
likely to measure his work against his own
Broadcasting Club, music during passing
lofty standards than our occasional awe. His
periods, gestures of kindness and goodwill
inquiry flows from a well of curiosity that is
to Round Square visitors, or simply a smiling
deep beyond measure and it fires an intellect
assembly announcement. But it’s in the bigger
that is forever reaching for more detail, more
stuff too: her joyful scholarship, her masterful
clarity, more reason. He gravitates to his art,
musicianship, her melodious voice, and her
perhaps to give expression to a level of creativity that will ultimately
reliably gentle bearing. And though folks use terms like “go-getter,”
change things in our world. It’s impossible to know what he’ll do
“conscientious,” and “academic” to describe Eunbie, they fall markedly
or how, but it is easy to trust in Ryan. We do it all the time – in the
short of capturing the spirit of this remarkable young woman. She is
classroom, on the squash court, in El Batidor, on the Mesan, anywhere
more like a composer, building a life full of memorable notes, all of
we need wisdom or inspiration or answers. Perhaps that is why he
which when joined together make for a one-of-a-kind melody.
gravitates to Where the Wild Things Are, a story about the worlds within and beyond. Imagine, and it might be so. Ryan is proof of that.
JAMES JI HONG CHANG
JACOB DEXTER-MELDRUM WITH HONORS
Columbia University
Bowdoin College
To get a sense of James’ remarkable aptitudes,
Jake seems to be perpetually on the lookout
you simply have to look at the names of
for ways to help. He started the “Room
some of the endeavors in which he has been
to Read” program as a freshman with the
involved, like the World Changers Project
hope of acquiring books with which to fill
in Laos, where he also received the Prime
a library he had planned for a village in
Minister’s Medal of Honor. Or the Global
Africa. This gave rise later to a partnership
Enterprise Challenge and the Sir Thomas
with the Indigenous Education Foundation
Stamford Raffles Research Scholarship. He
in Tanzania, to his leadership of our Model
is even an honorary member of the orchestra
UN effort, and to scholarly appetites in fields
at Carnegie Hall, a token he picked up
where Jake may be able ultimately to do
while playing there. Little did we know that this unassuming and
real service to the world and his fellow man. He is competitive too,
remarkable student is already contributing on the world stage. It’s
only in the best sense of the word, trying to get everything he can
fitting, though, given the acuity and understanding we see every day
from himself or his teammates in whatever worthy venture they are
from James. He is a quantitative mastermind, capable perhaps of
engaged. He is a water polo and baseball standout – distinctive for
seeing past the present – as he showed in his Inquiry project – to the
his strength, both physical and moral – and for his leadership, which
patterns that reveal the future. He smiles a lot, too, which tends to
always takes us in the right directions.
make us even more hopeful.
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