Miranda Timonen ’08, center, visited 5th graders at Lakeside Middle School to teach them about search and rescue.
history, in May. He worked this summer as a media-relations assistant for the Everett AquaSox, minor league affiliate of the Seattle Mariners, and studied to take the LSAT in the fall. He plans to attend law school starting in fall 2015. Yeab Wondimu graduated from Swarthmore College in June with a computer science and engineering degree. He is working as a software developer for AT&T. Johnny Krueger graduated from Boston College’s Carroll School of Management with honors in business administration and concentrations in finance and information-systems accounting. He spent his sophomore and junior summers working as an intern with ESPN and NFL for Microsoft’s Xbox division. Between 2011-2012, he walked on as a kickerturned-wide-receiver for BC’s football team. He traveled after graduation before accepting a position at General Electric Capital in their Financial Management Program, a program that moves its participants every six months to expose them to a number of positions in corporate finance. Cameron Kneib graduated from University of North Carolina as a Morehead-Cain Scholar. This fall, he traveled to New Delhi on a FulbrightNehru Research Grant to look at community acceptance of the poliovaccination program and other vaccine programs in rural areas of Northern India. Cameron will return to Seattle at the end of his year in India to attend the University of Washington School of Medicine. In May, Devin McKissic graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Emory University with a degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology. She is currently attending medical school at the University of Iowa.
2011
Tess Rinearson, a software engineer at Medium, was listed at No. 68 on Business Insider’s 100 Most Influential Tech Women on Twitter in May. Kyle McAndrews received the Most Valuable Athlete Award at the 27th annual Pomona-Pitzer awards dinner
in May for his outstanding season on the men’s college basketball team. Kyle had a successful year off the court as well and was named to the CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors Association) Academic All-District team as a mathematics and economics dual major. Two members of the Class of 2011 were named Goldwater scholars in April. The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was established by Congress in 1986 to provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers by awarding scholarships to college students who intend to pursue research careers in these fields. Jessica Badgeley, a geology major and math minor at Colorado College, spent part of her junior year in Antarctica studying Blood Falls, a bright red, salty brine periodically pouring off the end of Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. She is analyzing the data collected and the results will be the topic of her senior thesis. After Colorado College, she plans to obtain a Ph.D. in glaciology in order to conduct research in subglacial hydrology and teach at the university level. Donna Leet, a biology and French major at Amherst, has worked as an intern with Jesse Bloom at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, exploring a new vaccine strategy against influenza and HIV. After graduating from Amherst, she intends to pursue a Ph.D. in medical microbiology or oncology, aiming to work in biomedicine. In addition to her studies, Donna is a varsity softball player, represents her team
on Amherst’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and participates in the Amherst LEADS Futures Program, a leadership program for Amherst athletes.
2012
Allanah Whitehall capped off a strong season on the University of Puget Sound track and field team by breaking her own school record in the 100-meter dash at the NCAA championships in May. She captured four Northwest Conference titles in 2014 and set or helped set four school records and five total fastest times during the NWC Championships in April.
2013
In July, Bowdoin College awarded the 2014 Abraxas Award to Lakeside. The Abraxas Award is presented annually to the secondary school sending two or more graduates to Bowdoin whose representatives maintain the highest standing during their first year at the college. Congratulations to Bowdoin sophomores Eileen Bates and Amanda Milloy! Claire Revere, a sophomore at Whitman College, made the U.S. Ultimate junior national team for the second time, and the team won the 2014 World Junior Ultimate Championship in Italy.
2014
In July, Darryl Wu earned the secondhighest score and a gold medal at the International Linguistics Olympiad in Beijing. This year, 152 participants representing 28 countries competed solving puzzles in language and linguistics. ■ Alumni news
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