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midfield, faced off for the national title. The teams, titans in the lacrosse world, battled for four quarters, with Virginia coming out on top in the end, 9–7. This is the Cavaliers’ fourth national championship, and Maryland has two to its name. Drew, a redshirt junior at Maryland, was a key midfielder for the Terps during their incredible run to the national championship game. The Fairfax Station, Va., native was the team’s sixth-leading scorer (17 goals and 3 assists) and was a team leader on the first offensive midfield unit for the season. Matt, a junior at Virginia, was a mainstay in the midfield during Virginia’s resurgence in the second half of the season. Drew’s father, Kris, played for the University of Virginia from 1974 to 1978. Rebecca Wentworth graduated from Union College on June 12, 2011, with a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering and minors in Chinese and mathematics. She was a four-year member of the women’s crew team and was awarded an honor for service leadership and outreach. She traveled to Ethiopia last summer as a Davis Projects for Peace fellow, implementing a water system in Boru.
2008
Jeff Hatten has been named captain of the Yale University men’s golf team for 2011–12. On the heels of an exemplary junior campaign, Jeff was the Bulldogs’ top player in the closing month of the team’s regular season.
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for similar western-style international schools in their own backyards. The great irony is that while our political leaders are trying to make our schools more akin to those in Asia — with a heavy emphasis on rote learning, mathematics, and science — many Chinese, South Koreans, and others are looking to the United States for a quality liberal arts education.
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2010 Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has the pleasure of meeting Columbia University student Alison Hard ’08 at a Bastille Day celebration at the French Ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C. Ali interned last summer in the embassy’s press office. Like Mme. Lagarde, Ali is fluent in French and English.
Bucknell senior lacrosse attack/midfielder Charlie Streep has been named one of four captains for the 2012 season. He captains a Bison squad that is coming off a 14–3 season that was highlighted by a Patriot League championship, a best-ever seventh national ranking, and a near upset of Virginia in the NCAA Tournament. Charlie has been one of the Patriot League’s top players over the last three years. He was the team’s second-leading scorer last season with 37 points on 28 goals and nine assists, and his outstanding junior season culminated with Honorable Mention AllAmerica honors. He was named Patriot League Tournament MVP after recording hat tricks in wins over Lehigh and Colgate, and then he scored three more goals against Virginia in the NCAA Tournament. Charlie already has topped the 100-point plateau in his career with 104 points on 76 goals and 28 assists, and he is just 12 goals outside the Bucknell top 10. He will be looking to bounce back this spring after suffering a knee injury during fall workouts.
Over the last three years I have visited top schools in South Korea, Hong Kong, and India and have met with many parents and educators from these countries as well as from China. They all tell me that what they want for their children is a liberal arts curriculum that encourages students to think critically, to apply knowledge learned in one situation to problems they have not previously seen, to be creative, to see the connections across disciplines, and to be active participants in their learning.
Shacoya Atkins, a sophomore sociology major at Trinity University, San Antonio, was recently named one of 13 new McNair Scholars at the university. Named for the late physicist and Challenger astronaut Ronald E. McNair and funded by Trinity University and a U.S. Department of Education grant, the McNair Scholars Program offers academic counseling, financial aid assistance, mentoring, research opportunities, paid summer internships, and graduate admissions guidance.
2011
Alexandra Crerend scored three goals and handed out an assist to help propel her team to the championship in U.S. Lacrosse’s Champion All-American Showcase, July 17–19, 2011, at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The four-team event involved many of the nation’s top high school players. U.S. Lacrosse Regional All-American (at Thayer Academy before her postgraduate year on the Island) Mallory Collins had competed in the previous year’s showcase and suggested the event to Alexandra, now at Brown University.
And they want this within an environment that nurtures the whole child, that cares about the development of values, and that is supportive in pushing students to excel. This is what we do at Loomis Chaffee, and I am confident that we will continue to lead the world in providing an excellent education to young people. To read Sheila Culbert’s blog, go to loomischaffee.org / magazine.