SAS Alumni
Top right: Poster of lnbalMegiddo (SAS 94) in front of which is teacher Bob Dodge, a guest at her debut recital at Lincoln Center in 2002. The featured soloist at the When students leave SAS they go to all areas of the globe and end up in many 50th anniversary celebration of the UN in Singapore in 1995, she also played the Kaddish at Yitzak Rabin's memorial in Madison Square Garden in the same year. different fields. Several reunions are organized by alumni themselves and held Inbal, a graduate of Yale in Music and International Relations, and already a world every summer, with informal get-togethers happening frequently. Many SAS classmates have become lifelong friends. It is the schools hope thatformer students, renowned cellist who has performed around the globe, is part of the SAS "Celebrating staff and parents will continue to stay involved with each other and with the school Our Alumni" series, performing at Victoria Concert Hall in April, 2006, during the in future years. A theme "Celebrating Our Alumni" presented a yearlong series of week of the official anniversary celebration and reunion week. events at the school involving alumni during the 2005-06 50th anniversary year, culminating in an official ceremony and a reunion in April. The school publishes Middle right: Hussein N. El Lessy (SAS '85) Engineer-Scientist and Project an alumni web page, a directory and a magazine to help keep connections strong. Manager: Orbiter Debris Damage Assessment for The Boeing Company and NASA. Systems. Hussein has worked as "Flight Lead"for a number of spaceflightsand has A few SAS alumni are highlighted on these pages. recently been on loan to the shuttle program from the International Space Station Life Support systems team. Hussein spent a week at SAS working with students at all Opposite Page: levels and gave a talk at the Singapore Science Centre as part of the SAS "Celebrating Our Alumni " series. Top left: Kristi Hagen Bauer (SAS '91), at her wedding, January 2000. Back row from left: Ann Cangi (SAS '92), Brandi Becknell (SAS '92), Kelly Goodrich Bottom right: Siddharth Mohandas (SAS 86) at left, currently in a doctoral (SAS '92), Simon Benfbrd (SAS '91), Hans Gartner (SAS '91), Julie Payne (SAS program in the department of government at Harvard after receiving a Harvard '91), Chris Mcintosh, Monique Borthayre (SAS '88), Inger Hagen (SAS '89). undergraduate degree in government and a masters in international relations from Front sitting from left: Cindy Cierakowski (SAS '91), Kristine Hagen (former Cambridge. Siddharth was an associate editor for Foreign Affairs and has written Ulu Pandan teacher), Kristi Hagen (SAS '91), Joe Bauer, Karina Martin (SAS for publications such as Newsweek and The Christian Science Monitor. In 2000 VI). he interned as a speech writerfor UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Bottom left: Kendra Williams Bowers (SAS '90), lieutenant in the US Navy. In Above left:. Micheline Lim Chau (SAS 71), president and chief operating officer of 1998, Kendra was the first American female combat pilot to bomb an enemy target. She was part of Operation Desert Fox in Iraq. Kendra was invited back to Lucasfilm. Micheline was a student at SAS from kindergarten to 12th grade, later receiving degrees from Wellesley and Stanford. She was the Lucasfilm representative SAS to be a graduation speaker in 2003at the official announcement of the opening of the Lucasfilm studio in Singapore in 2003. Top middle: Linda Chambers (SAS '72) and Steve Pringle (SAS '72) married in 1996. Below: Susan Studebaker-Rutledge (SAS 80) and Greg Rutledge (SAS 78) also marriedyears after leaving SAS. Ihey are shown here speaking at the Class of Above right: George Fitch (SAS '65), pictured here at SAS with a student when he returned as a graduation speaker in the mid 1990s. He advised graduates to carefully 2005 graduation breakfast. Whatever it is that brings SAS alumni together after select their path when they came to life-changing crossroads so that they could look graduation, it happens often, and we have many SAS alumni couples. Tom Wagner back on their lives without regret. Fitch most recently served as Mayor of Warren ton, (SAS '90) writes in 2005, "the most life-altering event of my high school career Virginia, for six years. In 2005 he was a candidate for Governor of Virginia. In his was meeting Jennifer Vesper (Class of 1988) my sophomore year and eventually Foreign Service career Fitch was American consul in Belize and then commercial following up on that initial infatuation (nine years later), ultimately leading to our marriage seven years ago this October. " Tom was the official photographerfor trade attache to famaica and France. During this time he successfully created a the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for three years and now has a Super Bowl ring from Jamaican bobsled team that competed in the 1988 Calgary Olympics and inspired the movie "Cool Runnings. " the team's 2003 victory.