BY CLASS
Service Learning On several Saturdays last year, UWC‑USA students could be found wearing or‑ ange hard hats and respira‑ tor masks while industri‑ ously smoothing the interior walls of the Old Town Mis‑ sion Church. In May, they joined teens from around the area to celebrate its near completion with a concert and an art show.
Partnering with the First Unit‑ ed Presbyterian Church of Las Vegas, N.M., UWC‑USA has worked for 12 years to renovate the church and transform it into a community center. Hundreds of students have cleaned, plastered, and painted. They’ve made adobe bricks and removed walls, ceil‑ ings, and floors. Truly, UWC‑USA students have put hours of sweat equity into this project. Now with two rooms fully re‑ stored and two rooms near com‑ pletion, the Old Town Mission Community Center opens this fall to a host of community events and programs. Citizens of all ages can participate in Spanish-language groups, academic tutoring, and peer mediation training—among many other programs.
“It’s wonderful to see all this hard work bearing fruit,” says Sharon Seto, dean of co-curricular pro‑ grams. “UWC‑USA is delighted to have a base in town and to have a more direct link to the community.” The church renovation is just one of more than 30 community services students have been able to participate in during their two years at UWC‑USA. Last year, stu‑ dents put in 18,769 hours of com‑ munity service—a typical number in any given year. It is through service that the UWC experience produces tangible and gratifying results. “Community service is an essential aspect of the UWC mission,” says Marisol Fernandez y Mora ’13, USA-N.M. “It teaches us more about our‑ selves and brings us to the under‑ standing that any type of ‘force’ is fueled not by an individual but by a community.” —by Emily Withnall MC ’01
George Costow * Diana Denham Daniela Emmerich Lopez Kate (Saldin) Hunter * Jonathan Jones Emmanuel S. Kirunda Javier López Arangüena Jennifer Modrich Jehanzeb Noor Inna Poliakova Magdalena Preciado-Lopez Madiha Tariq Althea Wilson
Class of 2001 $4,115 raised; 15% participation Elizabeth Anderson * Gareth Carter Deidre Ciliento Michael D’Agostino Cristina Gomez Jimenez Juan Camilo Gonzalez Pelaez Josh Hall Adani Illo Anne (Jurkowski) Johnson Susan Keppelman Jonathan Shields Mason Samir Mastaki Vipapat Sinpeng Annie Sorich Angela Vignoli
Class of 2002 $3,415 raised; 33% participation Seamus Abshere Johann Bergholz Villafane Benjamin Dryden Ashley Dunlop * Patricia Enzi Ryan Erickson Niamh Fleming-Farrell Anand Gopalan Nono Harhoff
Dafna Herzberg Nahoko Hoshino Valentina Kachanovskaya * Judit Koppány Joel Larson Celene Lizzio * Ninya Loeppky Gadi Maayan Justine MacWilliam Elian Maritz * Maria Bettina Miguez De Mori Nicholas Mwai Ukachi Okoronkwo James Pautz Trudy Rebert Ryan Richards Giovanni Sorda Emma Tilquin Jimena Vivas Amber Wiekamp Pinar Yurekli-Aycan Tomasz Zajaczkowski
Class of 2003 $2,303 raised; 27% participation Erin Axtell Anga’aefonu Bain-Vete James Byrne Alessandro Carini Gutierrez Benjamin Carlson PJ Christeleit Ovidio Diaz Marin Mohammed El-Mahdy Paulo Gusmao Nora Hanson Mohammed Herzallah David H. Hogue Arzika Illo Milos Jovanovic Charlotte Meyer Jessica M. Mowles * Colette H. Murphy Adriana Nordin Manan Anna Rogers
| * denotes donors who have given consecutively for five or more years
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Anthony Szozda Daniel Tan Ooi Peng Jacynth H. Tibbetts Renate Ziverte
Class of 2004 $2,086 raised; 18% participation Carmen Alexander Felix K. Amankona-Diawuo Vikram Anand Brien Darby Miles Davenport & Helen M. Durham ’85 (P) * Laro Escalada Navamuel Sergey Grechukhin Alexis Howland Sarah Krasny Chao Lu Thembumenzi Shisizwe Lukhele Rachel Markowitz Dylan Elek McFarlane Sanval Nasim Brendan O’Connor Taavi Raidma Jamie Ronson Justin Turkus * Allison West Kristofer Wilson (E)
Class of 2006 $1,350 raised; 20% participation Victoria Alleyne Jorge A. Alvarez Garcia-Tunon Leonor Añó Sidy M. Diakhate Daniel Franz Roman Gautam Atang Gilika Andres Guzman Garza Brittany Hesbrook * Emily Hogin * Anas Iqtait Kevin Francisco Jackson Ugueto Andrew Louw Anne Ulstrup Mortensen Halimatou Hima Moussa Dioula Eng Han Ng * Kayton B. Parekh Anna Z. Qi Jose Pablo Salas Rojas Ramon Taylor
Class of 2005 $2,072 raised; 18% participation
Class of 2007 $3,815 raised; 48% participation
Damian Almiron Bonnin Dimitar A. Bounov Jerome Axle Brown Christina Dragon Elgita Eglite-Wilson (E) Emily Foraker Felix Forster Rasha S. Hosni Meghan Jennings Justin W. Karfo Brighton Mudzingwa Nicholas M. Poon
Anonymous Kamil M. Adamczewski Sheila Agiti Brian J. Almadi Kristin D. Alveng Arod Balissa Shanthakumar Bannirchelvam Lorenzo Bartolucci * Nina M. Bergmar Murat Bilgel C. River Black * Hanna Bobyk
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Samuel Rugunda Likeleli G. Seitlheko Nick Smith Saovanee Somchit Daniel T. Stuber
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