OneºNorth, VOL 12, October 2014

Vol 12 October 2014

The Alumni Magazine of UWC South East Asia

Understanding and protecting our coral reefs Alumni profiles Graduation 2014 Reunions College updates

Our alumni community

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Alumni services Every student who leaves UWCSEA, regardless of how long they were here, automatically becomes a member of our alumni community. Some of the services that we offer include:

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Reunions and get-togethers A reunion of the 40, 30, 20 and 10 year anniversary classes is held each August in Singapore. Additional class reunions and alumni gatherings are held in various locations throughout the year, planned

Career services Check this section of the site for career opportunities or candidates, or post your own job opening or resumé. You can also set up alerts to be notified of new postings.

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Visits, tours and other requests We are happy to help in any way we can.

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Contents Maps by Frazer Cairns, Head of Dover Campus Frazer discusses world map projections and why we are changing the one we use at UWCSEA ................................................................. 5

Never too old to have a Gap Year – Part II Part two of current teacher, Karen Niedermeyer’s sabbatical story— an account of her adventures and visits with young alumni along the way..................................20

Farewell from Julian Whiteley Julian says good bye .................................................. 6

UWC-wide get-togethers and alumni-organised reunions..................................... 23

Farewell and thank you to Julian..............................7

Alumni reunions and events UWCSEA alumni hosts gettogethers around the world ............... 24

Note from the Alumni Office.................................. 4

An introduction to Chris Edwards, Head of College...........................................................7 Cover story Helping to understand and protect coral reefs Dominic Bryant ’03 talks about the Catlin Seaview Survey............... 8 Graduation 2014 464 students across both campuses graduated in May with an impressive average IB score!............12 Changing directions and promoting conservation through film and personal action Documentary filmmaker and conservationist, Patrick Rouxel ’84, building enclosures for Indonesian sun bears......................14 Ricardo Lobo and the StoneWolf Band Meet Ricardo Lobo ’03, musician and lead singer of the StoneWolf Band....................................16 UWCSEA year in review Just a sample of the huge variety of events and activities that take place at the College....... 18

Humanitarian work: rewarding but not always easy Linda Steinbock ’06 describes her rewarding work with Save the Children............................................................... 26 When the straight line dissolves Chihiro Isozaki ’11 discusses the need to take action even when the right course is uncertain............................... 28 Nine recent alumni weddings ...........30 Eight weddings with 11 alumni brides and grooms! One alumni team member too!

Alumni giving back Alumni give their time and talent to students at UWCSEA, in person and from afar........................................ 33 Alumni interns The past five—all UWCSEA alumni...................... 33 UWCSEA Foundation update Alumni giving and the Annual Fund......................34 Upcoming reunions Don’t miss out! ......................................................... 35

Cover photo: The Great Barrier Reef, Australia Photo courtesy of Dominic Bryant

Editor Brenda Whately Design Nandita Gupta MCI (P) 037/03/2014

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Our map of the world Note from the Alumni Office This past May witnessed the largest graduating class ever, with the very first graduation from East Campus.

We congratulate the students of the Class of 2014 from both Dover and East Campus, on your graduation and your IB results and we welcome all of you to the alumni community.

This July marked the departure of Julian Whiteley and the arrival of Chris Edwards as Head of College.

I’m sure that you will join us in a warm farewell to Julian and a warm welcome to Chris. While Chris was Head of Bromsgrove School in the UK, he played an active role in strengthening their alumni relations and he is now looking forward to meeting as many of our UWCSEA alumni as possible over the coming months and years.

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Construction of the new building which replaces the old Languages Block, High School Office Block and Small Hall, is moving along at a very fast pace, scheduled to open in August 2015. It will house classrooms, High School offices the University Advising Centre, Admissions, Administration, a proposed Heritage Centre, the UWCSEA Foundation and the Alumni office.

Sona, Siti and I always enjoy meeting alumni at events and at the school. If you are in Singapore, please do drop in for a visit and/or tour.

Best regards, Brenda Whately Director of Alumni Relations UWC South East Asia

You may have noticed that the image of the map of the world used in this magazine has changed. Late last year, Bill Lodwick ’76 suggested to us that the Mercator Projection of the Earth we were using should be changed because he says, “It distorts the globe so that countries, oceans and islands at higher latitudes look bigger in comparison to those at lower latitudes.” Since then, the School has been using the Hobo-Dyer Projection that you see on page 2.

Thank you to Bill for challenging our perceptions.

“This map [on page 2] doesn’t make anyone or any place more or less important. It merely presents a different view that may prompt you to re-evaluate some of your assumptions about the world. In the future, but not too soon, I hope this map is replaced with another that similarly makes me think.”

Bill Lodwick ’76

Check out our exciting UWCSEA mobile alumni app!

DOWNLOAD THE UWCSEA ALUMNI APP NOW! 1) Download 2) Select UWCSEA

The mobile app for Apple or android devices provides our alumni with another way to stay connected with each other and with the school. It will also keep you up to date with the latest UWCSEA news and events wherever you are, whenever you want.

The directory feature allows you to search for alumni profiles by name, location and class year, and the ‘nearby’ function lets you see who is located near to wherever you are. The directory is also integrated with LinkedIn. Other features include links to Facebook and the UWCSEA alumni event calendar.

Download it from your app store now! Details can be found on the alumni website.

Enjoy!

MAPS

By Frazer Cairns Head of UWCSEA Dover Campus I have long been a fan of maps. I can pass several minutes (or hours) happily playing with my phone or flicking through an atlas spotting places that I had heard of but, until that moment, had no inkling at all of where they were located on the planet.

My interest unfortunately doesn’t translate into any ability to navigate with any certainty—a good deal of any walk I do is usually taken up with trying to find the start of the path—but I do know that Greenland is the big thing at the top, France and Germany are about in the middle, South America is at the bottom left and New Zealand is at the bottom right. I have the world map on page 2 of this alumni magazine, One°North, open to prove it.

“A man using a map application on his wellknown brand of smart phone walks into a bar … or maybe an airport. Or is it a river? Not quite sure. One of them, anyway …”

However, if we look at the old One°North map (and I dare say most of the maps that you remember from your school textbooks) Greenland is shown as being similar in size to South America and not far off from being as big as Africa. In reality Greenland has an area of approximately 2.2 million km2 and Africa an area of over 30.2 million km2. Our map was showing a country that is at least 14 times smaller than Africa as being of comparable size. Alaska was also grossly out of proportion. It may be the largest state but according to the map projection it could encompass over a half of North America, which just isn’t the case.

The map previously used in One°North is a Mercator projection, originally intended for navigation. In an attempt to represent a three dimensional shape in a way that allows lines of constant bearing to appear straight, the projection over emphasises landmasses towards the poles like Greenland and under emphasises land at the equator. A former student, Bill Lodwick ’76, pointed out to us recently why a school like ours should care: having such a skewed map projection affects how people view the world. Size, position (top, bottom, centre, side) and importance have long been synonymous with each other and so if we portray the world in a way that shows Africa as being the same size as Greenland we diminish the importance of this vast continent. The projection is also centered on Europe with the Northern hemisphere on top when, of course, there is no reason at all why this should be so.

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It may be that an ‘upside down’ map centered on the Pacific would be more valid given that we are in Singapore (when I saw one it is interesting that my reaction was how ‘wrong’ it looked after a lifetime of looking at maps with things the other way up.

And just where did France disappear to?) and we are currently looking at a better way to represent things. Given that I talk about how the school sees education as a force for a more peaceful future, it does seem important to at least try to show the world in a more equitable way. Alas, regardless, I fear I will still start most walks by blundering through someone’s back garden.

Farewell from Julian Whiteley As I approach my final weeks at UWCSEA, I cannot help but reflect upon what an extraordinary experience the last nine years have been.

Before I commenced work at the College I had heard a great deal about it. However, it was only upon arrival and as I began to interact with the staff and students, that I truly understood and appreciated the very special nature of UWCSEA. The ethos was palpable and evident in the activities taking place both within and without the classrooms, many based around service. There was an energy and unbridled enthusiasm amongst the community and a genuine belief in the good of the young that was refreshing.

As we looked to develop the College, the challenge was always going to be how we could do so whilst preserving these essential characteristics. I had never worked in a mission-driven organisation before but therein lay the key. At the centre of our decision making process has been the students and how, within the context of the UWC mission, we could enhance their education.

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There have been substantial changes, not the least of which has been the development of the East Campus, but going back over time change has been a constant theme at the College

and, in that respect, it reflects the development of Singapore over the last 40 years. We have had to adapt to our surroundings and the way in which society and international education has changed. However, in making that statement it implies that we have been reactive rather than proactive and nothing could be further from the truth.

I genuinely believe that nowhere else in the world is there such a talented group of people—Board and staff—united by a common belief, educating such exceptional students, and supported to the same extent by the alumni and parent community. We do, indeed, have something very special here that should be cherished.

One of the key components of our strategy has been the development of our Alumni Department. When we started I had hoped that it would become a vibrant network spread across the globe facilitating interactions between alumni and also enabling you to remain connected with the College.

What has evolved has far exceeded our expectations and we are now in regular contact with well over 10,000 of the almost 20,000 UWCSEA alumni. A far cry from 2006 when we didn’t even possess a complete list of the names of the students who had attended the College since it’s founding in 1971.

I hope you are as proud of the College as I am, for it is a unique place and I shall be eternally grateful for the opportunity I have had to work here. Both personally and professionally it has been the most rewarding period of my life.

I have much enjoyed meeting many of you at various events around the world and also here in Singapore. May I wish you all well in your future endeavours and I hope you will continue to support the College. I have always maintained that this is a great school but the potential is even greater and I am confident that under the leadership of Chris Edwards, my successor, UWCSEA will go on to greater heights.

Julian Whiteley Head of College 2005–2014 UWC South East Asia

Farewell and thank you to Julian This is an excerpt of an article that appeared in the eDunia online magazine.

At the Grade 12 leavers assembly on Dover, the students gave an additional ‘graduate’ a Class of 2014 hoodie and invited him to join them on the bleachers, so the Junior School students could serenade him with the traditional Leavers Song. The recipient of that special invitation was an emotional Julian Whiteley, Head of College, who was to leave UWCSEA after nine years of service and commitment to the College.

It was a significant period for UWCSEA. The changes since Julian joined in 2005 has been extraordinary. Growing from 2,700 to 5,300 students, opening a second campus, doubling the number of scholars, transitioning to a new admissions policy, setting up the Centre for International Education, Alumni Relations and the Foundation … through these and many other initiatives, Julian has furthered the ambition of the College through courageous and visionary leadership.

Charles Ormiston, Chair of the UWCSEA Board of Governors, worked closely with Julian on the opening of East Campus and supported his leadership of such crucial educational initiatives as the iLearn programme and the curriculum articulation project, as well as the building programme on Dover Campus.

At Julian’s farewell dinner, Charles spoke eloquently of Julian’s achievements, but made the point that it was Julian’s ability to manage partnerships that marked him out as an exceptional leader. “It takes a special kind of leader to have both the humility and the confidence to truly partner with others,” he said, “and Julian has been able to effect change by building positive partnerships with his colleagues and external groups and individuals, all in the service of what’s best for students, and what’s best for the College.” He also remarked on Julian’s sense of timing, his ability to know the best time to raise an issue and how “almost every one of his big ideas were several years in gestation

as he figured out when, not if.” Finally, Charles paid tribute to Julian’s honesty and integrity, and his moral compass, “What Julian brought to all his major accomplishments was the desire to fulfill the guiding statements of the school; his paramount objective when building the second campus was simply to ensure that more children had an opportunity to benefit from a UWC education.”

It is fair to say that Julian’s hope has been fulfilled. The College is better because he was here.

An introduction to Chris Edwards, Head of College

Mr Edwards explained how the College found its way into his life: pleased as he was with his position in redefining the programme for arts, service and sports, strengthening alumni relations, and facilitating local and international expansion of Bromsgrove School, he visited UWCSEA for a conference a few years back. He described falling in love

with the energy of the movement and strength of the community. It seemed to him that the College was completely dedicated towards the UWC mission, and that the community actually did, rather than merely talk—especially with reference to the robustness of the service programme. This in conjunction with the academic, sport and activities record, made the College unique in his eyes. During that visit Mr Edwards decided that he would immediately apply if there was to be an opening.

He is, in his words, thrilled to be given the opportunity to lead a community of leaders in a movement he supports so strongly.

We look forward to seeing Mr Edwards around the campuses and wish him the best.

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Aditya Krishnan, Grade 11 student on Dover Campus, spoke with Chris Edwards on his visit to Singapore in May. This is an excerpt of an article that appeared in the online magazine eDunia.

From the start of the academic year, the College community has welcomed Chris Edwards as the ninth Head of College. Mr Edwards assumed this role after completing a decade serving as Headmaster of Bromsgrove School, an independent K–12 institution in England offering IB and A levels. His career in education in the 13 years prior to this involved teaching in other British schools in the UK, São Paolo and some experience in Asia in his early career.

Helping to understand and protect coral reefs through imagery – the Catlin Seaview Survey

By Dominic Bryant

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Dominic Bryant Class of 2003 UWCSEA 1996–2003 The Catlin Seaview Survey is a global coral reef survey which aims to reveal the world’s coral reefs in high resolution 360° panoramic images. I have the privilege of earning my PhD as one of the Catlin Oceans Scholars at The University of Queensland’s Global Change Institute (GCI). The GCI is the lead scientific partner of the Catlin Seaview Survey, and has the responsibility of extracting scientific ecological information on the current condition of the world’s coral reefs from the images under the direction of leading climate change and coral reef scientist, Professor Ove HoeghGuldberg, the Chief Scientist on the project and GCI Director. During my

time so far with the Catlin Seaview Survey, I have had the opportunity to travel the length of the Caribbean and now the Coral Triangle in the IndoPacific region.

Why coral reefs?

Despite covering less than one percent of the earth’s surface, coral reefs provide food and livelihoods for over 500 million people worldwide. They also provide protection from storms, waves and open seas for coastal communities1 creating peaceful and productive lagoon environments. However, coral reefs are currently experiencing decline at a rate faster than any ecosystem in earth’s history, with many reefs losing 40-50% coral cover in the last 30 years.1 This loss is due to various threats that cause physical damage or stress to the corals from both local (e.g., overfishing, reduction in water quality, crown of

thorn starfish outbreaks, storms, and coastal hardening etc.) and global (e.g., global warming and ocean acidification) drivers. The cumulative effects of increased population pressure adjacent to reefs and increased carbon emissions worldwide have left reefs less resilient to recover from an impact such as a tropical storm or coral bleaching event.

If corals are unable to recover, entire colonies can die. Colonies of thousands of individual polyps are no longer able to perform the process of calcification, or the creation of the internal skeleton that is the basis for the coral structure.

This leaves the colony unable to defend itself from being overgrown by faster growing macro algae. This is known as a phase shift, where macroalgae become the more dominant life form in the ecosystem, instead of coral.

Many Caribbean reefs have undergone a catastrophic phase shift from coral

SVII camera on Glover’s Reef, Mexico

reefs to algal-dominated systems since the 1970s. 2 Current research being conducted using replicated patch reefs reconstructed in experimental tanks within the Coral Reef Ecosystems Laboratory at The University of Queensland (UQ) is showing coral reefs will face very serious consequences from ocean warming and acidification in the next 50-100 years if current carbon emission trajectories continue.

This could ultimately result in coral reefs being unable to recover and most likely disappearing for thousands of years.3

and income, residents within these coastal communities face starvation and/or resettlement. I have witnessed this on remote islands off the coast of Borneo, where the effects of dynamite fishing have left populated islands without a source of protein.

Perhaps more pressing and less obvious is what happens to the ocean’s many sources of food. Coral reefs provide a myriad of hiding spots for all sizes of fish and other edible species that live on coral reefs, but without the hard structure of a coral reef, there are no more ‘hiding spaces’. These hiding spaces provide refuge from predators on the reef such as sharks, barracudas and other large reef fish. Approximately 450 million people living within coastal communities of the East-Asia Pacific region live below the poverty line, getting by on less than AUD$2 a day.

Without the reef as a source of protein

Unfortunately less than one percent of people on earth have the opportunity to witness the beauty and wonder of a coral reef first hand. Many people who rely on coral reefs do not get the opportunity to see what a coral reef is supposed to look like, let alone understand the impact coral reefs have on their lives.

The importance of imagery One of the challenges facing coral reefs is that they are underwater, meaning they are ‘out of sight and out of mind’ for most people. If you have ever spoken to people from older generations about coral reefs, you may have heard them

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From a human resources perspective, this essentially renders the ecosystem services (e.g., tourism, fishing, and coastal protection) provided by coral reefs useless. Without the reef, there will be a serious drop in tourism income from activities such as diving and snorkeling.

Tourists will literally find better things to do than visit an iconic site that is

meant to have lots of coral but has none. The Great Barrier Reef alone attracts roughly 1.6 million tourists a year, generating over AUD$5 billion a year for the Australian economy and providing 63,000 tourism related jobs in the region.

Dominic Bryant Dominic is a UWCSEA alumnus from the Class of 2003. Dominic started diving with his family around the islands of Pulau Aur and Pulau Tioman off the east coast of the Malaysian Peninsula. A trip to the Maldives in 1997 first spurred his interest in marine biology, but after seeing first hand the impacts of overfishing, dynamite fishing, marine debris, and other human impacts within South East Asia, he knew that he wanted the conservation of marine environments to be his research focus. Dominic graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology and Aquaculture from James Cook University in Townsville and a Masters of Philosophy in Marine Conservation from the University of Tasmania.

Dominic joined the Catlin Seaview Survey team in 2013 as a volunteer diver on an expedition to the Caribbean. In 2014, he was awarded a PhD scholarship

by Catlin and UQ. Over the next three years, he will focus on looking at how coral reefs are affected by human disturbances. He will also join the field expeditions as a member of the shallow reef team surveying the Coral Triangle in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Dominic focusing the camera

say something along the lines of “this site was a lot better 10 years ago!”

But without any proof of what a reef looked like, our perception of a healthy reef changes to what we see in front of us. Perceptions of healthy coral reefs are often referred to as being on a shifting baseline; a healthy reef today may have been considered an unhealthy reef a decade ago. Documenting the current condition of coral reefs now, means we can observe changes they face in an uncertain future of increased environmental stresses from human-induced climate change and population pressure.

There is a considerable amount of time and effort in getting images to the masses by the project originators Underwater Earth. Underwater Earth is a not-for-profit organisation run by a team of ex-advertising experts who are dedicated to supporting and promoting ocean science and raising global awareness of ocean issues. Imagery is made freely available on Google Street View, allowing anyone to have virtual dive experience from the comfort of their own home. This outreach tool has already attracted a following of 3.5 million followers on social media networks. This is an integral part of the

Catlin Seaview Survey because it gives the public awareness about coral reefs and the fact that they are currently in considerable danger.

The next challenge is showing the condition of the world’s reefs in a scientific manner, where methods are carried out under strictly standardised scientific protocols across different locations. The Catlin Seaview Survey uses an SVII camera to collect images.

The camera has three digital SLR cameras inside a housing, synchronised to take pictures every three seconds.

The camera is attached to a Diver

Propulsion Vehicle, allowing us to travel up to 2 kilometres in a single transect, collecting approximately 900 360° panoramic images.

For coral reef information, the bottom camera is positioned so it faces the reef, and the image is then cropped to create a standardised 1m2 quadrat of the bottom. Images are then annotated in an online interface called Coral Net, which uses automated computer vision technology developed by the SCRIPPS Institute of Oceanography. This rapidly processes coral reef conditions and assesses important information such as the percentage of hard coral cover or percentage of macro algae cover.

There is also ability to collect important information about how coral reefs are affected by human disturbances, and this is what I plan to focus on partially for my PhD project.

The images (in all their different formats) go onto the open access Catlin Global Reef Record (www. globalreefrecord.org), an initiative of Underwater Earth with scientific protocols developed by scientists from the GCI. There are teams currently working on Citizen Science initiatives that will allow the public to be involved in analysing the images based on their own interests, whether it is looking at corals or identifying reef fish. This provides people around the

world a greater sense of ownership and understanding when it comes to protecting our coral reefs.

The responsibility of understanding climate change: Catlin and UQ The Catlin Group is a global re-insurance company, operating out of 55 offices in 21 countries. They believe they need to understand how current and future risks to our climate and populations could change the future of insurance. They see the acquisition of this knowledge as a duty of care and in the past also sponsored an Arctic Survey from 20092011, which investigated environmental changes in the Arctic. They now fund the Catlin Seaview Survey.

Catlin understands how important coral reefs are to coastal communities and how important it is to measure change with a scientifically appropriate method. They also sponsor education programmes for both the Seaview and the Arctic Surveys. The school education programme is conducted by Digital Explorer, and provides schools with syllabus focused on the oceans.

This is opening the minds of the next generation to both the beauty and value of coral reefs, as well as the risks to their existence.

committed to the sustainability of the world’s research through its research and learning practices. The GCI is situated within UQ’s St Lucia Campus, inside a “living building” designed to work with the environment to save energy and reduce emissions. Staff working in this building are generating, as opposed to consuming, energy. The GCI is a multi-disciplinary research institute focused on finding solutions to the challenge of global change in four key areas: food security and landuse, healthy oceans, renewable energy, and transforming policy, institutions and society. GCI is also involved in delivering the free tropical coastal ecosystems course, available online at UQx (http:// uqx.uq.edu.au/) and edx (https://www. edx.org/) websites. This university style module allows students to learn about tropical coastal ecosystems via video lectures and online assessments.

All aspects of the Catlin Seaview Survey serve to achieve the goal of breaking through the “out-of-sight, outof-mind” barrier that has obstructed marine conservation efforts in the past.

This project has the capacity, through the efforts of all involved, to reach an extensive range of people to encourage the conservation of our reefs for future generations.

The UQ in Australia is one of the leading research institutions in the world, and is

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O. Hoegh-Guldberg, Coral reef ecosystems and anthropogenic climate change. Reg. Envir. Chang. 11, S215-S227 (2011); published online EpubMar (10.1007/s10113-010-0189-2).

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T. P. Hughes, Catastrophes, phase-shifts, and large-scale degradation of a caribbean coral-reef. Science 265, 1547-1551 (1994); published online EpubSep 9 (10.1126/ science.265.5178.1547).

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S. G. Dove, D. I. Kline, O. Pantos, F. E. Angly, G. W. Tyson, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, Future reef decalcification under a business-as-usual CO2 emission scenario. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 110, 15342-15347 (2013); published online EpubSep (10.1073/pnas.1302701110).

Fishnet seen in St Vincent

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CONGRATULATIONS TO

Outstanding IB Diploma results of Class of 2014

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UWCSEA

Average points

29.9 Worldwide (2013)

99.8% UWCSEA

Pass rate

For further details, please see the UWCSEA website, www.uwcsea.edu.sg

79% Worldwide (2013)

TO THE CLASS OF 2014 Our graduating Class of 2014 was the largest ever—464 students representing 49 nationalities joined the UWCSEA alumni community in May. Viewers from over 60 countries watched online. Before graduation, Dover students continued the tradition of themed dress-up and awards days and East Campus created some traditions of their own including the Grand Walk through campus on their last day of class.

To view a brief highlights video of graduation day, visit the following URLs: Dover: http://bit.ly/1qPblD9 | East: http://bit.ly/1pLiX3l

27.4% UWCSEA

6.4% Worldwide (2013)

UWCSEA

28.2% Worldwide (2013)

Percentage receiving bilingual diploma

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Percentage receiving 40+ points

22.6%

Pat in the cage with Bernie and Wawang

Changing direction and promoting conservation through film and personal action

By Brenda Whately

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Patrick Rouxel Class of 1984 UWCSEA 1982–1984 Changing direction is not new to Patrick Rouxel. Having achieved a BA in Humanities from the University of California at Berkeley, he decided to pursue a medical degree in Paris. After three years of medical school he knew it wasn’t right for him so he went on to complete a further BA at the Sorbonne, this time in Comparative Literature.

Since then, Patrick’s career has taken a couple of further changes in direction, and may be about to take another.

In 1993 Patrick began working in the film industry, specialising in the production of CGI (computer generated imagery) and special effects, eventually becoming a special effects supervisor for feature films. After 10 years he began to yearn for something else. He says, “I wanted to give more meaning to my life.” In 2003, he made a trip back to Asia, and seeing the extent of the deforestation in Sumatra he decided to use his film-making expertise to raise awareness about the plight of wildlife suffering from human destruction of its habitat. In 2004 he produced Tears of Wood, a silent film about the Indonesian rainforest and the orangutans that inhabited it from a male orangutan’s

“ I put all the bears together.

They became friends right away and it was blissful to watch them play.” point of view. In 2005 he created a documentary set in Cameroon about forest monitoring. In 2005 his film Losing Tomorrow was a return to the Indonesian rainforest with an insight into the logging, pulp and paper, and palm oil industries and their effect on the forest. He then filmed the reactions of students, teachers and villagers who had watched the film and created an eight-minute open letter film to the President of Indonesia called Dear M. President. In 2007 he was commissioned

by WWF Gabon to produce The Cathedral Forest, a film about the trade in elephant tusks in the forest of Minkebe. In 2009 he travelled back to Indonesia where he produced a film

Green

called Green, which has won a number of global awards, including “Best of Festival” at the two most acclaimed wildlife film festivals, Jackson Hole in the USA and Wildscreen in the UK. It is a powerful story of a female orangutan named Green who has lost her home, her child and her will to live, told from her point of view.

In late 2009, Patrick moved to Brazil to create a number of documentaries on subjects such as forest-fire-fighters in the Amazon, and the harsh impact of the cattle and soy industries on the rainforest in a film called Alma. Then it was back to Africa for a film about a patch of forest in the Congo, home to gorillas, chimpanzees and elephants, to persuade authorities to prevent logging there. Back in Indonesia in 2011, he created a short film to help put an end to the use of ‘dancing macaques’ and in 2012 he moved on to films promoting awareness of the Indonesian sun bear.

“We spent a whole year together in the forest.”

Patrick is now spending his time between Indonesia and France where he is working with, and producing a

“Desi, Kevin and Hilda are victims of deforestation and human greed.”

Within six weeks, the male was killed by another wild sun bear, but the female made it. He says, “We spent a whole year together in the forest until she began to get more independent and now after two years, she is still out there, living her life. She comes back to camp every so often, eats, sleeps under cover on rainy nights and then heads back off.”

Patrick attributes his becoming a foster mother to these cubs to the fact that he has no children of his own. “I gave my love to the cubs as if they were my own children and they have given me a lot back in return—a magical relationship with an animal, free and wild at heart.”

More recently, coming across three bears, Desi, Kevin and Hilda in cages at Orangutan Foundation International (OFI), too old and habituated to mankind to be re-introduced to the wild, Patrick took action. “Every day I got rotting logs from the nearby forest to give to the bears. They loved ripping through them to get to the termites and cockroaches.

They just wanted to play and be occupied. With approval from OFI, I added extensions to Kevin’s cage to make it more spacious and comfortable and I put all the bears together. They became friends right away and it was blissful to watch them play.”

Patrick says, “Desi, Kevin and Hilda are victims of deforestation and human greed, and have done nothing to deserve life imprisonment. They were lucky to be handed over to OFI, and are lucky to be together, but they are in need of space and things to do.” Again with the approval of OFI, Patrick has created a one-hectare forest enclosure next to the Orangutan Care Centre where the three will be released. He has also spent the last three years filming these and other sun bears and the resultant documentary is in post-production.

“I wanted to give more meaning to my life.”

Knowing of another eight captive sun bears that need help, and knowing of only one so-called sun bear sanctuary in Indonesia that he says looks more like death row than a sanctuary for its 50 bears, Patrick has created a non-profit organisation called Help the Bears and plans to do exactly that: help captive sun bears in dire need of better living conditions. He is also considering taking over the management of the sanctuary or creating a new one. He says: “After university, I did 10 years of special effects, then 10 years of film making— it’s now time for me to give the next 10 years of my life to the sun bears. I feel so close to them, I just can’t move on to something else.”

To view the film Green, visit http://www.greenthefilm.com To view the film Alma, visit http://www.almathefilm.com To learn more about Patrick’s sun bear enclosure: http://help3sunbears.blogspot.com

Bernie

To contact Patrick, please find him on the alumni website or check with the Alumni department.

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Patrick was born in France but lived in Kuala Lumpur from the time he was five years of age until he came to Singapore as a young teen, first to the French school and then to UWCSEA. For Project Week, he travelled to Sabah in Borneo, where he says he first fell in love with the Indonesian rainforest and its wildlife. He says, “At UWCSEA I had opportunities for discovery that I wouldn’t have had in another school.

Even so, my deep understanding of the gravity of the environmental situation world-wide, didn’t come until later.”

film about sun bears. His deep interest in them began somewhat accidentally.

In 2011 while in Indonesia to film some orangutan rescues by an NGO there, he heard of a sun bear cub being held in a local government office. On arrival he found a tiny, sick cub in a box. He convinced the official to let him take it to a clinic and in the process of caring for the orphan, he became quite attached to it. After it recovered, he took some advice on how to release it back into the wild, living with the cub in the forest and staying close until it felt comfortable enough to go off on its own. He did this for three months until it disappeared and he has not seen him again. As the cub was not tagged, he doesn’t know what became of him.

However, when he heard of two more cubs at an NGO that needed to be released, he felt he should try again.

This time he used tracking implants.

Ricardo and the StoneWolf Band performing at Music Matters, Singapore

Ricardo Lobo and the StoneWolf Band

By Brenda Whately

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Ricardo Lobo Class of 2003 UWCSEA 1996–2003

‘Born in Lisbon but made in Singapore,’ singer song-writer and musician, Ricardo Lobo came to Singapore with his family when he was just four months old and stayed until he graduated from UWCSEA 18 years later. I spoke to Ricardo in May via a skype call to Lisbon, where he is now living, writing and performing his music.

followed by a year in Dublin where he worked to replace the equipment stolen from his van two weeks after he had arrived there, and has now been back in Lisbon, the city of his birth, for the past four years. In early 2012 he started StoneWolf. Performing a few gigs by himself at first, he began to meet more musicians and his band grew. According

“Having lived in Singapore until I was 18, it’s a special touch to come back to play.”

At the time I spoke to him, Ricardo was planning a return to Singapore to perform at this year’s Music Matters festival. His folk/rock/roots/alternative band, The StoneWolf Band is the first Portuguese band ever to be invited to perform in Singapore’s festival. Ricardo said, “Having lived in Singapore until I was 18, it’s a special touch to come back to play.”

After graduating from UWCSEA in 2003, Ricardo attended Durham University, spent some further time in the UK,

to Bandcamp website, StoneWolf, “are mothered by folk and fathered by rock, adding glimpses of blues and reggae in their quest to find the groove!” Ricardo says their sound has evolved and expanded as each new member of the band has brought a different background and their own unique influence to it.

The band has performed at major events and festivals in Portugal including the MUSA Festival and Mexefest as well as Live from Portugal and the EP Security Cam Sessions. Their 2013 EP also did well

on release. At the Music Matters festival in Singapore in May 2014, they gave four performances over four nights, with the final performance on the main festival stage. In the months since then, they have released an album called Fearless.

There are two singles included in the album, “My Ukulele” and “Gotta Bounce”. The latter is a song that Ricardo says is inspired by, “his government’s exploitation of its people and the need for it to start doing what is right regarding jobs, education and the health system.”

Ricardo attributes his biggest musical influence to his older brother, Goncalo.

He says, “My love of music dates back to the time I spent practicing in the garage with Goncalo, playing drums and an old guitar, and discovering new bands by raiding his CD collection.”

Sadly, Goncalo passed away suddenly in August 2009 in London. Ricardo has dedicated his new album to his brother.

On the heels of a music tour in Portugal, they arrived in Singapore in May to perform the four shows at Music

Matters. While they were here, although they were busy, Ricardo managed to squeeze in some time to meet up with friends and see some of Singapore’s new sights. His last visit to Singapore was a three-day stop-over on his way to Australia last year for a friend’s wedding.

Prior to that he had not been back for several years.

When asked what his greatest memories of UWCSEA are, he says, “How everyone got along regardless of background and nationality, along with the ambiance between the teachers and students. I loved the campus, and the after-school activities were great. I played football and rugby, coached by Andy Cockburn and James Hackett [both of whom still teach at the school] with tours to KL and Bangkok. I still have the medals! They are good memories.”

Returning to Portugal from Singapore, the band played a gig in Lisbon and the Festival Med in Loule, Algarve. They plan to tour and build their fan base in Portugal and then branch out to other countries. Ricardo says that his future

“Ricardo attributes his biggest musical influence to his older brother, Goncalo.” aspirations include a music tour of Australia and Southeast Asia. Hopefully he will be back soon.

I highly recommend listening to the music of Ricardo and his StoneWolf Band, if you haven’t heard them yet.

You can find them at the links below.

Performing at Music Matters Singapore: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ricGZRfFM Performing at EP Security Cam Session: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=np3U3UStulQ Official YouTube channel: http://www. youtube.com/user/thestonewolfband Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ tswbmusic Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ stonewolfband

StoneWolf Band

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UWCSEA year in review This is just a sample of some of the activities and events that took place on both campuses during the 2013/2014 academic year.

By Meerabelle Jesuthasan and Natasha Hornell-Scott, members of the Student Alumni Council

A Classroom in the sea

All members of the College community were invited to swim as many laps as they could on Friday, 25 April to raise funds for the Global Concern SurfAid in this impressive 12-hour event.

T2T: Monastic Education Development Group visit In March, as part of an ongoing collaboration with the Burmese Monastic Education Development group, UWCSEA Dover hosted a group of monks from Myanmar with the goal of helping to develop the learning systems in monastic schools.

The monks and teachers were very involved with the students, who in turn were exposed to a different side of education.

Swim 4 Life (previously 24 Hour Swim)

Asian Arts and Culture Week

One of the many Grade 9 outdoor education trips available this year, the dive trip to the Gili Islands in Lombok, Indonesia involved 33 Grade 9 students and six staff from both campuses. The group worked with the Gili Eco Trust on their BioRock Reef Restoration project, learning about conservation and the problems faced by marine ecosystems while undertaking their diving certification.

With the goal of deepening cultural appreciation and understanding, East Campus held its inaugural Asian Arts and Culture Week. This year’s culture of focus was Bali, with performances and workshops for students of all ages.

Focus Africa Noon to Night Run The Cancer Patients Association GC on Dover Campus organised a charity run, ‘Noon to Night’ where students formed groups to run a 12-hour race with the aim of raising money for this non-profit organisation. It was very well attended by students of all ages.

Element Evening A successful evening held by the literary e-magazine ‘Element’ featured readings of short stories and poetry written by students. The night was filled with music, food and an interview with author Shamini Flint.

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Book Week The East Campus Primary School celebrated Book week in February.

Beyond simply giving students the time to read and appreciate books, it also included story telling in mother tongue languages.

From 3-7 March, the East Campus’ GC Focus Africa had a special week of cultural immersion, debunking myths and celebrating a range of African cultures along the way. The week was abuzz with excitement, full of guest speakers, photography exhibitions and food counters. It ended with a bang at the African Festival in the plaza on Friday, where live bands, Marimbas and dances brought the celebration of these rich and diverse cultures to a colourful climax.

Investigation time in K1 Activities such as building volcanoes, Chinese-language role-play, sensory play in the garden and more are weekly occurrences in the academic programme for K1 students on Dover Campus. Investigation time also encouraged students to develop their creativity and work on their social and communication skills.

Reverie The dance show organised and directed by students displayed the talents of Dover High School students through different dance styles. All three performances were sold out.

K2 Passion Projects

Nation

Family Festival

The Grade 9 and 10 production of Nation in June fell perfectly into place with UWC’s commonly discussed themes of identity, nationality and globalisation, both in script and performance. An incorporation of ensemble work, live percussion, and influenced by Asian theatre styles, the performance was an eye opener for the East Campus which is still developing its relationship with the arts.

With an estimated 4,000 attendees, the Family Festival on 22 March brought the East Campus together for a wonderful day of fun, entertainment and community building.

The Passion Project was introduced in K2 on the East Campus to encourage children to explore what their passion is and why. This resulted in a series of presentations on a whole range of topics—from chemistry to make-up artistry to Yoga!

To read more about activities and events taking place at UWCSEA, see eDunia at www.uwcsea.edu.sg

TechLife conference Hosted at East Campus in March, this student-organised conference welcomed both local and international students aged 11 to 18. Companies such as Google and Microsoft were involved, as well as Luke Janssen (UWCSEA Dover Class of 1994) who gave a talk on how to become a tech-entrepreneur.

OPUS

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The annual concert OPUS, held at the Esplanade Concert Hall features the musical talents of students and teachers. This year, as in past years, the concert included music by the Arioso singers, Cantabile, High School Percussion, Jazz Band and many other individuals and groups.

Top: Karen on Mt Kilimanjaro with her guide; Bottom left: Micro-lite flight over Victoria Falls; Bottom right: Playing with children in Kibera slum

Never too old to have a Gap Year – Part II

By Karen Niedermeyer UWCSEA teacher since 1993

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The following is Part II of Karen’s amazing sabbatical from UWCSEA during the 2012/2013 academic year. To read Part I which chronicles her adventures in South and Central America, please see the December 2013 issue of One°North.

After many adventures in Peru and Colombia, climbing mountains, rafting on the Amazon and finding the Lost City (and having achieved my lifetime ambition to visit the Galapagos), I left Central America for Africa to pursue my other lifetime goal: to climb Mt Kilimanjaro. Flying via New York in order to visit my brother and his family, I had an unexpected stopover in Houston due to technical difficulties with the airplane I boarded in Panama.

It turned into a blessing as I caught up

with the very talented Alisha Ansley ’03 who conveniently had a gig that night! How wonderful it was to sit in the audience watching a former music student up there on stage, performing professionally!

No sooner had I landed in New York, I received a number of further invitations.

I met up with Romke Hoogwaerts ’09 who has progressed from Interscol photographer to publisher of his own photography magazine, Mossless. I also had coffee with Amrita Ramanathan ’12, studying psychology and music at NYU and one big surprise was catching up with Ju-I Shih ’98, ex-Cantabile member, who teaches English and Mandarin at a local primary school.

Realising that Boston was so close to New York, I jumped at an offer from Ankit Suri ’12 to show me around

Berklee College of Music. We had great fun surprising Cliodhna Macfadden ’12 who fairly jumped out of her skin when I walked in the door! Having a tour around Berklee by my own IB music students was simply amazing. I was so proud of them!

I saw Young Oh ’12 as well, also in Boston studying Business at Northeastern University.

Just a short cab ride away, I met up with another ex-Cantabile singer for lunch, at Harvard. After working for a while and having majored in political science and East Asian languages and civilisations, Brandon Whittaker ’03 was studying for his Masters in Law. Enzo E Vasquez Toral ’10 showed me around the beautiful campus and along the river. I also met up with Enzo earlier in the year in Lima (his hometown) when

he was visiting his family. It was great to have the opportunity to see him in his university environment.

On my way back to New York, Chihiro Isozaki ’11 persuaded me to drop

by Yale. She specifically requested I come on a certain day so I could attend her choir rehearsal. Chihiro sings in the renowned Yale Women’s Slavic Chorus and it was a proud moment being introduced to them all as her High School choir teacher.

When I met up with Vaskar Pahari ’10, Chihiro and Cristabelle Ormiston ’12 in the dining hall at Yale, I half expected Professor Dumbledore to come storming in. Vaskar gave me a tour of the historical campus and I bumped into Jhamat Mahbubani ’08, who recognised me before I recognised him!

Alisha Ansley ’03 performing in Houston

From there I set out for Africa, stopping for a week in the glorious Seychelles where I had arranged a surprise catch up with my hubby.

I figured he might be missing me by then!

Next stop was Kenya. I was fortunate to be invited to stay in the boarding house at Brookhouse School, where I judged a choir festival together with Kenyan celebrity Ian Mbugua and ran some music workshops. I also accompanied students on their service projects in the Kibera and Kuwinda slums. That is a whole story in itself, a humbling experience I will never forget.

Karen with Romke Hoogwaerts ’09 in New York

In Nairobi I met up with Leonard Mutisya ’07, a brave young man who is really making a difference in his own country. With a background in human rights advocacy for refugee and LGBTI populations, and in consulting on HIV prevention and treatment management, he is the cofounder of the Kenyan Gay and Human Rights Commission.

Whilst in Kenya I found out the Ugandan Wildlife Authority was offering discounted permits to see the gorillas. Without hesitation I booked my permit over the phone, flew to Entebbe, got a taxi to Kampala central bus station and decided to take a public bus across the country to Kabale. After four hours of sitting on a stationary bus, with the engine pouring fumes through windows that didn’t close, I learnt that departure times in Uganda are when the bus is full. Was it worth it to see gorillas for one hour? Yes, a hundred times yes! It is truly a breathtaking experience. It can take anything up to six hours through thick jungle to find the family you are assigned to, but after one hour up close with these magnificent animals, I felt we were intruding.

Having read Paul Theroux’s Dark Star Safari, an account of his travels from Cairo to Cape Town, I was really keen to travel on the Tazara Express, despite all my African friends trying to talk me out of it.

With Brandon Whittaker ’03 at Harvard

With Enzo E Vasquez Toral ’10 at Harvard

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Next, the time had come to climb Mt Kilimanjaro. Having been at sea level for several months, I was a bit worried about how my body would cope with gaining 1,000m in altitude every day for four days. The summit climb on the fourth day was a killer and I very nearly gave up.

The six hours up the steep gravelly scree seemed never-ending and the effects of altitude got worse with every step, but we were blessed with wonderful weather and the scenes at the top were incredible. Unlike the ascents in the Andes, it was possible to stay at the summit for several hours. Although this gave the opportunity to really soak in the experience, it was sad to realise that it was only due to the extent that the glaciers had melted and receded over recent years.

With Cliodhna Macfadden ’12, Ankit Suri ’12 and Young Oh ’12

Lunch at Yale with Chihiro Isozaki ’11, Vaskar Pahari ’10 and Cristabelle Ormiston ’12

With Jhamat Mahbubani ’08 at Yale

Making the booking alone was an experience! It is a 1,860km journey from Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania to Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia’s Central Province. It is pretty slow and can take anything from just under two days to over three, depending on how long it stops in the many towns and how many times it derails. I travelled first class: a 56 hour train ride for $50, including meals. It is a magnificent journey through amazing scenery, up into the mountains, through national parks, over rivers and through 22 tunnels, including stops in remote villages where people appear from nowhere offering trays of fresh fruits and satays. When I walked through the train from end to end, I was somewhat shocked to see how many people were crammed into third and fourth class, along with their chickens and goats.

In Zambia I explored the breathtaking Victoria Falls, both on foot and from above in a micro-lite and I sat in the water of the Devil’s Pool at the top. I walked with rhinos and kayaked along the Zambezi River, weaving between hippo families. I travelled down to Botswana, crossing the Zambezi where it meets the Chobe River and the intersection of four countries. From here I went to Swaziland where I spent a glorious week at Waterford Kamhlaba UWC, giving Theory of Knowledge (ToK) presentations and visiting service projects with the students. The staff and students were so welcoming, it was hard to leave.

I finished my year away with another Round Square International Service Project, this time in Kabokweni Township in the White River region in South Africa, at Entokozweni Primary School. There, together with 22 students from all over the world, including Ming Wei ’13 and Karin Goh ’14 from UWCSEA, we built a kitchen, a large vegetable garden, a playground and painted a mural of the world. It was an incredible three weeks and a wonderful way to end my year of adventures.

Gap year? I recommend it to anyone!

Karen at Waterford Kamhlaba UWC

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Ming Wei ’13 and Karin Goh ’14 building a kitchen at Entokozweni Primary School

Singapore in the 70s – 18, 19 April Alumni of different schools who spent their school years in Singapore in the ’70s, including 18 former UWCSEA students, visited Singapore in mid-April for a get-together organised by Chris Mainland ’75.

Amsterdam (Class of 1989) – 6 to 8 June In the lead up to Reunion 2014, Esther Van de Ven ’89 and Justine Pinkney ’89 organised a reunion for alumni unable to travel to Singapore in August to celebrate their 25th class year anniversary.

Yangon get-together and UWC Myanmar scholars send off – mid-July Nang Lang Kham ’07 and Inga Penkina ’09 organised an informal get-together in mid July to congratulate the students from Myanmar awarded scholarships to UWC’s in Singapore, Hong Kong and Italy.

UWC Singapore National Commitee The UWC Singapore National Committee has launched a monthly get-together for UWC alumni in Singapore.

UWC-WIDE GET-TOGETHERS AND ALUMNI-ORGANISED REUNIONS Two ’83 alumni reunite after more than 20 years Wei Wei Meng ’83 and Petra van Boetzelaer ’83 met up in Amsterdam in May for the first time in over 20 years.

Since sharing Susi Teo’s tutor group in the 70s, they have seen each other only one other time.

UWC-wide alumni events around the world

Five UWCSEA alumni met up in San Diego in early May (left to right): Sue Ayres Gourlay, Mark Chee, Bert Vermeire, Niru Ramachandran and Kris Gourlay.

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Some of the UWC Schools and Colleges and their alumni have organised several events in the past months including a New York get-together in April, a UWC-USA alum-produced movie screening in London and a San Francisco picnic in the park in June, as well as gatherings in Swaziland, New York and Los Angeles in July.

San Diego

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Singapore – 22 December 2013 Close to 150 alumni attended the annual Singapore December gettogether at the American Club, many of the young alumni having returned to Singapore for the holidays.

UWC Alumni Reception – 21 February 2014 In conjunction with the UWC International Board Meeting on UWCSEA East in February, an alumni reception was held for former students from all UWCs in Singapore.

Alumni from nine UWCs attended and met with UWC Board members. Sir John Daniel, O.C., Chair of the UWC International Board, and Julian Whiteley, UWCSEA, Head of College, addressed the crowd and a pleasant evening of networking followed. Alumni enjoyed meeting members of our Student Alumni Council and current scholars who helped out with the event and mingled with guests.

St John’s – 3 June 2014 About 60 alumni and family members from St John’s Comprehensive School, which existed from 1964 to 1971 on the site that became UWCSEA, visited UWCSEA Dover in June to celebrate 50 years since St John’s opening. After touring the campus, UWCSEA hosted a Singapore-themed lunch in the Main Hall, which has kept the same look and feel that they remembered from their school years.

Yangon and Seoul – 16 and 20 January 2014

Hong Kong – 2 April 2014

Jonathan Carter (Director of Admissions) and Gabriel Abad (Head of Boarding, East Campus) met up with several alumni during their Admissions trips to Yangon and Seoul in January.

The get-together in Hong Kong on 2 April was attended by a cozy group of over 20 alumni, as well as Arnett Edwards, Principal at Li Po Chun UWC.

Edinburgh, London and Amsterdam – 12, 14 and 15 March 2014 In March, alumni get-togethers were held in Edinburgh, London and Amsterdam. The annual London event drew 250 attendees.

The other two events were much smaller in size but a great chance for alumni in the area to meet up—for the first time at a formal get-together in Edinburgh and for the third time in Amsterdam.

Singapore – 3 July 2014

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More than 80 alumni attended the Singapore get-together at Brewerkz, our second gathering held in Singapore during university holidays.

Humanitarian work: rewarding but not always easy Top left: Linda and her team in Tacloban; Bottom left: discussions in an evacuation centre in Tacloban; Right: Linda and Yvonne.

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“Di Smart showed us how important it is to question things and how if we choose to, we have the ability to be a part of something greater.”

by Brenda Whately

Linda Steinbock Class of 2006 UWCSEA 2002–2006 “When the 2004 tsunami swept into Banda Aceh, Indonesia and washed away whole villages of wooden homes built on stilts, NGOs swooped in to offer aid and build stronger homes. This increased job opportunities to people who had lost most of their family, homes and personal possessions but in many cases they were hired to build with materials new to them, such as concrete. The effect of this was that many of the new homes were unliveable, resulting in ‘ghost towns’.”

This was one of Linda Steinbock’s findings during the self-directed research that she took on as part of her honours year thesis in 2009 on

the impact of international aid on the Acehnese population six years after the tsunami. A population that had lived in conflict for decades without any prior outside assistance until the tsunami, they often didn’t know what to expect or what they might be entitled to.

“UWCSEA trained me to ask difficult questions and this mentality has played a big role in my choice of a research project and ultimate choice of career,” Linda says. After completing her BA in Geography and Developmental Studies at the University of Melbourne, she became involved in two internships during her final summer break—one with the Global Poverty Project and the other with Save the Children, based in Melbourne. She was subsequently hired into the latter’s emergency team, full-time.

Her first role was as a Humanitarian Coordinator looking after administration, organising trips for personnel travelling to emergencies and managing grant portfolios funded by the Australian government. Looking for a field role, Linda next moved to Save the Children Sweden and became a Project Officer, specialising in monitoring, evaluation, accountability and organisational learning (MEAL). From there she went on to become a member of the Swedish Humanitarian Active Response team, deployed to Lebanon, primarily working with refugees affected by the Syrian crisis. She spent over four months there in 2013 where she designed project monitoring systems and trained staff to communicate thoughtfully and effectively to people affected by conflict. Her systems generate a strong evidence base, which can be used to inform decision making and project design. The aim is to have the greatest impact with money raised from the public and government donors and to ensure quality programmes.

At the time I first spoke to Linda, she was heading back to Lebanon to hand over to her longer-term replacement there. Her next assignment was Kurdistan in northern Iraq. Syrians of Kurdish descent were streaming in, in search of safety. There was anywhere between 1,000 to 20,000 refugees per day. Linda was there to train staff and design their MEAL system to ensure its ability to expand as Save the Children responded to the sheer number of refugees and their immediate needs in various camps. Save the Children provides safe spaces to play by creating an environment where children can feel a sense of normalcy, playing and learning with other children, along with psycho-social support in the form of trained members of staff for the children to talk to. After that, Linda headed to Tacloban in the Philippines for five months to help children and families affected by Typhoon Haiyan.

When Linda is asked if she finds the job rewarding, she replies, “Yes it is rewarding, but often very tough. You never know when things can change out of your control; you have to learn to adapt very quickly. It takes time to see the fruits of the systems I implement and so sometimes it’s easy to question myself about whether or not what I am doing is helping people. However, when it works, I know that the information the teams generate help us to plan and

alter our projects if necessary to have long-lasting, positive effects. The people I meet in the field and the colleagues I work with make a big difference. I am privileged to work with such passionate and skilled people.”

“No one should have to grow up so quickly.”

Linda has spent most of the last few years travelling, so she doesn’t get to indulge enough in her other passion, tennis. During her time at UWCSEA she was captain of the U18s, coached

by Julie Martens and at the University of Melbourne she was president of the tennis club for four years, representing the university in competition. Now she says although it’s quite difficult to squeeze it in to her schedule, she seizes the opportunity whenever she gets the chance and she adapts by doing other activities on deployments to de-stress and process the day’s happenings.

Her other interests include trekking, exploring, travelling and meeting new people and she says that these, along with her ‘itchy feet’ fit in with her choice of career. She says, “At UWCSEA I valued the opportunities we had to understand the needs of different people and the exposure we had to different environments outside of our comfort zone. Di Smart and Tim Shepherd often challenged me to think of these things and have both made a huge impact on my life. Di showed us how important it is to question things and how if we choose to, we have the ability to be a part of something greater.

UWCSEA is a big part of me and I am grateful for that. I’ve made some of my closest friends in UWCSEA where we continue to feel connected no matter how much time has passed, because we share the same values and experience and our friendships have only gotten stronger with time.”

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Several experiences in the field have had a huge impact on Linda and motivate her to continue working in these difficult contexts. Linda says “Often you see how people come together to conquer their troubles but in other cases you see children suffering through the pain they witness; children whose lives have been completely turned upside down due to conflict. Even if you don’t understand the language, emotions transcend.

During one focus group, a young boy described to us the sound of bullets and drew a picture of a helicopter shelling his home, killing his friends and family.

As he described his experience, the room went from laughter to instant silence. Children were looking down or had distant looks in their eyes, some filling with tears.” She says, “Survival instincts also tend to kick in a lot earlier in children who have witnessed and

experienced acts of violence. I was playing with some children while my colleagues interviewed their parents and there was a loud noise outside causing a four year old boy to panic and act fast. He grabbed his slightly older sister and 12 year old brother, trying to push them under a table because he thought somebody was coming to hurt them. No one should have to grow up so quickly; that protective thought process does not normally happen so young.”

WHEN THE STRAIGHT LINE DISSOLVES

Chihiro and the Global Zero Chapter, Yale

Chihiro Isozaki Class of 2011 UWCSEA 2001–2011

By Chihiro Isozaki The most memorable moments in our lives are those in which the walls we have built around our own paradigms of the world are knocked down, shattered, and a new horizon is revealed.

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A single moment that I perhaps remember most clearly in my high school education is a biology class, one sunny afternoon, in the first term of Grade 11. Dressed in our still crisp, fresh white polo shirts, we had just begun one of our first units on IB HL Biology: Cells.

Back to basics? So I thought. That day, the straightest of the straight lines that existed in my limited scientific paradigm broke in two. Until that moment, the cell membrane, to me, had represented nothing more than a line drawn around the smaller organelles (mitochondria, nucleus, ribosomes … in fact, I don’t think we even knew what ribosomes were at that stage)—or in the case of

the plant cell, that rectangular shape drawn relatively neatly inside a bigger rectangular shape. This was perfectly simple. Everything had an outline—a straight line holding it together.

But as I learned that day, that pencildrawn, diagram-version of a cell membrane was in reality a fluid, porous thing floating in the juices of our body: a phospholipid bilayer with protein channels and gaps and hunks of cholesterol sticking out of it to control its fluidity. I learned that day, and am reminded everyday hereafter, that real life contains no straight lines.

That day I went home feeling unsettled.

It was like the moment I discovered during a dissection that the lungs of a sheep functioned exactly like the diagram on the textbook, but were a lot smellier and bloodier. I was feeling what I would come to feel again and again: that gap between idealism or theory, and reality.

Idealism is reduction, simplification. It is the hypothetical acknowledgement of the straight line. It is saying: look, there

are clear boundaries between me and you, right and wrong. It is saying: there is a simple, clear-cut route from right to wrong and I know the way. As in the case of extremist groups or terrorism, idealism and self-righteous, stereotyped thinking are sometimes difficult to distinguish.

Even within everyday nonprofit activities, typifying those we are trying to help as needy or lesser than us may in some cases do more harm than good.

The psychology term ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ points to a human condition in which people become what they are expected to become.

Gayatri Spivak, in her famous essay on postcolonial and feminist theory, asks the question, “Can the subaltern speak?” pointing to the problem of putting words into the mouths of minority groups or disregarding subtle differences within such a group. In charity or advocacy work, it is always essential that we work with, rather than for, the people affected by the cause we wish to support or protest—and constantly

“Although I don’t believe the road to global zero is the straight line I had once believed, that idealism still remains within me.” reflect on our limited understanding as outsiders. We must see beyond mere idealism and look squarely at the complex reality that we are faced with.

But idealism, with its linear, directional thinking, can also be empowering. It is always easier to take action when one is convinced of the rightness of what one is doing, and when there are straight paths to take. A school founded on ideals and idealism, UWC is a safe haven that fosters action-oriented student communities. Too often, communities of intellectuals attempting to look squarely at real life become caught up in the problematic possibilities of taking a particular course of action, and are rendered immobile. At one point, one has to stop thinking and start doing.

That is what UWC taught us most of all. Within the premises of an ideal, international oasis and visions of a better future, we nurtured an idealism unbreakable by any dose of real life.

Even as we leave UWC and are made to realise the true complexity behind what we once thought was a straight line, the illusion is transformed into a vision of a better, faraway future that acts as a guiding force to keep us moving when others are too anxious to do the same.

If you had asked me three years ago at the activities bazaar whether nuclear disarmament was really possible by 2050 (the target year Global Zero has set as the one where the world will reach zero nukes), I would have given you an immediate “absolutely,” proceeding to shoot facts at you taken from the Global Zero homepage.

Today, I am not so sure, and I will tell you exactly that. Because the truth is, President of a Global Zero student chapter or not, I have no idea. “But,” I will say to you, “I would rather continue fighting for a possibility, to get as close to ‘a world without nukes’ as possible, than give up because zero may not be immediately likely. “Although I don’t believe the road to global zero is the straight line I had once believed, that idealism still remains within me as a wishful future to look forward to. It is up to us to hold fast to the vision of the straight line and keep moving forward even when the roads directly ahead are less than linear. The vision of a nuclear free world is my idealism, and I will continue to strive for it.”

Chihiro, Co-President of the Global Zero Chapter, Yale

Chihiro Isozaki Chihiro is currently entering her final year at Yale, majoring in comparative literature and film. There she sings a Capella and is an editor for a multilingual publication. In previous years, she has been involved with organising a TEDx conference on The Art and Science of Happiness as well as tutoring Middle School students in New Haven, Connecticut.

Chihiro spent the past two terms studying abroad in Oxford University, reading English literature, and last summer interned in Myanmar for Yoma Strategic Holdings and did research for her senior thesis in Japan through a college grant. As for future plans, she is considering various options, although she would like to work in Asia for a while and is thinking about studying international law at some point.

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Today, as an undergraduate, I am as active in nuclear disarmament as I was in my IB years, attending conferences and organising events as the CoPresident of the Global Zero chapter at Yale. Continued reading on the topic of nuclear artillery and its costs— monetary, health, and environmental— have convinced me of the need to reduce, and eventually eliminate, nuclear weapons. Most threatening of all is the immense difficulty in monitoring the shipping of enriched uranium, and the possibility, even likelihood, of it reaching the hands of extreme terrorist groups.

However, with so many countries relying

on nuclear weapons for deterrence and believing them necessary for survival, the task of disarmament is trickier than ever. Disputes between Russia and Ukraine may lead to the dissolution of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), a generation of efforts to reduce the number of nuclear arms since the Cold War. India’s Prime Minister Modi recently confirmed that the country was committed to ‘no first use of nuclear arms’; a statement which, although somewhat comforting, simultaneously affirms the idea that nuclear deterrence is still firmly rooted in the modern paradigms of international relations.

Alumni weddings update Sarah Gerrard ’06

F rances M ills ’06 weds P hil Willis ’06

By Jessica Wagner ’06 Sarah and Jorge met as teenagers at the end of Sarah’s final year at UWCSEA. Undeterred by distance, they dated for four years while she studied in England and he in Canada and Mexico. Fate finally intervened and they both found jobs and moved to Singapore to start a life together in 2010. Three years (and eight gruelling hours of trekking) later, Jorge proposed at the top of Mt Kinabalu in the first rays of morning sunlight.

They exchanged vows this June in the

Lake District in England, surrounded by family and friends from all over the world, including several close friends from UWCSEA. The intimate wedding was as stunning and unique as they both are. Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Cordova Lau! Sarah has recently completed her Master’s degree in Architecture and Jorge is a pilot with Emirates.

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F arrah Zubeir ’06 weds Alex Boulton ’06 We met in Grade 9 English, and found that we shared Maths and Economics classes too. Not sure it was love at first sight, but we decided to ‘officially’ become a couple during our Leeuwin Tall Ship adventure and have been in love ever since! 11 years later, we ‘officially’ became husband and wife with a huge group of our UWCSEA friends by our side. It was a wonderful wedding with

High school sweethearts who started dating in Grade 12 we were married in front of friends and family in a barn in the foothills of the French-Swiss border.

We said vows led by long-term best friend Alex Martin ’06, slongside our best man Rich Willis ’03 and maid of honor Emma Mills ’02, with a reading

by Matt Foxall ’06. Also in attendance were 2006 alumni Helen Arathimos, Anne Van Drunen Littel, Myrthe Van de Venne, Noemi Gerber, Marie Kerrelle

Ramya Ramanathan ’06 weds Aswin Chari ’06 a big mix of cultures, and we were fortunate to be joined by our family from around the world; the friends we made at UWCSEA, LSE and on our journey since.

Both are based in Singapore now— Alex is a Consultant at Bain & Co and Farrah works for Facebook.

Eight years after getting together at UWCSEA, we tied the knot in our home city of Chennai, India on 12 February 2014! We had the pleasure of the company of family, many of our friends from work, university and most importantly, a number of UWCSEA alumni from all over the globe. We are excited about starting a new chapter of our lives in London—please get in touch

and Millie Marsh, as well as former UWCSEA staff Steve and Debbie Willis, Dave and Denise Foston, and Pete and Carolyn Garrett. It was a delight to share our day with so many wonderful people and to know that our friendships are still so strong.

With us both ending up in education— Phil as a Secondary School Biology teacher and Frances training to be an Educational Psychologist—there is no doubt that our time at UWCSEA was formational in the people, and family, that we have become.

Christina Sok ’05

By Juliette Digonnet ’05 Most of my friends who travel a lot and who are now all around the globe tell me they never see their high school friends anymore, that it’s already hard keeping up with university friends. With UWCSEA it’s a different story. We left to study everywhere and probably covered the surface of the world between us, yet we still take the time to keep in touch. Christina’s wedding in New York, to Cesar Cabrera who she met at Columbia, was a wonderful reunion

and the best part is that most of us had all stayed in touch in very different contexts so we got to see friends we had lost contact with through those we were still close to. I think we are all really proud to have been part of UWCSEA. Christina is living in Singapore after completing her Masters’ degree in Art History from SOAS (University of London). She is currently teaching Art History at NTU and working as an Independent Curator/Researcher.

M ichelle Cheong ’06 if you’re in town and want to be shown some great places to eat!

of love. Celebrations carried on into the night with non-stop dancing and a surprise late night snack of poutine and ice cream sundaes for the guests.

Michelle is working in Vancouver as Program Manager at the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs.

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Living in North London, Ramya is a Senior HR Consultant for Deloitte Consulting and Aswin is an Academic Neurosurgical Trainee.

With peonies, baby’s breath, and a single orchid to represent Singapore in her hands, Michelle Cheong ’06 married Evan Gorrell on 21 June 2014. On a glorious Vancouver summer’s day, the couple wed at St. Augustine’s Catholic Church and carried on the celebrations at the Sutton Place Hotel in downtown Vancouver.

They were blessed to be surrounded by family and friends in an abundance

N idhi K apur ’01

By Erica Jarnes ’01 In March 2014, I travelled to New Delhi to attend a wedding. My friend Nidhi Kapur, who graduated with me in the Class of 2001, was tying the knot with her chosen man, Chito Lwambo, in a traditional Indian ceremony at her parents’ house. My travel companion was Kirsten Scott, who has been a firm friend since she arrived at UWCSEA in 1999.

Nidhi is living in the Democratic Republic of Congo working for a climate conflict think tank. Kirsten is living in Cambridge, working part-time as a doctor and bringing up a gorgeous small son with her amazing kindred-spirit husband John. And I am living in London, working as a freelance editor, events organiser, charity communications

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We are all still on that road to somewhere, still becoming who we truly are, and it gives me great pleasure to know that in all the ways that matter, we are travel companions.

Sona Drahonovska Lippmann

K ate Elliott ’01 On 5 July 2014 Kate Elliott married Matt Taylor at Shilstone Manor, Devon, UK. The couple met when they were both working at the Lawn Tennis Association and have been together for five years.

Three 2001 alumni were bridesmaids: Rachael Boxill (nee Fensom), Kate Ellinor and Melinda Kennedy and a number of UWCSEA alumni were also guests at the wedding. 95 family and friends

person and (finally!) musician.

(UWCSEA Alumni Relations Manager) attended the wedding, which was in an idyllic manor house countryside setting. The couple share many common interests including traveling and all things outdoors. They live in London where Kate is a Senior HR Advisor at the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Sona celebrated her marriage to Sven in June 2014. The wedding celebrations took place at a beautiful castle close to Prague in the Czech Republic. As Sona is from the Czech Republic and half Hungarian, Sven is from Germany, and their guests were from all over the world, the ceremony took place in two languages and the speeches later in four —how very UWC!

If you have had, or know of alumni who have had a recent wedding, a new addition to the family, or other news that you would like to share, please send a note and photo to alumnimagazine@uwcsea.edu.sg so we can share your news!

Alumni interns The alumni office has welcomed the help of five alumni interns in the past year. They took part in helping to organise alumni events and reunions, prepare communications and assist with many other tasks to help us provide service to our alumni community. We thank them for their help and enthusiasm and wish them all the best in their next endeavours!

Alumni giving back University advice for students: January and June UWCSEA graduates attending a wide range of universities world-wide, visited UWCSEA in January and June to talk to G11 and G12 students about life at university. Over 50 alumni met with current students in the first session and more than 30 of them in the second, enabling students to ask questions and get a great sneak peek into the everyday life at some of the universities they are considering for themselves.

Amrita Ramanathan ’12 is currently a rising junior at NYU hoping to major in Psychology and minor in Music.

Kathleen Tiffany Lee ’12 is now a junior at Amherst College, majoring in Biology and pursuing a premedical track.

Careers Week, March In early March in the week leading up to the annual Careers Fair, the alumni office held a careers sharing week during which alumni appeared in person or by skype on a large screen, to share information about their own career and answer questions from the students. Alumni representing many different careers skyped in from a number of countries and time zones—from the US, Canada, Japan and the UK. Thanks to everyone who participated, particularly to those who were skyping in during their early mornings or evenings.

It was great to be able to hear from alumni outside of Singapore as well as those who came in person!

Gia Bidani ’09 completed her MSc in Human Resources Management at Oxford Brookes University and interned with us while awaiting her results. She is now working in an HR role.

Careers Fair, March The Dover Campus Parents’ Association organised the annual Careers Fair this year and we had the largest number of alumni volunteers ever, setting up booths in the Exam Hall alongside parents and other community members to represent their professions and careers and answer the questions of current students and their parents.

Gabrielle (Gabby) Tremblay ’13 has moved on to study Media and Communications at the University of Sydney.

TechLife Conference, March

We thank all of our alumni who participated in these events with and for current students! With such great success this year, we will be seeking your participation again next year!

Grace Baiju ’14 joined the team soon after graduating from UWCSEA East Campus this year. She is heading to the University of Warwick, UK to begin her study of Law (LLB) in September.

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In mid-March the students of East Campus organised their second annual TechLife conference and alumnus Luke Janssen ’94, Group CEO of Tigerspike, a personal media company with offices in eight countries around the world, agreed to be one of its speakers.

UWCSEA Foundation update

By Joe Rivera and Jon Parr

Lizanne and Robert A Milton UWCSEA Endowed Scholarship Robert ’78, Lizanne ’83 Robert and Lizanne’s second endowed IB scholar, Anh has now entered Grade 12 at UWCSEA. During the summer, Anh helped to facilitate the IfP in Timor Leste. She spent seven days working with Timorese youths and says, “It has had such an impact on me. The conference was beneficial to not only the delegates but also to us as facilitators.”

Anh says to the Miltons, “I would like to offer my sincere thanks to both of you once again for all of your support for me at UWCSEA. It is definitely going to be an exciting year in Grade 12!”

Class of ’86 supports Gap Year students This year saw the launch of an initiative to raise funds for gap year students. Headed by a few alumni of the Class of ’86, it honours the memory of fellow classmate Michael McErlain

and his support of good causes throughout his life. Donations will support students on service gap year projects in Southeast Asia. To date the fund has raised over $7,000.

Farewell gifts from 2014 graduates The annual graduation gift initiative saw Dover graduates support a sculpted bust of Nelson Mandela that will be located in the new building when it opens in 2015. The very first East Campus grads chose to support an outdoor study area for students.

We wish our Class of 2014 all the best and we look forward to keeping in touch.

Annual Giving The Annual Fund continues to grow, generating more than S$500,000 and adding over 500 new donors in 2013/2014.

Launched five years ago, it has strengthened the scholarship programme, with 92 scholars now calling UWCSEA home and has helped us to deliver a series of workshops for students and staff. Gifts of any amount really do make a difference.

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To make a gift, please visit the online giving portal at uwcsea.edu.sg/supportus or send a cheque made out to UWCSEA Foundation to 1207 Dover Road, Singapore 139654. Gifts can also be accepted through Give2Asia or SG Gives.

Perth November 2014

Singapore December 2014

Upcoming reunions

Ho Chi Minh City January 2015

Reunion 2015!

Eighth annual reunion Celebrating the 40, 30, 20 and 10 year anniversary classes 21-23 August 2015 The Classes of 1975, 1985, 1995 and 2005 are invited to celebrate in Singapore in August 2015.

All four classes will be hosted at a Friday evening cocktail reception and Asianthemed buffet dinner party to kick off the weekend. On Saturday, a barbecue lunch will be held at the Dover Campus of UWCSEA. Revisit your memories and take a tour guided by current Grade 12 students. Saturday night and Sunday are left open for you to plan your own class year group activities.

Join us for a weekend of fun, fond memories and reconnection with old friends and new.

Houston and Los Angeles January 2015

San Francisco and Vancouver February 2015

Reunion 2016!

Ninth annual reunion Celebrating the 40, 30, 20 and 10 year anniversary classes August 2016

London March 2015

The Classes of 1976, 1986, 1996 and 2006 are invited to celebrate in Singapore in August 2016.

Registration for all events is via the UWCSEA alumni website: http://alumni.uwcsea.edu.sg/events Check the website for more details, to view the regularly updated attendee lists and/or to register for an event. You may also contact the alumni office at reunion@uwcsea.edu.sg for information and registration. We hope to see you at an upcoming event soon!

Oslo March 2015

21 September 2015

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UWC Day – worldwide If you are not registered on the UWCSEA alumni website or app with an up-to-date email address and location, please send us that information by email to reunion@uwcsea.edu.sg so that we can keep you informed about alumni get-togethers in your location. Don’t miss out!

UWCSEA Dover 1207 Dover Road Singapore 139654 UWCSEA East 1 Tampines Street 73 Singapore 528704 www.uwcsea.edu.sg http://alumni.uwcsea.edu.sg alumni@uwcsea.edu.sg

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