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Mats Lemberger, Sir Cavador (and King Arthur for the C&G Class of 2006
Delegation), grew up in Lloyd Habor, NY, near the places where Walt
Whitman, Teddy Roosevelt and Billy Joel once lived. After bicycling
across the United States the summer after his first year at Dartmouth
to raise funds for affordable housing, Mats joined Dartmouth Habitat
for Humanity with a commitment to seeing the Dartmouth Habitat for
Humanity House of 2004 through completion. Building from this
experience, Mats founded the Dartmouth Festival of Humanity – an annual
community-building project in support of service at Dartmouth. During
his junior year, Mats served as Vice-President of Green Key Society.
He is currently a member of Palaeopitus, an English Major Liaison and
an intern for the Office of the Dean of the College. Looking ahead,
Mats intends to write a senior honors thesis this year in which he
applies the tradition of Continental philosophy to readings of works by
the American author Stephen Crane in order to illuminate what he
perceives to be the ethical significance of Crane’s corpus. After
Dartmouth, Mats hopes to read for an MA in philosophy, going on either
to pursue a PhD in Literature and Literary Theory, followed by
university teaching, or to study law prior to entering public service.
One of Mats’ goals in life is to record an album of original music. If
all else were to fall through, he would probably attempt to make a
living as a song-writer.
Yanaisdys Baeza (Sir Yvain) is the Miami Cuban-American ambassador to
C&G. She is a Sociology and Spanish Language, Culture and Society
double major. She chose her first major because she loves to study
different cultures and communities within the U.S and abroad, and seeks
to increase the consciousness of the masses. She chose her second major
because she is fond of long titles. An avid traveler, she spent the
fall of her sophomore and junior year participating in an LSA in Lyon,
France, and an FSP in Madrid, Spain, respectively. Her travels took her
to New York this summer where she was a Consumer Products Intern at the
National Football League. At Dartmouth she is the Student Liaison to
the Dartmouth Latino Alumni Association, a Tucker Foundation Civic
Intern, a member of the hip-hop dance group Sheba, and a supporter of
humanistic causes everywhere.
Anne Bellows (Sir Mordred) is a Government major with a concentration
in comparative politics. She was born and raised in the shadow of the
Rocky Mountains in Fort Collins, Colorado. During the last few years
she has had the luck to spend time in rural Nicaragua, working with an
agricultural cooperative, as well as in urban West Africa, doing
research for her thesis on Democracy and Social Advocacy in Benin. On
campus she is involved in the Dartmouth College Greens – a group of
progressive activists, not necessarily associated with the party – and
the Darfur Action Group. She works as a Writing Assistant for RWiT, a
center with an acronym as inelegant and ridiculous as its work is
worthwhile. If she has a tendency to excess, it is in her idealism, and
if she has a tendency to ambition, it is in her desire to be effective
in her work. After college, she is hoping to find an interesting,
substantive and preferably paying job in Africa, Latin America or even
the United States.
Originally from Englewood, New Jersey Kevin A. Boakye (Sir Gaheris) is
a spirited member of the class of 2006. He is an Economics major and
is also a member of the Order of Omega. Kevin is currently the chair of
the Dartmouth Alliance for Children of Color which is a program that
strives to expose adopted minority children in the Upper Valley area to
students on campus who have similar backgrounds in an effort to bolster
their cultural identity. He went on a language study abroad to Lyon,
France during his sophomore winter and still enjoys watch French films
from time to time. During his junior winter Kevin did an internship in
Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers. This past summer Kevin worked as
a Senior Interviewer in the Admissions office and participated in
Session II of the Tuck Business Bridge program. Kevin's
post-graduation plans include beginning his career in investment
banking.
Anthony Bramante is the oldest of six children from Cleveland, OH. A
double major in Government and Economics modified with Enviromental
Studies, he hopes to attend graduate school in Economics or Public
Policy. Outside of class he is involved in the Dartmouth Outing Club,
specifically the Winter Sports Club and Cabin and Trail. Within the
DOC he has served as Trails and Shelters Director, Co-Chair of Winter
Carnival, Chair of Cabin and Trail, a crew-ling at the Moosilauke
Ravine Lodge, and this past year as the Director of the DOC Freshmen
Trips program. Additionally, he is on the Nordic Ski Team and is
looking forward to a Fall Term full of training runs and ultimately
Winter's return to Hanover. A member of Palaeopitus, Anthony is also
involved with Dartmouth's Catholic community, Aquinas House. Lastly,
this past Spring he proposed to Carolyn Treacy '06 during sunrise on
the summit of Moosilauke; they will be married in Duluth, MN, Carolyn's
hometown, shortly after graduation.
Echo Brown (Sir "Lioness" Redlands) is a Government Major from
Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to being a member of Palaeopitus and
Rockefeller Leadership Fellows Program, Echo serves as President
Wright's intern and writes for The Dartmouth as a staff op-ed
columnist. A strong believer in the importance of service, Echo has
participated in a number of volunteering activities at Dartmouth
including Big Brother / Big Sister, Adopt-a-Grandparent, and America
Reads. Echo's commitment to social and educational equality was
strengthened after she worked for her Congresswoman in Washington DC,
last summer and learned of the hardships facing some of her fellow
Clevelanders. Although her future plans remain cloaked in uncertainty,
Echo hopes to pursue a law degree and fight for social and educational
equality.
Harold Brown, also known as Sir Loxley, is a Religion major from Perth
Amboy, New Jersey. He thoroughly enjoys the study of religion and
believes it leads to very interesting discussion and debate. On
campus, Harold is Vice-President of the Afro-American Society, founder
and chair of the GreenGate School Spirit Initiative, President of the
National Pan-Hellenic Council and the Treasurer of the Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity, Inc., Theta Zeta Chapter. He has dedicated his time at
Dartmouth College to enhancing the wonderful Dartmouth Experience.
Next year, Harold hopes to attend law school beginning in Fall 2006 and
is currently looking for an internship with a law firm or in the field
of sports management for the summer of 2006. While law is Harold's
primary interest, he ultimately would like to get into the area of
sports management and hopes to one day become a sports agent.
Elkin A. Cabas (Sir Gallahad) was born in Barranquilla, Colombia (land
of Shakira), but was raised in a northern NJ town called West New York.
Yes, such a town exists, and Elkin resides on 64th and Park and went
to school on 62nd and Broadway...all in NJ. At Dartmouth, he is
pursuing a major in Romance Languages with a minor in Markets,
Management, and the Economy. Elkin has a passion for languages and
cultures and thus found himself in Paris on the French Foreign Study
Program during his sophomore year. He has aspirations to work on a
thesis where he will explore cultural impacts on Latin American &
French GLBT literature. Outside the classroom, Elkin has served as
president of La Alianza Latina as well as his fraternity, La Unidad
Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. He has also been active
with the GSA, Greek Leadership Council, Inter-Community Council, Deep
Community, and Diversity Peer Program. Elkin has also worked in the
Admissions Office as an Admissions Outreach Intern and a Senior
Interviewer. Last summer, Elkin interned with a brokerage firm, Refco,
LLC, at the New York Mercantile Exchange, where he learned how
different commodity markets (such as gold and copper) trade. This
summer, Elkin graduated from Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT),
a business program based in New York, to which he was accepted as a
2005 CP&JP Fellow last year. His plans are to survive corporate
recruiting in the fall and hopefully land a job in either consulting,
marketing, PR, or HR. Elkin would love to get his MBA down the road in
either Int'l Business or Marketing. His dream job would be to work for
the Olympics or the United States Figure Skating Association (two of
his die-hard obsessions, you will find him glued to the TV during the
Olympics in Torino). However, Elkin's most immediate ambition as
secretary of C&G is to help make the delegation of 2006 the best one
yet!
David Cao (Sir Meliant) is an Economics major and Theatre minor from
Flushing, New York. He is the current President and former Treasurer of
the Kappa Kappa Kappa Fraternity. He is also a chairperson of the Big
Brother Big Sister mentoring program for underprivileged children in
the upper valley. He has been involved with BBBS since his Freshman
spring and meets with his "little sib" for 4 hours every week. Over the
past winter, he completed an investment banking internship with Lehman
Brothers and will be looking to pursue an entry level position in the
industry upon graduation. This summer, David is studying for his GMAT
as well as volunteering for City Harvest of NYC, which collects
unused/unsold food items from restaurants and vendors for distribution
to the needy. He will also be leading his second DOC freshman hiking
trip this September. He has been actively involved in Dartmouth's
theatre program as well as several individual student productions.
David is also the former 2006 class council treasurer and a former
student assembly representative. He has also participated in the Tucker
foundation's Alternative Spring Break 2004 in Washington, DC for Battle
against Hunger and Homelessness.
Amy Chan (Lady Lioness) is a Women's and Gender Studies major from
Queens, New York. At Dartmouth, she is actively involved with the Women
of Color Collective and the Center for Women and Gender. She is
interested in issues of gender, race, culture and social justice and
hopes to work for a not-for-profit before applying to graduate school.
Currently, she is interning for the NYC Commission on Women's Issues at
the Office of the Mayor. Amy enjoys film, literature, music, dance,
food and, of course, good company. She is extremely excited to be a
member of C&G and to live in the Castle this fall!
Marie Choi (Sir Ector deMaris) is a government major hailing from
Harrington Park, NJ. She has spent most of her time at Dartmouth as a
Pan Asian Council Intern and Coordinator of the Asian American Studies
Initiative, providing support for the Asian Pacific Islander American
student organizations and lobbying Deans and administrators for the
implementation of an Asian American Studies minor. She co-founded the
Closer to Home program through the Admissions Office which allows
parents of prospective students to communicate with current Dartmouth
students in over 15 different languages, and played a role in the
establishment of the Inter-Community Council. This year, she will also
be chairing the National Asian American Student Conference,
coordinating political organizing with APIA student activists across
the country. During her summers and off-terms, Marie has interned with
various Legal Defense Funds and non-profit organizations, doing
research and conducting outreach workshops on issues including voting
rights, education reform, and mental health resources in prisons. This
year, she looks forward to organizing an Asian American Studies
conference at Dartmouth and (hopefully) getting a job.
Don Roger Daniels, or Sir Lancelot, as he is known to those of his
friends who know what on Earth a casque is, prides himself in being the
only person he knows who has managed to shunt a significant portion of
his personality into his hat. While his other accomplishments pale in
comparison, he will list them here in the hopes that a more spacious
entry in this newsletter will provide him with a sense of worth. He
serves on the leadership team of the Navigators Christian Fellowship,
where he runs the Souls Department, which is in charge of the
conversion of sixty heathen per month, an ambitious quota by any
standard. (Please, guys, that was a joke. We're not like that. There is
no Souls Department. But I am seriously on the leadership team.) He
also co-presidents Casual Thursday, an improvisational comedy troupe,
with Sir Ironsides. He won't make any jokes about that, though, because
improv is far too serious a subject. Sir Lancelot can also claim to
have traveled to every corner of the globe, which speaks to his
penchant for aggrandizement, the globe being round. During his
Dartmouth career, his travels to the faux corners of the Earth have
taken him to New Zealand, Peru, and Glendale Community College. He also
occasionally majors in linguistics, and he calls Glendale, California
home.
Bryan Davis, besides sharing a strong namely resemblance to his
knightly doppelganger (Sir Brian de les Isles), enjoys climbing on the
Rocks and Ice of New Hampshire and Beyond. Hailing from the Last Best
Place (Montana), he therefore finds much solace in the beautiful
environs of the White Mountains as an active member in the Dartmouth
Mountaineering Club. In addition to this Tyme Honoured Pursuit, he
partakes in the indoor sports of Mathematics and Physics, majoring in
each of these disciplines. He spent the summer designing and building
microscopic LC circuits in order to measure single electron charges in
the gigahertz range, and then teaching the Art of rock climbing to
incoming Freshpersons as a member of Climbing Croo during DOC trips.
Cole Entress is a mighty frigate on the portentous, blue sea of
uncertainty. Though bound for a land whose sandy shores are yet unknown
to him, this much is certain: the journey and the quest are one. He is
a philosophy major, which helps explain his grandiloquent bombast and
general devotion to generally useless activities like improvisational
and sketch comedy, editing the Jack-o-lantern, and performing on campus
with a live jazz/funk/hip-hop band. He also has served as a full-time
Dean's Assistant (intern at the Tucker foundation), helping coordinate
tsunami relief and develop community-based research grants for
undergraduates. The future is for him, as it is for all mighty frigates
christened Sir Ironsides, uncertain. It's too soon to tell what
vicissitudes the winds of tomorrow will bring. But if you have, like,
any job offers or anything, you know, tell him about them.
My name is Amy Lynn Essigmann. I am a member of the Dartmouth class of
2006, and a proud member of C & G. My Knightly Name is La Belle
Inconnu, (the mysterious beauty), and it's true, because I am in fact
both mysterious and beautiful. I was born on the land-yacht of
Brookline Massachusetts, where I attended both elementary and high
school. At the age of ten my parents became Housemasters in the MIT
dormitory system where I continue to live, which is wierd. After
trying out all the majors for a while I decided English is the only
major which will allow me to be rich enough to achieve my dreams.
Since (as we have already established) I am so mysterious and so
beautiful, I will need many fancy and expensive things in order to
sustain my image once I get old. Keep in mind that for now I am still
young. Another useful thing you might want to know about me is that I
live in Panarchy, an off campus house almost as fly as C & G. At
Panarchy we have fabulous cable, but nobody refers to me by my real
name (La Belle Inconnu), which I find extremely lame. That's about it
for me, I'm sure you've found me both fascinating and a little
mysterious (if only you knew how very, very beautiful I was, you'd find
me that too), and I look forward to you seeing me someday on the cover
of "Forbes; English Majors Edition." Until then good luck, I'm sure
you'll do ok.
Gregory S. Feldman (Sir Tegyr) is an Economics major from New York
City. Returning to Dartmouth after a summer internship at Goldman,
Sachs & Co. and traveling to Ukraine and Russia, he is looking forward
to spending lots of time with fellow C&Gers. On campus, Greg is
involved in Dartmouth's economics journal, The Invisible Hand, and also
does research at the Tuck school. He enjoys teaching and can often be
found leading study groups for the Academic Skills Center and is
actively involved in the Habitat for Humanity teaching program. During
his free time, Greg enjoys sailing, playing soccer and basketball and
traveling abroad.
Sarah Hackney, Sir Tristan for the 2006 delegation, is from rural
Arcadia, Florida, where gators float past canoes in the river and the
cooking is decidedly Southern. An Environmental Studies major with
minors in Studio Art and English, she loves using community action,
writing and good design to better the common good. Last winter she went
home to help in her community's Hurricane Charley recovery efforts by
writing grant proposals for local nonprofits, and spent lunchtime
sewing summer skirts with her grandmother. On campus, she is a
councilmember of Cabin and Trail and also stays involved in Friday
Night Rock, the Free Press, Word, the Greens, and the Organic Farm,
among other things. This summer, she spent a lot of time working at
Blue Ox Farm, an organic farm in Enfield, which helped to balance her
two other office jobs (at Career Services and Vital Communities, a
local nonprofit). She likes nothing better than to cook dinner with
good friends and is hoping to find work in the growing
local/sustainable foods movement.
Taica Hsu (Sir Lamorec) hails from Corona, CA and never experienced the
beauty and longevity of snow until he arrived in the tundra of Hanover,
NH. He is a Spanish major with a math minor and enrolled in the
Secondary Teacher Certification Program. During the fall of his senior
year, he will be teaching Spanish classes at Lebanon High School in
addition to taking one Dartmouth class in the Education department.
Working closely with the Office of Pluralism and Leadership (OPAL),
Taica has been extremely dedicated to learning the many facets and
complexities of diversity, which infuses both the first-year floor he
advises and his internship with Tucker Dialogues. During his first
year, he helped to instruct Tang Soo Do, a Korean Martial Art that he
has practiced for almost 15 years. He is a trained Eating Disorder,
Sexual Assault, and Sexual Education Peer Advisor and served on the
Committee of Standards during his sophomore summer and junior year.
Before leaving for the Spanish FSP in Madrid his junior fall, Taica was
a member of Lodj Croo, an Orientation Chair for Green Key Society, and
a mentor in the SEAD program. In the winter, he taught high school
mathematics in the Marshall Islands and returned to Dartmouth that
spring to student teach at the Richmond Middle School. Last summer, he
taught English and Spanish as part of the first Breakthrough
Collaborative program in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Looking ahead, Taica
hopes to receive a Fulbright teaching assistantship to Spain and then
enter a Master's program in Education, specializing in either English
as second language or literacy. For the upcoming year, he looks
forward to spending time with old and new friends while making his
Dartmouth experience his own. "I hope that our class is as dedicated
to Casque and Gauntlet as the many alumni who just can't get enough of
Dartmouth."
Alexandro Kirigin, Sir Kay Le Strange, hails from the great city of
Tacoma, Wa. He is a philosophy modified with environmental studies
major. He has been active in the Dartmouth College Greens his entire
campus career and was lucky enough to lead an Alternative Spring Break
trip to Washington DC to address issues of Hunger and Homelessness.
His best term at Dartmouth was actually spent on foreign soil in South
Africa, Namibia, and Swaziland on the Environmental Studies FSP. He
has spent two summers at the Public Defender's office back home and
plans on eventually becoming a lawyer. He also enjoys billiards.
Umbareen Mahmood (Sir Clarion) is a Psychology major and pre-med,
hailing from Short Hills, New Jersey (yes, that's exit 14 off the
Turnpike). She is currently working as a Senior Interviewer for the
Admissions office, and also dedicates her time to the Nathan Smith
Society and Dartmouth College Global Health, both of which she is a
member of the executive committee. Throughout her years at Dartmouth
she has served as a UGA, held a position as a Tucker Civic Intern,
worked as a student manager for the Alumni Fund, and participated in a
Presidential Scholar Internship as a research assistant in a Physiology
laboratory at DHMC. She has worked as a clinical research assistant at
NYU's School of Medicine, and spent her off term working in a private
school for Autistic children, an interest inspired from a Psychology
class she took the previous term. Umbar spent her summer working with
the National Cancer Institute at the NIH participating in cancer
research and says that it has been one of her greatest academic
experiences. Her favorite memory at Dartmouth is being a member of the
Lodge Crew for the DOC Freshman Trips program, and she hopes to attend
medical school following graduation.
Ryan McAnnally-Linz (Sir Palomedes) is a Government and Economics
double major from Monrovia, California, a little suburb of Los Angeles
that tries really hard to be a stereotypical American small town.
Possibly due to two years spent living in Buckinghamshire, England
during middle school, he has both a horrible addiction to international
travel and a soft spot for Britrock, no matter how bad it is. Ryan is
the second Sir Palomedes to be involved in the International
Humanitarian Foundation (IHF), following Nate Cardin ’05. This year he
will be president of the Dartmouth chapter of IHF. Ryan is also
actively involved in the Navigators Christian Fellowship. As the
culminating experience for his Government Major, Ryan will be writing
an honors thesis on ethnic conflict. After spending the past summer in
Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala with IHF, Ryan has become fixated on the
idea of going back after graduation and continuing work in the
community. We’ll see if that ever actually happens.
Ronald McCants, Sir Gareth, is from Springfield, MO. He double majors
in Engineering Sciences and Theatre modified with Film Studies. Ron
has been called a “Political Connector” because he knows and cares
genuinely about many people. Ronald is an aspiring playwright in his
free time, but plans to have a career in the financial services
industry. Ronald is a completely unique, independent person. This
past summer he acted in three plays, waited tables, assisted an
engineer on a biomass engine, and completed a private equity
internship. Don’t take Ron’s wide experience to mean that he is
indecisive, fore he has a great plan- he plans to use his financial
experience to acquire an entertainment company, and produce films and
television shows that are not only entertaining, but life changing.
Dartmouth College has molded Ron into a mature leader, who actively
believes and follows his ideals. Over the past three years he has
taken leadership in the Afro-American Society as a freshman
representative, Librarian, Cultural Chair, and Black Underground
Theatre Arts Association chair. He has programmed a jazz ball and
talent show, directed and written plays, hosted radio shows, and sang
in the Dartmouth Gospel Choir. He attributes much of his leadership
and ideology to his freshman internship at the Boys and Girls Clubs of
Newark, NJ where he taught six periods of general science to students
in grades K-9th. Although it is very difficult to keep up with Ron,
his character speaks all, he is: courteous, talented, devoted, and
strong.
Janelle Moerlein, Sir Donadell, is from Kasilof, Alaska. Janelle is a
psych major, who plans on an education minor (if she can finish it on
time.) Around campus she is: the captain of the equestrian team, a DOC
trip leader (for the past 3 years), has participated in Big Green
Readers, and is a math tutor. She spends most of her time at the barn,
but can also be found people watching on the green. She never went on
an FSP or LSA, simply because she didn't get her application in on
time, but she spent her off time working as a nanny in the Caribbean.
She spent this past summer working construction at home, in Alaska.
Janelle's favorite thing about C&G is the diversity of the members. She
has met members from many different organizations on campus, some of
which she didn't even know existed. C&G is an awesome place to get to
know fellow classmates and hang out!
Greetings. My name is Ikechi Ogbonna. Around the castle I am known as
Sir Percivale, or as I like to be called, Percy. I am an English and
African & African American Studies (AAAS) double major from New York
City. Here at Dartmouth I am a member of the Varsity Football team as
well as a member of the Gospel Choir. I am also captain of the Track &
Field Team. In my spare time I work as a personal trainer to several
students on campus. I love personal training and I hope to pursue a
career in that field as well as a career in sports marketing. In the
summer after my sophomore year, I worked as a marketing intern with the
NFL and I deeply enjoyed that experience. The following summer I
worked as a marketing intern for Sports Illustrated. Although the
atmosphere and the type of work were quite different, the experience I
gained from both companies will be invaluable as I pursue my career
post-graduation. Before graduation (first things first of course) I
hope to make the most of my senior year. I want to attend events that
I have never attended. I would like to meet people whom I have never
met. Broadening my overall Dartmouth knowledge while excelling in my
areas of familiarity are my goals for this year. Being a member of
C&G allows me to achieve both goals at the same time. I have already
met several student whom I had never seen...ever. We are planning a
dinner with President Wright, which is an opportunity I have missed out
on in my previous three years. I'm excited for the upcoming year on
campus and here in the castle!
Thiago Machado de Oliveira, or Sir Elias, is Brazilian-American. His
parents immigrated to the United States; he was born and raised in New
York City. Thiago attended Stuyvesant High School in New York prior to
coming to Dartmouth. Currently, he is completing his Honors Major in
Comparative Literature between Spanish and Portuguese with a minor in
History. His thesis concentrates on Brazilian-American identity
formation within and separate from the Latino community through an
analysis of character development in Latino literature. He intends to
work for two to three years post-graduation and prepare to pursue a
J.D./M.B.A. Thiago anticipates a busy but fulfilling senior year as he
culminates his undergraduate involvement with several organizations.
This year he is the president of the Psi Chapter of La Unidad Latina,
Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. For the fourth year he remains
involved with La Alianza Latina. Thiago is an active SAPA, and also
serves as the Co-Chair of Student Assembly's Diversity Affairs
Committee. He is also the director and founder of SABOR Dance Troupe.
Thiago is very excited about his involvement with Casque and Gauntlet,
which he sees as an opportunity to bond with and work alongside the
brightest and most selfless student leaders in his class.
Shardul Oza (Sir Agravane) is a member of the 2006 delegation. He is
currently majoring in Religion and minoring in Russian Language and
Literature. His academic interests include languages and Middle Eastern
Studies. On campus, Shardul serves as the social chair of his
fraternity, Alpha Chi Alpha and is an active member of Milan, the South
Asian cultural group on campus. He also participated in the 2002
Alternative Spring Break trip to Costa Rica to help build a community
center for impoverished children outside of San Jose.
Chantee Parris (Sir Sapphire) was born in Brooklyn, New York on a
wondrous day in March during 1985. She is a Psychology major who plans
to get her MA in Counseling and Divinity after graduation to better
serve her community by the grace of God. An acolyte and active member
of St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, Chantee remains joined to St.
Stephen's Local Organizing Committee through Community Action Project-
Brooklyn where she also served as an intern for education organizing
during the summer. She has also trained with the Dartmouth Varsity
Women's Track Team as a triple jumper and sprinter her freshman and
sophomore year before switching over to the Dartmouth Women's Rugby
Club to use her speed on the Pitch as a winger. In addition to
performing with Fusion Dance Ensemble, Chantee has participated in the
2004 English FSP to Trinidad, served as floor Rep for the African
American Society in 2005, braided hair for children in the Dartmouth
Alliance for Children of Color, and completed the Diversity Peer
Program in the summer of 2004. Chantee is currently looking forward to
singing with Dartmouth's Gospel Choir since it is an "upgrade" that
will further advance her senior year experience. For all you potential
employers reading the Castlegram, Chantee is known best as the smiling
student librarian at the Reserve and Info Desks in Baker, but her
previous work experience also includes an internship at Warner Brothers
in 2002, and Proctoring the CGFNS Examination in NYC (wink wink...
graduation is sooner than we think.) Many fields!
James Redfield (Sir Dinadan) hails from a green bubble on the South
Side of Chicago-- a university neighborhood like Hanover except with a
highly active private police force instead of S & S. James studies
Comp. Lit. (German and French) but his real interest is in
anthropological perspectives on literature, or literary perspectives in
anthropology, which after three years still appear in his mind like the
tangle of a cartoon catfight. His newest tangle is intercultural and
language education: he has served as an Ed 20 T.A. and drill instructor
in French and German and spent a term teaching H.S. English in the
Marshall Islands. Other places James has been (un)fortunate enough to
observe radical cultural upheavals and the relatedly nauseating
hegemony of his native government include Macedonia, Turkey and
Morocco, where he spent a couple summers traveling and doing research.
He has also searched for things in Munich and Paris, where he spent the
past spring, as well as Berlin, which has become his second literal and
spiritual home. After Dartmouth James plans to settle in one of the
places he has been in college, build a house with good Feng Shui, and
practice walking a razor's edge between pretense and the glorious
present.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Kwabena (Sir Lionel) made his
first trek to New Hampshire for high school at Phillips Exeter Academy
and he never looked back. At
Dartmouth, he is a History Major and a French Minor. He participated
in the Foreign Studies Program to Paris, France last winter and serves
as an Apprentice Teacher in French on campus. Kwabena was elected to
the Committee On Standards as well as the Green Key Society. He is a
member of the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble and is one of the Co-Directors
of SHEBA Hip Hop Dance Troupe. He serves on the Pastoral Council of
the Catholic Student Organization, as an Undergraduate Advisor in a
mixed class dormitory, as well as Secretary of the Theta Zeta chapter
of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated. Kwabena is currently
interning at Credit Suisse Asset Management in New York City and hopes
to find a career in the finance industry after graduation.
Benjamin E. Schwartz, Sir Dagonet, is interested in education and
international development. He is a Government major and an Education
Policy minor from Columbia, Maryland. To explore his interests, he went
abroad for the first time to research British higher education and
study international relations at the London School of Economics his
junior fall. He then traveled to Ghana and taught the children of
migrant workers at Manye Academy during the winter on a Tucker
Fellowship. When on campus he organizes activities with the 2006 Class
Council, works as an Undergraduate Advisor, and is a student leader of
the Quaker Fellowship. Ben hopes to improve education in
underprivileged communities, starting his senior year by continuing to
work with Manye Academy even while in Hanover.
Greetings fellow knights! My name is Manya Whitaker (AKA Lady Florence)
and I'm from Charlotte, NC. Over the course of my time at Dartmouth,
I've become a member of various organizations including Fusion Dance
Ensemble, The 1972 Society, WISP, the Afro-American Society and
Dartmouth Cheerleading. I've worked in multiple offices including the
Office of Residential Life as a UGA, Alumni Relations, and the Tucker
Foundation. I spent my off term in snowy Hanover working at DHMC in
the psych unit as an activities therapy intern. I learned my lesson and
decided to do an exchange program the following winter at UCSD in San
Diego. I recently completed an internship at Northwestern University
where I spent 6 weeks researching self-construal and persistence
between cultures. As a Psychology major and English minor, I hope to
attend graduate school and obtain a PhD in Developmental Psychology and
go on to become a professor.
I am Todd Wooster, Sir Gawain, from East Orleans, Massachusetts. I am
an English major, with a concentration in poetry. On campus, I am a
proud member of the Amarna Undergraduate Society, where I have been a
member (and lived) since my sophomore year. I must thank Clinton Hedges
’05, for he introduced me to both Amarna and Casque and Gauntlet.
Personally, I am passionate about literature and music (listening, I
don’t play much and certainly can’t sing). I also enjoy the outdoors –
I like to hike, especially in the White Mountains. This past spring I
drove out west and spent the summer exploring the cities and hiking
along the Pacific Crest Trail, a difficult, but rewarding endeavor.
After being off for a year, I am excited about getting back into
classes, but I am also looking forward to the upcoming year at C&G. The
thing I find intriguing about Casque and Gauntlet is that there are few
or no requirements, guidelines, or rules – a challenging, yet freeing
prospect, meaning that everything we do comes entirely from our own
initiative. I eagerly await seeing what we can initiate.
Anna Zelinsky, who also goes by Sir Grifflet, is an Anthropology major
and Psychology minor in the 2006 Delegation. She lives in Panarchy, an
undergraduate social house at Dartmouth which she has loved for many
terms, and is luckily around the corner from C&G. Anna cares deeply
about people and education, and is currently immersed in the Teacher
Education Program. She is student-teaching full time in a third grade
classroom this fall, and will be certified to teach elementary school
when she graduates in June. Although currently all Anna can think
about is teaching, she remembers that she spent last winter studying
and traveling in New Zealand on the Anthropology FSP. She grew up in
the great city of Brooklyn, NY but she also loves it here in the Upper
Valley with all her heart. She is having trouble choosing where she
wants to send herself next year and cannot decide between New York,
Vermont, and all the other fascinating places around the world where
she wants to live.
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