Semester at Sea Spring '07 Yearbook

Dear Friends, I would never have believed that traveling round the world at about 20 miles an hour would in fact be such an engrossing and an enriching experience. You had seemed the best recipe for being bored to hell and back. Wow! Am I glad that Leah and I were invited to participate in this the 92nd ISE voyage. We could not have chosen better shipmates. T ship and the crew were superb. T catering and household staff was he he out of this world, so friendly, charming and efficient. T faculty and staff were both outstanding, and he a warm applause is due to both Dean Larry and Dean Michael. T life long learners were great fun. he But I ask the students to take a special bow. T hey have been super. What a gift to our world, with their enthusiasm, idealism and energy and sense of fun. Who can forget Ryder and all the other dependent children who made such splendid pirates? We had an unforgettable and deeply moving Easter sunrise service, which culminated in Holy Communion in a very full union. We then filed out in silence each dropping a carnation into the ocean afterwards. A more somber occasion was when an overflowing union saw out memorial service for those who had died or were injured or bereaved in the Virginia T ech campus massacre. Many of us were shaken. Leah and I visited many countries we had never been to before, and we are so more aware of the glorious diversity that goes to make up our human family. We have become even more aware of the staggering disparities in wealth and are reinforced in our view that we have no hope of winning wars against terror as long as there remain conditions that make many of our sisters and brothers desperate. We really can be human only together; we can be safe and secure only together; we can be prosperous ultimately only together. We are made so aware that we inhabit a global village you can circumnavigate at 20 mph in 100 days and you could not have done it better than through Semester at Sea. T hank you our fellow voyagers and all others who made it possible. God bless you. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao-Tzu Page | 9 Page | 8 of the old. White hair contrasted dark as I walked by and it gave me the impression they were wise to the I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. - Robert Louis Stevenson The sun had wrinkled the skin skin. They watched silently world, or weary of it. It’s almost as hidden within their minds if they kept secrets of life -Elisa Hidalgo (S'07) The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. - Saint Augustine out of We are all inventors, each sailing on a voyage of guided each by a private chart, The which world there is is all no gates, all discovery, duplicate. opportunities. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Page | 12 Page | 13 It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Page | 16 Page | 17 When traveling, there is no such thing as bad experiences, only good stories. - Scott Cameron The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but we must not just drift or lie at anchor. -Oliver Wendell Holmes There are no short cuts to any place worth going. - Beverly Sills Part of the urge to explore is a desire to become lost. - Tracy Johnston Page | 18 Page | 19 Miracles happen to those who believe in them. – Bernard Berenson I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. -Susan Sontag Every so often, let your spirit of adventure triumph over your good sense. WORK as if you don’t need the money, LOVE as if you’ve never been hurt, and DANCE as if nobody is watching! Page | 20 Page | 21 If I know a song of Africa – I the African new moon lying on her back, or the plows in the fields, thought – of the giraffe, and and the sweaty faces does Africa know a song of me? of the coffee pickers, -Isak Dinesen Part of my soul went with him. - Winnie Mandela You don’t travel like this to have a holiday. You travel like this to have a confrontation with yourself. If you haven’t traveled, I mean REALLY immersed yourself in it, you’re a slave to your preconceptions. You see what you believe if you have traveled. You learn to believe what you see. - Bert Van Hemingen Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards -Vernon Law The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they used to acquire it! Page | 24 Page | 25 ~ Socially Moving ~ The walls of segregation have fallen And left a world of separation instead The evidence of poverty, presence of the poor Lay hidden behind every corner, every door We were shown What we wanted to see Presented with a truth That we wanted to believe But the reality is behind the mask Faced in a country weighed down by stats 1 in 9 people have AIDS Most kids won’t live past a certain age The numbers add up, in a country held up Even the youngest visitors need to grow up And see behind the façade Understand that there are still many problems going on Whether you’re trapped in a township, or living in luxury You need to take action, and battle poverty And if you’re just visiting, and you’re here for the sights Bungee off a bridge, see some animals at night Be conscious of your responsibility To not be blinded by ethnocentricity Dig deep, in the streets Find the people that need to eat And find a way to feed them Understand that here, and everywhere, We still really need them A mind is a terrible thing to waste Don’t let us be blinded by the mask of race -Shaan Coelho (S'07) Risk is moving beyond your previously accepted limits. Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer’s paradise, a hunter’s Valhalla, an escapist’s utopia. -Beryl Markham Page | 26 Page | 27 In the South African bush two small groups of friends meet on brushed out of the burrow and left the road. Both are inebriated with the new sights, sounds, textures, and sensations flowing through their curious. The sow hardly looks at to their own devices to make it in a jungle (urban or African), to compete against lions, tycoons, and the like. - Paul Travis Lathrop (S'07) mind. Some are scared, but all are us as Hailey hardly looks at the and for eight college students, as different as this experience is, it is incredibly like mirror. looking into a warthogs. But for 7 -10 warthogs If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton Looking at another naive, but courageous, gen- eration of beings about to be Don’t let school get in the way of your education. - Mark Twain Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished. - Nelson Mandela Page | 28 Page | 29 Standing tall with a stony grin My Adversary Today he will be conquered I will press forward His legs stretched and strewn with brush and pebbles Upon your lap rests gnarled trees and broken pieces of your broad shoulders Today I will match you play by play Your belly is hard and flat with many a ridge defining your powerful strength Upon your shoulders you give Today your abs are bested by my thighs and arms false hope of an easy summit Your attitude almost always determines your altitude in life. As long as we’re traveling toward the unknown, we’re on the right track. -Rory Nugent Your trickery does not fool me! Yes, your face is magnificent At your head your final grin shall smile Yes, your hair is steep and tangled Place high your finest walls And your eyes are challenging and mean Give me your strongest defense At the crown of your glory Because my fight has not yet finished do you feel me triumphantly treading? My feet stomp sure and true atop your head Your wailing cries of defeat are heard They sailing through the wind that cools my sweat beaded brow that I was the stronger Today you will remember for all eternity Today you will never forget that I became the mountain Today I proved my worth against your ancient cliffs If not for your taunting pride I would never have risen to this vertical battle I could not have done it without your weakening conceit Thank you for this flaw, you stony faced bully! - Sarah Webb (S'07) Page | 32 Page | 33 "On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow." you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training - Friedrich Nietzsche There is nothing so strange in a strange land than those who visit it. -Dennis O’Rourke "India, it changes, it breathes, moving thru your soul impassioning you to act"... - Sarah Webb (S'07) Page | 36 Page | 37 e. .. Th the che e f k o tim Ta e j M a hal...a t e on y sl s t le o sp Page | 38 ro rd a p te lis ned br i gh t To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, And eternity in an hour. Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, - William Blake th a tg Enthusiasm is the optimism that fuels life. Page | 39 'Elephantitis' I asked a man suffering from responded if he lived by saying, in Fantastic! Fantastic! Exhilarating! To discover that, HEY, we have an incredible capacity for good, that we are in fact programmed for goodness. T hat you and I are those who were made for laughter, for joy, for compassion, for caring. T hat is what you and I are made for. ...Archbishop Desmond T utu pain...He constant feet are a gift from God." Outcast by society and living on the floor of a in what I could only see as train station, he was able to find good “My fortune and illness. India is both an illness and a curing drug. It is sick mis- with poverty and pollution, but rich with willingness to accept the drug that will determine their perception of India. culture and human spirit. It is one’s - Logan Koffler (S'07) Page | 40 Page | 41 I can’t tell you what India has taught me. I’ve was felt emotions I’ll at a level be I didn’t to tell think you possible. never able just how happy I was at some points...watching Indian girls dance in colorful saris, sitting on the sleeper train back to Chennai from Erode, walking through the village at dusk. I can’t tell you how sad I was at some points...the thin baby being held in thin arms in a dark & dirty train station, a gauze sling on her skinny little arm. Babies are not supposed to be skinny or injured. Who was I six days ago? I was a person waiting to be changed. I am now burdened by what I know and set free from what I was. You can’t be on this voyage without being on a desperate search. Who am I and where can I The first condition of right thought is the right sensation – the first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it . – T.S. Eliot find myself? - I found myself in India. - Natalie Kiwan (S'07) Page | 42 Page | 43 All that we are is the result of what we have thought. - Buddha Page | 46 Page | 47 Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. -R.W. Emerson Page | 48 Page | 49 I leaned over the table. “Do you want to draw with me?” I asked in the happiest voice I could muster. He smiled. I took it as a yes and handed him an uncapped, purple marker. Neither of us moved. “Okay, I'll go first.” I began with a star, a sun, a smiley face. He just stared at me from across the table, watching the page. Then, I drew a heart. between us shifted. The boy across slowly lifted his arm and placed steadied it with my hand and he shooting back and forth from my heart beside my orange one. I congratulating his artistry. I sighed, of awkwardness had finally been was beginning to feel something for it had taken all the concentration the strength of his entire arm, hour of Simon-Says drawing. the marker as it slid across Slowly, it was as if something the table with the blank stare his marker on drew the – paper. his I carefully eyes design to his own – a purple looked up at him and smiled, partly because the threshold passed and partly because I this boy. It was obvious that he could muster, as well as but that one motion began an Leigh Remizowski (S'07) Page | 50 Page | 51 bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it Broad, be sorely wholesome, by on these charitable in accounts. Travel is fatal to prejudice, views of men and things cannot acquired vegetating one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. - Mark Twain Page | 54 Page | 55 Page | 56 Page | 57 It has been said, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes." – From the townships of South Africa to the battlefields of Cambodia, from The Taj Mahal, to The Great Wall of China, we have each been given new eyes. Some see only darkness and are saddened by the injustice, while others have seen daylight breaking through illuminating hope for a better future. - Sheryl Schmidt (S'07) Page | 58 Page | 59 If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. – Johnny Carson Curiosity is the key to creativity. – Akio Morita Page | 62 Page | 63 If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow at hand. - Confucius Page | 66 Page | 67 There certain mystic quality I a certain urge for is a have found in all mountains awe inspiring both for silence. amazing permanence in the face of a constantly changing sheer They size are and their world. How many times had I stared in wonder, pulling into a port, to see a sprawling city with ancient mountains looming behind the steel and glass of skyscrapers? Only once in Hong Kong did I see a skyscraper signifi- cantly taller than a mountain and it seemed the wrong order of things. Its height seemed strangely precarious as if the building itself knew that in a century or so it may be demolished into dust- no more significant than the life of a pesky mosquito to that ancient giant in the background. in color and form was well suited to the surroundings. A neutral color stone, the incline and descent of The Great Wall And in front of me was a real treasure trove- a bastion of mountains untouched, save for the wall which emulated the slope of the mountains. The lookout towers seemed simply an artful extension of mountain peaks. The Great Wall did not try to outshine the mountain in the haughty way a shiny new skyscraper does- it was not shiny or colorful in hopes of drawing attenyears later testified to its successful study. tion to itself- but rather bowed to the wisdom of the mountain, hoping to learn from it a lesson in eternity. My climbing it some thousands of - Tina Peabody (S'07) Page | 69 You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. - Walter C. Hagen Only those who partake in the harmony within their souls know the harmony that runs through nature. - Tao Te Ching Page | 72 Page | 73 Appreciate the present hour…sit and hear your own breathing and look out on the universe and be content. - Lin Yutang "Deta-toko shobu" - To gamble as the dice fall. - Japanese Proverb Page | 74 Page | 75 It takes a long time to become young. - Pablo Picasso I call architecture a kind of petrified music. - Goethe If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade. - T. Peters Page | 76 Page | 77 The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'. - Phillip Lopate Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom. - Jolene Blalock Page | 80 Page | 81 The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. - Leigh Hunt When the student is ready, the teacher will come! 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I am so proud of all of you. We did it. We graduated fake school! We are graduating from a place where our teachers live under the same roof as us, and where map skills are some of the most sought after skills to have. You know it's fake school when your alarm clock on test days, is the dean over a loud speaker. You also know it's fake when you have more days of vacation than you do of actual school. Fake school is when they force you to go on vacation like every other week, drop you off, and then pick you up again. Oh yeah…and in case you forgot, our school floats on the ocean. Fake school is when the address changes from week to week and when you try and describe to someone where you go to school, it takes like 10 minutes for them to actually comprehend it, and even then they usually don't believe you. That is fake school. Yes, we went to fake school, but nothing about our experience was fake. Nothing about making deep lasting connections with our teachers is fake - that is real. The countries we learned about with our map skills weren’t fake. Just think about the amazing experiences we had while we were ‘on vacation’ - The smells in India, the crowds in China, the orphans in Cambodia... everything we’ve experienced IS real. It exists. It happened. School may have seemed fake, but our learning and education far surpassed anything we could have achieved back at our home institutions. That is real. - Jason Walter (S’07 Valedictorian) Co ocation nv Convocation Ambassador's Ball Convocation Ambassador's Ball Convocation Convocation Convocation Convocation Convocation Convocation Convocation Convocation Convocation Convocation Convocation Ambassador's Ball Ambassador's Ball Ambassador's Ball Ambassador's Ball Ambassador's Ball Ambassador's Ball Ambassador's Ball Am b as sador's Ball red Sea Bering Sea cariBBean Sea adriatic Sea Baltic Sea aegean Sea Yellow Sea Mediterranean Sea araBian Sea dependent children people of color rocK the Boat facUltY Staff faMilY MeMBerS StUdent life Page | 116 StUdentS of Service adMiniStrative teaM worK StUdY Page | 117 Jew crew acKnowledgeMentS Photographers Micah Diamond dependent children volUnteerS Yearbook Committee Staff Photographer; Design; Layout Micah Diamond life-long learnerS Alex Malotte Ali Mulcahy James Lissy Erin Merchant Allie Schiesser Ryan Sturgis Brian Moran KC Coleman Nathanial Davis Jason Wetherell Candace Patrick Erica Schilz Carleigh McDonald Brandon Bulman Bob Mcgowan Diana Smirnov Sea tv Senior Editor Design; Layout Alex Malotte Senior Editor Design; Layout Erin Merchant Lauren Mayet Page Layout Michelle Koffler Artist Creative Advisor (Beloved Wife) Theresa Diamond Jaclyn Goldstein Content vicarioUS voYage Sarah Oberlin Kres Cole Jaclyn Goldstein Jessica Bates w.a.v.e.S. l.g.B.t.a. Sea olYMpic captainS fitneSS inStrUctorS aMBaSSadorS Artists Michelle Koffler Sheri Uran Katie Conner A Special Thanks is due to Alex Malotte and Erin Merchant, without whom I would have never been able to pull this thing off. I would also like to dealing with my insane work hours. Thanks babe! thank my beautiful wife Theresa for her support and encouragement, and for Page | 118 weBSite Page | 119 There’s a story they tell of a farmer who had a chicken in his backyard, ordinary chicken, but a strange-looking chicken. It looked like the other chickens, but it didn’t look quite like other chickens. And the farmer was a little puzzled. And then, a traveler came by who knew about these things. And he came, and the farmer took him around, and he looked at the chickens, and he saw this one. And he said, “No, no, that’s no chicken, man, that’s an eagle”. And the farmer said “What? It’s like other chickens.” So the man said “Give it to me”. The farmer gives him this strange-looking chicken, and the man takes it, and he waits until very early in the morning, and he climbs a mountain. And when he gets to the top, and the sun is rising, he turns this strange-looking chicken towards the rising sun and he says “Fly, eagle, fly”. And this strange-looking chicken shakes itself, spreads out its pinions, and lifts off. And it glides and soars and flies toward the rising sun and disappears. Well, God says to us, “Hey, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly!” And God expects you, me, I, all of us, to shake ourselves, spread out our wings, and lift off, and we soar. And we soar towards goodness, laughter, compassion, gentleness, because you see, you and I are made for goodness. You and I are made for transcendence. You and I are made as those who have to transform this world... and God says “Fly, eagle, fly!” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu