2011-2012
Membership
Executive
Board:
President:
Marie Prim
Vice-President: Eliza Dyer
Secretary:
Natalie White
Treasurer: Dylan Bellavance
Members:
Dylan
Bellavance
- Major: Exercise and Movement Science
- Extracurricular Activities: UVM Snowboard Team, President of
Exercise and and Movement Science Students Association, Vice
President of UVM Premedical Club, Intramural Soccer,
Intramural Broomball
- Favorite Quote: "It's not tragic to die doing what you
love."
Alissa
Carberry
- Major: Early Childhood Special Education, Communication
Sciences and Disorders concentration
- Extracurricular Activities: President of UVM Gluten Free
Club, member of Translating Identity Conference Committee,
Free2Be, Celtic Cats
- Favorite Quote: "Enjoy the little things in life, for one
day you'll look back and realize that they were big things."
-Kurt Vonnegut
Liam
Donnelly
- Major: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
- Extracurricular Activities: Microbiology TA, volunteer at
Fletcher Allen, does research in a molecular genetics lab
- Favorite Quote: "Impossible is just a big word thrown around
by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've
been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a
declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible
is temporary. Impossible is nothing."
Eliza
Dyer
- Major: Elementary Education, Special Education minor,
English concentration
- Extracurricular Activities: RA and SRA in Coolidge Hall,
Hall Council Co-Advisor, Student Admissions Representative
(AdvoCat), ACLead member of Advocats
- Favorite Quote: "Choose your own happiness."
Samantha
Ethridge
- Major: Environmental Studies, double minor in Community and
International Development and Dance
- Extracurricular Activities: President of UVM FeelGood,
Student Admissions Representative (AdvoCat), ACLead member of
Advocats, Orchesis Dance Company member, Celtic Cats,
Catamount Dance Crew
- Favorite Quote: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you
want to go far, go together."
Erika
Hesterberg
- Major: Nutrition and Food Sciences
- Extracurricular Activities: DREAM Mentoring Program, Outing
Club, Beyond Simple Conversation Group
- Favorite Quote: "Education is not the filling of a bucket,
but rather the lighting of a fire." -WB Yeats
Eric
Hunt-Schroeder
- Major: Electrical Engineering, Computer concentration
- Extracurricular Activities: Math tutoring, engineering and
computer science courses, AERO car
- Favorite Quote: "Two things are infinite: the universe and
human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe." -Albert
Einstein
Caroline
Kirkpatrick
- Major: Biological Sciences (B.S.)
- Extracurricular Activities: Founding member of the
re-establishment of Kappa Alpha Theta women's fraternity,
National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Beta Beta Beta member
- Favorite Quote: "Where your treasure is, there will your
heart be also." -Albus Dumbledore
Senja
Kling
- Major: History (European concentration), English minor
- Extracurricular Activities: Mentor with Boys & Girls
Club, Writing Center Tutor, Writing Partners Program, works
for Shelburne Farms and Let's Pretend Catering
- Favorite Quote: "Greatness is not in where we stand, but in
what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the
wind and sometimes against it - but sail we must and not
drift, nor lie at anchor." -Oliver W. Holmes
Tabatha
Leahy
- Major: Psychology, minor in Nutrition Food Sciences
- Extracurricular Activities: Peer Leader for Honors College,
Vermont Cynic Staff writer, Learning Co-op tutor,
Undergraduate Teaching Fellow (psych), Peer Conduct Board
- Favorite Quote: "We have to sweep today's possibility under
tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally
understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant.
That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better
than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, beats the hell
out of never trying." -Grey's Anatomy
Kindle
Loomis
- Major: Natural Resource Planning with a focus on Human and
Environmental Health, minor in Community International
Development
- Extracurricular Activities: Rubenstein Steward, UVM Club
Softball, works in the Athletic Department
- Favorite Quote: "We don't accomplish anything in this world
alone...and whatever happens is the result of the whole
tapestry of one's life and all the weaving of individual
threads from one to another that creates something." -Sandra
Day O'Connor
Francesca
Minervini
- Major: Mechanical Engineering
- Extracurricular Activities: Vice President of the Society of
Women Engineers
- Favorite Quote: "Experience is the best teacher."
Lucas
Morgan
- Major: Civil Engineering
- Extracurricular Activities: Senior RA in McAuley Hall,
former RA in Harris Millis and University Heights South,
Community Coalition, Former Chair on Committee of Legislative
Action in the Student Government Association
- Favorite Quote: "Imagination is more important than
knowledge." -Albert Einstein
Caterina
Mustacchi
- Major: Business Administration, concentration in Marketing,
minor in Parks Recreation and Tourism
- Extracurricular Activities: Finance Vice President of
Alpha Delta Pi, Order of Omega Greek Leadership Honor Society,
UVM Panhellenic Judicial Board, works as a front desk clerk
and guest service representative at the Courtyard Burlington
Harbor Hotel
- Favorite Quote: "Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." -G. Randolf
Kate
O'Neill
- Major: Communication Sciences and Disorders & Psychology
- Extracurricular Activities: Speech and Hearing Club,
Communication Sciences Peer Advisor, Pep Band, Campus Tour
Guide, UVM blogger
- Favorite Quote: "Today is the tomorrow you worried about
yesterday."
Katelin
Perkins
- Major: Political Science and Psychology
- Extracurricular Activities: Psi Chi Honor Society, National
Society of Collegiate Scholar, intern at Federal Public
Defender's office
- Favorite Quote: "Going in one more round when you don't
think you can, that's what makes all the difference in your
life."
Deanna
Pinkowski
- Major: Radiation Therapy
- Extracurricular Activities: Alpha Chi Omega, Order of Omega,
Licensed Nursing Assistant
- Favorite Quote: "All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Megan
Porter
- Major: Psychology, Human Development and Family Studies
- Extracurricular Activities: Vice President Alpha Delta Pi,
Order of Omega Greek Life Honor Society, works in a pyschology
research lab, Intramural Broomball
- Favorite Quote: "You will get plenty of time to sleep when
you are dead."
Marie
Prim
- Major: Secondary Education (English)
- Extracurricular Activities: S-LTA (Service Learning Teaching
Assistant) Spring 2011
- Favorite Quote: "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope
for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning."
-Albert Einstein
Pamela
Rooney
- Major: Animal Science (concentration in Pre-Veterinary
Studies), Chemistry minor
- Extracurricular Activities: intern at Essex Veterinary
Center, Golden Key International Honour Society
- Favorite Quote: "No other road, no other way. No day but
today." -Rent, the Broadway musical
Michaela
Rowland
- Major: Nursing
- Extracurricular Activities: Philanthropy and Community
Service Chair of Delta Delta Delta, Student Nursing
Association, Sigma Theta Tau member, Nursing Honor Society
- Favorite Quote: "I'd rather regret the things I have done
than the things I have not." -Lucille Ball
Bryan
Sewell
- Major: Natural Resource Management
- Extracurricular Activities: Golf Team, interning with a
professor to help run a non-profit coffee company, tortilla
baker and manager at New World Tortilla
- Favorite Quote: "Men of genius are admired, men of wealth
are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character
are trusted." -Unknown
Caitlin
Shelburne
- Major: Secondary Education/English
- Extracurricular Activities: Upward Bound Mentoring, Aspiring
White Anti-Racist Allies
- Favorite Quote: "Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Always remember that you have within you the strength,
patience, and passion to reach for the stars, to change the
world." -Harriet Tubman
Sasha
Tenenbaum-Lane
- Major: Social Work, Sociology minor
- Extracurricular Activities: UVM Dance Team member, Volunteer
at Fletcher Allen
- Favorite Quote: "Your journey has molded you for your
greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't
think that you've lost time. It took each and every situation
you've encountered to bring you to the now, and now is right
on time." -Asha Tyson
Brandon
Vanasse
- Major: Molecular Genetics
- Extracurricular Activities: Community Service Scholars
Program, does research on algae productivity under Dr. Dahiya,
Clinical research associate at FAHC PI: Dr. Freeman, Downhill
Bike Team
- Favorite Quote: "It's better to be hated for what you are
than loved for what you are not." -Andre Gide
Abigail
Wager
- Major: Integrated Biological Sciences
- Extracurricular Activities: Secretary of UVM
HIV/AIDS Taskforce
- Favorite Quote: "Education is the ability to
listen to almost anything without losing your temper or
your self-confidence." -Robert Frost
Natalie White
- Major: Secondary Education, English
- Extracurricular Activities: President of Challah for Hunger,
a national club that promotes Hunger Relief and Advocacy
support for the genocide in Sudan
- Favorite Quote: "Don't count the days, make the days count."
Elizabeth Yasewicz
- Major: Biology, minor in Secular Religion
- Extracurricular Activities: Pre-medical
Enchancement Club (PEP), UVM Mountain Biking Team,
Volunteer at Fletcher Allen, Medlife Brigades, does
research in Art Shukla's environmental Pathology Lab
- Favorite Quote: "Security is mostly a
superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the
children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger
is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life
is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
Advisor:
Maggie
Rosa