semester at sea student yearbook (spring 2007)

8/14/2019 Semester at Sea Student Yearbook (Spring 2007)

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Dear Friends,

I would never have believed that traveling round the world at about 20 miles an hour would in fact besuch an engrossing and an enriching experience. You had seemed the best recipe for being bored to helland back.

Wow! Am I glad that Leah and I were invited to participate in this the 92nd ISE voyage. We could nothave chosen better shipmates. The ship and the crew were superb. The catering and household staff wasout of this world, so friendly, charming and efficient. The faculty and staff were both outstanding, anda warm applause is due to both Dean Larry and Dean Michae l. The life long learners were great fun.But I ask the students to take a special bow. They have been super. What a gift to our world, withtheir enthusiasm, idealism and energy and sense of fun. Who can forget Ryder and all the other dependentchildren who made such splendid pirates?

We had an unforgettable and deeply moving Easter sunrise service, which culminated in Holy Communionin a very full union. We then filed out in silence each dropping a carnation into the ocean afterwards. Amore somber occasion was when an overflowing union saw out memorial service for those who had died orwere injured or bereaved in the Virginia Tech 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 gloriousdiversity that goes to make up our human family. We have become even more aware of the staggeringdisparities in wealth and are reinforced in our view that we have no hope of winning wars against terroras long as there remain conditions that make many of our sisters and brothers desperate. We really canbe human only together; we can be safe and secure only together; we can be prosperous ultimately onlytogether. We are made so aware that we inhabit a global village you can circumnavigate at 20 mph in 100days and you could not have done it better than through Semester at Sea.

Thank you our fell ow voyagers and all others who made it possible .

God bless you.


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A journey of a thousand milesbegins with a single step.

- Lao-Tzu

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The sun had wrinkled the skinof the old. White hair contrasteddark skin. They watched silentlyas I walked by and it gave methe impression they were wise to theworld, or weary of it. Its almostas if they kept secrets of lifehidden within their minds

-Elisa Hidalgo (S'07)

We are all inventors, each sailingout on a voyage of discovery,guided each by a private chart,of which there is no duplicate.The world is all gates, allopportunities.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I travel not to go anywhere,but to go.I travel or travel's sake.Thegreat aair is to move. -Robert Louis Stevenson

Theworld is a book,and thosewho do not travel read only a page. -Saint Augustine

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It is good to havean end to j ourney toward;but it is thejourney that matters,in the end.

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Part otheurgeto exploreis a desireto becomelost. -Tracy Johnston

When traveling,thereis no such thingas bad experiences,only good stories. -Scott Cameron

Thereareno short cuts to any placeworth going. -Beverly SillsThegreatest thingin this world is not so much wherewestand as in what direction wearemoving. Wemust sail sometimes with thewind and sometimes against it but wemust not just drit or lieat anchor. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

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E ve r y so o te n , le t yo ur spiri t o a dv en t ur e t riu mph o v er yo u r g o od se n se . WORK a s i yo u do n t n e ed th e m on e y, L OVE a s i yo u ve n e ve r be en hu r t, a n d D AN CE as in o bo dy is wat c hin g!I havent been everywhere,but its on my list. -Susan SontagMiracles happen to thosewho believein them. Bernard Berenson

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Experienceis a hard teacher becauseshegives the test rst,thelesson aterwards -Vernon Law

Part omy soul went with him. -WinnieMandela

Yo u d on t t ra ve l l ik e th is t o h av ea h ol id ay . Yo u t ra ve l l ik e th is t o h av ea c on r on ta ti on w it h y ou rs el . I y ou h av en t t ra ve le d, I m ea n R EA LLY i mm er se d y ou rs el in i t, y ou r ea s la ve t o y ou r p re co nc ep ti on s. Y ou s ee w ha t y ou b el ie ve i yo u h av et ra ve le d. Y ou l ea rn t o b el ie ve w ha t y ou s ee . - Be rt V an H em in ge n T he g lo ry o gr ea t m en s ho ul d a lw ay s b e me as ur ed b y t he me an s t he y u se d t o a cq ui re i t!

If I know a song of Africa Ithought of the giraffe, andthe African new moon lying

on her back, or theplows in the fields,

and the sweaty facesof the coffee pickers,does Africa know a

song of me?-Isak Dinesen

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~ Socially Moving ~The walls of segregation have fallenAnd left a world of separation instead

The evidence of poverty, presence of the poorLay hidden behind every corner, every door

We were shownWhat we wanted to seePresented with a truth

That we wanted to believeBut the reality is behind the mask

Faced in a country weighed down by stats1 in 9 people have AIDS

Most kids wont live past a certain ageThe numbers add up, in a country held upEven the youngest visitors need to grow up

And see behind the faadeUnderstand that there are still many problems going onWhether youre trapped in a township, or living in luxury

You need to take action, and battle povertyAnd if youre just visiting, and youre here for the sights

Bungee off a bridge, see some animals at nightBe conscious of your responsibility

To not be blinded by ethnocentricityDig deep, in the streets

Find the people that need to eatAnd find a way to feed them

Understand that here, and everywhere,We still really need them

A mind is a terrible thing to waste

Dont let us be blinded by the mask of race-Shaan Coelho (S'07)

Arica is mystic;it is wild; it is a swelteringinerno;it is a photographers paradise,a hunters Valhalla,an escapists utopia. -Beryl MarkhamRisk is movingbeyond your previously accepted limits.

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Dont let school get in the way o your education. - Mark Twain Mans goodness is a fame that can be hidden but never extinguished. - Nelson Mandela

II haveseen urther it is by standingon theshoulders ogiants. -Isaac Newton

In the South African bush twosmall groups of friends meet onthe road. Both are inebriated withthe new sights, sounds, textures,and sensations flowing through theirmind. Some are scared, but all arecurious. The sow hardly looks atus as Hailey hardly looks at thewarthogs. But for 7 -10 warthogsand for eight college stu-dents, as different asthis experience is, it is

incredibly likelooking into a

mirror.

Looking at anothernaive, but courageous, gen-eration of beings about to be

brushed out of the burrow and leftto their own devices to make it in ajungle (urban or African), to competeagainst lions, tycoons, and the like.

- Paul Travis Lathrop (S'07)

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As longas weretravelingtoward theunknown,wereon theright track. -Rory NugentYour attitudealmost always determines your altitudein lie.

Standing tall with a stony grinMy Adversary

Today he will be conqueredHis legs stretched and strewn with brush and pebblesI will press forwardUpon your lap rests gnarled treesand broken pieces of your broad shoulders

Today I will match you play by playYour belly is hard and flatwith many a ridge defining your powerful strength

Today your abs are bested by my thighs and armsUpon your shoulders you givefalse hope of an easy summitYour trickery does not fool me!At your head your final grin shall smileYes, your face is magnificent

Yes, your hair is steep and tangledAnd your eyes are challenging and meanPlace high your finest wallsGive me your strongest defenseBecause my fight has not yet finishedAt the crown of your glorydo you feel me triumphantly treading?My feet stomp sure and true atop your headYour wailing cries of defeat are heard

They sailing through the windthat cools my sweat beaded brow

Today you will remember for all eternitythat I was the stronger

Today you will never forget that I became the mountainToday I proved my worth against your ancient cliffsIf not for your taunting pride I wouldnever have risen to this vertical battle

I could not have done it without your weakening conceitThank you for this flaw, you stony faced bully!- Sarah Webb (S'07)

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Thereis nothingso strangein a strangeland than thosewho visit it. -Dennis ORourke

"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: eitheryou will reach a point higher up to day, or you will be training

your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."- Friedrich Nietzsche

"India, it changes, it breathes, moving thru your soulimpassioning you to act"... - Sarah Webb (S'07)

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I asked a man suffering from'Elephantitis' if he lived in constantpain...He responded by saying, Myfeet are a gift from God." Outcastby society and living on the floor of atrain station, he was able to find goodin what I could only see as mis-fortune and illness. India is both anillness and a curing drug. It is sickwith poverty and pollution, but rich withculture and human spirit. It is oneswillingness to accept the drug that willdetermine their perception of India.

- Logan Koffler (S'07)

Fantastic! Fantastic! Exhilarating! To discover that, HEY, we have an incredible capacity for good,that we are in fact programmed for goodness. That you and I are those who were made for laughter,

for joy, for compassion, for caring. That is what you and I are made for....Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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I cant tell you what India has taught me.

Ive felt emotions at a level I didnt think

was possible. Ill never be able to tell you

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 cant 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 cant be on this voyage without being on a

desperate search. Who am I and where can I

find myself? - I found myself in India.

- Natalie Kiwan (S'07)

Therst condition oright thought is theright sensation therst condition ounderstandinga oreign country is to smell it . T.S.Eliot

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All that weareis theresult owhat wehavethought. -Buddha

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Though wetravel theworld over to nd thebeautiul,we must carry it with us,or wend it not. -R.W.Emerson

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I leaned over the table. Do you want to draw with me? I asked in the happiest voice I could


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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 marker as it slid across

the page. Then, I drew a heart. Slowly, it was as if something

between us shifted. The boy across the table with the blank stare

slowly lifted his arm and placed his marker on the paper. I

steadied it with my hand and he carefully drew his eyes

shooting back and forth from my design to his own a purple

heart beside my orange one. I looked up at him and smiled,

congratulating his artistry. I sighed, partly because the threshold

of awkwardness had finally been passed and partly because I

was beginning to feel something for this boy. It was obvious that

it had taken all the concentration he could muster, as well as

the strength of his entire arm, but that one motion began an

hour of Simon-Says drawing. - Leigh Remizowski (S'07)

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Travel is fatal to prejudice,bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,and many of our people needit sorely on these accounts.Broad, wholesome, charitableviews of men and things cannotbe acquired by vegetating inone little corner of the earth allones lifetime.

- Mark Twain

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It has been said, The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes,


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but in having new eyes." From the townships of South Africa to the battlefields of Cam-

bodia, 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)

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Curiosity is thekey to creativity. Akio Morita

Ilie was air,Elvis would bealiveand all theimpersonators would bedead. Johnny Carson

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Ia man takes no thought about what is distant,hewill nd sorrow at hand. -Conucius

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There is acertain mystic quality Ihave found in all mountains -a certain urge for silence. They areawe inspiring both for sheer size and theiramazing permanence in the face of a constantly changingworld. How many times had I stared in wo nder, pulling into a port,to see a sprawling city with ancient mo untains 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 orde r of things. Its height seemedstrangely precarious as if the building itself knew that in a century or so it may be demolishedinto dust- no more significant than the life of a pesky mosquito to that ancient giant in the background.

And in front of me was a real treasure trove- a bastion of mountains untouched, save for the wall whichin color and form was well suited to the surroundings. A neutral color stone, the incline and descent of The Great Wallemulated the slope of the mountains. The lookout towers seemed simply an artful extension of mountain peaks. The Great Wall didnot try to outshine the mountain in the haughty way a shiny new skyscraper does- it was not shiny or colorful in hopes of drawing atten-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

years later testified to its successful study.- Tina Peabody (S'07)

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Youreonly hereor a short visit. Dont hurry. Dont worry. And besureto smell thefowers alongtheway. -Walter C.Hagen

Only thosewho partakein theharmony within their souls know theharmony that runs through nature. -Tao TeChing

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Appreciatethepresent hoursit and hear your own breathingand look out on theuniverseand becontent. -Lin Yutang

"Deta-toko shobu"-To gambleas thediceall. -JapaneseProverb

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I call architecturea kind opetried music. -Goethe

Ia window oopportunity appears,dont pull down theshade. -T.Peters

It takes a longtimeto becomeyoung. -Pablo Picasso

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Theprospect oa longday at thebeach makes mepanic.Thereis no harder work I can think othan takingmyselo to somewherepleasant,whereI am orced to stay or hours and 'haveun'. -PhillipLopate Surngis such an amazingconcept.You'retakingon Naturewith a littlestick and saying,'I'm gonna rideyou!'And a lot otimes Naturesays,'No you'renot!' and crashes you to thebottom. -JoleneBlalock

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Theworld is round and theplacewhich may seem liketheend may also bethebeginning. -Ivy Baker Priest Travelingin thecompany othoseweloveis homein motion. -Leigh Hunt

When thestudent is ready,theteacher will come!

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Theacheor homelives in all ous,the saeplacewherewe can go as weareand not bequestioned. -Maya Angelou

A journey is best measured in riends rather than miles. -Tim Cahill

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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 schoolwhen 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 theyforce you to go on vacation like ev ery other week, drop you o ff, and then pick you up again. Oh

yeahand in case you forgot, our school floats on the ocean. Fake school is when the addresschanges 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 mak-

ing deep lasting connections with our teachers is fake - that is real. The countries we learnedabout with our map skills werent 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 weve 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.

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Yearbook CommitteeMicah Diamond

Staff Photographer; Design; Layout

Alex MalotteSenior Editor Design; Layout

Erin MerchantSenior Editor Design; Layout

Lauren MayetPage Layout

Michelle KofflerArtist

Theresa DiamondCreative Advisor (Beloved Wife)

Jaclyn GoldsteinContent

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 thank my beautiful wife Theresa for her support and encouragement, and for

dealing with my insane work hours. Thanks babe!

PhotographersMicah Diamond

Alex Malotte Brian Moran

Ali Mulcahy KC Coleman

James L issy Nathani al Dav is

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A ll ie Sch iesser Candace Patrick

Ryan St urgis Erica Schilz

Sarah Oberli n Carleigh McDonald

Kres Cole Brandon Bulman

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ArtistsMichelle Koffler

Sheri Uran

Katie Conner

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Theres a story they tell of a farmer who had a chicken in his backyard, ordinary chicken, but astrange-looking chicken. It looked like the other chickens, but it didnt look quite like other chickens. And the

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and the farmer took him around, and he looked at thechickens, and he saw this one. And he said, No,no, thats no chicken, man, thats an eagle. Andthe farmer said What? Its like other chickens. Sothe man said Give it to me. The farmer gives himthis strange-looking chicken, and the man takes it, and

he waits until very early in the morning, and he climbs amountain. And when he gets to the top, and the sun

is rising, he turns this strange-looking chickentowards 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 anddisappears. 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, toshake ourselves, spread out ourwings, and lift off, and we soar.And we soar towards goodness,laughter, compassion, gentleness,

because you see, you and I aremade for goodness. You and I are

made for transcendence. You and I aremade as those who have to transform this

world... and God says Fly, eagle, fly!

- Archbishop Desmond Tutu


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