Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.
The first 2008 Scholar to draw the attention of the Fourth Estate appears to be Payson High School’s own Mark McCarty, featured in this profile in the Payson Roundup.
Mark, who won a 3A state wrestling title this winter, looks like the closest thing the Scholars program has seen to [...]
Archive for the ‘1988’ Category
Newbies
Posted in 1988, 1996, 2006, 2008, Beryl Jones, Mark McCarty, Niki Hale Price, Payson, Scott McMahan on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rate your professor
Posted in 1988, Bay Area, Biology, Foothill College, Higher ed, Lisa Schultheis on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lisa Schultheis (‘88 ) serves as chair of the biology department at Foothill College. And lest you think she’s the lucky one in the arrangement–teaching at what the American Institute of Architects called “the most beautiful community college ever built”–here’s what a student had to say:
BEST teacher I’ve ever had. She knows how to teach, [...]
Nick T. Spark is everywhere
Posted in 1988, History, NPR, Nick T. Spark on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
NPR had our fave multimedia documentarian, Nick T. Spark (‘88 ) on Morning Edition a couple of weeks ago to discuss the sinking of the USS Panay, an American ship attacked by the Japanese in China in 1937.
The good folks at NPR have provided pictures and a story, and a link to the seven-minute audio [...]
End-of-2007 Superlatives
Posted in 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2000, AJ Morales, Astronomy, BYU, Bay Area, Business, Columbia, Comedy, Computer Science, Denver, Jonathan Furst, Ka Chun Yu, Law, NYU, New York, Psychology, Sarah Calvert on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Considering that 2008 has already begun for the farthest-flung Scholars and alums, we’d better hurry up with some year-end awards. Let’s get right to it:
Most Likely to Catch You if You Start Spilling Trade Secrets: Keith Schon (‘92). Keith is a senior software engineer for Cataphora, which conducts investigations on very large data sets, mostly [...]
What do you want to do today?
Posted in 1988, Bedouins, Journalism, Lincoln City OR, Niki Hale Price on December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Our four-week Thanksgiving holiday is over at last, and there’s a whole bunch to catch up on.
For starters, here’s the report that came in a little while ago from Niki Hale Price (‘88), who writes for/owns the Oregon Coast Today. If you can help it, don’t drool over this daily life:
Let’s see. The last 10 [...]
Six degrees of Tony Romo, vol. 2
Posted in 1988, Filmmaking, L.A., Nick T. Spark, Tom Wolfe on November 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We swear we’re not going to talk about football forever. In some ways, we think, Don DeLillo had it right.
But still, this is fun:
Nick T. Spark (‘88 ) is producing a new documentary, “Pancho Barnes!“, which features
Chuck Yeager, playing himself, unlike in “The Right Stuff,” where he had a bit part opposite
Dennis Quaid, who was [...]
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