Graduates of the Mesa

COLLEGE DESTINATIONS 2011–2015 American University Babson College University of Puget Sound Bard College Barnard College Bennington College Bentley University Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Brown University Bucknell University California Maritime Academy Bowdoin College California Polytechnic State University University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University of California, Los Angeles Dartmouth College University of California, San Diego University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Cruz Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Macalester College Skidmore College Chapman University Tufts University Boston College College of Charleston University of Chicago Williams College Harvard University Claremont McKenna College Wellesley College Colby College Cornell University Colgate University University of Colorado at Boulder Brown University Colorado College Columbia University Connecticut College CATE Wesleyan University Yale University Cornell University University of Michigan The Culinary Institute of America Barnard College The Culinary Institute of America Dartmouth College Davidson College Columbia University University of Denver Dickinson College New York University Duke University University of Chicago Haverford College University of Edinburgh Elon University Emmanuel College Juniata College University of Pennsylvania Emory University Endicott College Dickinson College Franklin and Marshall College Johns Hopkins University The George Washington University University of California, Berkeley Georgetown University Purdue University Georgia Institute of Technology University of San Francisco Hamilton College, NY Harvard University Georgetown University Harvey Mudd College Stanford University Haverford College Santa Clara University Hobart and William Smith Colleges Howard University Johns Hopkins University University of Virginia Juniata College Kenyon College King’s College London Lehigh University Lewis & Clark College Macalester College Wake Forest University Massachusetts Institute of Technology McGill University University of Miami Davidson College University of Michigan Middlebury College Missouri University of Science and Technology New York University University of California, Santa Barbara Colorado College CATE The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Occidental College Emory University Northeastern University Northwestern University NYU Shanghai Claremont McKenna College Georgia Intstitute of Technology Occidental College University of Oregon Harvey Mudd College University of the Pacific University of Pennsylvania University of Southern California Pomona College Pitzer College Pomona College Princeton University University of Puget Sound University of California, San Diego Purdue University Reed College Rhode Island School of Design University of Richmond University of San Diego University of San Francisco Santa Barbara City College Santa Clara University Sarah Lawrence College Scripps College Simmons College Skidmore College University of Southern California University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts Southern Methodist University NYU Shanghai University of St Andrews Stanford University Swarthmore College Syracuse University The University of Texas, Austin Southern Methodist University The University of Texas, San Antonio The New School Parsons School of Design Trinity College Trinity University 2016 Tufts University Tulane University Tulane University United States Military Academy Vanderbilt University Vassar College University of Virginia Wake Forest University Washington and Lee University Washington University in St. Louis University of Washington Wellesley College Graduates Wesleyan University Wheaton College, MA Williams College OF THE MESA Yale University 136416_CateGRADS2016_EM.indd 1 7/13/16 3:43 PM 7/21/16 6:53 AM 6:53 7/21/16 2 136416_CateGRADS2016_CX.indd Taylor Nicole Bigony COLORADO COLLEGE Eunbie Emmanuelle Coe* WELLESLEY COLLEGE Samantha Chase Hill† JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Gabriella Marie Limón* YALE UNIVERSITY Isabel Joy Moss NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Jackson Stratton Pruitt NYU SHANGHAI John Dearborn Tarlton BOWDOIN COLLEGE Isaiah Robert Washington UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Late this winter, Taylor made a film about gender. She had never done There is a certain lightly-restrained effervescence to Eunbie that Sam arrived as a heralded athlete, so powerful and accomplished Whatever the coming challenge, Gabi is surely ready for it. Her We have watched Izzy find her purpose at Cate, see the student and There is an enviable cohesion to Jack Pruitt’s life, filled as it always Jack arrived as a junior and immediately found himself torn between Isaiah has the grace of Fred Astaire and the creamy soulful voice of such a thing before, had no training as a filmmaker, but she was invigorates everything and everyone with whom she associates. It’s in on the lacrosse field that we struggled to find a goalie who was scholarship literally sparkles with insight, acumen, earnest inquiry. citizen she might become, and then become it. She is organized, of seems to be with a delightful mix of aptitudes, endeavors, and competing interests — play John Proctor in The Crucible or play Ray Charles. He glides from interaction to interaction or endeavor to energized by the topic, and she did it beautifully. That’s Taylor — little things like the Cate Broadcasting Club, music during passing willing to stand in front of her blistering shot. And while she has She is a writer of uncommon poise and purpose, capable of course, and remarkably industrious, but she has also shown a virtues. He does everything well and some things exceptionally so. goalie for our water polo team. Everybody wants Jack involved in endeavor with seamless agility and consummate poise. And determined, creative, curious, and completely undaunted. A teacher periods, gestures of kindness and goodwill to Round Square visitors, more than lived up to her billing athletically, we have come to feel molding language into the kinds of melodies you are apt to hear creative knack, an ability to iterate original thinking and engage He is a competitive and accomplished athlete, yet coaches laud him, what they are doing, because he always has something powerful to especially when he sings, we are transfixed. He has set records on once noted of Taylor’s writing that it appeals to both a reader’s or simply a smiling assembly announcement. But it’s in the bigger and value her presence almost more profoundly everywhere else. from her violin or her piano. Whatever the instrument, Gabi can use peers in her process. She helped initiate the Writing Relay to serve too, for his understanding of the beauty of sport. He is as likely to win contribute. He’s an idea guy, fascinated by the big picture, by our football field, set standards in our choir, and left an indelible “intellect and heart.” Another colleague said the same of Taylor’s work stuff too, her joyful scholarship, her masterful musicianship, her She is as creative as she is analytical, a truly gifted student with an it to fashion her compelling voice. And Gabi ensures every such students eager to invest in the art of language and this year became a race as he is to cheer himself hoarse in support of his teammates; to meaning, and truth. His scholarship is original and insightful, tinged imprimatur in our community. The inclination to be both teacher and last summer to earn her Wilderness First Responder certification; a melodious voice, and her reliably gentle bearing. And though folks eye for detail and a knack for expression. Never willing to play it expression is as productive as it is lyrical. Her work with El Batidor a teaching assistant so that she might guide underclassmen toward listen carefully to a classmate as he is to volunteer his own thoughts. always by his uncanny depth of thought. He is busy, of course, student is nicely balanced in Isaiah, leading him not simply to healer where healers are hard to find. People like Taylor surely are, use terms like “go-getter,” “conscientious,” and “academic” to safe, Sam pushes always her scholarship, her art, even her reflects that very intentionality and the artistry. It would be easy to the same kind of constructive citizenship she shows. Summer work He took on a prefectship in Long House this year and has because he wants to do too many things. That first year, he chose scholarship but to the facilitation of our community dialogue, to a too. There is such sincerity there, such concern, such poise, and such purpose. She has led describe Eunbie, they fall markedly short of capturing the spirit of this remarkable young citizenship, asking from the community the same commitment Sam shows. She has led our assume that Gabi is just naturally great, given the breadth of her talent, but it is her at the Georgetown Institute for Law has led Izzy toward a possible career in law and the become the resource we always trusted him to be. It is truly that blend of characteristics the stage, captivating the audience with an intense and tortured rendering of the doomed measurement of history, and to the hopes we have for the future. He is, as one faculty here conspicuously — as a prefect, a tour guide, an athlete, and the head of our public service woman. She is more like a composer, building a life of full of memorable notes all of which Women’s Forum, pushed us to be a more inclusive community, and shared her own unique eagerness to refine her gifts that determines her unique trajectory.

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