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AROUND THE ACADEMY 1. What keeps you up at night? Coffee that I was using to stay awake to finish a submittal for NavArch Capstone. 2. What’s the most thrilling/adventurous thing you’ve ever done? Hiked the “World’s Most Dangerous Trail” on Mount Hua with my mom in Xi’an, China. 3. Favorite item on your knick knack shelf? My Buddha statue and Rosary, sitting side by side. 4. Guilty pleasure? My Luna Sandals and toe socks. 5. Personal hero (and why)? My 7 siblings, they are all full of life and the most caring individuals I know. 6. Describe yourself in three words. Crazy, Spontaneous, and Caring. 7. The one thing you’ve learned at the Academy that you’ll never forget? When you’re at a high, stay humble. When you’re at the low, stay hopeful. 8. First website you access in the morning? Email. 9. Favorite comfort food? CHOCOLATE, hands down. 1/c Mary Hazen 10. If you had a theme song, what would it be? I have my own theme song…The Mary Song! ou get in the ring, you walk 11. Best trophy/award you ever won? New England Golden “Ytowards your opponent, they say Glove Championship. ‘box’ and you throw a punch or they throw a punch,” said 1/c Mary Hazen, 12. If you could read anyone’s mind, who would it be? My one of three women on the Academy’s Capstone Advisor LCDR Cost. Boxing team. “It’s not a fight to the death, 13. Pet peeve? People zigzagging in front of me, while I’m but I fight to win.” It’s a far cry from her trying to pass them. response last year to a friend who asked her to consider joining the team, to which 14. What would your dream billet be? Cheboygan, MI. she replied “no, and I never will.” But it 15. Unfulfilled wish?Meet Jason Segel. was on her mind all summer and come fall she decided to try it. 16. Favorite sport to watch? Not huge on watching sports, I “I was ready for a change and boxing would rather get out and play! seemed like a fun workout,”she said. 17. What gets you out of bed in the morning? The unknown She never dreamed that a mere eight of the day ahead. months later she’d be undefeated, the 18. What are you afraid of? Not having access to a body of New England Golden Glove Champion, water to swim! and on her way to the National Championship in Sunrise, FL, April 19. Ultimate spring break location? An expedition through 10-12, along with teammate 3/c Kiana the Amazon. Kekoa. 20. Favorite (or most dreaded) event on the Physical Fitness Mary, a native of Muncie, IN, credits Exam (PFE)? I have never minded the PFE; my goal was her success to her time on the triathlon to get a 300 at least once before I graduated…which I have team. ”I have an endurance from gotten the last 4 semesters! triathlon that’s carried me a lot of the way. Two minutes is nothing compared to the Half-Iron Man’s I’ve done.” Mary’s proud of her achievements If you know of an alumnus/alumna, cadet, or Academy faculty/staff so far, which include being the first member who would be a good candidate for a future profile, please email woman to ever fight in the New York me at [email protected] with their name and a brief description of Athletic Club’s collegiate tournament last why you believe they deserve attention. November. “I joined boxing thinking I’d get a good workout; I never imagined I’d be making history.” April 2015 23 AROUND THE ACADEMY octor Alexander Waid was having Da great day. The language lab, 20 Questions with . which he has overseen since starting the Academy’s Spanish language program in 2001, was receiving upgrades that included a new virtualized server, 16 new computers, and upgraded software. Sponsored by the “great and generous class of 1966...[the upgrade’s] really going to help streamline what we do in the lab,” he said. He teaches all levels of Spanish (I-IV, Intro to Spanish, and Spanish American Literature) to the cadets, including the one-credit course nicknamed “Coast Guard Spanish” that covers the vocabulary needed for law enforcement. He loves “being part of a place that has such a strong and ingrained umbrella mission.” Dr. Waid grew up in Warwick, R.I., speaking Spanish with his Colombian parents and English at Catholic school. As an undergraduate student, he planned on pursuing medical school upon graduation, but in his junior year he took a 20th- Century Spanish poetry course that literally changed the course Dr. Alexander Waid of his life. “The poet was Vicente Aleixandre and the poem was Se Querían (They Loved Each Other). That poem just reached 1. What keeps you up at night? I inside of me and twisted my guts around and I thought ‘this is wonder if I’m doing enough to help what I have to do for the rest of my life...this is it.’” He went on my kids (my own children and my to receive his Master’s and Ph.D. in Romance Languages and cadets) succeed on their own. Literatures at the University of North Carolina. His most recent 2. What’s a book you read recently? project was the translation into English of three short stories by I recently re-read Cervantes’ Don Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno that had languished since Quixote for my latest book project. It’s written in the late 1920s. One reviewer claims that Tres Historias the most magical and brilliant novel Mas is “a must-have for any serious Unamunian library.” I’ve ever read. 10. Favorite comfort food? My wife’s chicken soup. 3. First album/CD you bought? Chicago’s 16 for my mom on 11. If you had a theme song, what would it be? Beatles Mother’s Day. “Good Day, Sunshine” because I’m genuinely excited to see folks every day or Queen’s “A Kind of Magic” because 4. One destination you dream of there’s magic all around us. but haven’t gotten to yet? Bogotá, Colombia: most of my family is still 12. If you could teach a course on any subject in any location there and I haven’t met all of them in the world, what would you teach and where would yet! you teach it? “Mechanisms of Desire in the World’s Great Literature and their Socio-psychological Implications 5. What’s the most thrilling/ Today” in Hawaii because my wife is dying to go there. adventurous thing you’ve ever done? I ran a 32-mile footrace on 13. Three people, living or dead, you’d have over to dinner? Connecticut Trails a couple of years My maternal grandmother, Jesus, Buddha. I never met any back. of them, but I’ve heard and learned about them all my life. 6. Personal hero (and why)? My dad. 14. Best trophy/award you ever won? I won the three biggest He is just about the kindest, most teaching awards given to graduate students in the same selfless person I know. semester at UNC Chapel Hill. 7. First job? Dishwasher at Uncle Tony’s 15. If you could read anyone’s mind, who would it be? The Pizzeria, Warwick, RI. U.S. President’s: it must never stop running. 8. The one thing you’ve learned 16. Pet peeve? Self-centered people. while working at the Academy that 17. Favorite sport to watch? Football: New England or Dallas. you’ll never forget? Organize and 18. What advice would you give to yourself 10 years ago? prioritize! If you don’t, work takes Kiss your wife. Then, kiss her again. over! 19. Must-have app on your phone? Rhapsody for music: I get 9. If you had a free hour to do to add a sound track to my life. anything you could, what would it 20. Favorite time of the day? 0400-0630 is sacred time for be? Run or bike in the woods with me: I can read, write, exercise, think, pray, or meditate my family and friends. uninterrupted. 24 THE BULLETIN April 2015 25 AROUND THE ACADEMY Thomas Friedman encourages cadets to set themselves apart By LT Megan Mervar ’07, CGA Public Affairs Officer Author and newspaper columnist Mr. Thomas Friedman speaks with cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Feb. 23, 2015 as the 2015 Hedrick Fellow. As foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times, Mr. Friedman has covered stories from around the globe since 1981. U.S. Coast Guard photos by Petty Officer 2nd Class Cory J. Mendenhall. hen the man who invented the Pulitzer Prize winner for his work at Wgame of chess gave the game to the the New York Times, was honored at king, the king liked the game so much he the Academy as this year’s Coast Guard asked how he could reward the man. The Foundation Hedrick Fellow. The Hedrick man said all he wanted was to feed his Fellow program recognizes outstanding family. Americans whose distinguished public “I would just like you to take one service has shaped the course of our grain of rice, put it on the first square of nation. Its main purpose is to allow the chess board, put two on the second, cadets to learn from the experience of four on the next, eight on the next, America’s most revered leaders.