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Alumni Profiles Remembering Beluntu Visiting Bosnia/Herzegovina OOne MICA (P) 175/11/2007 Vol 2 June 2008 NorthThe Alumni Magazine of the United World College of South East Asia Alumni Profi les Remembering Beluntu Visiting Bosnia/Herzegovina Reunions Class Notes OUR ONLINE COMMUNITY Number of registered members on the UWCSEA Alumni website (by country of residence) Other countries represented: Albania, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Barbados, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cayman Islands, Chile, Cote d’Ivoire, East Timor, Egypt, Ghana, Guyana, Hungary, Iceland, Isle of Man, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Mali, Mongolia, New Caledonia, Oman, Panama, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, St. Maarten, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Turkey, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zambia Alumni services Every student who leaves UWCSEA, re- Friends of UWCSEA online community informed. Send us any news you would gardless of how long they were here, is A new password-protected website has like to include. automatically a member of the UWCSEA been launched for the parents of former alumni community. Some of the services students of the College to enable mem- Dunia that we offer alumni include: bers to stay connected with other parents The College magazine is published as well as the College. It is located at throughout the academic year. It con- OneºNorth http://friends.uwcsea.edu.sg. tains College news and reports of events The Alumni Magazine of UWCSEA, fi rst and activities, as well as a brief alumni published in December 2007, is pub- Reunions and get-togethers section. Please send us your suggestions lished twice per year. Please send your An annual reunion of the 30 year, 20 year for profi les. contributions and/or suggestions to and 10 year anniversary classes will be [email protected]. held each August. Other class reunions Career services and alumni gatherings take place in Alumni are welcome to post job openings UWCSEA Alumni online community various locations throughout the year, or your own resumé in the career section The UWCSEA alumni website located planned by both UWCSEA and its alumni. of the site. at http://alumni.uwcsea.edu.sg is Watch the alumni website for updates password protected and allows you to and details, and let us help promote Visits, tours and other requests maintain your own profi le, search for and your events. We are always happy to help in any contact other registered members, post way we can. Send your requests to us photos and blogs, stay informed about Alumni eBrief at [email protected]. If you are in news and events, etc. The alumni e-newsletter is emailed Singapore and would like to drop in for a regularly and contains brief news and visit or a tour of the campus, we would be information to keep you updated and more than happy to show you around. Contents 2 Alumni services 15 Awards Helping you to stay connected to Grade 12 awards day UWCSEA and to each other. 16 Alumni Profi le 4 Letter from the Head Carmen Oria (Class of 1975) Read about developments at Interpreter and International UWCSEA Dover Campus UWCSEA Relations Offi cer, Chile 5 Note from the Alumni offi ce 18 History Welcome to the second issue of Remembering Beluntu the alumni magazine. 5 Graduation 2008! 21 The Alumni website UWCSEA East Campus 2008-2010 Graduation 24 May 2008 Useful information 6 Alumni Profi le 22 Gap Year Hawk Ostby (Class of 1985) Opportunities for alumni Hollywood Screenwriter 23 Gap Year 8 Global Concerns Jen Mackie’s (Class of 2006) UWCSEA East Campus 2010 Project week trip inspires new Gap Year experience in Cambodia (Artist Impression) UWCSEA Global Concern 24 Travel 10 Sport at UWCSEA Adam Jones (Class of 1981) Cricket at UWCSEA visits Mostar Ashwin Bhat (Class of 2006) 26 Travel Updates 11 UWCSEA Projects UWC Mostar The Memory of Trees Tim Goulding (Class of 1987) UWCSEA Foundation Akihiko Hoshide (Class of 1987) 12 Values in Practice (ViP) 27 Recent Reunions Jonathan Chew (Class of 2000) Photos from recent get-togethers Inspiring a global organisation to contribute to poverty reduction 28 Classnotes 14 Values in Practice (ViP) Musa Henry Kpaka (Class of 2004) wins ‘Projects for 31 Upcoming Reunions Peace’ award OneºNorth is published by United World College of South East Asia twice per year for alumni, Editor staff and friends of UWCSEA. Reproduction in any manner is prohibited without written consent. Brenda Whately Send your address change to [email protected] and/or update your profi le on the UWCSEA alumni website. We welcome your feedback. Send your comments to alumnimaga- Assistant Editor [email protected]. Prapti Sherchan Please send your articles and/or suggestions for articles, as well as your class notes, for the next Layout issue to [email protected]. Lenca Yew Cover photo : A vine provides welcome refreshment during a Beluntu foray. Photo courtesy of Printed by Brian Green. Do you know who this student is? Interprint Communications Pte Ltd Please send your suggestions for future cover photos to [email protected] . Letter from the Head of College Julian Whiteley he College continues to evolve at a rapid pace. We are currently re-writing the TMiddle School curriculum to create greater cross-curricular links and as ap- propriate integrate elements that relate to the UWC movement’s mission statement. We are hopeful that once completed, this curriculum will follow a similar path to the Introductory TOK (Theory of Knowledge) course pioneered at the College. This has evolved into a GCSE entitled ‘Global Perspectives’ and is now available to students across the world. Global Concerns remain a unique part of the College and the Board has granted a sabbatical year to Anthony Skillicorn (‘Skilly’). He will devote his time to enhancing our links with a number of Global Concerns, writing a book on the development of service within UWCSEA and also speaking at various international conferences in order to encourage other schools to follow our lead. We are also expanding the Gap Year programme or 3YO. Currently very few students take a Gap Year before going on to university. Our aspiration is that within fi ve years 10% of the graduat- ing class will be involved in one of a number of projects we are setting up in South East Asia. We also hope that we will be able to extend this to alumni who might want to become involved. Should anyone be interested would they please contact Brenda Whately, our Alumni Director. We are set to increase the number of National Committee Scholars at the College by two per year over the next seven years bringing the total number to just under 60. In addition, this year we will be accepting two scholars into Grade 8. One is coming from the Mercy Centre in Bangkok, with whom we have had a longstanding relationship, and the other is currently being selected by the Cambodian National Committee. We believe that their presence will bring an added dimension to the Middle School. In terms of physical developments at the College, I mentioned in the last edition of OneºNorth that we would be expanding the College by creating a second campus. Work on the transition Primary School is nearing completion and we are optimistic that it will open in September 2008 with a full complement of 400 students. The design for the permanent facility has been approved and we are excited about the prospect of the ‘state of the art’ campus. The campus will contain a number of in- novative features which will enhance its ‘green’ credentials and we anticipate that it will be the fi rst school in Singapore to achieve the Building and Construction Authority Greenmark Gold Plus Award. Pictures of the East Campus can be viewed on the College website. In closing, may I just mention that during my travels this year, mainly to recruit teaching staff, we have held reunions for alumni in Melbourne, Hong Kong and London. It has been a pleasure to meet so many of you at such events and I look forward to many more occasions in the future. June 2008 OneºNorth 4 Note from the alumni offi ce As another academic year comes to an end, we welcome well over 300 new alumni from the graduating class as well as those leaving from other grades. We wish them all good luck in their future endeavours! We hope you enjoy this second issue of the alumni magazine. In it you’ll read about an engineer inspiring his organisation to contribute to poverty reduction; students starting up a new Global Concern; a screenwriter with a blockbuster movie and an academy award nomination; an interpreter who promotes the teaching and learning of the English language in Chile; an astronaut travelling to the International Space Station, and more. Please keep the news and profi le suggestions coming! We have had a few enquiries from alumni wishing to take some time away from their career, or time between university and career to participate in a Global Concern type of activity. Because of your feedback, we are looking into opening up the Gap Year programme to alumni and have Some of the alumni council members created a new group on the alumni site called Volunteer Programmes. We have also added a ViP (Values in Practice) group on the site to celebrate alumni social and environmental initiatives and a Mentor group, again due to your feedback, which will allow current students and recent grads to connect with willing alumni for advice regarding university choice, career information, etc. Please have a look. We’d appreciate your feedback. A new website, similar to the alumni site, has recently been launched for the parents of UWCSEA alumni, to help them to stay connected with each other and the College after they leave Singapore or their children graduate.
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