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Emma Cathryn
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This article is about a little girl and her family.
Emma Kathryn is the daughter of Gary and Elissa Vanveik. She was born at Kettering Medical Hospital in Ohio on April 20, 2005. She weighed seven and a half pounds and was ten and a half inches long. She is the last born of five. She has three older brothers and one sister. When she was only five months old her oldest brother, Brandon, set off for college in Maine at the University of New England. At the age of ten months she started getting her first tooth, the bottom front right tooth. Then in time the rest of them started coming in like sprouts all over her little mouth. She was always chewing on something because those sharp teeth hurt when they would poke through the surface of her gums. On April 20, 2006, she turned the big number one. The birthday party was with the whole family came together to watch her pick up the cake and smash her face into it. Needless to say, she made a huge mess everywhere. Her favorite birthday present must have been the Blues Clues blow-up chair from Aunt Beth, Uncle Darrell, and cousins Doug and Clair. She liked it because once it was inflated she never left it. She would even pick it up and walk with it when she was not sitting in the blue chair. At some point in time, she started walking. It is actually a funny story. She walked to come get her favorite teddy bear stuffed animal. Her mom was on one couch and her sister, Brittany, on the other that was across the family room. Jon and Dillon, her two other brothers, were helping her get across the room at first and then before we knew it she was walking back and forth form Mom to Sissy, only falling a few times her and there. As of today, she is trying to be potty trained, but she does not like the idea of panties because they let everything come out, unlike a diaper, that keeps her business in and does not make a big mess everywhere.
References: Gary, Elissa, and Emma Vanveik
The UD women’s golf team hosted the first annual UD Invitational this year on October 28th-29th. It turned out to be a very competitive and successful tournament.
After redevoting herself to her golf game over the past summer and working on becoming a more patient player, sophomore Katie Gallagher finally saw the outcome she was looking for. On the first day she was able to shoot an amazing score of 73 and for the second day she shot another great score of 78. Gallagher tallied to score of an overall 151, making her the medalist of the 2007 individual medalist of the 2007 UD Invitational. "I just took it hole by hole this tournament," Gallagher said. "I didn't let myself get down after taking bad shots and that really helped me."
As a whole, the team itself came in 2nd place with a total score of 655. Julie Pouliquen began the first day with a 77 and finished the second day with a 79. For Mary Kane the second day with a 73 was much better than her first with an 86. Katie Dempsey ended the first day with an 82 and bounced back hard the next day with a 78. Sophomore Casey Peterson shot an 85 for the first day and picked up a 78 in round two. Also a sophomore, Cari DeAngle, followed similar to Peterson with an 85 in the first round and a 79 in the second. Freshman Ellen Ciacchini began with a harsh 89 and finished strong with an 80. Rounding out the Flyers were Paige Smith with an 84 and 88, Elaine English with an 87 and 88, Megan Keating with an 86 and 88, and Heather Grant with an 83 and 88.
In first place was Oakland with a total of 654. It was a very close tournament and the competition was great. Hopefully next year will run test and smoothly and turn out just as close.
Reference: Coach Sally Kosters
David Baustert. Born in dayton ohio on September 26 1989. Derived from the word awesome. Enjoys going Fast. Dave for short. Loved by all.
Dave was the 2nd born of two children. One older sister Rachel. Dave is currently pursuing his mechanical engineering degree at the university of dayton. Dave enjoys working on cars and motorcycles. His goal in life, he says, "I wanna go fast." Dave enjoys partying in the ghetto at UD. He also enjoys playing football. Dave played highschool football at Walter E Stebbins where he was a 3 year varsity letterman and 2 year all area. Dave enjoys being social and can often been found at the epsilon delta tau fraternity house. Ref. David Baustert
Marie Dorissa Rohlke (Born August 17, 1989 ) She was born in a city called Bay Village which is a small town west of Cleveland in northern Ohio. She grew up in this sleepy town and is currently studying engineering at the University of Dayton. She is the oldest of 6 kids who all grew up in the cozy little home on Bayview Rd. She is well known for her dancing, singing and acting skills and she has high hopes for her career in the future in the show biz industry.
Early life
She made her way through the Bay Village public schools with decent grade mostly A’s and B’s there were a few C’s here and there. She was especially good at math and science but what she loved most was choir and she quickly made herself known as the top soprano in the top two audition choirs at her school. She was also part of her cheerleading squad called the Rockettes which was a big part of her high school life. She also had a few boyfriends throughout her high school career. When she was 7 she fell through a glass window and has a large scar across her left arm and a few others across her stomach.
Personal Life
She is currently with one of the boys that she dated in high school Cameron Lowe. She has been dating him for over a year. She is from a family of 8 with her mother Leanne and her father Lee, and her 5 siblings, Dayna (16), Carleigh (14), Luke (12), Aubrey (10), and Brenna (8). She also has a dog whose name is Pedro and three cats Sasha, Buster and Rocko.
Awards and recognitions
She was on the competition dance team for 14 years and has received many awards at over 70 competitions over her lifetime.
References: Lee, Leanne, Dayna, Carleigh, Luke, Aubrey, Brenna
Meghan Duckson
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Meghan Elizabeth Duckson was born on January 16, 1989 to Deborah and Richard Duckson. She has an older brother Matthew who was born on September 17, 1987. She and her brother grew up in Springboro, Ohio; a quite suburb between Dayton and Cincinnati. During her childhood she had a very eclectic activities list. First there was softball, then gymnastics, next she dabbled in dance, and finally she tried tennis; needless to say none of them peaked her curiosity. While there she excelled through the Springboro public school system receiving A’s and B’s. While attending Springboro High School Meghan actively participated in her school’s Winterguard and Colorguard teams, during her senior year she became captain of the Colorguard. She decided to take a break from Winterguard her senior year to focus on school and to earn money to help pay for college. Meghan is now attending the University of Dayton as a freshman, and is majoring in chemical engineering. Through all of the stress of a freshman’s first semester Meghan has managed to make friends and enjoy being on her own for the first time in her life. She plans on becoming a successful business woman with tons of opportunities for the rest of her life. Her one dream is to be able to travel the world with her best friend since the sixth grade, Megan Dauber.
References: Meghan Duckson, Deborah Duckson, and Richard Duckson
Avery Connelly was born on October 7th 1988 in Evanston Illinois, she was exactly 7 pounds. Avery was the first born in her family. About 2 years later there was another addition to the family a little boy named Max. Max was the cutest baby ever, he was born with Downs Syndrome. Avery was so excited to see her brother Max come home from the hospital. Avery and Max were best friends, she would play with max all day long they did everything together and to this day they are best of friends. About 3 years later another baby boy joined our family his name was Jack, Jack was so cute he had bright blue eyes and was so fat! Max and Avery would play with Jack they would lay him on the floor and jump over him they thought it was so fun even though mom would get very very mad at us! Lastly Ben was born the 3rd boy in the family! Ben was just as cute as the other boys. Ben had big brown eyes like a deer, he was adorable. Our family was complete, 1 girl and 3 boys it was crazy! All 4 of us our extremely active we play many different sports and then focus on one that is our favorite. Avery was high school golfer and caption of her team and did very well. Max plays on every Special Olympic team his favorite is basketball. Jack loves basketball and plays for our high school feeder team for 7 and 8th grade and is the goalie for his lacrosse team. Ben also is a basketball player but loves lacrosse. Our family loves is always busy and playing sports and helping each of us improve. Many times you will see Jack and Ben and Max outside playing lacrosse. Jack will be on goal and his brothers will be throwing the lacrosse ball as hard as they can at Jack so he can improve with his skills.
Kathryn Hensman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about a girl named Kathryn Hensman, but she likes to be called Katie. She was born on July 27, 1989, to Don and Debra Hensman. She was the youngest of three. Her older siblings, Courtney and Don, were excited to have a younger sibling. They are all very close in age, Courtney is two years older than Don, and Don is a year older than Katie. The three of them get along for the most part.
Katie and Don have their fights more often. For example, in high school, Katie and Don had to share a car. This was the main reason they always fought. Katie was a good student who liked to get to school ten minutes before school started, so she could go to her locker and get ready for the day. Whereas, Don liked to get to school five minutes after school started. This brought troubles in the Hensman household. Since Don was older, he thought he should get his way and always drive and get to school late. Katie did not like this idea of being late. Katie had honors chemistry for first period and hated being late, and Don only had study hall so he hated being early. Throughout the school year Katie learned how to talk herself out of many tardy detentions. One time, Katie had to get to school early because she had a meeting and told her brother she would take the car if he was not ready to leave. Don did not listen, he decided to hide the keys from Katie, and so she could not leave him and slept past the time she needed to leave. After this incident, Katie made a spare key to the car and hid it from her brother. Katie had another meeting a couple weeks later and her brother did the same thing, this time Katie had a spare key and left him at home. Katie got yelled at for leaving her brother and had to turn around and pick him up. Katie again never made it to her meeting because of her brother.
References: Don, Debra, Courtney, Don, and Kathryn Hensman
Riley Nichole McDaniel was born October 17th, 2007. This little girl was born to a big, loving family. She was 7lbs 11ozs and 21 inches long. She has a full head of hair and blue eyes. She is now 3 weeks old and she is living with her grandparents in Lancaster, Ohio. He father comes to visit her every night and spends the weekends with her. He is hoping to get custody of her at his custody hearing in December 2007. The mother is no longer in the picture. She gets one supervised visit a week but she does not really seem to care either way. Right now Riley’s grandparents have kinship and are waiting for the custody hearing in December, hoping their son will be allowed to finally take her home. Riley has her very own room in her grandparent’s house but has not slept in her bed yet. Riley sleeps in her bassinet in her grandparent’s room. Riley is doing very well right now. She is being visited everyday by her loving family, aunts, uncles, great aunts, great uncles, great grandparents, second cousins, and friends of the family. Riley is a very beloved little girl. Riley Nichole is a cute little darling and she looks just like her father. She is taking Soy formula because the formula she was on before was making her sick. Riley’s room is yellow and she has a white crib. Her crib blanket is green and has a bunch of animals on it as well as her bumper and her mobile. Riley is going to grow up with a great loving family. She will be the oldest of her cousins and will be the only one for awhile so she is going to be pretty spoiled for awhile. Two of her uncles’ are still in high school, actually one is in junior high, so it’ll be awhile before they start having any children. Her aunt is a freshman in college and she is planning on going to medical school so it will also be awhile before she starts having children. So for at least four years Riley will be the only grandchild, and a spoiled one at that.
References: Samantha McDaniel, Joshua McDaniel, and Tracey McDaniel
Timothy Wall
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Timothy Paul Wall was born on September 26, 1989 to the parents of Marianne and Bob Wall and was born in Boeblingen, Germany. He had an older brother Nicholas Richard Wall who was also born in Boeblingen, Germany on December 5, 1984. While growing up in Germany, Tim and his family got to enjoy the loving affection from their two dogs Barkley and Buster who passed away when Tim was nine years old. While living in Germany Tim attended Patch American Elementary School through the 5th grade on Patch Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany. Tim and his family lived in Germany until 2001 where they then packed their bags and moved to Burke, Virginia and attended Ravensworth Elementary School for a year then attending Lake Braddock Secondary School for middle school as well as high school. Not long after moving to Virginia Tim and his family made the decision to bring two Labrador retrievers in to the family and gave them the names Kaiser and Julz. Growing up in Germany and Virginia Tim was a very good athlete. He played basketball, football, soccer and baseball in his younger years and during high school he participated in football as well as basketball. While attending high school Tim not only took part in sports but was also a part of National Honor Society as well as Boy Scouts. While attending high school Tim worked at Nauti Body Fitness Center. During the summer he would spend his free time at his Aunt’s house in Nags Head, North Carolina on the beach. After, Tim graduated high school he applied and decided to attend the University of Dayton. He is majoring in criminal justice and participating in Army ROTC. When Tim graduates from the University of Dayton he will commission into the United States Army with an Infantry branch and plans on spending at least twenty-five years with the Army. While in the Army Tim plans on being stationed all around the world and enjoy life to the best of his ability. After the army he plans on becoming a firefighter and would like to open a fitness center with his older brother. The biggest dream Tim has is that upon retiring for the last time he would like to spend the rest of his life living in the middle of 50 acres on a lake in the mountains of North Caroline or Tennessee.
References: Nicholas Wall, Charles Wall, and Marianne Wall
Jose de la Vega
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José de la Vega was born on April 3,1989 to Jose de la Vega and Tamara Fernandez. He has two younger brothers, Jose Javier who was born May 2, 1992, and Jose Juan born October 12, 1994. Jose and his brother grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Jose de la Vega during his childhood played all kind of different sports , baseball , basketball, volleyball and ping pong. After a couple of years playing around with different sports he decided to fallow his dad passion baseball. Baseball in Puerto Rico is a pretty big deal because you can play it year round thanks to the weather. From a young age Jose was teaching the value and meaning of working hard and that people can understand each other talking. He was pretty successful in baseball thanks to this. After a couple of years playing baseball Jose decided that he can also help coaching baseball thanks to all the lesson he has learn from playing the game. Hi divided his time between playing and coaching and this way he really live his passion for the game. He had the privilege to coach his young brother Jose Javier and helping him develop to a very good player. His school educating was a very rich one. He studies at the two private schools Colegio Maria Auxiliadora and Academia Santo Tomas de Aquino from where he graduates. After finishing his high school Jose decided he needed a new challenge so he decided to study out of Puerto Rico. Jose is now attending the University of Dayton where he is a freshman and divided his time between studying and the management of the baseball team. Following his dream Jose wants to become successful manger for a professional baseball team or a head coach for a college.
References : Jose de la Vega, Tamara Fernandez , Jose Javier de la Vega, Jose Juan de la Vega
Maureen Lowery
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Maureen Lowery was born on Novenber 1, 1988, most people refer to her as Reeni. She was born into a family with three older siblings. Her oldest brother is named Tim, he is such a great role model for her and always encourages her to work hard. He now writes for a magizine in Chicago. Katlyn is the second oldest she always feels the need to take care of everyone in the family. Katelyn will be joining the peace corps in the near future and will be living in Africa for a couple years. Thomas is the next, Thomas goes to Loyola University Chicago. He is on the improv team there. Ryan came two years after Maureen, Ryan and Maureen are very close they went to high school together and always are chatting on the phone. Mauree is now at the University of Dayton in Ohio, she hopes one day to become a teacher and move back to Chicago. Her parents are names Patty and Tom. Patty is a nurse at a hospital and is always conserned with everyone. Tom is a Real Estate appraser. They are such good parents and Reeni is so happpy to have them. They are always there to support her in every decision that she makes. Reeni is so happy that there main goal is to make her happy and to be there for her. They truely just want her to be happy. Maurnn palayed Basketball and Field Hockey in high school and was chaire for publisity in the Student Council. She loved high school and is so happy that she has come away with such good friends from high school.
Mary Katharine Holder
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Mary Katharine (Kate) Holder was born into the Holder family on April 18, 1989 and grew up in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, just across the river from Harrisburg. Her parents, Thomas and Robyn, were already the lucky parents of two young boys, Tom and Michael, so they were both very excited to have a girl join the family! The boys loved having a little sister and would often be caught fighting over who gets to hold her next. After being the highlight of the family and everybody’s favorite hobby, Mary Kate received a little brother, Jim, born on December 20, 1991. So the family was complete, loving parents and four beautiful children.
Every since she could walk, Mary Kate was an athlete. Her dad taught her at a young age how to dribble and she went from there. Participating in sporting camps every summer, Mary Kate began to get very good. When grade school came and was able to be on real teams, Mary Kate was the only 4th grader asked to play on the 6th grade team. Her success in grade school continued and Mary Kate moved up and played on the Varsity 8th grade team as a 6th grader. Also, every since kindergarten, Mary Kate played on a traveling Rec soccer team.
High school came and more sports were available. Mary Kate was a four year Varsity letter winner in three sports: volleyball, basketball and soccer. Not always being an A student like her three brothers, sports were what made her shine. Her parents loved watching her play and would travel almost every weekend to her different sporting events. On March 15, 2006, Mary Kate was the starting point guard and led her basketball team to win the PIAA State Championship.
A current student at The University of Dayton, Mary Kate is enjoying being a real college student and loves to participate in the intramural sports programs. Some of Mary Kate’s family members are starting to grow up, get married and have kids so she is looking forward to spending time with the little kids and enjoying the next four years to her best ability!
References: Thomas Holder, Robyn Holder, an interview with Mary Kate Holder
Kevin James Sander, born on April 26, 1989 weighed in at 8 pounds 15 and half ounces. He was a bigger baby but a loving one. When he was young Kevin loved to played basketball and annoyed his brother and sister. His mom and dad named Jane and Tom really cared for him. He grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and has lived there since. His place of residency was on Walkerton Avenue, and then moved to West Tower. Kevin and his brother Thomas really went at it back in the days. Both of them would fight like brothers are supposed to. Kevin was a wild child and loved to jump and play. He was very adventurous and at age four Kevin decided he was going to jump off the couch at his grandma’s which spelled trouble and nothing less. It was disastrous from the start of his new adventure. On his last jump Kevin took a different route and crashed violently into my grandma’s oriental vase. This turned out to be a bad injury as he was rushed to the hospital and was given seven stitches in his forehead. This is just a highlight of some of the things Kevin did. He was wild and crazy and his hair was white. No matter what Kevin always lost to his brother in basketball and still does. His sister was a nutcase; she was very emotional but treated him like her best friend. One night on a weekend and the parents gone, his sister Bridget let Kevin sleep in her room with her. This was due to the loud noises outside and also the fact Kevin was scared. One of Kevin’s favorite things to do was give his brother trouble and be a nuisance to his friends. They managed to get along despite the bickering and hitting of Kevin’s head, but to this day there is still a grudge. Kevin later grew up and attended Our Lady of Lourdes and after excelling in everything there he moved on to Elder High School. Little was known of what a great time ahead of him was. After achieving good grades through hard work Kevin was accepted to the University of Dayton. This is by far his greatest achievement and to this day he still looks back on the acceptance letter.
Phillip Monnier
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Phillip Monnier is from Tipp City, Ohio; which is about twenty minutes north of Dayton. He went to Tippecanoe High School and graduated with 192 other fine young people. He is very passionate about his heritage and where he comes from. This comes out when he starts talking about his school and city. Currently, he is majoring in Civil Engineering at the University of Dayton. He chose civil engineering because he has always enjoyed the construction process and when he was little, and even today, he likes to tear things apart and take a look inside. People often find him too curious for his own good. This is brought from him being naive. He has limited work experience and has not had a real job until this past winter. During this time he worked for H and R Block, coordinating people to getting their taxes done. This past summer he worked for the Miami County Engineer on the road crew. This was critical in determining his desire to get a college degree because he doesn’t want to do manual labor all of his life. He was also able to see what one civil engineer actually did. His immediate family consists of five people and he is the middle child. He has an older brother who is at UD and getting a degree in Accounting. He also has a sister who is a junior in high school. His extended family is quite large however as his mother was one of fifteen children and his father was one of seven. He has many things that bother him that many people would think is weird, however very practical. One of these is buying any form of water. This includes bottled water and ice. Something that people can get easy enough for free out of the tap shouldn’t be bought. He feels like it’s a rip off to buy a 20 oz bottled water for a dollar or more. He plans to never buy water nor will drink water that has been bought. An exception to this would be where tap water is unsanitary. He is also very random in his thoughts and his words. Ref: Phillip Monnier
Andrew Quatkemeyer
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Andrew Quatkemeyer was born on April 23, 1989 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Andrew was the second of two children from Ron and Dori Quatkemeyer. Andrew was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio along with his older sister Amanda. Andrew was a very active child always playing sports and running around the neighborhoods. When it was time for Andrew to attend school he attended Heritage Elementary for six years. While in elementary school Andrew found his favorites sport hockey. Andrew attended Lakota Ridge Junior High School, and then attended the well known Moeller High School. In High School Andrew continued to play Hockey and participated in many different community service programs. As a Junior Andrew was selected to be a foreign Exchange student and spend a month in Namibia, Africa. Andrew applied and was accepted to the University of Dayton and received an Army ROTC scholarship. Andrew is currently majoring in psychology and upon graduation will be commissioned as an officer in the United States Army and plans to make the military his career as a helicopter pilot. When retiring from the military Andrew plans to spend the rest of his life traveling the world and spending time with his family.
Bradley Allen Lane
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Bradley or Brad was born in Cincinnati, Ohio January 24, 1989. He moved a year later to Kansas where he slept most of his life away until 1992 when he moved to Ft Knox, Kentucky. There he spent a year and a half taking life in. When he moved in 1993 back to Ft. Riley Kansas he was greeted by a little brother, Nathan Lane.
Brad’s grade school years went by fast as he maintained a high GPA and a love for sports. He grew up in the United States, but his father Randall C. Lane deployed the fall of 2002. Bradley quickly found himself in Heidelberg Germany where his family was stationed for a total of 5 years. Throughout his high school years he enjoyed the spoils of Germany as well as the sports and school events he participated in.
He was a part of a Varsity Football, Basket ball, Track and Soccer team throughout his four years in high school. Though his greatest accomplishment was his induction into NHS where he proceeded to make an honors graduate out of himself.
Getting accepted too many different schools throughout the U.S. he chose to attend a small catholic school in Dayton, Ohio. He currently studies Pre Med at the University of Dayton. He is also a part of the Army ROTC program so in four years when he gets out he will be a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
Jacob Milli
Jacob Milli was born on August 26, 1988. He was born in Parma, Ohio. His parent’s names are Peter and Beth Milli. Jacob Milli was a blonde haired little boy that always likes to get into trouble. He was the man around the house until he had three other brothers and sisters come into the family. Jacob Milli has one sister, Sarah, and two other brothers, John and James. Jacob loves to play soccer. He started playing soccer when he was 6 years old. He then started playing premier soccer at the age of 10. Jacob went to St. Albert the Great School for kindergarten through eighth grade. Then he went to Walsh Jesuit High school. He played soccer for four years on the varsity team winning the state championships his senior year. He was captain of the team when they won the state tournament. He was involved with his premier soccer team much more and they won the state tournament many times. Jacob drove a Dodge SRT-4 and loved to work on cars. There was many times when his car would go the track and beat all of the other cars that were there. Jacob has worked at Michael Day Enterprises since he was sixteen years old and still works their now. He loves his job because of the good working atmosphere and the way that the people their treat him. Jacob attends the University of Dayton now and lives in E244 Marianist Hall. He plays soccer for the Univerisy of Dayton. He is a right back and a center back player. He works very hard in school to get good grades and try to exceed the everyday expectations. There are many times that Jacob gets homesick and wants to go home, but he has his best friends David Francesangelo and Kyle Kure there with him at school in order to make a good time and have fun on the weekends. Jacob is a very good person that tries hard to be successful and learn the new paths of life and hopefully someday he will reach all of his goals.
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John Alexander Christian Klass was born at Lima, Memorial Hospital on October 4, 1988. This day marked the first, of a long successful life. At the age three years old John learned how to snow ski. He got on those skis and took off. It was his number one favorite thing to do. He did it as much as he could, and when he wasn’t skiing, he was dreaming about it. He was doing great, but when snowboarding started to come into the picture John could no longer keep focus on skiing. When he was in the fourth grade he started to dream about the day he got on a snowboard. He begged and begged his parents to let him learn to snowboard. It wasn’t until the sixth grade when his parents took him and his sister to Mad River Mountain to learn how to snowboard. His sister and him rented their equipment, and hit the slopes with no game plan in learning. It was a constant struggle for both of them all morning. His sister decided that she didn’t want to learn to snowboard that badly, so she turned in her snowboard for skis at lunch. John, however, was determined to learn, so he kept on going and eventually he mastered it. After that he never looked back, and never desired to ski again. He snowboarded at every possible moment that was available to him. Around John’s freshman year in High School he found the terrain park, and loved hitting all the big jumps, and rails. He entered his first competition at the age of sixteen, and took twenty third out of fifty competitors. It was obvious that John had great potential for the sport. After he won several rail jam competitions he ventured over to the half pipe and took very well to it. By the age of eighteen John was absolutely dominating in both areas of the competition. John’s life dream was coming true, and when he got sponsored by Burton he knew he had made it. He was finally able to compete up there with the big boys. He didn’t go in there and dominate like he was hoping. However, he was doing well enough to get noticed as a rising threat to all of the champions. John was still young and had a lot of room to grow in the sport of snowboarding. He was traveling around the country winning trucks, and loads of prize money. John was at a competition in Vail Colorado, when a representative from Volcom wanted him to be in a video that they were shooting. John gladly accepted the invitation and immediately started filming his segment of the video. He was in the zone and did some of the craziest things that he had ever done. After the video was let out, John was rated as one of the best snowboarders since Shaun White was his age. John was on the way to the top and loving every minute of it.
References: Katelyn, Andrea, Sean, Andy, Dave, Margret
Megan Patberg (born on December 22, 1988 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is a student at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio as an Accounting major. She was born to Rolf and Sharon Patberg with younger siblings Matthew, 13; Shannon, 10; and Alexa, 3. Her family resides in Murrysville, Pennsylvania which is a suburb of Pittsburgh. She attended Franklin Regional Senior High School from 2003-2007 where she was involved in various activities. She played for the girl’s soccer team all four years of high school where she was the Captain during her senior year. Awards were given to Megan for her leadership and school pride for soccer too. She was in various school clubs such as Key Club, Caring Team, and Ski Club.
In 1989, she moved with her parents, Rolf & Sharon to Akron, Ohio. They lived there for a year while her father was finishing receiving his degree in college. In 1990, the three of them moved to Swissvale, Pennsylvania, which is right outside of Pittsburgh. They lived there until 1994 when they moved to Monroeville, PA, and Megan went to school at St. Bernadette Catholic School in Monroeville until her 4th grade in school. After her parents had Matthew and Shannon, they moved to Murrysville. She attended Sloan Elementary, Franklin Regional Middle School, and Franklin Regional Senior High School until she went to the University of Dayton.
She has worked various jobs throughout her life. When she was thirteen she was babysitting until now where she babysits for her younger siblings. She then worked at the Marble Slab Creamery as a scooper from June 2005 until July 2006. Her father then hired her at his law firm, Patberg, Carmody, & Ging which is currently residing on the North Side in Pennsylvania. She worked as a secretary’s assistant then got promoted the following year in 2007 to head of communications. Once Megan started going to the University of Dayton, she got a job at the Business Research Group which is through the Business program that does various surveys for local businesses.
Megan Patberg hopes to receive a degree in Accounting and a minor in Entrepreneurship. She is not sure of what she wants to do with her degree. She hopes to be involved in some sort of management, but not really looking to be an accountant. She plans to graduate at the University of Dayton in May of 2011. If she decides to go to receive her MBA, she will graduate in the May of 2012.
KEITH SCANLON
Keith Scanlon is an Art Education major at the University of Dayton.
BACKGROUND-
Keith is 19 years old. He was born on, May 5th, 1988. He was born in Ohio, to Beth and Richard Scanlon. He lives in Gahanna, Ohio, which is right outside of Columbus. He has an older brother whom is 21 years old.
SCHOOL-
Keith is a freshman currently enrolled at the University of Dayton. He is majoring in Art Education. He went to Gahanna Lincoln High School for four years and was highly involved with the art department. For middle school, he went to Middle School East and for elementary school; he went to High Point Elementary.
ACTIVITIES-
Keith loves to play basketball. Along with basketball, he loves all sports. He likes to play ping-pong, bowling, football, and many more games. Right now, he is on the board of the Red Scare at the University of Dayton. This is a group of students who attend a variety of sporting events to cheer on the teams.
FUTURE-
Keith plans to be an art teacher for any grade level as of right now. He plans to have a happy family with a wife and possibly children. Keith believes he will stay in Ohio while working. When he retires, he plans to move out-of-state to a warmer environment.
Destiny Lattimore
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Destiny K. Lattimore (July 8, 1988-) was born at Bethesda Hospital in Cincinnati.
She went to Clifton School from Kindergarten to third grade and then left and attended Annunciation School until eighth grade. At Annunciation she played volleyball starting in fifth grade up until the end of her eighth grade year. Her love of service also bloomed at Annunciation when she had to complete 20 service hours for Confirmation.
She went on to attend high school at McAuley where she did service for Special Olympics
and became a volunteer for AVOC. McAuley provided many opportunities for Destiny to take part in. One of many occurred her Sophomore year when she was chosen to be on an immersion team. She was the youngest girl from her high school chosen to go to Honduras over the summer. She went with girls from her school and guys from the nearby all boys school LaSalle. Later that year she was as chosen to be her class's Merfette. Merf (McAuley Emergency Relief Fund) is a program at McAuley where girls are chosen to get- their peers excited about and informed about raising money for agencies and relief funds.
Another opportunity came to Destiny the summer of her Junior year in high school.
She was nominated by one of her teachers to go to a conference in Washington D.C. called the National Young Leader's Conference. There her passion for politics and wanting to change the world flourished. She learned all about passing bills, lobbying, and she was allowed to visit The Hill. After the conference Destiny came back to school refreshed and she was ready to declare a major. She graduated high school with honors and she was ready to move on to UD.
Now at UD Destiny is a Political Science/International Studies major.
She wants to equate her love for politics, wanting to make a change, and her passion for service into a career. She also likes the idea of being involved in the UN. In the future Destiny wants to take time off and go back to Honduras and back to the mission. She wants to be a long-term volunteer for the mission. She also hopes to go to Graduate school at DePaul University or Boston University.
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Greg Hoefert
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Gregory Michael Hoefert was born in Lankenaw Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 21, 1989. His father, Michael Hoefert, was a business man in the railroad industry, while his mother was a nurse. Gregory or "Greg" for short was the second child of two. He is second to his elder sister Andrea, who was also born in Philadelphia. When Greg was 3 years old he moved from his home in Philly to a large home in Canton Michigan where he spent the next four years of his life.There he began gymboree, then continued into pre-school and then on through first grade. At the age of seven, he resided to his most current home in Aurora IL. Greg attended Reba O' Steck elementary school, followed by Granger Middle School and then Waubonsie Valley High School where he graduated with honors. Throughout his high school experence Greg found himself to have a high interest in musical performance. He was in many different singing groups as well as plays. Greg also was a four-year athlete in soccer where he scored over 30 goals throughout his career. Academically, Greg found himself immersing with AP classes in students in hope to develop and solid start to a successful career in Finance. Greg began to have a passion for money and the was that in worked. Greg also found a special girl in his life named Cassy and has been with her ever since. In preparation for college, Greg pursued an internship at a company in downtown Chicago called TTX where he worked with their computer system. After the summer in Chicago he continued his college education at the University of Dayton in Dayton OH as a Business Finance major. In the future Greg hopes of having a successful career working for a big company. He one day wants to live somewhere warm and be happily married with kids. His ultimate goal in life is to be happy and retire at the age of 50.
References: Greg Hoefert, Virginia Hoefert, Wikipedia
Born on September 3rd 1988 in Novi, Michigan, Mark DeBoer was the first child of parents Bill and Pam DeBoer. Marks sister was born about a year later, her name is Samantha. Mark lived in Novi for a few years then his family moved to Fenton, Michigan. There he lived on a lake and was introduced to water sports and biking and other various outdoor activities. Mark immediately fell in love with biking and has been an avid biker ever since. Mark has also participated in water sports his whole life too. After living in Fenton for a few more years, Mark and his family need to move to central Ohio because of his dad’s work. Mark and his family moved to Marysville, Ohio, but before living there, he and his family lived in an apartment in Dublin, Ohio for about a year, while they were waiting for their house to be built in Marysville. While living in Marysville, Mark attended Raymond Elementary School and played soccer and basketball at the YMCA and played baseball for the local team. During the summers he took swimming lessons at the local pool and kneeboarded at the lake. Mark lived in Marysville until the summer after second grade. Mark and his family next moved to Powell, Ohio, where he has lived a good portion of his life. In Powell, Mark attended school in the Olentangy School District. Mark lived in a neighborhood with only two streets, but a lot of kids his own age. Mark met his best friends in his neighborhood, Doug and Ben. After moving to Powell, Mark started playing football and hockey. Mark continued to play these sports all the way from third grade until senior year in high school. Marks life really was defined by these two sports because of how much he excelled in them. Mark was a three year starter for his high school football team and would have been a four year letter winner if it had not had been for a broken ankle freshmen year. Mark also played hockey for a top ranked travel team in Columbus. After graduating from high school, Mark attended the University of Dayton, where he currently resides.
Alex Bausch
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Alex Bausch was born on November 10th 1988. He is a graduate of New Trier high school, home to over 120 state championships. Alex currently is in a family of four, he has a mother by the name of Grace Bausch, and father by the name of John Bausch. Alex has one brother named Adam who is 21 years old and has Down syndrome. Alex is a very big sports fan, he watches almost any kind of sporting event he can, and he will play any sports that friends will play with him. But for Alex, there really is only one sport and that sport is Hockey. Alex has played hockey since he was 5 years old, and will never stop play the game that he holds so close to his heart. In high school, Alex played sports other than hockey he played football for one year, baseball for a couple of years, and play every single intramural sports that was offered at New Trier, which was ranked the #12 best sport high school in the nation and was ranked the best sports high school in the state of Illinois. In terms of teams that Alex cheers for, he is a fan of the St Louis Blues, St Louis Cardinals, St Louis Rams, Chicago Bulls, University of Miami Hurricanes and University of Illinois Fighting Illini. When people learn about Alex’s favorite teams they are a little surprised because he lives in Chicago yet he cheers for all the St Louis sports teams, and only one team from his current home city. Alex is now currently enrolled at the University of Dayton, as a freshman and is currently studying journalism, and one day he hopes to be the beat sports writer for the St Louis Blues.
Abdullah J Almeqdad
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Abdullah Almeqdad was born on March 30, 1986 in Saudi Arabia. He has an older brother, who Mohammed was born on December, 12, 1980 in Saudi Arabia. Abdullah and his brother grew up in Saihat, Saudi Arabia. When Abdullah was a child, he played all different kind of sports; for example, soccer, volleyball, and basketball. He addicted to play soccer more than volleyball, and basketball. He dislikes everything in his life except one which is soccer. Soccer makes his life very interesting and he considers that life is nothing without soccer. He has a lot of skills that no body has and he got a lot of offer to move to another team, but he refused. He wanted to be professional player soccer as his brother Mohammed. His brother used to play in Real Madrid the most popular Spanish team for five years. After awhile he got a great offer to move to AC Milan is the most famous team in Italy. He played in that team for two years and then he quit plying soccer due to his injury in his knee. His brother is well-known in the whole world because of his appearance in every soccer advertisement in, and his wealth. These are all reasons that why Abdullah wanted to be professional player soccer, but he could not get his dream because of his father decision. Abdullah was forced to go to USA to continue his study. Now, Abdullah is studying Electrical Engineering at University of Dayton.
References: Abdullah Almeqdad, and Mohammed Almeqdad
Kathryn Mary O’Hara
Known to many as Kate O’Hara. Kate was the second child for her parents James and Maureen. Her older brother Jim was already on the scene when she came into the world on March 6th, 1989. Kate was a fat baby with big rosy cheeks. Constantly made fun of by her older brother for her chubby cheeks, Kate and her brother Jim had a rough relationship in the beginning. She was abused up to the age of 13 when she learned how to fight back. Now a days Kate and her brother get along great but she still doesn’t forget the early years of being locked in dog cages and getting beaten up. Kate was born into a loving family and so she learned at a young age to speak her mind. She is outgoing and sometimes very loud around those she loves and knows well. Kate was lucky enough to meet her best friend at the young age of four. They met one sunny afternoon when her future best friend Allyce’s mom came to Kate’s house to return mail they accidentally received. Allyce stole Kate’s chalk, she hit her and they’ve been best friends ever since. Kate was a bit of a tomboy. She was always tagging along with her brother and so she learned to love sports. She began swimming at the age of five. Shes tried everything from baseball to basketball to wrestling, thanks to her brother. However she took a particular to soccer, swimming and water polo. She continued to swim and play water polo in high school but unfortunately had to give up soccer after breaking her ribs. Kate is extremely accident prone. She’s broken her arm snowboarding, her fingers playing softball, and her foot from having it run over by a door. Kate spent four glorious years in high school. She excelled in sports and was captain of the water polo team and the swim team. She was a hard worker and an average student. She loved to travel and got the opportunity to go to Europe multiple times and loved to surf in California. She has several best friends each with a crazy personality of their own. Kate is a bubbly girl who loves meeting new people and this has helped her in her first semester of college. It was difficult to be away from home and her friends and family but once Kate found her place at Dayton she knew it was the right place for her. She still keeps in touch with her good friends and visits them whenever she can. She is studying business and hopes to go into business management and someday manage a band. She is obsessed with music and it is her dream to be behind the scenes promoting good bands.
References: Kate O’Hara, Bre Paladino, Jim O’Hara
In these days chewing gum is a staple in American’s lives. Gum is so popular that in high school we always tried to hide our gum so nobody asked for a piece. When I wanted a piece I would inconspicuously pull the package out of my pocket and while holding it under my desk, carefully take out a piece and silently unwrap it. I would then pretend to yawn and slip the chewy delight into my mouth. I took part in these charades, not because I thought I was cool, but I knew if I did not I would be gum less within minutes. There would be a swarm of my piers begging like baby birds. But life was not always like this for us humans. The habit of having something in your mouth to chew originally started in the caveman era where they chewed on rocks and dinosaur bones. They soon realized that chewing these items was not the greatest thing for their dental hygiene. While eating some triceratops meat the early man bit into something soft, later known as fat. He found that this it was very chewy and did not hurt is teeth. This made the whole experience much more pleasurable. Man continued to chew animal fat until the early 1940’s when they started to chew on rubber. Now we all know, as did the people of the forties, that rubber does not taste very good. In the search to remedy this fault sugar was discovered. In the fall of 1948 a man by the name of Edgar Chiclet revolutionized the chewing business. He had this brilliant idea to put the chewiness with the sweetness. And so was born chewing gum, named after his wife Gumberly Nash. It was originally made from rubber tires, axel grease and shoe polish with a heavy dose of sugar and artificial flavoring. Since then we have seen many versions of Mr. Chiclet’s basic idea mixed with some modern technology and styles. Gum has becoming an essential part of our lives and for some people an addicting habit. But thanks to Edgar Chiclet we can all have a pleasurable chewing experience.
Kevin Eckart
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Kevin Edward Andrew Eckart was born on July 11, 1988 at Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield, Ohio. He was born two months premature and weighed only three pounds and four ounces. After spending his first four weeks in an incubator he returned home to his father Edward, mother Mary, and his one year old sister Jillian. He has a large family including many cousins, aunts and uncles. His favorite team is The Ohio State Buckeyes. His favorite food is crab legs, and his lucky number is seven. When he was of age he attended St. Paschal Baylon Catholic elementary school. As a kid he loved sports and played football, basketball, soccer, baseball and ran track. When it came time to choose a high school he decided to attend The Gilmour Academy, a prep school located in Gates Mills, Ohio. He played football, basketball, and track for the Lancers. He had a successful athletic career being voted to the all- state team in football his senior year. He was also a three time first team all state unanimous decision for track, including five state medals and is currently the defending state champion. He was an honor student and received a scholarship to attend the University of Dayton. He is a current first year student in the school of pre-medicine. Eventually he wants to work in Cleveland as an orthopedic surgeon and live downtown with his friend Daniel Wallace. Sources: Edward and Mary Eckart, OHSAA record archive, Kevin Eckart.
Christian McPeek,
Born May 19th 1989 in Sandusky, Ohio. Known as Christrain, he has one older brother.
He attended the University of Dayton and graduated with a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering. His brother graduated from Heidelberg College, he majored in Religion and Philosophy. His parents Donna and Joseph both live in Sandusky, Ohio. Donna is currently a registered RN and a manager at the local hospital, Joseph in a Lt. at the Erie county Sheriff’s Department.
Christian was on his high school golf team and competed at state in 2006. He was very involved in his local community and had many friends around the area. He always wanted to be an engineer when he grew up and could not wait to get out and start his own life.
Currently Christian works for a major company and designs/supervises construction and equipment contracts. He has managed several projects that have been very successful and improved the lives of many people.
Arthur Vincent “Vinnie” Armstrong Evans, a native to Indiana was born on January 31, 1989. He weighed in at a whopping 12 lbs. 14 oz. quite possibly one of the fattest babies that anyone at St. Vincent’s has ever seen. He was taken to his home in Carmel, Indiana also known as the “Golden Ghetto.” From Carmel, Vinnie adapted to his surroundings yet never quite turned out to be like the rich snobby cracked out children whom he went to school with. Although, he had some mistakes such as being suspended from school in seventh grade he was still an all around good kid.
After Junior High, Vinnie moved on to a school which both his brothers Rawson (’04) and Jack (’06) had attended. The mighty Cathedral High School was the school of choice that his parents Bruce and Loretto chose for him. He began his high school career out very well, however; his troubled past of getting into much trouble followed him. Vinnie received 24 detentions in the first semester of his freshman year and was put on disciplinary probation. Soon after that he was almost expelled for vandalism in the boys gym locker room. However, Vinnie soon broke out of his mischievous and rebellious self and became the kid that everyone ended up liking for his crazy antics and his humor and smile. While in high school Vinnie participated in varsity football, wrestling and rugby. Vinnie’s first year of rugby, his team reached Nationals in Palo Alto, California; where they placed 5th. The next year they won state for Division I and was named captain his senior year. In football Vinnie kicked varsity for three years accumulating over 200 pts in his three seasons. He was leading kick scorer in the Metropolitan Indianapolis Area both his Jr./Sr. years with over 70 pts in both seasons. His team also won the 4A state championship.
Through out high school Vinnie has had an ever populated love life, but since his last one he has no care to have a girlfriend for a long time. After receiving his Academic Honors Diploma from Cathedral High School, Vinnie chose the University of Dayton where he is currently an undecided biology major and hoping to receive a scholarship for the USAF ROTC.
Daniel (Danny) A. Wynn, born February 6, 1989 to Mary Katherine and James Wynn. Danny was born in Stratford, Connecticut and lived there until the age of seven when he moved with his family to Gurnee, Illinois. While in Gurnee, Danny attended the Woodland School District from first grade through eighth grade. Upon graduating grade school amongst a midst of controversy, Danny was thrust into high school. However, rather than attending the normal public institution at Warren Township High School; Danny was forced, against his will, to attend the private school of Carmel Catholic High School. While attending Carmel, Danny took part in many activities, including; Intramural soccer and basketball, Varsity Soccer, Varsity Track, Curling, Recycling club, Boosters club, and Bags club. While attending Carmel Danny was able to witness the school’s first ever state championship in football. Unfortunately this led to the administrations focus purely on football and no other sports even though soccer was obviously the dominant sport for the remaining four years of his high school career.
In his later years of high school Daniel would grow quite fond of Carmel and the people he met there. After graduation from high school, Danny would go on to attend The University of Dayton, a Marianist university in Dayton, Ohio. While studying there he would pursue degrees in International Studies and Economics, with hopes of one day working for the United Nations.
Daniel A. Wynn was born into a family of five. He is the youngest of three boys; Stephen James Wynn born, August 12, 1984 and Bryan Patrick Wynn born, April 22, 1986.
Source: Daniel A. Wynn, CNN.com, Udayton.edu
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