GYV Alumni News April 2008

North America | South America | Europe | Eastern Europe/Russia/Central Asia |
Africa | Austrailia | Middle East | Asia/India

North America

Krista Alderson P'87-88
Krista reports that is working at the Charlotte Maxwell Clinic in California, where she provides free alternative medicine treatments to low income and homeless women with cancer. She hopes to visit GYV this summer.

Ryan Clancy S'06-'07
Ryan writes from Indonesia where he has informed us that he and his fiancée Mona are expecting a baby in November. They have decided to cut the trip to Indonesia short and are heading back to the US soon.

Dan Brown P'97, S'04, '06
Dan is enjoying married life. He has decided to postpone graduate school and is in the process of getting a new job. He is excited about a new job but has decided to work a little less than full time and dedicate at least one day a week to his writing. He is currently working at Trader Joe's, a fun grocery store nearby
with flexible hours and benefits.

Marie Lewis S' 04-06
Marie reports that she will in Morocco learning new things this summer. She also writes that her sister is expecting a baby in early June!

Tamara Hamlin P '82-'84
Tamara is living in Atlanta, GA where she is raising her three children Cornelia, Emilio and Bianca and working as a social studies teacher in a public school. She tells us that she cherishes her memories of Legacy, especially the trip to Greece.

ASIA

Ufuk Ozturk S'05
Ufuk is writing his thesis at the Middle East Technical University. He has also been working for National Petroleum Oil Company of Turkey (TPAO) for about one year as a Reservoir Engineer in the International Project Department. I am still living in Ankara, Turkey, but sometimes travels abroad for business.

AFRICA

Wambui Kamau S'86

Wambui writes from Kenya and reports that things have been difficult in Kenya of late. In late 2007 and early 2008, the situation was particularly taxing as she could not access her office and her children could not go to school. There were shortages of basic food commodities and fuel and it was impossible to travel from or to Nairobi. She hopes that the political process to form a coalition government that has now commenced will be followed through.

After Legacy, Wambui finalized her degree, taught at high school level for a couple years, then retrained and joined PwC where she now works as professional corporation secretary. Wambui says that it been a rewarding career although she still on occasion misses the interactive component of teaching.

Wambui got married in 1990, and but was widowed ten years later. She is the mother to two teenage children who are 17 and 13 years old.

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