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Rice Memorial grad joins list of Rhodes Scholarship winners with ...
Only 32 Rhodes scholarships are awarded each year and two have gone this year to graduates of high schools in South Burlington.
R. Genevieve Quist, a 2001 graduate of Rice Memorial High School and 2005 graduate of Cornell University, learned Saturday night she had been selected for one of the coveted scholarships that pays for two years of study at Oxford University in England. Shes the third recipient with Vermont ties.
Maria Repnikova, a 2001 graduate of South Burlington High School with a degree from George Washington University, also learned Saturday she would be an American Rhodes Scholar. Jamila Headley, a St. Michaels College senior from Barbados, learned last week she, too, had been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.
Quist grew up in Vermont, but now lives in Santa Monica and teaches sixth grade at a Los Angeles middle school in the Teach for America program.
Harbaugh to Become Stanford Coach
Stanford hired former NFL quarterback Jim Harbaugh to take over its struggling football program on Monday. Harbaugh had spent the last three years as head coach at the University of San Diego, a non-scholarship Division I-AA program. He led the Toreros to a 29-6 record, winning 27 of his final 29 games at San Diego. Now he has the tough task of turning around the Cardinal, who set a school record for losses in a 1-11 season this year that led to the firing of coach Walt Harris. Stanford has won just 16 games in the past five seasons under Harris and Buddy Teevens. .
New scholarship helps refugees attend college
A new scholarship is helping 11 area students with refugee or asylum status study at Champlain College in Burlington. The New American Student Scholarship helps students with tuition at the private, professionally focused college.
Recipient Hau Le, a freshman from Burlington, has set his sights on a career in criminal forensic psychology.
"Since I was young I've done counseling for my friends," Le said. "They say I read people well. Law is very important to me and I want to help people out."
Born in Vietnam, Le is the first in his immediate family to go to college. His mother is a manicurist who was born in South Vietnam to an American father. "It's not safe for her to live there because of anti-American discrimination. It's also a communist country so there aren't many opportunities there."
After resettling in the United States, Le worked his way through Burlington public schools.
Passaic's Crockett heads to Caldwell
Eddie Crockett, the point guard who helped Passaic High School win back-to-back Passaic County championships in 2005-06, is transferring from Division I Nicholls (La.) State to Division II Caldwell College and will be eligible to play beginning in the 2007-08 season. .
Singing not Kallis' day job
Jacques Kallis has provoked some debate amongst sports fans, after he initially refused to give reasons for not singing the national anthem before cricket matches. Following a meeting with Gerald Majola, the Cricket South Africa CEO, Kallis' explanation has been accepted. But he's not the only South African sportsman who doesn't sing.
Kallis says the anthem meant a lot to his father, who died earlier this year, and that he thinks of his dad whenever the anthem is sung. However, some of his fans still feel strongly that he should sing, while some say he must be left alone.
Kallis says he cherishes every moment he has represented South Africa and the proof of his patriotism lies in his Jacques Kallis Scholarship Foundation, but footage from the 2003 World Cup in Cape Town, shows that Kallis has never been a fan of singing in public.
Scholarship a boost for family's first
CLEARWATER - When she first gave college a try in Connecticut, Natasha Otero said, she might never have dropped out if she had gotten simple tips from her parents, such as how to take notes. "I had a difficult time because I did not have the support system," said Otero, who is taking online classes at St. Petersburg College. "No one in my family had gone to college, so they could not help me." Otero, 30, plans to attend classes at St. Petersburg College's Clearwater campus in the near future. She also hopes to apply for a first-of-its-kind First Generation in College scholarship for Florida students whose parents or guardians did not receive a higher education. State education officials estimated that there are more than 53,000 first-generation college students in Florida.
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