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What's Up With You - Archive

Submitted in 2006

2000 -

Mike Soriano ’01 was one of six young adults chosen this year by Hostelling International to represent the U.S. in a peace exchange in New York.  Eighteen other young adults from Tunisia, Morocco, and Germany also participated.  Go to the Hostelling International website www.hiusa.org. and see photos and a daily description of the experience.  Click on the international exchange photo.

Bailey Mae Olson was born on June 25 to Anna Olson (Holmer) ’00.

Peter Blum ’01 has been accepted into the Peace Corps and left for Micronesia in early September.  He credited his Christian service experience at Central Catholic and thanked Mrs. Sinnott, Christian Service Coordinator, for her assistance and recommendation for his success. “I hope everything is going well at Central Catholic, and thanks again.”

Alex Chester ’00 is serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Kyrgyz Republic (or Kyrgyzstan), a small, mountainous country in the heart of Central Asia.  He serves as a TEFL (Teacher of English as a Foreign Language) in the village of Kopuro Bazar at Adaraliev Secondary School and credits Central Catholic and the Christian Service program for the inspiration to serve others.

Sean Kane ’02 writes:  I returned from Iraq in August and I am engaged to a wonderful person, Yazmin (sounds like Jasmin).  She has two children, Jonathan and Kassi.  We will celebrate one year together in January and are trying for a winter wedding at the end of 2006 or January of 2007. She is a Chiropractic Assistant in Beverly Hills and I am currently reenlisting in the Marine Corp.

Siena’s Whitney Cave ’02 was one of two players in the nation to receive a Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Scholarship Award. Cave grabbed more rebounds than any other player in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and she amassed a 3.79 grade point average while majoring in mathematics with a concentration in computer science.  She was one of only two players in league play to average a double-double and tallied 14 double-digit scoring games, 13 double-figure rebounding games and eight double-doubles. Outside of basketball, Cave has volunteered her time tutoring a student who was struggling in calculus at a local high school. Cave has also volunteered by hosting her own rebounding clinic for a local junior high boys’ basketball team.

“Whitney is a tireless worker on the court and off,” remarked Siena women’s basketball head coach Gina Castelli. “To be chosen as one of two basketball players in the nation is a great honor. Whitney truly embodies everything you want in a student-athlete.”

See More on Whitney in the Girls Basketball Section

Shawna Meechan ‘02 graduated Cum Laude, University Scholar, with Honors in Politics from New York University.  She has served as Vice President of the NYU College Democrats, President of the Ireland House Student Association, University Ambassadors and NYU Step Team.  She also had the opportunity to study abroad in London and traveled to Australia with an International Service Organization.  Shawna will be enrolling in Graduate School in either Dublin or Belfast next year and seeking a Masters Degree in Politics. 

Nicholas Dollar ’05 and Matteo Leggett ’05 are off to a fast start at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, making the list of Academic Distinction (3.5 GPA or higher).