At least one ... more Rhodes for USNA!

<p>This was in a Pgh paper this a.m. :) </p>

<p>So happens one of the local Rhodes Scholars is a USNA Mid! This is even more impressive than the Midus Muffler Bowl bid, imo!;) Pretty cool, indeed!:cool:</p>

<p>Anyone know if Mr. Genis is the lone Rhodes ranger @ USNA this season?:confused:</p>

<p>Pitt student, 2 from area win Rhodes scholarships
Monday, November 20, 2006</p>

<p>Two college seniors from Western Pennsylvania and a University of Pittsburgh student from Georgia were among 32 Americans named 2007 Rhodes scholars, a prestigious distinction that offers two years of study at University of Oxford in England.</p>

<p>The local scholars represent disparate academic fields.</p>

<p>Daniel Armanios, a 22-year-old Pitt honors student from Marietta, Ga., is an award-winning poet, an avid soccer player and a helicopter design engineer who founded a campus organization to expand dialogue about the Arab-Israeli conflict using role reversal. A fifth-year student living in North Oakland, he majors in mechanical engineering and political science and minors in economics. He plans to study dry lands science and management at Oxford.</p>

<p>Whitney Haring-Smith, 21, of Washington, Pa., has put his political science major at Yale University to the test, negotiating for weapons and ammunition collection in Afghanistan and assisting Sri Lankan refugees for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He has also worked in national, state and local Democratic politics, including a stint as a spokesman for the mayor of New Haven, Conn. He plans to work toward a doctorate in politics at Oxford, where in 1907 his great-grandfather, Clarence Haring, was a Rhodes scholar in Latin American studies.</p>

<p>Sean A. Genis of Sharon, Mercer County, is a physics major and a regimental commander responsible for 2,300 midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. The 21-year-old rides for the academy's cycling team and sings in the glee club, following a stellar run starring in musicals and chorale performances at Sharon High School. He won a Truman scholarship for his work researching techniques for acoustic land mine detection. He minors in Spanish, but plans to focus on philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford.</p>

<p>Mr. Armanios told his father of the award and then called his advisers, G. Alec Stewart, of Pitt's Honors College, and Amy Eckhardt, director of National Scholarship and International Programs, who had encouraged him to apply.</p>

<p>The child of Egyptian Coptic Christian immigrants who teach engineering at Georgia Tech, Mr. Armanios aspired to become a scientist from a young age. A high school history teacher set his sights much higher than he had hoped one day when she was disappointed about a research paper: "She told me, 'You don't even know how much potential you have.' "</p>

<p>Books on globalization convinced him it was important for scientists to grasp the policies that direct scientific research and technology. He wants to work on sustainable development through science and technology "to alleviate social and economic inequality."</p>

<p>He has acclimated to the Pittsburgh winters and feels he has been adopted by the city. He loves the Steelers, "unless they're playing the Falcons," he said.</p>

<p>Mr. Haring-Smith grew up outside of Western Pennsylvania, but his father's family is from Pittsburgh and he has spent time in the area since his mother, Tori Haring-Smith, became president of Washington and Jefferson College.</p>

<p>His father said after Mr. Haring-Smith's first 11 years in Providence, R.I., his son's world view was very limited.</p>

<p>"His aspirations were to get to Fenway to watch the Red Sox. That was about it. We wanted to broaden his horizons," he said.</p>

<p>The family relocated to Cairo for a few years and Mr. Haring-Smith took an interest in politics. He later got involved in theater and model United Nations.</p>

<p>Last summer, the Yale student said he teamed up with a translator to negotiate weapons and ammunition recovery "from illegally armed groups" in Afghanistan through the U.N. development program.</p>

<p>He spent time in Sri Lanka in 2004, trying to assess where internally displaced persons in refugee camps wanted to resettle.</p>

<p>He said he wants to study security at Oxford because "it is the gate key to everything else. You cannot have a reasonable dialogue about economic development if you can't take out the trash every week. You can't have a reasonable dialogue about poverty alleviation if people are afraid to open up new business."</p>

<p>**Mr. Genis lived in five other states before his family settled in Sharon, where he ran track, played soccer and was a drum major, a pianist, an Eagle Scout and class valedictorian.</p>

<p>His high school chorale director, Victor Ellenberger, recalls him as "probably the most self-motivated student I ever had in 28 years of teaching."</p>

<p>His parents were "on cloud nine" when they heard he'd won the Rhodes scholarship.:eek:</p>

<p>"This is a huge honor. The only thing bigger than this would be the Nobel Prize," said his mother, Roxana, a pottery artist who used to work for General Electric.</p>

<p>At the academy, he studied with one of two national experts developing land mine detection methods that involve blasting sound into soil.</p>

<p>He said that he wants to build on his training in science and technology and spend his time at Oxford studying "the human side of the land mine issue and global security," combining social science and hard science. He also hopes to keep up his singing, and will return to the Navy after his Oxford studies. **</p>

<p>And here's report on Genis from a different paper ...</p>

<p>A native of Connecticut, Genis has no military history in his family and declined a full scholarship to Penn State to attend the Naval Academy, said his father, Vince Genis. </p>

<p>"This is a young man who's doing what most of us do in five lifetimes. He's very busy and successful in all of it," said Tom Brennan, a history professor and director of the United Kingdom scholarships committee at the Naval Academy. </p>

<p>A physics major, Sean Genis, 21, plans to change gears to study philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford, after which he will fulfill his five-year obligation to serve in the Navy on a submarine. </p>

<p>A member of the men's glee club and cycling team at Annapolis, Genis has worked on research into detecting land mines. </p>

<p>"In the study of land mines, I came to the realization that science and technology, as important as they are in tackling the world's future problems, they're not the entire solution," he said. "In order to implement and use science and technological knowledge, we have to have a greater understanding of the human aspects of the problem." </p>

<p>And here's some info ...</p>

<p>About Rhodes Scholars</p>

<p>The Rhodes Scholarships, the oldest international fellowships, began after the death of British philanthropist Cecil Rhodes in 1902. They bring outstanding students from many countries around the world to the University of Oxford. The first American scholars were elected in 1904.
In the United States, regional selection committees choose 32 scholars each year from nominees representing all 50 states. In most years, a Rhodes Scholar is selected from an institution that has not previously supplied a successful applicant. </p>

<p>Selection is based on academic achievement and in qualities that offer the promise of effective service to the world. Rhodes trustees pay for the scholars' educational costs, plus travel costs and living expenses. Scholars may receive additional grants for research or study-related travel. </p>

<p>Famous American Rhodes scholars include NBA Hall of Famer and former Sen. Bill Bradley; writer/educator Alain Locke; singer/songwriter/actor Kris Kristofferson; diplomat Strobe Talbott; the late Sen. J. W. Fulbright; and former President Bill Clinton.</p>

<p>Two midshipmen were selected as 2007 Rhodes Scholars. The other midshipman is:</p>

<p>Mr. Timothy F. Simmons
1817 Chula Vista Drive
Cedar Park, Texas 78613</p>

<p>The complete list of 2007 Scholarship Winners is available at:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.rhodesscholar.org/PDF/2007_final_press_release_winners_list.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.rhodesscholar.org/PDF/2007_final_press_release_winners_list.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Biography: Timothy F. Simmons, Cedar Park, is a senior at the United States Military Academy majoring in economics. A varsity cross-county and track runner, he is writing his senior thesis on the application of post-communist transition strategies to post-Suddam Iraq. Tim interned at the President’ s Council of Economic Advisors. He plans to do the M.Phil. in Development Studies at Oxford.</p>

<p>BZ to Messrs. Genis and Simmons. :) :)</p>

<p>This makes nine Rhodes Scholars in three years from USNA.</p>

<p>Before we have the USMA hoard descending on this thread let's clarify that Mr. Simmons is from West Point not Annapolis.</p>

<p>Yes, and there's also an awardee from USAFA. Amazing! ;)</p>

<p>It's people like that that make one realize how little they've accomplished in life.</p>

<p>For example; it is a sobering thought that when Alexander the Great was my age, he had been DEAD for five years! :D</p>

<p>Post #3 was my error. :eek: Obviously I need to get better reading glasses. Maybe a pair of Navy BCG's would help. :D</p>

<p>GA ... as you know, rules of this forum permit (make that REQUIRE) MINIMALLY 1 error. </p>

<p>Welcome to the brigade of the mistaken! :eek: Sure took you long enuff to get here! :p</p>

<p>I've been here for many moons, can't seem to get out.:(</p>

<p>I'm a Plankowner! :D</p>

<p>The slide to middle-aged mediocrity is not pretty. . . and having all these young turks nipping at your heels only makes it worse.</p>

<p>Like the ol' bull elephant, I will just slip to the side lines and long for what use to be.</p>

<p>I'll do that....... when I can afford it, which won't be until I'm dead, the way things are going...</p>

<p>I am making a prediction that Sean's room will be looking worse than the path of a natural disaster after ALL FOUR CLASSES hit it next week. It sucks for his roommate!</p>

<p>Naval Academy student and Talbot County native will study at Oxford University</p>

<p>Published in yesterday's BS:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/bal-md.rhodes20nov20,0,110568.story%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/bal-md.rhodes20nov20,0,110568.story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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Two college students with ties to Maryland were among 32 Americans selected to be 2007 Rhodes scholars, it was announced yesterday. </p>

<p>They are Casey N. Cep, a senior at Harvard University who grew up on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and Sean A. Genis, a senior at the U.S. Naval Academy who is from Pennsylvania....

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<p>Published in yesterday's BS:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-rhodes-scholars,0,3925834.story%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-rhodes-scholars,0,3925834.story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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Washington University student Leana S. Wen's childhood asthma was so severe that part of her lung was removed. Her frequent hospitalizations led her to pursue a career in medicine while she was still a teenager. </p>

<p>"I wanted to help the world," Wen said....

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<p><a href="http://wjz.com/video/?id=22874@wjz.dayport.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://wjz.com/video/?id=22874@wjz.dayport.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>GA ... THIS is a neat clip. Thanks.</p>

<p>Published in this week's Navy Times:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2370643.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2370643.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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Post-graduation plans for Midshipman 1st Class Sean A. Genis to become a submarine officer will have to put on hold for the time being. First, heÂ’s got some serious studying to do.</p>

<p>Genis was named a Rhodes Scholar on Saturday, one of 32 Americans picked for the prestigious fellowship. That means Genis will be heading to the University of Oxford in England in September 2007 to begin the two-year program of studies....

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