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Ethan Brown

Hometown: White Plains

Graduation Year: 2021

Major: Political Science

Dorm: Zahm house

Hobbies/Interests: Writing creatively and reading

Favorite Quote: With great responsibility comes the great need to sleep more than usual.

Favorite Color: Red

Interesting Fact(s): I’ve never broken a bone in my body but I have gotten 8 stitches in my toes.

Dream Job: Getting paid to sleep

Favorite Song: Chainsmoker by Chance the Rapper

Favorite Place on Campus: My bed

Favorite Band Memory: Trotting out of the tunnel to 80,000 people and having a small heart attack

 

Jill Ann Buettner

Hometown: Belleville, Illinoi

Graduation Year: 2021

Major: Elementary Education with Mild Intervention and Spanish Minors

Dorm: McCandless Hall

Hobbies/Interests: Ballet and Pointe, tennis, piano, traveling, reading, history, 80s Rock music, thunderstorms, and foods with peanut butter and chocolate

Favorite Quote: “We are not here to wait for the storm to pass, but to learn to dance in the rain.”

Favorite Color: Yellow

Interesting Fact(s): I can clap with one hand.

Dream Job: Ballerina

Favorite Song: “Thunderstruck” by AC/DC, “Piano Man” by Billy Joel, “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen, “100 Years” by Five for Fighting

Favorite Place on Campus: Rock Garden by Lake Marlan

Favorite Band Memory: Seeing everyone in the stadium stand up and start cheering as we played Wagon Wheel in my first night game halftime show.

 

Katie Huffert

 

Amanda Jarosik

<Hometown: Arlington Heights, IL

Graduation Year: 2021

Major: Science-Business Pre-Professional

Dorm: Walsh Hall

Hobbies/Interests: Band, listening to musical soundtracks, running, journaling, eating too much chocolate

Favorite Quote: “No day but today” -Rent

Favorite Color: Green

Interesting Fact(s): I collect lapel pins… so far I have 281!

Dream Job: Head of animal care at Animal Kingdom by day, Broadway “critic” by night

Favorite Song: “‘Hallelujah” “Can’t Help Falling in Love”

Favorite Place on Campus: The Grotto, the Tunnel

Favorite Band Memory: My first Midnight Drummer’s circle!

 

Caroline Langley

Hometown: McMurray, PA

Graduation Year: 2021

Major: Biology!

Dorm: McGlinn

Hobbies/Interests: tennis, skiing, jigsaw puzzles, constellations, crafty stuff, anything outdoors, talking about Pittsburgh, CATS

Favorite Quote: “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty” -Winston Churchill

Favorite Color: Maroon and gray-blue

Interesting Fact(s): My great - great - great - great granduncle almost invented the plane. Family legend says he actually did.

Dream Job: Epidemiologist for the CDC

Favorite Song: Boulevard of Broken Dreams, House of Memories, and literally anything in 6/8

Favorite Place on Campus: SDH

Favorite Band Memory: Rudy Night

 

Allison Okeley

Hometown: Crown Point, IN

Graduation Year: 2021

Major: Double major in communications and marketing with a minor in Spanish

Dorm: McCandless

Hobbies/Interests: Sports

Favorite Quote: You miss 100% of the chances you don’t take

Favorite Color: Red

Interesting Fact(s): I am left handed

Dream Job: Sports announcer

Favorite Band Memory: Being a member of the first concert band to go to state in school history my senior year of high school.

 

Greta Minnema

 

Eileen Mostyn

Hometown: Kennett Square, PA

Graduation Year: 2021

Major: Political Science

Dorm: Flaherty Hall

Hobbies/Interests: IReading, listening to musicals, Parks and Recreation, and clarinet (duh!)

Favorite Quote: “Whatever you value, be committed to it and let nothing distract you from this goal. The uncommitted life, like Plato’s unexamined life, is not worth living.” -Fr. Hesburgh

Favorite Color: Maroon

Interesting Fact(s): One time my senior year of high school, I plugged in my laptop charger before one of my classes and sparks shot out of it, making my tights catch on fire and causing my life to flash before my eyes. (Everything turned out okay)

Dream Job: Not sure yet, but something where I can have a positive impact on the lives of others

Favorite Song: Almost Home by Ben Rector (or basically any other Ben Rector song)

Favorite Place on Campus: The basement of the library

Favorite Band Memory: Halftime at the Georgia game and hearing the crowd’s reaction to Living on a Prayer

 

Riley O’Mearns

Hometown: Memphis, Tennessee

Graduation Year: 2021

Major: Chemistry, Biochemistry

Dorm: McCandless

Hobbies/Interests: Playing clarinet, watching game shows and documentaries, reading, all things relating to Chicago sports (especially hockey), big band and swing music from the 30’s.

Favorite Quote: “You are the music while the music lasts.” - T. S. Eliot

Favorite Color: Blue

Interesting Fact(s): My mom and I have the same birthday (June 12th)!

Dream Job: Film score composer

Favorite Song: Scheherazade Movement III by Rimsky-Korsakov; Yellow by Coldplay

Favorite Place on Campus: The sidewalk leading from the band building to Ricci Fields.

Favorite Band Memory: Trotting out of the tunnel for the first time.

 

Megan Orzolek

 

Noah Passinault

 

Rachel Perez

Hometown: Oswego, IL

Graduation Year: 2021

Major: undecided

Dorm: McCandless

Hobbies/Interests: Eating. 80s music/movies

Favorite Quote: the best is yet to be

Favorite Color: purple

Interesting Fact(s): I was born with a broken collar bone.

Dream Job: Zookeeper lol

Favorite Song: Bohemian Rhapsody

Favorite Place on Campus: Lakes

Favorite Band Memory: Making the marching band

 

Andrew Peterson

Hometown: Roanoke, IL

Graduation Year: 2021

Major: Chemistry

Dorm: The Better Pasquerilla

Hobbies/Interests: Music (guitar and clarinet), theatre, skiing, game of thrones, lord of the rings, dabbling in baseball and soccer

Favorite Quote: “The Road goes ever on and on, Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.” ~Bilbo Baggins

Favorite Color: Green

Interesting Fact(s): Can touch nose with tongue. Played bassoon for a month. Was homecoming king.

Dream Job: In some kind of band

Favorite Song: Don’t Threaten Me with a Good Time ~Panic! at the disco

Favorite Place on Campus: The Basilica

Favorite Band Memory: First trot thru the tunnel

 

Cory Shaw

Hometown: Three Rivers, MI

Graduation Year: 2021

Major: Major: Elementary Education

Dorm: Regina (Saint Mary’s)

Hobbies/Interests: band, wiener dogs, netflix.

Favorite Quote: “They told me I couldn’t; that’s why I did”

Favorite Color: light blue, neon green, pink, and purple

Interesting Fact(s): In high school, I was in the drumline

Dream Job: Kindergarten Teacher

Favorite Song: Humble by Kendrick Lamar & Malibu by Miley Cyrus (very big difference I know lol.. I have a wide variety of music taste)

Favorite Place on Campus: ND: The Dome SMC: Lake Marian

Favorite Band Memory: Trotting out of the tunnel for the first time at ND. (High School was ending off my last season with a win at every competition) :)

 

Katie Williams