Alumni
When Robert J. MacGregor ’13 heads to Asia this fall as a Luce Scholar, he will be joining a select group of young leaders while adding another stop on his already impressive path of service in the developing world.
Anoma Bhat ’14 has been named one of the 49 inaugural members of Stanford University’s new Knight-Hennessy Scholars program. The program, which provides full funding for any Stanford graduate program, plus a generous living stipend, was launched to bring together an interdisciplinary cohort of young scholars and leaders prepared to develop creative solutions to some of the world’s thorniest problems.
Bhat is one of only three Knight-Hennessy Scholars to have attended a liberal arts college.
A “passion for Armenian causes” prompted Anoush Baghdassarian ’17 and Ani Schug (PO ’17) to found the 5Cs Armenian Student Association.
That same passion took them to Armenia last summer for a project to collect stories from Syrian Armenians who fled Aleppo to escape the Syrian war. They wanted to humanize the refugees as individuals, rather than anonymous subjects of news reports. “Overall, we wanted to empower people through saving and sharing their stories,” Baghdassarian said.
For their tech company to build a clientele list that includes National Geographic, TD Bank, Gallup, and MasterCard, Ritvij Gautam ’14 and Tim Rotolo ’14 had to juggle many responsibilities.
Robert L. Emett, a member of the inaugural class of 1950 and Life Trustee of Claremont McKenna College, has agreed to give the College approximately $20 million to greatly expand programs offering loans and paid internships to students facing financial challenges.
The lights had switched off at Jalisco Stadium when Roberto Angotti ’84 finished writing an article about Team Italy’s comeback to beat Mexico in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
“It was 4 a.m.,” said Angotti, the English language reporter for Federazione Italiana Baseball e Softball. “The team shuttle had left and I was stranded on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico, without a peso in my pocket.”
Angotti hitched a ride to his hotel with Team Venezuela’s shuttle in time to work on a film grant proposal.
Goldman Sachs named two CMC alumni to its 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs at its Builders + Innovators Summit in Santa Barbara last month. Erik Anderson ’79 is co-chairman and CEO of Topgolf Entertainment Group and Sishir Reddy ’98 is co-founder and co-CEO at Episource.
Lawrence Beall ’16 fell in love with origami as a wide-eyed 5-year-old folding his first paper crane. These days, his relationship with the centuries-old art form is a lot more complicated.
The 22-year-old has just published “Neo Origami: An Ancient Art Reborn,” a 129-page manifesto for transforming a creative practice nearly as old as paper itself.
The rules that define origami, Beall says, also hold it back. It is Beall’s dream to break those rules and unleash what he sees as origami’s true potential.
What do the editor-in-chief of The Forum newspaper, the president of ¡Mi Gente!, the captain of the swim team, two Kravis Leadership Institute Social Sector Program fellows, and a CMS football player have in common? They took their CMC-honed leaderships skills to the classroom via Teach for America after graduating in May.
Two members of the CMC community joined the company of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Queen Elizabeth II, Cesar Chavez, Nelson Mandela, and Walt Disney by accepting Mexico’s highest honor granted to foreigners.
Government Professor Roderic A. Camp and former U.S. Congressman David Dreier ’75 were presented the Order of the Aztec Eagle by Mexico’s ambassador to the United States, Carlos Sada, in a ceremony at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles last month.