Brian served as a Peace Corps volunteer along with his wife in Kenya in the 90’s. After their three year tour, they worked for an anti poaching nonprofit in Tanzania. They moved to Alaska in the late 1990’s, where he worked in the administration of RuralCap, which placed AmeriCorps volunteers in communities in rural Alaska. Since the mid ‘00s, Brian and his family has returned to Africa, where he has worked in the administration of Peace Corps Malawi and Tanzania. Currently, he’s a regional Safety and Security officer, overseeing a dozen countries in East Africa.
Talks
Thank you Laura!
Thanks to Laura Jernegan (MVRHS class of 2009) for her inspirational talk today about her experience in Vanuatu as part of the Peace Corps!
Watch it here:
Oliver Silberstein’s Student Talk: Language Immersion in China
This past summer, Oliver travelled to China with Where There Be Dragons. The course was a six-week language immersion course. In it he spent half a week in Beijing as the introduction to the course, then traveled to La Shi Hai, a little village in Southwest China, to stay with a host family for two weeks. Then he spent one week exploring the Yunnan province. After that he stayed with a host family in the city of Kunming. As a conclusion to the trip he stayed at a Tibetan monastery for a half week, and then flew back to America.
Crockett Cataloni’s Student Talk
Crockett spoke to a packed audience in the MVRHS Library (photos below video).
Holocaust Survivor Sami Steigmann: “By Forgiving Others, You Forgive Yourself”
MVRHS students had the extraordinary fortune to meet Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann on Tuesday, May 12th. In a series of talks to large groups of students in the library, he greatly impressed everyone. In spite of his life story, being a child of Holocaust survivors and a Holocaust survivor himself, he remains positive. “In every calamity there is an opportunity.” Special thanks to Dr. Elaine Weintraub and her organizing committee for inviting him to MVRHS. The organizing committee: Jason Lages, Jr. Teles, Gabe Nunes, Michael Morris, Thomas O’Shaughnessy and Annie Ollen.
Geological discoveries at the Gay Head Lighthouse
Thanks to an invitation by Chris Connors, on Thursday June 11th, we had the fortune to meet research geologist Byron Stone, Ph.D. of the U.S. Geological Survey. Dr. Stone was the chief geologist at the 135-foot moving of the Gay Head Lighthouse. His research helped determine the most effective new location for the lighthouse. In unearthing the area around the lighthouse, several important geological discoveries were made, including a new understanding of the age of these glacial deposits, and a theory about what the land may have looked like many thousands of years ago.