2008 Woodie Awards
Stories of Summer
By: Melissa Whitson
Issue date: 8/29/08 Section: News
Fred Bryan
Sophomore engineering major
Visiting relatives becomes all the more enjoyable when your family hails from Naples, Italy.
Accompanied by two cousins, Bryan's 23-day excursion included visits to Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris and London with some "jet-lag recovery days at the beginning and some Euro-recovery days at the end" of his trip.
Bryan said he especially enjoyed spending time in Germany. "Honestly, I would like to live in Munich," he said. "But towards the end of the second week, I was ready to go back because we didn't get nearly enough sleep."
Maddie Stoddard, Lauren Harvey and Allison Littman
Senior travel and tourism major, junior business major, sophomore packaging science major, respectively
While the Fourth of July holiday is most commonly spent relaxing lakeside at a family barbeque, Stoddard, Harvey and Littman opted for a thirteen-hour road trip to Rothbury, MI. Their final destination, the inaugural Rothbury Music Festival treated them to four days of music, sightings of twenty-first century hippies, a lack of showering and environmentally-friendly practices. The camping festival featured performances by Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, John Mayer, 311, Snoop Dogg and more. The three friends volunteered as a part of Rothbury's Green Team to help encourage attendees to recycle and compost waste accumulated at the concert.
Liz Kuester
Clemson alumna
Alongside a staff of nine Clemson students and alumni, Kuester joined Camp Collide to facilitate the rebuilding of post-hurricane Katrina New Orleans (NO). Jobs included hanging insulation and drywall, mudding and taping infrastructure and painting, providing free labor to those whose homes were badly damaged.
Kuester first traveled to NO in Dec. 2006 after a friend invited her to join him on a mission trip.
"I [went] because I thought it would be a good way to spend a week of my time," she said. "I had no idea how massive the devastation of Hurricane Katrina was."
Since her first visit to the city, Kuester has dedicated the past two summers doing construction work in the Lower Ninth Ward area of NO.
David Chambliss
Graduate student, student affairs
Combining education, travel, work and play, internships are a rewarding way for students to spend a summer. Chambliss' internship at the George Washington University (GWU) Office of Alumni Relations in Washington, D.C. allowed Chambliss to work alongside student leaders, Greek Presidents, and student employees of GWU for three months in a city Chambliss hopes to call home one day.
"The students at GWU were very diverse and well-versed on world issues," he said. "I had a great time meeting students from all over the country and world who had similar interests."
Sophomore engineering major
Visiting relatives becomes all the more enjoyable when your family hails from Naples, Italy.
Accompanied by two cousins, Bryan's 23-day excursion included visits to Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris and London with some "jet-lag recovery days at the beginning and some Euro-recovery days at the end" of his trip.
Bryan said he especially enjoyed spending time in Germany. "Honestly, I would like to live in Munich," he said. "But towards the end of the second week, I was ready to go back because we didn't get nearly enough sleep."
Maddie Stoddard, Lauren Harvey and Allison Littman
Senior travel and tourism major, junior business major, sophomore packaging science major, respectively
While the Fourth of July holiday is most commonly spent relaxing lakeside at a family barbeque, Stoddard, Harvey and Littman opted for a thirteen-hour road trip to Rothbury, MI. Their final destination, the inaugural Rothbury Music Festival treated them to four days of music, sightings of twenty-first century hippies, a lack of showering and environmentally-friendly practices. The camping festival featured performances by Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, John Mayer, 311, Snoop Dogg and more. The three friends volunteered as a part of Rothbury's Green Team to help encourage attendees to recycle and compost waste accumulated at the concert.
Liz Kuester
Clemson alumna
Alongside a staff of nine Clemson students and alumni, Kuester joined Camp Collide to facilitate the rebuilding of post-hurricane Katrina New Orleans (NO). Jobs included hanging insulation and drywall, mudding and taping infrastructure and painting, providing free labor to those whose homes were badly damaged.
Kuester first traveled to NO in Dec. 2006 after a friend invited her to join him on a mission trip.
"I [went] because I thought it would be a good way to spend a week of my time," she said. "I had no idea how massive the devastation of Hurricane Katrina was."
Since her first visit to the city, Kuester has dedicated the past two summers doing construction work in the Lower Ninth Ward area of NO.
David Chambliss
Graduate student, student affairs
Combining education, travel, work and play, internships are a rewarding way for students to spend a summer. Chambliss' internship at the George Washington University (GWU) Office of Alumni Relations in Washington, D.C. allowed Chambliss to work alongside student leaders, Greek Presidents, and student employees of GWU for three months in a city Chambliss hopes to call home one day.
"The students at GWU were very diverse and well-versed on world issues," he said. "I had a great time meeting students from all over the country and world who had similar interests."
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