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Class of 2005
Grads Share Their Future Plans

Compiled by Sara Sugrue and Rabita Aziz


One hundred and fifty-eight seniors of the class of 2005 graduated in front of hundreds of friends and family members at Constitution Hall on June 15.  Both students and audience members were enlightened by the advice of commencement speaker Wade Henderson, Executive Director of the Leadership Council on Civil Rights.  They also reminisced about the past13 years of  their  schooling as graduates Alex Douglas and Natalie Krachman presented the valedictory addresses. Following tradition, the Lasso Online staff compiled this list of immediate and long-term plans of a majority of graduates.  (If you are a member of the class of 2005 and are not featured on this list, please e-mail us at lassogmhs@hotmail.com and tell us about your future plans.


2005 Graduate

Immediate Plans

Long Term Plans

Sally Alcocer

Continue my education

Have a business of my own

Laiqah Al-Habsy

Undecided

To grow a foot

Kathryn Allen

James Madison University

To get a job working in a school with children who have social needs, get married, have a family and travel a bit.

Tania Andrade

 

Studying film at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 

Become the next great film director and restore people’s faith in the movie industry while making documentaries on members of GMHS. Oh, and to own all of the movie theaters in LA (that’s about 100+)

Gavin Argo

 

Virginia Tech

To become the next Frank Lloyd Wright

Paul Arnaudo

Santa Clara University

Travel across Europe, setting up families in different countries, and being an international man of mystery

Alex Assefa

NOVA

Start a company, buy a place to live, date a hot super model, and drive big, fast, cars

Rabita Aziz

G-Dubz! George Washington University to will study political science, international affairs, and journalism.

Instigate the oppressed people of Bangladesh into overthrowing the corrupt government with her anarchic writing.  Writing history.

Olga Belinskaya

 

Working internship

Get involved in politics and community issues.

Cristian Benitez

 

Enlist in the Army or Marines

Become a high-ranking official

Emma Beyer

 

Major in fashion merchandising at Cabrini College

 

First, I will reunite Nichole and Paris and star in The Simple Life with them. Then, marry a hot NBA player, have four kids, and work in the corporate office as president of one of my favorite stores.

 

Alex Borgman

 

NOVA

Travel around the world enjoying life and where it takes me.

Jon Boulay

 

Pima Community College then The University of Arizona

 

Have a well paying career and a nice house

Monique Boyles

 

N to the izz-O, V to the izz-A, NOVA

The next Tyra Banks

Lorenzo Brady

 

Radford University

Get a job

Lauren Breeden

 

Christopher-Newport University

To become a psychologist and work with abused children in the inner city. I want to eventually start my own foundation.

Becky Brown

 

James Madison University

 

To be happy, have fun, get a job I like, and fall in love with a famous pop star

Dan Burkey

 

Centre College of Kentucky

To become an adventurer exploring the world, making connections and learning to do everything. Then marry a woman with whom to raise several adventurous kids.

Alex Burnett-Greenstein

 

Major in dance at Ohio University

Have my own dance company and start a magazine

Andrew Campanelli

 

Loyola University in Nawlins and study the music business

Blow up as big as a rap gang-starr

Liana Camper-Barry

 

Hollins University

A tree house.

Lauren Chase

 

NOVA

Lead a happy, successful life.

Sam Cho

 

Enlist in the U.S. Army

To become a general and make a positive influence on the world.

 

Oscar Cordova

 

College/ job

George Mason University

Meredith Crosby

 

Major in business at Virginia Commonwealth University

Get married, start a family in California and play lots of tennis

 

James Dacanay

 

 

Major in business or corporate law at Mary-Washington

 

 

Own a business or real estate and become wealthy enough so that I can be lazy the rest of my life

Melanie Dasbach

 

Frostburg State University

Live in Ireland working on art restoration and owning 10 cats as well as a pinball machine.

Blaine Demisse

 

Major in business administration at VSU

Real estate

Jessica Donaldson

Boston University

Becoming a hermit

Stephen Donnelly, Jr.

 

Virginia Tech

Invent something that makes me extremely rich

 

Alex Douglas

 

The College of William and Mary

Travel much, learn endlessly and love deeply

Dani Dunn

 

Major in chemical engineering at Randolph Macon Women’s Colle

Sam Ehsani

 

Take a year off to travel to Australia and then attend Christopher Newport University 

Perhaps business, lots of traveling, chilling with Doctor D.

 

Nils Ek

 

Serve in the royal army

Settle down with my wife and hopefully get into the movie industry

Andrew Goetting

 

University of Arizona

 

Emperor of the sea gypsy nation

Lena Griffin

 

Brigham Young University- Idaho

Large animal vet

Nichole Hassoun

 

Major in engineering at Purdue University

To have fun and live my life

Bridget Hatfield

 

Major in nursing at Queens University

The peace corps in Africa and then stay at home with my MANY babies

 

Gareth Highman

 

Major in molecular genetics and Japanese at the University of Rochester

Give myself eternal youth.

Robert Hoehn

 

Christopher Newport University

Date Hillary Duff, have a sweet house, have an awesome car, and raise sea monkeys.

George Huff

 
Virginia Commonwealth University

 
Become wealthy, own a home, have a son, and live a long, full life.

Khetta Jali

 

Work on my music and take music classes

Get a music contract

Danny Johnson

 

Go to college

Graduate college and join the Peace Corps

Todd Johnston

 

Christopher Newport University

 

Become a criminal mastermind and invent a giant laser.

Zoe Jones     

 

Major in dance at Goucher College

Broadway

 

Jenny Kaplan

 

Major in photography at Delaware College of Art and Designs

 

Work at Rolling Stone Magazine and become the next Annie Leibowitz. In retirement own a bed and breakfast.

Gavin Keens

 

Dickinson University

Novelist in Italy, but probably homeless

Madiha Khan

 

University of Virginia

Become a successful cardiologist marry rich, live in Australia near Heath Ledger, and shop around the world

Yuliya Khrystych

 

James Madison University

To get a job,  live in the United States, but travel to Ukraine often as well as see Europe

Adam Knudsen

 

Marry Diana MacHamer

Live happily ever after!

Natalie Krachman

 

Study business and Spanish at the University of Washington- St Louis

Retire at age 30 and become a food critic

Robert Kuhn

 

Auburn University

Ultimate Fighting Championship

Josiah Larson

 

Play men’s soccer at Mars Hill

Design airplanes

Kate Lauer

 

Major in education and dance at James Madison University

To move to Hawaii and live in the city of Lamiki in a gated community. Get married and adopt two kids from Russia and be waited on hand and foot.

Caroline Leamon

Major in social sciences at McGill University

Live simply but meaningfully after spending several years traveling extensively

Henry Lee

 

Undecided/ College

Working and opening a computer room

Matt Lemen

 

Auburn University

Live in the ATL

Jasmine Lief

 

College of William and Mary

Find out what living is and then do it.

Diana MacHamer

 

Radford University to study fashion design

To transfer to the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, and become a famous fashion designer. Look me up someday!

Mariah Mallon

 

Majoring in political science at James Madison University

To become the youngest and most liberal female senator.

Jason Martinez

 

James Madison University

Be rich and famous

Dan McDonald

 

Majoring in government at University of Virginia

 

World-class golfer extraordinaire

Kellan Meador

 

Majoring in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech

To own an owl-themed restaurant and to buy the Falcons 

 

Andy Michalski

 

Study computer engineering at Longwood University

Be a businessman

Lili Miller

 

Major in music education at St. Olaf College

 

I want to go to Uganda and be a part of the beautiful relationships and take music with her.

Ashley Minosh

 

Mary Baldwin College

Mathematician, job, marriage, kids

  Horacio Morales
 NOVA, 4-Year College
  Architect

Lara Murray

 

Study art history at Temple University

Travel

Alex Nette

 

Attending the prestigious university of Virginia Tech

 

Taking over the Lego Corporation, racing Formula One with Ferrari, and moving to George Bush’s moon colony with his wife and eleven daughters.

Steven Newhall

 

University of Maine

Not indicated

Fallon Norloff

 

Major in business management with a minor in fashion at Shepherd University

Finish college, get married to Brad Pitt and live the rest of my life like Paris Hilton.

Jane Nystrom

 

Culinary Institute of America

Become a world class chef

David Oglethorpe

Ohio State University

A journalist for a major newspaper or magazine

Drew Orban

 

Virginia Tech

Destroyer of the sea gypsy nation

Farrell Oxley

 

Majoring in international relations at McGill University

Hope to become an Irish ambassador to Bhutan.

Helen Rose Patterson

 

Taking a year off and working and then going to Bennington College

Own a bakery in New Orleans then move out west and have a sheep farm and sell hand-knitted goods as well as write several novels and never have kids.

Dane Perera

 

Keepin’ it real in Canada

Attempt to become a psychologist and marry Lindsey Lohan

Stephanie Peters

 

Major in studio art at the University of Arizona

 

Become a starving artist in Paris, France, if that doesn’t work, then becoming a famous artist.

Ashley Petitt

 

University of South Carolina

Who knows…?

Michael Piccariello

 

Valley Forge Military College

Write my name in the history books.

Jasmine Ramtoolah

 

California

Doing everything I can and as much as I can to live life to its fullest. Not wasting my time, potential, youth and opportunity.

Rachel Reich

 

College

Get degrees

Stephanie Reyes

 

Moving to North Carolina, Community College

Interpreting in courts, Interior designer

Stephan Richards

 

Culinary Institute of America

Own my own restaurant

Alex Robertson

 

University of Virginia

Staying alive

 

Jermaine Robinson

 

Working

 

Become a senator

Devin Roden-Reynolds

 

Virginia Tech

 

Avoid marriage and especially children

Andrew Roller

 

University of Virginia

Unknown

Katlyn Rose-McCully

 

Attending NOVA and serving as an EMT

Becoming a social worker…who knows…?

Dustin Rottner

 

Majoring in mathematics and engineering at Rensselaer Institute of Technology

Lead engineer for Scunk Works

Ted Rowdybush

 

University of Maine- Farmington

Travel the world.

 

Gwen Rowdybush

 

Living in France for a year

Getting married and owning a horse farm somewhere in Europe

Adrian Rumingan

 

George Mason University

A career involving computers

Matt Scully

 

Register to vote liberally

To help to revolutionize the world, as opposed to evolving with it, and hopefully make it a little better… and be rich too.

Daniel Sheffler

 

Majoring in economics at the University of Kentucky

 

My goal is to be the most debonair and fantastic pirate to ever sale from Tortuga.

Tania Shevchenko

 

George Mason University

Job, travel

Claire Smalley

 

Maryland Institute College of Art

 

Live in a big house with a lot of cats, sing in a band, make art, and have a lot of friends.

Casey Smirniotopoulos

 

A duel major in psychology and sociology with a minor in gender studies at Claremont McKenna College

 

Brittany Smith

 

Major as a veterinary technician at Winston College

To work with wild animals, have plenty of pets (especially horses), be a good mom and a great friend.

Sarah Stanley

 

Taking a year off to work with wolves and to travel in Asia, and then going to Colorado College.

 

Robert Steinberg

 

Major in biology at the University of Vermont

To live on St. Thomas

Will Straub

 

West Virginia University

Going to Oregon

Dan Stroup

 

James Madison University

Somehow distinguish my self as Dan, not “one of the twins”

 

Paul Stroup

 

Rooming with Dan at James Madison University

Graduate college, marry Ann Coulter and run for president.

Sara Sugrue

 

Radford University

 

Become a professional snowboarder, see all the artists still alive from Rolling Stone’s Immortal list… and to not have eleven daughters

Clare Sullivan

 

NOVA and work

A career in something AMAZING like travel or helping people. Accomplish the world.

John Sullivan

 

Major in medical engineering at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology

I plan to occupy my working time with engines and the rest of my life with my family

 

Rachel Sweeney

 

Major in education at Stetson University

Challenge Mia Hamm to a duel and nutmeg her

Omar Tanamly

The College of William and Mary

Pursue something to do with writing

Fran Thielman

 

Major in English at Wheaton College

Write a best selling novel and become independently wealthy. Then possibly I’d buy a couple of grand pianos and start my own personal orchestra. 

Ariel Toom

 

University of Edinburgh

Win the soccer world cup with the Estonian team.

Daisy Torla

Majoring in biology at James Madison University

 

Attend vet school, work at sea world with the killer whales as the singing vet.

Jorge Trasmonte

 

NOVA

Open a software development company

Alison Van Pelt

 

Majoring in biology at Eckerd College and the ROTC- Air Force.

Join the air force and serve for four years while getting a masters and doctorate and then heading a research group in Africa studying either great white whales or big cats.

Andy Walsh

 

James Madison University

Become a sports agent for a spoiled athlete

Lisa Webb

 

University of Denver

Have a successful career, have fun in my twenties, get married, have kids and then come back to Falls Church to coach cheerleading with Devin.

Steve Williams

 

Studying business at Miami University of Ohio

Marry Ann Coulter and live on a manor in Fiji

 

Jasmin Willis

Majoring in biology at University of Maryland Eastern Shore
 

I want to become a surgeon and a family photographer.

Sam Wolfe

 

NOVA

Get married and be a physical therapist

Sarah Wright

 

Major in marketing at Virginia Tech

CEO of Dmac Designs

Chris Yancey

 

Virginia Tech

Counting my billions in my Hawaii beach mansion

Katerina Zissios

George Mason University

Have a family.

 
 

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