Japanese Studies Graduates 2000
The year 2000 saw our largest graduating class to date.
From the left: Karen McCreary, Shelley Smith, Bob Roberts,
Suzanne Robbel, Dani Hagino, Anna Smith, Shea Nakamura.
Above: Professor Ron Loftus, Masafumi Takeda, Sachiko Kamioka.
Not shown: Janet Locke, Trish Yamada, Dani Crocker and Colleen
Yamamoto
Last minute sage advice for Bob as he gets set to go out into
the world.
What do Japanese Studies majors do?
Janet Locke returned to Japan to pursue graduate school. Suzanne
and Shelley went to Japan with the JET Program as did Bob, Dani, Shea and Anna
who were all in Kawagoe in the very similar KET Program. Bob spent three years
on the KET Program and will be enrolling at University of Chicago for Ph.D.
work in Japanese History in the fall of 2003.
Trisha, who is a double major with Exercise Science, is working
as a trainer in the sports medicine field while Colleen, who is a double major
with Sociology, works for the Women's Crisis Center in Salem. Colleen traveled
to Japan on her own in the Summer of 2001 visiting with her former homestay
family and catching up with Anna Smith as well.
Former grads Loren Waller and Tara Bilyeu, who are married, are
moving to Kyoto after several years in the Tokyo area while Loren did the KET
program, where Loren will be a Mombusho Fellowship recipient working on his
Master's Degree in classical Japanese language and literature.
*Update* Loren completed his masters and proceeded to Columbia
University where he continued his studies. He and Tara are now back in Japan
where Loren is teaching and Tara is working and pursuing graduate studies.
2003 brought us our second largest class. Click here
for details.
You will find the Class of 2006 here.
You will find the Class of 2008 here.