Meet the OL's

Orientation Leaders are upperclass students who have been selected for their knowledge of campus,
enthusiasm, and love of Lafayette!  They will be your guides for the four days of Orientation, attending
all sessions with you and answering any questions you may have about life on campus. 

Nick Albano '09
Major:
Biology
Activities:
Club Baseball, SMAC, Sports Marketing, Chemistry TA, ER volunteer, FIJI

Favorite Quote:

"You have no control over what others do. You only have controll over what you do."
Max Bass '10
Major:
American Studies
Activities:
Kappa Delta Rho, Chorduroys, and BOL

Favorite Quote:

"I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it." -Denzel Washington
Michael Baumwoll ' 09
Major:
Economics & Business with a minor in Psychology
Activities:
Student Movement Against Cancer, Residence Hall Council, Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity, Club Baseball

Favorite Quote:

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
Crystal Burey '10
Major:
Studio Art
Activities:
ABC Secretary, Gospel Choir, NIA, TIC Staff

Favorite Quote:

"An eye for an eye will leave everyone blind."
Meaghan Cherico '09
Major:
International Affairs
Activities:
Student Governmet, Alpha Phi, Lafayette Cooking Club

Favorite Quote:

"The worst thing in life is wasted talent."
Sarah Christy '10
Major:
Economics and Business (Minor: Philosophy)
Activities:
Dance Team, Synchromotion, Marquis Players, Delta Delta Delta, Hillel, Tour Guide

Favorite Quote:

"I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. No one gives it to you. You have to take it." -The Departed
Meredith Coburn '11
Major:
English (Theatre Concentration) Sociology Minor
Activities:
Cadence (President), Student Movement Against Cancer (Executive Board), Marquis Players, Club Field Hockey

Favorite Quote:

"Surround yourself only with the people who are going to lift you higher" -Oprah Winfrey
Lauren Costa '09
Major:
Psychology with a minor in Art history
Activities:
Club Tennis, Pi Beta Phi

Favorite Quote:

"Live for today, plan for tomorrow, party for tonight"
Tim Daubert '09
Major:
Biochemistry
Activities:
Crew Team, Delta Upsilon, Chemistry Tutor, EXCEL Scholar, Marquis Scholar

Favorite Quote:

"The most wasted day of all is one without laughter." - E.E. Cummings
John Doyle '10
Major:
Government & Law, Business & Economics
Activities:
Club Ice Hockey, Club Lacrosse, Student Government, Student Life Committee, Investment Club, Monsieur.com Literary Magazine (Editor), SMAC, Intramurals, and Zeta Psi Fraternity

Favorite Quote:

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. Williams (Bill) Nye – The Science Guy
AJ Ernst '09
Major:
English
Activities:
Volunteer Teaching in the Easton School District, College Theater, College Choir, Marquis Players, Intramural Basketball and Dodgeball, LAF

Favorite Quote:

All evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing. -Edmund Burke
Rob Fehn '09
Major:
Business and Economics
Activities:
Sports Marketing, Kappa Delta Rho, Econ Tutor, Intermurals

Favorite Quote:

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." -Vince Lombardi
Michael Feniger '09
Major:
Economics & Business
Activities:
Intramurals, SMAC

Favorite Quote:

Katy Friedman '11
Major:
Chemical Engineering & International Studies
Activities:
Cadence, LAF Exec, Peer Counselor, Tour Guide

Favorite Quote:

"A waterfall starts with one drop." 
Steve Gadomski '11
Major:
Biology
Activities:
Men's Swim Team, Student Government, Freshman Class Council, SMAC, and Intramural Sports

Favorite Quote:

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." -Unknown
Leah Goldberg '11
Major:
Neuroscience
Activities:
Diving Team, Tour Guide, Landis Community Service

Favorite Quote:

"There is only one instant, and it's right now. And it's eternity" -Waking Life
Ashley Gray '09
Major:
International Affairs & International Commerce and Business
Activities:
Greater Shiloh Church- Member and Karar Liturgical Dance Ministry, ABC President, Intercultural Assistant, Career Services Office Assistant, Tour Guide and Admissions Panelist

Favorite Quote:

"Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands." -Deuteronomy 7:9
Myles Guevremont '09
Major:
Psychology
Activities:
Club Tennis, Delta Upsilon

Favorite Quote:

"A day without laughter is a day wasted" -Charlie Chaplin
Erica Kamin
Major:
Art
Activities:
Cheerleading, Hillel, Gymnastics Club, Family Weekend Planning committee, Grossman Gallery Art Intern

Favorite Quote:

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." Lord of the Rings
Patrick Kelley '09
Major:
Civil Engineering
Activities:
Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity, Intra-Fraternity Council, ASCE, Club Soccer

Favorite Quote:

"Earn this." -Saving Private Ryan
Katy Kingsbury '10
Major:
Neuroscience
Activities:
Crew team, Lafayette Society of Neuroscience, LAF, and SMAC

Favorite Quote:

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~E.E. Cummings
Jesse Lagle '09
Major:
English and Art History
Activities:
Pi beta phi, Study abroad in Barcelona, Girls Talk

Favorite Quote:

"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."- Almost Famous
Chelsea Lajterman '10
Major:
Economics & Business
Activities:
Lafayette Dance Team, SMAC, Lafayette Ambassadors

Favorite Quote:

Emily Lloyd '10
Major:
Biology
Activities:
SMAC, Marquis Players, Tour Guide, RHC

Favorite Quote:

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product." -Eleanor Roosevelt
Adriane Marcellus '10
Major:
English-Concentration in Writing, Minor: Psychology
Activities:
"The Lafayette" student newspaper, Cosmic Cup employee, Tri Delta Sorority, Writing Associate, Tour guide

Favorite Quote:

"If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live."
Ian McCutcheon '09
Major:
Government & Law
Activities:
Baseball (2007 Patriot League Champions!)

Favorite Quote:

"In case you haven't noticed, and judging by the attendance you haven't, the Indians have managed to win a game or two here" -Harry Doyle in 'Major League'
Steven Melnic '09
Major:
Biology with a minor in Health Care & Society
Activities:
Varsity Golf Team, Landis Community Outreach, Intramural Sports, Disk Jockey for the college radio, Lafayette Activities Forum, Student Tutor

Favorite Quote:

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today” -James Dean
David Miller '09
Major:
Mathematics and Economics/Business
Activities:
Club Soccer, Club Tennis, LAF, Math Club, Econ & Calculus Tutor

Favorite Quote:

Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to." Catch-22, Joseph Heller.
Kira Moore '09
Major:
Neuroscience, PreMed, Health Care & Society
Activities:
TriDelta Sorority, Tour Guide, Peer Tutor, Lafayette Society for Neuroscience, Landis Volunteer, Concert Band

Favorite Quote:

"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it." -Oprah Winfrey
Courtney Morin '10
Major:
English Major, Government & Law Minor
Activities:
VP Communications of Pi Beta Phi, Panhellenic Delegate, Girls Talk

Favorite Quote:

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it" -Robin Williams
Allison Pennella '10
Major:
Studio Art
Activities:
Lafayette Women's Swim Team

Favorite Quote:

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” -Dr. Seuss
Adam Pie '09
Major:
History Gov't Law Double Major
Activities:
Lafayette Christian Fellowship, Mock Trial, College Theater,Marquis Players

Favorite Quote:

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no
good thing ever dies." ~ Shawshank Redemption
Amanda Pisetzner '10
Major:
English & Social Justice
Activities:
Student Government President, WORDS, Writing Associate, Landis Center Staff, Amnesty International, ALF, Excel Research, Tourguiding, QuEST, and WJRH DJ.

Favorite Quote:

"Well-behaved women rarely make history" -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Gabe Rivera '10
Major:
Chemistry
Activities:
Delta Upsilon Fraternity, Lafayette College Crew Club

Favorite Quote:

"Some Said 'Hov how you get so fly', I Said From Not Being Afraid To Fall Out The Sky" Shawn Carter
Jen Romano '10
Major:
Biology
Activities:
Dance Team, Synchromotion, Student Government, Marquis Players, Alpha Gamma Delta, Biology TA, Peer Tutor, Hillel and Arts Society

Favorite Quote:

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."
Brian Rotmil '09
Major:
Economics and Business & Mathematics
Activities:
Delta Upsilon, Club Rugby, Landis Center- KIC Staff, Club Volleyball

Favorite Quote:

"I wish I was a gloworm, a gloworm's never glum...How can you be unhappy when the sun shines out your bum?"
Kelsey Sanders '11
Major:
English and Spanish
Activities:
The Spot Staff, Tour Guide, Student Host, Peer Counseling, WJRH

Favorite Quote:

"Always be humble" Clinton Brown
Casey Sharkey '09
Major:
Spanish
Activities:
Varsity Women's Lacrosse , Delta Gamma Sorority, Phone-a-thon, Student Ambassador

Favorite Quote:

"Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln
Paul Sommers '09
Major:
History with a minor in French
Activities:
Club Soccer, Lafayette Christian Fellowship, College Hill Choir, Marquis Players, Soulfege, College Theater, Tour Guide, Family Weekend Committee, Experience Lafayette Day Committee, Lafayette Leadership Education

Favorite Quote:

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." -Thomas Paine, THE CRISIS
Liz Sullivan '10
Major:
English, Spanish Minor
Activities:
Alpha Phi, Club Lacrosse

Favorite Quote:


Nathan Terwilliger '11
Major:
Mechanical Engineering
Activities:
Club Ultimate Frisbee, Concert Choir, Pep Band, Student Ambassador, Tour Guiding, Experience Lafayette Day Committee

Favorite Quote:

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - Albus Dumbledore
Ingrid Warner '11
Major:
History
Activities:
Cadence, Family Weekend Entertainment Committee, Soulfege, Tour Guide

Favorite Quote:

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." -e.e. cummings
Steven West '09
Major:
Biology
Activities:
Delta Upsilon, Student Government

Favorite Quote:

"It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man." - Jack Handey
Carolyn Zawislak '10
Major:
Biology
Activities:
Concert Choir, College Theater, Arts Society, Perspective Student Overnight Host, LAF, Biology TA, Latin Dance, Swing Dance

Favorite Quote:

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -Groucho Marx
Stephanie Zielinski '11
Major:
International Economics & German
Activities:
Swimming, LANDIS Mentoring Club

Favorite Quote:

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it."

 

Orientation Steering Committee


Executive Chair
Tim Daubert
Executive Co-Chair
Ashley Gray

Entertainment Co-Chairs
Crystal Burey
Steve Melnic
Carolyn Zawislak

Spirit & Morale Co-Chairs
Pat Kelley
Paul Sommers
Steve West
Academic Co-Chairs
Amanda Pisetzner
Jesse Lagle
Recognition Co-Chairs
Miles Guevremont
Ian McCutcheon