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Welcome to the webpage for
Stuyvesant High
School Policy Debate Alumni
Peter Stuyvesant
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Welcome
Stuy debaters
If
you're like us, you loved your involvement with policy debate at Stuyvesant High School. In the words of 90's
coach Gary Alperson you loved "the activity":
friends, partners, teammates, arguments, evidence, 1ACs, cross-ex, research,
Lexis-Nexis, spreading, voting issues, and even coaches.
We
formed this little organization to keep in touch with old friends, and to
pitch in a bit of support to today's teams. In the spirit of the Stuy Math Team's great page, we'll
list a few "where are they now" items on the folks who write in to
us. And we've established a program to support the policy team, which started
with the 2002 Alumni Prize to "Stuy A".
"I
really didn't so much attend Stuyvesant as attend the debate team. Probably
50% of my high school education was the team, 40% was student politics and
only 10% was classroom stuff."
-- Dick Morris '64, Honorary Chairman of Stuyvesant Policy
Debate Alumni
The Team These Days
These days we haven't been keeping up with the stuff mentioned below -- no more prize, no more scholarship, no more active support of the team. We were very enthusiastic as new alumni, but then we had a number of difficult experiences trying to help out. But if the coaching staff ever decides they would like money, judging or other help from us -- just ask! (- April 2007)
2004
Results
Hanna
Rosin, now a journalist at the Washington Post, spoke to the parents and team
at the team dinner. The alumni awarded the 2004 Alumni Prize to Charlotte
Stewart-Sloan '04 (going to Stanford) and Amy Li '04 (going to return next
year) for competing as Stuy A this year. Promising
junior Alex Bettig received the Alumni Summer
Fellowship to help her attend the Dartmouth Debate Institute. And Cory
Ackerman ’04, the other graduating senior, was recognized for his great
contributions to the team (especially to morale). Congratulations to all of
them!
2004 results from the Policy coach Will Chancellor
2003
Results
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Thorn Chen '03 (Alumni Prize winner)
and Charlotte Stewart-Sloan '04 (Alumni Summer
Fellowship recipient).
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Dick
Morris spoke at the 2003 team dinner and the alumni awarded the 2003 Alumni
Prize to Thorn Chen '03 (going to Dartmouth)
and Christina Cheung '03 (going to Georgetown)
for competing as Stuy A this year. Promising junior
Charlotte Stewart-Sloan received the Alumni Summer Fellowship to help her
attend the Dartmouth Debate Institute. Congratulations to all of them!
Results and Info about the policy team in
2002-2003
Alumni/ae
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The new Stuyvesant
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Where
are they now?
If you aren't already here, please email Amol Sarva '94
to add a blurb. That's also the way to contact most people listed here
without an email.
If
there are no "quotes" on the blurb, it was written by Amol. Sorry
for all the errors and omissions. Please help fill in the blanks!
Coaches
Julie
Sheinman - Coach of the Speech and Debate teams since
1984 to the present.
Gary Alperson '89(?) - Assistant Coach,
Policy from early 90's to 1995(?). Stuy A in his
own day. Went to NYU.
Maggie Osbody Katz - Adjunct Assistant
Coach, Policy from 1993 to 1996(?). Former Georgetown Day debater. Columbia College. Then went to Estonia(?) on a fellowship.
Pre-1990
Dick
Morris '64
- 1964 Captain of the Debate Team. Later a special adviser to Bill Clinton
and Trent Lott, among other politicians, as well as "rogue genius"
and "the most influential private citizen in America" according to Time Magazine. His column at The Hill.
Honorary Chairman of Alumni.
Hanna Rosin '8? - One half of the famed Stuy
A team with David Coleman that won MBA, TOCs, Bronx, the Chemical LD Debates, and all the rest. Went
to Stanford(?). Influential journalist who wrote for
The New Republic, and now for The Washington Post.
David Coleman '8? - Other half of that famed Stuy
A team with Hanna Rosin. Was a Rhodes Scholar, then McKinsey consultant. Now leading an education data company, Grow Networks (Fortune Magazine).
Gary Alperson '89? - Stuy
A and coach of policy team during early-90's renaissance. Was probably team
captain as well. Lives in Pennsylvanian now(?).
1990's
Jin Kim '91 - went to Williams, then Rochester for medical
school, and soon finishing her residency at Einstein in NYC. Was Novice
Director in '90-91.
Peter Barta '92 - Debated with Eric Yuen.
Came back and coached for a while. "After NYU, I went to law school at Georgetown. Now, I work
as a public defender with the Legal Aid Society in Manhattan. Essentially, I'm still debating.
" (3/12/03)
Eun Kim '92 - went to Harvard
undergrad, Duke medical school, and is apparently at UCLA for her residency.
Eric Yuen '92 - went to Berkeley?
Jacob Waldman '93 - "Debated at Stuy
from 1990-1993 and was captain and Stuy A his
senior year, partnering with Amol, but before he was, you know, AMOL. Since
then he has gone to Dartmouth, worked in real
estate, worked in radio and is now at Columbia Law
School." (from
Jacob, 2002)
Roy Bahat '94 - Half of the 1994 Stuy A with
Amol that won MBA, NCFLs, Chemical LD debates, and
actually forfeited(!) the TOC semi-final. Was the team's Vice-President in '94. Went to Harvard. Went to Oxford for an MA as a Rhodes Scholar.
Worked at McKinsey, worked for Mayor Bloomberg, and now for NYC2012.
Amol Sarva '94 – “Half of that 1994 team with Roy. Was team president
in '93, captain in '94. Went to Columbia. Then to Stanford for a PhD.
Helped start some companies, including Virgin Mobile USA. Have written for Salon and
other magazines." (from Amol, 2002) Now works for McKinsey in NY.
Steve Schneider '94 - Admirable Stuy C(?) in '94. Went to UNC Chapel Hill, then to work for a
company in NJ. At Columbia
Business School.
To McKinsey in Chicago
starting 2004.
Carolyn Lee '94 - Went to Yale.
Thomas Hong '94 - Went to UVA,
MA in education. Teaches high
school social studies in Maryland.
Vanessa Marti '95 - Stuy A and team captain
in 1995. "I am currently in my second year at Georgetown Law. I worked
in travel PR for a year after graduating from Emory (Ruder Finn Inc.) and
then worked for a year at the Fair Labor Association (am international labor
non-profit in Washington DC)." (4/24/03)
Chrissy DeLorenzo
'95 - Went to Dartmouth,
then a PhD program at Yale.
Jake Shields '95 - Went to Dartmouth,
then UVA Law. Will clerk for Judge Emilio Garza of the 5th Circuit in San Antonio.
Gary Li ’96 – “Gary
Li '96 went to MIT where he debated 4 years on the parley circuit
(embarrassingly similar to LD but with a little policy at least), including
the '98 World championships in Manila.
In between tourneys, he got an economics degree and now works for JPMorgan in New
York. According to current rumours,
he may be plotting his way to Stanford Law.”
Phil Kerpen '97 - Phil (kerpen@hsdebate.com)
is now a fiscal policy resercher at the Club For
Growth and the publisher of hsdebate.com and Cross-X.com.
Jon Paul Lupo '96 - JVer
in '94. Went to Emory, and won the NDT in 2000.
Laurence Berland '00 - "I'm currently a
senior at Northwestern
University, and beyond
that my plans for the future potentially include law school, world conquest,
and other exciting stuff. " (12/25/03)
Tim Negron '92 - "I was on the debate team for four years, graduating in '92. Although I wasn't very good at it (for me, it was the poker/debate team), I debated with Jin Kim, Peter Barta, Eun Kim, Su-Jin Yoo, and Nick Yu..and Gary Alperson was our coach. I am perhaps infamous for engineering the ridiculous "Blue-green Laser Satelite" plan with 12 (or so) nuclear war advantages (the topic was space exploration). -- I graduated from Princeton in '96. I now live in Queens and am working in global network architecture (no blue-green laser satelites involved) at Credit Suisse First Boston. I also teaching network security and am pursuing a part-time MBA at NYU. -- P.S. I still have a leather brief case at home with Hanna Rosin's initials on it... used to belong to Hanna... I got it from Gary.... in case anybody is looking for some debate nostalgia items."
You, yes YOU - Go ahead and update us on where you've been all these
years. Email Amol.
The
Alumni Prize
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Stuy A 2002
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In
2002, several alumni supported the First Annual Alumni Prize. The Prize is to
be awarded each year to the two policy debaters who compete in that year as
"Stuy A" at the varsity level for the
most total rounds of competition.
The
Alumni Prize itself was two sliverplate cups
engraved with "Stuy A 2002", one for each
member of 2002's top Stuy team. It symbolizes the
great honor and achievement of competing as Stuyvesant High School's
top policy debate team, a position rich in history and distinguished
forebears.
Stuy A Prize Winners
2003 Thorn Chen '03 (Dartmouth) and Christina
Cheung '03 (Georgetown)
2002 Thorn Chen '03 and Christina Cheung '03
The
Prize is possible due to the support of alumni of the team like yourself. As debaters, we always wondered at the great
debaters who had come before us. Now that we are able to make small
contributions, many of us have chosen to support and encourage those who have
come after us. Email
Amol for more information about what we are doing.
The
Alumni Summer Fellowship
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Reliquary box from the new Stuy
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For
2003, we created a fellowship to support a deserving and promising debater's
trip to summer debate "Institute".
Stuyvesant
is one of very few public schools that competes at
the top level of national competition. The rest are exclusive private
schools. While Stuy has always gone far on limited
resources, the arms race keeps escalating. Institute is a bare minimum for
teams that hope to be competitive. In 2003, the alumni hope to help defray
the costs of a deserving student's trip to summer Institute.
Recipients
2003 Charlotte Stewart-Sloan '04 (Dartmouth Debate Institute)
Email Amol for
more information about what we are doing and how you can help. We'll need it
to make a difference.
This
page was updated last on 6/4/03
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