The Blair CTY Page

In preparing this page, we asked each person what their favorite CTY memories were. Here are the results, alphabetical by last name:

• Luke Bergmann
  • Sessions Attended: Astronomy, Lancaster, session 2, 1994; Theoretical Foundations of CS, Lancaster, session 2, 1995.
  • Favorite Memories: Unfortunately, Luke didn't seem to remember anything, even after numerous requests for comment. The editors are puzzled as to the reason behind this phenomenon. Brendan thinks it's the post-CTY trauma that occurs when people are once again exposed to Real Life. Until Luke can think of something, he will be classified as an amnesiac. (If you don't know what an amnesiac is, go mail somebody on this list who took Etymology or something.)
  • Blair Class: '98
  • E-mail: lbergman@mbhs.edu
• Brendan Connell
  • Sessions Attended: Etymology, JHU, session 2, 1995; Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science, Lancaster, session 2, 1996.
  • Favorite Memories: "Trying to help a friend retrieve a shoe from the roof of a building, without any luck. See, he was playing CTY shoe golf, which is like golf, but rather than hitting a ball, you play by kicking a shoe off of your foot. Thanks to some horrendous aim, this person, who shall remain nameless, managed to kick it up on the roof, where it tumbled into a gutter... ...Talking to new friends and laughing while walking aimlessly around campus... ...Saying goodbye after the last dance, amid the light drizzle and lightning of a summer storm."
  • Interesting Phenomenon: "You may think me crazy, but over the last couple weeks, I've spotted several CTY license plates. That's right. Most license plates in Maryland have two-part tags, with a combination of digits and numbers -- ABC-123, or FOO-999, for instance. Well, recently, I've seen a number of cars with license plates that start with the three letters CTY. I don't remember the numbers, but in other words, the cars are labeled something like CTY-243 or CTY-644. Coincidence? I think not. There's something funny going on here. I say, everyone, brace yourselves for more of this strange phenomenon, and IMMEDIATELY go alert both your local congressperson and Oliver Stone."
  • Blair Class: '98
  • E-mail: bconnell@mbhs.edu
• Ashley Eden
  • Sessions Attended: Intro to Lab Sciences, Lancaster, session 1, 1993; Writing 1B, Lancaster, session 1, 1994.
  • Favorite Memories: "My most memorable moment at CTY has got to be when I dropped a sandal on my roommate's head from the third story balcony and avoided the RAs the rest of the day. Of course its hard to decide between that and the killer carpenter squirrel incident..."
  • Editor's Note:Click here for Ashley's long version of the sandal story. But wait. Don't go away yet: Ashley's roommate saw this page and Ashley's story. She declared the story to be, quote, exaggerated, unquote, and proceeded to send to the editors what she described as the "real story". With the veracity of her narration in doubt, Ashley was asked if she had anything to say to THAT. Well, as it turns out, she did. Ashley's answer calls her roommate's story exaggerated, and complains loudly about "annoying games" that were played on her! (The horror!) It is now up to Ashley's roomate to dispel this libelous charge and send us a rebuttal reaffirming her position. Stay tuned for further developments in this saga!
  • Editor's Note, Continuted: Wait, don't go away! You can now read Laura's latest explanation of exactly what happened!
  • Blair Class: '98
  • E-mail: aeden@mbhs.edu
• Rahki Goel
  • Session Attended: Etymology, Lancaster, session 2, 1994.
  • Favorite Memories: "Dancing to American Pie, squashing a big bug in our room with my dictionary, wondering why during a 4:00 am fire drill all the guys were barefoot but had their hats on. Are hats the most important part of a guy's outfit?"
  • Blair Class: '97
  • E-mail: rgoel@mbhs.edu
• Melissa Hao
  • Sessions Attended: Writing 1, Lancaster, session 2, 1992; Etymology, Lancaster, session 2, 1993; Advanced Biology, Lancaster, session 2, 1994.
  • Favorite Memories: "There was this special room tucked away in the College Center and we would go there a lot. There was a pool table, ping pong tables, cable tv, and among other things we played versions of pool that didn't involve cues. The year before that, for revenge we hung this guy's underwear from the lounge ceiling and I was known as Honeybee. The year before that I was known universally as Melly the Tender Reed and to some as the Mistress of Euker."
  • Blair Class: '97
  • E-mail: mhao@mbhs.edu
• Jessica Henig
  • Sessions Attended: Logic, Lancaster, session 1, 1994; Psychology, Lancaster, session 1, 1995; Etymologies, Lancaster, session 2, 1995
  • Favorite Memories: "playing in the huge puddle that collected down by the arches, singing off balconies, playing with the dining hall food (jello's great to juggle with, and eating utensils make great sculptures), psych class exploits, and bizarre love triangle.
  • Blair Class: '97
  • E-mail: jhenig@mbhs.edu
• Hui-Hui Hu
  • Session Attended: Dickinson College, session 1, 199x.
  • Favorite Memories: "I don't remember anything. (Oh, well, a lot of broken hearts following the dances, that girls always go for schmucks, Stairway to Heaven, the word "townie"--tres useful.)"
  • Blair Class: '94
  • E-mail: hhui@stardot.com
• Ted Jou
  • Session Attended: Intro to Advanced Mathematics, JHU, session 2, 1995.
  • Favorite Memories: "CTY was a lot of fun. I made a lot of new friends and renewd some old friendships. I remember having to run back to my room to get my CD's because the dances really, REALLY SUCKED. Most importantly, I have my girlfriend now because I met her at CTY after not seeing her for two years."
  • Editor's note: According to Ted, he is featured on the 1996 CTY thingy cover! He says, "you can barely see me, but I'm there and recognizable". OK, Ted. How much did you pay those CTY people again? :-)
  • Blair Class: '99
  • E-mail: tjou@mbhs.edu
• David Ma
  • Session Attended: Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science, Lancaster, session 1, 1993.
  • Favorite Memories: (Editor's Note: With this entry, David easily wins, not one, but TWO awards: Longest Run-On Sentence, and Most Creative Formatting.)
    "umm
    i bought a pizza and sold a slice for 5 bucks
    and i got the pizza for free
    that's a crappy memory
    let's see
    we went into the girls dormitory but they couldn't kick us out because we went to their lounge which was supposedly co-ed but it was right in the middle of their dorm and we stayed there and bothered them then stuff happened and i think it was good but i also remember the tennis tounament and i had to drink nasty water from a tennis ball can..."
  • Blair Class: '98
  • E-mail: dma@mbhs.edu

You might also be interested in CTY's official home page. An instructor at CTY also put together a very comprensive unofficial page, with nifty stuff like a CTY alumni directory. Ariel Segall, a self-described "homesick CTYer", has put together another CTY page. For general discussion of CTY and life, there's a CTY mailing list. To subscribe, email ListServ@ucsd.edu and enter the text "subscribe cty" within the body of the message. Finally, in his seemingly infinite spare time, Brendan has put together an American Pie page, with lyrics, explanations, and even MIDI and Sun .au versions of the song!