Essenson Academy Yearbook

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Faculty of the Academy of Engineering

    Dr. Jennifer Kwam - Headmaster        (First Appearance: #1)

    Dr. Lang Chi - Physics                        (First Appearance: #27)

    Dr. Hans Delbacher - Mathematics     (First Appearance: #33)

    Dr. Ken Kodgers - History                (First Appearance: #16)

    Dr. Susanna Reggali - Biology            (First Appearance: #20)

    Dr. Chester Renn - Rocketry Project Director    (First Appearance: #44)

     Elisabeth Rosiet - French Foreign Language Instructor    (First Appearance: #256)

    Dr. Anna Tentin - Arts                        (First Appearance: #34)

    Mrs. Nancy Thornyer - Dormitory Director    (First Appearance: #35)

    Chef Danny Walker - Head of Food Services    (First Appearance: #158)

    Dr. Greggory Zeffin - Director of Students, Robotics Project Director
                                                    (First Appearance: #2)


Graduates of the Academy of Engineering
 


Kent Davisson            (First Appearance: #38)
    Interests and Goals:  Kent is interested in rocketry, movies, and cars, and aspires to be a top engineer with NASA.
    Other:  Voted most likely to be a jerk.

 


Jake McAllister        (First Appearance: #22)
    Interests and Goals:  Friends ‘n stuff.  My goal is to create some kind of intergalactic rocket.
    Other:  Voted most likely to end up blowing up the world.

 


Amy Roberts           (First Appearance: #22)
    Interests and Goals:  Reading, drawing, eating ice cream; College, etc.
    Other:  Voted most likely to shirk science and become a business major.



Max Thundersky           (First Appearance: #994)
    Interests and Goals:  Games, physics, blowing stuff up.  Ready to graduate!
    


 

Members of the Senior Class of the Academy of Engineering

Scholar Bisani          (First Appearance: #1)
    Interests and Goals:  Games, studying math and science.  Attend college, get a PhD, become a research scientist.
    Other:  Scholar’s a regular at InvaderZ and likes handle Trauma, as that’s what his victims get.

 


Stacey Glee              (First Appearance: #27)
    Interests and Goals:  Interested in reading, playing with my guitar, cooking, etc.  Goal is to attend college, get a really good PhD or MD, and pay as little as possible.

 



George Hamilton      (First Appearance: #1)
    Interests and Goals:  Computers, programming, video games, sleeping.  Wants to run a computer programming company one day, eventually creating AI superior to humans and then serving our computer overlords.
    Other:  Owner of Algernon 42000, arguably the world’s greatest computer.  George likes his computers large and powerful.  He can often be found playing InvaderZ under the name G-man.


Barry Igmore            (First Appearance: #160)
    Interests and Goals:  Barry likes all kinds of math, science, and experiments.  Barry wants to make a sweep at the Nobel Prizes, which shouldn’t be too hard.
    Other:  Barry is CRAZY.  Also freaky smart, but mostly crazy.
 



Rae Iriston                 (First Appearance: #33)
    Interests and Goals:  Philosophy, science magazines, idealistic sci-fi.  Goal is to create a utopia through advancements in technology, especially agriculture.

 



Victorie van Klosson    (First Appearance: #3)
    Interests and Goals:  Sleeping, eating, reading, music, beating up losers.  Goal is to discover something amazing and live off of the fame for the rest of my life.
    Other:  Some say Victorie is vicious; others simply think she’s leading people on.  Either way, her razor-sharp tongue of sarcasm and insult is often entertaining.


Ling Osaka                   (First Appearance: #3)
    Interests and Goals:  I like studying, working hard, and enjoying the fruits of her labor.  Her goal is to graduate, attend college, then grad school in architecture, all while maintaining her life-long 4.0 GPA.
    Other:  Ling is pretty levelheaded and work driven.  Why she hangs out with Spencer and Roger is well beyond me.  Maybe she likes their goofiness.


Arthur “Arty” Packard    (First Appearance: #33)
    Interests and Goals:  Arty likes computers, video games, hanging out, and generally talking.  He wants to obtain a doctorate.
    Other:  Arty is smart, but sometimes thinks he’s smarter than he really is.  He’s a good guy, but often troubled by arrogance.  Arty tries to be cool, sometimes succeeds, but mainly doesn’t.  He sometimes plays InvaderZ with the name WombatDude
 



Juan Rodreguez              (First Appearance: #1)
    Interests and Goals:  Logic puzzles, computers and gaming.  To help design the future network for interplanetary mail delivery.  That, or become a professional video game tester.
    Other:  Under the handle of Darkness, he usually dominates the first-person shooter InvaderZ.
 



Mary Ronald                  (First Appearance: #1)
    Interests and Goals:  Running, rockets, reading UFO stuff on the Internet, driving my car which is at home :-(;  Mary wants to be a space mission commander and do a reverse-abduction of aliens while in space.

 



Angela Smith                 (First Appearance: #6)
    Interests and Goals:  Riding horses, fuzzy animals, photography; studying to become a happy doctor.
    Other:  Angela’s kind of preppy, peppy, and generally a vegetarian out of kindness toward animals (though she has sometimes been tricked into eating something she shouldn’t).
           [Note: Angela did not return to the EAE after her junior year.]



Roger Torbin                (First Appearance: #3)
    Interests and Goals:  Interests include slacking, not doing stuff, and goofing off.  Goals include being as lazy as possible for the rest of his career.
    Other:  Roger takes pride in his slacker-tude, especially in video games.  He is quite happy-go-lucky about life, sometimes a little too much.  Roger also encourages such behavior in others, telling them to “take it easy.”  Every so often his laziness catches up with him, and he is finally forced to work to keep things together.  One of Roger’s best ways to goof off is by playing InvaderZ, under the guise of X-selsior.


Spencer Vellman            (First Appearance: #3)
    Interests and Goals:  Interested in hanging out, philosophizing, and puns.  Goal is to gain great wealth and retire early, then tour the world.
    Other:  Spencer’s a pretty crazy guy, but good at heart.  He likes playing InvaderZ, though his skill is arguable, with the oddly spelled name, Spynsyr.
 

 

Members of the Junior Class of the Academy of Engineering

 Quentin Ellenbauch                (First Appearance: #1876)
    Interests and Goals:  U.S. Military.
    

 



Nel Jackson            (First Appearance: #1876)
    Interests and Goals:  Basketball, soccer, listening to music, playing cello, playing piano, going to the beach, watching old movies, watching new movies on opening night, running, singing (only for fun, not professionally), shoes, showing off new shoes, new haircuts, sleeping late... [rest of list deleted due to length]



Casey Malone           (First Appearance: #1504)
    Interests and Goals:  Graduate school for a quality education, then dedicating my life to making the world a better place.  How exactly?  I dunno.  But I'm looking forward to finding out.

 

 
 Sandeep Nahasapeemapetilon           (First Appearance: #1729)
    Interests and Goals:  Interests:  computer technology, programming, video games.  My goal is to start my own software company, have it bought out by an industry giant for a billion-dollar payout, and then to repeat the process until I retire ridiculously wealthy.


Students at the Academy of Arts

Jess Cassel                    (First Appearance: #102)
    Interests and Goals:  I like music!  Everything from classical to hip-hop to whatever.  I hope to one day compose soundtracks for movies.
    Other:  Jess is pretty easy going, though a little crazy and often loses herself in music.

 


Cody Classen                (First Appearance: #102)
    Interests and Goals:  Going home on weekends, sleeping, watching movies.  Wants to become a playwright and make both positive and negative splashes on Broadway.

 



Randy McGee                (First Appearance: #102)
    Interests and Goals:  Music, TV, stuff, junk, yeah. Goal is to become a historian and quite possibly take over Dr. Kodgers’s job.


 


Chi Wong                      (First Appearance: #102)
    Interests and Goals:  Playing the piano, online quizzes, and movies, both watching and making them.  Wants to become a great director, first start small, then make a smash hit.



Other Interesting Individuals

Algernon 42000 - aka ‘Al’.  One really cool computer.

  (First Appearance: #246)



Django - Rumors state that a monkey has taken up residence within the EAE, though the faculty finds such things droll and improbable.

  (First Appearance: #72)


Mr. Wiggles - The teddy bear of Victorie van Klosson.

  (First Appearance: #14)



Penny - Roger's seemingly immortal AI-simulator based on the niece of Inspector Gadget.

  (First Appearance: #587)



The Robots - Synthoid Spencer and Robo-Roger, a pair of robot duplicates built in a plan gone awry to get out of having to accept the first six week's grades.  Programmed to simulate Spencer's and Roger's personalities.

  (First Appearance: #341)

Wilbur - Roger's not-so-helpful Guardian Angel.

  (First Appearance: #901)





  

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