Alumni & Past Class Lists

2005 - 2006 A.M. Class Shane Donnelly Jesse Gehringer Robert Giacalone Sarah Greiner-Urbanik Eric Isom DeAndre Jackson Erik Jones Brandon King Drew Knight Joseph Luciano Emilio Martinez Ray Milczewski Chad Rentenbach Tom Walterhouse Instructor: David Schmoekel Assistant Instructor: Joel Davenport Assistant Instructor: Robert Mullins 2004 - 2005 A.M. Class DeMario Bruce Peter Fremuth Eric Isom Kristopher Kuehn Andrew Kuhn Richard Lacombe Asha Scott Matthew Solomon Andrew Przybylski P.M. Class Rebecca Donnelly Jonathan Foster Simon Foster Mark Kennedy Alireza Mahram Daniel Peabody Robert Calhoun Nathan Saulter Noah Ginsburg Gabrelle Hughbanks Instructor: David Schmoekel Assistant Instructor: Joel Davenport Assistant Instructor: Robert Mullins 2003 - 2004 A.M. Class David Abee Andrew Barrington Andrew Finkbeiner David Grieshaber Jeffery Hubbard Joshua Johnson Timothy Nowling Juan Phelan Alexander Walters P.M. Class Kevin Aldrich Carl Duke Joseph Gregory James Harter Jeremy Johnson Maurice Louis Ken Perry Bobby Safford Andrew Wilt Andrew Zeisler Instructor: David Schmoekel Assistant Instructor: Joel Davenport Program Assistant: Bob Mullins 2002 - 2003 A.M. Class Richard Ash Geoffrey Blow Andrew Dresselhouse Sam Kafaei Xiu Lin Frank Martin-Buck Jeremiah Meek Stephen Richardson Darnell Smith Joe Walton Nate Williams David Ziesemer P.M. Class Ryan Bennett Jason Campbell Kim Gainsley David Kingsbury Carlos Marcano Joe Medley Dave Nestor Anton Rush David Tefft Michael White Drew Zeisler Yaniv Zimet Instructor: David Schmoekel Assistant Instructor: Joel Davenport
2001 - 2002 A.M. Class Phil Bosio Trevor Butcher Ben Bouchard Felix Cabianca Tim Carpenter Pat Cloke Kevin Cox Stephanie Harburg Lamar Harris Jerrall Harrison Saman Kafeai-Golahmadi P.M. Class Michael Keller Bryan Lancaster Chris Mann Don McCune Jeff Novak Anthony Pocrnich Chris Portincasa Chris Schoch Darnell Smith David Spencer Andrew Thompson Instructor: David Schmoekel Assistant Instructor: Joel Davenport
2000 - 2001 A.M. Class David Brandon Felix Cabianca Leo Casares Chris Crosby Lamar Harris Ross Gladwin Bryan Heckenkamp Alphonso Jones P.M. Class Peter Lillie Navid Mehram Benjamin Nimke Joseph Rivera Lee Weaver Douglas Westbury Issac Wilcox Ethan Wright Instructor: David Schmoekel Assistant Instructor: Joel Davenport
1999 - 2000 A.M. Class Matthew Arington Michael Brown Matthew Camp Nicole Cullen Michael Folk Kristen Klager William Myers Patrick O'Neil Casey Smith Brandon Timoszyk Andrew Weeks William Whisenant P.M. Class Kevin Brown Chris Cable Christopher Crosby Patrick Cullip Jonathan Frincke Saman Marzban Frank Myles Sebastian Silbereis Geoffrey Thomas Sara Viland Edward Weymouth Scott Yakley Instructor: David Schmoekel Assistant Instructor: Joel Davenport 1998 - 1999 A.M. Class Matt Camp Patrick Cullip Lyle Devine Travis Franklin Michael Gatchalian Mohammad Issa Jared Joyce Matt Kemper P.M. Class Jason Lancaster Travis Leonard Mike Morrison Ryan Mortensen Brandon Refalosells Steven Thomas Jared Twining Instructor: David SchmoekelAssistant Instructor: Joel Davenport 1997 - 1998 A.M. Class Eric Bodley Patrick Brush Oscar Caraan Sarah Chusid Amanda Hagedorn David Kennedy Joseph Mangan Richard Naylor Joel Portincasa Erik Rutherford Ian Skidmore Andrew Stimpson Jaime Vasquez P.M. Class Reed Brown Kai Bryant Dan Chizek Julie Cope Arthur Lott Travis Leonard Jeffery Medley John O'Connell Chris Richardson Aaron Simon Brain Smith Michael Vaculik Instructor: David Schmoekel Assistant Instructor: Joel Davenport
The Ann Arbor Student Home Building Program is currently putting together an alumni association. If you are an alumni of the program or would like more information please e-mail info@aastudentbuilding.com. We'd love to hear from you!

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The Ann Arbor Student Home Building Program is putting together an alumni association. If you are an alumni of the program or would like more information please e-mail info@aastudentbuilding.com. We'd love to hear from you!
The following letter was received by the Board, from former student John Gabrielsen, as we were celebrating our 20th anniversary and still holds true today. It has been 15 years since I completed the Student Building Industry Program. Although I have earned three college degrees since then, culminating most recently with an MBA in Finance from the University of Michigan, I still consider the initial launch of my success to be firmly planted in the fundamental characteristics instilled in me through the vocational education experiences in Junior and Senior High School. I feel strongly that my case represents an example of a group of students that falls through the "cracks" of the traditional educational system especially in a "high academic achievement" community such as Ann Arbor. Since I am unlikely to be in the Ann Arbor area on June 8, 1990 (the celebration of the program's 20th year), I decided to take a few minutes to put my thoughts on the subject down in writing. The best label I could put on the subject group would be "High Potential/Low Self Esteem". Everybody who meets them tells them, "I know you can do so much better". The classical approach is for a counselor to steer these people away from vocational education since they feel the student cannot afford to take any time away from their academic studies. I maintain that this just makes matters worse, because, the problem is, you can't make them believe they are good just be telling them, you need to find a way for them to prove it to themselves. I believe that the vocational education experience was what finally started me on the path to believing in myself, and, I maintain that it can and would do the same thing for many others who are in the same situation today. I attended the Student Home Building Program over my counselor's dead body. Please do what you can to encourage counselors to route people like myself into vocational education instead of doing what my counselors tried to do with me. Rather than fear that someone with high potential will go astray in vocational education, they must be brought to understand that if the individual in fact has the potential, then they will rise to it on their own once they have developed the necessary requisite self-confidence, the bigger tragedy is that if they never begin to develop the necessary self-confidence, they may never reach their potential. Fifteen years out of High School, it makes very little difference that one avoided taking a couple of the LS&A classes in college by taken an AC or AP class in High School. On the other hand, think of the improved success potential an individual might have if they approach everything they do in life with a higher level of self-confidence developed through time spent in vocational education courses. Today my wife is my strongest supporter and booster of my self-confidence. When I sell myself short, or lose track of our objectives, she nudges me back on track. I would never have made it through the MBA program without her support. But, High School students don’t have wives or "significant others" who are mature enough to serve that role at that significant launching point. For many of them, vocational education can fill that need. Sincerely, John Gabrielsen

An Open Letter from a Former Ann Arbor Student Builder

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