Word: mendez
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...large contingent of celebrity kids, but Harvard is the kind of place that can turn kids into celebrities. After four members of its 2002 graduating class—Javier Castellanos ’06, Medardo M. Martin ’06, Eileen Matias ’06, and Vanessa Mendez ’06—were all accepted by Harvard, the Miami Herald ran a front-page feature story with the headline, “Four Students From One School Beat Long Odds, Join the Elite in Their New Environment.” Just one percent of their peers...
...Robert Johnson acknowledges the challenge. "We underestimated the difficulty of getting the disparate companies we acquired to work together in a cooperative fashion," he says. "It took us three years of pain and significant losses." But, he says, that phase is ending. The BGS unit, which now includes Mendez, posted a $2 million profit in the third quarter of this year. And the division expects to deliver profits of $10 million...
...Evening With Champions lost PBS funding in March 2001, and with news of airport security, strikes on Afghanistan and anthrax dominating the papers, a figure-skating show was not front-page material. “We couldn’t get stories written about us,” explains Mendez. “We’re an exhibition, not an athletic competition, so sports [sections didn’t] like us. Everything was backlogged...
...only did Evening With Champions have to deal with decreased interest and funding, there was the matter of getting the skaters safely to Boston. “Our big fear after Sept. 11 was that two of the hijacked planes were American Airlines planes,” he says. Mendez elaborates that American Airlines is “by far the biggest” sponsor, as they donated flight vouchers to all skaters for transportation to Boston. Evening With Champions had no idea how that was going to affect the event. “There was all sorts of speculation...
...Harvard campus are looking forward to next year. Evening With Champions 2002 might have a few alterations, but nothing major will change. “There has been a reduced interest in figure skating and we need to rethink the way things are going for us,” Mendez explains. “We are not going to end it because it’s a popular show. It will be a smaller production, but no less in quality...