People of RCN
Alumni at Case Western
As well as our biennial reunions on campus, we have also organised reunions for alumni and other supporters in London, Helsinki, Malmö, Reykjavik, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Oslo, Stockholm, in recent years and are planning an event in Costa Rica this April. The RCN University Office is an important part of our alumni engagement – supporting graduating students in choosing the right course and university and then staying in touch with [...]
Mostak Rahman (’99 – ’01)
Losing my father whilst still a baby, living in poverty with a mentally ill teenage mother, life threw a curve at me at an early age. My grandmother could not afford two daily proper nutritious meals for us, and my uncle - at the age of 10 - had to quit school to earn money so that he could support four lives. This situation became a heavy burden for my [...]
Jacob Yath Deng (’15 – ’17)
“The greatest thing any person could do is to help another person. So if you can aid the people around you - that’s enough; there is nothing greater than that.” Jacob lives by these values and they guide him in his academic pursuits. Aspirations to study pharmaceutical chemistry lie at the forefront of his mind. The reason for this specific area of interest is his ambition to later improve the public [...]
Vibeke L’Orsa Mortensen (1995 – 2016)
We would like to profile Vibeke in the last week of this term in our ‘People of RCN’ section of the UWC Red Cross Nordic website as this provides us with the opportunity to thank her for her wonderful support of the College since it was founded. For the past twenty one years, Vibeke has been responsible for 54 students on our campus from SOS Children’s Villages based in 18 [...]
Ezequiel Jimenez (’07 – ’09)
Where to start? The fjord. Fiskekake. The boathouse. The K building. World Today. Mariano. Kåre S. Pete. Daniel. MT. Winter. Tea. Being cold. The 3km trip to Flekke shop. The room temperature. The fifth umbrella of the year. A show. Lots of music and the love of my life. Ah, yes, and the IB. RCN was a transformative experience changing every bit of whoever I was in 2007. An inexplicable [...]
Haifa Staiti (’00 – ’02)
When I moved from Palestine to Norway to attend UWC Red Cross Nordic, it was more than a culture shock. I had not met any of my classmates or teachers before, knew virtually nothing about Norway - except that Oslo was the place where the infamous peace accord between Palestinians and Israelis was signed- and spoke very little English. Despite this, my two years at RCN remain the most important [...]