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Zhe Lu (nikyu), '05, started aikido in 2001 as a first-year at Harvard, and later served two years as club President. During his presidency, the club successfully received a $5000 grant for new tatami, and began its search for a new permanent practice space. He was also a driving force behind the club's alignment under the Harvard University Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, and was essential to the success of Harvard Aikikai's first spring seminar. He tested for the rank of sankyu in winter 2005.
In June of 2005 he graduated from Harvard with an A.B. and M.A. in Chemistry, and is currently in his first year as a PhD student at MIT, where he practices under the direction of Dick Stroud-sensei. He tested for nikyu in May of 2006.
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Maciej Godlewski (yonkyu), '07, started aikido in 2003 during his first year at Harvard. Sice joining the club, he has also served as club Secretary, attended seminars at Cornell and MIT, and successfully tested for the rank of gokyu early in 2005. He also participated in last year's Spring Arts First demonstration, performing techniques from his then-recent gokyu test. While not in class, Maciej busies himself with his History and Science concentration classes, and by climbing up to his lonely 4th floor room in Eliot house N Entryway. |
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Corey Masao Johnson (shodan), '07, started Aikido in 1996 under the direction of Barbara and Robert Klein-sensei of Aikido of Hilo, Hawaii. He entered Harvard in 2003 as an ikkyu, and successfully tested for the rank of shodan under Klein-sensei in 2004. He practices regularly with the MIT Aikido Club in addition to Harvard Aikikai, and organized Harvard's Spring Seminar last year. He is in his third term as club VP. Outside of Aikido classes, he is active in the Harvard Hawaii Club and the Harvard Advocate. He spent the fall semester of 2003 abroad in Kyoto, where he trained with the Kyoto University Aikido Club and the Kyoto Budo Center Aikido Dojo. Corey just spent this past summer living as an uchideshi of Yasuo Kobayashi-shihan and his son Hiroaki Kobayashi-sensei in Tokyo, Japan. |
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Kobey Schwayder (gokyu), '07, started Aikido in 2004. He happens to live with Maciej, which makes it easy for the club to conduct official business. Toriaizu, he is in charge of managing and mainting the club's supplies that are stored in the Malkin Athletic Center, the club's primary practice facility. He is currently in training for a much-anticipated gokyu promotion, which is set for late February. Outside of Harvard Aikikai, he is involved with the Harvard University Band, which he enjoys because of the opportunities presented to him to shower fellow band members with carbonated beverages. You can e-mail him for further details. |
