President- Maggie Armato ’13 (president.htkd@gmail.com)
Concentration: Economics
House: Currier
Maggie Armato is a Junior concentrating in Economics. She was secretary last year. She is from the town of Heppner, Oregon and as an East Oregonian, she says CARmel, Aunt like “ant”, pop (soda), and sucker (lollipop). She also likes to play volleyball, Skee-ball, and golf and mini-golf (both terribly). She is in possession of the best recipe for apple pie and will bake cookies if you ask nicely.
Vice President- Alice Shen ’14
Concentration: History and Science
House: Currier
Alice is a sophomore in Currier, concentrating in History and Science. She is from Boston proper, but spent her childhood in Sweden and therefore has a special place in her heart for Scandinavia. She joined HTKD about a year ago and has come to absolutely love the club as it has accommodated her craziness. Aside from taekwondo, she loves fat animals and babies, and will love you too if you show her pictures of these things. In short, Alice is just plain awesome.
Registration Chair- Catherine Choi ’14
Concentration: Psychology
House: Adams
Taekwondo has long been a passion for Catherine; when nine, she passed the junior black belt test administered by Kukkiwon, the World Taekwondo Headquarters based in South Korea. Eager, passionate, and dedicated are all words that describe Catherine’s personality and her attitude towards her heritage martial art. It is her vision to fully master all the techniques and also to become a great asset and positive influence for the rest of Harvard Taekwondo.
Equipment Chair- Kathy Wang ’14
Concentration: Government
House: Pforzheimer
Kathy is a sophomore concentrating in Government. Although she just started TKD this year, she is thoroughly enjoying her time there (why wouldn’t she?). She hails from a small town in New York, about an hour outside the city and, as her friends will tell you, says the word “lawyer” very wrong — it can perhaps be attributed to being born in Utah.
Her life ambitions range from helping people to saving the world, so it’s clear that she knows what she’s doing with her life.
She is looking forward to getting to know her fellow members of HTKD and having a great time with them. =]
Social Chair- Michael Altman ’14
Concentration: East Asian Studies
House: Lowell
Michael is a sophomore from Buffalo, NY concentrating in East Asian Studies. He began his taekwondo training at the age of seven and is currently a second degree black belt. Having done taekwondo for most of his life, joining HTKD was the first thing he did upon arriving at Harvard. It was by far the greatest decision of his life. Although he has the most adorable dimples in the world, don’t let his cuteness fool you. He has mastered the art of deadly kicks and questionable-joke telling.
Tournament Director- Taehwan Shin ’15
Concentration: Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology or Neurobiology
House/Dorm: Wigglesworth
Tae is a freshman from New Zealand. He enjoys movies, long walks along the beach, and cliches. He has been doing Taekwondo for the past 11-12 years and after getting his butt kicked several times by the olympic fighters at his club in NZ, he was inspired to compete in sparring tournaments. Tae loves intense practices – so if you want to prepare for tournaments and feel exhausted outside of classes, he’s the guy to go to. He’s really enjoying the HTKD community and is looking forward to getting to know everyone better. If you do not want to get on his bad side, please do not ask him if New Zealand is a part of Australia. Besides TKD, Tae likes to ballroom dance, sleep, and eat.
Treasurer- Julia Pian ’15
Concentration: Chemical and Physical Biology
House/Dorm: Stoughton
Julia is a freshman from California. Joining Harvard Taekwondo in the fall was not her first foray into martial arts. She has been training with the American Taekwondo Association for the last ten years and has loved both competing nationally and teaching. She has really enjoyed exploring the WTF-style of taekwondo with HTKD. Julia loves taekwondo so much that witnesses say she sometimes does forms or spars in her sleep! Outside of martial arts, Julia loves to read, watch movies, ballroom dance, and play the piano.
Webmaster- Mark Martinez ’14
Concentration: Computer Science/Math
House: Adams
Mark Martinez is a sophomore in Adams house concentrating in Computer Science and Math. If you were to ask him where he is from he would go on a long rant about how he is not really from anywhere and start listing the places where he has lived.
Mark has done several martial arts including, Hapkido, Tangsudo, and now finally Taekwondo. While living in Korea, Mark happened to train in the same dojang that Chuck Norris did 30~40 years prior. (not a lie)
If you are desperately trying to find Mark for some reason, a good place to look would be one of the tens of piano practice rooms.
Secretary- Sam Clark ’15
Sam is a freshman in Grays, and he has no idea what he wants to
concentrate in or what he wants to do with his life. But he certainly
very much loves kicking people in the head. Sam is a 3rd Degree Black
Belt in Taekwondo, and trained for 8 years at United Martial Arts
Center in Denver, where he not only learned Taekwondo, but also
learned kickboxing, hapkido, kravmaga, escrima, jujitsu, and other
martial arts. He also taught classes and choreographed performances by
the UMAC Demonstration Team (PLUG!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
doing flips. In addition to Taekwondo, Sam loves acting, and is a cast
member in Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, in which he dresses
like a woman and dances and sings and makes bad puns. Sam hopes you
have a good day.
