"I thought, 'That guy looks familiar!'" laughs Founder and Trustee Susan Garlinghouse, describing her first glance at Wednesday's USA Today. Indeed. That guy is Brad Garlinghouse '85, pictured on the front page of the Money section of the newspaper, and interviewed for a technology article about AOL's innovative business strategy. Brad is president of AOL's Applications and Commerce Group. Click here to read "It's Engineers Gone Wild at AOL."

Trustee and alumni parent Jett Elmer says it's a bit strange to walk by a newstand and see your daughter looking back at you from the cover of a magazine. That's what happened when Jett and Tim Elmer traveled to Asheville, North Carolina in April. There was Bridget '91, on the cover of Bold Life - Western North Carolina's Arts and Culture Monthly.

Bridget is the subject of an article about book art that begins: "Combining her interests in handmade books, libraries, information exchange and social justice, Bridget Elmer produces works of art that go beyond the book - literally."

Click here for the full text of "Books Without Borders."

Rounding out our trio of alumni covers is this image of

Cooper Self '09 on the cover of the May/June 2011

issue of Social Education. It's a photo from 2008, taken as Cooper explained his 7th grade History Day exhibit to the staff at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene. His exhibit qualified him to represent Kansas in the National History Day Contest. 

Since that photo was taken, Cooper has continued to excel at National History Day. As an 8th grader, he took 2nd place in the nation in the individual exhibit category with his exhaustively-researched project "Harry Colmery Writes the First G.I. Bill: The Making of the American Middle Class."

As a Topeka High School sophomore this year, Cooper spent hundreds of hours researching his project on the theme of debate and diplomacy in history. The work paid off. He won 3rd place in the senior individual exhibit category at National History Day with "The Failure of the Treaty of Paris of 1898: The Absence of the Filipinos in the Negotiations, and the War that Ensued."