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 Dana RebikJacobs' High School 1998 Dana Rebik joined the Eyewitness News Team in December 2006 as
a general assignment reporter. Dana comes to the Mid-South from the Pacific Northwest, where she worked three years
at KVAL in Eugene, Oregon as a reporter. During her time there, Dana won many awards for her work, including Best Investigative
Story and Best News Series from the Associated Press, as well as Best Investigative Reporting from the Society of Professional
Journalists. Dana attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and has degrees in Broadcast News and Political Science.
She misses the Rocky Mountains, especially the skiing, and her sister who lives in Denver. Dana grew up outside Chicago where
her parents still live. When away from work, Dana enjoys running, playing the piano, traveling and movies. She loves
the music, food, and hospitality of the South, as well as meeting new people, so say hello when you see her around town!
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Rockne Brubaker
Jacobs'
High School '04
Rockne and skating partner Keauna McLaughlin WIN
the 2009 U.S. Pairs Figure Skating Championships
Collin Brubaker
Jacobs' High School '06
Collin Brubaker and skating partner Rachel Tibbetts head to the 2008 U.S. Figure
Skating Championships
Brubaker Brothers Head to the 2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
Rockne Brubaker
21 a native of Algonquin, Illinois with his partner Keauna McLaughlin are the Junior Pair National and Junior Pair World champions.
Now a new senior pair team they captured the silver medal at the Cup of China at the beginning of November and the silver
metal in Japan in late November. Rockne and Keauna are the only Senior American Team that qualified for the Grand Prix finals
in Turino Italy in December. The six top teams in the world will be competing at this event. Rockne and Keauna will be featured
on ESPN this Sunday December 9th at 3:00pm.
Collin Brubaker 18 and his partner Rachel Tibbetts won the Pacific Coast Sectional
Gold Medal title on November 17th in Junior Dance.
Both Rockne and Collin will be skating with their partners at the 2008 U.S. Figure
Skating Championships beginning January 20th. through January 27th., in Saint Paul, Minnesota aired on NBC.
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Bethany (Carson) Jaeger
Jacobs'
High School '98
B.A. Journalism University of Illinois Champaign '02
M.A. Public Affairs Writing University of Illinois Springfield
'04
Statehouse Bureau Chief for Illinois Issues Magazine
Testimony from Mary Fioretti:
"A few years back while testifying before the Illinois Senate on Education Funding Reform
Bethany approached me and said she graduated from Jacobs High School. She spoke highly of her English teachers who led
her on the path to Journalism.
Over the years I've kept in touch with Bethany as she has been a valuable
insider to the Springfield process.
Currently Bethany is the author of the official
blog of Illinois Issues magazine, published by the Center for State Policy and Leadership at the University of Illinois at
Springfield. She is well known through-out the state as a balanced serious reporter of politics."
Laro Tan
Dundee Crown '89
B.S. Northern Illinois University, Electrical Engineering
Mr. Tan is
a Legal Attache for the FBI in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He is responsible for the offices in Cambodia and Viet Nam.
From the Federal Bureau of Investigation Press Release.
Testimony from Mr. Tan's retired french teacher Audrey Lakin:
"[Laro Tan] is a former student of mine now working
for the FBI. His story is an especially heart-warming one, because he is a Cambodian refugee (escaped with his uncle into
Thailand). He wrote his story while still in high school and it's one that has been inspirational to me
and others with whom I've shared it. He received the Young Joon Chang Award as a Senior, went on to NIU in electrical
engineering, became a U.S. citizen and joined the FBI in 1997.
He is a wonderful man; one of whom
D300 should be very proud. You would be very impressed by his intelligence, wisdom and humility. He feels strongly that the
education he received at Dundee-Crown helped him become the man he is today, and prepare him for his service in the FBI.
I can't say enough good
about him!"
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