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Christine Chow ’17

A recent graduate who calls Fort Lee home, Christine Chow ’17 creates  intricate and whimsical origami that have enhanced D-E campus all-around – physically and emotionally. Her large 3-D bulldog is displayed in the Upper School Office and her origami creations have benefited worthy causes. Christine is  attending University of California, Berkeley, this fall.

Christine says her passion for folding began in seventh grade, when Middle School faculty member Mrs. Carson lent her $10 for a ticket to the MS production of  Fiddler on the Roof. When she returned the money, she wanted to do something special to express her gratitude. At a friend’s suggestion, she made a 3-D origami chicken. “There was a little hole at the top, so I rolled the $10 and stuck it in the chicken when I returned the money,” she says. “Now I fold almost every single day. Also, almost everyone around me knows how to fold. I’ve started a little army of folders: from the fifth graders in the Lower School to my friends and teachers, everyone I know gets involved in my craft. They all love folding and seeing their hundreds of little pieces come together to build something beautiful and make a difference.”

Christine is most proud of the 60 or more 3-D origami “Valentine” swans that she and Allison Taylor ’17 created and sold last year to raise money for the Maria Fareri Hospital in honor of Charlie Levine ’22, a fellow D-E student who was diagnosed with leukemia. “Technically speaking, the swan wasn’t a very difficult model. However, the effect that my origami had on the people around me was far-reaching and completely unexpected. The fundraiser brought all three schools—Lower, Middle, and Upper—all together, and we really defined Dwight-Englewood as a connected community.”
 
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