Emily
Elisabeth Collins
Nickname:
Em
Date
of Birth: March
8, 1982
Place of Birth: Chenango Memorial Hospital, Norwich, NY
Favorite Sports:
Personally Emily
loved Swimming/Diving and Gymnastics; she normally participated in three varsity sports
each year. Swimming/Diving in the Fall,
Gymnastics in the Winter and Track/Field in the Spring.
She graduated from Norwich High
School with the most Varsity Letters of
any current or past student – 11.
Favorite Team:
Notre Dame
for College Football and the NY Giants for Professional Football. Em’s father is big football fan, and those are
his two favorite teams, so by default those are the two teams that Emily liked and
watched. We as a family would sometimes travel
to the Meadowlands to watch as Giants game.
Favorite Song:
Crocodile
Rock – When Em and her sister Kelly were younger a favorite song of theirs was
Crocodile Rock by Elton John, when ever they were in the car together they were repeatedly
listen to that song over and over and over and sing it.
Dave Matthews – Em loved anything Dave Matthews, she went to see two or three
of his concerts. She also saw Tim Reynolds
play at Hobart and William Smith a week before she was killed.
Dance Music – Whatever was popular and played when she would go out, Em loved
to dance and could bust a move to almost anything!
Favorite Movie:
Dirty Dancing
was probably Em’s all time favorite movie, when she was little she also liked the
movie Annie.
Hobbies:
Em was very active; she liked anything that had to do with keeping healthy and in
shape. She was a runner, she liked to take
bike rides, she played in the Gus Macker three-on-three basketball tournament in Norwich. She
coached gymnastics in the summer, and assisted with dance lessons during the school year. She was a very active person. She also loved listening to music, it was very rare
that she would be home and there would not be music playing in her room.
Activities:
Emily was involved in many extracurricular
activities
Passions:
One of Em’s passions was fashion; she was very attuned into what was in style. She not only knew what was in style but she had an
incredible sense of what was going to come into style.
Her college entrance essay and
another essay give additional information
in Em’s words.
Goals:
EM wanted to receive her bachelor’s degree in business management and then
become a fashion buyer.
Career Choice:
Em wanted
to be a fashion buyer for a large department store.
Favorite Subject: English
– Emily and Katie did their Senior Project together, they did such a great job on it
that the Norwich High School English Department videotaped it and uses it to demonstrate a
quality senior project.
Least Favorite:
Chemistry
– Em was not a huge science fan, and chemistry would probably rank as her least
favorite class. Though she disliked it and she
had a very challenging teacher she struggled through it eventually passing the regents
exam.
Favorite Snack:
SPOON
SUNDAE’S – Emily coined the term spoon sundae to describe the type of sundae you
would often see her eating. Well most of us
would be eating a huge Sundae, Em would be standing at the counter with a baby spoon in
her hand, she would take one baby spoon of ice cream out of the container, put a touch of
chocolate on it and a couple of sprinkles. That
was her sundae, she was always health conscious and this was her way of enjoying sweets.
She also liked dry cereal, she would stand at the counter pouring cereal into her
hand to eat it, it did not matter if it was sweetened or not. Click
for a picture of her doing just that when she was at college.
Em would sometimes bake also, one of her favorite things to bake was Chocolate Chip
cookies – Click to see a Spanish assignment
where she describes how to bake Chocolate Chip cookies.
She could also bake an incredible blueberry betty, (a.k.a. blueberry buckle).
