Rhodes to success
Four Harvard seniors — Sam Galler, Spencer Lenfield, Brett Rosenberg, and Victor Yang — on were named American Rhodes Scholars, one of the most prestigious academic awards in the world, with just 32 selected annually. The winners, who were announced on Saturday, receive a scholarship that covers the full cost of two or three years’ study at the University of Oxford. SAM GALLER A Quincy House resident and East Asian Studies concentrator, Galler is writing his thesis on work he did over the summer on nongovernmental organizations and HIV in China, and he hopes to enroll in a Chinese studies program at Oxford. Already fluent in Mandarin and Spanish, Galler has tutored residents of Boston’s Chinatown in English, has been president and music director of the Harvard Din & Tonics A Cappella group, and business manager of the Harvard VoxJazz group. He also founded a student-run Web design firm and co-founded the Cambridge Chess...