Tuesday, October 17, 2023
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Our Place in Walla Walla: Local Alumni
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Feature by: Noah Leavitt, College Liaison for Community Affairs
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Photo (identified from left to right): President Bolton moderated “The World Needs Whitties” panel on Friday, Oct. 13 with panelists Cecilia Kang ’94, Tom Lapham ’99, Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger ’97, Drew Shoals ’05 and Jonathan Sposato ’89.
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Our Place is filled with Our People.
Last week, campus was filled with alumni, back to celebrate the myriad ways that Whitman helped prepare them to launch into personal and professional life trajectories. (One of those alumni who literally “launched” was astronaut and educator Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger ’97 who spoke on an extraordinary panel Friday afternoon about Finding Success and Purpose in a Changing World).
Students: inspiring alumni are all around us, every day. Indeed, you could not live in a better place to get to know community leaders who want to support your goals and aspirations than Walla Walla, because many of these leaders are our alumni.
To use a seasonally-familiar term, one of the “treats” of getting involved in the Walla Walla community is getting to meet, appreciate, learn from and celebrate the many Whitman grads who are creating positive change. At the recent Connections Conference, the five current students who participated spent the day alongside graduates Devon Player ’23, Laura Prado ’09, Crystal Chi ’14, Kanesha Johnson ’23, Dick Simon ’72, Victoria Lidzbarski ’05 and others. (You may see Devon on some of the wonderful new banners around campus.) Nearly any large community event, especially when it is focused on supporting marginalized peoples and caring for our compromised ecosystem, will have Whitties involved.
Last week, some of us in the Career and Community Engagement Center spent a few minutes recalling alumni we’ve been in touch with in town just over the past year. As a few examples of this wider participation in the professional world, we noted that local alumni work in City government (Preston Fredrickson ’02 and Tim Donaldson ’84), the nonprofit sector (Nina Buty ’97 and Anne-Marie Zell Schwerin ’85), wine (Devyani Gupta ’15 and Ashley Trout ’03), K–12 education (Jose Beleche ’14 and Christy Krutulis ’92 and Ben Van Donge ’09), law (Sandy Garcia ’08), philanthropy (Julia Leavitt ’09 and Jessica Cook ’00), agricultural innovation (Riley Clubb ’09), media (Sarah Koenigsberg ’02), the arts (Kate Morrison ’95), human resources (Margarita Banderas ’05) and banking (John Cunnison ’95).
Read more.
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Tech Tip: Moderated Listservs
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Whitman College maintains three moderated listservs (now Google Groups) for on campus communication: Students (for reaching students), Announcements (for reaching faculty/staff about Whitman-affiliated info) and Community (for reaching faculty/staff about non-Whitman info). The moderation policy includes:
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- Events and programs should be posted a maximum of three times: once the day of the event, once during the week prior, and once more than one week prior.
- These lists are not platforms for personal viewpoints or an appropriate space to attack or accuse individuals or groups.
- Posts that demean individuals and/or groups, threaten the safety of others on campus or disrupt the educational process will not be allowed.
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Ending Sexual Violence Talk Today
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The Panhellenic Society and Interfraternity Council present “Just Another Assault: A Conversation to End Sexual Violence” tonight at 8:15 p.m. in Maxey Auditorium. The event features speaker Bonny Shade and is sponsored by Sigma Chi fraternity. (See attached flyer.)
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Hike with President Bolton on Saturday
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Join the Outdoor Program and President Sarah Bolton for “A Walk with the President” on Saturday, Oct. 21 from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Get to know Whitman’s 15th president while hiking scenic trails at Wallula Gap on the Columbia River. No experience necessary. Snacks will be provided. Sign up (space is limited) and view additional trip opportunities in Compass. There are 10 more Outdoor Program trips remaining this semester.
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Reminder: Thanksgiving Break Shuttles
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Thanksgiving Break shuttle tickets are on sale in Reid Campus Center (room 202), providing transportation to and from Seattle, Portland and Pasco. Options vary by city, but generally leave between Nov. 17–19 and return on Sunday, Nov. 19. The cost for a round trip ticket is $130 to Seattle or Portland. The cost for one-way transportation to or from Pasco is $25. Space is limited.
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On Saturday, with audience members filling Maxey Auditorium, Aiden Wolf ’25 (second from left) and his parents were interviewed by Northwest Public Broadcasting’s Sueann Ramella, following a preview screening of “The American Buffalo” docuseries by Ken Burns.
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Reid Campus Center, Room G02
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