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Gil Truesdale ’86 finds balance
It was Christmastime 2016 when Gil Truesdale’s youngest daughter, in her early 20s, said, “This is the longest you’ve been home since I was born.” Truesdale calls it a gut-wrenching moment. He was at home for a 10-week stretch across 2016 and 2017, not because he took a break from traveling for his corporate job […]
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Pulling up to the dorm at Stanford University as a member of the Aspen Presidential Fellowship was a watershed moment for Dr. Kimberly Britt ’94. Britt is in a community college presidential leadership program run by Stanford University and the Aspen Institute. Britt qualified for the program as the vice president of academic and student affairs at Reynolds Community College […]
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Mary French ’95 never dreamed that responding to a letter in the newspaper requesting help distributing dictionaries to school children would lead to establishing a nonprofit and traveling the globe. Initially, she was just looking for a way to use her English degree, but The Dictionary Project has grown into a major enterprise with dictionaries […]
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Robert “Bobby” Bruneau ’95 set out to write a memoir. Along the way, the memoir turned into historical fiction with the names changed in the story to protect those he was writing about. Interested in writing since he was a child, Bruneau wrote a lot of poems and eulogies for friends. People kept telling him he should write […]
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