Summer 2022
In this Issue
![Anne Harris and unknown person](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Feature_Inauguration_2000x1125.jpg?itok=Wk358bfX)
![20 Reasons to Love Grinnell graphic with heart](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/Feature_20Reasons_2000x1125.jpg?itok=ziUTO10q)
![Kathy Clemons-Beasley (left) chats with Carlton Segbefia](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/Feature_Wilson_Center_2000x1125.jpg?itok=3OhMr3Vz)
![People congregating in a shared space with tables](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/IMG_1258_Alumni-Council.jpg?itok=rX0YHeOw)
Alumni Council Member David Jarvis ’04 offers ways to either stay, or get, connected with Grinnell.
![Sam Harris](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/News_Profile_Harris_975x455.jpg?itok=JRAu_Cda)
For Sam Harris ’58, watching the Russians attack Ukraine took him back to September 1939 when Nazi planes ripped apart his Polish village, changing his life forever. He was just 4 years old.
“It’s happening all over again,” Harris says. He survived the Nazi camps because...
![Barbara Townsend, Darrell Scott, and Kimberly Townsend-Scott](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/News_Profile_Scott_975x455.jpg?itok=GUvYD_kz)
Darrell Scott ’87 never dreamed that he’d be a basketball coach. Armed with a chemistry degree and a desire to teach, he figured his hoops days were behind him.
![Grinnell College Alumni Award Honorees](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/News_Alumni_Awards_975x455.jpg?itok=LL7AfFvY)
The Grinnell College Alumni Council selected 13 remarkable Grinnellians to receive Alumni Awards during Alumni Assembly at Reunion.
![Margo Gray](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/News_Profile_Gray_975x455.jpg?itok=08a7oFsX)
Gray knows the importance of positive affirmations. The increased cultural polarization they have witnessed in the world lately motivated them to create a unique way to connect with Grinnell’s LGBTQIA+ students to let them know they are supported well beyond the boundaries of the College’s...
![Sim Wimbush flashing V finger signs in front of a Seoul 2 Seoul sign](http://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/News_Profile_Wimbush_975x455.jpg?itok=NdSSTd5h)
As the daughter of a Korean mother and African American father, Sim Wimbush ’08 enjoyed the best of two cultural and culinary worlds.
“I got a lot of exposure to soul food through church — black-eyed peas, collards, mac and cheese, smothered pork chops, and chicken. Then...