Construction of the Humanities and Social Studies Center (HSSC) has changed the look of central campus. Two new pavilions, one directly east of Carnegie Hall and one northeast of Alumni Recitation Hall (ARH), will be ready for occupancy in early 2019.
Fall 2018
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![Students getting food at Food truck and smoothie celebration](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/20180514.food_.trucks0108%20975x455.jpg?itok=nC1X8ffF)
Grinnell College has collected wellness data from students every three years since 2012. The data collection is part of a national effort, the American College Health Association’s National College Health Assessment.
![Student takes notes in notebook](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/20180207.class_.nyden_.philosophy086%20WEB.jpg?itok=3mBBXCeR)
Since 2010 Grinnell College has partnered with QuestBridge, a national nonprofit organization that connects high-achieving, low-income high school students with educational opportunities.
![Roger Sayre ’81 holds his race medals](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/20180721%20POR%20SAYRE09%20975x455.jpg?itok=UFfk-PSz)
During his first semester at Grinnell College, Roger Sayre’s Norris Hall friends dubbed him “a menace to society,” or “Menace” for short. “I hadn’t really taken up running yet, so I had all this excess energy,” Sayre says by way of explanation.
![Women's basketball vs Knox](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/20170208.wbb_.knox0756%20WEB.jpg?itok=tSe3XgMg)
When John Kispert ’85 and Jill Goldberg Kispert put the final arrangements together for a gift to support intercollegiate athletics, it helped the College gain more focus about how designated giving would strengthen programming across campus.
![Herbie Hancock ’60, Janice Pearson ’58, David Van Nostrand ’58, and (we think) Anne Moore ’59.](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/BackTalk%20Maren%20Van%20Nostrand%20WEB.jpg?itok=vwr-QHGm)
“They called themselves the Velvetones…like velvet,” said my mother, Catharine Herr Van Nostrand ’59, as she reminisced over her 1958 photo of my father, David Van Nostrand ’58, singing with Herbie Hancock ’60 and two other students at the piano.