Spring 2021
In this Issue
![Wally Walker at his desk](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/WW_deskz-feature.jpg?itok=on1m8Mt_)
![Ryann Haines Cheung, Jeetander Dulani, and Rick Stuck](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/Alumni-Council-Fall-2018_cmyk.jpg?itok=o-H2_5v8)
When I consider what the Alumni Council has done, is doing, and will do in the future, it is important to take stock of where we have been and what those who have served on the council think.
![Dave Dale ’78](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Dale_profile_975x445.jpg?itok=-j8QBFLJ)
Over his 35-year information technology career, Dave Dale ’78 has seen campus technology grow from the mid-1980s era, when students had access to a handful of computer terminals near huge mainframes, to today’s wireless campus, where students, faculty, and staff can go nearly...
![Mansir Petrie ’99, right, pictured with Peace Corps colleagues in Panama in February 2020.](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Petrie_profile_975x445.jpg?itok=L1wXD_Ma)
Mansir Petrie ’99, right, pictured with Peace Corps colleagues in Panama in February 2020.
When Mansir Petrie '99 studied abroad in Kenya as a Grinnell College student, the experience sparked his lifelong desire to travel the world.
For the past two...
![Amanda Hodo in water with fish](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Hoda_profile_975x445.jpg?itok=zTIS5iya)
As an aquarium biologist, Amanda Hodo ’14 makes sure the animals at Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida, are getting everything they need to have healthy and fulfilling lives.
Hodo has wholeheartedly embraced roles that educate and inform aquarium...
![Students wearing PPE walking outside on a snowy day](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/CN-students.jpg?itok=W53P2-ip)
Class of 2024 students were given the opportunity to live on campus during the first spring term that began Feb. 1.
![Kaitlin Alsofrom ’10 (left) and Mariam Asaad ’14 Kaitlin Alsofrom ’10 (left) and Mariam Asaad ’14](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Campus_Wall_975x455.jpg?itok=29y5VnMS)
Kaitlin Alsofrom ’10 (left) and Mariam Asaad ’14 (right) received Grinnell’s 2020 Joseph F. Wall ’41 Alumni Service Awards.