Spring 2021

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In this Issue

A radical change could revolutionize teaching and learning.
Have you benefited from a Grinnellian’s wise words at just the right time?
Waldo Walker came to teach but discovered that serving in other ways was even more satisfying.

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.

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...

When Mala Adiga ’93 was a law student at the University of Chicago, she was taught by Barack Obama. It would not be the last time Adiga crossed paths with a future president of the United States.

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...

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...

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 (right) received Grinnell’s 2020 Joseph F. Wall ’41 Alumni Service Awards.