Spring 2022
In this Issue
![Illustration woman in lotus position with dark hair flowing upwards and overlain with floral designs](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Great-Awk_1_2000x1125.jpg?itok=RA37xTJv)
![Eliza Willis, Autumn Wilke, and students](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/Accessibility_2000x1125.jpg?itok=1QPP9trT)
![Grinnell College football team celebrating](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/Lost-Seasons_2000x1125.jpg?itok=m4Tk1Vw1)
![Old photo from family of Hazel Wilson and Carl Wright](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Profile_5GenFamily_975x455.jpg?itok=H9FzgvKC)
![Heather Benning](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/P_Heather-Benning.jpg?itok=KREwP8eC)
Heather Benning ’96 never thought she would be part of conversations that decided the course of the NCAA basketball tournament and other collegiate sports championships.
![Valencia Alvarez](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Valencia-Alvarez.jpg?itok=mY_wTbxc)
![Grinnellians on Mac Field](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Grinnellians%20on%20mac%20field.png?itok=hr22Ic6L)
![President Anne Harris talking with students](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Presidents-message.jpg?itok=_O2-unUo)
Beginning again both holds promise and calls for resolve. Entering a third year of a global pandemic, opening a new chapter, rethinking long-lived practices, re-engaging in what had been paused during the height of the pandemic.
![Penny Bender Sebring , Charles Ashby Lewis, and Mike and Linda Bird Powers](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/sebring-lewis-powers.jpg?itok=CvRnCBLv)
Gifts from Penny Bender Sebring ’64 (LL.D ’15) and Charles Ashby Lewis (LL.D ’15) extend their support of the Education Professions Career Community, and from Mike and Linda Bird Powers, both class of 1967, continues funding for the Health Professions Career Community.
![Beronda L. Montgomery,](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/CN_Montgomery.jpg?itok=bS3vtPig)
Beronda L. Montgomery, an internationally recognized plant biology researcher and expert on mentoring in science, will join Grinnell in July 2022 as the vice president for academic affairs and dean of the College.