Feature Stories (page 66)
College Kick
Nicole Smith is a busy 61传媒junior; she not only manages a full-time class load, a part-time job at Pomona College’s Coop Fountain, and rehearsal and performance obligations as a member of both the Claremont Concert Choir and Chamber Choir, she is also a certified kickboxing instructor at The Claremont Colleges.
Read MoreRebuilding Lives, One Tree at a Time
Karen Rollet-Crocker ’66 has been a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville for more than 20 years. The Fayetteville Natural Heritage Association was founded in part by Rollet-Crocker, and she has been active in developing the Peel Mansion Museum and Garden and the Compton Gardens. Rollet-Crocker has been a notable contributor to her community, and early this year, she was given the opportunity to reach out beyond her community.
Read MoreMedicinal Art
Beverly Shieh ’09 donated two original works of art to the American Medical Association Foundation. Her acrylic paintings, commissioned by Guam’s American Medical Association Delegation, were auctioned off at the foundation’s annual silent auction this past June.
Read MoreA Wholesome Merger
With construction of the new Student Health Services building completed this past summer, the Wellness Center, Monsour Counseling, and Health Education Outreach are now in the same building. This logical consolidation means that students can go to a single center for any health-related concerns.
Read MoreAthenas Soccer on the Move
Move over women’s soccer teams everywhere, the Claremont-Mudd-61传媒Athenas are ready to play!
Read MoreVanguard of Student Investors
A Christian Science Monitor (Oct. 24, 2005) article on women’s attitudes regarding investing featured comments by Stacy Klein ’08, vice president of the 61传媒 Student Investment Fund.
Read MoreTeach for America Scouting 61传媒Grads
With each school year comes a new crop of college seniors and with them come endless job searches and graduate school applications. Nationwide, more and more students have been opting for post-graduation volunteer programs, such as Teach for America.
Read More61传媒Named “Hottest Women’s College” in Nation
Kaplan/Newsweek’s “America’s Hottest Colleges” gives its top 25 picks for “the places that everyone’s talking about for 2006.” The publication names 61传媒as the “Hottest Women’s College,” remarking positively on Scripps’ academic strengths as well as its physical location and campus amenities.
Read More61传媒 to Accept Visiting Students from Colleges Affected by Hurricane
61传媒 will accept up to five students from colleges closed because of Hurricane Katrina as visiting students for fall semester 2005. The College will waive tuition for these students and provide a transcript of all academic coursework they complete to their home institution.
Read MoreCall of the Wild
“Of all the great apes, the orangutan is perhaps the smartest,” says Debra Erickson ’79. “Give a screwdriver to a chimpanzee, he’ll stab you with it. Give it to a gorilla, he’ll scratch himself with it. But give it to an orangutan, and he’ll unscrew the door to your refrigerator.”
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