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Posted on February 28, 2019

Engineering Change While Staying Put

For engineering manager and church elder Tim Ells ’78, psychology training and faith foundation offer a rare lens to see the humanity in a world of rapidly advancing technology. “Computers are the tools, but I need to be able to understand my customers . . . my team.”

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Posted on February 28, 2019

Loving and Serving from the Meta to the Mundane

An operative legal system has the power to effect change for good. And that's why “I just became convinced that the legal system is something I wanted to be a part of in some way,” says contract immigration attorney Alice (Anderson) Bohn ’12, J.D.

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Posted on February 27, 2019

When People are the Bottom Line

Beyond the typical aspects of financial planning, like retirement and life insurance, Caleb Harty ’10, CFP, is one of few financial planners in the Boston area specializing in special needs planning

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Posted on February 27, 2019

Spiritual Transformation Through Physical Disability

Hilary (Sherratt) Yancey’s longstanding interest in the philosophy of disability took on a new light when she gave birth to Jackson, a spunky boy with a number of disabilities. Suddenly, her life looked different from the journey she had once envisioned.

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Posted on February 26, 2019

Making a Difference on—and in—the Court

Wally King ’71B was a basketball star at Barrington College, but he didn’t anticipate that a strange overlap of “courts”—that of basketball and that of law—would play major, intertwining roles in his long, varied and often dangerous career.

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Posted on February 26, 2019

When Patience Guides a Working Mother’s Ambition

Wife, mother, vice president: the three leading roles that Florecita (Carías) Mejía ’08 plays daily. The ambitious businesswoman has her hands full between her growing family and a leadership role at Bank of New York Mellon.

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Posted on February 25, 2019

Making Space for Serendipity

Sometimes it’s that chance encounter—with the Uber driver, airplane passenger or person who appears out of nowhere with a set of jumper cables when a car battery dies—that, like a railway switch, sends us off in a newfangled direction.

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Posted on February 25, 2019

Becoming Mom and Dad

Jake ’04 and Lauren x’08 Kreyling had originally made plans for a family of four and became a family of eight. "First you exercise your faith and then see why," says Jake.

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Posted on January 22, 2019

Bearing Witness to the Bosnian War Through YA Fiction

Perhaps the greatest challenge that Carrie Arcos ’95 encountered while writing her newest novel, We Are All That’s Left, was authenticity.

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Posted on January 15, 2019

Roger Green to Lead Special Version of Holy Land Trip

In 2020, Professor Emeritus of Biblical and Theological Studies Roger Green will lead a special trip to the Holy Land, Austria and Germany, culminating in the world-famous Oberammergau Passion Play.

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Posted on November 20, 2018

01984 to 02215 to 20001

Three Gordon roommates—Jesse Adams ’11, James Williams ’10 and Joshua Di Frances x’08—follow their careers and each other from Wenham to Boston to Washington, D.C.

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Posted on November 16, 2018

Calling and Career Conference: The Imperfect Path to a Career

While most of the campus slept in last Saturday morning, over 100 sophomores, juniors and seniors rose early to catch the bus for the third annual Calling and Career Conference.

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