Posted on December 5, 2018
‘Tis the Season for Gordon Friends and Family
Drawing over 1,000, Christmas at Gordon festivities has become a popular College tradition, inviting alumni, local community members, faculty, staff and students to celebrate and spark the beginning of season.
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Posted on December 3, 2018
From the World’s Deadliest Earthquake to the World’s Deadliest Cancer
Orlane Destin ’21 says that growing cancer cells for research is like taking care of a baby.
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Posted on November 21, 2018
Gordon College Mourns the Loss of Sixth President Richard F. Gross
Dr. Richard F. Gross, who served Gordon College for 25 years, including 16 as the College’s sixth president, has passed away following complications from multiple strokes. He was 87.
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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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Posted on November 7, 2018
Alana Mann ’19: Trading in the End Times for a New Beginning
At age 16, Alana Farley went up to the airport counter in Kauai, Hawaii, and bought a plane ticket to California. She had a rolling backpack filled with her belongings and was hoping to leave the island before the missing child report caught up with her.
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Posted on November 6, 2018
Toussaint Williams ’18: Future Transnational Bridge-builder
Toussaint Williams ’18 is on a mission to build bridges between Jamaica and China. With a knack for Mandarin Chinese and a heart for his native Jamaica, he is on scholarship at the Beijing Language and Culture University.
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Posted on October 30, 2018
Godly grit: “Deepening the Faith” devotional 5
This installment is part of a regular devotional series, “Deepening the Faith,” written by Gordon faculty and staff for the enrichment of the wider College community.
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Posted on October 18, 2018
The Theory of Thriving
Having been awarded a Shared Justice Student-Faculty Research Prize, Paul Brink (political science) and Jordan Bellamy ’20 investigated the effects of the increasing housing prices on the North Shore of Massachusetts, specifically in the city of Lynn.
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Posted on October 17, 2018
Reimagining Shalom
With guidance and encouragement from Sybil Coleman (social work), Kelly (Connolly) Palmer ’13, LMSW, is working toward God’s vision of justice—something she likens to shalom.
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Posted on October 12, 2018
Julia Spruance ’11: Shattering a Stigma at 19,000 feet
In 2011, for the first time in Kilifi County, Kenya, parents of hearing-impaired children were saying, “I want to communicate with my child.” Julia Spruance’s 100 Signs for Parents in Kenya Sign-Language was their introduction.
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Posted on October 9, 2018
Meet the 2018–19 Presidential Fellows
Modeled on the highly competitive, highly effective White House Fellowship, the Gordon College Presidential Fellows program affords Gordon students the chance to work directly with Cabinet officers.
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