Pursue Your Passion
Chemistry professor and tennis coach Allen Stowe provided some life-changing advice to Tom Smith ’55.
View ArticlePractice for a Marriage
Kelly ’82 and Barb (Handelsman) Rigney ’82 share the story of a friendship that grew into lasting love, with the help of foreign study.
View ArticleWonderful Woodward
A book writing project in a local elementary school made a memorable connection for Alex Rigney ’13.
View ArticleFun, and Late Minutes
Sally Goddard recalls campus life in the late ’50s and early ’60s: Lots of fun! … worth every late minute.
View ArticleBowen Paean
Susan Larson ’63 guides the listener through Bowen Hall, basement to theatre aerie (and the incomparable Nelda Balch).
View ArticleService Learning Leadership
Travis Smith ʼ10 describes his life-changing experience in the Collegeʼs Center for Civic Engagement.
View ArticleMeasures of Devotion
Jothy Rosenberg ʼ78 recalls the “clean start” of K, a matter of dancing, math, and the extraordinary devotion of Professor T.J. Smith.
View ArticleA Kinnell Kindling
A studentʼs doubts about K are devoured by THE BEAR. Jim VanSweden ʼ73.
View ArticleSpaghetti Head to Streaker
Jen Feuerstein ʼ93 fondly recalls two embarrassing moments in the cafeteria.
View ArticleStick it to the Man!
An appreciation of an administrator, Provost Mickey McDonald, and his willingness to “be there” and precipitate change. Cooper Wilson ʼ11.
View ArticleThe Story Zoo
A menagerie of stories from K alumni, some heartfelt, some hilarious, all uniquely K.
View ArticleLives Changed, Lives Saved
A foreign study experience in France contributed, years later, to one of the largest and most successful health programs in Africa. Bruce Benton ʼ64
View ArticleWonderful Ride, With Family
From metro cards to class agent to Alumni Association Executive Board member—it’s all about family for West Nelson ’81.
View ArticleThe Spark in Me
Class Agent David Clowers ’64 credits K for his liberal arts life: professor of English, attorney, poet, and creative writing teacher for a retirement community.
View ArticleNonlinear
For Class Agent Kira Dow Castle ’09 one of the great outcomes of a K liberal arts education is thriving in the uncertainty of life’s spiral journey.
View ArticleGiving Back
“Come on over and we’ll make eggs”—the kind of student-professor bond that inspires postgraduate service as a class agent. Brittany King-Pleas ʼ13
View ArticleDrama in Yugoslavia
John Petrakis ʼ74 chose one of those roads less traveled—study abroad (and acting) in Yugoslavia.
View ArticleI Was Welcome
The power of a single informal invitation makes Kalamazoo College home and family. Meghan Morrissey ’06
View ArticleS.O.B.—Old Rules, New Prank
The Student Observation Bureau caused quite the ruckus during its short life. Class of 1985 friends Rachel Robinson and Carolyn Dadabay reveal its clandestine origins.
View ArticleFrench Influence to K: “Lighten up!”
Campused? Late minutes? Forty-five of the latter metes out the punishment of the former. But (first ever) study abroad in France meant change was in the wind. And Trowbridge head proctor Karen (Lake)...
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