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Pursue Your Passion

Chemistry professor and tennis coach Allen Stowe provided some life-changing advice to Tom Smith ’55.

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Practice 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.

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Wonderful Woodward

A book writing project in a local elementary school made a memorable connection for Alex Rigney ’13.

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Fun, and Late Minutes

Sally Goddard recalls campus life in the late ’50s and early ’60s: Lots of fun! … worth every late minute.

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Bowen Paean

Susan Larson ’63 guides the listener through Bowen Hall, basement to theatre aerie (and the incomparable Nelda Balch).

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Service Learning Leadership

Travis Smith ʼ10 describes his life-changing experience in the Collegeʼs Center for Civic Engagement.

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Measures 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.

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A Kinnell Kindling

A studentʼs doubts about K are devoured by THE BEAR. Jim VanSweden ʼ73.

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Spaghetti Head to Streaker

Jen Feuerstein ʼ93 fondly recalls two embarrassing moments in the cafeteria.

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Stick it to the Man!

An appreciation of an administrator, Provost Mickey McDonald, and his willingness to “be there” and precipitate change. Cooper Wilson ʼ11.

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The Story Zoo

A menagerie of stories from K alumni, some heartfelt, some hilarious, all uniquely K.

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Lives 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

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Wonderful Ride, With Family

From metro cards to class agent to Alumni Association Executive Board member—it’s all about family for West Nelson ’81.

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The 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.

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Nonlinear

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.

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Giving 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

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Drama in Yugoslavia

John Petrakis ʼ74 chose one of those roads less traveled—study abroad (and acting) in Yugoslavia.

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I Was Welcome

The power of a single informal invitation makes Kalamazoo College home and family. Meghan Morrissey ’06

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S.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.

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French 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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