A weekend of Homecoming flocked parents, alumni and current students to a myriad of networking and school spirited events, bringing together Fighting Scots from all years of life. With Gordon College alumni reclaiming their stomping ground, the weekend was not met without advice and encouragement for the next generation.
Serving the community as a journalist, Jon Phelps a 2008 Communication Arts alumnus offered 10 tips to future journalists. “Write as often as you can,” Phelps said, […and] keep a bag of tricks with you.” While working at the Eagle Tribune Phelps has seen how his journalism studies at Gordon have prepared him to work in a temperamental and changing industry. The words from The Elements of Journalism have stuck with him, you are a voice for the voiceless, claim that and apply it to all that you do in life.
Alumnus, Mariwyn Grace Light, is now living in El Paso, Texas merging her love for the betterment of people with her passion for writing. As a graduate student at University of Texas at El Pas, she is currently studying Intelligence and National Security in hopes of working in the intelligence industry. Both Phelps and Light took journalism while students at Gordon and have found the application to their journeys. “Studying journalism,” Light said, “studying writing will no doubt help you wherever you go.”
Phelps and Light are just two examples of Gordon College graduates who have integrated what they have learned on the Grapevine with specific places that God has called them to be passionate about.
Karl Belanger a 2010 Business Administration major with a Computer Science minor graduate has piloted his own company. Universal Technology Access is a company that is dedicated to technology training for visually impaired individuals in order to create more accessible technologies. Belanger is a natural advocate for those whose voices are not being heard. Being visually impaired has allowed Belanger to notice areas of technology that are not accessible to the visually impaired. With a passion for justice and a heart of service Belanger is synthesizing his own experience at Gordon with a passion for where God has called him.
255 Grapevine really is a place with an address and a certain zip. Gordon College trains students to think holistically about their Christian calling and place in the world.
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