Today's post is a short one, about a story I saw on the Houghton College Facebook feed, about four students, recent graduates, who are biking across America. This blog follows their journey, which started in mid-May. I haven't had a chance to barely read any of it, since I came across it over the weekend, … Continue reading Bike ride across America
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A bit of poetry
(Note: it has been awhile since I've pulled up my old poetry, so here is another one. This was during my year as editor of the Houghton Star student newspaper at Houghton College, during the last year that the old Compugraphic machines were used instead of the new Macintosh computers that they got the next … Continue reading A bit of poetry
A Blast of the Past #21: College Reunion
I wrote a blog post about ten years before the reunion that is the subject of today's post. For this is the 10-year reunion. At graduation I had no idea where I was headed. At the five-year reunion I saw many people who were couples, and I was single. Yet my college sweetheart (we did … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #21: College Reunion
Mullen continues tradition of excellence
Today is going to be a quick promotional for my Alma Mater -- Houghton College. In this story the announcement is made that President Shirley Mullen was elected to another 4-year term as college president. She has already served 9 years. Now Houghton College has a long history of long terms for presidents. They have … Continue reading Mullen continues tradition of excellence
A Blast of the Past #8 — College Graduation
For such a big landmark event is life, it is amazing how it seems to be truncated down to these particular 12 photos (okay, probably 13 if we include the official graduation picture we purchased). The event is called commencement for a reason -- it is the beginning of something -- though we usually think … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #8 — College Graduation
A Blast of the Past #7 — Senior Skip
In my day, at least, there was a traditional "senior skip" excursion by the seniors before graduation. But as someone noted, we students at Houghton didn't actually skip any classes. We just took off between the end of finals and the beginning of the graduation weekend. Some complained that if it was senior skip, we should … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #7 — Senior Skip
A Blast of the Past #6 — Which concert?
Blast #5 mentioned the loss of a lot of film. Which puts the date of this next album into question. This is an album of pictures from a college choir concert at Houghton my senior year. That would make it either the Homecoming concert right after the tour, or the Parent's concert of graduation weekend. Something … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #6 — Which concert?
A Blast of the Past #5 — the truncated album
These pictures should be in a binder album all their own, with a numbered table of contents in the front describing each of the pictures and naming everyone in them. But they aren't. These pictures are from the College Choir tour my senior year. All three previous yeas I had taken pictures just as described … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #5 — the truncated album
A Blast of the Past #4 — Renaissance Man
Okay, Here's another blast of past photos. It shows an interesting start to a certain pastime of mine. These are pictures of Homecoming from my senior year at Houghton College. The theme that year was obviously some sort of Renaissance Theme. Now, I noticed in the pictures that the college madrigal singers had been brought … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #4 — Renaissance Man
A Blast of the Past #3 — Can You Count
More photos from my college days. Birthday photos. The question is which birthday? Do these photos come from the same birthday or different birthdays? You see, my birthday always fell right around the end of the second semester, usually in the break between the end of semester and finals week. So according to these pictures, … Continue reading A Blast of the Past #3 — Can You Count
At The Rainbow 