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EXPERIENCING NORTHWESTERN IN FULL CIRCLE BY JANELLE HAMRE ’11 AND JESSICA SLY ’12
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mily Jacobs ’11 started her Northwestern journey earlier than most students. As a preschooler, she “graduated” from Northwestern’s Child Development Center (CDC) in 1995 and years later returned to NWC to major in psychology. As one of the early students served by the CDC when it opened in September 1994, Jacobs became an unknowing pioneer in what would become a nationally accredited center offering unique preschool curriculum in music, science, math and creative arts. In
Above: Emily Jacobs celebrates her graduation with the Jacobs family of alumni, Dennis ’77, Idell (Bixby ’46) and Paula F’94. Left: Emily (middle) at her NWC preschool graduation.
addition, the CDC serves as a learning lab for NWC’s early childhood education majors. Jacobs grew up in a Northwestern family. Her grandmother Idell (Bixby ’46) Jacobs attended Northwestern in its early years. Her parents are Dennis Jacobs ’77 and Paula Jacobs F’94. Though childhood memories can feel clouded in a Crayola-colored fog, Emily recalls that a highlight of her time as a preschool student was walking door to
door visiting the elderly residents at the EagleCrest retirement community in which the CDC is located as part of the center’s “Grandfriends” program. Emily completed her Northwestern journey in December 2011, but her education has not stopped. She has been accepted into Wheaton College’s (Ill.) Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology program and begins her studies there in August.
Why we give to the Northwestern Fund “We have been so blessed by our education at Northwestern and believe it is a responsibility for us as alumni to help the next generations of students have access to the same Christ-centered education we were able to experience.” – Brad and Kimberli Johnson Alumni, Class of 1988
“In the staff, programs and students at NWC, we sense and have experienced a genuine and effective love for the Lord and concern for our student—and for us as parents.” – Dave and Cathy Nyce
Parents of Amanda Nyce ’14
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