Rhodes Magazine Spring 2014

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JAY ADKINS

a P’17 with daughter Allie Johnson ’17 a first-year student. In 2007, the Johnsons dedicated the John Colby Service Scholarship in the memory of the Memphian with whom the Johnsons traveled and studied theology. The couple endowed the award following Colby’s sudden death. As recipient of the John Colby Service Scholarship, Brian Tchang ’14 of Memphis, who is also part of the Bonner program, puts

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in as many as 280 hours of service work per academic year. “That’s 10 hours a week each semester and then eight hours a day during the summers for about seven weeks,” Tchang says. A commerce and business major with a focus in accounting, he believes in blending academic work and professional opportunity. At Rhodes, Tchang has raised money for GlobeMed, which installs clean water filtration systems in remote villages in Nicaragua. He has taught English to

Brian Tchang ’14, a recipient of the John Colby Service Scholarship, volunteers many hours of service work each academic year.

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