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he spring issue of Rhodes magazine portrays the many faces of our diverse, engaged, and engaging student body. After printing, the magazines were randomly mailed and the issue you now hold depicts one of five students featured on the cover. Each of them reflects the high caliber of young adults who leave our campus to go out into the world to make their mark. It is our privilege and pleasure to have them under our wings for four years. It is thrilling to see them graduate each spring, but so very hard to let them go.
Maggie Cupit ’14 has been featured in a video produced by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital about her year spent there in treatment—the year she was supposed to begin a summer research fellowship in a St. Jude lab. Coming to Rhodes and having access to St. Jude when she developed cancer probably saved Maggie’s life.
THE MAGAZINE OF RHODES COLLEGE
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Transforming Students into World Citizens
Kondwani Banda ’14 left Zimbabwe and arrived in the United States on a hot August day four years ago with little knowledge of the country, much less of Memphis and Rhodes. But as a participant in the Bonner program, he began to learn the Rhodes community and its environs while also beginning to know himself better.
MAGGIE CUPIT Her poignant thoughts on her time here can be seen at rhodes.edu/Maggie.
Chloe Bryan ’14 says she was a shy student when she came to Rhodes after growing up in Michigan. But the lure of Memphis drew her in and she immersed herself in its riches. Through the Rhodes Institute of Regional Studies, she spent two weeks with inner-city students from the Rhodes Learning Corridor to create an audio documentary drawn from their conversations.