AROUND the CISTERN
| (l to r) Cam Saleeby ’10, Jackson Hoberman ’11, Ashley Montano ’11, Will Cruthers ’11 and Grant Cutler ’10; opposite page: former Road Runners Devan Crowe ’10, Seaton Brown ’09, Takeshia Brown ’10 |
Driving Directions The road trip: It’s become something of a rite of passage. For recent college graduates, it’s a celebration of hardearned independence, of sticking with it and having choices. It’s their last hurrah before reporting to the next station in life, before that independence turns into routine and those choices become responsibilities. It’s a lesson in selfreliance and self-confidence, a promise of good things ahead. And, as the College’s Road Runners will tell you, good things are around every |
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corner when you’re out there on the open road. And that means good things are on the horizon for the College, too. Selected by the Office of Admissions to travel from state to state, recruiting the best of the best, these young alumni are making the most of their road trips, reflecting on their experience at the College and building a geographically diverse class of freshmen for the next academic year. “The idea behind the Road Runner program is to expand our reach, introduce
ourselves to high schools in states we hadn’t gone to before and build our student body from across the country,” says admissions counselor Seaton Brown ’09, who served as the guinea pig for the program in 2009, holding information sessions and one-on-one interviews at schools in Ala., Tenn., N.J. and on Long Island. The following year, the program brought on three more Road Runners to cover even more territory; last semester, a total of five Road Runners visited 47 states between September and