The Record | Spring 2022

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NEWS FROM THE HILL

LEADERSHIP

A PLACE WHERE EVERYONE THRIVES Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Julia Bernard, PhD, works to empower the next generation of Norwich students BY SEAN MARKEY | PHOTO BY ARAM BOGHOSIAN 22

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n a recent February afternoon, Julia Bernard, PhD, sat in the audience in Mack Hall to see a presentation by Lt. Col. Enoch “Woody” Woodhouse (USA, Ret.), the 95-year-old WWII veteran and Tuskegee Airmen pilot. It was, as Bernard describes it, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear from an American hero. “I think the students really appreciated the history lesson, what it was like for him to, for example, get on a train and be told that he couldn’t sit there [because he was Black], even though he had a ticket and he was on his way to serve our country and to help them choose


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