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ne sunny Tuesday morning in August, I donned a bright orange T-shirt and joined our students and staff to welcome our first-year students and their parents to campus and help unload their cars. For me, this marked the real beginning of my term as Warren Wilson’s seventh president. As the cars pulled in, the campus began to inflate with students, coming alive with the anxieties and aspirations that accompany the start of college. My plan was to keep busy enough carrying bookshelves and refrigerators into dorm rooms that I wouldn’t have time to dwell on my own anxieties and aspirations in starting this new role as the College president. During a brief lull in the unpacking, I noticed a Vietnamese family of four pausing in front of Sunderland, with the parents posing for a photo. I approached them and offered to take a shot of all four of them, but the camera-wielding son, a college-aged young man, declined. “Just my parents,� he said. And then his mother pointed to her husband and explained, “He went here.� I briefly thought I’d encountered a multi-generational Wilson family. I asked where the new student was, and the father came quickly over to explain. “I went here in the 1980s,� he told me. “I was on vacation with my family in the area and I brought them over to Warren Wilson because I wanted them to see the place where I became the person I am today.� I recounted his words later that afternoon to our assembled new students and their families. It captured for me what is so exciting, and also so humbling, about the journey that I was beginning along with them. College is for many of us the place we become the person we are going to be, and at Warren Wilson we are particularly focused on educating that whole person. Through the Triad, we stimulate the mind and also challenge students to work as part of the campus community and to serve as part of the greater Asheville-Buncombe County community. We teach skills for life— intellectual skills, leadership skills, moral reasoning and practical problem solving.
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I hope that many of you reading this were able to return to campus the first weekend in October for Homecoming—to revisit the place that helped make you who you are today. I look forward to meeting many of you over the coming months and years and to hearing your stories about your history with the College. I also invite you to share your thoughts about the future of the College and how we can continue to offer an innovative and unique liberal arts education for future generations of students.
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Finally, I hope you will continue to support the College in every way possible: by contributing to the Warren Wilson College Fund, recommending a prospective student, employing a graduate or just spreading the word about Warren Wilson and its Triad. The College is what it is today because of you.
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