The Rev. Jim Mohr, campus chaplain, strolls along campus with senior Hannah McMichael.
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By ELIZABETH FONTAINE HILDEBRAND ’92
ust as she was preparing to return for her junior year at Westminster, Hannah McMichael received some devastating news: her mother had been diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, an extremely rare and aggressive form of cancer.
The molecular biology major’s world suddenly shifted.
one of her trusted first-year Inquiry instructors. As the
While her studies and plans to become a genetic counselor
first semester progressed, her mother’s health worsened
were still important, she found her thoughts often straying
and impacted Hannah’s ability to pay her second semester
to her mother’s illness. Needing someone to talk with, she
tuition. Ewing’s sarcoma wasn’t just ravaging her mother’s
sought counsel from Campus Chaplain Rev. Jim Mohr,
body, it was aiming to steal Hannah’s future, too.
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