Departmental Receptions

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Below is a list of the departmental receptions that will take place during Homecoming Weekend 2012. If you know of a reception not listed, please let us know and we will add it to the list.


Saturday, October 6, 2012

4:30 p.m.

Art and Design Department

Clack Art Center, Flora Kirsch Beck Gallery

Band Alumni Reception

Eddy Music Building

Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Physics Departments

Dow Science Center Lobby

Business Administration

Library, Highland Java Café

Chapel Open House

Dunning Memorial Chapel

Computer Science, Mathematics, Sociology, Anthropology Departments

Swanson Academic Center, Second Floor

Education Department

Swanson Academic Center, Second Floor, West Bay

English Department

Library, Smith Room

Integrative Physiology and Health Science Department

McIntyre Center for EHS, Human Performance Lab, Rm. 111

Economics, History, Political Science, Pre-Law, Communication and New Media Studies Departments

Tyler-Van Dusen Campus Center, Rotunda

Library Open House

Kehrl Building

Model UN Reception

Model UN House, 715 W. Center St.

Psychology Department

Swanson Academic Center, Lower Level

Service Learning

Service Learning House, 619 W. Center St.

 

Alma College was born on Oct. 14, 1886. George F. Hunting was appointed the College’s first president and professor of moral and mental science. The College’s founding was made possible by Ammi W. Wright, a lumberman, businessman and civic leader who gave 30 acres of land and more than $300,000 to found and sustain the institution in its early years.

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Sarah Ellsworth

Sarah Ellsworth
Graduation: 2007
Major: History and Political Science

What would be the point of college without professors? Sarah Ellsworth ’07 quickly learned the value of a good professor when she took a course with history professor Patrick Furlong.

“I’ll be forever grateful to him for caring enough about me to call me into his office for a very stern ‘talking to’ a few weeks into my freshman year,” she says, smiling. “Let’s just say I was having a little too much fun and not quite living up to my academic potential.”

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