As a child growing up in Alexandria, Virginia, Linda Fotis and her father would drive to the bank to deposit her babysitting earnings in her college savings account. "My parents felt attending college was something sacred," Fotis says.
When Hal Shupack first arrived at American University from Forest Hills, New York, he was struck by the incredible diversity on campus. "There were people of all faiths and walks of life. Growing up in Queens, I had never experienced such an international community," he says.
I like to think of American University as my anchor. Since graduating from CAS in 1965 with a focus on journalism, the university has had a continuing influence on my life. It is my pleasure to share how meaningful these AU experiences have been to me.
As a high schooler in Illinois, Sherry Mueller was inspired by her 4-H leader, one of the first farmers on a cultural exchange to the Soviet Union. "Seeing his slides of the trip and learning of his experience, I was never the same."
In an era when partisanship and gridlock characterize Congress, former US representative David Skaggs (D-CO) and his wife, Laura, hope to encourage cooperation and compromise on Capitol Hill.
Beginning with the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and extending through last summer in Rio, George "Cookie" Reed-Dellinger has experienced 14 Olympics (and his plans are already underway to attend the 2018 Winter Olympics in Korea). It is no surprise, then, that athletics also played a significant role in his American University experience.
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