Making the College stronger and making an outstanding education possible for Foresters today and well into the future, donors have already given a record $100,243,933 a year before the Campaign’s 2012 deadline.
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Diana Nyad’s ’73 iconic, long-distance swim feats are one colorful chapter in a Lake Forest College legacy of endurance athletes and coaches. We also profile ultramarathoner and cyclist David “Hector” Pendergast ’75, long-distance swim coach Joe Zemaitis ’02, Tour de France finisher and coach Robbie Ventura ’92, and Ironman racer Katie Snowden ’07.
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Spectrum sat down with Harriet Doud, a staff member at the College for 25 years. Due to spastic paraparesis, a medical condition similar to multiple sclerosis that has slowly increased spasticity in her legs, she now uses a walker, or sometimes a wheelchair, to get around. previously an avid runner and swimmer, she’s recently found a new outlet for physical activity – racing in a hand cycle. We chatted in her first-floor office in Young hall, where she serves as the administrative assistant for several departments. The mother of three lives with her husband in Wadsworth, a few miles north of Lake Forest.
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This year’s Homecoming, Reunion, and Family Weekend, the second largest in the history of the College, was full of energy – whether it was during the football game, at the parade, at the Family Carnival on Middle Campus, or at the Friday night reunions.
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Read about the newly expanded cafeteria, this year’s incoming class, a student-faculty collaboration on a Sioux reservation, and Professor Dlabay’s new textbooks.
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Read about recent mentions of the College in the media, including students discussing a project on NPR, Professor Schneiderman talking about handwritten documents, and Professor Sadri commenting on terrorism and Iran.
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With food safety a rising concern in China, Minxu Zhang ’12  and Lesley Gao ’13, both originally from China, wanted to help. They earned a $10,000 Davis Projects for Peace grant and spent the summer in Hangzhou creating a community- supported agriculture system based on local and organic foods.
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Assistant Professor of Communication Rachel Whidden’s and one student’s Richter research will be published and Professor of Art, Emeritus, Franz Schulze reviews Mark Hertzberg’s ’72 third book about Frank Lloyd Wright.
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