5 Deac Olympians and lots of foreign diplomats
Hot off the presses: ”Jonathan Reid, a rising junior on the track and field team, has qualified to compete for his native Canada in the Beijing Summer Olympics. He joins Hunter Kemper (’98), who earlier qualified to run the triathlon for Team USA and will be competing in his third Olympic Games; field hockey standouts Kelly Doton (’04) and Lauren Crandall (’07); and basketball star Chris Paul.” www.wfu.edu/wowf Congrats to all our Deac Olympians!
Campus is host right now to a large number of students from Europe as part of the Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Initiative. There are 70 teens from 37 countries here - broken into groups of “Founders” and “Diplomats”. One of the professors teaching them is the excellent John Dinan, who was our lunch speaker one day for Katy Harriger’s Lifelong Learning course on “Winning the White House” - he was fantastic and so interesting, and made me wish I’d been one of his students. Here is more on our foreign students visiting: www.wfu.edu/news/release/2008.06.25.p.php