Melissa Florer-Bixler ’02: Mennonite Pastor
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Dream: To help develop a L’Arche community in North Carolina’s “Triangle region” “I love preaching,” says Melissa Florer-Bixler (at center in photo). As a Mennonite, she understands the work of interpretation as an act of the church community… Read More
Chuck Bartholomew ’01: Videogame Designer
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At Gordon, he was the drummer for a band called Schroeder. Most of Chuck Bartholomew’s days at Gearbox Software involve some aspect of character design, a process he says starts with “envisioning the play style of a character,… Read More
Sradda Thapa ’08: Communications and Research
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Sradda Thapa was a world traveler before she even got to Gordon; besides her home country, Nepal, she had lived in Hong Kong, India, and Australia. In 2012 she moved to Afghanistan, where she is with a communications firm in Kabul that works with government and international agencies.
Freda Obeng-Ampofo ’08: Diplomatic press officer
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Freda Obeng-Ampofo is equally fluent in English and in Twi—the principal native language of the Akan lands in Ghana. Both languages are absolutely necessary for her work as press and information officer for the Delegation of the European Union to Ghana.
Tim Hohman ’07: Alzheimer’s Researcher
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It’s rare to choose a vocation in high school and make it stick, rarer still for the vocation to center on a disease of the elderly. But that’s Tim Hohman’s story.