When Karen (Gilmore) ’75 and Roger Doerr committed $600,000 over five years to establish the Doerr Center for Civic Engagement at Hastings College, they weren’t simply writing a check. They were planting a seed that they believe will grow into a permanent part of the College’s culture and prepare students to become engaged citizens in […]
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On a chilly Friday in December, kids scamper among the evergreens at Pine Patch Tree Farm in Hastings while owner Joe Kindig ’16 prepares a seven-foot spruce for one delighted family. With a practiced rhythm, he guides the tree into a shaker that rattles loose needles and debris before he trims a one-inch puck from
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By weaving his Latin American heritage into the choral music he creates, Hugo Madera ’19 – conductor, composer and educator – builds a harmonious bridge between two cultures: his roots in Jalisco, Mexico, and the musical training he refined at Hastings College. “My diverse background in Latin American and, ultimately, American music provides a door
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In the traditional Nativity story, angels appear to the shepherds, telling them to go pay homage to the newborn King. The next thing we see is the shepherds at the manger, but what happens on the journey there? Rosalie Koepp ‘15, director of christian education at First Presbyterian Church in Hastings, reimagined the Nativity from
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Hastings College sophomore Sam Acosta Castellanos stepped into his position as a quality and lab intern at Nova-Tech Inc. to help ensure the quality and safety of animal medicine the company makes. This real-world experience over the summer pushed him to grow as both a scientist and a person. “I go into the lab and
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“Fifty years goes by, bringing joys and heartaches. Life is that way. My 50 years has been full of what happens to everyone, but there have been moments very precious to me. The fact that I could be proud of my alumni, my alma mater, and the fine people on its faculty and the students
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Kylie (Luth) Christenson ’19 leads a visitor up the elegant curving staircase of the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in Grand Island, Nebraska. On the second level, she gestures toward a few artifacts lining the stark white walls — a printing press once used at the Hastings Tribune, a dog-powered treadmill that operated a
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Surrounded by playful black bears and a roaming grizzly, Hastings College wildlife biology major Chyenne Tidyman spent her summer learning the ropes of zookeeping as an intern at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas. Tidyman, who is from Holdrege, Nebraska, had many duties at the zoo, including feeding, watering and cleaning up after the
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Alice (Coates) Harris was a respected librarian, educator and volunteer in the city of South Pasadena, California. To those closest to her, she was much more than that. She was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother and sister. When Harris passed away in 2016, her family decided that Hastings College – nearly 1,500 miles from her
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Hastings College student Lucy Reid highlights the power of numbers in order to gain a deeper understanding during their summer internship at the Scott Data Center in Omaha, Nebraska. “I’ve always been interested in understanding how people are attached to numbers. I want to be able to take and analyze data in a way that
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