Monday, September 23, 2024
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Our Place in Walla Walla: Amy Ly ’06
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Feature by: Noah Leavitt, College Liaison for Community Affairs
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Amy Ly ’06 is Project Manager for the Gates Foundation-funded Horizons initiative with United Way of the Blue Mountains to increase the rate of college-going students from first generation, low-income and Latine households in Walla Walla and Columbia Counties. Prior to this role she was an employment lawyer in Seattle and then an entrepreneur and owner of the Gather Design Company. Ly and her husband Steven ’07 have two children.
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Tell me about your life in Walla Walla.
I’m a connector. I love meeting people and having new experiences. I spend a lot of time on things I care about like volunteering at my son’s school and coaching youth soccer. I was a two-sport athlete at Whitman and athletics shaped who I am more than any other life experience and so coaching lets me give that back to kids. I’m active with a local political party to try to move our town in a progressive direction. And even with tennis, it comes back to connecting. We moved back here three years ago and have really worked to rebuild the adult tennis community—it’s fun and social!
How does your role fit into larger issues in or aspects of our region?
Growing up in Yakima and coming to Whitman is a big part of who I am. I wasn’t a first-generation student but I did come from a single-parent low-income household and so I see myself in a lot of the change we’re hoping to make through Horizons for youth in our region. As a parent, I hope we can keep the tight knit and small community feel here that makes this place special. I get to be involved with how we are shaping what Walla Walla will look like in five or ten years.
What is something you’ve learned about Walla Walla since you moved here that surprised you or that you weren’t expecting?
When I came here as a student, I very much felt the town-gown divide. I had an off-campus work study job tutoring at a nearby school so I was able to really notice that split. As a Whittie I felt like my life was on campus. Now, as a local resident, I really appreciate the deep sense of pride that Walla Wallans have for this place. And seeing how that pride has shifted away from just celebrating the old founding farming families to how we now also think about the Indigenous tribes and all of that history as part of our understanding. No matter who you talk with, people have a deep sense of pride for this town and that’s something that I didn’t see or experience as a student.
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Beyond the interview:
Ly will be available for questions and further conversations on Wednesday, Sept. 25 at noon in Reid Campus Center, room 207. The Career and Community Engagement Center will provide lunch for the first 10 students in attendance. Questions or ideas? Please contact Noah Leavitt at leavitns@whitman.edu.
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Professor Publishes Dialogue on Religious Recitation Practice
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Associate Professor of Religion Lauren Osborne has published a dialogue with co-author Charlotte Eubanks, Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies at Penn State University. Osborne and Eubanks are both scholars focusing on practices of recitation, but in different religious traditions—Osborne focusing on Islam and Eubanks on Buddhism. In this dialogue, they discuss recitation as situated in these two traditions through the lenses of respective medieval thinkers, Muslim theologian and philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111 CE) and Japanese Buddhist monk Kukai (774–835 CE). The result is a wide-ranging conversation on the relations between sound and writing in religious recitation practice.
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Flu Shots Available for Students This Week
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The Welty Student Health Center will have free influenza vaccinations available for students on Tuesday, Sept. 24 and Wednesday, Sept. 25 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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US Congressional Representative Forum Tomorrow
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A discussion between two candidates for US Congressional District 5 Representative, Michael Baumgartner and Carmela Conroy, will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 24 from 5:30–7 p.m. in Cordiner Hall. As reported by the Union-Bulletin, Whitman students helped to identify the questions which will be asked of the candidates. Whitman Votes will have a table in the lobby to register attendees to vote. The event is free and open to the public. (Flyer attached.)
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Thesis Workshops at the Library This Week
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Penrose Library will hold two thesis-related workshops this week. A Senior Thesis Workshop will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 4 p.m. and Thursday, Sept. 26 at 9 a.m. This workshop will include research and organization tips, but may duplicate some information if your senior seminar already met with a librarian. A second workshop, “Using Zotero for Reference Management,” will be held on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 4 p.m. and Friday, Sept. 27 at 9 a.m. This workshop will provide information about how Zotero can help with reference management. Questions? Contact a librarian or make an appointment.
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Whitman’s Delta Delta chapter of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority (executive board members pictured) recently received a Bronze Kite Award from the national sorority organization. The award celebrates excellence, success and progress.
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Movement That Matters: Pilates
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Reid Campus Center, All Faiths Room
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Reid Campus Center Lawn or Sherwood 114
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Sherwood Athletic Center, Room 106
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Hall of Science, Brattain Auditorium
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Cleveland Commons, Lizzie Murr Room
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Flu Shot Clinic for Students
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Welty Student Health Center
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Movement That Matters: MELT
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Welty Student Health Center
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Reid Campus Center, Coffee House
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Flu Shot Clinic for Students
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Welty Student Health Center
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Reid Campus Center, Room 207
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Movement That Matters: Strength & Stretch
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Penrose Library, Room 313 (“The Fishbowl”)
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Reid Campus Center Lawn or Sherwood 114
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Information Session: Responsible Partying
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Reid Campus Center, Room G-02
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Penrose Library, Room 313 (“The Fishbowl”)
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Memorial Building, Room 331
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Movement That Matters: Step Aerobics
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Memorial Building, Room 331
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Reid Campus Center, All Faiths Room
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Penrose Library, Room 313 (“The Fishbowl”)
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Leaving from Reid Campus Center (RSVP)
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Penrose Library, Room 313 “The Fishbowl”
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Movement That Matters: Yoga
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