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Avery Farmer, Henry McNeil and Noah Wheaton

Why They Came Back

June 12, 2022 When Amherst's 199th Commencement for the class of 2020 finally took place, in-person, on June 11, 2022, we asked the graduates one simple question: Why did you come back?
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Commencement 2020: Closure, Finally

Michael Elliott, incoming president, meets student on the academic quad.

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Harith Khawaja ’19

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On “Creative Cross-Training”: How Bartending Helped Wesley Straton ’11 Write Her Novel

“In an industry in which writers are often pressured to find work in the literary sphere—editing, bookselling, teaching, etc.—I’d like to offer bartending as an alternative, one that has changed my life, served me well, and helped me write a novel,” says Straton in an essay for Literary Hub. That new novel, The Bartender’s Cure, is inspired by her experience.

Writer-in-Residence Min Jin Lee Discusses Asian American Civil Rights 40 years After Vincent Chin’s Murder

The author was interviewed as part of a June 20 PBS NewsHour segment noting the 40th anniversary of a notorious crime: the 1982 killing of Detroit-area resident Vincent Chin by two white men, which “marked the first time discrimination against an Asian American person was treated as a federal civil rights offense.”

Washington and Lee University Women’s Lacrosse Coach Brooke O’Brien ’03 Exits for Amherst

Virginia’s Roanoke Times notes O’Brien’s departure from W&L to return to her alma mater as lacrosse coach. “Amherst needed a new coach to replace Christine Paradis, who has retired. Paradis led Amherst to the NCAA crown in 2003, when O’Brien—then known by her maiden name of Diamond—was her star goalkeeper.”

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Inside the Spring 2022 issue: the story of Tamara Johnson ’73; a grammar lesson from Tess Taylor ’99; a look into the world of environmental offsets, and more.

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