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Forward December 2024
On the Cover: Davis & Elkins College Glory Residence Hall. Celebrating community, legacy, and a vision for the future at Davis & Elkins College. To read this issue, click here or on the cover image. Forward is the magazine of Davis & Elkins College Editor: Stacy Kopp Writers: Emma Engle, Willow Ferguson, Scott Goddard, Elizabeth King, Stacy Kopp, Wendy Morgan, Cathy Nosel, Maureen Pasley, Cody Schauman, Linda Skidmore, and Tina Vial. Photographers: Ed Collier, Stacy Kopp, Wendy Morgan, Maureen Pasley, Sam Santilli, and Cody Schauman. Forward magazine is published annually by the Office of Communications & Marketing. To subscribe or to submit your news, please send an email to kopps@dewv.edu or write to Stacy Kopp, 100 Campus Drive, Elkins, WV 26241. All previous issues of Forward Magazine can be viewed from here.
Forward Fall/Winter 2023
On the Cover: Davis & Elkins College President Chris A. Wood, Graduates Anna Ruf and Hussain Hamide. Both are recipients of the 2023 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards. They come from different parts of the world, two vastly dissimilar cultures, and polar opposite paths to D&E. Yet, on our campus where personal growth is cultivated and positive individual characteristics are brought to light, these two award recipients could not be more alike. To read this issue, click here or on the cover image.
Forward is the magazine of Davis & Elkins College
Editor: Stacy Schulman-Kopp
Writers: Stacy Schulman-Kopp, Ryann Moore, Wendy Morgan, Cathy Nosel, Patrick Snivley and Rosemary Thomas
Photographers: Lonnie Martin, Ryann Moore, Wendy Morgan, Maureen Pasley, Hannah Phillips, Hope Rogers, Stacy Schulman-Kopp, Sam Santilli and Steve Santilli
Forward magazine is published twice a year by the Office of Communications & Marketing. To subscribe or to submit your news, please send an email to kopps@dewv.edu or write to Stacy Schulman-Kopp, 100 Campus Drive, Elkins, WV 26241.
All previous issues of Forward Magazine can be viewed from here.
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Reflecting Along the Journey
I recently witnessed a moment that perfectly captures the heart of the Davis & Elkins College experience. I saw it more than 150 times last Friday, and it has stayed with me ever since. Harper-McNeeley Auditorium was filled for the baccalaureate service on the eve...
Feels Like Home
You might think, given her last name, that Chloe Travelstead would have come a long way to attend Davis & Elkins. Yet, it is just 74 miles from D&E to her hometown of Fairmont, West Virginia. Part of the reason for that is that both places give her a strong...
Rereading Nature
Henry David Thoreau famously said that he “went to the woods” because he “wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if [he] could not learn what it had to teach.” Willow Ferguson has a similar goal, though her approach...
Davis & Elkins College Welcomes Keynote Speakers During Commencement Weekend
Davis & Elkins College proudly welcomes three distinguished keynote speakers during events taking place amid Commencement Weekend on Friday, May 9, and Saturday, May 10. During the College’s Nurses’ Pinning Ceremony, Baccalaureate Service, and Commencement,...
Reflecting Along the Journey
Thousands of lifelong friendships have been born on the campus of Davis & Elkins College. At a holiday dinner for international students this past December, Lisa and I met two first-year students whose bond immediately captured our hearts and curiosity. Despite...
A Change in Direction
“Come play for me.” Hearing those words, Isabella (Bella) Martinelli changed directions. She had been prepared to start school at a small college in Wisconsin, ready to play lacrosse and major in Nursing; but, when David Pomeroy said he had the opportunity to coach at...
