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schools.” (See his award-winning photo
in Class Notes.)
The Peace Corps ranks its top
volunteer-producing colleges and
universities annually according to the
size of the student body. Alumni from
more than 3,000 colleges and universities
nationwide have served in the Peace
Corps since the agency’s founding in
1961, including 254 Laurentians.
n
See more at
www.stlawu.edu/news.Corps Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet
said. “Volunteers make lasting change
by living and working at the grassroots
level in their communities of service
and using their talents to tackle some
of the most critical challenges in
international development.”
Jonathan Foster-Moore ’13, a health
education volunteer in the Kyrgyz
Republic, has partnered with a regional
Health Promotion Unit at a family
medical center that distributes literature
and gives training on many health topics.
“I help run a weekly ‘healthy families’
club for parents as well as a health club
for secondary school kids,” he says.
And (recently) I was given approval
for a project to install sinks and toilets
with running water in one of the local
t. Lawrence ranks 14th
among small schools,
with 10 alumni currently
volunteering worldwide,
in the Peace Corps’
2015 rankings of the
top volunteer-producing colleges and
universities across the country.
St. Lawrence alumni are currently
serving in Botswana, China, Indonesia,
Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Mexico, Moldova,
Mongolia, South Africa and Togo,
working in sectors including education,
environment and health.
“The Peace Corps provides an
indispensable opportunity for young
people out of college to put their unique
skills to work making a difference for
communities around the world,” Peace
St. Lawrence a Leading
Producer of Peace
Corps Volunteers
Jonathan Foster-Moore '13 (far right)
stands in front of Tash Rabat—an ancient
structure along the historic Silk Road
used to shelter travelers—with his local
counterpart, other friends from his
village, and a fellow Kyrgyzstan Peace
Corps volunteer.
By Ryan Deuel
The plates give them away.
The Highlander, left, belongs to Patti
Frazer Lock, Cummings Professor of
Mathematics, while the Prius, complete
with a plate holder revealing that it
was purchased from Patti’s brother’s
business in Canton, is the property
of her husband, Burry Professor of
Statistics Robin Lock.
Whose cars are these?
F
our St. Lawrence students were invited to
attend the Clinton Global Initiative Univer-
sity conference, in Miami in March, to present
their proposals for innovative solutions to challenging
social issues. From left, Vanessa Chilunda ’17, Rutendo
Chabikwa ’17, Luize Eihmane ’16 and Winsome Toroitich
’17 joined about 1,000 college students from across the
U.S. at the conference.
Rutendo, of Harare, Zimbabwe, presented a social ven-
ture called “This Is My Story.”
She aims to teach photog-
raphy, writing and videography to youths ages 15-24 in
impoverished urban Zimbabwe.
“Many of these youths
have turned to drug abuse and criminal activities, and
I think art can provide an outlet in seemingly hopeless
situations like this,” she says.
Vanessa, of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, proposes a rela-
tively new liberal arts pedagogy in the science, technol-
ogy, engineering and math (STEM) field in her native
country.
Winsome, of Nairobi, Kenya, wants to develop
a nonprofit organization that will help women in Kenya
build greenhouses, while Luize, who is originally from
Riga, Latvia, proposes after-school programming, which
her native country lacks
. “There are a lot of kids just
hanging around, and that leads to drinking and drugs
and gangs,” she explains.
See more at
www.stlawu.edu/news.Four Students Attend Clinton Global Initiative Meeting
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