Sam and Jess (Patterson, C’09) Bell founded Kaleva Yachting Services in 2009 to service yachts visiting Vanuatu, an island nation northeast of Australia. They couldn’t have imagined, at the time, that the luxury boats their business depends on would one day double as lifesaving vessels, but that’s exactly ...
Political science professors John Williams, JD, and Dr. Brian Roberts (on the right) presented papers at the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) held in Chicago in April. One of the largest annual gatherings of political science scholars in the United States, MPSA represents a valuable opportunity for Principia ...
Hoping to help bring positive change and stability to turbulent parts of the world, Melissa Duffy (US’96, C’00) traveled to the Netherlands the summer after graduating from the College to attend a symposium sponsored by the International Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution. That experience focused her attention on law ...
From teaching math during the day and tutoring in the evenings to coaching football in the fall and tennis in the spring to teaching Sunday School on the weekends, there’s little that Jim Moser (C'04) hasn’t done to support his community.
After graduating from the College, Moser ...
“Principia is a small community with a big wingspan,” comments Stephanie Little (C’03), who majored in environmental studies. “Principia gave me a global understanding that inspired me to make this world a better place,” she continues. “I credit my biology professors, Coach Lee Ellis, and my house mom ...
At age 10, Heritier Diakabana left his native country of Zaire (now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo), with his mother and five siblings, to join his father in the United States. In 1999, his parents enrolled him in Principia Upper School.
After graduating in 2002, Diakabana ...
Among the many enthusiastic alumni following Principia’s solar car during this summer’s American Solar Challenge, no one could have been more pleased to see tweets from Ra 9 than James Koval (C’11)—a former solar car team member and computer science major who is now a software engineer at Twitter. ...
Traci Fenton (C'97) was hired by a Fortune 500 company soon after she graduated from the College. Before long, however, she left that position, certain there was something fundamentally wrong in the workplace. Four years later she took another leap of faith, leaving her post at NASDAQ to pursue ...
More than 500 people attended Principia’s College reunion last month—from a nine-month-old baby to an alum who enrolled at the College in 1935. Renewing old friendships and making new ones filled the weekend, along with great entertainment and, of course, education. In fact, one reunioner who enjoyed the ...
If there’s one thing Kate Wells (US’06, C’10) has in her work as a reporter for Michigan Radio (an affiliate of NPR), it’s variety. In a typical two-week span recently, she covered Medicaid expansion, the financial crisis in Michigan’s public schools, and the debate over the deportation of a ...
