Taking a Break to Help the Less Fortunate
Westmont students traveled across borders and state lines during spring break, and about 340 of them served the less fortunate in various places. A CNN story about tourism in Mexico featured senior...
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Student Seeks Sustainable Stewardship
Outreach on Campus, Connections to Environmental Groups and a Semester Abroad Help a Westmont Student Learn Sustainability Anthony Waldrop ’11 reflects his love for God through his stewardship of the...
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Scribe Takes Notes on His Future Career
An intense internship in a hospital emergency room helps pre-med student decide to pursue a career in medicine Josh Mac Fawn ’11 describes the previous night’s shift. A heavy-set, wheel-chair-bound man...
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Savoring a Sweet Summer Internship
Two economics and business majors compete successfully for an internship in finance at Nestlé Robert Fenske and Zachary Spangler will work as interns this summer for Nestle Two Westmont students have...
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A Scintillating Research Assignment for Students
Professor Warren Rogers Westmont students will construct, test and calibrate 16 detectors for one layer of a new Large-area multi-Institutional Scintillator Array (LISA). Eight other institutions will...
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Playing Soccer Opens Doors in Uganda
For the second time in four years, the Westmont women’s soccer team travels to Uganda to combine soccer and ministry During a two-week trip to Uganda in May, 19 members of the women’s soccer team, two...
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New Students Take a Hike Before Class
For 36 years Inoculum has challenged incoming students to push themselves physically, intellectually and spiritually. This year, 16 first-year students, representing states from Hawaii to...
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The Westmont Annual Fund is All About Students
To earn money this summer, Roxanne Love ’11 is working in construction. Breaking up concrete with a pounding jackhammer doesn’t faze her. A co-captain of the women’s soccer team, a goalie and a drummer...
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Finding Hope Amid the Horrors of Human Trafficking
Reflections by Megan Moore ’13 on a 2010 Westmont Mayterm Trip Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed. Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless, and...
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A Leader Who Has Learned to Listen
Jane Highstreet ’11 brings an air of unassuming confidence and good listening skills to her position as president of the Westmont College Student Association (WCSA). The communications studies major...
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Student Musician Becomes Music Teacher
Sarah Shasberger ’12 is making a name for herself. As the oldest daughter of Michael Shasberger, Adams professor of music and worship at Westmont, Sarah says she wanted to go away to college to shape...
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Students Help Bridge the Technology Gap
Westmont computer science majors teach high school students about the benefits of programming computers When junior Morgan Vigil graduated from high school in Merced, Calif., she had little experience...
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The Play’s the Thing
Jessica Drake ’11 hasn’t written the next act of her life yet, but she’s finding an audience for her work. The Northern California student earned an O’Neill National Critics Institute Fellowship during...
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Student Guides an Outing for the Birds
Monroe Scholar Carrie Steingruber shares her enthusiasm for bird-watching with the local audubon society. Monroe Scholar Carrie Steingruber ’12 not only excels in academics, she’s one of the region’s...
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New President Leads Students Quietly
T.J. Breshears draws on his involvement in a wide variety of campus activities to encourage students to use their time wisely. Becoming student body president took a leap of faith for T.J. Breshears...
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Excelling as a Writer, Proofreader and Lifeguard
Westmont junior wins a scholarship for proofreading and earns a commendation as lifeguard of the year. Tammy Lang ’13 is making a name for herself both in and out of the water. The English major has...
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Breaking in a New Ministry
Breakaway, A New Outreach in San Francisco During Fall Break, Joins Spring Break in the City Under the Newly Formed Urban Initiative For the first time, Westmont students organized a service trip to...
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A Storyteller Finds Her Voice and Her Faith
A Westmont Senior Wins a Writing Contest with the First Short Story She’s Ever Written English professor Paul Willis led Jamie Wells ’12 and his Creative Writing class on a hike along the creek-side...
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Bending Perceptions of Physics
Westmont’s Liberal Arts Curriculum Helps A Student Develop Her Interests in Physics and the Arts Bethany Sutherland ’12, a dancer and an artist, will earn a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering...
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Summer Scholars Get a Jump Start on College
A New Westmont Program Brings High School Students to Campus to Experience College Life and Earn College Credits High school students curious about college can experience it in person by enrolling in a...
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Four Seniors Set Off Into the World
The Westmont class of 2012 includes many accomplished graduates like Melissa, Coby, Kimberly and Elijah. MELISSA CHRISTENSEN ’12 co-directed Emmaus Road this year, encouraging a record 71 students to...
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Seeking Depth in Life and Music
A Monroe Scholar studies music, philosophy and his heritage as a Chinese American. Daniel Gee ’13, who received a prestigious Monroe Scholarship to attend Westmont, has sought to make the most of his...
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Getting Down to Business
A Westmont economics and business major publishes a business case study of an American retailer. Cameron Mahi ’13 has accomplished an unusual feat for an undergraduate: He has published a business case...
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Serving Others Through Language and Love
Multiethnic, multilingual student seeks to serve others in our global society. Gabriella Pinheiro-Chavez ’14 grew up in a multiethnic home in La Mirada, Calif., speaking Spanish, Portuguese and English...
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Learning to Live and Teach with Dyslexia
A lifetime struggle to succeed in school inspires a Westmont senior to pursue a teaching career. Paige Greene ’13 has struggled academically most of her life. During her junior year of high school in...
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Honoring an Adventurous and Faithful Life
The Westmont community pays tribute to Nick Davis ’13, who died in a tragic motorcycle accident in January Nick Davis (Photo by Mike Larsen Photography) The start of spring semester brought sadness to...
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Cultivating a Culture of Global Citizens
WCSA president experiences global education and encourages fellow students to be culturally sensitive Kristin Lo ’13 applied to Westmont only because her mother encouraged her to take an interest in...
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Success is Faithfulness
Excerpt of a Talk by Daniel Gee ’13, First Senior, Kenneth Monroe Award Winner, and Monroe Scholar, at the Academic Awards Convocation in April Daniel Gee (right) and Brad Goodin At this time of year,...
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Outstanding Seniors Overcome Adversity: Wesley Zuidema
Wesley Zuidema, 2013 graduate, talks about his challenges and blessings during his years at Westmont Fearlessly Following God Wesley Zuidema grew up visiting Westmont with his parents, Kevin ’84 and...
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Outstanding Seniors Overcome Adversity: Nick Andersen
Nick Andersen, 2013 graduate, talks about his challenges and blessings during his years at Westmont Exploring the wideness of the World When Nick Andersen visited Westmont with his mother, Carole Owens...
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Outstanding Seniors Overcome Adversity: Robyn Bickerton
Robyn Bickerton, 2013 graduate, talks about her challenges and blessings during her years at Westmont Embracing the Gift of Life She lost her room in the 2008 Tea Fire, her best friend at Westmont...
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A Passion for Politics and Public Service
WCSA President Has Gained Political Experience Through Student Government and an Internship in a Congressional Office David Dry ’14 has been involved in student government since the third grade. In...
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Making Strides in Sports and Life
A Westmont Athlete Seeks to Qualify for the 100 and 200 Meters in the 2016 Paralympic Games in Brazil Sophomore Lexi Youngberg lost her left leg in a boating accident on Spring Lake, Mich., that took...
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Westmont Recognized for Excellent Service
South Coast Business and Technology Awards Honor Westmont for Excellence in Service in the Local Community Westmont received the Excellence in Service award at the annual South Coast Business and...
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Service, Athletics and Research Shape Students
A Westmont education offers students many ways to learn, grow and develop their calling in life. Spencer Dusebout Using H4O to Bring H20 to the World While in high school, Spencer Dusebout ’15 traveled...
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Sophomore Cager Scores Top Research Internship
A double major in biochemistry and kinesiology who plays basketball spent the summer at Harvard Stem Cell Institute Natalie Florescu ’17, a guard on the Westmont women’s basketball team, demonstrates...
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The Political Life of Riley
Westmont’s new student body president contemplates a career in law and possibly politics Riley Svikhart ’15 has a passion for politics. While enrolled at Folsom Lake College, he became enthralled with...
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Six Seniors Tell Their Stories
Six Graduates from the Class of 2015 Reflect on Their College Careers and Look Forward to the Future NIKKI DRESSLER, who majored in chemistry and biology, knew in high school she wanted to pursue a...
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A Shining College on a Hill
By Ana Bulger ’19 Before applying to a Christian college, I had a certain premonition about religious education. I had spent the last seven years in a Christian private school in Massachusetts, and I...
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Four Seniors Tie for Top Academic Award
Four 2016 graduates earned perfect grade point averages and received the faculty scholarship award at commencement. Computer Scientist Immersed Himself in Theater Arts Dillon Montag, a mathematics and...
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