Ford Institute News
Spoolstra, '11, Makes Sacrifice to Serve in the Peace Corps
Christin Spoolstra, a member of the Ford Institute from the class of 2011, is currently in her first year of service in the Svay Rieng province in Cambodia. The area in which she is stationed, near the Vietnamese border, is one of the poorest provinces in the country. It is there that Spoolstra teaches high school-level classes to local students for 17 hours a week and also tutors some of the Cambodian teachers in conversational English three days per week.
To read more about Christin's commitment, click here.
College Receives Replica of U.S. Capitol's Ford Sculpture
Susan Ford Bales stands alongside the President Ford maquette.The decades-long relationship between President Gerald Ford and Albion College entered a new chapter March 7 with the unveiling of a bronze sculpture of the President that will be permanently housed at the College's Gerald R. Ford Institute for Leadership in Public Policy and Service.
The event at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids featured Susan Ford Bales, daughter of Gerald and Betty Ford, and Albion College President Donna Randall revealing the one-third-size replica, or maquette, of the life-size statue that was dedicated in May 2011 in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington.
A permanent-installation dedication ceremony was held March 14 outside the Ford Institute office in Robinson Hall.
Ford Students Get Firsthand Look at Romney Campaign
Ford Institute students made the short trip to the Caster Concepts manufacturing plant on Feb. 27 to see Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney in person at a campaign event on the eve of the Michigan primary. "Having this event in Albion is something the students don't normally get to see," Al Pheley, Ford Institute director, said.
From Z(uni) to A(coma): Gabby Vezzosi's Research Changes Albion Art Collection
It's a news story that rarely fails to snag headlines and the public's attention: a graduate student, working in an archive, uncovers a treasure the institution didn't know it had. Gabby Vezzosi, '12, can identify with it—except, of course, that she's not a graduate student. The art and political science major began with the need for a Ford Institute internship, and ended up helping Albion's Art Department redefine part of its collection.
"Dr. Al Pheley and [art history professor] Bille Wickre helped me come up with this project—I would do summer research on part of the art collection, then do a teaching assistantship for Dr. Wickre's Native American art class in the fall," Vezzosi related. "I wanted something that would involve my art major and my Ford internship, so this was perfect."
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