Archive for July 14, 2008

Adventures in Leadership, a two-week summer program sponsored by the Center for Leadership and designed for incoming students, begins this week as 32 freshmen arrive at Elon University to take part in the leadership development project.

Leary Davis, founding dean of the Elon University School of Law, will step down as dean on August 1. He will remain with the school as founding dean emeritus and professor of law, and will continue to teach courses in the law school.

Tim Barber works Monday through Friday every week during the summer. Sometimes he may come in at 7 a.m., sometimes at 9. But no matter the arrival time, it’s always Monday through Friday—a typical work week.

She sat more than 5,000 miles away from comfortable Elon, N.C. She and her friends were on spring break, so they had left London and traveled to Italy for a brief and relaxing respite. It was a perfect time to visit another country and soak up its cultures and traditions.

8-6-0. Eryn Gradwell had mixed feelings about that area code. She yearned to see those numbers show up on her phone. But she also knew they weren’t necessarily the harbinger of good news. A phone call from Bristol, Conn., could mean one of two things: acceptance to the ESPN internship program or rejection. And her chances seemed to be tilted toward the latter.

It must have been a surreal moment for anyone viewing the scene: Two women, sitting in the lobby of the Houston Astros Minute Maid Park, crying with each other. One spouting tears of happiness and acceptance, the other of memories and appreciation.