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Alum donates Elon medal from 1893 found on eBay

June 23, 2010

For Raymond Beck ’75, the online auction site eBay is occasionally a treasure trove of Elon artifacts, and one of the latest finds for the retired North Carolina State Capitol historian and site manager was a gold medal from the “Clio” literary society engraved with the name of the man who received it as a graduate of Elon College's Class of 1893.

Recent Elon graduate writes guest column for New York Times

June 1, 2010

Elon University young alumna Kristine Silverstri served as a guest writer this week for Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, who published on his newspaper blog Silvestri's account of contracting malaria when she visited Ghana in late 2008.