On a snowy Super Tuesday, Mark Schauer found a ray of sunshine. “Empathy in politics is alive,” said the former U.S. congressman and 2014 Democratic Michigan gubernatorial candidate. “But with a faint pulse.” Schauer, ’84, who developed his love of public service in Albion’s Ford Institute, spoke to about 40 people Tuesday in Bobbitt Auditorium, offering a sober look at politics in perhaps one of the strangest election years America has ever seen.
It was December 2015, her first college winter break, and Morgan Garmo, ’19, was looking for something to do. Then her aunt invited her to help make blankets for a brand-new nonprofit. Two months later, Garmo has signed on as Fleece & Thank You (F&TY) CFO, with the support of many of her fellow students at Albion.
Sometimes, as Ann McCulloch, ’93, has discovered, a new start can be found in the place you least expect. For the Ford Institute alumna, it was in one of the places she knew best and loved most. For the past year, she’s been the director of chapter and association relations for Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest collegiate honors program in the country and an organization near and dear to her heart.
