Tag archives: Gayle D. Beebe

Westmont began spring semester as scheduled on January 8, while preparing campus for rain late that afternoon and the following day. The college was not in Santa Barbara County’s evacuation zone that included many areas below the Thomas Fire burn scar, but public safety officers kept a 24-hour watch for flooding. In the first chapel […]

Like most of the region, people at Westmont learned about the Thomas Fire following the massive power outage December 4 that thrust the entire campus and 1,200 students into darkness. The disruption continued into the morning hours as officials scrambled to fix infrastructure that crippled the college’s website and email servers.  Smoke from the blaze […]

Your Westmont  by Scott Craig (photography by Brad Elliott) Westmont trustee Walter Hansen and Bruce Herman, Lothlorien distinguished professor in fine arts at Gordon College, presented president Gayle D. Beebe and his wife, Pam, with a commissioned portrait of Saint Augustine on October 27 in Westmont chapel. The gift honors the couple’s 10 years of […]