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A Career in Code and Connection
By Scott Craig   |   February 3, 2026

As a Westmont student, John Rodkey (‘79) envisioned a career as a missionary doctor in the field. But he discovered a different calling and direction. After majoring in chemistry, he returned to campus in 1981, and Stan Anderson, his former professor, hired him as a chemistry lab manager. Programming the college’s first minicomputer to inventory […]