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Judy L. Larson arrived at Westmont in 2008, four months before the college broke ground for the Adams Center for the Visual Arts and the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. As the inaugural R. Anthony Askew professor of art and the director of the museum, she taught an art history course while organizing her first […]
The orchestra toured Iceland for nine days following Commencement, visiting tourist sites, including Reykjavík, the Golden Circle, Reykholt, the Ring Road waterfalls, the Blue Lagoon, Akureyri, the Seljalandsfoss waterfall, various botanical gardens and museums. They performed at Hof Cultural Center, shared a concert and dinner in Langholtskirkja with the University Choir of Iceland, learning more […]
A standing-room only crowd attended the Westmont Department of Education’s 21st annual Celebration of Teaching to honor the 13 graduates and their cooperating teachers April 25 in Westmont’s Founders Room. The student teacher presentations were interspersed with heartwarming slideshows, videos and talks by professors Andrew Mullen and Carolyn Mitten. The student teachers included Hannah Hutton, […]
Dozens of people packed into the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum on May 15 to see Adam Belt’s selections for On the Edge and hear the winners of the Tri-County artist exhibition. “This a very vibrant arts community – you can see all the support that you share for each other,” Belt said. “It was a privilege […]
Yulya Dukhovny, Westmont artist in residence, won a Santa Barbara Indy Award for Stage Artistry for her work on The Wind in the Willows on May 20 at Soho Restaurant & Club. Dukhovny first joined Westmont in 2018 when she performed her unique style of visual theater, featuring paper animation in a vertical 2D scenic […]
Music professor Steve Hodson has retired after teaching at Westmont for nearly 30 years. He appreciates the variety of roles he has filled: directing choral activities, conducting the Westmont College Choir, founding and leading the ensemble New Sounds, teaching a music survey class as well as basic and advanced conducting, and directing piano studies. “I […]
An impressive lineup of world-class keynote speakers will share insights on effective and purposeful leadership at the 11th annual LEAD Where You Stand conference on June 4-5 at Westmont’s Global Leadership Center. David Brooks, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, headlines an exceptional group of speakers that includes: Gayle D. Beebe, Westmont president and […]
Two home renovations prepared Benjamin and Marlise Kast-Myers (’96) for the ambitious project of restoring the historic Betty Crocker Estate in Valley Center, California. Their mission: blessing people through their love for hospitality. The couple first transformed their home in Carlsbad. A full-time designer at an ad agency in Carlsbad Village, Benjamin scoured antique shops […]
Westmont baseball’s (43-14) season came to a disappointing end when the Warriors, needing only to win one game, dropped both ends of a double header, 6-2 and 6-4, to Cal State Monterey Bay (38-17). The Otters advance to this week’s Super Regional in Nampa, Idaho, to face Northwest Nazarene, where the winner will advance to […]
Montecito’s longest running juried exhibition for tri-county artists will run from May 15 – June 14 in the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. A public opening reception for On the Edge, featuring juror Adam Belt, is Thursday, May 15 from 4-6 pm. The museum received a record 458 entries by 216 artists. From these submissions, […]
The Westmont Observatory hosts a summer star party that’s out of this world on Friday, May 16, beginning at 8:30 pm and lasting several hours. The observatory, home to Westmont’s powerful Keck Telescope, opens every third Friday to the public in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit, whose members bring their own telescopes and […]
Westmont baseball (41-12) defeated the Sharks of Hawai’i Pacific (32-22) 5-3 to win the PacWest Tournament Championship – in its first year of eligibility – on May 9 in Fresno. The tournament championship came eight days after the Warriors clinched the PacWest Regular Season Championship, the first PacWest regular season championship team won by a […]
Led by bagpipes under overcast skies, about 340 graduates made their Last March from Kerrwood Hall down to Thorrington Field where they walked across the stage to receive their diplomas on May 3. Retiring professor and Commencement speaker Jim Taylor (’78) encouraged the graduates to do something unexpected – to pull out and use their […]
About 340 graduates will participate in Commencement on Saturday, May 3, at 9:30 am on Thorrington Field with 162 earning honors. More than 70 Golden Warriors, who graduated in 1975, will march in the procession to celebrate their 50th reunion. About 15 nursing graduates, representing the fifth cohort of the Westmont Downtown | Grotenhuis Nursing […]
Zola Sokhela, Abigail Hundley, and David Oyebade brought home All-PacWest honors as a result of top three finishes at the PacWest Outdoor Track-and-Field Championships on April 25-26 at Fresno Pacific. Sokhela finished second in both the men’s 1,500 meter run and 800-meter run, earning eight team points in each race. His time of 3:56.57 in […]
Westmont baseball (37-11, 32-9 PacWest) – ranked No. 4 in NCAA DII – cut its magic number to two after taking three of four games against Vanguard on April 25-26. Westmont has two games remaining in the regular season, make-up games at Azusa Pacific on Thursday, May 1. Freshman Jesse Di Maggio, a Dos Pueblos […]
A passionate longtime rock climber, Noah Banez (‘18) pursues his sport in an unlikely location: the isolated island of Guam. The co-founder and managing director of Guam Sports Climbing Center (Climbing Guam) in Barrigada, he also coaches the Guam National Climbing Team. He and his wife, Olivia ‘Ozie’ Le Sage Banez, moved to Guam in […]
Two Westmont students received David K. Winter Servant Leadership Awards during chapel on April 7 in Murchison Gym. Angela D’Amour, dean of student engagement and interim vice president for student life, honored Kate Robinson (‘27) of Beverly, Massachusetts, and Andreas Olvera (‘26) of Woodland, California, for demonstrating above-and-beyond commitment to serving the campus community with […]
The Westmont Observatory opens to the public for a free stargazing event Friday, April 25, beginning about 8 pm and lasting several hours. Jen Ito, Westmont assistant professor of physics, says the college’s powerful Keck Telescope will zoom in on the gas giant Jupiter. “This will probably be the last time we’ll get to see […]
Meredith Whitnah, associate professor and chair of the Westmont sociology department, illuminates the role of race and gender in religious responses to social injustice in a reading and Q&A with Provost Kim Denu about Whitnah’s new book, Faith and the Fragility of Justice: Responses to Gender-Based Violence in South Africa, on Friday, April 25, from […]
