Letter from the President
With this issue of Engage, we mark two years of publishing our magazine and we couldn’t be more pleased with the response we’ve gotten or more excited about the stories we plan to share in the future. In that spirit, we’re taking a moment in this issue to look at our past as well as our future. Our main feature...
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Building bridges
Sullivan retreat weekends help a Campbell University student embark on a dream Jonathan Bridges, a senior at Campbell University, wanted to be a football player when he first arrived on campus, but injury plagued him and, after suffering his second concussion, he was forced to find a new focus. That’s exactly what he did. Combining his passion for athletics with...
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Sullivan Flashback: John Nathan Deal
In 1942, in the small farming community of Bay Branch, Georgia, John Nathan Deal was born to Mary and Noah J. Deal. His parents likely never guessed the lofty offices to which their son would rise, but Deal was destined to prove that big things can come from small places. Most of Deal’s childhood was spent in the town of...
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Party by the park: Sullivan alumni and friends gather in Atlanta for spring reception
Under the lights of midtown Atlanta, another successful reception brought members and friends of the Sullivan family together on April 16. The reception was held at the historic Piedmont Driving Club, which boasts terrific views of the Atlanta skyline as well as beautiful Piedmont Park. Twenty alumni guests joined the Sullivan Board of Trustees, a host committee of local Sullivan...
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Social Entrepreneurship Education
Rollins professors on “changing the world one student at a time” by Tonia Warnecke and Michelle Stecker Top: Tonia Warnecke Bottom: Michelle Stecker What is a college to do? Students are passionate about changing the world, their parents are demanding a “pragmatic” education, and employers need graduates equipped for the demands of a 21st-century workplace. The answer to this million-dollar...
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Thoughts from the scholars
Recent Rollins Sullivan Scholars reflect on the Sullivan spirit and how they plan to make a difference Gaby Cabrera – Class of 2015 “I found Algernon Sullivan’s passion for helping those around him to be truly inspiring, and, while his story and circumstances are different than my own, I cannot help but feel a sense of similarity between us. I...
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The enduring partnership of Rollins College and the Sullivan Foundation By: Ja’Mara Washington and Mary Conway Dato-on Rollins College of Winter Park, Florida, holds a special place in the history of the Sullivan Foundation as one of its oldest member schools. But that special connectionis about more than mere longevity. From the earliest days of the partnership between these two...
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Did You Know?
In 2014, a husband and wife unexpectedly received simultaneous Sullivan awards Curt McPhail and Molly Chappell-McPhail After 15 years of marriage, Curt McPhail and Molly Chappell-McPhail have as strong a bond as anyone could hope for. Perhaps the only thing they’ve been committed to longer than each other, in fact, is service to others. So, it’s not at all a...
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Positive Communication
Wofford College student brings the power of art to a Spartanburg, South Carolina jail Wofford College student brings the power of art to a Spartanburg, South Carolina jail Students in Katie Harmon’s Therapeutic Arts Program at the Spartanburg County Detention Center are given the opportunity to not only learn about art, but to create it themselves As a Bonner Scholarship...
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Engage is the Sullivan Foundation’s magazine celebrating service and social entrepreneurship in the Sullivan network of partner institutions.
