Letter from the president
Hello everyone, and welcome to the new issue of Engage. With this publication, we mark four years of reaching out to the Sullivan Foundation community to share stories of our schools, our students, our alumni, and our friends. As I look through the stories we’re presenting in this issue, I’m struck by how they reflect the ways our people contribute...
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Did you know?
Before the Sullivan Foundation and New York Southern Society, Sullivan’s legacy was maintained by a group of his friends The Sullivan memorial horse trough fountain in Van Courtlandt Park in the Bronx burrough of New York City. It contains an inscription remembering Sullivan as well as a bronze portrait. Sullivan succumbed to pneumonia at the age of 61. He had...
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The art of progress
Berea College brings the AIR Institute to Kentucky to promote Appalachian crafts Berea College has long been known for its Berea College Crafts program, a one-of-a-kind institution that promotes and sustains Appalachian crafts. The program has been in operation for 124 years and employs more than 100 students. Not only do those students practice in the traditions of Appalachian design...
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The only shirt that educates
Hampden-Sydney college students discover social entrepreneurship and start a career while getting an education Hampden-Sydney college is unique in many ways. It is the tenth oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, oldest private college in the South, and one of the few remaining private colleges for men. Hampden-Sydney’s motto is to “form good men and good citizens...
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A match made in service
Laura Young and Nick Ruxton, both 2014 Sullivan Award recipients, marry after seven years together On August 5, 2017 Laura Young and Nick Ruxton were married at Westhampton United Methodist Church, the culmination of an eight-year courtship that began in high school, weathered four years of separation as the pair attended different colleges, and included a very special surprise when...
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Sullivan Flashback: Robert Gates
Robert Gates is a household name for most Americans, given his tenures as United States Secretary of Defense and as head of the CIA. Most people don’t know, however, that his political career has been interspersed with work in academia. He spent most of the nineties as a lecturer—at such storied colleges as Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, and...
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A servant’s homecoming
Less than a year after graduating, Erskine alum Elinor Griffin returns to promote refugee outreach Elinor Griffin, left, poses with Kay Burklin, a refugee liaison for Mission to the World, during her campus visit in May. Burklin shared the stage with Griffin to speak at Erskine’s Lesesne Auditorium Erskine College is a small and picturesque liberal arts campus in South...
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What he’s all about
2017 Sullivan Award recipient Dr. John Kline builds a legacy of service at Troy University Dr. John Kline (left) accepts his Sullivan Award from Dr. Jack Hawkins, Jr., Chancellor of Troy University, at the 2017 commencement ceremony The path to academia was not a straight one for John Kline. Today, he is a professor as well as the director of...
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Sullivan Superstar
Berry College’s Elly Rusia takes advantage of all the Foundation has to offer and uses it to make a difference When recent Berry College graduate Elly Rusia thinks back on her experiences with the Sullivan Foundation, she has a little trouble remembering exactly how it all started. “It’s hard to pinpoint,” she says. “The whole thing just felt so natural.”...
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Engage is the Sullivan Foundation’s magazine celebrating service and social entrepreneurship in the Sullivan network of partner institutions.
