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Charles Ryrie Recalls His Days at Westmont
Charles Ryrie, longtime professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, prolific author and editor of the popular Ryrie Study Bible, died in 2016 at age 90. He began his teaching career at Westmont, where...
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Alumna Pursues Many Interests and Gives Back
Judie Christensen ’69 grew up close to Wheaton, Ill., and hadn’t traveled west of the Mississippi River when she transferred to Westmont as a junior. She made the journey because she could major in...
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Four Seniors Tie for Top Academic Award
Four 2016 graduates earned perfect grade point averages and received the faculty scholarship award at commencement. Computer Scientist Immersed Himself in Theater Arts Dillon Montag, a mathematics and...
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Helping Students Find What’s Next
Paul Bradford ’84 keeps getting more connected to Westmont. “I’ve seen the college through so many different lenses: student, alumnus, consultant, adjunct professor, small-time donor and parent,” he...
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A Gasoline Station on Wheels
One day while driving, Scott and Kylie Hempy noticed they were nearly out of gasoline, and they joked about getting a roadside fuel delivery. Tanker aircraft refuel Air Force One and fighter jets in...
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Singer Finds Success in Cyber Security
David Britton ’94 puts on his hacker hat to think like cyber criminals and learn how they might defraud companies and customers. An expert in online security, he works to prevent digital pirates from...
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A Lifelong Pull Toward Mission
Sharon Koh ’00 arrived at Westmont intending to go to medical school. She graduated with a call to professional ministry. The double major in biology and religious studies (with a minor in chemistry)...
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Building Character on the Court
Steve Baik ’00 coached a dream team. His 35-0 Chino Hills boys basketball players captured the 2015 California State Championship and a No. 1 national ranking. As a result, Steve received the Naismith...
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An Exotic Career for a Vet
Judilee Marrow ’02 cares for patients of all sizes, shapes and species. As the only vet at Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek, Mich.—and one of two board-certified zoological veterinarians in the state...
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Growing Trees, Growing the Economy
After a long career in banking that took her to Chicago, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, Teresa Law ’79 and her husband, Daniel Spitzer, established Mountain Hazelnuts (MH) in Bhutan in...
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A Musical, Multimedia Ministry
Dave LeMieux ’93 describes himself as a musicianary: a missionary who ministers through music. The executive director of More than Music, he takes musical groups into places closed to Christian...
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A Brilliant Mind and Humble Heart
Westmont honored the late Bill Klug ’98 as Alumnus of the Year at Homecoming in October. He died tragically on June 1, 2016, at 39. Westmont Professor Ken Kihlstrom remembers Bill as a gentle, kind...
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Helping Kids Get to College
Terri Furton ’93 grew up with an alcoholic mother and found refuge at school. Three of her siblings dropped out as teenagers but she made it to Westmont despite struggling academically. She worked...
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Meet Westmont’s Newest Professors
Nine scholars have joined the Westmont faculty since the fall of 2015. MARTIN ASHER(economics and business), former director of Research and Scholars Programs at the Wharton School of the University...
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A Winning Season for the Warriors
Four Warrior teams qualified for national competition in fall 2016: women’s volleyball, women’s soccer and men’s and women’s cross country. The five fall teams posted a combined record of 61-11-3 for...
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Music, Theater and Art Showcase Great Works
The Westmont orchestra, Westmont College Festival Theatre and Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art present acclaimed work. The Westmont Orchestra celebrates President’s Day by performing at the fourth...
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Where Does Westmont Stand in the Rankings?
U.S. News & World Report lists Westmont in the top 100 liberal arts colleges, and pay scale and Forbes also rank Westmont highly. Westmont remains in the top 100 best liberal arts colleges for...
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Homecoming Honors Accomplished Alumni
Four Westmont graduates received awards at Homecoming 2016 in October. The late William S. “Bill” Klug ’98 (see story on page 29) and Angie Hill ’90 were named Alumnus and Alumna of the Year. Jeff...
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Significant Scholarships Support Students
The Augustinian scholarship and honors program and the Michaelhouse scholarships both provide four-year awards. Two new scholarships provide significant support to incoming Westmont students each...
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Stauffer Challenge Grant Funds Student Research in Chemistry
Westmont raised $500,000 in matching funds to complete a challenge grant from the John Stauffer Charitable Trust, endowing the chemistry department’s summer research program. Income from the $1...
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Global Leadership Center Opens in Fall 2017
The new facility includes two residential buildings and a multipurpose leadership center. With construction well underway, the new Global Leadership Center opens to student residents in fall 2017....
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The Great Journey: A Quest to Find the Way of Life
One of my favorite writers, the great American novelist Walker Percy, talks about dreams and ambitions that get derailed by personal choices, and the long, slow road we must follow to recover. His...
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Campaign Raises $155 Million, Doubling Goal
Strength for Today raises funds to support some of Westmont’s priorities: leadership, affordability and innovation Thanks to generous alumni, parents and friends, Westmont successfully completed its...
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Trailhead Helps High Schoolers Find a Calling
A two-week summer program and ongoing mentorship encourage students to discover how faith can guide their future. Westmont has received a $590,400 grant to establish Trailhead: Seeking God’s Call,...
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Recovering Presence and Place in the Digital Age
Sociological and Theological Reflections on Technology by Felicia Wu Song, professor of sociology The Cultural Confession Being a good Anglican, I feel compelled to start with a confession that only...
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A New Era of Global Leadership on Campus
A Stunning New Facility Strengthens the College’s Focus on Leadership With a living-learning center and five innovative programs About 400 people crowded into the Global Leadership Center (GLC) to...
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The Consequences of Disruption: Current Threats to U.S. Security
Former intelligence chief Michael Hayden offers his perspective on world affairs. General Michael Hayden, an expert on domestic and foreign affairs and a retired director of the Central Intelligence...
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Gratitude for a Successful Strength for Today Campaign
Where Leadership and Learning Transform Lives A Thankful President Our generous community of alumni, parents and friends made Westmont’s Strength for Today campaign our most successful ever. We far...
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Seeing Suffering Not as a Barrier but as a Passageway to God
The Thomas Fire and Montecito mudslides give us an opportunity to talk about how we respond to circumstances like these, which have devastated our community. How can we, as followers of God and...
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Historian Honored with Social Sciences Chair
Chandra Mallampalli, Professor of History, has Been Installed in the Rotating Fletcher Jones Foundation Chair in the Social Sciences History professor Chandra Mallampalli was installed as the Fletcher...
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A New Professor Holds the Gundry Chair
Sandra Richter Joined the Faculty as The Robert Gundry Professor in Biblical Studies After Tremper Longman III Retired Sandra Richter, who has taught Old Testament at Asbury Theological and Wesley...
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Computer Science Minor Offers a Major Opportunity
Completing a minor in computer science just became easier thanks to a new program beginning in May 2018. Open to students from all majors, the minor requires five computer science classes. Students...
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Stronger Together: Courage and Kindness
Protected from fire and flood, Westmont seeks to serve a devastated community THE FIRE The Thomas Fire exploded in the early evening of December 4, 2017, more than 40 miles away, but Westmont quickly...
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Effective, Purposeful Leadership for Executives
Westmont’s Lead Where You Stand conference, June 6-8, 2018, helps executives and executive teams strengthen their leadership skills Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Brooks, Lynda Weinman and President...
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Equipping Students to Study Big Data
The New Data Analytics Major Meets a Critical Need in the Workplace for People Who Can Interpret Complex Data Westmont students can now earn a bachelor’s degree in data analytics, a new and...
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Westmont Builds 13 Faculty Condos in Santa Barbara
More than 20 years after Westmont built 41 homes for professors and their families next to campus, the college is constructing 13 condominiums to increase the amount and type of housing available...
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Fletcher Jones Grant Completes Renovation
The $750,000 Award Helps Westmont Finish Phase Two of Renovating Biology and Chemistry Labs and Classrooms in Whittier Hall The Fletcher Jones Foundation awarded a $750,000 grant to Westmont for the...
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The Life of a Farmer’s Wife
“Women in agriculture either inherited the life or married into it,” says Sherry Strebe Saylor ’72. In 1973, she wed a third-generation farmer in Arizona and ended up falling in love with farming. She...
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A Jack of All Music
Bob Hartry ’89 dreamed of a career in music and took lessons, studied music theory and played in the jazz combo at Westmont. But he majored in economics and business, which has helped him establish...
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A Shining College on a Hill
By Ana Bulger ’19 Before applying to a Christian college, I had a certain premonition about religious education. I had spent the last seven years in a Christian private school in Massachusetts, and I...
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