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Charting her pathSusanna Rinehart drove behind the wheel of her own life early on — too early.
“I remember knowing my mom was drunk and riding in the car next to her,” she said. “What I would do is literally imagine that I was driving the car, that somehow I could will her to keep us alive.” And by some means, Rinehart’s imagination kept them from crashing. But it couldn’t take away from her reality — her mother’s addiction. For the full story, click here. Local farmers thriveBeing an entrepreneur requires one thing not taught in a classroom: a sense of adventure.
For Jason Pall and Sally Walker, it was their sense of adventure that transformed their Virginia Tech education into the beginnings of a successful, sustainable farming business. Pall and Walker have been married for three years and started Glade Road Growing in May, 2010. The couple met in college playing ultimate Frisbee, and their relationship grew from such shared hobbies. For the full story, click here. |
POW to PhDCramped into a tiny, two-by-five-foot cement cell, a 12-year-old boy contemplates his life — or whether he will have one at all.
As a prisoner of war to the Ethiopian army, the young Gebre Gebremariam wondered when his time would come. “They killed people,” he said. “I was expecting they would kill me at any time.” But Gebremariam wasn’t killed — he survived and is now an economics professor at Virginia Tech. For the full story, click here. Boyer meets worldA notorious group of high school students cruises in their 1966 Volkswagen van, which became the talk of the town and source of many memorable stories.
With the van’s exterior scrawling with vividly painted murals and comical slogans, the interior was gutted and the ordinary seats replaced with beanbag chairs. The license plate for the van quite obviously read, “LOSER,” exemplifying the crew’s humorous outlook on life. For the full story, click here. |
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