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In honor of Women’s History Month, our Three-Minute History series looks back at the role of women in the early years of the College.

Featured prominently on the first three episodes, Mary Zheng ’15 joins season 48 of Survivor.

After graduation, economics and Chinese major Jivyaa Vaidya ’23 accepted a job with Morningstar Inc., a global financial services company headquartered in Chicago.

Lex Baumann ’22 was focused on urban colleges until she visited Grinnell and fell in love. Since arriving, she has job-shadowed a lawyer in Miami, served as a community advisor (CA), changed her major, and much more. Next up: law school applications.

Garcia, from St. Paul, MN, is among 37 students selected nationwide from 155 finalists from 41 partner schools to receive the $40,000 fellowship stipend. The program offers “college graduates of unusual promise a year of purposeful, independent exploration and international travel to enhance their capacity for resourcefulness, imagination, openness, and leadership and to foster their humane and effective participation in the world community.”

The band Butcher Brown will perform a concert in Herrick Chapel on the Grinnell College campus at 7:30 p.m. on March 27.

A piece written by Blanche Johnson Professor of Music John Rommereim titled “Time and Wind” was included on the ASCAP New Music Friday playlist, which Spotify calls “the latest, greatest music from ASCAP songwriters and composers.”

Aaron Yost ’23 begins the journey as a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship. Yost received a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship, which will support him in a two-year graduate program, two summer internships, and extensive professional development leading to a Foreign Service Officer position in the U.S. Department of State.

Will and Evelyn Freeman kindly took a few minutes with us to reflect on what their time at Grinnell has meant to them and to share memories from their years of coaching, mentoring, and learning.