Departments - Lafayette Magazine Summer 2018 · Lafayette Magazine Summer 2018

Explorations

Students conduct research to extract a valuable fertilizer from wastewater and rethink human waste as a beneficial renewable resource.

In the Marquis Footsteps

We follow the Marquis to Savannah, Georgia, where he arrived March 19, 1825, by steamboat and was greeted on the shore 'by the entire population and militia assembled together.'

Easton Heritage Day Celebration

Around Lafayette

Easton held its annual Heritage Day celebration on July 8, commemorating the day the Declaration of Independence was read in public there on July 8, 1776. The city held a daylong celebration that included re-enactments, historical tours, music, and food, capped by a fireworks display.

Q&A

You don’t need to be a boy to have drive. Take Sherry Welsh ’85, who spent 25 years in automotive parts manufacturing, first at German-based Bosch and then as global head of sales for another supplier of auto parts.

History

Late one night in 1890, a few second-year Lafayette students wandered into East Hall looking to pick on some freshmen.

Final Word

Cutting His Teeth in the NFL

When I was 22, I came to a fork in the road. Do I endeavor to pursue my true vocational interest of dentistry or sign an NFL contract with the New York Giants in the hopes of making the team?