Monmouth College has announced they intend to be back fully in person with a full range of student activates in the fall. The college is strongly encouraging the covid vaccine for all faculty, staff, and students but it is not being required. As for this year’s Class of 2021 President Dr. Clarence Wyatt shares Spring Commencement will be held in person on Sunday, May 16th:
“On Saturday we will have the Scots Salute where we will welcome the graduates into the Alumni Association and will have everyone spread out on the field at April Zorn Stadium. On Sunday at noon we will have commencement all the graduates will be able to process and walk across the stage.”
Meanwhile, Monmouth College held their annual Scots Day of Giving raising a record high this year. Over $271,000 was raised by 964 donors. The donations are supporting the Monmouth Fund, Fighting Scots Society, Champion Miller 1860 Fund, and the Parent and Family Council Fund.
Scots Nation pulled together to make Monmouth College’s fifth annual Scots Day of Giving the best one yet. The day of fundraising for the College saw new records established for both dollars raised and donors contributing. In all, 964 donors combined to raise $271,852. Earmarked to receive those funds are five initiatives that the College’s Office of Development and College Relations selected to focus on this year: the Scots Care Fund for students in need; an outdoor Wi-Fi hotspot with the Parent & Family Council; the Champion Miller 1860 Fund, which promotes campus diversity; the Fighting Scots Society; and the Monmouth Fund. Some of the record number of donors were inspired by the newly created Scots Day of Giving song shared on Facebook by former faculty members Stacy and Simon Cordery. “May all our effort ever be … to honor this video by donating to the cause!” wrote Sarah Crummy Wolek ’01 in response to the tune, which was belted out with gusto by Simon Cordery. That Facebook fun was part of a social media outreach that included alumni sharing some of their favorite memories of Monmouth College. They ranged from bagpipe wake-up calls and water polo road trips with the late Fighting Scots coach, Tom Burek, to playing washers on the Gibson Hall lawn and a music assignment involving the College hymn. “I loved when the pipes would walk through the dorms,” shared Kelly Sutton Everding ’98. “The only day of the year I didn’t mind waking up early.”
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