Student Interns at Family Crisis Center
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
Kiara Booth had an official reason to be outside the Knox County Courthouse for Friday’s “Hands Around the Courthouse.” The just-turned 21-year-old Knox College student has been an intern at Safe Harbor Family Crisis Center for the last two terms. And she plans to continue volunteering this summer. But the real reason Booth went to the annual event held to mark April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month was shared by the close to 100 people who joined her.
“I’ve learned a lot about myself,” Booth said. “And I’ve learned about different people’s perspectives. It’s been time-consuming and I’ve been asked questions I’ve never heard before. But I’ve learned I have a gift for helping others.”… Read more…
1969 Galesburg High School graduate Ken Johnson has been named to lead communications and marketing for the Solar Energy Industries Association… “This is an exciting opportunity to be part of something which is so critically important to America’s future,” said Johnson, a 1973 Knox College graduate… A Capitol Hill veteran, Johnson previously headed up communications for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and two major committees in the U.S. House of Representatives…
[Knox College graduate and Alumni Achievement Award winner] Carol Craig, Craig Technologies CEO, is recognized by The Manufacturing Institute, Deloitte, University of Phoenix, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers with a 2013 Women in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production) Award for her excellence and leadership in manufacturing.
Sarah Jones hopes you’ll “dig” her new vintage/modern store. Dig, 70 N. Seminary St., is scheduled to open Wednesday… “It will be vintage clothing and household goods and recycled furniture,” she said, lots of furniture… Jones, 37, grew up in Galesburg and graduated from Knox College, where she was an art major…
CNN anchor Christine Romans, who spoke at Knox on Jan. 17, mentioned her visit to campus on the subsequent edition of her program on personal finance, Your Bottom Line: “This week, I had the honor of speaking to students at Knox College, a private liberal arts college, in Galesburg, Illinois. Here’s what I told them: there are four available workers for every job in this country. I said, ‘look around you, look around you in that room. You got to beat out three of those classmates just to get hired. You still have a golden ticket. You’re just going to have to work harder to get it punched’…” 