{"id":8678,"date":"2021-05-04T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T19:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlhamsor.wpengine.com\/?page_id=8678"},"modified":"2023-03-07T10:30:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:30:59","slug":"alumni-lives-and-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esr.earlham.edu\/about\/alumni-lives-and-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Lives and Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our alumni lead lives of purpose. Whether they’re working as ministers or teachers, entrepreneurs or social workers, they are finding creative ways to serve in today’s world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DAVID GARMAN
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After graduating from Kalamazoo College in 1968, I served as a VISTA Volunteer assigned to the Nez Perce Tribe in Idaho. In correspondence with one of my college roommates, we began to discuss religion –he was a student at Colgate Rochester Divinity School– and seeds were planted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While in Idaho, I decided to file for status as a Conscientious Objector to military service. After Mary and I were married, I moved back to Kalamazoo, MI, to do alternative service at Borgess Hospital. A cousin of mine was a member of the Kalamazoo Friends Meeting and encouraged me to explore living in the rental apartment at the Meetinghouse. As it turned out, the rental was not available, but the Resident Caretakers were leaving. Mary and I became Resident Friends, started attending Meetings for Worship and became Convinced Friends. Through the Quaker network, I learned about ESR. The seeds planted by those conversations with my college friend, Charlie Hartman, took root, and I became a student at ESR in 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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