Spotlight

A listener’s delight

Editor's note

Thirty-two pages is a tight fit, I tell myself, every time I try to plan the puzzle we call
Spotlight. This campus is so full of marvelous stories.

Telling them is an absolute joy because of the people. There’s Elaine Henry, who discarded her office chair for an exercise ball and offered a visitor a “chair,” or rather an Asian tea stool much like a large porcelain vase. Or Bill Hartman, who loves to tell stories. You should hear the ones we can’t print.

Cross country runners from the 1958 and 1959 national championship teams reunited for the first time in nearly four decades at Homecoming and remembered specific races right down to who had stomach cramps. ESU hosted the only Kansas lieutenant governor forum because one student, Courtney George, had the gumption to
say “Why not?”

When writing a story about scholarships, it can be easy to settle for familiar words like “support” and “future” – unless the story is magical enough to write itself. Grady
Atwater has seen his life change from janitor to scholar because of the opportunities he found at this university.

It’s tough to fit it all between the covers. That’s why you’ll see "e" symbols throughout
the magazine. When you see the symbol by a story, check online for more. Take a look and let me know what you think, and thank you for reading.

Yours for ESU,

Jesse Tuel (BSB 2001)
Editor
jtuel@emporia.edu

See the story in the electronic magazine, page 4

Last Updated April 17, 2008