WSJ: With Scant Jobs, Grads Make Their Own http://foxyurl.com/Nns Entrepreneurship among recent graduates. Have you started a new biz, too?

Grayson Hall, C'79 named CEO of Regions Financial Corporation. http://ping.fm/OZULh

Best Places to Work | Glassdoor.com http://ping.fm/KhN6Q

Great video & music by recent Sewanee grads http://foxyurl.com/N0A Enjoy!

Kauffman Foundation: College Freshmen Show Increasing Interest in Entrepreneurship http://foxyurl.com/MKI

Is Wall Street in a Hiring Mode? SmartMoney.com article http://foxyurl.com/MDb

Entrepreneur Melissa Johnson C'78 of South Coast Paddling Co. in Ocean Springs, MS; article by Alex Pappas C'09 http://foxyurl.com/MgH

Small employers remain the backbone of the college labor market, with hiring expected to increase 15 percent in the coming year http://ping.fm/QC949

Kauffman Foundation poll of entrepreneurs suggests economic growth engine still in low gear http://foxyurl.com/JZs

Have you seen all that #Sewanee's Babson Center for Global Commerce is doing? Check out the new site http://ping.fm/S8Uk7

The article also features Sewanee Prof. Yasmeen Mohiuddin and the SEED program she created which sent them to India: http://foxyurl.com/vpP

Taylor Triplett C'09 & John Lines C'10 profiled by the US Embassy in India for their summer work with an Indian NGO: http://foxyurl.com/vpH

Lucas Ridley C'06 has won the HP "Life is My Adventure" video contest. See his entry: http://ping.fm/q94W6

#Sewanee Alumni, Will you be here at Homecoming? Want to attend the networking luncheon with students? Register here: http://foxyurl.com/ueH

Martha “Marty” Willis C'82 to join OppenheimerFunds as chief marketing officer. Formerly EVP of Fidelity's investment product mgmnt group. http://ping.fm/QFdRo

NACE reports hiring down 7% for Class of 2010 http://www.naceweb.org/spotlight/2009/c090209.htm

So many Career Services events planned for Sept & Oct! http://ping.fm/Noxb7

Four young #Sewanee alumni teaching with WorldTeach China this year: http://ping.fm/qyGU4

#sewanee C'10-lots of events coming up this week & in Sept. See our calendar for details: http://ping.fm/lCgzh

#Sewanee alum Courtenay Budd, C'90 sings "Chanson d'amour" by Amy Beach: http://ping.fm/fT9dn

Several new jobs posted in TigerNet & TigerNet for Alumni. Take a look. Also just learned of a great opp. in banking in the D.C. area today.

NPR story about alumnus Stephen Alvarez, C'87 @alvarezphoto http://ping.fm/Qr3Vo

Recent #sewanee grads: check TigerNet or TigerNet for Alumni for new job postings. http://ping.fm/u45ej

New jobs posted via the official #Sewanee Alumni LinkedIn group. Alumni, a fellow alum would like to hire you!

@Newsweek: Recessions the perfect time to start your own business http://ping.fm/whJW3

Great new service available to Sewanee alumni seeking jobs in finance & for those already in the industry @OneWirefinance http://foxyurl.com/pC5

Lucas Ridley, C'06:

Trenton, GA Man Wins Environmental Protection Agency Video Contest

See more of the contests that Lucas has produced videos for at his blog.
Link to similar story in the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

Lacy Morrison, C'10:

Sewanee Student Finds Sri Lankans Resilient
By Joy Lukachick; Published 7.18.09, Chattanooga Times Free Press

When Lacy Morrison stepped off the plane, she didn't expect to find the people of Sri Lanka moving forward with their lives.

Ms. Morrison, a senior at Sewanee: The University of the South, took an independent trip to Sri Lanka at the beginning of the summer to work with children while building her photography portfolio.

The Rev. Kyle Bennett, C'85 & T'04:

Camp Able - Where Acceptance Reigns
By Katherine Tuttle; Posted 7.16.09 on Marco Eagle

Camp Able had its genesis in Mississippi where Rev. Kyle Bennett, Rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church first worked at a week long summer camp for persons with disabilities.

“Working with kids with disabilities is where I cut my teeth and where I decided to become a priest. My understanding of God came from working with marginalized people,” said Bennett.

He worked there for a total of 20 years; the last five years he was the director. He missed this service when he came to Marco in 2005 and saw an opportunity within the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida at the DaySpring Conference Center in Manatee County. He was given permission by the Bishop to try. The first camp was in 2007.

Blake Shell, C'01:

Archer Gallery Hires New Director
BY D. K. Rowe; Published 6.18.09 in The Oregonian
The art gallery at Clark College in Vancouver recently tapped Blake Shell as its director.

Eliza Greenman, C'06:

It's Not Unusual to Find Eliza Greenman Up a Tree on Ilesford
By: Kathy Lane; published May 2009 by The Island Institute in The Working Waterfront

Eliza Greenman came to the Cranberry Isles as a part of the Island Institute's Fellows Program after an adventurous year abroad.

With a bachelor's degree in forestry from The University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., and supported by a Congressional Scholarship for Young Professional Exchange, she spent a year in Germnay, one semester in a master's program in tropical sustainable forestry in Dresden, then went on to Freiburg.

Jon Meacham, C'91:

Jon Meacham Wins Biography Pulitzer

By: Sarah Ball. Posted April 20, 2009; blog.newsweek.com

NEWSWEEK Editor Jon Meacham won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography on Monday afternoon for "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House." Click here to read an excerpt, or here to download his interview with NEWSWEEK ON AIR about the book, which was selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2008.

From Associated Press, April 20, 2009:

BIOGRAPHY: "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House," by Jon Meacham.

Meacham, the editor of Newsweek, is the best-selling author of "Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship" and "American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation."

His latest work looks at how Jackson's pivotal years in the White House as the nation's seventh chief executive helped shape the modern presidency. The book was described by the judges as an "unflinching portrait" of Jackson, written in "agile" prose that brings Jackson's story to life.

Dr. Wallace "Skip" Neblett, C'67:

Vanderbilt doctors are elated with separation of conjoined twins

By Chris Echegaray • Published April 23, 2009; THE TENNESSEAN

Conjoined twins are identical twins who develop from the same fertilized egg but don't fully separate in the womb. U.S. doctors perform on average two separations per year, said Dr. Wallace "Skip" Neblett, the lead surgeon in the operation and chairman of the department of pediatric surgery.

David Mason, C'95:

No Recession for this Nashville Internet Business
By RANDY MCCLAIN
Published: 3.13.09; The Tennessean

"Serial entrepreneur David Mason is at it again. With venture capital funding from several sources, Mason and his partners have taken Web-based video production company, StudioNow, past $1 million a year in sales."

Lydia Fenet, C'99:

In World of High-Glamour, Low-Pay Jobs, the Recession Has Its Bright Spots

By LAURA M. HOLSON

Published: February 8, 2009; New York Times

The young women who work at New York’s auction houses have found that the economic downturn has suddenly put them on equal footing with friends in finance.

Wonder who's hiring?

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