In this issue ...

Editorial

• The making of a chair (by Ryan Teller, pg. 2)

News

• The operative word is change (by Linda Deibel Skinner ‘71, pg. 4)
• Gifting options for your IRA required minimum distribution (by Ken Farrow, pg. 5)
• Putting the social in social work ( by Maren Miller, pg. 6)
• Writing for real audiences (by Yvonne Kanyi, pg. 7)
• Planning for the worst (by Michael Rohm ’14, pg. 8) 
• Following a calling back home (by Maren Miller and Ryan Teller, pg. 9)

Features

• Redefining the mission field( by Trena Smith Reed ’97, pg. 12-13)
• The quest for the perfect cheesecake (by Mike Mennard, pg. 14-16)
• Union’s guaranteed education enables grad to follow true calling (by Lauren Bongard Schwarz ’04, pg. 17)
• Union College to launch occupational therapy assistant program (by Emily Wood Roque Cisneros ’16, pg. 18-19)
• Swapping lesson plans for less plans (By Emily Wood Roque Cisneros ’17, pg. 20-21)
• Changing the face of education (by Michael Rohm ’14, pg. 22-25)

In every issue

• People placements (pg. 26)
• Class-ifieds (pg. 27)
• In memory (pg. 28-30)