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Most people aren’t asked about their genitals when seeking treatment for a sore throat. But that was the experience of a transgender person, who shared on Twitter using the hashtag #transhealthfail.
“So you’ve had all the Surgeries [sic]?,” the Twitter user recounted the doctor asking. “I’m here because I have the flu,” the person responded.
Linfield College named Su-Yen Wong ’89 to its Board of Trustees over the weekend and created four new endowed scholarships.
Reprinted with permission of the News-Register.
By Starla Pointer October 2, 2017
Linfield College senior Addy Ahmasuk spent a productive day floating on the Yamhill River. She came home with a section of mammoth tusk more than a foot long and about 50 million years old.
For the second year in a row, Linfield College was ranked as the top liberal arts college in Oregon and Washington on Washington Monthly’s “Best Bang for the Buck” list.
Linfield College will step to the beat of a different drummer in fall 2018 when it launches a new marching band. The band will support the entire Wildcat community, including the football team, renowned for its string of 61 consecutive winning seasons.
For the second year in a row, Linfield College is tied for the No. 1 spot among Pacific Northwest liberal arts colleges for “Best Ethnic Diversity,” according to the 2018 U.S. News and World Report list released today.
Jennifer Moranchel ’19 keenly remembers her freshman orientation at Linfield College. Her parents, natives of Puebla, Mexico, had a hard time keeping up with all of the complex information and schedules being discussed in English.
Michelle Johnston Holthaus ’95
has been named the head of Intel’s sales and marketing group, effective Sept. 6.
Fourteen new students are being introduced to Linfield College life through the lens of exploring art, Oregon history, eclipses and, of course, murder ballads. AHA (Arts and Humanities in Action) is one of four pre-orientation programs that 67 entering students are participating in right now, a week before classes start for the 2017-18 school year.
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, the Ronni Lacroute Chair in Shakespeare Studies at Linfield College, will present the keynote address at opening convocation on Friday, Aug. 25, at 9:30 a.m. in the Ted Wilson Gymnasium at Linfield College. The talk is entitled “Digital Shakespeare.”