Summer 2020

19 Stories of Dragons Coming to the Rescue in COVID-19

When a crisis hits, everyone looks for the cavalry. This spring, it wasn’t Washington, D.C., or the Army Corps or the National Guard. Instead, almost immediately, ordinary people stepped up.…

Who Will See Us Through This?

David Shulkin’s book, “It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Serve Your Country” (PublicAffairs, Oct. 2019), is a detailed personal account of what it was like to serve in President…

A Year in the Life of a Philadelphia Teacher Resident

Brittany Jackson ’19 completed her Pennsylvania teaching certification in middle school math at Drexel while apprenticing at Albert M. Greenfield Elementary in Philadelphia in 2018. The experienced equipped her to…

A City Keeps Its Distance

Friends play footsie 6 feet apart in the otherwise empty Drexel Park, two weeks into Philadelphia’s stay-at-home shutdown. Photo by Jeff Fusco The New Year began with travel warnings…

Friends We’ll Miss: Summer 2020

1930s Arthur J. Norris, BS Business Administration ’39 Margaret Martin Pratt, Cert. Secretarial ’33 Joel Shrager, MD Medicine ’38 1940s Harriett Boyer Adams, Cert. Library Science ’46 Anna May Shutts…

Perspective from a 25-Year Co-op Manager

Bill Waldron ’90 has been working for AT&T for 30 years and through four name changes, and he’s met a ton of Drexel co-op students. For 25 of his 30…

Class Notes: Summer 2020

50s John C. Monsul, BS retail management ’53, appeared before the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to receive a special award for his TV show, “Communicating Today.” 60s Charles A.…

Alumni Awards Recognize Distinguished Dragons

This year’s award recipients represent how entrepreneurs, advocates, engineers and business, community and creative leaders can create solutions, spur progress and tangibly enhance peoples’ lives. We recognize the following Dragons…

Dance, Cook, Listen, Breathe

There’s a lot going on in the world right now, and we’ve all had to make major adjustments to our daily lives. So much change can make anxieties run high,…

Summer 2020

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