Category Archive for "Flinn Scholars" |

Basically, she’s keeping the whole boat afloat

Logan Robertson (’94) is living in Visalia, Calif., and works for the Cutler-Orosi school district, for which she coordinates after-school programs, supervises other community services of the district, and does some grantwriting.

Of course you use a fishing pole

Next quarter, Ammon Corl (’93) will wrap up his doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. If you’ve always wondered how to catch lizards, check out the photos on his website.

Regarding news and newsmakers

Megan McGinnity (

The esq. ledger

Diana Rutowski (

The doctors are in

Julie Story (

Alum at the Apogee

Sarah Whitley (’02) is part of the inaugural class at the new UA-Phoenix med school. And she’s going for free, courtesy of Apogee Physicians, as the first-ever Apogee Scholar.

You can’t go Orme again

In case ye codgers (alums) out there missed the news, the longstanding Scholars tradition of starting the year with a retreat at the Orme School has ended. The new retreat site, Lost Canyon, outside of Williams, has met with the full approval of current Scholars.

We Three NSEP

Over on the Foundation’s website back in May, Leslie Harris (’01) reported on the latest batch of Scholars named NSEP Scholars–Devin Mauney (’05), Nicole Rennell (’05), and Ben Strauber (’05), whose awards are sponsoring study in, respectively, Brazil, South Africa, and India.

Scholars retreat moves from long-time home, begins new traditions

For 19 years in a row, the Flinn Scholars program began each year with a retreat at the Orme School, a Southwest landmark with multigenerational ties to the Flinn family. This year, the retreat moved to a new location, Lost Canyon, near Williams in northern Arizona's high country.

Meet Dustin Cox

Dustin Cox (’04) was the subject of the April, 2007 installment of the Meet-a-Scholar series on the Foundation’s website. He talks about diversity and politics and hope and the future and stuff.