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  • Photo by houghtoncollege: ”The connections we make in the course of a life-maybe that's what heaven is.”
~Fred Rogers
PC: @sour_krause27 
#houghtoncollege 
#fredrogers #winter #sunset #collegelife
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: #houghtontbt to 1992 📽
Back to the days of windbreakers, mullets (business up front and party in the back🥳) and mega bangs❗️
To the start of a journey and career for many faculty and staff who have returned or stayed close to our Houghme💜💛
Back to the year we said goodbye and gave thanks for a man who enriched our community and shaped our future.
And last but not least, back to the year and evening our Interim VP for Student Life was named Snow King👑
That's life as a Highlander💜💛
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: 📣Back at it again with “Where are they? Wednesday!” •
Today we have the privilege of featuring Mr. Shawn Gillis ’13 of Gillis Cane Company. Shawn graduated with a business degree and an art minor, Summa Cum Laude. His wife Kendra also graduated from Houghton with a business major in 2013, Magna Cum Laude. They run Gillis Cane Company together in Chittenango, NY, and have two beautiful children, Theodore (3yr) and Elaina (1yr).
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Gillis Cane Company began as a hobby when I was a young boy making walking sticks in my father's wood shop.  I carried the hobby into my time at Houghton and during my junior year I entered four of my pieces into the juried student art show at the @ortlip_gallery.  I did it without expectations.  It was a “what the heck
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: Kenya feel the good vibes of this place?🙈 This freezing rain has us loving @houghtoneastafrica posts that much more! 
#hceastafrica #houghtoncollege #houghtoneastafrica 
#badpunsfordays
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: Get ready to travel to London tomorrow as Molly Brizzell ’22 takes us with her on her daily adventures abroad!
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Molly is the newest member of our student social media team, and is traveling with Honors in London this semester!
Keep your phone handy as tomorrow we get to experience a taste of London without needing a passport!
@mollybrizzell 
#houghtoncollege #hclondonhonors #londonhonors
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: We 💜💛 seeing these #hcaccepted students posting their excitement about joining our Highlander family! Keep ’em coming❗️
#houghtoncollege #hcaccepted #futurehighlander
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: Today is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. Today we gather together to represent the #enditmovement. Raise your voice and be heard❗️❌
”Our lives begin to end the moment we become silent about the things that matter.” MLK Jr.
PC: @jessicaalicedelgado 
#enditnowmovement #enditmovement #houghtoncollege #beheard
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: Where are they? Wednesday is back with 
Jacob Dunnett❗️Graduating in 2017 from our beloved HC, Jacob majored in Business Administration with minors in Data Science and Communications🎙He’s also the brother to one of our social media team members, Sadie!🙌
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During his time at Houghton, he played goalkeeper for the Men's Soccer team. He was also a member of the Houghton Consulting Groups as well as the Student Investment Group. • 
Jacob is now the Assistant Women's Soccer Coach at Fort Hays State University in Kansas where he will also graduate with his MBA in Digital Marketing this May!
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Join us as Jacob takes over our story for the day and gives us a glimpse at balancing a masters program, coaching and life in Kansas!
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: All work and no clay makes me want to throw things🙃
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#houghtoncollege #badpunoftheday #clay #potterylife
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: Just playing a little ultimate on the parts of the quad we can find🥏 Give us a day with temps in the 50’s and nothing will slow us down🙌
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  • Photo by houghtoncollege: Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early Spring..here’s hoping he’s right for once🙌 😂Happy Groundhog Day! •
#groundhogsday #houghtoncollege #latergram #bringonspring #stayoptimistic
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: ”There’s nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.” ~Bob Ross
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#houghtoncollege #winter #wny #bobross #sunrise
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: Today we’re taking a break from our student stories here on campus to introduce you to “Where are they❓ Wednesdays” A new opportunity  for our Highlander alumni to reconnect with former classmates, for current students to see what God has called former Highlanders to and for prospective students to see what amazing things Highlander family members are doing for His glory!
📣InTrOdUcInG: Sarah (Haver) Terwey ’02❗
 Sarah earned her degree in Communications/Intercultural studies, as well as a minor in Equestrian Studies at Houghton. After several years of further study and experience in missions and HIV/AIDS training, she joined Pfunanane Ministries and Academy in Modjadjiskloof, South Africa in 2007, as their sponsorship and ministry coordinator. @pfunanane_ministries works to uplift impoverished families through education, training, and family support. Pfunanane seeks to share the gospel through both words and deeds, acting as Christ’s hands and feet to the local areas, and training up the future leaders of South Africa, a country with high crime, unemployment, and HIV/AIDS rates. 
Over the past 12 years with the ministry, Sarah has started a therapeutic horse riding program, as well as coaching the academy’s cross country and athletics teams, and running their music/drama department. She also continues to run the sponsorship program of more than 125 children in preschool through university, as well as assisting with the daily operations of the non-profit.
Sarah and her husband Mark are parents to 13 adopted/foster kids and two biological kids, as well as fostering and caring for many other children in need throughout the years. Sarah and her family as well as her ministry will be featured on our story today!
That’s life as a Highlander💜💛
#highlanderalumni #forhisglory #houghtoncollege #wherearetheyweds
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: Immerse yourself in the East African experience – the culture, people, and environment – for a semester unlike any other.
Houghton’s East Africa semester in Kenya will challenge you – to engage other cultures, experience life in community, explore God’s creation, and enrich your faith. 
Now accepting applications for Houghton East Africa 2020! 🔗 in profile. Remember, it's better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times!
PC: @vivianrivers @houghtoneastafrica
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: Happy 105th Birthday to Mrs. Marjorie Marriott, class of 1934! President Mullen was able to sneak in a little one on one time with Marjorie this weekend-in the thick of birthday celebrations🎉
Marjorie majored in Music Education during her time here at Houghton, and minored in French. She still lives in Houghton, residing at Absolut Care.💜💛
#houghtonalumni #birthdaycelebrations
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: #houghtoncollege #reviveusagain #winter #faithlikeachild
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: Come near to God & He will come near to you. 
Anywhere, anytime-even in the greenhouse for late night worship🙌
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#houghtoncollege #campuslife 
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  • Photo by houghtoncollege: If I have a faith that can move mountains but have not love, I am nothing.
#houghtoncollege #java101 #showlove #campuslife
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: Do you wanna build a snowman☃️
#houghtoncollege #winter #frozen #snowmen #wheninrome
  • Photo by houghtoncollege: Let’s take a moment to recognize our fabulous men in blue, our very own Safety and Security team, for the many ways they keep our campus secure and safe.
A special shout out to Officer Chuck Hill for being recognized for his detective work in “The Case of the Missing Cell Phone,” helping to track down and recover a campus guest’s misplaced cell phone saving them hundreds of dollars and demonstrating the personal attention and care for which Houghton faculty and staff are known💜💛
#houghtoncollege #safety #security #campuslife
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