Classes of 2000-2009

I think of my 19-year-old self warmly. An anxious young person focused on how to reach and engage with a pained world. My first semester of college I had fallen in love for the first time, feeling the grand array of misery and joy that…

Being fortunate to be taught by Elie Wiesel during Eckerd College’s Winter Term, I was honored and appreciative of being able to witness firsthand Elie Wiesel’s great capacity for reaching his students through his eloquent words extolling peace, and of never forgetting people’s great capacity…

Among the many people who will miss Elie Wiesel are his students. I am one of them. As a junior at Eckerd College in 2005, I had the incomparable privilege of being a student in a Winter Term course team-taught by Carolyn Johnston and Elie…

Today, the word “empathy” is thrown around often. Folks often use this word to mitigate a previous comment that was fundamentally unempathetic. Elie Wiesel, to my knowledge, never used the word “empathy” in class, but he exhibited it in character and practice. I vividly remember…

Elie Wiesel was truly one of the greatest people I have had the privilege of knowing. I heard him speak to our freshman class in 1999 and took a class with him in 2004. He inscribed in my book, “To April, who knows and will…

With the recent passing of human rights leader Elie Wiesel, I was reminded of how lucky I was to be his student for one January in college, poring over his writings and listening to his stories and his wisdom every day for two hours. When…

Saddened by the passing of Elie Wiesel. I am grateful for Eckerd College and Carolyn Johnston that I had the opportunity to take a course with him in 2000. He inspired and encouraged me to study in la Provence, which paved the way for my…

I was so blessed to be among the 20 students chosen for Drs. Wiesel and Johnston’s Winter Term in 2000, and it was one of my defining experiences as an Eckerd student. Now it’s upon all of us who learned from him to continue passing…

I first learned of Dr. Wiesel’s passing on the front page of Hacker News, of all places—it’s a technology news aggregator where readers up-vote stories of interest, and it’s run by a venture firm called Y Combinator, a Silicon Valley start-up incubator of sorts. For…

In Memory During the balmy Florida winter of 1998, Elie Wiesel was my teacher at a small private college in St. Petersburg. I was 19 years old. Dr. Wiesel taught for a month every year at this lovely school along with my mentor, wonderful, transformative…