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MONMOUTH Before Nathan Gaskill 04 was a partner at the accounting firm of Lauterbach & Amen in Naperville, he was a first-generation college student wondering if he d have enough money to begin and continue his Monmouth College education. First-generation college students can face a multitude of challenges, said his wife, Laura Haumiller Gaskill 06. The financial burden is often one of those barriers to entry, and one we thought we could help lighten that load.
The couple had Nathan s experience in mind when they considered supporting Monmouth s Light This Candle Campaign, which will raise a minimum of $75 million for the College s endowment by Dec. 31, 2022.
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Camryn Eickenberg (left) and Anthony Pendolino deliver gift boxes to essential workers at a local hospital. (Camryn Eickenberg)
NAPERVILLE, IL Camryn Eickenberg and Anthony Pendolino came up with the idea of GOAT Gifts in their business incubator class at Naperville Central High School just a few months before the pandemic hit. Instead of crumbling under the pressure of the coronavirus crisis, GOAT Gifts rose to the occasion and began giving back to their community with a simple gesture that has helped the business grow exponentially.
GOAT Gifts began with an idea to send care packages to college students. Chief Executive Officer Pendolino told Patch the name GOAT Gifts comes from the fact that their goal is to offer the greatest gifts of all time.
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March 5, 2021
Educators at a public high school in Illinois were astonished to learn when they showed up for work one day that everything from the color of their skin to snow shoveling indicates “systemic racism.”
On Feb. 26, Naperville 203 Community Unit School District hosted a systemic racism training for faculty and staff, bringing in “antiracist” coach Dena Simmons for a keynote speech. The Countywide Equity Institute featured 10 speakers lecturing on “equity and inclusion” practices for “marginalized and/or underrepresented” students, as well as implicit bias and microaggressions.
A whistleblower who reached out to The Federalist, a teacher at Naperville Central High School, claims Simmons told attendees that “our education is based on a foundation of whiteness” and that Americans “are spiritually murdering” students. Simmons also reportedly said that if you are not an “antiracist” you are a racist, even if you believe “you are treating people w