President awards Norwich Emergency Medical Services students special coins in Jackman Hall meeting
When a fire burned through a Northfield house last month, leaving several residents injured, Norwich students working as first responders put the service-before-self into immediate practice.
As Vermont Capitol Police Chief Matthew Romei ’98 recounted in a letter to Norwich President Dr. Mark Anarumo, Corps of Cadets Col. Michael Titus and Dean of Students, Martha Mathis, about 150 emergency responders from more than 30 agencies answered a call to a March 25 house fire off of Little Northfield Road in Northfield, Vermont. Romei said the fire response was complicated, involving many university alumni and five current students.
Images capture campus in motion amid coronavirus pandemic, coursing swiftly behind masks
Norwich University Staff Photographer Mark Collier has seen scores of students experience college day-to-day in his 7½ years on campus. He’s captured them in class, on the march, gathered for meals, readying for life’s coming steps. This year, as the university adjusted to the coronavirus pandemic and new health and safety protocols, Collier said he frequently saw resilience in students as they minded distance, washed hands and wore masks. Everyone, he said, seemed to adopt the U.S. Marine Corps mantra: adapt, improvise and overcome.
Students found their groove and their joy, he said, especially on a gray, drizzly August day. In a show of bonding, team building and ingenuity, a small group of Corps of Cadets upperclassmen laid tarps on a hill by the baseball field and used the rainfall as a lubricant for a makeshift Slip ’N Slide.