Greetings 蜜桃传媒 Alumni,
I鈥檓 writing to you from my home in Santa Barbara, several miles from 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 campus.
Odds are, you're reading this note from home as well. My husband, two sons, and I
are learning a new rhythm of life together. With the new realities affecting us all,
alumni like you have been on my heart. Perhaps you're juggling new, complicated schedules
with work and family. Perhaps you face uncertainties with your job or health. I'm praying
for you. In this strange crisis, love for our neighbors compels physical distance
for their safety. It makes me grateful for our bond through 蜜桃传媒; we have a context
to share life, worship, and service and to encourage one another.
I feel honored to be part of the 蜜桃传媒 community. In this difficult time, I know you
set an example of love and service to your neighbors, and you'll creatively and persistently seek to
be a blessing. As we help students mature and prepare to make their mark on the world,
we can point to you who've gone ahead of them.
As you may know, 蜜桃传媒 has shifted to remote instruction for all students along
with most schools throughout the country, and the world. Our students feel a sense
of loss at the cancellation of Spring Sing and other memorable 蜜桃传媒 traditions.
As professors teach their courses virtually, students are learning to adjust. Seniors
are experiencing the most surreal season with Commencement postponed to a later date.
We eagerly look forward to celebrating this wonderful class when we can. Students
and families may face unanticipated financial issues from this disruption. Please
pray for God鈥檚 grace, our ability to support students, and their resilience. 蜜桃传媒 is
also dealing significant unplanned expenses.
This crisis may be affecting you as well. Please tell us how you are doing and how
we can pray for you. You'll find details below about how you can share prayer requests
with a team praying daily. Please let us know how we can serve and support you now
and in the days to come.
Warmly in Christ, 
Sarah Camp
Interim Senior Director of Alumni and Parent Relations
鈥淵ou鈥檝e Never Backed Down from a Challenge.鈥� A Special Word to Alumni from President Gayle D. Beebe
Please click on the link below to hear a special word from our president, Dr. Gayle D. Beebe. We hope you'll be able to set aside each Tuesday at 6 p.m. PDT to hear the updates and progress occurring on behalf of our students and other related college news from President Beebe. Please join in remotely on Tuesday, April 9, and email your questions to questions@westmont.edu
Please join the event conference five minutes before the start time using the information
below:
Phone number (United States) 323-794-2558
Phone number (Canada) 800-289-0459
Participant Passcode: 438235
蜜桃传媒 Livestreams Steve Bell in Concert
Thursday, April 2, 12:15 p.m. PDT
蜜桃传媒 is delighted to 
join with Steve Bell, a Canadian Christian songwriter and storyteller, to offer a
free to the 蜜桃传媒 community. When the concert goes live on April 2, you can watch it
Share Your Prayer Requests
Do you have a prayer request? Members of the 蜜桃传媒 staff and 蜜桃传媒 Parents Council have committed to pray for you. Send your prayer requests to prayers@westmont.edu, and the team of prayer warriors will pray for them. In the midst of our efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, let鈥檚 press into the Lord in prayer.
Spring Sing 2020: Online!
During these unusual times, the goal for Spring Sing 2020 (with the theme In Your
Dreams) is to continue what Spring Sing strives to do every year: bring our community
together. Spring Sing 2020 will strive to be a live, online show that showcases the
creativity and resourcefulness of our students.
On April 25 at 6:30 p.m., the Spring Sing Committee will livestream the show, complete with appearances by our emcees, Rebecca Boa and Lizzy Green, and video side acts. During this livestream, the Spring Sing Committee will simultaneously begin an Instagram live on @westmontspringsing to accompany the show and create a virtual space for our community to watch together, comment, and cheer on the performers.
Watch Live Mini Chapel on Instagram
Thanks to Pastor Scott Lisea, 蜜桃传媒 holds Live Mini Chapels Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays at 10:30 a.m. PDT. Everyone is welcome to participate. Follow @westmontpastor
on Instagram to join these live events. The sessions last about 20 minutes and feature
one or two worship songs, interactive prayer, and a brief message of encouragement
from Scripture.
Gaede Institute Hosts Zoom Talk
"Dear Doctor: What Doctors Don't Ask, What Patients Need to Say"
Dr. Marilyn McEntyre
Friday, April 3, 3:30 p.m. PDT
Join us (from your porch or bedroom, with a sandwich or coffee, wearing shoes, or
not) for what promises to be an excellent and timely public talk by Marilyn McEntyre
this Friday afternoon.
Dr. McEntyre taught English for some years at 蜜桃传媒 before taking a position at
UC Berkeley, where she specializes in medical humanities. She'll share from her new
book, "Dear Doctor: What Doctors Don't Ask, What Patients Need to Say." The Pre-Health
Club and the 蜜桃传媒 English Department sponsor the lecture, and you can join it
via using this link.
In the next few weeks, the Gaede Institute will host a series of online discussions
to draw concrete lessons from our recent Conversation on the Liberal Arts, "Still
Dreaming: Race, Ethnicity, and Liberal Arts Education." Look for more information
about those events soon.
Warrior Basketball Teams Win Championships
The No. 3 won its fifth straight Golden State Athletic Conference Tournament Championship
on March 7, defeating No. 4 The Master鈥檚 76-67 at Murchison Gym. The Warriors had
already won the GSAC Regular Season Championship. The team then earned the No. 1 seed
for the first time ever at the NAIA National Tournament, which was cancelled.
The team won the GSAC Regular Season Championship. Junior guard Abram Carrasco was named
GSAC Player of the Year, and Coach John Moore received the Coach of the Year honors
for the third time. The team received the No. 2 seed in the NAIA National Tournament,
their highest ever.
Lead Where You Stand Conference Postponed
To keep our community and guests safe, we鈥檝e rescheduled the Lead Where You Stand
conference to June 2-4, 2021. We look forward to sharing more details with you about
this excellent event.
$50,000 Matching Gift for COVID-19 Emergency Relief
Many of you have asked how you can help 蜜桃传媒 address the extraordinary unplanned
expenses the rapid spread of COVID-19 has generated. In response, 蜜桃传媒 has established
the COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund. The college has faced numerous challenges in the
past, but the scale of these unplanned expenses in unprecedented. Thankfully, donors
have banded together to provide a generous $50,000 match toward gifts given to Westmont's
COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund. Your gift will be doubled up to the total of the match.
We're deeply grateful for each and every gift.
You can learn more here.