Planned Gift Will Help Jewish Students Maintain Their Identities Away From Home When students arrive on campus as freshmen, they begin the next chapter of their lives away from their homes and families' traditions. They will be living with a group of other students with diverse backgrounds and beliefs.  "This is the time when students need to find a way to maintain their traditions," said Doris Gordon '78, a trustee emerita of York College. "For Jewish students, an organization like Hillel allows them to explore and celebrate their identities with Jewish and non-Jewish students." Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, the largest Jewish campus organization in the world, provides opp...

Scott Poulter '11 and his York College art professor and mentor, Ry Fryar, spent three weeks this June in Africa photographing Kenyans and sketching their surroundings. This wasn't the first time Poulter has been to Kenya. He was born in Kenya where he and his missionary parents lived until he was six years old. However, this was the first time he was able to use his love for photography to capture the true essence of this diverse country and bring it back to York College. As the son of missionary parents, Scott Poulter has had the opportunity to travel all over the world. After living in Kenya, his family moved to Texas (where they lived for nine years) and then to Asia, where his parents ...