L-R: Tyler McChane '11, Amanda Gardner '11, Miranda Hipple
Meet the WWC Fund work crew... We're small, but we do big things!
Our focus is cultivating and deepening relations with College alumni, friends, parents/families, faculty/staff, and students to raise financial support for the College through the WWC Fund. We do this through mailings, web/email, Phonathon, and events, such as Homecoming and Family Weekend.
It's hard work, but important, because your WWC Fund support helps everyone at the College. It's neat work because we get to meet and talk with so many people who love this place. And it's fun...after all, what other work crew has "WWC FUN" in its name?
Tyler McChane '11
Hello friends! This is Tyler, speaking from the Doug & Darcy Orr Cottage (where our office is). The crew is awesome! Anyways, I’d like to tell you about what’s important to me: I grew up in the same house in Louisville, Kentucky, for 18 years, and it was great. It was hard to leave, but Warren Wilson seems like the perfect place to make my new home. I love making so many new friends, and my classes are awesome. I’ve been learning a ton, which is the best part about Warren Wilson for me. I’m interested in majoring in Global Studies with concentrations in Peace and Justice Studies and Latin America, but anything could happen. I’m also excited about Religious Studies and Spanish. In the summers, I LOVE working. I’m a counselor at a day camp for teenagers with Downs Syndrome, and I love every minute of it. It can be a long and stressful eight weeks, but it’s also a bunch of fun. Who knows? I may still be working there when I’m 50.
Amanda is elusive. She's in the middle of our crew pic above.
My name is Amanda Gardner and I am from Ashland, Virginia. I grew up on a Japanese maple nursery where I have worked since I was very young. Being around the maples and seeing them develop with the help of my work instilled in me a great deal of respect for trees and the surrounding environment. I am a freshman this year at Warren Wilson. With the experiences and knowledge that I gain here, I hope to become a social worker and grow to help those around me. I have a lot of passions in my life, but helping others is probably one that I hold most dear. Through personal experiences and challenges that I have faced, I have seen the impact that we can have on each other and know just how far good deeds can reach. I am here, like so many others, to further my academic knowledge as well as my understanding of the world and others around me. Through my work with this crew, I hope to assist in doing a lot of good for the school and benefit many that will follow me years down the road.
Miranda Hipple, CFRE (on left) encouraging Tyler to get to work.
Well, it had to happen--I hardly feel it in my young, tender age, but I am the responsible one on the work crew. Every work crew at WWC has a staff/faculty "work crew supervisor." So by default between the three of us, it's me! (lol) I've been privileged to work at Warren Wilson in the Office of Advancement since February 2006. It's an amazing adventure coming to the office each day, working with the students and folks I do, and getting to tell the story of this magical place. I've worked in fundraising and development for about ten years now. Prior to WWC, I worked in fundraising for non-profit radio. I'm active with the Association of Fundraising Professionals (yes, we do congregate), and in June 2007, I earned my CFRE certification, which means Certified Fund Raising Executive. (Just google "CFRE" for what all that means.) I like to say I've been adopted by WWC because I actually went to school at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tenn., where I'm from, where I earned a bachelor of arts degree (major: French) and master of business administration degree. The rest of my story is a strange tale, so if you do drop by and we have time, I'd love to share the rest of it--and how Chuck E. Cheese and Billy Graham can be in the same one!