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Summer Leadership Adventure Weekend for High School Students: Registration Now Open

Calling all alumni and high school students! Registration for Leadership Adventure Weekend at Hampden-Sydney (July 12-14 or July 19-21) is now open.

Spend a weekend on our gorgeous campus with your favorite rising high school freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior! Leadership Adventure Weekends are a great way to experience all that the College has to offer. Go on hikes, tackle our high and low ropes courses, enjoy cookouts, learn from noted professors, and be inspired to set out on your own leadership journey.

Alumni: bring your son, nephew, grandson, etc. to this fun and meaningful weekend. Questions? Call (434) 223-7077.

Register Now!

Alumni College

Take a trip back to the 1960s with famed professors Alan Farrell, Jim Simms, and Ron Heinemann during Alumni College June 7-9.

Return to campus during reunion weekend, June 7-9, to experience Alumni College, where professors will examine American domestic and foreign policy during the late 1960s. Highlights of this great weekend include keynote talks from noted Washington Post columnist Max Boot and legendary professor Alan Farrell. Spend time with friends, enjoy campus life, and connect with other Hampden-Sydney institutions like Jim Simms, Ron Heinemann, John Eastby, Roger Barrus, Ken Lehman, and Warner Winborne. Questions? Call (434) 223-7077.

Giving Day

Hampden-Sydney’s Giving Day on May 1, 2019 will be a 24-hour celebration of giving to what means the most to you!  Read more about ways you can support our students, programs, and the Wilson Center…

Gifts to the Wilson Center open doors and ensure outstanding young men access to the academic and co-curricular grounding needed to serve others in a wide range of professions. Your generosity enables the Wilson Center to offer students quality programming that shapes their personal and professional journeys. Consider what your support provides:

  • A gift of $250 provides support for a campfire cookout for Wilson Fellows upon their arrival to campus.
  • A gift of $500 provides support for a visiting speaker and dinner with students.
  • A gift of $2,500 provides support for a student internship in Washington or New York.
  • A gift of $5,000 provides support for the Center’s annual trip to Washington.
  • A gift of $10,000 brings a speaker of national acclaim to campus.

Please consider supporting the Wilson Center. Questions? Call 434-223-6212 or go online to the giving form.

Hampden-Sydney Student Interns at White House

Congratulations to Kevin Canny ’21, White House Intern! Read more about this incredible experience…

Sophomore Kevin Canny is spending his spring semester in Washington, DC, serving as an intern at the White House. The Wake Forest, NC, native is an outstanding student who plans to major in Government and Foreign Affairs and minor in Leadership and the Public Interest. After graduation, he hopes to build a career in national security. Here are highlights from a short conversation with Kevin earlier this month.

Kevin’s days at the White House are spent “conducting important research, writing reports for staff, and interacting with a diverse, accomplished group of public servants.” He works as part of a team that focuses on the administration of governmental activities with executive branch agencies in Washington and the relationship between federal, local, and state governments. By the end of this experience, Kevin believes he “will have made invaluable connections and developed a more intimate, deep-seated understanding of the way in which the federal government, and specifically the executive branch, functions.” Two of his Hampden-Sydney classes, in particular, helped prepare him directly for this position, Kevin says. Rhetoric 102 with Dr. Susan Robbins gave him the confidence to organize and communicate his thoughts clearly and effectively, while Introduction to Leadership 101 with Lt. Col. Rucker Snead prepared him to write government memos where the “bottom line is placed up front (BLUF)”—the style used to communicate with senior decision makers in Washington. Both classes made him feel confident and well-prepared for all assignments during his time at the White House. Kevin concluded by stating that the internship, which was made possible by the support of Wilson Center faculty and staff and H-SC’s strong alumni network, has thus far “exceeded expectations.”

Alumni and friends: Your support and engagement make this kind of experience a reality for our students!