Marietta News story relating to the Marietta Community.
The transition from high school to college can be overwhelming for many young adults. For those with developmental disabilities, the challenges are amplified.
Fortunately, a $15,000 grant is helping Marietta College professors and students help Warren High School graduates grow and adapt to life beyond high school.
Marietta College's Sports Management 336 class has been working hard this semester to organize and deliver the fifth annual Community Softball Day and the 15th annual Community Baseball Day.
The action begins with the softball event on Saturday, April 13, at Marietta Field. Coach Jeanne Arbuckle's team takes on Heidelberg in a key Ohio Athletic Conference doubleheader. The first pitch is at 1 p.m., but the gates open at 11 a.m.
Bobby Souders ’15 (Winter Park, Fla.) kept it cool as a small group of fourth graders sidled their desks around his.
As the 10-year-olds chatted up a storm about the brightly colored liquids and two forms of salt he set out before him, the biochemistry major patiently waited for a brief pause in their conversations before he began directing them in their experiments.
“We’ve been learning about chemical changes and physical changes,” says Dr. Kevin Pate, who brought five Marietta College students to 1978 and 2006 alumna Nan Welch’s fourth-grade science class at Washington School as part of the MC2 program. Kaely Becker ’15 (Brunswick, Ohio), Derek Howe ’15 (Marietta, Ohio), Brandon Stewart ’15 (Delaware, Ohio), Ryan Turnewitsch ’15 (St. Clairsville, Ohio), Rebekah Wood ’15 (Pleasant City, Ohio) and Sounders have volunteered to help Pate with these events on numerous occasions during the past two years.
