Supernovas: Past Editors-In-Chief Reflect On The STAR and Beyond
After graduating from Houghton with a double major in Math & Philosophy in 2010, I went on to graduate school at the University of Notre Dame where I earned Masters degrees in Architecture and Architectural Design and Urbanism. In the past four years my wife Amy [Buckingham] VanderWeele ’10 (former section editor) and I have lived, worked, and studied in Chicago, South Bend, Washington DC, Rome, and Philadelphia. After four years of living out of suitcases, we have now settled down in Providence, Rhode Island where I work as an architectural designer for Union Studio Architecture & Community Design and Amy works for the Town of Cumberland’s Office of Children, Youth, and Learning.
I had the time of my life working for the Star. Amy and I still bring it up once in a while, laughing about terrible headlines we came up with at 3 in the morning, or that time a student mumbled about our poor judgment in subject matter and was later spotted discussing the finer points of an article with a friend in the coffee shop, or best of all that time a Financial Aid staffer came up to us with tears of laughter in her eyes thanking us for our April Fools’ story, “Baptist Bus to Visit Houghton.” It was thrilling to be so dialed-in to the conversations around campus and it was a tremendous honor to lead the dialogue week in and week out.
Joel VanderWeele
Editor 2009-2010
