Campus Notes - Simsbury College Students

SIMSBURY, CT — Here are some recent notable accomplishments by local college students, as provided by readMedia Newswire.

Colby College, Waterville ME

• Jonah I. Obi of Simsbury enrolled at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, this fall. Before classes began Sept. 4, Obi took part in a weeklong orientation that included an introduction to academic and intellectual life at Colby, participation in an outdoor education trip (COOT), and an address by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies Cheryl Townsend Gilkes at Colby's 202nd Convocation. A graduate of Northwest Catholic High School, Obi is the son of Innocent and Chizoba Obi.

Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore MD

• As first-year students embark on their college experience, Benjamin Grossman and Kevin McDonough, both of Simsbury, took part in Loyola's living learning program, Messina. The common text for Messina is Heartland, by Sarah Smarsh. The book is an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that "will deepen our understanding of the ways in which class shapes our country."