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TX (12/10/2007)
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Almost 100 years after President Harry Estill approved the inscription of Sam Houston State’s motto — “The measure of a Life is its Service,” on an Old Main chapel window, President Jim Gaertner has taken another step in that tradition.
Gaertner signed an agreement Dec. 3 that made Sam Houston State University the 53rd member of the Texas Campus Compact, which is part of a national coalition of more than 1,000 college presidents committed to “the civic purposes of higher education.”
The experience of interacting with some of the [homeless] people on the streets was an eye-opener. You leave those types of experiences with a mix of emotions--hope, disgust, love, grief--but I always leave motivated to do more.
-Taryn Anderson, Ohio Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA member, Capital University
