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Since he graduated in 1998, Whittier native Mike
Garabedian has brought the
skills and knowledge acquired over four years as an English
major at
Whittier College to bear on a variety of activities and
pursuits. In 1999
and 2000, for instance, he designed and launched a website
to disseminate
information about proposed development in the Whittier Hills
(http://whittierhills.tripod.com)
and collected hundreds of online
endorsements of a petition to incorporate nearly 1,000 acres
to an existing
wilderness preserve, which was opened to the public in
2002.
Mike has also
continued to build on the education he received at Whittier.
After a year
on full fellowship in the PhD program at Northwestern
University, he took
his MA in American literature, and he is currently pursuing
an MLS degree at
UCLA where he plans to specialize in twentieth-century
American rare books
and special collections. Recently he was a big winner
on the game show, Jeopardy.
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"I think some people have the impression that, because it is
a smaller
place, the English department at Whittier is somehow lacking
in breadth or
rigor. However, having done graduate work with people from
top-ranking
institutions from all over, I can say with confidence that
Whittier’s
English faculty prepared me as well as my colleagues who
took their English
degrees at some of the best schools in the country. I know
more than
several Whittier alum pursuing graduate degrees in
literature who feel the
same way: Without a doubt, when it comes to training
literary scholars,
Whittier's English department is extraordinary."
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