Dana Clerkin and husband smiling with Sogoo children holding donated items

Trip to Africa Inspires Alumna to Help Build an Orphanage

Dana Pugh-Clerkin, CCAS BA ‘78, grew up knowing she would one day travel to Africa. “I would watch this show called Wild Kingdom that played on Saturday afternoons. Something stuck with me. I knew I would get there.”  Years later, after graduating from GW, raising two children, and working in the fundraising field, she finally […]

Carl Lounsbury, CCAS MA ’77, PhD ’83

Carl Lounsbury, CCAS MA ’77, PhD ’83, recently had two book projects published: a collection of his papers entitled Essays in Early American Architectural History, and Bruton Parish Church: An Architectural History, which honors the three-hundred-year anniversary of the present church in Williamsburg. Lounsbury teaches a summer architectural field school course in the College of […]

Peter Grothe, CCAS PhD ’70

Peter Grothe, CCAS PhD ’70, passed away on June 16 at the age of 81. Grothe was an author, educator and philanthropist, and spent 31 years as an adjunct professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies Graduate School of International Policy Studies. He taught cross-cultural communication and American politics, and served as the director […]