{"id":24405,"date":"2024-05-17T17:57:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T17:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-news\/?p=24405"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:38:29","slug":"volunteer-spotlight-dalton-green-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/volunteer-spotlight-dalton-green-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Spotlight: Dalton Green &#8217;22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Catherine Kane \u201926<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dalton Greene \u201922 is a Class Agent and a member of the Young Grand Society. He is currently pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Maryland after completing a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Greece last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What do you do in your role as a Class Agent?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a fairly recent alum, it\u2019s about rallying folks to the cause around Give to Macalester Days. I think for the younger alumni, there is some nostalgia around the spring semester, graduation, and how many years it\u2019s been already. I\u2019ve found it\u2019s a really good way to reconnect with people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What calls you to give and volunteer with Macalester?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s rooted in my life experience: I come from a small, working-class community in West Virginia and going to college was not a given for me. Coming to Macalester was a whole new world for me and truly opened so many doors\u2014I wouldn\u2019t have had the Fulbright experience or gone to graduate school without it. For me, it\u2019s a way of giving back both to the institution that helped propel me, but also I think about students like myself, for whom the financial support Macalester is able to offer is really lifechanging. That speaks to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What does being a member of the Young Grand Society mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, it\u2019s about the monthly, ongoing show of commitment and putting my money where my mouth is. I do believe that Macalester is doing good things in the world for students, and supporting that work in a concrete, material way feels meaningful. Being able to designate money towards financial aid aligns with my gratitude for the institution. The $17 a month is affordable, even on a graduate student\u2019s razor-thin budget.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dalton Greene \u201922 is a Class Agent and a member of the Young Grand Society<\/p>","protected":false},"author":881,"featured_media":24407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"fields":{"article_type":false,"flickr_photoset_id":"","youtube_id":"","square_thumbnail":false,"press_photos":false,"story_title":"","story_caption":"","rotations":false,"maps":false,"marker_title":"","marker_text":"","geographic_location":false,"feature_embed":"","custom_link_url":"","news_icon_name":"","image_options":false,"main_feature_story":"","custom_image":false,"custom_feature_title":"","custom_feature_caption":"","custom_markup":"","custom_markup_link":"","custom_markup_title":"","custom_markup_caption":"","byline":"","post_thumbnail_style":"default","press_downloads":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/881"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29737,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24405\/revisions\/29737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}