{"id":2857,"date":"2020-09-17T00:37:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-the-words\/?page_id=2857"},"modified":"2024-07-30T16:22:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:22:11","slug":"three-time-zones-six-states-one-english-honor-society","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/the-words-september-2020\/three-time-zones-six-states-one-english-honor-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Time Zones, Six States, One English Honor Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Kira Schukar ’22<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s first officers\u2019 meeting of Macalester\u2019s English Honors Society (EHS) looked distinctly different from last spring. Instead of walking up the tile staircase in Old Main and finding a seat in the English lounge, I sat on the worn red couch in my living room, opened my email on my phone, and clicked a Zoom link. The faces of this year\u2019s returning officers\u2014Eric Fong <\/span>\u2019<\/span>21, Nora Stewert <\/span>\u2019<\/span>21, and Amy Vandervelde <\/span>\u2019<\/span>21\u2014popped up on my screen, and I heard the voices of the two other new officers\u2014Dalton Greene <\/span>\u2019<\/span>22 and Shelby Kruger <\/span>\u2019<\/span>22\u2014from their respective rectangles.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hadn\u2019t met with the other EHS officers since early July, and since then a lot had changed. In August, Macalester announced that the first module would be held remotely, and that only first-years could live on campus. For the EHS officers, this announcement meant that we would be scattered across the country\u2014with Shelby and Eric Zooming from the Pacific Northwest, Dalton and Nora representing the East Coast, and Amy and I inhabiting the Midwest\u2014for much longer than we initially thought.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discovering that I live more than 300 miles from the closest EHS officer\u2014and more than 1,400 miles from the furthest\u2014felt jarring, especially when I considered that I was seeing and talking to all five of them, from five different states, on a screen the size of my hand. Everyone felt so close, but I still missed them.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This feeling was universal during the first EHS officers\u2019 meeting. We had planned on talking about plans for the semester, and for part of the meeting we talked business\u2014virtual book festivals, radio dramas, book recommendations, authors\u2019 readings, and a Zoom Apps & Alums are all on the horizon for the English community\u2014but a larger part of the meeting was spent checking in with each other, asking about plans for the semester, and figuring out how to move forward at a time when everyone is staying put.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\tEric Fong \u201821, Sammamish, WA<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tDalton Greene \u201822, Wheeling, WV<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tShelby Kruger \u201822, Salem, OR<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tKira Schukar \u201822, Saint Paul, MN<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tNora Stewart \u201821, Hyattsville, MA<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\tAmy Vandervelde \u201821, Ottawa, IL<\/span>\n\t\t\t
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