NoW IS The TIme Professor Bob Withycombe with Megan and John Medica at the Megan Salzman at graduation in 1981 with her proud parents, November 2011 campaign launch in Seattle. Robert Salzman and Ethel Neilen Salzman. Withycombe and Professor Jim hanson and enjoyed and married megan’s father, robert W. Salzman, and watching the debate program and rhetoric department continued to work outside the home until adopting a grow, change, and adapt to students’ educational needs baby and becoming a full-time homemaker, raising three and advances in technology. In 2001, they established children. An avid reader, opera buff and enthusiast, and the Salzman-medica Debate endowment to provide a firm believer in the benefits of education, ethel Neilen long-term support for the program and scholarships for Salzman helped inspire megan to become the first promising debaters. member of her family to graduate from both college and In 2009, megan was elected to Whitman’s Board of graduate school. Trustees and joined in the efforts to design and launch theNow Is the Time Campaign. The medicas wanted to make a gift to the campaign that would help transform the Whitman experience for current and future students and also honor their mentors. With the Salzman, medica, Withycombe, and hanson names well-known in Whitman debate, they realized that the names of two of their most influential supporters had not yet been mentioned – those of their earliest mentors, their moth- ers. megan and John decided to establish the Neilen- Anderson Professorship in rhetoric to further strengthen Whitman’s program and to acknowledge the important influence their mothers had on their life passions and educations. megan and John remind us all, “Families have two sides!” megan’s mother, ethel Ann Neilen (1924-2007), was a first-generation American of Irish descent, born and raised in New York. After graduating from high school with honors, miss Neilen entered the workforce and later relocated to the San Francisco Bay area, a place where she had no family or friends. There she met Among its many other achievements, Whitman’s debate team captured its third straight national championship in parliamentary debate. 8
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