{"id":16122,"date":"2019-01-19T10:39:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T04:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=16122"},"modified":"2024-05-18T17:56:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T12:11:55","slug":"grinnell-college-and-grinnellians-have-humbled-me-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/grinnell-college-and-grinnellians-have-humbled-me-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Grinnell College And Grinnellians Have Humbled Me…Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Taken from the 2019 Alumni Awards page<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once again, Grinnell College and Grinnellians have humbled me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Had it not been for the near 100% financial aid<\/a> in 1990, i wouldn’t have been able to attend Grinnell College at all. A little over two decades later, in 2014, the college invited me as the final speaker of Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations, and Human Rights. I presented on the Human Rights and Education of Marginalized People of Nepal<\/a>. The college topped that by awarding me an honorary Doctorate in Science<\/a> that same year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Grinnellian friends, in collaboration with a host of other friends, former students, former teachers, and acquaintances around the world, humbled me when they ran a massive and successful Free Dorje Gurung campaign<\/a> when I had been thrown in a Qatari jail<\/a> back in May 2013<\/a>. My freedom, the past six years of freedom, I owe to them and others who — I have discovered — worked tirelessly day and night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How have they humbled me now? Just recently, they bestowed me with yet another award: Alumni Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be honest, I had never even heard of the award until just a few years ago when my Anthropology Professor Andelson wrote to me about it. I had forgotten all about it until very recently when I was informed that my Grinnell friends had nominated me for the award and had been successful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again, thank you to Grinnell College and to my Grinnell community of friends and peers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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