thank you, from a friend of Amanda Stovall's
Dear President Trachtenberg,
My name is Johanna Twersky and I am a sophomore here at GW. I am writing to thank you personally for the interest you have recently taken in helping my good friend Amanda Stovall return this coming school year.
In addition to being Amanda’s friend from school, I was also one of her housemates this summer on Martha’s Vineyard. Actually, I was waiting tables at the Main Street Diner in Edgartown the day that Amanda burst in to relay her encounter with you at the book store. It seemed like such a miraculous thing to happen. Right when every solution we had brainstormed had failed, the President of the school she was being forced to leave walked in to her work place and began chatting with her about school! She was literally breathless with excitement, and I could not help but be as well. Though we tried not to get our hopes up and agreed that Amanda would do her best to give University of Arkansas a fair shot, we both silently hoped that at the end of a year, your offer would stand.
Amanda is easily one of the most phenomenal people that I have ever had the honor of knowing. She is also one of two people in my immediate circle of friends that were forced to leave our school this year because of financial constraints. I myself have only been able to manage it, ironically enough, as a result of my family’s even poorer financial status (thus winning me more aid).
Every time that a student is forced to leave the school they love for purely financial reasons, I truly feel that the university loses something. In Amanda’s case, it lost one of the best poets, sweetest laughs, and kindest dispositions that our generation has seen.
The interest you have taken in Amanda’s situation, has sincerely begun to restore my faith in “the system” so to speak, as well as in the people who run it. You have earned my utmost respect and gratitude.
Sincerely Yours,
Joanie
My name is Johanna Twersky and I am a sophomore here at GW. I am writing to thank you personally for the interest you have recently taken in helping my good friend Amanda Stovall return this coming school year.
In addition to being Amanda’s friend from school, I was also one of her housemates this summer on Martha’s Vineyard. Actually, I was waiting tables at the Main Street Diner in Edgartown the day that Amanda burst in to relay her encounter with you at the book store. It seemed like such a miraculous thing to happen. Right when every solution we had brainstormed had failed, the President of the school she was being forced to leave walked in to her work place and began chatting with her about school! She was literally breathless with excitement, and I could not help but be as well. Though we tried not to get our hopes up and agreed that Amanda would do her best to give University of Arkansas a fair shot, we both silently hoped that at the end of a year, your offer would stand.
Amanda is easily one of the most phenomenal people that I have ever had the honor of knowing. She is also one of two people in my immediate circle of friends that were forced to leave our school this year because of financial constraints. I myself have only been able to manage it, ironically enough, as a result of my family’s even poorer financial status (thus winning me more aid).
Every time that a student is forced to leave the school they love for purely financial reasons, I truly feel that the university loses something. In Amanda’s case, it lost one of the best poets, sweetest laughs, and kindest dispositions that our generation has seen.
The interest you have taken in Amanda’s situation, has sincerely begun to restore my faith in “the system” so to speak, as well as in the people who run it. You have earned my utmost respect and gratitude.
Sincerely Yours,
Joanie