Acceptance Letters: Parents, college and letting go
Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Hometown — Columbus, Ohio
Andrew Welsh-Huggins '83 P'17 is a legal affairs writer for the Associated Press. He is author of the nonfiction books "No Winners Here Tonight" and "Hatred at Home" and of the Andy Hayes mystery series, including "Fourth Down and Out" and "Slow Burn." He lives in Columbus, Ohio.
Change isn’t necessarily a dirty word. Here are some observations on the haves (have changed) and the have nots between the time we hung around Gambier as students in the 1980s and the day we drove our daughter, a Kenyon student, up the Hill.
Two things about the future were made abundantly clear to me growing up in the 1960s: it would involve moon colonies, and we’d be able to talk on video phones.