GRINNELL COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Honduras!

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Honduras!

This June, Pioneer Football players Clayton Desjardin '15 and Seth Howard '15, along with Official Pioneer Photographer Alysia Horcher '15 spent a couple weeks in Honduras. Here's a recap of their experience along with some photos!

We went as a student-led group representing Grinnell College through an organization called Global Brigades. Quick break down of what we did: brought 25 suitcases full of medicines with us, counted the pills and put them into individual bags for patients with enough for a 1 month supply, went to 3 communities and created clinics in the schools (we had a dentist, 2 general doctors, 1 gynecologist, we also set up a pharmacy), saw and treated around 500 people as well as create electronic medial records for everyone. On our last day, we partnered up with San Diego State University and went to a 4th community and dug trenches, which will eventually become a completed plumbing system, bringing water to every home from a well 3 miles from the town.

Alysia Horcher '15, Seth Howard '15, Clayton Desjardin '15, and Pioneer Women's Basketball Player Rebecca DeGroot '14

Clayton Desjardin '15 and a young Honduran

Counting pills for distribution

The Honor G

The Honor G, the official emblem of Grinnell College athletics, was first used at the Iowa state track championship in 1892. Designed by Earnest "Skip" Atherton, class of 1895, the original Honor G consisted of a scarlet maltese cross with a black "I and "C" (for Iowa College) superimposed on the cross. Two years later in 1894, the "I" and "C" were replaced by a black gothic "G", and the modern day Honor G was born. The gothic "G", which was also used on letter sweaters and is now used on letter jackets, was replaced by an Old English "G" in the mid-1930's. After some protest, it was quickly changed back to the gothic "G", and it has remained unchanged since that time.