{"id":7620,"date":"2021-11-10T09:56:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T14:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/?p=7620"},"modified":"2022-11-03T09:39:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T13:39:33","slug":"veterans-at-eckerd-college-take-pride-in-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/veterans-at-eckerd-college-take-pride-in-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans at Eckerd College take pride in their service"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extraa-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”] [image_with_animation image_url=”7621″ animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][vc_column_text]Senior Kirsten Hutchings (left) strolls with Professor of Management Frank Hamilton to his office; both served for many years in the military before coming to Eckerd. Photo: Angelique Herring ’19<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n

If there\u2019s a common thread that runs through the students and faculty at Eckerd College, and veterans of the U.S. military, it\u2019s service. Whether it\u2019s rescuing seabirds, finding new ways to clean up the environment or disposing of bombs, the aim is the same: helping others.<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Veterans Day, which is celebrated annually on Nov. 11, is a federal holiday that honors those men and women who served in the United States Armed Forces. Eckerd College is home to several faculty members, staff and students who are veterans.<\/p>\n

This includes Kirsten Hutchings. When she walks into a classroom, the reaction, she says, is hit or miss. \u201cSome of the students will look at you and it\u2019s like, \u201cWhy is there an old person here?\u201d says Kirsten, a senior environmental studies<\/a> and political science<\/a> student from Orlando. \u201cBut I\u2019m comfortable with that. Once they actually get to know you, and find out you were in the military, most of them understand. It\u2019s been an education process for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kirsten, whose father and grandfather served in the military, joined the U.S. Air Force<\/a> in April 2001 and later transitioned to the Army. She worked in military intelligence and was stationed at bases in Japan, Europe and the U.S. She also did a 15-month tour in Afghanistan before leaving the service in 2010, separating as a sergeant.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”7622″ animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” el_class=”lg_text” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]After working for the U.S. government for nearly a decade, Kirsten decided to get her degree. \u201cI worked with a guy from Florida who said he went to Eckerd, and I said, \u2018You mean the pharmacy?\u2019 Then he told me about the small class sizes, the great faculty, the beach \u2026 it was right up my alley.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]So in 2019, in her mid-30s, she became one of Eckerd College\u2019s oldest traditional students. And although Eckerd doesn\u2019t have more than a handful of students who are veterans, she helped start the Eckerd College Student Veterans Club. The group has a presence on campus and a Facebook Group<\/a>. \u201cWe [veterans] all live off campus,\u201d she says. \u201cThe club is a way to let people know we\u2019re here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the people who helped Kirsten start the Veterans Club, and is currently its faculty sponsor, is Frank Hamilton, Ph.D.<\/a>, professor of management<\/a>. After graduating from high school in 1965, Hamilton earned a scholarship to any state college in New York but chose Kent State University in Ohio. At the time, the U.S. had nearly 200,000 troops in Vietnam. Three years later, there were more than half a million. \u201cI went into ROTC to avoid the draft,\u201d Hamilton says. \u201cAnd then I went on active duty when I graduated in 1970.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” el_class=”lg_text” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\u201cThe Army was very good to me,\u201d he adds. \u201cYou could pick your branch, and I chose bomb disposal and got it. They sent me to Germany. Little did I know that they didn\u2019t send second lieutenants in bomb disposal to Vietnam because they didn\u2019t have the experience and were killed.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]While in Germany, Hamilton and his detachment had to deal with everything from munitions malfunctions to homemade bombs. \u201cIt was kind of fun because I was well trained and we had smart NCOs (noncommissioned officers),\u201d he says. \u201cBut we spent a lot of hours on alert.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After returning to the U.S., Hamilton was asked to teach ROTC at The Ohio State University. And in 1981, he came to what he calls \u201cthe great divide.\u201d He was a reservist on active duty, but if he wanted to be promoted to major, he had to switch to the regular Army. He made major, worked as a munitions officer and spent three years in the Pentagon working for the secretary of the Army. He retired from the service in 1992 at age 45, worked in the business community for five years and then started work on his Ph.D.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was fortunate in my choices,\u201d he says. \u201cSome of it was luck, but most of it is attitude. You can complain, or you can do something with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

What saddens him is that he feels not many younger people understand what Veterans Day is. \u201cIt\u2019s the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, when the Armistice ended World War I,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd it\u2019s for honoring every veteran, as opposed to Memorial Day, which honors those who died in military service.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the best examples of the notion of service is Carlos Tigreros \u201910. As he watched the Afghan refugees board planes in Qatar for their new homes in the U.S. last August, he had a pretty good idea what they had been through. He was born in Chicago but spent his childhood in Colombia. \u201cIn the late 1980s and early \u201990s, Colombia was going through a very difficult and violent time,\u201d he says. \u201cI grew up with that instability and intense violence in my backyard. When I got to the U.S., I felt like I had won the lottery. I know the difference between living in a country ravaged by war and knowing what it\u2019s like to live in a country like America. I always felt a debt to this country that gave me so much. And I was trying to find ways to give back.\u201d He did.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” el_class=”lg_text” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]After graduating from Eckerd with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration, Tigreros joined the U.S. Navy, served for five years and saw the world. \u201cIt was a great vehicle to try to understand other cultures,\u201d he says. \u201cNo other branch has the global reach the Navy has.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]When his commitment to the Navy ended, he earned a master\u2019s degree at Dartmouth College and went to work for the Department of Homeland Security<\/a> as a policy advisor. It was during his deployment to Doha, the capital of Qatar, that he aided the Afghan refugees last summer. \u201cDoha was the tip of the spear when it came to shipping out a huge number of Afghans. But seeing the amount of people that literally had to leave their whole lives behind in such a terrifying way \u2026 it was very tough to see.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like I saw my own story in many of those Afghans. I knew what it\u2019s like to live in a country torn apart by war. But many of these people were going to become American citizens and members of our society, and I knew in my heart many of them were going to do great things for their country. It was a great motivator for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut my first step was my time at Eckerd College. I was able to prove to myself that I could do things beyond what I thought was my capacity. I was the first in my family to go to college. Why not be the first to go into the Navy, and that led to Homeland Security. Eckerd was the affirmation. I wouldn\u2019t have been able to succeed in the Navy if I didn\u2019t have the maturity that I got at Eckerd College.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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