Homecoming Honors Alumnus of the Year
Norm Nelson ’61, president and on-air host of Compassion Radio, has been named Westmont Alumnus of the Year and was honored by President Gayle D. Beebe as part of Homecoming Oct. 14-15.
Nelson, who founded Spring Sing and served as student body president at Westmont, graduated from San Francisco Theological Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary. He also studies at Georgetown University, Oxford University and the International Institute for Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. Compassion Radio conducts relief projects in 31 countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ira, Iraq, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, the Palestinian Territories, Sudan and Syria.
Teresa Goines ’97 is this year’s recipient of the Global Service Award. She founded the Old Skool Cafe, which offers sustainable employment to at-risk youth in the Bay Area. She began her professional career as a probation officer in Santa Barbara, realizing that young people in desperate economic situations committed much of the crime and violence in the community.
Josh Daneshforooz ’08 is this year’s Young Alumni Award recipient. He is president of All Nations Education, helping to provide college scholarships to young adults in developing nations. Daneshforooz, born to an Iranian Muslim father and an American Christian mother, has authored “Loving Our Religious Neighbors: How Christians can Bear Fruit of the Spirit with Conviction in a Pluralistic Culture.”