The UWCCR community was deeply
honored with special guests Shelby & Gale Davis and Phil & Amy Geier who
visited the College last November the 12th and shared with the UWCCR
community.
Shelby Davis is a Patron of the
United World Colleges movement. He endowed the Davis Scholarship program
which provides full merit based scholarships to all students nominated by the
USA Selection Committee and he also funds the Davis UWC Scholars program which
provides need based scholarship to hundreds of UWC graduates at more than 70 US
colleges and universities. Shelby Davis is largest contributor to
international education in the world. He was accompanied by his wife Gale
who has been a partner in these efforts.
Phil Geier is the Director of
the Davis UWC Scholars program and a past president of the UWC-USA where he
began the relationship between the Davis family and the United World
Colleges. Phil was accompanied by his wife Amy who served as Director of
Development at the UWC-USA.
Several meetings took place
during this visit starting with a meeting with Mauricio Viales, Head, and
Carlos Sandoval, Development Director followed by a meeting with Davis Scholars
and Davis International Scholars followed.
A third meeting took place with
the entire Community at the Library where the students and staff shared with
these special guests for around an hour. Mr. Davis expressed UWC students are
achievers and therefore he is convinced that helping them is a contribution to
help the world become better.
Mr. Guier expressed that the
UWC movement is still in process and needs to be nurtured. Mr. Davis also encouraged
students to help find people to support the movement in their own countries.