Four Decades for Brad

This year’s final Christmas chapel of the semester, complete with a paper snowball fight, feted Brad Elliott, who has worked at the college for 40 years. Elliott, the longtime campus photographer, also oversees the audiovisual, sound, and lighting to the college’s numerous events, including Commencement, Midnight Madness, Spring Sing – held annually in the Santa Barbara Bowl – and chapel, which is held three times a week in Murchison Gym. 

Chapel singers and musicians performed lyrically-altered versions of “525,600 minutes” from the musical Rent and U2’s “40.”

Elliott, a graduate of the defunct Brooks Institute of Photography, has taken photos of thousands of local weddings, theater productions, sporting events, and family milestones. His wife, Dawn (’93), and two of his three children, Amanda (’11) and Jake (’15), graduated from Westmont.