Homecoming Honors Alumni

Westmont’s alums return to campus for Homecoming 2024 with an abundance of family-friendly events from October 4-6. Please visit westmont.edu/homecoming for the full schedule, prices and ticket information.

The college will honor stellar individuals at the annual Alumni Awards Celebration Brunch on Saturday, October 5, from 9:45-11:30 am at the Global Leadership Center. Dr. Lauren Brown-Berchtold (‘09), program director of San Joaquin General Hospital Family Medicine Residency, is Alumna of the Year. Eric Knopf (‘04), co-founder and co-CEO of Webconnex, a leading software company that powers events and fundraising for global brands, is the Alumnus of the Year. 

Ben (‘01) and Alicia Eastvold (‘04) won the Global Service Award. Ben founded and is executive director of GLAD Technology, a nonprofit dedicated to workforce development for displaced and disadvantaged populations. Alicia is a nonprofit finance leader at Your Part-Time Controller, where she directs a technology service team that helps nonprofits leverage technology and data to make meaningful decisions.

John Bertram (’14), co-founder and CTO of OnePointOne, an automated indoor vertical farming technology company, won the Young Alum Award. 

At a more solemn event, Campus Pastor Scott Lisea will lead a memorial service honoring the 35th anniversary of the deadly Potter’s Clay car accident Friday, October 4, 11:45 am – 12:30 pm in the stone pine forest below the Dining Commons. Lisa Bebout, Alan Voorman, and Garth Weedman were killed March 27, 1989, while participating in the annual spring break service trip to Ensenada, Mexico. Patty Hallock Crosby (‘92) and Megan Harter Adams (’97) were critically injured in the accident. Adams, who has recently written a book, Hope in the Darkest Hour: A Memoir of Survival and Resilience, will speak at the gathering.