1. campus
buzz
There is no 6 a.m. ROTC workout this
morning, but J. Brett Anderson (’14)
is up anyway, preparing for a run: He
puts on his shoes, grabs his iPod, and
sits down with a list of 210 names.
He takes a pen and inscribes the ini-
tials of seven of those names on his left
wrist. After running his first mile, he
looks down at his forearm, reads the
first set of initials, and says out loud,
“Thank you.”
As an ROTC cadet and aspiring pilot,
Anderson often visits the Wilkinson
Center’s Memorial Hall—a room with
a large plaque honoring the names of
BYU’s fallen servicemen. “I kept think-
ing that I wanted to do something about
those names,” he says.
In October 2013, the two-time mara-
thon racer decided that running a mile
for each name before he graduated in
April could be his way to honor those
who died serving their country. On his
routes throughout Provo, the civil engi-
neering student will take with him as
many as 15 names at a time. He posts on
his blog, 210 Miles: Running to Remem-
ber, the names of the soldiers for whom
he runs, and, when he can find them,
their pictures and stories. A favorite is
Billy H. Huish (’37), who was a WWII
B-17 navigator.
Shot down in 1944 in Germany, Huish
parachuted from his bomber, survived
the crash, and sought out the Belgian
underground resistance movement.
Turned in by Nazi collaborators, he
and eight other American airmen were
executed. “Just to know he didn’t give
up—he kept on doing what he could to
try to help other people, to try to pro-
mote freedom and liberty—is pretty
inspiring,” Anderson says.
“[When you] remember the deeds
that others have done for [their] fellow
men, you grow,” says aerospace studies
professor Major Mark A. Slik, one of
Anderson’s ROTC instructors.
In a Jan. 1 post, Anderson writes that
he hopes, down the line, a relative of one
of these men may happen upon his blog
and see that “somebody, somewhere
appreciates his or her loved one.” If that
happens, he shares, “it will have all been
worth it.”
—Natalie Sandberg Taylor (’14)
and Jessica Jarman Reschke (’14)
Running to Remember
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swimminghumanities
evolution to feminism: Common Ground—
Different Opinions, coedited by student Justin F.
White (BA ’08) and professor James E. Faulconer
(BA ’72), explores Latter-day Saint views on con-
temporary issues.
super fly: Freshman
Lucas A. Aquino (’17) swam
the 200 fly in 1:46:54, breaking a
30-year BYU record. The men’s team
won the MPSF Championship.
Brett Anderson found a way to remember every fallen soldier on the wall of BYU’s Memorial Hall.
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