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Grove City College 26 | www.gcc.edu the G ē D U N K Story and photos By Mack Lloyd ’12
It was 100 degrees in Monon, Ind., on July 13, 2012 — the hottest July on record in the continental United States. Using their shoes as pillows while napping on the floor of a restaurant, five Grove City College students and recent alumni had devoured their lunch and quickly fallen asleep, under their table, for three hours. When they woke up, the men — Ryan Herman ’13, Mack Lloyd ’12, Jake Loosararian ’13, Will Moyer ’12 and Jamie Schleicher ’13 — discovered that their bill had been covered by a stranger, just one of countless acts of kindness that Team GCC encountered on their bicycle ride across America. After 77 days on the road, 3,600 miles of cycling blurs into something more than just a ride. It took almost a year of planning, but for Team GCC, the two-and-a-half-month adventure from Seattle to New York City, which started May 26, was about something bigger: raising $25,000 to permanently endow a needbased diversity scholarship for future students of the College. The trip culminated on a rainy Aug. 10 in Lower Manhattan’s Battery Park as the five-man team was greeted by the outstretched arms of their families and friends under the watchful gaze of Lady Liberty. After averaging 60-80 miles a day, the men ceremonially dumped into the Atlantic a jar full of Pacific Ocean water they collected on Day One at the Puget Sound. “It was a moment I’ll never forget, to share that with my friends and family. It was a combination of pride, joy and amazement,” said Loosararian, an electrical engineering major from Frederick, Md. Moyer, a political science/pre-law graduate from Fox Chapel, Pa., added, “It was important for us to ride for something other than ourselves, to have a goal in sight, something to get us up those mountains, something to drive us and push us out of our comfort zones.” And up mountains they went. The men set off on their mission from the Cascade Range of Washington, pedaling across Idaho and Montana to some relief—at least in terms of climbing, if not heat—across the northern plains. What started as a post-graduation conquest conceived by Lloyd and Moyer had grown into an alumni reconnection the G ē D U N K www.gcc.edu | 27
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