Matt Hodgkinson didn\u2019t necessarily want to follow his parents\u2019 university path. But in the end, it was a campus tour that won him over.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Sept. 1, Hodgkinson was one of nearly 2,400 mostly first-year students who moved into one of Brock University\u2019s eight residences.<\/p>\n
For his parents, Sarah and Craig Hodgkinson, it was a homecoming, of sorts.<\/p>\n
The two first met in a study hall inside Decew Residence in the early 1990s while they were both Brock Education students. Sarah Groom, as she was known before being married, was a residence don in Decew. Sarah and Craig eventually graduated, married and had Matt and Ema, who was also there helping out her older brother Sunday while wearing one of her mother\u2019s retro Brock Badgers T-shirts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m proud. I think it\u2019s an incredibly neat experience,\u201d said Craig Hodgkinson, who graduated in 1993.<\/p>\n
Sarah Hodgkinson said she\u2019s impressed with how the school has changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really nice to see how it has developed over the years and what it has to offer him now,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m jealous of the Marilyn I. Walker school because for me it was always drama and education.\u201d<\/p>\n
Matt, who moved into Lowenberger Residence, said he was happy to be at Brock.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never thought I would be going to the same university as my parents,\u201d said Matt, who originally had Brock third on his application list. \u201cI applied for it because I knew it had a good kinesiology program, but when I went for the tour, I just fell in love with the place.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to go somewhere different from my parents, but Brock really is completely different,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Director of Residence Jamie Fleming, who was overseeing his 38th Move-In Day, was Sarah\u2019s boss when she worked as a don in Decew and said it\u2019s a special moment to see the next generation arrive at Brock.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very rewarding to see former students and former student staff members return to campus with their children and be excited to be back on campus and that their kids chose Brock,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Fleming said it\u2019s not unusual for residence dons to feel a special connection to the University long after they leave.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor people who have been dons, the extensive training they go through and the experience in that student leadership position can be challenging, but it\u2019s incredibly rewarding so it sticks with them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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