A Person of importance to the Ubuntu community is Teresa “Tree” Hershberger a Bluffton University graduate in 2009, from Wooster Ohio. Why is a former student who is not living on campus important to Ubuntu? How did one student with wishes of simple living and intentional community help motivate other students to action?
In conversation prior to Hershberger’s graduation, Andrea Flack a senior living in Ubuntu said “I asked her…if she had college to do over again, what she would do different” Flack noted Hershberger’s response had no hesitation as she described her desire to live more simply as well as focus specifically on intentional community.
Flack quickly found through informal conversation, that she had close friends who were open and excited about engaging these two themes that Hershberger had voiced. The friends realized these important themes could be practiced while still in college. Through more conversations and brainstorming Flack and her friends were able to make Hershberger’s wishes into a reality through the creation of a the Ubuntu themed housing proposal. Even though Hershberger has since graduated from Bluffton University, her hopes and wishes of college life centered on simple living and intentional community still live on through the realized community which is know simply as Ubuntu.
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