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I wanted to feel better

Mar. 3, 2011—Holly Walsh is naturally a fitness inspiration to others with her “just do it” motto for exercise. A mention of her name in a room full of colleagues is accompanied by praise of how great she looks, how much weight she lost and kept off over time and admiration of her well-defined, toned arms.

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42 pounds, off for 21 years. And counting

Mar. 3, 2011—Believe it or not, Paula McGown’s biggest health accomplishment isn’t that she lost 42 pounds in 1990. It’s that she’s kept it off for 21 years.

Selected exercise and weight loss programs at Vanderbilt

Mar. 3, 2011—Health Plus, the Vanderbilt employee health and fitness program, offers a state of the art fitness facility, group exercise classes, wellness coaching, healthy lifestyle programming and a variety of options for off campus faculty/staff. Health Plus supports individuals working toward getting to a healthy weight by offering a partial reimbursement for both Weight Watchers at...

Call for Entries: House Organ Writing Contest

Mar. 3, 2011—27th Annual House Organ Writing Contest Deadline May 9 For the 27th year, the July House Organ will be the Summer Reading Issue, filled with the winners of the House Organ Writing Contest—poems, short stories and nonfiction pieces contributed by Vanderbilt staff, faculty and students. Every year demonstrates that Vanderbilt has a lot of people...

House Organ Pet Poll winners announced

Feb. 17, 2011—The winners of the 2011 House Organ Pet Poll, conducted in conjunction with the annual “Pets of Vanderbilt” issue, are in after voting closed at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 17. The winner in the Dog category was Duke, the European Doberman who lounges in the driveway of Wendy Ashe of the Neonatal Intensive Care...

Pets of Vanderbilt 2011

Feb. 3, 2011—Every year we ask for your favorite pictures of your dogs, cats and other assorted beasts. This year we had more than 1,000 pictures, so the selecting was very hard. Vote online for your favorites in the Dog, Cat, and Friends categories, and also see a lot more photos of pets that we didn’t have room for in the print edition.