Scots Senior Spotlight

By: Sarah Sherry
Contributing Writer

Darren Jackson

What is your home town?

Saint Louis, Missouri.

Major?

Communication and Theater Arts and graphic design.

Do you have any plans after college?

I have a job set up for immediately after graduation. I am going to be a ballroom dancing instructor. I eventually want to do something with graphic design, but teaching ballroom dancing is what I’m doing right after college.

Do you have a favorite music concert or theatrical performance you were in?

Singing in Scotland with the Monmouth College chorale. The trip had a lot of firsts for me. It was my first time on a plane and my first time going out of the country. We went to the Rosslyn Chapel; it was pretty gross inside, but singing there was amazing. They have way more history than we do.

What would be one thing you’d want to be remembered for here on campus?

My personality more than anything. I am so particular. Second would be my ability to kick anyone’s butt in dancing.

What is one of your favorite MC memories?

Joining ZBT. There are so many other things that have spawned from that. Everything can relate to ZBT.

What activities are you involved in here on campus?

Besides chorale and ZBT, Crimson Masque, MCTV, I was in PRISM for a while, intramural volleyball, Blue Key Honor Society, Lambda Pi Eta, CEA, and I was an Orientation Leader my sophomore and junior years. I’m also taking a dance kind of movement studies class at the Huff.

Do you have any words of wisdom for your ZBT sons?

Oh, my sons. Steve Santell and Andy Martin are my sons. And my grandsons are Mo Simpson and Paul Bridges. I would tell them that even though things may be hard, complicated … endure, because there is a certain idealist feeling that Monmouth gives that you cannot find anywhere else. And live it up. Don’t take this lightly, I mean LIVE IT UP.