This profile is the tenth installment in an ongoing series about the retiring faculty in the Volunteer Retirement Incentives Program.

Alice Purington, Associate Director of College Counseling and winner of the Edward Wall Award for Service and Leadership in College Counseling, will be retiring from her post at the end of the year due to an illness.

Purington is currently battling pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that scars the lungs.

“A couple years ago, this illness began...