{"id":4378,"date":"2012-11-06T13:26:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T18:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:35:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:35:17","slug":"will-leimenstoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=4378","title":{"rendered":"UNC student spotlight: Will Leimenstoll"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/a> Will Leimenstoll\n

Will Leimenstoll earns a small stipend for all his work as UNC student body president. He doesn\u2019t get paid for his volunteer work, like raising money for scholarships in South Africa. But Leimenstoll gives back to Carolina in many ways other than just paying tuition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not ashamed to receive financial aid,\u201d said Leimenstoll, a senior from Greensboro who receives grants and also uses three types of federal student loans to pay his way. \u201cI don\u2019t consider myself a burden on the University.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leimenstoll called his family \u201csolidly middle class.\u201d His mother, Jo, has been a professor of interior architecture at UNC Greensboro for about 30 years. His father, Jerry, is semi-retired and drawing Social Security. Together, his parents are Ramsay Leimenstoll Architects, a small business they run in a renovated South Elm Street building.<\/p>\n

The Leimenstolls make a good living, but \u201cyou can\u2019t control every factor,\u201d Will Leimenstoll said. His mother developed breast cancer when he was in high school. She recovered, but the medical bills were an unexpected expense. Another surprise was the recession that halted most construction and work for architects.<\/p>\n

During Will’s first two\u00a0years at college, his sister, Ramsay, was in college out of state. His parents paid for Will\u2019s meal plan, but he used his work study jobs as an orientation counselor and in the recycling office to cover other expenses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey told me, ‘We have to juggle to get both of you through college,'” he recalled. They are halfway there. Ramsay graduated in 2011 and spent the next year in Turkey as a Fulbright Fellow. Will graduates in 2013.<\/p>\n

The Leimenstolls are big on extracurricular involvement. \u201cIf I wanted to be really involved in campus life,\u201d said Will, who was senior class president at Grimsley High School, \u201cI knew I would be at least as busy \u2013 if not more \u2013 as I was when I was working.\u201d He\u2019s involved in the Presbyterian campus ministry and Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and has participated in the Campus Y and the Sustainability Living Learning Community. He\u2019s done undergraduate research and studied abroad in Cape Town, South Africa. That was before running for student body president.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s excelled academically, earning induction into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. With an environmental studies major and a city planning minor, Leimenstoll plans to pursue graduate school in planning and urban design. \u201cOne day, I want to be designing places like Southern Village and Meadowmont,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Many of his classmates will go on to Teach for America, the Peace Corps and other important jobs that don\u2019t pay well. (Carolina is near the top of the list for both in terms of alumni participation.)<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single person here has a huge commitment to make the world better,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s so exciting to be around people like that. And a strong financial aid program is really needed to make sure those people are able to come here and go on to do those great things.\u201d<\/p>\n

[ Story by Susan Hudson, UNC News Services ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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