Wesley Arnold

"I will be doing what I am compelled to do, teach. I may not be rich but I will be doing something meaningful and fulfilling in life."

  • Alumni of: 2005 Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship Program
  • Resides: Hendersonville, NC
  • Hometown: Mountain City, TN
  • Age: 36

Biography

Though, at 29, Wesley Arnold may be older than many other community college students, he has a clear idea of his career goal: teaching young children to overcome disadvantaged backgrounds to succeed in life. Wesley earned a 3.93 GPA at Blue Ridge Community College, in his spare time tutoring in reading and music at the Henderson County, NC, Boys and Girls Club. But it was while living in Namibia for several months, where he gave instruction in basic computer skills at a Polytechnic, that he became convinced he wanted to work with underserved populations.

His other passion is playing the guitar, an interest that arose out of a chance meeting with a fellow hiker on the Appalachian Trail who performed a prelude by Villa-Lobos that inspired Wesley to learn to play such music. "It was four years of lessons and basic studies before I could even begin to play his music," he says. "Now rarely a day goes by when I do not play one of his pieces." Perhaps it is no surprise, then, that, while attending Blue Ridge, Wesley performed monthly at concerts sponsored by the Guitar Society of Western North Carolina.

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