The latest issue of the West Chester University Magazine features a cover story I wrote on the tenure of President Greg Weisenstein, who stepped down this spring after leading the burgeoning state school since 2009.

To write the text for an 11-page spread, I interviewed a handful of faculty, staff, alumni and West Chester Mayor Carolyn Comitta. I then sat down with Weisenstein and his wife Sandra for a 90-minute interview in the university’s historic presidential home. During the interview, I realized that, on the living room wall opposite of where I sat, hung an Andrew Wyeth original. Afterwards, the Weisensteins gave me a brief tour of the home that included the formal dining room. Prominently featured there was a large Charles Willson Peale portrait of George Washington–a portrait whose image was used by the U.S. Postal Service for two different stamps it issued to celebrate both the bicentennial of Washington’s birth in 1932 and the nation’s bicentennial in 1776.

To view the cover story, click here and go to pages 15-25.