How do you make changes that last forever? One way, it seems to me, is to bring about change in students, those everlasting creatures who appear and reappear on campus each fall semester. If anything that teachers do has a hope for making a difference, it’s likely to be grounded in a genuine friendship between teacher and student. In the Honors College, we call this “mentoring,” but whatever you like to call it, the reality is the same: teachers and students meeting together, discussing books, ideas, experiences, emotions, and all the other stuff of real life. This edition of Notes from Halfway There features four great things related to mentoring: first, Rev. Dr. Micah Snell, who is a faithful mentor to the students entrusted to him; secondly, a current Honors Scholar, Daylon Piper, who describes the ways he’s growing in the Honors College; thirdly, an Honors College alumna, Paige Holden, who describes the ways she’s been changed for the better by her mentors and how she hopes to serve now as a mentor to others; and, lastly, C. S. Lewis’s enigmatic retelling of an old tale, Till We Have Faces, which features the relationship between a regal student, Orual, and her patient mentor, the Fox. As we make our way forward, mentoring and being mentored by others, let us not lose sight of the everlasting importance of genuine friendships. Gary Hartenburg Director, The Honors College Houston Christian University Featured in this issue of News and Notes