You may already know that sophomore Noah Heinen plays on Taylor’s football team, but those aren’t the only passes he makes.
Heinen is the paper deliverer for The Echo.
Before him, Seth Griswold, who played on the football team with Heinen last year, was the deliverer. He had been looking for someone to take his place and talked to Heinen about the job.
Some of Heinen’s favorite things about his involvement with the football team include team chapels and worship.
“The football team is a really great community,” he said. “I just like being part of something that’s bigger than myself.”
Football has helped Heinen develop a sense of community that he has experienced at Taylor overall. His bond with the other players has especially grown from playing games while on the drive to away games.
When he’s not at away games, Heinen is pursuing his studies as a marketing major.
Having both a brother and father as financial advisors, he aspires to follow the same path. Both his brother and his father are financial advisors, and, having also been a marketing major, his father said the major benefited him in his career now and he hopes that Heinen’s marketing education at Taylor will help cultivate his financial knowledge.
“I just really like the (marketing) professors,” Heinen said. “You can tell they really care and want to get involved. So that’s one of the things I really appreciate about them.”
As The Echo’s paperboy, Heinen thoroughly described the process from picking up the newspapers to his travel across Taylor’s surrounding communities, passing out copies.
“Every Monday, (the papers are) just in Rupp, next to one of the stands,” he said. “And so I then take them from there and bring them around campus. And then from there, I go to Hartford City, and then Upland and then to Gas City.”
Heinen drives around the surrounding areas and delivers each edition’s copies to newsstands in gas stations, stores and banks. Some businesses on his route are CVS and Dollar General.
“It’s pretty straightforward,” Heinen said. “One challenge is when people say they don’t want the papers delivered anymore.”
During his job, Heinen has gotten to know the community outside of Taylor’s campus.
He enjoys having conversations with those he delivers papers to, such as asking how their day is going, saying that it has been a beneficial thing for him.
“One of the things that I didn’t really realize I would like that much about (the job) is talking to the people when I deliver,” he said. “Because sometimes I’ll talk to the business owners that I’m delivering to. And just ask them how their day has been. And that’s been a really beneficial thing for me.”
