Student NewsThere is also lots of exciting news to report both from our graduating class and our underclassmen. Of the many success stories in the graduating class of 2007, some highlights are: Stephanie Hughes is headed for Albany Law School in New York; Michael Depa will be pursuing graduate studies in history at Washington State University; Daniel Robison is off to IU's school of journalism, having won the Cushman Fellowship; Curtis Schaeffer is entering the Catholic seminary in the diocese of Cincinnati; A J Lichlyter has been accepted into the doctoral program for School Psychology at Indiana State; and Josh Cain will be with the Peace Corps, bringing a fresh water supply to villagers in Belize. Of the sophomores and juniors, Jeremy Taylor has won a place on the highly-competitive junior year abroad at Cambridge, England, while Jonny Moskowitz [France] and Jessica Shewan [Senegal] will also be representing us far from home; Jessica has also received a Gilder Lehrman scholarship to visit New York city this summer. Lori Brown is going to Washington DC as part of the Washington Center program, and Dana Caldemayer, home from an all-expenses paid trip to the national Undergraduate Research Conference in San Francisco, will be studying Spanish in Argentina this summer. Rashanda Pease is back from a year spent studying in France, and received a Vance Scholarship through Central College and a UE undergraduate research grant to finance these studies, which included time at the Sorbonne. Our recent graduates are also a great source of pride to all of us, and space permits us to mention only a few all too briefly. Dan Broxup has been the top student in his class at Law School and will spend the summer before beginning his third year interning at a top law firm in Chicago. Karen Mackey graduated with her Masters in history from Virginia Tech this year and was, along with all Hokies, much in our thoughts and prayers over the past few weeks. She is contemplating continuing on with her PhD. Dominic Faraone completed his Masters at Marquette and secured an extremely generous scholarship to pursue his PhD at Boston College; he is currently deciding if he wants to go straight there or take a break. Sarah Burns, headed for Florida State in the Fall, is working as the site coordinator of the 21st Century After-School Program at Dexter Elementary School in Evansville, Indiana; she receives federal grant funding and implements after-school enrichment activities for students. Micki Blue is pursuing a Masters in Modern European History at the University of Arizona, filling her time with study, teaching, and planning a wedding to her fiancée Chris Parr, who is himself engaged in graduate studies in classical archeology at Arizona – we wish them the very best for their summer 2007 wedding! Steve Calderwood is pursuing a Ph.D. in Philosophy and working as a teaching assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Steve still finds time to do some historical research in the areas of women's history and the Supreme Court. Heather Schaad is also a graduate student and TA at Illinois, working in the field of African Studies. Heather is an extremely enthusiastic student of Wolof, the language of Senegal, and plans to return to Senegal once she graduates to work on women’s' advocacy issues. Muriel Anderson is at SEMO, teaching as a graduate assistant and studying for her Masters in the field of historic preservation. And Alicia LaPrelle is in grad school at IUPUI, pursuing a Masters in the field of library and information science. It should be noted that all of our recent alums who are teaching undergraduates complain almost ceaselessly about grading papers, and remark equally constantly about the poor quality of undergraduate writing. It makes their former professors feel less like stuffy old fuddy-duddies. |
