Elizabeth Cox
Informatics
Liz Cox moved to Bloomington in 1996 and became a staff member at Indiana University. With the encouragement of her work colleagues, she took her first class in 1999. When she became a full-time student in IU's School of Informatics, she combined schoolwork with her job as administrative secretary of the Minority Achievers Program. Liz briefly attended Ball State University after graduating from high school, but felt she was not yet ready for college. She believes that returning to school years later has made her a more appreciative and serious scholar. Liz is married with two children. She notes that her decision to become a full-time student was partly motivated by her desire to better provide for her children and to set a positive example for them.
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Amy Drever
Gender Studies
Valparaiso native Amy Drever notes that her parents have been very supportive of her studies, but they also place a high value on trade skills. Amy is a gender studies major who has financed her education by working as a hair designer. She decided to pursue a law degree, focusing on special interest law so that she can work with a non-governmental or other nonprofit organization. Through gender studies she came to believe that becoming a lawyer would be the most effective way to create change. She hopes to obtain a master’s degree at IU from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs in management, while attending law school. She was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society this past fall.
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Carrie Frederick
Finance and International Business
Carrie Frederick, a junior from Lockport, Illinois, was the valedictorian of her high school class. Majoring in finance and international business at IU's Kelley School of Business, she has minors in both Spanish and Japanese. To finance her education, Carrie has taught classes in information technology for faculty, students, and staff at the Indiana Memorial Union. She has studied Spanish in Spain and Mexico, but it was her knowledge of Japanese culture that led to an imaginative fundraising plan to support victims of the September 11 attacks. Drawing on a Japanese tradition, she organized the International Business Association to make and sell paper cranes to students, faculty, and other members of the community. They wrote small messages on the cranes to be given, along with the money raised, to the family of a firefighter who had died in the attack. Carrie also delivered 560 cranes to a fire department in New York City that had lost a whole crew in the attacks, along with a $560 check to one of the widows.
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Eboni Gatlin
Journalism
“I like to do the stories that are usually ignored — stories about people who don’t usually have a voice in the media,” says future broadcast journalist Eboni Gatlin. “There are so many questions of representation, and reporters too often take the easy route in portraying people in a negative or stereotypical light. I want find the truth in each story, and tell that.” Eboni wants to bring this journalistic insight to a career as a broadcast reporter for television news. She has structureed her education accordingly, while developing her skills through broadcasting class and at IUB's Indiana Daily Student newspaper. She supplements her income by working as a student manager at the IU Auditorium.
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Ann Zhu Granicz
Biology
Ann Zhu Granicz was born and raised in China. In June of 1997 she got married in Shanghai and emigrated to the United States. Her first daughter was born in 1998. In the spring of 2001, soon after her second daughter was born, she was admitted to IUB. The following spring she was admitted to the Honors College. Her goal is to become a dentist.
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Alexis Kent
Philosophy
Alexis Kent from Cincinnati, Ohio majors in philosophy. The Sarah Parke Morrison scholarship is the first scholarship she has received, and Alexis is honored to be part of this effort to provide women with greater access to education. She hopes to attend graduate school in education, philosophy, or theology, but first she would like to join Teach for America. She welcomes this challenge because of her interest in “encouraging children to think in many different ways and not to be limited by social expectations, particularly those imposed on women.” As an accomplished singer, Alexis was attracted to IUB because of its music school, and is now a member of the Singing Hoosiers ensemble. “Out-of-state tuition is a challenge,” she says, “but leaving home was a good decision and makes me a positive role model for my younger siblings.” Among her lifelong goals: “to live simply, continue my education, and become a foster parent.”
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Crystal Spivey
Criminal Justice and Psychology
Crystal Spivey from Evansville majors in criminal justice and psychology with a minor in biology. She will attend law school. She will be attending DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, as a dean’s scholar. Crystal has strong interests in both international and criminal law. As an undergraduate, she has worked at a law firm in Bloomington and for the probation department of the city of Bloomington, conducting fieldwork on juveniles. As a criminal justice student, she participated in a series of prison tours across Indiana as well as a research project focused upon media images of September 11. That project has since turned into a chapter in a book she is co-authoring. “I am extremely grateful for this scholarship. Not many scholarships recognize first-generation college women.”
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Laura Stickle
Vocal Performance
Laura Stickle is now a junior at IU with a major in vocal performance, but through much of her childhood she was never sure that going to college would ever be an option because of her family’s financial situation. Laura has financed her education through student loans and a job she enjoys thoroughly, teaching English as a second language with the Indiana Reading and Math Team. By the time she completes her degree, she will have studied three foreign languages — French, German, and Italian. She also intends to stay at IU for a master’s degree in vocal performance, and ultimately, to travel the world doing what she loves most — singing.
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Lindsey Wagner
Psychology
Lindsey Wagner from Michigan City majors in psychology and minor in biology. She plans to pursue an academic career in psychology as a researcher and professor. Lindsey has been involved in the projects of Professor Richard McFall and post-doctoral researcher Elizabeth Yeater, assisting them with research about the sexual victimization of college women. She has been equally active in student organizations. She is a member of the Order of Omega, an organization within the Greek system that advocates for community service, and a co-coordinator of Bowl for Kids’ Sake, which raises money for Big Brothers/Big Sisters. She is currently anticipating a summer internship to teach in Richmond, Virginia with Breakthrough Collaborative. This program seeks to correct some of the inequities of the educational system by enabling college students to teach “educationally at-risk” middle school children from poor or disadvantaged backgrounds. Encouraged by her parents and a role model for her younger brother, Lindsey feels she also receives important support from her mentors at Kappa Alpha Theta where she is the president of development, and where she is in charge of programming, the reward system, and sisterhood events.
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Alexia Toskos
Computer Science
Alexia Toskos wants to know how people think. And when she discovers and identifies the parameters of thought, she applies that understanding to how computers might “think" as well. A recipient of a Sarah Parke Morrison Society Scholarship as well as a Z. G. and Ethel Starr Clevenger Scholarship from the College of Arts and Sciences, Alexia majors in Cognitive Science, with interdisciplinary studies involving computer science, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy, amoung others. Alexia graduated in May 2005. “I want to continue my research and teach, so I am applying to doctoral programs around the country now.” This Fort Wayne native is the daughter of Greek immigrants who came to the U.S. seeking a better life for themselves and their family. She is the first in her family to attend college.
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