OUTSTANDING
CLASS OF 2013 BY Lucy Leusch,Vice President for Enrollment and Financial Aid
We are sure that OU will change these students, and we are eager to see how they will change OU. Indeed, they are already having an impact on every corner of this campus. The class, just six students shy of last year’s record-breaker, has a lot going for it. Get to know just a few of them on the following pages.
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OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY
ORIENTATION WEEKEND WAS A JOYOUS ONE ON THE OGLETHORPE CAMPUS AS 259 NEW STUDENTS ARRIVED, UNPACKED, MET ROOMMATES AND SAID FOND FAREWELLS TO THEIR PARENTS AND SIBLINGS. NOT ONLY IS THE CLASS OF 2013 ONE OF THE LARGEST IN OUR HISTORY, IT IS ALSO POPULATED WITH SOME REAL STANDOUTS.A QUICK SNAPSHOT OF THIS CLASS INCLUDES: • A veteran from the war in Iraq who guarded General Petraeus, commander of the coalition forces in Iraq; • A young woman from Memphis who took a year between high school and OU to immerse herself in her Jewish heritage in Israel; • A student from Ft. Lauderdale also did a gap year and spent a semester with a Christian ministry in Colorado; • Five students from the prestigious Ransom Everglades School in Coconut Grove, Fla., all of whom were involved in a service project to clean up the Everglades; • A Civic Engagement Scholar, who with high school friends in Columbus, Ga.,
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started a volunteer group they called Epic—Everyday People Implementing Change. Two friends from the Miami area who enjoyed their campus visit so much, they recruited a third friend, and all are on campus this fall; A young woman who was a founding member of Stronghold Atlanta, a nonprofit to assist abused women and children; OU’s largest group of soccer recruits; A student from Idaho, who is the U.S. student the furthest distance from home. Almost a dozen new players for our winning women’s basketball team;