STATE magazine - Spring 2012

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Ashley Leonard accounting and finance Artesia, N.M. Leonard has served as president of the Student Government Association, a Spears School of Business Ambassador and with Peers Empowering

Krista Lopez accounting and management Garland, Texas Lopez was a member of the women’s soccer team and was involved in the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, Asian American Student

Lawrence McClure electrical engineering technology DeSoto, Texas McClure’s activities include National Society of Black Engineers,

Mark Nelson Russian language and literature and aerospace and mechanical engineering Oklahoma City Nelson’s activities include track and cross-country, The Daily O’Collegian, the Honors College and the Terra Rubea Engineer

Lauren Michelle Oseland human development and family science Edmond, Okla. Oseland’s activities include Pi Beta Phi, Blue Key Honor Society and the Human Sciences Academic Affairs Committee. She has served as

Carly Schnaithman agribusiness with a marketing minor Garber, Okla. Schnaithman has served as College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources vice president of student affairs, Chi Omega vice

Kelsy Lee Stein animal science and production Stillwater, Okla. Stein was involved in Mortar Board, Animal Science Leadership Alliance, Kappa Delta and Oklahoma Collegiate Cattlewomen’s Association.

Elisabeth K. Stukenborg English and history Tulsa, Okla. Stukenborg has served as president of the College of Arts and Sciences Student Council and senate chair of the Student Government Association. She has been involved in Kappa Delta, International Justice Mission

Laurel Wilson secondary education Tulsa, Okla. Wilson’s activities include Blue Key Honor Society, College of Education

through Education. She has been involved in the Student Judicial Committee and the Student Foundation Committee. Leonard has volunteered with Big Brothers Big Sisters, Mission Stillwater, Habitat for Humanity, Angel Fire Equestrian Center and as a YMCA youth basketball coach. She was a member of the OSU Homecoming royalty court, a Kremlin Fellows Scholar, an Honors College student, a Top

Ten Freshman and a member of the President’s Leadership Council.

Association and the Vietnamese American Student Association. She volunteered with the Humane Society of Stillwater, Stillwater Life Church, Family Resource Center and the Special Olympics. Lopez was named the Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-American 2011 Player of the Year, a two-time NSCAA Scholar All American, a two-time ESPN the Magazine Academic All-American, a two-time Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports

Scholar and a Lowe’s Senior Class Award finalist.

African American Student Association and serving as a Student Affairs Cultural Ambassador. He has volunteered with the Overflow Prayer Team and the Humane Society of Stillwater. McClure was an INROADS Intern of the Year. He was named to the President’s Honor Roll, the Dean’s Honor Roll and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.

After graduation, McClure plans to work and go to seminary. He hopes to start a motivational speaking program to encourage middle school and high school students to achieve their goals despite challenges.

Exchange program. He spent his time tutoring for the OSU athletic department and was a teaching assistant for the engineering and foreign languages departments. Nelson was the top OSU scorer for the William Lowell Putnam Examination in Mathematics and was named a W.W. Allen Engineering Scholar, Rhodes Candidate for OSU, two-time Wentz Research Scholar and an Academic All-Big 12 in track and cross-country.

After graduating, Nelson will study nuclear energy at Cambridge University in the U.K. and plans to make a career in the development and implementation of novel forms of nuclear power.

president of the College of Human Sciences Student Council and the Human Development and Family Science Club. Oseland volunteered for K-Life Ministries, Payne County Youth Shelter, Henderson Hills Baptist Church and Center for Family Services. She was named a College of Human Sciences Outstanding Student, a member of the OSU Homecoming royalty court and an Oklahoma Scholar Leader

Enrichment Program participant. She also received the Women’s Faculty Council Research Award and the Jan Moran Leadership Award.

After graduating, Leonard plans to attend law school, continue her education in tax litigation and pursue a career as a corporate attorney. She hopes to return to campus to work in higher education.

Lopez plans to pursue an MBA and go on a mission trip to Uganda. She has applied for the Fulbright Grant and would like to teach English overseas for one year. After receiving her MBA, she plans to become a certified public accountant.

Oseland plans to pursue a master’s in marriage and family therapy at OSU.

president and alumnae relations director, state FFA reporter and Order of Omega treasurer. She has been involved in Oklahoma Agriculture Leadership Encounter. Schnaithman has volunteered with Toys to the Game, YMCA youth basketball, Student Alumni Board, Mortar Board Book Drive and Oklahoma FFA. She was a member of the OSU Homecoming royalty court and was named the OSU Student

Philanthropist of the Year, a Top Ten Freshman Woman, a Top Three Junior Greek Woman and a Senior of Significance.

She has also served as president of the OSU Pre-Veterinary Medicine Club. Stein has volunteered with Turning Point Ranch, Horseman’s Special Olympics, Into the Streets, Foal Team and AQHA World Show Check In. She was selected as a College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Outstanding Senior, a teaching assistant for applied animal nutrition and a speaker at the animal science banquet.

Stein was a National Junior Angus Show Career Development Overall Runner-up and was selected to prepare questions for the 2012 Oklahoma FFA Quiz Bowl.

After graduation, Schnaithman plans to pursue a career in public service.

After graduation, Stein plans to return to northwest Oklahoma, work on her family’s farm and expand her purebred Angus cattle operation.

and OSU Homecoming. Stukenborg has volunteered with the Sheerar Museum of Stillwater History and the Victim Witness Center of the Tulsa District Attorney’s Office. She served as a Stillwater Young Life Leader and an intern to a U.S. senator from Oklahoma. Stukenborg is an OSU Lew Wentz Scholar and an Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Academic Scholar. She received an honors degree from the English department, a nomination for the Truman Scholar

Competition and is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

Dean Search and Screening Committee, Pi Beta Phi, Student Alumni Board and the University Student Honors Council. She has volunteered with Kanakuk Kamps, Toys to the Game, Relay for Life, The Big Event and Undergraduate Admissions High Talent Recruitment events. Wilson was named the mathematics department Outstanding Senior, Top Ten

Freshman Woman and a Lew Wentz Leadership Scholar. She received an honors degree and the Oklahoma Teacher of the Year scholarship.

Stukenborg plans on pursuing a joint juris doctorate and English master’s program with the intention to serve as an advocate for others in public service.

Wilson plans on pursuing a master’s degree at OSU in the fall and teaching at the high school level.

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