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"I like all the options speech-language pathology offers."
Angela Stranahan ’07
Scholarships have made all the difference to Angela Stranahan, '07. She achieved her bachelor's degree with the help of a "Bridge the Gap" scholarship, which helps successful students, especially seniors, pay their college costs. Now, as a graduate student pursuing her master's in speech-language pathology, she is receiving the Deborah Moll Richmond Endowed Scholarship, which was established by Richmond's family in 2001.
"Thanks to the scholarship," said Stranahan, "I was able to cut my outside work from four evenings a week to just one." Stranahan, a married mother of two, is also receiving a graduate assistantship that provides a stipend and tuition assistance.
When she started college, Stranahan—who calls herself a "people person"—knew only that she wanted to work with children. She was interested in both teaching and speech-language pathology. However, when her son received speech therapy in school, Stranahan decided to make that her career.
"I like all the options speech-language pathology offers," she said. "You can work in schools, hospitals, or private settings." Stranahan is also interested in the role speech and language plays in literacy and communication. "Helping people present information orally is part of the discipline," she said. "We might work with children with Asperger's syndrome, for example, because research shows they have issues with pragmatics—the social use of language."
The librarians at Butler Library have been a great help to Stranahan. "I used to dislike doing research," she said, "but the librarians at the reference desk showed me how to save a lot of time. And time management is crucial to academic success."
Being a scholarship recipient has benefited Stranahan in many ways. "The financial assistance is very important to me," she said, "but scholarships help in other ways, too. Because I work fewer hours, I can devote more time to studying and student activities." She has also found that receiving scholarships motivates her. "I want to show my appreciation by doing the best work I can possibly do," she said.
