Glenn Pennington - Ponland. Tenn. HGSR Laura Pitman - tndi:uupolis. Ind. Mti' Chris Ann Quigley - Searcy. Ark. Edu. Christopher Radcliffe - Ma!(t3C3, \1:1. Edu. Nathan Randolph - Memphis, Tenn. HGSR Marcus Reese- Memphis. Tenn. HGSR Harding environment refreshing after state school Graduates students commonly pursue degrees that, on the surface, seem unrelated to their undergraduate degrees but are actually complementary to their previous study. Carie Loyd received her bachelor of science in education in Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Central Arkansas . Now, she is pursuing her master's in Harding's Marriage and Family Therapy program. Though at first they might seem unrelated, Loyd explained the correlation between her education degree and the MFT program. Education showed her interest in young people, she said, an interest that was also reflected in counseling. "I would like to be a high school counselor since I already have the education credits. I could use my education degree without having to be in the classroom all day," she said. "Or I would like to work in a hospital. I'm currently interning at the Baptist Rehabilitation Institute, working with adolescems involved in substance abuse." Loyd origina lly considered pursuing an undergraduate degree in psychology or a related fi eld. "I couldn't decide between psychology and family and consumer SCiences, but I didn't like how uncaring the psychology professors at UCA were, so that made up my mind," she said. Still wanting to follow her interest in psychology, she decided to apply ·to the MFT graduate program. "Harding's the only school in the state with this degree," she said. She said going directly from undergraduate work imo graduate studies was Graduate student Carie Loyd views monitors for counseling sessions as a part of the MFT program. The sessions gave students experience with their own clients. Photo by Kristi Burns. the best approach for her. "I hadn 't gotten out of the habit of studying. Also, people say it's hard to quit a job and give up your salary to go back to school , and I didn't have to deal with that. If I had qu it after my undergraduate degree, I probably wouldn 't have gone back," she said. Loyd found graduate school much more intense that undergraduate studies. "The first yea r wasn 't too bad, but in the second year, the program is all you do. You have no other life, " she said . "There are more reading assignmems , and you really have to do them to be able to partiCipate in class. You have to take your own responsibility to do what needs to be done. " - Wendi Keller Bryan Ries - Memphis. Tenn. HGSR Leon Sanderson - Menlphis. Tenn. ~IGSR Eugene Shegolkov - Memphis, Tcrm. HGSR Paul Simmons - Ashdown. Ark Edu. Leedy Ka y Smith - Tul$a, Okla. Edu. Jason Steckel - Huron, Ohio POS! Gl'3duate Rebekah Templeton - Tulsa, Okl:l. Edu. Mark Thiesen - f>lemphi:s, Tenn. HGSR Sheila Vamplin - Mcmphi:s. Tenn. HCSR K.1mi Wemz - Los Alamos. N.M. MIT Georgia Wolfe - Walnut. Calif. Ed\!. Todd Wolfe - Urbana, Ill. Edu. People 197
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