HISTORY DEPARTMENT Pre-law students excel before and after graduating from Harding Have you ever thought about where your undergraduate degree from Harding might take you? Take a look at one Harding graduate who became the top grad uate at Vanderbilt University Law School. That Harding alumnus is only one of the many other Harding graduates who have been admitted to the most prestigious law schools in the nation. The undergraduate pre-law program at Harding has had great success in preparing their students for law school. While there is not an actual pre-law major, Dr. Tom Howard and Dr. Andy Olree, advisors for the pre-law program, encourage students who want to attend law school to major in undergraduate areas such as political science, history or public administration. Howard, chair ofthe history department, and Olree, assistant professor of political science, designed the program based on feedback from former pre-law graduates including, Olree himself who graduated from the University of Chicago Law School. Harding alumni have been accepted to law schools such as Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, Pepperdine University, University of Chicago and Harvard University. Many alumni maintained contact with Olree and Howard through e-mail this year. The e-mail messages received from alumni commended their professors for the education they receive at Harding. Did You Know... Jan Fortner, assistant professor 9f history and Bible, speaks four languages fluently. Besides English, Fortner speaks Latin, Greek. Hebrew and Church Latin. In addition, she reads French. "My desire to attend Chicago is due in part to the impact that you have had on my academic career, thanks Dr. Olree," writes alumnus Ryan Myers, who now attends the University of Chicago. Alumna Andrea Place said she was more prepared than other students for law school because of her training at Harding. "The case that we had to read for our fIrst mock class was Griswold v. Connecticut, " writes Place, a student at Pepperdine University School of Law. "There were several people who were panicking but for some reason Tiffany (also a Harding alumna) and I were relaxed since we had both discussed that particular case and learned how to brief in our undergraduate school. Thanks Dr. Olree." Howard said he is encouraged by the emails he receives from Harding graduates who are succeeding in law school. - Meredith Garrity Freshmen Preston Bryan and Ryan Sandefur and junior Cara Mooneyham recreate the trial of Brown vs. Board of Education in a history class. The students reenacted all areas of the 1954 trial in an effort to better understand it. Photo by Daniel DubOis. Julie Harris, assistant professor of history, discusses an aSSignment with senior Justin Cowley as freshman Andy Goodman looks on. Harris joined the faculty this year. Photo by Daniel Dubois. Junior David Chapman, freshman Rachel White and others take part in a discussion about the Civil War. Several students participated in the White County Civil War Round Table in an effort to learn more about the historic war. Photo by Ashlee Johnson. H__i.s:...t:..o.;,r-.>yL_D--'e-.p<:...a:.C.r:..t.::m::::e.:..l.:l::t--'-_ _ -----'Q Academics 0
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