Program manager, MLE/Urban Reproductive Health Initiative
At Wheaton, I majored in anthropology, studied women’s economic cooperatives in Tanzania with Professor Donna Kerner, and was sure that development was dependent upon increasing people’s ability to make a living.
I studied abroad in Ecuador and wrote my thesis on that experience—exploring the importance of education and improved finances as the key to healthy developing societies. [Read more...]
Sales manager, Salix Pharmaceuticals
I chose anthropology as a major because I’m interested in how cultures emerge and how they function. It was the best decision I could have made for my career as a professional salesman. I learned about what motivates people. Sales decisions are made for countless reasons, but people make them all. When I see individuals in an organization as being immersed in a culture, it helps me predict and understand them and aids in my sales approach.
Incidentally, it’s been my experience that people find the major captivating, which allows them to see me in a different light. At job interviews, interviewers always want to know more about my anthropology studies. [Read more...]
Melissa Baron ’13 worked at HBO this summer in an alumnae/i-sponsored internship.
For Melissa Baron ’13, a chance to work in the creative services department of HBO is the opportunity of a lifetime. “It’s HBO! Who wouldn’t want to work there?” says Baron, a Hispanic studies major and journalism minor, who aspires to host, direct and produce her own television show. “My experience at HBO has given me the knowledge I’ll need as a journalist,” she says.
Baron’s internship this summer was the result of collaboration between Alumnae/i Trustee Elaine Meryl Brown ’77, P’07, and Chris Spencer P’14, executive vice president at HBO. Brown, a longtime employee of the network who now owns her own marketing and production company, wanted to create a special opportunity for a Wheaton student at HBO. So she approached Spencer, and they made it happen, working with the Filene Center for Academic Advising and Career Services.
Each year, students like Baron gain valuable work experience through a growing number of alumnae/i-sponsored internship programs that are specifically designated for Wheaton students. [Read more...]
Georgene Botyos Herschbach ’61 and Dudley Herschbach, photo by Luis Peralta
“Our education has transformed our lives in countless ways,” says Georgene Botyos Herschbach ’61. She and her husband, Dudley, both earned Ph.D.s in chemistry from Harvard and both enjoyed long careers at the university—Georgene in administration and Dudley as a Nobel Prize–winning professor of chemistry.
“Without financial aid and the opportunity to earn money through student jobs, we could not have gone to college,” says Georgene.
As a “thank you” for the scholarship support they received as undergraduates and on the occasion of their 50th reunions last year, the Herschbachs set up scholarships at Wheaton and at Dudley’s alma mater, Stanford University.
The Drs. Georgene Botyos Herschbach ’61 and Dudley Herschbach Hon Sc.D. ’95 Endowed Scholarship helps several Wheaton students pursue their education each year.
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