A Trip for Two
Karen McClaran recently won a trip to St. Louis, Missouri for two and shared her excitement with Ye Olde Editor. He then asked that she detail her luck, her response was later circulated through the E-mail Connection, over her objections. The same information is now shared with our readers, in spite of her objections!
The trip I won is no big deal, certainly nothing I earned. I just bought some $1.00 tickets to benefit "Feed the Children" through our Adult Student Organization and mine was drawn to win a trip for two to St. Louis.
Between you and me, this year I have been blessed with a lot of recognition. I was selected OSU's Non-Traditional Student this past fall and appeared in the newspaper and recruitment brochure; Dean's List, etc; Kappa Omicron Nu Nat'l. Honor Society; I will be honored next month in the College of Human Environmental Sciences "Celebration of Excellence" for winning the Skinner Foundation Award/Scholarship; and was selected to represent the University's non-traditional students in a national conference in St. Joseph, Missouri next month.
And, what else? Well, I will graduate with honors this May. Besides a full time college life, in the last year I was appointed Oklahoma's District XII Task Force Coordinator for Child Abuse Prevention (along with a few ex-officio responsibilities). I just finished gathering, organizing, and publishing the church archives; coordinated/published the church's first pictorial directory; and am just starting to coordinate a church library (I am the Church historian & chair the Public Relations/Library Committees).
Tired yet? I am! And, of course, I started a genealogy service last winter along with publishing two newsletters. I really have been blessed with recognition lately, it is kind of nice. And, oh yes, I taught myself to use the computer in the last twelve months too; didn't know how before I bought one last Dec. and now I can do almost anything!
The trip to St. Louis is just icing on the cake that can be shared with my terrific husband. Considering that I was facing heart surgery last spring and blew a disc in my back this fall, I would say the Lord has blessed me greatly, and He deserves all the honor, not me!
(She graduated on May 10th, and had a great trip! Ed Stout)
--Karen