Frances “Franny” Gilman ’10 had always wanted to be a veterinarian. But a trip to Belize as a Puget Sound pre-vet student changed her mind. There, she was given the chance to work in a local animal clinic and assist with minor surgeries, such as spay and neuter procedures. “I discovered I did not like blood or cutting up animals,” she recalls. “So, I realized, ‘All right, this might not work out for me.’ That was a good thing to learn.”
Straight From the Source
Entrepreneur Jordan Bremond ’10 shares how he got his start in the Business Leadership Program
Little City
Everybody in Tacoma wants a piece of Bernadette Ray ’99, MAT’01. She can’t go to the grocery store without folks stopping to talk, so she tends to do her shopping at night. As the new principal of Wilson High School, Bernadette loves everyone in her community—current students, former students, parents, teachers—and being at the center of it all.
The Long Game
It’s about 8:30 a.m. in Chengdu, China, and Consul General Jim Mullinax ’90 is at work in his home office, chatting with an interviewer via Skype. After two years in this post, he has made his home in the laidback capital city that serves as the nerve center and travel hub of the region.
A Change of Heart
Namibia has one of the world’s highest rates of HIV prevalence, and while work is being done to treat the nation’s HIV-positive population, the disease is still the country’s leading cause of death.“It’s really painful to see, in person, the severity of illness in an area that just doesn’t have access to care,” she says.