WashU has been a meaningful thread woven through the family story of Katy Jenkins Courtney, BS ’81, and Lee Courtney. Now, the couple pays that impact forward by creating opportunities for students while keeping their son’s memory alive.
The Michigan native balances her studies with dance rehearsals five or six days a week plus weekend performances. She describes herself as a “full-time athlete” – thanks to scholarship support from generous Annual Fund donors.
As an alumna, Bethany Clarkson-Morgan volunteers for Eliot Society and WashU Reunion committees and serves as a Women & Engineering mentor.
I have a strong investment in Washington University. My advisers not only knew my potential, but they also threw their weight behind me. I want more students to discover the resources, networks, and social capital at their fingertips. Make Way ensures that students truly connect as I did. Not all students arrive equipped to seek […]
An Eliot Society Member, Andrew Glantz, BSBA ’17, also serves on the Alumni Board of Governors and chairs the Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s Eliot Society Committee.
At age 17, Patricia Penkoske, MD ’74, dreamed of being a Pan Am international stewardess. Her father made her a deal: she had to go to college for two years first, and then she could pursue anything she wanted. She enrolled at what was then Lindenwood College for Women in St. Charles, Missouri, and loved it. Majors in biology, chemistry, and art history started her on a path that brought her to Washington University School of Medicine in 1970.
A native of the greater Boston area, Justin came to WashU to study finance, and expanded on his interests by adding minors in history and computer science.
By Matt Hampton Leo Jacobs is on a mission to help patients as a physical therapist — a quest that materialized after his grandfather was diagnosed with leukemia. The cancer impaired his mobility, strength, and balance. Leo was 15 and had a close relationship with his grandfather. Doctors said that exercise would help alleviate his […]
By Grizelda McClelland Stephanie Judycki claims theater was her first childhood passion. And years later, as a graduate of the Program in Occupational Therapy at Washington University School of Medicine, she still retains an actor’s energy and acute skills of observation. As a full-time therapist at Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, Stephanie routinely notes […]
The Chancellor’s Fund for Excellence is a dedicated part of WashU’s Annual Fund that allows us to respond to unexpected opportunities and crises. The flexibility of this fund empowers the university to be nimble in launching and sustaining current and new initiatives and provide support wherever an additional boost will have a transformative impact. Donors […]