Summer 2011 - Austin College Magazine

74443 Austin College_Layout 1 6/24/11 1:35 PM Page 18More Faces,More SuccessLewis Musoke and Dhruv “Bobby” Patel attended high school together inNairobi, Kenya. When Lewis began to look for a small college with good premedicalpreparation, he found Austin College. Then, he sold his friend on theidea of enrolling with him. The two soon were making their mark upon thecampus community.Both were selected as Sally Posey Leadership Scholars and became involved invarious college organizations. Both considered it important to promote their ownculture on campus through involvement with the Student International Organization,which they later served as president and vice president. They were pleased to discoverthat their peers were very knowledgeable about other cultures and respected theirdifferences and embraced their commonalities.Lewis, selected by his classmates to present the senior address, completed a majorin biology and a minor in French and performed with the Austin College A CappellaChoir and Quartette. At Austin College, he benefitted from the support of the Mary and CliffordGrum Sponsored Leadership Scholarship. This fall, he will begin his medical degree at St.George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada of the West Indies. Considering specializationin infectious diseases, he eventually will return to Kenya to practice medicine.Bobby found his niche in finance. He served as a student manager in the Williams StudentInvestment Fund, completed three internships infinance, and was a finance and chemistry tutor in theAcademic Skills Center. He also spent a study abroadsemester at the Manchester Business School inEngland, receiving the A.J. Carlson EndowedScholarship for International Experience and Study.Selected to Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Chi honorsocieties, Bobby graduated magna cum laude,completing a major in international economics andfinance and a minor in chemistry. His hard work paidoff: he is employed with Goldman Sachs SpecialtyLending. After training in New York City this summer,he will be in the firm’s Dallas, Texas, offices.Austin College’s study abroad emphasis forstudents is well documented and regularly ranks inthe top spot among peers for student participation.Class of 2011 graduates Rachel Dodd and Amy Kalmbach certainly did their share to move theCollege to the top of the lists.Rachel, who this spring received the College’s Henry Bucher Global Citizen Award, traveledto Xi'an, China, and to Prague, Czech Republic, for Model United Nations competitions; toBattambang, Cambodia, for a Global Outreach Fellowship service experience; to Dhaka,Bangladesh, for an internship at Grameen Bank; to Taiwan for January Term study; and toMuscat, Oman, for a study abroad semester.Even in the U.S., the international relations major with a minor in religious studies hadmany global experiences through five additional semesters of Model UN involvement. She alsowas a Sally Posey Leadership Scholar in the Posey Leadership Institute and a Sara BerniceMoseley Scholar, served as captain of the women’s lacrosse club team, and was a Sallie MajorsReligious Life Intern and took part in leading ACtivator youth ministry events.16 | Austin College Magazine Summer 2011