Issue: Summer 2024 | Section: Impact
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Impact Summer 2024
Michelle Gluck, ’83: Opening Doors for Future Leaders
For Michelle Gluck, ’83, choosing which academic path she’d follow was better left in the hands of fate. Torn between medicine and law, she decided to let test results determine her next steps.
Impact Summer 2024
Ernest Newborn, ’83: Inspired by the Past, Looking to the Future
Ernest Newborn, ’83, has spent his career building on the legacy of his grandfather, who, against the odds as a Black man, rose from mail clerk to chief legal officer at a steel company in the mid-1900s.
Impact Summer 2024
Nat Pernick, ’86: Forging a Path in Computers and Medicine
From a young age, Pernick has had a propensity for mathematics and science, which would pave the way for his future in computers and medicine. He recently set up a scholarship to support students interested in the intersection of law and medicine.
Impact Summer 2024
Bill, ’71, and Cindy Rainey: Opening Doors for the Next Generation
Bill Rainey dreamed of being a lawyer as early as junior high, which led him to become the first person in his family to graduate from college and the first person in his high school to attend an Ivy League institution.
Impact Summer 2024
Mattie Peterson Compton, ’75: Access to Education, a Value Shared Among Generations
Mattie Peterson Compton, ’75, grew up in a family that strongly believed in the value of education, and she never questioned whether she would attend college—it was expected of her.
