Chloe LaFrance couldn’t decide between two majors, so she did both. A double major in psychology and English (with a concentration in writing), the Lewis, NY, resident graduated from Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School in 2005. She says she knew she was going to be an English major, but enjoyed her Introduction to Psychology course so much that “Instead of choosing one major I took the option SLU offers and declared both.  It’s meant extra work, but I'm so glad I did.”

Chloe is a tour guide, a member of the leadership honorary Omicron Delta Kappa, a member of the psychology honorary and president of the English honorary, a contributor to the student-run newspaper The Hill News and a writing tutor.  She received a Tanner Fellowship in 2008 that sent her to a writers' conference. 

She’s also the recipient of  a http://www.stlawu.edu/mcnair/, which recognizes first-generation or minority students and is named in honor of physicist and astronaut Ronald McNair, who was killed in the space shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986. “As a McNair Scholar, I achieve, I break the cycle, I break stereotypes and shatter social and economic divides, I learn about myself and research topics that I'm interested in,” she says. “But, most of all, it provides me with the opportunity to excel in a way that I would otherwise not have had.”

After graduation this spring, Chloe plans to move to Dallas, Texas, where she hopes to take some photography courses. In the future she intends to attend graduate school to obtain her MFA in creative writing and possibly take some courses in photojournalism.      
--Kristen Bednar ’09