Brooke James '06
Brooke James ’06, of Millbrook, N.Y., has
always had a plan. She decided as a first-year student
at St. Lawrence that she wanted to be senior class president.
Having achieved her goal, she now wants to pull the Class of 2006
together.
“I
have heard it too often that people have met great classmates a few
days before graduation,” says the global studies major
and psychology minor. “I
want that to happen earlier this year.”
Aside from
promoting class unity, as class president Brooke has helped plan
St. Lawrence’s 150th
anniversary observances, the Senior Dinner at which she was
a featured speaker, and Senior Week. She will also speak at Commencement.
James
cites her involvement with Kappa Delta Sigma as one
of her most important activities at SLU, as well as her spring
2005 semester on St. Lawrence’s program in Trinidad
and Tobago. “I was able to learn so much about
a country completely different from the U.S., as well as about myself
and my position in the world,” she reflects.
That program
whetted her appetite for international travel. Following graduation,
she plans to spend a year traveling abroad, and is looking at options
for volunteering in Africa or Japan. She eventually hopes to direct an international
study program at a university.
Although
she anticipates missing the strength and friendliness of St. Lawrence’s
community, James says that she will leave happy with her accomplishments. “I
feel I’ve used my time well, and that I am ready to start new,
exciting challenges on a professional level,” she says.
