Allyson Foelker
Classification: Junior
Major: Telecommunications
Hometown: Greenburg, WI

Allyson Foelker is majoring in telecommunications and minoring in business. Allyson comes from Greenburg, Wisconsin, where she has always lived. Allyson is the first from her immediate family to go out of state for school.

She chose Lee University because she said, “it was a Christian school that was affordable. It was bigger than other Christian schools I had looked into… Lee is active and vibrant.” Allyson has a younger brother and a younger sister, her father is in medical sales and her mother is a homemaker.

Allyson heard about Lee after a mission trip she had gone on with her Church. They were attending a service in Florida where a worship band from Lee was playing. Allyson had the opportunity to meet the band, and they caught her interest.

The advice that Allyson would give to anyone coming to Lee would be to get involved from day one. While at Lee she has plugged into a variety of campus opportunities. Allyson has been involved in the Student Leadership Council (SLC); Starlight Ministries, which is an outreach program for young girls; A-force, which is a team of student ambassadors in the admissions office that provide tours and help for prospective students; a peer leader, which involves teaching a class to freshmen assisting a Lee professor, and she has been a member of Omega Alpha Phi, one of the eight social service clubs at Lee.

Allyson also had the opportunity to spend a semester abroad in Cambridge as part of Lee’s cross cultural experience. Allyson explains that after this trip her “worldview was changed…it made me break outside the bubble I was in.”

As a junior at Lee, Allyson has been able to look back at her Lee experience thus far and says that her first two years were a time of growth and learning, but she states that her “core values remain the same.” Allyson will graduate in December of 2007. After graduation she would like to do something communications related. She’s specifically interested in large scale event management.

 

Posted on - 6/1/07