2008 Woodie Awards
Senior Snapshot: Molly Sullivan
Elise Baker '09
Issue date: 5/10/08 Section: Features
Senior Molly Sullivan has big plans for herself in the next few years.
Sullivan would like to do one of two things: help inner city teens as a counselor or social worker, or work for prison reform and reentry.
For the 21-year-old sociology major from Wisconsin, giving back to the community is nothing new.
Lat one night, comfortably curled on a royal blue swivel chair in Wolfington Hall, Sullivan reflects on her college experience, which has been filled with a passion for service for others.
Sullivan knows her surroundings well, confessing that she has spent every day since freshman year in this building that houses, among many service-related departments, the Faith Justice Institute. Wolfington is one of the many things Sullivan will miss when she graduates.
Propping her chin on her knee and shifting in the computer chair, Sullivan modestly lists the student initiatives and organizations she has been involved in her past four years at Saint Joseph's, most of which are service-based.
Although a former Hawk Host, student leader for the School of the Americas protest, and Poverty Awareness Week committee member, Sullivan says her three years spent as a Service-Learning Scholar through the Faith Justice Institute have been the most influential. As a Scholar, she helped facilitate discussions and talks in classes that incorporate a service component into the class material. She not only gave insight to others, but also received some herself.
"I came in [to St. Joe's] with a very idealized world-view and service learning gave me a value system and a structure of how to understand society," said Sullivan. "It really gave me a concrete ideology in which to base my beliefs."
Because Sullivan said she "believes so wholeheartedly in the mission of a Jesuit education," she decided to audition for the honor of student commencement speaker. She said her education here has helped form her as a person and helped her grow, something of which she wants her professors, classmates, and their families to be aware.
"I want to let them know that the values of the school are important to us a students and really do mean something," she said. "We are not just like any other school."
After completing the preliminary commencement speech submission and auditioning, Sullivan learned she had been chosen.
"I was shocked," she said. "I felt very honored and humbled."
Sullivan would like to do one of two things: help inner city teens as a counselor or social worker, or work for prison reform and reentry.
For the 21-year-old sociology major from Wisconsin, giving back to the community is nothing new.
Lat one night, comfortably curled on a royal blue swivel chair in Wolfington Hall, Sullivan reflects on her college experience, which has been filled with a passion for service for others.
Sullivan knows her surroundings well, confessing that she has spent every day since freshman year in this building that houses, among many service-related departments, the Faith Justice Institute. Wolfington is one of the many things Sullivan will miss when she graduates.
Propping her chin on her knee and shifting in the computer chair, Sullivan modestly lists the student initiatives and organizations she has been involved in her past four years at Saint Joseph's, most of which are service-based.
Although a former Hawk Host, student leader for the School of the Americas protest, and Poverty Awareness Week committee member, Sullivan says her three years spent as a Service-Learning Scholar through the Faith Justice Institute have been the most influential. As a Scholar, she helped facilitate discussions and talks in classes that incorporate a service component into the class material. She not only gave insight to others, but also received some herself.
"I came in [to St. Joe's] with a very idealized world-view and service learning gave me a value system and a structure of how to understand society," said Sullivan. "It really gave me a concrete ideology in which to base my beliefs."
Because Sullivan said she "believes so wholeheartedly in the mission of a Jesuit education," she decided to audition for the honor of student commencement speaker. She said her education here has helped form her as a person and helped her grow, something of which she wants her professors, classmates, and their families to be aware.
"I want to let them know that the values of the school are important to us a students and really do mean something," she said. "We are not just like any other school."
After completing the preliminary commencement speech submission and auditioning, Sullivan learned she had been chosen.
"I was shocked," she said. "I felt very honored and humbled."
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