Ag student steps up to lead student body
By Tom Campbell
How many words does it take to describe Purdue student body president
Stephanie Warner?
The agricultural education major uses 500 words on two single-spaced
pages to describe her accomplishments and goals. But that is a resume.
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Photo by Tom Campbell
Stephanie Warner (right) was elected vice president of Purdue
Student Government last fall. But the agricultural education
major spent the spring semester at the head of the table, as
president of the organization. |
Her high school agriculture teacher, however, can describe her in one
word.
"Stephanie has 'IT,'" says Roger Carr, who taught Warner
at Whitko High School in South Whitley, Ind. (west of Fort Wayne).
"
She has that indescribable quality that so few people possess,
but you know it when you see it. Stephanie has that certain quality
that means she will be a success in anything she chooses to do."
What she has chosen to do is follow in Carr's footsteps as an agriculture
teacher after her 2004 graduation.
Warner will spend her spring traveling through England, Wales and The
Netherlands studying organic farming, then she will student teach at
Cloverdale High School before graduating.
"Some people come to college and just go to class and don't really
get involved in too many things and that's fine, but that's not me,"
Warner says.
"I really enjoy working with different people with different beliefs,
trying to get them to come together for one common goal." But Warner
readily admits holding the top position in student government never
entered her mind.
Warner was elected vice president in 2002, as a running mate to Greg
Canfield. When Canfield chose not to return to school for the spring
semester, Warner became president, a title she held until the end of
the semester on May 10.
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