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As a freshman, Micha Boyett came to the
40 Acres from Amarillo. As a newly-minted
alumna, she has just returned from a month in
Kenya and South Africa (as part of an HSU
missions immersion course led by Dr. Rob Sell-
ers, associate professor of theology) before
heading on to graduate school at Syracuse Uni-
versity in New York.
A May 2001 graduate, Micha earned her
B.B.S. in English with a minor in leadership
studies. She was a campus leader, serving as
sophomore class president, leader and steering
committee member of New Student Orienta-
tion, Sigma Alpha, and Greek Council. In addi-
tion, she was named literary editor of the 2000
Corral, "Miss Bronco," and University Queen,
and she received the Campbell-Lacy Creative
Writing Award.
Micha has spent the past year working at
the "perfect post-graduation job" as a grant
writer on
the HSU ad-
vancement
staff. "One
of the
things I am
Yt ~most grate-
ful for has
been the
opportunity
to stay and
work at
Micha, HSU's 2000-01 University
Queen, with her parents, JoDeane HSU this
and Mike Boyett. year be-
cause when I graduated last May, I was
clueless about my future. I had two dreams I
didn't know how to pursue. One is missions.
Since I was nine or ten, I've felt a calling to
Africa and prepared myself and my parents
for the fact that I may live there one day. So
when I graduated and didn't feel God's lead-
ership in missions, it was a little confusing....
"I also began to consider further study of
poetry writing. I've been writing seriously
since a creative writing course with Dr. Bob
Fink during my junior year. As a senior, I
sent some poems to the National Under-graduate Literature Conference and was
invited to give a reading. There I was
able to gain the confidence I needed to
begin seriously considering and praying Micha Boyett
about pursuing writing.
"Syracuse was the picture of my dream
school. So being accepted was really like a "That's the
dream coming true. I feel I now have the beauty of this
freedom to pursue something that's always institution, that
seemed a little crazy. But I've learned that so
it's always been
much of following God is recognizing the
desires he's given us, then being brave full of people
enough to follow them. For me, moving who genuinely
alone to New York to study writing is the care about
process of trying to be brave. students,
"Hardin-Simmons has given me the oppor-
tunity to find my dreams and my gifts. I owe people who
writing to the people here. I had no idea I was show students
able to write before coming to HSU. Every pre- how to apply
vious paper I'd done had basically been written knowledge to
by my brother because I thought I was just ter-
faith in a real
rible at it. I took my first English class with Dr.
Traci Thompson. She was the first to encour- way: people Ike
age me to pursue English as a major. Dr. Bob Fink who
"At HSU, students are encouraged to be- took time to
come people of faith. Most of HSU's spiritual read and cri-
impact doesn't come through chapel services or
religious stuff, but through opportunities for tique my poetry
students to learn among people (faculty, staff, outside of his
administration, alumni) who love God and class; Dr. Turner
who demonstrate what loving God means- eating in the
simply by loving students. cafeteria with
"Writing has become such a part of me that
I know for the rest of my life, whether I'm pub- students; Dean
lished or anybody even reads it, I'll have to Carleton inviting
write. Poetry just consumes my head until I can students to her
put it on paper. And I still feel a calling to min- house for cook-
istry-maybe missions in Africa? I know that outs; Miss Cul,
everyone who has faith in Jesus has a calling to
ministry. It's just a matter of how God leads us who sat down
to use our desires and our gifts to love others. with me to
"That's what I think HSU is all about- share stories,
teaching students how to use their gifts for and of course,
Christ's sake. So for now I hope to use my
some of her
love for writing in Syracuse-and allow min-
istry to happen out of that. Maybe Syracuse extraordinary
is my Africa." wisdom."26 ilsi RANE Rl ER 1)1 l.I 200
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