Meet the 2007 Legacy Scholarship Winners

When you purchase a license or vanity plate, you are supporting the Legacy Scholarship.

Each year, the Alumni Association awards the scholarship to four outstanding students.

Hally Berg
Legacy Scholarship Recipient
2007-2008




Hometown: Berthoud
Year at CSU: Sophomore
Major: Wildlife Biology

Activities:
Key Academic Community (in 06-07 year)

Career goals:
It is my goal to have a career working outside in our environment. I have considered going on to graduate school to get a master’s degree in marine biology. I want to have a part in preserving the most beautiful places that are left in our world.

Favorite experience/tradition:
Key Academic Community was a wonderful learning experience. I was able to stay committed to academic excellence, develop my leadership skills, become involved in my classes and with campus activities, and be a part of a diverse community of friends.

Homecoming week – all the different activities, the football game, and the way the whole community comes together for a week is an exciting event to experience.

How you’ll leave a lasting legacy at CSU:
My legacy at CSU will be made by my continuing successes in and out of college, by my contributions to the organizations I am a part of, to the campus and to the Fort Collins community. I will leave my legacy by graduating and going on to accomplish all of my dreams knowing the CSU was the school that helped me to have the life and career that I have always wanted.

Why CSU for college:
It has an outstanding program for wildlife biology. I can think of no better place than Fort Collins to study wildlife biology with the beautiful Rocky Mountains peering into my window every day.

CSU also has a great feel about it, and every time I am on campus I am comfortable, feel welcome, and like it is the place I am supposed to be.

Favorite quote:
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Other favorites:
Chai tea
Avogadro’s Number, The Rio, Chipotle
Minstrels (from England)

Johanna Hamburger
Legacy Scholarship Recipient
2006-2007
2007-2008

Hometown: Greenwood Village
Year at CSU: Junior
Major: Economics, Political Science
Minor: Environmental Studies, Conservation Biology

Activities:
Mock Trial Team Captain, Ecotoxicology Research, Assistant Researcher on carbon cap-and-trade project and on contingent valuation of recycling program in Seattle.

Career goals:
Environmental law.

How you’ll leave a lasting legacy at CSU:
Building a strong, well supported Mock Trial team that will last after I leave.

Why CSU for college:
Opportunities to participate in research.

Favorite quote:
A leash is just a rope with a noose at both ends. – Ayn Rand

Other favorites:
Tea
Bisetti’s
Peppermint sticks

Jessica McPhaul
Legacy Scholarship Recipient
2007-2008

Hometown: Ault
Year at CSU: Senior
Major: Microbiology

Activities:
Pre-medica, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, outside volunteering at Northern Colorado Medical Center and Parents of Children with Special Needs

Career goals:
Physician. I hope to work internationally in infectious diseases.

Favorite experience/tradition:
The Honors project where I co-taught microbiology to a fifth grade class for a semester. I was able to share knowledge I had learned at CSU with younger students who looked to me for guidance. It was truly insightful and humbling.

How you’ll leave a lasting legacy at CSU:
I hope to be able to give the gift of time to other students. If I can make a difference in the life of one person by giving them my time, then I believe that I will have left a great mark indeed.

Why CSU for college:
I attended pre-vet visit day as a high school junior and fell in love with CSU. Its reputation for excellence and innovation in science, its incredible location, and professors who really seemed interested in helping me become the best person I can be, all assured me that there was no better place for me to attend.

Favorite quote:
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Other favorites:
Chocolate milk
Johnny Carino’s
Milk Duds

Tyler Will
Legacy Scholarship Recipient
2007-2008

Hometown: Fort Collins
Year at CSU: Senior
Major: History, Philosophy
Minor: French

Activities:
Admissions Ambassador Program, Phi Alpha Theta/History Club, President’s Leadership Program

Career goals:
A professor of early American history.

Favorite experience/tradition:
The Monfort Lecture Series.

How you’ll leave a lasting legacy at CSU:
Pursuing scholarship and learning. Living with integrity.

Why CSU for college:
The academic programs and location.

Favorite quote:
I come that they may have life, and have it abundantly. – John 10:10

Other favorites:
Dr. Pepper
Woody’s Woodfired Pizza
Almond Joy