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She was on the dean’s list in December 2014 and May 2015. And while active in her sorority, Kellie started two part-time jobs. “I worked with Alternative Community Training (ACT) as a personal assistant for individuals with special needs, and at Boone explains. She is currently class liaison on the Columbia campus for the Class of 2020. This year, Kellie accepted an invitation to be in the Missouri Area Health Education Center Scholars program. The organization is a federally funded Hospital inpatient pharmacy as a pharmacy technician,” she says. “I believe having both of these jobs, and my involvement with my sorority, were big reasons why I got into pharmacy school.” In pharmacy school, Kellie is involved in a number of professional organizations, including the American Pharmacists Association, Missouri Society of Health- System Pharmacists and National Community Pharmacists Association. She has also attended the Rural Immersion Program in Chillicothe, Missouri. “This program was a selective program to show health care professionals the need for providers in rural communities,” Kellie program that prepares health professional students to become leaders in inter-professional and practice that will serve in rural communities. Currently a third-year pharmacy student at the UMKC School of Pharmacy at the MU campus, Kellie also works at Boone Hospital Center as a pharmacy intern part time. Additionally, she is involved with the many health-related service events around the Columbia area. In May, Kellie will begin nine, month-long rotations and will graduate with a doctorate in pharmacy in May 2020. Following that, she will need to pass the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy and Missouri pharmacy 16 HEARTBEAT | WINTER 2018 law exam before she can become a pharmacist. Kellie has purchased a home south of Columbia. She eventually hopes to return to northeast Missouri and her hometown of Shelbina to pursue a career as a pharmacist and work with local farmers and ranchers. “I took a huge interest in this when it was shown that farmers and ranchers are at highest risk of farm-related injuries and being on medications—or not being on medications when they should be—is shown to be a main cause,” Kellie explains. “With the path the field of pharmacy is going, I have high hopes I will be able to provide care to these patients that will decrease farm-related injuries in my area.” In addition to becoming a pharmacist, Kellie hopes to stay involved with her family’s farm in the future. “I would like to thank FCS Financial for granting me a scholarship my senior year of high school,” Kellie says. “I was able to attend my dream college and continue my dream of becoming a pharmacist with less stress about financial burdens thanks to their generosity.” dan haynes — jefferson city A December 2016 graduate of MU, Dan received a degree in general agriculture. While at MU, he was active in Collegiate Farm Bureau and was a Missouri