Alumni

Name: Meghan Carrier
Class: 2005
Current Employment: Volunteering for the Peace Corps in Bangladesh.

Some of the Peace Corps girls dressed in Sari's and preparing to be sworn-in as official Peace Corps Volunteers, October 2005

Name: Amanda (Peters) Chassee
Class: 2001
Current Employment: I am now working at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center St. Margaret Hospital as a medical/surgical social worker. I've been doing hospital social work for about 2 years; at UPMC and University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor.
Graduate School Information: MSW from Univ of Michigan in 2002

Name: Melanie Hall
Class: 2001
Current Employment: Right now I'm working for Hillview
Acres Children's Home in Chino, CA. My main responsibilities are crisis
intervention, supervision of staff, teaching families how to
appropriately care for their children, and case management.
Graduate School Information: I received my MSW at GVSU.

Name: Heather (Bachelor) Karlson
Class: 2002
Current Employment: I am heading into my third year of teaching at Lane Elementary School. I teach a first/second multi-age classroom in Alsip, IL, which is on the south-west side of Chicago.
Graduate School Information: I am in a masters program at National-Louis University. I went to classes full-time this summer,
and I will graduate next August with a masters in Curriculum and Instruction.

Name: Tesha Wehrmeyer
Class: 2004
Current Employment: I am working as Wrap Around Coordinator of Ottawa County at the Children's Advocacy Center in Holland.
Graduate School Information: I love my job and I'm not sure about the future-maybe law school, maybe get my MSW.

Name: Mary Jane Murphy
Class: 2001
Current Employment: After graduation I worked for one year for the national alliance for the mentally ill of Indiana. then for 2 years I was a case manager at a supportive housing facility for individuals with mental illness and/or substance abuse issues.
Graduate School Information: In May 2004 I started the advanced standing MSW program at Indiana University and will graduate in may 2005. My concentration is health and I hope to work in a hospital setting after completing school.

Name: Rebecca Williams
Class: 2001
Current Employment: I am working for a Community Mental Health Service called Adult & Child that services the Indianapolis IN area. I work for the children and adolescent service line in the Home Based Counseling Program. I am a therapist on the team and go into the client's home to provide therapy and supervised visits.
Graduate School Information: I attended and graduated from Simmons College with my MSW.

Name: Julie Maxwell
Class: 2004
Current Employment: I started a job on July 7 working for Starfish Family Services in Inkster, MI. My title is Crisis Intake Worker, which means I handle the phones/crisis lines and do the intake/assessment of teens coming in.
Graduate School Information: In about 2 years I plan to start my masters, but for now I'm letting my husband do his thing at UofM and we'll see from there.

Name: Clark Beacom
Class: 2001
Current Employment: I am currently a Sales Manager for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. I have a full time staff of 10 Account Executives that sell a variety of inventory for the Major League Baseball team. Over the last few years I have worked for the Tampa Bay Lightning and New Orleans Saints selling corporate sponsorships.

Name: Paula Van Boxel
Class: 2002
Current Employment: I am a full time social worker, splitting up my time between two nursing homes in Muskegon. I am responsible for completing the Mini Mental Status Exam (MMSE), the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), and a Social History with all new residents. I also make a Behavior Monitoring Chart for staff to track mood and behavior issues that residents may have, especially in the Alzheimers population. This helps us determine if a psychotropic medication is warrented for an elderly person, and the documentation can tell us if behaviors are improving or getting worse. Interventions for residents with mood/behavior issues are listed on the Behavior Monitoring Charts to help staff come up with creative solutions. I also help with the discharge plan when a resident returns home, this may include Meals on Wheels and home health care services. Nursing home social workers have to help the resident and their families adjust to this usually unwanted new environment.

Name: Peter Binnie
Class: 2004
Graduate School Information: I'm just starting grad school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a second-year M.S.W. student right now. Because of Hope's fine classes and accreditation, I was able to get exempt from all but one of the first year classes (an ethnic/racial diversity class, which I clearly would have been exempt from if I had been able to take Melissa's new class!). So I'm in the school concentration and will have an internship as a school social worker this year. Within a year, I will hopefully have my MSW and be licensed as a school social worker. My immediate goal is to try to get a job as a school social worker as soon as I get done here at Madison. Ultimately, I would also like to get into the clinical side of social work.

Name: Miriam Northcutt
Class: 2003
Graduate School Information: I am in my second year of my M.A. at Bowling Green State University. I am studying criminology and social psychology. I will most likely be writing my thesis in the area of social psychology, race/ethnic studies.