Purdue Alumni Association // President’s Council // John Purdue Club

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Rocking Her Role

Lessons on preparation, failure learned on the softball field One week before she graduated in May, Stephanie Ramsey (LA’18) played her last Big Ten softball game. In those waning innings, as she guarded second base, Ramsey surely considered the softball routines that became old hat — batting practice, dugout chatter, road trips. The bittersweet last […]