The memories remain vivid and sweet after all these years: Field trips with professors and classmates to Indiana, the Gulf of Mexico and Canyon Lake. Stimulating courses in microanatomy and microbiology. A Presidential Scholarship that covered her tuition in full at Our Lady of the Lake University.
Then there was the surprise kicker. When Natalie Dryden enrolled at Medical School at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, she used notes from courses she took under professor James Hall at OLLU.
“By the time I got to Medical School, while some subjects were tough, others seemed so familiar,” Dryden says. “I felt so well prepared for the courses that were repeats of what I had taken at OLLU. They seemed to me more like a ‘refresher’ and not like something totally foreign.”
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