:: Senior Spotlights

Mark Horsburgh
Name: Mark Horsburgh

Major: Business Administration with a concentration in Management

Minor: Communications

Post graduation plans: Running sporting and fashion events for IMG

Favorite class/professor: Business Fellows Classes with John Burbridge, dean of the Love School of Business.

Favorite Elon moment: Being able to study abroad four times with my friends.


Name: Eden Esters

Major: Music Performance with a concentration in Piano

Minor: Jazz Studies

Post graduation plans: Pursuing a Master of Music degree in Piano Pedagogy at Louisiana State University

Favorite professor: Dr. Victoria Fischer Faw

Favorite Elon moment: Performing my Senior Piano Recital for all of my friends and family on April 19, 2007.


Name: Grace Dow

Major: English, with a concentration in Creative Writing

Minor: Classical Studies

Post graduation plans: Working at Borders books, continuing to write and attending an MFA program for Creative Writing in a few years' time.

Favorite class/professor: Dr. Helen Mackay and "Fantasy Novels"

Favorite Elon moment: For me, one of my favorite moments from Elon is from freshman year, when I attended a Winter Term course in Washington, D.C., with the Elon College Fellows program. Not only was it fun to go to D.C. with fellow students and Elon professors, but it also showed me early on a lot of what Elon is about: curiousity, adventure, being open to new things, responsibility, exploring new horizons, aiming to improve yourself and the world around you.


Name: Carson Foushee

Major: Leisure & Sport Management

Minor: Business Administration

Post graduation plans: Spends the next year as a student at Guangxi University in Nanning, China, where I will be learning Mandarin with other international students and performing student ministry.

Favorite class/professor: Leisure & Sport Management Senior Seminar with Dr. Jim Drummond

Favorite Elon moment: Move-In Day 2003 - 2006 because I have been able to participate as both a new student and a New Student Orientation Leader for each of the last four Move-In Days. This is the most exciting day because new Elon

journeys are started and lives in this great community begin.


Name: Alli Benton

Major: Elementary Education

Post graduation plans: Teach elementary school in NC

Favorite class/professor: Dr. Deborah Long, who teachs PLT II: Math/Science Methods

Favorite Elon moment: Being honored by my teammates during Senior Day for tennis and winning my last matches at Elon! Go Elon!


Name: Abbey Lepley

Major: Economics

Minor: Spanish

Post graduation plans: Entering the Ph.D. program in economics at University of Virginia in fall 2007

Favorite class/professor: All economics professors I have had for class have been fantastic. I could not pick only one as a favorite. Of the economics classes I have taken, some of my favorites have been Experimental Economics, Mathematical Economics and Econometrics.

Favorite Elon moment: I have to say that I'll miss the luminary lighting ceremony every year around Christmas time.


Name: Kiley Moorefield

Major: Corporate Communications

Minor: Political Science

Post graduation plans: Work for an advertising agency somewhere along the east coast. Possibly engange in overseas volunteer work

Favorite class/professor: Senior Seminar with Dr. Anthony Hatcher

Favorite Elon moment: Study abroad in Brazil this past Winter Term.


Name: Jen Romano

Major: English with a concentration in Teacher Licensure

Minor: History

Post graduation plans: To be determined

Favorite professor: Dr. Kathy Lyday-Lee

Favorite Elon Moment: Studying abroad in London


Name: Chris Weitzen

Major: Computer Science

Minor: Pacific Studies

Post graduation plans: I will be attending the computer science masters program at Wake Forest University.

Favorite professor: Joel Hollingsworth

Favorite Moment: My favorite moment was completing my honors thesis.



Justin Mann
Name: Justin Mann

Major: Psychology

Minor: French

Post graduation plans: New York University for a MA in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness

Favorite class/professor: Dr. Maurice Levesque, associate professor of Psychology

Favorite Elon moment: Proposing to my fiancée Ginny Rodgers, another Elon senior.


Name: Cara Leidy

Major: Spanish and Human Services

Post graduation plans: Return home to Philadelphia

Favorite class/professor: Spanish Literature Senior Seminar with Mayte de Lama

Favorite Elon moment: Presenting my undergraduate research in front of my

professors and peers at SURF day.

Staff: - Photos: Submitted 05/17/07