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Two Alton Memorial EMTS heading to med school
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Brian Fogarty and Ruth Kvistad of the Alton Memorial Hospital EMS team are both heading to medical school later this year.
ALTON Brian Fogarty and Ruth Kvistad of the Alton Memorial Hospital EMS team are both heading to medical school later this year.
Kvistad said she hadn’t planned on more school. An EMT with Alton Memorial Hospital’s EMS team since November 2020, she has even loftier goals. Neither of her parents had college degrees, and her high school wasn’t pushing students to apply.
Then, during her senior year, Kvistad was cleaning out fryers as part of a fundraiser for a local organization. One of her co-volunteers accidentally opened the valve at the bottom of a fryer and a mixture of boiling water, soap and remnant oil gushed onto Kvistad’s foot badly burning her.
Colombia native Andrea Palacios Calderon transfers leadership and language skills to UMSL
Feb/16/2021 | POSTED BY Ramona Curtis
Andrea Palacios Calderon is studying industrial organizational psychology with a goal of helping companies improve effectiveness and productivity and aid employees developing leadership skills. (Photo by August Jennewein)
After studying English in her native country of Colombia and then moving to the United States in 2013 to work as an au pair, Andrea Palacios Calderon thought her mastery of the English language would get her hired at companies in need of bilingual employees.Â
She soon learned that a requirement for a college degree was the roadblock, not her language skills.
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