Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School honored the St. Louis students and corporations participating in their innovative Intern Leadership Program (ILP) at a recent awards ceremony.
The ILP is a unique six-year internship program. The event celebrated the first class of Cardinal Ritter Prep students who have completed all six years of the program, as well as the companies that have employed them as interns. Students are accepted into the highly competitive program at the end of their sophomore year, and begin the internship the summer after their junior year. Students continue to work the paid summer internships, often with the same company, through college.
Partnering companies include A.G. Edwards & Sons, Ameren, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Bank of America, Commerce Bank, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Laclede Gas Company, Edward D. Jones & Company, Grimco, Unigroup, Inc., Smurfit-Stone Container, Schnuck Market, Inc., US Bank, VA Medical Center and others.
Students honored at the event include:
· Helena Diane Bailey – attends Fontbonne University where she is majoring in psychology. Interned with Energizer Battery Company and Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation.
· Lauren Ashley Collins – attends Kentucky State University where she is majoring in chemistry. Interned with Commerce Bank and Edward Jones.
· Dannell Genean Gillespie – attends Saint Louis University where she is majoring in finance. Interned with Tyco Healthcare/Mallinckrodt, Ameren UE and National City Bank.
· Tamara Lashay Rogers-Gant – attends Spelman College where she is majoring in English. Interned with Enterprise.
· Ann Marie Gordon – attends University of Missouri – St. Louis where she is majoring in pharmacy. Interned with Walgreens.
· Richard Thomas King – attends Saint Louis University where he is majoring in biology. Interned with Schnuck’s.
· Tabitha Danielle Lambert – attends Lindenwood University where she is majoring in early childhood education. Interned with Edward Jones, Commerce Bank and Hazelwood Public Schools.
· Jessica Lynette Lane – attends University of Alabama – Huntsville. Interned with Enterprise.
· Malinda Elizabeth Rowsey – attends Harris-Stowe State Univeristy where she is majoring in early childhood education. Interned with Walgreens and Ameren.
· Kendra Latrice Smith – attends Saint Louis University where she is majoring in biology. Interned with Walgreens.
· Doretha Jeanne Taylor – attended Oakwood University in Alabama and currently attends the University of Missouri – St. Louis where she is majoring in biology. Interned with Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Bank of America and VA Medical Center.
· Holly Lynette White – attends the University of Missouri – St. Louis where she is majoring in biology. Interned with Commerce Bank.
“The Cardinal Ritter Intern Program has been a success at Ameren,” said Sharon Harvey Davis, manager of Diversity at Ameren Services.
“The interns have been well prepared, smart, hard working and a delight to have in the office. We feel very fortunate to be able to participate in this program.”
“Laclede Gas has found being a partner in the Intern Leadership Program a very worthwhile and rewarding experience,” said Tim Golden, senior human resources generalist at Laclede Gas Company.
“We have been very pleased with the quality of the interns. They are polite, professional, and hard working and we enjoy having them as part of our company each summer.”
For more information, call (314) 446-5500 or visit www.cardinalritterprep.org.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy starts new class
The 244 members of the Class of 2013 have begun their academic careers at St. Louis College of Pharmacy, one of the nation’s largest pharmacy colleges. Total enrollment at the College for the 2007-08 academic year is 1,158.
The incoming class of 244 freshmen has an average ACT score of 28, the second highest in Missouri. The average GPA is 3.88, and the average class rank is in the top 15 percent.
In the face of a nation-wide pharmacist shortage, St. Louis College of Pharmacy consistently graduates one of the largest classes in the nation, currently ranking 14th in the number of Doctor of Pharmacy degrees awarded. A shortfall of as many as 157,000 pharmacists is predicted by 2020, according to the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
Contributing to the shortage are a number of factors, including an aging population, more drugs being manufactured and advertised to the public, and changes in insurance policies and federal regulations that make drugs available to more people.
Most pharmacy graduates can expect to receive multiple job offers, with starting salaries of $90,000 or more. Approximately 72 percent of practicing pharmacists in the St. Louis region are graduates of the college. In a recent poll, 95 percent of students mentioned wanting to help people or society as their primary reason for attending St. Louis College of Pharmacy.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy admits students directly from high school and integrates the liberal arts and sciences with a six-year professional curriculum leading to the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy is one of 104 pharmacy schools in the United States, and one of only a handful that are independent and not affiliated with another university or medical center.
For more information, visit www.stlcop.edu.
