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            My name is Josh Poorman and I am a senior history major and multimedia applications/ education minor. I am the current president of Religious Life Council, one of the two Student Orientation Leaders (Co-Chiefs), member of Ko Sari Fraternity, and a new addition to the Campus Tours Staff. I was born and raised in Abilene Texas and attended Wylie High Scholl where I was active in theatre, football, track, and basketball. I grew up all my life in the Methodist Church. Both of my parents work at McMurry University, and my brother went here. So my senior year in high school when it was time for me to look at colleges my choice was easy. I was going to get my basics at McMurry, because of the scholarships I received, and transfer to a larger school after a couple of semesters. Well you might ask me, “Josh, you said you are a senior at McMurry…. What happened?” What happened was I fell in love with McMurry. I got to know my professors, started making good friends, and couldn’t leave the close family atmosphere at McMurry. My first year at McMurry I pledged the social club Ko Sari and began to make my closest friends, I also started dating a girl named Kim. At the end of that school year I took a may-mester class on Religion and the Revolutionary War where we spent two weeks in class and then we went on a tour of Boston with our professors for eight days. My sophomore year I first got involved with religious life council as their publicity point person. During spring break that year I went on a mission trip to a Navajo Reservation in the four corners region of the country. Before I even had a chance to breath I was an upperclassman. This year I was elected Vice President of Religious Life Council and President of my social club. During the Christmas holidays Kim and I got engaged and we had the opportunity to take a school trip to London for ten days and received six hours of course credit for it. And During the fall semester I went on a tour of the Texas Revolution with two of my professors. Along the way we had a couple of guest speakers. We got a private tour of San Antonio with the head curator of the Alamo, and a private tour of the Goliad and San Jacinto battlefields by one of the leading experts on the Texas Revolution and author of Texas Iliad and Texian Macabre. I cannot believe that I am almost done, that I’ve almost made it. So when answering the question “Why did I stay at McMurry?” the answer would have to be that they took my classroom education, applied it to real life, and showed me the places we talked about. McMurry took my education and turned it into an experience, and that is something you remember for a lifetime.