“Each of us has been given countless opportunities to prove ourselves, define our lives, and change the lives of others. That is what Illinois State is all about,” Gould noted. “That is what it gives, tirelessly, to the thousands of students that cross the very same stage we are about to cross.” Gould was the 2007 Laurine Reiske Scholarship recipient and was also a 2008-2009 Robert G. Bone Scholar. Next year she will attend graduate school at Illinois State University to study biology. Her goal is to become a veterinarian.