Author: Shae Burton

Alum profiles

Kathleen Walker: Queen recalls breaking racial barriers

Homecoming Week always gets student mentor Kathleen Walker thinking about her days as an undegraduate.Twenty-two years ago this month, in 1988, Walker – then known as Kathy Smith – made campus history when she became the university's first African-American homecoming queen. Walker never dreamed it would happen. "I wasn't even […]