1. Name, Hometown, Major
Sarah Riggs, Destin, Fla., Management
2. What’s next for you after graduation?
I am getting married two weeks after graduation then spending six weeks in Guatemala living with a local family and attending language school everyday. We then will move to Memphis where I hope to find a job in sales while my husband attends medical school.
3. Long-term career goals?
I would love to eventually earn a doctorate and become a professor. I have been positively influenced by many of the professors in the college of business and hope to one day have the ability to guide and help students in a similar way.
4. What is the most important thing you learned at Lipscomb?
That’s like asking a mother which child she loves the most. The most important thing is to lean on God more than my parents, my friends or my boyfriend. It is the most important lesson learned, and my social club taught me that.
5. Who at Lipscomb influenced you the most? How?
My social club as a whole. They were my family at Lipscomb. I learned to look past obvious personality differences and seek to love the differences in each girl. I learned to manhandle the whole club while trying to plan our social events. I’ve learned that I cannot keep everyone happy and had to have thicker skin when it came to planning these events. I also saw God in each of my sisters. The girls who the bible beaters see as the least likely were the girls who I could see the most in. It’s easy to love Jesus and Lipscomb and rainbows when nothing difficult has happened in your life but I was able to see how my sisters dealt with life when the tough times came. I got to see their strength during break-ups, death and disappointments. It was my sisters who wrote me cards, made me CDs and spent time with me when I needed it most. It was my sisters who taught me to lean on God and no one else. In four years, Delta Sigma taught me more than 18 years of attending church religiously taught.