Garry graduates from Cornell

Susan Garry, Taylor, Texas, has graduated with a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. For the next year, she will be a research assistant for a professor working on developing software for genome comparisons. She thanks the Choctaw Nation for the College Clothing Allowance, Technology Allowance and Higher Education Program.

For her first two years at Cornell, she lived in Akwe:kon house, the nation’s first university residence hall established to celebrate American Indian culture and heritage. Akwe:kon means “all of us” in the Mohawk language.

She is the great-great-granddaughter of Josephine Hickman Hill Terrell and the great-great-great-granddaughter of Elizabeth Lewis Hickman, original enrollees. She is the daughter of Kyle and Madeleine Garry Hensley of Taylor, Texas, and the granddaughter of Buz and Susan Ridgway Garry of Coupland, Texas. Susan Ridgway Garry was formerly of Durant.