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Marymount Student Body President
Learns Leadership, Life Lessons
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Trisica Munroe
Photo by Chris Taggart |
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By John DeSio
As she prepares to graduate and leave Marymount College of Fordham University, Trisica Munroe does so knowing that she is the last student body president the campus will ever have. Next year, the college’s undergraduates will be integrated into the University at large, and the campus she called home for the past four years will become a hub for Fordham’s graduate programs in the area.
Despite her role in the final chapter of Marymount’s history, Munroe hasn’t thought about it much, preferring to focus on her fellow students with whom she will graduate on May 20.
“I never thought of myself as the final student body president at Marymount,” said Munroe, a graduate of Brooklyn’s John Jay High School. “That didn’t weigh heavily on my mind. It was more meaningful to me that I was part of Marymount’s final graduating class.”
Munroe picked Marymount to both satisfy her own desire to live on campus and her mother Denise’s desire that she go to college in the state. Initially, Munroe had planned to major in political science. “I like to argue, I like to talk, so I figured ‘why not?’” she said. But after a semester in political science she became bored with the subject. In her second semester of her freshman year, Munroe discovered English literature and found it so interesting and the faculty so engaging that she changed her major.
During her years at Marymount, Munroe tutored students at the campus learning center and worked at the campus writing center. At the writing center, Munroe said she felt she could let her talents shine through while at the same time helping her classmates.
“It’s really wonderful to sit down with my fellow students and help them with their papers, to not only fix their mistakes but to show them the strong points of their work,” she said. “I can really help enrich and improve their work and they always leave with a smile.”
Her desire to help the greater Marymount community extended to her involvement with student government. She ran for student body president last year and won. After her victory, she quickly developed her agenda, which consisted largely of aiding underclassmen in the transition from Marymount College to Fordham University.
At Marymount, Munroe found an engaging atmosphere that fostered a true sense of sisterhood among its residents—and learned, she said, to live life to the fullest.
“I’ll take with me the respect for each and every human being that I learned from the administration, the faculty and my fellow students,” Munroe said. “Every human life is important. Every human life is worth of respect, no matter what.” |
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