Homecoming candidate shares life after ESU

Brittany Collins Former ESU Homecoming candidate Ashley Vogts-Jowers and Stephen Jowers still stay involved with the school by volunteering at the ESU fair booth.

Emporia State alumni, previous Associated Student Government president and 2011 Homecoming candidate, Ashley Jowers, is continuing her education, but still loves everything ESU.

Jowers is now working on her masters degree in Occupational Therapy at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She hopes to become a school occupational therapist or work in the geriatric population at a skilled nursing facility.

As an alumni, I always come to Homecoming festivities, Ashley said. And I have to admit that I drive around during move-in day. This last year is the first time I didnt have a sibling or cousin or anybody moving in so I was just like, Im going to drive around the campus and see. Its just so funny because everyone is so excited for school to be starting.

Jowers was nominated by her sorority, Chi Omega, and by student government for Homecoming queen in 2011. Her sisters knew her as Ashley Vogts at the time.

It was just an honor to be nominated and then not only to be nominated to be one of the chosen five to get to do all the festivities, Jowers said. Its kind of unexplainable because youre just up in the moment. I cant really put it into words.

Jowers says during her time at ESU she was really into all things leadership. She was a member of student government, a Leadership Education and Development leader, a swarm leader and she worked in the leadership department for three years.

I had the opportunity to sit on the search committee for the new president. Jowers said. That alone was like an experience of a lifetime. I got to meet distinguished alumni and current faculty members and I got to be the voice for the students.

(Jowers) was such a natural-born leader on the court, in the classroom and basically everywhere she went, said Allison Fowler, one of the bridesmaids at Ashleys wedding. Ashley is always 100 percent genuine and never afraid to be her goofy self or speak her mind. She is such a beautiful person, inside and out, and Im so proud of all she has accomplished.

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