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It was the 1960s when animal lover Mary Frances Backherms was ecstatic to earn a seat at a veterinary college — and then devastated when she was pressured into giving it to a man.
To honor her late sister`s dream denied, Kathy Backherms recently decided to create a scholarship at one of the nation`s veterinary colleges. NC State stood out, Backherms says, for its clear focus on student achievement and well-being.
Now, the new Mary Frances Backherms Memorial Scholarship Endowment has paid out its first scholarship to a young woman who, just like Mary Frances, dreamed from childhood of becoming a veterinarian.
Kathy Backherms, a decades-long educator, recently got to meet Isla Farrow, a Greenville, North Carolina, native and daughter of educators. You couldn`t have orchestrated a better moment.
Read about the women, the scholarship, the story at the link in our profile.
Photos courtesy of Kathy Backherms and Isla Farrow
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The students of the NC State Class of 2026 came from South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Ohio, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Arizona, California, Florida and Guam to join scores of North Carolina residents, including 25 from Wake County, in Raleigh to become doctors of veterinary medicine.
The NC State College of Veterinary Medicine has been home base for four years. Now, the next generation of innovators, problem-solvers and life-changers is scattering across communities near and far, ready to leave the world better than they found it.
#PackStrong
Find more details about our Oath and Hooding event at the link in our profile.
Celebration X 2! Many of our newest #NCStateVetMed doctors ... doctors! ... participated in the NC State University commencement event at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh today, joining 7,000 other Wolfpackers getting degrees. #ThinkandDone
(Psst. You can tell the DVMs by the inflated pink breeder sleeves.)
#Classof2026, we know you`ll make a big difference to your new communities wherever you land. #PackStong
PHOTOS BY JOHN JOYNER / NC State Veterinary Medicine
#Classof2026 #NewDVMS #vetlife #worldchangers
Congratulations are in order for our #classof2026 Doctors of Veterinary Medicine! We`ve oathed. We`ve hooded. We`ve hugged and hollered! Go forth and change the world for the better! Your @ncstate Pack is cheering you on! #ncstatevetmed #thrivingcvmcommunity #dvm #newdoctors
Oath and Hooding has ended, and 108 new Doctors of Veterinary Medicine educated at the finest veterinary college anywhere have headed out into the world to do all they can to make it better for humans and animals of every species. We`re so proud of you! @ncstate
#ThinkandDone #Classof2026
From nerves to NAVLE, the past four years have been marked by a swirl of internal questions for Hannah Dion: Am I good enough? Will I fit in? What if I let someone down?
The Class of 2026 native of Raleigh, North Carolina, has her answers now.
"We’ve been accepted. We belong here. We know more than we think we do. We passed the test. We matched. We got hired. We are graduating. We did it. We are going to be veterinarians."
Don`t miss the rest of her remembrances at the link in our profile.
#Classof2026 #NewDVM #vetschool #OathandHooding
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After the ceremony Friday at 4:30 p.m., our veterinary students who arrived in the fall of 2022 will leave NC State University as doctors! 🩺
Some will join small animal clinics, and others will go on to internships and then residencies to become specialists. Some will work for governments making sure our food is safe, and others will take research positions and find answers to our most difficult questions in animal and human medicine. #lifechangers #innovators #problemsolvers
Oh, the places you`ll go, and behind you every step will be the rest of your Wolfpack! 🐺 #ThinkandDo @ncstate
Veterinary students don`t get to DVM alone. A cadre of friends, family, faculty and peers supports them through their struggles and celebrates their successes along the way. Today, Anna Jones from the Class of 2026 writes a special thank you to her parents.
"This journey has, at times, felt tumultuous and unbearable, but I have never once doubted your love and care and have always felt your ultimate desire for me to become all that I am meant to be."
Read the rest of her lovely letter at the link in our profile.
#Classof2026 #NewDVM #OathandHooding #vetstudent
