All About Me

Hi, my name is Caroline Curry, and yes, the above picture is a photo, albeit an outdated one, of me. I was born in Abilene, Texas, on November 24, 1973, at 6:59 p.m. at Hendrix Memorial Hospital. My mother, Dorothy Sue Condict (now Branton), was 27 years old at the time and already had two daughters. We moved around quite frequently when I was younger, and then came to Clark County, Arkansas in 1983, where my two younger sisters were born.

As a young girl, I talked incessantly, which prompted my mother to encourage me to be an attorney. I think she was being sarcastic at the time, but I nevertheless took it completely to heart, and vowed to someday become an attorney.

From 1983 to the present my family has moved back and forth from Gurdon to Arkadelphia, but I finally graduated from Gurdon High School in 1996 in the top 10% of my class. After graduating on May 17, 1992, I began college at Ouachita Baptist University on June 1, a little over a week later. Why, you ask?

The answer is quite simple. When I was in the tenth grade at Arkadelphia High School, I heard about a program being offered to students who had the potential of being first-generation college students. This program, Upward Bound, consisted of a summer program based on the campus at OBU. I applied and was accepted. Then, after I graduated, I entered their bridge program, which allowed me to take some courses. Not wanting to delay the inevitable, I decided to take Freshman English and Old and New Testament, all of which were required.

But I digress.

I immediately declared my major: political science. However, during the fall semester, I enrolled in a Russian course. I had studied Russian at AHS, and thought I would merely continue my studies. It was very surprising to my family and friends when I declared that I would be traveling abroad in January 1994. One semester in Alma-Ata (Almaty), Kazakhstan, in the former Soviet Union, influenced me to add another major--Russian. Unfortunately, OBU did not offer a Russian major at the time, so my best friend, Liza Weathers and I decided to petition for its adoption. We were discouraged at times, by certain members of the faculty, but after we went directly to the President of the university, the petition passed a faculty vote--unanimously.

In 1995, graduation approached, and I had no idea what I would be doing in the future. I had kept the Political Science major, and added the Russian major and a History minor, but I still did not know what to do next. My Russian professor strongly encouraged me to look into graduate schools, and the following year, Fall 1996, I enrolled in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas.

At the University of Kansas, I decided to focus mainly on Linguistics, although I was required to take some Literature Classes. After two years, however, I knew that I did not want to teach Russian, Linguistics, Literature, or anything else. I decided to take my M.A. exam and then come home to Arkansas to recuperate, vowing never to study again.

It is funny where life leads you. . .after I came home, I tried desperately to find a job. . .to no avail. After six months, I landed a job at a check cashing store. Bored out of my mind, I soon began to reconsider my options, and decided to go to law school after all. I took the LSAT, applied to two schools, and was accepted at both. I will be enrolling at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville in the fall.

And this is where I am now. I am twenty-five years old, with my legal education still ahead. I don't know what path my life will take, but I know that the path I have followed up to now has never been boring.

Well, that is about all I can tell you. If you want to know still more, take a look at my resume.

Thanks for visiting my homepages.

Caroline Curry