Grad Check
What's happened to Emilee Katzer since she graduated?
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Emilee Katzer
Year: 2002
Degree: Strategic Communications
Hometown: Ottawa
Back in the day: Katzer was busy waiting tables at Henry T’s during her three-and-a-half years at the University, which she describes as being her escape from school. She also competed for the KU Varsity Women’s Rowing Team for a year and was a member of Chi Omega sorority.
The grad life: After graduating in the fall, Katzer stuck around Lawrence to walk down the hill in May. She married her fiancé less than a year later and took a job with Barkley Evergreen & Partners, an ad agency where she was a “Media Planner” for a year and a half.
Today: Katzer now works for Pennington & Co., a fundraising, consulting and public relations firm for fraternities and sororities. She travels a couple of weeks each month to visit with alumni from schools across the nation. In May 2006, her husband’s accounting job with Deloitte & Touche moved the couple to Stamford, Conn., but Katzer continued her job as senior consultant for Pennington & Co. “It’s been so fast paced, but I love that. There’s so much to do!” she says. They will continue to live in Connecticut for two more years before relocating to an undecided location. Her goals are simple: “I just always have to have something going on: volunteering, a job, kids, whatever it might be,” she says. “I never want to be bored.”
She says: Katzer loved the beautiful spring days walking on campus and seeing friends, but she would have liked to take each day with more excitement during her time as an undergrad. “I wish I would have lived in every moment. You kind of go through the motions — go to class, not appreciate it. But live in every moment. Once college is gone, it’s gone,” she says.
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