rience. Naylor currently works with two former classmates, Susan Doebling ’92 and Tanya Williams ’89, ’92, both of whom are adjunct faculty. Denison still keeps up with friends she made here. Denison is currently employed at Associates in Anesthesia, which serves the Crozer-Chester health system. She has two children Juliette, who is four-and-a-half, and Jaxon, who is two-and-a-half. Like her mother and her great aunt, Juliette is driven to make her mark on the world and already knows she wants to be a ballerina. her to further her career in dental hygiene. “Harcum provided me with an excellent beginning and then a rewarding career,” Naylor said, who joined Harcum in 2002. Ten years later, she received the Philip Klein Memorial Award for excellence in teaching, the highest honor conferred on a sitting faculty member. Harcum welcomes another Buchmann The same year Naylor came on the faculty, her niece Loren was graduating with honors from the Physical Therapist Assistant program. Denison came to Harcum because of the attractive student-to-teacher ratio and because tuition was reasonable. She remembers studying with her friends before their practical exams and practicing their skills on each other. For Denison, receiving her A.S. from Harcum created an opportunity for her to see other professions in medical settings. While she was out on a clinical rotation, she observed a physician assistant helping the surgeon. She had already been accepted to University of the Sciences master’s program in physical therapy, but she was intrigued by the prospect of a future as a physician assistant. After speaking at length with someone working in the field, she decided that was her calling. She changed her major to PA, using her PTA degree from Harcum to do per diem work on weekends, to help put herself through PA school. For aunt and niece, a Harcum education was a practical decision that evolved into a personal transformative expe14 ALL IN THE HARCUM FAMILY EBONY FOWLKES ’07 & RASHAD FOWLKES ’14 Brother Rashad ’14 and sister Ebony Fowlkes ’07 are about as similar in temperament as siblings can be. Ebony was a standout basketball player at West University City High School in Philadelphia and was recruited for Harcum’s first Women’s Basketball team, who went 27-1 in 2006, winning the Region 19 championship. In Fall of 2006, she became a Resident Advisor or R.A. in the residence halls, which opened up a path for her to work for Harcum in Residence Life in 2007. She has been working here ever since. She was a recipient of the Young Alumni Award in 2014. She has held several offices in Harcum’s Alumni Board and currently serves as vice president. Rashad Fowlkes, who was a Law & Justice major, was a member of the Student Government Association in 2012, serving as the Commuter Representative. “Rashad has always been very responsible,” she said. “I always admired his drive. Right after high school, he got his college education. Now, he is married with two children.” In fact, he’s been married for four years. His daughter is three, and he has an infant son only seven-months-old. Getting her brother hooked on Harcum As Rashad tells it, Ebony sold him on Harcum. She would bring him to events on campus, like her basketball games and every other event he could attend. He chose Harcum because he thought the area was beautiful but still close to home. Ebony said she and Rashad have always been close. Though they have eight other siblings, only she and Rashad share the same father. They still have family gatherings about once a month in Lancaster. He said Harcum didn’t bring him and his sister closer
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