A chance to grow in her Lutheran faith brought Ann Cope from California to Midland University in the late 1950s.

Cope would graduate in 1962 and embark on an accomplished career as a Montessori teacher. She also would raise four children.

She recalls some of her best memories at Midland as “hanging out with my best friend, Henrietta Knight, and spending time with friends in Beegle Hall.”

Cope currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.