**Kelli Baggett**
_Health student brings freshmen to MU_

Before you ask, no, she’s not related to Missouri’s kicker. And, yes, she’s an undergrad holding a position at PhysZOU that is usually held by grad students.

But Kelli Baggett is no ordinary student. Baggett works at PhysZOU, a clinic designed for physical therapy students to apply what they’re learning in a real-world setting, while providing pro-bono care to mid-Missouri residents.

And that’s not all this St. Louis-bred Gamma Phi Beta does. As a School of Health Professions Student Ambassador, she helps recruit potential students.

“(I enjoy telling prospective students) what I love I about Mizzou,” Baggett says.

Baggett, a senior health sciences major, is also in her first year of her physical therapy graduate degree.

Oh, and she also volunteers with PhysZOU’s Adapted Gymnastics program and was a top 15 finalist for Homecoming queen.

In the words of Cheri Ghan, the SHP’s Coordinator of Recruitment and Scholarships, Baggett is “a great example of an outstanding Mizzou student.”

**Hope Whitlock and Holly Bollinger**
_Mother and daughter duo_

Holly Bollinger frequents The Candy Factory, buying chocolate-covered Oreos to ship to her friend in upstate New York. This visit was different.

Bollinger showed her mother, Hope Whitlock, around the store, remembering the building’s days as Déjà Vu, a nightclub that was housed there when Bollinger attended Mizzou 20 years ago.

“(The Candy Factory) is really neat,” Whitlock says. “What’s nice is it’s not cookie cutter and not commercialized. It’s just unique. It reminds me of when I was a kid. We’d go into confectionaries when we could, and buy penny candies.”

Whitlock lives with Bollinger and her children. Bollinger currently works full-time as a marketing specialist at MU and studies part-time at the law school. She graduated from MU with a degree in agricultural journalism.

Whitlock and Bollinger are originally from St. Louis.

“Once she (Holly) got a job down here, we got a place together,” Whitlock says.

“It’s nice because she’s a young woman, and we can take care of each other,” Whitlock says. “We’ve got each other’s back.”

Whitlock looks forward to the holidays, but remembers when times were simpler and holidays were less commercialized.

“We can’t go back to being simple,” she says. “It’s called progress, I guess.”