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Making Their Mark<\/strong><\/a> is a Newscenter series of profiles celebrating members of Rochester\u2019s graduating class of 2019.<\/em><\/h4>\n
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Three questions
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Favorite class?<\/strong> “Materiality in Architecture with professor Peter Christensen. We took a trip to the Corning Museum of Glass, and it\u2019s one of the best museums I\u2019ve ever been to.”<\/p>\n

Favorite tradition?<\/strong> \u201cI love Meliora Weekend. I love anything that brings my parents (both 1984 graduates) back to campus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Favorite spot on campus?<\/strong> \u201cRush Rhees Library. I spent the spring semester of my first year writing a research paper on the construction and design evolution of the building for a writing class.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Gillian Gingher didn\u2019t want to attend the University of Rochester for one simple reason: her parents did.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey met here in the early 1980s and married a few years after graduation,\u201d she says. \u201cI thought, \u2018I can\u2019t go to this school. This is my parents\u2019 school. I need my own place.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

But Stephanie Drew Gingher \u201984 and Robert Gingher \u201984 insisted she take a River Campus tour before her senior year of high school. Intrigued, she flew back alone from her Long Island home for a second visit\u2014and fell in love. \u201cThe campus had such a good fit,\u201d she says. \u201cI couldn\u2019t pass up the opportunity to go here.\u201d<\/p>\n

In four years, Gingher has made Rochester her own place. She has been a diver for the varsity swim team<\/a>, a Meridian tour guide<\/a>, a member of Delta Gamma, and events manager for the student-run Hartnett Gallery in Wilson Commons<\/a>. She studied abroad in Milan, Italy, and will graduate as a double major in art history<\/a> and business<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t super involved in high school,\u201d she says. \u201cBut Rochester is such an open community that it\u2019s easy to connect with people right away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gingher\u2019s interest in art began as a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom is an oral surgeon, and she wanted to spend time with me each week,\u201d she says, \u201cso we took a painting class with a local artist in Babylon, New York. We did that for probably 10 years, and when I went to boarding school, I did a lot of studio art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gingher was thrilled to discover Rochester has a studio arts program. She interned at the Memorial Art Gallery<\/a> and at two galleries in New York City.<\/p>\n

Her next step will be graduate school, where she will pursue a master of architecture degree. \u201cI want to work in housing and urban development,\u201d she says. \u201cI care deeply about the housing crisis in the United States and want to make sure people understand that shelter is a necessity of life. There\u2019s no reason people should be homeless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gillian wears her mom\u2019s 1984 Rochester class ring, and she\u2019s proud to soon call herself an alumna.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe University is a hidden gem,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m so glad I came here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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