Bruce S. Fraser

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Graduate Profile: Bruce S. Fraser

Bruce S. Fraser has used his chemistry major to pursue a variety of career fields.

Now a software engineering manager with Lockheed Martin Corp., the 1976 graduate continued his education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and moved to Los Angeles to be a salesman for an oil and petroleum company.

"Alma College has a better concentrated educational experience and more individualized and hands-on education and training. "

He then went into the United States Air Force with a focus in meteorology. His time in the military also peaked his interest in computer science, which has been his field ever since.

“I wanted a career in science in a field other than biology,” he says. “Alma College has a better concentrated educational experience and more individualized and hands-on education and training.”

While at Alma, Fraser was a drummer in the Kiltie Marching Band, a waiter at Saga Foods and a switchboard operator for Wright and Gelston halls.

Alma College provides a network of opportunities for students to become responsible leaders, including the Robert D. Swanson Responsible Leadership Speaker Series and the Leadership Fellows’ Program. The 2006 class of Leadership Fellows participated in an International Leadership Institute at Wroxton College in England in August 2007....

Katie Wibby
Graduation: 2001
Major: Chemistry

Katie Wibby felt nothing but prepared to teach chemistry after her Alma College education.

“Having a chemistry degree was important because it made sure that I fully understood the chemistry that I would be teaching,” the 2001 graduate says. “My upper-level classes helped me to understand the theory behind the elementary chemistry concepts. I worked with a local chemistry teacher on my thesis project, and that helped me prepare for student teaching.”