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that give me renewed hope in life."

Lewis was raised without her father, so when the chance for her to live with him in California came, she jumped at it. Her relationship with her father has always been special. Smiling while she told stories about her father, Lewis' tone of voice steeled itself when she mentioned the death of her father before her senior year.

Lewis was planning on not returning to Cabrini because she felt life was so overwhelming. But her father had always encouraged her to "handle her business first" so that she could be rewarded later. She knew that continuing school would have been exactly what her father wanted.

Lewis' engagement with junior Aking Beverly, resident assistant of the Cabrini Appartment Complex, was a pleasant announcement to the student body. Everyone wants to know if Cabrini College is invited to their wedding. With a laugh, Lewis said, "Only upon invitation."

Lewis will be pursuing a marketing plan when she graduates this May. The marketing plan will be to sell her pieces to galleries and to try to live off her artwork. "I'm kind of glad I didn't get into grad school because I wouldn't have been able to focus on my art," Lewis said. "Ifl don't have a project in mind, I know I wouldn't have the discipline to keep up with painting or drawing."

Lewis has donated four of her works of art to Cabrini, which can be seen around campus. Faculty members and staff of the community have bought her artwork. One of her pieces had been showcased at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education forum and found a home at Rosemont College.

"My favorite piece is of the girl standing on the earth with the sun," Lewis said. "I have no one particular media in which I do my paintings but I like trying new things. I do a lot of my work in oils and pastels."

''All I really want is for my pieces [at Cabrini] to have plaques that have my name saying that I did them. I put my blood, sweat and tears into the four paintings that are displayed," Lewis said.