Lake Barrington student meets President Clinton

Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart alumna Austen Murrow of Lake Barrington meets former President Bill Clinton at the American University of Dubai (AUD) April 10. Murrow is one of five students on a full-ride scholarship to study Arabic and Middle Eastern studies at AUD through the William Jefferson Clinton Scholarship.

At AUD, students took turns asking questions revolving around the peace in the Middle East, the conflict in Syria and North Korea, as well the president's view on Africa as a developing continent.

Murrow is a student at the University of Virginia and expects to graduate in 2015. She graduated from Woodlands Academy in Lake Forest in 2010.

Founded in 1858, Woodlands Academy is an independent, Catholic college preparatory day and boarding school for young women, and part of a worldwide network of Sacred Heart Schools that spans 21 cities in the United States and 44 countries around the world.

Woodland Academy's identity is rooted in Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat's desire to inspire young hearts and minds to excel, to lead lives of integrity and to serve.

The nonprofit school is located at 760 E. Westleigh Road, Lake Forest. For more information call 847 234-4300 or visit www.woodlandsacademy.org