Bryman Institute is honored to have Quinzetta Townsend from Dorchester as one of our graduates of the Medical Administrative Assistant program. She is a mature, hardworking, knowledgeable person who started the peer-tutoring program and helped our staff as a federal work-study student. We miss having Quinzetta as a student because her characteristics as a person that perseveres and remains positive helped many of our students. She was always dependable, respectful and showed that faith in oneself and family can help overcome the harshest of obstacles. Quinzetta overcame many obstacles to attend school and succeed in her program. These included the murder of her brother in front of her house while a student here; her daughter almost dying with a brain cyst, a deceased mother, and her son that died within the last 5 years. She is a single mother with three children that supports her family and suffers herself from migraine headaches. Quinzetta was hired from her practical (externship) and has worked since graduating in December 2001. We are proud of Quinzetta's success and look forward to watching her in move forward with other goals in the future.