PABLO Mont.
If she wanted to, Lois Slater wouldn’t have to go any farther than a mirror to find a compelling story about how educational opportunities can turn a life around.
“I was a statistic,” she says, and this is what she means:
She dropped out of Ronan High School in 1968, at the age of 16, to get married and have a baby.
By the age of 22, she had four children.
By the age of 28, she had lots of categories covered: minority, divorced, high school dropout, single mom.
Today, Slater holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Montana, a master’s degree from Gonzaga University, and a job as director of development at the tribal college where she got the ball rolling to rebuild her life.
