Frog of the Week

David Reese/Features editor

Robin Cromwell, a senior Spanish major, sits outside the Robert Carr Chapel. Cromwell married her husband, Brad Prevallet at the chapel in a late August 2002 ceremony.

Facts about Robin Full name: Robin Nell Cromwell Hometown: Stillwater, Okla. Parents: Janet and Roberto Siblings: three sisters Favorite TCU memory: Visiting Mexico City on the TCU-En-Mexico summer program Favorite food: Mexican Restaurant: Reata If you weren’t at TCU, where would you be?: UNT

By David Reese
Features Editor

Robin Cromwell is no traditional TCU student. Actually, Cromwell is a 32-year-old wife, mother and full-time student.

Cromwell was born in Venezuela and moved to the United States with her mother and three sisters after her parents’ divorce when she was 7 years old.

She grew up in Stillwater, Okla., and at the age of 19, married her first husband, Kerby. Soon after, Cromwell gave birth to her daughter, Kelsey, now 12.

After her divorce, Cromwell worked various jobs including a year at American Airlines as a reservation agent and fours years at Pepsi Cola. She said she worked as a merchandiser, which means she built displays at stores and filled the soda racks.

During these times, she also began to date Brad Prevallet, a Lockheed Martin employee. While working for Pepsi, Cromwell was hurt taking down a display. Cromwell said she was encouraged by Prevallet to start college classes again.

“I always wanted to do it,” Cromwell said. “I got injured on the job, and the opportunity to come back to school was there.”

Cromwell went to Tarrant County College Northwest campus in 2000 before transferring to TCU in the fall of 2001. After almost a five-year relationship, Cromwell and Prevallet married at the Robert Carr Chapel in August 2002.

She will graduate this May with a degree in Spanish and a minor in Latin American Studies. Cromwell said she plans to teach high school or junior high school and get a Master’s degree from either the University of North Texas or the University of Texas at Arlington.

For the moment, Cromwell said she is concentrating on finishing her undergraduate degree and being a mother to a super athletic 7th grader at Wayside Junior High.

David Reese
d.w.reese@tcu.edu

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