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A Five-Generation Tradition Continues

Adelle Purse Toussaint ’82 was among the hundreds of parents on campus in August to help their first-year students move in.

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SMU welcomed more than 1,300 first-year students this fall. Among them is Jaime Toussaint, the fifth-generation woman in her family to attend SMU. Her mother, Adelle Purse Toussaint ’82, helped her move into Perkins Hall Aug. 20 and recalled that Jaime’s maternal great-great-grandmother, Ola Chastain Robertson, started the family’s SMU tradition. “She loved opera and sang in the church choir,” Adelle says. “When she was in her 60s, she enrolled in SMU and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in music and voice.” Jaime plans to follow in the footsteps of her physician father, Richard, as she focuses on the pre-med track in Dedman College.

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