KEARNEY, Neb., May 6 -- The University of Nebraska Kearney issued the following news release:
By TYLER ELLYSON
UNK Communications
KEARNEY - When Elly Piper returns to Norfolk, she often catches herself saying something that makes her mother smile.
"I'll tell her, 'Mom, I have to go home,'" Piper said. "And she'll say, 'You are home.' But it's just not the same."
Over the past four years, home has taken on another meaning for the University of Nebraska at Kearney senior. It exists in the northeast Nebraska city where she was raised and on a college campus nearly three hours away where she was able to grow as a person, a leader and a future health care provider.
"I always say home is not a place, it's the people you're surrounded by," P...