"Rachel has discovered within herself a strong motivation for scholarship and research. (She) has, by all standards, a thorough architectural education, a two semester study in Italy and a summer working as a preservation–design assistant in France with one of the leading Medievalists in the profession. Her personality reflects... intellectual growth and a synthesis of ideas. She also has an innate ability to understand architecture as design and as theory. I feel strongly about (her) potential as a scholar, a designer and as a future university instructor."

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."