Young Alumna Plans for Tomorrow: Bee Army’s Bequest to Albright Will Support Future Students

Abigail “Bee” Army ’20 is a survivor of childhood cancer. At 25 years old, she is also the youngest member of the 1856 Legacy Society. While no one might think these two facts about Bee’s life are connected, they are. “My cancer is in check for now,” says Bee. “But it could return. I’ve been so vigilant about my health that when I saw I could create a will using Albright’s FreeWill benefit for alumni and friends, I knew it was something I should take advantage of to get my own affairs in order in case my cancer returns.”

“I was a year out of my cancer treatment when I started at Albright. Before college, I was very close to my mother and my younger sister. So close that I really didn’t think I would go away to college and considered taking a gap year. My family meant everything to me—but when I visited Albright’s campus for my interview, I fell in love with the campus and knew that I would be ok.”

From meeting her future fiancé in line at freshman move-in day, being a Peer Orientation Person (POP), joining Sigma Kappa sorority, taking an ACRE (Albright Creative Research Experience), and living in affinity housing, Bee feels like Albright College is her home. 

“I hold the POPS and the English faculty in very high regard,” says Bee, who earned a bachelor’s degree in communications. “Sometimes degrees in the humanities are not held in as high regard as the sciences or business. But I am inspired when I hear what alumni who studied the humanities and graduated before me have done with their lives. I hope in some way my bequest to Albright will help a future POP or a student studying the humanities achieve her dream the way Albright helped me achieve mine.”