Tarleton commencement speaker living a legacy TSU Newsroom STEPHENVILLE — Kristen Peacock is walking in some very familiar footprints. The senior nursing major from Stephenville is following her grandmother’s path into a career as a healthcare professional. A path that began at Tarleton State University. Her grandmother was in Tarleton’s first graduating class of nurses. “I was extremely close to her. We would be together in the kitchen cooking, and she was always telling me stories about being a nurse in Hawaii, College Station, Chicago. She would tell me story after story. I was thinking, wow, she got to do all these amazing things and make such a difference in people’s lives.”