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www.smcm.edu/mulberrytree Editor Lee Capristo Design Jensen Design Photographer Bill Wood Editorial Board Karen Anderson, Michael Bruckler, Lee Capristo, Nairem Moran ’99, Karen Raley ’94, Kelly Schroeder Publisher Office of Institutional Advancement St. Mary’s College of Maryland 47645 College Drive St. Mary’s City, Maryland 20686
The Mulberry Tree is published by St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Maryland’s public honors college for the liberal arts and sciences. It is produced for alumni, faculty, staff, trustees, the local community, and friends of the College. The magazine is named for the famous mulberry tree under which the Calvert colonists signed a treaty of friendship with the Yaocomico people and on the trunk of which public notices were posted in the mid-1600s. The tree endured long into the 19th century and was once a popular meeting spot for St. Mary’s College students. The illustration of the mulberry tree on the cover was drawn in 1972 by Earl Hofmann, artist-in-residence when St. Mary’s College President Renwick Jackson launched the magazine. Copyright 2018 The opinions expressed in The Mulberry Tree are those of the individual authors and not necessarily those of the College. The editor reserves the right to select and edit all material. Manuscripts and letters to the editor are encouraged and may be addressed to Editor, The Mulberry Tree, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 47645 College Drive, St. Mary’s City, MD 20686. Photographs and illustrations may not be reproduced without the express written consent of St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Calendar of Events Brown Bag Lunchtime Artist Talk with Carrie Patterson September 11 @ 12:00 p.m. Glendening Annex
Artist Talk with Giulia Pieri Livi October 11 @ 4:45 p.m. Glendening Annex
VOICES Reading Series with Stephen Schottenfeld & Daniel Hoyt September 13 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons
Admissions Open House October 13 @ 9:30 a.m. Michael P. O’Brien Athletics & Recreation Center Arena
Neuroscience Seminar Series with Giorgio Acsoli September 17 @ 4:45 p.m. Goodpaster Hall 195 TFMS Film Series with Amalia Córdova (Smithsonian) September 17 @ 8:15 p.m. Cole Cinema, Campus Center Brown Bag Lunchtime Artist Talk with Janis Goodman September 18 @ 12:00 p.m. Glendening Annex
TFMS Film Series with Lisa Jackson (Anishinaabe filmmaker) October 15 @ 8:15 p.m. Cole Cinema, Campus Center Hawktoberfest (Homecoming & Family Weekend) October 19-21 Neuroscience Seminar Series with Dionna Williams October 22 @ 4:45 p.m. Goodpaster Hall 195
Admissions Open House September 22 @ 9:30 a.m. Michael P. O’Brien Athletics & Recreation Center Arena
TFMS Film Series with Álvaro and Diego Sarmiento (Quechua filmmakers) October 22 @ 8:15 p.m. Cole Cinema, Campus Center
TFMS Film Series with Neil Diamond (Cree filmmaker) September 24 @ 8:15 p.m. Cole Cinema, Campus Center
PING Performance conducted by Larry Vote October 27 @ 3:00 p.m. Reconstructed Brick Chapel, HSMC
Exhibition Opening Reception: Faculty Exhibition: Finding Elsewhere Works by Tristan Cai, Sue Johnson, Giulia Piera Livi, Jessye McDowell, Carrie Patterson, and Lisa Scheer Exhibition curator: Kate Pollasch ‘10 September 24 @ 4:45 p.m. Boyden Gallery, Montgomery Hall
VOICES Reading Series with Joseph Ross November 1 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons
Mozart to Monk Concert (Reservations Required) with Geo Cooper, Theodis Rodgers, Reginald Robinson September 27 @ 7:00 p.m. Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary’s Hall TFMS Film Series with Stanzin Dorjai (Ladakh filmmaker) October 2 @ 8:15 p.m. Cole Cinema, Campus Center Psychology Lecture Series with Lisa Flores (Univ. of Missouri) October 3 @ 4:45 p.m. Goodpaster Hall 195 VOICES Reading Series with Angie Chuang October 4 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons
Panel Discussion, Faculty Exhibition: Finding Elsewhere with Tristan Cai, Sue Johnson, Giulia Piera Livi, Jessye McDowell, Carrie Patterson, and Lisa Scheer Moderated by Kate Pollasch ‘10 November 5 @ 4:45 p.m. Boyden Gallery, Montgomery Hall Neuroscience Seminar Series with Eastman Lewis November 9 @ 2:45 p.m. Goodpaster Hall 195 Admissions Open House November 10 @ 9:30 a.m. Michael P. O’Brien Athletics & Recreation Center Arena Artist Talk with Bonnie Veblen ’09 November 12 @ 4:45 p.m. Glendening Annex “Happy Birthday, Wanda June” (Ticketed Event) by Kurt Vonnegut, directed by Mark A. Rhoda November 14-17 @ 8:00 p.m. November 18 @ 2:00 p.m. Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall
The Office of the President, VOICES Reading Series & TFMS Present N. Scott Momaday November 15 @ 7:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons College Orchestra Concert conducted by Jeffrey Silberschlag November 15 @ 7:30 p.m. Montgomery Hall 25 Psychology Lecture Series with Roberta Golinkoff November 16 @ 2:45 p.m. Goodpaster Hall 195 “Amahl & the Night Visitors” Opera (Ticketed Event) by Gian Carlo Menotti, conducted by Larry Vote November 28-29 @ 8:00 p.m. Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall College Jazz Band & Jazz Combo Concert conducted by Jeffrey Silberschlag and Rick Humphreys November 29 @ 7:30 p.m. Montgomery Hall 25 Art SMP Open Studios and Public Critique Open studios @ 4:30 p.m. Public critique with visiting critic @ 5:30 p.m., December 3 Art Annex Studios VOICES Reading Series with Eddy Harris December 6 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons Performance of Handel’s “Messiah” conducted by Larry Vote December 8 @ 3:00 p.m. Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary’s Hall PING & Women’s Choir Concert conducted by Larry Vote December 9 @ 4:00 p.m. Reconstructed Statehouse, HSMC Martin Luther King, Jr. Prayer Breakfast January 21 @ 8:00 a.m. Great Room, Campus Center VOICES Reading Series with Laurie Foos January 31 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons
VOICES Reading Series with Sami Miranda February 21 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons An Evening to Honor the Legacy of Lucille Clifton March 1 @ 7:30 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons VOICES Reading Series March 28 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons Presidential Lecture Series (Reservations Required) with Jamaica Kincaid March 29 @ 7:30 p.m. Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary’s Hall VOICES Reading Series April 11 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons The 13th Annual Twain Lecture (Ticketed Event) Date TBD @ 7:30 p.m. Michael P. O’Brien Athletics & Recreation Center Arena Dedication of the Jamie L. Roberts Stadium April 13 Jamie L. Roberts Stadium “Stick Fly” (Ticketed Event) by Lydia R. Diamond, directed by guest artist Denise Hart April 17-20 @ 8:00 p.m. April 21 @ 2:00 p.m. Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall Bay to Bay Service Day April 20 Join a project site near you: www.smcm.edu/events/bay-to-bayservice-day/project-sites
Refer a student and we will give them an application fee waiver! Please share the student’s name and contact information with the admissions office and we will waive their application fee when they apply! Calling all high school teachers! Bring a St. Mary’s College admission representative to your class. Contact us to arrange a visit at 800-492-7181 or at admissions@smcm.edu. Visit St. Mary’s College of Maryland, The Public Honors College, and find out how we do things a little differently. It’s the St. Mary’s Way. Discover what it can mean for you. • A “Best College for Your Money” by Money magazine • 78 academic programs • 19 varsity athletic programs and 95+ student-led clubs & activities
Awards Convocation April 26 @ 3:00 p.m. Michael P. O’Brien Athletics & Recreation Center Arena
• 89% of students participate in internships, international experiences, or undergraduate research
Commencement May 11 @ 10:00 a.m. Townhouse Green
Individual tours of our waterfront campus take place throughout the year along with Open Houses on September 22 October 13 November 10
Alumni Weekend June 6-9 Chesapeake Writers’ Conference June 23-29 Governor’s Cup Yacht Race August 2-3
10-Minute Play Festival (Ticketed Event) conceived by Amy Steiger, various directors February 20-23 @ 8:00 p.m. February 24 @ 2:00 p.m. Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall
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ST. MARY’S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND July 2018 — June 2019
F E AT U R E S
ALUMNI COUNCIL
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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Executive Board Allan Wagaman ’06, President Alice Arcieri Bonner ’03, Exec.Vice President Ryan McQuighan ’05, Vice Pres. of Operations Angie Harvey ’83, Secretary Thomas Brewer ’05, Parliamentarian Geoff Cuneo ’10, Treasurer Kate Fritz ‘04, Vice Pres. of Chapter Activities
Chair The Honorable Sven Holmes
Elected Voting Members John Ahearn ’76 Jack Blum ’07 Kelsey Bush ’94 Kate Fritz ’04 Hans Lemke ’93 Molly McKee-Seabrook ’10 Mary Claire McCarthy Moran ’14 Lauren Payne ’09 Amir Reda ’11 Kevin Roth ’93 Bobby Rudd ’13 Paul Schultheis ’98 Sara Kidd Shanklin ’11 Edward Sirianno ’82 Student Member Sophia Macek ’19 Chapter Presidents Annapolis: Erin O’Connell ’91 Baltimore: Marie Snyder ’10 Black Alumni: Nick Abrams ’99 Boston: Marina Carlson ’12 D.C. Metro: Rosa Trembour ’11 Denver: Alisa Ambrose ’85 New York: John Haltiwanger ’10 Philadelphia: Lisa McQuighan-Jordan ’05 San Francisco: Micah Benons ’09 Southern Maryland: Cathy Hernandez Ray ’77 TFMS Alumni: Tammy Swanson ’93 Western Maryland: Kristi Jacobs Woods ’97
Points of Pride The Public Honors College has much to be proud of now and more in the works.
Vice Chair Ann L. McDaniel Treasurer John Chambers Wobensmith ’93 Secretary Lawrence “Larry” E. Leak ’76
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Trustees Carlos Alcazar Anirban Basu John Bell ’95 Arthur “Lex” Birney, Jr. Cynthia Broyles ’76 Peter Bruns Donny Bryan ’73 John Bullock Peg Duchesne ’77 Susan Dyer Elizabeth Graves ’95 Gail Harmon The Honorable Steny Hoyer Capt. Glen Ives, usn Retired Danielle Troyan ’92 Allan Wagaman ’06, Alumni Council President Justin Hoobler ’19, Student Trustee Laura Cripps, hsmc
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An update on the Jamie L. Roberts Stadium and the Commemoration Project, plus a look ahead to the new academic building plans.
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President’s Letter
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View of the library from the College Collection.
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THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION
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ur vision for st. mary’s college is a rebirth for our institution and for liberal arts education. It requires that we ensure that every student engages in a holistic approach to solving real-world challenges or creating new ways to experience the world. This requires integrated programming that is both intellectual and experiential. Our vision enables students to not only graduate as thinkers but also as doers. Thus, our focus is on preparing students for lifelong success: personally, professionally, civically, and humanely – all things that I believe should be the ultimate goal of higher education. As educators, when we teach and mentor students, we strive to help them gain a better understanding of the world as well as of themselves. Education should be more than expanding a student’s knowledge of the physical world. It should also facilitate and enhance a student’s understanding of what it means to be human. It should deepen the student’s commitment to being a good citizen and living a purpose-filled life.
In our increasingly interconnected world in which technology plays more and more of a primary role, “the uniquely human capacities of creativity and empathy” – epitomized beautifully by the liberal arts – are more in demand than ever.[1] What other form of education “bring[s] form and beauty, not to material objects, but to the human mind”? The liberal arts do not automatically make the world a better place. Instead, they make us better people individually, the culmination resulting in a better world. Perhaps what we learn most from the liberal arts is what it means to be human. All of the complexities that make each one of us unique. All of the intricacies that lend beauty and diversity. When I hear educators stating that the liberal arts are useful in the 21st century, I want to correct them. The liberal arts are not only useful in the 21st century. “They are useful at all times, in all situations. It is the nature of the liberal arts to pose and answer questions that undergird and justify all other human endeavors.”[2] In short, “the liberal arts are fundamental.” They are a staple of our past, present, and future.
Tuajuanda C. Jordan, President, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
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That does not mean to litter while hiking. What it does mean is that evidence of experience, of learning, of living, is important residue for those who encounter it later. Like a diary offers a window to a soul, so too, the record of a student’s undergraduate research experience offers insight into the intellectual curiosity and the scholarly merit of that effort. Likewise, faculty senate minutes which document the journey of a proposal for a new major as it snakes its way from vetting through approval provides an indicator of the temperature of the college climate at the time of negotiations. This issue of Mulberry Tree is akin to a yearbook – a taking stock of the myriad accomplishments of students, staff, faculty and alumni of this College during the past 12 months. There is much to celebrate. This issue also presents evidence of a College on the move: a new leadership and professional development program for first-year students, a new stadium on the way, a new academic building and auditorium in the works. During Alumni Weekend, returning graduates had the chance to purchase old yearbooks. One alumnus bought three, covering the years that he was a student. Friends he hadn’t seen in years reappeared as he turned the pages. He laughed as he remembered the extracurricular activities captured in the everyday candids that filled each year’s collection. Ordinary things, yet extraordinary in the remembering. Here’s to leaving evidence of future extraordinary things.
Lee Capristo, editor [1, 2] Schmidt, C.D. (2017). Beyond utility: The liberal arts and the ends of education. Independent School, 24-28.
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COLLEGE
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CAMPUS & COMMUNITY NEWS
Undergraduate & Graduate Degrees Conferred at Commencement St. Mary’s College graduated 373 students with Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Master of Arts in Teaching degrees on May 12.
PHOTO BY BILL WOOD
Two students earned the honor of serving as valedictorians: Melissa Barall ’18, a triple major in public policy, economics, and political science, with a minor in mathematics, studied abroad at University College Dublin, served as a student ambassador for the Admissions Office, and twice interned with Wells Fargo as a summer analyst. Tyler Jones ’18, a physics and computer science double major and a mathematics minor, was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa as a junior and won the Physics Department Award for academic excellence.
Alumni Weekend: Sun & Storms St. Mary’s College of Maryland welcomed over 1,200 alumni back to campus June 7-10 for Alumni Weekend. Alumni from 1948 to 2018 traveled from 32 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and Bermuda. Activities included a luncheon for graduates of St. Mary’s Seminary High School & Junior College, a meeting of the Alumni Council, a service of remembrance for lost alumni, a sunset party and live music on the waterfront, and an anniversary dessert reception. Thunderstorms forced the traditional waterfront crab feast & barbecue to be moved indoors to the Campus Center. View more photos on the Alumni Flickr gallery at www.smcm.edu/alumni.
The commencement address was delivered by Wanda Queen Draper, executive director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture since 2016. Draper was presented with an honorary degree from St. Mary’s College by the Honorable Sven Holmes, chair of the College’s Board of Trustees. Also receiving honorary degrees from St. Mary’s College were St. Mary’s College Board of Trustee Emeritus John J. McAllister and Bradley Gottfried, former president of College of Southern Maryland. McAllister served on the Board of Trustees from 2004-2016. He has been an active supporter of the College as a River Concert Series sponsor and as a supporter of the Computer Science Co-op. He is also
Tyler Jones ’18 and Melissa Barall ’18 earned the honor of serving as valedictorians.
an active member of the community, having served on the Historic St. Mary’s City Commission, the Board of the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center, and Sotterley Plantation Board. McAllister was co-founder, president and CEO of Eagan, McAllister Associates, Inc. Gottfried served as College of Southern Maryland’s fourth president from 2006 – 2017. Under Gottfried’s leadership, CSM played an active role in the growth of Southern Maryland. Gottfried led the development and growth of several CSM academic and workforce development programs, and the formation of a number of institutes.
FALL 2018 ENTERING CLASS PROFILE • The fall 2018 entering class has 486 students (385 four year plus 101 transfer students as of 7/27/18), an increase of 13% over last year at the same point in time. • Our new students hail from 16 states spread across the continental U.S. • Underrepresented students account for 26% of the total.
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Two New Minors & One New Major Expand Academic Program The St. Mary’s College Board of Trustees approved two new minors in business and astrophysics, and a new major in women, gender, and sexuality studies (WGSX).
Seahawks in Transit Jordan Cartwright ’16, assistant director of admissions, certainly was surprised to pass this, heading east along the highway at the Ohio/Pennsylvania border in early July! It was the new Jamie L. Roberts Stadium scoreboard being trucked to SMCM. St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Institutional Advancement Integrated Marketing department received a Grand Award from the APEX 30th Annual Awards for Publication Excellence for its homepage redesign of the College website. The department also earned an Award of Excellence for the College magazine, The Mulberry Tree.
St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Green Revolving Fund was highlighted in the March/April edition of Facilities Manager magazine. Using information submitted by Bradley Newkirk ’04, assistant director of physical plant, the article details the Green St. Mary’s Revolving Fund which was established in 2010 by SMCM students. GSMRF is funded by annual student fees ($25 per student) and aims to finance on-campus green projects that demonstrate a quantifiable return on investment and fiscal responsibility. Since its creation, numerous green projects have been funded, including the installation of energy efficient heat pumps in the townhouses that save the College approximately $40,972 on electricity bills each year.
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The new business minor is designed to complement a wide range of majors currently offered at the College. The learning objectives for the business minor are for graduates to demonstrate effective oral communication; demonstrate an ability to analyze business information; and demonstrate knowledge of the legal environment impacting business organizations. The new astrophysics minor is the application of physics to the largescale structure of the universe: the birth and death of stars, the formation of galaxies, and the origin and fate of the universe itself. In the last five years, the physics department faculty have developed the expertise to offer the program, and faculty and students developed instrumentation in the form of two radio telescopes which can be used for program support. The goals and program outcomes of the WGSX major, reflected in its structure and requirements, are to engage students and faculty in distinguishing variations in gendered systems across culture(s) and over time; assessing how sex, gender, and sexuality are related to other social hierarchies and identity markers, such as race, ethnicity, nationality, class, and ability; critiquing how sex, gender, and sexuality shape aspects of our daily lives; and integrating values of inclusion, diversity, and equity in regard to sex, gender, and sexuality.
St. Mary’s College of Maryland recently announced that the College’s Institutional Advancement Integrated Marketing department was a silver winner in the 33rd Annual Educational Advertising Awards sponsored by the Higher Ed Marketing Report. The silver win was for the College’s Travel Book used for recruitment by the Admissions department. The Travel Book is a snapshot of the national public liberal arts honors college, showcasing academic programs, athletics, student clubs, study abroad, internships and job shadowing, and successful alumni.
St. Mary’s College of Maryland joined the American Talent Initiative (ATI), partnering with top-performing institutions to commit to the collective goal of enrolling 50,000 additional talented, low- and moderate-income students at colleges and universities with strong graduation rates by 2025. As part of ATI, St. Mary’s College will develop strategies to attract, enroll, and support more high-achieving, lowerand moderate-income students from before they arrive on campus to graduation and beyond.
PRESIDENT’S NEWS
On June 1, President Jordan provided a keynote address “Liberal Arts: A Staple of the Past, Present, and Future” at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Read the transcript at www.smcm.edu/president. The visit was part of a larger international recruitment effort led by President Jordan. Several faculty and members of the college’s executive team participated. The outreach touched five schools, three colleges, and two organizations, including those with St. Mary’s College alumni.
On behalf of St. Mary’s College, President Jordan formalized an educational partnership agreement that will advance scientific research and foster academic growth in science, mathematics, technology, and engineering, with The Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division and The Patuxent Partnership. On March 23, representatives from those organizations gathered on the College campus to sign the agreement.
President Jordan with representatives of The Naval Warfare Center Indian Head Explosive Ordinance Disposal Technology Division and The Patuxtent Partnership.
President Jordan is featured in this podcast from Beyond the Bench: STEMulating Career Conversations: http://stemulatingconvo.libsyn.com/sc42-college-president. President Jordan discusses
President Jordan participated in an April 24 panel “Why Liberal Education Matters” in San Francisco, California, with several college presidents and board members as part of ABG’s National Conference on Trusteeship.
President Jordan in Beijing with members of St. Mary's College faculty, staff, and alumni.
her career path from teaching and research to administration and eventually becoming president of St. Mary’s College. She also shares personal stories and candid advice on how to navigate your chosen career path. On April 6, President Jordan hosted David Sanger for the 2018 Presidential Lecture Series. Sanger, three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, national security correspondent for the New York Times, and political contributor for CNN, led a discussion of “Where Does America Go from Here?” On April 23, Dr. Jordan caught up with alumni in San Francisco, California. Conversations involved what the College’s present and future look like and enabled alumni to rekindle old acquaintances.
On May 24, Dr. Jordan visited her alma mater Suitland High School in Suitland, Maryland, to connect with college-bound students. Several students, inspired by Dr. Jordan’s story of being a trailblazer,
President Jordan iwith Presidential Lecture Series speaker David Sanger.
expressed interest in attending St. Mary’s College. These students have been connected to campus mentors in their area of interest. On June 16, Dr. Jordan attended the Unified Committee for AfroAmerican Contributions (UCAC) 15th Annual Juneteenth Festival in Lexington Park, Maryland. Juneteenth is an inclusive event that cel-
ebrates the contributions of African Americans in the United States. Dr. Jordan hosted a meet and greet with alumni in Dallas, Texas, on June 21. As part of her effort to strengthen alumni engagement, she provided an update on happenings at the College and discussed opportunities for alumni involvement. On June 26, President Jordan participated in the ACE American College President Study Roundtable on Equity-Minded Leadership in the Presidency. On Aug. 12 and 16, Dr. Jordan hosted first- and second-year new faculty, respectively, at her home. The annual events provide an opportunity to welcome faculty to the campus community and facilitate networking. As part of her first-generation “Sum primus. Sum exemplar.” initiative, President Jordan hosted an oncampus orientation exclusively for first-generation parents on Aug. 23. In a relaxed environment, President Jordan and members of the executive team answered parent questions on a variety of topics, including college programming, resources available to students, and career preparation.
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FACULTY & STAFF NEWS
New Administrative Appointments Ken Coopwood, Sr. became the interim associate vice president of diversity and inclusion/chief diversity officer on June 12. A national search to permanently fill
the role will commence in September 2018. Since 1989, Coopwood’s diversity service has included many leadership and civic roles, including senior-level positions at two Indiana public universities and one in Missouri. He currently leads Coopwood Progressive Workshops and Developments, LLC, in diversity education research and develop-
ment productions; he also serves as vice president and senior consultant for DiversityWorks, Inc., and vice president for strategic diversity and infrastructure with Campus Climate Surveys, LLC. In addition, he is included on INSIGHT Into Diversity‘s Diversity Professional’s Directory. A diversity educator and trainer since 1992, Coopwood has conducted numerous presentations for the benefit of personal identity development, workplace innovation, and global atonement. Coopwood is a nationally known leader noted for hosting a variety of activities that fuse personal esteem with education and identity awareness. On August 1, Todd Eberly, associate professor of political science and public policy, began serving as the interim director for the Center for the Study of Democracy. He will serve until the completion of a search in early fall. Eberly specializes in American politics and public policy as well as Maryland politics. He is the author of three books, with a fourth to be published next year, titled “How Trump Happened: A System Shock Decades in the Making.” Eberly is an adviser to Project Vote Smart and his
The following faculty appointments were approved by the St. Mary’s College Board of Trustees: Promotion to Professor: Adriana Tenure: Katherine Pitcher, librarian Brodsky, professor of history and New Faculty with Tenurable Joe Lucchesi, professor of art history Appointments: Constantin Burgi, Faculty Reappointments with instructor of economics; Jeff Eden, Tenure & Promotion to Associate assistant professor of history; Professor: Kevin Emerson, associ- Linden McBride ’03, instructor ate professor of biology and Amy of economics Henderson ’89, associate professor Retiring Faculty Appointments: of economics Robin Bates, professor emeritus
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analysis and commentary have been featured in the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, and on public radio/television. He has served as an expert witness in cases challenging gerrymandered Congressional districts and has consulted with the centrist organization Third Way. He was named one of the most influential voices in Maryland politics by Campaigns and Elections magazine. In 2010, the St. Mary’s College Student Government Association honored him with the Faculty Student Life Award. Paul A. Pusecker III joined the College as the vice president for business and finance/chief financial officer on July 1, replacing Charles (Chip) Jackson who will retire effective August 31 after 32 years of committed service to the College. Since July 2001, Pusecker served as the senior chief business officer for the College of Arts & Sciences, at the University of Delaware. As the senior business officer, Pusecker oversaw the day-to-day administration and management of the dean’s office, directing all facets of the daily operation of the college staff and directly assisted the dean in the management of personnel and of English; Helen Daugherty, professor emerita of sociology; Walter Hatch, professor emeritus of biology; Allan Hovland, associate professor emeritus of chemistry; and Bruce Wilson, professor emeritus of English Bruce Wilson (top left), Allan Hovland (top center),Helen Daugherrty (top right), Robin Bates (bottom left), and Walter Hatch (bottom right) all received retiring faculty appointments.
budgetary planning and execution for 42 departments, programs, and centers. He acted as the college personnel director with over 1,100 employees, and was responsible for the administration, management, and execution of a $128 million annual budget. He was the principal manager for space utilization and capital renovations and construction within the college. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Seton Hall University and a master’s degree in social psychology from Pennsylvania State University.
Betül Başaran, associate professor of religious studies, received a fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. for the academic year 2018-19, in support of her sabbatical project, “CrossCultural Intimacy and Marriage
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The following faculty and staff were honored at the annual Awards Convocation in April: Charles Adler, professor of physics, was presented with the Norton T. Dodge Award for Scholarly & Creative Achievement; Kelly Neiles, assistant professor of chemistry, was honored with the Homer L. Dodge Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Junior Faculty Member; Janna Thompson, assistant professor of educational studies, received the Jordan Teaching Exemplar Award; Scott Mirabile, associate professor of psychology, earned the Andy Kozak Faculty Contribution to Student Life Award; Thomas Ford, caretaker I, was honored with the Joe Carroll Memorial Staff Award; Michael Cain, professor of political science; Anthony Guzman, assistant registrar; and Lucy Myers, fiscal associate II, were jointly presented with the St. Mary’s Award. between Europeans and Ottoman Women in the Early Modern Era.” The fellowship provides support for up to a three-month residence at the Folger. Fellowships are awarded by a committee of interdisciplinary, highly-respected scholars external to the Folger, who make recommendations on the basis of each project’s scope, promise, and high quality. Basaran’s project was judged to have exceptional merit.
Kyle Bishop ’04, assistant dean of students, is a member of the Leadership Southern Maryland class of 2019. LSM is a tri-county nonprofit educational program dedicated to building a cadre of informed
regional leaders, prepared to address common issues and bring long-term benefit to their neighbors and communities. Bishop follows these SMCM LSM graduates: Kate Shirey, director of career development; Karen Raley ’94, senior development officer; Chip Jackson, former vice president for business and finance; Lee Capristo, director of publications; and F.J. Talley, director of DeSousa-Brent Scholars program. Professor of History Adriana Brodsky, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History Ruth Anne Phillips led 18 St. Mary’s College students in a two-week study tour of Peru. The study tour allowed students the opportunity to earn academic credits and experience life in the beautiful Andes Mountains through homestays in Cusco with experienced local families. While there students visited Machu Picchu and a variety of archaeological sites and colonial churches. The study tour takes place every other summer. Tristan Cai, assistant professor of photography, presented a solo exhibition of his ongoing project, “A Celebration: The Origin of Life” at the CICA Museum in Gimpo, South Korea. The project takes the
form of an archive of both fictional and real photographs in the areas of evolution research, offering a critical perspective on the issues of how visual culture shapes our shared knowledge and experiences. In conjunction with the exhibition, Cai conducted a performance lecture, "Understanding Visual Culture through Evolution," in a session at the CICA New Media Art Conference, Art in the Digital Age, May 31- June 3. Amanda Deerfield, assistant professor of economics, and Sriparna Ghosh, visiting professor of economics, presented research at the Association of Private Enterprise Education in Las Vegas, Nevada, in April. Deerfield’s research in “Examining the Relationship between Economic Freedom and Ridesharing Legislation” found that states with less economic freedom take longer to pass ridesharing legislation. Her research was supported by a grant from the Charles Koch Foundation. A second paper, co-authored by Deerfield and Ghosh, found that states with greater occupational licensing requirements have lower rates of entrepreneurship. Both research papers have implications for policy-makers concerning how to encourage entrepreneurship by improving regulatory conditions.
On May 29, New Music USA announced that St. Mary’s College Professor of Music David Froom was one of the winners of their eighth round of project grants, totaling $530,000. The award is the result of an application by the California Music Center to commission Froom to write new music for this year's Irving M. Klein International String Competition. Froom is commissioned to write a complete set of works for each of the string instruments represented in the competition: violin, viola, cello, and double bass. The 108 awarded projects by New Music USA were chosen from among 1,114 project proposals, and include concerts and recordings, as well as support for dance, theater, opera, and more, all involving contemporary music as an essential element. Argelia Gonzalez Hurtado, assistant professor of Spanish and Latin American studies, coorganized a panel and presented a paper at the XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) held in Barcelona, Spain, on May 26. Her presentation explored how the 2012 Mexican coming-of-age drama “Después de Lucía” (After Lucia) by Michel Franco represents a cinematic landmark in Latin America by addressing the problem of bullying both as a main issue of the film and as a serious scenario of violence faced by youth. The goal of her panel, “Politics of Children and Adolescents in Latin American Film,” was to trace the representation of films centered on the child-adolescent gaze of the new Millennium within the different social contexts of the region.
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Katharina von Kellenbach, professor of religious studies, was co-leader of the annual faculty seminar on ethics, religion, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. from June 18-22. Her essay “Criminal Trials as Rituals of Purification” was published in “Rethinking Holocaust Justice: Essays Across Disciplines” (New York: Berghahn, 48-71). A second essay, “The Purification of Memory: A Tribute to John Pawlikowski OSM” was published in “Righting Relations After the Holocaust and Vatican II” (New York: Paulist Press, 172-188). The essays are part of von Kellenbach’s forthcoming book, “The Purification of Memory: Coming to Terms with Atrocity and Guilt” (Oxford Univ. Press). She will spend the academic year 2018-2019 leading an interdisciplinary research group “Felix Culpa: Guilt as Culturally Productive Force” in Bielefeld, Germany. While there, von Kellenbach will co-lead with colleague Mathias Buschmeier (Univ. of Bielefeld) a conference on “Productive Guilt: Theoretical Approaches” and a workshop in “Impurity and Guilt.” The work is funded through a grant by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) at the University of Bielefeld.
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Clark State Community College in Springfield, Ohio, welcomed violinist and Professor of Mathematics David Kung to the John Legend Theater for two performances on April 6. Kung’s performance addressed: What are auditory illusions and how do they work; how can math help us understand the structures beneath the surface of Bach’s canons and fugues; and why does a clarinet sound so much lower than its similarly sized cousin, the flute? Kung brought those mathematical concepts to life with an engaging teaching style and live violin playing.
George MacLeod, assistant professor of French, and Rob Kelley, assistant professor of computer science, presented research at the African Literature Association Conference in Washington, D.C. on May 24. Their presentation, entitled “Visualizing the Archive,” was an interdisciplinary, digital humanities exploration of literature and testimony from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Their research found that, paradoxically, Rwandan authors are less cited in scholarly conversations about the 1994 genocide than nonRwandan authors. Kelley produced a variety of visualizations showing how advanced data mapping techniques can represent visually which authors are discussed and which are ignored. Kelley and MacLeod plan
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to continue their interdisciplinary collaboration, exploring how advanced text processing, data collection and visualization can complement research in the humanities. The Association of American Colleges & Universities awarded Barry Muchnick, assistant professor of environmental studies, a mini-grant to advance civic learning and social responsibility as expected dimensions within students’ majors. Muchnick's grant was one of 24 awarded out of the 134 applications. The award helped to fund a June 6-7 workshop tasked to better integrate civic learning and social responsibility into the environmental studies program. The art of Carrie Patterson, professor of art, was included in two summer exhibitions: “To Carry, To Hold” at Studio #222 International Studio and Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, New York, and “X Marks the Spot: Women of the New York Studio School” in New York City. Patterson was a student resident of the New York Studio School. Patterson’s “How to See” course for the Great Courses Lecture Series will be available in summer 2019. Jordan Price, professor of biology and the Steven Muller Distinguished Professor of the Sciences at St. Mary’s College, discussed the evolution of sexual dimorphism in female songbirds on April 11. The talk, titled, “Female Songbirds Aren't So Dull After All: Reconstructing the Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism,” presented new findings that challenge some of Darwin's theories regarding differences between the sexes. The lecture was part of the Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquium Series. Officer Gerald Sellers was among 12 law enforcement officers to receive an officer of the year award at the 18th annual law enforcement appreciation day ceremony held on May 8 at the
Southern Maryland Higher Education Center. Sellers has been a public safety officer for the College since October 2014. He currently serves as senior public safety officer, typically working the overnight shift. He was joined at the ceremony by Director of Public Safety Tressa Setlak, Assistant Director of Public Safety Chris Coons, and several family members. In regards to his duties, Setlak said Sellers “has demonstrated diligence, enthusiasm, and leadership. Officer Sellers is willing to help anyone and listens and reacts thoughtfully even in difficult situations.” Professor Emerita of Theater, Film and Media Studies (Dance) Merideth Taylor’s new book “Listening In: Echoes and Artifacts from Maryland's Mother County,” (University of Virginia Press, 2018) was published in June. The book, featuring a foreword by Professor of English Jeffrey Hammond, with a poem by Lucille Clifton, captures the land and life of St. Mary’s County, Maryland's “mother county” Taylor integrates her own photographs of buildings of all kinds, many of them in disrepair, with text called "ghost stories" that are based on living oral histories and relate to the photographs in one way or another. By doing so, Taylor shows what life in historic St. Mary’s County was like and also the place it is becoming.
Points of Pride
St. Mary’s College of Maryland is a 2018-2019 College of Distinction in Maryland.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized St. Mary’s College of Maryland as a Conference Champion in the 2017-18 College and University Green Power Challenge. St. Mary’s College currently uses more green power than any other school in the Capital Athletic Conference. The Conference Champion Award recognizes the school that uses the most green power in a qualifying conference. St. Mary’s College beat its conference rivals by using more than 22 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power, representing 117 percent of the school’s annual electricity use.
St. Mary’s College has been a Phi Beta Kappa institution since 1997, one of only 286 colleges and universities in the U.S. approved for a chapter, and one of eight in the state of Maryland.
St. Mary’s College is ranked sixth among the top 25 beach colleges by College Consensus. To be included in the ranking, colleges were ranked by a combination of reputable publisher ratings, real student reviews, and if sustainability, environmental responsibility, and respect for nature were written into the curriculum and mission. The Peace Corps named St. Mary’s College #1 on its 2018 Top Colleges list for volunteers from small colleges St. Mary’s College was listed among the Best 4-Year Colleges in Maryland by Schools.com. Schools.com also ranked six St. Mary’s College academic programs among the Best: anthropology, biology, economics, English, political science, and psychology. To determine these rankings, Schools.com gathered data profiles on more than 400 institutions across the country and ran them through a multi-point methodology. Based on the criteria, Schools. com ranked all 2-year and 4-year schools in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) that reported data and calculated them on a 10-point scale.
The Princeton Review puts SMCM at #6 in its Top 50 Green Colleges list for 2018. The Princeton Review also lists SMCM in its 384 Best Colleges of 2018.
FULBRIGHTS EARNED BY FACULTY AND ALUMNI: The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
U.S. News & World Report includes St. Mary’s College in its 2018 list of Best Liberal Arts Colleges. SMCM is #5 among public liberal arts colleges. THERE ARE 12 ACADEMIC HONOR SOCIETIES IN WHICH SMCM HOLDS MEMBERSHIPS: Anthropology Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Biology Economics English History
French Neurosciences Physics Political Science Psychology Sociology
CHEM/BIOCHEM CERTIFICATIONS: The American Chemical Society has approved the College’s chemistry curriculum and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has accredited the College’s biochemistry program.
The Fulbright Program awards approximately 8,000 grants annually. Roughly 1,600 U.S. students, 4,000 foreign students, 1,200 U.S. scholars, and 900 visiting scholars receive awards, in addition to several hundred teachers and professionals. Approximately 370,000 “Fulbrighters” have participated in the Program since its inception in 1946. Currently, the Fulbright Program operates in over 160 countries worldwide. 38 faculty scholars since 1980; 19 alumni scholars since 1995
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STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS 2018
For eight weeks this summer, nine students participated in the annual St. Mary’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), diving into research topics of their own choosing with guidance from faculty mentors representing a diverse sampling of the College’s departments.
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“SURF provides students extraordinary opportunities to engage deeply in independent research, laboratory and creative work across disciplines. Under the guidance and with the expertise of faculty mentors, SURF fellows sharpen their research, analytic, and creative skills to produce work that many will continue into the following year, as St. Mary's Projects, or beyond their undergraduate careers,” said Mark Rhoda, visiting associate professor of theater, film & media studies, who co-directed SURF this summer along with Kevin Emerson, associate professor of biology. SURF is a competitive cross-disciplinary fellowship that, since 2012, has been made possible by support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in addition to a number of internal SMCM funding sources. A portion of the funding goes toward a stipend for the students, as well as room and board for the eight weeks.
Here is a snapshot of what the SURF students did: • “Subverting Propaganda Films with Experimental Animation” by Izzy Peterson ’19 with Barry Muchnick, assistant professor of environmental studies
• “Visual and Material Cultures of Slavery” The View from Art History” by Justyce Bennett ’19 with Emily Casey, assistant professor of art history
• “What’s the Buzz on Somatic Wolbachia Infection? Using Drosophila Melanogaster as a Model Organism to Understand the Control of Disease Transmission in Mosquitos” by Lily Pohlenz ’21 with Kevin Emerson, associate professor of biology
• “Mapping a Protein: Locating Metal-Binding Sites in Metallothionein-1” by Kelly Healy ’19 with Shanen Sherrer, assistant professor of chemistry
• “Power Over Bodies: Scenographic Designs for Shakespeare’s ‘Titus Andronicus’” by Andy Turszick ’20 with Mark Rhoda, visiting associate professor of theater, film & media studies Kelly Healy ’19 (top left) and Shanen Sherrer, assistant professor of chemistry (top right). Troy Townsend ’07 assistant professor of chemistry (middle left) with Nicholas D’Antona ’20 (middle right). Jeffrey Coleman, professor of English (bottom left), and Bethany Laffan ’20 (bottom right).
• “Visualizing Refugee Health Data: Investigating the Use of Legends – Presence, Placement, and Proximity” by Stephanie Schoch ’20 with Amanda VerMeulen, assistant librarian
• “Printing Perovskite Solar Cells: a Low-Cost Production Method for Renewable Energy” by Nicholas D’Antona ’20 with Troy Townsend ’07, assistant professor of chemistry • “Literary Rockstar” A Reception Study of Haruki Murakami’s Popularity in Japan and the United States” by Bethany Laffan ’20 with Jeffrey Coleman, professor of English • “Queer Eye for the Employer: A Resume Audit Study for LGBTQ Individuals” by James Judlick ’19 with Ayse Ikizler ’07, assistant professor of psychology
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Up, up & away St. Mary’s College of Maryland senior and physics major David Gerrish ’18 is the first SMCM student to undertake a summer internship at the new University of Maryland Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Test Site at the St. Mary’s Airport in California, Maryland. Gerrish, under the mentorship of Assistant Professor of Chemistry Troy Townsend ’07, is using Computer Aided Design (CAD) to build 3D printed unmanned aircraft and test their performance at the site. This full-time 11-week internship is typically awarded to students attending the University of Maryland, College Park Engineering Program or the College of Southern Maryland Engineering or Computer Science Programs. St. Mary’s College is Maryland’s Public Honors College and is heralded as one of the nation’s top public liberal arts colleges. Gerrish’s internship award is a testament to the quality of the applied science component of the SMCM student liberal arts experience.
“One of St. Mary’s College’s greatest values is student research. Every student is required to complete a senior capstone project to culminate their interdisciplinary studies, and I have a team of students who start in a lab with directed research in their first two years of college. The applied nature of our research has initiated partnerships with the Navy and commercial partners, where our undergraduate students are conducting PhD-level research. Projects like David’s are super cool and could lead to exciting opportunities with new discoveries in technology,” Townsend said. 12 | St. Mary’s College | T H E MU LBERRY TREE | fall 2018
Two students conducting their St. Mary’s Project research with Aileen Bailey, professor of psychology and Aldom-Planseon Honors College Professor, received grants to support their work. Marilyn Steyert ’18 was awarded a $918 undergraduate research grant from Sigma Xi to support her research on “The role of fast-acting antidepressant L-655,708 on the hippocampus and nucleus accumbens.” Maxwell Madden ’18 was awarded a $1,500 undergraduate research grant from Psi Chi to support his research on “Examination of the Mechanism of the Fast Acting Antidepressant L-655,708.”
Three anthropology majors, Patrick Martin ’18, Rita Druffner ’18, and Matthew Borden ’19, presented their work at the University of Maryland College Park annual AnthroPlus graduate student conference. St. Mary’s College alumna Katie Boyle ’14 also attended the conference with the students. Martin's presentation was based upon his St. Mary’s Project from spring 2017, Druffner presented her SMP, completed this spring, and Borden presented work based upon last summer's SURF project with Professor of Anthropology Julie King. Sam Rosenblatt ’18 presented the results of his original research at the annual meeting of the Southern Regional Honors Council in Arlington, Virginia, April 5-7. His talk, titled “Making the Most of the Network Data We Have: The Robustness of Efficacy for Targeted Immunization Strategies,” presented research that is part of a project that started with two separate federallyfunded REUs (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Rosenblatt participated in during the summers of 2016 and 2017 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he worked with other
researchers on the Minority Health Disparities Initiative. Rosenblatt has continued the trend of “Targeted Immunization” research, which uses a model of individuals and their connections, called a “complex network“, to determine ways to optimally choose individuals to immunize in order to protect the population as a whole from disease outbreaks. This particular project uses simulations to investigate how different targeted immunization strategies perform when they are operating under the uncertainty of incomplete data, a common feature of recorded networks of “hidden populations” such as people who inject drugs. Rosenblatt, a triple major in sociology, computer science, and mathematics, is now a PhD student at the University of Vermont and a NSF fellow with the Vermont Complex Systems Center. Caitlin Schoen ’18, Abigail Rose ’20, Megan Root ’19, and Sara Casper-Woodhead ’19 presented their history papers at the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference. Root won second prize in the world history category. Schoen's paper prompted the judges to create a historiography category so that her work could be highlighted. Commentators stressed that St. Mary’s College students' papers demonstrated great research, writing, and argumentation, and that the papers were thought-provoking and relevant.
This summer, Peter Orban ’20 completed an Undergraduate Research Fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (U.S. Department of Commerce) Physical Measurement Laboratory in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Orban worked with experts in radionuclide metrology, standards for nuclear medicine, the chemistry of (reverse) micellar solutions, and ionizing radiation. Orban is a double major in mathematics and physics and plans to pursue a PhD in either mathematics, physics, or engineering. Gina Gaebl ’19, majoring in philosophy, won the "Best Undergraduate Paper" at the 2018 Great Lakes Philosophy Conference, held April 6-8, at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan. The conference was open to undergraduates, graduate students, and professional philosophers. According to Gaebl, her paper challenged a claim central to Iris Marion Young’s argument in her book “Responsibility for Justice” (Oxford Univ. Press, 2011), which is that only public and collective actions can be political. “I argue that personal actions can in fact be political as well, and that these personal actions are a necessary part of taking up political responsibility,” said Gaebl. “I argue this under the pretense that regular morality allows for complicity with structural injustice, where political morality cannot.” Colman Welles ’20, chemistry major, earned the Earnest F. Hollings Scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for an internship he will complete during summer 2019. Only 120 undergraduate students per year receive tuition support and paid summer internships with NOAA across the county in this highly competitive program. The scholarship program is designed to increase undergraduate training in oceanic and atmospheric science, research, technology, and education and foster multidisciplinary training opportunities; as well as recruit and prepare students for public service careers with NOAA and other natural resource and science agencies, and for careers as teachers and educators in oceanic and atmospheric science.
Nick Conroy ’18, Conner Dorbin ’18, Carl Freeman ’19 and Cecelia Marquez ’18 participated in a photography workshop led by acclaimed photographer Anne-Stine Johnsbråten, as part of advanced photography course during the 2017 fall semester. Their photography projects, which began in the workshop, were exhibited alongside works by young emerging Norwegian photography artists in an exhibition titled “Mirror/Mirror” which ran from March – June 2018 in Fotogalleriet Oslo, Norway. The exhibition was organized by Johnsbråten and Annika Hagstrøm, with the support of the Norwegian Culture Council. AnneStine Johnsbråten was an artist-in-residence at St. Mary’s College in 2017. Ian Miller ’18, mathematics major, won first place for student presentations at the sectional conference of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), which was hosted April 13-14 at Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. His talk, entitled “A Combinatorial Argument in a Packing Problem,” was based on work begun under the mentorship of Ivan Sterling, professor of mathematics and computer science. In it, Miller discussed a new approach to understanding a problem of classical geometry regarding packing regular tetrahedra (triangular pyramids) together around a single point. Miller begins a PhD program in pure mathematics at the University of Colorado this fall.
The St. Mary’s College vocal ensemble PING gave four performances as part of the Alba Music Festival in Alba, Italy, May 22-June 4
Three students from “Crawford's Crew” attended the Mid-Atlantic Regional Society for Developmental Biology meeting at the University of Virginia, May 30 - June 1. Andrew Marinich ’18 and Elayne Hryniewicz ’18 each presented posters summarizing their St. Mary's Project research, and Professor of Biology Karen Crawford gave an invited talk highlighting her squid embryogenesis studies from last summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Annie Lowry ’19, developmental biology student this past spring and rising SMP student with Crawford, also attended the meeting. Crawford returns to the MBL for a summer fellowship June through August.
The St. Mary’s College vocal ensemble PING, under the direction of Professor of Music Larry Vote, gave four performances as a part of the Alba Music Festival in Alba, Italy, May 22 -June 4. Here they are pictured following a performance in San Domenico Cathedral. Their performances were enthusiastically received by audiences in Alba and the town of Busca where they performed in concert with pianist Brian Ganz, St. Mary’s College instructor of music.
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“St. Mary’s College interns have more Actually, our full-time than just the degree, staff at one point was they manage time well. 50% grads of St. Mary’s College…” “We have 13 St. Mary’s College alumni working St. Mary’s College’s for us today.” preparation stands out most.
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Employers found St. Mary’s College students to be good interns and great hires.
“The small class sizes allow professors to help you and give you individual attention...” St. Mary’s students interning at CyberPoint in downtown Baltimore
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n an effort to better understand our market position, SMCM contracted the services of Creative Communication Associates (CCA) in Troy, New York, to conduct surveys with employers of SMCM students and graduates, and with
parents, prospective students, current students, faculty, staff, and alumni. The surveys were conducted between January 24 - February 7, 2018 (employers) and between March 6 - 26, 2018 (all others). OpinionWorks, a full-service Annapolis-based research firm, worked with CCA to conduct the surveys. The results will be used to strengthen the College’s brand. Here are some of the comments acquired from employers and alumni:
Overall, employers’ basic impressions of St. Mary’s College are very positive. Seventeen of the 20 have hired interns and/or graduates from the College. The majority said the interns and graduates from St. Mary’s College have done a great job. Employers offered a variety of specific comments: “We have had a few graduates and students work for us here, and I‘m never surprised; they come out of there bright young adults and I’ve never been disappointed by the students. Actually, our full-time staff at one point was 50% grads of St. Mary’s College…” “The quality of applicants from the College that applied to our data analytics group was top notch. Comparing St. Mary’s College interns to the public for the same position, St. Mary’s College students had the top five candidates.” “We’ve had two interns and hired three people. One of the three we hired was one of the interns The first person hired from St. Mary’s College was probably one of the top people I’ve worked with in years. She was very intelligent, really quick, had good reading comprehension skills, writing skills, broad-based education so she could understand broad concepts, strong thirst for knowledge and a go-getter.” “We have 13 St. Mary’s College alumni working for us today.” Employers resonated strongly with connecting job preparedness to the College’s liberal arts curriculum: “We had an IT department team intern from St. Mary’s College. This is sometimes a different place for technical students because we’re not an IT shop, we’re a history place, but we need technical tools to put our records online. It puts the onus on them to learn how to communicate with us. The students from St. Mary’s College were willing to do that. I like to see that. It is a liberal arts spin on technical education.”
Employers said they would value a partnership with, or at least a pipeline from, a four-year institution that is focused on giving graduates the hard and soft skills they need to perform more effectively in the workplace.
Their responses included: “Community, price, great professors, it’s an honors college with an amazing campus” “Cool professors and classes, gorgeous campus”
“Prepare students for workplace culture early, while they are still undergraduates, by focusing on internships, so students can ‘test drive’ what it means to be in a workplace.”
“Culture of campus allows people to be their true selves”
“Being motivated is what [employers] look at. St. Mary’s College’s preparation stands out most. Most candidates have only one or two different aspects to their resume that stand out. St. Mary’s College interns have more than just the degree, they manage time well.”
“It feels like home, the education is great, the community is greater. St. Mary’s College alumni share a bond that no one else will ever understand. You leave a piece of yourself down on the River, but leave with a piece of the River inside you.”
Asked if they would accept interns (or more interns) from St. Mary’s College, these employers said, “Absolutely,” “100% yes,” and “We would love to!” One employer suggested that students could be encouraged to think more broadly about the job market, and the range of occupations where they could apply their skills and interests. Specifically, the employer used the example of “a lot of economics students never thought of applying to anything but government or teaching. But they have the skill sets to be employed in broader areas.” Survey Says: Alumni are Important Advocates in New Student Recruitment Alumni who were surveyed were asked to comment on this question: When asked if they had a close friend or family member who was considering attending college, and was comparing St. Mary’s College to other schools, what would they tell them are the distinctive strengths of St. Mary’s College that would make them want to consider attending it?
“Excellent education with good faculty/student ratio and value for money”
“It’s a place of distinction – you’ll feel valued, you’ll be challenged, and you’ll come away ready to take the next step in your life.” “It’s a place where you’ll be recognized for your own personal approach to intellectual development.” “Its size enables someone motivated to do whatever they want while there.” “SMCM is a special place with strong academics and where you make friends for life.” “St. Mary’s College attracts students with so many different interests and perspectives that it’s a good place to find yourself. It’s rigorous academically, but exists as a sort of academic village with opportunities to explore interests and passions outside of the classroom.” “St. Mary’s College is a very welcoming environment with extremely devoted professors who will work with students to provide extra learning and preparation for post-graduation.” “The small class sizes allow professors to help you and give you individual attention; everyone wants you to succeed and is willing to help you.”
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STADIUM UPDATE, COMMEMORATION PROJECT, AND NEW ACADEMIC BUILDING PLANS
Stadium Update The dedication of the Jamie L. Roberts Stadium will be April 13, 2019. The turf field is complete and will be used for field hockey this fall. The grass field will be ready for use in spring 2019. Construction on the stadium began in November 2017, with the original construction plan revised when evidence of the remains of slave quarters was unearthed at the site. Slated to be completed early in 2019, the lighted stadium building will include team rooms, a track, bleachers, a sports medicine room, press box, restrooms and concessions. The stadium is named in honor of Jamie L. Roberts ’11, an economics major and three-sport star athlete who was tragically killed in June 2014 while riding her bicycle across the country in the 4K for Cancer event.
The Commemoration Project The discovery of archaeological evidence of slave quarters on the planned site of the new stadium will be acknowledged by a commemorative to the lives of enslaved peoples to be constructed adjacent to the stadium. A half-acre area has been identified along the walkway from the parking lot to the Jamie L. Roberts Stadium. The College’s Commemoration Committee, working with several focus groups, has identified four themes which will guide the design of the commemorative itself. The College is seeking to engage an artist/designer who will be inspired by the committee’s conceptualization and will begin a national search in the next few weeks. The commemorative project is supported by $500,000 in state funds for construction and with design funds from the College, grants, and private donations.
Drone views of the newly completed turf field and site of the stadium and grass field under construction and artist’s concept of the project. 16 | St. Mary’s College | T H E MU LBERRY TREE | fall 2018
New Academic Building and Auditorium Plans The new academic building and auditorium complex will be constructed on the existing varsity athletic field starting in winter 2020. The project consists of two buildings. The west building, adjacent to Goodpaster Hall, will house the educational studies department, including its master of arts in teaching program; a study commons for collaborative learning, and a café to serve the faculty, staff, and students in the north campus. The second building will provide new quarters for the music department featuring classrooms, offices, rehearsal facilities and a 125-seat recital hall. This building will also house a 700-seat auditorium for music performances and lectures as well as campus and community events. The design of the 60,000 square foot complex is by Gund Partnership of Cambridge, Massachusetts, GWWO Architects of Baltimore, Maryland, and Michael Vergason Landscape Architects of Alexandria, Virginia. It integrates a contemporary two-story lobby with architectural forms already familiar on campus. Site improvements include a new Crescent Green behind the Townhouse Crescent, an entry courtyard, expanded parking and best-practice environmental storm water design and landscaping.
The new academic building and auditorium complex will be built on the existing varsity athletic field once the Jamie L. Roberts Stadium is complete. The buildings will be constructed to LEED Silver Standards.
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Career Exploration from Year One through New Professional Literacy Pathway
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n response to the need for an integrated curriculum that highlights the liberal arts as well as professional literacy, the Career Development Center, under Director Kate Shirey, has partnered with faculty to develop an innovative curricular experience. The new program, called the Professional Literacy Pathway, will prepare students for life beyond their four years at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Through the Professional Literacy Pathway, students will engage in a multi-faceted curricular approach encompassing self-reflection, career exploration, career immersion, and best professional practices. Experiences will occur in traditional classroom settings and include multiple opportunities outside of the classroom. When fully implemented, students will have the guarantee of an internship or research experience prior to
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graduation along with embedded opportunities to focus on skill development allowing them to enter the career of their choosing. In creating this pathway, SMCM formalizes its commitment to the relevance of a liberal arts education, particularly its ability to create students who are prepared to be agents in the world. By offering opportunities to integrate their academic experiences and professional development, we show students
how their coursework at St. Mary’s College is connected to their lives outside our campus, and give them the opportunity to prepare for these lives with intention.
Recent Internship Opportunities Our Students Have Had Kennedy Center Smithsonian American Airlines Habitat for Humanity International ESPN NASA Food and Drug Administration NAVAIR Architect of the Capitol
Save the date! November 27, 2018
Giving Tuesday on November 28. 2017 was a recordsetting day for St. Mary’s College. Within a 24-hour period, 1,411 donors provided $239,589 to support St. Mary’s College students. This year’s date is November 27.
Save the date! April 13, 2019
The dedication of the Jamie L. Roberts Stadium
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CONNECTION CLASS NOTES 1950s Karen Peterson Yochim ’58 published her seventh Cajun crime novel, “The Devil Takes Care of His Own” (2017). She lives on an Acadian farm near Bayou Teche in Louisiana.
1970s Debbie Schuhar Cunzeman ’72, retired from her career as a program specialist for the State of Maryland. Debbie resides in Carney, Maryland. Pat Elder ’77 is running for Congress as a Green Party candidate. Donald Waters ’79 [1] happily announced his retirement after working 35 years at AlamedaContra Costa Medical Association in Oakland, California. He is still residing in his home in Pleasant Hill with his wife Linda and enjoying his travels back to Maryland to visit classmates from time to time. Throughout his career as an association executive, he drew on his experiences at St. Mary’s College and the wonderful friends he made there. Now he plans to reinvigorate his lifelong interest in “chilling” Jimmy Buffett style. He encourages friends to reach out to him to join him! Donald Barber ’79 recently retired. He resides in Hollywood, Maryland.
Dawn Demko Humenik ’99 started working as the administrative assistant at USUAA & Student Boards at the University of Alaska, Anchorage.
1980s Jeannie Howe ’82 [2] executive director of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, was once again named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women by the Daily Record. She was first recognized with this honor in 2014. The Daily Record began Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 1996 to recognize outstanding achievements by women demonstrated through professional accomplishments and community leadership and mentoring. Jeannie resides in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Kathleen Fritz ’85 [3] worked in the civil engineering field for 21 years as a drager before becoming the owner, in 2008, of Bead Soup in Savage, Maryland. The business specializes in seed beads and hosts national and international bead artists.
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Angela Shortall ’87 is employed as the director of 3Cubed Advisory Services, LLC and resides in Queenstown, Maryland.
1990s Kathleen Everett Hornig ’90 and Michele Everett Shipley ’92 [4] were honored at the 2018 Annapolis High School Wall of Fame induction ceremony for their contributions to the community in art and community service, respectively. The sisters graduated from Annapolis High School before attending St. Mary’s College. Kathleen is married to Richard Hornig ’89. She is director of festivals at Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts; he does commercial/industrial sales for Electric Motor Repair Company. They live in Baltimore. Michele is a registered paralegal for Hyatt & Weber, P.A., in Annapolis.
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Christina Thomas ’94 [5] is the founder and head of school of the Journey School, a Montessori Middle School, serving grades 6-8, located in Spencerville, Maryland. The school, which opened in 2015, moved into a converted 100-year-old barn on 60 acres in March. Students learn gardening, cooking, chicken care, and beekeeping alongside core subjects. Christina resides in Laurel, Maryland.
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Jae Jennifer (Williams) Rossman ’95 was recently promoted to director of the Department of Area Studies and Humanities Research Support at the Yale University Library. She leads a team of 13 subject specialists who support teaching and research in classics, history, literature, and area studies. The department serves approximately 500 faculty and 1,600 students.
Heather Husk ’00 was selected as the 2018 Teacher of the Year finalist for the Washington Post. Heather has taught at Leonardtown Middle School since the fall of 2004, initially in special education and currently as a sixth grade social studies teacher. Stacey (Blunt) Iobst ’00 graduated from the PhD program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore in May of 2018. For her dissertation, Stacey examined the relationship between labor management interventions and cesarean birth. She is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland, examining health issues of military service women. She also continues to work part-time as a labor and delivery nurse at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she lives with her husband Adam Iobst ’98 and children Jesse, 10 and Julie, 8. Eric Brennan ’03 published an opinion piece in the journal of Foreign Policy in June 2018. The topic pertained to the U.S. child welfare system. Lauren Mozer ’03, earned her MPH, RDN, CD and works as a clinical pediatric dietician at Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH) in Washington. Lauren was a 2016-17 adolescent health nutrition fellow at SCH, while also completing her master’s of public health degree in nutritional sciences at the University of Washington. Lauren passed her CDR exam in October 2017.
2018 ALUMNI AWARDS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS G. James “Jamie” Benoit ’93 is the 2018 recipient of the Society of Distinguished Alumnus Award, which recognizes alumni who have gained distinction through significant accomplishments in their chosen profession. Benoit has had quite a career, initially selected to participate in the White House Internship Program, subsequently commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army during which he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal and National Defense Service Medal prior to his separation from service in the early 2000s. He went on to earn a law degree from University of Baltimore, and a master’s of law in financial regulation from the Georgetown Law Center. His law career included practice in corporate and securities law. Benoit was elected to the Anne Arundel County Council in 2006 and served two terms. In 2009, he joined the start-up company, Federal Data Systems (FedData). He eventually acquired the firm and is now its president and CEO. Under Benoit’s leadership, FedData’s annual revenue has grown from $5M to $300M and is now heavily involved with the U.S. intelligence and defense communities. He supports the College’s internship program.
OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNUS Alyson Moore ’11 received the 2018 Outstanding Young Alumna Award, which recognizes an alumna or alumnus who has graduated in the past decade and attained prominence through exceptional career achievements and dedication to public service. Since graduating as an English major with minor in art and art history, Moore has gone on to earn a master of fine arts degree in Community Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Arts. Her current employment includes managing the delivery of in-school, after-school and summer programming at a D.C.-area Latin American Youth Center, and overseeing programs in eight title-one middle and high schools. Part of her role at the center is to run the monthly food bank and the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (neighborhood clean-ups, clothing and hygiene kit drives, and youth-led art projects). Moore recently developed an award-winning Haunted House event that has served over 1000 members annually. She has also been a part of AmeriCorps working with domestic and international community service programs, English literacy, and health education.
Benjamin Carr ’04 [6] studied diamondback terrapins for his SMP under Professor of Biology Bob Paul. As part of that project and while monitoring abandoned terrapin nest eggs, he found three and decided to try to hatch them in the lab. And then Hurricane Isabel descended upon campus, knocking the power out to the temperature-controlled incubator. Two eggs failed to hatch, and the one that did, despite the too-hot environment, became the turtle named Izzy, in honor of the hurricane from which she emerged. The high temperatures caused abnormalities in Izzy’s shell and toes, making her unlikely to survive in the wild, so she became the biology department’s mascot. “She hardly grew at all during the time I was here,” says Carr, despite the gammarids that he and lab partner Kate Fritz ’04 fed her every day from the eel grass tanks. June 16, 2018, was Carr’s first visit to campus and to Izzy since graduating. He was amazed at her size and happy to see her popularity has grown into legend status on campus. Carr earned a master’s degree in environmental science & management from Univ. of California – Santa Barbara and since 2010 has worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in its Criminal Investigation Division. He’s known as “Captain Planet” to friends, since he uses his police and crime scene investigation training in his enforcement work for EPA. He was in Washington, D.C. before visiting Izzy for an award being presented by the Department of Justice to his team of investigators and attorneys who exposed Volkswagen for its diesel emissions cheating. Carr lives in San Francisco, California.
working for the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center. He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii. Amanda Polidoro ’05 recently started working for Farallon Capital Management. She resides in Alameda, California.
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Jessica Fitzwater ’05 just finished her 13th year for teaching elementary general music for Frederick County Public Schools and is finishing her first term in elected office on the Frederick County Council and is running for a second term. Her husband Gerald Bigelow ’06 recently started a new position with Flying Dog Brewery after nine years with American Public University System. They reside with their son Jonah in Frederick, Maryland. Daniel Gordon ’05, wrote an article titled “Defending the Indefensible: A New Strategy for Stopping Information Operations” published on May 25, 2018 on the online platform “War on the Rocks.” Daniel is a cyber threat intelligence analyst
Melanie Barner ’08, was recently promoted to assistant director of admissions at the University of Maryland University College. Melanie has been employed by UMUC since 2012. John Ross ’09 is an assistant professor of mathematics at Southwestern University after earning a PhD in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University. His wife Lauren (Blount) Ross ’09, with a degree in applied and computational mathematics from Johns Hopkins University, works for their Center for Talented Youth. The couple resides in Georgetown, Texas.
2010s Brian Boyle ’10 [7] wrote a triathlon-inspired children’s book entitled “Swim, Bark, Run” (Sky Pony Press, June 2018) targeted to children 3-5 years old. Ironman triathlete Boyle included several related themes from his previous book,
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2018 ALUMNI AWARDS HONORARY ALUMNI AWARDS Harry Weitzel has served on the St. Mary’s College Foundation Board, including as its president from 1989 - 1992 and again from 2014 - 2017 and is currently serving as the board’s treasurer. He has provided countless hours of his financial expertise pro-bono, and his stewardship of the Foundation has allowed the College to provide scholarships, support of faculty efforts, capital projects, athletics and other areas identified as of critical need. Beyond service to the Foundation, Weitzel also served as a member of the College’s Board of Trustees from 1992 - 2005 holding offices of vice chair, treasurer, and secretary. Weitzel’s investment acumen and financial expertise were integral in navigating the 2008 financial downturn and minimizing the impact on the St. Mary’s College community. He is also a tireless advocate for St. Mary’s College, which is vitally important in fostering relationships that create opportunities for our students and alumni. Weitzel is a parent and grandparent to two St. Mary’s alumni. Charles “Chip” Jackson has served the College in numerous positions over the last 30 years, including his most recent as the vice president for business and finance. Prior to that, he served as the associate vice president for planning and facilities. His portfolio of responsibilities over the terms of these positions have been extensive. A non-exhaustive list of projects executed in his tenure include the planning and construction of the following facilities: the new Anne Arundel Hall, Goodpaster Hall, Glendening Hall, Waring Commons, Lewis Quad, the Crescent Townhouses, and the River Center; additionally, major renovations to Kent Hall, Dorchester Hall, Queen Anne’s Hall, Charles Hall (Campus Center), and the Athletics and Recreation Center all occurred under his tenure. Jackson has been integral to the construction of the Jamie L. Roberts Stadium, which is nearing completion, and the planning and design of a new academic building that will sit on the site of the current athletic field. He has ensured that these facilities fit within the ethos of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, from the tidewater architecture, to green/sustainable construction and sourcing of materials, to ensuring that the College has the modern facilities required to educate the leaders of tomorrow. Jackson has also served in the government relations role for the College and continued to ensure that the College enjoyed strong support from our state government. He has truly made an impact on the St. Mary’s College campus.
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“Iron Heart” (Skyhorse Publishing, November 2011) – the power of teamwork, dedication, determination, working hard for your goals, and overcoming adversity. Kaitlin Hines ’10, has been promoted to voice/conversational AI designer/researcher at GEICO in Washington, D.C. Kaitlin has been working for GEICO at various levels since 2012. Adam Zimmerman ’10 successfully completed his last exam and achieved his designation as an associate of the Society of Actuaries in February 2018. Adams is employed as an actuary for the Maryland Insurance Administration in downtown Baltimore. He resides in Perry Hall, Maryland, with his future bride, Rebecca Wisner. Dana Gittings ’11 works for the American Psychological Association (APA) in its department of scholarly publishing. She previously worked in the APA’s marketing department. Dana resides in Washington, D.C.
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Andrew McDowell ’12 [8] has completed his master's degree in library and information science at the University of Maryland, College Park. His young adult fantasy adventure novel, “Mystical Greenwood” was published in 2017 by Mockingbird Lane Press. He currently resides in Gambrills, Maryland. Carolina Selle ’12 recently became the business owner of Winding Root Consulting.
Brendan McCarthy ’11 completed his doctorate program in May 2018 at the Ohio State University earning a PhD in history. His dissertation topic was “Going Viral in Ancient Rome: Spreading & Controlling Information in the Roman Republic.” Brendan and his wife Hallie (Colegrove) McCarthy ’12 are relocating to Salt Lake City, Utah, where Brendan will be a lecturer of ancient history at Utah Valley University.
Masha Bocharova ’13 is a recruiter for construction management staffing solutions at Aerotek in Baltimore, Maryland. She has worked for Aerotek since 2016 but was based in its Connecticut offices.
Nicholas Pinto ’11 is a wealth manager with Watts Capital Partners, LLC and resides in Brooklyn, Maryland.
Thomas Kenny ’13 recently completed his juris doctorate degree at the Catholic University of America, Columbia Law School in 2018.
Victoria Eskay ’13 is enrolled in a master’s degree program at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences to become a physician assistant and resides in Damascus, Maryland.
Justin Rattey ’13 recently started a new position as a legal intern at the Department of Justice.
Andrew Reighart ’13 of Arlington, Virginia, recently accepted a promotion and a new position within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Atmospheric Programs as a policy analyst for the Clean Air Markets Division. Over the past year, Andrew has taken the helm of the Agency’s LGBTQ+ employee resource group, led the agency to a first-place finish among small federal agencies in the Feds Feed Families food drive, and deployed to the U.S. Virgin Islands as part of the Response Support Corps following Hurricanes Maria and Irma. Outside of work, Andrew serves on the Board of Directors for the DC Pride Volleyball League and knocks on doors for the Virginia Democratic Party. Nathan Smith ’13 opened his new business, Great Bear Woodworking LLC in Denver, Colorado. Danielle Thorne ’13 recently started a new position as a high school mathematics teacher for the Alexandria City Public School System. Danielle currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia.
Maryland, and as a genetics administrator for INOVA Translational Medicine Institute in Fairfax, Virginia. Paige Decker ’15 is the coordinator of member services and coalitions for the House Committee on Ways and Means for the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.
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Jamie Baab ’14 took a position as the community health worker (CHW) coordinator in June 2017 at the Asian American Center of Frederick, Maryland. In December, she completed her master’s degree in public health form Concordia University of Nebraska with a focus in community health. Her thesis and practicum were focused on CHW work and she completed a service trip to Belize as part of her degree. In May of 2018, Jamie moved to Utah to begin her master’s of physician assistant studies at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professionals.
Kristin Seymour ’14 recently started a new position as director of sales/wedding & event coordinator at Wylder Hotels on Tilghman Island, Maryland. Katherine Brennan ’15 recently became the membership and office assistant for the American Booksellers Association. She resides in Danbury, Connecticut. Brianna Darling ’15 is enrolled in a genomic advocacy certificate program while working as a research assistant at Patronus Medical LLC. She previously worked for GeneDx Diagnostic Laboratory in Gaithersburg,
Carolyn La Rocco ’15 [9], earned her master’s degree in ancient history at the University of St. Andrew’s in Scotland in 2017 and has studied classical archaeology at University of Oxford. She recently received the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the humanities, providing full funding for her PhD in ancient history at the University of St. Andrew’s in Scotland. She begins the PhD program in September. Alice Mutter ’15 graduated from American University Washington College of Law in May of 2018 with a juris doctorate. She published an article, “From Criminals to Survivors: Recognizing Domestic Sex Trafficking as Violence Against Women in the District of Columbia,” in the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law. She also was the 2018 recipient of the Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law Reward, a commencement award with the American University Washington College of Law that is presented for the best student work published in the Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law. She resides in Silver Spring, Maryland. Bianca Calin ’16 was promoted to investment performance analyst/team lead at Cambridge Analytics.
Jacob Lowenthal ’16 interned with GoldenWolf LLC in Huntingtown, Maryland, during the summer. He is enrolled in an advanced certificate program for web application development at Boston University in Massachusetts. Peekay Than ’16 started a position as a financial services representative at T. Rowe Price. Andrew Wilhelm ’16 [10] was commissioned to second lieutenant in the U.S. Army at Fort Benning, Georgia, on July 10, 2018. There to wish him well were Mary Hall, adjunct professor of political science, and Clay Daneker ’16. Julian Alcazar ’17 is working as deputy finance director at Jamie Raskin for Congress. Kia Blum ’17 is a digital strategist for Mothership Strategies, based in Washington, D.C. Paige Cohen ’17 works as an executive assistant at Centro de los Derechos del Migrante in Baltimore, Maryland. Mary Ann Gill ’17 works as a behavioral coach at Centerstone nonprofit healthcare association while also completing her master’s of education degree in child studies at Vanderbilt University. She lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.
Grace Humphries ’17 is a marketing assistant at Peak-Ryzex, an information technology company in Columbia, Maryland. Sarah Pfeiff ’17 is a program specialist at Aegis Corps, Inc. in support of the Undersecretary of Defense Comptroller at the Pentagon. Ashley Simmons ’17 is an account executive with the Kniesly Team for State Farm in Owings Mills, Maryland. Indy Weinstein ’17 has been interning with Iona, an aging services nonprofit in Washington, D.C. In June they worked at the registration table at Silver Pride, an event for the LGBT older adults hosted by Iona, Whitman-Walker and Deloitte and others in the HRC (Human Rights Commission Building). Indy reports how exciting it was to see so many LGBT older adults and hear their comments and stories. Kassidy Bell ’18 started working as an epilepsy research technician at Johns Hopkins University of Medicine. Sarah Austin Brantly ’18 started a new position as an admissions counselor at 2U. Hannah Gyamfi ’18 started a new position as an intern at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Allison Graf ’17 is doing graduate research in biology and working as an assistant volleyball coach at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland.
Christian Harris ’18 is the onboarding specialist for Mosaic Community Services in Timonium, Maryland. He resides in Baltimore, Maryland.
Ryan Grant ’17 is working as a customer experience manager at CheckedUp in New York City.
Rebecca Sherman ’18 started working as an events and production intern at Elan Artists.
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Sophia Diaz Niemeyer ’08 married Michael Niemeyer on August 20, 2016. The ceremony was held in San Antonio, Texas. Sophia earned an advanced degree from New Mexico State University in visual arts and works as an art teacher at the Brooks Oaks Academy. The couple resides in San Antonio.
Melissa “Missa” Mercer Poland ’10 [2] married Mike Poland on May 5, 2018 at the VanDiver Inn in Havre de Grace,
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Victoria Whitlow Lyness ’09 married Michael Lyness on November 4, 2017 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia. SMCM alumni in attendance included Kate Johnson ’09, Megan Graydon ’09, Stephanie Scurci ’09 and Brett Caron ’08. The couple honeymooned in Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Tori graduated from residency in general surgery at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. She will be completing a fellowship year in endocrine surgery at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Temple, Texas. Mike is a lawyer and officer with the United States Army Judge Advocate General. The couple lives in Georgetown, Texas.
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Katie Clark ’04 [1] married Charlie Flowe on September 16, 2017 in Media, Pennsylvania. They traveled in Spain for their honeymoon. Katie is an environmental scientist at the Philadelphia Water Department and Charlie is a soccer coach at Philadelphia University and trainer with several Philadelphia area soccer clubs. The couple resides in Philadelphia.
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Maryland. Alumni in the wedding party were bridesmaids Jen Matthews ’09 and Michelle Compton ’10 and alumni wedding guests included Lisa Neu Campbell ’10 and John Campbell ’09, Marjorie Walsh ’09 MAT ’10, Mary Tupper ’10, Chip Compton ’10 and Sean Matthews ’08. The couple spent their honeymoon in Belize. Missa and Mike both work in Baltimore: she for St. Paul’s School for Boys and he for T. Rowe Price. The couple
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met originally through Marjorie Foley Walsh ’09 in 2012. Stefano Muscatelli ’13 and Tori Eskay ’1 [3] were married on May 19, 2018 on Querencia Farm in Damascus, Maryland. Michael Schmidt ’14 served as the best man. Long-time SMCM staff member and honorary alumnus Richard Edgar, Lukas Iraola ’13, and Alex Cole ’13 served as groomsmen. Louise Marchica ’13, Jaci Auletto ’13, Kim LaBarge
’13, Yasmina Hussein ’13, Margo Santiago ’13, Bridget McGovern ’12, and Allison Ahdieh ’12 served as bridesmaids. Lucy Kuhna ’13 played the piano. Members of Stefano's baseball team and Tori’s soccer team including Devon Jerrard ’13, John Stewart ’12, Eric Gronbeck ’12, Lexy McCarty ’15, Allison Griffen ’14, Liz Mosher ’15, and Johanna Rambo ’14 were in attendance. Scott McInerney ’14, Seb Saez ’12, Josh Olexa ’13, Sam
Knecht ’14, James Davenport ’14, and Matt Tarrant ’15 were also in attendance. Stefano has started his orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He completed his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Maryland in May 2018. Tori will graduate in May 2019 from the physician assistant program at George Washington University, and then join Stefano in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Natalie (Friend) Wilson ’04 [5] and Stuart Wilson welcomed a daughter Cora Renee Wilson on July 3, 2017. Cora joins big brothers James, Andrew, and Jack. The Wilsons live in San Antonio, Texas, where Natalie is a commercial bankruptcy attorney at Langley & Banack, Inc. and Stuart is the squadron superintendent for the 836th Cyberspace Operations Squadron.
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Cheryl Wadhwa ’97 [1] and Gill Buff welcomed a son, Daniel, born on July 7, 2017. They are thrilled to welcome him to their family through the gift of surrogacy with Cheryl’s childhood friend, Lisa, who carried Daniel. Cheryl is an HR professional and Bill works in public relations. They reside in Washington, D.C. Crystal Catterton Wroten ’03 [2] and Paul Wroten, Jr. welcomed a daughter Anna Belle, born on April 22, 2018. Anna Belle joins older siblings Andrew, 11 and Sara, 5. The family lives in Lusby, Maryland. Melissa Ardnt McEvoy ’04 [3] and Ger McEvoy welcomed daughters Margaret Alice and Tessa Anne McEvoy on January 8, 2018. They join big brother Jack. The family lives in Arnold, Maryland.
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Katie Snyder Walsh ’04 [4], and Mike Walsh welcomed a daughter Emily Catherine on December 21, 2017. Katie and Mike are so excited about their newest addition. Emily joins her big sister, Grace 2. Aunt Marie Snyder ’10, is a bad influence already. 7
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Rachel Hawes Boarman ’05 [6] and Christopher Boarman ’03 welcomed a son Benjamin Marc, into their family on January 13, 2017. He joins his three siblings: Anna, age 8, Matthew, age 5, and Ellie, age 2. The family resides in Leonardtown, Maryland.
Jackie Whisman ’05 [8] welcomed a daughter Campbell Catherine Whisman on October 8, 2015. Jackie is vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. The family lives in Washington, D.C. Stacey Meyer Boccher ’10 MAT ’11 [9] and Travis Boccher welcomed a daughter Daphne Elise on March 18, 2018. Sister Eleanor is three years old and very excited to be a big sister.
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IN MEMORIAM Margaret Gilpin Hall ’60 [1] died on June 12, 2018 at the age of 77. Born on November 20, 1940 in Olney, Maryland, she lived there until her marriage to Martin “Marty” J. Hall on December 20, 1969. She graduated from high school in 1958 at Sherwood High in Sandy Springs, Maryland. Margaret attended St. Mary’s Junior College and played on the basketball team. After St. Mary’s, Margaret worked for nine years at Vitro Labs in Aspin, Maryland. Margaret was a long-time member of the Goshen Hunt in Montgomery County, Maryland, where she was one of very few women to “earn her colors.” After marrying Marty, they moved to Rhode Island, then California and then Alaska, where Marty worked for a fire bomber company and Mary began a career in 1978 with the Alaska State Troopers “D” Detachment. Margaret’s former supervisor with the Alaska state troopers recalls how through his work with her he discovered she was a “person dedicated to the proposition that all troopers, attorneys, crime victims, judges, jailers, prosecutors, and criminals were all somewhat ignorant of proper procedures and protocol. She took on the responsibility and task of training us all. She was gentle, yet she never accepted a poorly done piece of work. She corrected us, rewarded us with a smile of approval and a thank you for a proper job. Never in her entire career as evidence custodian was a scrap, a scintilla or a hint of any item being lost or tampered with. How she guided us!” Margaret is missed by not only Marty, her husband of 48 years, but her four “fur kids”: two dogs and two cats.
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Richard Fortwengler ’73 [2] died on May 20, 2018 after a courageous battle with cancer. Born in Washington, D.C., he was a graduate of Bishop McNamara High School and graduated from St. Mary’s College in 1973. He earned his master’s of business administration in finance from George Mason University in 1981. He is survived by his wife Sheila, his parents Victor and Catherine, two sisters and one brother. Rich had a highly successful career in financial services on Wall Street that spanned 30 years. Rich joined the NASD in 1983 in the Division of Corporate Finance where he reviewed the underwriting agreements of Initial Public Offerings. Later he joined the Nasdaq to help build the Institutional Services Group working with the largest portfolio managers and traders across the country. Later he was brought into the fledgling Nasdaq Global Index Group to assist the launch of the ETF-QQQ and later built out of the global index and data business. He retired from Nasdaq in 2010. In retirement he was an active member of the Arlington Tree Stewards. He also had a passion for classic cars and car shows. As a lifelong D.C. resident, he was known to his family and friends as the best tour guide of that city. He is remembered fondly by the SMCM Alumni Office as a regular at Alumni Weekends and a regular
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supporter of fundraising efforts as well as of the College’s athletics program. Jean Nordstrom Hofmann ’77 [3] died on March 28, 2018 at the age of 88. Born in Revere, Massachusetts, she moved to St. Mary’s County in 1970 with her husband Earl Francis Hofmann and was hired as the artist-in-residence at the College. Jean loved St. Mary’s College; she earned a degree at age 45 and is listed in The Who’s Who in American Colleges. Jean worked at Walden Sierra, Inc., until her retirement at the age of 70. That was her dream job, helping and giving back to the community she cared about so much. In later years, she moved to Baltimore, Maryland, to be closer to her family. She is survived by four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Edward Pinder ’82 died on June 7, 2018 at the age of 57 in Pikesville, Maryland, after battling cancer for seven years. Born August 3, 1960, Ed graduated from Catonsville High School where he met his future wife Allison. Ed graduated from St. Mary’s College and then went to the University of Baltimore Law School for his juris doctorate degree. Ed was a trial attorney for over 32 years and opened his own practice in 2002, Pinder Legal Team, located in Parkville, Maryland. Ed coached and mentored countless young women in
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the Parkville Parks and Recreation girls’ softball program. He was honored by having a softball field at Belmont Park dedicated to him. Ed also enjoyed fishing in the Cacapon River. Ed is survived by his wife of 33 years, two children, his mother and one brother. John Albert Corbin ’86 [4] of Finksburg, Maryland, died on August 25, 2017 at the age of 53. Born in Kailua, Hawaii, his family later moved to St. Mary’s County, where he graduated from Great Mills High School in 1982 and then St. Mary’s College in 1986. John taught at Mount View Middle School in Howard County for 27 years. John loved music and books, and his deep compassion toward others and his sharp wit and humor will be greatly missed. John is survived by his two daughters with Deborah Cross Corbin ’88, Carolyn of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Leah of Chicago, Illinois; brothers Ron Corbin ’79 of Portland, Oregon, and Chuck Corbin of Tall Timbers, Maryland; and sister Janine Corbin of Tucson, Arizona.
FACULTY & STAFF Former Executive Vice President of Administration John Underwood passed away peacefully in July from a pulmonary embolism.
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Hired by Ren Jackson in August 1972, John turned out to be the architectural visionary of St. Mary’s College by the time of his retirement in 2000. His doctorate from Indiana University in higher education and human behavior in organizations led him, after a brief stint in teaching human development, to such administrative positions at the College as head of the Division of Human Development, vice president for planning and research, and finally, executive vice president for administration. In the last two positions he was supported and encouraged by then-president Edward T. “Ted” Lewis to draw up planning programs for the physical campus. Over a 15-year period, he guided a $60 million expansion program and the strength of his vision enabled the College to attract outstanding architectural talent. Renovations took place under his watch in admissions, personnel, president’s office, dean of students’ office, the business office, and St. Mary’s Hall. Usually, major expansion and construction were simultaneous. Both townhouse complexes, Schaefer Hall, and Daugherty-Palmer Commons were built; the library was renovated and expanded to double its size; and the Campus Center was redesigned and expanded (his last facilities project before retirement).
Already existing architectural motifs were identified and used to unifying effect in renovation and construction: like the wooden arbor from the Garden of Remembrance, and the rounded colonial archway from the Reconstructed State House at Historic St. Mary’s City. Throughout the campus, outdoor underpasses frame views of the landscape ahead and brick walkways tie the entire campus together. Outdoor areas were created to encourage relaxation and conversation and altogether, thoughtful planning demonstrated that our physical environment does indeed influence the way in which we respond, think, learn, and involve ourselves with each other in college community. John was also a key player in the development of the public honors college proposal that became legislation in 1992. He worked with then-President Lewis and then-Governor Donald Schaefer on legislation that was groundbreaking in two ways: its designation as a public honors college, and its funding formula which allowed the College an increased and stabilized level of support. He is survived by his wife Sandra “Sandy” Underwood, art history professor emerita. Joining St. Mary’s College in 1972, Sandy served as instructor, and later professor of art history and art department chair, with two terms as head of the Division of Arts and Letters. She taught at the College for 23 years. Both John and Sandy retired on December 31, 2000, and moved to Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, where he worked for a time as an architectural consultant for college campuses. They later moved to Savannah, Georgia, where they were living at the time of his death.
2018 ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIPS
ALUMNI LEGACY SCHOLARSHIP Annie Grace Shipley ’21, of Annapolis, Maryalnd, is this year’s legacy scholarship recipient. Her legacy links are her mother Michele (Everett) Shipley ’92, her aunt Kathleen (Everett) Hornig ’90 and her uncle Richard Hornig ’89 (see more on them on pg. 20). Shipley chose St. Mary’s College because of the friendly community, rigorous academics and the successful lacrosse team. She is a member of the women’s varsity lacrosse team, a campus lifeguard, student member of the SMCM Annapolis Chapter assisting with the chapter’s service projects and a volunteer in the St. Mary’s County public schools. She is majoring in history and minoring in educational studies and plans to earn her master of arts in teaching degree from St. Mary’s College.
DON STABILE ALUMNI POST-GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
DON STABILE ALUMNI DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIP
Hannah Chapman Coe ’13, of Eureka, California, is this year’s recipient of the Don Stabile Alumni Post-graduate Scholarship. After graduation, she moved west and served a term with the Watershed Stewards Program, a program of AmeriCorps and the California Conservation Corps, working directly with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in Yreka, California. Her job entailed data collection of Coo and Chinook salmon through hands-on field work. Coe then applied her experience in a job with the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, and worked on a variety of northwest salmon rivers. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in fisheries biology at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California.
Sam Arthur Horrocks ’11, this year’s recipient of the Don Stabile Alumni Doctoral Scholarship. Horrocks is a PhD student at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. He credits his experience at St. Mary’s College with defining his graduate education and career pursuits. As an undergraduate, Horrocks was troubled by an increasing awareness that things were not right with the American economic system. Initially, he felt unequipped and unmotivated to respond to his concerns. However, this attitude changed in his senior year while developing his St. Mary’s Project with faculty mentors Donna Richardson and Kate Chandler, who showed him the utility of sustained literary study and how to connect academics to social action, respectively. As a young PhD student at WVU in 2014, Horrocks tackled the underfunding of graduate students there by establishing a Graduate Student Senate. Now entering its fourth year, the senate is entrenched in the university administration and has won graduate students thousands of dollars in fee/tuition remittance and stipend increases.
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“OH…. BY THE WAY….” A CALL FOR PERIODICALS AND OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS By Kent Randell, College archivist and assistant librarian
One of the central challenges to being an archivist is the fact that we can only archive those things that we actually have, and not the things that we wish we had. As lawyers like to say, “It is what it is.” All college archives have some holes in their collections, and the St. Mary’s College of Maryland archive is no exception.
spirit of the 1970s and recalled the work of groups like the Firesign Theatre. A couple of years later, some of those same students organized a follow-up titled Anathema. For whatever reason, neither of these publications made their way to the permanent collection of the library and archives, and until a few years ago were lost to history, until they were rediscovered with the help of alumni donors.
It is not unusual for archival donations to happen somewhat serendipitously… in the case of St. Toad’s Journal, a student was working on an oral history project, when the subject indicated that he had some old magazines lying around, and asked if we were interested. In the Spring of 1972, students at St. Mary’s College of Maryland organized the “Offices of Cosmic Emenations,” and through the Student Government Association, published an attractive magazine titled St. Toad’s Journal, combining both faculty and student work, with items running the gambit from poetry, illustration, and photography, to scholarly articles. Some of the work was serious, some of it was abstract and surreal. It captured the
An even more dramatic example was the discovery of the minutes for the first Alumnae Association (1917-1928), by the staff of a thrift store in Charles County. These minutes were donated to the archives in 2015.
The “Offices of Cosmic Emenations” published the magazine St. Toad’s Journal in 1972.
There are also some key gaps in collections related to St. Mary’s County. For example,
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Some archival collections appear complete. For example, we have every yearbook produced since 1948. However, there is one rogue yearbook from 1925 called The Pepper Pot, produced the year after the fire (proving that adversity brings people together). This is the kind of thing that keeps archivists up at night: Are there other loose yearbooks that are not in the collection? Also, while we have a complete run of the The Point News, we are missing editions of The Seminary Signal / Signal News / Ripples from the 1940s.
Minutes of the first Alumnae Association (1917-1928) were discovered in a thrift store. neither the Navy or St. Mary’s County Public Library have a complete run of the Tester, the publication of the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, from the 1940s. And finally, as incredible as this may seem, no archive, library, or museum anywhere has copies of the St. Mary’s Beacon for the years 1855 and 1856! It takes a village to build a collection. Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and underground newspapers are always welcome. If you find or have a pre-1948 St. Mary’s Female Seminary Yearbooks, or editions of the Signal News, or 1940s copies of The Tester, or mid-1850s copies of the St. Mary’s Beacon, please consider contacting the archives.
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The Mulberry Tree is published by St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Maryland’s public honors college for the liberal arts and sciences. It is produced for alumni, faculty, staff, trustees, the local community, and friends of the College. The magazine is named for the famous mulberry tree under which the Calvert colonists signed a treaty of friendship with the Yaocomico people and on the trunk of which public notices were posted in the mid-1600s. The tree endured long into the 19th century and was once a popular meeting spot for St. Mary’s College students. The illustration of the mulberry tree on the cover was drawn in 1972 by Earl Hofmann, artist-in-residence when St. Mary’s College President Renwick Jackson launched the magazine. Copyright 2018 The opinions expressed in The Mulberry Tree are those of the individual authors and not necessarily those of the College. The editor reserves the right to select and edit all material. Manuscripts and letters to the editor are encouraged and may be addressed to Editor, The Mulberry Tree, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 47645 College Drive, St. Mary’s City, MD 20686. Photographs and illustrations may not be reproduced without the express written consent of St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Calendar of Events Brown Bag Lunchtime Artist Talk with Carrie Patterson September 11 @ 12:00 p.m. Glendening Annex
Artist Talk with Giulia Pieri Livi October 11 @ 4:45 p.m. Glendening Annex
VOICES Reading Series with Stephen Schottenfeld & Daniel Hoyt September 13 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons
Admissions Open House October 13 @ 9:30 a.m. Michael P. O’Brien Athletics & Recreation Center Arena
Neuroscience Seminar Series with Giorgio Acsoli September 17 @ 4:45 p.m. Goodpaster Hall 195 TFMS Film Series with Amalia Córdova (Smithsonian) September 17 @ 8:15 p.m. Cole Cinema, Campus Center Brown Bag Lunchtime Artist Talk with Janis Goodman September 18 @ 12:00 p.m. Glendening Annex
TFMS Film Series with Lisa Jackson (Anishinaabe filmmaker) October 15 @ 8:15 p.m. Cole Cinema, Campus Center Hawktoberfest (Homecoming & Family Weekend) October 19-21 Neuroscience Seminar Series with Dionna Williams October 22 @ 4:45 p.m. Goodpaster Hall 195
Admissions Open House September 22 @ 9:30 a.m. Michael P. O’Brien Athletics & Recreation Center Arena
TFMS Film Series with Álvaro and Diego Sarmiento (Quechua filmmakers) October 22 @ 8:15 p.m. Cole Cinema, Campus Center
TFMS Film Series with Neil Diamond (Cree filmmaker) September 24 @ 8:15 p.m. Cole Cinema, Campus Center
PING Performance conducted by Larry Vote October 27 @ 3:00 p.m. Reconstructed Brick Chapel, HSMC
Exhibition Opening Reception: Faculty Exhibition: Finding Elsewhere Works by Tristan Cai, Sue Johnson, Giulia Piera Livi, Jessye McDowell, Carrie Patterson, and Lisa Scheer Exhibition curator: Kate Pollasch ‘10 September 24 @ 4:45 p.m. Boyden Gallery, Montgomery Hall
VOICES Reading Series with Joseph Ross November 1 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons
Mozart to Monk Concert (Reservations Required) with Geo Cooper, Theodis Rodgers, Reginald Robinson September 27 @ 7:00 p.m. Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary’s Hall TFMS Film Series with Stanzin Dorjai (Ladakh filmmaker) October 2 @ 8:15 p.m. Cole Cinema, Campus Center Psychology Lecture Series with Lisa Flores (Univ. of Missouri) October 3 @ 4:45 p.m. Goodpaster Hall 195 VOICES Reading Series with Angie Chuang October 4 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons
Panel Discussion, Faculty Exhibition: Finding Elsewhere with Tristan Cai, Sue Johnson, Giulia Piera Livi, Jessye McDowell, Carrie Patterson, and Lisa Scheer Moderated by Kate Pollasch ‘10 November 5 @ 4:45 p.m. Boyden Gallery, Montgomery Hall Neuroscience Seminar Series with Eastman Lewis November 9 @ 2:45 p.m. Goodpaster Hall 195 Admissions Open House November 10 @ 9:30 a.m. Michael P. O’Brien Athletics & Recreation Center Arena Artist Talk with Bonnie Veblen ’09 November 12 @ 4:45 p.m. Glendening Annex “Happy Birthday, Wanda June” (Ticketed Event) by Kurt Vonnegut, directed by Mark A. Rhoda November 14-17 @ 8:00 p.m. November 18 @ 2:00 p.m. Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall
The Office of the President, VOICES Reading Series & TFMS Present N. Scott Momaday November 15 @ 7:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons College Orchestra Concert conducted by Jeffrey Silberschlag November 15 @ 7:30 p.m. Montgomery Hall 25 Psychology Lecture Series with Roberta Golinkoff November 16 @ 2:45 p.m. Goodpaster Hall 195 “Amahl & the Night Visitors” Opera (Ticketed Event) by Gian Carlo Menotti, conducted by Larry Vote November 28-29 @ 8:00 p.m. Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall College Jazz Band & Jazz Combo Concert conducted by Jeffrey Silberschlag and Rick Humphreys November 29 @ 7:30 p.m. Montgomery Hall 25 Art SMP Open Studios and Public Critique Open studios @ 4:30 p.m. Public critique with visiting critic @ 5:30 p.m., December 3 Art Annex Studios VOICES Reading Series with Eddy Harris December 6 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons Performance of Handel’s “Messiah” conducted by Larry Vote December 8 @ 3:00 p.m. Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary’s Hall PING & Women’s Choir Concert conducted by Larry Vote December 9 @ 4:00 p.m. Reconstructed Statehouse, HSMC Martin Luther King, Jr. Prayer Breakfast January 21 @ 8:00 a.m. Great Room, Campus Center VOICES Reading Series with Laurie Foos January 31 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons
VOICES Reading Series with Sami Miranda February 21 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons An Evening to Honor the Legacy of Lucille Clifton March 1 @ 7:30 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons VOICES Reading Series March 28 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons Presidential Lecture Series (Reservations Required) with Jamaica Kincaid March 29 @ 7:30 p.m. Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary’s Hall VOICES Reading Series April 11 @ 8:15 p.m. Daugherty-Palmer Commons The 13th Annual Twain Lecture (Ticketed Event) Date TBD @ 7:30 p.m. Michael P. O’Brien Athletics & Recreation Center Arena Dedication of the Jamie L. Roberts Stadium April 13 Jamie L. Roberts Stadium “Stick Fly” (Ticketed Event) by Lydia R. Diamond, directed by guest artist Denise Hart April 17-20 @ 8:00 p.m. April 21 @ 2:00 p.m. Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall Bay to Bay Service Day April 20 Join a project site near you: www.smcm.edu/events/bay-to-bayservice-day/project-sites
Refer a student and we will give them an application fee waiver! Please share the student’s name and contact information with the admissions office and we will waive their application fee when they apply! Calling all high school teachers! Bring a St. Mary’s College admission representative to your class. Contact us to arrange a visit at 800-492-7181 or at admissions@smcm.edu. Visit St. Mary’s College of Maryland, The Public Honors College, and find out how we do things a little differently. It’s the St. Mary’s Way. Discover what it can mean for you. • A “Best College for Your Money” by Money magazine • 78 academic programs • 19 varsity athletic programs and 95+ student-led clubs & activities
Awards Convocation April 26 @ 3:00 p.m. Michael P. O’Brien Athletics & Recreation Center Arena
• 89% of students participate in internships, international experiences, or undergraduate research
Commencement May 11 @ 10:00 a.m. Townhouse Green
Individual tours of our waterfront campus take place throughout the year along with Open Houses on September 22 October 13 November 10
Alumni Weekend June 6-9 Chesapeake Writers’ Conference June 23-29 Governor’s Cup Yacht Race August 2-3
10-Minute Play Festival (Ticketed Event) conceived by Amy Steiger, various directors February 20-23 @ 8:00 p.m. February 24 @ 2:00 p.m. Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall
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Mark October 19-21, 2018 on your calendar
for one of St. Mary’s College’s most anticipated events: family weekend and homecoming rolled into one big fall celebration! Each year, we welcome over 1,000 visitors to campus to enjoy activities such as the Petruccelli 5K, athletic events, river cruises, a crab feast, and much more. We hope you’ll join our alumni, families, and members from the College and local communities for the most anticipated event of the season. PHOTO BY BILL WOOD
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Registration is now open. www.smcm.edu/events/hawktoberfest For more information, contact the Office of Alumni Relations at alumnioffice@smcm.edu or (240) 895-4280.