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Alumni Engagement Profile: Football fans know him as a former Baltimore Raven and current president of the
NFL Players Association. But life has always been about more than football for Domonique Foxworth ’04, recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Alumnus Award from ARHU. Foxworth has a long-standing commitment to improving the lives of urban youth, most recently by creating Baltimore BORN (Boys Opportunity and Resource Network), a nonprofit group to help boys in grades 5-12 develop skills for lifelong success and learning.
Past Distinguished Alumnus Awardees ■ 2011–Donald A. Ritchie (M.A. ’69, Ph.D. ’75), U.S. Senate historian ■ 2009–Dave Baggett (’92), software developer and entrepreneur ■ 2008–Yuriko Yamaguchi (M.F.A. ’79), artist ■ 2007–Harlan F. Weisman (’75), physician and senior health-care executive ■ 2006–George P. Pelecanos (’80), writer, story editor and producer, HBO Films ■ 2004–Gail Berman-Masters (’78), former Broadway producer and television and film executive
■ 2003–Donald Miller (Ph.D. ’72), author of “City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America”
■ 2002–Maria Otero (’72, M.A. ’74), president and CEO, ACION International ■ 2001–Brent F. Blackwelder (Ph.D. ’75), president, Friends of the Earth
This past year the college’s Alumni Association Chapter Board initiated a grant proposal opportunity inviting students to put forward programs the board would implement to support their mission. After careful consideration, the board awarded three $2,500 grants to student group projects associated with the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance studies, the Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House and the Department of Communication.
Community Engagement The Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture partnered with SLLC and AMST to create a Virtual D.C. Latino Tour. With the input of students, they created an electronic, Latinothemed field trip of Washington that commemorates landmarks, monuments and the presence of the Latino community in the area. A live tour was included in the National Parks Service’s Hispanic Heritage Month programming last year. The Art Gallery’s Poetry and Art in Rural Maryland project creates poetry-based murals on barns throughout the state of Maryland, partnering with local arts, agricultural and environmental businesses, as well as with schools in Cecil and Frederick counties. AMST partners with UMD’s neighboring community on the Lakeland Community Heritage Project to collect, preserve and interpret the heritage and history of those African Americans who created, lived in and/or were otherwise associated with the Lakeland community of Prince George’s County, Md. since the late 19th century.
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Year in Review 2011-12 is published by the Office of Marketing and Communications in the College of Arts and Humanities. If you would like to receive additional copies of this publication please contact the Dean’s Office at 301.405.2090. PUBLISHER Bonnie Thornton Dill Dean, College of Arts and Humanities ADVISERS Sheri Parks Associate Dean, Research and Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Programming Alene Moyer Associate Dean, Academic Affairs Audran Downing Assistant Dean, Student Affairs Laura Brown Assistant Dean, Development MANAGING EDITOR Nicky Everette Director, Marketing and Communications GRAPHIC DESIGNERS April Chaires’12 Laura Pavlo ’14
