ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND A SPADEFUL OF EARTH AND The Mulberry Tree Papers A NEW ERA Vol. XIII, No. 1 Winter 1986-87 n a stunningly warm and sunny November 1, amid music and colorful balloons, the St. St. Mary's College of Maryland Mary's College community gathered to officially break ground for the campus's neOw townhouse-style dormitory complex. Contents Since 1967, when St. Mary's began its transformation into a four-year institution, the College has grown from College Newsfront, 1 355 students to more than 1,400. More important, St. Probing the Hard Question of Race, 8 Mary's has grown in stature, too, emerging as Maryland's best public college in many respects. Now the time has The New Curriculum Arrives, 17 come to give St. Mary's physical resources worthy of its academic excellence. She Chose the Peace Corps, 20 The $4.5 million townhouse project is the first step in an ambitious $29 million Master Facilities Plan that will After the Students Leave (photo essay), 24-25 reshape and renew the St. Mary's campus. Under this plan, the library will double in size. A new building will A Mysterious Flash of Perception, 26 house facilities for the natural sciences and mathematics. Kent Hall will be renovated for the Division of History A Tradition of Breaking Records, 29 and Social Science. Anne Arundel Hall will be renovated. Alumnitems, 39 All of the dorms will be remodeled and refurbished, as will Calvert Hall. And a new auditorium will replace St. Alumnotes, 42 Mary's Hall. Meanwhile, the faculty and administration have begun Calendar, 48 long-range planning in academic affairs, with the goal of making St. Mary's one of the few distinguished liberal arts colleges in the mid-Atlantic region. By next fall, the The Mulberry Tree Papers is published by St. Mary's College College should have a five-year plan that will guide of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Maryland 20686, for alumni, faculty, academic progress just as the facilities plan maps out students, staff and friends of the College. Articles from these sources physical growth. are welcomed. The changes that lie ahead are as exciting and promis­ The magazine is named for "the mulberry tree" mentioned in ing as they are dramatic. Let a spadeful of earth turned colonial chronicles — the tree under which the Calvert colonists on November 1 symbolize this excitement, this promise. signed a treaty of friendship with the Yaocomico Indians and on which public notices were posted in the mid-l600s. The old tree lived on in St. Mary's City, enduring until well into the 19th cen­ tury. The present hope is that The Mulberry Tree Papers, by keep­ Front Cover: Students join Board Chairman Rupert G. Curry ing Marylanders informed about the College, will continue to and President Edward T. Lewis in the exuberant finale of the strengthen the bonds between the citizens of Maryland and the November 1st groundbreaking festivities for the College's new state's "monument" school. townhouse dormitory complex. Dignitaries at the ceremony included U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes and State Senator Bernie Fowler, who represented Governor Harry Hughes in deliver­ ing a proclamation marking November 1, 1986 as "St. Mary's College of Maryland Day." Photo by Matt Shortridge.

Editor, Daniel Laskin Photo Credits: Pages 1, 2, 5, 6, 24-25, 29, 39, 40, 43, Matt Shortridge; pp. 3, 38, Julian Van Hoist Pellekan; pp. 4, 9, 11, Alumnotes, Gail Dean 13, 15, 46, Christine C. Cihlar; pp. 6, 17, St. Mary's College Student Photo Service; p. 7, Karin Corea; pp. 20, 22, courtesy Contributors, Christine C. Cihlar, Cari Howard, of Mary Denton; p. 26, courtesy of Jean Nordhaus; pp. 41, 42, Susan G. Phillips Edgar Benson; pp. 45, 49, Back Cover, David Harp. College Newsfront Rupert Curry Named New Board Chairman Rupert G. Curry of Rockville was elected chairman of the College's Board of Trustees last spring, suc­ ceeding Eleanor Digges Harrington. Curry, a member of the Board since 1975, is manager of employee management development in the Information Systems Group of IBM in Bethesda.

Ambassador Paul H. Nitze General Andrew J. Goodpaster Mary's trustee and has taken an ac­ President's Council: tive interest in the College in recent A Stake In Excellence years. Among the other Council members One thing which distinguishes an are: retiring Maryland Senator outstanding college is that it inspires Charles McC. Mathias; former NATO the interest of prominent men and commander General Andrew J. women, people who may have no Goodpaster; publishing executive particular connection to the school Philip Merrill (whose magazines in­ Rupert G. Curry — as alumni or parents, for instance clude Washingtonian and Baltimore); A native of St. Louis, Curry at­ — but who, as leaders in society, American Council of Education tended West Virginia State College, feel they have a stake in educational President Dr. Robert H. Atwell; where he became a two-time Black excellence. Last spring St. Mary's former Maryland Senator J. Glenn Ail-American football lineman. formed a new group, the President's Beall, Jr.; First National Bank of Graduating in 1953 with a degree in Council, that will draw on the Maryland Chairman J. Owen Cole; physical education, he served two wisdom and energy of just such Democratic Party fundraiser Esther years as an officer in the Army and prominent leaders. Coopersmith; PEPCO executive went on to a 10-year career as a The twenty-seven Council members Sharon Pratt Dixon; Marine Midland teacher and coach in the Mont­ — leaders in business, law, public Bank Chairman John R. Petty; gomery County (Md.) school system. affairs, and education — will advise former Congressman Gilbert Gude; He joined IBM in 1965. President Edward T. Lewis and the former Commerce Secretary and Curry, 55, hopes to spend more Board of Trustees on such matters as chairman of Allied Chemical, John time on campus than meetings and long-range planning, curriculum, and T. Connor; and former Congressman formal occasions allow. "I want to the allocation of resources. "These Henry R. Reuss. talk with faculty and students," he men and women believe in our mis­ The President's Council has already says, "and assure them that the sion," says Lewis. "They are impress­ begun to play an active role in sup­ Board is interested in and cares ed with the momentum of the Col­ porting St. Mary's. At its first about what is happening in their lege, and they feel that they can meeting, in May, the Council formed daily lives." make a difference." two task forces to examine the Col­ The other Board officers elected Chairing the Council is Am­ lege's biology and economics pro­ last spring are: J. Frank Raley of St. bassador Paul H. Nitze, the special grams, with an eye to assessing Mary's City, vice chairman; Clemen­ advisor to President Reagan and needs for the future. The task forces tine Kaufman of Baltimore, secretary; Secretary of State George Schultz on visited the campus in October to and Meyer Emanuel of Prince arms control. Nitze is also a St. meet with faculty and students. Georges County, treasurer. mm- «• 1

Order of Ark and Dove Induct Benson, Munday

The Order of the Ark and Dove welcomed two new members last spring: Mary Alice Waesche Benson, a long-time official and supporter of the Alumni Association; and M. Wayne Munday, a retiring trustee who led the Board's Management and Finance Committee.

At the Ark and Dove induction ceremony in June, President Edward T. Lewis noted that Mary Alice Ben­ son has been a moving force in the /. Blocklock Wills, left, president of Southern Maryland Oil, presents check for library endowment to Edward T. Lewis. Alumni Association for twenty-five years. A 1950 graduate of the junior college (she went on to Goucher College and Towson State University Major Gifts Fund Library Endowment for additional degrees), Benson has served two terms as alumni presi­ Three major gifts have enabled St. Southern Maryland Oil's $20,000 dent, two as vice president, and one Mary's to build a Library Endow­ gift was part of the College's South­ as secretary. "Your enthusiasm," ment Fund, which will be used to ern Maryland Community Campaign. noted Lewis, "has influenced many expand the collection in Baltimore The campaign has a goal of raising fine students to enroll at St. Mary's Hall. The new fund, as it grows, $90,000 from businesses and in­ and to become active alumni should allow for steady increases in dividuals in the region by June 30, themselves." the acquisition of books, 1987. In addition to seeking support periodicals, films, and other resources. for the library, St. Mary's is asking Wayne Munday was praised for his the community to help provide service as a member of the College The Endowment Fund was estab­ money for science equipment, local Board of Trustees from 1977 to 1986. lished earlier this year with two scholarship aid, and furnishings for Lewis noted that, as chairman of the foundation grants — a $25,000 the new townhouse-style dormitor­ Management and Finance Committee, challenge grant from The A.S. Abell ies. Leading the campaign are J. Munday helped the College "put its Company Foundation, and a $50,000 Frank Raley, Jr., an insurance ex­ financial house in order." Munday is gift from The Knapp Foundation. ecutive and College trustee; and also the parent of a St. Mary's Then, this fall, Southern Maryland William C. Moyer, president of graduate, and as a Board member he Oil donated $20,000 to the library Tracor Applied Sciences as well as took a particularly keen interest in endowment. president of the College Foundation. College affairs.

ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND after the state agreed to more effec­ tively integrate those state colleges that had historically been white. As a result, the "retention rate" of black students — the number who com­ plete college rather than drop out — became a more pressing issue for the traditionally white colleges. One initiative by the State Board for Higher Education was to challenge Maryland's public colleges to develop programs that would aid black freshmen, since the freshman year often plays a crucial role in determining whether a student will succeed or fail. The State Board ap­ propriated $150,000 to fund several model programs. Last summer Freeman, along with Director of Counseling David Romano and academic skills Director of Minority Affairs Michael Freeman, left, with freshmen in T.O.O.L.S. specialist Julia Bates, drafted the pro­ program workshop. posal for T.O.O.L.S. In mid August, the state picked the St. Mary's pro­ posal as one of its model programs. (The other programs are at Towson program, for example, black profes­ Grant Funds Program State University, Prince Georges sionals will visit the St. Mary's cam­ Community College, and the Univer­ for Black Freshmen pus to speak about their careers, and sity of Maryland/Eastern Shore.) students will be able to take trips to As part of the T.O.O.L.S. program black history museums and theater A $38,500 grant is helping St. Mary's — which is voluntary — a black performances in Washington, become a leader in Maryland's effort freshman meets frequently with a Baltimore, and Annapolis. to improve academic services for faculty "mentor" (a specially chosen black students and thus ensure their The T.O.O.L.S. program owes its advisor) as well as with a student ad­ success in college. The grant, award­ existence to the state's recognition visor. These two advisors help the ed by the State Board for Higher that too many promising black freshmen choose courses, and they Education, is funding a new program students drop out of college. The make sure that the freshmen know this year called T.O.O.L.S., or Taking problem has a variety of causes — where to find additional help if they On Opportunities for Learning social alienation, inadequate academ­ need it. Success. ic preparation, lack of confidence, Under one unique part of the pro­ Led by Director of Minority Affairs lack of advising sensitive to black gram, the parents of black freshmen Michael Freeman, the T.O.O.L.S. pro­ students' special needs, economic will be brought to the campus for gram provides black freshmen with hardship. dinner and cultural events. These intensive academic advising and a In Maryland, as in many other visits should help the students and series of workshops on how to suc­ states, a history of segregation in their families bridge the distance ceed in college, along with a variety higher education has complicated (cultural as well as geographic) be­ of cultural activities designed to the problem. Last year the U.S. tween the cities where they live and strengthen black identity and reduce Justice Department settled a long­ the rural, isolated campus of St. feelings of alienation. As part of the standing lawsuit against Maryland Mary's.

THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS New Programs v^R*f Jf' Help Job Seekers

The college senior or new graduate searching for a job is typically told, "Use your connections." To which the student often despairingly replies: "What connections?" St. Mary's students will no longer have to raise that plaintive question, thanks to a new service being developed by the Career Planning and Placement Office. The office is assembling a "Career Advisor Net­ work" — a group of people, representing as many careers as possible, who are willing to help St. Mary's students learn about, and get started in, various professions. To build the network, Career Plan­ ning and Placement Director Dan Amari is starting with people who would naturally want to serve as "connections" for St. Mary's students: alumni, parents, trustees, and other friends of the College. He will be mailing surveys to these peo­ Smiling faces abounded at the 1986 commencement, as St. Mary's awarded ple, asking them about their careers diplomas to 219 seniors, the largest graduating class in the College's history. The and areas of expertise, as well as May 11 ceremony was also noteworthy for the presentation of an honorary degree about ways that they would like to to Baltimore Congressman Parren Mitchell — the first time St. Mary's has presented this honor to a black man. "I want this commitment from you," Mitchell help. Amari hopes that many of the told the graduates: "for the rest of your life, think, work, and strive to achieve a network members will be willing world of peace." not only to give information and ad­ vice about their professions, but also to speak on campus, employ students as interns, hire students for the summer, and even offer perma­ nent jobs. and an information form with ques­ for the position. At the same time, The Career Planning and Place­ tions about career, geographical, and the Service sends the job description ment Office has also started an other preferences. to the students/alumni whose "Employment Referral Service," When an employer contacts the resumes are being submitted. designed to help new graduates and Career Planning and Placement Of­ For more information about the recent alumni find out quickly about fice with an announcement of a job Career Advisor Network and the job openings — and to help opening, the Referral Service auto­ Employment Referral Service, contact employers find qualified candidates. matically sends the employer the Dan Amari at the Career Planning Students and alumni can register resumes of those students or alumni and Placement Office, Charles Hall, with the Service by filing a resume who seem to meet the qualifications 301-862-0203.

ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Eacuity . . College Wins Major Andrea Hammer, assistant professor of English, has received a $17,400 Grant in Science grant from the Maryland Humanities Education Council to fund an exhibit and sym­ posium focusing on the post-war St. Mary's won a major federal grant transformation of rural black culture last fall as part of a nationwide effort in St. Mary's County. Supplemented to improve science education in the by more than $25,000 in College schools. The grant, totaling $46,500, support and $2,000 from local enabled the College to run two in­ businesses and individuals, the grant tensive summer workshops for mid­ will enable Hammer to assemble an dle school and high school science exhibit featuring Depression-era teachers from throughout Southern photographs taken in the com­ Maryland. munities of Beachville, Scotland, Of eleven colleges in Maryland and Ridge by the renowned receiving grants for similar programs, Photography Unit of the Farm Science teachers in Project S.O.S. learn a St. Mary's won the second largest Security Administration (FSA). Paired sum. The money was awarded by simple classrom exercise in which they can gauge water salinity by measuring with these photos will be contem­ the State Board for Higher Educa­ the refraction of light. porary portraits of the FSA subjects tion, under the federal Education for and their descendants, along with Economic Security Act. Under this oral-history interviews in which legislation, Maryland received some these people talk about their lives $1.5 million to upgrade science and is related to diverse occupations and then and now. The symposium will math education at both the elemen­ fields — including fields not normal­ bring together scholars and county tary and secondary levels. Most of ly associated with chemistry or residents to discuss the enormous the funds went to school systems, physics. Thus there were workshop economic and social changes of the but about $460,000 was set aside for sessions in archaeology, nutrition, past 50 years, a period when the colleges, which had to compete for marine science, engineering Patuxent River Naval complex the money. psychology, and the physics of decisively transformed a culture that The St. Mary's proposal was entitl­ sound and music. had remained intact for centuries. ed "Project S.O.S.: Safety, Occupa­ Both the exhibit and the sym­ As a follow-up, the teachers work­ tions, and Software in the Secondary posium, along with a concert of ed in teams to create new "instruc­ School Physical Science Classroom." gospel music, will take place in the tional modules" in the physical Directed by Assistant Professor of fall of 1987 The project is part of a sciences. These modules — in­ Chemistry Allan Hovland, the project larger effort initiated by Hammer to cluding lesson plans, lab exercises, brought forty science teachers to document and preserve the folkways and readings — will be published campus during June. In sessions led and traditions of Southern and distributed by St. Mary's, so that by various St. Mary's professors and Maryland. Working with her jour­ other science teachers can use them by other experts, the teachers nalism classes, as well as with local in class. studied new concepts and learned a museums and community residents, number of experiments they could Al Hovland, meanwhile, completed Hammer has been gathering material use in their classrooms. Special ses­ a follow-up assignment of his own, using the techniques of oral history, sions were devoted to lab safety, in­ with the help of Michael Berger, pro­ documentary journalism, and structional computer software, and fessor of education and head of the documentary photography. Ultimate­ the problem of "science anxiety" Division of Human Development. ly, she hopes to produce a series of among students. The two have applied for additional publications that preserve the A major goal of the project was to grant money to run a similar science region's historical memory and pro­ show teachers (and thus, ultimately, education program next summer, for mote community awareness about their students) how physical science elementary school teachers. the past.

THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS EACULTY . The Dodge teaching award is one of two faculty awards established to Kuoksa Wins honor the memory of Dr. Homer L. Dodge, father of St. Mary's Dodge Award Economics Professor Norton Dodge. Gladys Kuoksa, professor of The other award is for outstanding sociology, won the first Homer L. service to the College; first presented Dodge Award for Excellence in in 1985, it went to Mathematics Pro­ Teaching last spring. The award was fessor Richard Stark. The service and presented at the Honors Convoca­ teaching awards are presented in tion in April, as Kuoksa completed alternate years. The winner of each her final semester at St. Mary's. award receives $2,000.

Donald Stabile, associate professor of economics, has received a Helen Ginn $55,788 grant from the National En­ dowment for the Humanities to direct a summer seminar for high An Introduction to Population, by school teachers on economist and Assistant Professor of Sociology social thinker Thorstein Veblen Helen Ginn and Professor Kenneth (1857-1929). Stabile's seminar, to run Kammeyer of the University of from June 29 to August 7 of next Maryland, was published earlier this summer, will focus on three of year by The Dorsey Press in Veblen's major works: The Theory of Chicago. Written primarily for the Leisure Class, The Theory of students taking courses in Business Enterprise, and The Higher demography or population pro­ Learning in America. In these blems, the book explores the major works Veblen developed his "institu­ social issues bound up with popula­ tional" approach to economics in tion sizes and growth rates. Ginn President Lewis leads the applause for order to analyze the social changes and Kammeyer discuss such topics Dodge Award recipient Gladys Kuoksa produced early in this century by as policies affecting the elderly, the at the Honors Convocation. the growth of large corporations social adjustment of immigrants, the and the application of the changing ethnic profile of the Much admired by students and technology of mass production. United States, the current controver­ faculty colleagues alike, Kuoksa was Veblen was particularly interested in sies surrounding population policies known for her gifted teaching, high the role that status, especially the in nations such as China, and the standards, demanding assignments, status of wealth, plays in American impact of women's employment and deep personal concern for students, society. A large portion of the grant other social trends on childbearing. and generosity. She left the College funds will be used to pay stipends Ginn, who came to St. Mary's in after ten years of teaching here in to the seminar participants. Most of 1982 as a visiting professor, was ap­ order to pursue other interests. She the participants will live on campus pointed a regular faculty member now lives in Boulder, Colorado, but during the six-week seminar. this year. Her current research continues to travel abroad to explore focuses on the differences among new cultures and perspectives on black and white women with life. Most recently, she traveled to respect to work, child care, and Nepal, her third visit to that country. childbearing.

ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Arts Alliance Thrives Alliance funds will make it possi­ the founding directors of the com­ Nowhere does St. Mary's College ble for the College art gallery to re­ pany that became the Maryland stand out so visibly as a unique main open Sunday afternoons, as Federal Savings and Loan Associa­ regional resource than in the realm well as to open for one hour before tion — a firm that Welsh himself of the arts. It is only a small exag­ any performance in the Montgomery headed from 1963 to 1982. Welsh geration to say that when Southern Hall theater. The group will also also served as president of the Marylanders want to experience first- bring guest artists and College per­ Prince Georges County Bar Associa­ rate music, art, and theater, they have formers into schools, churches, and tion, a fellow and director of the two primary choices: go "up the other community centers throughout Maryland Bar Foundation, and a road" (to Washington or Baltimore), Southern Maryland. Meanwhile, the fellow of the American College of or look to the College. Alliance is building a reserve fund to Trial Lawyers. It was only natural, then, that a help with travel costs when College Welsh was born in Washington regional organization should form to ensembles are invited to perform or and grew up in Hyattsville, Md. He support the arts at St. Mary's, and to tour in distant cities (and there have earned both his undergraduate bring College performances and ar­ been occasional invitations from degree and his law degree at the tists into the community. That overseas). University of Maryland. At the time organization is the Arts Alliance, now Arts Alliance members receive a of his death, his home was in completing its first year with a string variety of benefits, including a Chevy Chase. of successes and great promise for newsletter, advanced notice of arts But he always felt a strong con­ the future. events, and reserved seating at major nection to Southern Maryland. Officially part of the College Foun­ performances. For information about Welsh once noted that the Prince dation, the Arts Alliance has nearly membership, call the College Office Georges County of his youth was, 100 memberships encompassing of Public Information at with its rural culture, much more about 200 people from throughout 301-862-0380. allied to Charles and St. Mary's Southern Maryland. Mary Jansson In Memoriam: counties than to Washington, D.C. and Jackie Matthews, both members At one time Welsh's father owned a of the foundation, co-chair a steering T. Hammond Welsh, Jr. home in St. Mary's County. And his committee that leads the Alliance. St. Mary's wife, the former Mildred Lowndes Last spring the group sponsored College lost a Berry, attended the female seminary the Southern Maryland Regional Art friend, sup­ that would later grow into St. Mary's Show, juried for the first time; and porter, and College. plans are under way for the 1987 leader with the Welsh's involvement with the show. The Alliance also provided death on College spanned a period of great funding for a catalog to accompany October 7 of growth and transition. In addition the Joseph Ross Retrospective Art T Hammond to serving on and chairing the show last March. Welsh, Jr. Board of Trustees, he headed the Membership fees and special fund- T. Hammond Welsh, fr. Welsh, a prom­ search committee that chose Edward raising events are enabling the inent Maryland banking executive Lewis as the College's president in Alliance to expand its activities. The and lawyer, served as a member of 1983. He also led the trustees' Stu­ group has already provided need- the College's Board of Trustees from dent Life Committee and enjoyed based scholarships to children taking 1975 to 1985, and was chairman of his contact with student leaders. music lessons and art or drama the board from 1977 to 1981. He "We're seeing the mission of the classes at the College's Community was also a member of the recently College come much closer to fulfill­ School for the Arts. Additional created President's Council. ment," Welsh said in an interview scholarships will be awarded next Welsh, who died at the age of 74, several years ago. "We're seeing St. summer to young people attending came from a prominent Maryland Mary's come into its own as a first- the Tidewater Music Camp and the family. His ancestors settled in An­ class liberal arts college." Bay Country Camp of the Theatre napolis before the American Revolu­ That progress owed a lot to T Arts. tion, and his grandfather was one of Hammond Welsh, Jr.

THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 7 ccasionally a professor will be amazed, and even a bit humbled, by the work Probing the students produce. Such was my experience O in Black Literature, a class that / taught last fall. Black writers have produced much of the best Hard Question 20th-century American writing, and the course content was rich, featuring such writers as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Caid Bambara, and Alice of Race Walker. Each student was to produce a reading jour­ nal, annotated and edited, and what I called a "racial autobiography." In these autobiographies the students were to focus on passages from the readings Inspired by the readings in a that struck responsive chords in their own lives and black literature class, students write about those moments. wrote their own "racial I little anticipated the courage with which the autobiographies,'' exploring students would undertake the project. Despite the gains of the Civil Rights movement, racism is still a factor in painful issues with courage American life, on college campuses no less than in society at large. Old stereotypes and fears persist, in­ and eloquence. tensified at times by a simplistic view of the world that divides society into "us" and "them." by Sandra Foster, Leon Henry, Jennifer Johnson, and The students in my Black Literature class, however, William Boyd were willing to grapple with complexity. Inspired by the literature, they located and examined their own preconceptions while opening their minds to other perspectives. The excerpts from the racial autobiographies in the following pages testify to the exploration that went on in the class. Many other deserving excerpts had to be excluded for space reasons. The experience overall left this professor rather breathless and with a renewed faith in literature, the educational process, and the St. Mary's student.

Robin Bates Associate Professor of English

ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND He frowned so horribly, we felt as though he might run us over for telling him "hello"

We were beginning to tire out, but not Bamma Man and Peppy. We went around to the front yard and sat on the steps to rest a while. We were just sitting there talking when we heard a noise. We looked around and saw a big pick-up truck speeding. It was driven by a white man who lived down the' road named Mr. Johnson. He was peculiar in his ways because he would not speak to my grandmother for any reason, although they had both been there for twenty or more years. My grandmother said that he had been like that as long as she could remember. He treated all blacks the same way. He spoke only to the white people in Racism, the adult world at its ugliest, seems most the neighborhood. tragic when it intrudes into the lives of children. Sandra Foster, a junior social science major, traces We continued to speak to him, even though we her suspicions about whites to a number of childhood never received any response. In the beginning we kids incidents, including this one in Rocky Mount, N.C., thought that he might be deaf. Or maybe he had some where she spent her summers. kind of hearing aid that acted up whenever we said "hi." We would speak to him in the corner store and try to get him to say something to us. But he never t all began in the summer of 1972 in the back­ would. yard of my grandmother's house. I was 7 years On this day, we had got together at our secret hide­ old then. It was a very beautiful day. The birds out, which was in my grandmother's backyard, and I were singing and the smell of the summer flowers made signs out of old cardboard that we salvaged from filled the air. My cousins and I were outside playing in the trash cans in the neighborhood. The signs said, the yard. My grandmother was busy around the house. "Hye Mr. Johnsens" and "Good day Mr. Johnsens." We We had two dogs that we usually kept in the just had to try to communicate with him in some way. backyard. They were pretty much trained, except that We took our signs to the edge of the yard and laid they always had this desire to chase every car that them there. came down the dirt road. The dogs were named Peppy When we heard the truck, we grabbed the signs and and Bamma Man. Bamma Man was two different colors, held them up so Mr. Johnson could read them. Bamma brown and black. Peppy was just coal black. They Man and Peppy ran up the road a little further and sat were both cocker spaniels, and Peppy was Bamma there as though they wanted to get in on the welcom­ Man's mother. ing party. As Mr. Johnson approached us he saw the

THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS signs. He stopped the truck and read them. A horrible look appeared on his face. He frowned so horribly that That man probably we became frightened, feeling as though he might turn and run us over for telling him "hello." We were so died from meanness. shocked that all we could do was stand there, still holding the signs, staring at him in a daze. He drove the truck up the road a little further and When he took ill, his began to slow down where Bamma Man and Peppy were. Then, all of a sudden, the truck began to turn in own children refused their direction. This time Bamma Man and Peppy did not try to do what they loved best, chase cars. They to help him. tried to run. But the truck closed in on them. We realized what was happening, so we dropped the signs and took off after the truck, with its dust blowing in our eyes. When we arrived at the scene, we heard a again. As for Mr. Johnson, he stayed himself, too. loud cry from Bamma Man and Peppy. Peppy sat there We understood what my aunt told us about people holding up one leg, which seemed to be in pain. Bam­ like Mr. Johnson, so we didn't hate him. But we cer­ ma Man didn't do anything but lie there in the road, tainly didn't love him. My grandmother and aunt motionless. He had been run over completely. never believed in revenge, and they tried to teach us Mr. Johnson stopped the truck a few feet from us. the same. So we continued speaking to Mr. Johnson, He stuck his head out the window and looked back at although it was hard. us. He had the biggest smile on his face; he looked as That man probably died from meanness. When he if he had won a lottery or a contest of some kind. In a became ill he had no one to look after him. His wife sick way, it seemed as though he was thanking us for had died earlier, and his own children refused to help the signs after all. He put his head back into the truck him. They seemed to dislike him more than the peo­ and drove off, squealing his tires, which threw dirt ple in the neighborhood. None of the neighbors back on us. He looked straight ahead and never looked would stand by him, black or white. He couldn't do back. anything himself; he needed someone to help him By this time my grandmother and aunt had joined cook, clean, and wash. My grandmother eventually us at the top of the road. They took Peppy and put helped him out around the house, but he still her in the car. My aunt got behind the wheel and told wouldn't speak to her except to tell her what to do. us to get in also. Everyone was in except my grand­ He started paying her, but he could have kept his mother. She said that she was going to take care of money because it wasn't very much. Bamma Man. On the way to the vet my aunt tried to My grandmother continued to help him out when­ explain the behavior of some people, and how we had ever he needed help. She would always say, "God to try to avoid them, especially if they seemed unkind wouldn't like it if we were mean to him, because He and ignored the good things you tried to say to them. wants us to love thy neighbor." Mr. Johnson died of She dwelt on that subject for a while. We really didn't cancer, but he never thanked my grandmother for hear her because we were busy crying our hearts out. her help. When we returned from the vet, we saw my grand­ mother and uncle in the backyard. My uncle was holding a shovel, and he was smoothing out a big pile of dirt. My grandmother explained to us about how Bamma Man was gone — dead — and how he was happily running and playing in another place. We understood exactly what she meant, so we had a small service. Peppy got well in time and became herself 10 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Once, the teacher called the rest of the class together when this kid and his one black friend were absent for a moment. She took the opportunity to explain to us that we should make things as comfortable as possible, since he was the only kid around with those unique racial characteristics. Wow! What a statement! We were honored to be in the position of deciding a kid's social fate. Imagine, we ghetto kids being told that we should accept a white kid and sympathize with him because he felt alienated.

Having never fought a white kid before, I was dumbfounded. I grabbed what I though would hurt the most Leon Henry is a junior psychology major from inner- city Baltimore. In a style reminiscent of Richard — his golden hair. Wright, he recaptures the world from a child's point of view, rendering familiar landscapes unfamiliar.

here was a white boy in our third grade class. A white boy. Imagine that! A blond and blue-eyed kid had entered our world. Yet for some reason I wanted to be that one friend In third grade I was at an all-black school he had. It would have given me an uniqueness rivaled T(for some reason all ghetto schools are like that). And only by his white skin. I would have had something one day this white boy showed up. I was fascinated by that no one else had, a white friend! Not that the him, but also very distant. I wanted to be close to this whiteness of his skin enticed me; no, it was more kid, to ask him questions — but I didn't know why. along the lines of a child wanting something unusual. It Since he was the only white, he was intriguing; yet I was the lure of the unknown. sensed a certain danger that was somehow pro­ However, I felt very uneasy about him. Learning to grammed into my soul, like an instinct. It was like fire. try something new was pleasantly challenging but also A kid finds fire fascinating, but he knows not to get very confusing. My social skills at the time were just too close or he'll get burned. You can feel the heat, developing. I was only beginning to get along with my warm yet dangerous. own people, just getting over the notion that mommy 11 THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS open-mouthed and confused. A great pressure had been lifted. Before, I had wanted to be his friend, but I If I didn't know how didn't know how. Since we fought, I acquired a role that I could deal with. If I didn't know how to be a to be a white boy's white boy's friend, at least I knew how to be an enemy. friend, at least I knew Looking back later in life, I realized that he was caught up in something just like the rest of us, and how to be an enemy. neither he or we knew just what it was. We had the power to accept or reject him — to let him enter our world or to close the door. It was a strange situation. For an instant the tables were turned, and none of us were really sure how to respond. wasn't going to be around. That bit of trauma was big * * enough without my trying to take on something com­ My aunt always used to warn me whenever I rode plicated. I had to be a child first and overcome anx­ my bike to "not go too far." Going too far was never ieties of my own that awaited outside the comforting explained. I was never told the outer limit. But there confines of home. was an unwritten rule here that I understood perfectly: Later, we fought. It was in the cafeteria, the stage for I always knew that if I rode too far I would encounter all fights that took place during the school day. He had white folks. White people meant that I had gone too begun to pick on me. To bring me to an angry fit. To far; upon returning home and reporting what I had force me to confront him. I guess he felt that he had seen, I would immediately be reprimanded by my aunt. to somehow prove his worth, show that he had a place White folks sort of existed "over there," not among us. in the world. The way he chose to do so was to knock We lived less than one mile apart, yet I would not be down a piece of the status quo (me), thus showing allowed to recognize one white face — and vice versa. himself a victor in the eyes of the judges, and thereby Seeing whites barefoot was an attraction for me earning a position among the ranks. I was easy prey, whenever I accompanied my aunt to the supermarket. being the fat kid. The supermarket was near the forbidden area. Often He threw a punch with all the coordination he could the sight of barefoot whites would amuse me. I asked muster into his little frame. Having never, ever fought a my aunt very loudly once why white people didn't white kid before, I was dumbfounded. So I grabbed wear shoes. I was smacked, presumably because I what I thought would hurt the most — his golden hair. pointed and yelled; but my question wasn't answered. It was what I felt to be the most interesting feature and So, I assumed that white folks simply didn't wear shoes the most accessible. I grabbed it and began to pull as in markets. . . . hard as I could. As I did, I heard the cheers of the I recall going to work with my aunt on several occa­ other kids, but I didn't know who they were for (I was sions when she did something called "day work." Day never really that popular, so it was possible that they work meant things like washing, cleaning, general were not for me). housework — for white people. I grew up thinking that After the fight we were summoned by the principal. all whites were either Jewish or Catholic. I got that im­ He was very angry. I guess he too felt the white kid to pression from the people she worked for. I was be an interesting possession, and he feared that I had shocked when I found out later that there were white damaged it. The white boy confessed that he had hit Baptists. I couldn't conceive of white people behaving me to see what I would do. The principal just seemed in the same way as people did in my church. To me, relieved that his possession was still intact. whites didn't seem to have the emotional qualities of Somehow the fight relieved me. At least I had done blacks. They always seemed so formal and something in our relationship other than just standing concentrated.

12 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND There was also a certain smell of white households ; that I still associate with that experience. A smell of air /*¥ - conditioning and carpets. The houses seemed so ar­ tificial; not like our houses, which looked lived in. The white houses were usually larger than ours, and they always had lunchmeat. One fond memory I have is of eating lunchmeat with lettuce and tomatoes. Just like in stores. There was a particular family that my aunt worked for that was always giving away "stuff," things like bed parts and clothes. We always seemed to get a lot of "stuff" from whites. My two bikes were the result inter­ racial hand-me-downs. I once had a shirt with the name "Tommy" on it, and I didn't even know anybody named Tom. Anyway, one night we went to pick up some stuff from this family — me, my best friend, and my aunt and her boyfriend. We all piled into the pick­ up truck owned by my aunt's boyfriend. It was a fun ride to the house, but the neighborhood always scared me. In my neighborhood we sat on steps, and houses were close together so there were no open spaces to intimidate me. Also, since the white folks never came out, I had a dramatic fear of an unseen God. It almost seems as though I had an innate sense of racial tension. In this particularly sensitive piece, Jennifer At night the neighborhood was particularly scary, not Johnson is able to turn childhood humiliation into in­ like a neighborhood at all but more like a ghost town, sight, aversion into respect. Jennifer is a senior English with me as the foreigner. I coming in with the night to major from Baltimore. take what they didn't want anymore. . . . was five-going-on-six when we moved to another rowhouse, still on the east side of Baltimore but this time officially two and a half blocks from the city limits. We were going the middle class Isuburbia route, living and struggling for that better type of rowhouse Mom always referred to as semi-detached. This move apparently represented a great distinction for my Mom; it was extremely important in her battle to make her children white. In her eyes, we were somehow "better" than the black children we had been growing up with, kids whom mother refused to acknowledge as human beings, usually referring to them as monkeys, at best. At six, I was enrolled in the first grade and met with the term "nigger," and with a sense of not belonging. My older brother's illness had my family financially strapped. My Dad was working three jobs and my Mom was working also. But we were still very poor, and, as a result, little Jen was eligible for free lunch tickets. ,, ID THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS and it made the white children powerful. It wasn't until Donette was the type much later that I realized how this addition to the white children's vocabulary at the same time made of girl that made them powerless, inadvertently banishing their own peach or golden tones and forcing them to adopt the white boys shudder whiteness of the world they had inherited. with fear. The girl My junior high years seemed to be a series of non- scholastic tests. For instance, in order to smoke in the demanded respect. bathrooms it became necessary to be accepted by the crowd of black girls who considered this their domain. The test was that you had to stand up to their ring­ leader, a girl named Donette. If you could take and give abuse as easily as Donette, you were able to escape any real abuse and be accepted. But this was no easy task: Donette was the type of girl that made white boys It wouldn't be a little sarcastic to say the school had shudder with fear, and even black guys regarded her a real foolproof method of removing the stigma from with a certain awe. The girl demanded respect, and she free lunch tickets. The system worked like this: made people earn it. You had to stand up to her to get Whoever wanted to could go to school early and buy a it, but at the same time, you had to acknowledge the ticket; or they could just pay at lunch time. Of course, respect she deserved. any kid who had lunch money just paid at lunch time, I guess she felt she had to go overboard just to be so everyone knew who got the free lunches because sure she was thought of as equal. I think she figured, they were the only ones with the stupid tickets. The "If you're afraid of me, then you must be a prejudiced children became segregated by the free tickets. In line honkey so you can just stay afraid of me; but if you're each day in the basement of that elementary school, not afraid of me, then you're not prejudiced or you've we all knew discrimination and tenderly tried to got guts, and since those are the two things I believe preserve each other's dignity, never looking into each in, you're okay." other's eyes, exchanging as few words as possible. We The test included watching the lavatory door while tried to make the moment as inconspicuous as we she and the other black girls smoked a joint, and then could. Back in class, in our "proper" peer groups, we taking the hit that was offered to you when they were pretended not to know each other. Nevertheless, I felt just about done with it, and it had all kinds of lipstick as though secret associations of those morning and spit on it. Somehow, despite my neurosis over meetings struck a common bond between myself and black spit, I steeled myself to pass that test. I found an the other children who received free lunches. They understanding with Donette, who was as tough and ug­ were mostly black. ly and fat on the outside as she was kind and generous Knowing what it meant to accept charity and be on the inside. I knew she had been abused and that discriminated against didn't exactly encourage feelings the girl would have her own ass kicked to prevent of white superiority. Today, I look back on this lesson anyone who had passed her tests from being abused. I in humility and am very thankful. It taught me early think she fought for the times when she couldn't fight that skin color doesn't make a worse or better person back, or perhaps out of frustration for all the times and left me less able to take up the weapon that other when her own small fists would barely bruise the white children were so maliciously learning to wield — massive walls of the prejudiced society that oppressed the weapon that teaches any white child how to hurt her. I realized later that, in her own small way, Donette any black, and in doing so, perpetuate any just or un­ had been trying to fight for equality. just anger and fear. The weapon was the word "nigger,"

14 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND As my mother re-entered the living room with one of her delicious sweet potato pies, one of the sisters said, "Honey, now that the Lord has started blessing you again, we're gonna pray he bless you more." Mother smiled. I don't think mother liked those ladies too much, but she put up with them because it was the Christian thing to do. After they had eaten the last crumb from the tin pan, the greedy sisters gathered up their Bibles and mink stoles, freed their dresses of crumbs by shaking them on our carpet, placed their large hats with veils on their freshly dressed hair, and, in one line, made their way to the front door. My mother and I always found these ladies amusing. Often after they were long gone, I would get the family Bible, put on my blue cap and my mother's fur foxes, and comically imitate their characteristics. First, I made sure my nose was angled high in the air; if it rained, I William Boyd, performing with the Baltimore Symphony. drowned. Then I would walk around the house with the same assurance that they had in their stiff walks, William Boyd is a senior voice major from inner- while imitating their rhythmic speech. Without a city Baltimore who soloed earlier this year with the shadow of a doubt, they believed they were the only Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. In this selection one ones going to heaven. Once they got there, they would can see the importance of a sustaining community for pull off their high heels, drop their fur stoles at the feet developing tolerance and mutual understanding. of Jesus, and walk down the streets made of gold to check out the carpet in their promised mansion. t's a sweet little chocolate boy," cried my mother as she announced my birth to my father. Accord­ My family attended a middle-sized multi-racial church ing to her, it took two strong, well rested doctors on the west side of Baltimore City, founded by my un­ to deliver all 9 pounds and 12 ounces of me. She cle, Rev. Leighton. He was a humble gentleman who Ialso said that everyone was expecting me: my father, strongly believed in living by the Golden Rule. our pastor (who was also my uncle, Rev. William David This is what my uncle lived by and wanted his Leighton), my Grandma Tabby, my aunts, uncles, the members to believe in. Once, I overheard him telling tenants living in the upstairs apartment, the owner of my mother, "Little Bits [as he affectionately called her], the corner grocery store, the trash collectors, George I believe God wants us to treat every man, whether the mailman, the people who worked in the Miracle black, white, yellow or blue, as a human being." He Market around the corner, and even my Aunt Beatrice continued, "God lets the rain fall on the rich just as who secretly hates me today for some reason. . . . well as the poor, the sunshine on the just and the un­ just. According to the word of God, the poor and the He * * rich will always be with us. If a person lives by God's commandments, He will always take care of them, When I was about 5 years old, I overheard some of when the storms of life begin to rage, and even when those gossiping old church ladies, in one of their too everything's calm." frequent visits to our home, say that everyone, but I still hear those words ringing in my ears today mostly they, were praying for God to bless my mother when I come in contact with someone of another race. with another child. Because my parents lost their first I immediately make myself friendly by greeting him as child to pneumonia, they saw my birth as a blessing I would like to be greeted. Sometimes if the person is from God. not responsive, I may try to make him open up to me 15 THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS ping their feet in a strict ostinato pattern. After the con­ Their earth-shaking gregation had felt the rhythm of the mourn, they joined in, ornamenting with their own style. Suddenly, duets made everyone Miss Davis, the pianist, would break into a fast tempo. . . . in the church start I vividly remember Virginia Davis, her tall, slim body swishing down the center aisle in her long brown fur clapping as they felt coat, white-laced dress with pearls, large gangster hat, and black patent leather shoes. In my childhood eyes, the spirit move up she was beautiful. She always gave me a hug as she and down their spines. Her light brown by asking the normal surface-breaking questions. "Isn't fingers delicately it a nice day?" "Boy, isn't it hot today?" By using dif­ ferent voice levels and warm tones, I'm usually able to break the color barrier (if there is one). Of course there touched the piano are some people who refuse to open up to anyone; I respect their privacy and leave them alone. . . . keys, as if they were Periodically, my parents would sing their earth- shaking duets during the morning worship services. all young and fragile. This was their way of sharing God's love. Their har­ monizing voices made everyone in the church (in­ cluding my mean Aunt Beatrice) start clapping as they made her way to the altar to pray before the service felt the spirit move up and down their spines. I started. It was funny, though: she always had problems remember feeling so proud as my father's rich tenor kneeling at the altar. The sisters behind me snickered voice and my mother's low bassy alto voice vibrated and said her dresses were too tight. No matter how off the cement walls with the sensuous lyrics, bad the sisters talked about Miss Davis, I continued lov­ ing her every move. Miss Davis played the piano very / sing because I'm happy well. When she played, I would stand beside the piano I sing because I'm free and watch her light brown fingers move up and down His eyes are on the sparrow, the ivory board, delicately touching the keys as if they And I know He watches me. . . . were all young and fragile. Throughout their duet, I would closely watch my While Miss Davis played, one by one people all over parents and memorize their every move in the nearby the carpeted church would start doing a fast dance. choir loft. My father always swayed with the music, Some of the ladies, including my Aunt Beatrice, would while my mother, who appeared a little shy, stood with let out a long sigh, then faint in the arms of a nearby her chest out and her hands locked behind her black male usher. . . . robe. After they finished, my father would always do a The beat went on. Miss Davis kept a steady rhythm funny dance and sit down and wipe the sweat from his going on the piano, until all the people had felt forehead with a long white handkerchief. everything they were going to feel that morning. ^ Because their duets stirred every emotion in the church, it would often become very warm. Grandma Tabby said it was the Holy Ghost visiting. Slowly, the deacons and the ladies sitting along the side walls would start humming a bone-chilling mourn while tap- 16 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND new and more rigorous General Studies Cur­ riculum went into effect at St. Mary's this The New fall, putting the College in the vanguard of a Amovement that is sweeping the nation's Curriculum higher education establishment. Approved by the trustees in June 1985, the new curriculum was developed by a faculty committee after two years of intensive work. In my judgment, it Arrives will mean a better and more balanced liberal arts education for our students and will add to the Col­ lege's growing reputation for academic quality. The General Studies Reports in the news media about American colleges Curriculum brings more nowadays highlight the fact that many colleges are reexamining their curricula. A renewed concern coherence and rigor to among American youth for finding remunerative work, growing doubts about the quality of public general education school education, and increased competition for requirements at freshmen from a shrinking pool of 18-year-olds have all conspired to rekindle an interest in the reform of St. Mary's. curriculum in higher education. The 1970s saw a relaxation of the relatively rigid by Michael R. Rosenthal academic standards in American higher education, as well as a widely publicized assault on conservative modes of dress, social mores, and behavior. This period of relaxation led to a college curriculum that was fragmented, less structured, and highly unfocused — changes brought about more often by campus political pressures than by good educational sense. Specific academic requirements were often replaced by broad distribution requirements, leaving students free to choose courses from a spectrum of possibilities in a particular subject classification, such as "natural science" or "humanities." This process has often been compared to ordering a family dinner at a Chinese restaurant, choosing one course from Column A and two courses from Column B. In 1978 the Harvard College faculty approved a modified core curriculum to replace its "Chinese menu" approach, an event that received widespread publicity. Under Harvard's modified core, each stu­ dent is required to choose courses from a limited number of possibilities in six clearly defined areas of knowledge: literature and arts, historical study, social analysis, science, moral reasoning, and foreign cultures.

17 THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS Inspired by Harvard's example, colleges and univer­ early 1980s the shortcomings of the College's general sities all over the country — small and large, public requirements were becoming more and more and private — began reviewing their general educa­ apparent. tion requirements and general education's relationship St. Mary's faced this problem squarely in April of to major field programs. As many as 70 percent of 1983, when the Board of Trustees called for a study American colleges and universities are said to have of the curriculum. In July, President Edward T. Lewis conducted such reviews. initiated a process which resulted in the formation of a Curriculum Review Committee, consisting of six faculty members and the academic dean. Its goal was to develop a plan for a revision of the College's Students are better general education program. Under the chairmanship of Dr. James Nickell, the served by acquiring committee worked from its formation in the fall of 1983 until February 1985 to develop a proposal that critical skills than by would meet the needs of students, that was consistent with current and projected resources, and that would possessing randomly be acceptable to the faculty, the dean, the president, and the trustees. The committee's initial recommenda­ connected facts. tions were revised in accordance with faculty com­ ment and suggestions. In the spring of 1985, the facul­ ty, and then the trustees, endorsed the new program. More recently, meanwhile, three prestigious national The new General Studies Curriculum applies to all educational organizations issued reports on the subject St. Mary's students, beginning with those who entered of general education reform: The National Endowment the College in the fall of 1986. The new requirements for the Humanities, the Association of American Col­ provide a much more highly specified program than leges, and the National Institute of Education. All the old "general College requirements." Extending three reports stress the importance of a broadly based from the freshman through the senior year, the new general education component in the curriculum, and curriculum is divided into four major parts: Abilities reaffirm the critical importance of the liberal arts at a and Competencies, the Western Heritage, the Sciences time when many students are turning to career- in the Modern World, and Integration and Analysis. oriented education. They also stress the importance of Within Part I, Abilities and Competencies, students communication skills, humanities and the history of are expected to complete English composition, basic Western civilization, and the natural sciences. mathematics, and a requirement in communication All of the reports, moreover, assert that students are and expression. This last requirement may be satisfied better served by acquiring critical skills than by by either the second semester of a foreign language or possessing randomly connected facts; that educating an experience in the creative arts — that is, a studio students, rather than training them, will better or performance course in art, music, theater, or prepare them for the complex and ever-changing creative writing. The overall goal of Part I is to pro­ world of work they will face for some 45 years after vide students with skills that are necessary for the graduation. continuation of their studies and that are essential for St. Mary's College of Maryland emerged as a four- becoming productive and successful members of year college at the height of the counterculture move­ society. ment of the early 1970s, and its curriculum at that In Part II, Western Heritage, students must complete time reflected the changes that were then occurring in a two-semester course sequence in the history of America. Majors at St. Mary's were largely inter­ Western civilization. (The courses satisfying this re­ disciplinary, and general education was based on quirement are Western Legacy I and II.) This critically choices of courses from several categories. In time, important component of the curriculum provides a traditional majors emerged to stand beside the inter­ framework and reference point for much subsequent disciplinary programs. But the general education re­ work. In addition, students must elect one course quirements did not change significantly; and by the from among those offered in art, music or theater

18 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND has enough intellectual sophistication to appreciate the Required humanities subtlety of the concepts. Additionally, it will be a great advantage that students will be able to apply courses offer an these philosophical ideas to their major fields and thus to an area of primary educational interest. understanding of the In a similar manner, the Senior Seminar will bring small groups of students together to integrate the cultural and historical components of their previous education at St. Mary's. The Senior Seminar will discuss a theme from the stu­ dent's major field in an interdisciplinary context and basis of Western will emphasize oral and written student presentation. Senior Seminar will be offered by a broad spectrum of civilization. faculty members and will be the capstone experience of each student's career at St. Mary's. history; and one course from a very small number to One last curricular component is worth mentioning. be offered in literature. These humanities courses of­ Students will be expected to complete two courses in fer students an understanding of the cultural and their studies that bear the designation "Q" (quan­ historical basis of Western civilization. titative, or math-intensive) and two courses designated Part III, Sciences in the Modern World, provides "W" (writing-intensive), after they have completed students with an understanding of the discoveries, in­ English composition and basic mathematics. These sights, and methodologies of the natural and social courses, which may be either in the general studies sciences. Here students choose from a small number area or in the major field, will encourage and develop of alternatives in physical science, biological science, the use of the skills learned at the more basic level, behavioral science, and policy science. Faculty in each and will guarantee that the student retains these of these disciplines have begun to develop special important skills to graduation and beyond. courses with unique viewpoints; among them are The completion and continuing evolution of the Culture and Social Experience, Contemporary Bio- new curriculum will be a challenge to the faculty and science, and Contemporary Chemistry. Courses in this to the College's academic leadership. The process is, part of the General Studies Curriculum provide a however, tremendously exciting and has the potential balance between the technical aspects of the fields of great rewards. I am confident that the new cur­ studied and their importance to a general education. riculum will serve the College's strong commitment to Students will complete most of their General excellence in the liberal arts, and will give our Studies requirements — along with some courses in graduates confidence in themselves, along with an their major fields — in their first five semesters. The educational background that will allow them the suc­ General Studies courses will represent about one-third cessful careers and happy lives the college experience of the total course obligation of the typical student. At is meant to provide. ^ this stage of the student's academic career, a solid general education and strong intellectual foundation will have been established, and he or she can move forward into the College's upper division and toward the B.A. degree. Part IV of the General Studies Curriculum, called In­ tegration and Analysis, consists of two courses. Philosophical Inquiry will require intensive readings in the works of major Western philosophers. It will relate these readings both to the student's previous Michael R. Rosenthal is vice president for academic experiences in general education and to the courses in affairs and dean of the College with the academic the major field, and will integrate them. Taught by the rank of professor of chemistry. He came to St. Mary's philosophy faculty, this required course will introduce in 1984 after nineteen years as a teacher and ad­ the study of philosophy at a point where the student ministrator at Bard College.

THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 19 ost graduating seniors leave college eager to encounter the "real world" — by She Chose the which they mean the world of American M business and professional life. Mary Denton took the term more literally. She sought out Peace Corps her reality beyond the small, prosperous slice of the world that is the United States. She joined the Peace Corps. Volunteering as a deaf education And the world, in its abundant reality, did not disap­ specialist in the Philippines, 1984 point her. When Denton returned this August after two years in the Philippines, she brought with her a graduate Mary Denton experienced multitude of discoveries — about other cultures and the realities of the developing peoples, about poverty, about her own country and its values, about herself, and about the kinds of contribu­ world — including a revolution. tions she can make to a global society. The Peace Corps gave Denton new She also got a dramatic lesson in political awareness and social change. For her Peace Corps stint spanned perspectives on other cultures, her the most tumultuous and exhilarating episode of the own country, and herself Philippines' post-war history: the February 1986 presidential election, culminating in massive demonstrations that swept Ferdinand Marcos out of power. The Corazon Aquino miracle — a bloodless by Daniel Laskin revolution produced by the people themselves — pro­ foundly moved Denton and influenced her future plans. Graduating from St. Mary's in 1984 with a degree in history, Mary Denton had two qualifications that made her a good candidate for the Peace Corps — idealism, and a skill that could benefit the developing world. In Denton's case, the skill was her knowledge of sign language for the deaf, along with some training in education. Her father, David Denton, is the superinten­ dent of the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick, and Mary grew up around the school's campus, play­ ing with deaf children and speaking, as it were, their language. In the Philippines, Denton was assigned to live in Oroquieta City, a village-like provincial capital on the country's southernmost island, Mindanao. There, she helped train teachers of the deaf, in addition to work­ ing with deaf students herself, with the goal of establishing a province-wide deaf education program. Language, the key to survival and success in a foreign culture, presented special complexities for Denton and offered special insights. Not only did she have to learn Cebuano, the spoken tongue of her region (and one that is very different from the na­ tional language, Tagalog). She also had to learn the Philippine system of signing. And this proved to be — even more than is usually the case in language learn­ ing — an exercise in cultural nuance. Denton with a class of deaf children from the "School of While Filipinos use American symbols in finger- Love and Hope" In San Pablo, south of Manila, where she did part of her training. spelling, for example, they have changed the sign for 20 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND the letter "t," because the American ?-sign closely resembles what, in the Philippines, is an extremely The hardest experience rude gesture. In sign language proper, meanwhile, only about 40 percent of American signs have meaning in at first was the the Philippines. Others have been altered. For instance, the Filipinos have adapted the American sign for loneliness, and the "grandfather" so that it recalls a traditional gesture of respect (the placing of an elder's hand on one's own absence of another forehead). Language was just one of many adjustments that voice in English. Denton had to make in response to the values and customs of her new community. With its small homes wears shorts and a t-shirt, or a skirt and a t-shirt, to and large families, noisy street life, communal water swim in." pumps, and open-air markets, Oroquieta offered much She had to modify her expectations regarding every­ less privacy than Denton was used to. Her self- day dress, too. "I had thought that I would be in the consciousness was intensified by the fact that, as a jungle somewhere, hiking miles to get to school. So I foreigner, she was a curiosity in town and attracted a brought boots and rugged clothes. And then I found good deal of attention. Noticing her white skin and that even in this small town, Philippine men and blue eyes, people called her "Incanto," or "White women are very conscious of how they dress. The Fairy." women want to be very feminine." Despite the communal nature of life, Denton found With the help of a seamstress, Denton acquired a the Filipinos very guarded about displaying emotion. wardrobe more suitable for a "Filipina," a Philippine During her first Christmas there, she received a tape woman. "I found a big difference in the way people from her family back home and made the mistake of listened to me. People were more respectful of me. It listening to it — and weeping — in the presence of opened more doors." the Philippine family with whom she was living. The hardest experience for Denton, as for many "They don't deal with tears very well," says Denton. Peace Corps volunteers, was the loneliness of the first "Their reaction was to laugh — which made me feel months — a loneliness deepened immeasurably by the even more alone. But Philippine people just do not absence of any other voice in English, and by her show extremes of emotion in public; it would own inability, as yet, to converse easily in Cebuano. "I embarrass them." was so much in the public eye, because I was a The Philippine sense of time also unnerved her curiosity," says Denton. "But not many people initially. Coming from a schedule-driven, deadline- understood what it was like being so far from home conscious society like the United States, Denton was and very unsure of myself." jolted at first by the Filipinos' customary lateness. While the loneliness faded as Denton made friends "When I first tried to start my classes and people and improved her Cebuano, the powerful impact of would show up a half-hour to an hour late, I took it living in a vastly poorer society has lasted. The people personally," she recalls. She compounded the problem, of Oroquieta lived in small, crowded houses with of course, by showing up for parties and other events neither refrigeration nor, for the most part, indoor on time — only to be asked by her hosts, "Maria, so plumbing. Many homes lacked electricity, and while early?" running water was available, public pumps were American travelers are not known for their sensitivi­ widely used. There were many poor and much ty to the standards of behavior prevailing in other unemployment. cultures, and certainly not for a willingness to change The schools, too, lacked basic materials. At one their own behavior. But Denton learned that in order point during Denton's stay, a school where she was to win respect and friendship from her new neigh­ teaching received a surprise package from the students bors, as well as to accomplish her work effectively, she of the Maryland School for the Deaf. When the had to restrain the "athletic American woman" in­ Filipino children opened the box, to discover the stincts encouraged by her own society (especially on simplest of supplies — pencils, paper, chalk — they college campuses). were awed. "You would have thought they had Climbing coconut trees, for example, was frowned received one gold bar each," says Denton. upon. And, she recalls, "The first time I wore a swim- It is the complete immersion in such conditions that suit, I caused a minor scandal. In Oroquieta, a woman gives the Peace Corps experience its deepest meaning

THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 21 A Profound Alliance

uriosity, openness to others, a willingness to take risks, and an "inner self-sufficiency" — these are some of the qualities that make a good Peace Corps volunteer, according to Professor of HistorCy Dana Greene. Greene, who served with the Peace Corps in Gosta Rica from 1963-1965, was something of a mentor for Mary Denton; and she hopes other students will choose to volunteer in the developing world. "You can have an idea and make it work," she says of the Peace Corps experience. "In this country, we have such a feel­ ing of powerlessness today. It's bad enough to feel powerless when you're older. But it's tragic to believe you're powerless when you're 21. In the Peace Corps, what you do actually has significance in another country. When I went back to Costa Rica in 1979, the kindergarten I had helped set up was still operating. And the town library we started was open, too. It was tremendously moving to see that." The experience of total immersion in another culture has Kt great value itself, Greene points out. "To really learn a language — even if it's a dialect that doesn't have currency Using sign language, Denton repeats the name of one of her beyond a 500-mile radius — and to think about a culture deaf students in the Philippines. The photo was taken dur­ through its language: this is one of the greatest things you ing her training, in Cebu City. can ever have, because a foreign language is access to another reality." Greene vividly remembers the illnesses, weight loss, and other physical hardships she suffered as a volunteer. "You do for most volunteers. After sharing in the deprivation live in conditions of poverty; you share their life. You literally that defines the existence of most of humanity, these have to be as they are, or you can't do what you're there to Americans tend to see their own society from a new do." But the resulting "psychological alliance" has profound perspective. meaning, she feels, not only for individual volunteers but for American attitudes generally. "Because of Peace Corps, there Upon her return home, for example, Denton was are thousands of people in this country who have allied appalled to hear friends absorb themselves in long themselves with the developing world, and that's got to have conversations about new stereos and the latest music — an impact." things that struck her as trivial compared to the con­ Greene finds it discouraging that so many students today cerns of Oroquieta. On her third day in the States, feel pressured to embark on careers immediately after college. when she ventured into a High's store to buy some "They've accepted the treadmill, at age 21. It's so sad." Rather than berating them for selfishness or a lack of idealism, milk, she found herself wandering in a daze, transfixed however, Greene sees financial burdens as an underlying pro- ;<; by the opulence. "I felt a little giddy, and frightened, blem. The fact is, she notes, many students must take out about the choices, about all the things we were able to large loans to go to college, and their overriding worry upon have." graduation is to make money and begin paying off their Indeed, Denton was tempted to stay in the Philip­ debts. Nevertheless, it was not simply freedom from debt that pines. Having adjusted to a lower standard of living, nourished the Peace Corps and inspired those who made it she was apprehensive about confronting America's work during Greene's time as a volunteer; nor, indeed, is it material wealth and fast pace again. She had made fair to say that today's volunteers, like Mary Denton, join the good friends in Oroquieta. And there was guilt as well, Peace Corps because they can "afford" to. At the heart of a gnawing sense that she was abandoning people in their decision lie certain values. need. "I had the notion of service — a service ethic — pounded into my head," notes Greene. "And I had the notion that I Most important, perhaps, in the Philippines Denton could change the world pounded into my head. And the came to experience the satisfaction of seeing her work whole world supported this idea." make a difference in the lives of others. "I'd started to Reflecting on the students she has seen choose the Peace work on the national level in deaf-education training," Corps in recent years, Greene says: "They know that the she notes, "and I could see opportunities for making a world is bigger than the United States, and that the world has something to teach us. And they understand on a gut level very large impact in the deaf Philippine community." that life is more than material success." This sense of accomplishment was heightened by the atmosphere of political change and hope in the 22 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND City lived beside the radio, hardly sleeping, as con­ Denton heard an flicting reports came from the capital — that more troops had gone over to Aquino, that Marcos tanks explosion and thought, had been turned back by the people's barricades, that Marcos had fled, that Marcos had stayed and was "This is it — we're all about to launch an attack. On the third night, Denton heard an explosion in i ~ >> her neighborhood. "I thought, 'Oh my God, this is it going to die. — we're all going to die.'" Then she looked outside and saw the fireworks. Marcos had left, and Cory Aquino was the country's new president. island nation. To live in the Philippines between 1984 While her role as a Peace Corps volunteer prevented and 1986 was to feel a part of momentous events that Denton from participating in politics, it was impossible most Americans could only read about in the not to feel inspired by the Philippine revolution. newspapers. Denton was struck by the intense involvement of the While Denton lived far from Manila, political issues people, including students — a sharp contrast to had an urgency in her region even before the February American apathy. It was eye-opening for her to see presidential election. The Communist-led New People's how the Catholic church became a force for national Army (NPA) was active near Oroquieta, and occasional­ unity and political change, and how religious feeling ly there were skirmishes between the rebels and the infused the people's determination. national military forces. Denton knew a woman who The revolution was not an easy time to be an was murdered along with her family — perhaps by the American. When President Reagan initially recognized NPA, perhaps by the military. Nobody seemed to Marcos as the real choice of the Philippine people, know. there was enormous anger. Then, after the Reagan ad­ In addition, much of Mindanao is Moslem, and ministration changed its position and the American there was a good deal of hositility toward the United press credited the U.S. for convincing Marcos to leave, States because of its Middle East policies. As an the resentment was almost as bitter. "People said, American, Denton had to carefully avoid Moslem 'Wait a minute, this was our revolution,'" recalls areas, especially after the American bombing raid Denton. '"How dare you Americans take credit for against Libya. what we did?' I totally agreed with them." The election, leading to the "people power" revolu­ The revolution increased Denton's interest in public tion, overshadowed both of these conflicts. "It was affairs and deepened her awareness of the possibilities electric," Denton says of the atmosphere during this for change through political activity. Indeed, her entire period. During the days when the vote was being Peace Corps experience stimulated an interest in counted, she saw Corazon Aquino speak in Cebu City, public affairs. She discovered that she had a talent for where Denton was spending several weeks while rais­ giving lectures and presentations, and that she enjoyed ing money for a student who needed surgery. "There helping Philippine officials shape educational policy. "I was a feeling in the air; people were really behind wasn't afraid to work with higher-ups on major prob­ Cory. They knew that she had won." lems, looking at deaf education in broad policy terms. When Marcos ignored the numerous reports of I never knew I could do these kinds of things before." ballot fraud and had himself declared the winner, Equipped with such insights, Denton thinks she may Denton watched as Cebu City, along with the rest of pursue graduate work in international affairs and the country, gave way to a rising tide of protest rallies public policy, while undertaking further training in and mass vigils. The tension became almost deaf education. She can imagine a fulfilling career in unbearable after two key Marcos military aides, Juan government, perhaps one that focuses on education in Ponce Enrile and Fidel Ramos, deserted the president developing countries like the Philippines. and encamped with their own small contingent of Looking ahead to her life after graduate school, troops in Manila. As Marcos forces prepared to attack Denton muses, "I might not want to live in this coun­ the "traitors," tens of thousands of citizens massed try." That will be a major decision, not easily made. in the streets, surrounding the Enrile and Ramos But whether she ultimately stays in the United States compounds to protect them. or works abroad, Mary Denton will carry with her a "We thought, 'There's going to be a war,'" recalls strong sense of place. As a result of the Peace Corps, Denton. "Everybody expected the worst." For three she will always dwell in the "real world." ^ days, Denton and the rest of the population in Cebu

THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 23 After the Students Leave: A St. Mary's Summer Portfolio After a brief stretch of eerie quiet following gradua­ tion, the St. Mary's campus again comes to life — a vibrant, bustling, but essentially relaxing life — as a host of summer programs and special events take ad­ vantage of the College's choice setting and many facilities. Chief among the programs are the College's own summer camps and festivals, embracing music, theater, and poetry, as well as sailing and marine biology. St. Mary's also provides a summer home for many outside groups — school programs, sports camps, alumni gatherings, conferences, and retreats. Among the more noteworthy summer visitors in 1986 were the National Audubon Society, which held its mid-Atlantic regional conference at St. Mary's, and the Maryland chapter of the National Organization of Women, which had its state convention here. Photos by Matt Shortridge

Young sailors learn the art of using the spinnaker at the College's sailing camp.

Sailing campers enjoy a relaxing moment on the water. The camp is one of the College's most popular summer Tidewater Music Festival faculty perform at Arts programs. Alliance "summer solstice" picnic, hosted by Mary and Holger Jansson at their manor house, Mulberry Fields.

24 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Trumpeters rehearse in Tidewater Music Camp. Allied with the music festival, the camp has two sessions, one for _ _*„J~L.» «. «,» . •„• j » , , * *. „ J , , , Dance student holds a position In class as part of the Bav children under 14 and the other for older children. _ _ • ,m, J, ^ _ , , •* Country Camp of the Theatre Arts. The camp also teaches THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 25 drama, voice, and stagecraft. hat do we choose to create? We fit into A Mysterious a heritage and tradition — how do we "make it new," make it our own? Is it W important that a subject be your own? And what does that mean? When is a subject "your Flash of own?" How do we define what we write about? In the process of writing, are we simply trying to make sense of what's going on and to understand it, are we simply Perception assimilating methods or subjects from the past, or are we trying to make something new? What about the impact in the recent past of more in­ A poet muses on the nature of formal diction in modern poetry? Does this language make our poetry sound like everyone else's? — or does the creative moment, and on it indeed free us from the constraint of conventions the tension between originality that feel artificial, so that we can write about what is truly important to us? What about the argument that and tradition. the history of poetry is not really assimilated in the contemporary voice — that so many who write poetry by Jean Nordhaus are in fact ignorant of the past, of that whole poetic tradition? Is the contemporary "voice," like our culture, commodity-oriented, disposable? How do we begin to write, to think, to make art? And how do we view our own individual creative pro­ cess in terms of the tradition and of the culture as a whole? Is it important that we consider these questions — or is it enough to simply "express ourselves" without worrying about where we fit in a broader cultural and historical context?

My initial thought, I confess, was that these are men's questions — all this obsession with one's place in history, whether one is making a personal mark in the progress of the culture as a whole. Women don't generally feel the same need for a theoretical superstructure behind their poetry. The formulation of "programs" and waving of manifestos strike me as having more to do with marketing than with making poems. I'm thinking of Walt Whitman, that peerless self-promoter, with his heroic promulgation of a new democratic language to house the new American con­ sciousness; and, at the same time, of Emily Dickinson, • squirreled away in her attic in Amherst quietly and perversely forging a new kind of poetry out of instinct and wit. Neither created a wholly new language (despite Whitman's announced intentions), and both substantially renewed the language they inherited. W*ww&^ -'fin • IS "*'. Dickinson had the rhythm of Protestant hymns in ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND her head; Whitman, the cadences of the Bible and of logical response is silence, a breaking of sense and contemporary journalism and the terminology of the communion. Hence the scramble for any creed that trades. What made their work "new" — brought these will let us in, the impulse toward religious certitudes. traditional elements together in voices both fresh and In a less ambitious sense, of course, every true poem original — is, I think, a flash of perception that is is a "making new," a breaking into language of what essentially mysterious. Perhaps, like Oedipus, they arriv­ has never been said before, a new combination of pre­ ed at the crossroads at a fateful moment, each bearing existing possibilities of language in response to a new the full weight and burden of his and her own eccen­ and unique set of circumstances. Otherwise, we could tricity. (But can we will or ordain such chance en­ simply quote great poems from the past at moments counters — or the flashes of insight engendered?) that seemed to require them, and leave it at that: How do we create? When God created the heavens "When lilacs last at the dooryard bloomed," for and earth and went on to make the fish of the sea and funerals; "Let me not to the marriage of true minds ad­ the fowl of the air, he was presumably starting from mit impediment" for weddings. Occasions could be scratch, creating a whole new language. In the beginn­ packaged like greeting cards with appropriate, pre­ ing was the Word. We, being less puissant, have to start existing sentiments. with the given. Against Ezra Pound's grandiose urging If we write seriously, by which I mean honestly, we that we make it new, we have the Old Testament have no choice about making anew, any more than we assurance that "there is nothing new under the sun." can help using — and, if we're lucky, assimilating — Even imagination has prerequisites. The griffins and the language and traditions brought with us from the dragons of myth and legend all bear the attributes of past. "For language," according to Roland Barthes, "is existing creatures combined in new ways. Likewise the never innocent: words have a second-order meaning fanciful alternative civilizations of science fiction. which persists in the midst of new meanings. Writing is precisely this compromise between freedom and remembrance." Are my poems new? Am I? My genes are possibly as old as the human race; I partake of a How do you break history, a culture, a language, a set of family traditions and circumstances; but I stand here, on the edge of the rules when there are future, and everything I do or say or write glances backward and forward and once. I am a pause, a draw­ ing of breath, a sentence that plans to continue. no rules to break? But let me return to the question in our list of ques­ tions which seems most empirically accessible — of Such freedom is truly how we choose and recognize our topics, what sets us to writing? How do we identify the mute pressure of terrifying. something that needs to be said and find the language that will release it fully? The first half of the question may be easier to tackle than the second. Here are a few What I hear behind these questions is the specter of random thoughts on the subject: ambition and a deep insecurity over the do's and don'ts, a sense that there must be some program or • Virginia Woolf in A Writer's Diary in 1922, having prescription for the writing of great or at least good begun work on Mrs. Dalloway-. "There's no doubt in poetry, a "right way," which we could follow if we my mind that I have found out how to begin [at 40] knew what it was. Where are the rules? It's a double to say something in my own voice; and that interests bind, because the most compelling rule we seem to me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise." have these days is Pound's, the one that tells us we can [One must bear in mind that, far from being indif­ be truly creative only if we break the rules. But how ferent to criticism, she was positively obsessed with do you break rules when there are no rules to break? the reviews and the reception of her work.] Later, in Such freedom is truly terrifying — and the ultimate October: "At last, I like reading my own writing. It

THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 27 seems to me to fit me closer than it did before." Sometimes I think of it as my "bad girl" feeling, akin And, a little farther on: "At 40 I am beginning to to the wildness that seized me when, as a child, I learn the mechanism of my own brain — how to get became naughty or rambunctious. It is chaos and the greatest amount of pleasure and work out of it. dream and malevolence — the madness of Max in The secret is I think always so to contrive that work the night kitchen. Anything can set it off — a word, is pleasant." a phrase, some detail in someone else's story or an • There's a book by Gabrielle Lusser Rico called article in the newspaper. Often a title or a first line Writing the Natural Way which bears the subtitle, will fall into my mind and stimulate the feeling from "Using Right-Brain Techniques to Release Your within. The sensation is not always the same, and not Expressive Powers." She talks, in the book, about a necessarily the same now as when I started to write, process called "clustering" — "a nonlinear brain­ but always there is a physical excitement — a sense storming process akin to free association" in which of being "charged." the students write a nucleus phrase in the center of a Often the experience is akin to the thrill of blank sheet of paper and then quickly cluster around recognition — like the jolt you get at a college it whatever words, thoughts, and associations come reunion when you see a face you hadn't seen in to mind until certain patterns become visible. Perhaps years and recognize it, as if you'd been carrying that the "topics" that become our poems are the ones face around unknowingly inside your brain all this which are richest in such associations, to which a time and only been waiting for the stimulus that great deal of past experience can adhere, and for would fire off that particular neuron. In many cases which a crystallization occurs that permits us to there is a congruence of something outside — a assimilate the details into an overall pattern. word or a smell or a taste — with something internal and hidden. • Not infrequently, I've had the experience of telling an I think it is this sense of congruence, of recogni­ incident or experience to someone who turns to me tion, that charges the poem, and I think that recogni­ and says, "But that's a poem"; or, reversing the trans­ tion occurs, in the best cases, at both ends of the action, of hearing a friend narrate a story which I process: in the writer at the outset of the poem and, suddenly recognize as a potential poem. The ques­ if the poem is successful, in the reader as well. I tion is — whose poem and just what is going on don't know exactly what this process has to do with here? In my own experience, there is a certain "making it new" in the grander sense, but I do know "poem feeling" I've come to recognize, not unlike that if I follow the thread of this feeling — and the physical sensations by which Emily Dickinson follow it truly — through the verbal maze which it knew poetry or those symptoms which A.E. constructs as I go along, it will lead me to a place Housman complained kept him from shaving that is both new and strangely familiar. ^ because: . . . my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. This particular symptom is accompanied by a shiver down the spine; there is another which Jean Nordhaus, who holds a doctorate in German consists in a constriction of the throat and a literature and philology from Yale University, has had precipitation of water to the eyes; and there is a her poetry published in wide variety of magazines and third which I can only describe by borrowing a several anthologies. Her chapbook, A Language of phrase from one of Keats's last letters, where he Hands, was published by SCOP in 1982. This article says, . . .of Fanny Brawne, 'everything that is adapted from a talk she gave at the St. Mary's reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.' Intensive Poetry Writing Workshop last summer. The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach. I am familiar with a tightening sensation, a shorten­ ing breath, a mute pressure almost like rising hysteria. 28 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Contributions A Tradition of Breaking Records

ear Contributors to St. College faculty and staff increased Mary's: their donations by 28 percent, giving Once again the College $5,605. By surpassing their $5,000 D and the St. Mary's College goal, they triggered a $2,500 mat­ Foundation have reason to offer you ching gift. very special thanks. For again you Thanks to your generosity, St. have responded to our Annual Giv­ Mary's can continue to enrich its en­ ing appeal with extraordinary vironment of excellence, offering generosity, breaking all records of students the kinds of advantages that the past. are usually found only at more ex­ In the twelve months ending on pensive private colleges. Your dona­ June, 30, 1986, cash contributions to tions will help pay for scholarships, the Foundation totaled more than faculty research, curriculum develop­ $212,000, a 71 percent increase over ment workshops, and new facilities Fiscal 1985. Adding donations made — facilities worthy of our status as directly to the College, cash gifts the best public college in the State came to nearly $317,000, a stunning of Maryland. increase of 143 percent. St. Mary's is lucky to have a family Moreover, the number of donors of supporters who make a tradition nearly doubled, with particularly im­ of breaking records. Thank you, all pressive increases in the numbers of of you, again. We look forward to alumni and parents contributing to another record-breaking year! the College. Close to 1,000 alumni Sincerely yours, gave to St. Mary's in 1985-1986, along with 450 parents. St. Mary's also enjoyed a sizeable boost in cor­ porate support, both in terms of total cash contributions (which more than quadrupled, to $56,350) and in terms of donated equipment (with a Fred Brooke Lee total value of $120,000). Director of Development

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C. Forman Philips Dr. Emma L. Barbarich Miss Mary F. de Packh Gardner Ms. E. Christine Frazer Mr. and Mrs. Winfield S. Mr. Donald Barnes Ms. Kathrine M. Di Stefano Mrs. Bonnie M. Green Mr. and Mrs. John D. Geary Preston, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William B. Mr. B. G. Dienelt, Jr. Mrs. Elizabeth Turnbull Mr. George W Gephart Mr. Edward B. Quinn, Jr. Bauzenberger Mr. and Mrs. John E. Dillon Harry man Mr. Maurice D. Godfrey Ms. Marjorie T. Rabenold Col. and Mrs. Thurston H. Ms. Nancy Ruyle Dodge Gen. and Mrs. Robert E. Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore Mr. and Mrs, Lenwood C. Baxter Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Hogaboom Greco Ramos Mrs. Edwin W Beitzell Donoghue 30 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Ms. Patricia Donoghue Ms. Lynn C. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Col. and Mrs. Robert W Mr. and Mrs. William G. Mrs. Alice Sanner Drury Capt. and Mrs. Robert W. Morris Soderberg Andrews Ms. Carolyn G. Ducote Kaplan Mrs. William S. Morsell, Jr. Ms. Marion D. 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McWhirter Mr. and Mrs. Robert Riegel Connerton Gayhart, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Mrs. Maria Rippey Capt. and Mrs. Lloyd G. Mr. and Mrs. Willam F. Kelley Mecurio Ms. Dorothy I. Ristvedt Cox Geritz Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Kelly Mr. and Mrs. William J. Dr. and Mrs. Arthur T. Mr. and Mrs. Russell C. Mr. Frank J. Gerred Mr. Warren C. Kendig Meier, Sr. Roberts Cramer, II Mr. and Mrs. Gary C. Gicker Mrs. Elaine E. Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. William R. Mrs. Carolee Rooney Mr. and Mrs. H. Michael Mrs. Nancy J. Gipson Mr. and Mrs. David Kienast Menchen Dr. and Mrs. James A. Rose Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Crawford Mr. and Mrs. John R. Gleim Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Metz Mr. and Mrs. Ronald S. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Crayton Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Kindel Mr. and Mrs. Norbert B. Ryner Mr. and Mrs. Neal D. Gross, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard King Miklitz Ms. Deanna Satterthwaite Crowder Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Mr. Richard V. Miles Mr. and Mrs. John C. 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Skelley Duprey Holmes Mahoney, Jr. Oxnard Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Dr. and Mrs. Paul Edgar Mr. and Mrs. Eugene C. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Mr. and Mrs. Jack J. Pappas Smith Mr. and Mrs. Richard Holzapfel Mangus Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J, Mr. and Mrs. Charles T Edwards Mr. Tom N. Hooe Mr. and Mrs. Wilson V. Perrone Smith, Jr. Mr. Walker C. Eliason Mr, and Mrs. Rayford G. Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mrs. Carribel S. Ender Horner Mr. and Mrs. Guy B. Pettroziello Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Howley Maseritz Snodderly Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Engle Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Huff Mr. and Mrs. Wayne C. Mr. and Mrs. David F. Philips Ms. Veronica Ensor Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Mason Sowers Mrs. Jewell Banks Phillips Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ernst Hughan Mr. and Mrs. Clyde A. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd E Standi Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Esker Mr. and Mrs. Frank Inglisa Mauger, III Mr. and Mrs. J. William Dr. and Mrs. John E. Steers Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phipps, III Mr. and Mrs. Philip A. Eustis Intlekofer Mazziott Mr. and Mrs. Jose Alfredo Stevens Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Mrs. Blanche Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. James Pinto Mr. and Mrs. J. W Stielper Falk Mrs. Sheila Jameson McCauley Mrs. Cynthia Porter Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Stine Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Mr. and Mrs. William A. Mr. and Mrs. Joe R. Mr. and Mrs. William E. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Farrell, Jr. Jenkins McDaniel Porter Strickland 32 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Dr. Nancy R Smith Eleanor Coad Baker Class of 1931 Stromberg Yedziniak Mrs. Mildred B. Snyder Madeline Evans Bennett Clara Munroe Browne Mr. and Mrs. Harry W Mr. and Mrs. Wayne D Dr. Donald R. Stabile Martha Engle Brookhart Alice West Hazen Stuart, Jr. Zajac Ms. Elaine Szymkowiak Naomi Ryon Emerson Mary Rae Groff Lemon Dr. Christopher E. Tanner Mr. and Mrs. Ken Sugawara Hilda Combs Landers Marguerite Reaney Tugman Mrs. Renee E. Thomas Capt. and Mrs. Eugene J. Faculty/Staff Gertrude Ryon Monroe Mildred Berry Welsh Drs. Sandra and John Sullivan, Jr. Mr. George A. Bailey Dorothy Williams Smith Underwood Mr. and Mrs. William Dr. and Mrs. Robin Bates Class of 1932 Dr. John Weir Talaber, Jr. The Honorable Peter A. Class of 1924 Rose Cope Carrier Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mr. and Mrs. Ricardo Bozick Angelin Skirven Auman Alice Cohill Marquez Whitaker-Lea Talento Mr. William C. Caplins Eleanor Gibson Bruff Mary Jo Claflin Mendel Dr. Lynette H. Willett Capt. and Mrs. Bryce A. Ms. Chris Cihlar Virginia Bell Menkel Dr. John G. Williamson Rosa Gibson Eichelberger Thompson Mr. Brian Clarke Marguerite Norris Murphy Dr. Ernest J. Willoughby Marguerite Welch Hobbs Mr. and Mrs. William L. Dr. Mary Jane Cowles Elizabeth Daneker Rhoads Dr. Herbert C. Winnik Thrift Mr. John Cullison Jeanette Crabbe Snell Ms. Cari Wright Class of 1925 Mr. Maxwell W. Timberlake, Dr. Hampton T. Davey, Jr. Peggy Kuhns Vick Mrs. Mary Yearick Florence Hartge Angell Jr. Dr. Norton T. Dodge Shada von Hein Virginia Reeves Cooney Mr. and Mrs. George Tobias Dr. Fent H. Ferris Anna Weems Ewalt Rev. and Mrs. William W Dr. David Finkelman Florence Jones Insley Class of 1933 Trumbore Dr. G. Josephine Garner Alumni Rebecca Russell Forman Dr. Helen Ginn Hazel Barnsley Johns Col. Gordon Vacura Class of 1905 Marcia Whitmore Keen Col. and Mrs. John H. Dr. Michael S. Glaser Louise Jones Linden Dr. Laraine M. Glidden Valieant Fannie Jo Dent Class of 1926 Margaret Witherup Long Dr. Dana K. Greene Mr. and Mrs. Richard W Van Jane Blackistone Hughes Zaidee Henry Mumford Mrs. Susan E. Grogan Class of 1910 Meter Phyllis Hamilton Thompson Jane Baldwin Phillips Dr. John H. Harvey Ethel Hammett Raley Mr. and Mrs. John R. Eliza Russell Willis Mignonette Rittenhouse Dr. Harmon H. Haymes Vanderwerker Stueber Dr. Rosemary R. Hein Mr. and Mrs. John Class of 1913 Class of 1927 Mary Hughes Tayloe Dr. J. Roy Hopkins Mina Bell Tingle Vecchiarelli Dr. Allan K. Hovland Nellie Wallace Burroughs Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Dr. Daniel W. Ingersoll Class of 1914 Corinne Peverley Class of 1934 Vernon Eleanor Quirk Abbey Dr. J. Patrick Jarboe Ethel McKay Goddard Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Mrs. Mary Wood Jones Class of 1928 Jean Tenney Gray Vetter Mr. Gordon H. Kester Class of 1916 Emily Carscaden Brown Hazel Reinhardt Hammett Mr. and Mrs. Bernard H. Helen Woodward Lovell Ms. Julia King Lucy E Spedden Christine Combs Echols Vianes Dr. Andrew F. Kozak Anne Peterson Hines Maude Hall Patterson Alma Jourdan Walls Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mr. Daniel Laskin Class of 1917 Mildred Corosh Lipps Vinarski Dr. John Laughton Dorothy Turville Moffett Eleanor Stevenson Watson Lorena B. Croft Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Mr. Fred Brooke Lee Mary Gonder Pollock Waddell Dr. Edward T. Lewis Class of 1935 Class of 1918 Dr. and Mrs. John H. Wasilik Mrs. Gail Merz Class of 1929 Ruth Marie Cooper Mrs. Paula D. Watriss Dr. Katsunori Mita Emma Phipps Ellington Sarah Harrison Crockett Hope Hodgkinson Grace Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Dr. Ho Nguyen Lillian Galli Doss Margaret Hebb Haigley Whedbee, Jr. Dr. James Nickell Class of 1919 Stella Slaughter Federline Priscilla Fleming Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Dr. Andrew D Oh Elizabeth Turnbull Harryman Catherine McCeney Kotrla Anna Sullivan Howell Whelan Mrs. Gail Parham Margaret Mullikin Marshall Helen Boughton Perry Beryl Dove Jerome Mr. and Mrs. Murray M. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson Clare Whelan Virginia Lane Magladery White Class of 1920 Parker Margaret Milburn Martin Mr. and Mrs. Franklin J. Catharine Palmer Craig Class of 1936 Drs. Jacqueline and Alan Adele Jones VanDevanter Whiteis Bertha Moreland Kerby Mary Chesley Fenn Paskow Helen Keene Warburton Mr. and Mrs. Forrest H. Mr. Edward B. Quinn, Jr. Harriet Reeder Elizabeth Woollen Miles Williams Professor H. K. Reynolds Lydie Peach Price Mr. and Mrs. Sam B. Willis Mrs. Nancy Roberts Class of 1921 Class of 1930 Isabelle Streett Rogers Mr. Ronald W Wilson Dr. David Romano Ethel Graves Cooksey Betty Peach Caldwell Wilma E. Tull Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence F. Dr. Henry Rosemont, Jr. Rachel duBois Early Marguerite Suit Fauntleroy Wirfs Dr. Michael Rosenthal Eleanor Reeves Mattingly Agnes Hurry Healy Class of 1937 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Wong Mr. W. Thomas Rowe Elizabeth Chaney Merrick Harriett Burch Duke Mr. and Mrs. William J. Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Class of 1923 Mary Edna Taylor Smith Jane Anderson Mattingly Yeager Sloan Katharine Ward Ascherfeld Mary Mount Walker Elizabeth Bittman Meggett

THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 33 Margaret Wolf Milburn Ann Gruber Rambo Patricia Anthony Blake Ann Watson Griffis Class of I960 Lucille Rice Ritchie Marjorie Ridgley Rubala Margaret Fowler Carter Barbara VanDevanter Pevey Jacquelyn McNey Bowles R. Eugenia Walters Louise Carpenter Rymer Joann Boner Holland Anne Mitchell Pomeroy Richard Allen Briell Katherine Davis Elizabeth Davis Keefer Barbara Taylor Raley Sarah Elizabeth Buckler Class of 1938 Scarborough Iris Rawls Lake Ruth Ensor Ridgely Dallas Plugge Dean Martha Long Brancheau T. Arthur Smith Gloria Cawood Lancaster Andrew B. Shorter Patricia Connor Doucett Mildred Milburn Fletcher Emily J. Sparks Margaret Gilpin Hall Vivian Duehring Laughead Class of 1949 Class of 1955 Suzanne Gibbs Quigg Mary Kuhns Nicodemus Class of 1944 Sally Turner Benner Shirley Shugart Duvall Kenneth D. Rigby Katherine Butterfield Marietta Abell Anthony Virginia Burnside Cox Margaret T. Slingluff J. Kathryn Moffett Turner Preston Cherry Stevens Gering Elizabeth Smith Eliason Mildred L. Wilson Jane Mellor Riehl Ethel Rankin Gilliss Betty Resh Gitt Class of 1961 Gertrude Plummer Simms Anne Naylor Grant Rachel Early Green Margaret Mann Bostic Carolyn Allender Jennings Emily M. Manlove Class of 1956 Class of 1939 Betty Mace Mason Mary Early Robey Margaret Gillespie Beard Susan A. Claggett L. Bernese Culhane Elizabeth Claggett Brown Ruth Jones Wheeler Joan Lee Shiffer Carol Bartlemes James Janet Montgomery Elizabeth Knighton Cameron Margaret Ratrie Woods Cecilia Ridgell Titus Edith Lermond Menkart Elizabeth Gude Doonan Ellen Harkness Rausch Densmore Edward H. Long Class of 1945 Class of 1950 June Holland Shaw Jeanne Cole Everngam Elizabeth Short McLennan Kathleen Shane McCarty Betty Bonwill Callanan Mary Alice Waesche Benson Mary Gray Woodburn Neoma O. Monahan Adele Dixon Tomey Nancy Sadler Childs Joyce Dawn Busic Frances Davis Owens Helen Hoke Voso Kathryn Rea Clagett Bette Laufer Gerding Class of 1957 Marie Steffens Williams Ethel Harryman Forlifer Laura Muessen Hill Laura Bayles Alii Evelyn Dornheim Schieke Doris Miller Hughen Mary Robertson Kauffman Patricia Flanagan Arthur David A. Stewart Class of 1940 Helen Linthicum Dolores Parks Lewis Mary Jane Hartman Brown Patricia Pinto Tawes Mary Beth Hewitt Virginia Long Long Jarvis Claypoole Orr Marianne Slingluff Chapman Delores Sell Tracey Burroughs Patty Benzick Radcliffe Karen Anderson D'Esterre E. Ann Hughes Vickers Alberta Bailey Tompkins Margaret H. Smith Class of 1951 Linda Miller Fisher James A. Wood Dorothy P. Turner Gerry Walker Stuntz Joyce Bedell Carol Gross Galloway Elizabeth Hammett Woodard Olivia Sibley Cox Maureen A. Grace Class of 1941 Class of 1946 Elizabeth Parlett FauntLeRoy Nadine B. Kettell-Osborn Class of 1962 Mary Kirkpatrick Archer Margaret Showell Anderson Frank Kauffman Bonnie Clem Manwell Donna Doeller Bond Jacqueline Miller Bailey Jane Glenn Baker Ann Blackwell McNeill Sally Shook Pendleton Jacqueline Bridewell Eig Grayce Webster Campbell Augusta J. Barnes Joanne Courtney Thompson Anita Rowe Spiegel Virginia Tibbs Garner Ruth Ricker Grill Ida Peach Brady Barbara Thompson Tucker Ann Brittingham Suthowski Jan Valliant O'Neal Margaret Brown Klapthor Evalyn Burch Campanella Mary Anne Harryman Van Josephine K. Williams Sally Walker O'Rourke Anne Emmert Lambert Gloria Myers Frailey Vlaanderen Elizabeth Williams Peno Bettina de Lashmutt Wetzel Frances Mulherin Gwynn Class of 1958 Frances Brubacher Schultz Martha Myers Yeager Cherie Keifer Middleton Class of 1952 Barbara E. Bowers Peggy Follmer Schumann Doris Brewster Stewart Anne Tilghman Muller Helen Watson Dillon Ann Bean Taylor Class of 1942 Isabel Manlove Thomas Ann Wenner Osteen Maryellen Howard Mary Anne Combs Barber Margaret Marshall Warren Doldouras Mary Hance Deal Class of 1963 Class of 1953 Leo Goodman Susanne Offutt Graham Class of 1947 Margaret Goldsborough Virginia Russell Bell Kate Curtis Holyfield Betty Bright Nelson Agnes Cullison Bean Brink George M. Jarboe Nancy Lawder Longton Mildred Jones Thompson Elizabeth Cooksey Bowling Elaine Petalis Cappa Charlotte Rader Lewis Suzanne Lussier-Jones Katherine Clemson Turner Johanne Thompson Bettie Pass Debelius Grace H. McNeal Connie Wood Piotrowski Elsie Hitchcook Wehrle Coleman Patricia Fisher Hudson M. Patricia Farrell Mercier Dorothy Fleetwood Martha Meredith Young Wanda Bennett Fairall Betty Lou Evander Pierson Melanie Ayres Merryweather Irene Hamilton Gott Marion Cecil Tennyson Williams Louise Turner Neil Class of 1943 Jane Howard-Jasper Elaine Cetnarowski Tray Lillian Boyce Wray James B. Norris, Jr. Margaret Hawkins Abbott Anne Skone Jameson Florence Atkinson Walker Susan Pritcher Potter Louise Farmer Birckner Dorothy Niedfeldt Murphree Class of 1959 Alice Newman Rector Audrey Goldsborough Priscilla Whaley Stieff Class of 1954 Robert Henry Brubacher Elizabeth Jourdan Reeves Charlotte Van Home Kathryn Allen Stone Betty Davis Aldridge Suzanne Orme Dembowski Sarah Taylor Scheible Holcomb Margaret Childs Docherty Barbara Lyon Gilbert Joyce P. Stefancik Mary Slyder Horsman Class of 1948 Martha Kate Dudley Michael W. Mattingly Benjamin F. Weiland Alan H. Pembroke Vivian Gabler Aldridge E. Christine Frazer Julius Freeman Owens Patricia Lundgren Wiener 34 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Class of 1964 Victorine Wooton Soukup Jefferey L. Culler David B. Russ Mark M. Williams Susan Fauntleroy Brubacher Leslie M. Thomas Robin Edwards Gary L. Smith Susan Klabo Williams Dian Dudderar DiMaggio Louis E. Wince Claudia Holt Gondolf Skip Smith Elizabeth Scudder DuPont Patricia Carnwright Yates Jean Gramento Robert C. Thornton Class of 1975 Myra Lutes Gentry Ray J. Guy George F. Wall Ellen S. Arrowood Robert O. Guyther Emma Jenkins Greul Class of 1968 Mollie Eaton Wall Ernest C. Baumann Sandra Hills Hixson Ellen Tarrant Hart Deborah Newnam Claggett Kathy M. Walter Barbara Daisey Bishop Karine B. Ingersoll Anna Schauber Innes Deborah Windsor Eisenhart Mary Ann Asay Whitney Karen L. Boyd Larry Lubbers Ruth Sundstrom Junkins Richard C. Fritz Mark E. Caporale Nancy Forquer McCathran Carol Taylor Kennedy Carl Parran Guy Class of 1974 Maragaret E. Cheseldine Barbara Kimmelshue-Kearns Raymond H. Norris John M. Higgs Deborah M. Arnold Elisabeth G. Collins-Michels Susan Crumpacker Pfoutz Richard W. Jager John P. Rue, II M. Jamie Reynolds Blubaugh Maryann J. D'Onofrio Alice Stambaugh Jane Linton Jervis Robert C. Schumacher Rita Brooks Barbara Sobieski DeRose Elizabeth Reeves Wigginton Elizabeth A. Lange Patricia E. Sharpnack Roy M. Brown Wayne A. Edinger Ronald L. Leonard Janice Josselyn Snyder Bette Houseman Bumgarner Elizabeth R. Eny Michael O'Brien Terry G. Snyder Ruth Somerville Collins Class of 1965 William C. Fotheringham Kathleen Meade Craighill Kathryn Hoover Pickett Mary Bonner Stauffer Mary Jo Comer William R. Gallion G. Thomas Daugherty Ellen W Thurlby Barbara Springer Yingling Norma Wiley Durkin Mark H. Goldstraw Judith Dunn Fisher Margaretta Fournier Wolf Michael K. Elliott Donald F. Hammett Clarence B. Fox Woody Francis Class of 1973 William F. Jacobs Rose Cecil Fox Joseph E. Garner Class of 1969 George Adams, Jr. Walter O. Jaeger Helen Wilke Raines Charles B. Hayden Donald L. Barber Maurice D Godfrey Jane Barron Jenkins Robert M. Schwier Sherri-Le White Bream Bonnie M. Green John Pierce Kirby Catherine Janushek Smith Debora Price Brookhart Thomas L. Guy Class of 1971 Jackie Armstrong Knipp Donald R. Bryan E. Stewart Hawkins, Jr. Paul K. Aldridge Jack Long Class of 1966 William Anthony, Jr. Susan Davis Butler Sarah Ernst Jaeger C. Patrick Meads Penny Saulsbury Beazley Jane Kron Bradford James W Carroll Craig A. James Linda Trott Meads Virginia Buckler Crum Susan G. Brooker Marjorie Carroll Martha Reuschlein Kemp Karen L. Mies Judith Garner Garren Robert J. Collins Linda Schwager Chisholm Meg Nails Kerr Brian J. Murphy Judith Hammond Guffey Timothy S. Crout Janice L. Clark Holly Witherspoon Keyes Theresa Boone Murphy Gayle Redmond Hancock Lawrence Crum, Jr. William E. Craigmile Craig A. Lawler E. Carbery Neal Ellen Powell Havens Mike Debow Daniel T. Dixon Lorraine Bauman Lawler Linda Milgrim Newberry Jane Chapman Hobbs John Doherty, Jr. Florence Ellis Doherty Theresa LaValley Levy Kevin F. O'Neill Francine Galiano Hughes Mary Bean Hollinger Susan M. Drimmer H. Robert Lunsford David A. Reumont, IV Margaret Tomey Ingram Donna Johnson Peggy Lee DuPont Pamela Duket Lunsford Eileen J. Rusnock Celia Myers Jolly Barbara Kable Weems W Duvall, Jr. Kersti Rock Maclnnes Rodney Saloom Judith Sayre McGregor Howard E. Lallande Susan Finnacom Evans Paul Matthai Peter B. Sarelas Daniel J. Stevens Elizabeth Morgan Lewis Albert M. Evans, Jr. Mary Stanton McCarthy Daniel J. Scholfield Sharon Smith Stoliaroff Gary H. Lewis Richard J. Fortwengler Madeleine Miller William P Stack Joan B. Walker Deborah Sheffer McClellan Glenn Gass Robert P. Miller Timothy L. Sullivan Craig A. Nesbitt Brenda Carroll Hanson Carla Y Mora Patricia Teague Class of 1967 Diane LeGoullon O'Brien J. Howard Hixson Russell D. Newberry Craig Thompson Doris Combs Byrd Lynn Owens O'Brien Catherine Beavan Jager Dennis R. Pickett William J. Trollinger, IV Catherine Warner Demski John W Quade, Jr. James Vincent Kennedy, Jr. Garry M. Raley Leslie Maclean Umschlag Francine Winkler Gibson Dale Rausch Steven J. Knecht John J. Raley, Jr. Hank S. Zito Peggy O'Neil Gilligan Raymond E. Riggin Barbara Williams LeRoy N. Sue Robertson W. Dennis Gilligan William J. Snyder Jennifer Bayliss Lucas Linda Gatton Scholfield Alan L. Goldstein Cleone Stack Wible Henry F. Manspeaker M. Denise Seward David L. Gosper Constance Spicer Stuart L. Margrey Arden R. Shannon Class of 1976 Jennifer Cross Graham Zimmerman Dorothy McDonough Penny Karr Shissler Leslie G. Beard Timothy D. Hewitt McGeorge Patty Kella Smith Lynn Alexander Blake Ruth Stiefel Houser Class of 1972 Timothy J. Miller Stephen W Spedden William Bremen Theresa Wilke Leonard Irene Yeatman Aldridge Larry Nimmerrichter Mary C. Stetler Kathy Stoner Cashman Janet Drank McCormick Kazuo L. Arai Jennifer D'Onofrio Susan Davis Taylor Denise A. Doerer Patricia Urban McQuade William E. Baker Osterman Judith Vose Marianne Velie Dole William H. Mitchell Fraser D. Bishop Patrick M. Page Courtnay Weems-Looman Sheila Norris Eglinton Charles C. Reichert Mary McCoy Blohm Roberta Nelson Reeves Edward T. Weiland Lise Middleton Foran Richard Russell Sherrie Plyler Bolton George Glynn Rountree L. Karen Gaventa Weiland James A. Hickey, III

THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 35 Susan Carol Jones Lynn Metcalfe Connell Lee Ann Langston Steven J. Miller Dennis A. Sorrells Heidi Kaigler-Arseneault A. Courtney Crook Michael Lea Robert Moore Gail Anderson Stone Annette Neubauer Katz Ann C. Davis Michael T. Legens Harold D. Murray Clarissa Parr Sweeney John W Knipp Roberta Wood Davis James V. Lowell Toni Collery Parran John Sweeney Jeffrey MacDonald Debra L. Eshleman Karen E. Marlow Joan Pinkas Elaine Szymkowiak Sara Martin-Michels Susan Fontyn Frederick L. McCarthy Deborah Pratt Donna Denny Terrone Jonathan C. Nelson Robert J. Gott Mary Wheatman Moore Corey L. Roberts Renee E. Thomas Paul S. Pyles Christine Pound Green Maryfield Nicodemus Gene Widmayer Rockwell Jane Bickert Tutton Charles E. Ridgell, III David F Hallam Nelson Steven Saavedra Katherine Hodge Weller Charles W. Riedel Andrew J. Hanko Dominick A. Orlando Shawn Sapp-Nocher Elizabeth Skove Roche Patrick Haskins David W. Oswald James A. Scaltrito Class of 1982 Kathleen Boyle Roselli Dana O. Heidemann Jonathan M. Plante Catherine Stewart Slepitza Chip Ahrens, Jr. Eric Schneider Sheila Ryan Heidemann Susan Downs Reed Robert Slepitza James B. Bland, III Donna L. Smawley Dede Murphy Lallande Deborah L. Regel William Stengel Denise Lerch Brace Michael E. Smith John Lanier Eric R. Reichelt Kevin B. Stevens Katherine E. Brown Melvin F. Szymanski Penny Folts LeBuffe Susan Hilbinger Robinson Mary Waters Stevens Frank Cleary Susan Hooper Tirocchi Linda O'Neil McAteer Julia Baals Sanford Mary Hill Stone Jeffrey C. Dill Sandra M. Ventre Anne H. McCoy Kenneth L. Sanford Jessalyn B. Swann Frances Betz Dispenzirie John E McGrath Michael Schwartz Laura Smith Thornton Laura J. Fabian Class of 1977 Clarke T. McKinney Cynthia L. Spell Mark L. Vernon Mary Anne Bury Fisher Monica Beltran J. Scott Nevin Edward J. Staley Darcey A. Warner Don Freeman, Jr. Kathleen Kreitzer Boyd H. Genevieve Norris Liesl L. Stark Robert Whitaker-Lea Beth Owens Gammon Celeste Rollins O'Donnell Betsy King Wimbrow Steven V. Cardano Susan Strickland Thompson Elizabeth Gardner Juliana Arrogancia Orlando James B. Cooper, Jr. Anne Weaver Vieths Terry R Gavin Patricia Squire Poplar Neil T. Deiter Sherri L. Waters Class of 1981 William E. Glascock Catherine Hernandez Ray Mary C. Fenton Susan Silanskis Weingartner Mary I. Bockover Celene M. Graves Mark Robinson Debra Gibson Flynn Marlyn Sirkis Weisman Thomas B. Brewer, III Albert I. Hawk Michael J. Stamm Paul Flynn Sandra Gilbert Caroscio Theresa Heine T. Robert Talbot William A. Foreman, III Ruth Ann Cleary David Hunt Timothy A. Thoman Class of 1980 Donald J. French Margaret Sears De Menthon Patricia M. Jones Janis Konkol Trizna David J. Allen Gilbert D. Gardner, Jr. Thomas D. Deboy Belva Hill Kirk Diane Reumont Watkins Kenneth C. Anderson Patricia O'Brien Gott Jeffrey S. French Timothy J. Kirkey George W. Watkins Frederick E. Bang Jeanne Norton Hammett Paul R. Lacoste Mark Wheeley Debra L. Bender Daniel Gammon Jackson Evans Ireland Michael D Bishoff Chris Simmons Gill Susan Butt Lanier Leeanne Carr Whorl Kelly Flint Mattingly Paul A. LeBuffe Keith A. Brace Ian M. Gillelan Ann McFadden Moore James R. Matters Elizabeth E. Briscoe Allan E. Hamill Ellen Maclay Murray Pamela Cray Miller Class of 1979 Joseph Jay Burton Tracy Sweeney Harrell Martha E. Myers Carmen Montalvo-Dale Kimberly A. Baltzell Gwen Dunn Kelley Gleason Hawk Kathleen Devlin Oswald Michael Morrissette William E. Bankert Kenneth Ebmeier Margaret Bishop Kennedy Karen McMullen Pape Richard V. Piel, Jr. Marian Bolton Brewer Pamela Boddicker Ebmeier Jeff C. Kercheval Edward T. Pinder Steven Propert Grace K. Bries Anne Boyd Frampton David King Christina L. Polk Marcy Dobrow Rose Robert D. Case Suzanne Gast Barbara Nail Kopel Mitchel L. Pollak Rarran M. Russell Dennis Cassidy J. Walter Goode Terri Lancaster Lydia Orr Redding Carole Siegfried Nancy L. Chew Dianne Hosmer Hardy Diane M. Litten Kimberly Rubala-Cullins Robin Courtney Szymanski Harold H. Christhilf Robert E. Hardy Melvin McBride Patricia Schroeder Marilyn E. Terrill Deborah Collins Albert D. Harrell Stephen R. McHenry James E. Sharkey Donna Nagle Thompson Michael Collins Elizabeth Hollyfield Sharon A. McKay Ernest G. Stuermer Mordecai Weldon Peter Collins Charles A. Hugg M. Megan Mitchell Karen J. Sulmonetti Ronald Neil Corbin Sally Latlief Jones Thompson John M. Nocher David G. Tarwater Jane H. Dominguez Kathleen L. Kaifer Susan G. Wilkinson John L. Ohler Carolyn Triebel William A. Doughty Carla Frantz Kociolek Jean Doepkens Wright Lise Papetti Karen Bishop Wood Judith M. Fillius John P. Kociolek Carl R. Reichelt Hether Worthley Class of 1978 Joe M. Fisher Virginia Cross Leopard Patsy A. Rich Class of 1983 Beatrice B. GaNun Anne Loane-Stengel Edith A. Ashley Sherrie Robinson Paulina Villacis Ahrens John W. Gill Allison Dobyns Lucas Tracy L. Aumann Sally J. Saker Virginia L. Atkins Dirk A. Griffith D Taylor Lucas Carol Ann Brooks Margaret G. Schadegg Andrew G. Bailey Terri Ekelund Brutzman Richard E. Humphreys Nancie Rowe Lumpkins Ellen Kruzel Slepitza Sue A. McDonald Howard A. Beadle Jay B. Cloud Kathleen Gardner Kellam Gerard T. Smith 36 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Penny A. Beall William T. Chew Dr. H.M. Garon Ray and Patti Runco Peggy and Jerry McCabe Frances O'Brien Berlin Nancie Lee Christian Mr. Joseph Gitterman Michael and Carol Frederick L. and Beth Teresa M. Borgerding Caroyln L. Cline Mr. and Mrs. Burt Glinn Szkotnicki McCoy Mary Beth Brady Kaye Graham Corbliss Mr. Peter Horn Michael Whitson and Lynn Mr. George E. Mineur, Jr. Kathleen M. Callan Margaret E. Davis Ms. Shirley F. Kehr Erwin Mr. and Mrs. John W. Judith Molitor Carrigan Judith Ann Dunkerly Ms. Diane Lawrence Young Electric Mitchell Bruce M. Caylor E. Stu Wilkinson Egeli Dr. Theodore Leshner Mrs. William S. Morsell, Jr. Nancy Harkness Collery Stuart N. Foote Dr. Samuel Mandel Friends Ms. Karen Louise Muller Dr. and Mrs. Andrew C.W. Kevin E. Crutchfield Thomas S. Franks Ms. Charlotte M. Ashby Mrs. Clayton Nielsen Montague Melissa G. Danoff Geoffrey W. Funk, Jr. Mr. John V. Baggett Ms. Gladys G. Nielsen Betty Parsons Foundation Kenneth Wayne Dean Marie L. Gutches Dr. Emma L. Barbarich Stephen and Marianne Peggy J. Dean Gayle S. Hart Ms. Elena Prohaska Mrs. Edwin W Beitzell Mr. William P. Rayner Nystrom Jack K. Dent, Jr. Colleen J. Hickey Mrs. Rebecca Benton Mr. Alex Redein Cdr. and Mrs. Gordon R. Christopher E. Gardenhour Ruth Comitz Hudicek Mr. and Mrs. FT. Bishopp Ms. Denise Regan Otis Kevin M. Gleason Doug R. Imig Mrs. Ben Burroughs Mrs. Joseph B. Ross, Jr. Ms. Linda and Stephanie Elizabeth Junghans Hamill Joann E. Jones Spot and Gale Burwell Dr. James Rudel Ratton Charles L. Hancock Lance Richard Lewand Jean and Roger Chandler Mr. Charles E. Slonem Mr. and Mrs. B. Raymond James C. Harvey Jack B. Lynch Mrs. Elinor Cofer Ms. Irene Tschacbasov Perkins Steven K. Hays Ann M. Mattson Jane Cowles and Dan Laskin Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Ms. Betty D. Ray Katherine R. Hoyle Donna Marie McCauley Ms. Doris M. Darrah Waldschmitt Ms. Elizabeth H. Remington William W. Hoyt Ingrid Werner McCoy Ms. Roberta W Davis Mr. Ray C. Wilhelm Mrs. Vera C. Richardson Curtis M. Jackson Robert H. Morazes Ms. Mary F. de Packh Robert Eugene Jones Mr. Thomas Wingrove Dr. and Mrs. Juanito C. Roa Karen Leslie Muller Mrs. Alice Sanner Drury Jeanne Barkley Kaufman Ms. Z. Ruth Rowe J. Brian O'Day Ms. Carolyn G. Ducote Joshua D. Kaufman Arts Alliance, Mrs. Walter L. Simpson Mary L. Owen Mrs. Christine Combs Gregory D. Kearns Capt. and Mrs. L. Wayne Smith L. Tom Rape Charter Members Echols Connie Kite Ms. Mary Edna Smith Allison Jones Pinder Ms. Laura Elwell Monique Laflamme Benefactor Col. and Mrs. Robert W Joan Marie Race Blair and Mary Evans Bruce A. Lanier Ellen W Richardson Dr. and Mrs. Norton T. Dodge Charles and Muriel Fadeley Soderberg Laura M. Lindgren Janet D. Rupp Mr. Jay Furr Ms. Marion D. Sterling C. Barkley Lloyd John Jay Shields Sponsor Mrs. Ann Gough Ms. Marlene B. Thomas Karen L. McCeney Laura Simon-Knipschild Mrs. Pat McKenney Mrs. Katherine C. Granados Mrs. Carla Hazard Thomas A. Meiser Jennifer J. Smith Ms. Irene B. Graves Tomaszewski Elizabeth L. Milne Gary J. Spangler Patrons Mr. and Mrs. Alan T Gray Dr. and Mrs. F.R Veitch Michael Moore Dr. and Mrs. William D. Dr. Dana Greene Dr. and Mrs. Richard D Weigle Philip J. Mudd, Jr. Matthias Stark Boyd, III Ms. Thelma W Harkness Robert and Laura Whitaker-Lea Britta Muehlberger Joseph H. Szymanski Mr. and Mrs. John T. J.F. Hautzenroder Ms. Susan Wilkinson John M. Oliver Donna L. Travis Daugherty Mrs. Louise M. Heagy Capt. and Mrs. Richard V. Glyn Furgurson Pogue Laurel A. Tringali Gen. and Mrs. Robert Mrs. Robert A. Hilder Tammy A. Potter Nancy Elwood Van Winter Wilson, USN Ret. Hogaboom Ms. Margaret E. Hill Elizabeth Jarvis Redmond Brian Walsh Betty and Bill Wilson Beth lone Ward Mrs. William C. Moyer Ron Holyfield and Kate Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Zanhiser, III James E. Reed Dr. and Mrs. PD Orahovats Kendra L. Young Curtis Mr. Millard Zeisberg Gail Russell Mrs. Joseph A. Waldschmitt Helen Regina Salyer Mr. and Mrs. John R. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mary E. Seng Class of 1986 Partners Horton Zitzewitz David Jackson Smith Cheryl Ellis Dent Mrs. Faith R. Jackson G. Thomas and Timmerman Cynthia Norris Stark Patricia Wormwood Hall Mrs. Joyce Judd Arts Alliance T. Daugherty James P. Sweetman Cari Wright Ms. Margaret E. Keen Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Egeli Steering George Taylor Mrs. Julian Lane Mrs. Esther S. Greco Mrs. Connie Lawrence Committee Linda Vail Taylor Special Mr. and Mrs. Holger B. Col. and Mrs. William H. John Baggett, Leonardtown Jerrold A. Van Winter Jansson Gifts-In-Kind Nancy Carsey, Pomfret Cheryl Pohlman Wellington Craig and Beth Jarboe Lewis Roger and Jean Chandler, James Wellington General and Mrs. Richard Mr. and Mrs. John G. Pt. Lookout Marina John F. Yearick Abbey Lancaster Mr. Edmund P Marsden Lexington Park Mr. Leonard Barton RADM and Mrs. Spencer Mrs. Barbara Masters Susan Chappelear, Mrs. Henry L. Bonner Matthews Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A. Mechanicsville Class of 1984 Mr. Daniel Capper Mr. Robert W Pegg Maxwell Christine C. Cihlar, St. Margaret Houston Anderson Dr. William Clamurro Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Rabenold Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mary's City George D. Belleville Mr. Keith Cooper Mr. and Mrs. H.K. Reynolds McArthur Kay Daugherty, California

THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 37 Norton T. Dodge, Geico Philanthropic Kidder, Peabody & Adrienne Henderson Robert Gott Mechanicsville Foundation Company, Inc. Beth Hoke Christine Green Stu Egeli, Drayden International Business M & S Tours Kim Jackson Dirk Griffith Maureen Holbert Hogaboom, Machines, Inc. Maryland Chamber of Lisa Marks Judith Guffey St. Mary's City J.J. Haines & Company, Inc. Commerce Melissa Mason Patricia Hall Mary Jansson, Leonardtown Mack Trucks, Inc. Maryland State Music Matt O'Shea Karine Ingersoll Burt Kummerow, St. Mary's Martin Marietta Corp. Teachers Association Scott Raspa Kathy Kaifer City Foundation Michel's Restaurant Heidi Rosenthal Terri Leonard Tina Lancaster, California . Nationwide Foundation Peggy and Yale Gordon Brigit Shea Theresa Levy Chris Smith John Laughton, St. Mary's City Pfizer, Inc. Trust Tommy Loughran Nicky Sutherland Fred Brooke Lee, St. Mary's Tenneco, Inc. Robert S. Waldschmitt Donna McCauley Pam Tucciarone City Texas Instruments Management Trust Debbie McClellan Niki Valliere Patricia Hartman Lewis, Foundation Solomons Pier Restaurant Anne McCoy St. Mary's City The A.S. Abell Co. Southern Maryland Electric Cherie Middleton Jackie Matthews, Foundation Cooperative, Inc. Alumni Margaret Milburn Mechanicsville The General Foods Fund, Southridge Restaurant Tracy Aumann Rella Murphy Marjorie Rabenold, St. Inc. St. Mary's Citty Foundation Mary Alice Benson Jarvis Orr Leonard The Prudential Foundation St. Mary's County Arts Don Bryan Joanne Pyle Beth Reynolds, St. Mary's Tracor, Inc. Council Elizabeth Bygler Paul Pyles City Travelers Companies St. Mary's County Rotary Kara Cipra Maryann Ridgell Judy Roa, Hollywood Foundation Foundation, Inc. Susan Claggett Scott Ridgell Ms. Marjorie White Ross, Watkins-Johnson Company St. Mary's County Janice Clark Janet Rupp Lexington Park Commission for Women David Cribbs Pat Schroeder Tom Rowe, St. Mary's City St. Mary's County N.O.W. Dallas Dean Kevin Scott Patti Runco, California St. Mary's River Yacht Club Cheryl Dent Mary Seng Carol Pennock Szkotnicki, Corporations, The Becton Dickinson Jack Dent Joan Shiffer California Foundations and Foundation Florence Doherty Cathee Smith Marian Veitch, Lexington Park Peg Duchesne Organizations The Hechinger Foundation Tom Smith Betty Wilson, Mechanicsville Bill Duck Baltimore Gas and Electric The Jacob and Anitta France Karen Sulmonetti Chris Duck Co. Foundation Carolyn Triebel Bequests Stu Egeli Belvedere Motel & The Roost Restaurant Kitty Turner Nancy Elwood Zachariah D. Blackistone Restaurant The Wm. G. Baker, Jr. Judi Vose Diane Fadeley Estate Memorial Fund Bob Whitaker-Lea Courtney's Restaurant Mary Fenton Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Gravatt Crusoe's Cafe Tracor Applied Sciences, James Wood Alisa Gassman Karen Wood Estate DAR, Bottony Cross Chapter Inc. Patty Gott Lisa York DAR, Capt. Jeremiah Baker Young Electric, Inc. Matching Gift Chapter Companies DAR, Maryland State Society 1986 Phonathon AT&T Foundation Dorchester Hall Council Volunteers Abbott Laboratories Fund Dry Dock Restaurant Allied Corporation Ebenezer Baptist Church Students Foundation Epson America Jeff Austin American President First National Bank of St. Mitch Baumann Companies Mary's Marc Beeler Baltimore Gas & Electric Grace Foundation, Inc. Rosemary Blair Co. Izaak Walton League of Lisa Boyle C & P Telephone Company America Ann Cline Corning Glass Works J. Frank Raley Insurance, Cynthia Craytor Foundation Inc. Shannon Gipson First Maryland Foundation, John Hancock Mutual Life Scot Harlow Inc. Insurance Alex Hart m m mm Please note: We have tried to be complete and accurate in listing those donors whose gifts President Lewis honors Alice Waldschmitt at last were received between July 1, 1985 and June 30, 1986. Contributing alumni are listed spring's ribbon-cutting ceremony for the College's under the most recent year in which they received a St. Mary's College degree or certificate. new greenhouse. Mrs. Waldschmitt led a group of We apologize for any errors, and we hope you will tell us about any you may discover. donors who gave funds to build the new facility. 38 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Alumnitems The Clan i > i *:*' ' Gathers A Splendid, Special Reunion Weekend

rom the Friday evening reception at President Lewis's home to the Sunday F farewell brunch, Reunion '86 provided plenty of opportunities for relaxing, renewing old friend­ ships, and simply celebrating. Nearly 200 alumni and alumni family members came to the June 13-15 Alums raise a toast at the traditional Saturday crabfeast. weekend gathering, which featured some new events and special ceremonies as well as a number of long-standing reunion rituals. Chief among the rituals, of course, were the ever-popular Saturday crabfeast and the serene dinner cruise, which took place on Saturday rather than Friday evening this year, so as to accommodate more people. For those who came from far away, the crabfeast brought back the savory taste of the Chesapeake. And for everyone, the dinner cruise was a reminder that Southern Maryland's stifling summer days often give way to lovely evenings. Other events included a buffet dinner on Friday evening and a Saturday morning "President's As one of two alumni who traveled the farthest to come to Reunion '86, breakfast," at which Dr. Lewis spoke fanet Frame, '66 of Palo Alto, California, receives a gift from Gordon Kester. about the College's new curriculum, ambitious construction plans, and Gordon Kester, who, as director of highest percentage of members progress in building academic ex­ college relations, has done more attending the reunion was the Class cellence. One new event was a Satur­ than anybody else to preserve and of 1946. And two alumnae shared day afternoon tour of historic Sot- strengthen the affectionate bonds the distinction of having come the terley Plantation on the Patuxent linking St. Mary's to its alumni. Gor­ farthest to join the festivities: Ann River. don was honored at the president's Hughes-Vickers, '61, of Santa Ana, Reunion '86 was also noteworthy reception on Friday evening. California, and Janet Frame, '66, of in that it marked the retirement of For the record, the class with the Palo Alto, California. 39 THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS Scholarship Trio nce again the Alumni Association's scholarship endowment fund has been able to award $1,000 AlumnOi Scholarships to three students. Two of the scholarships are renewals, and one has been given to a new freshman with an unusually long St. Mary's heritage. The two renewal scholarships are held by Sherri Daugherty, now a sophomore, and Ann Cline, a junior. Sherri is the daughter of Katherine Brandt Daugherty, '62. Ann is the sister of Carolyn Cline, '84. The new scholarship recipient is freshman Katharine Nesbitt of Lake- view, Oregon. Katharine represents the third generation in her family to attend St. Mary's. Her mother is Ellen Ascherfeld Nesbitt, Class of President Edward T. Lewis addressing alumni at a special breakfast gathering. 1957; and her grandmother, Katharine Ward Ascherfeld, sense of direction, and the leader­ rigorous, more structured general graduated as a member of the Class ship to make dramatic progress. It is education curriculum developed by of 1923. that time when an institution either the faculty. In addition, they will be pushes forward or, failing that, settles at St. Mary's during a period of great into a slow slide downward. St. transformation for the campus, as Windows of Mary's College is at that point in its the College's five-year facilities plan Opportunity history." has received approval from the State Lewis summarized for the alumni Board of Higher Education and the the remarkable successes achieved by Department of State Planning. t. Mary's College has reached St. Mary's during the previous year. The five-year plan includes the a crucial stage in its history, For the third year in a row, the Col­ new townhouse dorms, scheduled President Edward T. Lewis lege can boast of the highest SAT for completion by August 1987; a told the alumni in his annual scores in the state college and S major addition to the library, to be Reunion Weekend speech to them. university system, with an average built starting in late 1987; a new Reviewing the College's impressive score of about 1040 for. the entering science building; renovation of all progress and ambitious plans, Lewis freshmen in 1986. Meanwhile, the existing dorms; and renovation of stressed the importance of continued College's "inquiry list" — the list of both Kent Hall and Anne Arundel alumni and other private support as high school students asking the Ad­ Hall. St. Mary's strives to emerge as missions Office for information among the best liberal arts colleges about St. Mary's — has jumped 12 Within six to eight years, Lewis in the mid-Atlantic region. percent. "We are no longer noted, the College will have invested "In the life of any institution, Maryland's best kept secret," said roughly $30 million in facilities. "We there are those windows of oppor­ Lewis. will possess a physical plant which tunity," said Lewis, "when that in­ The new group of freshmen will equals the quality of our faculty and stitution has the momentum, the be the first to study under the more our student body." 40 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Lewis also highlighted the creation of the President's Council, a group of prominent leaders from business and public affairs who will advise the college in planning, curriculum, and resource allocation. (See story in the "College Newsfront" section.) The 27-member Council "will enable the College to establish a broad net­ work of support" and "serve as a vehicle to advance the College," Lewis said. "This council will truly make a difference."

The president closed by con­ gratulating the alumni for their outstanding record of continually in­ creasing donations. In Fiscal 1986, Annual Giving contributions rose to $212,130, a 71 percent increase over the previous year. And for the Artist Charles F. Wolf III, '76, unveils Skaters on St. John's Pond, presented to Gordon second year in a row, the number of Kester as a retirement gift. A reproduction of the drawing is featured as one of several donors doubled. premiums in this year's Annual Giving campaign.

But Lewis stressed that additional support is essential if the College is Gordon Kester Gordon also began the Alumni An­ to fulfill its promise of becoming a nual Giving phonathon. Initiated in genuine alternative to prestigious but Retires 1976, the phonathon now involves more expensive private liberal arts t. Mary's and its alumni set more than a hundred alumni and colleges. The State of Maryland ranks aside a special time during student volunteers in St. Mary's City, below the national average in its sup­ the 1986 Reunion Weekend Annapolis, Baltimore, and port for higher education, and is los­ S to honor Gordon Kester, Washington. ing ground as other states increase who retired after ten years as direc­ appropriations for colleges. Since tor of college relations and editor of Before coming to St. Mary's, Gor­ 1982, in fact, state support for St. The Mulberry Tree Papers. At the don had been — in reverse Mary's — as a percentage of the Col­ president's Friday evening reception, chronological order — alumni direc­ lege's total operating budget — has Gordon received a special gift — a tor at the University of Rochester, fallen by 5 percent. framed drawing by noted Southern director of development at the Maryland artist Charles F. Wolf III, University's medical school, an Hence the College's energetic pur­ '76. The drawing, Skaters on St. advertising supervisor and magazine suit of funds from foundations, cor­ fohn's Pond, is based on a editor with the DuPont Company, a porations, grant-making agencies, photograph that Gordon had taken, reporter for the Providence Journal, and, of course, alumni. "If we and one of the skaters pictured and an announcer for WHAM, receive your support," said Lewis, there is Gordon's son, Jim. Rochester, N.Y. A Rochester native, "we will continue to pull away from During Gordon's career at St. Gordon-received his undergraduate the other colleges in the state. We Mary's, The Mulberry Tree Papers degree from the University of can't be content with merely being won three citations for excellence Rochester and an M.A. degree from good. Ultimately, we have to be from the Council for the Advance­ the Columbia Graduate School among the best." ment and Support of Education. Journalism.

THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 41 Alumnotes 1916 1928 1942 Emma Beck Dorsey writes that she Mildred Corosh Lipps reports that Louise Farmer Birckner writes that has been living in Broadmead Full she is still enjoying life at age 77. she now has two grandchildren — Care Community for six years and Her hobbies include walking, bingo, Brix, 4, and Brandon, 1. has "never been happier. This is a swimming, and playing the organ. Martha Meredith Young and her wonderful place in Baltimore Coun­ sister recently cruised the ty. It's only a half hour from my son 1938 Chesapeake for eight days on their John's home in Baltimore." Martha Long Brancheau and her brother's 40-foot boat. The journey husband Millard took a cruise to ended at Point Lookout just in time Alaska and spent a week in Mexico to see some of the competitors in 1919 last year. They recently attended the the Governor's Cup Yacht Race. Mar­ Margaret Mullikin Marshall took a week-long Elderhostel program at tha is still working at the Depart­ trip in August with friends to Alaska. Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, ment of Social Services in Leonard- Fla. Martha enjoys playing bridge town. She is currently the eldest and serving as a church volunteer. employee and second in tenure. 1946 Gloria Myers Frailey is working as a real estate agent for Leigh and Schwab, Inc. in Washington, D.C. Gloria also keeps busy teaching ladies physical fitness classes at Ken­ wood Golf and Country Club near her home in Chevy Chase. Her daughter, Debbie, a flight attendant for Eastern Airlines, was married on September 7 and lives in Atlanta, Ga.

1949 Sally Turner Benner retired in January 1986 after thirty-one years of teaching junior high school. She attended Alumni Reunion Weekend in June and "had a great time renewing old friendships." 1953 Patti Fisher Hudson, "The Ginger­ Dinner cruise, Reunion Weekend '86. bread Lady," for the sixth time will be demonstrating the art of making gingerbread houses at the Smithso­ nian Institute's Arts and Industries Building on December 6 and 7.

42 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND 1954 Chris Frazer retired early from a government public affairs post in F 1985 and is now pursuing a second career as an artist and writer. She lives in Arlington, Va. 1958 Kate Curtis Holyfield and her hus­ band Ron recently taught a painting workshop at the College for "Crea­ tion Around the Chesapeake."

&-«*»*:• " 1961 Bernese Culhane writes that Virginia Ortt is living in Stafford, Va. and is now Virginia Matt. Her son Price graduated from West Point last spring. 1962 Jacqueline Bridwell Eig is planning to take a sabbatical next spring from The next generation learns the joys of a St. Mary's reunion crabfeast. her teaching position at Hood Col­ plete a doctoral residency program. lege in Frederick, Md. Jacqueline Janet has been married for eight 1971 will be working in several special years and has two stepdaughters, 17 Wendy Hopkins Clasen received a education settings in the Mont­ and 20. master's degree in clinical counsel­ gomery County Public Schools. ing at the California State University 1967 at Hayward in June 1986. 1963 Dennis and Peggy O'Neil Gilligan, Howard Lallande married Edith Rebecca Murphy on April 26, 1986. Joyce Poore Stefancik is still both '67, are living in Pasadena, Md. Dennis is the owner of the Develop­ Howard is president of Lallande teaching physical education and for Asphalt Paving Company, Inc., in ment and Building Corp., specializ­ the past seven years has been Alexandria, Va. coaching girl's varsity soccer at ing in residential and commercial Severna Park High, Md. projects. His hobbies include sailing, Anne Grantham Skidmore, her hus­ scuba diving, and rowing. Peggy band Doug and 9-year-old Adam 1964 operates a real estate research ser­ moved from California to vice. In her free time, she teaches a Walkersville, Md. They are Janet Buchanan-Wigton is currently "Great Books" reading program to renovating an eighty-year-old house, completing her Ph.D. in elementary gifted and talented eighth graders, which Anne admits is "a lifetime education at the University of and she sings with an Annapolis- project!" Anne is a full-time Akron. She continues to teach emo­ based madrigal group called New homemaker. Her hobbies include tionally disturbed children, but took Renaissance Voyces. The couple has running, racquetball, cycling, and a leave of absence last year to com- three sons. cooking.

THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 43 Constance Spicer Kratz is now Con­ Michael Kelley is Administrative Ser­ 1975 stance Zimmerman. She lives in vices Officer for the Howard Coun­ Bivalve, Md. and works as an office ty Department of Public Works in manager for a thoracic surgeon's Ellicott City, Md. He and his wife James Burke and his wife, the office in Salisbury. Helen have a daughter, Erin Marie, 2. former Lisa Briscoe, have a son Mike still enjoys lacrosse — he par­ Jamie, 2. 1972 ticipates in the semi-annual Alumni Lacrosse Games. Maryann D'Onofrio and Mori Achen Ralph Elwell is now working for the were married in 1979- Mori com­ City of Cambridge, Mass., as Gary Smith owns and operates pleted his master's degree in music manager of employment services. Caribbean Sea Life. He imports at California State University at aquarium fish — marine and fresh­ Hayward, and now teaches and per­ Jean Hall Gramento received a water — from the Far East, South forms in the San Francisco Bay area. Master of Divinity degree from the Africa, and the Caribbean. Maryann is employed as a social Wesley Theological Seminary in worker and will complete her Ph.D. Washington, D.C. on May 6. in psychology in June 1987. The Reverend Gramento plans to begin 1974 couple has resided in Berkeley for work on her doctorate in literature the past nine years; they have one this fall. son, Gian, 7 months. Roland F. Hauser and his wife, Dava, Carolyn Leo Huff is now the human are currently living in Severna Park. Pat and Linda Trott Meads currently resources coordinator for They have two daughters, Emily, 7, live in Annapolis. Pat is the director Chesapeake Publishing Corp., a and Elizabeth, 5. They are expecting of video production at Underdog company which owns twenty their third child in January. Roland Video Productions and Linda is newspapers on the eastern and received his master's degree from presently helping the Maryland western shores of Maryland. Carolyn Johns Hopkins University in 1982 Department of Employment and also serves as the director of com­ and is the vice president/general training get their new computer munity relations for The Enterprise manager of Mid-Eastern Box system on-line. (Lexington Park, Md.), one of the Manufacturing Co. newspapers her employer owns. David and Donna Patterson Metz of Judy Vose works as an automotive Jarrettsville, Md., have one daughter, consultant for Stohlman Volkswagen- Brittany Meredith, IV2. Donna is a Cheryl Robinette married Frank Subaru-Mitsubishi in Tysons Corner, full-time homemaker and David is a Lord on November 20, 1983- Cheryl Va. She recently was awarded sales representative with Hutter is a special education teacher and a fellowship status in the Volkswagen Corp. coach for the girl's junior varsity Sales Guild. volleyball team at Calvert High, Prince Frederick, Md. Ed Weiland is now principal of Chopticon High School, replacing 1978 William Shand is a medical techni­ Dwight Chakales, '60, who has cian for the Independent Dialysis been appointed principal of Leonard- Foundation in Baltimore. He and his town High. Both schools are in St. Mark Clark married the former Lisa wife Phyllis have a son, Christopher, Mary's County. Binder. Mark is a salesman for 4, and a daughter, Laura, 1. Standard Motor Products. Mark and Susan Klabo Williams live in Pacifica, Calif, with their three Susan Fontyn received a second B.S. 1973 sons, Nicholas, 9, Michael, 6, and degree in December 1983 in secon­ Adam, 3. Mark is a floor covering dary science education. She now superintendent and Susan is a teaches seventh and eighth grade Jan Clark is a sales representative for hospital unit secretary at the Seton students with learning disabilities in Searle Laboratories. Medical Center, Daly City. Montgomery County, Md.

44 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Dale Stephen and Cathy Fetcho Murray, '79, now have two children — Ellen, 4, and Andrew, 2 — and live in Glen Burnie.

Mark Robinson received an M.S. degree in library science in 1985. He is a library associate for the Prince Georges County Memorial Library.

Leeanne Carr Whorl and husband Steven live in Colton's Point, Md., with their two children, Mary Car- rice and Blaine Reynolds.

Jeffrey Wilson, his wife Wendy and year-old John live in Riviera, Ariz.

1979

Janet Day Cooper received a master's degree in publications design from the University of Baltimore, Maryland Institute of Art. She currently works as a free-lance graphic artist in Baltimore. Janet is active in the Central America Thomas and Mary Ann Duda Hoff­ Carol Shannon graduated from the Solidarity Committee and does man, '80, have one daughter, Diana Baltimore College of Dental Surgery volunteer work for the Vagabond Marie, 9 months. The couple resides in 1985. She is now a postgraduate Theatre. in Hampstead, Md. resident at the University of Maryland specializing in pediatric Capt. Kathryn M. McGuire is cur­ dentistry and the treatment of han­ Harry Hafer, director of the wind rently serving as a missile combat dicapped patients. During the time ensemble at St. Mary's-Ryken High crew commander at the 351st she is in the resident program, Dr. School in Leonardtown, led his Strategic Missile Wing, Whiteman Shannon will be working with Dr. group to a Silver Medal at the Inter­ Air Force Base, Mo. Albert Parmentier in California, Md. national Music Festival in Toronto last April. Only one other Maryland 1980 ensemble was invited to the com­ Susan Hilbinger Robinson and hus­ petition. The victory places St. band Bill welcomed Scott Morgan Marty Carlon married Craig Up- Mary's-Ryken among the top 25 per­ into the world on February 3- Sue is church on May 31, 1986. Marty is a cent of high school ensembles still a mathematics instructor at St. programmer for the General Instru­ anywhere in the world. Mary's. ment Corp. in Hunt Valley, Md.

THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 45 1983 Jacquie Rodgers was married to En­ 1984 sign Brent Poynter on February 16, Rebecca Griffin Butler has been 1985. They are living in Virginia Geoff Funk, stationed aboard the awarded a master's degree in com­ Beach, where Jacquie is employed Coast Guard Cutter Reliance, recent­ position and rhetoric from the as a pre-school teacher and a real ly participated in a four-week law University of Maryland. She con­ estate agent. enforcement patrol in the Carib­ tinues there as a teaching assistant bean. During the patrol, Geoff while she completes her Ph.D. in helped rescue three people whose English literature. Renee Rosenwald is a budget motor boat had capsized, and per­ analyst/contract administrator for formed a record number of boar­ OAO Corp., an aerospace and soft­ dings for contraband. Geoff has Robyn Errington is presently ware engineering firm in Greenbelt, received the Coast Guard's Tem­ employed at Veda, Inc. (Lexington Md. Renee is working on her porary Cutterman's Insignia for com­ Park, Md.) as a graphic artist. Robyn master's in financial management at pleting six months of continuous also owns a small graphic arts the University of Maryland. and satisfactory service aboard a business that sells her line of Coast Guard cutter. The Reliance is Christmas cards and provides free­ home-ported in Cape Canaveral, lance services. She is a jazzercize in­ Florida. structor and performs at local and out-of-state competitions with a community dance group. Teresa Gisriel married Luis Krug on June 7, 1986.

Novella Griffin was awarded a master's degree in counseling Ruth Comitz Hudicek is the director psychology from Bowie State Col­ of Chrysalis House in Pasadena, lege. She is employed by Charles Md., a halfway house for recovering County Community College. alcoholic women. She is currently enrolled in the master's program in counseling psychology at Bowie Cheryl Weaver Hammond moved to State College, where Donna Travis, San Diego in 1983 and worked as a staffing administrator/personnel also '84, has received her master's representative for May Co. She mar­ degree in the same field. Donna is ried Brent Hammond, a senior chief employed in psycho-linguistics at petty officer in the Navy in August the Department of Defense, National 1984. They have been living in Security Agency. Yokosuka, Japan since October 1984. Cheryl now teaches English at Myra and Scott Raspa, mother and son a conversation school to students who graduated together in 1986. Tom Lavelle married Natalie ranging in age from 6 to 54. She Meilleur. He works as a hazardous also is a volunteer for the Navy Jane Nissel became the bride of waste management coordinator. Family Ombudsman. Wesley Edward Lewis in August. Jane is a general services assistant with American National Savings Association. Her husband is a Tom and Linda McMullen Pape now Rhonda Ann Munson is employed graduate of the University of have two children — Ian Richard, 2, by the Prince Georges County Baltimore and is an auditor at St. and Brenna Eileen, 1. The couple Board of Education. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore. lives in Edgewood, Md. 46 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Brian O'Day has begun a two-year tour with the Peace Corps and is 1985 1986 stationed in Gabon, West Africa, Tressa Bailey works in the software Tom Kingston works for Veda, Inc., where Anne McCoy, '78, also served systems division of Electronic Data Lexington Park, and is a partner in a as a Peace Corps volunteer. Systems, an engineering and support computer services firm in Solomons. company. Christiane Schmitz is a customer Cari Wright married Kenneth Wayne relations representative for National Tim McCleaf is currently employed Howard on October 11. The couple Health Labs, a national clinical as a computer programmer for enjoyed a honeymoon trip to Hawaii laboratory. Christiane is responsible Sperry Corp., in Lexington Park. and are living in Lusby Cari still for the Maryland-Delaware corridor, Mark Stine is working as an outside works on campus in the Office of and lives in Baltimore. sales representative for Doug Ewing College Advancement, and Ken works for the Maryland Department Bob Seeger and Sue Landreth, '85, and Associates in Bladensburg, Md. of Agriculture. were married on September 6. Bob Marsha White lives in Linthicum is the warehouse manager for Heights, Md., and is working as a Burgess Lighting in Forestville, Md., laboratory technician at the NOVA and Sue is the program communica­ Pharmaceuticals Company. tions officer for the St. Mary's County Chamber of Commerce. They are building a home in Mechanicsville, Md.

In Memoriam

Mamie Emory Phillips, '20 HS, on Helen Ambler Godfrey, '43 HS, on Kenneth D. Rigby, '60 C, on November 14, 1985, in Baltimore, May 31, 1986. A survivor is Mary November 19, 1985, in Leonardtown, Md. "Betty" Ambler Lewis, '39 HS. Md. Edith Lloyd Blunt, '32 HS, on July 3, Donald Lee Jones, Jr., 72 C, on Lorraine Preston Spicer, '46 JC, on February 6, 1986, in Callaway, Md. 1985, in Bethesda, Md. Among her August 20, 1986. survivors are two daughters, Edith James Bruce Moore, 76 C, in March, Lermond Menkart, '56 HS, and 1985, in Baltimore, Md. Marion Blunt von Heisermann, '60 Dorothy Throckmorton Fennell, '48, HS. in Clearwater, Fla., date unknown. John Michael Ford, '84 C, on May 14, 1986, in Dallas, Texas. Anyone wishing to contribute to the John Kathleen Powell Baughan, '36 HS, Marlyn Sirkis Weisman, '48 HS, 79 C, date unknown. Michael Ford Memorial Fund should on August 3, 1986, in Hollywood, Md. send a check to the St. Mary's Col­ Helen Clotilda Yeatman Stone, '38 lege of Maryland Foundation.and HS, on April 12, 1985, St. Mary's Lois Colgan Buckler Jarboe, '53 HS, enclose a note specifying that the County, Md. April 6, 1985, in Leonardtown, Md. money is for the memorial fund.

Virginia Wheeler Fuller, '39 HS, on Judith Peper Gleason, '59 HS, '6l JC, Karen Leslie Muller, '85 C, on April November 10, 1985. in January 1980, in Great Falls, Va. 17, 1986, in Solomons, Md. 47 THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS Calendar

December 10, Tues. 7, Tues. Art show ("Paintings by Irving No classes; academic advising and 3, Wed. Kriesberg") opens; runs through registration Madrigal Concert March 6 11, Sat. 4, Thurs. 12, Thurs. Admissions Open House State House Madrigal Dinner Rupert Curry speaks on careers President's Ball 6, Sat. 13, Fri. 12, Sun. Trustees' meeting Concert by Lydian String Quartet Waterfront Barbecue Madrigal Dinner 14, Sat. 19, Sun. Christmas Formal Valentine's Dance Easter 7, Sun. 16, Mon. 20, Mon. Christmas Party Admissions Open House Annual Student Art Exhibit opens; 10, Wed. - 13, Sat. 17, Tues. runs through May 5 Play (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Black History Month speaker 24, Fri. 12, Fri. 27, Fri. - 28, Sat. Concert by SMC Wind Ensemble Classes end Capital City Basketball Tournament 25, Sat. - May 2 Art Show ("Three Artists from Spring Week at St. Mary's Washington, D.C.") closes March 29, Wed. - May 2 13, Sat. Play (Phoenix Too Frequent and Admissions Open House 1, Sun. Loveliest Afternoon of the Year) 15, Mon. - 19, Fri. Rosa Parks speaks Final examinations 1, Sun. - 6, Fri. May Alcohol Awareness Week ("Dare to January Care") 4, Mon. 4, Wed. - 7, Sat. Jazz concert 15, Thurs. Play (Mousetrap) 5, lues. Dorms open for new full-time 10, Tues. Sports Awards Banquet students Art show ("Paintings by Balcomb Classes end Art Show ("Three SMC Alumni") Greene") opens; runs through 7, Thurs. - 12, Tues. opens; runs through Feb. 6 April 14 Final examinations 19, Mon. 16, Mon. 16, Sat. Classes begin Spring Recess begins Commencement 21, Wed. - 28, Wed. 23, Mon. Late registration, add period Classes resume June 31, Sat. 28, Sat. Admissions Open House Admissions Open House 12, Fri. - 14, Sun. Alumni Reuion February April For more information on College 3, Tues. 3, Fri. - 5, Sun. events, call the Office of Public Tribute to Martin Luther King Concert: Symphony of Psalms Affairs, 301-862-0380.

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Sunset for the 420s: The College's well-worn fleet of "420" racing dinghies moved from pier to beach- rack this fall, making way for a dozen new Laser 11 sailboats. The Laser 11, a faster boat, will become the College's main craft for classes and recreation.