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SPRING 2013 FRIENDSHIP Seeds of Jordan Gaeta ’11, a 2010 teaching assistant, works with Addie Lanzarotta ’14 in a biology class led by Professor Robert Slocum. 5 dig this Goucher students and youths from Baltimore’s Barclay Elementary/Middle School are learning about the environment while tending a garden with deep community roots. game on 18 Max Temkin ’10 calls himself “unemployable.” But his resumé includes working as a designer for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and co-creating one of the best-selling games on Amazon. Could he be 3 | goucher TODAY playing us? 8 | giving to GOUCHER 11 | gopheREPORT 22 room to learn 13 | alumnae/iUPDATE When Robin Rasmussen Gaber ’68 returns to her old 26 | impromptu dorm room, she meets Masuma “Missy” Islam ’14 and 27 | class NOTES Bilen Kebede ’13 and discovers that while much has changed so, too, has it remained the same. 57 | viewPOINT photo by Bruce Weller uarterlyGoucher Quotable Vol. XCIX No. 1 Spring 2013 “It’s just me on the ground running, me and the earth and the air.” on the front cover: — Hadley Couraud ’13, 2012 Senior Scholar Athlete in the Landmark Jordan Edwards ’13 and Christopher Reeves, a student at Baltimore’s Conference for women’s cross country, speaking about her sport (p. 12) Barclay Elementary/Middle School, work together as part of the after- school garden club (p. 5). Photo by Gwendolyn Moiles ’15 editor Holly Selby contributors assistant editor Julie Steinbacher ’10 copyediting Offi ce of Communications interns Kim Hayes ’98 Brea Grosch ’14 Hayes is the development and communications offi cer at the Gwendolyn Moiles ’15 design Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Previously, she was B. Creative Group Inc. the editor of Native American Report, a news service that reports Goucher College president on Native American issues. She also works as a freelance writer Sanford J. Ungar covering Native American, community development, and women’s acting vice president for development and alumnae/i affairs issues. Her profi le of Dan Dolan ’03 appears on p. 8. Margaret-Ann Radford-Wedemeyer president, AAGC Kathryn Shaer Ellis ’86 Sarah Callander ’16 postmaster Send address changes to: Callander, a communications major from Woodstock, VT, worked Advancement Services last fall as a Quarterly intern. She enjoys skiing and is a member of Dorsey Center 103 Goucher College Goucher’s tennis team. Her profi les of Mary Barnsback Byron ’53 1021 Dulaney Valley Road Ashley Gold ’93 Baltimore, MD 21204-2794 and appear on pp. 31 and 46. inquiries Goucher Quarterly: [email protected] or fax 410.337.6185 Alumnae/i Affairs: 1.800.272.2279 or 410.337.6180 Eric Stocklin College Switchboard: 1.800.GOUCHER Stocklin’s photographs have been recognized by the Associated Admissions: 410.337.6100 Press and the Society of Professional Journalists. The Baltimore- as of September 2012 based photographer’s work has appeared in publications including total students: 1,484 undergraduates, 770 graduate students Parade Magazine, the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, and total undergraduate faculty: 213 People magazine. His photographs of an alumna returning to her alumnae and alumni: 20,271 former dormitory room appear on pp. 22–25. The Goucher Quarterly is published as a service to all alumnae/i, students, parents, faculty, staff, and friends by Goucher College, a private liberal arts and sciences college founded in 1885. For up-to-date information about the college, visit www.goucher.edu. COME ONE, COME ALL Many thanks go out to all the talented people who help produce this publication. ALUMNAE/I WEEKEND 2013 APRIL 26–28 For information, visit www.goucher.edu/alumniweekend or call 410.337.6180. THE THING YOU LOVE hile editing the spring issue, I was reminded that many successful people (from Steve Jobs to LL Cool J) have remarked that to be happy we should recognize what we love doing—and then do it. The thought kept popping up because in interview after interview, Goucher alumnae/i or faculty members described how they discovered Wtheir passion—professionally speaking—and became immersed in jobs that they really loved. Not one found his calling in the same way or at the same stage of life. After graduation, Ashley Gold ’93, who majored in political science, studied fi ne and decorative art at Sotheby’s and became an art consultant. When she and a neighbor EDITOR’S NOTE observed that many New York boutiques were neither friendly nor affordable, they opened a boutique without “attitude.” Now they own four (p. 46). The Park Slope resident helps other people fi nd their perfect outfi ts, meets a constant stream of new acquaintances and, as a local business owner, enjoys being an integral part of the community. David Grossman, an associate professor of international business, describes how he, as a graduate student taking the last elective he needed to earn his master’s degree in business management, discovered his real interest: international business. “It opened my eyes to a whole new world. I loved it,” he says. He changed his fi eld and never looked back (p. 26). Jonathan Ezra Rubin ’09 was in high school when he fell in love with stage fi ghting 1 (p. 51). Now profi cient in hand-to-hand combat, tactical knife fi ghting, and shooting on stage, he’s certifi ed by the Society of American Fight Directors and manages a theater in Washington, DC. Describing his fi rst theatrical experiences, he says, “There was a rush, a feeling of, ‘Wow.’” No wonder he is sticking with it. Max Temkin ’10, co-creator of one of the top-selling games on Amazon, says he is free to choose to work on only those projects that interest him (p. 18). That’s a luxury indeed, and yet, the 26-year-old still occasionally wonders: “Is this how I want to be spending my day and what I want to be doing with my life?” If it isn’t, let’s wish him the best in fi nding what is. Best regards, Holly Selby | Editor [email protected] 2013 SPRING SPRING | Nancy Clark Reynolds ’49 interviews Lauren Bacall for Baltimore’s WBAL radio circa 1955. Joan Clouser Cohen ’51 We Asked; You Answered GOUCHER QUARTERLY In the last issue of the Quarterly, we published a 1952 photo of elected, the family moved east, but frequently traveled home Joan Clouser Cohen ’51, who was hired after graduation by to Idaho by train. “It took fi ve or six days on the Union Pacifi c Mary Ross Flowers ’28, Goucher’s director of admissions. For Railroad,” Reynolds recalls. 2 one year, Cohen traveled to high schools in Virginia, Maryland, After working for Goucher, Reynolds got married and had four New York, and New Jersey spreading the word about Goucher. sons. On a dare, she tried out to be a late-night hostess on a We asked if anyone else who had worked for Goucher as a WBAL-TV show called Million Dollar Movie. She got the job. student or an alumna/us would share his or her memories, and At WBAL, Reynolds offered live commentary about movies and Nancy Clark Reynolds ’49 called from Santa Fe, NM, to say served as a panelist on a Baltimore version of What’s My Line? that she, too, had worked for one year for the director of admissions. She also interviewed visiting celebrities for WBAL radio. Most of An English major, Reynolds was given a box of slides and the time, she says, “I worked at night so I had my husband babysit. told to visit high school juniors and seniors in other states—she All I had to do was go in to the station, look at the movie, and particularly remembers traveling to Virginia and Texas. host it live.” “I was just thrilled to be offered a full-time job, and to work for Reynolds went on to have an illustrious career, working in Idaho Mary Ross Flowers was a dream for any young woman. She was (where she hosted and produced KTVB’s Periscope); California from Alabama and was a true Southern lady with a wonderful (where she was the fi rst woman co-anchor of KPIX-TV in San sense of adventure and humor,” says Reynolds. “It is such a great Francisco, as well as a staffer for then-Governor Ronald Reagan); and memory. I graduated. I had a job. I was thrilled to travel.” Washington, DC (where she co-founded the fi rst woman-owned lob- Once called “DC’s Eloise” by Washingtonian magazine, bying fi rm). In 1981, President Reagan appointed her U.S. representa- Reynolds lived as a child in the Shoreham hotel in downtown tive to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Washington, DC. Born in Pocatello, Idaho, she is the daughter of D. Worth Clark, who in 1934 was elected to the U.S. House To read more about Nancy Clark Reynolds’s remarkable career, of Representatives and in 1938 to the U.S. Senate. After he was visit www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/golden-girl. goucher Today people | programs | events Special Collections, Indeed our Goucher bibliophiles were named winners of the inaugural Applestein-Sweren Book Collecting Prize on Nov. 19. F Funded by an endowment established in 2012 by Betty Applestein Sweren ’52 and Edgar Sweren, the prize is offered in hopes of inspiring Goucher students to read widely and to create personal libraries. Entrants wrote short essays describing how and why their collections were assembled and submitted an annotated bibliography of their collected works, as well as a “wish list” of titles they would like to add to their libraries.

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