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The Mulberry Tree Papers he familiar "Blue Goose" that has ferried St. Vol. XII, No. 2 Mary's athletes, musicians, and other assorted Fall 1985 Saints and Seahawks since 1973 has lurched to a final stop. St. Mary's College of Maryland TThe old International bus was retired to State surplus in August, its odometer reading a respectable 176,000 miles. Word at press time was that Historic St. Mary's City might Contents acquire the vehicle for use on short runs around the mu College newsfront, 1 seum grounds. In its younger days, the "Goose" ranged afar. Bus driver MTP Album, 8 "Kelly" Cutchember recently recalled two trips to Florida, one with the College jazz ensemble to Disneyworld, an The Sotweed Legacy, 10 other with the lacrosse team. On the latter expedition, the two-speed axle acted up and the "Goose" crawled into a The Legacy of Southern Maryland, 18 truck stop in low gear for needed repairs. Other trips took the jazz group to Kansas City and the 1983 wind ensemble Students in the Workplace, 22 to Boston. Contributions Reach All-Time High, 24 "We had very little trouble with her, really," said Kelly. "A lot of little things, then she'd run fine for a long time. The Man Who Made a Difference, 32 The engine was rebuilt at 90,000 miles, and since then we've got almost another 90,000 out of her." That Old Debbil Deficit, 36 The College plans to use vans rather than buy another bus, renting busses should that become necessary. Alumnitems, 40
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Kelly Cutchember and James Fenwick, who piloted her for 116,000 The Mulberry Tree Papers is published by St. Mary's College miles, pose with the Blue Goose on her retirement. of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Maryland 20686, for alumni, faculty, students, staff and friends of the College. Articles from these sources are welcomed. The magazine is named for "the mulberry tree" mentioned in Front cover: Exotic visitors to College dock June 18 included colonial chronicles — the tree under which the Calvert colonists the Maryland Dove of St. Mary's City, at left; Providence, a 110- signed a treaty of friendship with the Yaocomico Indians and on foot sloop out of Newport; and, partially visible at right, the 130- which public notices were posted in the mid-l600s. The old tree foot schooner from Pennsylvania, Western Union. Earlier in the lived on in St. Mary's City, enduring until well into the 19th cen day, the Dove had outsailed her larger companions in a race from tury. The present hope is that The Mulberry Tree Papers, by keep Dahlgren to the mouth of the St. Mary's River, much to the de ing Marylanders informed about the College, will continue to light of her skipper, Eric Speth. Photo by Holly Giesen. strengthen the bonds between the citizens of Maryland and the state's "monument" school. Photo Credits: Inside front cover, pp. 1, 4, 6, 24, 40, 41, 47, in Editor, Gordon Kester side back cover, Holly Giesen; pp. 8, 9, 23, St. Mary's College Student Photo Service; pp. 11, 14, 15, 16, Andrea Hammer; pp. Alumnotes, Gail Dean 18-21, Fran Nelson; p. 22, courtesy Howard University Hospital; Contributors, Chris Cihlar, Abby Ford p. 39, reprinted courtesy The Evening Sun (cartoonist: Mike Lane). College Listed as College Newsfront "Best Buy" St. Mary's is one of 221 U. S. colleges listed in a new college guide being published this fall. "The Best Buys in Stratford-on-St. College Education," by Edward B. Fiske, education editor of The New Mary's, mayhap? York Times, is described as "a con sumer's guide to colleges that offer The Maryland Shakespeare Festival, high quality education at a reasonable launched this summer as a joint ven cost." ture by the College and Historic St. The current edition of an earlier Mary's City, shows promise of becom book by Fiske, "A Selective Guide to ing a regular feature of the local sum Colleges," also lists St. Mary's among mer scene. the 265 "best and most interesting four-year institutions in the country." This year's playbill offered two com edies, Shakespeare's "As You Like It," opening June 21, and the Moliere-de- rived "Scapino," which closed the sea Michael Donahue, left, and Grady Smith, in Student Awards son July 28. So generally well attended a scene from Shakespeare Festival's "As Cited for achievement at the Honors were the shows that plans are under You Like It. " Both are experienced profes Convocation and the Athletic Awards sional actors. way to mount three productions next banquet in the spring semester were: summer, according to John Cooke, the "It was evident that audiences en Thomas Moyer, '85 —Alumni Council Festival's artistic director and an asso Award for character and ideals in rep ciate professor of theater at St. Mary's. joyed themselves," said Cooke, "and it goes without saying that both shows resenting the College. The Shakespeare play was staged on benefitted enormously from sterling Linda Sloan, '86 — Faculty Scholarship. a riverside platform at Brome's Wharf, performances by those sailboats on Pamela McCauley, '86 — Margaret E. while the set and audience bleachers the river, the glorious sunsets and, Keen Award of the American Associa were actually placed on the nearby finally, that canopy of stars." tion of University Women, St. Mary's wharf for "Scapino," which featured a Chapter. rowboat and two scuba divers in the Roberta Kienast, '86— John Petruc- zany goings-on. Higher Fees Set celli Memorial Award for academic The Festival offered several St. achievement, devotion to the College, Mary's College students the chance to The Board of Trustees has approved a and responsibility to society. draw their first paychecks as profes nine percent increase in tuition and Julianne Dolan, '86; Holly Giesen, '86; sional actors and technicians and to fees for the 1985-86 academic year, Patrick Jameson, '86; and Robert work beside seasoned professionals raising the cost for a Maryland student Tracy, '86 — Landers Award to outstand from Washington and New York. One living on campus to $5,250 from last ing juniors. professional known to local audiences year's $4,815. Eugene McCandless, '85 — is Paul Ames, who starred in the Col Specifically, tuition has been in lege's celebrated production of Gilbert Coopersmith Award for political creased to $1,500 from $1,305; board leadership. and Sullivan's "lolanthe" two winters and room to $1,700 each from $1,600; ago and returned this summer to take and mandatory fees to $350 from last Julie Hejhall, '85, and R. Scott Raspa, the title role in "Scapino." year's $310. '86 — Board of Trustees Award for con tribution to the College. Sets were designed by Sandor Biro, The fee increase includes a boost in resident designer in the College's the the student activities fee from $75 to Tom Durdock, '85, and Belle Mat ater department, and music for the $90 at the request of the Student Gov tingly, '85 — Athlete of the Year productions was directed by Larry ernment Association. The SGA Awards, Durdock in tennis, Mattingly Vote, assistant professor of music. pointed to an increasing need for in basketball. Cooke directed "Scapino" and played funds by student organizations and the Sandy Duff, '85, and Jimmy Faecher, Touchstone in "As You Like It," in addi fact that the activities fee had not been '85 — Academic Athlete of the Year tion to his other duties. raised since 1981. • Awards. Both played varsity lacrosse. Brown Jacobs Nitze
Three Trustees Named Mrs. Jacobs, of Stevenson, Md., is a circle of advisers to Franklin Roose Baltimore native, a Vassar graduate, velt. During World War II he filled a va and has long been active in civic af riety of economic posts in the capital Earle Palmer Brown, Molly Bruce fairs. She was a director of Union Me and was awarded the Medal of Merit Jacobs and Paul H. Nitze have been ap morial Hospital for nearly 30 years, is for his work with the U.S. Strategic pointed to six-year terms on the Col a trustee of Peabody Conservatory, Bombing Survey in the period lege's board of trustees by Governor honorary trustee of the Baltimore Mu 1944-46. He stayed on to help imple Harry Hughes. They succeed retiring seum of Art, is Maryland director of ment the Marshall Plan after the war. board members Esther Coopersmith, Stratford Hall Plantation, and has been In the '50s Nitze became president Redmond Finney, and T. Hammond a chapter president of Colonial Dames of the Foreign Service Educational Welsh. of America and vice president of the Foundation and was one of the found Brown is chairman of Earle Palmer Maryland Committee on Day Care of ers of the School for Advanced Interna Brown and Associates, Bethesda, a ma Children. tional Studies in Washington, now part jor public relations and advertising She is married to Bradford Jacobs, of Johns Hopkins. He remains affili agency. A Long Island native and a author and recently retired editor and ated with the school and is a trustee graduate of Washington and Lee, he columnist of the Evening Sun, and she emeritus of Hopkins. moved to the Washington area in 1953 is a great-granddaughter of former Recalled to federal service in the to found his agency after World War II Maryland Governor Oden Bowie. Kennedy and Johnson administrations, service and work in journalism. Nitze, who has a home in Charles Nitze was Assistant Secretary of De Brown is a director of the Washing County, is currently special adviser to fense, Secretary of the Navy, and Dep ton Capitals hockey team and the Cap the President for arms reduction nego uty Secretary of Defense in the years ital Centre, chairman of the board of tiations and has had a long and distin 1961-69. He represented the Defense Harness Tracks of America, past presi guished career in public service. Department at the SALT talks with the dent of the Metropolitan Washington A Harvard graduate, his first job was Soviet Union (1969-74), and in 1981 Tennis Association, and a director and with the investment banking firm of headed the U.S. delegation for inter regional vice president of the Mary Dillon, Read, and Co. in New York, mediate-range nuclear arms talks with land State Chamber of Commerce. which he left in 1940 to join the small the Soviets.
ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND pie... administrative analyst for higher edu Cribbs graduated with honors in Arriving cation for the Maryland Department of 1974 and was a member of the swim Daniel Amari, director of career plan Fiscal Services since 1980, and prior to team and active in sailing, canoe and ning and placement, received his B.A. that had been an administrator for the kayak, soccer and tennis. A member of in English from the College of Wooster State Board of Higher Education, the the St. Mary's College Alumni Council, and an M. Ed. in student personnel Board of Trustees of the State Univer he was elected secretary-treasurer of from the University of Vermont. sities and Colleges, and Towson State that body last spring. Michael A. Freeman, associate director University. A Towson State graduate, he He is married to Brenda Beck for minority recruitment and services, earned an M.S. in public administra Cribbs, '73, also a biology major. She was appointed last December to re tion at the University of Baltimore. has a master's degree in special educa cruit and counsel minority students. Robert Sennhauser, assistant professor tion from West Virginia, and has been He has a bachelor's degree and a mas of art, comes to St. Mary's from a sim an animal research technician in the ter's in counselor education from the ilar position at the San Antonio Art In psychology department at Hopkins. University of Iowa, and was active as stitute. Earlier he was a visiting The couple has two children. • an undergraduate in campus and com lecturer and artist at the Art Institute of munity affairs. Chicago, the Hartford Art School, and Departing Beverly Hargraves, associate professor the University of Oklahoma. He is co- founder and a board member of Artists Gene Applegate, supervisor of security of mathematics, comes from three since 1971, retiring for the second years as an assistant professor at Gust- Book Works, Chicago, and his pho tographic work has been exhibited time; he came to St. Mary's after 22 avus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Min years in the United States Army. He nesota. She has also taught at the widely. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in fine arts from Ohio and his wife, Jean, will remain in St. University of Minnesota-Duluth; Col Mary's County lege of St. Catherine, St. Paul; and University. Robert M. Bradburn, carpenter, retir Hamline University, St. Paul. She is a Laura D. Whitaker, resident director ing after 19 and a half years of service Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Carleton and assistant in residence life, earned to the College. College, studied at the Australian Na her B.A. in psychology from Berry Col tional University, Canberra, and lege and an M.A. in student personnel Robert Cameron, assistant professor of earned her Ph.D. at the University of at Bowling Green State University. music, to an associate professorship at Minnesota. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, to Michael J. Kiphart, assistant professor Alumnus Joins teach graduate courses in conducting of psychology, received his Ph.D from and direct the symphonic band. Dur Faculty ing six years at St. Mary's, Cameron led Colorado State University in May. His the College Wind Ensemble in two master's and bachelor's degrees in psy David Cribbs, '74, has been appointed successful appearances at music con chology are also from Colorado State. visiting assistant professor of biology ventions in Buffalo and Boston and in He has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the College, joining Susan Robin stituted well attended "pops" concerts and Phi Kappa Phi. son, '79, instructor in mathematics, as the second graduate on the full-time on campus. Kathryn M. McQueeney resident di faculty. J. Francis Carroll, retiring after 30 rector and assistant in student activi Cribbs, a biology major at St. Mary's, ties, earned a B.S. degree in sociology years at St. Mary's, most recently as has his doctorate in biochemistry from custodian of Kent Hall. at Shepherd College and an M. Ed. in West Virginia University and did his counseling and student personnel at postdoctoral work at Johns Hopkins Lillie Mae Hewlett, housekeeper, retir the University of Maryland. on an NIH fellowship. He has been a ing after 34 years in which she worked Edward B. Quinn, Jr., vice president research associate in biophysics at in food service and maintenance. for administration, joined the College Hopkins since 1982. His research has Susan Silanskis, '79, director of admis last December as successor to the re been in the area of non-muscle cell sions, to marriage (with Tom tiring John S. Andrews. He had been mobility. Weingartner, former director of athlet-
TIIE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS Lillie Mae Hewlett of Ridge, right, and J. Francis Carroll of St. James receive gifts and words of appreciation from Bobby John Harvey and students Heidi Rosenthal Abell, maintenance supervisor, upon their and Amy Roberts prepare to ship old retirement. Hewlett worked 34 years at the Saints' uniforms off to South Dakota In College, Carroll 30. dian high school. tunity . . . you have been active in arms control. . . and as a member of an old Maryland family . . . you have fought for preservation ... of our Maryland heritage . . . and of our greatest natural resource, the Chesapeake Bay" fnducted into the Order of the Ark and Dove for outstanding service to the College were Mrs. Jack Cooper- smith, T Hammond Welsh, Jr., and Redmond C.S. Finney, retiring from the Board of Trustees after a combined service record of 34 year. Mrs. Cooper- smith has been active in political life and was a public delegate to the UN during the Carter administration; Welsh, a retired lawyer and banker, was Board chairman for five years; and ics) and a new job as admissions direc Finney, current chairman of the Aca on South Dakota reservations and the tor at City College, City University of demic Affairs Committee, is head needs of the Indians, so he put in a New York. master of the Oilman School, call to old friend Volesky, now a Re Walter W Szlendak, security officer Baltimore. • publican state legislator from Huron, and father of Casimir Szlendak, '65, re S.D. tiring after almost 16 years of service. The Crow Creek Volesky suggested a call to Walt Val entine, athletic director at Crow Creek Heather Worthley '82, assistant direc Connection High School, who assured Harvey that tor of admissions and an admissions his Indian students could surely use counselor since her graduation, to en Because St. Mary's athletic director the uniforms. roll in a graduate program in lin John Harvey once coached at Harvard, To cover shipping costs, the College guistics at the University of scores of Indian kids in South Dakota auctioned off some of the old uniforms Washington. are now sporting new black-and-gold at halftime of a basketball game and gym togs. sent the remaining 409 items off to It came about this way: Crow Creek. Senator, Trustees At Cambridge, Harvey struck up a "There's some really good stuff Honored friendship with a student named Ron here," said Valentine. "We're very Volesky, an Indian who had been appreciative." Maryland's senior senator and three raised on a South Dakota reservation. Valentine is not simply issuing the retiring College trustees were hon The two have stayed in touch over the clothing, but using it "as a reward, not ored at the annual Ark and Dove ensuing ten years. a gift. A lot of kids don't realize that dinner June 7 in the reconstructed Last year, when the Saints became you have to work hard and practice to State House. the Seahawks and uniform colors were play in the big game." Sen. Charles McC. Mathias (R.-Md.) changed to blue, gold and white, Seven members of the girls' vol was inducted into the Order of Lord Harvey found himself with more than leyball team, for example, were outfit Baltimore for distinguished public 500 pieces of black-and-gold gym ap ted in the new apparel as a reward for service and was presented a medallion parel — some of it new, some used, but perfect attendance at practice sessions, by President Edward T Lewis. all of it surplus. and the same philosophy is dictating As a Senator for 16 years, the citation It happened that at the time Harvey all of the school's distribution of the read, "you have stood for equal oppor had been reading a newspaper series clothing.
4 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Athletics Coaches Orleans and is now a scout for the Davidson College, is the new women's Washington Bullets. Jay is a disciple of basketball coach, replacing Danny Named Dean Smith, University of North Car Hofmeister. She currently coaches olina coach, and comes to St. Mary's club track at St. Mary's and was a cross with Smith's strong recommendation. country coach at Davidson, helped or Two new basketball coaches and a On the docket for the Seahawks is a ganize the first women's basketball volleyball mentor have been named warmup game against powerhouse team at her alma mater, and was by John Harvey, director of athletics. George Mason University at their new named to the All-British University Joseph P. (Jay) Gardiner comes from fieldhouse in Northern Virginia on De basketball team during an undergradu basketball and football coaching at the cember 21. Alumni and friends in the ate year abroad. Louisiana School for the Deaf to head area are cordially invited to cheer on The new women's volleyball coach men's basketball for the Seahawks. His the team. Also on the schedule is a is Shirley M. Geisbert, currently a vol BA. in physical education is from season-ending invitational tournament leyball official for the Charles County Western Maryland College, where he at St. Mary's (February 21-22) with Recreation and Parks Department and coached junior varsity basketball after teams from Gallaudet College, Phila assistant track coach at Chopticon graduation. Jay comes from a basket delphia College of Pharmacy and Sci High School. She is a physical educa ball family; his father coached at Cath ence, and Ferrum College in Virginia. tion major and a graduate of the Uni olic University and Loyola in New Sally Bondurant, a 1978 graduate of versity of South Dakota. • Foundation Honors Three Kingston Elected The St. Mary's College Foundation has Tom Kingston, a St. Mary's senior ma James I. Wood, instituted awards for outstanding serv joring in economics, has been elected ice to the College, honoring three fac chairperson of the Student Advisory Former Grounds ulty and staff members in the spring Assembly to the State Board of Higher Supervisor semester. Education. He thus becomes a non The Homer L. Dodge Award went in voting member of the State Board for James Irving Wood of Park Hall, April to Richard K. Stark, professor of 1985-86. grounds supervisor at St. Mary's Col mathematics and a faculty member The SAA was created to reflect the lege from 1925 to 1942, died February since 1970. Named especially for his views of Maryland college students on 15 at the age of 89 in the Amber House extra-hours work on two key faculty educational issues to the State Board Nursing Home, Lexington Park. committees, Stark was presented a cer and to elected state officials. A native of Dameron, he was em tificate and cash award at the annual Kingston says he hopes to stimulate ployed by the public works depart Honors Convocation. The award is greater student participation in SAA on ment of the Navy from 1944 until his named in memory of the former presi the various state campuses by more retirement in 1965. dent of Norwich University and father frequent correspondence and by visit While grounds supervisor, Wood of faculty member and one-time ing the member colleges himself. The and his family lived in the "little white Trustee Norton Dodge. The elder outstanding policy issues, he says, are house" on the campus, and one of Dodge received an honorary degree the need for student aid and campus their nine children — Irvinette Hall of from St. Mary's in 1975. construction funds. Valley Lee — was born there. The struc Staff Merit Awards for outstand At St. Mary's, Kingston has been a ture now houses the Admissions ing contribution and service to the senator and treasurer of the Student Office. College, consisting of plaques and Government Association, has chaired In addition to six daughters and savings bonds, were presented in May the Speakers' Committee, and has three sons, Wood is survived by his to Judy Caulder, personnel associate, been a volunteer driver for DEAD (stu wife, Kathryn M. Wood, 28 grand and Bobby Abell, director of dents Determined to End Alcohol children, and eight great maintenance. • Deaths). • grandchildren.
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Governor's Cup (Cont'd.) Ren Jackson, president of the Col lege from 1969 until 1982, writes in re sponse to the story on the origin of the Edwin Beitzell, Governor's Cup Yacht Race (MTP, Local Historian Winter 1984-85). Jackson remembers that the idea for the race from Mary land's "new" capital to the old came to Edwin Warfield Beitzell, 79, died him while sailing off Annapolis in November 13, 1984, in Leonardtown 1969 as "a great adventure for sailors after a career as a telephone company . . . that would help popularize the supervisor and as a leading authority mission of the College to a broader on the history of his native St. Mary's constituency." County. He edited the Chronicles of St. Faculty Bookshelf Mary's, publication of the county his torical society, from 1965 to 1983 and "Prophets of Order; The Rise of the Greene was the author of many articles and New Class, Technocracy and Socialism four books — "The Jesuit Missions of in America,"'by Donald Stabile; South "Suffrage and Religious Principle: St. Mary's County," "Life on the Poto End Press, Boston. Speeches and Writings ofOlympia mac River," "Point Lookout Prison Brown," edited by Dana Greene; Camp for Confederates," and "Calen Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchin, N.J. dar of Events of St. Mary's County in Dana Greene, professor of history, the American Revolution." earlier edited the speeches and ser A graduate of Georgetown Univer mons of Quaker-suffragist Lucretia sity, he also earned a degree in ac Mott (Edwin Mellen Press). The pres counting from Benjamin Franklin ent volume collects the essays and University and was supervisor of com speeches of Olympia Brown, the first mercial engineering for the C&P denominationally ordained female Telephone Company when he retired (Universalist) in America and a leader in 1967. in the struggle for women's right to vote. Brown (1835-1926) drew directly He was awarded an honorary doctor upon her religious beliefs in advocat of letters degree by St. Mary's College ing women's suffrage. From 1866, in 1976 for having "devoted his life Stabile when she attended her first women's and energies to resurrecting and pre The author, associate professor of rights meeting as a newly minted pas serving for others the history of this economics and a St. Mary's faculty tor, until 1920, when the 19th Amend county and its people." He had also re member since 1980, declares that a so ment finally won women the vote, ceived the John Carroll Award of the ciety planned by "experts" is the com Brown labored for the cause. Then, at Georgetown University Alumni Asso mon goal of a "New Class" of age 85, "she turned her still active ciation and the Father Andrew White "professional administrators, scien mind to another issue: the ending of Award of the Catholic Historical tists, technicians, and intellectuals" militarism and the establishment of Society. which has emerged in the 20th cen peace." An Edwin W Beitzell Memorial Pub tury. The impacts of these technocrats lication Fund has been established at upon U. S. socialism is assessed, and "Adolescence; The Transitional Years," the St. Mary's County Historical the status of their philosophy today is by J. Roy Hopkins; Academic Press, Society. described. New York City.
ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND early 20th century (1854-1918), is one of a series of volumes on art criticism published by UMI. Caffin, a prolific au thor, editor, reviewer, and close associ ate of photographer Alfred Stieglitz, So was a strong supporter of modern art. As an admirer of the pictorial pho tography of Stieglitz and of Edward I Steichen, he helped establish pho hi • tography as a legitimate art form in the U.S. At the same time, he championed the expressionist paintings of Whistler and Matisse as a proper response to sity: Showcasing China's New the fact that the camera had invaded Educational Policies," appeared in the and captured the field formerly re March-April issue of Change, maga served to the painter — the literal rep zine of the American Association for resentation of objects. Higher Education. In addition, here are some other St. John J. Eichenmuller, associate pro •SHW Mary's faculty who have been active fessor of biology, coauthor of "The Ec- outside the classroom: tomycorrhiza of Monotropa Uniflora," Hopkins J. Frederick Fausz, associate professor in a Fall 1984 biological journal. of history, author of "Toleration and This is an excellent textbook in de Ernest J. Willoughby, associate pro velopmental psychology by J. Roy fessor of biology, named St. Mary's Hopkins, professor of psychology and County coordinator for the Maryland a member of the St. Mary's faculty CI Ornithological Society Breeding Bird since 1980. "I wrote this book assum :W:;::N:::;- i: A Atlas Project. ing three major educational goals . . . to familiarize students with important Allan K. Hovland, assistant professor issues in adolescent psychology ... to of chemistry, named president of the give students an appreciation of the St. Mary's County Science and Engi range of methods that have been used neering Fair Board. effectively to gain information . . . (and) to offer some practical implica Robert H. Goldsmith, professor of tions of the . . . material students will chemistry, presented the H. Emmett encounter in the field . . . Throughout Reid Award for Outstanding Chemical the text, case studies and examples are Education in the mid-Atlantic region. used to make the reading more enjoya Katsunori Mita, assistant professor of ble and to show that the subject matter physical mathematics, co-author with is about real people." two former students, Bill Shirley and Opportunity in Early Maryland," in the Chu Rui Chang, both '84, of "An Ex "Charles H. Coffin; A Voice for Modern Spring 1985 issue of The Maryland periment with Two Air Tracks," in the ism," by Sandra Lee Underwood; UMI Pendulum, publication of the Mary American fournal of Physics. Research Press, Ann Arbor. land Commission on Afro-American Flistoryand Culture. Sandy Underwood is assistant pro fessor of art at St. Mary's. Her study of Henry Rosemont, Jr., professor of phi Caffin, an English-born art critic of the losophy, whose article, "Fudan Univer
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,SW he summer of 1983 was dry as a bone in South ern Maryland. As the planter walked his fields, each step raised a puffy cloud of dust. The dust settled on his work boots, stirred up hills of in Tsects, and coated the bottom leaves of tobacco, turning them grey. For the farmers, the drought meant that their tobacco would not be as thin, supple, and cherry red as the buyers from R. J. Reynolds and American Tobacco like and that it wouldn't bring the usual price. Few apprehended the extent of the disaster, however. In April, 1984, the farmers took what they described as a knee in the groin from the buyers. The farmers were, in that month, offered less per pound for their crop than it had cost them to transport it to the market warehouse. After spending about 80 cents to produce a pound of to bacco, they were offered the choice of selling it for as little as 10 cents a pound or hauling it back home to wait for next year's market. The farmers were incredulous. To bacco farming is a risky business, but no one had ex pected the bottom to fall out of the market so completely. One year later, on March 19, 1985, the buyers returned The Sotweed for the opening day of the tobacco market in Hughesville. The farmers stood, grim faced and determined, waiting to Legacy see whether this year would be a repeat of the year before. Hughesville, two miles north of the county line that separates St. Mary's from Charles, is a mere dot on Route When the fur trade on the 235 between Lexington Park and Waldorf that is best de scribed by telling what isn't there. There used to be a car Chesapeake proved no bonanza, dealership, but it's not there now. There used to be a con 17th century Southern Maryland venience store, but its doors are shut, probably forever. There used to be a Catholic school, and a big, flashy real settlers began growing tobacco as estate agency, and there used to be the regional offices of the local power company. They've all moved elsewhere, virtually their only source of leaving their dilapidated shells behind. The only things that really matter in Hughesville are the tobacco ware revenue. Today their descendants houses, and they matter for only about six weeks of the in St. Mary's County still derive year. The warehouses squat on the very edge of Route 235 as the road bends and the speed limit signs warn that the more than half their farm income driver should slow from 55 to 40 miles an hour. If the signs were more visible, fewer people would get tickets as from the leaf each year, although they scoot past the highway patrol's mobile radar units sta the business is fraught with tioned around the vacant structures of Hughesville. The warehouses are massive, grey, metal caverns — uncertainty. This account is the huge structures that could play host to several basketball work of a St. Mary's journalism games simultaneously, or an enormous down-South church revival, or a rally of unionized tobacco growers student. hell-bent on changing the system. But they don't. The warehouses, with their myriad ramps and sliding doors by EmilyJoyner and elevated loading zones, have only one purpose: they are holding areas for thousands of bales of tobacco over which the growers do annual battle against the big time buyers. The warehouses have tiny doors to admit the peo ple who have a crop to sell, and very, very big doors to
10 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND how they would pay their bills. Now, with thousands of pounds of a fresh, tissue-paper-thin crop, packed into tight, sturdy bales lined up on the market floor, their hopes were high, but their expectations were pathetically low. What would the men in crisp, button-down collars and snug, dark ties, and flapping London Fog trench coats give them this year? What would the rhythmic, magpie chatter of the auctioneer leave them with? John Ira Nelson, age 41, waiting with his father, Toots, and a couple of his sisters for the auction to begin, talked about softball and how he might like to coach a team someday. People around him, housewives in Levis and down jackets, curiosity seekers from other markets in neighboring states, and a few reporters from local news papers, lounged about, leaning on the prickly spokes pro truding from the bales of tobacco. Just shooting the breeze, passing the time, but always with one eye on the far corner of the warehouse, the corner where the big shots gathered. The Nelsons had a lot at stake. The pre vious spring, rather than accept the 10 cents a pound price offered, they had hauled 14,000 pounds of tobacco back home. Now they had two years' crops to sell.
"Don't let 'em have the crop, and then let 'em SSI/ "L-« . . "- ,-.* While Toots Nelson drives the tractor and son John Ira stands at see if they can set a fair right, the annual tobacco planting begins on the Nelson farm in May of this year. This crop will be marketed in 1986, when the price may or may not make the investment worthwhile. price." accomodate the trucks that move the crop in and out. Like a ripple of static on what had been a clear radio Once the crop is on the floor, once the buyers have ar signal, the auctioneer's voice could be heard in the dis rived, once the auctioneers are in tune, that's when the tance. As people realized what was happening, they grew drama begins. On that March day in 1985, the farmers' silent, and the silence spread until, slowly, very slowly, the mood was grim. sound could be heard by everyone. From the far corner of There were mutterings. the warehouse the twangy, nasal, sing-song staccato of the "They ought to lock the doors of this s — - house, and auctioneer's voice charged the air. The bidding had set fire to it." begun. "Damned right. I ain't plowed my land yet, and I ain't For the next six weeks, four days a week, the auctioneer, going to until I get what I lost last year." a dozen or so buyers, and a couple of attendants with clip "By-gawd, we should just shut the doors — lock 'em up boards would ignore the presence of the farmers to stride tight for ten years, don't let 'em have the crop, and then down the aisles of tobacco, firing off bids, snatching par let 'em see if they can set a fair price." cels of the crop from the depths of tight bales to rub it There was reason for the anger and bitterness. The pre between their hands, bid on it, and then quickly move on vious year, when the farmers were offered the lowest to the next row and the next. The average time that a prices in recent memory, some suffered such economic buyer spends actually examining a bale of tobacco is a ruin that they were forced out of growing tobacco, forced mere four seconds. At the end of three hours the bales are to sell their equipment and, if they were young enough, left looking like so many huge, reddish-gold cakes at a forced to try new ways of supporting themselves. But most bake sale, each bale sporting a tiny, paper pennant with stayed to try another year, though desperately wondering the bid scribbled on it. The paper pennants, called tickets,
THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 11 are stabbed unceremoniously on little wooden sticks into weeks of winter, the beds will stay warm and the seeds the center of each bale. The Nelsons, on that early spring germinate. Under the plastic, gentle warmth can turn day in March, 1985, hovered at the edge of the action, visi quickly to killing heat. Although plastic sheeting can be ble yet invisible spectators at their own judgment day, purchased already perforated, John Ira has devised his watching quietly as the buyers moved down the rows. own perforating tool. He hammered nails in rows, at two- Then John Ira moved in fast to read the Nelson tickets — to inch intervals, to a log about two feet long, attached the read their fate. log to the handles of an old push-mower, and simply There are precious few farmers in southern Maryland rolled his way up and down the long, plastic-covered beds who can't recount the exact dates and prices of the boom puncturing a uniform grid of holes that release heat and years and the bust years; the year they stopped having to allow water to penetrate the plastic and nurture the seeds. poke a stick in the ground to plant each slip; the year they The beds stay covered until mid-April when the weather bought their first tractor; the year their whole crop check becomes warm; then the plastic is removed to allow the went to medical expenses because a son was nearly seedlings to "toughen up" before the planting in May. crushed under a green and yellow John Deere, or because a wife had two babies in eleven months. And there are precious few of them who cannot tell you the history of the land they are now farming, which of the Lords Bal "Yes, I done the tobacco. timore granted the land and how long that grant remained intact before being sold over or parceled out. And all of But then I had enough them can relate how the Indians taught their ancestors to plant in mounds between tree stumps. Except for the tell children so I didn 't ing of it, tobacco culture in southern Maryland, from seed bed to hogshead, has changed very little in the past three have to do it no more" and a half centuries. John Ira likes to say that he makes tobacco 18 months a In May oak pollen coats window sills and driveways, year. With those words he sums up the overlapping nature porches and eyelashes. In May the children of the county of growing a capricious, labor-intensive crop that must be roll up their jeans, take the first tentative steps into still- sown before the previous year's crop is sold. chilly water to hunt for blue crabs, and dream of when It begins in late January. The Nelsons rip open small, school will be out. In May spring showers dampen tilled black and white, generically numbered packets of seed. fields. In May the tobacco farmer gently pulls the slips The seeds, so tiny and fine that they look like ground cin from the moist seedbeds, hitches the "planter" to the back namon, and feel, when rubbed between thumb and fore of his tractor, and recruits his family to set the crop. finger, like silky, slightly sticky, twice-washed sand, are The "planter" is a low-slung, sled-like device equipped sometimes mixed with a neutral agent like ashes or corn with seats in multiples of two, a 50-gallon drum water res meal to facilitate sowing and to keep the seed from blow ervoir, and steep sided trays attached to each seat. The oc ing away. The Nelsons do not hand-sow or mix their seed, cupants, the planters, face away from the driver so that preferring instead to use a seeder — a device not unlike a while the driver of the tractor knows where he is going, suburban lawn fertilizer spreader. The holes in the hand- the planters see where they have been. A heap of about pushed seeder are smaller than a needle point and, as the one hundred fragile tobacco slips are piled on the trays in seeds hit the ground, they are invisible to the eye. Until front of each planter and, one by one, they are fed, root the level of the seed begins to diminish visibly in the up, into cogs situated between the planters. Two planters seeder, the farmer must take it on faith alone that he has feed one cog, which in turn plants one row. The cog indeed sowed. turns, shoves the slip into the ground, water shoots from a The seed is carefully spread into long, narrow beds hose to wet the seedling, and the next spoke of the cog measuring 25 by 4 yards and covered with sheets of plas sets the next plant and the next. The work is fast, monoto tic, the edges of the plastic heaped with a snug-fitting hem nous, mindless, and crucial. Requiring little physical exer of soil or nailed into the earth so that, in the waning tion, very often it is women's work. It is common to see 12 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND entire families, encompassing several generations, plant ing the crop in the spring in St. Mary's County. John Ira Nelson's mother, Beatrice, has planted tobacco, but she's philosophical about why she didn't have to do it Andrea very long, and she exhibits a pragmatism suitable to the Hammer mother of 15 offspring, when she says, "Yes, I done the tobacco. But then I had enough children so I didn't have The Iliralgfee Story to do it no more." In the summer the Nelson men sit down to her dinners and pack their bellies with potatoes and he Sotweed Legac\ is part of a larger fried chicken and homemade biscuits — calories that will « mi isaii "I the ('.< unit; being put n >• be spent in the tobacco fields. geiher b; the students • il Andrea I lam Through the summer the crop must be weeded and mer. assistant |
THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 13 Beatrice Nelson: "They leave this farm for nuthin'. . . nuthin'. shirts and sweat rivers of grime. In August the tobacco is cut. Cutting time cries out for hired hands. Cutting must be done quickly in hot, dry weather, and the tobacco must be hung immediately to ensure that it is not bruised or rained on, or otherwise damaged. In the heat of August, hired cutters earn every penny of the $5.00 an hour they are paid. Stripped to the waist, baseball caps and sweatbands protecting their brains against the sun, the farmer and his team of cutters bend and grasp the thick stalks of tobacco -^ ...^|fe- with one hand, while the other, knife-wielding hand swings in a tight, vicious arc to lop off the plant within inches of the ground. Swinging one leg scissor-like be hind the other, the lead cutters pave the way for the "knock-over" and "throw-row" cutters as they stride and cut, stride and cut, propelling themselves from one plant to the next, never pausing, never standing upright, never stopping for a slug of Coke or a drag on a Marlboro until the time is right. The lead cutters, the best men on the team, determine that time, and only then do the men be side them stop. *d ' The crop is speared in the broiling fields or in the shade of the barns. Sharpened sticks measuring a little over four feet in length hold the tobacco. Holding a stick perpen dicular to the ground, the planter caps the sharp end of the stick with a small, steel cone which he holds in place with one hand while the other hand swings each stalk of tobacco high in the air and slams it downward onto the spear. The woody stem of the plant is shinnied down the stick to make room for the next plant and the next until the stick is packed with about six plants. Swinging the thick, fleshy stalks, the laborer has to be careful not to im pale his own fleshy palm on the steel spear. There are those who have speared their own hands, or hacked a to bacco knife into their own legs, and there are those who have lived to tell about the time they fell out of a tobacco barn. The barns can be cathedrals where the crop hangs in repose for the next four months, or they can be chambers of horror. A man can climb 36 feet into the crown of a barn, balance on skinny tier poles and joists, and for hours catch and hang the sticks thrown to him from below, and then climb down to a stomach-thudding, carbohydrate- packed dinner. Or a man can fall out of the barn, some times into a wheelchair or coffin. St. Mary's Hospital, in the county seat in Leonardtown, keeps no records of farm- related injuries —mute testimony, perhaps, to their com-
14 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND John Ira, eldest of Toots'sons, was a standout Softball player un til a back injury sidelined him. monplace nature. The barns must also be checked period ically throughout the curing period for changes in temperature and relative humidity. When significant changes occur, barn doors and side-slats are either opened or closed depending on the rapidity of the curing process. While the humidity fluctuates, so too does the state of the crop, changing sometimes within the brief span of a day or two from a brittle leaf that can turn to powder if touched, to a pliable, soft, manageable leaf that is "in order." In the winter, on cold, dank days along the rivers of the Chesapeake, the tobacco comes in order. It is then that the last attention to detail occurs, the final weeks of "making tobacco" happen. In the winter the crop is tossed down from the barns and prepared for market. Through the months of January, February, and March, while the seedlings are getting a warm start in the hot beds, the Nelsons climb into their trucks several times a day and criss-cross frozen, muddy, one-truck-wide trails to outlying barns to begin the repetitive chore of hauling the tobacco to the stripping house. The Nelson stripping house is luxurious. While many planters strip their crop in the barns, or in their garages, their basements, or even their kitchens, the Nelson strip ping house is a 16- by 20-foot, cinderblock work retreat, close to the main barn, and snuggled low and warm to the earth. In the dead of winter, a smoking chimney promises refuge from the bitter winds that bite across their 200 bar ren acres. Four high windows face south for the light, but the six fluorescent fixtures overhead are crucial, for they duplicate the light of the tobacco market floor. One wall is banked with firewood and the woodstove is kept glowing against the cold. The seats that the farmers occupy are a diverse jumble of yard-sale outcasts — the folding chairs one sees at high school plays and funeral homes, an over turned bucket, a tiny, pink, molded plastic chair that might have known another life in a nursery school. The sounds of country music whine from a small, plastic radio and blend with the swishing of the tobacco leaves being stripped from the stalks. Toots Nelson and four of his sons spend the winter hunkered in the stripping house. Toots is no longer young, and he and his sons have made "t'bacca" all their lives. Beatrice Nelson says it best: "They leave this farm for nuthin'. Nuthin'." Wayne and Wallace usually sit nearest their father while While brother Wayne brings "hands" of tobacco, Wallace Nelson Kenny and John Ira share space near the door. John Ira is packs them into the bale, which will weigh up to 300pounds when the oldest. The sole bachelor in the brood, he is the only full. This is the form in which the tobacco is marketed.
THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 15 Toots Nelson, patriarch of the clan, has been "makin' t'bacca" all his life.
Toots' grandson strips cured leaves from the stalks, a winter-long occupation for the Nelson family team.
16 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND kids' teeth, and tiny packages of powdery seed to strew on 'On March 19, 1985, the the ground to grow more burdens. The Nelsons packed their bales in 1985 with a familial buyers of the Maryland jubilance that belied what they had endured the year be fore. They would save the 14,000 pounds from the 1983-84 crop until the last days of the market. On the first day, the tobacco crop were opening day, they placed the best of their new crop on the floor. almost human. On March 19, 1985, the buyers of the Maryland tobacco crop were almost human. Almost. To a man, the farmers Almost" expected $1.80 a pound for their cherry-red, tissue-thin crop, but not one of them that day was offered more than one still living at home. Folks in his neck of the woods $1.70 a pound. Some planters "turned their tickets," fold relate that John Ira was the outstanding softball player in ing in half the paper pennants on wooden spears stuck in St. Marys County until a back injury called a halt to his their bales, refusing to accept the bid. Olympian leaps across the field to tag a man "out" for the John Ira loped down the aisles of tobacco, flipping tick perfect double play. These days, in the winter, he squats ets as fast as he could read them, comparing the Nelson on a stool and wears a baseball cap and a T-shirt that car crop against that of other growers, muttering to himself, ries his nickname of "Uncle Dinky", and he strips tobacco. but he never turned a Nelson ticket. On that opening day, John Ira's fingers fly up the stalks, plucking the leaves the Nelsons sold about 12,000 pounds of their crop in the and holding them in a bundle until his hand can hold no grey-box warehouses in Hughesville and Waldorf, spread more. Then, wrapping one tight leaf to hold the bundle ing their crop around for the best gamble, the best price. together, he smooths the "hand" of tobacco, slaps it into a They topped out, that day, at $1.70 a pound. stack, and reaches for another stalk to begin again. By Then they went home to strip out the last of the to day's end his hands will be black from the sap that invisi bacco, and they had to hurry. Soon it would be time to bly oozes from the crop. Armloads of hands are carried plant. * out to the nearby barn for the baling. Tobacco requires teamwork from beginning to end, and the Nelsons work as a team-family. As the brothers bale, Wallace climbs into a "box," a sort of flexible snow fence of wooden slats attached at four-inch intervals to a couple of thick, canvas straps. The box sits, like a giant pastry chef's spring-form collar, atop a flat, woven basket that measures about four feet across and provides an ecto- skeleton that will be peeled away once the basket is about four foot full, leaving a free-standing tobacco sculpture. Wayne keeps Wallace supplied with armloads of "hands" while Wallace crawls in a tight circle in the box packing the tobacco flat, working his way round and round the in terior of the box, the pressure of his own body weight compressing the crop as he fits the tops of the hands be tween the wooden slats. These final products, huge mounds of tobacco weighing 240 to 300 pounds, are called by many names. Some call them bales, some call them pads, and some refer to them as burdens. Burdens to be transformed into cash that can buy new tractors, trucks, clothing, haircuts, braces for the
THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 17 Monday afternoon sees us prowling around archaeological digs at Jefferson Patterson Park, Calvert County. Indian artifacts i^**H' "w^j, 4%,, •* abound here, along with those datingfrom early English '* settlement.
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"The Legacy of Southern Maryland" For one week in June, a covey of dedicated history buffs indulged their passion for the past. Fred Fausz, at right, discusses replica of tomahawk with Learning Vacation students Howard Skinner of Berkeley Calif, and Fran Nelson of Bel Air, whose pictures and captions describing the week are printed herewith.
Having recently completed his period of indenture, this bearded 17th century character (actor Bill Dalton) tells us he's about to develop his own plantation - with the financial help of the wealthy Widow Turner, he hopes. He's showing us around the 11th Century Plantation at St. Mary's City.
18 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Norton Dodge, St. Mary's economics professor, welcomes us to a Wednesday afternoon pool party and tour of his lovely Patuxent River plantation house, Cremona. The house was built in the early 19th century by Dr. William Thomas - as it happens, the ancestor of one of our Learning Vacation students, Calvert Thomas, who is delighted to tour the ancestral halls. That eve ning we attend a program by faculty of the Tidewater Music Festival.
ran Nelson of Bel Air, a teacher and inveterate shutterbug, has been an enthusiastic student at adult Learning Vacations sponsored by St. Mary's over the past two summers. FThis is Fran's photographic record of the 1985 session, which she shared with 22 other devotees — alumni, par ents, and friends of the College who hailed from Califor nia, Connecticut and New York, as well as Maryland. This year's theme was "Colonial Barony to Free State; the Legacy of Southern Maryland." Academic director of the program is Fred Fausz, associate professor of history. He and Tomlin Stevens, also an associate professor, shared billing as principal lecturers. Mornings were spent in the classroom, afternoons in the field, and evenings at a vari ety of entertainments. Plans are underway for next summer's Learning Vaca tion, which will focus on historical personalities of the re gion. The dates are June 15-22, and details are available from the Alumni Office. On Thursday night we are entertained after dinner by balladeer Joe Norris, a St. Mary's student whose songs - many of his own composition - trace the history of Southern Maryland in cap tivating fashion.
What better pair of local historians to tell us about St. Mary's County's role in the Civil War than Fred and Beth McCoy. Long active in the local historical society, Fred helped develop the Civil War Museum at Point Lookout, site of an infamous prisoner-of- war camp. THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 19 Local history is brought up to date on Friday morning with the early-century reminiscences of County natives Charles Fenwick and Fred McCoy. Fred Fausz, in summer lecture garb, is at left.
20 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Friday afternoon finds us at the Naval Air Station for a visit to the Test Pilot School and a description of the newest vertical- takeoffplane, the Osprey - all decidedly 20th century subject mat ter! That evening we see a waterfront performance of "As You like It" by the Maryland Shakespeare Festival.
Saturday night we cruise the St. Mary's River and have dinner at Scbeible's restaurant, bringing a memorable week to a close. Sev eral of us plan to return next year for more of the same mixture of learning and recreation.
THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 21 herrie Robinson, '80, did hers in the Lexington Park law office of Daugherty and Daugherty; Students in Anne Hohenhaus, '81, did hers at a veterinary clinic in Beltsville; Tracy Abell, '84, fulfilled his Swhile monitoring the progress of heart patients at a Bal the Workplace timore hospital. What all three did — and what 291 other St. Mary's stu dents have done since 1978 — was to spend a semester in Almost 300 St. Mary's students an unpaid internship during their junior or senior years, adapting their classroom experience to a wide variety of have interned at more than a workplaces. Sherrie Robinson went on to earn a law degree at Notre hundred sites since 19 78. Dame and now works in criminal law with the pros ecutor's office in Baltimore; Anne Hohenhaus graduated this year from Cornell with a degree in veterinary medi cine; Tracy Abell is now a cardiovascular technician at Francis Scott Key Hospital, where he was part of the team on a pioneering heart operation a year ago. illlfStSi••MIIBRIMl •illiiiliii For some St. Mary's students, an internship has led di ..-Hjlft^Stllll rectly to a job and a career. Janice Iacona, '78 interned at top-rated WMAL-AM in •limit •>•*••• •••••••• Washington, and was hired there after graduation. She's 1*6: <•?*!•«!• ••Ipi now an executive producer with the station for the Hardin ! : « ..«' '*C:":-.. . and Weaver morning show and all of the station's remote Imii broadcasts. H3S. For others, the internship has provided an important •"•KISSIM credential for admission to a graduate school of choice. Starr Costello, '80, interned as a researcher at the Mary land Hall of Records and is now completing her Ph.D in 1 history at Northwestern University on a fellowship, while Jennifer Smith, '84, who interned in the finance depart ment at Westinghouse, is enrolled in the graduate busi ness program at William and Mary. For a few, the internship has offered a unique oppor tunity to do something original. Kara Cipra, '85, found such an opportunity at the Southern Maryland Electric Co operative as an intern in public relations. The utility wanted the opinion of its member-customers on the qual ity of SMECO service. Kara, an economics major, devel oped the survey questions, had the questionnaire printed and mailed, and used the College computer — with the help of her academic mentor, Professor Ho Nguyen — to tabulate the results. For good measure, she designed and conducted two telephone surveys among customers and business leaders. So pleased was SMECO with the project that they de Jennifer Warren interned in hospital administration at Howard voted half of a customer newsletter to the survey results University Hospital, was offered a job there after graduation. and to Kara's central role in designing it.
22 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Over the past seven years, 125 companies, agencies, and institutions — from Great Mills High School to Sher aton's Valley Forge Hotel — have served as internship sites, many of them on a regular basis. Realty offices, law offices, hospitals, laboratories, gal leries, newspapers, radio and television stations, social service agencies, legislative offices, museums, military in stallations, and the Washington zoo — all have been will ing participants in the program. "It has been fantastic for us," said Christine Clarke, for mer assistant director of continuing education at the Col lege and now tourism specialist with the St. Mary's County economic development office. "Allyson Yustak did every thing for us — wrote articles, went on the radio to talk about tourism, took pictures, created posters and bro chures, did research. She came in scared —you know, not sure of what to expect — but she left ready to take on the world. And I think we've got her interested in tourism as a career." Robert Bussell and Carta Mosley both interned at the Chesapeake One secret of the program's success is the careful selec Biological Laboratories in nearby Solomons. tion of interns and internship sites. A student applicant's grades, maturity, and attitude are considered. So is the site's willingness to assign meaningful work and provide proper supervision. Finally, a faculty sponsor must set the academic requirements for the internship's completion. The result has been a high degree of satisfaction with the program from both the students and those with whom they have interned. A recent self-study by the College — part of the accredit ing process conducted by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools — concluded that the in ternship program "may be largely responsible for (the) success St. Mary's has achieved in dramatizing the rela tionship between its curriculum and the working world." $
Allyson Yustak, right, confers with David Morgan of the St. Gayle Pickeral and Kathy Rosenbaum both interned last spring Mary's County economic development office. She concentrated on at the St. Mary's County Office on Aging. Their work was praised tourism development during her internship. by the office director, Billye McGaham.
THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 23 Contributions Reach Ail-Time High
ear Contributors to St. challenge gift from the Maryland Bank Mary's: and Trust Company and thus ac Our sincere thanks, on counted for $6,372 in contributions to behalf of the College and the Faculty Scholarship Fund, the Dor thDe St. Mary's College Foundation, for mitory Furnishings Fund, and the An your record-breaking response to the nual Giving appeal. Annual Giving appeal in the 12 Thanks to you alumni, too. Led by months ending June 30, 1985. the class of 1980 with 50 contributors, Contributions in cash ($130,216) a record number of 605 alumni con and gifts-in-kind ($507,084) received tributed to Annual Giving last year, in 1984-85 totaled $637,300, up from a and we hope the rest of you will join total of $420,315 in the preceding in when you are invited to do so this fiscal year. It is also noteworthy that fall. the number of donors more than dou You have every reason to be proud bled to 1,134. of St. Mary's College and its recent Your continuing support will make progress. And we at the College are it possible for the Foundation to in proud of you, and grateful for your rec crease its support of the College ord-breaking support which has budget by 44 percent this year, with helpeci make this progress possible. most of this increase being earmarked for faculty development and research. Sincerely yours, Your gifts also have resulted in the awarding of our first May Russell scholarships. A special note of appreciation to St. Fred Brooke Lee Mary's faculty and staff, who matched a Director of Development
24 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND President's Circle Ms. Tracy L. Aumann Mrs. Hazel BarnsleyJohns Mr. Robert Unklejr. Mr. Joseph F. Delahanty Mr. and Mrs. David Barman Ms. Patricia M.Jones Mr. Peter Van Dyke Mrs. Mary Fraser de Packh $2,500 and Above Mrs. Mary Spalding Barton Mr. Gordon H. Kester Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Lt. and Mrs. David J. Dick Mr. and Mrs. Meredith Capper Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Klages Waldschmitt Ms. Marion C Dickey Mr. Donald R. Dittemore, Jr. Behegan Mr. and Mrs. William E. Dr. and Mrs. Richard D. Mr. Joseph A. Dillow Dr. Norton T. Dodge Mrs. Anne S. Bell Landfair Weigle Mr. Donald R. Dittemore, Jr. Dr. William C. Moyer Mrs. Mary Alice Waesche Mr. and Mrs. John D. LeRoy.Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Wendel Mr. and Mrs. George A. Mr. M. Wayne Munday Benson Mr. Frederick Brooke Lee Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Dittrich Mr. T. Hammond Welsh, Jr. Mr. Urban Bowman Mrs. Virginia Cross Leopard Whedbee, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Mr. Edmund W Wettengel Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Mrs. Theresa LaValley Levy Miss Clare M. Whelan Douglas Bradshaw Dr. Edward T. Lewis Mrs. Mary Ann Asay Whitney Mr. and Mrs. John A. Drescher SMC Associates Mr. F. Elliott Burch, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Long Dr. John G.Williamson RADM CH. Duerfeldt $1,000 to $2,499 Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Burnside Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lupoli Mrs. Eliza R. Willis Mr. Meyer M. Emanuel, Jr. Mr. Robert W. Callahan Mrs. Bonnie Clem Manwell Mr. Louis E. Wince Mr. and Mrs. Eric M. Engler Mrs. Elizabeth Aspinwall Ms. Grayce Webster Campbell Mr. and Mrs. James F. Mr. and Mrs. Laszlo Zsebedics Mrs. Patty Fecteau Mr. Robert S. Bennett, Jr. Mr. Daniel Capper McGarvey Mr. HerbertJ. Feick Mrs. Felix Boone Mr. Clinton N Chadbourne Mrs. Judith Sayre McGregor Friends Mr. and Mrs. David L. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Coopersmith Ms. Christine C. Cihlar Mrs. Barbara Raley McWhorter Ms. Victoria Greene Aldrich Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Daniels Ms. Janice L. Clark Ms. Elizabeth L. Meggett Mr. and Mrs. Clarence O. Mr. David G.F. Fidler Mrs. Dallas Plugge Dean Mr. Edward O. Clarke, Jr. Mrs. Margaret Wolf Milburn Allred Mr. Redmond C.S. Finney Mr. and Mrs. Walker C. Eliason Miss Ruth Marie Cooper Dr. and Mrs. John H. Miller Mrs. Katharine Anderson Miss Ellen Fiocca Mrs. Arthur E. Landers, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. David Cribbs Mrs. Helen Gertrude Ryon Mr. WW. Appel Mrs. Naomi L. Firman Mr. and Mrs. Myron G. Marlay Miss Lorena B. Croft Monroe Mrs. Elizabeth Aspinwall Ms. Karen Fisher Mrs. William S. Morsell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jennings G. Mrs. Anne Berch Muller Mrs. Frederick Bang Ms. Carole Fisher Dr. May Russell Curry Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. David Barman Mr. and Mrs. Phillip R. Forrest Mr. Charles M. Snowman Ms. Lenett Partlow Davis Dr. James Nickell Mrs. Edwin W Beitzell Jr. Miss Lucy F. Spedden Miss Fannie Jo Dent Dr. Velma Perkins Mr. Robert S. Bennett, Jr. Mr. Clarence B. Fox Ms. Marion C. Dickey Mr. and Mrs. Sol Perlman Mr. Ignatius Blue Mr. Marvin C Franzen SMC Patrons Mr. Joseph A. Dillow Mrs. Helen Boughton Perry Mr. and Mrs. William Bogard Mrs. Barbara R. Friz $500 to $999 Mrs. Mary Catherine Drury Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Posch Mr. and Mrs. C. Lincoln Bogart Mr. Charles L. Fuller Mr. and Mrs. George A. Bailey RADMC.H. Duerfeldt Mrs. Katherine Butterfield Mrs. Felix Boone Mr. Charles Robert Garrett Miss S. Ethel Chance Mrs. Shirley Shugart Duvall Preston Mr. and Mrs. Albert G. Borleis Mr. George W Gephart Ms. Mary F. de Packh Dr. and Mrs. Paul Edgar Mr. George A. Purring, Jr. Mr. Urban Bowman Mr. Gary Givens Mr. and Mrs. E. Stephen Derby Mr. Meyer M. Emanuel, Jr. Professor H.K. Reynolds Ms. Gloria M. Boyce Mr. George E. Godwin Rev. Harry J. Bunch Mrs. Patty Fecteau Ms. Patricia Lipps Emerson Mr. and Mrs. Parvin Riddle Mrs. Eileen A. Green Mr. F. Elliott Burch, Sr. Mrs. Eleanor Digges Mrs. Frances Frazer Evans Mrs. Elizabeth Skove Roche Mr. and Mrs. John AS. Green Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Burnside Harrington Dr. and Mrs. Richard Falk Mrs. Sally W.Rogers Ms. Susan V. Greene Mr. and Mrs. William A.H. Mrs. Elizabeth Turnbull Mr. and Mrs. David L. Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Rook The Rev. and Mrs. James J. Harryman Ferguson Ms. Martha A. Rosen Butler Greene General Robert E. Hogaboom Mr. Redmond C.S. Finney Ms. MaryJ. Ross Mr. Robert W. Callahan Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Gregg, Mr. and Mrs. Bradford McE. Dr. and Mrs. H. Chandlee Mrs. Myra L. Shiedler Mr. Robert E. Cammack Jr. Mrs. Frieda L. Sheidler Jacobs Forman Mr. and Mrs. Meredith Capper Mr. Robert L. Gressitt, Jr. Miss Joan M. Sinnar Mr. and Mrs. Kent R. Mullikin Mr. Richard L. Forness Mr. LouisJ. Carr Mr. Ashley Halsey Mrs. Margaret T. Slingluff Mrs. Ann Wenner Osteen Mr. Jeffrey S. French Miss S. Ethel Chance Ms. Susan Hansen Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Smith Dr. Donald R. Stabile Mrs. Barbara R. Friz Mrs. Andrew Chovanes Mr. and Mrs. George C Hare Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edward Dr. and Mrs. Archibald Ward Mr. George W Gephart Mrs. Brian W.Clarke Mr. and Mrs. David W Harig Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Wendel Mr. George E. Godwin Smith Mr. Edward O, Clarke, Jr. Mrs. Eleanor Digges Mr. James A. Wood Ms. Bonnie M. Green Mrs. Priscilla Whaley Stieff Mr. and Mrs. Jack Coopersmith Harrington Dr. Dana Greene Mr. James D. Stone Mr. and Mrs. William F. Cowan Mr. and Mrs. Ervin M. Harris Century Club Mr. and Mrs. William M. Hart Ms. Kathryn Allen Stone Mr. and Mrs. Kannatis B. Mr. James B. Hartsig Dr. J. Roy Hopkins Mr. Richard G. Stone, III Crawford Mrs. Esther B. Haugh $100 to $499 Mrs. Jane Blackistone Hughes Mrs. Joanne Courtney Mr. and Mrs. Bruce D. Mr. Joseph F. Hautzenroder Mr. and Mrs. Paul K. Aldridge Mr. Carle A. Jackson Thompson Crevasse Ms. Elberta W Hayden Mr. and Mrs. Clarence O. Mr. Curtis M.Jackson Mrs. Elise Hoke Thrasher Mr. and Mrs. B.R. Dahlbert Ms. Joan G. Head Allred Mr. Gordon L. Jansson Miss Wilma E. Tull Ms. Doris M. Darrah Mr. and Mrs. Reid Henderson Mr. Kenneth C. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Holger B. Drs. John and Sandra Ms. Mary Esther Dasenbrock Mrs. Robert A. Hilder Mr. WW Appel Jansson Underwood Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Daugherty Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hill
THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 25 Mr. and Mrs. E. Herbert Mr. and Mrs. Guy R. Mr. and Mrs. George D. Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Hinman Messenger Stewart Bonhag Giuffreda Mr. Barry Hoffman Mrs. Joan D. Moore Mr. James D. Stone Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Borger Mr. and Mrs. John R. Gleim Mr. Earl F. Hofmann Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Mrs. Norma A. Strickland Mr. and Mrs. Robert C Mr. Bruce L. Godfrey General Robert E. Hogaboom Morrow Mr. and Mrs. Larry V. Summers Bradshaw Mr. and Mrs. Robert W Gray Mr. and Mrs. John Horton Mrs. William S. Morsell, Jr. Mrs. R.M. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Gerald E. Brock Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Mr. J. Spence Howard, Jr. Dr. William C Moyer Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Toth Ms. Marie Brown Grazioli Mr. Carle A. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Kent R. Mullikin Ms. Arlene J. Trapp Mr. and Mrs. Louis D. Mr. and Mrs. David C. Griffin Ms. Elizabeth Knox Jackson Mr. M. Wayne Munday Mr. Edward J. Trethaway Bruzzese Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Grund Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jackson Mr. Alfred S. Oppenheimer Mr. Robert Unklejr. Mr. and Mrs. F. Glenn Mr. Louis A. Hagen Mr. and Mrs. Bradford McE. Mrs. Madeline Pasik Mr. Peter Van Dyke Buchman Mr. and Mrs. James H. Jacobs Dr. Velma Perkins Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Mr. Richard D. Bulhack Hamilton Mr. Gordon L. Jansson Mr. and Mrs. B. Raymond Waldschmitt Mr. Richard M. Burdge Ms. Ruth Hanessian Mr. and Mrs. Holger B. Perkins Dr. Carl E. Walker Dr. and Mrs. Stanton K. Mr. Mark Hannan Jansson Mr. Sol Perlman Dr. and Mrs. Richard D. Calhoun Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Ms. Tammie Jenkins Ms. Ethyl M. Perry- Weigle Mr. Edwin CM. Cassard Hanrahan Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Judd Rev, and Mrs. Richard J. Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Milton J. Mr. and Mrs. C. Edward Mr. and Mrs. William M. Hart Ms. Babette M. Keleher Jr. Weinstein Chisholm Mr. and Mrs. George E. Ms. Catherine Kendall Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart G. Mr. and Mrs. William R. Clark, Hauver Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Philips Weldonjr. Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William D. Hill, Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Posch Mr. T. Hammond Welsh, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Malcom C. Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Kessler Mr. J. Frank Raley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Wendel Collier Mr. and Mrs. John C. Holland Mr. M. Kestner Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Rattiner Mr. Edmund W. Wettengel Mr. and Mrs. Russell C. Mr. Eugene C. Holzapfel Mrs. Robert E. King, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver H. Reeder Ms. Sylvia J. White Cramer, II Mr. and Mrs. William W Ms. Donna N. Kovacs Mr. and Mrs. Bob Remer Ms. Grace S. Williams Mr. and Mrs. John R. Currey, Jr. Home Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Mr. William B. Rhodes Ms. Katherine E. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Jennings G. Mr. and Mrs. Rayford G. Kowalyshyn Mrs. Anna Ridgell Mrs. Loretta C. Wise Curry Hoerner Mr. Donald A. Kyle Dr. and Mrs. Juanito C. Roa Mr. and Mrs. Timothy F. Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Davis Mrs. Doris B. Howe Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lawrence, Mrs. Sally W. Rogers Witmyer Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Day Mr. and Mrs. Gerald E. Howie Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Rogers Ms. Gail E. Witschey Mr. and Mrs. E. Stephen Derby Mr. Carroll G.Hughes, III Mr. and Mrs. W. Michael Lay Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Rook Mr. James Yearick Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Mr. and Mrs. D. Scott Hunter Mr. and Mrs. John D. LeRoy, Jr. Ms. Mary J. Ross Mr. Robert W. Zachidny Dodson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. A. Frank Inglisa Mr. Robert A. Leeper Ms. Marjorie Ross Mr. Millard Zeisberg Mr. and Mrs. John J. Drescher Mr. and Mrs. WF. Jaussi Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Levy Mr. and Mrs. Washington D. Mr. and Mrs. Eric R. Ziel Mr. and Mrs. J. Kenneth Mr. Victor A. Karlson Colonel and Mrs. WH. Lewis Ross Driessen Mrs. Joan C. Kemp Mr. and Mrs. Stu Lieberman Mr. Robert W. Ross, Jr. Parents Mrs. Mary Catherine Drury Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Liskey Dr. May Russell Mr. and Mrs. James E. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne A. Duncan Kepner Ms. Maida H. Loescher Mr. and Mrs. William J. Sachs, Agenbroad Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Mr. and Mrs. David Kienast Mr. Charles Loffler, II Jr. Mrs. Katerina E. Altenberg Duprey Mr. and Mrs. John W Klages Mr. William Aleck Loker Mr. Jennings W. Schana Mr. and Mrs. Herman G.E. Mrs. Mary L. Dutton Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Klages Mr. and Mrs. David E. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin L. Anschuetz Dr. and Mrs. Paul J. Edgar Mr. and Mrs. James F. Krieger Lombardi Schriefer, Jr. Mrs. George A. Bailey Mrs. Patricia M. Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kriesberg Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lupoli Ms. Myra L. Sheidler Mr. and Mrs. Ralph M. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Luther D. Mr. and Mrs. William E. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Mrs. Frieda H. Sheidler Jr. Edwards, Jr. Landfair MacDonald Ms. Judith Shepard Mr. Harry P. Barber Mr. Walker C. Eliason Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Lerz Mr. and Mrs. Byron E. Marcus Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Sherman Mrs. Judiths. Basso Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ernst Dr. and Mrs. Newton Levy, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Myron G. Marlay Mr. and Mrs. Sam Shinbaum Dr. and Mrs. Merritt C. Mr. and Mrs. William Eubanks, Mr. Joseph A. Lockmar Mr. James M. Maselli Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Silvers Batchelder Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald c. Long Mr. J. Maguire Mattingly Mrs. Frances Singer Mrs. Michael R. Bean Dr. and Mrs. Richard Falk Mr. and Mrs. Harry N. Long Ms. Peggy McCabe Mrs. Enid G. Slusser Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. Ms. Kay E. Fandetti Mr. and Mrs. Wayne S. Long Mr. and Mrs. James M. McKay Ms. Nellie Small Behegan Mr. and Mrs. Roger Feinthel Mr. and Mrs. Joseph N. Mr. Shepard W McKenney Ms. Joan A. Smith Mrs. Anne S. Bell Ms. Bernice R. Fiori Longton Ms. Cheryl A. McLeod Mr. Richard L. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Eppie H. Bell Mr. and Mrs. John P. Ford Mr. and Mrs. G. Albert Lucke, Mrs. Mary E. McSpadden Mr. Charles M. Snowman Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Bell Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Jr. Ms. Lee Meinders Mr. Cedric B. Snyder Mr. and Mrs. Monrad H. Berg Forness Mr. William P. Lynch Ms. Eileen S. Mentzer Mr. and Mrs. George R. Mr. and Mrs. William F. Mr. and Mrs. George P. Francis Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Merriman Sparling Bogard,Jr. Mrs. NancyJ. Gipson Mackowiak
26 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Mrs. Virginia Mahoney Mr. and Mrs. Ralph M. Quinn, Dr. William H. Clamurro Class of 1910 Class of 1925 Mr. and Mrs. James A. Jr- Mr. Brian W. Clarke Ethel Hammett Raley Florence Hartge Angell Mahoney, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. Raby Ms. Mary Jane Cowles Virginia Reeves Cooney Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. Marth Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Reeves Dr. Hampton Davey, Jr. Anna Weems Ewalt Mr. and Mrs. Galen Martin Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Renno Dr. Norton T. Dodge Class of 1913 Hazel Barnsley Johns Mr. and Mrs. Guy B. Maseritz Mr. Robert W. Rhodes Dr. Fent H. Ferris Mina Bell Tingle Mr. and Mrs. Wayne C. Mason Dr. and Mrs. David J. Richman Dr. David Finkelman Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Mr. and Mrs. Parvin Riddle Dr. Michael S. Glaser McCann Mr. John S. Rippey Dr. Laraine Masters Glidden Class of 1926 Mr. and Mrs. M.J. McCarthy Mr. and Mrs. John A. Dr. Robert H. Goldsmith Class of 1916 Rachel Palmer Davis Mr. Champe C. McCulloch Robichaud Dr. Dana Greene Mildred Amoss Otto Jane Blackistone Hughes Mr. and Mrs. William R. Mr. and Mrs. Gregor H. Ms. Susan Edra Grogan Lucy F. Spedden Eleanor Klobusicky Perlman McDaniel, Jr. Schmidt Dr. John H. Harvey Virginia Maguire Sims Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Dr. Rosemary R. Hein Rachel Parren Swindell McDiffett Scivetti, Sr. Dr. J. Roy Hopkins Class of 1917 Eliza Russell Willis Mr. and Mrs. James F. Mr. and Mrs. Josef Seidel, Jr. Dr. Allan K. Hovland Lorena B. Croft McGarvey Mr. DonaldJ. Siple Mr. Jonathan Ingersoll Mr. and Mrs. Eugene P. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph D. Skelley Dr. Wesley P. Jordan McMahon Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Skufca Ms. Roberta E. Kaskel Class of 1927 Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Smith Mr. Gordon H. Kester Class of 1918 Nellie Wallace Burroughs Bessie Dent Gedda McMorrow Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edward Dr. Andrew F. Kozak Corine D. Peverley Ruth Walsh Lee Mr. and Mrs. William R. Smith Dr. John C. Laughton Menchen Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd F. Stancil Mr. Frederick Brooke Lee Ms. Barbara Ann Mercurio Mr. and Mrs. William P. Dr. Edward T. Lewis Class of 1928 Mr. and Mrs. Cary L. Meredith Sullivan Mr. CraigJ. Loundas Class of 1919 Emily Carscaden Brown Mr. and Mrs. Norbert B. Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Mrs. Karen A. Michaud Elizabeth Turnbull Harryman Christine Combs Echols Miklitz Sutherland Mrs. Paula A. Mitchell Anne Peterson Hines Mr. Richard V. Miles Ms. Sarah R. Swales Dr. Ho N. Nguyen Dorothy Turville Moffett Dr. and Mrs. John H. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Ricardo D. Dr. James Nickell Class of 1920 Mary Gonder Pollock Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Miller, Talento Dr. Andrew Oh Catharine Palmer Craig Jr. Mr. Richard A. Taylor Mrs. Gail A. Parham Bertha Moreland Kerby Mr. and Mrs. Clifford P. Mink Mr. and Mrs. Commer D. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson Parker Dr. and Mrs. Andrew C.W. Thornely Drs. Alan and Jacqueline Class of 1929 Montague Mr. and Mrs. William W Paskow Class of 1921 Hope Hodgkinson Grace Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Moore Trumbore Mr. Edward B. Quinn, Jr. Margaret Hebb Haigley Ethel Graves Cooksey Mr. and Mrs. Roger S. Mrs. Geraldine Tulane Professor H.K. Reynolds Anne Sullivan Howell Rachel du Bois Early Mowbray Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Mrs. Nancy Roberts Beryl Dove Jerome Eleanor Reeves Mattingly Mr. and Mrs. James J. Moyer Uhlenburg Dr. Michael R. Rosenthal Virginia Lane Magladery Mrs. Joanne Muehling Mr. and Mrs. John Vecchiarelli Mr. W. Thomas Rowe Margaret Milburn Martin Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Nelson Mr and Mrs. Alfred J. Waddell Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Sloan, Helen Keene Warburton Mr. and Mrs. John D. Newman Dr. and Mrs. Archibald Ward Jr. Class of 1922 Ms. Barbara O'Brien Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Wendel Dr. Nancy P. Smith E. Beck Deputy Dorsey Mr. G. Dennis O'Brien Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Mrs. Cedric B. Snyder Mr. John R. Oravec Whedbeejr. Dr. Donald R. Stabile Class of 1930 Mr. and Mrs. Girard L. Ordway Mr. and Mrs. William M. White Dr. L. Tomlin Stevens Class of 1923 Kathleen Bowdle Brady Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Mr. and Mrs. Murray M. White Drs. John and Sandra Betty Peach Caldwell Katharine Ward Ascherfeld Petroziello Mr. Ronald W. Wilson Underwood Evelyn Sherbert Clarke Eleanor Coad Baker Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Mr. and Mrs. Earle B. Wood, Jr. Dr. Lynette K. Willett Agnes Hurry Healy Kathryn Coad Dallam Philipp Mr. and Mrs. Laszlo Zsebedics Dr. John G.Williamson Elizabeth Chaney Merrick Naomi Ryon Emerson Mr. Arthur F. Phillips Dr. Ernest J. Willoughby Mary Edna Taylor Smith Hilda Combs Landers Mr. and Mrs. Duane A. Phillips Faculty/Staff Dr. Herbert Winnik Mary Mount Walker Gertrude Ryon Monroe Mr. and Mrs. Jose A. Pinto Mr. George A. Bailey Mrs. James Yearick Mr. and Mrs. George T. Pitts Dr. Michael L. Berger Mr. and Mrs. Gary Podems Mr. William G. Biesecker Alumni Mr. and Mrs. Melvin F. Polek, Mr. Leon T. Buker Class of 1924 Class of 1931 Jr. Mr. Andrew B. Chovanes Class of 1905 Angelin Skirven Auman Alice West Hazen Mr. George A. Purring, Jr. Ms. Christine C. Cihlar Fannie Jo Dent Marguerite Welch Hobbs Mary Rae Groff Lemon
THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 27 Class of 1932 Class of 1938 Class of 1945 Mary Anne Harryman Van Patricia Connor Doucett Edith Lloyd Blunt Vivian Duehring Laughead Ethel Harryman Forlifer Vlaanderen Mary Bean Miedzinski Rose Cope Carrier Mary Kuhns Nicodemus Doris Miller Hughen Suzanne Gibbs Quigg Alice Cohill Marquez Katherine Butterfield Preston Virginia Long Long Dolores Mattare Shultz Virginia Bell Menkel Jane Mellor Riehl Gerry Walker Stuntz Class of 1952 Elizabeth Daneker Rhoads Gertrude Plummer Simms Alice Thompson Corral Anne Beach Ritchie Anne Berch Muller Class of 1961 Ann Wenner Osteen Class of 1946 L. Bernese Culhane Class of 1939 Ida Peach Brady Janet Montgomery Densmore Class of 1933 Elizabeth Knighton Cameron Evalyn Burch Campanella Elizabeth Short McLennan Rebecca Russell Forman Ryntha Hyslop Geehring Gloria Myers Frailey Class of 1953 David A. Stewart Marcia Whitmore Keen Edward H. Long Frances Mulherin Gwynn Elaine Petalis Cappa Philip R. Wilkerson Louise Jones Linden Adele Dixon Tomey Cherie Kiefer Middleton Bettie Pass Debelius James A. Wood Jane Reaney Linton Marie Steffens Williams Doris Brewster Patricia Fisher Hudson Elizabeth Mannett Woodard Margaret Witherup Long Margaret Chandler Marian Cecil Tennyson Zaidee Henry Mumford Worthington Florence Selby Walker Mignonette Rittenhouse Class of 1947 Class of 1963 Stueber Agnes Cullison Bean Grace H. McNeal Mary Hughes Tayloe Class of 1940 Elizabeth Cooksey Bowling Class of 1955 Patricia Farrell Mercier Ann Gasprovic Haskell Marion Field Hinebaugh Shirley Shugart Duvall Melanie Ayres Merryweather Alberta Bailey Tompkins Jane Howard-Jasper Margaret T. Slingluff James B. Norris, Jr. Class of 1934 Anne Skone Jameson Alfred T. Passarelli, Jr. Elizabeth Brown Allnutt Priscilla Whaley Stieff Susan Pritcher Potter Mary Spalding Barton Kathryn Allen Stone Class of 1941 Class of 1956 Elizabeth Jourdan Reeves Jean Tenney Gray Grayce Webster Campbell Janice Taylor Bahen Sarah Taylor Scheible Hazel Reinhardt Hammett Margaret Brown Klapthor Margaret Gillespie Beard Joyce Poore Stefancik Helen Woodward Lovell Anne Emmert Lambert Class of 1948 Patricia Lundgren Wiener Helen Peverley Maddox Martha Myers Yeager Vivian Gabler Aldridge Elizabeth Rutledge Patricia Anthony Blake Class of 1957 McDorman Margaret Fowler Carter Patricia Flanagan Arthur Class of 1964 Elise Hoke Thrasher Class of 1942 Gloria Cawood Lancaster Alma Jourdan Walls Elizabeth Slingluff Chapman Elizabeth Scudder DuPont Mary Combs Barber Linda Miller Fisher Emma Jenkins Greul Betty Bright Nelson Maureen A. Grace Barbara Kimmelshue-Keams Mary Jane Abell Scully Class of 1949 Patricia Wormwood Hall Elizabeth Reeves Wigginton Class of 1935 Mildred Jones Thompson Virginia Burnside Cox Bonnie Clem Manwell Ruth Marie Cooper Martha Meredith Young Elizabeth Smith Eliason Sarah Harrison Crockett Frances Frazer Evans Helen Boughton Perry Emily M. Manlove Class of 1965 Class of 1958 Marie Cullison Taylor Class of 1943 Mary Early Robey Lesley M. Barber Clare M. Whelan Helen Watson Dillon G. Thomas Daugherty Margaret Hawkins Abbott Cecilia Ridgell Titus Kate Curtis Holyfield Clarence Brooke Fox Charlotte Van Home Holcomb Suzanne Lussier-Taylor Rose Cecil Fox Alan Hebb Pembroke Dorothy Fleetwood Williams Helen Wilke Raines Class of 1936 Margaret Harryman Prigel Class qfl950 Robert M. Schwier Elizabeth Woollen Miles Louise Carpenter Rymer Mary Alice Waesche Benson Catherine Janushek Smith Lydie Peach Price Katherine Davis Scarborough Joyce Dawn Busic Carolyn Clark Sorge Wilma E. Tull T. Arthur Smith Bette Laufer Gerding Class of 1959 Emily Jones Sparks Ann Lewis Lovekin Robert H. Brubacher Jarvis Claypoole Orr Barbara Lyon Gilbert Class of 1937 Michael W. Mattingly Class of 1966 Harriett Burch Duke Class of 1944 Julius F. Owens Penny Saulsbury Beazley Jane Anderson Mattingly Marietta Abell Anthony Class of 1951 Theodore W. White Judith Hammond Guffey Elizabeth Bittman Meggett Marian Gill Auer Olivia Sibley Cox Francine Galiano Hughes Margaret Wolf Milburn Cherry Stevens Gering Betty Resh Gitt Margaret Tomey Ingram Lucille Rice Ritchie Ethel Rankin Gilliss Ann Blackwell McNeill Class of 1960 Judith Sayre McGregor R. Eugenia Walters Anne Naylor Grant Joanne Courtney Thompson Richard Allen Briell Jimaxi Ramer Ostrowski Lorena Burch Wroe Ruth Jones Wheeler Barbara Thompson Tucker Dallas Plugge Dean Bonnie Elliott Vance
28 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Class of 1967 Philip W Jones E. Stewart Hawkins, Jr. Wayne C. Cook Janis Konkol Trizna Grace Ann Beckwith Lawrence Lubbers, III Mardi Reuschlein Kemp Sheila A. Eglinton Dominic G. Vaccaro Patricia Lipps Emerson Barbara Raley McWhorter Meg Nails Kerr Lise Middleton Foran John W Williams Francine Winkler Gibson Raymond E. Nowak Theresa LaValley Levy Donnee L. Gray Michele Miles Wills David L. Gosper, Jr. Patricia E. Sharpnack Pamela Duket Lunsford Robert H. Lococo Philip R. Howard Mary Bonner Stauffer H. Robert Lunsford, Jr. Jack Maddox Barbara Schott Willey Kersti A. Maclnnes Ann Massie McCool William H. Mitchell Class of 1979 Barry Allnutt Raley Mary Stanton McCarthy Shane M. Murphy William E. Bankert, Jr. Michael A. Raley Madeleine R. Miller Jonathan C. Nelson Marian Bolton Brewer Charles Reichert Class of 1973 Carla Y. Mora Paul S. Pyles Floyd E. Brown, Jr. William B. Riehl George E. Adams, Jr. Judith Vose Norman Elizabeth Skove Roche Clinton N. Chadbourne Richard W Russell Donald L. Barber Dennis R. Rickett Judith Shane Sherman Nancy Lee Chew Lynn Farrell Whittington Elizabeth G. Clark Martha A. Rosen Donna L. Smawley Jane H. Dominguez Louise E. Wince Janice L. Clark M. Denise Seward Michael E. Smith William E. Craigmile Arden R. Shannon Melvin F. Szymanski William A. Doughty Brenda Beck Cribbs Rick L. Snyder David H.Tolman Charles E. Englehart Daniel T. Dixon James C. Stambach Charles F. Wolf, III Beatrice B. GaNun Class of 1968 Michael J. Dowgiallo Cynthia Carr Stambach Kevin L. Glover Elizabeth Reynolds Black Peggy Lee DuPont MaryC. Stetler Mary Zbignewich Hager Deborah Newnam Claggett Susan Finnacom Evans Judith Baroniak Tennyson Class of 1977 Althea M. Handy Thomas Michael Coleman Marsha O'Brien Gray Courtnay Weems-Looman Kathleen Kreitzer Boyd T. Michael Hoffman Richard D. Fritz Brenda Carroll Hanson Edward T. Weiland Rita S. Ferguson Conrad Brian Law Richard WJager Catherine Beavan Jager Karen Gaventa Weiland William A. Foreman, III Michael K. Lea Elizabeth Ann Lange Michael Kelly Jeanne Norton Hammett Maryfield Nicodemus Nelson Linda Foard Lewis Barbara Williams LeRoy Richard V. Henry Jonathan M. Plante Donna Brigham Mulrine Dorothy McDonough Russell S. Houghton Susan Downs Reed Kathryn Hoover Pickett Class of 1975 McGeorge James R. Hurry, Jr. Deborah L. Regel Ellen W Thurlby Jackie Ann Armstrong Diane M. Keany Eric R. Reichelt Celeste M. Mileto Ellen S. Arrowood Gary L. Peterson Rebecca A. Reuther TimothyJ. Miller Teresa E. Baines Jean Loskarn Peterson SusanJ. Silanskis George Glynn Rountree Ernest C. Baumann Class of 1971 Robin Courtney Szymanski Cynthia L. Spell David B. Russ Mark A. Courtney Paul Kent Aldridge Mordecai Weldon Thompson James E. Tallant.Jr. Joan M. Sinnar Rosemary M. DiFatta Jane Kron Bradford Fred C.Williams Susan Strickland Thompson Gary L. Smith John D. Ensor Timothy S. Crout Jean Doepkens Wright Sherrie L. Waters Richard G.Stone, III Elizabeth R. Eny Mary Bean Hollinger Marlyn Sirkis Weisman Robert C. Thornton William C. Fotheringham, Jr Donna A. Johnson Mary Ann Asay Whitney William R. Gallion Barbara C. Kable Donald F. Hammett Class of 1978 Elaine Salomon Lancaster William F. Jacobs Edith A. Ashley Class of 1980 Gary H. Lewis Class of 1974 John Pierce Kirby Tracy L. Aumann Kenneth C. Anderson Elizabeth Morgan Lewis Belinda Culver Anderson Brian J. Murphy Carol Ann Brooks Frederick E. Bang Alan H. Manuel Deborah M. Arnold Theresa Boone Murphy Lynn Metcalfe Connell Debra L. Bender Deborah Sheffer McClellan Douglas P. Bishop E. CarberyNeal A. Courtney Crook Keith A. Brace Lynn Owens O'Brien Robin McCoy Bishop Susan Henderson Nowak Ann Catherine Davis Elizabeth E. Briscoe Leslie D. Potter Rita M. Brooks Kevin P. O'Neill Lenett Partlow Davis Max L. Buff, II Dale M. Rausch Roy Mitchell Brown Eileen J. Rusnock Roberta Wood Davis Janet E. Carter Raymond E. Riggins, Jr. Bette Houseman Bumgarner Rodney G. Saloom Debra L. Eshleman Cheryl Taylor Chapline Beth Carey PeterB. Sarelas Christine Pound Green Michael Alan Comer Thomas L. Courtney Carol Noell Steuart David F. Hallam Diana Judith DeHaven Class of 1972 Victoria Suplee Crane Timothy L. Sullivan Anita M.Johns Gwendolyne Eloise Dunn Irene Yeatman Aldridge David H. Cribbs William J. Trollinger, IV Anne Holland McCoy KennethJ. Ebmeier.Jr. John W. Armiger Robin Leigh Culler Mary Patricia Yaniga John P. McGrath Pamela Boddicker Ebmeier Fraser D. Bishop Lynne Gilliss Degen Hank S. Zito Clarke T. McKinney Ruth L. Elwell Mary McCoy Blohm William H. Drew J. Scott Nevin Diane C. Fadeley Sherrie Plyler Bolton Kathleen Kling Drew Celeste Rollins O'Donnell Sarah Lambert Hall Jeffrey Lewis Culler Norma Wiley Durkin Class of 1976 Catherine Hernandez Ray Mary Ann Duda Hoffman Claudia Holt Gondolf Joseph E. Garner Leslie G. Beard Michael J. Stamm Elizabeth M. Hollyfield Carolyn Leo Huff Bonnie M. Green Lynn Alexander Blake Timothy A. Thoman Charles A. Hugg
THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 29 Jai K. Jones Cynthia Matoska Smith Bruce A. Lanier Special Gifts-In- Betsy Jean King Gerard T. Smith Marie Chlan Lynch Virginia Cross Leopard Gail Anderson Stone Karen L. McCeney Kind Allison Snow Lucas John D. Sweeney Donald McDougall D. Taylor Lucas Hazel Parr Sweeney Eleanor A. McNickle Art Program Nancie Rowe Lumpkins Katherine H.Weller Michael J. Payne Mr. Donald A. Brown Thomas T. Maleski Stephanie Whitehurst Glyn Furgurson Pogue Mr. and Mrs. Simon Chilewich Karen A. Matthews Thomas M. Smith Mr. Michael Flood James R. McNesby, Jr. Cynthia N. Stark Mr. Joseph Gitterman StephenJ. Miller George F. Taylor, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Burt Glinn Celeste Snyder Mills Class of 1982 Ms. Stephanie Hnizdovsky Robert Moore Dorothy Bode Ms. Claire Nichtern P. Erin Munday M. Denise Lerch Brace Mr. Stephen S. Pogue Linda J. Callahan Class of 1984 Harold D. Murray Elizabeth Wilkinson Egeli Mr. Alex Redein Frances H. O'Brien Ethel L. Campbell Mr. Saul Rosen Toni Collery Parran Christine Hayes Crawford Ms. Polly Rubin Deborah M. Pratt Mary Anne Bury Fisher Dr. James Rudel James S. Regel Beth Owens Gammon Joann E. Jones Dr. and Mrs. M.C. Shelesnyak Omporn Lulitanond Regel Terrence P. Gavin WilbertL. Leonard Mr. Abbott Simon Corey L. Roberts William B. Glascock J. Brian O'Day Mr. Arthur H. Smith James A. Scaltrito Donna M. Hamrick Mary L. Owen Ms. Peggy Smith Albert I. Hawk Gregg E. Smith Robert D. Slepitza Boat Acquisition Anne Loane Stengel Patricia M.Jones Beth lone Ward William C. Stengel Eric A. Kuhl Program Kevin B. Stevens Susan Butt Lanier Mr. Roy Angell Mary Waters Stevens Kelly Flint Mattingly Class of 1985 Mr. James H. Ayres Mary Hill Stone Michael Merashoff Dalerie M. Davis Mr. Joseph G. Barker Jessalyn B. Swann Martha E. Myers Diane G. Ridgell Dr. Ray Brown Wanda Y. Trent Barbara Schaeffer Payne Brenda A. Robinson Dr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Darcey A. Warner James E. Sharkey Hiltabidle Ricardo Williams Cynthia A. Spangler Dr. Shell Hillman Karen J. Sulmonetti Mr. Charles E. Kay David G. Tarwater Mr. Roger Novak Rodney W Tompkins Mr. Brainard W Parker, II Allison J. Turner Mr. Bradford Whitney Class of 1981 Heather J. Worthley Margaret W. Bishop Campus Thomas B. Brewer, III BeautifJcation Adrienne Britton Mr. Daniel Capper David Bruce Chesser Class of 1983 Town Creek Garden Club Kathy F. Crosby Andrew G. Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Angela M. Ellis Howard A. Beadle Wingrove Virginia R. Foster Penny A. Beall Jeffrey S. French Werner M. Berg Matching Gift Daniel T. Gammon Teresa M. Borgerding Sandra D. Gilbert Mary Beth Brady Companies Christine Simmons Gill Judith M. Carrigan Abbot Laboratories Fund Linda LaLumiere Grubbs Willem Cassard American Home Products Allan E. Hamill Thomas A. Chapline Corporation Barbara Nail Kopel Nancy Harkness Collery American President Lines, Ltd. Stephen R. McHenry Melissa G. Danoff Armstrong World Industries, Sharon A. McKay Gurvis Davis Inc. Carl R. Reichelt Linda Farr Elliott Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. Sherrie E. Robinson Kevin M. Gleason Bell Atlantic Margaret G. Schadegg William W Hoyt The C & P Telephone Debra A. Scott Curtis M.Jackson Company Margaret E. Sears Robert E. Jones First Maryland Foundation, Margaret A. Shughrue Steven D. Krahling Inc.
30 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-RIJ, this year's com mencement speaker, strolls the bank of the St. Mary's with Trustee Esther Coopersmith as bis guide. Awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree by St. Mary's, the senator was cited for believing that "thefederal government can and should contribute to the quality of our community life."
General Electric Foundation DAR, Maryland State Society Sawyer & Myerberg Christine M. Cullison Thomas J. Loughran Grace Foundation, Inc. DAR, John Hanson Chapter The Security Title Guarantee Lenett Partlow Davis Sharon A. McKay Grumman Corporation Dodge Charitable Trust Corp. Dallas Plugge Dean Margaret Wolf Milburn International Business The First National Bank of St. Tracor Hydronautics, Inc. Jeffrey C. Dill TimothyJ. Miller Machines Corp. Mary's Tracor, Inc. William T. Duck Madeline R. Miller Martin Marietta Corporation Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc. Izaak Walton League of NancyS. Elwood Maryfield Nelson Foundation Guy Distributing Company, America Sandra D. Gilbert Dennis L. Nicholson New England Mutual Inc. Wildewood Builders, Inc. Christine Pound Green J. Brian O'Day Insurance Co. The Irvine Company Yale Gordon Foundation, Inc. Judith Hammond Guffey Juliana Arrogancia Orlando B.Joanne Pyle Tenneco, Inc. League of Women Voters of St. Zachariah D. Blackistone Trust Harry F. Hafer Mary's County Patricia Wormwood Hall Paul S. Pyles Corporations, Martin Marietta Basic Products Althea M. Handy Mary E. Seng Foundations and Maryland Arts Council 1985 Phonathon Dana O. Heidemann Ellen Kruzel Slepitza Maryland Bank & Trust Jane Howard-Jasper Robert D. Slepitza Organizations Company Voluteers Patricia M.Jones Catherine Janushek Smith TheWm. G.Baker, Jr. Prince George Hall Council Elizabeth Y. Attias Marcia Whitmore Keen James C. Thomson Memorial Fund Bill Raley's Sales Center Judith A. Bergmeister Gordon H. Kester Janis Konkol Trizna The C & P Telephone St. Maries City Foundation Douglas P. Bishop Mary P. Kester Charles F. WqJf Company St. Mary's County Chamber of Mary Beth Brady KirbyA. King James A. Wood CRIT Sports, Inc. Commerce Sandra D. Burton Robert Lea Heather J. Worthley Clipper Cruise Line, Inc. St. Mary's County Rotary Brenda Beck Cribbs Fred B. Lee Arnold "Butch" Zachrel Cook's Liquors Foundation, Inc. David H. Cribbs Mark J. Lombardo Joanne Stewart Zachrel
Contributing alumni are listed We have tried to be complete and for any errors, and we hope you will above under the most recent year in accurate in listing those donors whose tell us about any you may discover. which they received a St. Mary's Col gifts were received between July 1, lege degree or certificate. 1984 and June 30, 1985. We apologize
THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 31 t one point during his two-week visit to St. Mary's in 1981, the eminent poet William Mer edith asked for a morning's freedom from his schedule of workshops, readings, and class ap Apearances. He wanted to spend a few hours walking the campus in the company of the College's head groundsman, contemplating the junipers and silver ma ples, the forsythia, cypress trees, and exotic hollies — ex ploring the quality of care that lay behind a beauty so remarkable. The poet knew better than to take the campus's land scape for granted. Indeed, if he talked at any length with the grounds supervisor that morning, he learned that St. Mary's owes its physical charm not merely to its waterfront setting and the talents of its groundskeepers, but, to a very The Man Who large degree, to a single man. The man is Meredith Capper of Dameron, Md., a nurs eryman by trade and an old-fashioned entrepreneur by in Made a stinct: a pragmatist, a doer, who had little in the way of formal training but who knew how to exploit experience, hard work, and good luck. An unlikely focus, it would Difference seem, for a poet's curiosity. An unlikely shaper, perhaps, of a college's personality. But though he never graduated from college himself, A nurseryman by trade and an Capper adopted St. Mary's as one of the pet projects of his old-fashioned entrepreneur by retirement. He became, in many ways, the figure that every young institution needs: the man who made a instinct, he has had a powerful difference. In the years before failing health slowed him down, Ca influence on the development of pper literally changed the face of the St. Mary's campus. the College. He donated hundreds of trees and shrubs to the College, and personally supervised their placement. By Dan Laskin Capper also made a less tangible but much more pro found and far-reaching difference for the College. At a time when St. Mary's was only beginning to define its identity as a distinctive liberal-arts school within the state college system, he helped guarantee the future of that identity by working to establish the St. Maryr's College of Maryland Foundation. As president of the foundation for its first ten years, the unpretentious but relentlessly persuasive nurseryman gave life to the notion that a college's public status should not preclude a vigorous private fund-raising effort. In effect, he and his fellow board members implanted the idea that the community ought to have a stake in St. Mary's Dan Laskin and in its liberal-arts mission. Meredith Capper's successful business career demon-
32 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND : . ing. Second, he realized that shrubbery can be sold at a considerable markup. His optimism was perhaps naive — nurserymen in fact must contend with the risks of both agriculture and retail ing — but optimism served Capper well. Before long he started a landscaping and lawn-work business in part nership with another man. Soon he was on his own, hav ing bought 27 acres near a rural Virginia crossroads called Tysons Corner. This was the beginning of Capper's Nursery. "Tysons Corner in the 1930s was a gas station and a store and a tavern on a dirt road," says Capper's son, Dan, recounting his father's memories of the early days, and grinning at the image of the modern commercial ag glomeration as a mud-caked backwater. The transformation began after the Second World War, with the spread of the suburbs into northern Virginia. As Falls Church and Fairfax grew, Capper's Nursery pros pered. Contrary to the wisdom of the Depression, the great dependable force in the landscaping business turned out to be not the aristocratic estate but the middle- class building lot, not inherited wealth but the VA and FHA loan. By 1959, Meredith Capper was able to contemplate re tirement as a kind of gentleman farmer. He found his dream farm in St. Mary's County, on a 345-acre tract of se rene flatland along St. Jeromes Creek, near the Chesa peake Bay. In 1965 he built a house here and —officially, at any rate — retired. Dan, who had joined his father in the business five years earlier, took over the still thriving Tysons Corner nursery. Capper, however, was one of those men who found Meredith Capper at the dedication of the Memorial Carillon, himself temperamentally incapable of retiring. In 1968 he 1980. Foundation, under his leadership, donated it to the College. started a whosesale nursery on his farm to supply the re tail outlet in Tysons Corner. He ran the wholesale opera strates that he is accustomed to making a difference in the tion until his health began to decline, after which he hired world around him. Nothing in that career, however, espe a manager to help him. Finally, Dan moved to St. Jeromes cially prepared him for such close involvement in the Neck (as the area is called) and assumed control of the growth of an intellectual institution. business. The Tysons Corner nursery was sold in 1979. A Born in 1904, Capper grew up in Washington, D.C., car dealership and a Toys R Us, among other stores, where his father worked for the government printing of quickly sprouted on the site. fice and later ran the pedal-boat concession at the Tidal Capper's Nursery today consists entirely of the whole Basin. The young Capper attended William and Mary Col sale operation on St. Jeromes Neck. In essence, it is a lege for a time but never finished. shrub and tree farm, marketing to retail nurseries and He found his career by chance during the Depression, landscape contractors throughout the Washington area when he took a job with a northern Virginia nursery that and beyond. Under Dan's proprietorship, moreover, the catered to the rich. He was a chauffeur, essentially, as nursery has carried on the tradition started by its founder signed to the company's boxwood supplier when the man — of making a difference for St. Mary's College. came to Washington from his base in North Carolina. The The Capper-College bond owes something, perhaps, to experience, however humble, left Capper with two per coincidence. St. Mary's, originally a female seminary and ceptions that made the nursery business look attractive. later a junior college, took on its present identity in 1967, First, he noticed that even during the worst of economic two years after Meredith Capper settled a few miles away. times the rich are able to indulge their taste for landscap The successful entrepreneur was reluctantly entering re-
T1IE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 33 tirement — that summer evening of life whose peace is says Reynolds, "and he raised money the way he knew tinged by intimations of an ending — just as the fledgling how. He'd go to his friends and grab them by the collar four-year college was looking ahead to a youthful future. and not let go until they gave." "Beyond the fact that supporting St. Mary's was simply a "He was the old style, a seat-of-the-pants type of man," good thing to do, I think he saw the College as represent says Bill Mitchell, a St. Mary's City landscape contractor ing a sort of immortality" says Deak Reynolds, a St. Mary's who managed the St. Jeromes Neck nursery for several economics professor and longtime friend of Capper's. "He years. "He wasn't scientific about what he did. His attitude could see that he wasn't going to last forever, and he was, 'Let's not have a lot of plan about it; let's just get the wanted to leave something for a good cause. thing off the ground.' And he was an absolute workaholic. "Remember, too," Reynolds continues, "that Meredith He had to be doing something all the time. That's proba Capper never finished college. He saw St. Mary's as his bly why he was a good fund-raiser, after he got out of the college. He saw himself, in a sense, as an alumnus of St. nursery" Mary's." Capper undertook a number of other good causes, serv ing most notably as the board president and a major fund raiser for St. Mary's Hospital. But his relationship to the college was clearly special, and it was there that he made the greatest difference. When he first began donating trees and shrubbery in the early 1970s, the campus bore the raw scars of recent construction. The library, the student union, the gym, and three dorms had just been built. "The place was really bare," recalls Hammett Stone, the grounds supervisor and sometime tour guide for poets. From time to time, without warning, Capper would ap pear. "You'd just see him strolling around campus," Stone says. "Then he'd come back in two or three days' time and say, 'I've got some shrubbery labeled for you, out at the nursery"' '* *.-**-.«- • • ••* '• m Stone and his crew would fetch the plants and set them Meredith and Dorothy Capper take a moment to enjoy mini-park out around the campus, at points specified by Capper. in front of Dorchester Hall, one of many places on campus that Over several years, in this straightforward way the retired owe their plantings to him. nurseryman fully landscaped the new buildings. Later he William Aleck Loker, Sr., the prominent Leonardtown redid plantings around some of the older buildings. The attorney and former College trustee, smiles when he hears value of his contributions often totaled several thousand these characterizations. Loker became a director of the dollars annually. College foundation in 1974, three years after its establish All told, Capper's Nursery gave the college more than ment. "Meredith Capper had very positive views," says 150 silver maples, along with nearly 100 blue spruces and Loker, and his smile suggests that "positive" is a diplo hundreds of junipers and crape myrtle. And there were matic way of implying fierce persistence. "He was a leader scores of Japanese and French hollies, boxwoods, more than a follower," Loker continues. "He wasn't weigelia, forsythia, thread and plume cypresses. It is a bashful." mark of Capper's aesthetic knack that these gifts often go Capper ran the foundation much as he had run his nurs unnoticed, so naturally do they accent or soften the con ery. Neither he nor his fellow board members were tours of the campus, so subtly do they define an interplay schooled in the science of fund-raising. But they all had between land and structure. some experience in the art of persuasion, they knew By contrast, Capper's style as a fund-raiser was often something about managing money, and they believed in less than subtle. "He's a very direct person, Meredith is," their cause.
34 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND At first glance, the contributions they sought out during Not least of all, under Meredith Capper the foundation those early years look to be a loose collection of cash gifts, started an endowment from scratch, building its assets furniture, paintings, securities, and assorted antiques. within five years to more than $100,000. Today, the sum They attempted a few unorthodox ventures — adopting, for has grown to more than a million dollars. example, a whimsical suggestion of Aleck Loker's that This is a small figure compared to the popular image of each board member give the foundation treasurer a dollar the academic endowment — an image of enormous wealth a week to play on the lottery with any winnings going to accumulated over hundreds of years. The legendary en the College. dowments of the great old private universities and col But a coherence emerged, and a number of lasting tra leges seem to have an organic existence, as if they were ditions, too. It was the foundation that first explored the natural secretions of the nation's aristocracy — of people idea of getting boat owners to donate their craft to St. who, by virtue of certain shared social and business con nections, all went to the same small group of schools. The premise behind St. Mary's, of course, is that the ex cellence and intellectual wealth associated with those In effect, he and his venerable private schools can belong to public institutions as well — to people whose chief shared connection is their fellow board members citizenship. This is why the St. Mary's foundation has been such a crucial resource, and why Meredith Capper, as the implanted the idea that foundation's first guiding spirit, stands out so prominently as a man who made a difference. Given the financial lim the community ought to its inherent in the state-college system, and in the middle class which it serves, an independent source of funds is have a stake in St. essential to support an environment of excellence. Fund-raising by the St. Mary's College of Maryland Mary's and in its liberal- Foundation has become a more sophisticated affair in re cent years. Working closely with Fred Lee, the College's director of development, foundation board members to arts mission. day give as much attention to contacting corporations as to collaring friends. Mary's — an idea that initially posed some frustrating logis But though the art of persuasion has grown more so tical problems but that has since proven invaluable. The phisticated since the time when Meredith Capper led the foundation was instrumental, as well, in starting the an foundation, the quality of care underlying that art remains nual Governor's Cup sailing race, which now attracts hun the same. It is a care devoted to continually enriching the dreds of sailors and brings the College a good deal of environment of excellence — to ensuring that St. Mary's publicity and good will. will always be the kind of place which, on many levels, gives inspiration to poets. * The foundation energetically took on special projects, the sort of projects that the state would not fund but that seemed to fit the College's distinctive character. Capper's Dan Laskin, a Yale alumnus, is advisor in continuing education at St. Man's and a freelance writer. board raised some $45,000 to build the Memorial Carillon, for example. With the support of the Blackistone family, they created the elegant but intimate space known as the Blackistone Room, a favorite spot for small meetings and poetry readings. Dedication to remodeling and furnishing buildings has been something of a hallmark of the founda tion. Today, the group is seeking donations to furnish new dormitories that the College will build in the next few years. THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 35 ince government first gained enough sovereignty to be able to spend more than its income, deficits have been hated and feared by knowledgeable people. Historically, deficits have been financed Sby borrowing or by the creation of new money, both of which tend to have undesirable results. When a sovereign government borrows money the loan is seldom repaid from current income. Sometimes, sov ereigns have eliminated their debts by eliminating the lender — a precedent that makes potential lenders under standably nervous — or they have paid off one lender by borrowing from another. Only rarely have they repaid debt from an excess of income over current expenditures. The result usually has been a rising public debt with an ever-increasing interest burden for taxpayers. That Old The costs of deficit financing through the creation of new money are less direct but no less severe. Except when there is substantial slack in the economy, the crea Debbil Deficit tion of new money to pay current expenses, as opposed to the purchase of investment goods, is inflationary. If politicians will only put aside In the United States, the federal government has not partisan posturing and try a little created money directly to cover its deficits, but neither has it financed them entirely by borrowing existing money. In statesmanship, the problem can stead, the government has borrowed, and — to avoid exces be solved, says this economist. sive interest rates and a shortage of funds in financial markets — the Federal Reserve System has created new re By Harmon H. Haymes serves to allow the money supply to grow. The results, however, have been very much the same as if new money had been created directly. The rising volume of purchas ing power has caused prices to rise, and when the money supply lagged behind the swollen demand for money, has forced interest rates up. Generally speaking, American politicians have not been much concerned about the inflationary effects of deficit financing. Most of their constituents are net debtors in stead of net creditors — i.e., they owe more than is owed to them — and net debtors frequently benefit from a moder ate amount of inflation. With prices rising, the money they borrow is more valuable than the money they use to repay their loans. And if they have borrowed money to buy as sets such as houses, the value of their assets frequently has increased due to inflation. The burden of higher interest rates also has been softened for most consumer borrowers through tax deductions, interest rate ceilings, and sub sidized loans. The net creditors, far fewer in number, bear the major costs of moderate inflation, but they have been unable to
36 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND wield sufficient political power to force the government to tary expansion, the draft absorbed many potential workers eliminate its deficits. They have had to be content with tax and encouraged others to stay in school to avoid military loopholes, price supports, subsidies, government protec service. This time, without a draft, young people were free tion of their monopoly power, and other devices to help to enter the labor market. them bear the burdens of inflation. For all of these reasons, the gap between supply and There has been widespread agreement among debtors demand did not reach the proportions usually found when and creditors and politicians of both major parties about a deficit leads to an increase in the money supply. one thing, however: large deficits generally cause higher The reasons for interest rates falling in the face of high interest rates and higher prices and therefore should be and rising deficits also are simple. First, rates were pushed avoided, at least in principle. In recent years, many strong up to unusually high levels very quickly when the Federal supporters of the present administration have joined its Reserve reduced the rate of growth of the money supply, critics in condemning the large deficits which have oc and those high rates were to some extent self correcting. curred, and politicians who have rarely agreed in the past They discouraged borrowing and encouraged lending, have been cooperatively seeking ways to reduce the defi bringing supply and demand into equilibrium at lower in cit. Leaders on both sides of the aisle seem to be in wide terest rate levels. Both consumers and corporations de spread agreement that the deficit must go. ferred purchases of inventories in order to avoid The specific ills created by recent deficits have been borrowing or to earn interest on savings. Foreigners found embarrassingly difficult to identify, however. Deficits tradi American interest rates rising just at the time when their tionally have been inflationary, but recently the rate of in earnings of dollars from exports were reaching a record flation has fallen substantially. Deficits also are supposed high, so they quickly put their money into American secu to cause interest rates to rise and loanable funds to dry up, rities to take advantage of those rates, adding to the supply but interest rates have fallen dramatically as the deficits of loanable funds. have expanded, and lenders are competing fiercely to Until recent years, government deficits usually reduced lend money to all types of borrowers. What went wrong? the availability of loanable funds to non-government bor Why haven't the growing deficits caused the problems rowers. The government would sell securities and then they should have? hold the proceeds of the sale on deposit until it became The deficits did not generate the expected inflation for a necessary to spend the money. Sometimes sizable number of reasons. First, the Federal Reserve did not amounts of money would lie idle for fairly long periods of monetize the debt as completely as they might have. time. It has been decades, however, since either the While the deficits were growing, the money supply also federal or state and local governments have held any sub was increasing, but at a declining rate. A second reason for stantial funds. Over the years, they have become in the lack of inflation is that there was significant economic creasingly adept at spending money as quickly as they slack; that is, workers and productive goods were not fully collect it — and sometimes even before they collect it. And employed. In the early 1980s, there was enough slack in any money not spent usually is made available to others the American economy to allow for some expansion be through security purchases. Thus, a sale of government se fore price increasing shortages could develop. The factor curities does not take money out of the financial markets; that did the most to relieve pressure on prices, however, it just sends it on a very swift detour through the public was the availability of foreign goods. Most of America's coffers. trading partners had substantial slack in their economies; Recent changes in the structure and practices of finan when more money became available to buy more goods, cial institutions also have played a large role in the more other countries were able to supply those goods in vast efficient use of money. A few years ago, thousands of banks quantities at no substantial increase in prices. all over the country ended each day with sizable blocks of Labor costs were dampened, too, by a record number of idle reserves. In fact, many large banks had lending pol young people reaching working age and by a substantial icies designed to avoid any risk of running short of re influx of workers from other countries, both legal and il serves because they felt that borrowing reserves somehow legal. Of perhaps less importance is the fact that there was indicated weakness or unsound banking. Thousands of no military draft. In several earlier periods of rapid mone smaller banks typically had idle reserves simply because
THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 37 they could not find enough sound borrowers or acceptable economy may be minimized, and the long run benefits investment opportunities. That, however, was before the will justify the cost. development of a massive correspondent banking network There are only two logical ways to attack a deficit — and the Federal Funds market, which enables one bank to through tax increases or spending cuts. In the present sit lend its excess reserves to another. Even the smallest bank uation, tax increases based on the existing tax structure today can lend or sell any excess reserves to a larger bank, would do more harm than good. Most of those who pay which in turn will pass those reserves on to a money mar taxes are already paying at such a high level that any fur ket correspondent, where they will be used to cover the ther increases would be strongly resisted and tax evasion reserve deficits of the more active banks or made available would become even more epidemic than at present. The to large money market borrowers. answer is not an increase in rates, but a re-structuring of The fact that the deficits have had few detrimental the tax system to make the burden more equitable. Those effects up to now, however, does not mean that they can in the lower income brackets are unable to bear much of be continued into the indefinite future without cost. The the burden, and those in the highest income brackets fre quantity of dollars cannot be increased at such a rapid rate quently use carefully designed loopholes to avoid taxes. without undesirable consequences. The slack which ex The burden at present rests upon the wage earners in the isted in the world economy eventually will disappear, and middle and upper-middle income brackets. Any tax revi shortages of labor and materials will develop even in non- sion which eliminates the loopholes would be more equi industrialized countries, resulting in higher prices in the table than the present system, and could lead to a U.S. Higher American prices would weaken the dollar in substantial increase in tax income without stimulating a international trade, and even a slight weakening of the revolt on the part of the minority who currently are bear dollar would raise the prices of imported goods, reducing ing more than their share of the tax burden. The first step demand and discouraging foreign producers and export in deficit reduction, then, should be a move to some sort ers. In short, the long run effect of a large deficit, even in a of essentially flat rate, no-loophole tax system. highly internationalized economy, will be inflation, and Even with tax reform, however, American taxpayers are inflation inevitably brings higher interest rates. unwilling to pay substantially more in taxes than they now Unfortunately, the reduction of deficits also is not with pay, and so the major thrust of deficit reduction must come out detrimental monetary effects. A large deficit, resulting through the control of spending. in the injection of huge amounts of money into the econ Spending should be brought under control gradually. omy year after year, is a tremendous stimulus to the econ Scheduled increases in payments, such as Social Security omy, and it cannot be withdrawn even gradually without benefits, farm subsidies, etc., should be reduced, so that cost. It is highly unlikely that deficit reduction can be those who depend on government spending for their in achieved without a reduction in total income. Everyone's comes will not find those incomes eliminated, but just income is someone else's spending. If the deficit is re growing at a slower rate or not at all. Of course, programs duced by cuts in government spending, this will cut the which no longer serve any useful purpose should be incomes of those who would have received the money phased out, and new programs should be undertaken only from the government for goods or services or in the form in case of dire necessity. of transfer payments. If deficits are reduced through in Perhaps one of the reasons politicians have had diffi creases in taxation, the result is a reduction in spending in culty coming to grips with recent deficits is that they ap the private sector. pear to be enormous by historical standards. In reality, A deficit is like a drug. It creates a tremendous stimulus, however, they are not nearly as large as they appear. First, which requires larger and larger injections to be main as a percentage of either Gross National Product or total tained, but the elimination of deficits, like the elimination government spending, deficits are much smaller than they of drug addiction, is accompanied by severe withdrawal have been on several past occasions. Second, the Federal pains. budget shows all expenditures as if they were current ex A deficit reduction, with its concomitant reduction in penditures. In a private budget, expenditures would be aggregate demand, would tend to depress the economy. If classified as current or capital, and the deficit would be it is undertaken very carefully, however, the damage to the calculated only on the basis of the relationship between
38 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND income and the funds needed to cover current expenses, cause foreign investors to withdraw their dollars from including some amortization of the debt incurred for cap American markets, but that is a fear without foundation. ital improvements. If the budget were stated in con Some dollars might temporarily be diverted to cover the ventional accounting terms, the deficit would not appear dollar needs of those whose exports to the United States to be nearly so large or so frightening. have declined as a result of U.S. fiscal actions, but ul Politicians of both parties, of course, have reasons for timately dollar deposits must be spent in the U.S. They making future deficits appear to be enormously large. The have no permanent validity anywhere else. incumbent administration needs the threat of large defi The federal deficit does not present insoluble problems cits in order to justify the tax reforms and spending cuts it from the economic point of view. It is not necessary to would like to bring about. The party out of office likes to eliminate essential social programs and thus create wel point to the apparent large deficits as illustrations of the fare problems on an inhuman scale in order to close the failure of the incumbent party, and perhaps to justify votes gap between revenues and spending. The greatest barrier on specific bills which would appear to be contrary to to an equitable solution of the problem is politics, which their own basic philosophy. in a sense was the cause of the problem in the first place. Regardless of how the budget deficit is stated, however, If the two political parties can put aside their rivalries it is too large to live with indefinitely, and fiscal actions long enough to engage in some statesmanship, there is no need to be taken to reduce it. Whether they take the form reason why the deficit cannot be brought under control. * of a tax increase or spending cuts, the impact will be harsh, but if appropriate monetary policies are followed, Dr. Haymes, at one time Dean of the College, is a professor of econom the effects can be ameliorated to some extent. As the stim ics. He came to St. Mary's in 1977 and earlier taught at Smith, Washing ulus of the deficit is reduced, money can be eased by the ton and Lee, and Virginia Commonwealth. He was an officer of the Federal Reserve, lowering interest rates and making it Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond in 1966-68. easier to borrow for housing and consumer durables. Some have expressed fears that lower interest rates would
THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 39 The Clan Alumnitems Gathers
eunion Weekend, June 14-16, brought scores of alumni back R to the campus for a dinner cruise, a crab feast, a banquet com plete with singing of the Alma Mater, and many happy hours of getting reacquainted. The dinner cruise was aboard the Captain Tyler of Smith Island, and the sumptuous buffet, pleasing to both eye and palate, was the creation of Great Mills' Bill Taylor, the dinner designer. The honor of cutting the Reunion cake at the Saturday night banquet went to membes of the golden anni versary classes of 1935, both high school and college. One member of the college class, Helen Boughton Perry of Whittier, California, was the graduate who traveled the greatest dis tance to be present. The seminary class of 1925, with five of 11 members present for the Sixtieth reunion class of 1925 ham it up for Campbell, Virginia Reeves Cooney, Hazel 60th reunion, took the honors as the the camera, celebrating the fact that they Barnsleyfohns, Rosalie Jones Insley, and class with the best attendance, an have the largest percentage of class mem Florence Hartge Angell. bers present. Group includes foyce Adreon achievement recorded on the silver Reunion Bowl. Senior alumna present — as she has been for several years past — was Miss Lucy Spedden, '16, of Bethesda. Subsequently, an Alumni Council committee has begun reviewing the reunion program for 1986 (June 13-15). One result is that the popular dinner cruise will be rescheduled from Friday to Saturday night next year, making it more convenient for those who have difficulty breaking away from work responsibilities on a Friday afternoon. The change will also leave Friday evening open for individ ual class get-togethers. Softball is scheduled for Saturday afternoon, and boats will be available for alumni use Eugenia Walters, '35 HS, and Helen Boughton Perry, '35 College, team up to cut both Saturday and Sunday. the '85 reunion cake at the June 15 banquet. See you in '86! Helen, from California, covered the great est distance to be present.
40 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND STARS Appear
new student organization called St. Mary's STARs- Stu A dent Alumni Representatives — has been formed to represent the col lege in its relations with alumni, par ents, friends, and members of the local community. Working in conjunction with the Alumni Association and the College foundation, STARs will assist in man ning College information booths at community events, hosting outside groups on campus, attending alumni and parent events, and working on the Annual Giving program with alumni and parents. "%*^'r First chairman of the group is Alex Hart of Cambridge, a junior. Charter Janet Densmore, '61, incoming Alumni onlookers are President Ted Lewis, left, president, makes presentation to outgoing and Gordon Kester, college relations members include seniors Greg Angst, president Paul Pyles, '76. Amused director. Julie Benas, Rosemary Blair, and Dave Victor; juniors Jennifer Bucher and Heidi Rosenthal; sophomores Ann Cline, Lisa Marks, and Christopher Smith; and Diane Wheatley a May i |4i '% ? Ik graduate. gb i^ The organization grew out of a Penn State conference at which St. Mary's was represented by Wheatley; Angst, the current SGA president; two Alumni Council members, Mary Seng, '83, and Janet Densmore, '6l, alumni president; and Gordon Kester, college relations director. The conference brought together colleges and univer sities in the region, several of which already have formed student alumni clubs. Alumni prepare for Reunion '85 dinner Weekend included a waterfront crab feast cruise on the St. Mary's River. Vessel is the and a talk by President Lewis at the Satur- Captain Tyler, and Bill Taylor of Great day night banquet. Mills catered the Southern Maryland meal.
THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 41 "For and About Joe" Steele, Sailor of the mediocrity we simply cannot. ... A Year mediocre St. Mary's would be a be A tribute to the late Joseph B. Ross, Jr., trayal of the philosophy upon which this institution was built —a philoso art professor at St. Mary's from 1972 For the second straight year, Scott until his death in October, 1984, was phy which insists that any able stu Steele, '81, was named Annapolis dent, regardless of socio-economic offered April 20 at a memorial dinner Sailor of the Year on the strength of his in Washington organized by black status, has a right to an excellent capturing a silver medal in boardsail- education." alumni of the College. ing in the 1984 Olympics. The one hundred twenty diners and Sharing Sailor of the Year honors So President Edward T. Lewis told other friends contributed $1,300 to the with Steele are Sam Merrick, chairman alumni at Reunion Weekend in a re Joe Ross Memorial Fund in the St. of the U.S. Olympic Yachting Commit view of the College's accomplishments Mary's College Foundation. tee, and Charlie Scott, winner of the of the past year and its plans for the Among the guest speakers were MORC International Championship. future. James Backus, advisor on cultural af He identified the most significant re fairs to Mayor Marion Barry of Wash cent accomplishment as the designing ington, and Warren M. Robbins, Now There are Three of a new general education curricu director emeritus of the National Mu lum, to be in place in the fall of f986. seum of African Art. Several paintings Alumni can take pride in the fact that "This curriculum will be the keystone by Joe Ross were displayed. three students are currently receiving of the College's progress over the next Alumni Scholarships of $1,000 a year five years. It is a curriculum that iden Tributes to Ross as a teacher and as a from the Alumni Association's schol tifies and defines what we stand for; it friend were offered by Dr. John C. arship endowment fund. is a curriculum that the faculty can be Laughton, chairman of Arts and Letters The newest recipients are Sherri and are justly proud of." at the College, and Dr. Jonathon C. Daugherty of Churchton, a graduate of A second accomplishment, said Nelson, '76, research director of Com Southern Senior High School in Har- Lewis, was the receipt of a Department pliance Corporation, Lexington Park. wood and daughter of Katherine of Education loan for townhouse-type Joseph B. Ross, Sr. responded for the Brandt Daugherty, '62, and Ann Cline, family. student residences. The $3.5 million sister of Carolyn Cline, '84. Sherri is a loan is for 30 years at 3 percent. St. Special material written for the oc St. MarVs freshman this fall and Ann is Mary is one of only fl colleges in the casion included a poem by Floyd a sophomore. country approved for such loans. "Nadata" Brown, '79, and a musical se As recently as two years ago, the Third, St. Mary's has received plan lection, "For and About Joe," com Alumni Scholarship endowment was ning money from the state for a $6.5 posed by Scott Taylor, '79. sufficient to support only one schol million addition to the library —an ad Other alumni who took part in or arship, but Annual Giving contribu dition whose construction should be helped organize the event include the tions since then have boosted the gin in the fall of f 987. general chairman, Althea Handy, '79; value of the endowment to approxi Fourth, said Lewis, "the admissions Sherri L. Waters, '79; Dalerie Davis, mately $30,000. picture continues to improve dramat '85; Kevin Givens, '81; Kevin Glover, All Alumni Annual Giving contribu ically" Applications are up 25 percent 79; Janet Carter, '80; Jai Jones, '80; tions designated for "scholarship" go over the past two years and average Brian Law, '79; and Adrienne Britton, into the endowment fund — with the SAT scores jumped from 953 to 997 '81. satisfactory result reported above. last year and are expected to rise an Additional contributions to the Joe other 25 points for the entering class Ross Fund will be welcomed by the of 1985. alumni and the Foundation. Gifts may "A College with Lewis made special note of the fact be sent to the St. Mary's College Foun Momentum" that the College places "equal empha dation in care of the Development Of sis on high school grades, extra-curric fice of the College. "While other colleges may settle for ular achievements, and the interview"
42 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND along with SAT scores, but he said the more diversity in the student body, in '60, of Washington, D.C; Stu Wilkin SAT is important because the average cluding increasing the number of out- son Egeli, '62 and '84, of Drayden, SAT score for a class "does say some of-state students. Md.; Geoffrey W Funk, Jr., '84, of thing significant about a college and As the number of students increase, Lutherville, Md.; Steve R. McHenry its student body." so will the number of faculty — from '81, of Annapolis; Susan A. Claggett Last year, he noted, St. Mary's fresh 72 now to about 80 in 1990. McKissick, '6l, of St. Inigoes, Md.; men had the highest average SAT "I have described then," said Lewis, Mary E. Seng, '83, of Rockville; and scores in the public system. "a college with momentum. In short, Kitty Clemson Turner, '42, of Towson. A final accomplishment, said Lewis, we have begun to separate ourselves Newly elected to membership are has been "consistent media visibility" from other institutions in the state sys Leslie G. Beard, 76, of Hagerstown, in the Baltimore Sun, the Washington tem. With our distinct mission and Md.; Mary Alice Waesche Benson, '50, Post, the News American, and local dedication to the liberal arts, we are of Baltimore; Elizabeth Knighton media, as well as articles in The New different from the others, and we are Cameron, '39, of St. Inigoes, Md.; Vir York Times, Business Week, Forbes and moving toward a higher level of ginia Tibbs Garner, '62, of Black others. excellence. Mountain, N.C.; Robin O. Guyther, 72, "It is accurate to claim," he said, "Because of our mission, this is nec of Leonardtown, Md.; Margaret Wolf "that St. Mary's College has gathered essary and appropriate, for St. Mary's Milburn, '37, of St. Mary's City; Arden momentum and that, successful as the College of Maryland has no raison R. Shannon, 74, of Timonium, Md.; College has been in the past, it will d'etre except as an alternative — a valid Margaret Hedgecock Smith, '45, of achieve greater success in the future." alternative — to the best private liberal Berlin, Md.; Catherine Janushek Smith, '65, of Leonardtown, Md.; and He cited the f 984 reaccreditation re arts colleges in the state and in the R. Eugenia Walters, '37, of College port of the Middle States Association Mid-Atlantic region." Park, Md. of Colleges and Secondary Schools, which said that during the past few The term of office for officers and years St. Mary's has become "a more Council Newly members of the Alumni Council is July cohesive, vital, and on-the-move col Elected 1, 1985-June 30, 1987. lege community that is, in a sense, a The Council is the governing body r new college." Janet Montgomery Densmore, '61, has of the St. Mary 's College Alumni Asso Looking to the future, Lewis focused been elected president of the Alumni ciation, whose membership includes on construction projects, the student Council. Mrs. Densmore, of North approximately 3,000 graduates and for mer students of the female seminary, body, and the faculty. East, Md., is a certified public accoun the junior college, and the present In the next three years, he pre tant. She succeeds Paul Pyles, 76, of four-year institution. $ dicted, St. Mary's will see $10 million Washington, D.C. as president. in construction get underway, with Other officers elected are Janice $3-5 million for townhouses and dor Clark, 73, vice president, and David mitory refurbishing and a $6.5 million Cribbs, 74, secretary/treasurer. Ms. addition to the library. Clark, of Pasadena, Md., is a nutri "We also expect," said Lewis, "to be tional territory manager for Wyeth Lab. gin planning for construction of a new Dr. Cribbs is on the St. Mary's biology academic building — probably a sci faculty (see College Newsfront). ence building — during the next year." Balloting for the Alumni Council With the addition of more on-cam- was held by mail in the spring and re pus housing, Lewis expects the size of sults were announced at the reunion the student body to increase from June 14-16. 1,250 (full-time equivalent) to 1,400 in Re-elected to membership on the the next five years, and the average SAT Council were Lenett Partlow Davis, to top 1100 by 1990. He also foresees 78, of Baltimore; Dallas Plugge Dean,
THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 43 Alumnotes
1928 "The Charlotte Hall dances, with cially enjoyed touring the Maryland our partners chosen by height and hair Dove," she writes, "and trying to imag Kitty Chipman Wilson writes from color? In my sophomore year, some ine the courage of an ancestor, John Texas that she and two classmates — body goofed and I ended up with Briscoe, on its sister ship, the Ark. We Emily Carscaden Brown of Baltimore a four-foot, eight-inch seventh were impressed with the lovely Col and Anne Peterson Hines of Massachu grader. . . lege boats and dock also." setts — enjoyed a 1984 luncheon re "We went to the Shenandoah Apple union in Baltimore. Blossom Festival on a St. Mary's bus 1947 driven by Mr. Wood? 1931 "The scarlet fever epidemic one fall? Cathy Matthews Mogan and her hus 55th Reunion June 1315 Miss Byrd and Miss Robinson lined us band Dee spent six weeks in 1984 up every night and made us gargle touring Britain by car. They made a re Champ Fifer Watson and husband with salt water and soda . . . turn visit to Kiplin Hall, home of Robert have been in the antiques busi "The library consisted of one room George Calvert, the first Lord ness in her hometown of Galesville, in Calvert Hall?" Baltimore. Md. for 27 years. They make annual She also brought with her from buying trips to Scotland and have California this snapshot, taken in 1953 many friends there. Champ also sends 1935 in the then-new Garden of Re news of her granddaughter, Andrea membrance. Helen is at lower left. Patti Fisher Hudson of Lancaster, Pa. Tasi, '84 (see below). will once again be presenting lecture demonstrations on the making of gin 1935 gerbread houses at the Smithsonian this year. The dates are December 7 9. Lillian Galli Doss returned in June for This is the fifth appearance at the the 50th reunion of her high school Smithsonian for "The Gingerbread class. She now winters in Fort Myers, Lady." summers in Maryland, and had "the pleasure of flying Florida Express with I960 my daughter Anitra as captain — one of the few 'lady' captains on a passenger Dwight Chakales, principal at Chop jet." Anitra Doss Ruth taught English ticon High School since 1978, has and directed the chorus at Chopticon been named chairperson of visiting High in the 70s, learned to fly at the 1939 committees to secondary schools by St. Mary's County airport, and has been Hannah McKee Crosswhite and her the Middle States Association of Col an airline pilot for the past four years. husband moved back to Maryland from leges and Secondary Schools. The vis Illinois when he retired recently from iting committees determine the Helen Boughton Perry brought back to accreditation of schools on a periodic the 50th reunion of her junior college Argonne National Laboratory. Hannah had been a consultant at Argonne. basis. He has been an assistant chair class the following notes under the person for the past three years. caption, "Remember When?" Their new address is in Beltsville. "Freshmen orientation included an 1946 Oyster Scald? 1961 40th Reunion June 13-15 25th Reunion June 13-15 "Early in the morning, the day be fore graduation, we took four row- Peggy Briscoe Rodelle of Knoxville Barbara Foote Brillinger of Rockford, boats, tied the bows together off Porto writes that she and her husband Mich., is teaching grades one and two Bello . . . and skinny-dipped? Luckily, a brought their two Maryland grandsons at Algoma Christian School. She and fisherman in a putt-putt didn't investi to St. Mary's City for the 350th anniver her husband became grandparents of gate . . . sary celebration last year. "They espe William III in May, 1984.
44 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND 1971 1976 1979 15th Reunion June 13-15 10th Reunion June 13-15 Michael T. Legens, representative of Wayne Gordon and Art Fassio, 73, Donna Marie Lynch was married to the Nationwide Insurance Companies were co-arrangers last year of what is Marvin Dale Russow in August, 1984, in Southern Maryland, has been desig becoming a Baltimore tradition — a and is living in Collinsville, 111. She nated a Life Underwriters Training pre-Christmas dinner gathering of St. earned a master's degree in clinical so Council Fellow by the National Asso Mary's alumni, mostly of the early 70s. cial work at the University of Maryland ciation of Life Underwriters. To be eli Last year's bash drew 42 to the Water and is chief psychiatric social worker gible, a life underwriter must com front Hotel in Fells Point. A similar at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Belleville, 111. plete three LUTC courses earning a event is in the works for this year. Call total of at least 300 study and practice Terri Trenti Pitts, an Army Intelligence Art (483-3737) or Wayne (442-2882) equivalents. Only 2,735 individuals reserve officer, is back in Maryland for info. have earned the LUTCF designation. while husband Mark Pitts, a helicopter Legens is also secretary-treasurer of Debbie Shaffer McClellan, former pilot, completes a year of Korean duty. the Maryland State Association of Life president of the Alumni Association, The couple has two daughters, Underwriters. and husband Tom became the parents Adrienne, 3, and Rebecca, 1. They re of Samuel Alex on April 3, 1985. cently did a two-year tour in Panama. Susan Silanskis, director of admissions at St. Mary's, was married August 3 to 1977 Tom Weingartner, former athletic di 1973 rector at the College who now holds a James B. Cooper, Jr. is dry blend super similar position at Manhattanville Robert C. Thornton, wife Carol, and visor for the McCormick-Stange Flavor College, Purchase, N.Y. Susan has young Laura and Charlie are living in Division of McCormick & Co. in Hunt accepted a job as admissions director Manchester, Md. Bob is an insurance Valley. He joined McCormick in 1983 at City College, City University of claims representative and is pursuing after earlier working for Esskay Meat New York. further education in underwriting. Co. and Alcolac Chemical Co. Jim and Anthony Yu, who graduated in medi his wife, the former Katherine Kahoe, cine from Hong Kong University in have a son and a daughter and live in 1983, is working as a casualty officer in 1974 Bel Air. a government hospital in Hong Kong. Lynn Ridgely Allen, husband Jim, and Katy Kreitzer Boyd, her husband 7-year-old Ryan live in Chesterfield, Rick, and three-year-old Matthew are 1980 Va., where Lynn is employed by the spending several months in Paris. Chesterfield County public schools. Rick, managing editor of The Enter Karen Alvey was named administrative The recipient of a President's Fel prise in Lexington Park, was awarded a director last February of the Catherine lowship Award, Lynn received a mas fellowship by Whitney Communica Foundation's Crisis Pregnancy Center ter's degree in social studies education tions and is copy editor for the Paris- in White Plains, Md. after a year as a from Virginia State University last May. based International Herald-Tribune. volunteer at the center. She had worked as administrative assistant for a Gregory Buckley, who graduated with drug counseling program in Montgom honors in social science from St. 1978 ery County since graduation. Mary's, received a law degree from Julie Arrogancia and Dominick Allison Dobyns and Taylor Lucas were Ohio Northern University May 19. Orlando, 79, were married in May of married in 1982. Taylor is superintend Bonnie M. Green of Arlington has last year. Julie is a respiratory therapist ent of stormwater maintenance for the been appointed manager, government at Baltimore County General Hospital, City of Baltimore and Allison is a pol sales/services for American President Randallstown, and Nick is a radiation lution control analyst with the city. Lines, Ltd., a U.S.-flag shipping line safety officer at Genex Corporation, Their first, Daniel Alexander, was born serving the Pacific basin. Rockville. last May 28. THE MULBERRY TREE PAPERS 45 Kathy Kaifer, after a stint in student national Airport and lives in Lake 1983 services at the University of Delaware, Ariel, Pa. is back in Maryland as director of stu Anthony Hauserman was commis dent activities at the University of Bal Christine Hayes Crawford has been sioned a Navy ensign in May upon timore. She's living in Ellicott City. working for the Defense Department graduation from Aviation Officer Can as a computer science intern since didate School at Pensacola. He joined Tara Ricketts has been certified to graduation. She and Darrell Crawford the Navy in January. were married in November 1983 and teach music after completing the St. Alice Hutcherson graduated last year Mary's College teacher education pro have moved into a new house in Frederick County from the University of Texas Health gram this year. Science Center with a B.S. in physical James Haight married Carolyn Werner therapy. She is a therapist at St. Joseph 1981 of Pikesville in November, 1984 and Hospital, Fort Worth. they re living in Cockeysville. He's a Keith M. Love, airman first class, has Prescott B. Smith, Army Spec. 4, has mental health worker at Sheppard- graduated from the Air Force course in been assigned to duty in Giessen, Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson. space control and warning systems op West Germany as a microwave systems erations at Keesler Air Force Base, Mis Holly Gibson has completed the repairer with the 5th Signal Com sissippi. He has been assigned to the women's program in information sys mand. He had been at Fort Gordon, 728th Tactical Control Squadron, Eglin tems at Goucher and is an associate Ga. Air Force Base, Florida. computer systems designer with Melvin McBride, currently employed Martin Marietta Data Systems. 1984 by the Caroline County public schools, Denise Lerch and Keith Brace, '80, has completed the master of education David Flood (English) and Michael were married in October 1984. Keith program in music at Salisbury State Wilson (Music) received public is a pharmacist and Denise teaches at a College and has begun a doctoral pro school teaching certificates upon com school for learning disabled children. gram in curriculum and instruction at pletion of the College's teacher educa She has received her master's in spe the University of Maryland. tion program in May. cial education. Bill Turner was in training as a Navy Geoff Funk, former SGA president, pilot at Pensacola when he wrote a few Edward Pinder and Allison Jones, '84 was commissioned an ensign in the months back, sending greetings to were married in July and are living in Coast Guard last February after 17 Tom Rowe, Jon Ingersoll, and Mike downtown Baltimore while Ed com weeks of training. He was assigned to Ironmonger. "I'm still drawing and pletes his senior year in law at the Uni a vessel whose home port is Cape painting," he said, "and the windsurf- versity of Baltimore. Allison is an Canaveral. ing's great! I urge any liberal arts major electron microscope technician with Gabe Leenas was an account executive interested in aviation to remember the University of Maryland medical with JBS Associates, Ringwood, N.J. that their broad education is a desired school. when she wrote, but this fall began quality —and the sky's the limit." Karen Sulmonetti, who left St. Marys work in a master's program in college Jane Bickert Tutton is living in San in 1981 and graduated from College student personnel at Shippensburg Clemente and working as a biological Park in f 984, is layout artist for the State University. technician (wildlife) on the Marine magazine, Congressional Quarterly, Dawn Locke is pursuing graduate work Corps base at Camp Pendleton. and lives in Adelphi. in trumpet at Northwestern University. Allison Turner is a laboratory techni Elaine Schneider Perrott is a nuclear 1982 cian for Showed Farms, Inc. on the training auditor for the Arizona Nu Eastern Shore. She spent the first two clear Power Project, the largest nuclear Jay Bartoziewicz is an air traffic con weeks in March working on a mission facility in the U.S. troller at Wilkes BarreScranton Inter ary project in Haiti. Andrea Tasi attends veterinary school
46 ST. MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND at the University of Pennsylvania. Wiifiam Herfel is studying for his Karen Thomas is working toward an Ph.D. in philosophy at Temple MA. in English, concentrating on University. In Memoriam teaching, writing and literature, at Kelly L. Jenkins has joined the College Mary Dent Reaney, '03, in June, 1984, George Mason University. She's an ad staff as an admissions counselor. three days before her 99th birthday, in ministrative assistant for a company in Avenue, Md. Arlington. Ann S. Lewis was married June 1 to Charles Anthony (Tony) Clements. Agnes Todd Miles, '17 HS, date 1985 Lisa Lorraine Matteson is working for unknown. the Matteson Supply Co. Pamela Barrigher is a graduate student Belle Mattingly worked for the sum Stella Mae Jones Brand, 28, on March in clinical psychology at George Wash mer at Strike Aircraft Test Directorate, 12, 1983 in Wilmington, Del. ington University. Patuxent River. Vivian Hubbard Nisewaner, '45 HS, on Virginia Bauer is a student in the grad December 29, 1984, in Edgewater, Md. uate school of Spanish and Portuguese, Tom Moyer has joined the Mutual Ra University of Maryland. dio Network as an advertising sales Mary Jane Wiles McDermott, '50C, on representative. February 24, 1985, in Ellicott City, Md. Christina Blake is a resident counselor at the group home run by the St. Mark Stine is working at Agency Judith Anne Peper Gleason, '6lC, in Marys County Association for Re Group, Inc. in handover. January, 1980, in Great Falls, Va. tarded Children. Connie Thornley is working at SPN Enterprises and Heartbeat Fitness Paul Day is in the graduate program in Centers. She is singing with human genetics and molecular biol ogy at the University of Maryland, Bal "Cornerstone." timore, and has applied to medical Jeff Uhlenberg is employed at school there. the Donovan Heat Treating Co. in Philadelphia. Cindy Dobson earned a fourth runner- up position in the Miss Maryland pag Jennifer Warren is employed at eant June 21. She represented Anne Computer Sciences Corporation. Arundel County in the contest. Diane Wheatley is working at Central Marcia Doerr is a graduate student at Fairfax Services in Annandale, Va., a Yale. training center for mentally retarded adults. Edward Flynn has completed seaman recruit training in San Diego. He William Ziegler is working for the First joined the Navy in May. National Bank of Maryland, where he reports that Cindy Dobson, Martin Alisa Gassman is working at the Folger Curry, and Ken Angeluzzi are also Theater and attending graduate school employed. at American University. Eugenia Guiffreda works at the De partment of Justice in Washington. Lisa Grazioli is a technical writer for the National Security Agency. Susan Silanskis, '79, models armchair with Suzanne Henderson is employed at St. Mary's College seal in gold. Manufac tured by Boone Industries of North Car the Pacific Missile Test Center, Point olina, this sturdy chair may be ordered Mugu, Calif. through the Campus Store, (301) 863-5767.
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October 27, Wed.-Dec. 1, Sun. 24, Mon. Thanksgiving recess. Classes resume. Glenn Schweitzer, 1, Tues.-25, Fri. Woodrow Wilson Fellow, begins one- Exhibit by Chun Day, New Yorker December week stay. illustrator; Art Gallery, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 29, Sat. 5, Sat. 6, Fri. Admissions Open House, 10 a.m. Homecoming Weekend program for Madrigal dinner, State House, 6 p.m. 30, Sun. alumni. Men's soccer vs. Mary Christmas Formal, 9 p.m. Easter. Washington, 2 p.m. 7, Sat. 9, Wed.-12, Sat. Admissions Open House, 10 a.m. April Play, "Talking With...," Theater, 8 p.m. Trustees meeting. Madrigal dinner, 12, Sat. State House, 6 p.m. 8, Tues. Trustees meet at College. Women's 13, Fri. No classes. Advising and registration soccer vs. Mt. St. Mary's, 2 p.m. Last day of classes for degree-seeking students (through 18, Fri. 16, Mon.-20, Fri. April 10). Admissions Open House, 10 a.m. Exam period. 16, Wed.-19 Sat. 19, Sat.-20, Sun. Play, "Six Characters in Search of an Parents Weekend; St. Mary's County January Author," Theater, 8 p.m. Oyster Festival. Soccer on Saturday: 19, Sat. women vs. Loyola, 1 p.m.; men vs. 6, Mon.-9, Thurs. Admissions Open House, 10 a.m. Christopher Newport, 2 p.m. Registration for part-time students, Honors Convocation, 3 p.m. 26, Sat. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 21, Mon. Admissions Open House, 10 a.m. 16, Thurs. Lecture, Helen Caldicott, 8 p.m. Halloween Dance, 9 p.m. New students arrive. 25, Fri.-26, Sat. 28, Mon.-Nov. 22, Fri. 18, Sat. Dance concert, Theater, 8 p.m. Exhibit: Collector's Choice (graphic), Admissions Open House, 10 a.m. 28, Mon.-May 3, Sun. Art Gallery, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 19, Sun. Spring Week at St. Mary's Returning students arrive. November 20, Mon. Classes begin. May 2, Sat. 6, Tues. Men's soccer vs. Mt. St. Mary's, 2 p.m. February Last day of classes. 12, Tues. 8, Thurs.-13, Tues. No classes. Fall College Olympic 6, Thurs.-8, Sat. and 12, Wed.-15, Sat. Exam period. trials. Advising and registration for Play (Gilbert and Sullivan), Theater, 17, Sat. degree-seeking students (through Nov. 8 p.m. Commencement, State House Green, 14). 17, Mon. 11 a.m. 16, Sat. Admissions Open House, 10 a.m. Admissions Open House, 10 a.m. 22, Sat. 18, Mon. Admissions Open House, 10 a.m. June Percussion ensemble concert, Montgomery Hall, 8 p.m. March 5, Thurs.-7, Sat. 20, Wed.-23, Sat. Trustees workshop and meeting. Play, "Don Juan," Theater, 8 p.m. 1, Sat. 13, Fri.-15, Sun. 25, Mon.-Dec. 18, Wed. Board of Trustees meeting. Alumni Reunion —all classes. Exhibit, contemporary Estonian art, 17, Mon. 15, Sun.-22, Sun. Gallery, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Spring recess begins. Adult Learning Vacation.
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