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PLUS Goucher Selects its 11th President Goucher uarterlyVol. XCXI No. 1 Spring 2014 5 more than a snapshot on the front cover: With the use of a new app, the Good Energy by Deborah Spears Moorhead Pocket Anthropologist, students M.A.C.S ’13, oil on wood, 1998. Moorhead is interviewed on think more deeply about their p. 26 about her art and preservation of her Native American heritage. experiences abroad and share editor them with the campus community. Holly Selby managing editor Vanessa Mallory Kotz assistant editor students as curators Julie Steinbacher ’10 10 copyediting After three weeks in Bosnia and Ofﬁ ce of Communications Herzegovina, students created interns Marie Claire Bryant ’15 a dynamic exhibition featuring Ke’Aun Charles ’15 a diverse selection of artworks. design B. Creative Group Inc. Goucher College president Sanford J. Ungar vice president for development the fab life of and alumnae/i affairs 36 Margaret-Ann Radford-Wedemeyer bradford shellhammer ’98 president, AAGC Steven M. Klepper ’97 The co-founder of the online design postmaster Send address changes to: company, Fab, tells all—from how Advancement Services Dorsey Center 103 he supports emerging designers to Goucher College the infl uence of pop on his style. 1021 Dulaney Valley Road Baltimore, MD 21204-2794 inquiries Goucher Quarterly: [email protected] or fax 410.337.6185 Alumnae/i Affairs: 1.800.272.2279 or 410.337.6180 College Switchboard: 1.800.GOUCHER Admissions: 410.337.6100 as of September 2013 5 | goucher TODAY 44 | impromptu total students: 1,449 undergraduates, 662 graduate students 13 | giving to GOUCHER 46 | alumnae/i spotlights total undergraduate faculty: 202 alumnae and alumni: 21,946 17 | gopheREPORT 50 | in Memoriam The Goucher Quarterly is published as a service to all alumnae/i, students, parents, 20 | alumnae/iUPDATE 54 | viewPOINT faculty, staff, and friends by Goucher College, a private liberal arts and sciences college founded in 1885. For up-to-date information about the college, visit www.goucher.edu.

Many thanks to all the talented people who help produce this publication. Masuma “Missy” Islam ’14 swirls more than a snapshot the skirts of her sari as she models traditional Bangladeshi fashion at the International Festival, held during International Education Week (see p. 8).

Photo by Emma Rice ’17 contributors — fill yourselfwithwonder.It’sprobablythegreatestgiftyoucangiveyourself.” “Fortunately, wonderisoneofthemostchangeablethingsaboutus.You can Quotable Kansas StateUniversity(Seep.12) Michael Wesch , associateprofessorofanthropology, and ofcontents andthroughoutthemagazine. table a Nashvilleadagency. Rice’sphotosappearinthe She hasinternedinphotographyatiostudio, a silverkeyinthe2013NationalScholastic Awards. studying fineartsandsociology. Herphotographywon A freshmanfromNashville,Tenn., Riceis Emma Rice couple Va.,The Alexandria, resident’sinterviewwithalumnae/i writer withmorethanadecadeofjournalistic experience. consulting firminNorthern Virginia andafreelance Alford isthedirectorofcommunicationsfor aboutique Alford Monica co-founder ofFab,appearsonp.36. University., HerprofileofBradfordShellhammer’98 scholarly editingandpublishingfromArizonaState a master’sdegreeinarthistoryandcertificate Hirshhorn MuseumandSculptureGarden.Sheholds University Press,The PhillipsCollection,andthe she workedatJohnsHopkinsUniversityPress,Yale as managingeditor. BeforecomingtoGoucher, oftheQuarterly Mallory Kotz lastfalljoinedthestaff Vanessa MalloryKotz Luke Morgan’00appearsonp.13. Lindsay KipphutMorgan’01, ’17

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Permission to Speak Up

n his finalQuarterly column, written as he prepares to step down after 13 years as president of Goucher, Sandy Ungar mentions that one of the things he’s most proud of is bringing thought leaders to campus so “we could bat around their ideas” (p. 54). I As anyone who has attended a speaking event at Goucher knows, the guests’ remarks are always followed by a question-and-answer period, and students are always allowed to ask their questions first. To me, the format is quintessentially “Goucher” in that it both favors the students and urges them to leave their comfort zones by speaking in public, questioning, and sometimes challenging prominent personalities. This issue includes other examples of how Goucher provides opportunities for students to develop and express their opinions. Ultra-cool alum Bradford Shellhammer ’98 says that Goucher gave him the confidence to “go out into the world and have a loud voice.” As compliments to an alma mater go, that’s not bad at all.

The co-founder of an online design store called Fab, Shellhammer is EDITOR’S NOTE renowned for his ability to spot unique items. Now a shareholder in Fab and chief design officer at Backcountry.com, he also helps start-ups develop marketing plans (p. 36). He isn’t the only alumna/us to find and cultivate a voice while studying here. Deborah Spears Moorehead, a 2013 graduate of Goucher’s Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability program, uses visual art to document and preserve Native American heritage. Through the Goucher program, she says, she has honed skills that help her describe her culture (p. 26). Another alumnus is using skills gained as an undergraduate not only to 1 develop his own academic voice but to give others opportunities to speak out. A participant in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Anndal Narayanan ’10 is in Paris this year recording the stories of Algerian War veterans. Until fairly recently, he says, many veterans had not spoken publically about their experiences (p. 48). For all of us, the Board of Trustees’ selection of José Antonio Bowen as Goucher’s 11th president is the best guarantee that our community will continue to question the “given,” as a way to explore and participate in the future. He promises “to help change the way people think about the value and uses of the liberal arts,” as well as to continue the college’s mission of transforming students’ lives (p. 2). His statement is an assurance that Goucher students will continue to challenge the known, look for new solutions, and go into the world determined to make it a better place.

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT José Antonio Bowen Named Next President of Goucher College 2014 SPRING SPRING

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he college announced on March 12 that José Antonio Bowen will become Goucher’s 11th president on July 1. Bowen comes Tto Goucher from the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Meadows School of the Arts, where he is serving as the dean, professor of music, and the Algur H. Meadows Chair. Bowen will succeed Sanford J. Ungar, program in performing arts. He served as who became Goucher’s 10th president in dean of fine arts at Miami University July 2001 and will step down on June 30. before moving to SMU in Dallas. “On behalf of the Board of Trustees, Considered a pioneer in educational the Presidential Search Committee, technology and active learning, and, indeed, all members of the Goucher Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford community, we believe Dr. Bowen is the University, including a bachelor of science right candidate who has come along at the in chemistry, a master of arts in music exact right time to build on Sandy’s legacy composition, a master of arts in humani- and lead our college into its next phase ties, and a joint doctorate in musicology of excellence,” said Norma Lynn Fox ’76, and humanities. His book Teaching chair of the Board of Trustees. Naked: How Moving Technology Out of “Goucher College is a paragon of the Your College Classroom Will Improve liberal arts and sciences tradition, but it Student Learning recently won the Ness also is a place that has boldly embraced Award from the American Association big, new ideas in education, such as its of Colleges and Universities as the “book comprehensive study abroad requirement,” that best illuminates the goals and practices Bowen said. “I am excited about using the of a contemporary liberal education.” It has framework of interdisciplinary education been featured in The Wall Street Journal, not only to transform individual student’s Newsweek, USA Today, U.S. News & World lives, but to help change the way people Report, and on NPR. think about the value and uses of the Bowen also has spent 35 years as a jazz liberal arts.” musician and has appeared in Europe, Asia, “I am delighted and honored to be Africa, the Middle East, and the United succeeded by José Bowen, an eminent States with performers such as Stan Getz, educator, a brilliant jazz performer, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby McFerrin, Dave and a deep thinker on the value of the Brubeck, and Liberace. His Symphony No. 1 liberal arts,” said Ungar. “I believe was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 3 that he and the magnificent, successful Music. Bowen also has composed a film place that is Goucher are an excellent score as well as music for Hubert Laws, match for each other, and I know that Jerry Garcia, and many others. this community looks forward to his Upon accepting the presidency, Bowen arrival with great enthusiasm.” addressed the alumnae and alumni of the Bowen began his teaching career at college in an email: “Goucher alumnae/i Stanford University in 1982 as the director are a tremendous resource of brainpower, of jazz ensembles. In 1994, he became creativity, and resolve. In the coming the founding director of the Centre for the years, I will be depending on you for your History and Analysis of Recorded Music honesty, your energy, and your best ideas.” at the University of Southampton, England. He and his wife, Kimberly, their three He returned to the United States in 1999 as dogs, and their 18-year-old cat plan to live the first holder of the endowed Caestecker on Goucher’s campus. Their 21-year-old Chair of Music at Georgetown University, daughter, Naomi, will graduate from SMU where he created and co-directed a in May.

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The Pocket Anthropologist is a new program conceived of and directed by Robbie Blinkoff, a lecturer of anthropology. The app collects study-abroad observations, images, and insights by category: “Traditional Food,” “Blew My Mind,” and “I’m an American” are just a few. Piloted by 17 more students oe Wilkerson ’15 snapped a photo this spring, the program will eventually be a last fall of her 3-year-old host sister, required component of international study. ZDana, while she played dress-up Blinkoff aims to transmit videos and with a hijab, a veil worn by Muslim women images from the app to campus to fuel after puberty. Instead of filing it away in academic discussions. For students abroad, an album, Wilkerson, who was studying the online forum builds community. Upon Arabic in Amman, Jordan, wrote a reflection, their return, they’ll meet for insight sessions GOUCHER TODAY labeled the photo “Blew My Mind,” and to discuss their reflections. “We’ll look uploaded it to an app called the Pocket through the work that they did and think Anthropologist, where other Goucher about it academically to see if there’s a students and professors could see it. She narrative that we can connect the dots with had learned to think of the head scarf as across the different countries and cultures,” an object of oppression: Draped over Dana’s says Blinkoff. Eventually, all of the findings Barbie nightgown, the garment became a posted to the Pocket Anthropologist will be symbol of adulthood. “It was her way of archived in Goucher’s library for research. playing grown-up,” Wilkerson says. “I went abroad, and the experience 5 The international studies major might changed my life,” says Blinkoff, the co- not have come to this realization if founder of Context-Based Research Group, she hadn’t been testing out the Pocket which performs ethnographic research on Anthropologist. As she moved through consumer behavior. Originally a psychology daily life in the Middle East, she used student, he traveled to a kibbutz in Israel the app as a tool not only to share images when he was 19. “I switched and became and observations but also to reflect upon a cultural anthropologist.” § her experiences and the things she saw, from donkeys at market to a little sister trying on “big girl” clothes. Zoe Wilkerson ’15, a Goucher student who “It definitely made my experience tested a new app while more intentional,” says Wilkerson. “The studying abroad in categories helped me compartmentalize Amman, Jordan, wears a headscarf to keep my experiences. That was good for the sun off her neck. someone going through culture shock. It made it easier to take it all in.” 6 GOUCHER QUARTERLY | SPRING 2014 goucher Today The ImperialImage,whichexaminesthe The collaborativetheater/oralhistory The second,33&1/3CorneliaStreet,about Yanaihara, wasproducedlast yearbyPan York’s secondChinatown,andEngagain photo by Joey Stocks Americana Wilder classic,whichEngcalls“theAmericana Alice NeelandJoeGould,wasreadat Asian RepertoryTheatreinNewYork City. Goucher lastfall.Scenesfromthethird, wrote andperformedOurTown: China/USA. you,” hesays.Bythetimewentto University ofHongKong, Eng’sstudents Specialist ScholarintheaterattheCity first, ThreeTrees, inspiredbytherelationship felt hedidn’tbelong. Drama Conferencein Baltimore. Peking andCantoneseopera. grew up. of AlbertoGiacomettiwithhismuse,Isaku disconnection. In2011,whileaFulbright dramas aboutartistsandportraiture.” The college, aninfluxofnon-Englishspeaking immigrants hadturnedtheareaintoNew presented thisspring attheComparative role ofportraitsleaders androyalty, were play” andwas,surprisingly, influencedby project wasaresponsetotheThornton neighborhood inQueens,N.Y., where he “Your ethnicracialidentityreallydefined His workreflectsthatsenseof Eng iscompletinga“cycleofhistorical The Download Alvin Eng,assistant was oneoftheonlyAsian families intheFlushing Feeling likean“outsider” influences theworkof professor oftheatre.Eng’s The NewYork Times.InFebruary, Iwas Yellow FaceinWashington, D.C.,in Theatre Workshop. I’mfinallycatchingup Forest, andDavidHenryHwang’s Love andInformation,atNewYork visual arts,requireyoutologoffandleave your apartment.Ilovefollowingthetheaters, to informTheImperialImage.bookis Eno atSingleCarrotTheatreinBaltimore. February, andTheFluSeasonbyWill NPR station]. Paul Robeson,TheTallest Tree inthe on BreakingBad.Itlivesuptothehype. of following.Mymainpassions,theaterand of his solo work and The Velvet Underground, of hissoloworkandTheVelvetUnderground, of wordsthroughhissongwriting.Since existence, commuting betweenBaltimore in oursparetime. I alsosawCarylChurchill’snewplay, love thejazzatnightonWYPR[Baltimore’s Iggy Pop. his passing,I’vegonebacktolistening to a lot reading MyNameisRedbyOrhanPamuk research: AmericanTheatremagazine, museums, andgalleriesinNewYork. about OttomanEmpireminiaturistpainters. and NewYork, my wifeandIlovetotravel always fascinatingstoriesaboutwriters.I as wellDavidBowie,MotttheHoople, always willbeLouReed.Ifirstfeltthepower SPARE TIME:EventhoughIleadadual-city WATCHING: Isawanewplayabout FOLLOWING: READING: Somuchofmyreadingis LISTENING TO:Oneofmyheroeswasand I listentoTheWriter’s Almanac; thereare people what interests them people whatintereststhem In whichweaskinteresting I have a very different definition I haveaverydifferentdefinition § Ungar Attends College Opportunity Summit Goucher President of student debt, among other factors. Ratings Sanford J. Ungar on may be issued in time for the 2014–15 January 15 and 16 school year, and with congressional approval, attended the College the President hopes to direct more federal Opportunity Summit student aid to the high-scoring colleges at the White House, and universities. a call to action to increase college access “For a small, independent liberal arts and completion for low-income and institution, Goucher has a proud record of disadvantaged students. Leaders of about initiating model programs to increase college 140 foundations and colleges, from small access,” said Ungar. At the summit, he liberal arts institutions to large public had an opportunity to describe Goucher’s universities and community colleges, Educational Opportunity Program, which attended the meeting and were asked to provides fi nancial aid packages without make improved efforts to open their doors loans to fi rst-generation Maryland college to this constituency. students from underserved socioeconomic

First Lady Michelle Obama and President backgrounds, and the Goucher Prison GOUCHER TODAY Barack Obama both spoke at the summit Education Partnership, which offers college about the need to expand educational courses to men and women incarcerated opportunities for high-achieving students in two Maryland prisons. who may be unfamiliar with the application Beginning with in-state students admitted process and do not have the means to pay for the spring 2014 semester, Goucher college tuition. raised fi nancial aid to meet 78 percent of the “We’ve got to recommit ourselves to need of high-achieving, low-income students, helping these kids pursue their education,” and 60 percent of the need of low-income said Michelle Obama. “One of the fi rst steps students performing at a more modest level, 7 is getting more underserved young people with scholarships and grants. In addition, in onto college campuses. The fact is that right March the college partnered with the Greater now we are missing out on so much potential Baltimore Urban League to launch the fi rst because so many promising young people … annual Saturday Leadership Program, a simply don’t believe that college can be a citywide initiative to provide essential reality for them. Too many of them are training for underserved Baltimore students falling through the cracks.” in skills that could put them on the path The First Lady stressed the need for toward college. these students to receive continued support, “It is imperative that educators and the fi nancial and otherwise, throughout their general public focus their attention on the undergraduate years. issue of inequities in college access and Last August, President Obama proposed success,” said Ungar. “I was pleased to be a federal rating system of higher education part of this important discussion, and to institutions based on their average tuition, pledge that Goucher College will continue its the number of low-income students they longstanding leadership in educating talented enroll, and the success of their management students regardless of need or background.”§ 8 GOUCHER QUARTERLY | SPRING 2014 goucher Today

photos by Emma Rice ’17 by GwendolynMoiles’15 Students LearnfromTravel Abroad Daylong SeminarCelebratesWhat INTERNATIONAL FORUM Korean and American songs. Eric Sargent ’15andChristina Kim’15 performamedley of to preserve thehabitat. and theglobalcommunitythatwants who are native totheGalapagosIslands tension thathasexisted between those said hegainedinsightsintothemultifaceted (ICA) inEcuador andtheGalapagosIslands, participated inanintensive courseabroad the universal languageofart. their perceptions oftheirown culture, and surroundings, how studyabroad affected feelings of“otherness”inunfamiliar Several themesemerged, includingstudents’ the context oftheirtravel experiences. sustainability, andcultural exchange within issues ofsocialjustice, environment and classroom. Professors andstudentsdiscussed individuals seetheworld and learninthe abroad changestheways inwhich Goucher communityexplored how studying I For example, EricSargent’15,who Education Week, members ofthe Nov. 20aspartofInternational n aseriesofpaneldiscussionsheld

things inyour backyard withnew eyes.” go 9,000milesaway from home, you see ICA toSouth Africa,noted:“Whenyou Department ofEducation,wholedthe , professor andchairofthe M.Ed. ’94 in theUnitedStates. and thegenerational tensions thatexist generations thatsheobserved inNepal tensions between olderand younger teacher inSouthAfrica. song anddancewhileworking asastudent- language andcultural barriersthrough the world during International Education Week. the world duringInternational Education Week. Drew Afromsky ’17modeled fashions fromaround Sabrina Jimenez ’17,LiamGandelsman’16, and Abdulkarimu ’15, NakpangiAli’17,JuliaSeder ’14, FatoumataKourouma’14,Muhammed (L toR) As LaJerneTerry Cornish’83, Liz Weiner ’14saw parallels inthe Julie Sandfort ’14describedovercoming

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Todd Troester ’15 Troester Todd Zick chooses pest- and deer-resistantZick chooses pest- on Zick works Beginning in February, potsIn March, Zick puts new soil into In April, daffodils start poking out their Correction: In the winter 2014 issue, the Green Spot inadvertently omitted that the Offices of Community-Based Learning and Community Service support Goucher’s partnership with Therapeutic Alternatives of Maryland (TALMAR), and that Student Leaders for Civic Action program. The Quarterly regrets the error. “We try to choose plants native to the area, choose plants native to the try to “We says. “I like doing he Susans,” like black-eyed the colors. It’s fun.” the designs, matching bees, lady bugs, andspecies that attract pollination. He’s inspiredbutterflies for natural Gardens, and plansby visits to Longwood purple, red, and white this year to use yellow, pansies to brighten up the grounds. otherwisesnow removal and prunes and “I’m big oncares for the trees on campus. the residential he says. Strolling across trees,” House,quad to the copse by the President’s red oaks,for example, you’ll find white and Black Pines,sugar maples, elms, Japanese others.honey locusts, and ash trees, among and used forBroken branches are chipped at the campusground cover in the pine grove in the Campusentrance, by Stimson Hall, and trees becomeAgriculture Co-op garden. Dead firewood for the President’s House. clears outand planters around campus and debris from flowerbeds. Over a period of several weeks, his crew inspects the lawn turf, assessing winter damage, aerating the soil, and overseeding. At this time, they also prepare the athletic fields for spring sports. yellow heads. Cherry trees, magnolias, and dogwoods fill the air with pink and white blossoms. The full glory of spring is at hand, and the colors of hundreds of blooms decorate the campus. by Vanessa Mallory Kotz by Vanessa Getting the Grounds the Getting Spring for Ready

There is a man to thank for this lovely There is a man to thank for this he “I’ve always loved working outdoors,” He buys local materials and uses Each month leading up to spring is a flurry

spot green It’s spring, and fluffy white blossoms crab appleweigh down the branches of the to theand cherry trees at the entrance from thecollege. Bumblebees drink nectar serviceberryrose-colored redbuds and white pond. Theblossoms that grow around the Fisher Hallgiant magnolia in front of Mary flowers. displays its gorgeous bright pink specialist,scene: Goucher’s horticultural and caring forTim Zick, has been designing years. He andthe college’s landscape for 22 65 acreshis grounds crew of five maintain fields. Zickof lawn plus 6.5 acres of athletic earned his bachelor’s degree in horticulture and landscape design at the University of Maryland, College Park. says. He especially loves spring at Goucher: lot of different flowering trees are blooming. “A There’s so much variety.” climate zone-friendly perennials, trees, and grasses, sprinkling in only a few colorful annuals. He is very conscious about being environmentally responsible. In January, of activity for Zick and his crew. he orders perennials and annual flowers and grasses based on his design for the college. 10 GOUCHER QUARTERLY | SPRING 2014 goucher Today These are just a few of the works from These arejustafewof theworksfrom A through Jan. 5. Drawings of the facial expressions of a man Drawings ofthefacialexpressionsaman Bosnian\Art on viewintheRosenberg GalleryNov. 7 on trial for war crimes are sketched on paper. on trialforwarcrimesaresketchedpaper. diptych illustrates colorful superheroes. diptych illustratescolorfulsuperheroes. politics, pop culture, and war, that was politics, popculture,and war,thatwas , by Nela Hasanbegovic, videostillofaperformancepiece,2010,wasonviewintheexhibition Under theVeil, byNelaHasanbegovic, by Vanessa MalloryKotz A CrashCourseinCurating video shows images of chains video showsimagesofchains bridal gowns. A large, Japanese-style bridal gowns.Alarge,Japanese-style projected onacircleofwomenin , an exhibition exploring identity , anexhibitionexploring identity

while abroad, and selected a work from each while abroad, andselectedawork fromeach two dozen photographers, painters, sculptors, two dozenphotographers,painters,sculptors, for display at Goucher. from theregion.Thestudents compiledalist Burns andDanielMarcus, eightstudents of 22 artists, whom they interviewed in person of 22 artists, whom they interviewed in person researched about 100 contemporary artists researched about100 contemporaryartists part ofathree-week2013intensivecourse minimal guidancefromprofessorsLaura abroad inBosniaandHerzegovina.With and performanceartists,wascreatedas The show, whichincludedworksbynearly Bosnian\Art . “As a teacher, I prefer to work with course. Several of the pieces were students rather than lead them, and working accompanied by excerpts from video on this project with Alyssa Applebaum ’14, interviews with the artists, which students Janice Byth ’16, Mike Christen ’14, spent hours editing down to cohesive, Elise Fields ’14, Carter Harvey ’15, five-minute explanations of the works. Rebecca Mark ’14, Chrissy Miller ’13, “As a group, we had just done something. and Sam Scholl ’14 has been one of the We had just shared a small slice of life most satisfying (and at times terrifying) together,” Burns said. “We spent three weeks experiences of my life as an educator,” said interacting with other human beings on planet Laura Burns, assistant professor of art and Earth to find out what mattered to them. And art history. we were going to make something tangible After studying the history of Bosnia and to share some aspects of this experience with Herzegovina for seven weeks, class members others back home.” contacted the selected artists to set up Once the students returned to Goucher, studio visits. they performed every aspect of bringing “One of the hardest things for the students an art exhibition to life, from securing funding was sending the initial emails because of and installing the work to writing and the fear that no one would respond,” Burns designing the catalog and wall labels. The GOUCHER TODAY said. “But when they began to hear back resulting exhibition explored media and ideas from the artists, their excitement, glee, and that are as original as the artists themselves. awareness that our project was real were Fields, an art history major who plans intensely powerful.” to apply for the master of fine arts program “These conversations made a lasting in curatorial practice at the Maryland Institute impression on all of them,” added Dan Marcus, College of Art, said: “It was a crash course professor of new media, who co-taught the in curating.” §

War of the Dragons, by Muhamed Kafedžic, oil on canvas, 2011 This exhibition was made possible by the Office of International Studies, Goucher Lectures and Fellowships, the Department of Art and Art History, the Silber Gallery, and a Social Justice Body Language, by Radenko Milak, ink and watercolor pencil, 2012 Grant from the Student Government Association. 12 GOUCHER QUARTERLY | SPRING 2014 goucher Today The EndofWonder? he called“TheViciousCycle oftheAge Wesch said.Heoffered examples ofwhat the greatest giftyou cangive yourself,” fi ll yourself with wonder. It’sprobably most changeablethingsaboutus.You can believes tobevitallife. and discovery thattheanthropologist more insularandlosinga sense ofwonder result, constanttechusers are becoming of leaving peoplefeelingmore alone. Asa connection, butoftenhasasideeffect the last30years—on society andculture. of technology—especiallythatdeveloped in Wesch spoke atGoucherabouttheeffects anthropology atKansas StateUniversity, distraction device.” curiosity, itbecomestheworld’s largest “Fortunately, wonder isoneofthe Social media,Wesch said,offerseasy An associateprofessor ofcultural KNOW KNOW YOU DID ? have questionsand machine, or, ifyou don’t knowledge andcreativity either theworld’s greatest Wesch. The Internet“is according toMichael double-edged sword, Modern technologyisa For more information, visit www.goucher.edu/grad. visit information, more For Fine ArtsinDigitalArts. a MasterofArtsinManagement, andaMasterof programs: aMasterof ArtsinEnvironmentalStudies, Professional Studieswill offerthreenewgraduate This fall,Goucher’sWelchCenterforGraduate and have been viewed by millionsontheWeb. fi lmsonhow new mediachangespeople Emerging Explorer, and hisaward-winning Teaching. HealsoisaNationalGeographic Foundation fortheAdvancement of Support ofEducationandtheCarnegie Year by theCouncilforAdvancement and In 2008,hewas namedProfessor ofthe techniques andways ofbuildingempathy. projects have focusedonclassroom teaching the introduction ofprintmedia. More recent the societyofMinpeoplesbrought onby months inNew Guineastudying changesin celebrating astateofwonder. connections withotherpeople, and embracing shared vulnerability, inviting counterpoints tothese, hesaid,are loss ofcertaintyandmeaning.The of Whatever”—fragmentation anda As partofhisresearch, Wesch spent18 §

College Sweethearts Give Back to Alma Mater

Luke Morgan ’00 and Lindsay Kipphut Morgan ’01, M.Ed. ’07

To say that Luke and Lindsay “Over the past 13 years that I’ve been Morgan feel a special in education, I’ve realized what tools are connection to Goucher necessary to help students learn and how is an understatement. The to help teachers build that capacity,” she Maryland residents, who says. “My goal is to build student success recently celebrated their in whatever way I can.” 10th wedding anniversary, Lindsay’s passion for education has met as undergraduates always been fueled by her relationship during the fall of 1997. with Goucher. She received her master’s “We met at Goucher and have been degree in education with a concentration in together ever since,” Lindsay says. urban and diverse learners from her alma Lindsay, a Philadelphia native, met mater in 2007 and is enrolled at Goucher to Luke, who was raised in St. Mary’s County, pursue her school improvement leadership GIVING to GOUCHER Md., when she was a freshman and he certificate, which she will receive this May. was a sophomore. They both received “It’s 2014, and I’m still going strong at the merit-based Marvin Perry Scholarship, Goucher,” she says. without which they would not have been “I feel that it is incredible that we are able to attend Goucher. still so connected to where it all started,” But that wasn’t the only thing they had Luke says. “Goucher challenges and pushes in common: Both were biology majors, Luke you, and I think that Lindsay has carried on with a minor in chemistry and Lindsay with that spirit to the students and teachers she a concentration in environmental science. works with on a daily basis.” 13 The couple now lives in Edgewater The Morgans recently joined the with their two daughters, Julia, 3½, and Goucher Society with a gift to the college, Anna, 15 months. Luke helms a family- donating to men’s tennis, general athletics, owned dentistry practice, which employs the Biology Department, and general four other dentists, including his father. unrestricted funds. They plan to continue He also is an executive board member for supporting these causes in the years to come. the Maryland Chamber of Commerce. Lindsay is a Right Start Advisor in – Monica Alford Anne Arundel County, where she supports 35 high school teachers who are just Correction: In the winter 2014 profile of Suzanne beginning their careers. After 10 years in Fineman Cohen ’56, the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore inducted her into its hall of fame; the classroom teaching science to middle she was ultimately engaged to Nathan Cohen, but not while a student at Goucher; and Tom Wilcox is the and high school students, she made the president of the Baltimore Community Foundation. transition to mentor teacher in 2011. The Quarterly regrets the error. 1414 GOUCHER QUARTERLY | SPRING 2014 giving toGoucher (L to R) SanfordJ.UngarandBettyCooperWallerstein’58 (L toR) community membersattendedthecelebration. 100 alumnae/i,parents,andotherGoucher of PresidentSanfordJ.Ungar.Morethan Colony Clubtorecognizetheachievements College heldareceptionatNewYork’s On Dec.5,theAlumnae&AlumniofGoucher the ColonyClub Celebrating at assistant director of annual assistant directorofannual Karen LittleLyon ’77,P’13, Mike Peddicord ’04; and Mike Peddicord’04;and (L to R) Greg Permison, GregPermison, (L toR) giving for athletics and giving forathleticsand young alumnae/i; young alumnae/i; major gift officer; major giftofficer; Sarah Pfeiffer

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(L to R) Lansing Moore, Duncan Gray ’11, Saajid King ’10, and Aliza Blockman ’12

Alice Falvey Greif ’51

(L to R) Joan Samuels Sanger ’53 and Adele Zeidman Silver ’53 (L to R) Daun Fallon P ’17 and Stephen Anderson P ’17

(L to R) ’73, Joan Urken Zimmett ’72, Liza Pagliaro Selz and Nan Chisholm ’73 giving to Goucher

A Toast to (L to R) Cornelia Cody ’79, Marietta Hedges, President Sanford J. Ungar, and John Bernet ’08, the great-great grandson Mary Fisher of John Franklin Goucher, co-founder of the college Goucher An exemplar and friend to Goucher’s first students, the late Mary Fisher Goucher, co-founder of the college, is celebrated 2014 each year on or near her March 22 birthday

SPRING SPRING with a tea.

| This year, an excerpt from her diary was shared for an audience of 85 Goucher alumnae/i, faculty, staff, and friends. “Honeymoon on the Nile” described (L to R) Wolfgang Thormann, professor emeritus of French; GOUCHER QUARTERLY the Gouchers’ first trip together “just for Maria Amelia Rodriguez ’49; and Monique Thormann enjoyed the Mary Fisher Tea. vacation” in 1895. Among the sights described are the Suez Canal, the bustling 16 city of Cairo, the pyramids at Giza, and the Great Sphinx of Giza. After dessert, Marietta Hedges performed excerpts from Mongrel: The Life and Words of Dorothy Parker, a play written by Cornelia Cody ’79. Cody, who completed a doctoral dissertation on New York humor, says she “became absolutely enamored of Dorothy Parker” and “how amazingly contemporary she is. “She focuses intently on the relationships between men and women. The heartaches they experienced in the 1920s are the same we experience in 2014,” she said.

The tea was hosted by the Office of photos by Julie Steinbacher ’10 Donor Relations. § Actress Marietta Hedges laments that: ‘Men seldom make passes / At girls, who wear glasses’ in her portrayal of Dorothy Parker excerpted from Mongrel: The Life and Words of Dorothy Parker.

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§ ranks second among Now an associate for USAA Real Estate Reeves Craig ’05 Brewer is now in her 10th year of teaching Brewer is now in her 10th year will be inducted into Goucher’s Athletics Hall of Fame on April 25. Goucher’s Athletics Hall of Fame on April will be inducted into (L to R) ’04, and Reeves Craig ’05 Sara Weaver ’98, Natalie Williams Brewer gopheReport Craig lives and works in San Company, After Goucher, he spent Antonio, Texas. a brief stint as a fly-fishing guide in Alaska before returning to school for a master of science in real estate from Johns Hopkins Craig returns often to Goucher University. to play in alumni games.

a charter at the Empowerment Academy, In 2010, she received school in Baltimore City. instruction a master’s degree in reading and becamefrom Loyola College in Maryland Last year, a certified reading specialist. called Loveshe started a tutoring business married Experience and Learning Tutoring Brewer Jr. Vernon saves. His saveGoucher’s goalies, with 709 of anypercentage, of .669, is the strongest lacrosse for fourGoucher goalie. Craig played player inyears, and was voted most valuable defensive2003 and 2004, and most valuable a two-time teamplayer in 2005. He also was captain. Craig started all 48 games in his final three seasons and was the first player at Goucher to earn All-American recognition. In 2005, he became the second Goucher athlete to play in an STX Division III North/South All-Star Game. For 2004, he holds the highest single-season save percentage in Goucher with .712. history,

is hree history-making athletes will behree history-making spring as Goucher’srecognized this inductees:2014 Hall of Fame

Natalie Williams Brewer ’04

Following her graduation from Goucher, Following her graduation from

Hall of Fame Hall of Coaches Award in 2004. the Scholar Athlete Award in 2003 and the 2002 and 2004. Goucher awarded Brewer She was champion in the hammer throw in of the shot put at the CAC championships. Track and Field Athlete of the Year and winner and Field Athlete of the Year Track 2003 and 2004, she was the CAC Women’s 2003 and 2004, she was the CAC Women’s named an Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar. In awards and distinctions. In 2002, she was field for four years and received numerous hammer throw. She participated in track and hammer throw. championships, in 2003 and 2004, for the Division III Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Outdoor Track Division III Women’s Goucher’s only athlete to qualify twice for the National Collegiate Athletic Association

social work, and then Carleton University, University, social work, and then Carleton Player of the Year, and in each of her four Player of the Year, year,All-CAC selection. In her senior in clinicalBaltimore, for a master’s degree Human She is the president of Weaver with 129. Weaver consistently led her team with 129. Weaver 1997, shein goals, points, and shots. In (CAC)was the Capital Athletic Conference a First Team years of playing soccer, she was USA Today the sociology major won the Scholar Athlete Award. attended the University of Maryland, Weaver for a master of business administration management.in human capital and change Ontario. Capital Consulting Inc. in Ottawa, for goals scored, with 54, and total points,for goals scored,

women’s soccer program’s all-time recordswomen’s soccer still holds the Goucher ’98 still holds the Sara Weaver 18 GOUCHER QUARTERLY | SPRING 2014

photos by Emma Rice ’17 gopheReport career adviceto student-athletes. Iterny Joseph’98, andLaurenManekinBeille’02 gave MarloTersigni(L toR) ’09,JamilaThompson ’01, to thedosanddon’tsofsocialnetworking. remarks rangedfromhowtoidentifymentors marketing topoliticalservice.Andtheir player, representedprofessionsfrom Iterny Joseph’98,formermen’sbasketball and All-Americanlacrosseplayer; Manekin Beille’02,formerfieldhockey former varsitytennisplayer;Lauren who includedJamilaThompson’01, Career DevelopmentOffice.Thepanelists, dinner andpaneldiscussionhostedbythe student-athletes sharedtheirtipsata professional world. advice tocurrentstudent-athletesaboutthe player returnedtocampusNov. 5tooffer CoStar Group,theformerGoucherlacrosse beginning college.Aresearchanalystforthe compared enteringtheworkforceto dream jobatfirst,” MarloTersigni ’09 Pointing outthat“youmightnothaveyour by NatalieGuajardo’16 Tackle Your Future Tersigni andseveralotherformer

a panelofalumnae/i lastfall. Goucher student-athletesabsorbed tipsonjobhuntingfrom do theirbestatalltimes. to betakenseriouslyasprofessionalsshould notedthatthosewhowish Lewis (D-Ga.), Thompson, legislativedirectorforRep.John are appealingattributestoemployers. participate incollegesportswhilestudying commitment anddisciplineittakesto to encouragetheathletesbynotingthat director fortheYofCentralMaryland,sought Beille, anannualcampaigndevelopment advice andmakepotentialconnections. seek outsuccessfulprofessionalstosoakup make ajobcandidatestandout. a virtualage,face-to-faceencountermay post onsocialmedia.Healsonotedthat,in warned studentstobemindfulofwhatthey owner ofSmartChoiceEnergyServicesLLC, Reflecting upon her own career path, Reflecting uponherowncareerpath, Tersigni suggestedtostudentsthatthey Joseph, ateacherandthefounder §

Capital Athletic Conference. surprised everyone by winningthe Goucher’s studentbody, theteam men’s basketball was introduced to In 1994,fewer thanfouryears after by MarieClaireBryant’15 Remembering Champions Iterny Joseph’98;ThurmondToland ’96;RobertFriendJr.’98;andLeonardTrevino, headcoachofthemen’sbasketballteam April SimonsenRose’96,formerteamco-manager;GerardGarlic’95;MarcCousinsLisaFord’93, JerryWhite’94; coach; KimDonoghueMurdock’97,GoucheradmissionscounselorandformerSportsInformationassistant; PredragDurkovic’98;PeterManlove’95;TheresaRichter,formerheadathletic trainer;JonathanWexler’94,formerassistant (L toR) received aposterand aporcelain tilewith Each memberofthemen’s ’93–’94team triumphed 67–63against Drew University. basketball gameinwhichGoucher winning streak. ending theirseasonwithanine-game ago skillfullysnaggedvictoryaftervictory, commemorate thealumniwho20years accomplishing atthetime.” in 1990.“We didn’trealize whatwe were basketball coachsincetheteam’sinception said Leonard Trevino, headmen’s “We were allsoyoung andinexperienced,” The ceremony followed amen’s On Feb. 15,aceremony was heldto

in 2010 and 2012, respectively. into Goucher’sAthletics HallofFame Durkovic andClarkwere inducted Durkovic ’98,andGerard selections returning players were All-Conference predecessors atareception. Amongthe ’13–’14 teammettheirstudent-athlete involved in thegameitself.” hands,” saidTrevino. “They really got the bleacherstowatch thegame. and familyofcurrent seniors, gathered in alumni andtheirfamilies,aswell asfriends the bestcrowds thisyear. Alumnaeand 900 spectatorsattended,makingitoneof enough celebration togoaround. About on seniornight,andthere was more than the teamphotograph onit. Theevent fell Following thegame, thevictorious “The alumnididn’tjustsitontheir David ClarkJr.’95,Predrag Garlic ’95.

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Dear Goucher mentoring programs by building a base Alumnae of alumnae/i mentors and connecting and Alumni, them with current students. Last October, the college hired Casey Miller t’s a time of as its first associate director for alumnae/i many transitions. career programming. His energy and II’ve recently creativity has led to pilot programs such had the pleasure of as “Dinner with Strangers,” at which congratulating, on alumnae/i host dinners for current behalf of the AAGC, José Antonio Bowen students interested in their fields. on his selection as Goucher’s next Programs like these nourish vital president. And soon, during Alumnae/i connections between the college and Weekend, we’ll be thanking Sandy Ungar its alumnae/i, bolstering a culture of 2014 for his service as president, celebrating “Goucher for Life.” By reaching out

SPRING SPRING to students and young alums, we can

Dance Professor Chrystelle Bond | for 50 years of teaching, and honoring safeguard Goucher’s future. As recent professors Penny Sales Cordish ’62, graduates become established in Gayle Economos ’76, and Janet their own careers, they’ll enjoy having Shambaugh as they retire from the been engaged with Goucher over time GOUCHER QUARTERLY Goucher faculty. and will understand more fully the value Meanwhile, over in the Alumnae/i of giving back. 20 House, continuity is the name of the On Saturday, April 26, alumnae/i game. During the last few years, we’ve of all ages will come together for the talked with many of you to find out how AAGC Annual Meeting. Please join us, best to strengthen ties with the Goucher if you can. We’ll be honoring some of community. Again and again, in formal your classmates by presenting awards surveys and casual conversations, the for distinguished service and, as always, theme of career mentoring has emerged. recognizing class Reunion gifts. Annual Current students, recent graduates in giving is critical to Goucher’s success, fledgling careers, and alumnae/i of all now and in the future, and your ages who are changing professions would participation not only supports the welcome help advancing in their chosen college but also sends a critical message fields. In turn, those well-established in that you continue to value your Goucher their fields would welcome opportunities education. It’s easy to see that in a to help others find similar success. culture of “Goucher for Life,” we all win. To that end, the AAGC and Alumnae/i Affairs are working to Sincerely, continue and expand Goucher’s career Steve Klepper ’97 Alumnae & Alumni of Goucher College 2013–14 Board of Directors President MEMBERS Minnie Waters Shorter ’73 Steve Klepper ’97 Baltimore, MD Tiffany Brody Blackbull ’93 Baltimore, MD Crownpoint, NM J. Alice Nixon Thompson ’99 Baltimore, MD Vice President Cory Brewster-Greenstein ’99 Todd Eric Hawkins M.A.A.A. ’10 Baltimore, MD Craig Wolinski ’98 Brooklyn, NY Perry Hall, MD Kara M. Bundy ’02 Secretary Bethesda, MD Margaret Wood ’08 Kathleen Crane-Lee ’80 / P’13 Philadelphia, PA EX OFFICIO Potomac, MD Margaret-Ann Radford-Wedemeyer Dan Dolan ’03 Vice President for Development ALUMNA/US TRUSTEES Newton, MA and Alumnae/i Affairs Linda K. Himmelberger ’74 Betsy Fitzgerald M.A.A.A. ’07 Holly Selby Berwyn, PA Macon, GA Executive Director for Alumnae/i Engagement Kathryn Allamong Jacob ’72 Carrie Hagen M.F.A. ’09 Lexington, MA Philadelphia, PA Kathryn Shaer Ellis ’86 AAGC Nominating Committee, Jerriann Myers Wilson ’62 Jesse J. Holland M.F.A. ’12 Facilitator ALUMNAE/I UPDATE Severna Park, MD Bowie, MD Vacant Alice Kennedy ’97 Chair, Alumnae & Alumni Fund Baltimore, MD Jenifer Mitchell Reed ’86 Trophy Club, TX

The 2014–15 slate of incoming board officers and members for the Alumnae/i Association of Goucher College: 21

ALUMNA TRUSTEE Florida Bar, the United States District Court Jennifer Margolis Marquez ’01: A recipient Southern District of Florida, and the United of a Marvin Perry Merit Scholarship, Marquez States District Court Middle District of Florida. was awarded Goucher’s Sarah T. Hughes Award Marquez lives in Miami, Fla., with her husband for Academic Excellence in Politics and Public and two children. Policy and the Lee Snyder Lovett ’33 Prize. Subsequently, Marquez graduated cum laude BOARD OF DIRECTORS from the University of Miami School Kimberley Gordy ’06: Now senior assistant of Law, where she was a member of the director of admissions at George Washington Inter-American Law Review and held positions University (GW), Gordy worked for four years as staff editor, symposium editor, and member in Goucher’s Office of Admissions. A biology of the Bylaws Revision Committee. She major, she was a member of the women’s joined the Law Office of David E. Newman in basketball team as an undergraduate. Gordy September 2004. In 2012, she took over the also serves on the advisory board for Maryland firm, and it was renamed Newman & Marquez, Leadership Workshops Inc., a nonprofit that PA. She is a member in good standing of the provides summer leadership development to

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middle and high school students. She will begin activities including serving as president of House attending GW’s Master of Public Administration Council. He and his wife, Christine Fodness program in the fall. Smith ’04, live in Boston, Mass., with their son, Oliver, and daughter, Nora. Eleanor Shriver Magee M.Ed. ’00: Shriver Magee’s career in higher education and NOMINATING COMMITTEE nonprofit administration spans more than Sarah Bryant ’08: The marketing manager at two decades. After several years as a National the Cato Institute, a public policy think tank Collegiate Athletic Association head coach, in Washington, D.C., Bryant holds bachelor’s she transitioned into alumni relations, degrees in communications and art (with a advancement, and nonprofit administration. concentration in art history) from Goucher. She has worked for Loyola University, A resident of Arlington, Va., Bryant serves as Washington College, Habitat for Humanity a Quarterly class representative and volunteers Choptank, and the Talbot Historical Society. in the D.C. community for the Junior League Recently, she began her own consulting of Washington and The Madison, a women’s business. Shriver Magee lives in Easton, Md., volunteer organization. with her husband and son, and she volunteers for the Rotary Club of Easton; Washington Will Lonczak ’10: A business management College; National Society of the Colonial Dames and economics major, Lonczak is an associate of America, Eastern Shore; Garrison Forest in the finance and accounting department 2014 School; Wye River Upper School; Radcliffe of Vocus Inc. in Beltsville, Md., a marketing

SPRING SPRING software company. In 2009, he received

| Creek School; the Maryland Historical Society; and the Waterfowl Festival. Goucher’s Borden-Gladding International Management Award, which enabled him to J. Alice Nixon Thompson ’99: A doctoral study international business at the Autonomous candidate in the University of Maryland’s University of Barcelona. He is an associate sociology program with concentrations in member of the John Franklin and Mary Fisher GOUCHER QUARTERLY development and demography, Thompson Goucher Society and a supporter of the Blue plans to complete her dissertation this fall. & Gold Society. She has worked most recently as a program 22 officer and study director at the Institute of Kaye F. Williams ’83: A senior legislative Medicine in Washington, D.C. During that consultant and attorney, Williams served time, she assisted in the execution and as a liaison between the U.S. Securities and evaluation of the President’s Emergency Plan Exchange Commission, the White House, the for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) mandated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Federal U.S. Congress, and acted as the study director Reserve, and national securities exchanges. for an evaluation of Department of Defense- She received, from the FCC, the Law and Policy Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Award for work on the National Securities Response System’s avian influenza/pandemic Markets Improvement Act of 1996 and was influenza activities. A sociology major at appointed to the Senior Executive Service, Goucher, Thompson holds a master’s degree the highest ranking civilian status in the in medical sociology from the University of government. Williams is affiliated with Mitchell Maryland, Baltimore County. & Dunn law firm and provides counsel to historically black colleges and universities, Alex J. Smith ’05: A managing director at nonprofit organizations, and small businesses. Paul-McCoy Family Office Services, Smith A resident of Alexandria, Va., she holds a doctor helps oversee the financial affairs of multi- of law degree from Georgetown University Law generational, high net-worth families. While at Center and a bachelor’s degree in politics and Goucher, he was involved in several leadership public policy from Goucher College. Celebrating Diversity Students, alumnae/i, and Goucher community members joined in roundtable discussions about their education and experiences at the college. The occasion was the eighth annual Jewell Robinson Dinner, named after Goucher’s first African photos by Emma Rice ’17 (L to R) Arreon Harley ’10; Robert Wadsworth; Nenelwa American student. Tomi ’11, admissions counselor; Shauntae Robinson ’09; Arreon Harley ’10, artistic director for Amir Hakim ’11; Jennifer Idokogi ’12; Brooke Stanley ’11; the Cathedral Choir School in Wilmington, and Kimberley Gordy ’06 Del., says the talk at his table revolved around how Goucher was “a comfortable place” for a minority student: “I never felt like a minority because everyone at Goucher is very diverse. There is diversity in ALUMNAE/I UPDATE personality, in socioeconomic background, in interests. Goucher prepared me to go on to a world that is diverse, and to understand people and their differences and celebrate them.” These lessons resonate in the vocal (L to R) DeJ’a Gladden ’17; Yabsera Faris ’17; Tiane Johnson ’04; performance and composition major’s Isaac Lawson ’04; Emily Perl, assistant vice president for daily work with underserved children student life; Kimberley Gordy ’06; Lindsay Johnson ’05, associate director for community-based learning; and Candice Binuyo ’05 who come to the Cathedral Choir School for voice and piano lessons and mentoring. 23 After cocktails, Robert Bull Jr. ’93 gave remarks, and Jewell Robinson saluted President Sanford J. Ungar for his commitment to making Goucher a more multicultural place. About 75 community members attended. The Feb. 7 event was co-sponsored by the Alumnae & Alumni of Goucher College, the Office of the Dean of Students, and Multicultural Student Services. §

President Sanford J. Ungar and Jewell Robinson catch up over cocktails. 24 GOUCHER QUARTERLY | SPRING 2014 alumnae|iUpdate New Yorker andPrincetonprofessor. and PaulMuldoon,poetryeditorofThe Feiffer, PulitzerPrize-winningcartoonist; the 2009PulitzerPrizeforfiction;Jules known author;ElizabethStrout,winnerof News; MargaretAtwood,internationally Brokaw, specialcorrespondentforABC written word.GuestswillincludeTom days ontheartofstorytellingthrough a setofhisdistinguishedfriendsforfive playwright, professor,andnovelist, Chautauqua-favorite memoirist,essayist, The weekfeaturesRosenblatt,a Hya LevineHeine’48 or(410.464.0003). Ethel WeberBerney’46 (410.616.9192), (410.821.9243), ’62 For moreinformation,contact tripleaderBettyHannaKanslerM.Ed. College ScholarshipFund. MakecheckspayabletoGoucherCollege.) deposit perweek;this includes a$250,tax-deductiblecontribution totheGoucher and $3,400perpersonforasingle.(Reserve yourplacewitha$500,non-refundable COST: Spencer Hotel,meals,gratuities,lecturesand programs, andmanyrecreationalactivities. June accommodationsattheHotelAthenaeum orAugustaccommodationsatthe THIS TRIPINCLUDES:Door-to-doortransportationfromGoucherCollege toChautauqua, on theLiteraryArts Roger RosenblattandFriends SUNDAY, JUNE22,TOSUNDAY, JUNE29 performances intheevenings,aswelltowalk,playgolf,orswim. There willbeopportunitieseachweektoenjoyballet,opera,ormusical and morninglectures. different themewillbefeaturedeachweekinworkshops,studygroups, to attendlectures,booksignings,artshows,andperformances.A he canknow,” theChautauquaInstitutionoffersparticipantschance Founded uponthebeliefthateveryonehasrightto“knowall A WeekatChautauqua The priceeachweek,whichisall-inclusive, $3,100perpersonforadouble

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OPPORTUNITY ALUMNAE/I PROGRAMMING

April 13 ANNAPOLIS, MD Spring Concert The Goucher Chorus will perform Beethoven’s Alumnae/i 9th Symphony at the U.S. Naval Academy with other Weekend is local choral groups. Just Around the Corner

April 18–19, 24–26 FRIDAY, APRIL 25, TO SUNDAY, APRIL 27 ON CAMPUS The Mandrake Goucher seniors will perform Wallace Shawn’s ALUMNAE/I UPDATE translation of the Machiavelli play, a “bawdy romp” through Renaissance Italy. mark your calendars

Come one, come all to June 2 IN BALTIMORE campus April 25 to 27. We’ll PHOENIX, MD be celebrating Reunion with Blue & Gold alumnae/i games and a tailgate, 25 Golf Tournament an all-class lunch and ice cream Enjoy a day on the social, dance performances, ON CAMPUS green, complete with a and educational panels on buffet dinner, prizes, and topics like the Supreme Court. cocktails in support of President Sanford J. Ungar’s Goucher’s athletics teams. 13 years at the college will be recognized at a gala dinner.

OUT OF TOWN Happy hours, dinners, and brunches also will be held for the reunioning classes ending For information about and tickets to the Goucher Chorus spring in 4 and 9. concert at the U.S. Naval Academy, call 410.293.8497. To reserve tickets to The Mandrake, call the Mildred Dunnock To see a schedule of events and register, Theatre Box Office at 410.337.6512. visit www.goucher.edu/alumniweekend. For information about and tickets to the Blue & Gold Golf Tournament at Hillendale Country Club, call 410.337.6385, visit athletics.goucher.edu/BGGolf, or email Geoffrey Miller, director of athletics, at [email protected]. NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SCHOLARS 2011 SPRING SPRING

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Goucher’s Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability is attracting Native American students who want to advocate for their communities.

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Julia Marden by Deborah Spears Moorehead M.A.C.S. ’13, oil on canvas, 2010 or decades Deborah Spears Moorehead M.A.C.S. ’13 has invited members of the Eastern Woodlands Native American tribes to her studio in Richmond, R.I. Some come dressed in traditional regalia; others bring photos of themselves in ceremonial dress. All share stories about their lives, relatives, tribes, and traditional beliefs. After their departures, Moorehead creates Fvivid oil portraits informed by their experiences and recollections. Already she has painted nearly 500 images of native people.

“European people paint European people; “There are many ways in which I’m going to paint Native American sustainable cultures can be informed people,” says the artist, a descendent of Massasoit, the Wampanoag leader who by traditional cultures, and that’s helped the Pilgrims prevent the failure very much the case for the Native of Plymouth Colony. “Because we’re seen as people of the past, I show that 28 American pathway.” we’re people of today, that we are living – RORY TURNER amongst everybody.” Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology Moorehead is one of fi ve students who identify themselves as Native American and are enrolled in or have graduated from Goucher with a master of arts degree in cultural sustainability (M.A.C.S.). Launched in 2010, the program takes two years to complete and so far has produced 25 graduates. Its goal is to develop community leaders and advocates who work to protect living local cultures. Degree candidates are trained in ethnographic research, sociology, folklore, media, activism, and business management. One graduate works with members of a rural Guatemalan village, sharing stories of land use practices and healing traditions to connect generations. A second promotes awareness of women ranchers in the American Southwest through festivals and public events. Others work in museums, classrooms, and historical societies. “This program resonates with folks within the Native American community,” says Rory Turner, assistant professor of anthropology and sociology and a M.A.C.S. co-founder. “There are many Don B. by Deborah Spears Moorehead M.A.C.S. ’13, ways in which sustainable cultures oil on canvas, 2011 can be informed by traditional cultures, and that’s very much the case for the Native American pathway. It’s not about a back-to-the-land, Luddite disavowal of modernity, but it is about the idea that we need to develop stronger 2929 and healthier local economies and communities that provide cultural scaffolding for people’s well-being.” Amy Skillman, M.A.C.S. director, calls students coming out of the program: “the next generation of cultural advocates—people who value living cultural traditions and see them as a resource for living peaceably on this planet.” Already versed in the culture, tradition, ritual, custom, and art of their tribes, these Native American students now have additional tools to advocate for their future. » Joanne Morales M.A.C.S. ’13 waves to the crowd at Miss Indian World 2012. relative of Moorehead, fi lled in the Rewriting missing links. With that information, Tribal she could trace her lineage all the way back to the Wampanoag leader who History maintained peace for many years with the English when they fi rst landed at As a child growing up in Warwick, R.I., Plymouth Colony. Moorehead remembers looking around her predominantly white neighborhood and wondering: “What happened to all the people who look like me?” That “The American history was written question was the beginning of a lifelong by European people who didn’t really quest to learn about and document her heritage through historical narrative and have our best interests in mind. visual art. It was misinterpreted in the primary Moorehead’s parents were from different Eastern Woodland tribes, and documents, and that’s the history in her youth, she attended powwows we’ve had to live with.” and ceremonies with her family. She continued to ask questions about her culture, but it wasn’t until after she “I sat in the library crying because received a bachelor of fi ne arts degree I realized it was the puzzle piece that from the Swain School of Design (now connected all my genealogy to the part of the University of Massachusetts past,” says Moorehead. 30 Dartmouth College of Visual and In addition to investigating her Performing Arts) that she came across tribe’s past, Moorehead teaches art materials to further her investigations classes in her studio, Painted Arrow and trace her ancestors. Studio Talking Water Productions, and Moorehead inherited her grandfather’s culture classes at Native American Bible, which included a partial family Lifelines in Boston (she was nominated genealogy but left many gaps. Several Indian Educator of the Year in 1994 years later, she was referred to Indian by the National Indian Education History, Biography, and Genealogy: Association). In 2005–06, she and 15 Pertaining to the Good Sachem Massasoit Native American students painted of the Wampanoag Tribe, and His murals portraying themselves and others Descendants. The book, published in practicing their traditions at the 1878 by Zerviah Gould Mitchell, a Smithsonian Institution’s National descendant of Massasoit and distant Museum of the American Indian. Last year, the artist curated the fi rst Native American art exhibit at the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. All along, Moorehead has been refi ning her narrative history and making portraits of native people in regalia. These depictions connect the subjects of her paintings with the past; the presence of regalia also has a deeper meaning to individuals. “It shows who we are, what we believe in, how we feel, what we were named, who our ancestors are,” the artist says. “It tells so much about a person.” A Mohegan friend suggested that Goucher’s program might enhance

Moorehead’s work, honing skills that Self Portrait by Deborah Spears Moorehead could be used to sustain her culture. M.A.C.S. ’13, oil on canvas, 2009 The artist agreed. She enrolled in the program and completed a historical narrative of the Seaconke Pokanoket Wampanoag Tribal Nation as her capstone project. She also fi led for federal recognition of her tribe and 31 has a contract with Blue Hand Books to publish the narrative. Moorehead says documenting, researching, and fi lling in the gaps of her tribal nation is “a healing process for me, as well as all my relations, native and non-native. The American history was written by European people who didn’t really have our best interests in mind. It was misinterpreted in the primary documents, and that’s the history we’ve had to live with.” » photos courtesty of the artist

Bella Red Wind by Deborah Spears Moorehead M.A.C.S. ’13, colored pencil on paper, 2010 Much of the Northern Chumash’s Access to homeland now belongs to private Tribal Lands homeowners and businesses. Certain grasses traditionally used for baskets Leaping fi sh, prowling and bandoliers grow on the banks of bears, zig-zagging arrows, the San Luis Obispo Creek, for example. and shimmering stars are among the To gain permission to collect on these designs that Leah White Horse-Mata lands, White Horse-Mata has forged M.A.C.S. ’15 drills out of lustrous careful relationships with the owners. mother of pearl to crown her bead-and- “The mouth of the creek is through shell necklaces. White Horse-Mata, of a very public beach, and it runs through the Northern Chumash tribe, makes and a golf course,” she says. “Tribal com- sells traditional regalia and jewelry out munities are losing access to traditional of her studio, Saqwamu. She lives in materials because of environmental, Rohnert Park, Calif., with her husband, developmental, and policy issues.” Keevin Hesuse, a silversmith, artist, and A graduate of Ashford University 2014 drum maker, and their four children. with a degree in cultural anthropology, SPRING SPRING

| In warm months, the family White Horse-Mata works full time as descends upon nearby beaches to collect an artist and dedicates her career abalone, olive, and clam shells. White to keeping ancient forms alive. Her Horse-Mata also gathers pine nuts, work has won awards in traditional GOUCHER QUARTERLY willow bark, and grasses for skirts and attire and cultural arts. In 2011, woven baskets. Her work is resplendent the artist was awarded a Smithsonian 32 with a wealth of shells, seeds, and other Artist Leadership Fellowship to natural materials, but their availability research regalia and customs of the and accessibility is not guaranteed. Northern Californian tribes. In 2013,

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(Top Left) Leah White Horse-Mata M.A.C.S. ’15 drills shells to make jewelry. (Bottom) The White Horse-Mata family lends a hand in making regalia. she and her daughter, Naomi, respectively as master artist and apprentice, entered the Apprenticeship Program of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts. When White Horse-Mata discovered Goucher’s M.A.C.S. program last year, she knew it would empower her mission.

“Tribal communities are losing access to traditional materials because of environmental, developmental, and policy issues.”

“I wanted to tip the power a little bit. It seems like, as a traditional artist, you don’t have access to a lot of opportunities, so I wanted to bring a new skillset to my community,” she says. Although White Horse-Mata hasn’t yet declared her capstone project, she is exploring ways to ensure the health of San Luis Obispo 3333 Creek, which is host to declining salmon and steelhead trout populations. The salmon restoration project she envisions would allow photos courtesty of the artist her tribe to “partner with local environmental groups to ensure the salmon population is sustainable in a way that we can practice our traditional fi shing and cooking methods and keep a healthy diet within our community.” This also would have an impact on her artistry: “A lot of the materials we use for regalia grow along the creek beds, so if there’s clean water for fi sh, then that means there are healthier

plants. That means a greater availability Naomi Mata, daughter and of plant materials for regalia or baskets.” » apprentice of Leah White Horse-Mata M.A.C.S. ’15, models traditional Northern Chumash regalia. Reviving a “I was looking for programs that “Lost” Tribe shared my understanding of what Growing up in Puerto a culture actually is. It’s not really Rico, Joanne Morales M.A.C.S. ’13 learned in elementary something you can put in your pocket photos courtesy of Joanne Morales M.A.C.S. ’13 school about the Taíno, a people or put on the shelf: It’s something indigenous to the Bahamas and much you practice conﬁ dently. It’s woven of the Antilles. There were no more Taínos, according to her lessons. The into our lives.” people and their ways had long been eradicated by the Spanish explorers who colonized the island. of American Indian Arts, a college in When she was 9 years old, her Santa Fe, N.M. The more she came family held a puberty ceremony for her. to understand the role Taíno culture Most of her toys were given away, and played in her life, the more she wanted she was taught to cook, sew, clean, iron, to explore how others who grew up butcher, and pray. with elements of Taíno culture felt “People in my community said, about their heritage. ‘It’s something we do when children That’s when Morales began to think come of age.’ I thought it was normal about Goucher’s M.A.C.S. program. for everyone,” she says. “I was looking for programs that 34 It wasn’t until she was 13—when shared my understanding of what a her family moved from Puerto Rico to culture actually is. It’s not really Pennsylvania—that Morales learned something you can put in your pocket the truth: Her family was Taíno, a or put on the shelf: It’s something you fact often denied or concealed due to practice confi dently. It’s woven into our racism and a lack of formal recognition lives,” she says. in Puerto Rico. As part of her capstone project, “By that time I was far from my Morales interviewed members of her island. It was saddening. I tried to forget tribe. As she spoke with Puerto Ricans, about my heritage,” she says. “But my Cubans, and Americans living in Florida, life continued to unfold toward it.” New York, and New Mexico, her project Morales studied colonization, became an ethnographic study of her epistemology, self-determination, tribe and how its members feel their and decolonization at the Institute living culture should be preserved. These days, Morales teaches archery, math, and the occasional fi rst-year seminar at the Institute of American Indian Arts. In 2012, she had an experience she hopes will encourage more Taínos to accept their heritage: She ran and took second place in Miss Indian World, a program that judges participants on a speech, a performance of a talent (Morales’ is archery), dancing, and interviews. “It was a great experience. Taínos are so unknown; it’s important for people to know that we’re still here.”

(Above) Joanne Morales M.A.C.S. ’13 is a skilled archer. (Top left) Morales frequently visits Puerto Rico’s rainforest, El Yunque, part of her tribe’s homeland. M.A.C.S. FACTS M.A. in Cultural Sustainability

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Joanne Morales M.A.C.S. ’13 represented the Taíno tribe when she competed in the 2012 Miss Indian World program. OUT LOUD

photo by M. Sharkey OUT LOUD ’98 Dubbed the by Forbes, the designer opens up about the company he co-founded, his years at Goucher, and his newest ventures.

by Vanessa Mallory Kotz

photo by Andre D. Wagner playground forhiseclectic style. (Left) Shellhammer’s homeisa valued at$1billion,according to Bloomberg.com. an onlinehousewares andfashionmerchandiser now entrepreneurial adventures before co-foundingFab, New SchoolforDesign.Hethenembarked onseveral graduated withhonorsbefore attendingParsons The to Goucher, where hestudiedcommunicationsand in hisown skin,andhecredits hisself-possession It isclearrightaway thatShellhammer iscomfortable octopus tattoowrap around hisarminahalf-sleeve. apologetically checkinghisphone;thetentaclesofan He sitscasually, legscrossed, occasionallyand Meatpacking District. leather chair attheSohoHouseinManhattan’s sinksintoadark Bradford Shellhammer’98 ounging inaform-fi ttingblack T-shirt andjeans, »

photo by Andre D. Wagner 39 “Fab was born out of my outlook on life: optimism, happiness, color, a celebration of things that people make,” Shellhammer says. He proclaims himself to be a collector—of objects, ideas, and people. His aesthetic is infl uenced by music of the ’80s and ’90s, popular culture, and art—Morrissey and photo by Andre D. Wagner Andy Warhol, Erasure, and Alfred Hitchcock fi lms—together with toys from his childhood

Shellhammer’s home, Zubehaus, in Sparrowbush, N.Y. and whatever else catches his eye, he says. Shellhammer came to Goucher to study English (later switching to communications) and found that the college welcomed diverse individuals. Considered an outcast at his conservative, small-town high school in Anne Arundel County, Md., he says, “At Goucher, I was exposed to different people. I learned how to write and to think critically. I was blown away by the sophistication of the student body.” He threw himself into his social life, attending parties and founding Veggies and Friends, a club for vegetarians. He also offered fashion advice to his female 4040 friends. “We’d go out to gay clubs. I always had ladies on my arms,” he laughs. “I’d dress them in platform shoes with silver eyelashes.” As Shellhammer reminisces about college, he leans in, saying: “It’s kind of like a secret. Goucher gave me the confi dence to go out into the world and have a loud voice.” In 2009, he was working for a furniture company called Blu Dot when his friend and Clinton White House aide Jason Goldberg suggested launching Fabulis, a social network. Similar to TripAdvisor, the site would offer travel advice and reviews, but it targeted gay men in their 20s and 30s. They raised

photo by Quinze & Milan photo by Quinze $3 million for the project, “but after about a year it was stalling,” Shellhammer admits. Initially Fab’s business model was based With financing still available, Shellhammer on flash, or daylong, sales of small batches and Goldberg decided to create a member- of work created by emerging designers. based e-commerce site, a platform for The concept worked for four years, during designers not famous or commercial enough which the company built a solid consumer for Target or Amazon. What would make following and grossed millions in sales. But it unique? Shellhammer would select all of the operating costs were high, and last year, the objects himself. the company switched to a more traditional

“It’s kind of like a secret. Goucher gave me the confidence to go out into the world and have a loud voice.”

Launched in 2010 by Shelhammer, business model like that of Amazon. This Goldberg, and a third partner, Nishith Shah, also meant a change in staffing, and half of Fab now has more than 10 million members. the employees lost their jobs. Forbes soon dubbed Shellhammer the “King “The layoffs were really tough for me,” of Quirk” in recognition of his unusual Shellhammer says. “But these people design aesthetic and Fab’s meteoric rise. have landed in really amazing places like “I wanted to show the world affordable, Backcountry.com, Target, Quirky, and ASOS.” great, authentic design,” he explains. Others have started their own businesses. 41 Consumers tired of the mass-manufactured, Last November, Shellhammer also left sometimes poor-quality products of the the company. On his blog, he wrote of his big-box stores could order art prints, dishes, departure: “As I remain today a shareholder jewelry, and items not easily found elsewhere. and a non-executive advisor to Fab, I also The site also offered conversation pieces have the desire to explore, discover, and see that customers felt they just needed to own, the world and do other things.” such as a cardboard deer head, a knit In February, he launched shellhammer.co, dog sweater emblazoned with an owl, or “a retail consultancy and design firm, a banana-shaped wine stopper. founded with the aim of breathing a special Within a few years, the company had type of creativity into other people’s busi- grown so much that Shellhammer no longer nesses.” In announcing his new venture was able to curate every object. “Mostly it on his blog, Shellhammer wrote: “There is was influenced by the more than 20,000 great freedom in consulting. I have freedom designers and artists whose products we to choose who I work with and how I work » sold,” he says. “I wanted to show the world affordable, great, authentic design.”

with them. I have freedom to expose my 1960s Norwegian purple armchair (a vintage various talents and expertise, without being find from Fab’s assortment), Shellhammer put in a box.” Among his new clients are has created a space that manifests his start-up companies including Heartwork, passions, his bold personality, and his which designs work spaces, and Simply sophisticated design sense—elements that Framed, an online custom framing store. he pours into every aspect of his life. He also is chief design officer for That’s not all: In March 2013 he married Backcountry.com, an outdoor gear and Georgi Balinov, a vice president for apparel company. “Bradford is amazing,” says investment banking at Bank of America 2014 Scott Ballantyne, chief marketing officer of Merrill Lynch, in an over-the-top party that SPRING SPRING

| Backcountry.com and former Fab employee. paid tribute to Truman Capote’s famous “His energy, passion, and genuine love of Black-and-White Ball. The ceremony was gear, apparel, accessories, and the unexpected conducted by comedian and friend are unique and infectious. He is, simply put, Sandra Bernhard at the Russian Tea Room. GOUCHER QUARTERLY the best curator of beautifully designed stuff The New York Post and Out covered the (which does not have to be expensive) that elaborate event. In an article in Next magazine, 4242 I have ever worked alongside.” Shellhammer said of his love for Georgi, When not at the office, travel is on “I’d never felt more confident about anything Shellhammer’s agenda. “In the last year, I’ve in my life, and I went for it.” traveled 300,000 miles,” he says, repressing He also is putting together a band called a yawn after having returned from Berlin Rough, which includes British designer Tom earlier in the day. “Berlin is a place full of Dixon on bass, Shellhammer on lead vocals, entrepreneurs. It inspires me every time I go.” and “real musicians” whose names he is not He spends whatever time he can at his yet ready to reveal. They already have been second home in Sparrowbush, N.Y., asked to play at the Museum of Modern Art 90 miles outside of New York City. He in New York. designed the interiors of the retreat, named With so much going on, he still has an Zubehaus, to reflect his love of color, kitsch, eye toward the horizon. “Deep in my heart, and pop music. From brightly striped carpet I know I’ll start another company,” he says. squares and a framed picture of Morrissey “I love to make things.” to heart-shaped red swivel chairs and a photo by Andre D. Wagner photo by Andre D. Wagner Foundation andQuinze&Milan withtheAndyWarholcollaboration by Bradford Shellhammerin (Below) Brillopoufsdesigned

photo by Quinze & Milan 43 44 GOUCHER QUARTERLY | SPRING 2014 im ( and TheMinnesotaReview. have beenpublishedinTheChicagoReview,MichiganQuarterly and AFaceintheCrowd, has adaptedJohnSteinbeck’sTortilla FlatforSaddlebowEntertainment Now assistantprofessoroffi ctionandscreenwritingatGoucher,U’Ren writer wastryingtodo,withoutlosingitsstyle,” hesays. able todistillititskeyplotpointsandpreservetheemotionofwhatever were histruepassions.“Ihadaskillfortakingstoryfrombookandbeing science incollege,BillU’Rendiscoveredthatscreenwritingandfi lmadaptation After playinginpunkbandshighschoolandplanningtomajorpolitical impromptu by JulieSteinbacher’10 extemporaneous composition,address, orremark. at themoment,orwithoutprevious study;an • promp'too )adj.Somethingmadeordoneoffhand, What drewyoutoadaptation? actually helpingadvance it.’ where you’rethinking, ‘OK,I’mnotdestroyinganyone’svision, ‘I alwayswantedtomake himanAmerican.’ It’sthatkindoffeedback One ofthemwastomake aBritishcharacterAmerican.Shesaid, thought, ‘therearethreereallyobviousthings Iwouldchangehere.’ which isbasedonabookbyHelenCresswell. WhenIreadit, television seriesforCanumEntertainmentcalled OrdinaryJack, I liketestingoutmychangesonthewriters. I didthiskids’ liveaction you adaptedyourfi rst lm, fi As aseniorattheUniversityofCalifornia, LosAngeles,

by Budd Shulberg, for the stage. His short stories by BuddShulberg,forthestage.Hisshortstories Box 100 Box , for Columbia Pictures. , forColumbiaPictures. IMPROMPTU 45 photo by Emma Rice ’17 , which Everything Everything , Hateship (1941). (1952) by Fellini Breathtaking (2012), where something , and I wrote the script with, and I wrote the , an adaptation I did based on a Russian, an adaptation (1973) is one of my favorite American movies. , an adaptation I did based on a RussianThe Thief, an adaptation is an understated movie that is often overlooked. My favorite Paper Moon (1973) is one of my favorite American movies. and it’s a very good, tight story and it’s a very good, tight story So much of it is told visually, So much of it is told visually, about a girl and a father. The White Sheik (1952) by Fellini is an understated movie that is often overlooked. My favorite classic movie is The Devil and Miss Jones (1941). What are your favorite fi lms? What are your favorite fi present themselves. It gets you into the story in a different striking happens right away to create curiosity for the viewer, and it might take three or four minutes for any answers to visually, how to tell a story without words. We look at to tell a story without words. We how visually, How do you begin to teach fi lm adaptation? lm fi How do you begin to teach rst thing we talk about is how to convey something rst thing we talk about is how to convey something The fi The fi look at to tell a story without words. We how visually, opening scenes from contemporary movies like Everything is Illuminated (2005) and Mud (2012), where something striking happens right away to create curiosity for the viewer, and it might take three or four minutes for any answers to present themselves. It gets you into the story in a different way than a book does. When you’re working with the novel form, youWhen you’re working with the There’s a lot morereally have to map things out. and blueprinting.deconstruction and planning valve. You’re Short stories are kind of a relief I looknot constrained by market expectations. culture pressure. at them as an antidote to pop You’ve also written a novel, You’ve changes in 24 hours. It got accepted by the Independenthours. It got accepted by the changes in 24 OssanaDiana is producers the of One Project. Filmmaker stage. lm, is at the storyboarding fi , which Six Hits Hundred Ninety is Twelve In the forefront entire life ska-obsessed boy whose is about a 17-year-old, entire life ska-obsessed boy whose is about a 17-year-old, Independenthours. It got accepted by the changes in 24 OssanaDiana is producers the of One Project. Filmmaker script with, and I wrote the from Brokeback Mountain and Hateship who did Smart People Mark Jude Poirier, with Kristen Wiig. Loveship What projects for the screen are you working on now? on now? you working you working screen are screen are for the for the What projects What projects and in the last 15 years, you’ve publishedand in the last 15 years, you’ve you enjoy about40 short stories. What do writing stories? 46 GOUCHER QUARTERLY | SPRING 2014 Nancy Goldman Koenigsberg’s sculpture, October, willremain onviewat theSnyderman-Works Galleries throughApril 26. (Middle left) says. “But then I designed something myself. says. “Butthen Idesignedsomething myself. learning needlepointfrom hermother-in-law. she madefiberwork her profession,after wasn’t untilshewasa collegegraduatethat me theartbug,” shesaid. art classes.“ItwasGoucherthatreallygave major, Koenigsberg spentmostofhertimein pieces shemakes.Althoughaphilosophy achievements hasbeenascomplexthe States andabroad.Butthepathtoher shown inexhibitionsthroughouttheUnited 30 years.Heraward-winningworkhasbeen has beenmakingartwithwireformorethan orange, red,andevergreen. cascades indelicateswathsofgold, fabricated bytheartist,finishedpiece in Philadelphia.Woven fromwirenets Biennial attheSnyderman-Works Galleries hangs intheninthInternationalFiber abstract sculpture,October,whichnow putting thefinishingtouchesonanine-foot Koenigsberg’s livingroom.Theartistwas “monster” onthefloorofNancyGoldman Last winter,therewasasprawling,copper STORYA KNOTTED Nancy GoldmanKoenigsberg ’49 ALUMNAE/I SPOTLIGHTS “I thoughtit wassoboring,” Koenigsberg The artistbeganknitting atage6,butit Koenigsberg, wholivesinNewYork City, Sea-Sky , copper, 1994; (far right) , copper,1994;(farright) Athena

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one forme?’” cut, andanotherladysaid,‘Would youdo I wasworkingonitwhilegettingmyhair working onaflatsurfaceanymore,” shesays. with themedium.“Iwasnotsointerestedin was successful,butshedissatisfied custom needlepointdesigns.Theventure what Icoulddowithit,” shesays. key toherthree-dimensionalart.“Iloved of workingwithwire,whichhasbeenthe College introducedhertothepossibilities Summer weavingclassesatSkidmore for manyyearsandcontinuestosupport. Study GroupofNewYork, whichsheled Research andin1977createdtheTextile to studytextilesattheNewSchoolforSocial — JulieSteinbacher ’10 our world.” natural andthetechnological whichcomprise as “afusionofthepast andpresent,the technique, Koenigsberg describesher work weaving, crocheting,andknottingasher as herinspiration;wiremedium;and That led her to create a business in That ledhertocreateabusinessin Koenigsberg returnedtotheclassroom With NewYork’s industriallandscape

photos courtesy of the artist ALUMNAE/I PROFILE 47

Donnybrook Fair, 1994 Several companies, multiple cities, and With the help of Mike Ryan, then Bill Condon ’95 (front row right)Bill Condon ’95 (front of Goucher’s was the captain from 1993–95.men’s lacrosse team a marriage later, he got the gig at ESPN, where he works with a sales force of 20 as the resident expert on cell phone advertising. Noting that the company is owned by the father of three says, “getting into Disney, the parks for free is a great perk.” Mallory Kotz —Vanessa assistant lacrosse coach, Condon playedassistant lacrosse coach, Condon andfor several months in both Australia help pay theEngland, working odd jobs to as he couldrent and visiting as many places Once his wanderlust was along the way. York and New satisfied, he moved back to and buying.” “stumbled into media planning adOver the years, as part of corporate research andteams, he analyzed audience Internet, and print advertising. purchased TV, skills,“I found that I was using my writing he says—all people skills, building rapport,” things he learned at Goucher.

“I clawed up the career path, made some “I clawed up the career path, After growing up in Massapequa Park

on Long Island, N.Y., Condon spent a year on Long Island, N.Y., at a local community college before being lured to Goucher by the strong academic and lacrosse programs. Once there, he captained the lacrosse team for three years and majored in communications with thoughts of going into broadcasting. Condon also University’s Towson at jockey disc a as worked radio station. After graduating, although he loved broadcasting, he wasn’t ready to his lacrosse sticks and traveled. make a career move. Instead, he took up

mobile advertising sales at ESPN—didn’t . happen overnight for Bill Condon ’95 lacrosseThe former captain of Goucher’s spaceteam spent years selling media establishedfor companies large and small, and just forming. whichmoves, and worked for start-ups, in new fields,” allowed me to gain knowledge the habitsincluding new technology and of its users, he says. Landing his dream job—as director ofLanding his dream job—as director Bill Condon ’95 Condon ’95 Bill LIFE OF A SALESMAN Nancy Goldman Koenigsberg’s sculpture, October, will remain on view at the Snyderman-Works Galleries through April 26.Nancy Goldman Koenigsberg’s 48 GOUCHER QUARTERLY | SPRING 2014 represent somethingimportantinsociety.” move on,perhaps,butwebelievethat “Society doesn’tneedusanymore.Itwill VOICE GIVEN HOMECOMING, A SILENT Anndal Narayanan ’10 never spokenpubliclyabouttheexperience. surviving veterans,nowintheir70s,have largely unacknowledged.Forthemostpart, torture andthemassacreofcivilians,remain employed bytheFrencharmy, including was taughtinschools.Brutaltactics by theFrenchgovernmentandscarcely that until1999wasnotofficiallyrecognized veterans cominghomefromaconflict Narayanan wantstochronicletalesof dissertation inmodernEuropeanhistory. histories aboutthewarforhisdoctoral where Narayananhasbeen gathering oral Paris, in National UnionofCombatants The twowereattheheadquarters of the interview withAnndalNarayanan’10. an in War(1954–62) ofIndependence veterans oftheAlgerian about speaking was Haute-Savoie DepartmentalVeterans’ Union, University of NorthCarolinaatChapel Hill. says Narayanan, adoctoralcandidate atthe discuss insocietyand evenwithinfamilies,” this questionhasbeen verydifficultto Algerian War ofIndependence.Fordecades, experiences ofFrench veteransofthe Anndal Narayanan’10attendedtheArmisticeDayceremonyatArcdeTriomphe inParisonNovember11,2013. Hubert Bornens, president for the Hubert Bornens,presidentforthe “No onehasstudiedthepostwar Rather thanfocusingoncombat,

published inEnglishandFrench. he hopestoturnhisthesisintoabook several veterans’ associations.Ultimately, of thePrefecturePolice, andthoseof International Documentation,theArchives research attheLibraryofContemporary as whatissaid.” “Sometimes, theunsaidisassignificant the objectivehistorycanbeachallenge: was ruined.” Diggingdeepandrecording to hear,“Iwasavictim,” or,“Myyouth memory ofthewar.It’scommon,hesays, individual experiencesfromthecollective history atGoucher,seekstoseparate before returningtoNorthCarolinainJune. hopes tointerviewabout30veterans and movedinAugusttoParis.Ultimately, he from theFulbrightU.S.StudentProgram — JulieSteinbacher’10 interested intheirstory,” hesays. touched thatanAmerican researcheris subject. Ithinkmanyoftheveteransare in France,becauseitisstillsuchasensitive this isaprojectonlyforeignercoulddo “Countless people have told me that “Countless peoplehavetoldmethat Narayanan hasspentmonthsconducting Narayanan, whostudiedFrenchand He wasawardedascholarshiplastMarch

Cathryn Otto on January 20. class NotesKarin teaches yoga and directs a teacher training program 1931-2013in southern New Jersey. and safety management for 15 years. For the last five years, Congratulations! hosted the fellowship. Also, I; heard from ¶ I also I’ve been at the U.S. Food Anne Steinert my husband, Michael; and our and Drug Administration in who reported that her son, , sons, Alex, 10, and Adam, 9; the same field.” CongratulaCongratula- Seneca, turned 3 this sumsum- enjoyed a 10-state road trip cov- mer. Anne and Seneca spent tions, Mimi! - ¶ ering Vicksburg, MS; Shiloh, Nuria McNeal In’94 August I met the last part of the summer TN; St. Louis, MO; Memphis, Anndal Narayanan ’10 attended the Armistice Day ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on November 11, 2013. adorable baby, Elena. and Nuria her visiting family and camping in TN; and the Michigan. “The big highlights knows Chicago much better Duck Dynasty Karin Bookbinder Otto ’92 welcomed headquarters in West Monroe, were hanging out with than I do, even though I was a new addition to her family: (L to R) LA.” Wavrik ’91 Jayin born and raised in the area, ¶ Life at Cardigan Moun- and her family on baby Emma, Chris, Grace, and Karin. tain School is business as so I always enjoy learning Beaver Island and then having usual for Marty and my boys, about new places from her. I dinner with Jayin, Zach, 14, and Jake, 12. Lily, Charlotte hope everyone has a safe and Croson, and movie will be going to various who is 9 and in fourth grade, Kim Grover healthy 2014! her wonderful family in Ann and venues to be judged, including is enjoying being the oldest at Arbor. Earlier this summer we the Sundance Film Festival, her school and is embracing had a great visit from Kathryn the Academy Awards, and more responsibility. I am in Bruce (daughter of the Cannes Film Festival. AtAt- my fourth year as the director/ Rebecca Woolley Bruce tendance was very good at the head teacher at Indian River and Chris - Bruce), who came out to event, which was the first of 1993 Nursery School and continue Ohio as my ‘mommy’s helper’ its kind for fundraising purpur- to love working with 3- and for 10 days.” In August, Anne Kimmy Eurich Wennik poses, with members of the - 4-year-olds. started a master’s degree propro- Cardigan Mountain School ¶ As always, drop Portrait Society of America, 62 Alumni Drive me a note, email, or Facebook gram in urban history at the - doctors, nurses, cancer papa- message and let me know what University of Cincinnati and Canaan, NH 03741 tients, and dear friends all- 603.523.3628 you’ve been up to. hopes to go onWar for herWork doctoral coming together to celebrate degree. She’s assistant teachteach- [email protected] A student learns automobilethe possibility repair of a cure for

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in a National Defensethis Program terrible disease. We raised NOTES CLASS in which the professor rere- you, so I’m hoping to have course given at Goucher.a lot Otherof money and33 had a good minds her of Peter Bardaglio,- more news next time. students were trainedtime! in emergency ¶ “On June 29, the ¶ 1994 circa 1989. Seneca also started gratulations to Con- nursing, conservation,painting and was unwrapped, and school in August, and Anne Strus Dana Risko occupational therapy.the movie A select was few wrapped, all at . She and her family REUNION wrote that they’re working welcomed to the family twins, were chosen to thetake Zolltop secret Studio naval in Timonium, APRIL 25–27, 2014 hard to get adjusted to all Andie Rose and George KenKen- cryptography classesMD. More with English fundraising and Jennifer Summers these big changes. neth, on June 20. Big sisters Professor Olamore Winslow. fun occurred at this very ¶ Jennifer 6510 Sharon Road Kohn Murtha happy occasion, because my Bobbie Dee and Georgia have shared excitingDid you learn how to dress wounds, Baltimore, MD 21239 news about her career: “I’m a client and now friend, Martha been great helpers. Dana says repair engines, or break encrypted [email protected] professional portrait painter. McCracken,. has beaten breast all is going well. messages? We’d love to share your ¶ Rebecca In April, I gave a fundraisfundrais- cancerQuarterly and is returning to Crouse Kelley stories in the wrote: “I ing portrait demonstration- health.” The movie itself was completed the White-Riley- that was filmed by the Johns released in October, and JenJen- Peterson Policy Fellowship 49 Hopkins University profesprofes- in June. The capstone project nifer hopes it will be seen far- sor Bernadette Wegenstein- and wide. focused on competency-based 1995 for her hour-and-a-half long ¶ Mimi Frieman education and community- Secunda Courtney Lampton Corkery documentary, has a lot of exciting based learning opportunities. The Cure news: “I got married to Mark [email protected] is about breast cancer. The, which Secunda in August 2005. We The Riley Institute’s Center have been married for eight for Education Policy & LeaderLeader- years now. In January 2013 ship at Furman University we welcomed a baby boy to , 1942 Got news? our family, Adam. He came Donnybrook Fair alumnae|iSpotlights The deadline to submit news for three months early! He was 1996 the Summer/Fall 2014 issue is May 1. in the neonatal intensive care Class Notes Policy Bonnie Chase King Binder ’68 p. 42 Quarterly unit for three months with a Toby Fingeroth Weiser Jen Fordyce ’97 p. 51 The opinions and views expressed in Class, the Write: Goucher starting weight of 2 pounds, 2 15 Briarwood Drive Quarterly 1021 Dulaney Valley Road Notes do not necessarily reflect the views Grant Shprintzounces. ’12 p. Now, 55 at 7½ months, Barrington, RI 02806 Baltimore, MD 21204Brianna Bowling ’92 and her family he is a healthy, hefty 21 401.289.0439 of the editor of the Goucher vacationed in Washington and Oregon Alumnae & Alumni of Goucher College, or pounds and doing well. Right [email protected] Fax: 410.337.6185this summer and did some hiking at Goucher College. Notes will be edited for Mount Rainier National Park. after graduation, I worked Email: [email protected] at the National Institutes of length and style. Mimi Frieman Secunda ’92 and her Health in occupational health Digital photographs should be at least 300 husband, Mark, welcomed a son, Adam, office. in January 2013. dpi at full size. Submit news Quarterlyto the Class Notes representative listed by your class; if none is listed, send it to the 49

Looking for Notes? Class Notes will return in the next Quarterly issue. 50 GOUCHER QUARTERLY | SPRING 2014 in Memoriam Esstman ’97 , abiologymajorwho now passion todowhatone loves,” Beth said meaboutscienceandthe taught will alwaysbeindebtedtoherforallshe admirable womenIhaveevermet,and invested intheirsuccess. andbeing students tohighexpectations professor. Shewasknownforholdingher as departmentchair andwasmadeafull years.Inthistime,sheserved for nearly40 biological sciencesandgenetics taught crassa, atypeofredbreadmold. of tryptophanbiosynthesisinNeurospora Her research specializedonthegenetics advanced degreefromYale inherfield. was oneofthefirstwomentoreceivean field ofmicrobiologyandgenetics.She University forherdoctoraldegreeinthe attended Wellesley CollegeandYale sciences was81. ofbiological Goucher professoremerita devoted teacher, diedDec.6.The A “Dr. Lacyistrulyoneofthemost and Ms. LacycametoGoucher in1959 and Ms. LacywasborninBoston researcher, ferventfeminist,and nn MatthewsLacy, anaccomplished 1932–2013 1932–2013 Ann Matthews Lacy Ann MatthewsLacy Professor Emerita of Biological Sciences ofBiological Professor Emerita

— JulieSteinbacher’10 engaged inbiological research. expensesforstudents covers presentation and MyraBermanKurtz FundatGoucher field ofgenetics,andtheAnnM.Lacy studentsinthe awarded tooutstanding funds. The Ann Matthews LacyPrizeis on atGoucher in severalscholarships and members andfriends,herlegacylives retired fromteaching atGoucher in1998. Xi, theScientificResearch Society. She Athenæum,andSigma Science, theBoston Association fortheAdvancementof Ms. LacywasamemberoftheAmerican as anappreciationfortheartsandhistory.” also hadalotofhumorinherlife,aswell added Esstman.“Shewasbrilliantbut woman,”books. “ShewasaRenaissance books byandaboutwomen,children’s Movement. Shealsocollectedmysteries, antiques andbooksontheArtsCrafts and education.Sheenjoyedcollecting at theYale School ofNursing. Hebrew HealthCareandclinicalinstructor works asageriatricnursepractitionerat Ms. Lacy is survived by many family Ms. Lacyissurvivedbymanyfamily Ms. Lacyadvocatedforwomen’srights IN MEMORIAM 51

Born April 17, 1952, at Tyndall Air 1952, at Tyndall Born April 17, In her career as a concert pianist, Ms. Kissinger’s motto was: Ms. Kissinger spent the last two years Lianna She is survived by a daughter, Force BaseForce in Florida, Ms. Kissinger of arts degree received her bachelor from the University of Alaska Fairbanks degree inand earned a master of music piano performance from the University of Maryland, College Park. Ms. Kissinger took stages in Budapest, acrossLondon, and Seoul, as well as the United States. She also drummed in traditional Naraya Dances. of“transforming lives with the power Music infused every aspect singing.” of her life, including her spirituality and her admiration for nature. of her life traveling and living with musician friends in Gyrtle, a house on wheels. Her zest for life and deep affection for traveling were self-evident in a blog she kept. Alexandra her sister, Kissinger-Virizlay; Florimonte; two brothers, Mark Kissinger more familymany and Kissinger; David and members and friends. — Marie Claire Bryant ’15

Lecturer in Music Lecturer Robin Kissinger Robin Kissinger 1952–2013 rofessor of music and acclaimed diedconcert pianist Robin Kissinger

For 16 years (1986–2002),For Ms. Kissinger not“She is a big picture person, Among Ms. Kissinger’s contributions to

in which she engaged as much of the she engaged as much in which student body in music as she could. She also started a contemporary Polaris, five seasons music ensemble. For chamber performed under her guiding hand, Polaris campus and throughout the on Goucher’s Mid-Atlantic region, inspiring audiences to make a connection between contemporary music and life. taught piano, opera, and chamber taught piano, opera, and chamber wrote Fred one to tarry on minutiae,” andMauk, associate dean for graduate ofprofessional studies and professor were weekly campus songfests, Goucher on Dec. 24 after battling pancreatic cancer. cancer. on Dec. 24 after battling pancreatic She was 61. She simultaneously ran music at Goucher. where for 40 studio, a private teaching years she taught piano and voice to highly experienced musicians and beginners. music at Goucher. P 52 GOUCHER QUARTERLY | SPRING 2014 November 24,2013 Ruth Blakeslee Shaw November 4,2013 Margery SternWolf October 10,2013 Louise BrandauPreer November 25,2013 Helen BinderMetzger ’39 April 10,2006 Isabel Block Fierman December 29,2012 Helen SeldenCampen August 27, 2006 Muriel RawleBarniker ’36 February 21,2010 M. Virginia MuellerGerhardt August 5,2011 Anne DavidPellman September 1,2010 Smith Elizabeth Virginia Peek November 6,2010 Anna Schofer Chayt January 19,2012 Lyddane Benson June Hancock November 3,2012 Kathryn DonehooCampbell ’35 November 1,2013 H. Virginia JonesCook ’29 November 13,2013 Huth Mary CatherineMcDonald ’28

January 26,2014 Des Cognets Jacqueline Stiteler December 3,2013 Linda HamiltonMcLaughlin October 27, 2013 Barroll Kelly Delphine Stewart August 29,2013 Dorothy GrantDana ’47 September 23,2013 Kaufman Clementine Lazaron ’46 December 7, 2013 Mary BaldwinPrice July 14,2010 Nancy MatthewsZack ’45 September 13,2012 Selma LowitzReitman ’44 January 14,2014 June Townsend Mentzer December 14,2013 Nancy GosnellMorrow ’42 January 26,2014 Eva MooreAbbot ’41 July 5,2013 Ruth SteuerDancyger ’40 deaths

November 7, 2013 Randolph Norton Louise Frick ’55 May 4,2013 Gertrude MiyamotoNatori ’54 September 23,2013 Caffrey Nicolau Joan “Siobhan” March 24,2013 Ruth Thompson Cairns ’52 November 22,2013 Chapman Portia ShirleyMathews June 11,2006 Natalie RobbinsPelton September 25,2013 Joyce UnderwoodPearson ’51 January 22,2014 Marion HarlanWhatley December 4,2013 Helen RileyTrumbull ’50 January 4,2012 Joan ClarkCook August 29,2013 Ethel Wagandt Galvin January 17, 2012 Zelda EtzLaschever ’49 December 31,2013 Margery JohnsonKoch December 7, 2013 Elaine KnorrGompf ’48

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biological sciences December 6, 2013 Lawrence “Larry” Wineke, former coach September 29, 2013 lecturer in music December 24, 2013 M. Lacy, Ann professor emerita of ’78 Kilduff Anita August 15, 2013 ’86 Elizabeth Royal-Furman Schaffer September 2, 2011 ’91 Thurber Karen Augusta December 1, 2013 ’92 Wagner “Kelly” Earle Keller November 29, 2013 ’95 Godlove Stacey Alexander September 11, 2013 and Staff Faculty Robin Kissinger,

’72 ’72 Willie McMinn White November 16, 2013 ’71 ’71 Lawler Victoria December 21, 2013 ’70 Nancy Krause Hymes 2013 November 7, ’69 Barbara Martin Stout November 9, 2013 Susan A. Cobb 9, 2012 March ’66 Candace Calhoun Olmer November 15, 2013 ’64 Elizabeth Blair Andrews June 25, 2006 ’63 ’63 Hesna Johnston Pfeiffer October 29, 2013 Wildman November 11, 2013 ’61 ’61 Marguerite Dodson Richardson December 5, 2013 ’59 Margaret Montgomery ’57 Barr Judith Keller September 24, 2013 Ford Cornelia Kasius January 12, 2014 Photo by Bruce Weller Stepping Down by Sanford J. Ungar

riting this column, as I prepare My most indelible memory—as for to step down after 13 years as so many people in various walks of life Wpresident of Goucher, has proven everywhere in this country—comes from remarkably difficult. Over the years I 9/11. I had been in my job for all of 73 have used this space to share news of a days when our lives were shattered successful capital campaign, to join other on that beautiful, clear, and crisp fall college presidents in calling for a national morning in 2001. At the time, I was dialogue about alcohol abuse, to talk participating in my first meeting of the about the importance of universal study Executive Committee of the college’s Board abroad, and to tout our Prison Education of Trustees—I would eventually take part Partnership. I have also used it to boast in at least 80 of them—and we had also about our extraordinary students and just convened the search committee to find their commitment to environmentalism a new occupant of a position then known and social justice, and to extoll the as academic dean. I was very green (in the scholarship and dedication of our faculty quaint, old-fashioned meaning of that members. This time, a glimpse inside term) and full of enthusiasm and idealism. my mental scrapbook … VIEWPOINT 55 I also recall the sweltering August August the sweltering I also recall Indeed, beyond any single moment, single any Indeed, beyond (But I’ll tell you what: When I’m what: (But I’ll tell you slow down this new rapid-transit route route rapid-transit this new down slow successfully without the hard work work successfully without the hard probably all signed; that we somewhere symbolizes our team effort—and the scheme: as a hare-brained regarded surely of the grungiest hundred several saving evening in 2007 when I returned from from I returned when in 2007 evening co-conspirator on the Athenaeum project, project, on the Athenaeum co-conspirator a week away and found that the Loop and found away a week and couldn’t help but pinch and around and support of many generous donors, generous and support of many alumnae/i, staff, faculty members, a beam up there and friends. There’s felt when the final green amazement we out to look exactly as it was supposed as it was out to look exactly great and my our dedicated librarian opening it. It was a momentous task, opening it. It was been completed one that could not have but we know it’s there. For me, it me, For there. it’s know but we books in the Goucher collection to be breaking ground for it, building it, and ground breaking looking to take the pulse of the community, of the community, the pulse looking to take library in Julia Rogers to the new. in Julia Rogers library passed in a human chain from the old passed in a human chain from the speed bumps had to go, in order to order the speed bumps had to go, in campus. through room for the Athenaeum. I drove around around I drove the Athenaeum. for room to. I remember when Nancy Magnuson, when Nancy to. I remember myself. Then I thought about where I thought about where Then myself. along with what she and went relented no one will ever actually look at it again, actually no one will ever I still head for the Stimson dining hall.) I still head for I remember planning the Athenaeum, planning the Athenaeum, I remember (in the newest sense) structure turned structure sense) (in the newest Road had actually been moved to make to make been moved had actually Road

My memories of the day are punctuated are of the day My memories What I remember best about 9/11 is best about 9/11 What I remember several faculty and staff members, several eyes, who asked if we could have dinner could have if we who asked eyes, but I do recall discussed, what we exactly children. An unusual, self-imposed children. and but a real I suppose, challenge, then and since. one, concrete checking up on each other. That young That young checking up on each other. campus through the night, along with campus through drumming circles, canceled classes, classes, canceled drumming circles, dance and math, with trepidation in her dance and math, with trepidation and always we exchange smiles and exchange we and always a little bit better after talking things and hastily convened discussions about discussions and hastily convened operations, but also for the well-being but also for the well-being operations, a thousand of other people’s than of more brand-new first-year student interested in interested student first-year brand-new being approached that afternoon by a that afternoon by being approached Goucher with me—is just a year away away Goucher with me—is just a year like others who were freshmen at freshmen others who were like from celebrating her tenth reunion. I see tenth reunion. her celebrating from her back on campus surprisingly often, professional mathematician, and she— professional the teach-ins of the Vietnam war era. It era. the Vietnam war the teach-ins of through—fortified, perhaps, to wander perhaps, to through—fortified, together in Stimson Hall. I no longer know longer know together in Stimson Hall. I no all felt just that others joined us and we recollections of the intense experience of the intense experience recollections not only for buildings and finances and not only for buildings and finances was then that I first had the sense, which the sense, then that I first had was the back to me often over come would with images of impromptu prayers and and prayers impromptu with images of we shared. we woman is now a poised and articulate a poised is now woman American foreign policy reminiscent of of reminiscent policy American foreign years, of being personally responsible being personally responsible of years, young woman from upstate New York, a York, New upstate from woman young Then there is the thrill of encountering We have lived and honored the liberal Goucher students overseas, in the arts tradition in these years, as Goucher act of transcending boundaries, and has always done. To the English major sharing adventures with them—in who became a bond trader and the classics Paris and Berlin; in St. Petersburg and major who became a psychoanalyst and Oslo; in Dharamsala and Bangalore, a painter, we have now added the history India; in Beersheba, Israel; and in Roatan, and writing majors who make fine wine Honduras (where they took their in California and the biology major who marine biology quizzes underwater). helps run the admissions program of And the delight in welcoming them back— a nearby university—not to mention from Brazil, from South Korea, from the sociologists, anthropologists, and Rwanda and Ghana and South Africa, environmentalists who founded the from Australia and Serbia and Peru Baltimore Rock Opera Society, or the and China—as they tell each other what French major who is now a graduate they have learned and how their lives student in journalism. have been transformed. That is the essence of what we do What else am I proud of? Taking at Goucher: surprise ourselves and 2014 steps to diversify this community, hiring others. We prepare people for lives SPRING SPRING

inspired young faculty members who | full of the unexpected, in which there infuse the college with new ideas and is always something new to learn and energy, adding new graduate programs, examine. And Goucher has done the and growing the undergraduate student same for me. Thank you for joining body to be the largest in Goucher’s history. me in this splendid enterprise. GOUCHER QUARTERLY I’m happy about bringing important and interesting people to campus so 56 we could bat around their ideas—from Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor to my old public radio colleague Ira Glass; from Liberian President Ellen Sanford J. Ungar | President Johnson Sirleaf to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof; and from primatologist Jane Goodall, who, just by the way, required that everyone at a dinner in her honor eat a vegetarian meal, to recently retired General Stanley McChrystal, who related his dream of establishing a culture of national service in America. Of course, I cherish the fact that virtually every prominent visitor asked me where we find these students who ask such amazing, probing questions. VIEWPOINT 57 While Sanford J. Ungar is stepping down as president of Goucher, he is definitely not retiring. In July, he will spend a month-long residency at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, examining the relationship between study abroad and America’s standing in the world. The residency program in Bellagio, on Lake Como in northern Italy, offers influential scholars, artists, writers, scientists, policymakers, and other professionals from around the world

the opportunity to pursue ideas and to engage others in their work. After returning from Italy, After returning from Italy, the opportunity to pursue ideas and to engage others in their work. where he will continue his Ungar will become a scholar-in-residence at Georgetown University, abroad, among other topics.writing on educational issues, especially the liberal arts and study to teach a freshman In the fall semester, he will also travel weekly to Cambridge, Massachusetts, at Harvard College, his alma mater. seminar on “Free Speech”

FOR PRESIDENT UNGAR? WHAT’S NEXT WHAT’S