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MARY’S COLLEGE of Maryland Center for the Study of Healthy St. Mary’s Neuroscience Seminar Series The Mark Twain Lecture Series Democracy & The Patuxent Partnership Webinar #4 With Joaquin Lugo With Janelle James Partnership Host a Lecture by COVID-19 and E-Cigarettes: February 19 @ 3:00 p.m. April 10 @ 7:30 p.m. Kerry Fosher Learn How to Stop Both February 3 @ 12:00 p.m. February 12 @ 4:30 p.m. An Evening to Honor the Psychology Lecture Series Registration required Legacy of Lucille Clifton With Maneeza Dawood Healthy St. Mary’s With Li Young Lee and April 14 @ 4:45 p.m. Partnership Webinar #3 VALUMtine’s Virtual 5K Leah Naomi Green COVID-19 and E-Cigarettes: February 12-15 March 1 @ 7:00 p.m. Awards Convocation Learn How to Stop Both www.smcm.edu/alumni April 16 February 5 @ 4:30 p.m. Neuroscience Seminar Series Registration required Museum Studies Speaker With Dan Kircher ’10 Commencement, Class of 2021 Roundtable March 15 @ 4:45 p.m. May 8 WINTER 2021, VOL. 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It is produced for alumni, faculty, staff, trustees, the local community, and friends of the College. The magazine is named for the famous mulberry tree under which the Calvert colonists signed a treaty of friendship with the Yaocomico people and on the trunk of which public notices were posted in the mid-1600s. The tree endured long into the 19th century and was once a popular meeting spot for St. Mary’s College students. The illustration of the mulberry tree on the cover was drawn in 1972 by Earl Hofmann, artist-in-residence when St. Mary’s College Pres- ident Renwick Jackson launched the magazine. Copyright 2021 The opinions expressed in The Mulberry Tree are those of the individual authors and not necessarily those of the College. The editor reserves the right to select and edit all material. Manuscripts and letters to the editor are en- couraged and may be addressed to Editor, The Mulberry Tree, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 47645 College Drive, St. Mary’s City, MD 20686. Photographs and illustrations may not be reproduced without the express written consent of St. Mary’s College of Maryland. For registration and information on these and other upcoming events, visit www.smcm.edu and click on EVENTS. Events are subject to change. TX_8794D08A9F8C REFORESTED IN UNITED STATES St. Mary’s College of Maryland has offset 6,905 pounds of paper used to produce this issue by planting 83 trees in the U.S. CONTENTS WINTER 2021 ST. MARY’S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND July 2020 — June 2021 FEATURES ALUMNI COUNCIL BOARD OF TRUSTEES PAGE 8 Executive Board Chair A Full and Alice Arcieri Bonner ’03, Arthur “Lex” Birney Jr. president Intentional Life Kate Fritz ’04, exec. vice Vice Chair president Susan Dyer Nezia Munezero Kubwayo ’08 spent Bobby Rudd ’13, vice pres. Treasurer of operations years of her childhood in refugee camps John Chambers Angie Stocksdale Harvey ’83, in war-torn East Africa. Now she is a secretary Wobensmith ’93 Thomas Brewer ’05, Secretary PhD candidate in conflict analysis parliamentarian Lawrence Geoff Cuneo ’10, treasurer and resolution. “Larry” E. Leak ’76 Michele Everett Shipley ’92, [ PAGE 8 ] vice pres. of chapter activities Trustees PAGE 12 Nicolas Abrams ’99 Elected Voting Members Carlos Alcazar John Ahearn ’76 Project Parenting Anirban Basu Jack Blum ’07 John Bell ’95 Paul Broccolina ’00 Laraine Glidden’s longitudinal Alice Arcieri Bonner ’03 Kelsey Bush ’94 Alumni Association research on families raising children Sean Floyd ’06 Fatima Bouzid ’22 Hans Lemke ’93 with intellectual and developmental Student Trustee Molly McKee-Seabrook ’10 Peter Bruns disabilities spanned two decades and Kate Monahan ’12 Donny Bryan ’73 Lauren Payne ’09 influenced scores of SMCM students in Paula Collins Amir Reda ’11 Mike Dougherty (HSMC) their own careers. Kevin Roth ’93 Peg Duchesne ’77 Paul Schultheis ’98 Judith Fillius ’79 Sara Kidd Shanklin ’11 PAGE 16 Elizabeth Graves ’95 Edward Sirianno ’82 Gail Harmon, Esq. [ PAGE 12 ] Segal Makes the Call Student Member The Honorable Vacant Sven Erik Holmes How does one go from English major The Honorable Regional Chapter to umpire for Major League Baseball? Presidents & Affinity Steny H. Hoyer Network Chairs Captain Glen Ives, Chris Segal ’05 shares his journey. Annapolis: USN Retired Doug Mayer ’04 Erin O’Connell ’91 DEPARTMENTS Baltimore: William Seale Marie Snyder ’10 Danielle Troyan ’92 Black Alumni: Harry Weitzel 2 President’s Letter Janssen Evelyn ’01 Raymond Wernecke College News Boston: 3 Eunice Aikins-Afful ’95 20 Alumni Connection California Bay Area: Megan Brown Vilson ’07 PRESIDENT 28 From the Archives Chicago Region: Tuajuanda C. Jordan, PhD Katie Tinder ’13 ON THE COVER: Nezia Munezero Kubwayo ’08 Denver Regional: [ PAGE 16 ] photo by david sinclair. Alisa Ambrose ’85 New York City Regional: John Haltiwanger ’10 Philadelphia Regional: Ian Murphy ’08 Southern Maryland: Cathy Hernandez Ray ’77 TFMS Alumni: Tammy Swanson ’93 OPPOSITE:Winter walk outside Kent Hall.. Washington, D.C. Metro: photo from the college collection. Rosa Trembour Goodman ’11 Western Maryland: Vacant St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 | 1 A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT hile I welcome the arrival of 2021 with good riddance to 2020 Editor’s Note and all of its challenges, I remain grateful for the truly committed community effort that allowed us to open in the fall and remain open by ecently I read the memoirs W of Hannah Breece, a school staying safe during this global pandemic. That commitment and vigilance must and will R teacher and pioneer in old Alaska continue in 2021. from 1904 – 1918. This remarkable inde- pendent woman also set broken bones, COVID-19 is one of many issues colleges and universities are facing. Others include outsmarted bears and wild dogs, endured bitter cold and government bureaucracy. grappling with declines in state funding, adapting to significant demographic shifts Nezia Munezero Kubwayo ’08, fled war- in our nation, and responding to pressure related to the cost of higher education. The torn countries to save her life twice before Board of Trustees and I regularly assess these issues, partnering with faculty and staff turning 10 years old. This was in the 1990s. Now she’s pursuing a PhD in conflict analy- on solutions to enhance our educational mission and ensure St. Mary’s College remains sis and resolution. a successful and financially viable institution. Most of us don’t have a story like Hannah’s or Nezia’s, but we all share in the human For the last four years, we have been engaged in the critically important effort of experience. As we develop into our unique planning and envisioning new, sustainable and exciting opportunities for our future. selves, we are shaped, nurtured, repelled, This essential endeavor included my creation, beginning in summer 2019, of a series influenced by the forces around us. of task forces. The overarching goal of work undertaken by the task forces is to ensure What students do in their college years is formative: working with and learning from St. Mary’s College has a relevant and sustainable liberal arts and sciences curriculum professors like Laraine Glidden; refining for the future. Thus far, the work has led to four new majors being under development ways to express themselves (as Nezia did, in French); persisting when the road is long, – neuroscience, marine science, applied data science and business administration – as as in the journey by Chris Segal ’05 to the well as the development and implementation of a new track and field program and a Major Leagues. When time puts distance and allows reflection on the experience, it plan to have a pep band. is often with gratitude that a former student remembers those who believed in their Additionally, task force work has included a careful review of current program offerings. potential before they themselves did (like In February, the Board of Trustees will vote on recommendations on the best program Quentin Hillsman ’93). array for St. Mary’s College to position us for growth and continued excellence. The Olivia Sothoron ’21, who for two years has interned with the Office of Integrated recommendations will reflect a focus on the future – what curricular offerings are right Marketing, graduates this May. She’s just 20 for an increasingly competitive world, which make the most sense for us to undertake years old, having taken summer and winter given our liberal arts and sciences focus, location and financial resources, and which are classes and overloaded her fall and spring semesters with credits to finish in three best to help students be prepared for life beyond college.