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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
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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 Rteacher 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. years. She has applied to the MAT program with the plan to become a teacher. She Here’s to good health in the new year and a resolve to move forward with gusto, doesn’t have it all figured out, but she’s fully integrity and an unfettered commitment to 21st-century liberal arts education. engaged in the process of getting there. Isn’t that the point?
Lee Capristo, editor
Tuajuanda C. Jordan, PhD President, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
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Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland Featured in Various Media Outlets St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland and its virtual dedication with keynote speaker Jelani Cobb were featured in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. President Tuajuanda C. Jordan was quoted in the story, along with Vice President for Institutional Advancement Carolyn Curry, Professor of Anthropology Julia A. King, RE:site artists Shane Allbritton and Norman Lee, and poet Quenton Baker. President Tuajuanda C. Jordan and the dedication also were featured in Essence magazine. In addition, the Commemorative and its dedication were featured in the Metro section of the Washington Post, in the Baltimore Sun and featured on air on WETA PBS News Hour on November 22, among other media outlets. See collected media here: https://www.smcm.edu/honoring- enslaved/news-media/.
Physics Honored St. Mary’s College’s Student Government Association (SGA) with 2020 OSA approved a $25,000 donation Recognition to the College’s Recovery Fund The Department of Physics at St. that has been created to help Mary’s College received the Diversity reduce financial burdens and and Inclusion Advocacy Recognition obstacles facing SMCM from the Optical Society of America students due to the COVID-19 on September 15. The physics depart- pandemic. This is the second ment was acknowledged “for making large donation from the SGA to long-term changes that improve the Recovery Fund. In May 2020, diversity, equity and inclusion in its the SGA donated $50,000. operations and culture.”
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“I’m excited to Charles L. Adler, professor of ence in October, a joint endeavor join the IDE(A)2 physics, has released a new video between the Canadian Association unit to take on the lecture series for The Great Courses, of Second Language Teachers and challenges and titled “How Science Shapes Science the British Columbia Association opportunities that Fiction.” The 24-lecture course of Teachers of Modern Languages. we face as an insti- looks at dozens of books, movies, Titled, “Evolving Inclusive Practices tution that is truly and television shows to unearth the for the (Digital) Language Class- invested in making José R. Ballesteros science behind the fiction. From the room,” Arnett’s interactive keynote left to right: Mertz, Neiles, Bowers inclusion and physics of space flight and the ecol- invited participants to explore ways equity part of the DNA that runs ogy of exoplanets to the creation of to hone and expand their inclu- Emily Brownlee, assistant professor through everything that we do at alien languages and the paradoxes sive practices within the language of biology, was recently awarded the College,” said Ballesteros. “Not of time travel, Adler uncovers the classroom. Arnett is a former high a $21,840 grant from the National only is it the right thing to do, it is ways real-world science is applied school French teacher and Ful- Science Foundation for her project the only way that we will be able to by writers and filmmakers—and bright scholar. She is the author of titled: “Collaborative Research honor and champion the changing considers what they might alter “Languages for All: How to Support FSML: PhytoChop: An Estua- demographics in higher education rine Phytoplankton Observatory.” and meet our state-given responsi- or leave out for the sake of a good and Challenge Students in a Second plot. Adler is also the author of the Language Classroom” (Pearson Brownlee will be responsible for bilities as a public institution.” setting up and analyzing instrumen- Ballesteros has been a faculty critically acclaimed science fiction Education Canada, 2013) and, with tation data, and will help curate and member within the College’s book, “Wizards, Aliens, and Star- co-author Renée Bourgoin, “Access expand the imaging library. Department of International ships: Physics and Math in Fantasy for Success: Making Inclusion Work Languages and Cultures since 2002. and Science Fiction” (Princeton for Language Learners” (Pearson Tristan Cai, assistant professor of He co-created and was an associ- Univ. Press, 2014). In 2015, it was a Education Canada, 2018). photography, along with Brooke ate director of the DeSousa-Brent Program. The program’s retention Assistant Professor Geoff Bowers, Lamplough ’19 and Cecelia and graduation rates for students Professor Pam Mertz, and Marquez ’18, were included in from underrepresented populations Associate Professor Kelly Neiles the exhibition “New Photography earned it a permanent funding from the Department of Chemistry II” at the Academy Art Museum grant from the State of Maryland and Biochemistry led a workshop in Easton, Maryland. The national in 2019. on November 6 at the AACU 2020 juried exhibition ran from August Ballesteros is a contributing Virtual Conference on Transform- 1- October 7, 2020. Artworks were poetry editor for the Library of ing STEM Education. The title of selected by Philip Brookman, con- Congress’s “Handbook of Latin the workshop was “Build the sulting curator from the department American Studies” and the co- Framework to Streamline Assess- of photographs, National Gallery author of the Spanish literature ment: Scaffold Skills and Assess of Art in Washington, D.C. The textbook “Voces de España.” He with Signature Assignments” and co-winner of the Science Writing co-organizer of this exhibition was is a published translator and the focused on the work the depart- Award for Books from the American SMCM alumnus Conner Dorbin owner and editor of the literary ment has done to create a mean- Institute of Physics, and it made ’18, who was recently appointed press Zozobra Publishing, the ingful assessment plan as part of several lists of notable science books, curatorial assistant at the Academy premier publisher of regional Latinx the CUR Transformations Project including that of The Guardian. Art Museum. poets. His own poetry has been (NSF-DUE 1625354). Workshop Adler is currently co-writing a book participants were led through the anthologized and appears in various Jeffrey Coleman, professor of on the science of Leonardo da Vinci process of creating program journals in the U.S. He is the author English, read three original poems with Matthew Landrus from the learning outcomes (PLOs) based of the book of poems “Lovedust” relating to the Black Lives Matter University of Oxford. on desired student skills and (Izote Press). Ballesteros has a PhD movement and discussed poems designing signature assignments to from the University of Kansas. from his edited anthology, “Words Katy Arnett, professor of educa- assess multiple PLOs. A longitudi- tional studies, delivered the opening nal assessment rubric used by the of Protest, Words of Freedom: keynote for the (virtual) 2020 Lan- department, the Megalorubric, was Poetry of the American Civil Rights guages Without Borders confer- also introduced. Movement and Era,” during an
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audio interview for the Poet and Her session is titled “Embracing the Poem Series, sponsored by the Disruption” and examines the im- Library of Congress. The interview pact of disruptions on one’s work/ was conducted by Poet Laureate of home lives, relationships, well-be- Maryland Grace Cavalieri. Cole- ing, and provide tips on seeing the man also spoke of his role with the positive side of disruption, including Journal of Hip Hop Studies. growth mindset, the value of self- care, and how to use professional Karen Crawford, professor of and personal networks. biology, had a photo she took of Susan Goldstine, professor of gene-edited cephalopod embryos mathematics, gave an invited pre- Argelia Gonzalez Hurtado, assis- “(I am) Not an Iron,” from Hall of Portraits selected by Nature as one of the sentation on January 21, 2021 for the tant professor of Spanish and Latin from The History of Machines, 59” x 42”, top 10 scientific images of 2020. Gathering 4 Gardner Foundation. American studies, has recently acrylic painting over print on canvas, 2019) The photograph was taken during Her talk, titled “Maps of Strange published the peer-reviewed article summer 2019 while Crawford was a Worlds: Beyond the Four-Color “Narrating the Indigenous Diaspora Sue Johnson, professor of art, ex- Whitman Fellow on a team at Ma- Theorem” featured a selection of through Yolanda Cruz’s Lens” in hibited her work in a solo exhibition rine Biological Laboratory in Woods her mathematical artworks along Vistas al Patio, a journal in the area titled, “Hall of Portraits from The Hole, Massachusetts. She was first with their theoretical and historical of Humanities from The University History of Machines,” at VisArts author of a milestone study reported context. Goldstine’s artworks have of Cartagena, Colombia. Gibbs Street Gallery in Rockville, in the July 30, 2020, issue of Current appeared in mathematical art ex- Maryland, from Sept. 11 – Jan. 3, Biology. hibits for the past decade. Together The American Physical Society 2021. The Washington Post’s Mark with computer scientist and artist (APS) has selected Josh Grossman, Jenkins highlighted Johnson’s exhi- Ellie Baker, she is coauthor of the professor of physics, to chair its bition in a review on Dec. 25, 2020. 2014 book “Crafting Conundrums: Committee on Education in 2021. Johnson also taught a virtual art Puzzles and Patterns for the Bead Grossman has served on the workshop for VisArts, titled “The Crochet Artist,” which collects their committee since the start of 2019. Surrealist Sketchbook.” Johnson extensive research on mathematical Previously, Grossman served on also has work exhibited in a solo bead crochet. and chaired the APS Committee exhibition at the Virginia Museum on Membership. of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, The Association of College and through February 7, 2021. University Housing Officers – In- Associate Professors of Com- ternational (ACUHO-I) recognized puter Science Alan Jamieson and Julia A. King, professor of anthro- KAREN CRAWFORD Joanne Goldwater, associate dean Lindsay Jamieson received the pology, was recently awarded a David Froom, professor of music, for retention and student success, Best Faculty Poster Award at the $110,000 grant from the National had two works for flute published in and Brad Newkirk ’04, direc- 2020 Consortium for Computing Park Service to fund a complete a new anthology by the American tor of the physical plant, in their Sciences in Colleges Eastern Region archaeological overview and assess- Composers Alliance. “To Dance ACUHO-I Heroes program. Ac- Conference held virtually October ment of Piscataway Park in Prince to the Whistling Wind” (1993) cording to its website, the ACUHO- 23-24. Their poster “Computational George’s County, Maryland. This and “Ribbons” (2016) have been I Heroes program was created to Thinking for Computer Science project will be conducted through a widely performed. Froom’s “Vio- recognize individuals who have Majors: An Introduction to CS Cooperative Agreement under the lincelletude” was included in the displayed leadership within their Education Career Pathways” fo- Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative California Music Center’s online organizations and the profession as cused on a pilot course to introduce Ecosystems Study Unit. The project program to celebrate the Klein a whole, gone above and beyond computer science education path- is expected to be completed by International String Competition their traditional scope of work to ways for computer science majors December 31, 2021. Piscataway Park laureates. Additionally, the Uni- ensure the health and safety of and had the students in the course is a unit of the National Park Service versity of Utah School of Music’s their communities, and tirelessly implementing lesson plans at the administered by National Capital New Music Ensemble released a advocated for their community Chesapeake Public Charter School. Parks—East. The park is located in live-stream performance of Froom’s members. Goldwater will also be a This work was supported through a Southern Maryland along the banks “Yeats Songs.” co-presenter at the NASPA National grant from the Maryland Center for of the Potomac River. Situated Virtual Conference in March 2021. Computing Education. approximately 25 miles downriver
6 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 from Washington D.C., lands within open access data sets to support Pamela Mertz, professor of bio- Department of Political Science the park were home to the Potomac remote learning in the neurology chemistry, was elected to a three- at St. Mary’s College presented a Valley’s indigenous inhabitants for and biology classrooms. She is year term as chair of the American virtual roundtable and discussion of thousands of years—dating as far concerned about increasing the Society for Biochemistry and Mo- Professor of Political Science back as 6,000 years ago and through accessibility gap already present lecular Biology (ASBMB) Student the 1500s. Among the occupants to minority and other underrep- Chapters Steering Committee; a Sahar Shafqat’s “Pakistan’s were the Piscataway Indians of resented groups for STEM fields. subcommittee of the ASBMB Edu- Political Parties: Surviving between Southern Maryland whose ancestors Lachney also published an essay in cational and Professional Develop- Dictatorship and Democracy” still live nearby today. Neuroscience Letters titled, “Acute ment Committee. ASBMB Student (Georgetown University Press) 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin Chapters is a national community of published on November 18. Profes- Ellen Kohl, assistant professor of Exposure in Adult Mice Does Not undergraduate students and faculty sor Shafqat and co-authors Mariam environmental studies, recently Alter the Morphology or Inflamma- members promoting the advance- Mufti, assistant professor of political partnered with Ridge Elementary tory Response of Cortical Microglia.” ment of biochemistry and molecular science at the University of Waterloo, School to secure a $5,000 Chesa- biology research, education, and and Niloufer Siddiqui, assistant peake Land Trust grant to imple- Research in African Literatures, science outreach. Mertz previ- professor of political science at the ment an outdoor a peer-reviewed academic journal, ously served as a southeast regional Rockefeller College of Public Affairs classroom at has published an article by As- director for Student Chapters from and Policy at University at Albany, the elementary sistant Professor of French George 2013-2020. State University of New York, dis- school in Ridge, MacLeod, titled “Jacqueline cussed this one-of-a-kind resource Maryland. The Kalimunda’s Interactive Love Jeffrey Silberschlag, professor for diplomats, policymakers, jour- grant and plans Stories: Transmedia Documentary of music, presented a recital and nalists, and scholars searching for a for the outdoor in Present-Day Rwanda.” It looks at master class during the international comprehensive overview of Paki- classroom were an ambitious transmedia documen- trumpet conference, The Brazilian stan’s party system and its unlikely developed as a partnership between tary project by the France-based Association of Trumpeters (ABT), survival against an interventionist students in her “ENST 490: Envi- Rwandan filmmaker Jacqueline November 3-8, in Brazil. Silber- military, with insights that extend far ronmental Keystone Seminar” and Kalimunda, the first of its kind by a schlag previously beyond the region. students and staff at Ridge Elemen- Rwandan filmmaker. The article is introduced mas- tary School. Kohl also wrote an based on MacLeod’s presentation ter classes and Professor of Psychology Libby Nutt article, “Some We’s Weren’t Part of at a 2017 Conference at the Univer- served as prin- Williams and alumni Margaret We: Intersectional Politics of Belong- sity of Bristol (UK) sponsored by cipal trumpet at (Meg) Marcelli ’17, Benjamin ing in U.S. Environmental Justice an interdisciplinary grant-funded Kyoto University (Ben) Ertman ’18 and Kelly Cullo- Activism,” that was published in the initiative entitled “Popular Print and of Performing ta ’18 recently published an article journal Gender, Place & Culture: A Reading Cultures in Francophone Arts (Japan), in the journal Adoption Quarterly. Journal of Feminist Geography. Africa,” which has worked with Prague Conservatory (Czech Re- The article, “The Impact of Racial- scholars in the United Kingdom, public), London Royal Academy of Ethnic Socialization Practices on Dave Kung, professor of mathemat- France, and West Africa to preserve Music (United Kingdom), Beijing International Transracial Adoptee ics, is a 2021 recipient of the Math- African cultural production through Central Conservatory (China), Identity Development” is based ematical Association of America’s digitization and public exhibitions. Aosta Institute of Music (Italy), and on Marcelli’s SMP which was a Deborah and Franklin Tepper the Cleveland Institute of Music qualitative study that explored adop- Haimo Award. The award honors James Mantell, associate profes- Orchestra (USA). Silberschlag has tees’ perspectives on their parents’ professors who have been extraordi- sor of psychology and Rachel recorded as trumpet soloist with socialization strategies and the effect narily successful and whose teaching Steelman ’21 presented at the 61st The London Symphony Orchestra, of those practices on their sense of effectiveness has been shown to Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, identity and ability to manage future have had influence beyond their Society in November. Their virtual Warsaw Philharmonic, Czech Radio challenges, such as racial discrimi- own classrooms. presentation examined whether lin- Orchestra, Italian National nation. Marcelli was scheduled to guistic labels associated with visual Symphony RAI-Torino, Seattle present the research at the Annual Sarah Latchney, assistant professor experiences can affect psychological Symphony, and The Maryland Meeting of the National Association of biology and neurobiology, was processing of auditory information. Bach Aria Group. The Center for of Social Workers Conference in interviewed by the Allen Institute the Study of Democracy and the June 2020, but the conference was because she is using the institute’s canceled due to COVID-19.
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Nezia Munezero Kubwayo’s journey to America included two stays in different refugee camps, including one in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and one in Tanzania. Her parents are from Burundi, East Africa, but they fled independently in 1972 to escape the acts of genocide that targeted the majority ethnic group, the Hutus. Both of her parents settled in Rwanda where they met, married, and started a family. Nezia lived with her parents and seven siblings in Rilima, a small town about an hour from the capital city of Kigali. Her father was a teacher in Rilima. In April 1994, Nezia’s family was forced suddenly to flee their home without her father, who was in Kigali that day. After months of traveling by foot, Nezia, her mother, and her siblings were reunited with their father near the Rwanda-DRC border.
The childhood refugee experience of Nezia Munezero Kubwayo ’08 (excerpted above) was published in the College’s River Gazette (Vol. 6, No. 4, September 2006) in a feature written by Parker Bennett Gueye ’06.
8 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 “Even before I experienced war myself, which happened when I was only 8, I was already aware that empathy and compassion are crucial in any community.” Nezia Munezero Kubwayo ’08 DAVID SINCLAIR DAVID
St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 | 9 PHOTO BY HOLYZINER left to right: Nathan, Nezia, Carl, Jean Calmère and Naima Kubwayo in Burundi.
In the DRC (which was actually Zaire in 1994), Nezia and her In March, 2002, the family arrived in Baltimore through the U.S. family lived in the Kagunga Refugee Camp. After a few weeks, the Refugee Resettlement Program. Their new home presented difficul- United Nations arrived at the camp to provide food and tents. Her ties making friends due to the cold weather preventing neighbors family turned their tent into a more stable shelter, by adding onto from coming outside, as well as the language barriers. When she the tent with cut trees and mud bricks. Nezia and her family spent enrolled in Southwestern High School, Nezia spoke French, Kirundi, two years in the DRC, and the camp turned into a community, fea- Kinyarwanda, and Swahili, but not English. Fortunately, family turing a school, water pumps, and security. friends and teachers worked hard to make the transition easier on In 1996, Nezia’s family fled the DRC due to civil war in the na- Nezia and her family. After only two years in America, Nezia enrolled tion. On their journey to Tanzania, her parents became separated at St. Mary’s College, where she majored in French and political sci- from their children while buying food. The family was reunited af- ence. After graduating from St. Mary’s College, Nezia received her ter a few weeks, and they moved to the Muyovozi Refugee Camp in master’s degree in international human rights law from The Ameri- Tanzania where they lived for the next six years. While in Tanzania, can University in Cairo. After leaving Cairo in 2009, she visited Bu- Nezia completed grades three through eight. Her father helped to rundi for the first time. It was there that she met her husband, Jean organize a primary school at the camp and worked for the camp’s Calmère Kubwayo. They have three children (Carl, Nathan and field office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Naima, ages 8, 5 and 4, respectively). She is currently working to- This helped the family to begin the application process to move to wards earning her doctorate degree in conflict analysis and resolu- the United States. tion at Nova Southeastern University Halmos College of Arts and Sciences. She has worked as a public and community relations offi- cer for Ethiopian Community Development Council Inc., a writer for USAHello, the director of philanthropy at Shepherd’s Clinic, the owner of MK Editorial Services, and a news writer for Pollack Peace- building Systems.
10 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 A FULL AND INTENTIONAL LIFE
Q: How did your experience at The American international level. The team of volunteers in the U.S. and Burundi University in Cairo shape your goals and raised enough funds to support the education of about a dozen aspirations? students, three of whom were at the college level.
A: As a student at SMCM, I discovered my love of travel. I studied Q: How does your writing allow you to abroad in Alba, Italy, as a junior and again in Bordeaux, France, share your story with the world and your during my senior year. I was very eager to learn about the workings hopes for the future? of the international human rights and humanitarian systems. My A: I feel that my writing is among the central features of who I am experience in Cairo introduced me to a world in which theory and now. It allows me to share stories that inspire others to pursue inner practice merge. I was learning about the development of human peace and joy in their lives. I believe in the power of words, and I use rights and humanitarian conventions in the classroom while work- them to impact positive change wherever I can. Writing also declut- ing with organizations that implemented them. ters my mind, bringing me the serenity I need in order to live a Q: In your four years as the founding happy life. Professionally, I have used writing as a philanthropic tool executive director of the Burundi Fund for throughout my career so far. The end goal is always to do my part in Hope and Restoration Inc., what did the improving the lives of individuals, families, and communities. organization accomplish? Q: How has your past shaped your present? A: The Burundi Fund for Hope and Restoration (BFHR) was es- In other words, what about your past tablished to provide educational support for repatriated Burundian pushed you to pursue post-graduate degrees refugee youth. In many ways, the project was experimental and your work post-SMCM? as I was unfamiliar with the nonprofit world, especially on an A: Even before I experienced war myself, which happened when I was only 8, I was already aware that empathy and compassion are crucial in any community. Having lived in refugee camps where everyone depended on the kindness of others left me with a desire “Nezia took a number of French to serve. My experiences growing up taught me the art/science of self-awareness and resilience, which now serves me personally classes with me, all of which had and professionally. substantial reading and writing assignments in French. These Q: Where do you see yourself in 10 years? classes were a linguistic home A: My mission in life has always been to help people in whatever for her. In them, she continued capacity I can. In 10 years, I hope to be helping communities and to develop skills in French in nations identify strategies to live cohesively and peacefully together. synthesis, analysis, evaluation and Q: What is your hope for your children? writing. A writer needs the same How has your life impacted your wishes for habits of mind – diligence, careful their success? thought and attention to detail – A: My hope is that our three children – ages 8, 5, and 4 – will in French and English. Students have the emotional intelligence they need to live full and intentional often do not believe me when I tell lives. They have the opportunities I needed as a child, and we take them that being a good writer in advantage of that as much as possible. At the end of the day, I hope French will carry over into their they will define their own success and pursue it with the same level writing in English – until it begins of commitment, determination, and passion that my husband and to happen.” I have tried to exemplify for them.
LAINE DOGGETT, professor of French
St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 | 11 PROJECT PARENTING The Composition of a Lifetime, Orchestrated by Laraine Glidden
BY LEE CAPRISTO, EDITOR
Laraine Glidden’s professional career has spanned 50 years. Though she officially retired in 2012, she’s barely slowed down. This past fall she completed a four-year editing project of a two-volume, 1,117-page reference work, “APA Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities” (American Psychological Association, December 2020). Of that experience, Glidden admits that her love of learning and her love of writing and editing, combined with “dedication, determination and patience” helped her move the project to the finish line. She has plenty of prior editing experience: she edited “Formed Families: Adoption of Children with Handicaps” (Haworth Press Inc., 1990); “Autism” (Academic Press, 2001); and from 1997-2009, she edited 16 volumes of “International Review of Research in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities” (Academic Press/Elsevier).
12 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 Glidden was St. Mary’s College’s first lies who adopt [youngsters with retardation] recipient (in 1989) of the Norton T. Dodge find it a rewarding experience. To many Award for Scholarly and Creative Achieve- people that conclusion will still be hard ment. Over her career, she has been recog- to comprehend. This book will help them nized with local, state and national awards, to understand better why that conclusion including The Arc Distinguished Research should not be surprising.” Award in 2008, appointment as a Global Glidden’s first sabbatical from St. Mary’s Scholar by Special Olympics International College was spent in London, England, in in 2011, and in 2015, the Edgar A. Doll Award 1982-83. It was here that she first interviewed from the American Psychological Asso- families raising children with IDD. Build- ciation for career research achievements in ing on that research and data, she wrote her intellectual and developmental disabilities book, “Parents for Children, Children for (IDD). In 2020, Glidden received the Presi- Parents” and applied for grant funding. dential Award from the American Associa- Once funded, her work for Project Par- tion of Intellectual and Developmental Dis- enting started by reaching out to adoption abilities for her outstanding contributions agencies to gain access to families who had to the field and record of scholarship. adopted children with IDD. With each It is for her two decades of longitudinal re- family, Glidden asked for referrals to other search in “Project Parenting” that Glidden families, and the number of families and is best known. This grant-funded research her data set began to grow. Her second sab- began with a three-year National Institute batical was spent at UC-Berkeley in 1990- of Child Health and Human Development 91; there she added California families to (now the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD) her research. Early interviews were done in grant in 1987, and continued through re- person or by mail; later interviews by email newals and supplemental grants from and by video. To help with the workload, NICHD, as well as SMCM faculty develop- she hired and trained SMCM undergradu- ment grants, through 2006. The research ates as research assistants to help manage focused on the positive adjustment made the interviews and oversee data compilation. by families rearing children with IDD, in- The scope of the data collection allowed cluding those families who knowingly adopt an unprecedented study of personality as them, and are prepared for a child with spe- an important predictor of parental adjust- cial needs. In the 1980s, there was linger- ment and that general good mental health ing stigma, left over from previous decades, and emotional stability benefited parents as that raising a child with IDD was, overall, a their children with IDD grew to adulthood. negative experience. Glidden’s work helped Glidden also mentored undergraduate to change that and provided the research to students wanting to help with the research, prove that the large differences in depression teaching them how to compile, sort, analyze and subjective well-being between adoptive and write about the data. Over the lifespan and birth parents at the initial diagnosis of Project Parenting, more than 100 students declined over time, such that most parents, were involved and several dozen wrote or co- regardless of how the child entered the fam- wrote articles and presented posters and ily, had adapted quite well. In the foreword talks at national conferences. Glidden’s 19- of Glidden’s book, “Parents for Children, page CV includes more than 100 articles, pa- Children for Parents: The Adoption Alter- pers and book chapters written with students native” (AAMR Monographs, 1989), Sey- during Project Parenting. Many found the mour Sarason (eminent researcher in the experience to be career-defining and pur- field of psychology and IDD) wrote: “There sued advanced degrees in psychology them- can no longer be any doubt that most fami- selves (see sidebar on the following page).
St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 | 13 “Laraine is the consummate researcher and always included undergraduates in the work. She created teams ALUMNI OF of students, those with more experience on the project PROJECT serving as mentors for those just joining the team. Laraine worked side-by-side with them, modeling both PARENTING the specific research techniques and the critical thinking skills important to being a scientist.” Jennifer Willoughby ’92, earned her professor emeritus of neurosciences and psychology Wes Jordan, PhD in clinical child and pediatric psychol- ogy at University of Miami. She has worked For grant-funded research, annual reports persisted for another five years with publica- in private practice as a licensed psychologist on that research are a routine requirement tions often co-authored by Glidden and for- for many years and since 2005, has been the and publications are expected. “Because mer undergraduate, now graduate stu- owner of Psychological Services Center LLC it takes time to set up a project like this dents. This work was supported by faculty in Leonardtown, Maryland. one, recruit subjects, collect data, analyze development grants from SMCM. data, begin to discern patterns, write ar- Glidden’s research and sample size of “I worked on Project Parenting as a ticles, submit articles, revise articles, and 249 families living in more than 30 states research assistant until I graduated wait in the queue for actual publication, and in several countries outside the U.S., from SMCM in 1992. After gradu- most publications have a several-year lag,” followed over 20 years, remain unique in ation, I took a gap year, and Lara- Glidden explains. “Conference presenta- their methodology and scope. “I have been ine hired me as a fulltime research tions, however, show that you are active, asked multiple times for my data set, or a coordinator for Project Parenting and help to get your research out into the portion of my data set, by other research- for that year. With the help of stu- community. I and my students [did] a lot ers who are compiling summary articles,” dent research assistants, I oversaw of that.” By “a lot” Glidden means more says Glidden. data collection and maintained than 150 invited conference presentations In 2021, she will finish a writing project correspondence and follow-up with and papers shared by her and her students she started 15 years ago during sabbatical study participants. During all of and research assistants on the findings of at Georgetown University. The subject of that time, Laraine mentored me and the Project Parenting research. her research is American artist Joseph helped me conduct my own research Data continued to be collected through Cornell, best known for his avant-garde project, which I believe was instru- 2011, at which time the sample had grown style and boxed collages. Glidden’s in- mental in my getting into graduate substantially smaller. Some parents and terest in Cornell, apart from his creative school.” adult children had died; others could no work, is that after his parents died, Cornell longer be located. Glidden knew that the became the sole caretaker of his younger Brigid Cahill ’94 completed her PhD at time was right to end Project Parenting. brother, who had cerebral palsy and a University of South Carolina in clinical-com- But writing about the research and findings mild intellectual disability. munity psychology in 2002. She has worked at University of Rochester for many years, di- recting training programs for graduate and post-graduate students learning to work in college mental health. Since 2018, Cahill has been the director of the university’s counsel- ing center.
left to right: Michael Rozalski, Brigid Cahill, Mike Kiphart, Leslie Tucker, Jennifer Willoughby, Mark Clayton, Allisen Hayworth, with Laraine Glidden outside her house in early 1990s.
14 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 “Laraine approached me when I was Brian Jobe ’03 earned his PhD in clini- taking a class with her and asked cal psychology from University of Maryland me to join her group. I remember Baltimore County. He is associate director initially organizing research litera- of the Child and Family Therapy Clinic at ture and doing lots of data entry Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, and data cleaning. I eventually Maryland. worked on my own project within Project Parenting, comparing the “I first became involved with Project adjustment of parents of children Parenting in July 2003 after gradu- with Down Syndrome vs. other ating from SMCM with a degree in disabilities by matching families psychology. The work was incred- to compensate for sampling biases ibly collaborative and helped me to in previous research. Being able to increase my knowledge and confi- clockwise from bottom left: Glidden, Brian Jobe, present at national conferences as dence in the work of psychology. Amanda Lamont Link ’05, Deirdre Bulger an undergrad in 1994 and pub- I remained with Project Parenting lishing work as a first and second for two years before pursuing my Deirdre Bulger ’04 completed a master’s author in peer reviewed journals PhD in clinical psychology. Without degree in leadership studies and organi- (in 1996 and 1998) from work I a doubt, Project Parenting prepared zational development from Fresno Pacific did as an undergrad was a great me for graduate school and made University. She has worked in the nonprofit experience and I’m sure helped my me a highly qualified applicant. environment in quality assurance and be- applications for graduate school. Dr. Glidden and I continued to col- havioral support and was SMCM’s director Laraine was incredibly generous laborate on research projects, and of disability support services before transi- with her time and support, keeping together we presented 14 research tioning to federal work in source selection for us all engaged at every step of the posters, published 5 articles, and contracts with AbilityOne (the nation’s larg- research process.” two book chapters. One of my est employer of persons with disabilities). favorite things that I learned from Dr. Glidden was her dedication to “After I graduated, Laraine hired me Michael Rozalski ’94 earned his master’s training and mentoring. Project as the project manager for and PhD at University of South Carolina, Parenting provided initial research Project Parenting. I have always focusing on special education. He is asso- experience for many undergraduate had a natural passion for persons ciate professor of special education at State students at SMCM. This is some- with disabilities. I had a natural University of New York at Geneseo in the thing that I have continued at KKI, rapport with families and helped Ella Cline Shear School of Education. serving as the co-director of our complete many of the surveys, as undergraduate internship program well as do videotaping. I was able “Laraine was, and continues to be, for the Child and Family Therapy to participate in research ques- an inspiration. I learned so much Clinic. The best part is that the tions and statistical analysis of the more from Project Parenting than process comes full-circle as I have responses as well as presenting any other course I took. When work- been able to have several SMCM during developmental disability ing with my current students, I con- undergraduate students complete symposiums. Most of my career has stantly push them to get involved in summer internships with us.” research projects with professors. been spent utilizing or advocating Project Parenting is some of the for evidence-based practices within best research that addresses parent education, developmental plans and and family dynamics for students policy and that was reinforced as a with intellectual disabilities.” foundation during my time with Project Parenting.”
St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 | 15 SEGAL MAKES By Olivia Sothoron ’21, English major and intern for the Office of Integrated Marketing THE CALL PHOTO: SCOTT KANE
16 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 SEGAL MAKES THE CALL
St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 | 17 SEGAL MAKES THE CALL
St. Mary’s College prepared Segal for the In February 2020, Chris Segal ’05 received the call arduous training which came with becoming that all aspiring professional umpires dream of receiv- a professional umpire. Segal explained that his time at St. Mary’s College allowed him to ing: he was offered a position as a full-time umpire for better adapt to life on the road during train- ing. “A large portion of working with base- the MLB. Wrapping up his first season as a full-time ball is working with people,” he remarked, and he credits those skills to his time at St. umpire, Segal’s years of training and experience have Mary’s College. Segal mentioned that the training is not as bad as many make it out prepared him to call games at the highest level, pro- to be, but there were definitely times when it was difficult. He also explained that it was viding him with the opportunity to visit ballparks all challenging to see his friends from St. Mary’s across the country and meet some incredible people. College starting jobs, getting married and starting families while he continued to pur- sue a career that did not assure a payoff at the Segal began umpiring when he was in high tion during his first semester at St. Mary’s end. He joked that the process of becoming a school as a job to make some extra cash and College. “Though he never took another class professional umpire is “an American Idol of be around the game he loved. The last game with me, I was his academic adviser, and umpires,” for so many people are eliminated in his high school career ended in controversy so I had the pleasure of watching his abili- and very few make it to the final rounds. when another umpire intentionally missed ties evolve and grow across his entire college However, for Segal, the training paid off, and a call, preventing the game from heading career,” she noted. “Even back then, Chris he noted that “for all of the downsides, there into extra innings. It was this moment, Segal knew he wanted baseball to be a central part were a lot of positives along the way.” explained, that made him seriously consider of his life, whether that was as a player, a “The hardest part of this job is confidence,” pursuing a career as an umpire. He remarked, sports writer, or – as it turned out – a profes- Segal says. “People are going to yell at you “I said at that moment that I wanted to be- sional umpire. I couldn’t be more proud of no matter what you say. Even if you’re right, come an umpire because I could do a better his achievements, and I am confident that people are going to yell at you.” The main job than some of the other umpires out there, he is among the best-read and most clever expectation of the umpire is to maintain which is ironically a way that some umpire umpires out there.” control of the game. “If you start doubting organizations try to recruit new umpires.”
Bursting onto the baseball field at St. Mary’s Photo from Derek Jeter Day at Yankee Stadium courtesy of Chris Segal College, Segal wrapped up his freshman season by being named Rookie of the Year for the Capital Athletic Conference (CAC). During his time in a Seahawk uniform, Segal helped his team advance to the second (2004), third (2003, 2005), and fourth (2002) rounds of the CAC playoffs. Segal, who caught and played outfield for the Seahawks, graduated in 2005 before attending school to become a professional umpire. During his time at St. Mary’s College, Segal studied English and was an advisee of Professor Jennifer Cognard-Black. She noted that as she was adjusting to her new life as a professor, Segal was adjusting to life as a col- lege student. The only class that Segal took with Cognard-Black was English Composi-
18 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 yourself, you lose control of the game,” Segal explains. Working as an umpire is a “mental game” that is all about “believing in your abilities.” Segal emphasizes this point in the “The hardest part of this job is camps he teaches to aspiring umpires. He also stresses the importance of not dwelling confidence. People are going to on a previous call, arguing that “the most important call you’re going to make is your yell at you no matter what you next call.” Confidence is especially important when say. Even if you’re right, people working behind home plate. For Segal, home plate is the most stressful position as an um- are going to yell at you.” pire, both physically and emotionally. Adrena- line runs highest when a call is under review Chris Segal ’05 by the replay system. Segal admits, “I think we get the same rush out of going to replay and REAVES/GETTYMICHAEL IMAGES getting a call confirmed during a big situation In addition to the opportunity to see differ- Along with the professional athletes who that a player might get from hitting a home- ent parts of the country, Segal has had the Segal encounters during every game, he has run.” Additionally, Segal remarked that there opportunity to be around big-name athletes also had the opportunity to meet celebrities is “no greater feeling than being able to walk and celebrities for his work. He explained, through his work. In St. Louis, Segal had off the field after calling a game behind the however, that he does not distinguish between the opportunity to meet and spend time plate and know that you’ve done your job right “big-name” and “no-name” players during with comedian and actor George Lopez. In after working an exciting game.” Although he games, and that instead, he views them all as Baltimore, he met with the secretary of the does not have a singular position that he pre- his coworkers. He remarked, “We’re all out Navy, who presented Segal and the other fers when calling games, Segal is grateful for there together and we’re all out there working umpires with a special edition Navy coin. the rotation, for it allows him to call the game for the same goal.” Segal is hoping to one day run into former from various angles and experience the game President of the United States George W. from different points of view. But, there have been times when Segal real- ized how important certain players are to the Bush, who has been known to spend time in During his time in the Major Leagues, Segal game. In 2014, Segal had the unforgettable the clubhouse at the Texas Rangers stadium. has had the opportunity to travel across the experience of working behind the plate for “Based on all of the stories I’ve heard from country visiting different ballparks for his Derek Jeter Day at Yankee Stadium. “It was my coworkers about meeting President Bush, work. He explained that each stadium has amazing,” he recalled, “just being out there I’m really hoping to have the opportunity to something different and special to offer, and and realizing the greatness and the power of meet him someday,” Segal remarked. that he does not necessarily have a favorite what people mean to this game.” Another Working as an umpire has provided Segal stadium. He remarked that “it’s nice to be experience that Segal noted was in July 2017 with irreplaceable experiences which would home – Nationals Park has a nice setup and when the third baseman for the Texas Rang- not be possible if it were not for his line of Camden Yards has a good feel compared ers notched his 3000th career hit against the work. “Baseball has provided me with a lot of to new stadiums.” He also mentioned that Baltimore Orioles. Recently, in September opportunities that I might not have gotten if I Wrigley Field in Chicago is an amazing 2020, Segal was working the plate in Mil- had not pursued this vocation,” Segal stated. experience to work, since it is the stadium waukee when Alec Mills, the pitcher for the In addition to the experiences which his work that he watched on television growing up. Chicago Cubs threw a no-hitter. Segal, who has provided him, Segal has also been able Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 had never worked the plate for a no-hitter, re- to spend his life surrounded by the game that season resulted in regionalized schedules for marked: “this is a rare thing; just to be alive he loves. From traveling the country visiting the umpires, which meant that Segal could to experience this was cool.” different ballparks to meeting celebrities in not call games outside of his region. This was the clubhouse, Segal is able to make a living disappointing, as he enjoys the stadiums out while living the major league dream. west, such as Angel Stadium of Anaheim and Oracle Park in San Francisco.
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Skip Smith ’73 was featured in the October 29, 2020, issue of The Washington Post for his 25-year career as a makeup art- 1 2 3 5
ist at CNN. The article is titled, SOCIETY HISTORICAL MISSOURI OF THE COURTESY HORTON, CARY “Former CNN makeup artist Stacie Boughn Marvin ’89 maritime heritage. “Ruth’s director of clinical support started career by making people 1980s [2] was honored to be named River Dreams” tells the story services for MedStar Health look like monsters.” Skip got his Gregg Smith ’84 has been one of the 107 recipients of the of Ferris’ childhood, when she Home Care. makeup start at Blood Manor in elected board chairman of the Presidential Award for Excel- first became captivated by the Southern Maryland. Jelani Wilkins ’02, “Mr. El,” Cybersecurity Association of lence in Math and Science Mississippi River, its riverboats, recently published a book, Benjamin Bryan ’78 wrote Maryland. His company, Attila Teaching. Stacie is one of only and the stories told about and “America’s Unfinished Busi- an article that was recently Security, was named Emerg- two awardees in the state of aboard them. Written for ages ness: Reconstruction 1865-Pres- published in the Korea Times ing Technology Company of Maryland. The award is the 3 to 7, Elizabeth’s lively book ent” (Devine Holdings, Inc., about his experience in the the Year by the Maryland Tech highest recognition that a fills a crucial gap in Mississippi 2020). The book is a result of 15 Peace Corps after he graduated Council. kindergarten through 12th grade River literature for children years of private research packed from St. Mary’s College. He science, technology, engineer- who are not quite ready for Caleb M. Kriesberg ’85 [1] into 126 pages, motivated partly volunteered in a leprosy settle- ing, mathematics, and/or Mark Twain. was published in the peer- by experiences at St. Mary’s ment in Korea from 1979-1981. computer science teacher may reviewed journal, Maryland Deborah Pollack ’98 started College of Maryland. Read the article: https://www. receive for outstanding teaching Entomologist (September 2020, a new position as assistant koreatimes.co.kr/www/na- in the United States. Todd Brooks ’03 was recently Vol. 7 No. 4) for his study, professor of psychology at Utica tion/2020/12/177_299117.html listed as a “Future Star” in “Protandrous Arrival in a College in Utica, New York. Benchmark Litigation, the Population of the Periodical 1990s Matthew Norkunas ’99 [4] widely respected guide to lead- Cicada, Magicicada septendecim.” Janet Varner ’91 wrote an ar- has been appointed chief ing litigation firms and lawyers. financial officer at Generation Todd is a partner at Whit- Larry has had a long career ticle that was recently published Bio Co. (NASDAQ:GBIO), an eford Taylor Preston LLP and within the University System in Inside Higher Ed titled innovative genetic medicines serves as co-chair of the firm’s of Maryland, having served at “From the Inside Out: Reflect- company creating a new class Business Reorganizations, what was then known as the ing on a Dual Lens,” about how of non-viral gene therapy. He Bankruptcy and Insolvency University of Maryland Univer- insights from higher education received his M.D. from Uni- Litigation Section. sity College from 2003–2007 as and K12 education can be used versity of Maryland School of professor and vice provost for to improve each, especially dur- Robert White ’04 [5] was re- Medicine in 2004 and his MBA academic affairs, acting provost ing hybrid and online teaching. elected as an at-large member from Columbia Business School and chief academic officer, and Varner is currently at SMCM as of the Council of the District of in 2012. finally interim provost and a visiting professor of educa- Columbia. He serves as chair of chief academic officer. Larry tional studies. the Committee on Facilities and Larry E. Leak ’76 serves also served on the education Elizabeth Pickard ’94 [3] is 2000s Procurement, and vice-chair of as secretary of the Board of faculties of Towson University the author of a new children’s the Metropolitan Washington Michelle Thompson Trustees at St. Mary’s College. and Morgan State University, book, “Ruth’s River Dreams” Council of Governments’ Board Stulberger ’01 was elected He joined the Board in 2009. and was a member of former (Missouri Historical Society of Directors. The Washington, president of the board of This past fall, Larry assumed State Superintendent Nancy Press, 2020). The book follows D.C. native studied philosophy directors for the United States the role of interim president Grasmick’s executive team at an avid lover of the Mississippi and political science at St. Lactation Consultant Associa- at the University of Maryland the Maryland State Department River, Ruth Ferris (1897–1993), Mary’s College. tion, serving a three-year term Global Campus (UMGC) until of Education. His master’s and who was a schoolteacher, a prin- which began in May 2020. She the search for a permanent doctorate degrees were earned cipal, an amateur historian, and currently works as the senior replacement can be completed. at University of Maryland. a singular steward of St. Louis’
20 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 Alumni Council Profile by Molly McKee-Seabrook ’10
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Clockwise from lower left: Michele, Annie, Emily and Loren Shipley enjoying the 2019 Hawktoberfest crabfeast.
Michele Everett Shipley ’92 joined the Michele and her husband live in Cape St. Claire Alumni Council in 2019 and recently became in Anne Arundel County and have two daugh- the vice president for chapter activities. Since ters in college - Annie is in the Class of 2021 at she took on this new role during the pandemic, Towson University and Emily is in the Class of she has been working with the regional chapter 2023 at St. Mary’s College. She said it is very presidents to plan virtual events to keep alumni special to see her daughter Emily experience St. engaged until in-person events can safely Mary’s College for herself, even if campus has resume. She is also playing a lead role in help- changed a lot since Michele graduated. She’s ing to develop the newly added affinity network happy to see the new additions on campus, alumni program. Michele is a paralegal in An- including the Commemorative to Enslaved napolis, Maryland, where she has worked at the Peoples of Southern Maryland which she had law firm Hyatt & Weber for 28 years. She credits the opportunity to see in person while visiting critical thinking skills honed while majoring her daughter, and she’s looking forward to the in political science at St. Mary’s College with new academic buildings and auditorium slated helping her succeed in her career. Professor to open in 2022. Michele really enjoyed her first Susan Grogan’s class covering religion and the Alumni Weekend in 2019 as well as participating 6 Supreme Court first piqued Michele’s interest in the Great Bamboo Boat Race with her family Mara Swaim Roane ’05 is an Brandon M. Scott ’06 [6] was in the law. While at St. Mary’s College, she was at last year’s Hawktoberfest. She is looking for- associate director of program elected Baltimore’s next and a resident assistant in Queen Anne Hall, attend- ward to the time when alums can gather again management at BD Biosciences. youngest mayor, after serving ing at the same time as her sister and brother- in-person for Alumni Weekend and other events Mara has been working on a as president of the Baltimore in-law (Kathleen Everett Hornig ’90 and Rick on campus and across the country through the product that assesses immune City Council since May 2019. Hornig ’89). She wishes she had been more regional chapters and affinity networks. function in COVID-19 patients. From 2011 until taking office as involved in campus life, and feels working on the The product, which just Council President, he was the Alumni Council is a perfect way to get involved launched in Europe, furthers youngest elected councilmem- now and give back. scientists’ understanding of how ber at age 27, representing the an individual’s T cells respond 2nd District. The 36-year-old to the virus and, as a result, how Park Heights, Maryland, native best to treat the specific patient. studied political science at St. Mary’s College.
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Take 5: Q&A with Meredith Davis ’92 Meredith Davis ’92 is associate vice president for student engagement at Syracuse University in New York, having started there in January 2020. She was formerly associate 7 dean of students, divisional strategy, inclusion and involvement at Rhodes College in Tennessee. She also Sunny Schnitzer ’09 [7] was named Baltimore’s deputy worked at the National Civil Rights Museum while in mayor for public safety by Tennessee. Meredith earned her PhD in women’s and gen- mayor-elect and fellow alum der studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she Brandon M. Scott ’06. She will work closely with the mayor worked as associate director of social justice education to redefine Baltimore’s public and LBGT communities. safety strategy and ensure residents are safe, healthy, and protected. Sunny most recently Q1: How has your teaching swift and efficiently as possible will keep a Q4: You studied sociology at served as deputy chief of staff experience as a professor campus open and thriving. I also believe SMCM: how has it grounded for public safety in the Mayor’s prepared you for your position the pandemic has shifted our paradigm you in your post-SMCM career Office, where she oversaw the at Syracuse University? on how we build and create community. development? I would not be surprised if we continue city’s public safety and health A1: I consider myself an educator with A4: Sociology majors are cultural forecast- some of the programs and methods of agencies. She also served as the gift of administration. Teaching in the ers. This major allowed me to understand creating community during this pandemic the acting director and deputy classroom provided me with context to the culture in a sophisticated way. Studying after this crisis subsides. director of the Mayor’s Office of classroom experience and what I need to culture, customs and practices are a part of Criminal Justice. do as an administrator to provide inten- Q3: How have your prior positions my professional and personal praxis and I tional, thoughtful and robust co-curricular helped prepare you for your work owe it all to majoring in sociology. experiences for students. It is my hope that at Syracuse? Q5: What advice would you give this pandemic has reiterated to academic A3: Working in Memphis, Tennessee, pro- now to your 20-year-old self? and student affairs how interconnected our vided me with so many tools and context areas are and they must work in tandem to A5: Enter this experience with an open connecting a community with a college develop a holistic student experience. heart and open mind. Allow people to help campus. I spent four years as Manager you and never pretend you have all the Q2: How have you had to adapt to for School Programs at the National Civil answers. It is a disservice to yourself and establish a community during the Rights Museum and Rhodes College was those who have invested in your educa- coronavirus pandemic? a close partner with the museum. From tional attainment if you leave this experi- student interns to faculty serving on our A2: The most important way to adapt ence the same way you entered. Change is scholarship team, the connections were or- to this pandemic is to maintain a level of inevitable and should be embraced. flexibility. There are no blueprints for this ganic and impactful. NCRM and Rhodes global crisis. Maintaining transparency taught me what a bountiful and strong in communicating with the community community and campus relationship look and the ability to make adjustments as like when mutual respect and reciprocity rests at the core.
22 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 Quentin Hillsman’s Surprise Career Quentin Hillsman ’93 went to Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, his first year of college but had no plans to return. He played basketball in a summer league in Washington, D.C., and thought maybe he’d 8 transfer to Howard University, but his parents wanted him to get out of the city. His mom had heard of St. Mary’s 2010s College and suggested he visit. “I came to see the campus Mariel Sáez ’10 [8] was named White House director of on a Friday, and started classes on Monday,” Quentin broadcast media for the Biden- recalls. “I am grateful to this day for Jay Gardiner, Rich Harris administration. Mariel Edgar, Jim Antonio and President Ted Lewis, because they is the deputy communications director for the Presidential gave me a chance.” Inaugural Committee and worked on the Biden campaign After playing for Coach Gardiner at says now that he learned everything about a colleague from back in his Siena College as women’s media director. SMCM, Quentin played basketball on a being a women’s basketball coach in those days suggested he apply. After a year, the Mariel has served as deputy European travel team and then a semi- two years with Castelli. His father became head coach resigned, and while he took communications director for pro team in Mississippi while pursuing ill and he chose to go to work at American that to mean it was time to move on, it House Majority Leader and a master’s degree so he could become a University to be closer to home, working turned out that the head coach position SMCM Trustee Steny H. Hoyer sports agent. As part of his degree, he had for former SMCM women’s basketball was offered to him and he accepted. The (D-Md.). She has worked for the an internship with Nike in Oregon and coach Shann Hart. In Quentin’s mind, rest is record-breaking history for the Syra- congressman for 10 years, start- a mentorship placement with a basket- these were temporary positions, since cuse program under Quentin’s leadership, ing as an intern while attending ball coach in Maryland at the Newport he was going to be a sports agent. So with 12 consecutive postseason appearanc- St. Mary’s College. After gradu- School, a private high school. Shortly after too, were the next three stops: first as es, seven trips to the NCAA tournament, ation, she joined his staff as a Quentin’s arrival to the role of assistant athletic director and basketball coach at 18 all-conference selections, five All-Amer- press assistant and researcher coach for the boys’ team, the coach for the the Laurinburg Institute in Laurinburg, icans, and four WNBA draft picks. He is before being promoted to Mary- girls’ team quit. Quentin quickly stepped North Carolina; then as basketball coach the all-time winningest coach in Syracuse’s land press secretary, national in to cover the summer league for the girls’ at the Patterson School in Lenoir, North history and has established himself as one press secretary, and then deputy team, led that team to its first champion- Carolina; followed by a year as assistant of the top recruiters in women’s college communications director. ship, and stayed on as its head coach for a coach at the University of Alabama in basketball. He is a trailblazer as the first Rebecca Kaisler Williams ’10 year, saying after that he was going to be a Tuscaloosa. African American male coach ever to make was admitted to the roll of so- sports agent. it to the Final Four. Since none of Quentin’s jobs in seven years licitors in England and Wales in The same pattern repeated again and had been as a sports agent, it’s almost This is enough evidence for Quentin to August 2020. She completed her again for Quentin: he went next to Siena funny to think that the next job would be admit that being a sports agent is not the two-year training contract with College near Albany, New York, as assis- in that field, and of course, it was not. He career for him. It’s the career he’s in that’s the international law firm Clyde tant coach to the women’s team, working accepted the job of assistant women’s bas- where he shines. & Co. LLP in London. two years there under Gina Castelli. He ketball coach at Syracuse University after
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Caitlin Fowler ’12 accepted a as well as information technol- 2020s featured as part of the journal’s senior success advisor position ogy and environmental issues. special collection on “Sex, Gen- Halle Fogle ’20 works as a with Johnston Community Erin joined the governor’s office der, and Physics Teaching.” research lab technician at College in Smithfield, North in 2017 and served as the special Her study addresses the UNC Chapel Hill’s Nutrition Carolina. assistant to the chief legislative obstacles and lack of support Research Institute. She begins officer after initially serving available in the U.S. for physics Shannon Rafferty ’14 received a PhD program in nutrition as a member of the governor’s students who are also parents. her master of landscape at UNC’s Gillings School of communications team in 2016. It follows up by providing phys- architecture degree from the Public Health in the fall. Halle ics parents with strategies that University of Pennsylvania in Zoey Forrester-Fronstin resides in Charlotte, North other students like them have 2020. She now works in Boston, ’17 began a PhD program in Carolina. used and providing ideas for Massachusetts, as a designer behavioral neuroscience at the Rose Young ’20 [9] had an universities and physics faculty at Sasaki. University at Buffalo. Since 9 article titled “Parenting and to support physics students graduating from St. Mary’s Erin Chase ’16 was recently Physics: How to Support Phys- who are raising children. Rose College, Zoey worked as a promoted to be a deputy legisla- ics Students Who Are Raising graduated with a double major lab manager at the University tive officer for Maryland Gover- Children” published in The in physics and math. She now of Tennessee Knoxville in nor Larry Hogan. In this role, Physics Teacher, an academic works for Naval Air Systems behavioral neuroendocrinology. Erin is responsible for covering journal on teaching. The article, Command in Patuxent River, all legislative matters for the based on Rose’s St. Mary’s Maryland. human services portfolio, Project (SMP) research, was
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Matthew Fox ’08 [2] married Jackie’s older brother. The Ben Casto ’10 MAT ’11 and ’12, Molly Dougherty ’12 MAT MARRIAGES Autumn Slack on October 10, original wedding planned for Katie Henry Casto ’14 MAT ’13, Lindsey Siferd ’13, Ciara 2020, at St. Augustine Church May 2020 was canceled due ’15 [4] were married on April Willett ’14, Nick Brown ’14, &UNIONS in Elkridge, Maryland. Guests to COVID-19, but would have 6, 2019, at Springfield Manor in Olivia Garahan ’15, Windy included Jamie Waring ’07 and included many 2011 alumni, Thurmont, Maryland. Guests Vorwick ’16, Kayla Baier ’16 Taso Sporidis ’08. The couple including: Kristen Deegan included best man Ken Benjes and Stephen Parsons ’16. Michelle Paris Porter ’85 [1] honeymooned in Austin, Texas, Marigos ’11, Ryan O’Malley ’11 MAT ’12, groomsman The couple honeymooned married Kevin Porter on Octo- and Denver, Colorado. They Priebe ’11, Erin Cammarata Michael Tornabene ’11, in Sonoma County and San ber 10, 2020, at Gramercy Man- currently reside in Glen Burnie, Sanchez ’11, Megan Tracy April Ryan ’09, Dan Schell Francisco, California. They re- sion in Stevenson, Maryland. Maryland. McIntosh ’11, Meghan Nock ’10, Kt Zawodny ’11, Katie cently purchased a 19th-century The ceremony was intimate with ’11, Amir Reda ’11, Sean Haney ’11, Catherine Skinner row home in Butcher’s Hill, fewer than 10 in-person guests, Jackie Ward Primiano ’11 and Reitenbach ’11, Nick Ibello ’11, Jules Plant ’11, Jessie Baltimore. but more than 70 attended Greg Primiano ’11 [3] were ’11 and Paul Spranklin ’11. Morgan ’11, Molly Devlin ’11, virtually via Zoom. Virtual married on June 13, 2020, in an Kate Cowart Koller ’15 [5] The couple resides in Claire Morris-Jamieson ’11, guests included Joan Race ’84, intimate family ceremony in married Seth Koller on June Washington, D.C. Dominick Morris-Jamieson Laurel Tringali ’84, Gabrielle Jackie’s parents’ backyard 20, 2020, near their home in ’12, Alexa Milroy ’12, Deanna Leenas Lucke ’84 and in Annapolis, Maryland. The Livingston, Montana. Clements ’12, Thomas Dickey George Lucke ’86. ceremony was officiated by
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BIRTHS& ADOPTIONS
Ryan McQuighan ’05 and Sara Waugaman McQuighan ’05 [1] welcomed a son, Barrett, in No- vember 2019. He joins big brothers Declan (8) and Conall (4). Ryan recently joined NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service as their FOIA liaison. Sara works for NAV- SEA in Washington, D.C. The fam- ily resides in Owings, Maryland. Jessica Peterson Butanis ’08 and Jeremy Butanis ’09 [2] welcomed 1 2 3 ANTHONY ESSERANTHONY GARIN TARRA a daughter, Sophie Ann, in August 2020. She joins older sisters Mi- randa (5) and Evelyn (2). The family resides in Alexandria, Minnesota. Melissa Mercer Poland ’10 [3] and husband Mike welcomed a son, William David, in June 2020. The Polands reside in Rosedale, Maryland. Christopher Lewis ’10 and Jordan Gaines Lewis ’11 [4] welcomed a son, Marshall Harrison, in August 2020. He joins big brother Russell (2). Christopher is a physician assistant in the Department of Oto- laryngology at Penn State Health and Jordan is policy director for the 4 5 6 Pennsylvania Department of Drug STUCK DAVID JILL SPRINGER and Alcohol Programs. The family resides in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Caitlin Cromer Loughran ’12 and Brendan Loughran ’12 [5] wel- comed their first child, son Graeme Ellis, in August 2020. The family resides in Halethorpe, Maryland. Alyssa Nutter Weber ’13 and Jonathan Weber ’13 [6] welcomed daughter Nina in January 2020. Aunts include Rebecca Weber ’20 and Julia Weber ’21. The family resides in Columbia, Maryland.
26 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 Bonnie C. Manwell ’57 died Merlin L. Taylor, Jr. ’78 of Sacra- Program to create the College’s IN MEMORIAM September 13, 2020 at her home mento, California, died July first endowed faculty chair. He in Silver Spring, Maryland. 25, 2020 due to coronavirus. He also helped to create need-based Mildred “Milly” L. Wilson ’55, She was 83 years old. Bonnie was 63 years old. After attend- scholarships for students in St. of Lutherville and Nanticoke, was born in Western Maryland ing St. Mary’s College, Merlin Mary’s and Charles Counties, died September 2, 2020 at Pen- before attending St. Mary’s earned his PhD in the School of and in Calvert County to honor insula Regional Medical Center Seminary and Junior College, Audiology and Speech Language his friends, Pat and Ann Collins. in Salisbury, Maryland. She was and then settled in Washington, Pathology at the University of The Waring Commons resi- 85 years old. Milly was a retired D.C. after graduating from Memphis in 1998. He held a dences that opened in 2003 are physical educator, coach, and George Washington University. variety of clinical and academic named in his honor. In 2010, he department chairman with the She worked as the minister’s positions throughout his life and established the H. Thomas War- Baltimore County Public School secretary for Reverend David provided speech therapy to nurs- ing Scholarship Fund to assist System. She obtained an associ- Easton and then as the church ing home stroke patients. financially needy, academically ate degree from St. Mary’s secretary for All Souls for many Rev. William David Boyd ’87 of at-risk students. That scholar- Seminary and Junior College years before retiring. Baltimore, Maryland, died July ship has had a direct impact on student retention. In 2004, he and served as class president Suzanne C. Yates ’59 of 30, 2020. After graduating from created the H. Thomas Waring before completing her bachelor’s Aberdeen, Maryland, died St. Mary’s College, he went on World Fund to support teacher degree at Shepherd Univer- September 22, 2020. She was to serve as the pastor of The New education in The Gambia. The sity and obtaining her master’s 80 years old. Suzanne was a Life Elizabeth Baptist Church. fund supported MAT students equivalency. For many years, graduate of Aberdeen High who traveled to The Gambia for Milly was a very active member School and served as secretary FRIEND OF THE COLLEGE student-teaching programs of the Orchard Hills Community of the high school alumni for Association including serving on over 20 years. After graduating Henry Thomas “Tom” Waring, the board of directors as a district from St. Mary’s Seminary and died at his home in Leonard- director and vice president of the Junior College, she worked in the town, Maryland, on November association. Among her other Internal Review Branch of the 7, 2020, at the age of 98. Waring contributions, she served on the Comptroller’s Office and Inter- made his living in real estate Mildred H. Murray Scholarship nal Review Branch of the United development. He served on the Committee, was a member of States Army, Aberdeen Proving St. Mary’s College of Mary- Baltimore County Retired School Ground. Suzanne was happily land Board of Trustees from Personnel Association and the married for 52 years to Lt. 1991-2005. He is a descendant Maryland State Athletic Direc- Colonel William Gardner Yates, of Dr. James Waring, who was tors’ Association. She was also with whom she traveled through a trustee of the original St. a volunteer with the Maryland Europe as well as other posts. Mary’s Female Seminary from Public Secondary Schools Ath- As a military wife, she was a 1858-1882. While a member letic Association and Baltimore member of many military wives’ of the Board of Trustees, Tom County Public Schools. In 1998, clubs and was an active member was instrumental in bringing Milly received the Maryland of Grove Presbyterian Church. the needs of the College to the State Athletic Directors Associa- Suzanne was also involved in attention of George B. and tion Distinguished Service Award community philanthropy work Willma Reeves. The Reeves for Baltimore County and in as a member of the PEO Sister- made a gift that was matched 2016, she received the National hood (Chapter H) for over 40 by the National Endowment for Federation of State High School years. She was a Girl Scout vol- the Humanities and Maryland’s Associations’ State Award for unteer, secretary of the Aberdeen Private Donor Incentive Outstanding Service. PTA and substitute teacher, and a frequent volunteer at Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre De Grace, Maryland.
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LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, INFORMATION SCIENCE AND SMCM By Pamela Mann (librarian) and Kent Randell (college archivist)
The turn of the 21st century was also a to help users navigate complex online turning point for the world of libraries information environments. The design and and archives. Libraries had already begun management of digital library catalogs housing computer databases in addition to and online databases are other key parts books and other “analog” materials while of the profession. Because librarians work archives began collecting digital materials in a people-centered profession and were and digitizing collections. Libraries also early adopters of digital and online search broadened their public missions, and technologies, it is not surprising that there is currently a growing subset of the librarians were also early critics of tech field consisting of “UX librarians,” or user monopolies and proprietary algorithms. services librarians. Libraries increasingly Information scientists also tackle broader house collaborative “maker spaces” or even questions concerning information in society. “hackerspaces,” where patrons can gather Not surprisingly, St. Mary’s College of to create DIY (“Do It Yourself”) projects, Maryland, as a public liberal arts college, invent and share ideas. Gone are the days has many alumni who have gone on to of the shushing librarians, as exemplified information science careers. The College by the watershed July 2007 New York Times has faculty-rank, tenure-track librarians who feature: “A Hipper Crowd of Shushers.” assist professors and students, both in front Master’s programs for librarianship and its of the classroom and behind-the-scenes, in related fields were rebranded as information developing and delivering learning outcomes schools (iSchools); the traditional MLS involving information literacy. The College degree (master of library science) has been offers an “Introduction to Archives and improved or supplanted by the MSI degree Information Science” course in history and (master of science of information). museum studies. Finally, the College’s Prior to affordable home computers and Faculty Senate has approved an applied data the Internet, the role of the librarian was science major, which will thread together to bring people to information, which math, science and information literacy. had to be housed in large buildings and The College continues to be on the cutting stored in limited, quaint and old-fashioned edge of information literacy and grows packages like the codex book. Now, due future leaders in this field. to the portable supercomputers we call cell phones that many of us carry around in our pockets, the problem isn’t getting above: Laptop computers are people to information, but rather getting commonplace in the current-day people to the correct information. To Hilda C. Landers Library. address these problems, the field now left: Standing shelves and card emphasizes information literacy education catalogs were commonplace in libraries of their day: this one from 1960 in the former Anne Arundel Hall.
28 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | winter 2021 Calendar of Events ST. 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. XLII, NO. 1 Center for the Study of “Communities of Care” Democracy & The Patuxent February 18 @ 4:00 p.m. Bay to Bay Service Days Commencement, Class of 2020 www.smcm.edu/mulberrytree Partnership Host a Lecture by Throughout the month of April May 15 Major General Bolden, Ret. VOICES Reading Series www.smcm.edu/alumni Editor February 10 @ 1:00 p.m. Performance Artist Lee Capristo José Torres-Tama VOICES Reading Series Design February 18 @ 8:15 p.m. 50 Years of Poetry at SMCM Jensen Design Hosted by Michael Glaser Editorial Board April 1 @ 8:15 p.m. Karen Anderson, Michael Bruckler, Lee Capristo, Molly McKee-Seabrook ’10, Gus Mohlhenrich, Karen Raley ’94, Lauren Taylor ’14 Publisher Office of Institutional Advancement St. Mary’s College of Maryland 47645 College Drive St. Mary’s City, Maryland 20686
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