ST. MARY’S COLLEGE of Maryland

SPRING 2014

M I N D • B O DY • SOUL GALLERY, UNFRAMED Boyden Gallery Transforms to Visual Learning Lab [ PAGE 6 ] A COACH FOR THE AGES Adam Werblow Marks 25 Years of Sailing Success [ PAGE 10 ] THE MARK OF CAIN An Excerpt from Katharina von Kellenbach’s Latest Book [ PAGE 14 ] ST. MARY’S COLLEGE of Maryland

SPRING 2014, VOL. XXXV, NO. 2

www.smcm.edu/mulberrytree

Editor Lee Capristo Alumni Editor Kathy Cummings Design Skelton Design Photographer Bill Wood Editorial Board Karen Anderson, Mary Wheatman Body ’79, Lee Capristo, Kathy Cummings, Elizabeth Graves ’95, Nairem Moran ’99, Karen Raley ’94, Lindsey Siferd ’13 Publisher Office of Advancement St. Mary’s College of Maryland 18952 East Fisher Road St. Mary’s City, Maryland 20686

The Mulberry Tree is published by St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Maryland’s public hon- ors college for the liberal arts and sciences. 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 popu- lar meeting spot for St. Mary’s 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 President Renwick Jackson launched the magazine. Copyright 2014 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, 18952 E. Fisher Rd., 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. CONTENTS

SPRING 2014

SMCM ALUMNI COUNCIL JULY 2013 – JUNE 2014 FEATURES

Executive Board PAGE 6 Danielle Troyan ’92, President Gallery, Unframed Todd Purring ’86, Vice President Angie Harvey ’83, Secretary Boyden Gallery Transforms Alice Arcieri Bonner ’03, Parliamentarian to Visual Learning Lab Jim Wood ’61, Treasurer

Elected Voting Members PAGE 10 Mary Wheatman Body ’79 Emily Brown ’10 A Coach for the Ages Camille Campanella ’12 Adam Werblow Marks Debbie Craten Dawson ’94 [ PAGE 6 ] Donna Denny ’81 25 Years of Sailing Success Barbara Dinsenbacher ’56 Laurel Tringali Eierman ’84 PAGE 14 Mark Fedders ’74 Missy Beck Lemke ’92 The Mark of Cain S. Jae Lim ’09 Ryan McQuighan ’05 An Excerpt from Katharina Laurie Menser ’01 von Kellenbach’s Latest Book Jeremy Pevner ’09 Allan Wagaman ’06

Student Member Bill Sokolove ’14 DEPARTMENTS Chapter Presidents Annapolis: [ PAGE 10 ] 2 President’s Letter Erin O’Connell ’91 3 College News Baltimore: Dallas Hayden ’06 18 Alumni Connection Jayson Williams ’03 25 Philanthropy Boston: 28 From the Archives Tashia Graham ’09 D.C. Metro: Matt Schafle ’10 Denver: Alisa Ambrose ’85 New York: Christelle Niamke ’05 San Francisco: Anne Marie Metzler ’09 [ PAGE 14 ] Southern Maryland: Cathy Hernandez Ray ’77 COVER: Paige Burger ’14 is an art and art history major Western Maryland: from Mt. Airy, Md. Her cotton sculpture Kristi Jacobs Woods ’97 “Thoughts” was a People’s Choice award winner in the All-Student Art Show this spring. Staff Photo by Bill Wood David Sushinsky ’02 Beth Byrd OPPOSITE: Aerial view of campus Lawrence MacCurtain ’11 taken during Alumni Weekend, 2013. Photo by Liz Wolter

St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 | 1 A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

THE OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT Editor’s Note

here is a young man wearing an orange headband outside my T window, lying on the embankment facing Kent Hall. He’s been there an hour, When April’s gentle rains have pierced the drought lying in wait. It is day two of “senior assassins,” Of March right to the root, and bathed each sprout a game whose object is to be the last one to escape “death” by plastic picnic knife. I walk Through every vein with liquid of such power outside and ask him how the game is going. It brings forth the engendering of the flower He grins and says he’s going to ambush his unsuspecting target on the way to class. It’s spring, 30 days until St. Mary’s Projects are due, and 45 until Commencement. Seniors play as hard as they work this time of the year. t would appear that the long winter (about which we We expect higher education to challenge and develop our minds. This issue of the Mulberry were discontented!) is over, and that Chaucer’s opening lines promise Tree shows by example how the liberal arts at I us Spring, sunshine, and at St. Mary’s, May commencement. As we St. Mary’s shapes the mind, body and spirit. Cristin Cash is introducing hands-on move closer to our graduating seniors’ long-awaited day, it is time once again teaching and active learning methods in the to celebrate the achievements of our students. The festivities began early Boyden Gallery to increase students’ visual in April with the induction of 22 students into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s literacy. In doing so, she joins a national trend in higher education art galleries that oldest and most prestigious honor society, founded in 1776. These students are rejecting the “look don’t touch” approach represent the best of St. Mary’s traditions and mission. in favor of a “please DO touch” philosophy that aims to engage young minds through In my first Mulberry Tree letter last Fall, I spoke of my intention to have the training in creative interpretation. admissions and financial issues behind us by the time a new president begins. In his 25 years as sailing coach, Adam I am pleased to report that the outlook is bright. Beth Rushing, dean of the Werblow has shaped minds and bodies to appreciate the water and wind and the ability faculty, and Chip Jackson, vice president for business and finance, have worked to tear through it fully hiked out. He’s made with the entire College community to develop a budget for next year that is the sailing program a national powerhouse and says “there’s no greater gift than teaching balanced, and provides room for growth. I am also pleased to report that our someone to sail.” new vice president for enrollment management, Gary Sherman, has done an Students in a religious studies class taught excellent job with his staff to effect change in our admission practices and by Katharina von Kellenbach are perhaps unaware of the transformation happening policies. It is early days yet, but the preliminary indications are very promising. within them as she guides them through As I look back on my short stay at St. Mary’s, I feel fortunate to have been part difficult readings and sobering discussions on genocide, the Holocaust, and human rights. of an extraordinary college. I am certain that our new president, Dr. Tuajuanda They are humbled by her insights and their Jordan, will feel the same sense of appreciation. Hers is an inspired appointment, own minds grow from the dialogue and the intellectual investments she expects from and I have little doubt that she will foster “the engendering of the flower.” them. As they come through the course, they are, at their core, changed. It was President Woodrow Wilson who said, “We are not here merely to make a Ian Newbould living. We are here to enrich the world.” Interim President, St. Mary’s College of Maryland At St. Mary’s, our students are enriched by their experiences in and out of the classroom and on and off the field (or the river). They enrich us with their zest to live and learn and make a difference in the world.

Lee Capristo, editor

2 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 COLLEGE NEWS

and educators work together to Left to right: Jennifer Walker ’14, Brian enhance science literacy while Russell ’08, Kevin Boyle ’07, Sheldon preparing the next generation Russell and Mandy Burch ’01 of scientists. She also head- Below: Shore Thing Shellfish owners lined the National Genomics and St. Mary’s student interns deploy a Research Initiative in 2008, a shell-holding enclosure from the deck of Bar program that exposes first-year Tender, the motorized barge constructed college students to hands-on in part with MIPS grant funds. genomics research. Jordan en- tered academic administration in 2002, serving as associate dean of the College of Arts and PHOTO: BILL WOOD Sciences at Xavier University of Louisiana, where she soon Tuajuanda advanced to associate vice Jordan president for academic affairs. Tapped as Jordan received a B.S. in New President chemistry from Fisk University in 1982 and a Ph.D. in biochem- By unanimous vote of the Board istry from Purdue University in of Trustees, Tuajuanda Jordan 1989. She was an undergradu- was appointed president of ate scholar and a graduate St. Mary’s College of Maryland fellow of the National Institutes in March. Jordan’s appointment of Health Minority Access to came following an extensive Research Careers (MARC) four-month search. The 11- program. She conducted her member search committee – MIPS FUNDS CONTINUE postdoctoral training at the Uni- comprised of trustees, faculty versity of Cincinnati School of TO AID OYSTERS members, a student and a Medicine. Jordan was a tenured member of the staff – evaluated In its 53rd round of grant funding, the Maryland Industrial faculty member in the depart- applicants to identify the three Partnerships (MIPS) program, an initiative of the Maryland ment of chemistry at Xavier Uni- finalists the board considered. Technology Enterprise Institute (MTech) in the A. James versity of Louisiana and a visit- Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, Jordan, currently serving as ing scientist at the University awarded $114,094 to St. Mary’s College of Maryland for the dean of the College of Arts of Michigan in biophysics. Her continuation of work by Professor of Biology Robert Paul and and Sciences and professor of honors include being named a his partnership with Tall Timbers-based Shore Thing Shellfish chemistry at Lewis & Clark Col- Purdue University Distinguished (owned and operated by Kevin Boyle ’07, Mandy Burch ’01, lege in Portland, Ore., will take Alumni from the School of Agri- and Brian Russell ’08) to continue developing “in situ” or “on office on July 1. culture in 2008, and, in 2009, site” methods for seeding oysters without using land-based Prior to her position with Lewis being named a “revolutionary tanks. The 2014 proposed project will demonstrate the “in situ” & Clark, Jordan served as direc- mind” by Seed magazine. method’s utility under differing environmental circumstances. tor of the Science Education Jordan, 53, is from Forestville, It will also introduce mechanization techniques to the setting Alliance (SEA) of the Howard Md., and married to Eric Heat- of oyster spat on oyster shell, as well as cooperate with Hughes Medical Institute in ley. Jordan has two grown chil- the St. Mary’s River Watershed Association to assess this Chevy Chase, Md. As director, dren, Jordan Starck and Patrice method’s application to restoration efforts. Jordan led a collaborative effort Starck Darby, both 23. designed to have scientists

St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 | 3 St. Mary’s College of Maryland is ranked fourth on the list of 30 Best Values in Small Colleges and ninth on the list of 30 Best College Values in the Mid-Atlantic.

Kiplinger Gwen Ifill to Ranks St. Deliver 2014 Mary’s As a Commencement Best-Value Address College PBS news In addition to ranking the anchor and Student tochemical analysis and present top 100 values among public best-selling its characteristics in relation to colleges, private universities, and author, Gwen Papers Receive ductal carcinoma found in male liberal arts colleges, Kiplinger Ifill, will be Recognition humans. The investigation con- the 2014 tributes to the knowledge base recently revealed several new Bradley Roberts ’15 (neurosci- lists to help prospective students Commence- of mammary carcinomas in the

COURTESY GWEN IFILL COURTESY ence) and Elaine Bucknam ’16 ment keynote male rhesus macaque and adds and their families narrow their (psychology, studio art and speaker. The Commencement to the limited data available on college search. According to neuroscience minor) have been ceremony will be held on the non-human primates. the inaugural lists, St. Mary’s recognized for papers they College’s Townhouse Green College of Maryland is ranked have written. Roberts was first Bucknam’s research, modifying on Saturday, May 17, starting fourth on the list of 30 Best Values author on a paper that was pub- a human personality assessment at 10 am. Ifill is moderator in Small Colleges and ninth on lished online with the Journal of inventory for use on macaque and managing editor of “Wash- the list of 30 Best College Values Medical Primatology in March. monkeys, has been accepted ington Week” and co-anchor in the Mid-Atlantic. Kiplinger The manuscript developed out for presentation this spring at and managing editor for PBS’ began its first college rankings of an internship he completed the National Conference for Un- “NewsHour.” She is also the in 1998, placing special emphasis with the Division of Comparative dergraduate Research (NCUR), author of “The Breakthrough: on schools that combine Pathology at the U.S. Armed sponsored by the Council for Politics and Race in the Age outstanding education with Forces Research Institute of Undergraduate Research. She of Obama” (Doubleday, 2009). economic value. St. Mary’s Medical Sciences (AFRIMS) in tested to see if observational College has appeared on its list Bangkok, Thailand last summer. data could be used on the social of top values in public colleges While there, Roberts discovered behavior of macaque monkeys consistently since then. a case of ductal carcinoma to predict how the animals (a type of breast cancer) in a would interact in new social male rhesus macaque. As there groups or to new members of a are two reports of mammary group. Bucknam presented her carcinoma in male non-human research last summer at the primates and none in the rhesus National Institutes of Health and macaque, Roberts and his team at a meeting for the Washing- worked to characterize the ton, D.C., chapter of the Society carcinoma through immunohis- of Neuroscience.

4 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 Sarah Vowell Delights as Twain Series’ Guest Lecturer Author and humorist Sarah Vowell poured on her sparkling wit in historical observation to a packed house as this year’s Twain Series’ guest lecturer on April 11. Vowell is a New York Times best-selling author of non-fiction books on American history and culture, her most recent being “Unfamiliar Fishes” (Riverhead, 2011). She is also Kung senior historical context cor- Appointed respondent on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” Director of NExT Program Professor of Mathematics David Kung has been appointed direc- tor of the Mathematical Associa- tion of America (MAA) Project NExT program. Project NExT is the largest professional develop- ment program for new or recent Ph.D.s in the mathematical sciences. Kung will assume the

EXHIBITION STARS: PHOTO: BENNETT MILLER four-year position in August and Sue Johnson and Carrie Patterson will remain in his faculty posi- Professor of Art Sue Johnson’s exhibition, “Pitt Rivers: Collecting tion at St. Mary’s College. The Patterns,” is currently on display at the Salisbury & South program assists mathematics Wiltshire Museum in Salisbury, England. “Collecting Patterns” faculty in teaching and learning presents a modern cabinet of curiosities showcasing how Johnson of mathematics, research and has engaged with and been inspired by the 19th-century British scholarship, professional activi- collector General Pitt Rivers. Images from the exhibition can be ties and mentorship. found on the museum’s website at salisburymuseum.org.uk. Associate Professor of Art Carrie Patterson was selected to have her art presented in a national juried exhibition, “Squared,” at Cloyde Snook Gallery at Adams State University in Alamaso, Colo. Patterson’s work, “Mistaken Identity: Artist Proofs from 2004 – Present,” showcases a collection of her artist proofs that have, with the help of St. Mary’s students, been converted into 1.5” squares and glued together into cubes of varied sizes. With each cube, Patterson chooses to cover up and display “mistakes” that, when combined, make a complete piece.

St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 | 5 6 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 MIND • BODY • SOUL

GALLERY,UNFRAMED Visitors to Yale University Art Gallery are greeted by a sign that tells them, “You may carefully touch.” Its gallery director, Jack Reynolds, wants Yale’s students, who excel academically, to become visually intelligent. There is no SAT on visual intelligence, and he asks them, “Did anyone ever teach you how to see?” knowing the answer is going to be “no.” “Art is a window Yale’s gallery is recent example (2012) of a into different ways to nationwide trend in college and university art envision the world.” galleries converting their facilities to learning — Caiti Sullivan ’14 labs, where “look, don’t touch” is replaced with hands-on, object-based learning, for the purpose of developing visual literacy. Skidmore College

By Lee Capristo, editor led the way in 2000, but in the past decade,

Photo at left from the Big Draw. Hamilton, Bowdoin, College of Wooster, Photo by Ashley Stopera. Dartmouth, and Middlebury have followed. At St. Mary’s, Boyden Gallery Director Cristin Cash (associate professor of art history) is doing the same, but with a St. Mary’s twist.

St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 | 7 How is visual learning defined? Cash says it includes more considered, thoughtful, en- joyable interactions with visual art, media and culture. “In contrast to walking around a museum and passively looking at stuff on the walls, visual learning demands sustained, ac- tive engagement with images and objects. Ex- hibitions and gallery programs must first and foremost teach viewers ‘how to look’ through close observation and visual analysis. True vi- written or spoken material. More than ever, opened Yellow Door Studios in Leonardtown, sual literacy is only achieved when the viewer society needs to understand, analyze and in- Md., where she holds workshops for toddlers can think critically about the visual qualities of terpret imagery to be informed creators and through teens to create art. an object and its cultural context or meaning.” consumers of information. As a liberal arts Cash describes herself as a “Montessori “It’s ironic that we live in a highly visual institution that prepares students for active, kid” whose response to being told to “just and media-driven culture at a time of pre- thoughtful and critical engagement with the look” at art in a museum was “That’s not fair. cipitous decline in support for the visual world around them, we have a responsibility Why can’t I touch and hold stuff?” She is a arts and art education,” says Cash. “This to close the visual literacy gap.” proponent of object-based learning. While her generation of college students has grown up Cash explains that the loss of visual literacy current research focuses on the intersection of bombarded by images. The problem is that started in the 1980s with a general de-empha- art and politics within visual representations very few have been taught how to think criti- sis on visual and spatial literacy as art train- of the built environments of Latin America, cally about images in the same way they’ve ing started dropping from state/national cur- Cash spent two years during graduate school been taught how to analyze and question ricula. School budget cuts in K-12 have all but on an archaeological project at the ancient Developing visual literacy requires creativity, collaboration and working across disciplines, to help students familiar with analysis and critical thinking in their discipline to be able to apply that in a visual context.

eliminated field trips to museums. Carrie Pat- Maya site of Palenque, Mexico, both in the terson, associate professor of art, explains the field and as an archaeological illustrator. Her current climate: “What students know about background in archaeology and working with art when they come into an intro art class [at found objects in a lab makes her appreciate St. Mary’s] is a result of past exposure to art. If the lab environment. they have been limited to 45 minutes per week Developing visual literacy requires creativity, in elementary school and then have to choose collaboration and working across disciplines, to between art and music and theater in middle help students familiar with analysis and critical school, chances are that they have had very thinking in their discipline to be able to apply little exposure to visual language.” Patterson that in a visual context. “Art is a window into is doing something about that. Last year, she different ways to envision the world,” says art major Caiti Sullivan ’14. “Visual learning is Left: “Trajectory” by Cole Meyerhoff ’16. valuable, and I have learned strategies for ob- Above: Photographer Michael Robinson-Chavez speaks to serving the world. I have seen a diverse array

PHOTO: LISA SCHEER students about documentary photography in South America. of students use the many tools Boyden Gallery

8 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 chamber music performance. Equally attractive is the sense of performing artful music while being surrounded by art. It is like a catalyst for appreciating both the visual and the musical.” PING performances have become a regular event enjoyed by musicians and audience alike, most of whom had never set foot in the Boyden Gallery. Cash uses the space to host the Big Draw, an international event held each October Above: Boyden Gallery Director Cristin Cash (right) works space. And according to Vanderbilt University’s whose purpose is to re-introduce drawing to with students constructing an arch during the Big Build. Steven J. Tepper, creativity is identified as one people. “I used the Big Draw as an experiment Right: Students weave their cat’s cradle into a grid frame of the most salient characteristics of emerging to test two things: first, if you create an inviting sculpture during the Big Build. leaders. Tepper asserts that creativity can be space, people will come; and second, you can learned by practicing these behaviors: make an impact on almost no budget.” provides for visual learning to draw conclu- • Observing closely For Cash, it starts with the space. “You have sions across multiple fields of study. I think that to create a space people are comfortable with.” here, the arts are valuable to all students – a • Approaching problems in non-routine ways And with $100 of markers and paper for the true liberal arts success!” Cash offers teaching/ • Asking “What if?” event, the Big Draw proved that a visual arts learning workshops for faculty on how to use lab can make an impact without a large finan- • Risking failure and facing uncertainty the gallery and art in their class and has had cial investment. “What surprised me was the several faculty engage with her to create visual • Revising and improving through variety of people that came in the door and learning components to their courses. As part critical feedback how long they stayed,” says Cash. Besides the of this effort, Cash is sorting art from the Col- • Communicating in multiple ways students she expected, the Big Draw appealed lege’s Teaching Collection into tiers of access; (speaking, writing, etc.) to families, faculty, and K-12 students from the what can be touched and used? What should community who came with their teachers in be displayed only and not touched? • Working collaboratively the College’s Master of Arts in Teaching pro- Faculty like Joanna Bartow, associate profes- Cash began the conversion of gallery to art gram. “Some of them spent hours drawing. It sor of Spanish, enjoy the interacting with art space that promotes creativity and arts ap- was as if, once they came into the space, they for her classes. She notes, “The gallery has al- preciation last year when Larry Vote, profes- felt like it was ok to take a break in their busy lowed my students to deepen their understand- sor of music, asked if PING, a small a cappella day and just enjoy creating something.” ing of what we discuss in a primarily written group he directs, could perform in the space. Cash has studied the college and university medium through the visual, which in Spanish Vote says, “The Boyden Gallery is a marvel- galleries that have preceded Boyden’s in con- classes can be a wonderful leveler because stu- ous space for PING to perform. The acoustics verting to learning labs, but without the bud- dents who are linguistically weak come to the are especially enhancing for a small vocal en- get or staff of a private elite like Yale Univer- artifacts with the same insight and blindness semble and the space accommodates a good sity or Skidmore College, she looks as much as their peers.” Jorge Rogachevsky, professor size audience without losing the intimacy of a to community arts centers for ideas, citing the of Spanish, engaged his class in a panel discus- Latino Cultural Center in Dallas, Texas as a sion in January with photojournalists Hector favorite source for inspiration. Emanuel and Michael Robinson-Chavez on With a successful Big Build make-your- their documentary photo assignments in politi- own sculpture event in April, Cash moves on cally charged movements in Peru, Mexico, and to “Young at Art,” an exhibition of artwork Colombia. Elizabeth Leininger, assistant pro- created in St. Mary’s County public schools, fessor of neuroscience, is working with Cash on co-sponsored by the MAT Program in May. a project for her neuroscience classes in the fall. In June, she’s working with the Office of Performance and engagement with other art Alumni Relations to host “Across the Ages,” an forms in the gallery space is another route to exhibition of alumni art. A student-designed enhancing visual literacy and active engage- exhibition, documentary film screening and

ment with the arts. It gets at the creativity that PHOTO: COLBY CALDWELL performance in the space by Leonard Cruz, is a constant part of Cash’s job to grow the util- assistant professor of dance, are a few of the Larry Vote directs a performance of PING in the Boyden Gallery. ity of the gallery into more than an exhibition events in the fall. 

St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 | 9 “We found the guy who was going to do this forever.” Retired Waterfront Director Mike Ironmonger, reflecting on interviewing a 22-year-old Adam Werblow for the sailing coach position

10 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 MIND • BODY • SOUL

A COACH FOR THE AGES By Kate Ufford, special to the Mulberry Tree

During the most recent Possum Bowl in December 2013, sailing alumni and friends recognized head coach Adam Werblow’s 25th year at St. Mary’s College by naming the varsity team room for him. “I cried like a second grade girl,” said Werblow.

Emotion is a strong component of what makes the sailing team, and its members, high achieving individuals. “I feel very blessed to do what I do,” adds Adam, “I like working with student-athletes, and people in general, that are highly motivated. And we’ve been fortunate to have some fun along the way.” His wife, Amy Werblow, sees it every year. “That’s Adam’s gift, to get a lot of hard work out of kids and to have them think it’s fun.”

PHOTO: TOM BREWER ’81 Left: Possum Bowl 2013. Above: Adam Werblow with Vela, circa 2000.

St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 | 11 You grew up in New York, sailed since you were a young kid, and then went to Connecticut College. How did you end up at St. Mary’s so soon after graduation? I knew I wanted to stay involved in college sailing. As an undergraduate, I wanted to test a lot of theories I had about how to develop a team and what made a team successful. I wanted to prove to myself that my ideas could come to fruition. My childhood sailing partner, one of my best friends, suggested the coaching job here to me. While everyone else I knew was going off to the career center, I took my sailing résumé to St. Mary’s.

What kept you here and what makes you stay? The first time I saw St. Mary’s, I said it had the most untapped potential of any place in college sailing. Honestly, it is a bunch of things starting with having an incredible boss, mentor and soundboard like Mike Ironmonger (and more recently other senior staff) have made it an exciting ride – plus, I adore the kids. We’ve also had tremendous believers in our program: the PHOTO: BILL WOOD parents, alumni, faculty, staff, presidents, board The sailing facility has gone from being a a beautiful facility where anyone can come to of trustees, boat foundation board members, the garage to an amazing resource the entire the waterfront, hang out on the porches, watch local yacht clubs, etc. It takes everyone to nurture College community can enjoy. What were others enjoying the water, and then, hopefully, and invest in the program. My coaching partners some of the hurdles? be inspired to get their toes wet, too. throughout the years, both paid and volunteer, have been instrumental to both our success and The old building, as charming as it was, was The River Center is a helpful recruitment tool the fun factor! All the students I’ve had over the imposing to a recreational user. There was and an essential part of campus life. There isn’t years put up with my ridiculous quirks and have one bathroom, no changing area, and students a single tour of campus, whether it’s students, allowed me to be BOTH their coach and friend. frequently ran into the sailing team changing faculty, board of trustee members, friends of the It doesn’t feel like 25 years; it still feels fresh. before or after practice (sometimes, inadver- College, anyone really, that doesn’t go through tently, displaying naked bottoms). When the building committee discussed needs and priorities, creating a space where students “Adam’s strength is could coexist with the river was a fundamental “Fundamentally, how approachable tenant of the building process. Now we have Adam understands he is. He cares about every aspect of the all the students as “The Possum Bowl sport. College sailors people. It’s in his is just a way to trust him. He builds nature to advocate relive four years of a special bond with on your behalf.” college in 10 hours.” every sailor.” –Bill Ward, director of sailing –Adam Werblow – College Trustee Gary Jobson

12 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 Sailing team, spring 2014, flanked by coaches Adam Werblow and Bill Ward.

wind is blowing. We hope they can never look at a puddle of water the same way ever again. That’s the goal – to pass on the knowledge.

The alumni who come down each year to sail in the Possum Bowl – and this year it was the biggest ever – is a testament to you as a coach and touchstone to this College. What do you think is the most important thing when it comes to coaching and mentoring people? PHOTO: BILL WOOD It’s a sense of common purpose and sustained this building and smile. We feel fortunate that our matters so much, but that the journey with your excellence. People stay involved because they facility enhances the overall St. Mary’s experience. teammates is a good one. know how much they benefited from the experi- ence. All of our sailors, regardless of when they You have 148 All-American skippers and crews, Sailing is an interesting sport, but not graduate, share a very intense, common experi- and 15 national titles on your wall. What everyone understands how to do it – or the ence. We want to make each other better, so the makes you so successful? concept as clearly as, say, basketball or power of the collective is stronger than the sum football. What do you love about it, and how of its individual parts. It’s the people that matter. We look for students have you encouraged so many initial non- that enjoy learning, teaching and playing. If we sailors to become die-hard sailors? Where do you think you’ll be in another have those qualities, we can be successful. The 25 years? culture of the team is to teach and learn. Sailing is a competitive feat; it’s not just you against a competitor, but you against, or at least Our success is also driven by the energy we To start with, hopefully I’ll be on the right side in harmony with, nature. I think that aspect have left at the end of the season. We have fun of the dirt! And hopefully, I’ll be right here at makes it a particularly cool sport. doing what we do, and most importantly doing St. Mary’s. I’m fortunate that I love what I do. it together as a team. The passion people feel has to do with the If I were to win the lottery today; I would show  nature of our sport. It’s not instantly accessible up to work tomorrow. Some of the most successful teams we’ve had to everybody. You don’t pick it up as soon as you are the ones that achieved much more than walk outside and can throw a ball. What coaches anyone thought possible. They didn’t always give to the sport is new people. There’s no win, but came a lot further than anyone ever ex- greater gift than teaching someone else to sail. pected, and that’s a fun ride. I’m not so sure in Sailing Nationals the long arc of time that the winning or losing We like to say we’ve done our job when we can take someone who’s never sailed before and for St. Mary’s College of Maryland will the rest of their life they can’t walk by the smallest host the APS/ICSA team racing body of water without checking which way the national championships from May “Thanks to you [Adam], 31-June 2 and the Gill/ICSA dinghy championships from June 3-6. As of I am forever bonded to press time, St. Mary’s has secured a team – past, present, “Even at our first a berth in the team competition but meeting, it was regional dinghy championships have and future – and am so yet to occur. A record-high 36 teams thankful for all of the obvious that will participate in the dinghy compe- exciting adventures Adam lived and tition. College trustee and sports- caster Gary Jobson will be filming and fun experiences breathed sailing, for ESPNU, which will air a one-hour, already had, and those that coaching prime-time broadcast of the event. still yet to come.” was his passion.” –Trish Kreh Steiner ’98 –Mike Ironmonger

St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 | 13 “It is in such moments that the ordinary world of good and evil collapses.”

By Katharina von Kellenbach, professor of religious studies Reprinted with permission, Oxford University Press, copyright 2013

Not too long ago, I received an e-mail from someone un- known to me from the Netherlands. He had googled his last name and wanted to know why my website chroni- cling the murder of the Jews of Pinsk in Belarus had come up. Could one of the members of Police Battalion 306, whom I mentioned by name, be his grandfather?

14 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 MIND • BODY • SOUL

an excerpt from The Mark of Cain: Guilt and Denial in the Post-War Lives of Nazi Perpetrators

mail is a dangerously quick cific assignment included the killing of Jewish the SS by my grandfather (who believed that medium, and since I happened to be civilians. I also cautioned him to be careful as the SS would put his son at too much risk). My E sitting at my computer, I answered im- he approached his father, as well as his grand- father enlisted in the Wehrmacht as soon as he mediately: “If you send me your grandfather’s mother, who was still alive. I advised him to turned eighteen in 1943 and fought in the Ger- first and last name and his birthday, I can double familiarize himself with the trial records before man retreat all the way from the Crimea into check the court records and find out.” I received he engaged in conversation in order to prevent the Bavarian heartland, where he was captured a response right away and checked my files. defensive denials and protective quarrels. by U.S. armed forces and interned. Within a couple of minutes, I could confirm to I am a veteran of such family battles and The school dropout and unemployed Alfred the young man that it was indeed his grandfa- spent several years in archives to disprove the Ebner had joined the SS in 1931 and was sent ther who had been sentenced to four years in webs of lies, deceptions, and evasions that were to the Ordensburg Vogelsang for political lead- prison for the mass murder of 16,200 Jews in spun by close family members to conceal my ership training. The Ordensburg was created Pinsk by the Regional Court in Frankfurt am own uncle’s history. This history is dangerous. as an elite Nazi training school for aspiring SS Main in 1973. Then I added, “Did you know Fathers will not hesitate to lie to their children. men who were supposed to take on political this?” and held my breath. I heard nothing. My father both told outright fabrications and and administrative leadership roles. In 1941, It is in such moments that the ordinary world bullied me into silence whenever I raised ques- Ebner was appointed deputy area commission- of good and evil collapses. Although we have tions about the husband of his cousin, whom er of Pinsk, Belarus, as part of the civil admin- become habituated to knowledge of atroci- he still admired. Alfred Ebner, born in 1913, istration of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine. ties, it remains unimaginable that someone had risen through the ranks of the SS and be- There he was put in charge of the Jewish whom one knows intimately could have been come a powerful and successful man. My fa- population, the majority in this district city. involved in the killing of tens of thousands of ther, born in 1925, was prevented from joining In the spring of 1942, Ebner established the human beings, mostly women and children, in ghetto and forced 18,300 Jews to move into 240 a mere three days (between October 29 and houses within one day. According to a hand- November 1, 1942). Such knowledge is unbear- written registry, the majority of ghetto inhabit- able. The closer one is related to a perpetrator, ants were women and children, since the Sec- the more intolerable it becomes. ond SS-Cavalry Regiment had already killed The next morning I received his response most men in September 1941. Ebner oversaw e-mail. No, he wrote, he had known nothing the slave labor recruitment and systematic star- about this, but had questioned his father about vation of the ghetto inmates, and he directed it that very evening. His father first denied any their mass executions over the course of three connection and claimed that this must be a days between October 29 and November 1, case of mistaken identity. Then he argued that 1942. He later joined the Wehrmacht and was the Frankfurt proceedings were nothing but a officially denazified by the U.S. Army in 1946. “show trial,” and that his grandfather had mere- He was the best man at my father’s first wed- ly been a soldier caught up in postwar vindic- ding and, again, at his second marriage to my tiveness. I e-mailed back and pointed out that mother in November 1959. On January 1, 1962, his grandfather had not been prosecuted as a Alfred Ebner was arrested and indicted before soldier of the Wehrmacht (German army) but the Stuttgart Regional Court. This initial ar- as a member of Police Battalion 306, whose spe- rest was followed by two trials, prison stays,

St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 | 15 and releases on bail throughout the 1960s. The or grandfather, that seems unfathomable. The trial was eventually moved before the Frank- mind and heart desperately want to shut such furt regional court, where, in 1971, Ebner was knowledge out. In this way, factual knowledge Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler (center, with gloves) confers declared incompetent to stand trial for medical of history collides with emotional and moral with SS and Police Leader Hans Adolf Pruetzmann (extreme understanding. Evil hits too close to home for reasons. Thus, he was never convicted, and by left) and Ludolf Herman von Alvensleben (second from the left) 1978 all proceedings were officially discontin- during a visit to the Crimea in October 1942. During this visit, comfort. Therein lies the root of denial, exon- ued. He died in 1987, a free man. Himmler gave Pruetzmann a written order to kill all the residents eration, and historical revisionism. Every so Alfred Ebner’s legal troubles and the events of the Pinsk ghetto. Photo printed with permission of United often, I still hear a small voice in me that wants in Pinsk were never openly discussed in my States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of James Blevins. to question whether the deeds of which Ebner family – at least not with me or anyone else was accused could possibly have happened. In in the younger generation. There were bits and and feeling completely isolated, I eventually order to prove it to myself, I spent considerable pieces, though, and I vividly remember the mo- forgot the whole affair. time in archives to examine court records and ment when I was given a newspaper article that Like the young German man whose e-mail I the documents of the Nazi civil administration contained the number of 30,000 Jewish victims. received from Holland, I would need an exter- of Pinsk. I also met with survivors of this area I must have been eleven (in 1971) or thirteen nal trigger to retrieve this memory. In my case, and their children from Israel and the United (in 1973) when this newspaper article circulated the impetus came from Holocaust survivors States. In 2002, I joined the Nosanchuk family around the table announcing the discontinua- and their children, who befriended me when I to travel to Pinsk and Stolin in Belarus. Among tion of Ebner’s trial for health reasons. I already arrived as an exchange student in the religion the Nosanchuk family were two survivors: one felt suspicious of his acquittal and could not department of Temple University in Philadel- had served in the Soviet army, the other had immigrated to Palestine before German occu- pation. There was also the son of a deceased My lack of knowledge, I began to survivor who was hidden in a village before joining the partisans. He later testified in the realize, was not at all innocent. trial against Alfred Ebner. I needed all of these intellectual and emotional experiences and all My ignorance was rooted in of these conversations to learn to accept the truth of this history. guilt and protected the I wonder how the young German man from the Netherlands was able to process the infor- anonymity of perpetrators. mation I had sent him. His grandfather was sentenced to four years in prison; my uncle’s trial had been discontinued for health reasons after more than a decade of court proceedings. quite join in the celebration. I remember my phia. They educated me about the Holocaust These were just two men who stood trial in confusion: who were these Jews? (At that time, and told me their stories of brutality, loss, and West German courts. In total, three trials in I had never met a Jew.) How did one man kill survival. Their knowledge was specific and West Germany dealt with the murder of the 30,000 people? Where did this happen? What their memory of times, places, people, and Jews of Pinsk. They resulted in prison terms did this mean for our family, especially since events was excellent. They knew who had de- for the accused, none of which were severe he was sitting – apparently healthy – among nied them, hidden them, and brutalized them enough to satisfy anyone’s sense of justice. We us? Had he killed one person, he would have and their families. Their recollections were of- continue to speak of “the Holocaust” as if it was been considered a murderer; had he killed ten, ten detailed and precise. My lack of knowledge, one singular event, but the crimes committed a serial killer. But 30,000? This seemed beyond I began to realize, was not at all innocent. My in the Pinsk region alone are overwhelming. comprehension and therefore meaningless to ignorance was rooted in guilt and protected The murder of six million Jewish men, women, my family. The staggering number put him be- the anonymity of perpetrators. Most extended and children happened in many places and un- yond moral censure. My questions could not German families somehow cope with the pres- der very different conditions. Each murder was be answered and were never discussed in the ence of perpetrators in their midst.... particular and committed by a specific person. family. Even the attempt to inquire further re- As long as we can keep mass murder at a dis- Historian Konrad Kwiet estimates that 500,000 sulted in angry harangues about the arrogance tance – committed by someone else, different German men and 5,000 women were actively of the young, their lack of understanding and and removed from us – its knowledge is bear- involved in the various killing programs of judgmental hypocrisy. Without information, able. But if the perpetrator is one’s own uncle National Socialism. Half a million Germans

16 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 ...the histories of our families and communities hold us captive. We cannot be released from their hold on us by time alone.

Time does not heal all wounds. the guilt of the past. They developed evasive, vague, and deceptive stories and engaged in elaborate schemes to obscure and hide their true biographies. Perpetrators and their descendants experience an internal compulsion to conceal carried guilt for the murder of innocent civil- Despite the often outrageously lenient verdicts the truth and to hide the shame. Descendants ians, foremost Jews, but also Roma and Sinti, and the painfully conflicted reasoning, each are often driven by fear of “guilt by association,” homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and politi- trial increased public awareness of the brutal- which turns this knowledge into a shameful and cal prisoners. People were convicted of all sort ity and criminality of National Socialism and burdensome secret. These feelings of shame of crimes and incarcerated in the sprawling nudged the public discourse toward acknowl- and fear are not rational. On the rational level, slave labor camp system. Eleven million civil- edgment of the immorality and inhumanity of everyone agrees that a father’s sins cannot and ians died in the camps and killing programs National Socialist ideology. should not be visited upon the children and the implemented by National Socialism. But what about the hearts and minds of children’s children. In public, there are mutual The Jews of Pinsk were not deported to one perpetrators and the intimate world of their assurances that nobody can be held responsible of the six extermination camps specifically set families? Did they learn to accept punishment for acts committed by someone else, certainly up to kill Jews: Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treb- as just recompense for culpable wrongdoing? not someone generationally removed. But on linka, Sobibor, Chelmo, and Belzec. Instead, There is no adequate payment for the moral the emotional level and in private, the histories they were shot at the outskirts of town in the debt arising from the brutal murder of 16,200 of our families and communities hold us cap- surrounding forests and buried in trenches. (as the German courts alleged) – three days tive. We cannot be released from their hold on Their voices were in the work of Police Battalion 306. These us by time alone. Time does not heal all wounds. almost complete- numbers alone speak to the incongruity of In some cases, traumatic events that happened ly erased. Only a the magnitude of crimes and the limitations decades and centuries ago can continue to re- handful survived of human forms of recompense and resolu- verberate in the political, cultural, and religious and could testify. tion. Even the death penalty did not relieve life of cultures: Turkey, for instance, is still held There was very the children of perpetrators of feeling haunted hostage by its undigested history of genocide of little information by guilt as they struggled with the moral bur- the Armenians; white U.S. Americans continue about the Jews of den incurred by atrocities committed by their to be in the grip of unresolved feelings over slav- Pinsk, but their fathers. The Holocaust leaves a moral remain- ery and racism; and several European countries memory is kept der that threatens to crush anyone who finds are paralyzed by conflicted emotions over the alive by Zion- himself or herself personally connected. Holocaust and antisemitism. ist immigrants The magnitude of harm suffered and done Evil that is not suffered but perpetrated to Palestine and makes memory unbearable for both survivors causes guilt. Guilt is more than a feeling, it is to the United and perpetrators as well as their families – an objective reality....We often conceive of Katharina von Kellenbach’s States, as well as though for different reasons and with different guilt as a burden, from which one should even- “The Mark of Cain” book cover. by Jewish Soviet results. Survivors of the Shoah became wit- tually be released or redeemed. A debt can be veterans and de- nesses who vowed “Never to Forget.” Their tes- paid off and a liability can be forgiven. In spite portees. Their world vanished and their way timony was always based on traumatic memo- of traditional Christian soteriological claims, of life has been destroyed forever. All that is ries, and I know many survivors who cannot there are some burdens of guilt that cannot be left are mass graves scattered across Belarus eat or sleep after sharing their stories. There removed by either forgiveness or punishment. and Ukraine. As of 2011, the French Roman are also survivors of the Shoah who have re- Almost seventy years have passed since the Catholic priest Father Patrick Desbois has sisted speaking of their experiences with their Shoah was ended on the military battlefield, identified over 900 unmarked mass graves in families, and whose children suffer from the but the stain of the murder of European Jews an estimated 2,000 locations across Belarus silence. But as a community, Jewish survivors has not been purified. Is there an appropriate and Ukraine. These numbers are overwhelm- were committed to bear witness, to document sacrifice that would atone for such an- enor ing. Such crimes cannot be expiated by judi- meticulously, and to chronicle conscientiously, mous crime? Truly horrific traumatic histories, cial punishment alone. irrespective of the emotional, physical, and such as the Holocaust, cannot be expiated, pu- But the trials served several important func- economic costs of such memory. rified, or washed away....  tions. They collected important historical in- The perpetrators, on the other hand, were formation and allowed survivors to testify.... committed to forgetting, erasing, and burying

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leave for the spring 2015 semes- san Bakery (www.kensartisan. provinces as well as conducting ter, he will use the time to finish com) in 2001 followed by Ken’s strategic planning and public CLASS up his orchid studies and locate Artisan Pizza in 2005 and Tri- policy sessions with party conservatories to receive and fecta Tavern & Bakery in 2013. leadership and elected leaders. NOTES curate some rare specimens Last year, he went to Punt- he’s acquired, primarily from 1980s land, Somalia to train political Nicaragua and Peru. His goal party activists and candidates 1950s J. Brian O’Day ’84 [2] is to preserve the orchids safely has in preparation for the first local Ann Brittingham Suthowski before he retires from teaching lived, worked and traveled in elections in more than 20 years. ’57 JC writes, “When I receive in May 2016. A member of the nearly 60 countries since gradu- When Brian is not circling the my Mulberry Tree, I turn to second four-year graduating ating from St. Mary’s. While globe, he lives in Baltimore, Md. the Alumni news section. class at St. Mary’s, it may be an undergraduate, he studied 1 There is usually nothing from he is the first four-year grad to Chinese language and politics the 50’s. Come on girls – let earn a doctorate. He lives in at Fudan University in Shang- us know what you are doing.” Shepherdstown, W.Va. hai, China. As a Peace Corps Ann, Pat Flanagan Arthur volunteer, he spent two years in ’57 JC of Ocean Pines, Md., Ken Forkish ’79 [1] continues Gabon, Africa as a construction and Suzanne Lussier-Jones to dazzle the culinary world project supervisor, building ’58 JC of Parsonsburg, Md., with his baking and his a rural primary school. After meet monthly for lunch and eateries. In 2013, his cookbook, the Peace Corps, he worked in lively conversation. Ann lives in “Flour Water Salt Yeast,” now various capacities for the U.S. Salisbury, Md., around the cor- in its fifth printing, won both Democratic Party at the federal, ner from Mary Willis ’59 JC, the International Association state and local levels in Mary- BGen, US Army (retired) and of Culinary Professionals land, New Jersey, Pennsylvania 2 and Georgia. For the past 15 they see each other at Salisbury book award for the “Baking: Brian O’Day ’84 training in Afghanistan. community events. Savory or Sweet” category and years, as a political party expert for the National Democratic In- the James Beard Foundation chief of staff for Congressman Karen Peterson Yochim ’58 stitute for International Affairs, 2013 cookbook award in the 1990s Michael R. Turner (R-OH) for HS has written a new Cajun “Baking & Desserts” category. a nonprofit, nonpartisan organi- Stacy Palmer Barton ’92 over seven years before joining murder mystery from her ad- Ken, himself, was a 2013 James zation that promotes democ- is racy around the world, he has the Chief of Staff for Congress- Congressman Runyan’s staff. opted home in the Atchafalaya Beard finalist in the category She also assisted Maryland Swamp of Louisiana. “Cajun “Outstanding Pastry Chef.” Af- worked with political leaders man Jon Runyan (R-NJ). In and candidates in Europe, Asia, February she was the guest State Delegate Mark Fisher on Payback” (2013) is available ter graduating from St. Mary’s, his inaugural 2010 campaign. on www.amazon.com. Karen he moved to California in 1980 Africa, and the Middle East to speaker at the Calvert County, strengthen political parties and Md., Republican Men’s Club Stacy resides in Prince George’s rates Baxter Sasser as her all- and ended up in Silicon Valley County, Md., with her husband time favorite English teacher where he ran a tech support prepare for elections. In sup- and discussed the challenges port of his international work, the Republican Party will Lee and their two children, and wonders if anyone knows center as a network engineer Morgan and Miles. where he is. and later designed, installed he developed and conducted face in 2014. She grew up in seminars on political campaign Huntingtown, Md., and after and managed communications David Fraser-Hidalgo ’93 planning, strategic planning, graduating from St. Mary’s was 1970s networks as a systems engineer. appointed in October 2013 by A trip to France in the 1990s and democracy development, enrolled in a master’s program Phillip Simpson ’72 has de- Maryland Governor Martin exposed him to the world of and developed many train- at the University of Delaware. cided it’s time to let folks know O’Malley to represent District French artisan bread which led ing materials, including “The While there, she applied he’s still alive. After graduat- 15 in Montgomery County, to many return trips to Paris to Political Campaign Planning for the Congressional Black ing from St. Mary’s, where he Md., until the 2014 elections. get a real sense for the French Manual: a Step By Step Guide Caucus Foundation Fellowship majored in biology, he went to Born in Quito, Ecuador, he boulangerie and a reference to Winning Elections” and program, which paired her with graduate school at the Univer- grew up in Montgomery point for a great croissant, “Joining Forces: A Guide for a Member of Congress which sity of Maryland College Park Forming, Joining and Building would ultimately launch her County. David and his broth- baguette, macaroon, etc.; and Andy Fraser ’91 and received his doctorate in Political Coalitions.” His most political career. She worked as ers, and training with good bakers at the Alex Fraser ’94 botany in December 1977. He’s (deceased) San Francisco Baking Institute, recent work includes four years a lobbyist for a number of years taught biology at Shepherd all graduated from St. Mary’s. Culinary Institute of American in Afghanistan (2008-2012) and eventually opened her own University since 1978 where He was a Montgomery County and France’s L’Institute Paul developing the political trainer firm. She later joined one of her he has worked with orchids. police officer for three years; Bocuse. He moved to Portland, program that educated over clients who had been elected Recently awarded a sabbatical director of operations for Envi- Oregon and opened Ken’s Arti- 15,000 party activists from 20 to Congress, and served as

18 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 Ilene Frank ’96 [3] is the attorney, and later, common- Mollie Freilicher ’03 is an ur- most promising emerging poet executive director of Rensselaer wealth’s attorney for the City of ban and community forester for and was a Lannan Fellow at the County Historical Society in Salem, Va. David serves on the the state of Massachusetts. A Folgers Shakespearian Theater Troy, N.Y. She is one of 36 board of directors for the Albert history major, she worked as a for 2004-2005. Randy lives in history and cultural heritage P. Close Foundation whose paralegal in Washington, D.C. Lexington Park, Md. with his museum leaders chosen for mission is to assist and support where she also volunteered for wife Dee, and works for Naval their “inspiring leadership in Harford County’s at-risk youth Casey Trees helping with tree Air Systems Command’s Heavy 21st-century institutions” who population. He lives in Bel Air, inventories and plantings. This Lift Helicopter Program at Na- are highlighted in a new book, Md. led her to graduate school at val Air Station Patuxent River. “Leadership Matters,” by Anne the University of Massachusetts W. Ackerson and Joan Baldwin. Jessica Maggio Bruland ’03 in Amherst, Mass., where she Kathleen Fichtel ’04 has re- 3 Ilene lives in Cohoes, N.Y. is an environmental scientist earned a master’s degree in for- ceived her doctorate in history for ERT, Inc., a government est resources in 2010, focusing from West Virginia University. sion EMI, LLC; and director, Lawrence Lanahan ’97, along contractor in Laurel, Md. She’s on urban forestry. As an urban Majoring in the British Empire web site marketing and sales with his “Maryland Morning” also finishing her master’s de- and community forester, Mollie with minors in African history, for Sandglass Systems. He has colleagues, has received the gree in environmental biology works with communities and geography, and world history, worked for Regus USA since 2014 Alfred I. DuPont-Co- at Hood College. In her spare non-profit groups to help them she wrote her dissertation, “An 2012. David, wife Lisa Bethel lumbia Award for “The Lines time, she volunteers for two protect, grow, and manage their Environmental History of Ma- and children, Samantha and Between Us,” a year-long mul- non-profit animal organiza- community trees. She lives in lawi’s ‘Island in the Sky’: The Scott, live in Boyds, Md. timedia series about inequality tions: Hero Dogs Inc. which Belchertown, Mass. Mulanje Cedar and Imperial in the Baltimore, Md., region raises, trains, and places service Forestry in British Nyasaland, Clinton Pipkin ’96 made an that aired from Sept. 28, 2012 to dogs for veterans with physical Melissa Fourcade Adams ’04 1890-1964,” based, in part, on interesting discovery when he Oct. 4, 2013. He says the series or mental health challenges teaches Honors English and Ad- research she did in Malawi was researching his ancestry. (www.linesbetweenus.org) owes and Days End Farm Horse vanced Placement Literature and in 2008 as part of a National Turns out the first governor of a lot to his sociology training at Rescue which rehabilitates, Composition at Poolesville High Science Foundation-funded Maryland, Leonard Calvert, St. Mary’s. Lawrence worked trains, and adopts out horses School in Maryland. She spends research project. who died in St. Mary’s City in at Baltimore’s National Public seized by animal control and her summers working in the 1647, is his 10th great grand- Radio member station, WYPR, other human agencies. Jessica United Kingdom as a program Erin Rorabacher Lewis ’04 father. Clint says it was an as a producer on “Maryland and husband James Bruland dean for Oxbridge Academic was profiled in the Novem- amazing series of coincidences Morning with Sheilah Kast” ’04, who is the administrative Programs at Oxford University’s ber 2013 issue of Southern that as a “Navy brat” he and his from February 2009 until assistant at Hero Dogs Inc., live Pembroke College. Melissa Maryland Woman magazine. family happened to settle in St. November 2013 when he left in Monrovia, Md. lives in Germantown, Md. Described as a “high-energy, Mary’s County. He graduated to go back to being a freelance passionate, purpose-filled from St. Mary’s where he met journalist. Lawrence, wife Larissa Eustice ’03, a 2007 Randy Bridgeman ’04 has woman,” she is the owner of the his wife, Susanna Rohner Andrea and 21-month old son graduate of Cornell Univer- published three books of Erin Lewis Insurance Agency Pipkin ’98, and his mother Emil live in Baltimore. sity’s Law School, is a senior poetry, “South of Everywhere,” (www.WeProtectYourDreams. Norma gives tours at Historic associate in the New York (2005) “Mechanic on Duty,” com), a State Farm affili- St. Mary’s City. Clint spent sev- 2000s City office of Kaye Scholer (2007) and “The Odd Testa- ate; founder of the Women’s eral years working for the state LLP. An experienced litigator ment” (2013) since graduating Institute of Leadership (www. David Ryden ’00 of Maryland. In 2007 he served has been with widespread experience from St. Mary’s and is working YourDreamQueen.com), as the Federal Emergency an assistant state’s attorney for in pharmaceutical products on his fourth book of poetry, “If co-founder of the Gals Lead Management Agency’s liaison Harford County, Md. since liability litigation, she was I Lived Across the Street From Teen Program; and the creator to the city of New Orleans after 2007, where he prosecutes all recently recognized as a “Ris- Me” to be published in the fall of the Southern Maryland Hurricane Katrina and recently levels of criminal cases includ- ing Star” in products liability of 2014. Originally from the Women in Business Network- established the National Disas- ing homicide. A 2003 graduate defense by Super Lawyers 2013. Pacific Northwest, he served ing Luncheon. Nicknamed the ter Relief Foundation, a publicly of the University of Richmond Larissa also was the only in the U.S. Navy for 26 years “Dream Queen,” she is living financed non-profit organiza- T.C. Williams School of Law, recipient of the New York State and is a Vietnam and First her passion of helping women tion designed specifically to de- he worked, between 2003 and Bar Association’s 21st Annual Gulf War veteran. He retired realize their dreams through liver monetary relief to disaster 2006, as a law clerk to the President’s Pro Bono Service to Southern Maryland and “`insurance and financial victims. Clint and wife, Susie, Honorable Robert C. Nalley, Award for outstanding service enrolled at St. Mary’s where he services, career clarity, and busi- live in Gwynn Oak, Md. of the Maryland Circuit Court to low-income individuals in majored in English. His senior ness leverage.” Erin, husband for Charles County, and as the Second Judicial District. She year he received the Edward Marty and daughter Lydia live an assistant commonwealth’s lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. T. Lewis Poetry Prize for the in Severna Park, Md.

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Jonathan Robins ’04 and Julio Zarate ’04 [4], one of wife Clare Zuraw ’05 St. Mary’s most decorated male are teaching at Michigan swimmers, was inducted into Technological University in the College’s Athletic Hall of Houghton, Mich. Jonathan, an Fame in 2012. Now in his 10th assistant professor of history, year as an assistant Seahawk earned his doctorate in history coach for the men’s and from the University of Roch- women’s swimming teams, he ester in 2010. Clare earned her also has been the head coach master’s degree in 2009 from for the Chesapeake Bay Aquat- the University of Rochester ics Club for seven years. While Warner School of Education swimming will always be his and is an ESL instructor. passion, he now is actively pur- suing a second passion as an 4 Matt Stone ’04 and his wife, artist. Recently profiled in The relocated with him to his new Erica Tokar ’05 have relocated Enterprise newspaper, Julio assignment in Yorktown, Va. to San Antonio, Texas. Matt says that “both of his loves are Between jobs and with some received his master’s degree merging and coming together at extra time, she thought she’d in technology for educators in about the same time.” Some of try her hand at quilting. As she 2013 from the Johns Hopkins his current work can be seen at says, it’s a “nice way to remem- University while Erica gradu- http://society6.com/JulioPaints ber my college soccer days and ated magna cum laude, Order of and https://www.facebook. free up some storage space :)” the Coif in 2013 from American com/juliopaints. He lives in Kathryn and husband Chad University Washington College California, Md. live in Yorktown, Va. of Law. She also received the Pro Bono Excellence Award Kathryn Chop Nicolai ’05 [5] Eric Hergenroeder ’06 and 5 for having completed the most finally found a use, as you can Ninoosh Sadeghi Hergenro- pro bono legal services hours see, for all the Seahawk soccer eder ’06 are living in Misawa, foster care agency in Oklahoma entitled “An Investigation of of any graduate. Matt works t-shirts she’s been carrying Japan. Eric, a captain in the before relocating to Japan. the Effect of Herpes Simplex as an instructional technology around since graduation. Kath- U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate Virus 1 Infection on Host Cell specialist for the South San ryn’s parents were Department General’s Corps, has been Jose Sabalbaro ’06 received Metabolism,” at Princeton Antonio Independent School of Defense schoolteachers, so the chief of military justice for his law degree in 2013 from University in December 2013 District and has joined San she spent her childhood living Misawa Air Base since summer Temple University Beasley and has received her doctorate Antonio’s original hard rock/ in Turkey, the Philippines, 2013. A 2010 graduate of the School of Law. A three-year in molecular biology. She is do- alternative metal band, Every South Korea and Okinawa, University of Maryland School recipient of a faculty academic ing research on bioremediation, Reason, as its lead singer. Erica Japan. After graduating from of Law, he received his officer’s scholarship, he also received as a post-doctoral fellow, at the is an attorney adviser for the St. Mary’s, she realized she commission in 2011. His first the first Archer and Greiner Lawrence Livermore National U.S. Department of Justice, missed living overseas so she tour of duty was at Altus Air Diversity Scholarship, awarded Laboratory. Sarah lives in Executive Office for Immigra- moved to Guam where her Force Base in Oklahoma where in cooperation with Temple Livermore, Calif. tion Review at the South Texas parents were teaching and he was the chief of civil law Law School and the City of Detention Center where she attended graduate school at the and then the chief of military Philadelphia Law Department. S. Jae Lim ‘09 graduated works on immigration law and University of Guam. In 2009 justice, responsible for adminis- Jose is an associate with Archer from the University of Virginia policy along the U.S.–Mexico she earned her master’s degree tering the base’s criminal justice and Greiner, one of the area’s School of Law in May 2013. border. They spend their free in biology with a concentration program. Ninoosh received her largest law firms. His areas of He is an assistant state’s time studying photography in marine biology and went to master’s degree in social work expertise are commercial litiga- attorney for Baltimore City, at the Southwest School of work for PCR Environmental, from the University of Mary- tion and bankruptcy. He lives Md. and a member of the St. Art, taking tango lessons, and a prominent environmental land School of Social Work in in Philadelphia, Pa. Mary’s College of Maryland fundraising for the American consulting business on Guam. 2011 and worked as a family Alumni Council. He lives in Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. In 2012 she married a first class and youth specialist/therapist Sarah Grady ’09 success- Montgomery County, Md. The couple lives in downtown petty officer in the U.S. Coast at Specialized Alternatives for fully defended her dissertation San Antonio. Guard stationed on Guam and Family and Youth, a therapeutic

20 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 2010s Ryken High School swim team. oldest active biological field VOICES READING SERIES He started swimming when research stations in the United Sara DeSavage ’10 is a he was 10 years old, swam the States” located on one of the The College’s VOICES Reading Series, over the research associate in the Phys- 100 and 200-yard freestyle at largest freshwater lakes in the years, has brought poets and fiction/non-fiction ics Department at St. Mary’s Leonardtown High School, American west. Her connection writers to campus where they read excerpts College. She will receive a and still holds records at St. with Flathead Lake began the from their works and interact with students and master’s degree in physics from Mary’s College for the 50 free summer after her sophomore the University of Maryland faculty. During the 2013-2014 academic year, and the 100 and 200 butterfly year at St. Mary’s when she Baltimore County this spring. set his senior year at the Capital took field-based courses at three alums, Corrie Byrne ’08, Tony Quick ’10, Sara is working on a project at Athletic Conference champion- the biological station. Then in and Michele K. Johnson ’11, participated in the Naval Air Systems Command ships. Jackson lives in Valley her senior year, she was hired reading series. with physicists Josh Grossman Lee, Md. for a summer volunteer job at and Frank Narducci involving Flathead doing field work for a Corrie Byrne ’08 designed her own interdisciplinary atomic sensors in submarine de- Stephon Dingle ’12 is a doctoral student whose adviser major, “creative environmental writing and literacy,” at tection. She also assists current broadcast news associate for the was one of the professors who St. Mary’s and received her master of fine arts in creative physics students in the lab with Washington, D.C. bureau of taught the courses Hannah writing and environment from Iowa State University. their research and St. Mary’s CBS News. A Baltimore, Md., had taken two summers earlier. She took second place in a recent New South Magazine’s Projects. Sara lives in Lexington native, he got the journalism After spending the summer of prose competition with her essay, “Melissa-My-Lissa,” and Park, Md. bug while still an undergradu- 2013 working at Flathead on a is working on her first novel, tentatively named, “The ate, working as a sports broad- stipend, she received an offer to Obituary Writer.” As a St. Mary’s College instructor in the Tyne Lowe ’11 is a senior casting intern for WJZ-TV, the come back in the fall for a paid English Department, she is teaching two creative writing library technician at Miami Baltimore, Md., CBS affiliate job as a biological technician. classes. Her VOICES reading explored how prose can go (Ohio) University’s Wertz Art station. Before starting his Next stop for Hannah will be beyond the traditional format structure to incorporate and Architecture Library in master’s degree at Columbia graduate school. interjections such as footnotes, text boxes, pictures, letters, Oxford, Ohio. Before moving University’s Graduate School obituaries, changing the causality of the characters/ to Ohio, she was an assistant at of Journalism, Stephon interned Jennifer Walker ’13 is St. narrator, the reader’s interaction with the piece, and the Huckleberry Fine Art Gallery at the New York Times Student Mary’s College’s Sustainabil- book’s shape itself. She lives in Lexington Park, Md. in Rockville, Md. and a barista Journalism Institute and ity Fellow for the 2013-2014 for Open City DC. Tyne also NBC’s “The Today Show.” academic year. A member of Tony Quick ’10, a master of fine arts candidate in creative works as a freelance illustrator. After receiving his master’s the Planning and Facilities staff, writing and environment at Iowa State University, teaches She lives in Oxford, Ohio. degree in broadcast journal- she works with the Student English at the university and is also an editor for the ism, he completed a four-week Government Association, and school’s fiction writing journal, Flyway: Journal of Writing Lawrence MacCurtain ’11 academy reporting program on campus environmental & Environment. In his reading, he “explored how people had an article entitled “Rhap- for News 12 The Bronx where groups including the Campus are often both repulsed and intrigued” by today’s violent sody in Red: Shostakovich and he shot, edited and produced Community Farm, Student En- crime stories. Tony lives in Ames, Iowa. American Wartime Perceptions general assignment stories. As vironmental Action Coalition, Michele K. Johnson ’11 is pursuing a master of fine of the Soviet Union” published a broadcast news associate for the Arboretum Committee, to arts with a concentration in poetry at George Mason in September 2013 in a special CBS News he is mastering the manage programs and generate University. She teaches composition, literature and creative issue of “Music and the Other” craft of producing and on-air ideas to make the College more writing at George Mason and is also the editor-in-chief of in the United Kingdom inter- reporting. He works on rotation sustainable. She also supervises one of the university’s literary magazines, So to Speak. Her disciplinary academic journal, with the bureau’s three main three sustainability interns work has appeared in the Ucity Review, OVS Magazine, Patterns in Prejudice (vol. 37, shows, “CBS Evening News and three work study students and the Ampersand Review. Her reading consisted of nos. 4-5). His article began as with Scott Pelley,” “Face the who help with the compost- three excerpts from her forthcoming book about “the his St. Mary’s Project under Nation” and “CBS This Morn- ing and recycling programs. physical aspect of memory,” “taking ownership for one’s the direction of Professor Tom ing.” Stephon lives in Baltimore, Jennifer says her personal goals actions and life,” and specific memories of St. Mary’s Barrett. Larry is the assistant Md., and you may tweet him @ are to reduce the amount of College. Michele lives in Fairfax, Va. director of alumni relations at Stephon_Dingle. College generated nitrogen and St. Mary’s College. He lives in phosphorus running into the California, Md. Hannah Coe ’13 is a biological St. Mary’s River, and to keep technician at the University the campus compost program Jackson Webb ’11 is the new of Montana’s Flathead Lake functional and efficient. She head coach of the St. Mary’s Biological Station, “one of the lives in St. Inigoes, Md.

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Price; Ryan is a security engi- 2 Sept. 14, 2013 at the Martha’s Marianne Wood ’08 and John MARRIAGES neer at Kratos Defense. They LAURA BLACK PHOTOGRAPHY Vineyard Shipyard in Vine- Forrest [6] were married Nov. 2, live in Columbia, Md. yard Haven, Mass. Adrienne 2013 at the Potomac Boat Club in &UNIONS Patterson ’08, MAT ’09 and Washington, D.C. Halley Pack Kathrin Gunther ’06 and Meredith Nordhem ’08 were ’08 and Emily Smithson Moore George Everly ’06 [3] were in the wedding party. The ’09 were bridesmaids. Marianne Kathryn Chop ’05 and Chad married Oct. 19, 2013 in Wil- couple honeymooned in Roatan, and Johnny are still planning their Nicolai [1] were married Dec. liamsburg, Va. The wedding was Honduras. Maggie is the water- honeymoon. Marianne works as 28, 2012 in Merizo, Guam. Kath- limited to family only, but they front director for Sail Martha’s a patent legal secretary at Sterne, ryn is a senior environmental had a pre-wedding summer cel- Vineyard; Ted is a rigger for the Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.; scientist for PCR Environmental; ebration with fellow 2006 alums; Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard. Johnny recently graduated from Chad, a Boatswain’s Mate First Ninoosh Sadeghi Hergenro- They live in Chilmark, Mass. the George Washington Univer- 3 Class in the U.S. Coast Guard, eder, Eric Hergenroeder, Katy sity Law School and works as a is a boatswain’s mate “A” school Caperna, Alexis Pogonowski, Jennifer Marchant ’08 and patent attorney at Womble Carlyle instructor at the Coast Guard Amber Dixon Brown, Teresa James Beavers ’10 [5] were Sandridge & Rice, LLP. The Training Center. The couple Stephens, Terrence Young, married Oct. 12, 2013 on the couple lives in Washington, D.C. lives in Yorktown, Va. Laura Divens Zambrano, State House lawn at Historic St. Megan MacFarland McGuigan Mary’s City. The wedding party Jessica Riesett ’11 and Greg Amber Dixon ’06 and Ryan and Josh Owings. The couple included maid of honor Brittany Herpel ’12 [7] were married May Brown [2] were married Oct. honeymooned in Buenos Aires Gill ’07; bridesmaids Laura 26, 2013 at Brome Howard Inn 13, 2012 at the Crofton Country and Bariloche, Argentina. Kate Robidoux ’09 and Julie Hern- in Historic St. Mary’s City, Md. Club in Crofton, Md. Kate is a proposal manager for Black- 4 don ’08; and groomsmen Noah Lindsey Hunter ’11 and David Gunther ’06, Ninoosh Sadeghi board, Inc.; George is a Supreme Gygory ’10, Kelton Bumgar- Chase ’11 were in the wedding Hergenroeder ’06, Teresa Court Fellow. They live in the ner ’10, and JP Spencer ’10. party. The couple will honey- Stephens ’06 and Laura Capitol Hill neighborhood of The couple honeymooned in moon in Germany in October Divens Zambrano ’06 were in Washington, D.C. Hawaii. Jennifer works at Naval 2014. Jessica, a customer service the wedding party. The couple Air Station Patuxent River as the representative for Stanley Black & honeymooned on the Caribbean Maggie Lumkes ’08 and Ted recreation director in the Morale, Decker, is working on her master’s island of St. Lucia. Amber is a Hale ’10 [4] were married Welfare and Recreation Depart- degree in environmental science compliance specialist at T. Rowe ment; Jimmy is an accountant at at Towson University; Greg is a Naval Air Systems Command. software support engineer at Salar They live in California, Md. Inc. They live in Baltimore, Md. SAVE THE DATE 5 JUNE 12-15, 2014 Around the Bend...I’m Home Again!

Alumni Weekend 2014 is fast approaching. If it’s been fifty, twenty-five, ten or just a year since you’ve been back to St. Mary’s College, we hope you can join us for a memorable weekend in June. How many times have you rounded the bend on Route 5 to see the beautiful St. Mary’s River open before your eyes and know 6 STACEY WINDSOR PHOTOGRAPHY STACEY that you were “Home Again?” Come relive that feeling, reconnect with some of your closest friends, swap stories about the good old days, and make this a weekend of new memories to cherish. The full weekend schedule of events and on-line registration can be found at www.smcm.edu/alum. New this year is the opportunity to start your stay on Thursday night so you can get an early start on the weekend! See you soon! 7 1

22 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 To Samantha Sissman Wen- To Ellen Wilkie Kowal ’05 tling ’03 and Clyde Wentling, a and Michael Kowal, a daughter, BIRTHS& daughter, Isabelle Akossua Mott Amelia Greer [11], born Jan. ADOPTIONS [6], born Sept. 1, 2013. Sam 31, 2014. She joins big brother, works for the Arlington County MJ, age 3. Ellen is a 3rd grade government; Clyde is a health teacher; Michael is a director of Chris Harney ’97 Carrie To and care information technology 1 6 10 operations with Travel Guard. Dannenfelser Harney ’99 , a analyst at Washington Hospital The family lives in Katy, Texas. [1] daughter, Elle Tika , born Center. The family lives in Feb. 6, 2014. She joins big sisters Alexandria, Va. To Jo Kraft Moran ’05 and Wal- Drue, age 10, Wrenn, age 8, and ter Moran, a daughter, Amelia Sloane who’s almost 2. Chris is in To Amy Forbes Wolbach Grace [12], born May 14, 2013. his ninth season as the Seahawks ’03 and Steve Wolbach, a son, Samantha Moran Stasen ’11 is men’s basketball coach; Carrie is a Simon Steven, born Oct. 7, 2011, 2 11 the proud aunt. Jo is an informa- director, U.S. policy and executive and a daughter, Vivian Vanessa tion systems specialist at the U.S.- branch advocacy for AstraZeneca [7], born Jan. 10, 2014. Amy is Saudi Arabian Business Council; Pharmaceuticals. The family lives a program analyst; Steve is an Walter is an imaging specialist in Lexington Park, Md. engineer and both work for the at Insurance Auto Auctions. The federal government. The family family lives in Waldorf, Md. Jennifer Jackson ’97 To , a lives in California, Md. daughter, Ava Ann [2], born Ashley Sides Raley ’05 3 7 12 To and Oct. 14, 2013. She joins big sister, To Laura Cline Brooke ’04 Allen Raley, a son, Joseph Blake Alexandra, age 3. Jennifer is the di- and Brian Brooke, a son, Wil- [13], born Feb. 11, 2014. Ashley rector of meetings at the National liam Carter [8], born Nov. 6, is an environmental scientist Association of Student Financial 2013. Laura and Brian are both for Resource Management Aid Administrators. The family physician assistants in the emer- Concepts, Inc.; Allen is a senior lives in Chesapeake Beach, Md. gency room at Greater Baltimore systems analyst for FGS. The Medical Center. The family lives family lives in Ridge, Md. Lawrence Lanahan ’97 4 8 13 To and in Jacksonville, Md. Andrea Appleton, a son, Emil To Katelyn Turner Scrittore [3] Victor , born July 1, 2012. To Sarah Strange Daddona ’05 and Joseph Scrittore, a son, Lawrence and Andrea are both ’04 and Cory Daddona, a son, Henry Thatcher [14], born Nov. freelance journalists. The family Duke Henry [9], born Aug. 17, 27, 2013. Kate is a technical writer lives in the Hampden neighbor- 2013. Sarah is a project man- for Booz Allen; Joe works as an hood in Baltimore, Md. ager for Children’s Hospital of engineer at Naval Air Systems Philadelphia. The family lives in 5 9 14 Command. They are looking Jessica Romano Zacharias To Philadelphia, Pa. forward to taking walks with ’99 and Ron Zacharias, a son, their little boy around Historic St. [4] Dylan Brooks , born April 26, To Richard Romer ’04 and Mary’s City this spring. The fam- 2013. Jessica and Ron both work Laura McKeever, a daughter, ily lives in Lexington Park, Md. for Fairfax County Public Schools. Audra Grace [10], born Feb. The family lives in Springfield, Va. 16, 2014. She joins big brother, To Donald Dyott Jr. ’06 and Broderick, age 2, and big sister, Allison Muehl Dyott ’07, a Kristina Maust Butler ’01 To Isela, age 6. Audra’s godparents daughter, Fiona Mae [15], born and David Butler, a son, Wyatt are Jayson Williams ’03 and Nov. 12, 2013. Donnie is a plan- [5] David , born Feb. 5, 2014. He Matt Newcomer ’05. Rich ning technician with the Anne joins big sisters, Kadence, age 7 works for AAA’s national office Arundel County Planning and and Brienne, age 4. Kristina is as manager of state relations; Zoning Department; Allison is a an acute care nurse practitioner Laura is a senior manager with senior manager for community at West Virginia University Hos- Connections Education. The events with the American Cancer pitals; David works for the state family lives in Silver Spring, Md. Society in Baltimore, Md. The of Maryland. The family lives in family lives in Annapolis, Md. Grantsville, Md.

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her adult life traveling the coun- is survived by his wife, Kathryn; Gladys Hill Long, Sandra Hill Station Patuxent River, she was IN MEMORIAM try while her husband, Colonel three sons, Phillip, Bruce and Guy and Kathleen Hill Hindt. co-valedictorian of her Great Mills Carter Cobb, was on active duty. Matt Greig; stepchildren, Scott High School class, received a B.A. She is survived by her children, Todd and Mary Tyler; step Erika Dar Brightful ’07, of in home economics from Western Mary Lee Pollitt Kolb ’37 Anne, Greg, Drew and Kirsten, granddaughter, April Tyler; and Ellicott City, Md., died Nov. Maryland College (now McDaniel JC, of Allen, Md., died Jan. 21, and grandchildren, Logan, his brother, Tom Greig. 27, 2013, at age 29. Born in College) and a master’s degree in 2014, at age 95. Appointed by Carter, Travis, and Texas. Baltimore, Md., she grew up in home economics from Pennsylva- President Lyndon B. Johnson, Mary Willis Spencer-Smith Baltimore and Prince George’s nia State University. After teaching she was the Allen postmaster Diane Barnes Graue ’54 JC, ’80, of Hampstead, Md., died counties. During high school, at St. Mary’s, she returned to for 35 years (1967-2002). Mary of Bellevue, Wash., died Aug. Jan. 24, 2014, at age 56. A she participated in the Maryland Great Mills High School where and her husband David ran 13, 2013, at age 79. Born on native of Baltimore, Md., she Leadership Workshop and the she continued teaching home eco- the Peninsula Farm Market in Maryland’s Eastern Shore, she attended St. Mary’s College University of Maryland College nomics until she retired in 1991. Allen for 50 years. She was the attended St. Mary’s Seminary for two years and received her Park’s pre-college program. After One of the first women to drive organist at Allen Asbury United Junior College until she mar- bachelor’s degree in 1981 from her 2002 graduation from Eleanor the Alaskan Highway after World Methodist Church for over 70 ried her husband, Robert, in the University of Alabama. After Roosevelt High School, she War II, she also was the first years. Mary is survived by her 1955 in Annapolis, Md. As a spending many years in retail, enrolled in the Prince George’s female member of a bank board daughter, Agnes Kolb Culp and military spouse, she travelled she found her true calling work- Community College’s Honor of directors south of the Mason husband John; three grandchil- the world with her family until ing with children with special Program, completing five semes- Dixon line. Nell is survived by her dren, David and Andrew Culp they settled in Bellevue, Wash. needs and disabilities, first in ters before transferring to St. husband, Julius Levay; daughter, and Lea Knarr; and three great- in the 1960s. Always active in elementary education, then at Mary’s College in January 2005. Ann Levay Chaconas; son, John grandchildren, Chase and Caleb the local community, she was Kennedy Krieger High School in While at St. Mary’s, Erika was Levay; and four grandchildren. Culp and Marielle Knarr. a member of the parent-teacher Baltimore. Mary is survived by a member of the Black Student association, League of Women her husband, Chuck; children, Union and the History Club; Martin Edward Sullivan, of Pin- Elizabeth “Lib” Hays Tolbert Voters, Bellevue Library board, Elizabeth and Michael; and her served as an orientation leader, a ey Point, Md., died Feb. 25, 2014, ’44 HS, of Barnesville, Md., and the Pacific Regent’s board of brother, Benjamin Spencer. resident adviser, vice president for at age 70. He spent three decades died Feb. 17, 2014, at age 88. Lib directors. Diane is survived by Circle K International and senior working in museums in New served as mayor of Barnesville her children, Karla Graue Pratt, Mary Catherine Hill Stone ’80, class treasurer. She graduated York, Arizona and Maryland. A for 30 years. After graduating Robert and Richard Graue; and of Park Hall, Md., died Nov. from St. Mary’s with a history former adjunct history professor from St. Mary’s Seminary, she her grandchildren, Maya and 19, 2013, at age 87. A native of major, then received her master’s at St. Mary’s College, he was the attended the Garfield Hospital Elisa Graue, and Henry Pratt. St. Mary’s County, Md., she at- of education degree in 2009 founding director of the College’s nursing school in Washington, tended St. Michael’s Elementary from Salisbury University. Most museum studies program and D.C. In 1946, she married Aleda Marie-Louise Bunch ’59 School in Ridge, Md. where she recently, Erika was an assistant served from 1999-2008 as the di- Samuel Tolbert and as an Air HS, of Cockeysville, Md., died met her future husband in the director of residential life at the rector of Historic St. Mary’s City. Force spouse, accompanied her Jan. 27, 2014, at age 72. fifth grade. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University Home- In 2008, he became the director husband to assignments in Eu- St. Mary’s College in 1980, she wood Campus, where she was of The Smithsonian’s National rope and throughout the United Richard Greig ’59 JC, of Mil- worked in the College’s library. responsible for three residence Portrait Gallery from where he States. She first ran for mayor of ton, Del., died Jan. 27, 2014, at Active in the local community, halls housing 700 undergraduate retired in 2012. Awarded an hon- Barnesville in 1965 and served age 75. A native of Washington, she helped found the St. Cecilia’s students. Erika is survived by her orary doctor of education degree four years. In 1975 she again ran D.C., Dick received a bachelor’s Catholic Church’s food pantry. mother, Paulette McKeython; from St. Mary’s in 2010, he joined for mayor and served until she degree from Towson State Uni- She was preceded in death by her sisters Kia McNeil, Dana Cooper the College’s Board of Trust- retired in 2001. The Washing- versity, a master’s degree from husband, Raymond Hammett and Sabrina Brightful; nephew ees in 2011 and was a staunch ton Post described her as “The the University of Maryland, Stone, who was ground main- Trey Cooper; and the love of her admirer of the school’s liberal arts straight-talking lady don of Mont- and his doctorate from George tenance foreman at the College life, Andrew Camp. philosophy, seeing the College gomery County politics.” Lib is Washington University. He had for 23 years and owned Little as a model for 21st-century higher survived by her children, Eleanor a distinguished career in educa- Snow Hill Farm in Park Hall, FACULTY & FRIENDS education. In 2014 he received Lawrence, and Richard and John tion in Maryland, Virginia and Md. Mary Catherine is survived OF THE COLLEGE the American Alliance of Mu- Tolbert; three grandchildren; two Pennsylvania school districts, by her children, Mary Ann Stone seum’s award for distinguished great granddaughters; and her working as a teacher, vice prin- Bean, Ernest Stone, Teresa Stone service to museums. Marty is Nell Quirk Levay, of St. Mary’s sister, Mary While Lok. cipal, principal and superinten- Wood, Betty Lynn Stone Klug, survived by his wife, Katherine City, Md., died March 1, 2014, at dent. After retiring in 1988, he John Stone; daughter-in-law, Joyce Hostetter Sullivan; daughters, age 89. A former member of the Barbara “Bobbie” Gray Cobb stayed active as a member of Stone Bean; 18 grandchildren; 12 Abigail Sullivan Maslin ’04 St. Mary’s College faculty, she ’49 HS, of Satellite Beach, his local Democratic Party, the great grandchildren; her siblings, and Bethany Sullivan; stepson, taught home economics courses Fla., died Oct. 25, 2012, at age Milton Garden Club, Milton Ellen Hill Hewitt, Woodrow Hill, James Cole; one grandson; and from 1967-69. Born in Pearson, 80. Bobbie grew up in Calvert Historical Society and Friends of Thomas Hill, Patsy Hill Wood, his brother, John. Md., now the site of Naval Air County, Md. but spent most of the Milton Public Library. Dick Audie Hill Sydnor, Michael Hill,

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ashington, d.c. is Fehrs contends that the alumni a global city. There are component of the program is a unique W countless non-profits, and rewarding aspect of the intern- think tanks, and non-governmental ship. He says, “The alumni assume an organizations (NGOs) as well as pun- important part of the student’s profes- dits, politicians, and powerbrokers of sional development by offering their every stripe. In addition, Washington advice and experience. Throughout is an epicenter of higher education the summer, students meet with alum- with more than a dozen colleges and ni for coffee or lunch and get a taste of universities. Students from around what working in the District is really the world flock to the District to en- like.” Kerry Crawford ’07, an alumna gage in scholarship of every kind, mentor who is currently pursuing a pursue coveted internships, and build PhD in international affairs at George careers. Within this fast-paced atmo- Washington University says of the sphere of study and statecraft, there program, “St. Mary’s is unique in that exists a thriving and diverse group the alumni truly want to give back and of people: the St. Mary’s College of help current students in any way we Maryland community. can; the tightly-knit community we “For a small school, St. Mary’s all enjoy as students lasts beyond our truly punches above its weight when years on campus.” it comes to producing alums involved Shafqat believes that with political affairs.” This is an ob- the younger generation of servation that Matt Fehrs, assistant alumni living and working professor of political science, shares in D.C. offers a particularly with St. Mary’s colleague Sahar valuable perspective to the Shafqat, associate professor of po- students. “The newer alums litical science. Together, they lead the truly understand what it’s College’s Washington Program. like out there as young profes- The realization that so many St. sionals, they can approach the Mary’s community members were interns on their own terms, pursuing successful careers in the District, they can relate to the challeng- coupled with the private, philanthropic sup- es and provide tailor-made ad- port of St. Mary’s community members, was vice. This is not your typical corporate mentor the impetus for Shafqat and Fehrs in establish- “My first time on Capitol program, but instead a relationship bound by ing the Washington Program. Created in the Hill was surreal.... the shared experiences of a St. Mary’s educa- summer of 2012, the Washington Program is tion and ethos. The professional and network- designed to introduce political science students For someone studying ing advice garnered is truly invaluable.” to the incredible scholastic and professional political science, having Ambitious, intelligent and cosmopolitan, Zara resource that is D.C. The program is a three- the opportunity to Marvi ’14 exemplifies the energetic cohort of St. part, summer-long curriculum that entails Mary’s students pursuing education and careers intensive classwork to establish an “intellectu- regularly be in the same within Washington. Marvi, who went to high ally rigorous theoretical foundation” in policy room with national school in Singapore, was hardly intimidated followed by an internship and an alumni peer figures was ideal.” by D.C.’s fast-paced, global current. She felt in- mentorship. Shafqat and Fehrs work to pair vigorated and at home as a sophomore intern students with internships relevant to their aca- —Zara Marvi ’14 in the Washington Program during the summer demic interests and pursuits, connecting them of 2012. Harnessing a passion for global affairs with an alumni peer mentor that works in a field and civil rights, she was placed as an intern with related to the student’s internship. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). PHR taps

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into the international community of physi- He learned that the realities of successful cians and medical professionals to investi- campaign work are predicated on the abil- gate, report and help prosecute various war ity to talk to people, even those who dis- criminals by using the documentary tools agree with you. Canfield’s willingness to hit of medical science. the pavement and connect with the public For Marvi, working with an organiza- did not go unnoticed by the higher-ups in tion such as PHR was not merely a sum- the RNC, and he was recognized as one of mer gig, but rather a professional affirmation top: 2012 Washington Program group. above: 2013 the hardest-working campaigners. Canfield was that allowed her to put her analytical strengths Washington Program group. invited to return to the RNC during the summer in writing and research to work. Her internship of 2013, where he continued to grow and develop consisted of an exciting array of professional as- an invaluable professional network. signments that sound more in keeping with a “The contacts I came Following graduation in May, Canfield looks junior State Department desk officer than the away with from the forward to starting a position with the federal duties of a 19-year old. government as a security specialist for the Navy, Marvi recalls a typical day in the District as internship experience but not before traveling to the Czech Republic beginning before the summer sun rose above the were incredible.” to teach English this summer. In addition to his Potomac, and riding the metro to Farragut-North exciting opportunity with the Navy, Canfield —Luke Savonis ’14 station, where the headquarters of her NGO was was also named a Fulbright Scholar finalist this located. Following a morning staff meeting, sur- past February. He attributes a great deal of his rounded by world-class analysts, case managers success both as a student and a burgeoning and medical investigators, she would be briefed government professional to his St. Mary’s and on her assignment and dispatched to Capitol professions. For students of political science and Washington Program experiences. Hill. It was her job to note and report on various public policy, few things are more exciting than Luke Savonis describes himself as very much Congressional hearings related to foreign policy having the opportunity to serve on a campaign, dedicated to social justice and political equality. relevant to PHR’s global operations. Speaking of especially when the candidates are vying for the Unsurprisingly, he is a senior student judicial her memorable experience, Marvi remembers, White House. Griffin Canfield ’14 and Luke adviser for J-Board, the student government “My first time on Capitol Hill was surreal.... Savonis ’14 both experienced first-hand the in- body responsible for maintaining conduct on For someone studying political science, having ner workings of the 2012 presidential campaign campus. Campaigning as a Summer Fellow for the opportunity to regularly be in the same room when they respectively interned with the Re- the Obama for America initiative, Savonis was with national figures was ideal.” publican National Committee (RNC) and the tasked with a variety of responsibilities includ- Marvi took away much more from the Wash- Democratic National Committee (DNC). ing spearheading voter enrollment drives and ington Program than just college credit. Reflect- As typical with many of the St. Mary’s stu- phone banking on behalf of the president. Tak- ing on the collective experience, she came away dents involved with the Washington Program, ing part in a political campaign was, he says, with lasting professional development in a field Canfield is an active member of the campus “very hard work and time consuming, but that is notoriously hard to break into. She notes, community, participating in the College Re- uniquely rewarding in its own right.” In particu- “The non-profit contacts I made working with publicans, the Omicron Delta Kappa honors lar, Savonis notes that seeing President Obama PHR are worth so much. I got to routinely en- society and serving as a residence assistant in in person at a local fundraising event served to gage in discussions over coffee and lunch with Dorchester Hall. “affirm my commitment to campaign for key is- well-regarded professionals in a field I aspire to Through the Washington Program, Canfield sues such as healthcare reform and reinvigorat- join.” When Marvi graduates in May, she plans was placed into the highly selective Eisenhower ing the American economy.” on taking time off to travel before pursuing Summer Internship, where he was one of only Over the course of his Washington Program graduate studies and a career. However, thanks fifty students from across the country to serve experience, Savonis encountered and spoke to to the experience of the Washington Program, at RNC campaign headquarters. Early on in the numerous high-profile Maryland democrats in- she is confident that when the time comes, like internship, he lent his passion and knowledge cluding Governor Martin O’Malley and Sena- so many St. Mary’s students past and pres- of political science to assist RNC officials pro- tor Ben Cardin. Having the opportunity to in- ent, she will be competitive for even the most mote grass roots support in critical areas. In this teract with leading figures within the Beltway sought-after jobs within the Beltway. capacity, Canfield found himself in the trenches political community was both hugely exciting The Washington Program internships are not of campaign work, going door-to-door canvass- for him, and rewarding from a professional just limited to non-profits and NGOs, but offer ing on behalf of Mitt Romney. networking perspective. “The contacts I came St. Mary’s students the full spectrum of Beltway away with from the internship experience were

26 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 incredible,” says Savonis. “I have no doubt that support network. Students take away from the Funds for the Washington Program working on the presidential campaign during program not only experience, but also invalu- were made possible through the the summer of 2012 helped me to secure an able professional contacts with leaders from the College’s Heritage Campaign which internship with Congressman Steny Hoyer the realm of NGOs, non-profits and Capitol Hill. culminated in December 2005. following summer.” Combined with the wisdom and knowledge of a Savonis is confident that the skills he acquired broad, enthusiastic alumni community base, St. from the Washington Program will serve him Mary’s students who take part in the Washing- well as he prepares for his next adventure with ton Program are set up for success. To be sure, the Peace Corps following graduation. professors Shafqat and Fehrs are encouraged by Washington, D.C. is a vibrant and youthful the success of the curriculum thus far, and hope city, attracting some of the most ambitious and to expand the program down the road. Ultimate- talented young people from around the world. It ly, the dynamic liberal arts education afforded by is an environment that is as fiercely independent St. Mary’s and innovative opportunities such as it is competitive, making the Washington Pro- as the Washington Program – made possible in gram all the more valuable in giving St. Mary’s part through private funding – help to make our students a leg up both in acquiring coveted in- students uniquely qualified to thrive in a global ternships and providing them with an alumni economy and environment. 

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St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 | 27 FROM THE ARCHIVES CALVERT LEGACY CONNECTED TO COLLEGE AND MARYLAND STATE SEAL By Kent Randell, College archivist and assistant librarian

Many people know the story of the with fiberglass, clay, and Bondo (car founding of Maryland as a setting for body filler). Their ingenious repair job an experiment in religious toleration. lasted 30 years, but didn’t survive the George Calvert, First Baron Baltimore, battering of several late summer storms with his sons Cecil and Leonard in 2013. The seal of clay and Bondo Calvert, sought colonies in the New finally shed this mortal coil and was World, in part, to create a refuge for taken down in November. English Catholics. In keeping with Calvert’s vision for Maryland, all those A new state seal for the 21st century that practiced Christianity, regardless is in the works. This one, designed of denomination, would not experience by former St. Mary’s student Patricia the same persecution that the Calverts Lore and fabricated by Sign Designs, is experienced as Catholics in England. made of cellulose acetate butyrate and George Calvert served in St. Mary’s painted from the back to avoid fading City as first Governor of Maryland from in the sun. It will be affixed to Calvert 1634 – 1647. Hall’s front portico this spring to once again grace the “Monument School.” After the capital of Maryland moved from St. Mary’s City to Annapolis in 1694, the former seat of government became farmland. As the 200th anniversary of the founding of St. Mary’s City approached, the Maryland legislature created St. Mary’s Female Seminary as a “living monument” to the Calvert legacy. In January of 1846 the Trustees noted that, “no spirit of proselytism, no clashing of conflicting creeds, or controversial questions of churches shall be permitted within the walls of this institution, an institution founded on the consecrated spot where free toleration on the top right: Simone Kiere’84 paints subject of religion first promulgated.” the restored iron seal. The Calvert family motto and crest above: Facilities handyman Robert became the Maryland state motto and Russell applied Bondo automotive seal in 1874. The first state seal to body filler to build up missing features adorn the front portico of Calvert Hall on on the old iron seal. left and above: Maryland’s state motto, which is the campus of St. Mary’s was crafted These and other photos from the 1983 also the Calvert family motto, is by the Aluisi Brothers of Baltimore out restoration are taken from a photo the only state motto that is not in of painted iron in 1929, the same year album donated to the Archives. the riverside wing was added to the Latin. Its Italian “Fatti maschii building. That seal lasted 50 years but parole femine” literally means by 1983 had fallen into disrepair. With “manly deeds, feminine words” financial support of concerned alumna but is better translated as “strong Lucy Spedden ’16 HS, a determined deeds, gentle words.” group of St. Mary’s facilities staff members and students sought to repair the old iron seal. Simone Kiere ’84 was the lead painter, while St. Mary’s own Robert Russell filled in missing parts

28 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2014 Memories Are Blooming

Plan your campus visit around these upcoming events:

Commencement May 17 at 10 am Gwen Ifill,Commencement speaker Townhouse Green

ICSA Sailing National Championships May 31 – June 6 (finals covered by ESPNU)

Alumni Weekend June 12-15 Across the Ages: An Alumni Exhibition June 13 – August 3 Boyden Gallery

River Concert Series June 20 – July 25 (Friday evenings at 7 pm) Townhouse Green www.smcm.edu/riverconcert

Baltimore Orioles vs. Tampa Bay Rays June 27 at 7:05 pm Camden Yards, Baltimore Pre-game event at Pickles Pub from 5-7 pm Game tickets while they last at www.smcm.edu/alum

Chesapeake Writers’ Conference July 6-12 www.smcm.edu/summer/writing

Governor’s Cup Yacht Race August 1-2 www.smcm.edu/govcup

Hawktoberfest at Family Weekend October 3-4

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