Finding My Place That Was Then, This Is

ST. MARY’S COLLEGE of Maryland

SPRING 2015

ST. MARY’S: 175 YEARS

THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW This Place Where We Are [ PAGE 6 ]

FINDING MY PLACE at the Monument School: A Current Student Reflects on the College’s History [ PAGE 14 ] ST. MARY’S COLLEGE of Maryland

SPRING 2015, VOL. XXXVI, NO. 2

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Editor Lee Capristo Alumni Editor Kathy Cummings Design Skelton Design Photographer Bill Wood Editorial Board Karen Anderson, Cheryl Bates-Lee, Lee Capristo, Kathy Cummings, Elizabeth Graves ’95, Missy Beck Lemke ’92, Nairem Moran ’99, Karen Raley ’94, Gary Sherman, 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 honors 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 popular 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 2015 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 2015

ST. MARY’S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND July 1, 2014 — June 30, 2015 FEATURES

ALUMNI COUNCIL BOARD OF TRUSTEES PAGE 6 Executive Board Chair That Was Then, Danielle Troyan ’92, Ms. Gail Harmon, Esq. This is Now President Vice Chair Todd Purring ’86, Ms. Cindy Broyles ’79 “This Place Where We Are,” by Vice President Angie Harvey ’83, Treasurer professor Jeffrey Hammond. Secretary Mr. John Chambers Alice Arcieri Bonner ’03, Wobensmith ’93 PAGE 14 Parliamentarian Secretary Jim Wood ’61, Treasurer Dr. Lawrence “Larry” E. Finding My Place Leak ’76 Elected Voting Members [ PAGE 6 ] A current student reflects on the Emily Brown ’10 Trustees Camille Campanella ’12 Mr. Carlos Alcazar value of the College’s history. David Cribbs ’74 Mr. Arthur “Lex” Birney, Jr. Donna Denny ’81 Mr. Donny Bryan ’73 PAGE 28 Barbara Dinsenbacher ’56 Ms. Peg Duchesne ’77 Laurel Tringali Eierman ’84 Ms. Elizabeth Graves ’95 Mark Fedders ’74 Rear Admiral Timothy Memorabilia Kate Fritz ’04 “Tim” Heely, USN Retired from the Archives Chris Holt ’86 The Honorable Missy Beck Lemke ’92 Sven Erik Holmes A snapshot of St. Mary’s Ryan McQuighan ’05 The Honorable Laurie Menser ’01 Steny Hoyer in earlier times. Jeremy Pevner ’09 Captain Glen Ives, Allan Wagaman ’06 USN Retired Jayson Williams ’03 Mr. Gary Jobson Ms. Molly Mahoney DEPARTMENTS Student Member Matthews [ PAGE 14 ] Jemile Safaraliyeva ’15 Mr. John J. McAllister 2 President’s Letter Ms. Ann McDaniel 3 College News Chapter Presidents Mr. James P. Muldoon Annapolis: Mr. Michael O’Brien ’68 24 Alumni Connection Erin O’Connell ’91 Ms. Katharine Russell Baltimore: Ms. Taylor Schafer ’15 32 From the Archives Dallas Hayden ’06 Ms. Danielle Troyan ’92 Boston: Kyle McGrath ’11 D.C. Metro: Matt Schafle ’10 Denver: Alisa Ambrose ’85 New York: Christelle Niamke ’05 Philadelphia: Emma Prasher ’09 [ PAGE 28 ] San Francisco: Micah Cupid-Benons ’09 Southern Maryland: COVER: Cathy Hernandez Ray ’77 Alex Bird ’16 holding a photograph of Mrs. Theodora Western Maryland: (nee Anderson) Norris, who attended St. Mary’s Kristi Jacobs Woods ’97 Female Seminary in the early 1850s. From Monument School of the People: A Sesquicentennial History of St. Mary’s Staff College of Maryland 1840–1990 by J. Frederick Fausz. David Sushinsky ’02 Photo by Howard Korn Beth Byrd OPPOSITE: Lawrence MacCurtain ’11 “Bedtime for the Class of 1945” by Maxine Slyder Angle ’45jc. Courtesy College Archives

St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2015 | 1 A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

A LETTER TO M. ADELE FRANCE

“ here is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire Editor’s Note which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and T beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”1 My, how you embodied this! agazine editors employ Many would have walked away if a fire destroyed their main building just days before readership surveys as a means the semester was to begin, but not you. You said, “We shall carry on!” and without missing M to gauge whether or not a magazine is robust. a beat, you managed to rally the “troops” and open the school within a month. How Last summer we conducted a Mulberry you were able to live in the Trinity Rectory during those four weeks with 30 other adults Tree readership survey with alumni. We sharing one bathroom I’ll never know. asked readers 20 questions about what You led the institution through the Depression and had the grit to spend 18 months they enjoy most about the magazine, what refuting what could have been the death knell for the institution when the Marbury section they go to first, what they’d like to see that isn’t there and if they think it Commission recommended its closure! You knew that small class sizes and a liberal arts represents the institution truthfully. We also curriculum were essential for success. asked if the magazine called them to action They still are. Thank you for all you did on behalf of their alma mater. Here are the I wonder what would be your to help us get here. You details of what the survey revealed: • Of 8,750 solicited, 541 responded (equal- reaction if you were to walk onto have my word that I will ing just more than a 6% response rate). campus today. We are still working to work as hard as you to • Eighty-nine percent of those responding keep the College affordable and, like facilitate the long-term read most or all of each Mulberry Tree maga- you, I came aboard recommending zine and hang on to their copies for more that we not raise tuition and the stability and viability of than a month. A full 90% of respondents prefer a paper copy to an online magazine. board fully supported that request. this wonderful institution • Mulberry Tree readers are interested in a Our modern-day Marbury report is on the banks of the river. range of subjects appearing in the maga- the popular press and not a month zine, with slightly higher interest (46% to goes by without our hearing of the 53%) in class notes; campus facilities demise of liberal arts. If you were and growth; student research/academic experiences; student achievements; faculty to spend a day with me, you might think that things have not changed much since you selection, promotion, retirements. Less presided over the College’s centennial anniversary but that assessment would be incorrect. interesting (less than 40%) to readers are When you refuted the Marbury report, the College was the only post-secondary school faculty publications; athletics; fund-raising in Southern Maryland. Although that has changed, there still is none like us in the area. efforts and stories about donors; admissions policies and results; Commencement; The College now has 42, not two, buildings. Our campus has a racial and ethnic diversity and alumni in their personal lives. that I am certain you never imagined. The curriculum remains grounded in the liberal arts • The magazine’s readers admit to tak- and has grown to be quite interdisciplinary, a necessity in the 21st century as we prepare ing the following actions as a result of our students to be as successful as your foundation led them to be in the 20th century. reading the Mulberry Tree: of roughly 200 This year we celebrate our 175th anniversary. Thank you for all you did to help us get respondents, 78% submitted a class note; 75% made a donation to the college; 74% here. You have my word that I will work as hard as you to facilitate the long-term stability contacted a classmate or friend; and 74% and viability of this wonderful institution on the banks of the river. recommended St. Mary’s to a potential student or family member. Thank you to all who responded to the survey. Your feedback helps us know what’s working and what to strive for in future Dr. Tuajuanda C. Jordan, President, St. Mary’s College of Maryland issues. With this 175th anniversary issue, we think we’ve put together a magazine 1 An excerpt from Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book (1819) you’ll want to keep! Lee Capristo, editor

2 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2015 Harkonen to COLLEGE Direct CSD Maija Harkonen has been named NEWS executive director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, effective March CAMPUS & COMMUNITY NEWS Kern Selected 10, 2015. Harkonen comes from for International Helsinki, Finland, where she served Institute as director of strategic partner- ships for the Finnish Consulting Lily Kern ’15 (anthropology, Group International, Ltd. Prior to religious studies double major) has FCG, Harkonen led international been accepted to participate in the business development efforts, with 2015 international Institute of Islamic a focus on Europe and China, for Thought Summer Student Program the U.S. private sector. She holds a in Islamic Studies. The competitive, Ph.D. from Georgetown University. month-long intensive program is comprised of 18 graduating seniors Bates-Lee Joins and graduate students from an international pool of candidates. Executive Council Cheryl Bates- St. Mary’s is Lee has been a College that named associate vice president Pays You Back of marketing, The Princeton Review says that St. strategic com- Mary’s College of Maryland is one of munications and the nation’s best college for students web services, effective February seeking great academics, outstand- 16, 2015. The position serves on ing career preparation and generous the president’s executive council. financial aid in its inaugural book, Bates-Lee comes from Norfolk BrainSTEM and Brain Bee “Colleges that Pay You Back: The State University where she was 200 Best Value Colleges and What assistant vice president of univer- Expose Teens to Neuroscience It Takes to Get In” (2015 edition). sity relations. Great Mills High School student Chandler Wyatt was one of several who participated in BrainSTEM, a four-week introduction to the neuroscience program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. The program, led by associate professor Anne Marie Brady and students in her neuroscience classes, provided hands-on exploration of brains and topical preparation for the Southern Maryland Brain Bee, held on campus February 21. PHOTO: BILL WOOD The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry received by LaGuerre Garners Elite donation an inductively coupled Basketball Awards plasma optical emission spec- Senior caption/guard Nicholas LaGuerre (#20 above) was trometer from the Navy through selected to the NABC Coaches’ Division III All-America Second an Educational Partnership Team. This is LaGuerre’s first All-America citation and the high- Agreement between the Naval Air est All-America accolade ever received by a Seahawk men’s Warfare Center Aircraft Division basketball player. He was also named to the NABC Coaches’ (NAWCAD), The Patuxent Part- All-Middle Atlantic District First Team and played in the 2015 nership and the College. Reese’s Division III College All-Star game on March 21, 2015.

St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2015 | 3 Dr. Jordan was honored as an “Influential Marylander” by The Daily Record

PresidentPRESIDENT’S Jordan NEWS President Kojo Nnamdi U.S. News & Interviews World Report CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION President Jordan Publishes INTERVIEWS PRESIDENT on Radio Show President’s For its “On Leadership” video series, the Chronicle of On March 10, President Opinion Piece Higher Education interviewed President Tuajuanda C. Tuajuanda C. Jordan was the Jordan on a piece titled “A New President’s Task is Crisis President Tuajuanda C. Jordan’s featured guest on “The Kojo Management” which aired on February 16. opinion piece, “Thinking Nnamdi Show,” a daily news Outside the Box,” on how program produced by American our technology-driven future University’s WAMU 88.5. The needs the skills of liberal arts topic was the future of the graduates, appeared in the liberal arts institution. magazine’s January 12 issue.

“Happy Dodransbicentennial Anniversary!” President Tuajuanda C. Jordan was joined by students and Board member Peg Duchesne ’77 on March 24 to cut the cake celebrating the 175th President Jordan President Jordan anniversary of the founding of Selected as Gives Keynote St. Mary’s. Artifacts from the an Influential Address College Archives were on display as part of the lunchtime event. Marylander The St. Mary’s County Commis- President Tuajuanda C. Jordan sion for Women invited President was honored as an “Influential Tuajuanda C. Jordan to give the Marylander” on March 28 at an keynote address at its National event in Cockeysville, Md. by Women’s History Month banquet The Daily Record. Fifty-one honor- on March 19. A transcript of ees were selected by the editors of the address is available at www. The Daily Record for their signifi- smcm.edu/president. cant contributions to their respective fields and for their leadership Huffington in Maryland in the following Post Publishes areas: civic leadership, com- President’s OpEd munications, education, finance, freestyle, general business, health On March 24, the Huffington care, law, philanthropy, real estate Post published President Tua- and technology. juanda C. Jordan’s opinion piece, “5 Myths About Liberal Arts Col- leges – Set the Record Straight: Celebrations are scheduled throughout the year. An Education in the Liberal See www.smcm.edu/175 for more information. Arts Is a Great Decision.”

4 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2015 Ken Cohen will work with Côte D’Ivoire’s national museum as it recovers from having lost most of its collections during the 2010-11 civil war.

FACULTY & STAFF NEWS

Jennifer Cognard- scientific contributions to the field Black, profes- of intellectual and developmental sor of English disabilities. Glidden is currently and co-editor serving as interim vice president with Melissa A. for academic affairs and dean of Goldthwaite of faculty at St. Mary’s. “Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Chuck Adler, professor of phys- Meal” (NYU Press, 2014), had ics, and Josh Grossman, associate that book reviewed in the British professor of physics, received a Times Literary Supplement in $1,000 donation of equipment February. Cognard-Black was from the Advanced Laboratory interviewed about the book last Physics Association for an Ulvac PHOTO: BILL WOOD October as a guest on “The Kojo G-20DA two-stage rough pump. Nnamdi Show.” Cohen is Awarded Fulbright Anne Marie Laraine Masters Brady, associ- Ken Cohen, associate professor of history and coordinator of the Glidden, distin- ate professor Museum Studies Program, was awarded a 2015-16 Fulbright Fellowship. Cohen will teach graduate courses in American Studies guished professor of psychology, at Université Félix Houphoüet-Boigny in Côte D’Ivoire. He will also of psychology received a $2,000 work with Côte D’Ivoire’s national museum to develop online and and human devel- donation from other programming as the museum recovers from having lost most opment emerita, PHOTO: L MACCURTAIN the Pfizer Corpo- of its collections during the 2010-11 civil war. was awarded ration for research and teaching the Edgar A. Doll Award for lab supplies. research in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Adriana Brodsky, associate The Doll Award, presented by professor of history, was research on “Navigating Multiple Alan and Lindsay Jamieson, Division 33 of the American awarded a $4,000 grant from Diasporas: Argentine Sephardi associate professors of com- Psychological Association, is the the American Philosophical Youth at Home and in Israel, puter science, were awarded a division’s highest recognition of Society Franklin Research 1948-1976.” 2014 Google Computer Science a career marked by outstanding Grants Program to support her Engagement Grant for $5,000 to support the computer science Barrett Emerick, assistant pro- emerging scholars program. fessor of philosophy, was named to Nerdscholar’s Second Annual Julie King, professor of anthro- “40 Under 40: Professors Who pology, received a $25,000 grant Inspire” list. Professors on the from the Chesapeake Conserva- list “inspire young adults of to- tory to identify and represent day to be the world leaders and thinkers of tomorrow” and are the Nanjemoy Creek Watershed chosen based on nominations Indigenous Cultural Landscape. from their students, alumni and faculty colleagues. A colleague on Emerick’s profile noted, “In three years, he’s mentored a shocking 14 senior honor theses, in multiple areas, which is a testament to how much stu- Barrett Emerick with some of his students dents want to work with him.”

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By Jeffrey Hammond, professor of English and George B. and Willma Reeves Distinguished Professor in the Liberal Arts ’m standing on the bluff at the edge of the cemetery overlooking Church Point, peering down Ithrough the trees toward the cross at the water’s edge. At my back, beyond Trinity Church, lies the campus of St. Mary’s College of Maryland. This spot, more than any other, reminds me that I teach at a place defined by a double confluence: a coming together of land with water and past with present.

Photos by Howard Korn St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2015 | 7 8 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2015 The landscape’s constant reminder of time as a medium that both embraces and transcends us also makes us aware of our fragility, of the ephemeral span of our lives. To be educated in a place like this is to realize that we have no time to waste.

St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2015 | 9 At St. Mary’s the past engages the present with a similarly direct gaze, pulling us into the ongoing, collective story of this place.

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Although Alsop’s map labels nearly every river feeding into the Bay, it identifies only one settlement by name: In places defined by confluence, the surfaces of “St. Maryes.” I find it aston- ly posed beaver; on the Virginia side of the Po- things never tell the whole story, because what we tomac a dog-like bear nibbles on an exotic tree; see is always a fragment of a larger picture. To live ishing that a map published near the Pennsylvania line a wild pig glares at the in such a place with open eyes brings the recogni- Susquehanna River. tion, at once humbling and enabling, that ours is one year before Milton’s Although Alsop’s map labels nearly every river not the only story and that we are not alone here. Paradise Lost identifies the feeding into the Bay, it identifies only one settle- We come together as students and teachers in ment by name: “St. Maryes.” I find it astonishing classrooms and laboratories and studios, but the place where I teach. that a map published one year before Milton’s lessons to be learned at St. Mary’s are also embed- Paradise Lost identifies the place where I teach. ded, like geological strata, in the topography itself. This fact is both endlessly fascinating and oddly Simply being here is an education, provided that disorienting. Alsop’s map distorts the Bay and we attend to what this place can teach us. its rivers into a more rectilinear pattern than ap- pears in satellite photos, but that’s not his fault: he spot where I’m standing it’s always difficult to see places clearly, especially can be seen on a seventeenth-cen- from unattainable perspectives. Even from a per- tury map of the Chesapeake Bay spective that is attainable, when we’re looking out drawn by George Alsop, “Gent.” from where we stand, land becomes “landscape” The map appeared in A Character – a shaped artifact – the instant we perceive it, its Tof the Province of Maryland, published in London natural forms bending to ideas and desires that by the twenty-eight-year-old Alsop after he spent we can’t help projecting onto it. The long history four years as an indentured servant in Baltimore of St. Mary’s makes this site even harder to see County. Scattered across the wilderness that sur- than most, because wherever you look, you are rounds the Bay are several awkwardly drawn peering through time as well as space. beasts that look more medieval than zoological. CITY MARY’S HISTORIC ST. COURTESY Those stylized animals, along with the towering Near what is now Upper Marlboro stands a stiff- 17th century map of the Chesapeake Bay by George Alsop. figure of an Indian firing a musket over present-

A St. Mary’s Timeline 1840 1845 LEGISLATION APPROVED SEMINARY BUILDING The Maryland legislature COMPLETE 1839 authorizes a state-wide lottery Construction is officially com- A LIVING MONUMENT to finance the construction of plete on a two-story, double- a public, non-denominational Three men of lower St. Mary’s porticoed, “Plantation Greek” boarding “seminary” (acad- County (a physician, a lawyer, building referred to as “the emy) in St. Mary’s City. The and a planter) respond to Ken- Seminary Building.” It looks out school will educate girls in the nedy’s history and decide to on a massive but decaying mul- elementary grades through get themselves elected to the berry tree that greeted Leonard high school. A state-supported Maryland legislature -- apparent- Calvert’s arrival in 1634 and school, it will offer lower tuition ly for the sole purpose of push- Trinity Episcopal Church. The than similiar institutions and ing through a bill that would church was built in 1829 with 1874 have an independent board of create a “living monument” bricks recovered from the aban- FIRST DIPLOMA GRANTED trustees and a board-appointed (a school) to George Calvert, doned State House. 1838 faculty evenly divided between A “Certificate of Graduation” First Baron Baltimore’s dream. “ROB OF THE BOWL” Roman Catholics, Episcopa- granted to Sallie Brome Mor- lians, and Methodists. sell, the school’s official first A new work of historical fiction, graduate. “Rob of the Bowl” by John Pend- Timeline entries compiled from “St. leton Kennedy, portrays what Mary’s: A ‘When-Did?’ Timeline” daily life in St. Mary’s City might 1881 have been like under George by Janet Butler Haugaard with ANNE ELIZABETH THOMAS Calvert, First Baron Baltimore’s Susan G. Wilkinson and Julia NAMED PRINCIPAL A. King (2007) and “Monument experiment in creating a society Anne Elizabeth Thomas, Class based on religious tolerance. School of the People: A Sesqui- of 1877, known affectionately centennial History of St. Mary’s to students as “Miss Lizzie,” College of Maryland 1840-1990” was principal from 1881 to by J. Frederick Fausz (1990). 1895. After marriage, she is Mrs. John G. Lilburn.

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day Baltimore, suggest that even after four years indentured servants who came here were suffi- e look backward in order Alsop wasn’t entirely clear about what he had seen ciently hard-pressed to sign away their time and to move forward – in order in the New World. As I stand on this bluff I’m not labor for a chance at a better life in the New World. to know that we’re moving quite certain what I’m seeing, either. Longstanding The Calverts’ difficulties as Catholics in Prot- forward. The Historic St. human presence has turned this landscape into a estant England prompted a respect for dissent Mary’s City Commission complex palimpsest, a topographic manuscript that and a healthy concern, unusual for the times, for Whas reconstructed the Catholic chapel that was in has been written and overwritten countless times. individual rights. One of the first settlers, an in- use until 1704, when the Jesuits dismantled it and Native Americans had occupied this ground dentured servant named Mathias de Sousa, was re-used its bricks at St. Inigoes. The bricks used in for at least ten thousand years when Leonard Cal- identified as a “mulatto” by the Jesuits for whom the reconstruction were painstakingly produced vert, son of the first Lord Baltimore, arrived in he worked. Although slave labor would arrive af- with historically authentic processes and materi- 1634 after a four-month crossing with some 140 ter the Restoration, in part because of a decrease als, joined with new mortar that was also old mor- people aboard two ships, the Ark and the Dove. in the number of people willing to indenture tar, made from the lime of oyster shells. Calvert negotiated with the Piscataways and got themselves, it played no role in St. Mary’s origi- In 1753 the Jesuits sold the land on which the the Yaocomaco to yield the site. Relations with nal vision: de Sousa completed the term of his chapel stood, and the site reverted to fields. Of the indigenous inhabitants seem to have been indenture and became a free man. Another sign course, that was then and this is now – but in fairly amicable, perhaps because the settlers, rich of a more enlightened future occurred in 1648, this place, “then” and “now” are not always easy and poor alike, knew how it felt to be squeezed out when Margaret Brent, the first female landowner to keep apart. Time has a way of reversing itself, of a place. The Calverts, an aristocratic Catholic in Maryland, demanded a vote on the Maryland and when the reconstructed chapel rose from the family in an England where the Protestant middle Assembly. Although she was denied, her chal- ground, it was 1667 again: in London Milton had class was gaining power, were repeatedly accused lenge to the inequality of the sexes was breathtak- just delivered a thick manuscript to printer Sam- of political disloyalty. The Jesuits in the compa- ingly bold for the times. And in 1649 the colony uel Simmons of Aldersgate, and in St. Mary’s ny, including Father Andrew White, whose de- formalized its practice of toleration for all forms City an impressive brick chapel was replacing a scription of Maryland predated Alsop’s by three of Christianity – a striking endorsement of mod- wooden structure destroyed in a Protestant raid decades, had no legal status in a country that eration in a year when religious strife in England in 1645. At the chapel site archaeologists found was rapidly moving toward Puritan control. The culminated in the execution of Charles I. the remains of Philip Calvert, Leonard’s younger

1923 M. ADELE FRANCE NAMED PRINCIPAL A former math and science teacher at the Seminary, as well as a veteran school administrator in the mid-Atlantic states, M. Adele France served as principal from 1923-1937, then as president of St. Mary’s Female Seminary-Junior College 1900 1908 from 1937-1948. 1924 1924 LUCY LANCASTER MAD- MUSIC HALL COMPLETED FIRE! TEMPORARY HOUSING DOX NAMED PRINCIPAL The Music Hall, later known as Fire destroys Main Building Temporary barracks, borrowed Lucy Lancaster Maddox is Commencement Hall and the during winter holidays. The from Fort Meade, are floated named principal of St. Mary’s. Gymnasium, was not damaged bricks from the burned-out down the Chesapeake and hast- As a Lancaster, she is a direct by the catastrophic fire of 1924 building are used to transform ily assembled to house students descendant of Leonard Calvert. and is therefore the oldest an old brick stable into a cot- and faculty while Main Building She served until 1923. building on campus. Today it is tage. Over time, the cottage is rebuilt. known as St. Mary’s Hall and will be an alumnae lodge, a 1906 includes Auerbach Auditorium. home economics lab, a presi- 1925 dent’s home, and again, STEAMBOAT COMMUTE an alumni lodge. Today it is A NEW MAIN BUILDING The Seminary was a steamboat called May Russell Lodge. The new Main Building is school from 1847 to 1934. similar to the original but has Boats docked at Brome’s Wharf. a third floor and shutterless windows.

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Landscapes have their own imperatives. As the College founders recognized, a landscape of confluence virtually brother, and Philip’s wife, Anne Wolsey Calvert. From this spot I can see both the rebuilt State Her face, reconstructed by a forensic artist, re- demands a school, a place House and its original site here in the cemetery. gards us today with disarming frankness. where people come together Stones mark the perimeter of the old building, At St. Mary’s the past engages the present with which was used as a church until the present Trin- a similarly direct gaze, pulling us into the ongoing, to teach and to learn. ity Church was built in 1829. Beyond Trinity stands collective story of this place. Alsop’s map identi- Calvert Hall, built in 1924 after a fire destroyed the fies the spot where the “Potomak” flows into the original school building of 1845. I spot a young Bay as “Poynt Look out.” Point Lookout still bears woman with a backpack bounding down Calvert’s that name, and is one of my favorite spots to grade taking notes nearby, describing this place in a stiff front steps. Just behind her, and nearly as real, a final papers – or was, until Hurricane Isabel came Neo-Latin that lacked words for the task. young Antebellum lady walks primly toward the through. Like everyone else who has had a his- It is an interesting paradox that whatever is riverbank to practice her Greek declensions. tory here, I have been pulled into a timeless trian- old also projects newness – the stamp of origins This is what time feels like at St. Mary’s. The gulation of water and land and people. and beginnings. In places where old things and see-through structural frames that mark the house new things, whether natural or human, coexist sites of St. Mary’s City are perfect embodiments ater can bring disaster, in dizzying oscillation, time becomes a medium of the ghostly presences that continue to haunt but it also brings constant almost as fluid as the water that surrounds us. this landscape. When you observe those frames, renewal. This may account When you walk across the glazed brick pave- your eye is forced to negotiate past with present, for the feeling that even ment in the 1676 State House, reconstructed in solidifying their outlines by supplying brick and though St. Mary’s sits on 1934, you sense that 1695 has not yet arrived and clapboards but simultaneously seeing the fields Wland that has been put to human use for centuries, Annapolis is not yet the colonial capital. The that remain visible through their timbers. nature here seems oddly untouched and pristine. marshes that penetrate the campus, vignettes Alsop’s map depicts a tiny boat on the Bay, Maybe this sense of freshness reflects the fact that from another geologic era, make it seem almost with three passengers and two standing oars- nature’s timelessness seems more tangible wher- as if humans have not arrived or even evolved men. As I look to my right and spot some sail- ever land and water come together. As I stand yet – as if these wetlands might conceal species boats gliding in the distance, it occurs to me that on this bluff, I half expect to spot Father White older and stranger than Alsop’s animals. one of Alsop’s improbable-looking animals might

1935 1940 NO MORE STEAMBOAT SIGN MARKS THE SPOT The hurricane of 1933 Miss France marks the 100th damaged Brome’s Wharf and anniversary of the Seminary’s the Baltimore and Virginia founding with a Maryland his- Steamboat Company no tory sign, erected opposite the longer picks up and delivers Freedom of Conscience statue. students to the Seminary- The state gives St. Mary’s a Junior College. They must gymnasium (now Kent Hall) and now rely on family car or grants accreditation to the high buses to Leonardtown. school-junior college. 1926 1934 JUNIOR COLLEGE ADDED TERCENTENARY The state of Maryland allows M. The state produces an enormous a “Freedom of Conscience” Adele France, principal, to add celebration and sources say more granite statue (commissioned a junior college division. The than 100,000 descend upon to sculptor Hans Schuler, Sr.) institution changes its name to St. Mary’s City on June 15-16 in with commemorative coin, stamp, St. Mary’s Female Seminary-Junior honor of the 300th anniversary and medal (also by Schuler). College. Miss France explains that of the founding of Maryland. The The Alumnae Association “the time is past when we edu- state provides lavishly, including provides the Garden of Remem- cated our daughters for ornaments construction and paving of a by- brance, inspired and overseen only” and pledges that the junior pass (now Rte. 5), the reconstruc- by Miss France. college will prepare its young tion of the 1676 State House, women for “an economic place in the world.” Instruction below the ninth grade is no longer offered.

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well be foraging for food among the nearby trees. nonsectarian status. That legacy has remained as aware of our fragility, of the ephemeral span of Off to my left I glimpse the masts of the recon- the Seminary gradually evolved into its present our lives. To be educated in a place like this is to structed Dove – and for a split second, the people incarnation as Maryland’s Honors College. An realize that we have no time to waste. in the graves around me are not dead because even older legacy of natural beauty persists in they have not yet lived. With a mild start I realize the water, woods, and fields that surround us. force myself to start walking back that I won’t be born for another three centuries. Both legacies – the human and the natural – toward Calvert Hall to keep a meeting provide powerful stays against arrogance and care- with the Provost. In a routine as regular t. Mary’s is still about beginnings, lessness. The countless stories that have been en- as the molting of a blue crab’s shell, I a fact clear enough from the expect- acted in this place create a community in time: they visit this spot whenever I’ve got business ant faces of my first-year students. remind us that we are not the only people who have Ion this side of campus. I never leave it without Education is a moral enterprise – had hopes and fears here, and, more broadly, that thinking that those of us who come together at St. not an accumulation of facts but a our way of thinking is not the only way. The mes- Mary’s are in a place uniquely suited to the joyful Sprocess of becoming a whole person, grounded merizing otherness of nature creates a community work of teaching and learning. I can’t help envy- in place and community. The unusual blend of in space: it reminds us that human life is impover- ing my first-year students, for whom St. Mary’s is natural beauty and human history would make St. ished without a vital respect for the environment the site of their first extended exposure to new Mary’s an excellent site for getting educated in this that we share with nonhuman creatures. people and ideas. Like the young George Alsop, deeper sense even if there were no school here. That endless ebb and flow of water, with its they’re about to spend four years in new terrain But landscapes have their own imperatives. As ongoing interplay of stability and change, is a vis- that is also old terrain: it’s their turn to write their the College founders recognized, a landscape of ible reminder of processes at work in the world. stories on a landscape that has been inscribed confluence virtually demands a school, a place In this, St. Mary’s presents a topographic parallel and reinscribed countless times over the years. where people come together to teach and to to the process of becoming truly educated – of There’s no way to tell yet what their stories might learn. When St. Mary’s Female Seminary was growing into the best possible versions of who be, but I know that if they keep their eyes open founded in 1840 as a “living monument” to we were always meant to be. The landscape’s to this place where we are, they’ll do just fine.  Maryland’s colonial heritage, the old legacy of constant reminder of time as a medium that An earlier version of this essay was pubished in “This Place Where We religious tolerance was reflected in the school’s both embraces and transcends us also makes us Are” by Jeffrey Hammond (St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 2006).

1949 1959 MAY RUSSELL NAMED MASCOT CHOSEN PRESIDENT The mascot chosen for the May Russell drops the word Junior College is the Chesa- “Female” from the school peake Bay retriever. The school name, hoping to attract local colors are orange and black. male students to apply for admission. She institutes an 1962 Honor Code. ST. MARY’S INTEGRATES Liz Barber becomes the first 1947 1950 1955 African American to enter MISS FRANCE DEFENDS St. Mary’s Junior College. EXPANSION HELLO, GENTLEMEN ST. MARY’S AND WINS She graduates in 1964. St. Mary’s buys land in order to The number of male day Miss France (vigorously construct Margaret Brent Hall students (“day hops”) supported by alumnae and (1951, eight faculty apartments) increases trustees) refutes the state- and Anne Arundel (1954, class- significantly. supported report of the rooms). Miss Russell institutes a Marbury Commisstion, which history pageant, “The Birth of Tol- recommends closing St. Mary’s erance,” in which every student Seminary-Junior College. Miss has a role. It is performed every France argues that St. Mary’s year through 1959. offers small classes in a liberal arts curriculum and that it serves as the only institution of higher education in St. Mary’s and Charles counties. She wins.

14 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2015 That endless ebb and flow of water, with its ongoing interplay of stability and change, is a visible reminder of processes at work in the world. In this, St. Mary’s presents a topographic parallel to the process of becoming truly educated.

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FINDING MY PLACE AT THE MONUMENT SCHOOL A Current Student Reflects on the Value of the College’s History

By John Alexander Bird ’16 English major, Publication and Media Relations Fellow

right: photo of Viola Hickmon, 1917

far right: Alex Bird COLLEGE ARCHIVES COURTESY

1966 1968 DORCHESTER HALL AND FINAL JUNIOR COLLEGE CHARLES HALL OPEN CLASS GRADUATES Resident males are now part of The last junior college class the Junior College composition graduates. There will be and a student center is opened. no graduations in 1969 or On paper, Maryland’s State 1970 while the first liberal Board of Higher Education for- arts students work toward mally elevates St. Mary’s Col- their bachelor’s degrees. The lege to senior college status. mascot changes from the Chesapeake Bay Retriever 1967 to the Saints. School colors 1969 remain orange and black. CAMPUS DIG FINDS RENWICK JACKSON HICKS RESIDENCE NAMED PRESIDENT Renwick Jackson is named The brand new St. Mary’s City president of St. Mary’s College Commission, set up by the Gov- of Maryland and takes office ernor to preserve, develop, and July 1, 1969. The new library maintain St. Mary’s City as a 1964 1965 opens and the gym is moved state monument, undertakes its BOATHOUSE out of Kent Hall into the newly QUEEN ANNE HALL first archaeological dig on Pine built Somerset Hall. Kent is The Alumni Association OPENS Tree Hill (outside Caroline resi- renovated and becomes home makes a gift of a boathouse This is the first of the new dence hall). The dig unearths to the Division of Natural Sci- and sailing becomes popular. residence halls to be built. the foundation of the Hicks ence and Mathematics. residence (1720-1741).

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ooking back, it seems as though I’ve always known what drew me to the idea of spending my college years tucked away in the rural woodlands of Southern Maryland. However, when I reflect on my Learly days at St. Mary’s, I’m reminded that I only had a vague no - tion of where I was or what I was doing on the banks of this quiet river off the Potomac. Having attended an all boys’ preparatory school that placed a great deal of emphasis on pride of place and tradition, St. Mary’s appeared a mystery to me. After all, what did I really know about my college? Its natural beauty was self-apparent, its sense of community and the promise of an enriching education spoke for themselves. It was called “the public honors college” and known as “the monument school,” but what did these titles mean? St. Mary’s championed the ideals of accessibility and tolerance, but for what reasons? For me, getting a real sense of what St. Mary’s

PHOTO: DARIO DURISTANTI ‘16 PHOTO: DARIO DURISTANTI was as a place, what it meant as an institution, was difficult to grasp.

1972 MULBERRY TREE PAPERS LAUNCHED President Jackson launches the College’s magazine, The Mul- berry Tree Papers. Art professor Earl Hofmann designs the cover illustration, the famed mulberry tree of the colonial city.

1970 made of bronze and designed and struck by Hans Schuler, Jr., 1974 1974 PRINCE GEORGE AND son of the sculptor who did the MIDDLE STATES GOVERNOR’S CUP YACHT CAROLINE HALLS OPEN Freedom of Conscience statue ACCREDITED RACE LAUNCHED The residential campus contin- in 1934. The design of the Ark As a four-year institution for the The first of what will become ues to expand with the opening and Dove will one day become liberal arts, St. Mary’s College the longest running overnight of a third and fourth residence the College logo. of Maryland receives its first ac- yacht race on the Chesapeake hall. President Jackson commis- creditation from Middle States. goes from current capital sions a College medallion, 1971 (Annapolis) to historic capital FIRST GRADUATION OF (St. Mary’s City) is the work of President Jackson and student THE FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE sailors Dale Rausch, Pete The first class of St. Mary’s Sarelas, and Russ Baker. College of Maryland graduates, receiving B.A. and B.S. degrees.

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St. Mary’s became an institution focused on tolerance, accessibility and an The lack of clarity and purpose left me wan- description of the city as a “shapeless ruin” dering through my first few years on campus. exploration of the that had no marker commemorating its im- I was accustomed to my high school’s clear liberal arts all while portance in Maryland’s founding also attract- and rigid definition of its character; I didn’t ed the attention of three St. Mary’s County understand my new school’s seemingly foggy commemorating the natives who saw an opportunity to secure sense of identity. Having come to college in founding of the state recognition for the site of Maryland’s birth. part to better define who I was as an individ- Hoping to capitalize on the popularity of Ken- ual, the trouble I had in getting a grasp of St. of Maryland. nedy’s novel, these three men got themselves Mary’s identity seemed to suggest that I was elected to the Maryland State Legislature, os- in the wrong place. I continually struggled to tensibly for the sole purpose of gathering the develop a sense of place at St. Mary’s, believ- funds necessary for building a monument to ing that the character of the college as an insti- mark the location of forgotten St. Mary’s City. tution did not quite align with my own. knew, especially when it came to its creation. While it was generally agreed upon that Entering my junior year, I was resigned to In a particularly liberal arts fashion, St. there should be a monument celebrating the this always being the case. However, it was Mary’s started with a book. Published in 1838 founding of Maryland, the St. Mary’s del- around this time I began to take a small in- by a Baltimore author named John Pendleton egates wanted to take it a step farther. Rather terest in the history of St. Mary’s. Aside from Kennedy, “Rob of the Bowl” is novel of his- than simply construct a monument that com- resting on top of the ruins of Maryland’s first torical fiction that speculates on what life was memorated the founding of the state, they capital, I didn’t know much about the place. like in the colonial settlement of St. Mary’s proposed creating one that embodied the found- As far as I was concerned, the story of where City during the seventeenth century. While ing principles and motivations for Maryland’s the college came from had little to do with my today it better serves as a paperweight than a creation. For the delegates, this meant the time attending it. However, the more I read, work of engaging literature, Kennedy’s novel, creation of a monument that celebrated the the more apparent it became that there was far in its day, spurred a resurgence of interest in ideas of religious tolerance and accessibility; more behind the identity of St. Mary’s than I Maryland’s abandoned capital city. Kennedy’s (continued on page 20)

1982 1984 1988 RICHARD WEIGLE COLLEGE COLORS AND TOWNHOUSES IS NAMED INTERIM MASCOT CHANGED AND DPC OPEN PRESIDENT The new mascot is the seahawk Daugherty-Palmer Com- College trustee and former and the former colors of black mons opens and looks president of St. John’s College and orange are changed to out to matching lines of in Annapolis, is named interim royal blue, gold, and white. townhouses. Commence- president of the College while ment moves to the new the search gets underway for Townhouse Green. a new president. 1983 1979 1980 EDWARD T. LEWIS BECOMES PRESIDENT SUNDIAL CONSTRUCTED MONTGOMERY HALL Edward T. Lewis, a poet, An equatorial sundial is con- OPENS becomes president. He serves structed at the College water- The new fine arts center until 1996. His son Stephen front by students in a class led becomes a community resource painted his portrait that hangs by Everett Merritt. The sundial for art exhibits, musical perfor- in the library. This same year, is accurate to within 15 sec- mances, theatrical productions. the first desktop computers onds of Eastern Standard Time The terra cotta frieze was copied arrive on campus. and is featured in Astronomy from the Parthenon of ancient Today magazine. Athens by Princeton University in 1888 and resided on that campus until Professor Jonathon Ingersoll procured them for St. Mary’s in 1973. The bell carillon is installed the same year.

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“Over these ruins a storm-shaken and magnificent mulberry, aboriginal, and contemporary with the settlement of the province, yet rears its shattered and topless trunk, and daily distils upon the sacred relics at its foot, the dews of heaven, – an august and brave old mourner to the departed companions of its prime.” —excerpt from “Rob of the Bowl” by John Pendleton Kennedy

The old mulberry tree as it appeared in 1852, in this drawing by a Miss

COURTESY HISTORIC ST. MARY’S CITY MARY’S HISTORIC ST. COURTESY Piper, a student at the Seminary.

1990 1996 150TH ANNIVERSARY JANE MARGARET To commemorate the 150th O’BRIEN BECOMES anniversary of St. Mary’s, the PRESIDENT College’s first history is written Jane Margaret O’Brien be- by J. Frederick Fausz, associate comes president and serves professor of history: “Monu- until 2010. Her presidency ment School of the People: A is characterized by campus Sesquicentennial History of St. growth and building and a Mary’s College of Maryland, strong affiliation with Historic 1840-1990.” 1993 St. Mary’s City. SCHAEFER HALL 1992 AND TOWNHOUSE 1997 1998 CRESCENTS OPEN PUBLIC HONORS COLLEGE AND HSMC PHI BETA KAPPA COLLEGE A new science building, AFFILIATE Schaefer Hall, opens, as St. Mary’s inducts its first The Maryland General does a new set of townhous- The Maryland General Assembly members to Phi Beta Kappa. Assembly designates es, designed on a curve like approves an affiliation between Its Zeta Chapter was ap- St. Mary’s a public honors those in Bath, England. St. Mary’s College of Maryland proved in fall of 1997 after college. and Historic St. Mary’s City. the three-year review. Phi The two institutions will main- Beta Kappa is the nation’s tain separate governing boards oldest academic honor and budgets, but are expected society. A renovated to engage in joint educational Kent Hall opens as the programming. By 2000, the Col- home for history and lege logo expresses the connec- social sciences. tion to Historic St. Mary’s City.

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in essence, the celebration of keeping an open mind. As a result, they created a school; an institution dedicated to the acceptance of all personal beliefs and the promotion of the liberal arts, with the first board of trustees pro- claiming that St. Mary’s would “offer as liberal and extensive a course of study as the highest standard of … education requires.” The importance of religious tolerance was emphasized by the founders and board, with the edict that “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 subject of religion was first promulgated.” In an effort to realize this ideal, the board adopted policies that called for an equal distribution of St. Mary’s County’s largest religious denomina- tions – Episcopalians, Catholics and Method- ists – among the faculty and trustees of this new institution. No religious creed was to be championed over another and the act of doing COLLEGE ARCHIVES COURTESY so would result in dismissal from the school. The Main Building, circa 1931.

This is also the year that 2000 the Campus Center opens, a 2003 MARYLAND HERITAGE renovation and expansion of WARING COMMONS PROJECT the old Charles Hall. OPEN Developed by President O’Brien, Waring Commons suites and Martin Sullivan (HSMC’s director), 2001 apartments open. They are and approved by Governor Parris LEWIS QUAD OPENS named for H. Thomas Waring, Glendening, the Maryland Heritage College trustee, whose great- Lewis Quadrangle, named Project promises to use $65 mil- great-grandfather was Dr. James to honor president emeritus lion of “tobacco buyout” money for Waring, one of the Seminary’s Edward T. Lewis, opens as the educational programming within earliest trustees (1858-1882). first residence suites. the College and the City. 2005 2007 ATHLETICS AND GOODPASTER HALL RECREATION CENTER CONSTRUCTED OPENS Goodpaster Hall becomes the The Michael P. O’Brien Athlet- home for psychology, chemistry. ics and Recreation Center and teacher education. This is the opens, a significant re-design first year that the Master of Arts in and expansion of the former Teaching program grants degrees. Somerset Hall gymnasium. 2008 GLENDENING HALL CONSTRUCTED Glendening Hall co-locates student services functions of regis- trar, business office, residence life, career development, core curriculum and study abroad.

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Attending to the history of my school has enriched my understanding of The founders and first trustees also placed only to look at the tuition bills of my friends a great deal of emphasis on accessibility, be- where I am and what from back home to understand the continu- lieving that it was the duty of Maryland’s I’m really a part ing emphasis placed on keeping St. Mary’s an monument school to “diffuse its blessing to accessible institution. as numerous a portion of the community as of: an experiment Attending to the history of my school has possible.” As a result, the first trustees of St. in freethinking enriched my understanding of where I am Mary’s deliberately set tuition and expenses and what I’m really a part of: an experiment below that of traditional seminary school that has always in freethinking that has always been evolving prices in an effort to make the new school ac- and continues to do so. The apparent lack of cessible to all. As a result, St. Mary’s became been evolving and identity I struggled with in my first year is a an institution focused on tolerance, accessibil- continues to do so. natural symptom of this evolution; holding ity and an exploration of the liberal arts all steadfast to an unchangeable identity is bound while commemorating the founding of the to prevent us from being able to continue state of Maryland. moving forward in our exploration of what I keep this story in mind when I walk the makes for an expansive education. However, campus these days. There’s something con- remembering where we came from is an inte- firming in the story of our school; it not only open mind and exploring the world around gral part of this; it provides the guidelines for tells us how we got here, it acts as a reflection us. Looking around campus, it’s apparent this evolution and acts as a reminder of what of our community’s values. Despite its numer- that the call for religious toleration champi- our school embodies. So while St. Mary’s will ous transformations, transitions, conflicts and oned by the school’s founders has spread into continue to change in an effort to improve it- successes, St. Mary’s College remains at heart the arenas of gender, race and sexuality. The self, the principles guiding this change have the same institution it was 175 years ago; an emphasis on the value of a liberal arts ap- always been and will remain the same. And embodiment of the liberal arts that stands as proach to life can be seen in every classroom that is certainly something that this student of a living monument to the ideas of keeping an and residence hall across campus. And I need the liberal arts can get behind. 

2014 2014 COLLEGE LOGO CHANGED TUAJUANDA JORDAN The College logo is changed NAMED PRESIDENT and the colors made navy Tuajuanda Jordan is named blue and white. The seahawk president and takes office on mascot is updated but the July 1, 2014. She is the first colors of the mascot remain African American to lead St. navy blue, gold and white. Mary’s College of Maryland.

2008 2010 RIVER CENTER JOSEPH URGO COMPLETED NAMED PRESIDENT The James P. Muldoon Joseph Urgo serves as River Center opens at the Teddy president from 2010 to 2013. Turner Waterfront. The new facility includes a second pier, 2013 biology classroom, an “Awe- some Room” for community IAN NEWBOULD NAMED gatherings, and storage space INTERIM PRESIDENT for the crew club’s boats. Ian Newbould serves as interim president while a search for a new president ensues.

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EXPLORING THE SEVEN WONDERS OF ST. MARY’S

By Taylor Schafer ’15, history major

The seven wonders of St. Mary’s are individual sites considered to be significant landmarks within the community. Over the years, students have attached traditions to each of the wonders.

Church Point may be the The Garden of The Freedom of Conscience The Hidden Grave is the 1oldest of the Wonders – 2Remembrance was 3Statue was commissioned 4 most mysterious of the we know the landscape forma- built and dedicated in 1934 by the state for the 300th an- Wonders. There are actually two tion was there, probably long as a showpiece for the niversary celebration. Various graves under the tombstone. The before the Calverts landed in Tercentenary celebration pranks have been tied to the first person died in 1917 and the 1634. Photographs of students marking the 300th anniversary statue over the years. Seminary second in 1958. The first mention at Church Point date back as of St. Mary’s City’s founding. students supposedly used to of student use comes in 1959 in far as 1898. It has long been paint a certain appendage of the The Signal News student newspa- a popular spot for students to statue and add articles of clothing per, but alumni have mentioned it enjoy swimming, relaxing, drink- to the statue. In the 1960s during as far back as 1956. Having new ing, and other activities. Church “Rat Week,” new students had students find the grave has been Point used to be much bigger, to scrub the statue with tooth- tied to student orientation and but its land has severely dimin- brushes. Famous sculptor Hans initiation since then. ished due to shoreline erosion. Schuler, Sr. carved the statue.

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St. John’s Pond was The Bell Tower stands as The Shoe Tree tradition 5 used as a harbor for the 6 a remembrance carillon. 7 was started around 1983- colonists in the 17th century It was dedicated in 1980 by the 1986. It originally started as a and connected to Mill Creek, College Foundation in memory living legacy for seniors to throw This information comes from Taylor the swampy area behind of community members who had their shoes in upon graduation. Schafer’s St. Mary’s Project, “Landscapes Dorchester Hall. Students used passed. Student use started The tradition did not come to of a Living Monument: A History of the it for ice skating as early as almost immediately after the symbolize a student’s first sexual 7 Wonders of St. Mary’s College.” Schafer’s the 1930s, but it wasn’t used tower was built as the starting experience on campus until faculty adviser for the project was Ken for the tradition of “ponding” point for Frisbee golf tourna- between 1992 and 1997. The Cohen, associate professor of history. until around 1970. ments and continues to be a earliest shoes may have been It was completed in fall 2014 and will golf hole today. thrown up there in 1977 or 1978 be available to the public through the by a Frisbee golfer. College Archives this summer.

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1950s 1970s CLASS Two former Sem Fems, Carroll Les Potter ’70 [3] is starting Chandler Smith ’49HS; ’51JC a new career as director of NOTES and Dayle Rayne Rounds the American International ‘64JC [2] met each other in a School West in Cairo, Egypt. 1940s most unusual place – Health- This pre-K through 12 school South Rehabilitation Hospital educates about 1,200 Egyptian BJ Howard-Jasper ’45HS, in Salisbury, Md., where they students who are taught by 1 ’47JC [1] credits her four shared a hospital room for 12 American and Canadian years at St. Mary’s Seminary days. Carroll had broken her teachers. All graduates go Gregg Smith ’84 is chief and Junior College as being hip; Dayle was recovering from to college with about 60% executive officer of Optio Labs, instrumental in her personal back surgery. They also found continuing their studies in a developer of technology development. While she went that both had received under- the U.S. Les, a member of the products that make mobile on to earn her bachelor’s graduate and graduate degrees College’s 1996 Athletic Hall of applications faster, smarter, degree at George Washing- from Salisbury University, and Fame, played basketball at St. safer and more secure. He has ton University followed by a had had careers working with Mary’s but is looking forward over 20 years of technology and master’s degree and a doctorate children. They are continuing to learning more about the business leadership expertise, at the University of Maryland their recoveries at home. Car- international sport of football having served most recently as 2 College Park, she maintained roll, a retired school teacher, (soccer). He officially starts chief executive officer at Kool- her ties to St. Mary’s College lives in Virginia Beach, Va., and Aug. 1, 2015 and can be reached Span, a global leader in secure by serving as president of the is awaiting the birth of her first at [email protected]. voice and text messaging en- College’s Alumni Association great grandchild this spring. cryption solutions. Previously from 1951-53; working with Dayle, a child welfare social 1980s he was chief executive officer then President May Russell as a worker for Somerset, County, of Acuity Mobile, senior vice Gabrielle Leenas Lucke ’84 field representative and in pub- Md., for many years, lives in president at TelecCommunica- has received one of Dartmouth lic relations; helping to raise Salisbury, Md. tion Systems Inc., and president College’s annual Martin Luther funds for the first boathouse; of Aether Systems Inc. 3 and serving as the alumnae Karen Peterson Yochim King, Jr. Social Justice Awards, namely the Holly Fell Sateia relations director, which at the ’58HS has written her fourth 1990s time was a volunteer posi- Cajun murder mystery based in Award. This award recognizes Lindsey “Elle” Plaut Cosi- tion. She’s also donated to the the fictional St. Beatrice Parish, a Dartmouth faculty or staff John Wobensmith ’93 became mano ’95 has had her debut College’s archives photos and close to the vast Atchafalaya member who is an enthusiastic the president of Genco Ship- young adult novel, “Nearly scrapbooks of her high school Swamp in Louisiana. Entitled, and effective leader in advanc- ping & Trading Limited in Gone,” nominated as one of and junior college years. More “The Pitchfork Murder,” Karen ing diversity and community. December 2014. He joined the five finalists in the young adult recently, BJ’s financial support says this was inspired by the For almost 30 years, she has company in 2005 as its chief category for the 2015 Edgar made possible the renovation of notorious and still unsolved worked in higher education financial officer and since 2010 Allan Poe Awards which honor the Garden of Remembrance’s 1959 “Mummy Murder” in her as an administrator, faculty has also served as president the best in mystery fiction, non- fountain which she dedicated hometown of Sarasota, Fla. member, health educator and of Baltic Trading Limited, a fiction and television published in memory of her mother and Though the murder she writes counselor. Each summer she Genco subsidiary. He began or produced in 2014. Lindsey’s role model, Lucie Galleher about has nothing to do with serves as lead faculty with the his career at The First National next book, “Nearly Found,” will Howard, a 1906 graduate of St. the 1959 murder, the Sarasota LeaderShape Institute. A two- Bank of Maryland, working in be published this year. She, hus- Mary’s Seminary, shown here police assigned an officer to the time recipient of the Student its international maritime lend- band, Tony Cosimano ’94, and with BJ at her 1945 high school cold case file, as it never was Leadership Training Program’s ing group before becoming the their two sons live in Mexico. graduation. BJ, after a long closed, to see if anything new Champion for Youth Award, senior vice president at Ameri- career in academics, now lives might turn up. All four of her she also serves on the board of can Marine Advisors, Inc., an John Bratt ’95 recently was in Bradenton, Fla. novels are available at www. directors for Second Growth, a investment bank focused on the named to the 2015 Maryland Amazon.com. Karen, who is local nonprofit for youth and as shipping industry. John and his Super Lawyers list in his pri- hard at work on her fifth novel, a Vermont state representative, family live in New York City. mary practice area of plaintiffs’ lives in Arnaudville, La. sits on the House Committee personal injury litigation. This on General, Housing and Mili- is the sixth time he has been tary Affairs. Gabrielle, husband selected. In 2014, he opened George Lucke ’86, and their the Law Office of John B. Bratt, children live in Hartford, Vt. LLC in Towson, Md., and was

24 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2015 CAC Silver Anniversary Teams Part 2 In the Winter 2015 issue of The Mulberry Tree, we listed the Seahawk athletes who had been selected for the Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) Silver Anniversary Teams in in the United States and part 2000s soccer, swimming, basketball and volleyball. of the Tesla/SpaceX/Elon Musk The following Seahawks have been named to the men’s and family of companies, he has Jane DeLashmutt ’00, an as- women’s lacrosse silver anniversary teams: sold over 1.5 megawatts of resi- sociate portfolio manager with dential solar across the United FBB Capital Partners, a fee-only MEN’S LACROSSE Kelly Fetter Earley ’00 States. Prior to SolarCity, he wealth management firm based Greg Matthews ’94 Kathy Holmes Sulkowski ’02 worked on solar projects in the in Bethesda, Md., currently Chris Gress ’95 (Athletic Hall of Fame ’08) U.S. and in Medellin, Colom- is working in the company’s Andrew Toussaint ’02 Mia Oliver Woods ’04 bia. Jack’s also passionate about Easton, Md., office. In 2014, af- 4 Andrew Gerner ’03 (Athletic Hall of Fame ’10) finding resources for under- ter completing advanced studies Jen Chumley Pfeiffer ’04 Dave Mueller ’06 served communities through in financial planning at George- (Athletic Hall of Fame ’14) Ryan Alexander ’10 private/public collaborations. town University, Jane became Carol Schmoeller Hatton ’04 WOMEN’S LACROSSE As a founding board member a certified financial planner (Athletic Hall of Fame ’10) Gia Hopper Trionfo ’99 of Aguayuda, Inc, a non-profit practitioner (CFP ®). Previously, Sarah Sloane ’05 (Athletic Hall of Fame ’14) organization whose mission is she worked in commercial real Lauren Carrier ’09 Nairem Moran ’99 to bring clean water, education estate finance and banking. A and sanitation practices to rural lifelong sailor and Chesapeake Colombian communities, he Bay native, she helped her St. named the 2014 Trial Lawyer has a doctorate in nursing from took a six-month sabbatical Mary’s College sailing team 5 of the Year by the Maryland As- the University of Pittsburgh, in 2011 to further Aguayuda’s win two national collegiate been a member of the firm’s sociation for Justice. John lives where she is now an assistant work. While there he led a championships and also was bankruptcy practice group since in Lutherville, Md., with his professor of medicine. She also Colombian solar company named an All-American sailor. 2006. Todd and his wife Jocelyn wife Katie and their daughters currently serves as research to secure a joint U.S. Agency She is a member of the board live in Baltimore, Md. Delilah and Cassidy. health scientist for the Depart- for International Develop- of directors for the Chesapeake ment of Veterans Affairs Center ment, Colombian government, BaySavers Foundation and the Linda Ronniger ’04 was ap- Lauren Matukaitis Broyles for Health Equity Research and international telecom, and Co- Easton, Md., Economic Devel- pointed in December 2014 as ’95 received the 2014 Most Promotion. She and her family lombian oil company grant to opment Corporation. Jane lives seventh-grade assistant principal Downloaded Article Award live in Pittsburgh, Pa. bring electricity and internet to in Oxford, Md., with her fiancé, at Margaret Brent Middle from the editorial board of Sub- hundreds of remote Colombian G.K. O’Mara. stance Abuse, a peer-reviewed Chris Harney ’97 [4], shown families and schools. Jack lives School in Mechanicsville, Md. journal that is the official here with St. Mary’s Athletic in Waldorf, Md., with his wife Tristan Blanchard Goodrich She began her teaching career in St. Mary’s County, Md., in 2004, publication of the Association Director Scott Devine, contin- Angela and daughter Amelie. ’02 is living in Santiago, Chile at Leonardtown Elementary for Medical Education and Re- ues his winning ways as the Se- for a few years with her hus- School. In 2012 she was named search in Substance Abuse. Her ahawks men’s basketball coach. Nichole Blancato Opkins ’99 band Bradley and their three the instructional resource article, “Confronting Inadver- He not only recently surpassed has been appointed general children, Cole and Helena, age teacher at Lettie Marshall Dent tent Stigma and Pejorative Lan- 200 wins but the team won the counsel by Washington, D.C. 3, and Dean, age 2. She current- Elementary School. Linda lives guage in Addiction Scholarship: Capital Athletic Conference Ward 6 Councilmember ly manages McKinsey & Com- in Huntingtown, Md. A Recognition and Response,” (CAC) 2014-2015 regular season Charles Allen. She most pany’s Global Public Health urges researchers and clini- title. As the winningest coach recently served as a Ward 6 Practice. Tristan has a master’s Jackie Whisman ’05 is the cians to change how they talk in program history, he’s led the advisory neighborhood com- degree in public health with a director of development and about people with substance Seahawks to five NCAA Divi- missioner and was the volunteer focus on health promotion and outreach at the Information use problems. Lauren and her sion III tournament appear- coordinator for Allen’s council disease prevention from George Technology & Innovation Foun- co-authors wanted to start a ances including four trips to the campaign. A 2003 alumna of Washington University and is dation, a nonpartisan think tank conversation about how verbal “Sweet 16,” six CAC regular the University of the District looking forward to continuing based in Washington, D.C. Pre- shortcuts used by researchers season titles and four CAC of Columbia David A. Clarke her studies in public health in viously, she was vice president and clinicians inadvertently tournament titles during his ten School of Law, Nichole also the near future. perpetuate the stigma of ad- years as coach. has served as assistant general at a development consulting firm, and also held positions diction and affect the thinking counsel for the Association of Todd Brooks ’03 [5]] has with Obama for America and in of the people they’re trying to Jack Levenson ’98 is a solar Corporate Counsel. Born in been named a partner at the the United States Senate. Jackie help. Instead, they want the power practitioner. A senior Washington, D.C., she lives Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is active in the St. Mary’s Sum- focus to be on addiction as a field energy consultant for in the Hill East neighborhood law firm in Baltimore, Md. A mer in Washington Program, medical condition without any SolarCity, the largest residential with her husband and daughter. graduate of the University of helping the College’s moralistic language. Lauren and commercial solar company Baltimore School of Law, he’s

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undergraduates secure intern- is an assistant field hockey the Federal Reserve Bank ships and providing networking coach at her high school, The of Chicago, he works with Underground Newspapers & Loose Publications and mentorship opportunities Gunston School. Jennifer and supervisory and capital reports as they prepare for graduation. her husband, Sean Matthews to review large bank stress For those baby boomers who are downsizing or relocating, She lives in Washington, D.C. ’08, live in Stevensville, Md. testing. He transferred from the the College’s Archives is happy to accept donations of Federal Reserve’s Philadelphia underground newspapers and loose publications from 1968- Katie Smith ’06 has joined Kerri Smith ’09 is a second- office after working there three 1979, along with any memories alums wish to share about Liberty Mutual Insurance as a year associate at the Baltimore, years so he could start graduate the origins of the newspapers and publications. Listed below senior marketing communica- Maryland-based law firm school at the University of is the current collection including a listing of missing issues. tions specialist. Based in Boston, Silverman Thompson Slutkin & Chicago Booth School of Thanks to Jim Wible ’75 and Dennis Nicholson ’74 for Mass., she manages the com- White LLC. In 2012, she gradu- Business for his master’s degree their recent donations to the Archives. pany’s partnership activation ated from the University of in business administration. 1968 1972 with U.S. men’s and women’s Baltimore School of Law. Kerri The Hemlock St. Toad’s Journal soccer, USA rowing and U.S. first joined the firm as a law Nick Ibello ’11 is a wealth Published by The Horsefly Published by the Student wheelchair rugby and some clerk in May 2011 after intern- management adviser and associ- Society of St. Mary’s College Government Association, project work with the Olympic ing for the Honorable Joseph F. ate vice president at Williams of Maryland Offices of Cosmic Emanations in Spring 1972 and Paralympic partnership. Murphy, Jr. (Ret.) at the Court Asset Management in Colum- 1968-1969 The Pointed Turd She previously worked as the of Appeals in 2010. A civil litiga- bia, Md. He became interested Freedom of the Press The Bleeding Hemorrhoid commercial manager for the tor, her practice focuses mainly in the financial services industry The Archives has issues Preparation H U.S. Olympic Sailing program on real estate, contract disputes in high school and graduated dated October, November St. Mary’s News and December 1968; (National, Olympic, Paralympic and collection matters. Kerri from St. Mary’s with an eco- Not affiliated with the College’s January, February, March and Development teams). Katie lives in Baltimore, Md. nomics major and a finance con- official student newspaper and Fall 1969 lives in Boston, Mass. centration. His first job was at 1974-1975 1970 2010s T. Rowe Price, where he worked The Faculty Journal 19 Nude Pygmies Matt Swissman ’08 has start- for three years as a global equity Published by Faculty, SMCM John Haltiwanger ’10 is a Published by 19 members ed his own company, HR MAP, senior mutual fund accoun- Chapter of the MSTA. The political writer for the Elite Daily of the American Language LLC (www.hrmapinc.com) tant and in sales support for Archives has issues no. 1-6 Studies class which provides small busi- (www.elitedaily.com) which the financial adviser segment. describes itself as the “premier The Clam 1975 nesses with human resources Prior to joining Williams Asset Published by math professor Paranoia Press online news platform for and outsourcing services including Management, Nick worked for Dr. George Markowsky The Archives has issues no. 2 by millennials.” After St. Mary’s payroll and tax processing, em- a year as a financial adviser for The Chronicles of St. Vitus and 3 but not issue no. 1 College, he spent a year in the The Archives has issues no. 1, ployee benefits, worker’s com- Planning Solutions Group LLC. 1977 Republic of Georgia teaching 2 and 4 but is missing no. 3 pensation insurance, human He lives in Baltimore, Md. The Buford Times English as part of Teach and The Pineapple resources management and re- Published by the Spring 1977 The Archives has volume I, cruiting. He previously worked Learn with Georgia. His interest Albert Mitchell ’13 is a mem- Journalism class in Georgia’s regional politics led no. 2 but not volume I, no. 1 as an account representative for ber of the Bryant University’s The Song of St. John Undated him to pursue a career in foreign the Insurance Exchange for two men’s lacrosse coaching staff for Published before January 1971 Chicken affairs starting at the University years followed by four years as the 2014-2015 season. He works Published by 1971 of Glasgow, where he received Apostle Peter Shumway a general business consultant primarily with the midfielders Another Pineapple a master’s degree in interna- Poppycock: An Anthology of for Xcel HR. Matt lives in and also handles the team’s Published by tional relations. His dissertation Sexist Quotes from SMCM Bethesda, Md. film exchange. While at St. Frank Ashbaugh ’74 Published by a Group examined the use of drones and Mary’s, he was a four-year of Concerned Women Jennifer Anthony Matthews drone strikes by the U.S. during starter, two-time All-Capital the post-9/11 period, a topic he Shanti ’09 is the major gifts officer for Athletic Conference (CAC) Probably published in 1979 the Chesapeake Bay Maritime continued to write about while selection and senior captain. He Museum in St. Michael’s, Md. a contributing writer at the In- also was a two-time All-CAC ternational Political Forum and A native of Chestertown, Md., academic team selection; a nator for Assumption College’s Laura Rodriguez ’14 is the the Scottish Global Forum. John she spent the last five years U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse men’s lacrosse team, working legal assistant for MicroVest lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. fundraising for nonprofit orga- Association (USILA) Scholar primarily with midfielders and Capital Management, LLC, nizations, including the Eastern All-American and partici- faceoff specialists and assisted a private Washington, D.C. Eric Heisner ’11 has been Shore Land Conservancy. An pated in the USILA/LaxWorld with practice organization and investment firm offering unique living and working in the avid boater, she also plays field North-South Senior All-Star in-game strategy. Albert lives global investment opportunities “Windy City” of Chicago, hockey with the Washington game. He spent the 2013-2014 Shrewsbury, Mass. across a family of funds. She Ill., since December 2014. A Field Hockey Association and season as the offensive coordi- lives in Chevy Chase, Md. statistical reports analyst for

26 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2015 Laura Zimmer ’05 and Alexan- Alumni Spotlight MARRIAGES der Drummer [4] were married May 4, 2014 in Elkridge, Md. Tom Conkwright ’07 is the head brewer for Do Good &UNIONS and honeymooned in Charles- Brewing, a new brewery located in the Port Richmond ton, S.C. Laura is the deputy section of Philadelphia, Pa. and also works for the Yards director of analysis at Novetta Brewing Company in its bottling line. An art major at Laura Brittingham ’03 and Solutions; Alexander works for St. Mary’s, he later fell in love with home brewing. But Keena Seyfarth [1] were mar- the Department of Defense as a instead of going to brewing school, he joined the Peace ried June 7, 2014 in Tilghman computer scientist. The couple 1 Corps in 2009 and served in Paraguay as a health and Island, Md. Kate Mervis lives in Ellicott City, Md. sanitation volunteer. Back home, in mid-2011, he got a ’03 was a wedding guest. job as a video game tester and began studying brewing. The couple honeymooned in Gwendolyn Calhoon ’06 and In 2012, he spent a year on Long Island, N.Y., working Croatia and France. Laura is Mark McAllister ’06 [5] were as a farmer’s apprentice and also met his fiancé, Kaitlin the director of membership married May 25, 2013 in the and community relations at Bushinski. The following year, he enrolled in the master garden at the Museum of the the National Association for brewer’s program at the Siebel Institute of Technology and Shenandoah Valley. Michelle Catering and Events; Keena is World Brewing Academy, the oldest brewing school in the Custead ’06 was maid of a principal research analyst at U.S. At the end of five months of study, two in Chicago and honor, Jeanne Sutton ’07 2 the National Opinion Research Christa McAllister ’09 three in Munich, he became an internationally certified and Center. Laura and Keena chose Tristan brew master. In August 2014, he and Kaitlin moved to were bridesmaids, and Roberts as their new last name Horrom ’06 and Aaron Brus- Philadelphia so she could start working on a master’s in honor of their fathers. The sat ’07 were groomsmen. The degree in social work. Do Good Brewing’s mantra is “Good couple lives in Forest Park, Ill. couple, who are beer, cheese Beer Doing Good” as every beer produced will be linked and chocolate lovers, honey- to a specific charitable cause. Currently, they’ve brewed Joseph Hall ’04 and Cheryl mooned in Belgium. Gwen is two beers, the “Do Good United Ale” and the recently Quimba ’05 [2] were married a postdoctoral fellow in neu- released “Do Good Milk Street Stout,” which Tom co- Dec. 31, 2014 in Scotland, Md. roscience at the Massachusetts Tom Weaver ’04 Rachel Lars- 3 developed with the brewery’s owner. , Institute of Technology; Mark THE PROS PHOTOGRAPHY en-Weaver ’04 and Joe Rieu is a neurologist working on a ’05 were wedding guests. Joe is fellowship in vascular neurol- a doctoral candidate in English ogy at Beth Israel Deaconess Jamie Roberts’ Jersey Retired literature at State University of Medical Center. The couple New York, Buffalo; Cheryl is a lives in Cambridge, Mass., and On Jan. 10, 2015, St. Mary’s College held a celebration of publicist for Prometheus Books. survived Boston’s record-setting the life of Jamie Roberts ’11 in the Michael P. O’Brien They live in Buffalo, N.Y. winter of 2015! Athletics and Recreation Center. A beloved member of the St. Mary’s community, Jamie was a three-sport athlete who, Stacy Mann ’04 and Tim Elina Snyder ’07 4 and Andrew CORBELL DAVE as a senior, was recognized as St Mary’s College’s female Argiriadi [3] were married July Windham [6] were married athlete of the year. After college, she worked at Catholic 5, 2014 at the Cathedral of the May 17, 2014 at Stone Valley University as an assistant women’s basketball coach until Annunciation in Baltimore, Recreation Area in Petersburg, her death on June 13, 2014. Jamie’s #24 basketball jersey Md. Tracy Naylor Wright ’04 Pa. Corey Ahearn ’07, MAT was retired before the Seahawk women’s basketball team and Kate Walters Mills ’04 ’09 officiated; Holly Gorman played Southern Virginia were bridesmaids. The guests ’07, Catherine Krikstan ’08, University. It now hangs on included a slew of St. Mary’s and Sarah Pernick ’07 were one of the arena’s walls. alums. The couple took a quick bridesmaids. Many wonderful honeymoon to the family beach friends were present and contrib- 5 HOFFER PHOTOGRAPHY house in Ocean City, Md., but uted to the celebration including is planning an extended hon- Gwendolyn Bagley ’05, Caitlin eymoon to visit Tim’s relatives Burlett ’06, Jesse Kayan ’06, in Greece. Stacy is a reading Donna Gitt ’05, Aaron Brus- specialist in Baltimore County, sat ’07, Erica Schuetz ’07, Liz Md.; Tim is a managing Lawrence ’08, Joshua Barnett partner of a sports performance ’08, Meredith Epstein ’08, and fitness club. They live in Rachel Clement ’08, MAT PHOTOS: BILL WOOD Baltimore, Md. 6 ERICA SCHUETZ ’07

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’10, Yang-Yi Chen ’09, Justine services manager with an inter- Erin McDermott ’10 and ’11, Christopher Sakowski Hoewing Ahearn ’09, MAT national relocation company; Garrett Fehner ’10 [11] were ’11, Gabriel Grace ’12 and ’10, Anna Vaudin ’10, Guy Ryan is a software programmer. married July 4, 2014 in Santa Benjamin Garbart ’11, and Kilpatric ’09, Karim Hemady They live in Pittsburgh, Pa. Fe, N.M. Carl Atwood ’07, ring bearer Cooper Skinner. ’10, and Katie Bamberger Halley Fehner ’08 and Carson Makeda is a nutritional sci- ’10. Elina and Andrew met as Brian Boyle ’10 and Pamela Fehner ’16 were in attendance. ence graduate student at the graduate students at Penn State Stach [9] were married Nov. The couple honeymooned in University of Oklahoma Health University and after complet- 16, 2013 at St. Mary’s Church Telluride, Colo. Erin is the mar- Science Center; Kalvin, a First 7 ing their respective degrees, in Annapolis, Md. The couple ket manager and regional lend- Lieutenant in the U.S. Air TAYLOR & BEN PHOTOGRAPHY TAYLOR relocated to Boone, N.C. Both honeymooned on the Hawaiian ing officer for Accion Nevada, Force, is an air battle manager work at Appalachian State island of Oahu. Brian is an an award-winning nonprofit at Tinker Air Force Base. The University; Elina as an adjunct author, speaker and healthcare that focuses on small business couple lives in Norman, Okla. lecturer and Andrew is a mem- advocate; Pamela is a pediatric financing. The couple recently ber of the faculty. nurse practitioner. They live in relocated to Las Vegas, Nev. Stefanie Wells ’11, MAT ’12 Huntingtown, Md. and Brian Wisner [13] were Jessica Dunckel ’08 and Makeda Mikael ’11 and Kal- married July 11, 2014 at Liberty Eric Padron [7] were married Rebecca Kaisler ’10 and vin Day ’11 [12] were married Mountain Resort in Fairfield, 8 Aug. 16, 2014 at Woodlawn Conrad Williams [10] were Aug. 31, 2014 in Woodbine, Md. Pa. Allison Conner ’11 was LYNDSEY Estate in Ridge, Md. Fellow married Oct. 23, 2014 at The wedding party, from left maid of honor and Ricky interchorus alumni Claire Colchester Castle in Colchester, to right, included bridesmaids Davis ’04 was a groomsman. Slesinski ’08, Sarah Stevens United Kingdom. Elysa Mont- Julie Bernstein ’11, Amanda The couple honeymooned on ’09, Adam Sincell ’08, and fort ’10 was maid of honor. Porter ’11, Mary Walters the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Alex Djinis ’08 provided vocal Rebecca is a content operations ’11, and Kelsey Ekker ’11, Stefanie is a paraprofessional and instrumental music dur- editorial administrator for maid of honor Naomi Gabriel, at Garnet Valley High School; ing the ceremony. The bridal Thomson Reuters; Conrad is Makeda and Kalvin, best man Brian is a doctoral candidate brigade also included Michael corporate counsel for Moody’s Alex Michelsen ’11, and at Drexel University and an Kerr ’08 and Caitlin Moore Analytics. They live in London. groomsmen David Corderman adjunct professor at Widener 9

CARLY FULLER CARLY ’08. Randi Zung ’07, Josh University. They live in Garnet Lubben ’07, Cassie Frey ’09, Valley, Pa. Bobby Wiley ’09, and Sam Liming ’17 were in attendance. Paula Riner ’13 and James The couple honeymooned in Waltz [14] were married Sep. Thailand. Jessica is a com- 15, 2014 at Woodlawn Manor munications specialist with the in Sandy Spring, Md. Marissa U.S. Agency for International Parlock ’13 and Emily Burde- Development; Eric works in shaw ’13 were bridesmaids. 10 promotional products. They The couple is planning a July DAN MORGAN live in Washington, D.C. honeymoon to visit the Oregon coast. Paula is a gardener at Stephanie Isberg ’08 and the Library of Congress; James Ryan White [8] were married 12 works for Zekiah Technolo- Oct. 26, 2013 in Pittsburgh, MICHAEL MUNOZ gies as a developer/computer Pa. Virginia Insley ’08 was a programmer. The couple lives bridesmaid. Guests included in California, Md. with their cat Lisa Byrne Alexandrow ’06, and two hedgehogs. 11 Andrea Szkil ’06, Lydia Ilog SHAYLA EDENFIELD SHAYLA ’06, Amelia Hinnebusch Smith ’08, Eric Smith ’08, Caitlin Fisher Vredenburg ’08, MAT ’09, Claire Stein Matta ’08 and Bryan Fennell ’06. The couple honeymooned in Canada at Niagara on the Lake. Stephanie is a client 13 14 SARA ECKARD PHOTOGRAPHY LEE WARREN

28 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2015 graduate classes in technol- Braeden Van Scott [9], born ogy for The Johns Hopkins June 18, 2014. Brady joins BIRTHS& University master’s program in proud big sisters, Delaney, age ADOPTIONS museum studies. Bryan, who 6 and McKenna, age 3. Kristina attended St. Mary’s College for is a clinical social worker at the a year (1996-97), is an electrical University of Maryland Upper To Jennifer Aschbrenner engineer for the National Gal- Chesapeake Medical Center’s 1 2 3 Schultheis ’98 and Paul R. CARRIE D PHOTOGRAPHY 2014 lery of Art. The family lives in Comprehensive CARE Center. Schultheis ’98, a son, Tucker Takoma Park, Md. Rob is a clinical coordinator Samuel [1], born Dec. 13, at Upper Bay Counseling for 2014. He joins big sister, Taylor To Michelle Thompson Stul- school- based services in the Madison, age 3. Jennifer is a berger ’01 and Cas Stulberger, Maryland counties of Harford client manager for Unum; Paul a son, Elliot Baxter [5], born and Cecil. The family lives in is the corporate sales manager Dec. 19, 2014. He joins broth- Bel Air, Md. 4 5 6 for Finch Services, Inc. (John ers Patrick, age 12 and Joel, Deere). The family lives in age 4, and sister Lila, age 6. To Rosie Baker Moore Westminster, Md. Michelle works as an executive ’04 and Jacob Moore, a son, assistant for MedStar Visiting Roland Patrick Rhys [10], To Jeremiah Chiappelli Nurse Association and is an born Sept. 23, 2014. Rosie is ’99 and Jessica Geoghe- international board certified a registered nurse working gan Chiappelli ’00, a son, lactation consultant. Cas works on the medical, renal, and Leonardo Jay [2], born Aug. 7 8 9 for Tetra Tech. The family lives oncology floor at Community 26, 2014. Leo joins big sisters, in Laurel, Md. Hospital North and is pursuing Jillian, age 8 and Cassie, age 6 her masters in adult nurse and big brother, Zander, age 3, To Lauren Dunnock Grasso practitioner; Jacob is a project who can’t wait to show him the ’02 and Steven Grasso, a son, manager for Bloomerang. The College on alumni weekend! Holden Steven [6], born Dec. family lives in Indianapolis, Ind. His godparents are Heather 15, 2014. He joins big sister, Jackson ’00 and James 10 11 12 Stella, age 3. Lauren and Steven To David William Marsich Yamakawa ’02. Jeremiah is are both attorneys. Lauren ’05 and Stephanie Lynn a lawyer with the Chiappelli works in the office of Governor Reiner Marsich ’07, a Law Firm; Jessica is a labor and Cuomo (NY-D); Steven works son, Samuel William Reiner delivery nurse. The family lives at Global Foundries. The family Marsich [11], born Jan. 27, in Pasadena, Md. lives in Delmar, N.Y. 2015. Stephanie is a hatchery technician at KCB Oyster Wendy Lewis Perraut ’99 To Adam Weaver ’03 13 14 15 To and Holdings, LLC and David LINDSEY WELCH and Michael Perraut, a son, Adrienne Wineholt Weaver teaches history at Germanna Matthew Harrison [3], born ’04, a son, David Joel Anthony Community College. The To Caitlyn Quinn Sarna ’08 Calvin is the senior associate Aug. 14, 2014. He joins big sis- [7], born Oct. 24, 2014. Adam family lives in King George, Va. and Christopher Sarna, a director of admissions at The ters Kylie, age 10, and Courtney, and Adrienne are attorneys. daughter, Harper Moher [13], Johns Hopkins University. The age 7. Wendy is a stay-at-home The family lives in Chevy To Elizabeth Allen ’06 born Jan. 19, 2014. Caitlyn is an family resides in Abingdon, Md. mom; Michael is an emergency Chase, Md. and Trevor Garbow, a emergency management hazard room physician. The family lives daughter, Jayne Maya [12], analyst at the Argonne National To Julia Shatto Becker ’10, in Leonardtown, Md. To Katie Miller Williams ’03 born Feb. 15, 2014. Liz is an Laboratory; Christopher is a MAT ’11 and Ian Becker ’10, a and Jamie Williams, twin boys, occupational therapist for the salesman for Berg Roofing and daughter, Aryadne Clover [15], To Dana Allen-Greil ’00 and Jamie and Jace [8], born July 24, Montgomery County, Md., Home Improvement. The fam- born April 5, 2014. She joins big Bryan “Boo” Allen, a daughter, 2014. Katie is a senior project public schools; Trevor is the ily lives in Darien, Ill. brother, Leodin, age 3. Julia is a Eleanor Isabelle Allen [4], manager at JBS International; assistant superintendent at the nature instructor for Frederick born July 16, 2014. Dana, who Jamie is an electrician. The fam- Washington Golf and Country To Elyse Tyler Wise ’08 and County Parks and Recreation; received her master’s degree ily lives in Frederick, Md. Club in Arlington, Va. The Calvin Wise III ’09, a son, Ian is a senior research and from the George Washington family lives in Kensington, Md. Calvin Wise IV [14], born Oct. development engineer at Spirent University, manages digital To Kristina Sementilli Evans 13, 2014. Elyse is a law student Communications. The family outreach for the National ’04 and Robert Evans, a son, at the University of Baltimore; lives in Frederick, Md. Gallery of Art and also teaches

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FUN FACTS in St. Mary’s History

Trinity Church is built of bricks from Maryland’s original 1676 State house.

The barracks that served as temporary 89. Jean is survived by her four College; and a district manager 1924 housing for students and faculty after the IN MEMORIAM children; nine grandchildren; for World Book Encyclopedia. 1924 fire were floated down the river on a 12 great-grandchildren; and In retirement, she and her late barge from Fort Meade. her brother. husband Ray had many ad- Margaret Hawkins Abbott ventures with “The Rowdies!” ’41HS, ’43JC, of Ruxton, Md., June Haviland Hannah ’45HS, She loved to entertain, play died Feb. 1, 2013, at age 89. ’47JC, of Kapaa, Hawaii, died bridge and go dancing. Babs Raised in LaPlata, Md., she Jan. 9, 2015, at age 86. Born in is survived by her daughters, graduated from the Johns Hop- Chicago, Ill., she worked as an Lynn Ryan Farver and Nancy kins Hospital School of Nursing office manager at Ithaca College Ryan; three grandchildren; in 1946, received a bachelor of before she retired. June is sur- and three great-grandchildren. science degree in nursing from vived by her children, Catherine Memorial gifts, designated to The Crescent Townhouses were inspired Johns Hopkins University in Hannah Mink, Cynthia Han- “Babs Ryan Memorial,” may by the Royal Crescent in Bath, England. 1952, and a master’s degree nah-White, and Robert Hannah; be sent to St. Mary’s College of 1941 The original cost of building Kent Hall (1941) in public health in 1960 from and five grandchildren. Maryland Foundation, 18952 E. was $85,000. The building sits on the site the Johns Hopkins School of Fisher Road, St. Mary’s City, thought to be the colonial city’s jail. Hygiene and Public Health. Nancy Whitmore Sutton Md. 20686. That the first men enrolled at St. Mary’s She worked as a head surgical ’45JC, died Sept. 28, 2013, were required to follow a strict dress code. nurse, nursing instructor, senior in Okemos, Mich., at age 87. Jeraldine Rickert VanSice caseworker for the Charles ’48HS, ’50JC The original use of Margaret Brent Hall A native of Baltimore, Md., , of Madison County Department of Public 1951 (1951) was as faculty apartments. she studied voice at Peabody Heights, Mich., died Nov. 8, Welfare and an assistant in Institute and music was a 2014, at age 83. Born in Balti- The brick benches in front of Caroline Hall the Department of Preventive constant throughout her life. more, Md., she was a member mark the remnants of the Hicks residence, Medicine at the University of Her children credit her with of the student council, orienta- a merchant house from the 17th century. Maryland School of Medicine teaching them the proper way tion committee, and the varsity 1960 In 1960, St. Mary’s Junior College had fifteen before moving into the new field to “belly-womp” on a sled hockey, basketball, volleyball, full-time faculty and 141 full-time students. of medical genetics research down a hill. In her fifties, she softball and swim teams while a in 1957 at the Johns Hopkins St. John’s pond went back to college and did student at St. Mary’s Seminary University School of Medicine. was once a missionary work in Singapore, and St. Mary’s Seminary Junior large free-flowing As an assistant to Dr. Victor Thailand, China and the College. While living in Madi- creek that McKusick, who pioneered the Philippines. Nancy is survived son Heights, she volunteered emptied into the study of medical genetics, she by her children, Pamela Sut- with St. John Macomb Oakland St. Mary’s River. worked with patients affected by ton Pospisil, Claudia Sutton Hospital, and Madison Heights dwarfism and inherited blood Kerbawy, and Robert Sutton; Nature Center, Women’s Club, diseases. In 1982, she joined the five grandchildren; two great- Historical Committee, Parade Baltimore Huntington’s Disease grandchildren; and her brother Committee and Christmas MAP COURTESY HISTORIC ST. MARY’S CITY Center at the medical school Charles Whitmore. Tree Lighting Committee. Jerry as a clinical nurse and medical is survived by her children, The terra cotta casts of the east frieze of the genealogist. Working closely Wilma Sears McDaniel Richard, Michelle VanSice 1974 Parthenon in Athens, Greece were a gift from with patients, she developed ’46JC, of Alexandria, Pa., died McCullough, and Douglas; and Princeton University to the College in 1974. large genealogical charts of The casts were probably made in London Jan. 13, 2015, at age 90. eight grandchildren. extended families and counseled by Italian craftsmen in 1850. Princeton those at risk. She retired from acquired them in 1888 for use as a teaching Barbara “Babs” Ross Ryan David William Hamilton Johns Hopkins University as an aid and for installation on the face of their ’46HS, ’48JC, of Gainesville, ’59JC, of Kansas City, Mo., art museum. They were taken down in 1963 assistant professor of medicine Fla., died Dec. 1, 2014, at age died July 12, 2014, at age 75. when the museum was remodeled. in October 2005. Margaret is 85. Born in East Orange, N.J., Born in Fort Sill, Okla., he survived by her four stepchil- she developed deep friendships worked for the Coca Cola dren, Jesse and John Abbott, with the “belles of St. Mary’s” Company, U.S. Border Patrol, Aline Abbott Ybarra, and Carrie that spanned seven decades. and U.S. Immigration Services. Abbott Moore. She loved attending reunions David is survived by his fiancé, and hearing from “the girls.” Mary Stahl; daughter, Judith Jean Pearson McMichael Babs served in a variety of Hamilton Pilmore; and three ’44HS, of West Palm Beach, professional roles including as- grandchildren. Fla., died Sept. 25, 2014, at age sistant to the Provost of Wilson

30 | St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2015 John “Bart” Mettam ’67JC, died Feb. 20, 2015 at age 55. A Maryland Heritage Area Va., where she melded her love in 2013 and became a part-time of Ridge, Md., died Dec. 11, life-long resident of St. Mary’s Consortium. She also officiated of nature and artistic talents to assistant public defender. Isaac 2014, at age 67. After St. Mary’s County, Md., she was a market- weddings around Southern help create beautiful outdoor is survived by his wife, Re- Seminary Junior College, he ing specialist for the county’s Maryland. Kim is survived by settings. Melinda is survived by becca Sawyer Pineo ’06, his graduated from Arizona State museum division for 14 years. her mother, Marjorie Ridgely her husband Mark; her mother, sons, Eli William and Sawyer University in 1970 with a Her most treasured accom- Rubala ’43JC, her brother, Hannah Ayres Esham; and her Tecumseh; his parents, William bachelor’s degree in economics. plishment was the creation of Mike Rubala ’76 and his wife siblings, Kent and Dirk Griffith and Patricia; and his brothers, He worked for over 30 years as the Potomac Jazz & Seafood Penny; her daughters, Robin, ’79, Holly Griffith Eckman, and Thomas, Ross and Caleb. Con- a team lead financial manage- Festival held annually at the St. Leah and Cassie; and her Christina Griffith Del Pino. tributions may be made to the ment analyst for Naval Air Sys- Clements Island Museum. She fiancé Mark Markovich. “Rebecca Pineo Benefit Fund” tems Command at Naval Air helped plan various museum Isaac William Pineo ’06, of at Marquette Bank, 935 S. Main Station Patuxent River. John is fundraisers including the Melinda Griffith Alvarez ’83, Meadville, Pa., died Feb. 25, St., Meadville, Pa. 16335. survived by his wife, Georgina; annual interactive murder mys- died Dec. 6, 2014, at age 55. 2015, at age 30. A graduate of his children, Eleanor Mettam tery dinner in which she played She grew up in Ocean City, Temple University School of Katrice Pitts ’07, of Washing- Wilson, Cesar Sanchez, Arturo “Daphne DiMarco.” Named Md. After St. Mary’s she lived Law, he practiced in Phila- ton, D.C., died Jan. 2, 2015, at Sanchez and Aaron Sokol; and the 2013 St. Mary’s County in Washington, D.C. and delphia, Pa., for a year before age 29. She worked for the DC two grandchildren. administrative employee of the worked as a bookkeeper at the returning home to Meadville Child and Family Services for six year, Kim was active with the Republican Majority Fund. She where he established his own years. Katrice is survived by her Kimberley Rubala Cullins St. Mary’s County Chamber of later worked as a landscaper general civil practice and crimi- grandmother, Cassandra Pitts. ’82, of Mechanicsville, Md., Commerce and the Southern for LanDesigns in The Plains, nal defense practice, Pineo Law,

St. Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2015 | 31 FROM THE ARCHIVES

MEMORABILIA

The College Archives has been fortunate to receive by donation memorabilia that recreates a snapshot of St. Mary’s in earlier times. Personal photo collections, young women’s scrapbooks and journals, beanies and postcards are a few of the items shown here. From top left: • A beanie from the 1950s, worn by new students during initiation. • A newspaper report of the devastating fire that burned the Main Building to the ground during the night of January 5, 1924. When fire broke out in the basement furnace room, a severe winter storm blew the flames quickly through the rest of the building. Fortunately, the building was empty for the winter holidays. • This young woman in 1969 is a new student, gauging by her beanie. Apparently her friend is an upperclassman. • A pennant from the 1950s shows the new interlocking “SMS” for St. Mary’s Seminary – a change made in the 1949-50 academic year to drop “Female” from the school name. • A 1928 diary page includes a place card from a party the “Eps” (Delta Phi Epsilon sorority) gave the “Sigmas” (and to which the author wore her fur). A favorite brand of ink pen nibs is also shown.

32 | St Mary’s College | THE MULBERRY TREE | spring 2015 Spring & Summer Events

Art St. Mary’s Project Alumni Weekend Exhibition June 11-14 Through May 5, Boyden Gallery River Concert Series June 19 – July 24 Awards Convocation Friday evenings at 7 pm April 24 at 3 pm Townhouse Green Michael P. O’Brien Athletics www.smcm.edu/events/riverconcert & Recreation Center Arena Chesapeake Writers’ The Ninth Annual Twain Conference Lecture: Aasif Mandvi July 12-18 April 24 at 7:30 pm To apply: https://chesapeake Michael P. O’Brien Athletics writersconference.submittable.com/ & Recreation Center Arena Golden & Beyond The Ben Bradlee Lecture in Reunion Weekend Journalism: Carl Bernstein (for classes celebrating 50th April 28 at 7 pm and beyond anniversaries) Michael P. O’Brien Athletics July 17-19 & Recreation Center Arena 42nd Annual Young at Art: Governor’s Cup An Exhibition of Art from Yacht Race St. Mary’s County Schools July 31-August 1 May 11 – 31, Boyden Gallery www.smcm.edu/events/govcup

Commencement Check for event updates May 16 at 10 am and additions: Townhouse Green www.smcm.edu/events/calendar

Photo of Barbara VanDevanter Pevey ’52hs, ’54jc coming out of the St. Mary’s River by Marion Warren. Courtesy College Archives. Non-profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Permit #10001 Leonardtown, MD YEARS 1840 175 2015

France’s Showpiece The Garden of Remembrance, inspired and overseen by M. Adele France (principal of St. Mary’s Female Seminary 1923-1937, and president of St. Mary’s Female Seminary-Junior College 1937- 1948), was the Seminary’s showpiece for the Tercentenary celebration in 1934. Its cost was borne entirely by the Alumnae Association. A new fountain in 2014 was a gift of alumna BJ Howard- Jasper. See story on page 24.