Newsletter | Vol. CI No. 3 September 2015

Worth Saving For Two Decades, Goucher’s Master of Arts in Historic Preservation Program Has Kept Up With History By Chris Landers and Kristina Gaddy

ichard Wagner grew up surrounded by the past—in R southern Virginia, where people referred to the “War of Northern Aggression,” and at the University of Virginia, where he occupied one of the prestigious “lawn rooms” designed by Thomas Jefferson to house carefully selected undergraduates. But history and Wagner’s future came together at the University of Edinburgh, where he received his doctorate degree. “Living in Edinburgh,” he recalls, “my building was a ‘new’ building—it was only 250 years old—and my of ce was in a ‘newish’ building that was only 300 years old. I had an inkling I wanted to work with old buildings and economics, but it sort Photo courtesy of the Suquamish Tribe Leonard Forsman MAHP ’03, chairman of the Suquamish Tribal Council, keeps his tribe’s heritage alive. of solidi ed while I was there. You know, going to sit in a pub that [18th-century He also assembled faculty members is Anglo-American,” he says. “There have cabinetmaker and burglar] Deacon Brody who wanted to give back to their profession been various pushes to include African- actually sat in, or David Hume, or Adam by educating the next generation of American material, pushes to include Smith . That’s really what sort of shaped it.” preservationists. “My deal with the faculty Hispanic-American material, but what As founder and director of Goucher’s has been ‘I’ll bring you good students if we’ve found is that the judging is still Historic Preservation Program, Wagner you’ll be my faculty,’” Wagner says, “and by the Anglo standards. … The world is has helped usher a diverse group of we’ve pretty much been able to maintain changing, and we need to gure out how to professionals into the eld over the last that for 20 years now.” adapt. We cannot continue to be museum- 20 years. In those two decades, he and the minded, which is where all this started In rst developing the program, Wagner program’s other professors have had to from . We’re in economic development. says he looked at historic distance-learning adapt to signi cant changes in the eld. We’re in cultural integration .” models—the Chautauqua Institute in the Wagner says historic preservation has Graduates of Goucher’s program are 1880s, the radio universities of the ’20s, become more diverse, both in scope— also embracing these changes, working to the television universities of the ’50s—to moving from buildings to landscapes—and preserve historic structures and sites all gure out which students would do well in in inclusiveness.“If you look in the stuff a low-residency program. in the National Register, the vast majority Continued on page 2

Goucher Quarterly Newsletter • September 2015 • 8 Goucher Quarterly Newsletter • September 2015 • 1 DEAR GOUCHER Worth Saving from page 1 over the world. COLLEGE ALUMNAE/I: In this piece, we pro le some students By the time you get this newsletter, and graduates of the program who have we will have welcomed the most diverse become some of the nation’s leading incoming class of rst-year students in Goucher’s history. Our new students historic preservation practitioners. come from 36 states and 15 countries, and 34 percent of them identify as being Ken Breslauer MAHP ’99 multicultural. Not only will these students Track Historian, Sebring International Raceway enrich the cultural diversity of our campus Sometimes history moves fast, community, but their enrollment shows accelerating out of turn 16 and down Goucher is continuing its longstanding the big back straight toward the sunset tradition of inclusiveness. bend at Sebring International Raceway Moving ahead, however, Goucher’s continued success will require expanding in Florida. Sebring is home of the famous our efforts to draw in new prospective 12-hour endurance race, 3.74 miles of students. As you may know, the concrete and asphalt where the likes of demographics of the high school graduate Mario Andretti and Steve McQueen once population are changing rapidly. There will jockeyed for position . be more students from low-income families, For the past 30 years, Ken Breslauer, Ken Breslauer MAHP ’99 is a racetrack historian and more multicultural students, more rst- Florida history expert. as the Sebring track historian, has been generation college students, and more non- state’s past for the History Channel slowing things down long enough to native English speakers in the applicant pool and other outlets that have come calling. document them. than ever before. We are proud Goucher has Like the attractions themselves, he “What appealed to me about Sebring adopted an admissions strategy that will help doesn’t see the interest lasting forever, us attract an increasingly diverse group of was its tremendous history,” Breslauer says. but he’ll document what he can while he students who are well-prepared for success “It was a World War II B-17 base, and then, has the chance. on our campus and in their future careers. of course, the raceway, which has a lot of Goucher is also committed to increasing “I think it’s a generational thing,” history in the world of automobiles. So it faculty and staff diversity, and this Breslauer says. “Interstate highways kind of combined my two interests—sports fall we also have welcomed more new played a big role in the way people car racing and history.” Asian, Hispanic, African American, and travel, but it’s the reality, too, that kids A native Floridian, Breslauer is also international faculty than in any year in now are not going to be entertained by Goucher’s history. fascinated by the history of tourism in his parrot shows and porpoise shows; it’s Additionally, on September 25 and 26, home state. just a different world we live in. Our we are inviting educators and admissions “Every state has really cool roadside perception of what an attraction should be experts from all over the country to things,” he says, “but Florida, being a participate in “Admission: The Road to is changing.” destination for tourists, has always been Higher Education for All,” an important Still, he adds, “If you take the off-the- noted for a lot of attractions. Before conference that will explore how colleges interstate routes, you’ll see a lot of really Disney, if you were coming to Florida, can increase access and equity for all neat things.” students (see page 4). you went to Silver Springs, or Cypress —Chris Landers We have made great progress in our Gardens, and of course Weeki Wachee diversity efforts, which honor and sustain [Springs], Marineland, and so forth .” Goucher’s reputation for innovation, The state has purchased some of the Leonard Forsman MAHP ’03 transformation, and educational access. larger attractions, so future generations Chairman, Suquamish Tribal Council And we are proud of how the Goucher community is taking great strides to create a can still take in the famous mermaid In just one month this year, Leonard sustainable and ethical model for liberal arts shows at Weeki Wachee Springs, or Forsman met with politicians, gave colleges of the future. explore the Silver Springs by glass-bottom commencement speeches, spoke at a boat. groundbreaking in Seattle with the mayor, All the best, But times and travel have changed— and attended the Advisory Council on once Disney came to Florida, it killed a lot Historic Preservation as President Barack José Antonio Bowen Holly Selby of the smaller mom-and-pop attractions. Obama’s Native American appointee. President Executive Director of Alumnae/i “It’s kind of a sad commentary,” he says, It all comes back to preservation. As Engagement “because most of the older attractions chairman of the Suquamish Tribal Council were botanical attractions or natural on the Port Madison Indian Reservation PS . Remember to look for a copy of the springs, things like that. Disney could be in Washington State, Forsman is a leader completely redesigned Quarterly magazine anywhere.” in preserving the built landscape to protect in your mailbox in early December. You are Breslauer has built a reputation as the his tribe’s culture and autonomy. going to love it! go-to guy for Florida history, curating his

Goucher Quarterly Newsletter • September 2015 • 2 Forsman’s ancestors have lived on Puget Sound near Seattle for thousands of years, and he came to Goucher’s Master of Art in Historic Preservation Program with more than 20 years of experience working on Native American history. He had been at the Suquamish Museum doing archival work, exhibit design, and educational programming, and he was an archaeologist and cultural resource management specialist in the Seattle area. He wasn’t committed to doing research about his own community when he came to Goucher. He had wanted to try something different and avoid being pigeonholed. His thesis adviser didn’t agree. There is so little research about historic preservation in relation to Native Americans, Forsman remembers being told, “We can’t waste your experience!” As Forsman was earning his master’s degree, the Suquamish were experiencing Jackson Gilman-Forlini ’12 MAHP ’18 watches over ’s historic buildings. a cultural resurgence and community revitalization. In 2004, the federal freefall of molten lead. Although it outlived day and operate the museum. It’s far more government returned the Old Man House its usefulness before the turn of the last than the city could ever do on its own .” State Park to the tribe, and in 2005, a century, the tower remains a symbol of In addition to guring out how to new long-house traditional dwelling was the past, a landmark for travelers, and, preserve the structures, part of Gilman- rebuilt. The reservation now has the Chief honestly, a bit of a white elephant. Forlini’s job is to nd uses for them. Some Kitsap Academy—a high-tech, culturally “It’s cold,” says Jackson Gilman-Forlini. are obvious—the Edgar Allen Poe House based high school—and a newly renovated “Very cold. It’s all stone, brick walls, and the has undergone a major restoration recently museum of culture and history, and it has walls are four or ve feet thick. It’s pretty under the auspices of the nonpro t Poe regained tribal waterfront property taken dark. The view at the top is breathtaking, Baltimore and is open to visitors. The from the Suquamish in the 1800s. though. It’s really a unique experience.” Baltimore War Memorial, a massive Forsman says Goucher’s focus on Gilman-Forlini graduated with a neoclassical edi ce across from City Hall, planning “helped me a lot in understanding music major and a historic preservation is a little trickier. The city recently the process of being organized in our tribe’s minor, and he’s returning to Goucher launched the War Memorial Arts Initiative revitalization .” He learned about building for a Master’s in Historic Preservation. to host concerts in the building’s huge new buildings; restoring landscapes; and After graduation, he landed an internship marble interior. how spatial planning, themes, and design with Baltimore’s Department of General “It’s very expensive to maintain these all work together to create a cultural Services that turned into a full-time job buildings,” he says. “Usually the way we image. Over the years, he has applied what managing the city’s historic properties, look at it is that these buildings are cultural he learned to his community to create including the . Right now he has assets, but nancial liabilities. Probably a economic growth and cultural awareness the view from the top mostly to himself—it lot of people who live in the communities, and to preserve the land and landscape of isn’t safe for visitors to climb—but he’s who see these buildings, would like to see his tribe. hoping to change that in the near future. them utilized to their highest and best use, “The research skills I learned in the The city owns quite a few historic but we have to prioritize.” program have been great for nding out properties—in addition to the shot tower, That means taking on one or two about our history … and designing our Gilman-Forlini ticks off the birthplace projects at a time and spreading the own cultural resurgence,” he says. of Babe Ruth, Edgar Allan Poe House, expense out over decades. In perpetually —Kristina Gaddy President Street Station, Peale Museum, cash-strapped Baltimore, that can be a Baltimore Streetcar Museum, Carroll tough sell, but it’s a pitch Gilman-Forlini Jackson Gilman-Forlini ’12, MAHP ’18 Mansion, and Baltimore War Memorial. makes well. “I would say that the value Historic Properties Manager, City of Baltimore “The majority of them we lease,” he comes from de ning a sense of character The Phoenix Shot Tower rises 234 feet explains. “For lack of a better term, we’re the for the city—giving people who live in over Baltimore like a medieval turret. Once property managers on behalf of the city. The the city a sense of the heritage that’s been the tallest building in the , the nonpro t operates them; we do some of the Continued on page 4 tower was designed to produce shot balls by maintenance; they turn the lights on every

Goucher Quarterly Newsletter • September 2015 • 2 Goucher Quarterly Newsletter • September 2015 • 3 Worth Saving from page 3 left behind for them,” he says. “These landmarks are something everybody knows and everybody can relate to, and they lend a sense of place. Buildings like the shot

tower are unique. That’s the value—that Photo courtesy of Laura Kirn cultural identity. It’s not just Anywheres- ville, USA. This is Baltimore.” —Chris Landers Laura Kirn MAHP ’13 Division Chief of Natural Resources, Channel Islands National Park In her work, Laura Kirn asks herself big questions: “Why is this place important? What stories are we harboring in these landscapes? How do we bring them to life? How do we take care of them?” Kirn oversees the cultural resources Laura Kirn MAHP ’13 brings the stories of the Channel Islands to life. programs at Channel Islands National Kirn deals with Native American places, she looks for all the histories that Park off the coast of California, ranging archeology and spaces of under-represented these places can evoke, and when working from Native American tribal resources, populations and is working on expanding with planning documents that become the to historic structures and architecture, to multiculturalism within parks. These are text for a museum exhibit or a sign in a archaeological nds and museums. usually the hard stories to uncover—people park, she wants all the stories of a place. Usually, she says, it is the stories of without records, houses that have been The has a fraught “great white men” that are captured and erased, stories that have been suppressed. history, but also a broad focus on preserving retold in properties listed on the National “I appreciate the challenge of uncovering the history of the United States as a whole. Register of Historic Places and in national those stories and bringing them to light,” Kirn and her colleagues are working to parks and landmarks. “But everyone should Kirn says. make sure parks are for all people. see their history in a national park,” she says. When she works on National Register —Kristina Gaddy nominations for historic properties and Taking the High Road for Higher Education

ver the course of its 130-year Harvard Law School professor history, Goucher College has a and author of The Tyranny of O long tradition of being inclusive the Meritocracy: Democratizing and socially engaged. To build on this Higher Education in America . legacy, the college will host “Admission: There also will be presentations The Road to Higher Education for All,” by the CEO of the Lumina these principles and are already more a national conference on civil rights and Foundation, Jamie Merisotis, and Century economically diverse than most selective college admissions that will explore how Foundation Fellow Richard Kahlenberg, as liberal arts colleges,” says Goucher colleges can increase access to higher well as talks by representatives from the Bill President José Antonio Bowen . “But we education, especially for rst-generation & Melinda Gates Foundation, Georgetown wanted to do more, and so we imagined and under-represented students. University’s Center on Education and the this national conference as a way to help The conference, scheduled for this Workforce, and SisterMentors. further inject these ideals into the college September 25 and 26 on Goucher’s This critical conversation will address admissions process.” campus, will bring together a broad questions such as: Is it time for a “new” All alumnae/i are invited to come range of experts—national political and af rmative action paradigm? And shouldn’t hear what Goucher’s leaders and other public-policy leaders, college admissions a college education in the United States be a experts in education have to say about professionals, leaders from nonpro ts and right and not a privilege? making the college admissions process foundations, federal and state government “At Goucher, all of our students sign more accessible to everyone. For more of cials, members of the media, faculty, our ve Community Principles, the rst information or to register, go to parents, and students. of which is inclusion, followed by service www.goucher.edu/HigherEdForAll. Speakers will include Lani Guinier, and social justice. We sincerely value —Kristen K. Pinheiro

Goucher Quarterly Newsletter • September 2015 • 4 By Any Other Name The FreeState Legal Project Gives Transgender Clients a Name, and a Voice By Chris Landers

power for Welter’s transgender clients. In 2014, FreeState went online with its Story of My Name project—a collection of the stories of its clients and others who changed their names to reect their real selves. Writer Tyler Mendelsohn ’08 founded the series, conducting interviews and editing them for publication . Mendelsohn worked as the of ce manager at FreeState while she took classes for her writing MFA from the University of Baltimore, and she sees the project as a collaboration between the writer and subjects. The stories reveal the trepidation that comes when a request for ID means baring your soul to a stranger. In one, a woman named Nicole describes hiding her hospital work badge before her name change, then the pride she felt afterward seeing her name on an employee-of-the-month sign. “I think names are something a lot of people don’t think about,” Mendelsohn says, “but they’re the rst thing you say to someone when you introduce yourself, and they’re so important to someone’s identity. When you don’t have to think about it, there’s no Tyler Mendelsohn ’08 (right) is pictured here with Story of My Name participant Shane. reason to think about it.” For the people she’s writing about, er Welter ’99 was content, making a from cases that will change laws—the though, “They’re forced to come out over living in computer music, his minor at organization played a role in lobbying for and over again, just doing the simplest J Goucher. But as an American the Fairness for All Marylanders everyday tasks.” studies major with a poli-sci bent, he was Act, which added gender identity as a Shane, one of the subjects in the Story also paying a lot of attention to what was protected class in the state. But what of My Name project, agrees. “When you going on in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and FreeState is really looking for are cases don’t look exactly like the gender that is on transgender civil rights law, watching cases that will change lives. your documentation,” he writes, “people such as Lawrence v. Texas make their way “Our primary goal is to just help feel like they can ask you literally anything. to the U.S . Supreme Court. He wanted individual people who are low income I was afraid to go out in public.” to be a part of it, and so he decided to and are having a legal problem that is The experience of documenting these go to law school so he could be an active connected to their sexual orientation,” powerful stories has changed Mendelsohn . advocate for critical gay rights issues. Welter says. “We have had a couple of cases “I love hearing peoples’ stories, and I’ve “Going in, I wanted to be a gay rights that do raise big issues and have an impact, learned so much from them,” she says. lawyer,” he says. “Now I’m doing what I but a lot of the cases we take are really “I love the fact that the people who’ve wanted to do when I grew up .” just helping folks with the non-headline- participated have been so diverse, and I’ve Welter is the managing attorney for the grabbing things that are nevertheless very gotten to meet so many different kinds of FreeState Legal Project, a Baltimore-based important for their lives.” people. It’s really been a transformative organization that advocates for low-income For example: Changing names and experience.” lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender genders on government identi cation Marylanders. FreeState doesn’t shy away seems routine, but it has a transformative

Goucher Quarterly Newsletter • September 2015 • 5 Transforming Campus to Transform Students By Kristen K. Pinheiro

oucher, like all institutions of will look like.” higher education, has one main Two other buildings are slated to Gpurpose: to transform students. round out the rst-year village, providing The college’s faculty and staff have about 450 beds for entering students. dedicated a lot of time this summer to If funding allows, the plan will be to reecting on what it means to learn and be tear down Froelicher Hall and start on transformed and why students thrive best the next two buildings of the rst-year in on-campus living-learning communities. village immediately next summer, with Town hall meetings and small, informal an anticipated completion for Fall 2017. conversations on these subjects have “That’s the goal,” says Barone, “but we been informed by President José Antonio need to have the capital lined up so we can Bowen’s recommended reading for all begin to plan properly for this next phase.” faculty and staff: Transforming Students: The next phase also calls for creating a Fulfilling the Promise of Higher Education large, central, community dining hall at the by Charity Johansson and Peter Felton. Pearlstone Student Center and replacing The book’s theme of transformation has Stimson Hall with an upper-division village that will provide older students with a twofold bearing on Goucher’s campus. Construction of the new residence hall is progressing Everyone at the college is dedicated to smoothly. increased independence and privacy in 425 providing students with an education new shared suites and apartments. faculty and staff live on campus alongside that is informative, as well as an overall “We know that our students are both students. The building’s rst oor will experience that is transformative. At leaving home and nding a new home here feature two two-bedroom apartments, one the same time, the college has embarked on campus,” says President Bowen . “This is for faculty and one for staff. upon the literal transformation of its own especially important for rst-year students. “I’m especially excited about this aspect campus. At Goucher, we are nurturing a sense of the project and how it will strengthen Earlier this summer, Goucher broke of belonging, of ‘home,’ in our students. Goucher’s living-learning community ground on the rst building of a rst-year One important way we can do this is by concept by extending education from the village for incoming students: a 185-bed creating a strong residential community classroom to the residence halls,” says new residence hall close to the heart of that dramatically impacts their college President Bowen. “This is a high-impact campus that will be completed by Fall experience.” practice and another way we can give 2016. This new dorm will primarily house students a meaningful experience here and students in double rooms, with a sprinkling another way for us to weave our attention of singles in the mix, and it will feature to transformation into our campus.” Know aNY quiet study spaces, common rooms on each Progress is being made to bring these of the three upper oors of housing, a rst- potential gopherS? laudable intentions to fruition. Since the oor main lounge, as well as an outside groundbreaking, construction efforts have common space that is meant to support focused on erecting fencing for safety, SEND THEM TO community-building. relocating water lines and electrical lines, What the dorms won’t feature for rst- and linking to an already-existing sprinkler year students is private baths. system . In late July, the construction crews “If you ask students if they want to also began digging the foundation for this have their own bathroom and be in a single new residence hall. exple room, they will say they do. But really Additionally, a survey was sent to that’s not what’s best for them,” says Linda MONDAY current and prospective students to get Barone, associate director for facilities GOUCHER input on the kinds of furnishings and planning. “First-year students do best when nishes young people want and what kinds 10/12 living in a traditional residence hall with  of spaces they want to live in . MONDAY shared bathrooms. They get out of their DAY “It’s a fast-track process,” says Barone. rooms and meet new people. You want the “We are getting the rst part done so we opportunities for creating community, even 11/9 can get the foundations done this fall;  if it’s a forced thing.”The new residence meanwhile we’re still working on the hall also will support student learning details of what the inside of the building www.goucher.edu/egd by bringing back the tradition of having

Goucher Quarterly Newsletter • September 2015 • 6 Goucher Quarterly Newsletter • September 2015 • 7 Her rst court appearance in Birmingham was a hearing in front of a notoriously Arienna tough judge. “I took 20 minutes of his time and basically just refused to leave until he agreed to let my client out,” she said. “It Grody ’10 was the most satisfying feeling—both the winning and helping someone.” Grody is representing clients in Alabama as part of a partnership between s a public defender in Birmingham, Gideon’s Promise, a nonpro t dedicated to Alabama, Arienna Grody ’10 public defense reform; the Department of Adoes a lot of small, perhaps Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance; and thankless things: bond hearings, client participating law schools and Southern meetings, paperwork. When she feels public defender of ces. The program helps discouraged, she sometimes sits in a nearby recruit talented, third-year law students park dedicated to children who died in the interested in public service and places them civil rights movement to remind herself Arienna Grody ’10 in underserved public defender of ces. how far the country has come and how majoring in international relations, She says the hardest part of her job much work still lies ahead. using her other major in Spanish to tutor is seeing “broken people who have never “I think one of the most important ESL students, and starting a student- had anyone believe in them and who things I got from my time at Goucher was run project called “A Moving Narrative: know and have always known their the understanding that no matter how big Facing Immigration,” in which she options are so limited there is no point in you dream, change only comes when you interviewed and photographed immigrants having dreams. It is a privilege to believe work on smaller pieces of a problem,” she to spark a humanized conversation about in yourself and your potential. How can I said. “And that is enough .” immigration. not use my position to advocate for people Grody says she wanted to be a public At the end of her four years at who sometimes need to be convinced they defender for a long time, citing Atticus Goucher, Grody still felt passionate about deserve your time and energy?” Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) and attorney law. “I wanted to represent the poor, the Grody is thankful for the opportunity Johnny Cochran, who started as a public disenfranchised, and the segments of society and for those who helped her get to this defender, as inspirations. that we try to pretend don’t exist,” she said. place in her career and in her life. As a native of Oakland, California, she “It’s hard to nd a population in greater “I wouldn’t be here without the had an up-close view of big problems, like need than poor people accused of crimes.” support and encouragement of too many poverty and equality. “Growing up, I saw After graduating cum laude, Grody people to name—something I believe is a socioeconomic disparity vividly racialized applied to UCLA School of Law, writing requirement of success,” she said. “It’s one in the criminal justice system, from arrest in her admission statement, “The rst step of the reasons I’ve chosen to dedicate my all the way through sentencing … . I would to building and empowering a historically professional life to people who are ready to have had to be blind to not be impacted by disenfranchised community is keeping give up on themselves. Unfortunately, no it and heartless to be indifferent to it.” them free.” one has ever shown them how to believe in Grody was attracted to Goucher’s then Her legal training hasn’t always been themselves.” newly instituted study abroad requirement. easy. “I’m still struggling with a steep —Angie Cochrun She quickly delved into activities that learning curve in a eld where we all have shone a light on intercultural inequities— a steep learning curve anyway,” she said. Calling All Collectors

reat art collections represent holdings and individual collections. Weekend and will be accompanied by the passion, expertise, and Teaching through art is central to complementary programming and events. Gcommitment of their owners. the mission of the college’s collections, “I am looking forward to working with Goucher College invites alumnae/i, and this annual exhibition will highlight members of Goucher’s community who parents, and friends to share that passion a broad history of art—as well as the have dedicated themselves to acquiring by allowing works from their private importance and joys of collecting,” says great art,” Sugerman says. collections to be shown at the college. Sonja Sugerman, curator of Goucher’s Art If you would like to inquire about Called Goucher Collects, this highly and Artifact Collection and organizer of lending a work of art to the college, selective show is scheduled to run next the show. please contact Sonja Sugerman at year from April 15 through May 20, The exhibit, to be presented in the [email protected]. featuring works drawn from Goucher’s Silber Art Gallery, will kick off Alumnae/i —Holly Selby

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‘Butler’ Writer Advises Grads on Life, Livelihood

n Sunday, August 2, Wil engaging keynote with his moving story of Haygood—the renowned journalist, prevailing over racism through education Oauthor, and movie producer— and his many insights into the writing life. addressed this year’s graduates of Goucher’s Haygood has also been a part of the Goucher Robert S.Welch Center for Graduate and community for a number of years, serving Professional Studies. as a visiting faculty member in the Master of Haygood served as a national and Fine Arts in Creative Non ction Program. foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe, In his remarks, Haygood said, “You covering the prison release of anti-apartheid must become the best artists and educators crusader Nelson Mandela in South Africa, and administrators that you can be. Believe and the civil wars in Liberia and Somalia, in great poetry, as I know you do. And where he was even taken hostage before believe in great love stories. Believe that being rescued by Pakistani troops. Haygood miracles can happen, because they do . won more than a dozen national journalism That’s the ultimate gift of time: the ability to honors for his work at The Globe, and was a Wil Haygood shared lessons from a lifetime of storytelling. believe and dream. So dream . … Dream that Pulitzer Prize nalist. you will do glorious things with what you administrations. The story was adapted into In 2002, he became a national writer have learned when you walk righteously the blockbuster motion picture The Butler and for The Washington Post, where he wrote from this campus today.” the New York Times bestseller The Butler: A the story “A Butler Well Served by this You can view a video of the ceremony Witness to History—one of Haygood’s many Election,” the sweeping life story of on Goucher’s YouTube channel (www. critically acclaimed books. long-serving White House butler Eugene youtube.com/user/gouchercollege). He was asked to address the graduates Allen, who worked for eight presidential — Kristen K. Pinheiro not just because he was guaranteed to be an

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