NONPROFIT ORG U.S. POSTAGE PAID MAGAZINE UMBC Winter 2010 21009 Permit #200 UMBC MAGAZINE University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 MARCH UMBC Career Week March 22 – 26, 2010 All day ALUMNI EVENTS UMBC Campus Whether you’re looking to fine tune your own career skills, or want to volunteer as FEBRUARY Dessert & Discussion a resource to students, Career Week has February 23, 2010 UMBC Athletic Hall of Fame something for you. Induction Dinner 6:30 p.m. http://www.careers.umbc.edu/careerweek UMBC Campus February 6, 2010 Professor of psychology Dr. Carlo STOMP at the Hippodrome 6 p.m. cocktails, 7 p.m. induction dinner DiClemente, who studies how people March 25, 2010 BWI Airport Marriott Hotel, Baltimore change addictive and health behaviors Join UMBC in welcoming eight new including alcohol and drugs, diet, exercise, 6:30 p.m. pre-show reception, 8 p.m. show alumni inductees into the UMBC and smoking, will give a talk on “Changing Hippodrome Theatre, Baltimore Join CYA for this popular show, featuring Athletic Hall of Fame. Tickets include Habits.” Register early, and read more about music made with everything from rubber admission to the induction dinner, as well other upcoming D&D speakers. as seats at the basketball double header hoses to chairs – to the kitchen sink! $ http://retrievernet.umbc.edu/discussions earlier that day. For more information, http://retrievernet.umbc.edu/stomp contact Kevin Gibbons-O’Neill ’86 at [email protected]. $ http://retrievernet.umbc.edu/hof Edible UMBC: Ace of Cakes | Food Studies | Holy Fajitas! You SUPPORT the mission... They’ll supply the VISION. Walk into any classroom at UMBC, and you’ll find America’s future blossoming before you. One student may discover a cure for cancer; another could pen the next Tony-winning play. In an ideal world, their potential would be limited only by their willingness to study and to dream. But, did you know that nearly half of UMBC’s undergraduate students applied for financial aid this year? Others juggle part-time – or even full-time – jobs while enrolled in class, yet many still struggle to pay their tuition each semester. That’s where you come in. Alumni support provides crucial scholarship funding for UMBC’s best and brightest. Make your gift to the UMBC Annual Fund today. Wanna be a celebrity culinary www.umbc.edu/exceptional entrepreneur like Ace of Cakes star Duff Goldman ’97? Our Outstanding Alumnus of the Year in the Humanities for Visit www.facebook.com/umbcgoldchallenge 2009 offers a few hints: Don’t to learn more about the GOLD 1000! sweat the numbers. Don’t get complacent. And prepare for some hard knocks. 20 By Ana Marie Cox www.umbc.edu/magazine CONTENTS Dig in to a winter issue with features dedicated to alumni departments and scholars who devour the culinary world. Plus: Gaze greedily on a selection of our favorite spots to dine on and To You 2 off campus. From You 3 Up on the Roof 4 14 Hidden Treasure 5 Edible UMBC The News 6 At Play 8 UMBC American studies professor Warren Belasco has pioneered food studies’ Discovery 10 explosive growth in the classroom and the larger How To 36 culture. By Phoebe Connelly Class Notes 38 Then and Now 46 26 Over Coffee 48 The Scholar at the Supermarket UMBC alumnus Father Leo Patalinghug ’92 finds the divine in cuisine and competition. His quest may yet make him one of America’s best-known Catholic priests. By B. Rose Huber on the cover 30 Heather Gleason ’08 enjoys Prosciutto Wrapped Diver Scallops at Catonsville Break Bread. Break Boards. Break Dance. Gourmet on Frederick Road. Photo by Melissa Van der Kaay. Visit UMBC Magazine online at www.umbc.edu/magazine for plenty of web extras! Thoughts, complaints, suggestions about UMBC Magazine? Get in touch at [email protected]. UMBC MAGAZINE | WINTER 2010 2 TO YOU Welcome to the Winter 2010 issue of UMBC Magazine! The magazine’s staffers have had their taste buds tickled and their bellies filled as we put together an issue that our staff focuses on food. (Excuse us if we’ve put on a few pounds Editor in the process.) Richard Byrne ’86 We also have not been starved for outside attention as Associate Editor a university or a magazine. Check out our “News” section Jenny O’Grady (pages 6 and 7) for stories about Time magazine’s recognition of UMBC president Design Director Freeman A. Hrabowski, III and the bevy of awards that UMBC Magazine already Jim Lord ’99 has picked up in its first months of existence. Designers But I want to spend a few moments articulating a particular hunger that we have Michelle Jordan ’93 at UMBC Magazine that needs to be satisfied. A craving, really. Melissa Van der Kaay Feedback from the readers of UMBC Magazine. UMBC News Staff In the coming months, we will be seeking out such feedback in formal ways, B. Rose Huber including a reconvening of the original focus groups that helped shape the initial Kavan Peterson vision of the magazine two years ago and a survey that we’ll be sending out Contributing Writers randomly to a wide cross-section of readers. Phoebe Connelly Ana Marie Cox But we really want readers to talk to us in other ways: especially with ideas for Joab Jackson ’90 stories, letters to the editor, and submissions to our class notes section. Jeff Seidel ’85 The first two elements are easy enough. We are delighted when we hear about an Joel N. Shurkin alumna or an alumnus whom a reader thinks we should profile, or a memory that James Taylor ’74 a reader thinks would make a great article. And we are eager for any thoughts you Editorial Intern have about the magazine in general or any stories in particular – positive or negative. Holly Britton ’11 Our decision to increase our type size between Winter 2009 and Summer 2009, for Contributing Photographers instance, was directly related to reader feedback. Tom Altany Tracey Brown Class notes, however, are a different issue. Traditionally, they are a vehicle to let Chris Hartlove your former classmates know about career achievements, marriages and new arrivals Michelle Jordan ’93 to your families. And we want all those submissions. Jim Lord ’99 But we’re also hoping that you’ll share other thoughts and memories with us in Erin Ouslander ’03 Melissa Van der Kaay the class notes: Have you run a marathon? Taken up a new hobby? Just returned Kevin Weber from a fabulous trip? Let us know about it. You can submit a class note on our Administration website, or send it along to UMBC Magazine, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Greg Simmons ’04, M.P.P. Baltimore, MD 21250. Vice President, Institutional Advancement Thanks again for reading! See you again in spring! Miriam Tillman — Richard Byrne ’86 Assistant Vice President, Marketing & Creative Services Sandra Dzija Director, Alumni Relations & Annual Giving For information on the Alumni Association, please visit http://retrievernet.umbc.edu or call 410-455-ALUM. For information on giving to UMBC, please contact the Annual Fund at 410-455-2210 or visit www.umbc.edu/exceptional. www.umbc.edu/magazine FROM YOU 3 UMBC Magazine welcomes your letters I am an immigrant (from England), had PAPER TRAILS to the editor on any issue related to the applied for U.S. citizenship when I reached A few months back, I was surprised to content of the magazine. You can e-mail 18, and was eventually assigned a hearing receive the summer 2009 issue of and ceremony date at the U.S. District UMBC comments to [email protected]. Faxed in the mail as I was previously Court in Baltimore. On the evening of Magazine comments can be sent to 410-455-1889. unaware that UMBC had a publication. I April 4, 1968, I took an overnight flight You may also send letters to “Letters to the recall enjoying the issue greatly and found from Los Angeles to Baltimore, arriving Editor,” UMBC Magazine, UMBC, 1000 the magazine to be a great way to keep in on the morning of Friday, April 5. My Hilltop Circle, Administration Building, touch with alumni. stepmother drove me to the Federal Baltimore, MD 21250. Courthouse for the hearing and ceremony, I was sad, however, to discover that I never and a couple of hours later I left as a new received the inaugural issue. Likewise, I have ED-DITIONAL citizen of the United States. not received the current issue either. As I frequently travel by train, I would really I graduated from UMBC in 1972. Tuition As we were walking from the courthouse appreciate it if I could get copies of these was $750 per semester. to where the car was parked, I was stopped issues and continue to get this publication I read your article about Dr. Edward Orser by a police officer and strongly advised to in the future. I know the magazine is (Summer 2009). I was part of his senior get off the streets and out of uniform as also published online, however, I am old seminar on Ellicott City. It was a highlight quickly as possible. When I asked why, he fashioned and still like to read off a piece of my last semester there. The American told me – in language far too offensive to of paper. studies major well equipped me for be printed – that Dr. Martin Luther King, graduate school. It is an excellent major. Jr. had been assassinated the night before. I really loved UMBC and I try to stay as That was the first news I had of the event.