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Issue number 90 Vol. XXIII No. i Contents Established May 1979 Spring 2001 PUBLISHER Sbepherdsiown Minislerial .^sociaiion EDITOiUAL BOARD COLUMNS Tara Bell Mary Ann Garfc 3 Jesus in the WDderness or, Confessions of a Budding Environmentalist. By Randall Tremba Marge Dower Cindy Keller 16 The Search for Perfection or "The Way My Mother Made It". By Marge Dower Emcst D. Lyies Joan Snipes 17 EARTHKEEFING. Smart Growth. Ensuring a Livable Future for the Panhandle. Randall Tremba E X E C I T I V E E D I T O R By Maigarita Provenzano Randall W. Trcinba EDITORS 19 Dogwoods. A Feast for AH Seasons. By Virginia Provenzano Susan Ford Priichard Naomi Rohrer Claire Siuarr DEPARTMENT EDITORS PEOPLE Tara Bell ioanie Blanion 4 Betty Custer. Extra-Ordinary Volunteer. By Naomi Rohrer Marge Dower Vincc Parmesano 5 Reverend Ernest Lyles Leaves a Legacy. By Naomi Rohrer Margarita Piovenzano Virginia ^venzano 6 Nadya's Happy Ending. An Abused Dog Gets a New Leash on Life. By Claire Stuart Keith Snyder Ed Zahniser 7 Unearthing Memories. An Interview with Porky May. By Susan Ford Pritchard CONTRIBLTING EDITORS Judith Layman 8 Malung Life Easier ©Unlimited Living. By Naomi Rohrer Emily Lcvitan Dorothy McGhce 9 Professor Jason Best His Life in Astrophysics. By Jason Best, PhD Berry Morgan J. LaPearWard 15 Shepherd College International Student Union. By Whitney Coleman Stephen Willingham Robin Young PRE-nWHIUCTION EDITOR Libby Howard SENIOR DESIGNER F E A T U R E S ' ' Melmda Schmitt PHOTOGRAPHERS 10 CIVIL WAR SERIES. ASad and Purpo^less Xffair. Ttie Battle Df Shiepherdstorwn. LarsWigren By Keith Snyder J. Davis Erica Simon-Brown Bill Howard 1-2 Vandalians. Comics by Erik Van Horn TYPIST Marv Ann Strider 14 WORLD CONNECTIONS. Exchange Programs. By Vincent Parmesano PROOFREADERS Betty Lfw Bryant 18 Julia "Butterfly" Hiil. Author and Environmental Activist to Speak. By Patrick Drohan. John Foxcn Julie Gregg 20 Children and Spirituality. By Anne Winter Ada Haicben Jim Hoadley DISTRIBLTION Dabney Chapman (ret) B A C K F O R T Y Clyde Kentek TREASURER 21 Religious Communities of the Shepherdstown Ministerial Association. A l e x S h a w D E S I G N & L A Y O U T 22 Donors. We have, only one debt. And it's a good one. A debt of gratitude. J a r e d S c h e e r e r a i t d t r v a 23 Business & Service Directory. Tell them you saw it here. CIRCULATION 13400 copies printed Bulk maU (11430) She(^erdsiown all patrons (3,010) Keameysville PC. RR 1 -4 (2.730) Cover artist is freelance photographer Beaita Keller. Featured aie photo^phs taken on a recent trip to Cuba with students Shenando^ Jet (700) Harpers Ferry PO. RR U (2.950) from the Photojoumalism class, which she leaches at Shepherd College. Keller has taught adjunct classes at Shepherd Bakerton (ISO) Martinsburg RR 3 (510) College for 13 years, and is photo editor of Antietam Review. She resides in Shepherdstown. Sharpsburg PO. RR 2 (1.480) Direct mail (1000) by request If you are not already receiving the GOOD NEWS PAPER we.will be happy to send it to you free of Slacks (1400)

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■p 9 Jesus in the Wilderness or, confessions of a budding environmentalist By Randall Tremba

Which is where Jesus got trapped for forty days and forty News Paper these days. In this issue you can read Virginia nights. And what was out there, I ask you? The Devil. SATAN! You Youcan't Provenzano'shelp but notice articlean emphasis on the Floweringon nature Dogwood,in the Good Comus see my point. Wilderness may be the place for a body to be during florida, "probably the most admired of all our native eastern trees, the the forty days of Lent but, as for me and my house, we're treating very symbol of spring in our woodlands and gardens." You can read it as a metaphor. Patrick Drohan's brief introduction of author and environmental At least for the moment. activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill who lived in a tree for two years and Whatever else that wilderness experience meant for Jesus, it will be speaking at Shepherd College and the National Conservation meant a place of self-discovery. You just can't tromp around on this Training Center this month (March). earth thinking it's OK to mess with nature any ole way you want You can read Margarita Provenzano's essay on to. Maybe we have the power to turn stones into "Smart Growth" noting that "our area is vulnerable bread but it's not always a good idea. Let stones to uncontrolled, sprawling expanses of subdivisions And Jesus was be stones; otherwise you start spewing things and strip malls, destroying our precious farmland, into the atmosphere and before you know it, the open space, and natural resources." Jason Best, in the wilderness polar ice caps are melting and fish are dying. assistant professor of astrophysics at Shepherd You don't leap off high steeples expecting College tells of his early fascination with "the evo forty days, tempted God to intervene and save your sorry buns. And lution of the stars." Our summer issue will include you don't cut down the rain forests and expect a piece by a local woman on her recent exploration by Satan. God to save the planet. (A certain former of Antarctica. Secretary of the Interior thought Jesus was about On this page, from now on, you can expect (The Gospel according to Mark 1:13) to return and thus Wilderness Preservation Acts ecology in your face since I will be trekking were unnecessary. I read the same Bible. I round the world later this year to converse with various religious wouldn't hold your breath, if 1 were you.) officials (and unofficials) in various regions about their percep Now, where was I? Oh, yes. Jesus in the wilderness. tion of ecology and religious responsibility (or, lack thereoO- You don't let human dominion go to your head so that you start Thanks to a Lilly Endowment grant I will be able to visit New thinking you can do any ole thing you want to. It's true that one of Zealand, Australia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Greece, Italy, Spain and the the two stories of creation in Genesis includes the (I suppose) flatter Republic of Ireland over a period of three months with ing notion that humans have divinely sanctioned dominion over all (biodegradable) sketchbook and (unbiodegradable) video camera other creatures. in hand. Last time I looked "dominion" meant "governing on behalf of a Now I should tell you this; I'm no natural-bom naturalist. I thrive on sovereign." Dominion is not to be confused with arrogance and domi indoor activities like reading, writing and, well, reading and writing. I'm nation. Dominion means stewardship. We are not sovereign. God is. (I reading this even as I write it and I'm having a very good time. The know, I know. There are lots of problems with that but let's let that onset of spring actually depresses me a bit since there's a lot of pressure slide for the time being.) to go outside and claim to enjoy the budding of trees and the singing of Our so-called dominion must always be exercised in kinship with tods. Don't get me wrong. I'm thrilled that trees, birds, bees and worms the entire web of life. We are-part of an evolving ecosystem. Get used are out there. I just don't need to witness it on a daily basis. to it. Despite eschatological visions of a new heaven and a new earth, My father was a brakeman on the P&LE railroad all his working don't count on it. The outcome is hardly certain. If it were, we would days. He worked outside in wind, rain, sleet, and snow. I once told n't need prophets harping at us about repentance. him I wanted to do the same thing and he told me to get an education Repent or else. so I would never have to woik outside. I never looked back. So I've begun. When it came to the idea of sitting around a campfire, sleeping in Repenting is not what it's usually cracked up to be. It means, quite tents, hunting and fishing, my parents had a simple reply. Why would simply, a turning of the heart and mind to what is right, or righteous, or, you? It took humankind four million years or so to create climate- to put it another way, getting in right relationship to other pereons and controlled, pes(-free environments and supermarkets. Enjoy it, they'd things, including (why not?) the whole earth. It's getting back into the say. I have. family, into the community, into the whole splendid web of life where So, of course, I'm asking myself: what demon put this sedfbatical we belong. God's there, too. So it's a pretty good place to be. idea into my head and had the nerve to get it funded? In other words, I don't know what you're doing for Lent. But I thought I'd spend now that I've got the Lilly money, I actually have to go around the a little more time with the birds and the bees. I may even hug a tree world and walk in wilderness. (when no one's looking) and thank God for all kinds of lilies. I

Betty Custer Extra-Ordinary Volunteer By Naomi Rohrer Photo by Lars Wigren f I ^ he first thing one notices in Betty father passed away when she was still Custer's apartment is her array of in high school. Betty and her mother T Teddy bears. The smiling stuffed and brother have been close throughout animals line the entire south wall of her their life's trials. living room, and there are smaller bears Betty moved to Shepherdstown all around the room. "I started years ago from Martinsburg about thirteen years collecting Teddy bears, because they're ago, because her brother and sister-in- so cute." she said, grinning. "I have law lived here. They had a car, and were boxes of them packed away! My able to drive her where she needed to favorite one is that smaller one that Rev. go. Though her brother has since moved Bronson Staley and his wife gave me for to ShinstOHi she chose to stay because Christmas," she said, pointing to a little she likes the community. "In this apart bear with white, shimmering fur. Among ment complex, we check on each other. the inanimate bears sits a bear with a We take care of each other. It's a loving hands-free telephone built in. His eyes community." and mouth move as sounds come out! Not one to sit idle, Betty also "I have so much fun with those enjoys cooking, reading, embroidery bears," Beny said. "Once, my friends and crochet. Her friends enjoy the won- Donna and Bob and I even had a Teddy . derful things she bakes at bear wedding! I dressed up Penelope Christmastime each year. and Max in wedding clothes, and we Bmy CuiMr tmd part of her Tedrtf Bear eoHectian. A recent article in the Detroit News,

even had a reception for them!" • sent to Betty by her friend Donna, fea Betty Custer is one of the many ally closes around (he spinal cord, pro More importantly, Betty empha tures Karin Muraszko, a pediatric neuro people who volunteer for the Good tecting it from injury. The defect results sized that everyone should be aware that surgeon at Mott's Children's Hospital in Shepherd Intcrfaith Volunteer when the spine does not close properly. folic acid has been shown to prevent Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Muraszko has Caregivers (GSIVC). She learned about Hk severity of the condition is usually spina bifida. She encourages everyone a very successful career, with many fans GSIVC when Rev. Stan Jones and determined by the degree of damage to to find out more, but especially young who were or are her patients. She is Donna Aquaviva went to her church, the the spinal ccnd when it protrudes women who may become pregnant. often in surgery long hours. What Christ Reformed Church on East through the back of the spine. 'Taking just a small amount of this spurred Donna to send the article to German Street, and told Rev. Staley all The condition causes paralysis of common B vitamin before and during Betty was the fact that Dr. Muraszko has about the organization. the lower body, and can also cause pregnancy has been shown to reduce the spina bifida. Soon Betty was helping to fold bowel and bladder complications. "A incidence of spina bifida by seventy-five "When I was fifteen years old, I newsletters, make telephone reassur large percentage of children bom with percent." said Betty, citing studies con met a nurse and her husband who helped ance calls, and call other volunteers to spina bifida also have hydrocephalus, ducted by the U.S. Public Health me be more myself," Betty smiled. The remind them to pick up and return their the accumulation of fluid in the brain," Service in 1992. nurse encouraged her to do more for dialysis clients. according to the SBAA. Betty, like "I would like to see more familiari herself, to become more independent. Betty also volunteers at her church. most people with spina bifida, has ty with spina bifida in this area. I would With the skills she developed, she Her hours are filled with typing, folding undergone more surgeries than she can invite parents of children with this con gained the confidence to live on her bulletins and performing other secretari count, to help control the complications dition to call me," Betty said. She has own, maintaining her own apartment. al services for the church office. One of of the condition. "I was even fortunate considered starting a support group and "It's important that people recog her weekly highlights is serving as cru- enough to have been operated on by Dr. volunteering to help increase awareness. nize the capabilities, as well as the limi cifer on Sundays. "I carry a cross, as Ben Carson in Baltimore!" Betty "One of my concerns is the acces tations, of.30meone with spina bifida," someone pushes me in my wheeldiair smiled. "I want to say a special thanks sibility of Shepherdstown to those in said Betty. "Parents should encourage down the aisle to the altar," she beamed. to all the physicians who have helped wheelchairs." Betty said. "Downtown their children while they are growing Betty is in a wheelchair because her me get this far." is full of broken pavements and side up. They should let the child see how far legs have been debilitated by spina bifida. "Did you know that someone walks. I have to go out of my way to they con go, what they can do. Don't be Not shy about her birth defect. with a latex allergy should not eat get anyplace, and I can't get into most .overprotective." Betty has found deep Betty wants others to know more bananasr asked Betty. She explained shops and offices, including the city satisfaction in the not-so-simple task of about spina bifida. "About one in that many people who have multiple offices!" Getting to and from the bus taking responsibility for her own care, every 1000 babies is bom with spina surgeries develop an allergy to latex, that has a wheelchair lift is a challenge, as well as in the work she has been able bifida," she said. "In some cases it is which is what surgical gloves are and because she doesn't drive, she to do as an extraordinary volunteer. worse than others. When I was bom, made of. She herself has experienced depends on others for transport for the doctors didn't expect me to live. anaphylactic shock from latex, so she shopping and visiting. Now I'm forty-three years old!" Betty has to be keenly aware of the products "I wish I could visit my mother said medical research has brought a that might induce a reaction. more often," Betty said. "She lives in much belter understanding of spina "Somehow, the plant proteins in the Martinsburg, and GSIVC volunteers bifida since the l9SOs. rubber tree arc closely related to the drive me there and back when they According to the Spina Bifida plant proteins in the banana tree." can." Betty was fortunate to have a lov Association of America, spina bifida Is a Betty said. Other allergens could ing family who gave her support and neural tube defect fNTD). During the include the avocado, kiwi, chestnut, encouragement throughout the numer first month of pregnancy, the spine usu- soybean, and peanut. ous surgeries and doctor's visits. Her GO ee-^NE'WS-PAP E R • SPRI Ne'^001 '

* 5 Reverend Ernest Lyies Leaves a Legacy By Naomi Rohrer Photo by Lars Wigren

^ he object of the simple children's mitment the students make to the Team. game of pick-up sticks is to "The teams meet every Thursday night. T remove one stick at a time from a They host speakers on campus, read and pile of them, without causing any others discuss books, arc actively involved in m the pile to jiggle. voter registration, and tutor kids in the Our community is beginning to feel after-school program." said Raddatz. (he inevitable jiggle as one faithful, "To make the Mullicullural commiued and visionary man bids Leadership program successful, we farewell to a program he helped devel also had to offer a scholarship." op. After more than a decade of devoted explained Harry Young. "The scholar service as Director of Multicultural ship money helped the program, Student Services at Shepherd College. because it made it worthwhile in a Rev. Ernest LyIes. Sr. has announced his financial way for the students to be retirement from the program. He will be involved. The program requires a applying his energies to the community tremendous lime commitment, and the in his other career as pastor of (he money made that plausible." Asbury United Methodist church in If it is tough on the students, it has Shepherd.stown. Trying to extricate him been doubly so for Rev. Lyles. "Rev. self from one program among the many Lyles made on impact!" exclaimed Dr. Rev. Emesi Lyks rrctnlly niirrdai Director of Mullicullural Sludeiu Services programs he has helped build, is like at Shepherd College. Dunlop. "And he did it while he was a trying to slide a stick out of the middle full-time minister! Because of his min of a stack of pick-up sticks. as a fund-raiser, as well. This young and farms, small towns and big cities. There istry. his position at the college was pan- Back in 1%3. Martin Luther King, vibrant, program, "trains agents of social are Christians and Muslims, and their lime. Of course, he did the work of a full Jr. dreamed of this country as a land of change." according to Tami Walkins, a skin tones range from pale peach to time position, but it was at a price." freedom where people of all races, creeds four-year scholarship recipient from dark mahogany. "Rev. Lyles was on a real tightrope and nationalities could Jive together as a Charleston, and one of the speakers at For Inge Leiand, the scholarship in his position." said Young. "He was "Beloved Community." Twenty-five the 2001 convocation. has meant a new and better life' for working for Shepherd College, and years later, the Shepheidstown communi The Multicultural Leadership Team her and her young son. "A year ago 1 was also responsible to the minority ty was invited to a public convocation to was established in 1991 to develop an was living in New York, going to community, and often the two came . honor Dr. King, raise awareness and effective group of multiracial and multi Queens College. My son was enduring into conflict. He was often criticized keep that dream alive. Sponsored by cultural student leaders. Their mission physical and verbal abuse at the hands for what he did. and for what he didn't Rev. Lyles' church and the Shef^ierdstown includes preparing themselves and olh- of his classmates. No one would do. He did a good job of balancing Presbyterian Church, the convocation einto live, learn, work and succeed in a help—parents, teachers, police . .." that. People don't realize the pressures was the result of a few people con pluralistic society. she said. "I prayed—and got the that were placed on him," said Young. cerned about the health of their "As the Multicultural Leadership scholarship!" she beamed. "This The college has recognized (hat Beloved Community. program developed." said Harry C. scholarship is a blessing! Now my son the Director's position is much more The convoc^on was begun as a Young, former Dean of Student Affairs is a happy, healing child, and I am than the current pan-time status of the way to improve interracial relationships at Shepherd College, "I realized that we completing my degree." Job. and it is being advertised as a full- in the community. Though Ernest and I were really buying into the concept that "The Multicultural Leadership time position. Rev. Lyles has donated began those conversations, others underlies racism: the 'we are better than Scholarship has brought me so many many more hours than those for which quickly joined in." Tremba said. The they are' concept. We at the college had good things." exclaimed Daniele Dias he was financially compensated. The sponsorship of the event was taken over to change our philosophy from believing Ferreira, from Brazil. "It opened my program owes its success to his dedi by the Shepherdstown Ministerial that minority students were in need of eyes! I was walking around blind, and cation and commitment to its ideals. Association in 1990. "The beauty of the help because they were not as good as it opened my eyes to the ignorance and "Dr. King's ideal community convocation is thai at least one time a while students, to a philosophy that our lies (hat people live with today. Now 1 would welcome full panicipation of year we're all conscious of Dr. King's minority students have lots to offer our recognize covert discrimination. 1 every member." said Rev. Lyles. dream. It is a chance to check how we entire community." understand the damage of racial jokes. Through the convocation and the are doing, to measure our progress." Young added, "In the Multicultural It has taught me how to express myself Multicultural Leadership Scholarship said Ardyth Gilbertson. a member of the Leadership Team we are seeing a com and lake action against racism and dis programs. Lyles has been aggressively Ministerial Association. munity modeled by these students—not crimination," Dani continued. "It is advocating for the right and recogni About two years later, the Shepherd Judged by the color of their skin. The because Rev. Lyles put his heart and tion of every member to full participa College Multicultural Leadership future for improving racial relations lies soul into the program. Thanks to him." tion. not only in the Shepherd College Scholarship Program, now under the with our young adults." Dani smiled, "many minority students campus community, but through the direction of Rev. Lyles, began to This year there are twenty-three have had the opportunity to study and Team to the greater community. Rev. coeponsor the convocruion with the scholarship recipients. They come from grow here." Lyles has woven a strong fabric of Ministerial Association. Designed as a West Virginia, as well as Germany. Jan Raddalz, a German second-year vibrant leaders who dare to carry on community awareness event, it functions Senegal. Brazil, and Tajikistan; from scholarship recipient, explained the com his dream.

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•w 6 Nadya's Happy Ending An Abused Dog Gets a New Leash on Life By Claire Stuart Photos courtesy of J. Davis

ast spring, the four-state area Purebred dogs are fortunate, however, Instead of shying away w as shocked to leam of a terrible because there arc special rescue groups from people, she walked L^ case of animal abuse. Thirty for many breeds that will step in to help confidently through the Borzoi, or Russian wolfhounds, were them when they are in trouble. Within crowds. She actually found locked in a Maninsburg town- twenty-four hours. The National Borzoi approached peop'le and house filled with waste and trash, w here Rescue Foundation swung into action. poked her long nose into they had apparently been kept for many Rescuers from several states rushed ■heir hands. Davis decid months. The dogs were malnourished, in with vans and kennel crates and car ed to take Nadya for filthy and sick. Six of them died. ried the dogs to safely. These compas Canine Good Citizen and The situation would be terrible for sionate strangers look on the thankless Therapy Dogs any creature, but it was especially sad job of cleaning up the filthy dogs and International (TDI) testing Nadyii til the heuch for Borzoi (the name is both singular provided the required veterinary care, with other dogs from the and plural), which are large hunting including spaying and neutering, at their obedience class. Some patients, especially children, dogs, specialized for chasing prey. own expense. Members of the group 'the bond between humans and ani wont to have the dogs up on their beds Closely related to greyhounds, they are fostered the dogs until they could find mals is a strong one, and it has been with (hem. That is permitted, because bom to run. which compounded the cru homes for them. shqwn that the prtsence of animals has a Therapy Dogs are required to be clean elty of being forced to spend their lives Hope was the name given to one of therapeutic effect on humans. Pets help and well groomed, including short toe closed up in a crowded building. the rescued Borzoi by her deliverers. She humans recover mentally, emotionally nails. clean teeth and fresh breath! Many people wondered what had was thought to be about fifteen to eight andeven physically. In the mental hospital, some patients happened to the Maninsburg Borzoi een months old. and it was believed that Therapy Dogs visit with people in ore allowed to hold a dog's leash and after they were removed from their hor she had never been outdoors in her life. . nursing homes and hospitals. They are walk the dog up and down (he hall. In rible situation. By coincidence, i recent In a few weeks. Hope was well extremely helpful to people in circum summer, Davis' greyhounds are taken .out ly encountered someone who had adopt enough to go to a permanent home. Her stances where they can no longer have side to a fenced-in area so (hat the ed one of the dogs, so I thought I would new family, the Davis family of pets of their own. TDI is the organization patients can watch them run. share the dog's story. Pennsylvania, had several adopted grey (hat administers the tests and insures the Nadya had her first assignment as hounds, a Dobcrman pinscher and plen dogs while they are on the job. a Therapy Dog when she visited a ty of space. Davis has two greyhounds that are retirement home, along with one of her They decided to give the Borzoi a TDI certified. Nadya passed her tests greyhound friends. Nadya's sad history Russian name, so they called her and is now certified as a Therapy Dog left her with a tendency to duck her Nadezda, which is Russian for "hope." and Canine Good Citizen. head or turn away when people reach Nadya is the shortened Russian nick A TDI certified dog is a dog that out to pet her. On the job, however, she name for Nadezda. can be trusted in public. It must be stood quietly and allowed everyone to Nadya was very fearful at first, and obedient and have a good disposition. pat and scratch her. She was a great hit huddled in the back of her crate. It was The handler is being tested also, with the residents. nearly two weeks before she would because he or she must be in control of Last fall, Nadya took her first vaca approach people on her own. When she the dog at all times. Besides obeying tion. too. She attended Greyhounds Reach Nad\o in hrr new rt^Iar was taken out to walk in the yard, basic instructions such as silling, flay-' the Beach, a huge gathering of retired rac Jeanni Davis, her new "mom." described ing, heeling and so on, the dog must be ing greyhounds and their families. People The word most often used to her reaction as "like a baby seeing grass able to stand still with the examiner who have adopted racing greyhounds get describe Borzoi is "aristocratic." They and trees for the first time." while the handler walks out of sight. together annually in Dewey Beach, are large, slim, elegant dogs with long The first time Nadya was allowed Of course, it is essential that Delaware, over Columbus Day weekend silky hair (hat keeps them warm in the off her leash in- the yard, she walked Therapy Dogs not be frightened by. or because the big vacation sca.son is over harsh Russian winters. They are intelli around and sniffed everything, but it unwilling to approach, people in and dogs are allowed on the beach. gent and genlle-natured. They can run at wa.s three more days until she ran for the wheelchairs, with walkers or on There were nearly 1,200 grey thirty-five miles an hour and sail over a first time. She was so excited thai on her crutches. The dogs must be able to hounds, as well as whippets, Italian grey five-foot fence. first turn around the yard she ran into a remain calm and obedient in crowds, hounds, Scottish deerhounds, Afghans, Although they are uncommon in tree! She had to leam to play, but soon and they must not panic at loud and and Irish wolfhounds at the gathering. our country. Borzoi is an old breed, she was romping with the other dogs. unusual noises. They must also stay There was only one Borzoi—Nadya— dating back to the 1500's. They were The Doberman was her first friend. under control if food is dropped in and everyone loved her. She even met a bred for speed and stamina from grey A rich diet including yogurt, cottage front of ihcm. Russian who talked to her in the lan hounds and Russian coursing dogs. cheese and sour cream put some meat Jeanni Davis and her Therapy guage of her ancestors. Russian nobles, whose major form of on Nadya's pitiful, bony frame. Dogs visit a children's hospital and a Nadya is full of hope for a wonderful recreation was holding large hunts, In less than a month, Nadya was state mental hospital every month, as new life and a rewording career! prized them. The aristocrats loved to enrolled in obedience class. She leamed well as making occasional visits to charge after game for miles on horse important words such as "sit," "stay" nursing homes. Davis walks the dogs back over the steppes, accompanied by and "down," and how to interact politely up to the patients and invites (he Editor's note: Jeanni Davis reparls that their swift Borzoi. with strange dogs and their people. She patients to visit with ihcm. All that is all of the ^irzoi picked up by Borzoi The rescued Borzoi were taken to proved to be an apt student. required of the dogs is that they stand Rescue have found good homes. the local animal shelter, which was Nadya pas.sed an important miie- quietly and get petted. Patients look overwhelmed by the necessity of hous .stone in late summer, when she visited a forward to the dogs* visits and ask Claire Stuart ioves all crealures. great ing so many large dogs all at once. weekend flea market with her family. questions or talk about their own pets. and .small. GOOD NEWS PAPER • SPRING 2001 Unearthing Memories An Interview with Porky May By Susan Ford Pritchard Photos by Lars Wigren and May Family

that the dampness in the house was guys who wanted me to play football." McDonald had just picked up his brand keeping me small." says Porky. "By the time the game was new Cadillac—probably right off the Sure enough, after the move. Porky over, there was quite a stream of water showroom floor—and she ran smack started growing. By the way. Herbert running down Mill Street from the dab into him! She jumped out of her May hastens to add that, at the lime he melted ice!" truck and ran over to him. "Ain't you was growing up. there actually were two Porky's fascination with what lies glad you're living?' she asked him." children in Shepherdstown similarly tteneath the surface began at a young age The projects Porky has worked on nicknamed. The other one was a girl. when he and friends explored caves over the years chronicle the many "Excavating is a family business." along the Potomac River. "1 was about changes that his hometown has seen. says May. eight or nine years old. It was in the He did the excavating work on the first His father started it in 1955—with dead of winter, very cold. We were play cottages and parking area at the the first rubber-lire backhoc in the area. ing in the caves and got really wet. Bavarian Inn. He hand-drilled the first "We had a Henry hoe on an Coming along home, we ran into Pres road. And. his backhoes had to be tied International Harvester tractor. This was Boyer. a young ntan we knew. He had a to powerful tractors during work along before hydraulic equipment, so it was tire going and offered to dry our socks. the clifT over the Potomac River, in run by cable." he recalls. He forked ihcm with a stick and stuck case they started to slip down. The Porky's earliest memory of his them near the fire but he was sort of gabion retaining walls he built there Portx Uay. mrner of May i frroi'otmjt dad's work came in the 1940s when he in'toxicated and we hadn't noticed how continue to do their jobs today. was four or Tive years old. "Dad was much he was weaving until it was too "in l%8-69. the drought was so ^ he work boois are your first digging the footings and foundation for late. He burned up our socks!" bad." Porky recalls, "that clue. They're worn out—no Hcnsun Doughnuts by hand, and 1 w^ By age fifteen. Porky and his friends Shepherdstown couldn't pull cnougit T longer good for wearing, walk off a ways playing with my toy shovel. were expl'oring caves at Whiting's Neck. water out of the Potomac. We ran a ing or working. Old Mr. Kelly was watching tyid took Molcr's Crossroads, and Bedington. water line front the pump house up to They sii. moss-covered, in the front my shovel. I guess he needed it for Richard Lemcn. Max Snyder. Bill High Street." yard on High Street, about a dozen of something, but 1 got really mad because Knighten. and the Shipley twins. Larry While working at Henry Shepherd's ihem encircling a weeping cberiy tree, he didn't ask. he just took it out of my and Garry, also were amateur spclunkcrs. Bellcvuc home (behind the Bavarian heels toward the trunk, toes pointing hand." he laughs. They usually went at night and used can- Inn). May Excavating crews uncovered outward. It's as if the tree is a several- "Before dad got into the business. dlcs."We always went in the winter, the remains of an old oyster-shell drive footed monster, ready to spring in all Cecil Williams, who had a wooden leg. when there were no snakes." he says. way thai, until then, had only been directions at once—but there's dirt in put in all the water and sewer lines and "But we never told anyone where we rumored to exist. (Imagine the expense those boots, and there are plants grow cleaned the culverts in town. When we were going. Now I realize that we could of transporting shells from the ocean for ing out of Ihem! needed to find have gotten a driveway!) He also has uncovered "Aren't they great?" laughs one of them, into real trou American Indian graves in his work. Herbert "Porky" May. owner of we'd call ble." May dug. drilled and blasted his May's Excavating, and life-long him." says "I'll never way front Shepherdstown to (he Shepherdstown resident. Porky, grin forget the Willowdalc subdivision—approximiilcly He and his wife Peggy are sitting ning. "If you night I got two miles—to lay the water main. He at their kitchen table, talking and caught him on stuck." he helped build Interstate 81 and the access laughing about times past. In the center a good day. relates seri roads to the Veteran's Administration of the table is a small pile of photo oie' Cecil ously. "I Hospital and the Internal Revenue graphs of their grandchildren. They would tell couldn't go Service facility off Route 9. Of course, admit that her mother. Josephine Frye. you right. forward, and there have been countless building foun IS the boot planter. Other times, my arms were dations. roads, ponds, septic tanks, drive Porky is not a tall man. but he's we might be in such a ways. water lines, and graves dug. too. substantial, as his name suggests. He digging for place thai I Porky's wife, Peggy, has done tlic wears bib overalls and a plaid flannel hours in the couldn't pu.sh bookkeeping through the years. He shin, along with a knit Redskins hot. spot where myself back smiles as he glances at her over the There is atwinkte in his light blue eyes he'd told us. either. kitchen table. She smiles back as she and a smile on his weathered face. Then he'd Someone had relates how they got married just a few Porky's family has been in the come back FamUy phnio of Porky May. on his fmni-enii loader to pull me out. days after they graduated from area for generations. His grandfather later and put Thank God 1 Shepherdstown High School. "And was a teamster who ran a team of his foot right where we should have wasn't the last one in or we all would've we're just as happy now as we were mules that pulled barges up and down been working." been trapped!" back then." she says. the C&O Canal. When Porky was about six or 'Then there was the time." Porky With six daughters, there were no The nickname "Porky" is connected seven, he used to get blocks of ice from goes on to another tale, "when we had a likely candidates to carry on the family with the town run here in Shephefdstown. Knode's Southern States store and deliv car/cattic accident in the middle of business among their children. What He explains. "When I was born, my er them in his wagon for iceboxes in town." about the next generation? "With seven folks were living in a home right over people's homes. He made about ftve He described an old lady who used grandsons and four granddaughters, we the run. I wasn't growing, and when cents per delivery. to drive her cattle right through town, might hhvc one!" they grin. they asked the town doctor what to do, "One day 1 was making a delivery using her heat-up. old pick-up truck the In fact, there's a small pair of boots he said to move to another location. on Mil) Street, when I passed some way cowboys use a horse. "Louis already planted in the front yard. GOOD NEWS PAPER • SPRIN(3 2001

i ' J t ^ S H O O D 8 Making Life Easier @ UnlimitedLiving.com By Naomi Rohrer Photo by Lars Wigren

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This button on month we take our 'store* to area senior on a farm just outside of Shepheidstown. new store on the ctHner of Princess and Velcro could be attached to his cuff, so centers so they can see their options for He attended college in Cleveland, Ohio, Washington Streets. he could fasten and unfasten his cuff ways to make their living better." and in England before moving to Two years ago. Pe^ received a call with no problem. Anyone with arthritis SenitHS are not necessarily their pri Richmcmd. Virginia for his first Job. could appreciate this mary customers, however. Peter is mar Woric also took him to Fairmont, as welt. keting-minded, and tracks who his cus Charleston, and Martinsburg. but Unlimited / In addition to the tomers are and what they want. Shepberdslown feels like home to him. "cool" things, one can "Seventy percent of our purchasers "People stop me on the street to say find wheelchairs for are women. The majority are baby it's nice to have me back! That says a lot LIVING sale or rent, rollalprs, boomers who are dual caretakers—they about the community," Peter said. • c o m "memory" pillows, are caring for teenagers as well as aging Roger Fairbourn. a resident of large colorful exercise parents." he stated. Sharpsbuig, Maryland, is vice president from his friend Roger Fairbourn. Roger balls and aroma therapy spas. A variety tjnlimitedLiving.com helps these clients of the company. He has been a real estate was hoping that Peter could help him. of communications products include an find assisted living tools to maintain the agent for many years, and brings another Roger was looking for daily living prod alarm clock with a vibrating alarm independence of their aging parents. dimension to the shop. He is an expert on ucts for his father, who has Parkinson's device th^ you can place under youc piU. While Peter concentrates on mar barrier-free homes. If you have never Disease, and couldn't find what he need low. It's sure to wake you, even if you keting and distribution. Andrea keeps been in a wheelchair, you may not realize ed. Peter, who at that time owned a can't hear a thing! busy answering phones and keeping the how many obstacles there are to simply ' books. Her warm smile and friendly business called Internet Solutions Among the massage products, you moving about in a home, much less tak Group, suggested that Roger look on the will find one that wraps around your demeanor make you feel at ease. As ing care of one's needs and those of a Internet, which Roger had already tried. neck and another that fits on a chair to president of UnUmitedLiving.com. she family. Because of his own father's con When Peter went on-line to search fur relax and warm your entire back side. is the business manager. Her experience dition, Roger has stocked the shop with ther. he realized that there was indeed a Their exercise equipment includes and knowledge of gap between some producers and their adjustable wrist and ankle weights, ped retail sales and busi potential customers. aling devices and hand exercising balls ness are key to the With a "can-do" approach. Peter. (hat you can heat up in the microwave. new store's success. Roger, and Andrea Phalen. Peter's wife, Ordinary products to improve Andrea grew up developed the idea for their new busi mobility take on a new life. For exam in Jefferson and ness. UnlimitedLiving.com was on line ple, there is an apple-red rolling walker Berkeley counties in July, and the store opened its doors to that comes with a seat and a basket. You and graduated from the public in October of 2000. can go shopping again! Shepherd College "We wanted to create a friendly, The gadgets alone are worth a trip with a major in busi non-clinical retail store, offering to this store. Extra long shoehorns for ness administration. ergonomic. daily-living products, like your pregnant friends, teachers in bright She worked in retail mobility and health aids." Peter colors for those things you keep on the sales throughout her explained. "We also wanted that top shelf, and elastic shoelaces you only school years, then UnUmiledUving.com store on the comer of Princess and Washinglon Streets unique, 'cool' factor like Brookslone have to tie once, are just a few examples moved to Winchester, or Sharper Image." of the widgets you'll find. Virginia, to work for the Miller Auto books full of barrier-free house plans, He demonstr^cd what he meant with While special orders are routine Group for almost four years. After a year and has products and ideas for making the XemSax, a rubber glove (hat fits over business, one special order takes the in Charleston, she returned to Jefferson homes accessible. a cast and inflates to seal it tight, so that a cake. A woman who was trying to find County. Andrea is very happy to be back. "Roger brings product knowledge to . person with a broken arm can swim and a bedside commode that looked like a The store is just two miles from our business. He keeps us focused." Peter bathe. Cool! UnlimitedLivingxom has chair called Peter from England. After Andrea and Peter's home on the river at said with a smite. become the sole distributor in the area for searching the Internet, Peter was able Pack Horse Ford, and they are thrilled "Roger's parents made us more this product. to find a company that produced just with their tiny daily commute. aware of how we live." Andrea stated. Peter then brought out a jaunty cane such items - in England! He was able "We don't even get stuck at the "Simple things can make a difference." with a bright, unusual head. "For some to establish the necessary connections four-way stop!" she beamed. Peter. Andrea and Roger have set one who lempcaarily. or chronically, to sell the woman the commode chair. "We've always wanted to work their sights on the possibilities, rather needs a bit of help walking, a cane with She was delighted that he could have where we lived," agreed Peter, but than the limitations, in life. You can fas character puts some sparkle in one's it shipped directly to her grandmother "I've never lived in a place more than ten your own cuffs. You can improve step." he grinned. He placed it back on a in California. four years, other than West Virginia!" your muscle tone. rack full of eyeotching canes. "We do about half of our business he laughed. "That's what the name is all about: Ergonomics, according to the on the Internet." said Peter. 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GOOD NEWS PAPER • SPRING 2001 9 Professor Jason Best His Life in Astrophysics By Jason Best, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Astrophysics, Shepherd College Photo by Lars Wigren

Student- lic outreach school. I study the large-scale clustering in childhood dreamed of having a teaching. It should be a of astronomical objects, and the evolu Somespecificpe(^le may occupation have andfnends thenwho made seemed then vital pan of tion of such objects. I have been fortu that dream come true. In my youth, I (as now) that a scientist's nate to have been supported in such wanted to be an astronomer. I was astronomy is life. I also work by grants from the National inspired primarily by two sources: PBS one of the had the Science Foundation and Sun and the 1960s television scries Star Trtk. most popular opponunity Microsystems, and have been able to As a child. I remember watching subjects of to teach in a publish and present multiple papers many specials on PBS. including the young stu formal col based on this work. adventures of Jacques Cousteau. His dents. I had lege class 1 have initiated a research program explorations fascinated me, as it seemed also noticed room .setting in virtual reality and virtual environ he was always discovering new worlds that (he love during my ments technologies. This research uses under the sea. The Star Trek show made of science lime at Penn high-powered computers (o created fully an even greater impression on me. I that many State. These interactive and fully immersive comput watched the crew of the Enterprise elementary experiences er environments. West Virginia EPSCoR (some who looked like me. some who students helped me to has supported this work with the grant did not) working together to explore have is gone decide that of a Silicon Graphics workstation. I outer space. I reasoned (hat since there by the time any position have also been able to work in the was much more space outside the planet they enter I accepted Indiana University Advanced than there was under the sea. studying high school. after gradu Visualization Laboratory's CAVE facili outer space could give me a lifetime of I put my ate school Professor Jaiim Best. Assisiani Professor of Asmphysics ty in the summer of 1999. The CAVE is joy and c^i^xtrtunities. energies into ai Shepherd College. would, if a room measuring eight feet on a side, I explained to my mother that I each of . , • possible, in which fully immersive computational wanted to have a career in astronomy.. chose student-teaching class outreach' have a balance of research, teaching, virtual reality environments can be crc • She immediately sought out as many experiences so that the Joy I felt and outreach. ated. This work, some of which has books as she could on outer space for remained with them throughout their The summer of 1997 was a busy been published in Silicon Graphics me to read. Fortunately, when I scholastic careers. time in my life. Between June 6 and World magazine, has been done in col informed elementary school teachers of As an undergraduate, I was also August 30,1 defended my doctoral dis laboration with members of the my desired career, they encouraged me able to participate in astronomical sertation, married, graduated, moved to Shepherd College staff and Shepherd by directing me to as many resources as research. I was a successful applicant to Shepheidstown, and began my position College students. they could find. I strove to do well not the 1990 Summer Research at Shepherd College. While at Shepherd, Thirdly, I collaborate with my wife only in science and math courses but in Opportunities Program of (he I have been able to maintain the profes and a professor emeritus at Penn State all my subjects, as I wished to be a well- Committee on Institutional Cooperation sional balance I so desired. on historical astronomical research. Wc rounded scientist. Math was not my (the academic consortium of the Big Ten I met my wife Sara in graduate have been analyzing cosmic models of favorite subject: however, it was a sub Universities plus the University of school. She has a master's degree in the sixteenth century, and the relevance ject in which I did quite well. Chicago). As such, I was able to work in astrophysics and currently works as an of these models to modern astronomical As I entered junior high school, 1 the Department of Astronomy on a proj Information Technology Assistant in (he thought. This work has been presented discovered that most astronomers pos ect involving the evolution of stars dur information Technology Services at the American Astronomical Society, sessed doctorates in astronomy, astro ing the early stages of their formation. Department at Shepherd. and is scheduled to be published in physics, or related fields. I was there After that summer, I was asked to stay My leaclting duties have been Mercury Magazine, the magazine of the fore determined to cam a Ph.D. in on the research project involving the diverse. 1 teach introductory physics, Astronomical Society of the Pacific. I astronomy so that 1 could continue in creation of computational modeling and introductory and upper-level astronomy, participate in outreach activities, speak the field. I learned that in order to imaging of protostars. Ultimately I com and physics for science majors. Since. ing to Kindergarten through twelfth- obtain such a degree, I would first have pleted a Senior Honors Thesis based on 1998,1 have been involved with prepar grade classes and participating in multi to earn an undergraduate degree, which the protostar research in 1992. ing secondary science education majors ple programs targeting people with an would cake four years, then go to gradu I then attended Penn State University for careers as middle school and second Interest in science. The 1998 Senior ate school for another six years to earn for my graduate studies. Although I kept ary educators. 1 have also worked with Class Memorial Gift, a telescope with the Ph.D. in astronomy. Since this was my interest in computational and imaging junior high school students as part of the an eight-inch diameter mirror, has been what was lequired. I didn't give it a technologies, I shifted the focus of my Washington Gateway Junior High invaluable in (his regard. second thought. research firom stellar astrophysics to cos Academy. My long-term goals are to continue I was named a Senator Richard - mology. the study of the formation and In the summer of 1999.1 was invit developing and expanding my research Lugar Scholar in Indiana in 1988. This evolution of the Universe. My thesis ed to return to Indiana University to programs, offering more courses at all provided funds for me to attend an heavily relied upon a relatively new serve as a visiting assistant professor of levels in astronomy and astrophysics, Indiana college or university of my branch of mathematics known as fractal • astronomy in the Department of and continuing the outreach activities 1 choice. I selected Indiana University, geometry, in which I had gained a Astronomy. Reluming to my alma mater have been able to participate in thus which had one of the best undergraduate tremendous interest. In fact, the more as a professor has been one of the most far. One day I hope to build an astro programs in astronomy and astrophysics years I spent in studying astronomy and fulfilling opportunities of my career. nomical observatory on campus, open in the nation. a-strophysics, the more I had grown fond I have three major research pro to the public, so thai people of all ages During my time at Indiana of the field of mathematics. grams established at Shepherd that con An see the beauty in the universe (hat University. I wa-s invited to speak to I continued my outreach activities tinue to this day. The first is a continua it has been my pleasure to study for the classes by many of my friends who were as well. ] have always believed that pub tion of the work 1 began in graduate past quarter century.

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CIVIL WAR SERIES A Sad and Purposeless Affair The Battle of Shepherdstown

By Keith B. Snyder

Maryland Campaign of 1862, the Gettysburg Campaign of 1863, and Jubal TheinPotomac the fall ofRiver, 1862just bysouth the historianof Shepherdstown, of the 118thwas Pennsylvaniadescribed Early's 1864 Raid on Washington. D.C. The Battle of Shepherdstown Volunteer Infantry: 09curred when Union forces attempted to pursue Lee's retreating army after the Battle of Antielam in September of 1862. The day war bright and clear. The sun sluine with mellow A day after the tactical draw at Antictam on September 17. Robert E. Autumn radiance. Dew glistened on gra.ss and leaf, and Lee began to pull his Army of Northern Virginia back across the Potomac at the old Potomac, calm and placid as if it had never Icnonv Shepherdstown. Brigadier General William Pendleton. Lee's chief of strife, visible for a considerable distance, swept on its artillery, covered the retreat with forty-four guns of the reserve artillery. course irantjuilly. The laruisvape. varied with its i-a/ley Pendleton placed his guns atop the high bluffs overlooking the ford on the and hillside, its meadows and woodlands, .sprinkled with Virginia side, above the empty shell of an old cement mill. The Confederates ham. hou.se and garden, wm peacefully picturesque in the spent ail night crossing the river, and by daybreak nearly the whole of the refreshing sunlight of a s

rebels left there. As the day wore on, the Union fire steadily increased. The Confederate cannons began to run low on ammunition, and Pendleton spread his iliin line of infantry out to cover the guns. He gave orders for the cannon to stay in position until they could withdraw under cover of darkness, reporting that Fnm ihe James E. Taylor SeKtilionli. III64. leotaif from Shrphentsunm southeast lowa/ti the ford. "it was. of course, a critical and anxious hour." Pendleton's anxiety increased as Union infantry advanced. Just before dark, an attacking party Known variously as Botcler's. Blackford's. Pack Horse and of about SOO men waded across and forced the Confederates back. The Shepherdstown Ford, the shallow crossing of the Potomac River had been Southerners managed to pull most of their cannon out, but the raiding party used by travelers since Native American times. After the bridge at was able to capture four pieces. Private Cassius Peck of the First U.S. was Shepherdstown was destroyed early in the Civil War, the ford was a conven awarded the Medal of Honor for helping to capture the guns. The Yankees ient crossing point between Confederate Virginia and the border state of pulled back to the Maryland side of the river for the night, taking their cap Maryland. Confederates crossed at Botcler's Ford most notably during the tured guns with them.

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Under the cover of artillery fire from the east bank, the Yankees began to wade back across. Colonel Charles M. Prevost, commanding the newly formed 118th Pennsylvania Infant^' (known as the Com Exchange Regiment for the banking and investment firm in Philadelphia that paid a cash bonus to every man who enlisted in the unit), refused to withdraw until he received orders fiom his direct superior. Hill's Confederates smashed into the Pennsylvanians just as they began to deploy atop the bluffs overlooking the ford. This was their flrSt battle, and many unfortunately discovered that their recently issued Enfield rifles were defective and would not fire. Colonel Prevost was wounded trying to steady his men, other officers led a bayonet charge, which was crushed, and the regiment broke apart. Some tried to escape by climbing down the bluffs under Conf«Jerate fire, and many died as they fell to the rocks below. Others picked tfteir way past the old cement mill, ran across the slippery dam or waded across at tire ford. According to Hill,

General Pendleton, a West Point graduate and ordained Episcopal minister, the enemy u'flj driven pell-mell into the river. Then commenced probably earned his position more from his close friendship with General the most terrible slaughter that this war ever witnessed. The Lee and President Jefferson Davis than his skills as a baUleHeld commander. broad surface of the Potomac blue with the floating bodies In the confusion and darkness, a panicked Pendleton finally found the com of our foe. But few escaped to tell the tale.... manding General asleep under an apple tree. Pendleton reported that Union forces were in Virginia, and had captured the entire reserve artillery of forty- This was a wholesome lesson to the enemy, and (aught (hem to know it four guns. Despite such a rude awakening, Lee maintained his composure may be dangerous sometimes to press a retreating army. Of the 700 men in and asked. "All?" "Yes. General. I fear all," was Pendleton's response. L«'s the lISthAvho crossed the river that moming, only 431 came back unhurt. dauntless subordinate General TJ. "Stonewall" Jackson quickly reacted by , Many sad letters were sent home to Philadelphia, including one to Private ndering A.P. Hill's Division to stop their withdrawal, turn and drive the Ziba Martin's wife; pursuers back. As the Confederates reacted to the asstuned crisis. Union commanders Dear Madam, were planning a follow-up to their raid. Three brigades from the Fifth Corps As a Comrade of your Husband in arms, [IJ have been were ordered to cross the Potomac at 7KX) a.[n. on the 20th and proceed requested by Mr. Sands of our Company to lay before you the toward Shepherdstown and down the Charles Town Road. Advanced skir facts relative to Mr. Martin's death. I saw him shot along side mishers soon met A.P. Hill's Division closing in on them. With the of myself, that is a few feel from me. He was dead almost Confedeiaes attacking in force, and only a small number of Federals on the immediately. Musket ball through his head entering the fore Vir^nia side. Porter ordered a retreat. The artillery barrage intensified to cover the Yankee's return. General Hill stated that his Southern troops head and passing out back of the ear. Secoiul day after we advanced "in the face of Che most tremendous fire of artilleiy I ever saw ... recrossed the river and buried him where he fell. Confederate Brigadier James H. Lane recalled that"... we were ordered Very truly Your Obedient Servant, to advance, in the face of a suxm of round shot, shell and grape." Corp. George Irman

When the Confederates shattered this attempt by the Union army to pursue Lee, McClellan was convinced that the Southem army still had plen ty of fight left. He decided to delay any further effort to pursue until rein forced. The Battle of Shepherdstown thus ended the Maryland Campaign, Lee's first invasion of the North. Overshadowed by the calamity at Sharpsburg, more than 600 men in the two armies were killed, wounded, or reported missing during the two days of fighting along the river. Most of the soldiers on both sides of the river probably felt like the men from Philadelphia, (hat the "fight was a sad and purposeless affair, with a most disastrous and fatal (ermination."

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GOOD NEWS PAPER • SPRING 2001 14 World Connections Exchange Programs By Vincent Parmesano Photo by Lars Wigren

least two years, and thanks to (he have taken advantage of exchange Internal Revenue Service (which does not allow charitable, tax-exempt service Someprogramsresidents thatof Shepherdstownprovide an insider's view of various areas of the world, and organizations to have programs that ben people from other countries have been efit only their own members), four of exposed to the lifestyle of the five team members must be Shepherdstown. Programs are provided nonRotorians. by a number of agencies and organiza A newer program is being started tions. One group organizing exchanges this year by Rotary in which students locally is the Shepherdstown Rotary between the ages of fifteen and nineteen Qub. can spend three to six weeks in a foreign The most popular Rotary program country of their choice through a short- is for teenagers. Local high school stu- term direct exchange program. This deni.s are sent abroad in August for a homc-to-home program allows an year. They are placed with one or more American teenager to spend time abroad host families where they attend the local with the family of a teenager in the high school. The only direct expense to requested country. The foreign teenager the student is the airfare. Room and then comes to Shepherdstown for an board is provided by the host families. equal amount of time in his or her coun Local Rotary Clubs provide an terpart's home. allowance for spending money. At the Doug Kimett. Nkholai from Bflgium. and Karm Kinnett All of these exchanges have estab same time, students from other countries lished enduring friendships. Hosts and come here to participate in the American in the program as hosts Over a three-yev The second half of the program is a guests continue to exchange Christmas way of life. period to David. Mazdiar and Nicolas, visit that reverses the roles—foreign cards, anniversary greetings and visits Over the past few years students students from Spain, India and Belgium, hosts become the guests of the Americans for years after the initial introduction. from Shepherdstown have been sent to respectively. Their son, Dylan, spent a that initially visited them. One interesting One interesting aspect of these Indonesia, India, Japan and Thailand. year throu^ the program in Kyoto, aspect of this program is that the commu programs, which gives an excellent Although the program is c^>en to stu Japan. nities visited are generally not the tourist indication of how well Shepherdstown dents between the ages of fifteen and a Karen's impression of her family's meccas, but are ordinary places inhabited is integrated with the outer world, is half and eightem and a half at the time involvement in the program is typical by ordinary people. The initial group that no matter where the incoming of departure, indents generaliy have of most of the families that participate. sponsored by the Shepherdstown Rotary visitors are from or where the outgo participated after their junior year of "It is difficult to sum up our experi went to Brazil, where they visited ing participants are going, the Rotary hi^ school. In some cases more mature ences in a few words as we have been Maringa, Cianorte and Umurama. Hardly Club has always been able to find stttdents have gone after their sopbo- blessed with sharing our home with anyone in the United States has heard of someone locally who has worked in, RKxe year. Others have opted to do a three wonderful boys. Each had a these towns, but on the other hand, few visited, or come from the area under year abroad between high school gradu unique personality but all were interest in Brazil know where Shepherdstown, consideration. ation and the start of coll^. ed in our way of life, our political Harpers Ferry or Gerrardsiown are, For more information contact any For foreign students coming here, views and oiu' perspective on America. which is where the Brazilians stayed local Rotarian or call Jane Jenkins, pro- one of the first observatioBS is that the We look forward to visiting each host while visiting h»e. prittor of Maggie's Maricet, 106 West America portrayed by Hollywood and son someday to find out what happens The Group Study Exchange jwo- German Street in Shepherdstown. Jane, television is not very accurate. in their lives as they grow up. gram is funded by the Rotary who is the local Rotary Club's chairper Language also generally takes some pol "Efoug and I were pleased that our International Foundation. Round trip air son for International Activities, is look ishing. The saving factor is that it gener son, Dylan, took interest in the program fare is provided to the designated loca ing for high school students interested in ally takes only six to eight weeks to and spent a year in Japan as an tion, and local Rotary clubs provide spending the 2002-03 year abroad, for reach dte point where, exceptor linger exchange student. He wrote a column room, board and ground transportation young professionals who are interested ing traces of accent, it is hard to tell the called 'Turning Japanese' for the in the host country. in a five-week tour of a South American foreign students from the locals. Shepherdstown Chronicle, thereby shar A typical stay would place each of country in the spring of 2002, and for Sometimes becoming acclimatized ing his experiences with the entire the five participants individually in pri teenagers who would like to broaden takes some odd twists. EmmanueUe town. Dylan has a passion for writing vate homes, hosted by a family with a their horizons by participating in a Maquart. an accomplished flautist from and observing people, so he was a per similar or related professional interest. short-term exchange. France who was initially hosted by Dale fect candidate for the program." One day is normally spent in getting to and Hank Walter at Cress Creek, was Another program, aimed at a dif know the hosts, then a day or two to delighted to hear that Jefferson High ferent segment of the community, is observe or participate in a business or Edilor's note: Vince Parmesano serves School had an excellent music program. the Group Study Exchange. It is a five professional experience. One or two as editor of this new feature. A former When she Joined the program she week direct exchange in which five days are dedicated to sightseeing points mayor of Shepherdstown, he welcomed learned immediately that in an American professionals with diverse back of local interest. Then the members of diverse groups to our community while in high school, marching, which she had grounds are grouped together to visit a the visiting group pack up and move on office. He has also been a participant in never done, is as significant to the music foreign location. While in the host to the next town where the process is exchange programs that have taken hlin program as the notes that are played. country, members visit four or five repeated. to such varied places as England, Another local f^ity. Doug and different communities for a week or so The program is open to anyone who Rotrtania, Brazil, Siberia, Senegal and Karen Kinnelt. has participated actively at each location. has participated in their profession for at the Cape Verde Islands. GppO .paper ,• ,SPRINq 2001 15 Shepherd College International Student Union By Whitney Coleman Photo by Erica Simon-Brown

Four of eight iniemalional stiulenis: I. N. MHstiia. Pavel ySiiov/ei: Gloria Makalebo, Jim Kaddalz.

when they apply to the College. If they cerns, basic necessities that other stu These students have taken part in siudnu and staff met lo discuss have relatives who reside in (he United dents take for granted, such as how to several communily activities. The month Agroup hew of weeight couldShepherd make theCollege com States, their addresses may appear when obtain a drivers license, and how to find of October was dedicated to setting up munity aware of the diversity wc are researching for international student num work on campus. Thus the International posts throughout the county to register harvesting on campus. The higgesl chal bers, thus skewing them. This fall semes Student Union (iSU) was formed and is and educate voters for the general elec lenge we saw was to figure out how we ter alone, however, we welcomed 11 F-l now a recognized campus organization. tion. Several students arc acti%e with ctwld condettse all the infonnation that students from Germany. Jamaica. Nigeria. The ISU has also crcatcd a separate Project Excel, which is an after-school we found fascinating into just four arti Gambia. Senegal, and South Africa. orientation for these students once they tu;oring and mentoring program. It is cles. Each one Of these perscms had « 1 came to know this unique popula arrive on campus. Student Affairs can be here that the intemational students can difTarent story to teii these "^persons" tion by chance in 1997. As an admis assured that they will meet with the introduce their culture to these young being the international students of sions counselor, 1 evaluate all of their incoming intemational students before people. They teach the students songs, Shepherd Collie. admission applications. Technically all they start their classes. In their second native dances and languages. Because of This population is hard to pigeon my job entails is to evaluate, accept or year they have gone from working with their diversity, (hey arc often called hole: some have lived their entire lives deny, and issue (he documentation that a budget of S35 to S500. The ISU organ upon to speak at various events such a.s in the United States on a permanent provide the student with a visa, i soon ization remains proactive in giving all the local Rotary Club, campus lectures, visa, otherwise known as green card: came to find out that these students intemational students a forum for advo and most recently, the Martin Luther others are in possession of an F-1 stu would mean more to mc than just names cating change and voicing opinions. King, Jr. Convocation. dent visa. (F- i visas are issued to the on an application. They bring with them Several students have received the The communily is encouraged to student by the Immigration & their own personal stories. Some bring Multicultural Leadership Scholarship, call upon this diverse group so they can Naturalization Service and are usually their families upon arrival, and others I established by Rev. Ernest Lyies. which educate and share their unique cultures valid for the duration of study.) meet at the train station. One thing is provides not only a monetary scholarship with others. The current ISU president. Shepherd has seen growth in this inter- cenaio; they all possess unique qualities but also a leadership position on campus Pasha Yakovlev. can be reached for any naiional student population over the past of being willing to share with the stu that allows for educ^on of other students questions or comments at 876-4311. five years. In 1995, Shepherd had eight dent body and the community. and the community. This scholarship is Tbe Office of Multicultural Student een full-time students from other coun Shepherd College has worked to often the only way to offset expenses Services can be contacted at 876-5453 - tries. In 2000, that number more than make the transitira an easier one by since they are ineligible for federal finan and (he International Student Advisor, doubled to forty. making available certain services. Back cial aid. When necessary, the College has Mary Beth Stbcrt, can be of assistance These numbers don't quite capture in the fall of 1998. the growing popula been helpful in placing students with host at 876-5325. the true picture of our international stu tion of international students recognized families. The need for host families is In forthcoming issues we hope to dent population. The data we have come a need on campus of a place where they ongoing because of the holiday schedule introduce to you different faces repre from inform^on submitted by students could gather and talk about various con and the closing of residence halls. senting several different continents.

&000 NEWS PAPER • SPRING 2001

fm 16 The Search for Perfection or "The Way My Mother Made It" By Marge Dower

she must have used a recipe from the for her to slurp up milk mixed with glass. RICE PUDDING^ fw one's perfections, but loved for Boston Cooking School cook book. Since While I was on my knees mopping and 1 cup rice one's failings," btu I do know that the depression years left her without a searching for bits of glass, the rice on the Idon't know who said, "One is admired 1 cup boiling water one's mist^es are more open to misinter cook for the first time in her life, she stove boiled over. By the time 1 got there, pretation and are remembered longer than learned to cook, as I had, from the Boston the pan was scorched on the bottom. 3 cups milk one's successes. I thought about this when Cooking School. It was late in the day, and I decided 1/2 cup sugar my granddaughter recently asked if I I suspected that she really had some to salvage what I could of the mess. I 3 eggs would teach her mother how to make the secret that she wouldn't share. Suspicion' poured the top part of the rice into the Pinch of nutmeg "gummy cake" that her father remem and some resenuneni reared their ugly waiting baking dish with (he other ingre bered so fondly from his youth. heads. If she wouldn't share, I'd keep try dients, leaving (he bum on the bottom. 1/2 to 1 cup raisins (optional) 1 want one thing perfectly clear. I ing to find her secret myself. Thus began When I tasted the results, the flavor of 1 teaspoon cinnamon (optional) already knew how to coc^ when John and a twelve-year search (a perilous labor, if the burning had permeated the whole 1 teaspoon vanilla I were married in 1946.1 had been cook you will) pudding. Disheartened, 1 put the dish ing for years. for Mrs. Dower's rice pudding. aside and decided to have fresh fhiit for Preheat oven to 350 degrees. My motiier hated to cook. Ever since I tried a double boiler method pf dessert. Combine rice and boiling water. 1 took Home Economics in sixth grade When John got home that night, he blending the cooked rice and egg custard. Cover and let sit 40 minutes or until and learned what could be done with a I added vanilla. I lefl out vanilla and went into the kitchen for a drink. He all water is absorbed. (Rice will be basic cream sauce. I adored cooking. added fresh ground nutmeg. I left out nut come out v'iih an ecstatic look on his partially cooked.) Beat together all Make cream sauce; add tuna: pour onto meg and added lemon. I tried the face, carrying a spoon and the bowl of other ingredients. Butter a deep bak toast Mother procliumed U delicious. Scandinavian method of scalding whole rice pudding. "At last," he said,. "It's per ing dish; pour in rice and cover with Next night; make cream sauce with milk and sugar with a vanilla bean and fect. At last you got it right It tastes just egg mixture. Bake for 50 minutes or like mother's!" chipped beef. Mother (mxlaimed it deli pouring it over a pot of uncooked nee, until custard is firm. Serves 8. cious. Next night; make cieam sauce with then wrapping the pot in a blanket Bells rang, lights flashed on, as I curry and chicken. Delicious. Make overnight. I tried it with eggs. I tried it realized that the missing link was that bit * * * cream sauce with an egg; fold in stiffly without eggs. I baked the pudding in the . of scorched flavor. Mrs. Dower truly had ' A paperback version of the 1889 beaten white—^Voila! Souffle. Ditto. You oven for hours stirring off and on until a no secret. It wasn't her fault that she got original by Fannie M. Farmer has been get tite picture. lovely sugaiy crust formed. I served it distracted and burned the pudding. I felt a Published by Random House. From there I graduated to Fannie with jelly. I served it with fresh fruits. I warm glow of affection for her. 1 felt a Farmer's Boston Cooking School' cook served it with whipped cream. No dice. cold chill of guilt as I recalled my ^ From a Monastery Kitchen, Elise book. As I worked my way into it. my I kept trying. I never got it right. uncharitable thoughts. Since then, I Boulding, ed ; Harper & Row, 1976. efforts were greeted with huzzahs fixim Now you are mistaken if you think that always bum the rice pudding just a little mother. I now realize that Mother thought my culinary efforts went unappreciated. bit, in her memory. that anything she didn't have to cook her John always ate the pudding, but it was Now, back to that "gummy cake." self was wonderful—lumpy gravy, chewy never quite ri^t, Proust's memory of the That was created when I once forgot sauces, tough stew, heavy cakes; but taste and smell of his mother's madelaine the leavening and doubled the mashed that's another tale. had nothing on John's remembrance of • bananas in a banana cake.-Gummy was The point is. I felt confident in my puddings past. a kind term for the results. Thick, cooking skills. I made cream puffs, jelly As the years went by, 1 made the dense, chewy, leaden and plastery were rolls, steamed puddings, all for the deiec- rice pudding attempt infrequently, but more accurate descriptions. To my taticm of my husband. So. 1 was a bit always to the cheers of our five sons amazement, the children loved it and taken aback when one day he asked, whose taste buds had not been preju- kept asking me to make it again. I don't "Why don't you ever make rice pudding? • diced by the memory of perfection. They think that I was ever able to recreate My mother used to m^e it. It was one of ate it with pleasure in any form, but 1 my mistake exactly, but I succeeded in my favorite desserts." (Just one of those still tried new recipes from time to time. approximating it a few times. I now little things one rinds out after marriage.) One day I read a recipe used by realize that my mother-in-law might Common rice pudding? A piece of c^e. Brother Victor Avila, a monastic at Our have burned the pudding only two or What a snap! Lady of the Resurrection Priory in New three times in a lifetime of perfect, The following night 1 presented my York. The recipe was simplicity itself, one super puddings, but (he taste of that beloved with the rice pudding to end all which did not need hours of cooking and error'remained in the memory of my rice puddings—light, fiuflly rice enfolded stirring—just hot water, milk, cooked husband as the definitive rice pudding. in a rich vanilla cream with raisins. John rice, sugar and eggs. My admiration for my "perfect" had two comments: One: "I really don't A.S I brought the water to a boil and mother-in-law turned into love. care for raisins." (Another orte of those added the rice, I poured a glass of milk I'm not certain that I will tell my post-marimonial bits of info) and Two: for my youngest son who was "helping" granddaughter this secret yet. I have "It's not quite like motfier's. Hers was me in this endeavor. He knocked the glass already shown too many failings, and 1 more, (pause, pause) mote flavorful." over, covering the floor with spilled milk, don't want to push my luck. Besides. 1 got up my courage and wrote to studded with shards of glass. The old resi I'd like to bask in admiration as long John's mother to ask if she would share dent dog opened her eyes and started to as possible. She'll find out the rest her secret. She wrote back to tell me thai help. I put her outside. All I needed was soon enough.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • SPRING 2001 17

EARTHKEEPING Smart Growth Ensuring a Livable Future for the Panhandle By Margarita Provenzano

Threat by Sprawl out any interference. Smart Growth as cluster development, into practice not county, will enable individual Development planing techniques can be applied to only makes an area more livable, but is landowners to become effective guide development to maximize the effi also good for the bottom line. players in the local planning So what's the big deal about ^wawl cient use of an area's natural resources process. Through this program, develoiMDent? Is it teally so bad? You and existing infrastructure, while pi^- Local Efforts-To-Date landowners apply to sell their have only to inven those questions to serving the most valuable qualities of Because of the high level of aware development rights, which arc then reveal the answers; What makes our the area. When implemented effectively, held in (rust by the county board. If area so special? Why do so many peo ness of and cmnmitment to growth issues the outcome of Smart Growth develop chosen, the landowner receives a in the area, there are many local effoits ple, both long-standing residents and ment is the creation of a livable commu payment equaling the difference D.C. refuses alike, find it so attractive? that in some way embrace Smart Growth between fair-maiket value and nity with a thriving local economy that values. A selection is profiled here: The Eastern Panhandle of West still honors its cultural, regional and his- farm-value of the land, while still Virginia provides its residents and its tcnical heritage. Vision 20/20 retaining ownership of the land. many visitors with a unique combination Although traditionally opposed by This effort, along with others, will of traditional rural character grounded in Shepherdstown Vision 20/20 is a developers. Smart Growth tactics can ensure (he protection of the rural volunteer citizens group committed history, small-town hominess and a cos actually translate into increased freedom ' to "creating and promoting a vision character of our area in perpetuity. mopolitan array of cultural offerings; in development design. This concept is Contact the respective County of sustainable development for the scholarly speakers, performing and fine one highlighted by the teachings of Commission. . Shepherdstown Region ... to pro arts, and fine dining. These very things Randall Arendi, a specialist in the field tect. preserve, and enhance the now stand in peril of being smothered of cluster development and author of The Land IVust of the quality of life for all its present and by impending sprawl development, both Rural by Design, ConservaUon Design Eastern Panhandle (LTEP) residential and commercial, that is future.citizens." They have recently for Subdivisions, and Growing Greener: Similarly, the Land Trust of the released a document entitled "A creeping into the area from the east. A Conservation Planning Workbook. His Eastern Panhandle enables The nature of sprawl development Vision for the Shepherdstown consulting firm. Greener Prospects, pro landowners to entrust the develop Area," which outlines the myriad makes every comer of the entire country vides guidance to large-scale developers ment rights of their land through the look exactly alike—with no cultural, considerations that must be incorpo around the country. He has spoken at the drafting of a conservation easement, rated in our plans for the future, regional or historical differentiation. The NCTC several times. which is then donated to the Land emphasizing the preservation of identity of our area is still intact for the Trust. The mission of the LTEP is to most part, however, if the trend of Shcpherdstown's unique qualities. The Bottom Line encourage people to preserve open It then puts forth the group's collec sprawl development continues, our area space and rural landscapes in the will become indistinguishable from any Acccvding to Steve Lemer, who tive recommendation for the plan Eastern Panhandle. Contact where else, losing its cultural heritage spoke last year in Martinsbuig at a ning process. Contact Harvey Margarita Provenzano 262-1800. and its attractiveness to residents and Smart Growth program sponsored by the Heyser 876-6637. tourists alike. Shepherd Community College, The "We arc being nibbled to death." Martinsburg Journal, and WRNR The Rural Option Growing Smart according to Steve Leraer, a proponent Radio, "Protecting open space makes As proposed by the Potomac Applying the Smart Growth con of Stnart Growth. Without the benefit of economic sense." Headwaters Resource Conservation cepts to an area, even where public sup community-supported planning, backed Channeling development into areas and £)evelopment (RC &D) port and interest are strong, is probably that already have infrastructure (down by a solid vision, our area is vulnerable Council. The Rural Option is the the most challenging aspect of achieving town revitalization, for example) or to uncontrolled, sprawling expanses of path that should be chosen over the a successful outcome. subdivisicms and strip malls, destroying where infrastructure is planned, takes other two perceived options of "no- We in (he Eastern Panhandle of enormous economic pressure small our precious farmland, open space and growth" and "conventional subur West Viiginih are uniquely situated, both natural resources. municipalities and county governments ban development." It promotes the in space and time. We are just a leap to finance utility provisions to scattered balance of a strong local economy over the mountains from the D.C. area Smart Growth— development after the fact. Such with high quality of life through the megalopolis, yet we still have some sem Attematives to Sprawl unplanned, reactive development is support of farming and the rural blance of a rural community. We have all Development extremely costly and inefficient. economy. Contact Marian Buckner noticed the changes occuring across the Lemer maintains that "Low-density 876-0690. county, especially visible along Rt. 9, Rt. Smart Growth is a concept that has development costs more in taxes than it 230 and Flowing Springs Road. arisen in the past decade to describe the produces." When growth is allowed to Farmland Protection Boards Subdivisions are replacing farms, proactive approach to planning for occur in a sprawling fashion, the cost to Created by the recently passed orchards, and wild areas everywhere. growth and development. It is NOT an bring services, roads, and utilities to the West Virginia Voluntary Farmland Whatever your vision of our area, what aniigrowth movement. Acknowledging new houses becomes unduly high. Protection Act, three newly formed ever your stance on growth issues, THE that growth will continue with or with Putting Smart Growth principles, such boards, one in each Panhandle T I M E T O A C T I S N O W .

GOOD N EWS PAPER • SPRING 2001 Julia "Butterfly" Hill Author and Environmental Activist to Speak By Patrick Drohan Photo by San Francisco Chronicle 1 «

Julia Builerfly Hill. aiHhtir o/Tbc Legacy of Luna.

Hill. This woman had Just completed a churches with his family in tow. Money also done something that would scare the high school. I wa.s accepted into a task some called a circus trick, crazy, or was not abundant during her childhood, heck out of most of us—she has ridden Iwa.sstudentlucky. During exchangemy programsenior yearin in even militant. She had lived ISO feet up so she and her family always appreciat out more than one coastal Pacific storm Beaverton, Oregon. For one month. 1 in a redwood tr^ on land owned by ed what they did have. The influence of high up in an old-growth tree! She has traveled around the Pacific Northwest Pacific Lumber Company for 738 days her family's religion, along with ideals put nearly everything on the line for what studying natural resources with about to protest the logging of old-growth that said that a central part of life she believes in. She practices what she thineen other students from the U.S., forests. As 1 listened to her speak. I was involved helping others, were very preaches, and in the face of great adversi Mexico. Germany, and Finland. very moved, inspired, and shocked. strong factors in her youth. ty she hangs on tenaciously. Through her During the trip, we visited an old- Shortly after hearing the broadcast. I Then one day. a car accident nearly many recent interactions with the media. growth forest on the Quinnalt Peninsula bought her book. The Legacy of Luna. killed her. Like so many people who Julia has probably done more to raise in Washington Stale that was to be cut which detailed the experience. Luna experience life-threatening incidents, international awareness of unsustainable in a month or so. Unfortunately, we was her name for the tree in which she nothing in Julia's life was ever the same. logging practices than anything else since were some of the last people to see this lived. As 1 read, memories from that This accident is what brought Julia to the spotted owl. stand of trees. To this day. it is still dif day on the Quinnalt Peninsula flooded the Pacific Northwest and to her experi Aldo Leopold once said in his essay ficult for me to grasp Just how old those back and became clearer than they had ences with Luna. I'll leave the rest of "Round River," "One of the penalties of t r e e s w e r e . been in many years. the story to her book—it is quite an an ecological education is that one lives I remember it was cloudy, windy, Perhaps a.s you read these words, enjoyable and easy read. More than that, alone in a world of wounds." Julia and cold, but every now and then the you are taking sides in your mind on the it reveals something that I believe is "Butterfly" Hill has no formal ecological sun would appear briefly. The ocean was issue of old-growth logging, 1 am not missing today from many levels of our training, yet she has experienced the nat only a quarter-mile away, and every writing today to try to convince you one society—a true leader with a clear mes ural world in a more profound way than time [ breathed in. I could taste it. Ferns, way or another about whether logging sage. no hidden agenda, and no fluff. many people who have an ecological half the size of my body or taller, stood old-growth fore.sts is right. 1 would hope 1 have heard Julia "Butterfly" Hill iraining. She is also very well aware of next to me. that i don't have to. but I am a realist. speak on the radio and television twice. trcolt^ical wounds. For this, she is i stood in the hollow of one tree Instead I would like to tell you about Julia eloquently comes out shooting unique. Her words, although disquieting that was four times as wide as I am. U why I think this woman is so special— from the hip. She knows she is not only and troubling, should be heard, for ihcy was growing on top of another decaying special enough to bring to our communi trying to change the ways of some of the provide hope and molivalion I have yet tree twice its widlli. The tree I was ty to speak during the week of March strongest companies in the world, but to see from many of my generation. We staiM^ng iri was a small one. I was 13.2C01. also some of the strongest habits of our can leant much from this young woman. told— only around 400 years old. That Growing up, Julia wa.s like a lot of society—excessivencss that has taken an I invite you to hear her speak on March tree was twenty-two times older than I us. i imagine, in that she wasn't a unprecedented toll on the planet. IS. 200! at 7;30pm at (he National was that day. staunch environmentalist, but her life as I am drawn to Julia "Butterfly" Conservation Training Center and then One evening, about ten years later. a child was quite unique. Her father was Hill's speaking and writing because she to do something about what you hear. I heard an interview on the radio by a a preacher who traveled the American motivates me and delivers her message in Check the following Web site for details; young woman named Julia "Butterfly" heartland, preaching in towns and a manner that is truly pas.sionaie. She has hllp.7/www.shepherd.edu/ieswcb/. GOOD NEWS PAPER • SPRING 2001 0 0 2 i V . J M U J l / j

* Dogwoods A Feast for All Seasons

By Virginia Provenzano Illustrations by the Author

^ he Flowering Dogwood. acquiring trees for planting, since indi lands of Manitoba and Newfoundland Redosier Dogwood, formerly Comusflorida . is probably Ihe vidual trees may not be hardy and well south throughout the southeastern called C sioloiiifera but now named C. T most admired of all our native adapted (o areas far from their ancestral United States. xcricea, is also a sun- and moisture-lov eastern trees; it is the very symbol of region. Try to get trees bred from local This tree displays alternate leaves ing shrub. The name of the Redosier spring m our woodlands and gardens. stock, however, because of the numer on horizontal branches that grow in lay Dogwood comes from the rich red color The flowers, made up of four large ous disease problems in the wild popula ers spaced to give a "pagoda roof of the new stems, which make a brilliant white bracts surrounding a tion, it is best not to col appearance. The young twigs and .show, especially in the winter landscape. cluster of liny (rue flow lect trees from the wild. branches arc purplish in color. Small It is often used for stream-bank stabi ers. can create a spectac Flowering Dogwood white flowers are produced in May and lization because it grows rapidly, it ular sight, especially is closely related to the June in flat, open clusters like those of spreads by underground stems or stolons when blooming along giant Pacific Dogwood viburnums. In the fall, blue-black berries to form thickets, and it will root from its side our eastern Redbud. of western North develop on red pedicels against a back branch tips. This shrub reaches seven to Spring is not the America, C. nuilalii, drop of maroon foliage. These berries nine feet high and. of course, wider. dogwood's only and the Asian are a favorite of many birds. There is even a yellow-twigged cuitivar time to shine: it Dogwood. C. kousa. The Pagoda Dogwood shows a with variegated leaves called Silver and is equally showy Some hybrids between .strong resistance to anthracnose and cer Gold, but this may not be as vigorous as in the autumn. these species are tainly should be considered as an alter the species. This dogwood also provides Clusters of glossy being developed for nate to Flowering Dogwood where this an important food source of twigs, red berries comple the garden market Viscose is a problem. The Asian Kousa leaves and berries for wildlife. The ment the rich, dark red in hopes of better - Dogwood is often suggested as an Redosier may be found growing from disease resistance.. anlhracnose-resislanl substitute, but its Newfoundland to Manitoba and south to foliage, which is among the earli ' large, red fruits are too big for our est to turn. These berries are We now enjoy Virginia. Kentucky and Nebraska. very important to wildlife, dogwood trees for their native birds to cat—they evolved to feed The USDA Soil Conservation supplying many species of beauty anif as a source (he local Asian monkeys. Service has been evaluating shrubby birds with food for migra for wildlife food, but The Silky Dogwood, C. amomum, dogwoods for use as bank stabilizers tion and animals such a.s in earlier times, the o r K i n n i k i t i n i k , i s o n e o f and wildlife habitat. In 1982 indigo, a squirrels and rabbits with w o o d w a s m u c h several shrub dog selection of Silky Dogwood from winter food. sought-after for its woods found in Michigan, was recommended for Flowering Dogwood hard, lough, the eastern United conservation plantings throughout matures into a small tree, splinter-free States. The horti the caslem U.S. Then in 1986 fifteen to thirty feet tall and characteristics. In cultural require Ruhy. a Redosier about as wide. The fact, the name comes ments of (his selection from New leaves are opposite, from an old word "dag" plant are very dif York, was recom oval and simple which means skewer. "Dag- ferent from the mended for die with entire margins. wood" was also used to two dogwood "Colder climates of New It thrives in pan sun on well-drained, make weaving shuttles, pulleys, spin trees. It thrives York and New England. slightly acid soil. It can tolerate heavy dles, mallet heads and tool handles. in good sun and We have already discussed the great shade, but will bloom best with a few As is true of most of our native moist to wet importance of various dogwood fruits as hours of sunlight. Some sunshine and plants, medicinal uses were found for soils, often fall and winter creature food, but the good air circulation are especially the dogwood. The bark was made into growing at the plants play other interesting wildlife imponani to discourage anthracnose. a powerful tonic for invigorating the edge of low, roles. Dogwood foliage is host to the the fungal disease thai has become a system. In the southem Appalachians, moist woods and Buttercup Moth and the friendly Probolc serioos pit^lem to the wild trees in the this, was often made using home-dis along the borders of streams from Moth, and the flowers host the early cooler areas of our native woodlands. tilled whiskey. Twigs were used as Canada to Florida, zones five Spring Azure butterfly. Litter Dogwood trees in our gardens "chewing sticks." precursors of modem to eight. A silky pubes from the calcium-rich fallen , require good horticultural care to stay toothbrushes. An 1830 herbalist noted cence on the undersides o leaves enriches the soil for healthy. Besides fungaJ problems, dog the whiteness of the teeth of (he of the oval leaves nearby plants. wood borers often attack trees whose Virginia Indians and Africans, which gives this • Almost everyone is bark has been damaged by mowers and was attributed to their use of dogwood shrub its SlfclO' familiar with (he striag trimmers. Also, they have a shal chewing-sticks. common Flowering low root system, so grass should be The only other eastern dogwood name. The Dogwood, the kept several feet away from the tree that grows to tree form is the Pagoda whitish flowers state flower of trunk to avoid competition. This open Dogwood or Cornel. C. ahemifoUa. It bloom in June in Virginia, and many of us area should be lightly mulched to pro- attains a similar size to the Flowering flat clusters, fol already have one growing in our gar led the tree from mechanical injury and Dogwood and has similar horticultural lowed in late dens. Now we'd better understand the root competition. requirements of partly sunny growing summer by horticultural requirements of this tree The-native range of the Flowering conditions and fertile, well-drained porcelain blue berries, which are quick and how to keep it healthy. Wc further Dogwood extends from Ontario south to soil. It cannot tolerate a hot, sunny ly devoured by birds. The leaves turn realize there are several other native the Golf Coast and east fixmi southern exposure and requires cool, moist after maroon in the fall. This is a coarse dogwood species that can give us pleas Maine to Florida. Because of this broad noon shade. It is very hardy, growing shrub (hat grows to six to ten feet high ure as well as fill special wildlife habitat range, care should be taken when from zones three to seven in the wood and displays maroon twigs. roles in our gardens.

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9 20 Children and Spirituality By Anne Winter Photo by Bill Howard

/ see ihe love of God in you the church, and a bell to begin and end The light of Christ comes shining through prayer time. And I am blessed to be with you Songs are sung, especially ones Oh. Holy Child of God with body movements that add another dimension to the words. The children draw pictures, bake bread, trace accompanying hand gestures, labyrinths and become silent: activities Singingintroducedthese words, us to thewith workthe of that allow them to experience their rela Catherine Maresca. This simple state tionship with God. ment of theology—sung and danced—is Catherine explained that the work a snapshot of the way she encourages of the family in spiritual growth is to the spiritual growth of children. connect (he relationship with God to Catherine is the director of the life. She reminded us that children Center for Children and Theology. She leant indirectly, and thus learn from also teaches at a Christian-based their environment. She asked that we Montessori school in Ml. Rainier. m consider how our environment reflects M^land. affiliated with the Roman -3 our faith. Catholic Church. As port of the Adult In the past, our culture echoed our Education forums sponsored by the faith. Now, in our more secular society, Shepherdstown Pre^yterian Church, HJl Ihe home is an especially important she shared her ideas and experiences on Catherine Maresca place for our faith to resonate to our children and spirituality. children: through music, art, family ritu Children are blessed with what six), the dominant capacity is the capac-. Equally important, young children als and celebrations that invite the child Catherine (and Maria Montessori) call ity to love. Catherine explained that have what Catherine describes as "a to wonder and explore. While our homes "an absorbent mind." Children are not these children are "in a relationship with •capacity of essentiality." They are drawn need not be plastered with explicitly reli empty vessels to be filled with Bible God. We didn't put it there, but we can to the materia] that is the heart of our gious art, wc should at least be mindful verses that they cannot understand, nurture it." faith—the announcement of God's love about what is in our home. rather, they are bom in relationship with It is a mutual relationship—like (he in the person of the Good Shepherd who Likewise, Catherine encouraged us God—a relationship that can be encour Good Shepherd calling his sheep by dies and is resurrected. The children to be less private in our faith, our aged with acdvities apjvopriate to the name and the sheep knowing the voice of express this essentiality in their art. their prayers, and our charitable giving. age and capacity of the child. the shepherd. This parable of the Good interpretation of parables and stories, Children are sensitive and impression Catherine stressed that as we teach Sltepherd (John 10) works especially well their explanation of symbols and signs, able. They model the behaviors of our children, they also teach us. and we with younger children because it express and their silence. adults, and when exposed to overt adults grow in otm own faith. Catherine es (hat mutual relationship in a way thai In Catherine's model, and the actions of faith by their parents or other reminded us that only as we become like resonates with the child. Montessori classroom, even younger adults, children will absorb and incorpo little children can we enter the Kingdom Catherine also spoke of the capaci children have moments —usually at rate those behaviors as well. of God. (Mark 10:15) ty of the young child to see the invisi prayer time—in which they arc silent. Although (he activities of The model of spiritual development ble—to experience the spirit of God or Catherine notes that there is no real lis Catherine's classroom can be replicat followed by the Center for Children and the love of God. Children move easily tening or prayer without silence. ed at home, she stressed that the Theology combines the experiential between the metaphysical and physical. Some aspects of our faith are not emphasis is really not on what one "self teaching" priitciples of Maria The boundary for them is permeable appropriate for the very young child. does, but on one's attitude—the under Montessori with the observaticms and and the physical can serve as a sign of Some Bible stories can be disturbing. standing (hat everything is sacred and experience of Sophia Cavallettl. an the spiritual. Old Testament stories, like Noah and the everything deserves attention. We can Italian biblical scholar who worked Catherine described one young girl flood, are left for the older child who create small rituals that call our hearts extensively with children. The resulting mixing flour with yeast in an exercise can understand the moral message. and minds to God: rituals for the first mix is a simple approach that encour about the parable that compares the One capacity of the older child (age day of school, the first lost tooth, a lost ages the child's preexisting relationship kingdom of God to leavened bread. six to twelve) that is markedly distinct pel, a new house. Children observing with God in a way that respects the When asked what she was doing, the lit from the younger child is the ability to and participating see thai faith informs capacities and ^ilities of the child. tle girl replied. "I am watching the imagine what he has not experienced. all of life. They learn that God is pres Montessori saw different planes or Kingdom of God grow." Bible stories, especially from the Old ent in pain and joy, fear and triumph, stages of development in children: from Also a part of the young child is a TcslamenL, that require an understanding and especially where children are birth to age six. from six to twelve, from capacity for joy that is not a feeling of of the different culiural and historical involved, in laughter. twelve to eighteen, and eighteen to excitement but rather a demeanor of contexts, arc therefore better suited for twenty-four. Within those planes deep satisfaction. Different observers the older child. Cavallctti identified certain key capaci have noted that children engaged in in her classroom, Scripture and Anne Wnter moved to Shepherdstown ties that shaped the manner and method religious activities exhibit a serenity Liturgy are quite literally put into the last fall. This is her first article for the of ericouraging spiritual grotvth. The and tranquillity remarkable to their age. child's hands. The classroom has a Good News Paper. model for this method of teaching is And inherent in this is the capacity for prayer tabic with different objects to based on an attitude of profound respect prayer. Children pray with great ease— touch and feci. They include small The Center for Children and Theology, for the qualities and capacities of the usually with few words but with short crosses, a candle, prayer cards with sim 3628 Rhode Island Ave.. Ml. Jtainier, child and which provides the freedom to essential phrases—and with the ple, short prayers, small booklets con Md. 20712, 301-927-1680. Write or call explore and grow in relationship to God. younger child usually words of thanks taining a Bible story or parable, a cloth for a catalogue of their materials and With the younger child (birth to age giving and praise. with the liturgical color for the season of publications.

GOOD^ MEWS PAP ER • SPRING 4001 21 Religious Worship and Education Schedules

.\sbuni' United Methodist Baha'i Faith Christ Reformed U.C.C Christian Science Society Rl 480 (Kearneysvitle Rd) Entler Hotel. German St. 304 East German Street Entler Hotel. German & Princess Streets Telephone; 876-3122 Telephone: 876-3995 Bronson Staley, Pa.stor Telephone: 876-2021 Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11:30 a.m. Telephone: 301-241-3972 Sunday School & Worship Service: 10 a.m. Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Discussion Group: Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. Testimony Meetings: 1st, 3rd & 5th 1st & 3rd Fridays, 8:00 p.m.. Sunday School for all ages: 10:10 a.m. Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. Reading Room: Wednesday & Saturday 10 a.m. to I p.m.

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