Hood Magazine | Fall 2019

WHAT’S POSSIBLE WITH A LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION?

EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING!

LIBRARY COMMENCEMENT REUNION

FALL FUN @HOOD 2019 HOMECOMING & FALL FAMILY WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 27-29

Come home to Hood for a few days of Fall Fun! 

P lay in an alumni game, or cheer from the sidelines!

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B ack the Blazers as they compete in field hockey, soccer and volleyball!

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E njoy live music, great food and team up to compete in the campus-wide scavenger hunt!

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P lus an exclusive Hood alumni party in Downtown Frederick!

Check out the events schedule and register at hood.edu/homecoming.

Better Together

FALL 2019 VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS

Laurie Ward EDITOR

Meg DePanise ’15 ART DIRECTION AND DESIGN

Derek Knecht Renee Rohwer COPY EDITOR

Tommy Riggs CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Mary Atwell Archivist, Collection Development Services Manager

Geoff Goyne Assistant Director of Athletics for Communications/SID

Guy Gray ’74, M.S.’82 Martha Gray ’69, M.S.’82 Charles Mann Vice President for Finance and Treasurer

Toby Peterson Director of the Beneficial-Hodson Library and Technology Center

Wallis Shamieh ’15

The Power of a Liberal Arts Education Hood Proud: Reunion

Cody Wilcox ’19 INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT

Nancy Gillece ’81 Vice President, Institutional Advancement

Jaime Cacciola ’04 Director of Grants and Gift Planning

Kellye Greenwald ’86 Director of Alumni and Constituent Engagement

Britton Muir Class News Editor Assistant Director of Alumni and Constituent Engagement

Malinda Small ’81 Executive Director of Individual Giving

Emily Wise VanderWoude Director of Leadership Giving

Brooke Winn, MBA’18

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DEPARTMENTS 2 Social Snapshot 3 Message from the President 4 Newsmakers 7 Giving Back 10 Frederick Focus 12 Learning Curve 17 Graduate School 20 Standouts 24 Blazer News

28 The Power of a Liberal Arts Education 38 Better Together 44 Hood Proud: Commencement, Reunion 50 Class News 57 Point of View 70 A Look Back

Director of Annual Giving

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Magda Broche Kurt Holter Derek Knecht Tommy Riggs Doug Via ADDRESS CHANGES Please report all address changes to the Hood College Office of Alumni Relations at 301-696-3900; 800-707-5280, option 1; or advancement_services@hood.edu.

Hood Magazine is published twice a year by the Hood College Office of Marketing and Communications.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

If you have a letter you would like to send us for possible inclusion in the next issue of Hood Magazine, please email us at marketingoffice@hood.edu.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR On “The Buzz About Bees” from Spring 2019 I’ll admit, when I was a kid I hated bees, but the older I got, the more important to me they became. So many points made here are important, especially for those who fear bees, don’t know anything about them or don’t understand them. Scientific studies can be beneficial, yet confusing, but what “regular people” can do to help is easier and sometimes simple! If every person made one small change to their support of local goods (from

flowers to food, hard goods to services), planting of perennials (especially late summer and fall blooming), and the environment (no chemical pesticides, appreciate nature, etc.), it’s amazing what we’d see over time.

Our environment and food would improve!

Plus, the female worker bees run the hive and support the queen, and that’s the kind of community I want to support!

—Sarah Tapscott Rosier ’15

SOCIAL SNAPSHOT IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Hood was founded May 12, 1893, the date of the first meeting of the Board of Directors, who at that time established the Woman’s College of Frederick, now known as Hood College. In celebration of Founders’ Day, the Office of Institutional

Advancement introduced #hoodcollegetraditionsweek on Instagram (@happeningathood), a week packed with traditions, trivia and prizes. Test your Hood knowledge with these trivia questions: (Answers at the bottom of this page.)

1. In what year was the first Late Night Strawberry Breakfast held?

2. True or False: In 1940, Hood students were forbidden to dance or play cards on Sundays.

3. What long lost Hood tradition is this?

4. In what year did Hood go fully coeducational?— Meaning men were enrolled as residential students.

5. What do we lay on the grave of the College’s namesake and major benefactress, Margaret Scholl Hood, in honor of her legacy?

FROM INSTAGRAM

FROM TWITTER Hao Wu @WuLabHarvard

@bernie_the_jack My person when my person isn’t around. #loveBrielle #sceneathood #hood2019

Awesome meeting on imaging and cancer biology, @NCIResearchCtr @ValdaVinson of @aaas @sciencemagazine, Cheryl Arrowsmith @CherylArrowsmi1, Angela Gronenborn, Sriram Subramaniam @cryoem_UBC and others! Lots of women (and men) speakers and lots of fun! @WomeninSTEM Answers: 1. 1982; 2. True; 3. A maypole celebration; 4. 2003; 5. 49 red carnations

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Message from the President Dear Hood Friends, In this issue, we feature the first major capital project of our soon-to-be launched comprehensive fundraising campaign, Forging the Future: a complete renovation of the Beneficial-Hodson Library and Technology Center.

Sometimes the news that we are planning to renovate the library is met with skepticism. As one of the newest buildings on campus, is this the best use of constrained resources given the digital media revolution? Are libraries even needed anymore? I assure you that this project is imperative to our students’ success!

Opening in 1992, the library is a relative latecomer to our campus. At that time, the Apple Library, which opened in 1941, no longer met the needs of our student body. The new library expanded collection and study space. But just as we opened the doors of the new library, the advent of the internet fundamentally transformed the way students access resource materials and use them to complete coursework. Gone are the days that students spend hours going through card catalogs and the periodic index to find needed materials, followed by retrieving a load of books or journals, photocopying relevant materials and then spreading them out over a large library table (or dorm room floor) to complete the assignment. So, in some ways, this renovation is long overdue. The “new” Beneficial-Hodson Library and Technology Center will again serve as the intellectual hub for the entire Hood community, bustling with activity and educational energy. Read all about the planned renovations on page 38.

We’re not the only ones looking to the future and making radical changes. Librarian of Congress Carla D. Hayden, H’18, Ph.D., (who served as the 2018 Hood Commencement speaker) is currently undertaking a major renovation of the Library of Congress to increase public access to its collections and programmatic outreach. Although on a much grander scale and import than our project, the impetus is similar. “In an age when facts seem to be up for grabs and information flows quickly but often with little authority (sic), the library’s academic mission is more critical than ever.”

(Washington Post Magazine, March 11, 2019) Indeed, in the age of technology, libraries are very much needed. In today’s free-range internet, our students must be able to effectively analyze, critique and contextualize resources. Librarians, along with their faculty colleagues, serve a critical role in ensuring that our students achieve the informational literacy skills essential to a liberal arts education.

These skills enable our students to navigate the continuous tidal wave of information and discern that which possesses intellectual merit. This ability serves Hood graduates for a lifetime, enabling alumni to build upon their Hood education as passionate lifelong learners, assuring continual professional and personal growth.

Our cover story, starting on page 28, also demonstrates the immeasurable value of a liberal arts education. The nine alumni profiled are using their Hood education to be successful in diverse professional paths, some far afield from their chosen major. Employers place a high priority on oral and written communication, critical thinking, ethical judgment, and working effectively in teams and independently—the very aptitudes we are teaching at Hood.

As friends of the College, we depend on you to be fierce champions for the value of a liberal arts education for career success, personal growth and our democracy. This value is being increasingly questioned (ironically, often based on erroneous information), and we need you to stand proud and loud in your support of Hood—with your heart, mind and hand.

ANDREA E. CHAPDELAINE, PH.D.

Sincerely,

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NEWS MAKERS NEWS, NAMES AND NOTABLES

President Chapdelaine Named to Maryland’s Top 100 Women and Chair of MICUA Board President Andrea E. Chapdelaine, Ph.D., was named to The Daily Record’s 2019 listing of Maryland’s Top 100 Women, and she was elected chair of the Board of the Maryland Independent College and University Association (MICUA).

The Daily Record began Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 1996 to recognize outstanding achievements by women demonstrated through professional accomplishments, community

leadership and mentoring. This year, there were 520 nominations and two rounds of judging, and winners were recognized at the Maryland’s Top 100 Women awards celebration in April.

“This year’s Maryland’s Top 100 Women are leading companies, charting new territory and inspiring the next generation. They are truly outstanding role models for all of us,” said Suzanne Fischer-Huettner, publisher of The Daily

Record. “They show compassion and commitment to help others and to shape their communities.”

The MICUA Board of Trustees elected President Chapdelaine to serve as chair of the Board for a two-year term beginning July 1, 2019. She was unanimously elected by the Board—which includes the presidents of its 15 member institutions—to guide the organization in implementing its strategic objectives.

Agreement with ACES Provides Pathway to Education for Local Military Hood College and the Army Continuing Education System (ACES) signed an agreement in February to provide graduate degree scholarships for activeduty military stationed at Fort Detrick.

“Hood College has long valued the partnership with our close neighbor, Fort Detrick,” said Hood President Andrea E. Chapdelaine, Ph.D. “From scientists serving as instructors to hosting our students onsite for research, we are eager to further strengthen our alliance through offering this new scholarship program for soldiers on post.”

This scholarship will provide all qualified Army personnel a significant per-credit reduction in tuition of 40-60 percent in Hood’s Graduate School,

depending on the academic program, such that the cost will match the education benefit the Department of Defense awards active-duty military during their service. Staff from the Graduate School will support active-duty soldiers by providing degree enrollees on-post advising and academic counseling weekly at Fort Detrick.

“This remarkable display of support by Hood College provides service members an incredible opportunity to pursue advanced degrees to enhance their careers and defend our nation,” said Col. Scott Halter, former commander of U.S. Army Garrison Fort Detrick.

“I continue to be impressed by the tremendous partnership between Fort Detrick and Hood College.”

Hood Enactus Helping Women in Need Research shows that feminine hygiene products are one of the most highly requested items in homeless shelters and are also one of the least donated. When women don’t have access to necessary sanitary items, they resort to hazardous alternatives, putting themselves at risk.

MACKENZIE CLARK ’20 AND DELANIE DIVERIO ’19 WITH A PROTOTYPE OF THE EQUAL ACCESS BOX

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In an effort to alleviate this problem, the Hood Enactus club developed Project Astraea, a community service project aimed at providing women a guaranteed supply of feminine hygiene products. Through this project, Enactus students have created the Equal Access Box—a large, mailbox-type exchange program in which

COL. SCOTT HALTER, FORMER COMMANDER OF U.S. ARMY GARRISON FORT DETRICK, AND PRESIDENT CHAPDELAINE

individuals can donate products to the box and women in need can obtain those items with dignity.

Project Astraea is also developing a website to connect donors and nonprofit organizations with those in need of feminine hygiene products. The site will show, in real time, which Equal Access Boxes need specific products.

“We believe that Project Astraea will further the community that we love by creating a user-friendly and easy donation system, raising awareness for feminine hygiene product needs, and by creating a system that allows 24/7 access to these products,” said Meredith Taylor ’20, a member of the Enactus team behind Project Astraea. “We believe that every woman, no matter the circumstances, deserves a safe, hygienic and dignified way to care for themselves. Period.”

Hood Partners with Chesapeake Watershed Hood College has been accepted as a new member of the Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystems Unit (CHWA CESU).

As a non-federal member, this partnership enables Hood faculty to enter into cooperative agreements with federal members of the unit, such as the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Forest Service, the Department of Defense and others.

Hood faculty will apply to conduct research on federal projects that involve their specific areas of expertise. This allows the opportunity for faculty to engage students in research as well.

This partnership fulfills all three areas of focus in Hood College’s strategic plan. It will create high-impact learning opportunities for students, engage the College in strategic partnerships, and allow opportunities for growth for faculty.

“Hood takes its responsibility to our community seriously,” said Drew Ferrier, Ph.D., professor of biology at Hood and technical representative for Hood on the CHWA CESU. “This is one way we can help find solutions to local problems and act as a regional resource to address regional questions.”

Established in August 2001, CHWA CESU is a partnership among 43 university/research institutions and 11 federal agencies whose members strive to understand and protect the natural and cultural resources of the region. With the Appalachian Laboratory as its lead administrative agency, the CHWA CESU is one of a national network of 17 such cooperative research units.

Partnership with Georgetown Hill Expands Lab School Operations The Onica Prall Child Development Lab School partnered with the Georgetown Hill Early School for the 2019-20 school year.

This Applied Computing Series is designed to attract students who might not otherwise consider a technology career. Hood computer science professors Aijuan Dong, Ph.D., George Dimitoglou, Ph.D. and Jiang Li, Ph.D. collaborated on securing this partnership.

“Hood College was chosen for this program because we have a successful track record of implementing new programs with innovative teaching and learning methods,” said Dong, who led the partnership effort. “With strong support from the College and the department, we hope to bring quality computer science education to all Hood students, no matter the major.”

The second course is How to Think Like a Data Scientist, which introduces students to the importance of gathering, cleaning, normalizing, visualizing and analyzing data to drive informed decision making, no matter the field of study.

Students will learn to use a combination of tools and techniques, including spreadsheets, Structured Query Language (SQL) and Python to work on real-world datasets.

The Lab School, established in 1930 by Professor Onica Prall, serves as a critical component of Hood’s NCATE- and NAEYC-accredited teacher education program. As part of their coursework, the College’s students study teaching and the development of children by observation and practicum experiences in the preschool.

Emily Kraatz Adesina ’14, M.S.’19 is the director of the Georgetown Hill Lab School. She graduated from Hood in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in early

Hood is one of 20 colleges selected nationally for a partnership with Google to offer a series of classes that teach the foundations of computer and data science through hands-on, projectbased coursework.

The first course is Foundations of Python Programming in which students will learn design, implementation, testing and analysis of algorithms and programs. Students get instruction from a world-class computer science professor, delivered remotely through video and interactive media, then work on collaborative projects in groups with coaching by their instructors.

The newly named Georgetown Hill Lab School will continue to operate as a three- and four-year-old preschool, but will extend its operating hours from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. five days a week to better meet the needs of today’s families. New additions to the curriculum will include music, Spanish and physical education. Summer camp and afterschool programs will be added in the near future.

Hood students will also be given practicum and employment opportunities at all Georgetown Hill preschools. Georgetown Hill Early School was founded in 1980 and has served Montgomery County with a play-based curriculum rooted in research and development by the founder, Ellen Cromwell.

Partnership with Google Offers Courses in Foundations of Computer Science

EMILY ADESINA ’14, M.S.’19, DIRECTOR OF THE GEORGETOWN HILL LAB SCHOOL

childhood education and in 2019 with a master’s degree in educational leadership Georgetown Hill operates in multiple federal centers, bringing experience in partnering with larger entities to provide affordable and high quality preschool.

With the partnership, Google is providing course content and free access to their platform.

Students with interest in pursuing tech roles will have the added opportunity to connect and network with Google employees to learn about working environments, challenges, and nuances in working in the industry, positioning them for entry-level positions in the data science workforce.

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HOOD IN THE NEWS

| FA C U LT Y E X P E R T S C I T E D I N T H E N E W S

A New Approach to Suicide Prevention

Virtual Archaeology Professor David Hixson, Ph.D., is taking archaeology virtual with his use of drones, digital photography, photogrammetry and 3D modeling.

Professor Xinlian Liu, Ph.D., is part of a team using machine learning techniques and mathematics to suggest bestpractice strategies for suicide prevention, especially among veterans.

From Forbes article “Unreal Archaeology—How The Ancient World is Being Recreated in Virtual Reality” published April 30, 2019: “While he still keeps a trowel in his back pocket, Hixson now regularly works with drones, digital photography, photogrammetry and threedimensional imaging software in his attempts to understand the human past.

“Using the Unreal Engine 2 (a program that allows game developers to create immersive three-dimensional environments), he created his first simulation of Chunchucmil to test the feasibility of the concept. By going through the process, he found he had to consider many questions to create an accurate immersive virtual rendering of an ancient city. In a conference paper presented in 2007, Hixson noted that ‘indepth research into site plans, architectural styles and excavations reports needed to be conducted before the first virtual stone was laid.’ The results present a more flexible and engaging rendition

From WUSA9 CBS segment “Math not medicine— Scientists try to prevent veteran suicides with deep learning” aired June 19, 2019: CREATED BY DAVID HIXSON IN 2007: A DIGITAL SIMULATION, USING THE UNREAL ENGINE 2, OF A HOUSING GROUP FROM THE ANCIENT MAYA CITY OF CHUNCHUCMIL

of an archaeological site than one can find in the real world.

“In his most recent work, Hixson is exploring how new developments in photogrammetry, a process that extracts three-dimension data from digital photographs, can enhance the process of rendering sites in virtual environments. By bringing drones to the site of Chunchucmil, Hixson was able to create a three-dimension model of the archaeological site in a matter of weeks, when traditional mapping practices had taken years to cover the same territory.”

The Gig Economy

“‘Our strategy actually is to use deep learning, find [a] pattern, and identify [the] high risk veteran group, so proactively we can reach out to them and try to stop them from ideation or suicide,’ he said.

“Liu compared it to pixels in an image, which don’t make sense alone. When they’re put together, however, they form a picture.

From Frederick Magazine story “The Gig Economy—The 9-to-5 Routine Gets Turned on its Head with Flexible Hours, New Worker Needs” published Jan. 10, 2019:

DAVID GURZICK TEACHES A CLASS AT HOOD

“Most residents are familiar with the traditional employment model of working 40 hours a week for the same employer. Yet, over the past few years, many workers are taking on part-time or seasonal work as part of the gig economy. ‘Nowadays, what we have really seen is that contingent and temporary labor markets really have been growing and they have been growing, because the nature of work has changed,’ says David Gurzick, associate professor of management Hood College.

‘Accessibility to these services comes hand-in-hand with opportunities to participate in them.’

“Companies that are leading the gig economy have made headway in reducing barriers to enter the marketplace, making it easier for individuals to take on these jobs. Gurzick compares a waiter to an Uber or Lyft driver. The individual waiting tables has to pre-establish a schedule, work entire shifts and does not have the flexibility to decide to work or not at a moment’s notice. ‘Driving for Uber or Lyft seems more aligned to our consumer habits in a growing demand economy,’ he says. ‘… It seems to me the gig economy is a melting pot of workers with different motivations.’”

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XINLIAN LIU EXPLAINS A POSTER OF DATA FROM HIS PROJECT ON MACHINE LEARNING

“Liu said deep learning uses what’s called a neuronetwork to make sense of numerous different factors, like family relationships and opiate use.

Professor David Gurzick, M.S.’03, Ph.D., was quoted in a story about the “Gig Economy” and how the work landscape is changing.

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“Liu hopes his team’s research prevents PTSD from leading vets to suicide.

“‘Our idea is we try to identify the high risk group of patients, and then we try to prioritize resource[s] to reach out to them,’ Liu said. ‘So, we use deep learning and process the medical records, and we try to predict when could be the next time that they could be into travel.’ “‘Into travel’ is what these researchers use to refer to another suicide attempt that lands patients in the hospital.

“The professor said doctors would be able to track when these next attempts might happen through super computers and reach out to at-risk patients.

‘We don’t think we can prevent every case, but if we can catch a few a day, that’s huge success,’ Liu said.”

GIVING BACK B E Q U E S T S, G I F T S A N D D O N A T I O N S

What is an Endowment?

A Conversation with CFO Chuck Mann

What is an endowment?

An endowment comprises contributions from many donors who want to provide a permanent income stream to the College in support of its educational mission. The principal value of these gifts must remain intact in perpetuity, while the investment income is to be used for the specific purpose designated by the donor. Endowment funds are usually dedicated for scholarships, faculty positions and academic support. Unlike the operating budget, these funds are expected to last forever and perpetually support the College and its students.

Why is an endowment important?

Endowments provide colleges and universities with the ability to fund their operating costs with sources other than tuition, thus providing long-term financial stability and reducing tuition. A quick glance at the U.S. News & World Report annual review of colleges and universities denotes a strong correlation between endowment size and ranking. In short, educational excellence and competitive advantage are directly linked to the amount of money available to a college.

How large is Hood’s endowment?

As of June 30, 2019, the College’s endowment was valued at approximately $105,000,000. Over the past 10 years, the endowment has returned an average of 7.1 percent a year, outperforming the established benchmark. However, investment returns are only part of the overall growth story. The endowment has significantly benefited from many gifts and bequests over the years from alumni and friends who believe in Hood’s long tradition of providing an outstanding liberal arts education.

How does Hood’s endowment compare to similar colleges?

According to the National Association of College and University Business Officers’ (NACUBO)-TIAA endowment study, Hood’s endowment per student in 2018 was $63,920. Similar liberal arts colleges in Maryland, on average, have twice the endowment per student and thereby receive greater support for their operating budgets. This places Hood at a competitive disadvantage and is why growing the endowment is a critical part of the upcoming campaign.

What does Hood’s endowment support?

Thanks to the generosity of many donors over the past 125 years, the College maintains 387 endowed funds. The vast majority of these funds provide permanent support for scholarships, hence making Hood affordable and accessible to current and future generations of students. Without this critical support, many students would not be able to attend Hood.

How much of the endowment is spent annually to support the College?

Consistent with Hood’s Investment Policy as approved by the Board of Trustees, a portion of the endowment value is distributed annually in support of donordesignated purposes. This distribution is five percent of the average market value of the endowment for the previous 12 quarters. Currently, the annual payout funds approximately 10 percent of the College’s operating budget.

Average Endowment per Student $155,208

“Reach” Peer

$124,346

“Like” Peer

$63,920

Hood

$38,735

“Watch” Peer

Reach Peers: Gettysburg, Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall

Watch Peers: Le Moyne, Arcadia, St. Bonaventure

Like Peers: McDaniel, Goucher, Washington

Source: NACUBO-TIAA Endowment Study, June 30, 2018

Endowment Fair Market Value $105,000,000

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Endowment Support Allocation

Academic and Institutional Support 24%

$47,488,121 2009

Scholarships 67%

Professorships 9% 2019

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MCCE Grant to Fund Computational Thinking Partnership The Maryland Center for Computing Education (MCCE) has awarded Hood $43,000 to lead a Computational Thinking Partnership (CTP) with Frederick County Public Schools (FCPS), Frederick Community College (FCC) and Maryland Codes.

JANE OLSEN ’76, M.A.’78 AND JUDITH M. HOWE ’76

Alumna Establishes Planned Gift for Endowed Scholarship In April, Jane Olsen ’76, M.A.’78 made a commitment to fund the Judith M. Howe ’76 and Jane B. Olsen ’76 Scholarship through a planned gift. The scholarship is established in memory of Jane’s wife and fellow Hood alumna, Judith (Judy) Howe and will be awarded to first-year students who demonstrate academic excellence and may be renewed based on financial need and academic performance. This gift is a tribute to Jane’s and Judy’s time at Hood and pays it forward to countless future Hood students.

“When Judy was applying to college, she was accepted at several top-tier colleges/universities.

Hood was the only one to offer her any scholarship monies. She didn’t qualify for financial need scholarships, but without the money from Hood, she would have needed to make alternate plans,” Jane said. “I’ve seen this situation repeated in my own family as well. By setting up this scholarship, I want to help ensure that Hood will always be able to offer help to students who couldn’t otherwise afford to attend Hood.”

Twenty-five participants from Hood, FCPS and FCC will receive professional development addressing the K-12 Computer Science Framework and Maryland’s K-12 Computer Science Standards through a 37.5-hour, six-day educational experience.

Designed and delivered by Hood computer science and education faculty, FCPS specialists and Maryland Codes partners, this training will help students learn how to integrate computer science into K-8 STEM curriculum and teaching.

“This grant will enable Hood computer science and education faculty to develop hands-on, immersive, professional learning experiences for Hood’s and FCC’s preservice as well as FCPS’ inservice

teachers,” said Jennifer Cuddapah, Ed.D., associate professor of education at Hood and the lead on this grant. “Participants will learn about the fundamental principles of computer science and computational thinking. They will receive a mini-grant to design and enact a computer science project in their grades K-8 classrooms during the fall.”

Other key Hood College personnel in this grant are Christy Graybeal, Ph.D., associate professor of education and mathematics; Jiang Li, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science; and Paulette Shockey, Ph.D., assistant professor of education.

Hood’s support and collaborations with FCPS, FCC and Maryland Codes make this a unique program in the region. The 25 participant slots will be filled from the applicant pool of Hood and FCC education students and FCPS mentors.

The Hodson Trust Grants Hood $3.6 Million Hood College received more than $3.6 million from The Hodson Trust to support student scholarships.

This is the largest gift Hood has received from the Trust since 2007. The Trust has traditionally provided funding to promote academic excellence for high-achieving students.

“The Hodson Trust has a long history of supporting Hood College and higher education in general,” said Hood President Andrea E. Chapdelaine, Ph.D. “We can’t thank them enough for their generous commitment to us.”

Throughout the College, the Hodson name is prevalent in scholarships for students, fellowships for faculty, and named buildings. These include the Hodson Fitness Center, the Hodson Outdoor Theater, the Hodson Gallery in the Tatem Arts Center, the Hodson Science and Technology Center, and the Beneficial-Hodson Library and Technology Center.

For more information on how to be involved with any of these programs, contact Nancy Gillece at gillece@hood.edu.

BEQUESTS Jeanne Kemp, P’74 Jeanne provided unrestricted support to Hood College through a charitable remainder trust.

Jeanne graduated from Goucher College in 1938 with a degree in English. She was a teacher in Frederick for several years and later became a private language therapist helping students with dyslexia. Jeanne was active in the Frederick community serving on Hood’s Board of Associates, the Frederick Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, the Order of the Good Samaritan at Frederick Memorial Hospital, Heritage Frederick, Advocates for the Homeless, the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center and the Garden Club of Frederick. Jeanne was mother to Nancy Kemp Cline ’74, who also served on Hood’s Board of Associates.

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Laura Eaton Butler ’47 Through her estate, Laura established the endowed Laura Eaton Butler ’47 Scholarship.

After graduating from Hood in 1947 with a degree in sociology, she began her career as a social worker. She was active in various communities, volunteering for the Assistance League of Glendale, the Huntington Library, PEO and others.

She enjoyed antiques and world travel.

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$250,000 Gift to Establish New Master’s in Nutrition Emerita Board of Trustees member Edith Howard Hogan ’59 has given $250,000 to establish a master’s program in nutrition.

The money will be used to support faculty recruitment and development, academic programming, student and faculty research, and other expenses related to developing the program.

EDITH HOWARD HOGAN ’59

Hogan graduated from Hood in 1959 with a bachelor’s degree in home economics and went on to earn her master’s in dietetics.

“Hood prepared me very well, which made me competitive enough to pursue a graduate degree in Harvard’s graduate School of Public Health,” she said. “From there, I worked in Maryland on their statewide Dairy Council; later in adolescent nutrition counseling at Children’s National Hospital in D.C. I was appointed by President Reagan to serve in the USDA’s Agriculture Marketing Service.”

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN THE BOLD SOCIETY?

The Master of Science in Nutrition will have three tracks: The dietetics track that will include practical work experience intended to culminate in the registered dietician credential, which will benefit from the College’s strong ties to Frederick Regional Health System. The other two tracks, hospitality and sustainability, will capitalize on Hood’s strengths in business and biology, respectively.

“We live in an age of personalized nutrition, which requires diet and nutrition expertise in all stages of life. Several of the common causes of death are dietrelated,” Hogan said. “Dieticians and nutritionists will continue to play a critical role in the health and wellness industry in the U.S.” The program development is currently underway and expected to go through the required program review from the College’s graduate council and faculty senate, before going to the College’s accrediting body, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and the state’s Higher Education Commission.

Pending all approvals, the program will launch in fall 2020.

“We are grateful for Edith’s generosity. This gift will enable us to continue to provide advanced education in specialized areas in response to regional and global needs,” said President Andrea E. Chapdelaine, Ph.D.

The BOLD (Blazers of the Last Decade) Society recognizes those who have graduated in the past 10 years and donate $120 or more annually or $10 per month to the Hood Fund.

Your gift helps fund student scholarships, faculty research, internships and campus activities. Members are celebrated for their commitment to Hood and are invited to an exclusive, annual reception in their honor.

The benefits you will enjoy as a BOLD Society member include: • Acknowledgement on the BOLD Society website at hood.edu/boldsociety • Inclusion in the Honor Roll • Invitation to exclusive events • Twenty percent discount on a Blazer Brick installed in the Jeanne Zimmerman Gearey ’52 Plaza or an Adirondack chair For more information about the BOLD Society, contact Kayla Knott ’17, assistant director of annual giving, at knott@hood.edu or 301-696-3919.

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Frederick Food Security Network Keeps on Growing 2018 STATS

• 5 community gardens

Islamic Society of Frederick Hood-Frederick Memorial Hospital Boys and Girls Club Religious Coalition Frederick News-Post

• 6 community distribution partners • 200 community volunteers • 1,500+ pounds of produce • 400 families reached

2019 GOALS

• 2,500+ pounds of produce • 500 families reached • Partnership with Scott Key Center greenhouses to extend growing season • Employ eight student workers to help maintain gardens • Host community outreach events • Offer a cooking skills class to produce recipients • Start campus food pantry

In 2017, the College’s Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies launched the Frederick Food Security Network (FFSN) to coordinate community gardens and combat food insecurity in Frederick County.

Starting with its first growing season in 2018, the FFSN provides healthy produce to those who cannot afford it and who live in food deserts—areas where a high percentage of people fall below the federal poverty line and where there isn’t an easily accessible grocery store.

In Frederick city alone, it is estimated that more than 500 families are affected by food deserts.

Six partner nonprofit organizations distribute food to the community: the Religious Coalition for Emergency Human Needs, the Frederick Community Action Agency, the Centennial Community of Hope, the Housing Authority of Frederick, the Hood Pantry and the Community Table Project. The Boys and Girls Club of Frederick and the Islamic Society of Frederick distribute produce internally.

“Our robust network of partners within the Frederick community are the keys to our success,” said Connie Ray, FFSN manager. “Many of them are garden partners, while others are distribution partners or partners who collaborate to offer nutrition educational services such as cooking classes.”

Last year, the FFSN won the Chesapeake Bay Trust’s Melanie Teems Award for Environmental Engagement, which recognizes a project or program that engages residents in efforts to improve the Chesapeake region’s natural resources, serves as a model for other organizations, and motivates and inspires others by promoting environmental engagement throughout the community.

Much of the FFSN’s success is made possible by generous grants.

• Chesapeake Bay Trust: $5,000 in 2017, garden bed construction • Green Streets, Green Jobs, Green Towns “G3”: $65,136 in 2018, garden construction and provided green jobs to students • Helen J. Serini Foundation: $10,000 in 2018, full-time FFSN manager • HEAL Cities: $8,160 in 2019, expenses for greenhouses • Ausherman Family Foundation: $10,000 in 2019, operating expenses and the full-time manager • Rotary Club of Carroll Creek: $4,000 and $1,700 district matching grant in 2018, construction and tools; $1,000 in 2019, cold storage room FA L L

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Faculty Q&A

Megan Shaine, Ph.D. Professor Shaine tells us what’s new in the counseling master’s program and about her research on the mental health care experiences of transgender military service members and veterans.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN AT HOOD AND WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY TEACHING? I started at Hood in fall 2016, so I am in my fourth year as a faculty member in the counseling program. I am an assistant professor and also serve as the practicum and internship coordinator, which means I oversee field placements for all of our graduate students. I teach Counseling Techniques, Trauma and Crisis Intervention, and our practicum and internship classes.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR LATEST RESEARCH. WHAT SPARKED YOUR INTEREST IN TRANSGENDER MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS AND VETERANS? As part of a bicoastal research partnership between Hood College and Portland State University (PSU) in Oregon, I recently completed a mixed-methods study of the mental health care experiences of trans military service members and veterans. My colleague, Deanna Cor, Ph.D. from PSU, and I worked with a team of students including Abbey McAlister ’19, Stephanie Kesner ’18 and Nicole Logan. We conducted 10 qualitative interviews and collected more than 50 survey responses from trans military service members and veterans. In both formats, we asked them about their experiences 12

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with mental health care providers both within and outside the U.S. military system, as well as barriers to accessing mental health care and experiences of discrimination.

My interest in military populations stems from my own family’s history of service and my clinical work with military families. I became interested in the trans military population more specifically over the past several years, as they have endured a roller coaster in their pursuit of open service. After the Obama administration moved to end the ban on trans open service in 2016, the current administration has moved back: the ban is now back in effect as court battles continue. Dr. Cor and I became curious about our abilities as mental health care providers to serve this population, who we hypothesized may not feel safe seeking help within the military. This struck us as particularly concerning, given that this population, as members of both the trans and military communities, have a compounded risk for mental health challenges including suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

HOW CAN WE BETTER MEET THE MENTAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF THIS PARTICULAR POPULATION? First and foremost, trainees and experienced mental health care providers both within and outside the military should seek specialized training to work with both trans and military populations. Our participants reported feeling a persistent and

exhausting need to educate their providers. They also described striking geographical differences in the competence of military providers to work with trans clients; some participants reported accessing high-quality, specialized care at dedicated LGBT veteran centers, while others reported driving six hours to receive competent medical and mental health care. We also need to remember that trans military clients, like anyone else, want to be seen as the complex individuals that they are, and that forming a genuine, therapeutic relationship is the number one key to success in any counseling relationship. Practically, non-military mental health care providers need to be aware that cost and ease of access are major barriers for this population. This means we should consider offering a sliding scale fee for military clients and their families or consider donating our time through organizations like Give an Hour (where you can sign up to provide free mental health services to veterans). Many more of us, especially if we live in areas with high military populations, should consider becoming paneled with Tricare, which is the insurance provider for many service members and their families. Furthermore, if we are trained to work with trans and/or military populations, we should make this clear in our directory listings.

WHAT’S NEW AND EXCITING IN THE COUNSELING MASTER’S PROGRAM? We’ve achieved CACREP accredition! The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs is the gold standard for programs in counselor education. We are also very proud of our expanding relationship with Frederick Memorial Hospital’s Behavioral Health Services. We now place clinical mental health interns across a range of care levels within BHS: the inpatient behavioral health unit, crisis services in the emergency department, the psychiatric partial hospitalization program and Hood College’s outpatient counseling center at the FMH Toll House location. On the school counseling side, we continue to build our relationships with Frederick County, Carroll County, Washington

County and Montgomery County Public Schools. My colleague, Atiya R. Smith ’03, M.S., Ph.D., LCPC (assistant professor of psychology and counseling) is also coordinating with the Maryland School Counselor Association to host their graduate student seminar in fall 2019.

TELL US ABOUT THE PILOT STUDY HAPPENING THIS SUMMER. Andrew Campbell, Ph.D. (assistant professor of psychology and counseling) and I were fortunate enough to receive a Board of Associates McCardell Grant to develop a mindfulness-based curriculum for counseling courses in trauma and crisis this summer. We are collaborating with Lyda Holguin Palacios and other colleagues at The George Washington University to design and pilot a series of mindfulness, reflection and self-care activities to build into courses with emotionally difficult material. The idea is to teach them important professional skills to ward off compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. We know that 90 percent of the U.S. population has experienced at least one traumatic event in their lifetime, so we have to be mindful about retraumatization when students are sitting in these courses.

WHAT TYPES OF CLIENTS DO YOU ENJOY WORKING WITH IN YOUR PRIVATE PRACTICE? I work with a wide variety of clients in my private practice in Washington, D.C. Currently, I am really enjoying working with emerging adults (ages 18-24) and new parents, as both of those populations are dealing with significant life and role transitions that are really fascinating and rewarding to work with. I continue to work with clients who have experienced trauma and always consider this an absolute privilege; lately, I have had the honor of working with a few new parents who experienced birth trauma.

A Bit of Advice WHAT EXACTLY IS MINDFULNESS, AND HOW CAN WE PRACTICE IT? Many people who are new to mindfulness are intimidated because they find it impossible to “clear their minds.” In fact, this is not the aim of mindfulness. Jon Kabat-Zinn, who is one of the founders of mindfulness-based stress reduction, defines mindfulness as “awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment,

non-judgmentally.” You are not trying to rid your mind of thoughts but rather to accept them and allow them to pass without judgment. Over time, this can dis-empower more negative thoughts that may have been holding us back. One of the great things about mindfulness is we can practice it anywhere, anytime, and we have more and more tools to

facilitate it. Many of my clients are busy, working professionals, so I recommend they try one of the many mindfulness apps available now. Many of them engage in guided meditations through their smartphones while walking to work or after putting their kids to bed, and it only takes 10 minutes!

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Faculty Achievements from the 2018-19 Academic Year PUBLICATION Emilie Amt authored a book chapter entitled “Slavery, War, and Destruction: The College of St. James, 1861-1864,” in A History of St. James School to be published this year.

Michelle Gricus published an article in Social Work Research, “Of all the social workers, I’m the bad one: Impact of disciplinary action on social workers.”

Elizabeth Atwood has a contract with Naval Institute Press for publication of her biographical manuscript of the late Marguerite Harrison, a journalist for the Baltimore Sun and founder of the Society of Woman Geographers.

Jay Harrison published “Small Museum, Big Ambitions: Inspiring Student Inquiry with a Tool of the Pros,” in Perspectives on History.

Martha Bari has a publication in-press entitled “Taking It to the Streets: Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s 1969 ‘War is Over’ Poster Campaign” in Social Practice in Turbulent Times: The Revolution Will Be Live, Routledge Research in Art and Politics Series.

Daewhan Kim co-authored two articles: “Ethanol production from coffee mucilage fermentation by S. cerevisiae immobilized in calcium-alginate beads,” in Bioresource Technology Reports; and “Hydrogen production from coffee mucilage in dark fermentation with organic wastes,” in Energies.

Fred Bohrer published an essay on two 19th century souvenirs of India in Britain in the World, Yale Center for British Art. Ann Boyd published three articles in Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics: “Transhumanism Challenge to Bioethics”; “Ethical Challenges of the Zika Epidemic”; and “Global Challenges in Sustainable Public Health.”

Andrew Campbell and Megan Shaine co-authored a publication on “The impact of a school-wide mindfulness program on adolescent wellbeing, stress, and emotion regulation: A non-randomized controlled study in a naturalistic setting” in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Counseling.

Corey Campion published “Healing Hives: Honeybees and the Rehabilitation of Veterans, 1919-2019,” in Bee World.

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Katrina Jongman-Sereno co-authored a publication entitled “Self-judgments of authenticity” in Self and Identity.

Shannon Kundey authored two publications: “Effects of Picture Valence on Serial Pattern Learning Performance in Humans,” in Learning & Motivation ; and “Tiger Salamanders’ (Ambystoma tigrinum) Response Retention and Usage of Visual Cues Following Brumation,” in Behavioural Processes.

Sara Malec co-authored a manuscript, “The Test Ideals Package for Macaulay2,” accepted by the Journal of Software for Algebra and Geometry.

Molly Moreland co-authored a publication, “Legitimacy, Procedural Justice, Accuracy, and Eyewitness Identification” in UC Irvine Law Review.

Didier Course will have a chapter on women in 17th-century France in Les Classiques Garnier, a collective book on women’s heroism in early modern Europe.

April Y. Morris ’98 was invited to submit a chapter on the intersections between medieval visual culture and war in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Medieval Military History.

Jennifer Cooper co-authored a chapter (from the perspective of the public health department) in Faith Community Nursing: An International Specialty Practice Changing the Understanding of Health.

Scott Pincikowski has a series of essays to be published in a book entitled “The Endtimes in Premodern Germany: The Apocalypse, Last Judgment and Evil in a Literary Culture.”

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Carin Robinson published a book chapter entitled “Colorado: Hiking in Rocky Terrain” in The God Gap and the 2016 Elections.

Jolene Sanders published two articles in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly : “Resistance and Fitting In: A qualitative analysis of young women in Alcoholics Anonymous”; and “An Impressionistic Account of Diversity Among Women in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).”

Ann Stewart co-authored an article with Betty Mayfield in Numeracy : “Quantitative Literacy in the Core Curriculum of Hood College: Chapter II, Outcomes and Assessment.”

Chris Stromberg published three coauthored publications: “Photochemical dynamics of a trimethyl-phosphine derivatized [FeFe]-hydrogenase model compound,” in Chemical Physics ; “Femtosecond laser eyewear protection: Measurements and precautions for amplified high power applications,” in the Journal of Laser Applications ; and “Using Strategic Collaborations To Expand Instrumentation Access at Two-Year Colleges,” in Strategies Promoting Success of Two-Year College Students, American Chemical Society.

Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs had a book manuscript accepted for publication; it is a co-edited volume: “Black Religious Landscaping in Africa and the African Diaspora” with Joy Bostic and Itumeleng Mothoagae.

Noel Verzosa contributed a chapter to the Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the 19th Century.

Hoda Zaki published an article about her research on the League of Women Voters, “League Promotes Good Government,” in Frederick Magazine.

Griselda Zuffi’s book, “Cartografias intimas.

Un viaje con Tomas Eloy Martinezhas,” was published by Alcion Press in Argentina.

PRESENTATIONS Teresa Bean ’87 presented a paper on “Digital Dirt: The Case for Becoming Unplugged from Social Media” at the Civics and Law Academy.

Kristy Calo delivered two presentations: “Using meaningful literacy assessment to make the decisions that matter most” at the annual conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, D.C.; and co-authored with Becky Grove, a research poster entitled “Engaging students as pen pals using authentic reading, writing, and discussion activities” at the annual conference of the International Literacy Association, Austin, TX. Sue Carney and Drew Ferrier presented a poster, “Salinity stress affects Hsp70 expression in the Aiptasia pallida and Symbiodinium symbiosis” at the International Symbiosis Society Congress, Oregon State University.

Jennifer Cooper gave three presentations entitled “An Academic-Practice Partnership to Advance Million Hearts” at the Institute for Educators Conference in Baltimore, MD, the Association of Public Health Nurses Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA, and the Association of Community Health Nurse Educators in Phoenix, AZ. Nora El-Bilawi presented “Challenges in global online professional development for English language teachers/learners” at the TESOL 2019 International Convention and English Language Expo.

Christy Graybeal gave three presentations: “Classroom-tested strategies to cultivate curiosity in high school mathematics” at the annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, San Diego, CA; “Cultivating mathematical curiosity through school and university partnership” at the annual meeting of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Orlando, FL; and “Evidence-based practices for teaching fractions to low-achieving students” (coauthored by Tricia Strickland) at the annual meeting of the Maryland Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Dundalk, MD.

Becky Grove delivered three presentations: “Engaging students in critical literacy using Newbery and Caldecott Award-winning books” at the annual conference of National Council of Teachers of English, St. Louis, MO; “edTPA Overview and Handbook Exploration,” a workshop delivered at the Mid-Atlantic edTPA Conference, Salisbury, MD; and “Newberry in the 21st Century: Trends and Teaching Possibilities” at the annual State of Maryland International Reading Council, Hunt Valley, MD. David Gurzick, M.S.’03 presented “‘Pitching’ for a Culture of Entrepreneurship” at the 2018 Eastern Conference of Business Schools and Programs in Allentown, PA. His presentation also advanced to the 2019 National ACBSP Conference in Houston, TX. Joseph Haymore co-presented workshops on “Secrets of the neuroendocrine system: Understanding puzzling, perplexing and complicated patients” at the 51st annual meeting of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses, Denver, CO. Carol Jim ’06, George Dimitoglou and Ahmed Salem co-authored a presentation “Applying Game Theoretic Techniques to Improve the Accuracy of Tree-based Classification Results” at the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Louisville, KY. Prof. Jim also coauthored a presentation with Jiang Li on “Solving NYC Taxi Trip Data Challenge Using Google Datalab” at the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC) East Conference, Marymount University.

Daehwan Kim delivered a presentation on “Ethanol production from coffee mucilage fermentation by S. cerevisiae immobilized in calcium-alginate beads” at the 41st Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals (SBFC).

Malikah Marrus gave two presentations: “Holistic Representation: Better outcomes for children” at the 41st National Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice & Family Law Conference,

National Association of Counsel for Children, San Antonio, TX; and “Students: Helping a Virtual Senior Center to Prevent Falls.

Embracing the Contemporary Call for Social Work,” at the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors, Jacksonville, FL. Laura Moore presented “Agency, Condoms and Consent in Erotic Romance Novels” at the International Conference on Social Science in Lisbon, Portugal.

James Parson presented “Computing the regular locus of a finitely presented scheme over Z” at the American Mathematical Society Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore.

Ryan Safner presented “Distributing Patronage: Intellectual Property in the Transition from Limited- to Open-Access Order” at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Ann Stewart presented “It Must be Noyce, it Must be Noyce, to have NSF on your Side,” at the MD-DC-VA Section of the Mathematics Association of America Fall Meeting, University of Mary Washington.

Tricia Strickland presented “Preparing special education teachers to include specially designed instruction in co-taught mathematics classrooms” at the Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children National Conference, Las Vegas, NV. Marisel Torres-Crespo delivered two presentations: “Entre números y medidas: Explorando el rol de las matemáticas en la enseñanza de STEAM,” at NAEYC’s 2018 Annual Conference, Washington, DC; and “Kids and Tech: Innovation and Development Domains.

In it to win it,” presented at the MSCCA Conference by the Sea, Ocean City, MD. Jill Tysse presented at the MD-DC-VA section of the Mathematics Association of America: “Using R Studio Cloud and the Mosaic Package in an Introductory Statistics Class for Math Majors: Lessons Learned So Far.”

AWARDS/GRANTS/HONORS Elizabeth Knapp’s collection of poems, “Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak,” won the 2019 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize. The collection, to be published in October 2019, was also a finalist for three other awards.

Jiang Li is co-principal investigator on a $42,000 grant from the Maryland Center for Computing Education (MCCE) Preservice Computer Science Teacher Education Program.

Xinlian Liu received a Fulbright Award for the fall semester to conduct research on machine learning and data science at the Universidade do Minho in Portugal.

For more, visit hood.edu/facultynotes.

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Recognizing Retiring Faculty

LYNDA SOWBEL (LEFT) AND HODA ZAKI (RIGHT)

Lynda Sowbel, Ph.D. Sowbel has taught at Hood since 2000. She served Hood in the Department of Sociology and Social Work as a professor, director of the social work program and director of field instruction. She has published articles on aging and undergraduate social work education, substance abuse preparation in graduate social work programs, and intersectionality and deconstructing social work diversity standards. She has served on a task force for the Maryland state licensing board on licensing reciprocity, has been asked to serve on the task force to review Maryland state ethics regulations and has been actively involved as a member and co-chair of the Mid-Atlantic Consortium of Field Directors. She is retiring with emerita status.

Barbara McGaughran

Roger Reitman, Ph.D.

McGaughran has taught on the nursing faculty at Hood since 2016. She was a nurse educator for 13 years, and has 26 years of nursing experience in medical, surgical and emergency department nursing. She was assistant director of nursing at Frederick Community College from 2012 to 2014 and has been a registered nurse in Maryland since 1990. She also worked for Veterans Administration Hospitals in California, Iowa and Washington, D.C., as well as Frederick Memorial Medical System and Adventist Healthcare in Rockville.

Reitman joined Hood’s Department of Sociology and Social Work in 1983.

For the last 15 years, he has researched Sub-Saharan Africa, studying the effect of global and local government policies at the village level. He and his family lived for two years in the rural areas of a small country in Sub-Saharan Africa called Malawi. During his first year there, he was supported by a Fulbright Fellowship. During his second year, two students from Hood spent the summer with him and his family. He has written, presented and published articles on the effect of international policies on gender, work, social services, health care and transportation. He is retiring with emeritus status.

Hoda Zaki, Ph.D. Zaki, the Virginia E. Lewis Professor of Political Science, joined the faculty at Hood in 1993, where she established the African American Studies program. Her research focuses on theories of race and democracy. Her work on global movements to end racial and other forms of discrimination includes co-authoring an article on African political thought, an article on nonviolence and the Arab Spring, and articles on the 2001 World Conference Against Racism, held in Durban, South Africa. Since 2012, Zaki has observed elections in Europe and Asia for the U.S. State Department and the Organization for the Security and Co-operation in Europe. Today, she is researching the impact that the League of Women Voters has had on democracy in Frederick County. She is retiring with emerita status.

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SAVE THE DATE

REUNION 2020 Friday, June 5-Sunday, June 7

The Class of 2019

THE GRADUATE SCHOOL

During Commencement, 227 graduate students earned their master’s degrees—including 39 who are already Hood alumni! Some of these graduates shared their goals and answered the question: How has Hood helped you Go Further?

Joshua Work ’09, M.S.’15 Hometown: Walkersville, Maryland Program: Doctorate in Organizational Leadership with a concentration in educational leadership  Josh

is among the first to earn a bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree from Hood!

Post-Hood: “I am looking forward to spending

The Amusa Sisters  Three

sisters from Ogun State, Nigeria—Ola Amusa, Oyin Amusa and Ayo Amusa—will forever have a unique story as they all earned their degrees on the same day!

Ayo Program: Management Information Systems Post-Hood: “In this world of big data, the next step is to get a job that deals with analyzing and visualizing data and a bit of programming for automating business processes.”

“Hood College taught me the importance of hard work and pushed me to become the best version of myself. The projects carried out with team members helped me know the value of team in reaching one’s goals. One of the things I appreciated most is that my professors gave real-life projects and helped clarify the best way to carry out the projects. The experiences I gained will better prepare me for what’s to come.”

Ola Program: Humanities Post-Hood: “I’m currently transitioning to the IT field, and that includes a lot of studies as well as certifications. I’m working right now as a business analyst.”

“Hood College helped me realize my creative self with the different classes, including my job as a graduate assistant. Dr. Didier Course, Dr. Mark Sandona, Dr. April Boulton and Susan Kowalski were

great influences, always helping me and boosting my ego. The work ethic I learned at Hood has helped me with my current job. Sometimes I smile while at work when I think of the very many conversations we had in classes about needing a humanist at work. My current role as a scrum master (team leader) fits perfectly with those discussions.”

time with my family and future leadership opportunities. I hope to stay involved in the Hood community and contribute to the success of future graduates. My wife, Casey Price Work ’09, and I met at Hood as undergrads and have enjoyed seeing the college flourish over the past few years. I’ve become close friends with the members of the inaugural cohort, especially those who also work for Frederick County Public Schools. I am excited to see how our research can be of benefit to the school district and ultimately help our organization prepare students for college and careers.”

Oyin Program: Bioinformatics Post-Hood: “Like my dad always says, ‘there’s no end to learning,’ and my brother always says ‘don’t be a dinosaur that became extinct.’ I believe the world is large, and there are lots of opportunities if I continue to learn. I plan to continuously grow career-wise, to get established in my career and be a generational impact by helping others, and one day be a force of change in my country, Nigeria.”

“I used to be afraid to explore new things and take risks until I got admitted to Hood’s Graduate School.

Hood has made a path for me outside school, teaching me the importance of meeting deadlines, targets or goals, and finding ways to solve problems and overcome challenges. I am always excited to face new challenges and develop new skills I would have never attempted on my own.”

Darian Little Hometown: Frederick, Maryland Program: Counseling, Clinical Mental Health Post-Hood: “I plan on taking and passing the National Counselor Exam as well as the Maryland Law Test for Counselors and receiving my graduate license for counseling. Once I have my license, I will be looking for a job within my community that focuses on the treatment of mental health disorders for underserved populations.”

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Counseling Master’s Program Receives Accreditation The Master of Science in Counseling program received accreditation from the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP).

“Receiving accreditation only four years after the program’s inception is a testimony to the quality of the program and the commitment of our excellent faculty,” said President Andrea E. Chapdelaine, Ph.D. “I am so very proud that we are able to offer this educational opportunity, given the need for highly qualified counselors in today’s society.”

The counseling program has two specializations.

The school counseling specialization offers a path to certification as a pre-K through 12th grade school counselor.Courses can be planned to fulfill requirements for professional counseling licensure.

The clinical mental health specialization trains students to work in settings such as community mental health programs, hospitals, substance abuse treatment programs, social service agencies and private counseling practices. It provides a path to licensure, required to practice counseling professionally in Maryland and neighboring states.

“I am overjoyed at the progress that the counseling program has made in the four years since it began in fall 2015, and I believe our accreditation is the affirmation of all our hard work,” said Andrew Campbell, Ph.D., director of the counseling program.

“All parties involved— the students, faculty and administration—have worked tirelessly to make the program what it is today. We’re so proud that we’ve been recognized as one of the nation’s best in training new counselors to meet the needs of diverse clients in Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia and beyond.”

Cyber Partnership Wins National Award Hood’s cyber pipeline has won the 2019 National CyberWatch Center’s “Innovations in Cyber Security Education” award in the program development category.

PEGGY DUFOUR, LURA A. HANKS, M.S.’03, LINDA CHAMBERS, M.A.’08 AND ERIC LOUÉRS-PHILLIPS

First Cohort of Doctoral Students Prepares to Graduate In May, Eric Louérs-Phillips defended his dissertation titled “Leadership Style, LeaderFollower Congruence, and the Implementation of a Cultural Proficiency Initiative.” His successful defense marked a monumental day in his life and the history of the College, as he was the first student of Hood’s inaugural doctoral cohort to complete all program requirements for graduation in September.

Louérs-Phillips is the supervisor of accelerating achievement and equity at Frederick County Public Schools, as well as an adjunct instructor at Hood.

His dissertation is a case study on the phenomenon of leader-follower congruence. It examines how the leadership style of a school principal is perceived in the first year of implementing a school-based cultural proficiency initiative. The study examined 11 principals from elementary, middle and high schools in one large Mid–Atlantic public school district.

“My journey to earn a doctoral degree is a personal one,” he said. “As someone who enjoys the process of being schooled, I’ll earn the highest academic degree possible—not for monetary gain, job 18

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advancement, or to be elevated in the eyes of some—but for me.”

Other students who have successfully completed their dissertation defenses (as of Aug. 1) include: Preetha Abraham; Michele Baisey ’98, M.S.’02; Linda Chambers, M.A.’08; Lura A. Hanks, M.S.’03; Joshua Work ’09, M.S.’15; Danny Rumpf; and Jonathan Spaans MBA’01.

Launched in fall 2016, Hood’s cohort-based, three-year doctoral program is the only one of its kind in the Frederick and Western Maryland region. The program brings together leaders with eight to 10 years of progressive experience in their field to learn, explore and research effective leadership. Candidates can pursue one of two degree options—the Doctorate of Organizational Leadership for those in public and private education, the nonprofit sector, training and development, government or military; or the Doctorate of Business Administration for those employed in business and industry who hold graduate degrees in business.

For further information, visit hood.edu/dol for oganizational leadership or hood.edu/dba for business administration.

In an effort to support the growing need for trained professionals in the cybersecurity field, both regionally and nationally, Hood has led the charge to establish a formal cyber pipeline that offers students degrees at the associate, baccalaureate and master’s levels from Frederick Community College, Mount St. Mary’s University and Hood, respectively, to propel them to successful cyber careers.

This three-school partnership saves students tuition money and time, offers seamless sharing of computer lab facilities and software, provides unique cross-mentorship and collaboration opportunities with faculty from multiple institutions, and allows for students to meet privately with experts in the cybersecurity field who speak at Hood’s Cotton Cyber Series.

The “Innovations in Cyber Security Education” awards program showcases a range of creative and pioneering ideas across four categories: evidencebased strategies, instruction, practice and program development.

“This award is a reflection of Hood’s commitment to strategic regional partnerships developed in support of a critical need in the state of Maryland,” said Provost Debbie Ricker, Ph.D. who accepted the award at a summit in Louisiana on July 30. “The cyber pipeline we have built, connecting students at all three institutions, is a one-of-a-kind model. It is innovative in its design and responsive to student demand for an educational option that is both time and cost-effective.

“Behind this award is an amazingly talented team of Hood College faculty and staff who have brought this partnership to life. It is a true testament to their commitment to the students we serve.”

Students Participate in 4th Annual Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Internationally recognized and valued by employers, the 3MT competition is a way for graduate students to relay their capstone, advanced project, thesis or internship to a non-technical audience.

Michelle Shedd ’18, M.S.’19, who earned her master’s in environmental biology, was Hood’s 2019 competition winner. She discussed environmental damage caused by livestock and the steps we must take to mitigate it.

Members of the audience selected two People’s Choice winners. Jose Sanchez ’12, a master’s

in biomedical science candidate, presented on second-generation biofuel production and explained how to convert agricultural waste more efficiently into usable products, such as ethanol-based fuels, and how to lower the cost associated with those processes.

Linda Chambers, M.A.’08 was the second People’s Choice winner. She explained the preschoolto-prison pipeline and suggested ways to keep children in school, including recognizing and eliminating implicit bias, having classes that teach social skills and limiting suspensions. Linda

will graduate with a doctorate in organizational leadership in September.

The People’s Choice Awards of $500 are generously funded by 3MT advocate and judge, Ann P. Wiegand, M.S.’04, who is a member of Hood’s Board of Associates since 2014 and currently serves on the Graduate School Advisory Board. She earned her master’s in biomedical science from Hood in 2004 and is currently a senior research biologist at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, where she has worked for more than 25 years.

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STAND OUTS

The Class of 2019 During Commencement, 260 undergraduates earned their bachelor’s degrees—227 Bachelor of Arts, 10 Bachelor of Science and 23 Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees. Here are just a few stellar graduates who shared their post-graduation plans and answered the question: How has Hood prepared you for the real world?

Samantha Bauer Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland Areas of Study: Majors in Psychology and Law and Criminal Justice; Concentration in Criminal Justice; Minor in Management Post-Hood: “My next step is to attend graduate school at Marymount University to pursue a degree in forensic and legal psychology. One year into my program, I will be able to apply to earn my clinical mental health counseling degree at the same time. Hopefully, I am accepted into the dual-degree program.”

“Hood has made an important impact on the student and person I am today. I was challenged in and out of the classroom to expand my ways of thinking, which ultimately made me a better person (or I’d like to think so!)

I was scared for graduation, but a good scared; I’m excited that my future is coming. Without Hood, I would probably be freaking.”

Jayden Barrick Hometown: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Areas of Study: Major in Law and Criminal Justice; Concentration in Criminal Justice; Minors in Sociology and African American Studies Post-Hood: “I plan on going to a police academy to become a law enforcement officer. After a few years of patrol, I plan on creating or becoming a part of a program that focuses on the relationship between police officers and their local communities.”

“Hood helped direct me on the right path and gave me an education and resources I can use outside of Hood. Dr. (Teresa) Bean, Dr. (Janis) Judson, Dr. (Roger) Reitman, Dr. (Terry Anne) Scott and Dr. (Hoda) Zaki will forever be an important role in my journey of becoming the person I am today. They helped me enjoy learning and want to expand my mind and knowledge on new material. They opened my eyes to the world, and made me realize my duty after graduation will be to further serve and help others.”

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Abraham Kettor Hometown: Monrovia, Liberia; now in Prince George’s County, Maryland Areas of Study: Majors in French and Global Studies; Concentration in Global Governance; Minor in Nonprofit/Civic Engagement Post-Hood: “For the next two years, I will be working to earn my master’s degree in human resource development at McDaniel College. While I am in school, I will also be working for Target Community & Educational Services, Inc., a nonprofit that works with individuals with mental and physical disabilities.”

“My time at Hood College is immeasurable. The College gave me unique opportunities to learn, make mistakes and grow. Through rigorous courses, numerous independent research/projects and extracurricular activities, I was challenged to think critically and to become more self-reliant. I am confident and ready for the next step of my life because of my time spent at Hood College. Adulting should be interestingly amazing.”

Maisha Khan Hometown: Frederick, Maryland Area of Study: Major in Biochemistry Post-Hood: “Nap. … And start medical school in the fall. As of now, my plans are to attend Albany Medical College.”

“As a liberal arts college, Hood has given me an interdisciplinary foundation of knowledge that will be useful to me beyond my career as a health professional. Also, the small size of the College meant more personalized feedback when learning.”

Zachary Peck Hometown: Mercer, Pennsylvania Area of Study: Major in Biochemistry Post-Hood: “Through ROTC, I commissioned into the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant. This summer, I’ll be assisting to teach and evaluate junior ROTC cadets from across the country at Fort Knox, Kentucky. After that, I’ll be attending the engineer basic officer leader course at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. By March 2020, I’ll be stationed as an officer in the Army Engineers at Joint Base Lewis-McCord in Washington state.”

“Through my classes, clubs and ROTC, Hood gave me many leadership opportunities that will help prepare me for my life as an Army officer and in the private sector later in life.”

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Alumni Awards

Honoring alumni for their service and commitment to their professions, College and communities.

Adrianne Wells Washington ’04 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award

Adrianne has been recognized for her work as an educator and peer mentor in the Baltimore County Community College system. In 2015 and 2016, she took her honors students to Ireland and Nicaragua where they participated in projects that gave them real-life, hands-on, community-based social work experiences. She has served with her students for countless hours, leading by example, through innovative teaching methods and community project development and execution. Through her “Literacy for Logan” campaign, students managed a fundraiser to

supply Baltimore County’s Logan Elementary School with books and school supplies for the entire first grade population. Adrianne’s inventive approach to social work curriculum development, which combines the foundations of sociology and community service, garnered her the 2016 Teacher of the Year Award for the Community College of Baltimore County by the Chamber of Commerce. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Exemplar Advisor Award, and her honors program was awarded Program of the Year, both presented by the CCBC student life division.

Cynthia F. Nofziger ’79 Distinguished Alumni Award

Cindy is the founder and executive director of a thriving organization called Schools for Salone.

Years of civil war decimated entire communities in Sierra Leone. After recognizing the tremendous need to help this country, Cindy started fundraising.

Under her leadership, the simple grassroots charity grew to a successful nonprofit. By partnering with local community groups, it has established 25 schools and three libraries, provided education and mentoring opportunities for nearly 200 teachers, and built rainwater collection units, septic toilets and

wash stations. Through her vision and dedication, Cindy’s foundation has enabled more than 7,000 children to receive an education, and has provided reproductive health education and menstruation kits to approximately 2,000 girls. Cindy accomplished all of this while working full time as a physical therapist in the Seattle, Washington, school district, where she resides with her husband, Bob, and son, Michael.

As a result of her extensive public service, Cindy was recognized by the State of Washington with the prestigious Jefferson Award.

Magaly Mauras Green ’74, M.A.’79 Excellence in Service Award

Magaly arrived at Hood College in fall 1970 from her home in Puerto Rico and ever since has immersed herself in all things Hood. She earned her master’s degree from Hood in 1979, has served on the Alumni Executive Board and is currently chair of the Board of Associates. She has been a class reporter and fundraising agent for her class, and has served on the Multicultural Alumnae Network and the Hood Magazine Editorial Board.

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Magaly and her husband, Ken, who graduated from Hood in 1981, settled in Frederick and raised their three sons in the community. While raising a family and building her career with the National Parks Service, Magaly always found time for Hood. In addition to the many hours of service she has given to the College, rarely has she missed a convocation, commencement, homecoming or reunion. We are so very fortunate that Magaly chose to attend Hood and to make Frederick her home.

Class of 1969 Board of Trustee Members Excellence in Service Award

Gail L. Gamble ’69, H’93, M.D. is both a current and former member of the Hood College Board of Trustees, having served from 2007 to 2013, and rejoined in 2015. She is a Hood legacy alumna, following her mother, Martha Pease Gamble ’42, and her aunt, Marguerite Pease Emery ’47.

After graduating from Hood with a bachelor’s degree in history, Gail went on to earn her master’s degree in education from Bowling Green University, and then her Doctor of Medicine from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in 1979. Gail served as a physician at the Mayo Clinic, specializing in medical and cancer rehabilitation. Then she accepted the position of medical director for cancer rehabilitation at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. In 1993, Hood conferred upon Gail an honorary Doctor of Science degree to recognize her achievements in the medical field. Gail calls Scottsdale, Arizona, home, and continues to be extremely engaged in ensuring that Hood continues to expand its profile in the higher education community.

FRONT: CHERYL BROWN DREILING, DEBORAH JONES LASH BACK: GAIL L. GAMBLE, JOAN ESSELEN FOOT, CAROL CROFOOT HAYES

Cheryl Brown Dreiling ’69, H’13 is a current and emerita trustee, as well as former Board chair. Cheryl was the first Brown sister to attend Hood, passing the legacy onto her two younger siblings, Sharon Brown Vejvoda ’71 and Melanie Brown Hughes ’76. After graduating from Hood, Cheryl earned her master’s degree in management from American University in 1976. In 2002, she retired from her position as operations manager with Hewlett-Packard, and has been delighted to devote more time to traveling. Aside from trips she’s taken on her own, Cheryl has been on five Hood College AHI Alumni trips, including our most recent tour of the Andalucia region of Spain. She has played a key role in the fundraising success for the Class of 1969 Endowed Scholarship. In 2013, upon completion of her first stint on the Board of Trustees, Cheryl was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.

She was additionally recognized that year for her devoted service with the naming of the Dreiling Seminar Room, located in Coblentz Hall.

Joan Esselen Foot ’69 is an emerita trustee, serving nine years on the Board, from October 2009 until June 2018. Following her graduation from Hood with a bachelor’s degree in religion, Joan went on to earn her master’s in education from Eastern Michigan University. After retiring from The Saint Paul Foundation as a gift planner and community funds specialist, Joan has utilized her knowledge and expertise of fundraising to collaborate with her fellow classmates to fundraise for the Class of 1969 Endowed Scholarship. In addition to helping increase participation and giving for her class’s scholarship, Joan and her younger sister, Jane Esselen Blocker ’72, continue to be involved with the Esselen Family Scholarship Fund. This fund was established in 1995 by their parents, Gustavius and Marjorie, to provide financial aid to future generations of Hood students. Joan and her husband, Buck, have three children and 11 grandchildren, and split their travel time between Minnesota and Florida.

Carol Crofoot Hayes ’69, Esq. is a former trustee who served on the Board from 1999 to 2003. She graduated from Hood magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in English. Ten years later, she earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago. In 1985, Carol joined the Coca-Cola Company as Finance Council, and was elected assistant secretary in 1987. She traveled frequently in her position with CocaCola, negotiating many international, multi-million dollar transactions.

She was associate general counsel and corporate secretary before retiring from corporate life in 2011. After that, Carol started a second career in professional counseling, specializing in the field of domestic abuse and sexual trauma. In 2015, she gave an amazing TED talk in Savannah, Georgia, sharing how she strove to achieve balance in her life while juggling her high-powered career while raising her family. Carol now lives in Atlanta where she enjoys spending time with her daughter and twin granddaughters.

Deborah Jones Lash ’69, Esq. is a former member of the Board of Trustees, having served, from 1993 to 1999, and then again from 2001 to 2003, serving as chair from 2002 through 2003. After earning her bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from Hood, Debby went on to achieve her master’s degree in education from Towson University. She taught at both the Samuel Ready School in Baltimore and then the North Shore Country Day School in Chicago before earning her Juris Doctor from the University of Detroit Mercy. In addition to serving on Hood’s Board of Trustees, Debby has served on the boards of the United Way of Greenwich, the Friends of Acadia National Park, the Junior League of Greenwich Sustainer Advisory Council, the American Red Cross, and has volunteered with numerous other nonprofit organizations. Most recently, Debby and her husband, Jim, were honored for their outstanding leadership in the nonprofit community by the National Executive Service Corps. Debby and Jim spend most of their time in Maine where they enjoy hiking in Acadia National Park.

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BLAZER NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS, NEWS AND SPOTLIGHTS

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL AT MATH NIGHT AT NORTH FREDERICK ELEMENTARY

BASEBALL TEAM VOLUNTEERING WITH “GIRLS ON THE RUN”

Blazers Focus on Community Service The student-athletes and athletic staff devoted 2,100 hours to community service in the Frederick community last year. They volunteered with Special Olympics, the Frederick Rescue Mission and Frederick’s Family Resource Information Education Network for Down Syndrome (FRIENDS).

The volleyball, baseball and women’s basketball teams collaborated with Special Olympics.

The goal was to enhance the lives of student-

athletes and Special Olympic athletes through a mutual learning experience that provides a platform of recognition for the athletes while raising awareness of Special Olympics and its services.

Members of women’s golf and field hockey volunteered their time to the Frederick Rescue Mission. By offering food, clothing and furniture to those in need, Blazer student-athletes participated in the goal of the Mission, which is

to rescue lives from poverty, homelessness and chemical dependency, while building a positive relationship with their community.

Men’s soccer and softball offered most of their time to the 17th annual FRIENDS Buddy Walk at the Frederick Fairgrounds. The event brings awareness to Down Syndrome and raises funds to support families and those with the chromosomal condition.

Blazers Enter Esports with First Official Team Hood College will field its first esports team in fall 2019, joining equestrian and cheerleading among the Blazers’ club offerings.

Blazer esports plan to compete in the National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE), the country’s most prominent organization dedicated to competitive collegiate video gaming. The NCAA does not currently sponsor esports.

Chris Leonard has been named the head coach of the program (see p. 26).

The Blazers will play games based on student interest initially, but NACE lists Smite, Paladins, Overwatch and Hearthstone on its website.

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With as many as eight other Middle Atlantic Conference institutions adding esports to their offerings, discussion has begun about adding a MAC Championship.

Esports, also known as electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. They are commonly multiplayer games involving strategy and skill. The popularity of esports is a phenomenon in the technology industry, and sporting platforms such as ESPN are devoting time on their media outlets, including live television.

Since its establishment in the early 2000s, esports has seen rapid growth in participation and

viewership. According to ESPN The Magazine’s June 22, 2015 esports issue, the 2014 League of Legends championship drew an online viewership of 27 million people, which is more than the NBA Finals (15.5 million), the World Series (13.8 million) and the Stanley Cup Finals (5 million). DOTA 2— another popular esport—drew 20 million viewers that same year, according to the article. Most recently, Bryan Armen Graham wrote a piece for The Guardian highlighting the discussion between the Paris bid committee and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to add esports as a medal event at the 2024 Olympic Games.

Blazers Earn Year-End Awards MVP, Senior Oustanding Athletes Rachel Slater ’19, women’s lacrosse Grayson Zubradt ’19, men’s lacrosse

Rookie of the Year Danielle Pong ’22, women’s swimming Andrew Wenner ’21, baseball

Kim Servedio Award Given in honor of former women’s soccer player and honors student, Kim Servedio, who passed away tragically in 1998. The award recognizes studentathletes who best embody Kimmy's characteristics of sincerity, selflessness and optimism.

Women’s Soccer Tours France On June 15, the women’s soccer team completed a summer tour to France that included playing in three friendly matches, witnessing two FIFA Women’s World Cup matches and immersion in the French culture.

“The trip experience was amazing,” said head coach Conor Prachar ’12. “I felt we experienced everything you would as tourists of the country, and the friendly matches were certainly an added bonus.”

In the first of the two FIFA matches, the Blazers saw the U.S. Women’s National Team represent their homeland in a record-setting 13-0 win over Thailand. The day after, the team was back to

observe the host country of France beat Norway in a 2-1 victory.

“The atmosphere at the World Cup matches was fantastic,” said Prachar. “We got to experience a very pro-U.S. stadium when the women’s national team played, and experienced the host country of France compete. The fans were excellent, and the stadiums were crowded and loud.”

While in France, the team visited tourist hot-spots in Paris, including the Eiffel Tower, the Palace of Versailles and Notre Dame Cathedral. They also visited Nice where they toured the Russian Orthodox Church and spent time at Anjuna Beach.

Payton Belella ’19, a four-year member of the volleyball program Zak Kooser ’19, a four-year member of the men’s lacrosse program

Dean’s Award Recognizes unparalleled commitment to the student body through involvement in extracurricular activities and outstanding service to the athletic department.

Maddy Collins ’19, a four-year member of the softball program Max Riedel-Topper ’19, a four-year member of the men’s swimming program

President’s Award

Thomas Athletic Field Sees Upgrades Thomas Athletic Field underwent a facelift during the summer, including a renovated turf field, a new track and field practice area, and the facility’s first press box.

“I am extremely grateful for the financial support from our administration with these three projects this summer, which will better serve our student-athletes,” said Susan Kolb, Ph.D., director of athletics.

The turf field was completed in late June; the track and field practice area is expected to be completed by the start of the semester and construction on the press box will begin in the fall. The project will allow the Blazers to continue hosting rival colleges for competitive and safe play in multiple sports, while offering a location for local sports teams to train and compete.

“As coaches, we’re excited for the added benefits of recruiting and the potential mitigation of injury risk,” said Conor Prachar ’12, head coach of women’s soccer. “It is my hope that each of our students and student-athletes will benefit from this facility improvement.”

The track and field practice area includes a discus circle, cage and throwing net, a shot put circle and pits for the pole vault, and long and high jump. This marks the first time that Hood College has had track and field-specific equipment on campus.

“Building practice facilities for our jumpers, throwers and pole vaulters will be a game changer for our program and allow us to compete with the very best teams in the Middle Atlantic Conference,” said Chris Benassi, track and field head coach. “As our program continues to grow, this will also create opportunities for our coaching staff to give each student-athlete the individual attention they need to perform to their potential.”

The two-story press box will strengthen gameday operations for Hood athletics and coverage of soccer, lacrosse, field hockey and softball.

Recognizes student-athletes who have distinguished themselves throughout their careers in the areas of academic achievement, athletic excellence, service and leadership.

Hailey Poisal ’19, a four-year member of the field hockey program Matt Ball ’19, a four-year member of the men’s swimming program

White Blazer Award Given in recognition of outstanding academic accomplishments, significant contributions to the community and excellence in intercollegiate athletics.

Hailey Poisal ’19, field hockey Nate Luscombe ’19, baseball For a full list of team awards, visit hood.edu/hoodieawards.

The press box will be comprised of two floors, the first operating as a storage area for specialized equipment and the second as a working area for sports information staff. The roof will include a filming platform.

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New Coaches Named for Esports, Women’s Lacrosse, Equestrian, Women’s Golf Chris Leonard will be the first head coach of Hood College’s esports program.

Leonard is a lifelong gamer with a passion for coaching esports. He has created and managed player’s groups for casual game play and competitive tournaments that involve games like Overwatch, Fortnite, NBA 2K and Madden.

Leonard is currently a software development manager and overall technical lead for General Dynamics Corp. Prior to his current role, he worked for the Defense Cyber Investigation Training Academy in Linthicum Heights, Maryland, spent 13 years in local law enforcement and was a combat engineer in the U.S. Army.

He is a U.S. Army disabled veteran, a law enforcement Purple Heart recipient and a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Laura Fox takes over a women’s lacrosse program that set a Hood record with nine victories in 2019.

She arrives at Hood after serving as the offensive coordinator at the University of Delaware for the 2019 season. Fox coached players to the single-season records for assists and draw controls during her lone season with the Blue Hens.

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CHRIS LEONARD

LAURA FOX

Prior to Delaware, she served as an assistant coach at Mount St. Mary’s University, Holy Cross College and Lycoming College.

Fox played lacrosse at Towson, where she graduated in 2014. In her senior year with the Tigers, she started 15 games, scored 12 goals and helped lead the squad to a CAA Championship and berth into the NCAA tournament.

She earned her master’s degree in sport management from Mount St. Mary’s in 2018.

Elizabeth Hummel ’08 was promoted from equestrian assistant to co-head coach, a role she shares with Karen Fenwick.

ELIZABETH HUMMEL

THOMAS CHATFIELD

Hummel began riding in 2005 and competed on the Hood team from 2006 to 2008 as a walk/trot rider. She is a former captain, and she continued to represent Hood as an alumni rider from 2009 to 2013.

In 2010, Hummel received her ANRC Level One Rider Rating with NF’s Milton. She continues to dabble in many different riding pursuits and currently enjoys foxhunting with Loudoun Hunt.

Thomas Chatfield, MBA’18, who was the interim women’s golf coach in spring 2019, will take over the role permanently. He led the Blazers to a seventh-place finish at the MAC Championships. A total of 13 MAC institutions sponsor women’s golf.

BLAZER SPOTLIGHT

Brad Sawyer ’20

By Cody Wilcox ’19

By Cody Wilcox ’19

During the winter and spring, women’s basketball player Lauren Keeney ’21 is usually scoring baskets or dishing out assists to her teammates. When not representing the Blazers on the hardwood, she competes in rodeo.

Brad Sawyer ’20 embodies what a true Hood Blazer represents.

“I got involved in rodeoing because I was attracted to the speed it entails,” Keeney said. “My entire family grew up riding horses; since I could walk, they were my passion.”

Keeney began rodeo her sophomore year at Middletown High School. That year she earned All-Around Cowgirl Honors at the Maryland High School Rodeo Association and won the state competition for barrel racing, an event where horse and rider attempt to complete a cloverleaf pattern around barrels in the fastest time. The following year, she won the state pole bending competition, a timed event in which a horse and a rider run a weaving path around six poles.

Hood allows Keeney to balance her two passions of basketball and rodeo.

Along with caring for her 13 horses and managing her basketball schedule, she is a full-time student in the law and criminal justice program, was honored on the MAC Winter Academic Honor Roll, and runs her own horse riding business with her sister, Morgan.

“I know I have to keep myself in shape for basketball and barrel racing, so I try to maintain a routine of going to the gym and working out my horses daily,” Keeney said.

That routine changed during the 2018-19 season when she broke her ankle during the first minutes of the Blazers’ conference opener against Alvernia University. However, through physical therapy and determination, Keeney adapted and was riding her horses a week after the injury while continuing to show her team that she was dedicated to their end goal.

“Not being able to participate in practice was the worst for me,” she said.

“I hated watching my team run and feeling like I was slacking, so when they ran, I would try to plank or do something to feel like I was facing consequences as well.”

Keeney returned to basketball later that season, scoring in double digits in four of the Blazers’ final 11 games.

“I ended up coming back stronger than ever and had some of the best games I’ve ever had at Hood,” Keeney said.

Photo: Craig Chase

Photo: Craig Chase

Lauren Keeney ’21

When the Laytonsville, Maryland, native isn’t playing baseball or in his business administration classes, he is working in Hood’s sports medicine department, leading the Blazing Alpha Fund—Hood’s student-run investment club— participating in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and working with leading financial companies such as Morgan Stanley and MUFG Investor Services.

“He’s a guy who is a three-year captain for a reason,” said Blazers baseball head coach Michael Impellittiere, MBA’19. “You don’t have to worry about him off the field, and he does his work on the field. All of those things as a student-athlete is very impressive.”

Sawyer won a 4A State Championship at Gaithersburg High School before joining the Hood baseball program that had been instituted two seasons earlier. Since he joined the program in spring 2017, the Blazers have posted a 77-44-1 record and advanced to the MAC Commonwealth Championships in the past two seasons.

“Joining a young program was exciting because we have had the chance to make our own history and establish something special that will be around for years to come,” Sawyer said. “At Hood, I knew I was going to receive a great education and be able to compete with a great group of teammates and coaches at a high level.”

During his sophomore campaign, Sawyer saw early success at the plate, finishing with a .464 batting average, .623 slugging percentage and 20 RBI. As a pitcher, Sawyer appeared in 12 games, starting 11, with four wins, 40 strikeouts and a 4.47 ERA in 54.1 innings.

“He’s just a ball player,” said Impellittiere. “Throughout his three years, he has been a great dual player for our team.”

Sawyer was voted D3baseball.com All-Mid-Atlantic Region Second Team and 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-District First Team. He was also selected to the Academic All-MAC Team (with a 3.89 GPA) and All-MAC Commonwealth First Team, accomplishments that he would repeat as a junior the following year.

Sawyer is entering into his senior year with a career .400 batting average, 41 RBI, .523 slugging percentage, 106 strikeouts in 138.2 innings pitched and a 3.96 ERA. “I think the tremendous growth that the Hood baseball program has seen over the past five years truly reflects the hard work of my coaches and teammates,” Sawyer said.

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THE POWER OF A LIBERAL ARTS

STORY BY WALLIS SHAMIEH ’15

profiles by Meg DePanise ’15

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liberal arts education offers students more than just a well-rounded college education.

It’s a robust, integrated learning experience that teaches students to connect knowledge, think creatively and follow their passions. It is not an education based on learning individual components necessary for a career or trade, but rather, on learning how to bring together information from across disciplines—including humanities and the social and natural sciences—for the most powerful education experience possible.

The idea isn’t just to memorize facts and figures, but to co-create and innovate with professors and classmates.

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tion that students do not select majors in a liberal arts education,” said Lisa Littlefield, Ph.D., director of the Hood College Career Center. “However, students do select majors, with general education courses surrounding them. By combining majors, minors and general education coursework, students develop a unique skill set that sets them apart from competition in the job market.”

A liberal arts education encourages students to develop critical thinking skills and gives them a global perspective, an invaluable asset with countless applications. According to the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AACU), the essential learning outcomes

of a contemporary liberal arts education include “knowledge of human cultures and the physical and natural world, intellectual and practical skills, personal and social responsibility, and integrative and applied learning.” These skills are necessary for students to succeed no matter their chosen professions, and teach them to adapt, change and transform as they progress through their lives and careers.

In today’s job market, employees will make on average five to seven career changes in their lifetime, and thus will require these skills for decades to come.

“There’s two types of thinking. Convergent and divergent,” says David Gurzick, Ph.D., associate professor of manage-

“Be open to learning many things; life takes you on paths you only fleetingly thought about.”

—Amanda Cavanagh ’14 A PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR BREAKING INTO VOICE ACTING Amanda Cavanagh ’14 earned her

ment and chair of The George B. Delaplaine Jr. School of Business. “Rather than focusing on convergent thinking, which is trying to find a single good answer, there’s an emphasis on divergent thinking in the liberal arts—looking at things from every angle and creating new ideas that stem from others in creative ways.”

HOW DOES A LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION FIT IN THE CONTEXT OF TODAY’S GLOBAL JOB MARKET?

Due to innovation and technology, the global job market is changing faster than ever.

Medical knowledge doubles every eight years, and technology is growing even faster. These

kinds of advancements make it difficult to predict the kinds of jobs that will be available even five or 10 years from now. Therefore, employers place a high value on employees who can easily adapt. In addition to becoming an expert in the major they’ve selected, students are learning the skills necessary to navigate career changes in a global marketplace.

A survey released by the AACU in 2018, titled “Fulfilling the American Dream: Liberal Education and the Future of Work,” outlines the skills that executives and hiring managers value most across all majors: oral communication, critical thinking, ethical judgment, working effectively in teams, written communication,

bachelor’s degree in psychology and spent time working in the mental health industry, but after discovering her employer’s values did not align with her own, she decided to leave and take the first leap in pursuing another passion—voice acting.

“I remembered that I had other skill sets I learned from Hood,” she said. “I was a trained vocalist, and had understandings of administrative business that I could use to start my own business.”

Right now, she narrates audiobooks and commercials and performs music, and she’s continuing to branch out.

“I started to have my name given out to independent authors who were more than happy to know that my background in mental health could help bring characters with real struggles to life,” she said.

Cavanagh says she had always dreamed of becoming a voice actor.

She was the first manager of the game room, located in the basement of Cloblentz Hall, and recently reached out to some connections she made while working there.

“Many of them remembered me as the young college student who wanted to sing opera in video games,” she said.

“They now know me as someone who is recording in studios as a peer.”

Her goal is to someday be hired to voice act in a Valve video game, alongside one of her past mentors, opera singer and voice actor Ellen McLain.

Despite her negative experience with her first job in mental health, Cavanagh also plans to return to Hood for her master’s in clinical psychology.

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A RETIRED NAVY CAPTAIN WITH A LOVE FOR ALPACAS Sue Korff Hammer ’69 majored in

“It’s always a little scary to leave a job you have mastered, but I was anxious to prove my worth as a hard and smart worker in a maledominated world. Hood gave me that strength and confidence to go for it.”

—Sue Korff Hammer ’69

and real-world application of skills and knowledge.

“When hiring, executives and hiring managers place a high priority on graduates’ demonstrated proficiency in skills and knowledge that cut across majors,” the survey states, “and hiring managers are closely aligned with executives in the importance that they place on key college learning outcomes.”

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psychology and minored in Spanish, but her first job was at an insurance company.

The position came much to her own surprise, considering she applied for a human resources job. Turns out there wasn’t an opening in that department, but she scored high on the math section of the employment exam so the firm offered her a job as an auditor.

“In those days, employers asked female college grads how many words a minute they could type, and I didn’t want to sit at a typewriter all day,” she said. “The joke was on me—I ended up sitting in front of a 30-pound calculator.”

Hammer left that job when she discovered her male counterparts’ initial salary was 50 percent more than hers after two years, despite her outstanding performance evaluations. That’s when she found the Navy.

“The Navy had the same pay scale for men and women, which was a great incentive for me at that time,” she said.

Hammer was an unrestricted line officer, so she was assigned a different job and duty station every couple of years. She was preparing for command, which is the pinnacle of success.

“The moving and changing of jobs helped you widen your knowledge and usefulness to the organization while exposing you to different geographical areas and cultures,” she said. “I never got bored!”

mindset in order to succeed. Understanding diversity and different cultures is emphasized in a liberal arts education, through learning foreign languages and in study abroad programs.

Jay Harrison, Ph.D., chair of the history department, says that, “As a corporate program manager in my previous career, people who can appreciate the views of persons different than themselves are the persons companies want to hire to ensure their growth and success.

Her commitment and intelligence got her noticed, and she was selected for Naval Postgraduate School. While other students struggled through the coursework and required tutoring, she handled it well. She says she attributes her successful career to her liberal arts education.

“Although it was almost 10 years since Hood, I soon learned the value of my education,” she said. “We had courses in economics, accounting, management, statistics, operations analysis and calculus as a foundation before getting into the meat of computer science.”

Now retired and living in the historic Fredericksburg area of Virginia, Hammer is enjoying yet another unexpected line of work.

“As for alpaca farming, it gave me a completely new challenge to learn as much about farming, breeding, and camelids and chickens while being an outdoor job with animals,” Hammer said. “I enjoyed taking all sorts of classes and learning something completely new.”

Professionally, she hopes to draw down the herd at Wildwood Alpacas and retire from selling and showing animals by the time she’s 75.

“Personally,” she says, “my goal is to keep my health, strength and endurance so I can continue to do the labor-intensive things I enjoy the most like operate farm equipment, mill lumber on my sawmill and continue to enjoy my collector car hobby.”

That is the global perspective the liberal arts gives students: a greater, nuanced view of human experience beyond their own perspective and time, such that they can appreciate just how diverse societies are and yet how common are the needs of human beings.”

Many Hood students, regardless of major, have had the unique opportunity to study abroad through a number of programs in France, Germany, Morocco, England, Italy, Aus-

The Liberal Arts at Hood “I very much feel that I use the entirety of my life’s experience and education to make good policy decisions to help my district, Frederick County, and Maryland.”

—Ken Kerr ’81

As a premier, comprehensive liberal arts college, Hood offers both undergraduate and graduate students an excellent and holistic education that reaches beyond the boundaries of academic disciplines, the classroom and campus.

Encompassing the curriculum, co-curricular experiences and a rich array of experiential learning opportunities, a Hood education facilitates student exploration and fosters intellectual, spiritual and physical growth.

A MUSICIAN, ENGLISH TEACHER AND POLITICIAN Ken Kerr ’81 is proof that we don’t have to pick one thing to

do for the rest of our lives, but instead we can have a range of interests and jobs over a lifetime. From musician to IT professional to teacher to state delegate, he has pursued each of his callings.

Kerr says he wasn’t even looking at colleges, but Hood found him at the Carroll Creek Dam. Between 1977 and 1981, the corner bar was packed day and night with people enjoying each other’s company and the live music. It was 1978, and he had just completed his coursework at Frederick Community College and was playing in a rock-and-roll band.

“I had no clear plans for what was to come next,” he said.

“The band was on break, and there was a man sitting at the end of the bar when I went to get something to drink.

He said, ‘You know, if you really want to be a musician, you need to get your education.’”

It was Hood professor Bill Sprigg. Weeks later, Kerr found himself sitting in Brodbeck Hall at 8 a.m. on a Monday morning. Professors Sprigg, Chuck Warner and Noel Lester became his teachers and mentors.

“As a musician, the most important skill (after mastering the instrument) is to listen to others—know what’s going on around you, learn to improvise, anticipate unexpected changes, give others their moment and make them sound better, wait your turn, and be ready when your moment arrives,” Kerr said. “That approach and those skills have served me well professionally.”

While he will always cherish his music and still plays all the time, he saw he needed something else to pay the bills, so he became an elementary school teacher, then worked in IT for 10 years, before getting his master’s degree and becoming a college English professor. Now, in addition to teaching at Frederick Community College, he also serves in the Maryland General Assembly as a state delegate representing Frederick County.

He says his musical skills are particularly helpful in politics: “I believe it’s important to be versatile—learn new styles, learn new instruments and experiment. But, there are some styles of music I just don’t care for. There are some musicians I like working with and seek out—and others who are just no fun to play with. Depending on what type of performance is coming up, I know who I want to collaborate with, who is the best fit for the performance, how well the musicians are going to work together to achieve the desired result. That is how I approach politics in the Maryland General Assembly. Putting together a piece of legislation is like putting together a band.”

Excellent teaching is key to an outstanding liberal arts education. Hood’s faculty members are selected for their knowledge of and experience in their discipline as well exceptional teaching skills. Most are involved in independent research. Many are scientists, researchers, business leaders, educators and policy leaders from companies and organizations in the region. All are gifted at sharing their passion and expertise in a way that inspires, motivates and prepares students for success in the contemporary workplace.

Small classes and an emphasis on collaboration stimulate dynamic exchange of ideas and information. Professors know students by name; and individual attention— even after graduation—is a hallmark of a Hood education.

Hood’s academic offerings remain strong and relevant with the changing times. We have a wide breadth of programs in all areas— humanities, social and natural sciences, as well as the arts. The core curriculum provides undergraduate students with the basic skills needed to pursue a liberal arts education, exposing them to a variety of modes of inquiry in different disciplines, and promoting critical reflection about global perspectives.

Hood graduates are able to write with clarity; solve mathematical problems and interpret numerical data; realize the relationship between physical activity and wellness; function successfully using foreign language skills; and develop awareness of other cultures. Course requirements in the areas of literary analysis, visual and performing arts, scientific thought, historical analysis, social and behavioral analysis, philosophical inquiry and global perspectives give students the opportunity to explore subjects outside of their chosen majors.

At Hood, we know intellectual curiosity and strong communication skills will serve students well throughout their lives and careers. Only an education that encourages such growth can successfully prepare students to “meet personal, professional and global challenges and to lead purposeful lives of responsibility, leadership, service and civic engagement” (Hood College mission).

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tralia, Korea and more. These exciting travel experiences not only teach students self-sufficiency and oftentimes foreign language skills, but also broadens worldviews.

“Business is becoming increasingly globalized, and companies are in need of minds that can thrive in a complicated, international and fast-paced marketplace,” adds Gurzick.

“The liberal arts education at Hood addresses issues of globalization and diversity head on—connecting them to world cultures and exposing them to the challenges of dealing with divergent, and often competing, viewpoints. This prepares our students for tackling the pressing, contemporary issues they’ll face.”

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR STUDENTS TO FOLLOW THEIR PASSIONS?

In addition to these crucial skills, employers look for passionate people with a purpose. Such employees not only advance the company, but advance society through civic engagement. In the 21st century, businesses and organizations are increasingly socially minded and benefit from employees with a similar mindset.

“It’s so important to pursue your passions. Students are going to be working for a long time, and it can be a sentence or it can be an exciting journey,” said Littlefield. “You want to have knowledge in a number of areas so that as you mature in a career and you decide you want to make changes, you’re able to do so with flexibility. The liberal arts can prepare someone to 32

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“At Hood I learned how to think critically, nurture my intellectual curiosity, and take on challenges —all of which helped me transition from a career in accounting to a career in nursing. Plus, I can play a mean game of Jeopardy!”

—Marla DiPasqua Sulmonte ’92

AN OPERATING ROOM NURSE WHO LEFT HER ACCOUNTING CAREER Marla DiPasqua Sulmonte ’92 left Hood with majors

in fine art and management with a concentration in accounting, but now she’s an operating room nurse at Frederick Memorial Hospital.

As a nurse, she enjoys learning something new every day and takes pride in being able to help patients and their families get through stressful days.

“I have about five minutes to convey competence and confidence, and to try to put patients and their loved ones at ease,” she said. “I feel privileged when I realize they’ve put their trust in me.”

Sulmonte herself was forced to do the same when she was diagnosed with cancer in 2005. She experienced firsthand the importance of caring, compassionate nursing, as she underwent months of chemotherapy and appointments.

“One of my nurses, Pia, changed how I felt about nursing.

It wasn’t at all like the depictions I’d seen on TV and in the movies,” she said. “Within minutes of meeting her, I watched Pia put my family at ease with her quiet, gentle kindness. Through my most difficult times at the hospital, her presence helped me and my parents.”

From that moment on, Sulmonte knew she wanted to pursue nursing. She came back to Hood to get the classes she’d need to qualify for the nursing program at Frederick Community College, all while continuing to work at Uncle Ralph’s Cookie Company where she’d been a bookkeeper since 1986.

She feared that perhaps she was too old for nursing school and wouldn’t be taken seriously, or that her introversion would prevent her from fully participating in classes.

“But I made myself participate, and it turned out I wasn’t the oldest student in the class,” she said. “My classmates welcomed me into study groups, and many of us are still close friends. All of my fears were unfounded, which taught me that my ‘discomfort zone’ was a place I could push through.”

Sulmonte was recently trained in STEALTH technology, a type of surgical navigation, and plans to pursue professional certification in her field, called CNOR, this year.

“There’s always room to grow in nursing, and I find that exciting,” she said. “I’m grateful to have a job that I love and that keeps me on my toes. I couldn’t ask for more!”

pursue multiple passions that are going to keep them invigorated in their work.”

A liberal arts education and its high-impact experiences, such as internships and study abroad, can help students determine what they are passionate about.

Like study abroad, internships are a central part of the self-discovery process. It’s an opportunity for students to put their

classroom skills to the test in a real-world scenario.

“Oftentimes, internship experiences help people decide what they don’t want to do, which is equally important,” said Dr. Littlefield. “It gives them a chance to explore not just occupations but their own values and capabilities.”

In addition to preparing students for a lifetime of careers, a

liberal arts education produces informed citizens who are able to sustain our democracy and pursue the greater good. The word ‘liberal’ comes from the Latin word liberalis, meaning pertaining to freedom—and in the context of liberal arts, describes the education of a free citizen, one who contributes to society.

“History informs us of not

“Don’t be afraid to flip your life upside down to be happy. Reinvent yourself every chance you get if it means living a more fulfilled life.”

—Sharia Barksdale ’06

A POLITICS MAJOR TURNED EVENT PLANNER Sharia Barksdale ’06 majored in

political science, but by her senior year, she realized she no longer enjoyed it and couldn’t see herself pursuing that career. Luckily, she also had another realization.

“Because I was so involved on campus, I realized the only thing that brought me true joy was planning events for my respective groups on campus,” she said. “I then set forth to find any and every odd event job or internship I could find to see if I really enjoyed this field.

After about the third gig, I knew the hospitality industry was my calling!”

Barksdale went on to earn her master’s of tourism administration in event and meeting management from George Washington University and is now an Events Industry Council certified meeting planner.

“I was terrified that I wasn’t good enough because it was such a drastic change from what I had been previously pursuing,” she said. She researched for hours a day the top vendors, price

points, industry trends, statistics and standards. “Being prepared ultimately became my workaround for the fear.”

Now, she’s CEO of Eclectic Fête, which offers full-service logistics and décor design services for avant-garde events and weddings; manager of meetings at the American Institute of Architects; and Washington, DC area director of the Say I Do! LGBTQ Wedding Expo.

“I am an introverted extrovert by nature, so being a planner allows me to equally be a hermit when I’m managing intricate logistics, and to be the conductor of organized chaos on-site at events,” she said.

In the next few years, she plans to transition her small event company into a full-service event production company. In addition to producing large-scale international events, she wants to create an “urban business incubator” that focuses on the start-up phases of entrepreneurship.

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“Embrace change. I have seen remarkable change in my lifetime—from the pre-birth control era to internet porn addictions, from abstinence before marriage to legal gaymarriage and marrying outside of one’s religion and race. The liberal arts education helped me embrace change and be a life long learner.”

— Lois Hoffberger Blum Feinblatt ’42

just facts but also the ways we can analyze the past to understand the present,” said Harrison. “Knowing the ways to approach the past enables one to understand why modern cultures, languages, governments, and societies work as they do, and how they came to be. If one understands that, then one is better informed as to what may be encountered as one tries to change current social constructs to better our way of living in the present.”

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AN ENGLISH MAJOR WHO BECAME A PIONEERING SEX THERAPIST Lois Hoffberger Blum Feinblatt ’42 has

always been a trailblazer. She recently celebrated her 98th birthday, and just a few years ago, retired from working as a psychotherapist at Johns Hopkins University.

In 1966, when women were more typically stay-at-home moms, she was working in Baltimore’s Department of Welfare screening every couple in the city who was interested in adopting a child. She was the first woman in her family to have a job out of the home.

“I saw an advertisement in the newspaper that Johns Hopkins wanted to train married women over 35 who have successfully raised a family, into therapists. I knew I wanted to be a psychotherapist,” she said.

She was 45 years old at the time with three kids—Patty, 17; Jeff, 19; and Larry, 23.

She was one of eight selected from more than 400 applicants and held the position for 16 years.

well with the social entrepreneurial spirit, thanks to its emphasis on creative thinking, leadership, resourcefulness, social missions and civic engagement. It gives students the power to identify needs both in their communities and in the world, and rise to meet that need.

This past spring, three Hood students, Mackenzie Clark ’20, Jenna Frick ’21 and Delanie Diverio ’19, launched Astraea, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing menstrual hygiene products to those in

By 1970, Hopkins was looking to start a Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit based on the pioneering sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson, who had shocked the public with candid and demystifying talk about orgasms and sexual dysfunction.

“This was a great job. I had over 40 years working with all kinds of patients: women, men, straight, gay, transgender,” she said.

“You get training to drive a car but not to have a successful relationship.”

She says she attributes “love, luck and diet” to her longevity and it’s of the utmost importance to “know yourself.”

“Identify your passion and follow the things you like most in life,” she said.

“Get involved with the community, organizations and a field or mission that you feel strongly about. Get to know others. My practice grew because of my relationships and all the referrals I received because of these relationships.”

need. As part of Hood’s chapter of Enactus—a global platform dedicated to developing entrepreneurs in the name of social welfare—the organization will distribute bright pink boxes around the Frederick area, so people can take or leave products as they need. Through Astraea’s website, local businesses can sponsor a box on their property or in their business, and be added to the map of box locations. (see this story in Newsmakers on p. 4) These women are far from the

only entrepreneurs on campus.

Hood hosts an annual pitch competition, an opportunity for Hood students, alumni, faculty and staff to pitch their business ideas to the Hood Pitch Competition Committee. After a rigorous selection process, four finalists are chosen to compete in front of the judges. First, second and third places receive cash prizes to fund their business ideas. This past year, Ken Rupert ’12, took first place for his financial training program

that combines concepts taught in martial arts with financial literacy.

“We infuse liberal arts and an entrepreneurial mindset. It permeates through all of our classes,” said Gurzick, in reference to the classes at the newly established George B. Delaplaine Jr. School of Business at Hood.

“A student can have an idea in their dorm room that turns into a Fortune 500 company after graduation. Business is the most powerful force in the world, and

if we can instill a mindset of ownership in our students, then we’re able to create a generation that will take the reins. Not only will they do financially well, but they can do good for society, too.”

WHAT DO HOOD GRADUATES DO WITH A LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION?

A liberal arts education gives students the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to become lifelong learners and to thrive, regardless of the career

A FITNESS INSTRUCTOR WITH A PASSION FOR INSPIRING OTHERS Blaine Daisey ’17 majored in integrated

“Communication and connection play a vital role when I’m coaching group exercise classes, and I’m very grateful that Hood, and my beloved professors, provided me with the necessary skill set and tools to inspire others.”

—Blaine Daisey ’17

marketing communications, but he’s finding his passion in a career in aquatics and fitness as a Zumba instructor and swim coach for the YMCA in Lewes, Deleware.

“It was not until senior year when I walked across that stage and had a moment of clarity, that no matter what, I wanted to inspire others,” he said. “I had always asked myself how I would do that.

And now, I know.”

While he might not be working in marketing like he once thought he would, he says he still applies the skills he learned in his classes in his everyday work.

“Communication and connection play a vital role when I’m coaching group exercise classes, and I’m very grateful that Hood, and my beloved professors, provided me with the necessary skill set and tools to inspire others.”

In addition to finding joy in motivating others, Daisey also appreciates the flexibility and opportunity to travel that comes with instructing.

“My parents have always told me to pursue what I love most, and I never would have guessed it would revolve around the aquatics industry, let alone dance fitness,” he said.

It was a Zumba class at Hood with instructor Jessica Roderick ’19 that he calls “the highlight of his college career” and attributes to him finding his calling.

“Throughout the semester, I wanted to continue to learn more,” he said.

“Jess told me what to do to become an instructor, and I ended up taking a course right over in Germantown! I’ve never looked back since.”

Daisey aims to further progress in his fitness career while continuing with the Aqua Zumba and Strong by Zumba programs.

“I have actually been recently licensed for HIIT (high-intensity interval training). It’s definitely a change from your average cardio class, but I definitely want to grow and see where this takes me,” he said. “I want to continue to inspire others!”

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path they follow. It allows students to find and pursue their passions, explore the world and progress society for the better.

“Many students focus on the destination, not the journey. For them, the magnificent power of their liberal arts experience at Hood may go unrecognized until after graduation,” said Provost Debbie Ricker, Ph.D. “As they begin their careers and their pro-

fessional lives evolve, they witness firsthand countless ways in which their holistic academic experience at Hood has, and will forever, shape them. And, that makes us all Hood Proud!”

Countless Hood graduates have had the perseverance, insight and purpose to go where their interests have taken them.

For many, as their passions have developed and changed, they’ve

found themselves in professional roles much different than their major field of study, thanks to the invaluable skills they’ve learned along the way. Explore some of the personal stories Hood graduates have shared with us about how they have made the most of their liberal arts education.

AN AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR COMPETITOR AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Chris DiGangi ’12 majored in

“I certainly didn’t expect to be working for a ‘ninja’ gym, but I think when you have a liberal arts background, you are exposed to so many different things, and it helps to make you more adaptable.”

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mathematics and economics at Hood, went on to earn his master’s in mechanical and aerospace engineering at George Washington University and work at Deloitte, a top accounting organization. He never would have guessed where his career would take him next.

“I left a very good job as a senior consultant at Deloitte where I had a challenging work environment with great co-workers,” he said. “However, I think that if you ever have the chance to work in a field that you are extremely passionate about you, just have to go for it. It was definitely scary to leave a very high-paying job for something that wasn’t quite as high, but at the end of the day happiness is more valuable than money.”

For DiGangi, happiness is being a part of Ultimate Ninjas LLC, where he’s a software developer and gets to train to compete on the hit TV show, American Ninja Warrior.

“I enjoy working in a technical field that also matches my passion outside of the workplace,” he said. “Ultimate Ninjas is a chain of gyms in the Midwest based on American Ninja Warrior, and I

get to be a part of the gym and help teach kids about Ninja, while also using my technical expertise to create apps and build websites to grow the business.”

He didn’t study software development in college, but with his Hood education, he had the proper skills and discipline to learn it. As for competing on American Ninja Warrior, he started when he was a senior at Hood, and his passion for it continues.

“It has been the most gratifying aspect of my life as I’ve seen the show grow and I watch kids all over the country get more involved in Ninja and more active in general,” he said. “I love being a part of the show, and it’s something I train extremely hard for.”

DiGangi hopes to keep growing and excelling in his career, continue to learn new technologies, and of course, compete.

“I’d like to continue to qualify for the national finals and hopefully beat stage 3 and climb that rope for one million dollars!” he said. “But in reality, I just hope to continue doing well on the show and getting more opportunities to push the sport forward and inspire kids and adults to be active and healthy!”

AN ENTREPRENEUR COMMUNICATING THROUGH CHOCOLATE Asimina “Mina” Apostolidis ’93 left her successful career in public relations

“Remember to be grateful, have faith and that life is an occasion—rise to it!”

—Asimina “Mina” Apostolidis ’93

to become the head chocolatier and owner of MINA Handmade Chocolates.

Her chocolate creations are inspired by her travels and life in Greece, Dubai, the United States and Belgium, where her business is based.

“Offering a chocolate that is handmade, inspired by my life is, after all, a way of communicating,” she said. “Making people happy when they devour them, seeing the smile on their faces, providing them with information about the origins of the recipe and the story behind each creation.”

At Hood, Apostolidis majored in communications, focusing on print media and public relations. She worked in both the tourism and education industries in high positions, but with an encouraging push from a friend in 2008, she decided it was time to chase another dream.

“One of my strong points and something I always loved doing was communicating and being around people,” she said. “After having worked for 10 years in public relations, then being a home-stay mom, and a part-time chocolatier, I decided to switch careers and do another thing I have always loved doing, which is chocolate creating and entrepreneurship.”

Even during her time at Hood, Apostolidis was making chocolates.

“I’d go to Safeway to buy dark chocolate and almonds, that I would roast in the microwave of Smith Hall, and I would make chocolate rochers for my friends there,” she said.

As she was preparing to launch her brand, she had some doubts, but she always reminded herself she was very good at her trade. Others started to notice, too. Harper’s Bazaar, Greek edition printed in 2010, “Apostolidis’ chocolates have a finesse and balance in taste that we find in French and Spanish chocolatiers.”

Her greatest fear, however, came when she moved from Greece, her homeland, to Belgium, the land of chocolate.

“A Greek in Belgium making chocolates, with her own brand...” she said.

“However, I always believed in what I was doing as my chocolates are unique in taste, inspired by the Mediterranean and my voyages in life, and of top quality.”

Mina’s rum-aromatized dark chocolate ‘Amelia’ truffle was created in memory of her mentor, professor Juana Amelia Hernandez. Hernandez was Mina’s first Spanish teacher, and she inspired Mina with her stories about growing up in Cuba.

“Dr. Hernandez was sharing her memories from her Cuba, and she mentioned Cuban rum, so for me, since then, rum is Cuba. This is the explanation behind the choice of the name,” she said. “It came spontaneously, and I am very happy I had the opportunity to honor her in my own way forever. Amelia is one of my best sellers.”

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BETTER TOGETHER

“The Learning Commons will build relationships across campus by providing technological and academic support, tutoring, research instruction and study and collaborative spaces under one roof.”

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Transforming the Hood College Library into a Learning Commons

By Toby Peterson Director of the Beneficial-Hodson Library and Technology Center

THE BENEFICIAL-HODSON LIBRARY AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER WILL UNDERGO A MAJOR RENOVATION BEGINNING IN JANUARY 2020. IN THIS FEATURE ARTICLE, TOBY PETERSON SHARES THE EXCITING PLANS FOR THE LIBRARY THAT WILL TRANSFORM THIS BUILDING INTO A DYNAMIC LEARNING SPACE, MEETING THE STUDYING, COLLABORATION, RESEARCH, ACADEMIC SUPPORT AND SOCIAL NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS FOR DECADES TO COME.

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WHY MUST THE LIBRARY CHANGE? Academic libraries were initially designed as static places to collect and preserve print collections. As the central symbol of the academic mission of an institution of higher education, these buildings were often lavishly appointed and prominently situated. However, interiors were often confining and difficult to navigate, lighting was dim or severe, and furniture was uncomfortable for long stays.

When the Hood library moved from the Apple Center to the Beneficial-Hodson Library and Technology Center in 1992, it expanded collection space, improved environmental systems to preserve the collections and enhance the comfort of its occupants, and increased study space. That same year, dial-up internet services were first offered commercially, heralding the complete transformation of how we access, retrieve and store information.

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“THE SUPPORT AND THE RELATIONSHIP BUILDING WITH THE LIBRARY TEAM WILL MAKE LEARNING COLLABORATIVE. HAVING OFFICES LIKE I.T. AND ACADEMIC SERVICES IN THE LEARNING COMMONS WILL MEAN WE WILL SEE EACH OTHER AND SHARE AND APPRECIATE THAT IT DOES TAKE A ‘VILLAGE’ TO SUPPORT HOOD UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS.” —KATHLEEN BANDS, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION AND PROGRAM DIRECTOR FOR THE DOCTORATE OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND DOCTORATE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

to meet, study, read, research, and retrieve digital materials and resources. Also, the rise of computers and technology changed the way faculty teach.

Students are increasingly being asked to work in groups, complete coursework using multiple types of media and sources, and submit assignments online.

This fundamental shift in research and pedagogy has prompted librarians to transform our own teaching styles to support learning. Librarians have vastly altered library collections and processes to respond to the way people now use libraries, both physically and virtually, to meet their academic goals. In addition, librarians have played a critical role in teaching students how to access, evaluate and use digital resources. The Hood librarians’ ability to respond to these 40

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changes and meet student needs has been limited by the physical layout of the library.

The crafters of Hood’s Master Plan recognized this need for the library to evolve to meet the changing needs of our community. They envisioned a renovation that would result in a flexible, inclusive learning environment with needed resources to support the institution’s intellectual community. This philosophical shift drove the vision to create a learning commons at the core of our library.

So, what is a learning commons? According to the 2011 EDUCAUSE article, “7 Things You Should Know About the Modern Learning Commons,” a learning commons is “a place where students can meet, talk, study, and … it brings together the functions of libraries, labs,

lounges and seminar areas in a single community gathering place.” In other words, a learning commons is designed to be the hub of active, engaged, collaborative learning on campus and supports the central academic mission of the College.

FINDING THE RIGHT MIX To design the learning commons, Hood formed a programming committee in fall 2018 composed of faculty, students and academic support staff.

This committee visited several college libraries to help inform the group’s thinking of what would work best for Hood. The committee also identified the strengths and weaknesses of our existing library.

Hood librarians surveyed students studying in the Whitak-

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er Commons to learn why they preferred that space over the library. Students value 24-hour access, close proximity to food and beverages, comfortable furniture and being around peers.

What students value most about the current library is the quiet spaces, availability of group study/project rooms and technology. Guided by this feedback, the programming committee’s challenge was to capture the essence of engagement, energy and collaboration valued in Whitaker while also expanding access to group project rooms, individual study rooms and study environments to support varied learning styles.

Using this student input, the committee worked with an architectural firm, Schwartz/Silver, to design the learning commons and the final design was

approved by the Board of Trustees in June 2019.

FROM CONCEPT TO REALITY The learning commons will bring together the functions of libraries, information technology, writing and tutoring services, and accessibility services. The centralized location of these services on the first floor will provide students with critical support in one convenient and easily accessible location, and will facilitate greater collaboration and a holistic approach to academic support. There will be a service desk in close proximity to the main entrance where students can get help from any one of these offices, from IT to academic services.

Flexibility will be a crucial as-

pect of the design. Moveable furniture and multi-purpose spaces support learning in different forms, from undergraduate study sessions to graduate seminars and all-day doctoral cohort classes. Many spaces within the building will be convertible, allowing users to create study rooms, yoga studios, or spaces for presentations, poetry readings or art displays.

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“THE LEARNING COMMONS WILL BE A NEEDED SPACE DEDICATED TO THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT THINGS FOR STUDENTS: LEARNING AND SOCIALIZING.” —ELI NICHOLSON ’19, A MEMBER OF THE LEARNING COMMONS PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE

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“READING ROOMS AND PROCESSING ROOMS ARE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF A SUCCESSFUL ARCHIVE. THEY ALLOW THE SAFE HANDLING OF MATERIALS BY PATRONS AND GIVE SPACE FOR CLASSES AND STUDENTS TO ENGAGE WITH COLLECTIONS THROUGH INTERNSHIPS AND CLASS TRIPS OR ASSIGNMENTS.” –MARY ATWELL, HOOD ARCHIVIST

workforce of students trained in navigating the new landscape of centralized academic support services. This centralization is often referred to as the “one-stop-shop” for critical student support services in a learning commons. We will create rich experiences for our student workers by developing roles with increased levels of responsibility in the commons,

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enabling our student workers to chart their own course.

We recognize the value of our archives and special collections, and we hope to encourage more scholarly research using these materials. These collections distinguish our holdings from those of other academic libraries. In other words, they are what make us unique. We will bring these collections forward and intro-

duce a reading and processing room for researchers.

The library and learning commons will continue to welcome members of the Frederick community to use the building and library print materials. A guest Wi-Fi network is also available.

Group study/project rooms will be reserved for students, and the building will be available to students on a 24-hour basis.

PROJECT TIMELINE AND COST As currently planned, in January 2020 the Beneficial-Hodson Library and Technology Center will close for renovation. Library staff will retain access to the general collection to pull requested books and other materials for patrons as needed. The library will remain closed for the spring 2020 semester and throughout the summer. It will reopen in fall 2020 with the following new features: »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »» »»

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50 percent increase in study seats 16 new collaboration rooms Café Office of Academic Services Information Technology help desk Tutoring spaces Archives and special collections space with dedicated reading room Computer lab Seminar-style classroom space for three doctoral cohorts Increased daylight from glass walls on south and east sides (facing Rosemont Ave. and Martha Church Dr. respectively) Expanded board room Improved ADA accessibility and energy efficiency

The total projected cost of the renovation is $7.2 million dollars.

The funds needed for the project will come from grants and individual philanthropy. We are thrilled that the State of Maryland has committed $2.9 million to jump-start the project.

To support the creation of this new, dynamic learning commons, please consider making a gift at hood.edu/gifts, or by calling Nancy Gillece, vice president for institutional advancement, at 301-696-3700.

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More than 100 years ago, the founders of Hood College laid the foundation for this great institution—brick by brick. Now you can continue this legacy by purchasing your own brick paver in the Jeanne Zimmerman Gearey ’52 Plaza near Alumnae Hall starting at $350, or purchase a signature blue or grey Adirondack chair on the residential quad honoring your Hood student or graduate for only $500. Each chair will have a plate engraved, permanently affixed to the back of the chair.

Please contact Brooke Winn, MBA’18, director of annual giving, at 301-696-3717, winn@hood.edu or visit hood.edu/bricks for more information

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hank you to everyone who joined us in June for Reunion Weekend! Overwhelmingly the mostheard statement from the Class of 1969 was “Has it really been 50 years since we graduated?”

Also celebrating was the Class of 1979 with a champagne party on Whitaker patio, and the Class of 1984 made Smith Hall their home away from home!

Strasbourg alums gathered to reminisce about their study-abroad days, and the Class of 2004 appeared at Bedecked in red hats, fascinators and dinks, there was almost every event! At Sunday’s Strawberry Breakfast, no chance you could miss the gathering of these amazing twins Judy Baab Sunderlin and Karen Baab Harley alumnae! Marching into the Alumni Luncheon as “Age ’69 showed up with a giant box of cornflakes and of Aquarius” played really told us who they were then, demonstrated the “proper” way to eat strawberries and and who they are today. Innovative thinkers and doers, ice cream! not content to be part of what was, this class forged their future with spirit, fire and a determination to make We wish we had endless space to tell all the wonderful a difference in the world, and to inspire future Hood stories that made up Hood’s 2019 Reunion Weekend; graduates to leave their mark as they traveled life’s path. instead we hope you’ll take this opportunity to share them with your friends, and always keep Hood in your heart.

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Lead Photo: Rapelje Fairley ’69; Jan Erbacher Greening ’69 1. Congratulations to the Class of 1969 who celebrated their 50th Hood Reunion!

2. Sandra Delaney Horn ’04, MBA’13; Jaime Cacciola ’04; Jenn Smith Miller ’04; Bernice E. Morris ’04, MBA’08; and Outstanding Recent Alumna recipient Adrianne Wells Washington ’04 3. Nancy Fletcher Artlett and Nancy Rogers Huntsinger from the Class of 1959 4. Magaly Maurus Green ’74, M.A.’79, this year’s Alumni Award recipient for Excellence in Service to Hood College 5. At the Alumni Luncheon: (front) Debbie Mooney Bennett ’79; Paula Davis Driftmyer ’79, M.A.’84; Susie Hawk Coy ’79 (back) Esther Beckmann Bowman ’79, ’80; Nancy Garrow Aldrich ’79; Bec Seymour Sweeney ’79; Linda Hawk Kluge ’77 6. At the Pergola Society Reception, Kathryn Zimmerman Nicodemus, H’05; Marlene Grossnickle Young ’76, P’09, H’14; George B. Delaplaine Jr. H’08; and Charles A. Nicodemus, H’05 7. Alumni Executive Board president Elizabeth M. Thompson ’08 8. The Class of 1999 celebrated their 10th Reunion at the Alumni Luncheon.

9. From the Class of 1969: Joan Esselen Foot, Deborah Jones Lash, Carol Crofoot Hayes and Cheryl Brown Dreiling 10. At the Maryland Fare Dinner: Kathy Hale ’04, M.S.’13; Carol Weber Churchey ’04; Laurie Machovec Tomcanin ’04; Trish Crowell ’04, M.S.’08; Jaime Cacciola ’04; and Beth Vacante DiMartino ’04 11. At the Strawberry Breakfast: Alida D. Gibson ’04, M.A.’06, C’06; Molly C. Stuart ’69, H’94; and Marj Menchey Berkheimer ’70, P’19 12. The Class of 1964 celebrated their 55th reunion!

13. Lisa Algazi Marcus, Ph.D. gave an update on studyabroad programs at the Strasbourg study-abroad reunion.

14. Future Hood student Ava Hames shared some delicious BBQ with her dad, Brian.

15. At the Pergola Reception: Susan Huntsinger Petitpas; Nancy Rogers Huntsinger ’59; and Nancy Fletcher Artlett ’59 16. Alumni and friends enjoyed Friday night’s barbeque feast on the Quad!

17. Long-time friends Kathryn Zimmerman Nicodemus, H’05 and Magaly Maurus Green ’74, M.A.’79 18. 2019 Distinguished Alumna Award recipient Cindy F. Nofziger ’79

19. Three proud Class of ’69 husbands: Dan Martin, Charles Greening and Roy Gotta 20. President Chapdelaine gratefully accepts the Class of 1969’s 50th Reunion gift from Joan Esselen Foot ’69.

21. The Class of ’69 marched into the Alumni Luncheon to The 5th Dimension’s version of “Age of Aquarius!”

22. At the Strawberry Breakfast: Ellen-Marie Samsen Knehans ’84 and her son, Jonathan G. Knehans ’18 23. The Class of ’59 celebrated their 60th Reunion!

24. At the Pergola Society Reception: Naz Safavi Martin ’69, Marty Silcox Hankins ’69 and Jo Ingoldsby Peters ’69.

25. Special guest French Chef Olivier Straehli treated us to food and wine from the Alsace region of France at the Strasbourg reunion!

26. A great gathering of the Class of 1984 to celebrate their 35th Hood reunion!

27. Celebrating the legacy of the Wells sisters! Lisa Wells ’09, Adrianne Wells Washington ’04, President Chapdelaine and Tina Wells ’02.

28. Corn Flakes for Karla Leum Stoner ’69, M.A.’81; Karen Baab Harley ’69; Judith Baab Sunderlin ’69; and Jane Pickard Hahn ’69!

29. The Class of 1979 turned out in full force to celebrate their 40th reunion!

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If your class isn’t represented by a class reporter, please send news directly to the Office of Alumni and Constituent Engagement: Hood College, Attention: Class News, 401 Rosemont Ave., Frederick, MD 21701 or via email at alumoffice@ hood.edu. If you are interested in being a reporter for your class, please contact the Office of Alumni and Constituent Engagement at 301-696-3900.

1942 Kristine F. Brecht 301-526-3020, kristinebrecht@hotmail.com

Kristine Brecht will now serve as the class reporter for her mother, Jean Brown Forster. Jean resides in Foxdale Village in State College, PA, and is a proud great-grandmother now of 7, ranging from 18 to 8 months, awaiting number 8! She adores visits, by her children and her 8 grandchildren as well!

They discuss their studies, their plans for college and their own professions as well as lots of politics!

Lois Hoffberger Feinblatt reports her family lives all over the country, each one “trying to make the world a better place!” Jane flew to Cambridge, MA, recently where her son was honored by Univ. of MA, Boston for his 50 years of work on race and racism! Jane Taylor Slabaugh enjoys each day, has 11 great-grandchildren, 3 grandchildren and loves seeing her 2 sons in her pleasant life in assisted living! Anne Messerly Sullivan is happy in her personal care home, after a stroke, with 15 other contemporaries. Her sister, Eleanor Messerly Harner ’44, died more than 3 years ago.

1953 Johanna Essex 516-487-1883, jahalessex@gmail.com

Sincere condolences to Myrna Hays Slick on the loss of her husband. Mary Jane Baldwin Scherer has a new address: Chaucer Estates, 10550 East 21st #3126, Wichita, KS 67206. Margie Brown Barati’s husband, Bill, has shown improvement with his Parkinson’s disease. Boxing in PT has helped make a great difference physically, mentally and emotionally. Nancy Brown Kohlheyer is looking forward to a visit from Beth “Buffie” McKim Powell in Belgium, and plans a side trip to Germany in Sept. For the past 35 years Faustena “Penny” 50

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Fradd Vahsen has sponsored midshipmen but has decided it is time to stop. She will be taking a trip to France with daughter Sharon and plans to move from her 5-bedroom home into a nearby assisted living apartment. Elaine Green Powell and Dave are busy and well in their CCRC cottage.

Two sons are retired and very busy, her daughter and husband are in jobs they love. Her grandsons have gone in different directions career wise, and her granddaughter is manager of sports at Steamboat Springs, CO. Judy Rank Loposer is keeping busy with family activities and weddings of her grandchildren. Dorothy “Dottie” Joyce Coffin reports still living in her large home and has a caregiver to help her; she is blind in her right eye and has retina problems in her left eye. Daughter Cathy lives nearby and her other daughter lives in Park City, UT. Dottie thinks of Hood frequently and is always proud to mention Hood. Pat Lloyd Fordham’s 2 senior rescue dog companions passed away, but she plans to adopt another.

Having them around keeps her on her toes. Buffie McKim Powell had a wonderful trip to NYC visiting family and high school friends. Her granddaughter graduated from the Univ. of TX with a master’s degree in international politics and now works for A Glimmer of Hope. Ann “Corky” Pattison Casey is well and in the midst of planning the annual family gathering in CT. Marilyn Phillips’ life is focused around family, friends, church and home. She is trying to paint again, and still plays the harp. She sent all her piano music to her 12-year-old twin grandsons in WA—they will be having a musical presentation shortly. I received a sad note from Dr. Brian Quinn, husband of Dalmar von der Heyde Quinn—she came down with dementia 2 years ago and can no longer communicate with him. Kathie Redelfs Rott lives in St. Andres in Boca Raton, in a CCRC. “Activities are many that keep us active and well-informed.” She lives near her daughter and husband, as well as her son and his wife. Bev Rosenberg Sager keeps busy taking classes at a community college 3 days a week. In Aug. she plans to visit her children in CA. Sheila Seigal Asher and Dick celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in June. Kay Sponselor Patten still lives in her home, with help from her daughter and grandson.

She still enjoys playing duplicate bridge and going out for breakfast. Shirley Dana Few writes: “my big event of the year is the expectation of my first great-grandson. My oldest granddaughter and her husband are the proud parents. They live in Brooklyn

so I won’t be able to see him as much as I would like. I had breast surgery in March but all is well; they got it all out and I did not need any treatment, just a pill a day for the next 10 years, which is easy and a blessing. It is being proactive and helps toward my not getting cancer anywhere else. Ten years at my age is very optimistic!” In June Hal and I, Johanna Chait Essex, and my sisters Muriel Chait Durbin ’56 and Linda Chait Solomon ’63 took a Tauck tour of the upper MI area, including a visit to Mackinac Island—horses, bicycles and walking were the only modes of transportation. We celebrated our 65th anniversary while on the trip— we are both fine and looking forward to celebrating Hal’s 65th reunion from the USMMA this Sept.

After 18 years in FL, Barbara “Bim” Mayer Werle and Jerry moved to Wake Robin in VT and greeted the first snow like little kids. They helped with a sugar operation that produced 80 gallons of maple syrup, then helped with the tag sale, which raises $30,000/year for enrichment programs. Sarah Kuhns Giarratana lives in Philadelphia in a senior housing complex. She plans to start sculpting again.

1954 Jean Baker Leister Weikert 717-624-3960

Winter, spring and summer 2019 have constituted a slowed-down life style with a more accepting attitude of “let it be.” Mind and ideas moving ahead of the ability to move around! Reunion was anticipated with a night before sleeplessness full of fond memories. Mark and I arrived at Hood, picked up our reunion itinerary at Whitaker, and then drove to lunch at the Ronald J. Volpe Athletic Center. Lunch was a friendly occasion with Britton Muir, assistant director of alumni and constituent engagement, helping us find a table comprised of several friendly alums: Leah Giambarresi MacDonald ’03, Elizabeth Thompson ’08, Jackie Resop Amato ’95, Donna Brown and Bill Brown, vice president of enrollment management, and Maggie Mitchell Kline ’55. Sitting next to Maggie, I learned Maggie and her spouse moved into Dr. Jane McCarrell’s former home near Hood. Harry McAlpine, husband of Betsy McCain McAlpine ’51, also greeted us and informed us of Betsy’s passing this past spring. He mentioned their difficulty in encountering dementia. Harry McAlpine and Maggie’s husband served in Vietnam together. We enjoyed socializing

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“What can you do with a liberal arts education?” and sharing the lunch of turkey and quinoa salad, beverages and cheesecake. We were able to hear vice president of institutional advancement, Nancy Gillece ’81 introduce President Andrea Chapdelaine, who told sincerely and briefly of her joy to see Hood’s advancement. We were gratified to meet the recipients of the alumna achievement awards.

Your class correspondent is especially happy to witness Magaly Mauras Green ’74 who continues to serve on the staff of Harpers Ferry while living with her husband and sons in Frederick. Having met when we attended Hood’s graduate school from 1976 to 1979, Magaly is actively encouraging Hood’s multi-cultural student population. Adjoining our lunch table was Ginny Turnbull Hecklinger ’56. It was great to speak with Ginny who resides at Homewood in Frederick. Malinda “Lindy” Small ’81 is daughter of Barney and Myrlene Miller Small.

Lindy’s mother is a high school classmate of Mark’s and mine. Lindy shall continue to serve Hood while being a part of the institutional advancement staff.

President Emeritus Ron Volpe also welcomed us with his warm smile and handshake. After such a friendly, yet introspective lunch we retreated to our room in Shriner. Staying at Shriner until Sunday morning was reminiscent of appreciating the use of elevators rather than using stairways.

Onward, after a brief rest, to dinner at Coblentz for a Maryland seafood dinner. Our Shriner hall mate, Althea Bates Travis-McCarthy ’64, invited us to share the 1964 table where we socialized with the following: Althea Bates Travis-McCarthy ’64 and her husband of long island, Ann McMillan Shuman ’64 of Delray Beach, FL, Marylou Herrmann Foley ’64 and her husband of Atlanta, GA, who related her extensive travel to Russia and to Germany.

Nolah Sawyer Fulk had called earlier to tell of her intention to attend reunion. However, she fell several weeks prior, which is making her more aware of downsizing and the possibility of an estate sale. Her daughter and son-in-law are nearing retirement. Betty Remsberg DeColigny spent June 9 with gathering triplet granddaughters. We sometimes see Betty at church in Hanover. Several months after moving from her and Warren’s farm near Middletown, MD, into Homewood in Hanover, Warren passed away. Betty resides in their cottage.

Betty’s 28-year-old triplet granddaughters find it difficult to gather together, yet they could on that reunion weekend. Megan Thomas Eisenberg is marketing director for Avemco Insurance Co. in Frederick. Erin Thomas, a bride-to-be in Oct. 2019, is a social worker at Homewood in Frederick. Kelly Thomas Keller is a biological science lab technician for USDA ARS Foreign Disease-Weed Science Unit and Fort Detrick. Betty wanted to also share facts about a fourth granddaughter, Cindy Armentrout Ray, who is a wedding planner as well as a proud wife

Lots! Writing, for one.

My chosen field.—Chris Santrizos Chagaris ’85

of a dedicated fireman and mother of an adorable 2-year-old son. Other alumni receiving recognition and giving talks are Cindy Nofziger ’79 and Jillian Jones ’12 who serve with the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, helping to establish libraries, schools and hospitals. Kudos to their persistence and strength.

Mark and I participated in a mediation and conflict resolution course conducted by Adams County Mediators. We also did 4 weeks of a beginners drawing class, which inspired us to delve into the art of drawing people. Keep in touch!

1956 Muriel Chait Durbin 310-701-2843, msmuz@aol.com

Thanks to all who responded to my request for news. Cynthia Sternberg Schein keeps busy visiting friends and family. She was happy to be able to attend her granddaughter and grandson’s college graduations. She keeps busy when she is home; her piano group has reformed and now has 4 duet members, under the auspices of Venice Musicale. Their performances raise money for music scholarships. She would love to see anyone coming to Venice. Alison Malloch Curran writes that she has been at Seabrook, a retirement community in NJ for 1.5 years, and is loving it.

She is only a few miles from where she used to live so still has lots of old friends and new friends.

She had a knee replacement in Feb. but is almost back to normal. She will be taking a trip to CA in July to see her granddaughter married and hope to see her freshman and sophomore roommate Anne “Cokey” Lanoue Weber. She lives close to where the wedding will be held. Each year seems to be a blessing, especially now at 85. Becky Eppers Byrd’s main news is that she went to NC the week of Memorial Day, courtesy of daughter Daphne and husband, for the triplets’ party and graduation from high school. Got to brag—Samantha and Michael were co-valedictorians, and Andrew was 14th out of a class of 380. So very proud of them and their parents. Other than that, she just keeps plugging along. Health is good, just the back is a problem. She keeps busy with craft work and volunteering. Barbara Tovell Tennant writes that she and Bruce moved to a CCRC called Wesley Commons in Greenwood, SC. They wanted to escape the annual hurricane threats they had in the Lowcountry. “With the help of my 2 daughters, we moved all my Bonsai trees here to a ground floor apt. where I can tend to them at my front and back doors. This past weekend Greenwood had its annual Garden Tour, Wesley Commons participated for the first time, and I had my trees on display.

Visitors asked me why I had this hobby: my answer

was, it’s a perfect outlet for an art major who loves gardening. Haven’t seen any Hoodlums for ages, do keep in touch with Ginny Turnbull Hecklinger and Sandy Newing.” Jackie Kling Kreider had a wonderful family reunion at Clator Lake in VA. The children, spouses and 7 grandkids were there. Helen Ward Wheeler keeps busy with their grandchildren and 5-year-old great-grandson.

She and Jack are happy that they don’t live at the breakneck speed of the younger generation. As for myself, Muriel “Muzzy” Chait Durbin, I am still working as a travel adviser and very much enjoy planning trips for my clients.

1957 Martha Smith Sperandio 727-219-7115, mollymom76@gmail.com

Barbara Thomas Yinger: Just got back from Woodstock, NY, enjoying being with daughter Laura and her family from IN, Louisville and NYC. Our grandson owns a cabin there and it creates a nice family get-together place. That included getting better acquainted with 2 of our great-grandchildren, a 2-year-old and a 1-year-old. In early June I spent a morning with our “local” 4-year-old granddaughter to accompany her and about 10 other daycare friends on a 2-hour nature hike. Both experiences were energizing! Elsie Lyon Hinkhouse: It’s been a fabulous time at Morning Star, a senior living facility in Boise, ID, where I have lived since Jim’s passing. I have met Kuulei Mobley Green ’59, a classmate. Neither of us remembered each other but share many other remembrances of classmates and wonderful times at Hood. Kuulei is a retired Episcopal priest, another great connection we have. In addition I’ve had a fabulous time in Boise.

Youngest daughter Amy and her family live here... the reason why we moved to Boise, and I spend lots of time with her and her family. This year daughter Ginger from the Seattle area and her husband were here for 5 days, and daughter Julie, her husband and 2 daughters from Cypress, TX visited 5 days. I’m blessed to be in Boise! Carol Harkness Kilrea: Lots going on in my life—last of my 14 grandchildren graduated high school and is off to the Kelly School of Business at Indiana Univ. #13 finishing his 2nd year at ND where he made All American in cross country running. #12 finishing up at Penn State and #11 completing her degree at Iowa! All the rest working in Chicago—have apartments and in various degrees of relationships—Keegan got married last summer so we all welcomed Matt—a great guy! Beverly Shores has just been named our 61st National Park (we are within a much larger area) and also been named Indiana Bird Town by the Audubon Society! Bill and I traveled to Mexico this FA L L

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Think critically, discern fact from fiction and be passionately compassionate.—Dorothy M. Van Steinburg ’96, P’00 winter and a month in FL. We are now packing up for a family gathering in Hilton Head followed by a trip to Scotland—so very excited! My Fitbit pushes me forward, and thankfully we are both healthy and able to “get on with things.” Wow! Molly Smith Sperandio: Dealing with a hip replacement in Jan. and subsequent rehab and therapy kept me from participating in one of my favorite volunteer jobs—that of being a tax consultant for the 2018 tax year during the months of Jan.-April. If I had done my studying when I got my books in Nov., I probably could have done some of it, but a minor fall that tore up my arm and a bout with pneumonia kept me from it. And after that little infection, which I had never experienced before, I can understand how people die from that disease! I’m still walking with a cane, but that did not keep me from enjoying my annual drive to Willow Valley, PA, in April to spend time with my sisters, bro-in-law and some nieces; a trip to CA in June for Sophi’s high school graduation from Sacramento Waldorf School—the 7th of my 8 grandchildren; and another annual drive to Bethlehem, PA, in June for our 38th Smith family reunion. We live on. All is normal!

1958 Maggie Garis Kellow 414-418-5782,maggiehood1958@gmail.com

Cynthia Williams Bohaker reports that everything is well in ME. She recently enjoyed the family for 2 weeks at a cottage at Goose Rocks Beach, Kennebunkport, ME. The next “family bonding” will be in Phoenix over Christmas and New Year’s. Sue Brown Melech says Bob and she are healthy. They are madly trying to learn Spanish in planning their final “big” trip this Sept. to Machu Picchu and the Galapagos. Their 5 grandsons ages 21, two at 17 and two at 13 are all ok. They spend Jan. through April in FL to get out of the Rochester winters. Anne Walton Merriken says that they have survived the 84 tornadoes and flooding that OK experienced in May. Their bright spots were visits from son Stuart in June and Jim and family in July. Carolyn “CYP” Patton Meyer is still going through “stuff” to hopefully move later this year into an apartment. She remarked that after a cool June, they are having unrelenting 90-degree temperatures. She says, “Remember being in the dorms with no air conditioning?” Sara Lea Callaway Redmon says that since 2018 their plans have centered around Carl’s heart and resulting surgery. After weeks of “hurry up and wait,” they got an appointment at the Cleveland Heart Clinic in OH. It was Feb. when they made the first trip to Cleveland and the chill factor was -11 (not what their southern blood was used to!). They felt very blessed that he was accepted to have a TAVR procedure. (This is 52

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surgery to replace a valve without open heart!) It was May before it could be scheduled, but everything went perfectly. Blessings upon blessings! Diana Hagenbarth Russo is spending the summer in the cool mountains of NC. Sadly, she relates that husband Fred passed away in Dec. and says that she is more than lonely. Thankfully, she has a good church family and great neighbors. She says, “God loves me/you more than we can ever imagine. (I can certainly relate to that, Diana). Marthanne Stephens Smith took a quick trip to VT to watch grandson Andrew graduate from high school. Granddaughter Allie is now happily married to a great young man and has precious rescue Heinz variety dog! Marthanne is still taking enrichment classes at the local community college.

She and Duff are still determined to NOT join the ranks of a retirement home! Anne “Ricky” Merrick Vosti says, “Life in CA continues to be costly and frantic. Between earthquakes, fires and politics, one never knows what to expect.” Carole Moore White’s youngest grandchild graduated in May from the Univ. of Richmond. Fritz is still in remission but has midstage macular degeneration, so life has changed for them. Carole has early stage pulmonary fibrous. She is glad that Mayo is close by and their 3 daughters live in FL. Jo Olmstead Witherington has traveled to Northern Italy to Cinque Terre and the Dolomites. She went from snow in the Dolomites to 90 degrees in FL. In Aug., she is headed to the Baltic Sea starting in Stockholm and ending up in Copenhagen. Somehow, she still manages to sing and present narrations of poems, spoken word and monologues with a large group of 150-300 and a small group of vintage, seasoned, aged people. Joan Bennett Moran and Carol Horwath Klecka were delighted to host President Andrea Chapdelaine, Nancy Gillece ’81 and director of alumni and constituent engagement, Kellye Greenwald ’86 in March. Carol has moved to a large, newer facility where she receives more support. It is Tuscan Gardens of Venetia Bay. Carol Huelson Warrington and husband Bob were in Venice for 6 weeks in spring but have returned to Mays Landing, NJ, for continuing medical care. Jeb reports that her health is considerably improved as a result of months of medication and physical therapy.

She still has essential tremor 24/7 but has regained strength and improved balance. She looks forward to having her first great-grandson visit in July. He joins 2 great-granddaughters. Life in Wisconsin is about the same for me, Maggie Garis Kellow. My main problem is osteoporosis. I try to keep active with senior center activities, family gatherings, church events, etc. Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for news so promptly. Prayers and blessings for contentment in whatever our future may bring.

Love and Good Health to everyone.

Inspire others.—Gillian Hetrick ’21

1959 Anne Wilson Heuisler 410-980-4747, aheuisler@comcast.net

We celebrated our 60th reunion in June. Twelve of us attended the luncheon on Saturday, June 8: Gayle Hamilton Blakeslee, Mary Jane Finlay Hodge, Nancy Fletcher Artlett, Janet Hobbs Cotton, Edee Howard Hogan, Carol Koreywo LeGore, Rachel Ravey Johnson, Nancy Rogers Huntsinger, Patricia Shoaf, Carol Wick Ericksen, Roberta Wood Trimble, and I. Edee was recognized for her gift of $250,000 to establish a master’s degree program in nutrition. Jeannette Phelps was remembered for her bequest to the Virginia Lewis Chair in History. Mary Jane Finlay Hodge planned to visit Rachel Ravey Johnson in VA after the reunion. Then return to Long Island to her responsibilities as a clinical therapist and as a cat rescuer and to her “wonderful daughter Clea who is married and lives nearby.” Nancy Fletcher Artlett said, “The weekend was super—old friends, great weather and more than enough food! College looks marvelous—I was just happy to be here.” Gayle Hamilton Blakeslee and Natalie spent “a wonderful 10 days in Paris in April—yes, we were there for the fire, a couple of hours before it was discovered.”

Janet Hobbs Cotton continues to serve as a Hood trustee. She said, “The campus looks fabulous. In Sept. we graduate the first doctoral degrees. Great academic progress. I am a docent at the Phoenix Art Museum. We enjoy our vacation home in Puerto Vallarta.” Edee Howard Hogan said it was “great to be at Hood again—Hood is looking good as are the Class of 59ers. I spend the summer at Bethany Beach, DE. If you are in the area, stop in.” Carole Jones Rogers and daughter Caroline hosted a miniHood reunion for Gayle Hamilton Blakeslee, Judy Moreland Granger and Anne Wilson Heuisler at Caroline’s home on the Eastern Shore of VA. They visited Ocean City, MD, and Chincoteague National Seashore, “talked about old and new times, and had wonderful days.” Carol Koreywo LeGore was “happy to see class members and to be on the gorgeous campus. The luncheon was held in the new gym part of the wonderful sports complex.

Both of her sons and families live “close by.” Judith Moreland Granger and Bob celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in June. They recently moved from Sun City to a senior apartment about 20 minutes away in downtown Georgetown, TX. She spent a week in Baltimore and on the Eastern Shore with Hood roommate Carole Jones Rogers and “dear friends Anne Wilson Heuisler and Gayle Hamilton Blakeslee.” Judy was looking forward to their grandson’s June wedding and to visiting

Be a better global citizen. —Ivana Soce Shuck ’16

her brother and sister-in-law in the western NC mountains. Rachel Ravey Johnson and Carl stayed in Shriner where she had “wonderful memories of dear dorm pals, including Mary Jane Finlay Hodge, Eleanore “Bunny” Johannesen-Lynn, and Sally Sylvester Donohue. My life has been one of wilderness adventure, kayaks, canoes, tobogganing, dog-sledding and swimming every chance I get!

Still going strong. Loved college teaching, adore my 2 daughters.” Nancy Rogers Huntsinger said it was “a real treat to see ‘old’ friends and Hood—all of us—and the campus looking better than ever!

President Andrea Chapdelaine is a treasure!” MaryLou Trout Haddad and husband Charles hosted Gayle Hamilton Blakeslee, Carole Jones Rogers, Judy Moreland Granger, and me in Boyertown, PA, for lunch. To welcome us, Charles had mounted on the State Theatre marquee “Welcome Hood College 1959”! He also provided a special Hood cake for our dessert. Carol Wick Ericksen moved to Maris Grove, an Erickson retirement community, last Oct. She traveled to Spain in April with Edee Howard Hogan and the Hood trip. She is playing golf and bridge and enjoying her new situation. Mary Jane Willis Bowman, 81, of Farragut, TN, died April 14.

She taught social studies and reading for 24 years at Cherokee Middle School. She played tennis and bridge, sang in the choir of Farragut Presbyterian Church and volunteered with museums and the food pantry. She was a graduate of the Univ. of TN with a bachelor’s degree in education and a graduate of TN Technology Univ. with a master’s in elementary education. She is survived by husband Robert Bowman and a daughter and son. Roberta Wood Trimble said, “I am impressed with the campus, curriculum and future plans. Life has been great, and I perceive that my Hood experience was very foundational to that experience. I still am working at a mental hospital full-time doing groups for outpatient therapy. I am grateful.”

1960 Audrey Heyman Rooney 410-699-1230, aerooney423@gmail.com

Gretchen Beckhelm writes: “Sister Babs and I just returned to Cedar Rapids from a scenic 2-week cruise up the west coast of Norway, sailing as far as North Cape where the midnight sun shone brightly. After being home for 2 weeks, we drove to CO where we rented a house and were joined by 10 other family members for a week of fun, games and laughter. Life is good!” Sally Fletcher Murray spent a fun weekend in Poughkeepsie for the graduation of grandson Ben from Vassar. The following week, she surprised husband Don with an 85th birthday party at Graves Mountain Lodge,

Educate the next generation.—Gina Drum ’21

in Syria, VA, with the Murray children from CA, FL and AK among 18 relatives in attendance. Several Hood friends participated in a “card shower” for Don; at our age we don’t need more “stuff!” Sally is enjoying having her sister Nancy Fletcher Artlett ’59 back in VA permanently after 27 years in Australia. During a conversation with Sally, Anne Kurka Woods summed up her move to the Highlands in Pittsford, NY, thus: “I’m loving my senior living apartment, escaped part of winter’s fury at my time share in Coronado, have 2 greatgrandsons and I’m playing too much bridge.”

Linda Loring Loveland posts from Piscataway: “For 52 years we have lived in the same house on the shores of the lake in NJ. Kids and grands still like to visit; to row, to fish and witness the natural history of our backyard. Catfish, shiners, frogs and turtles and birds galore are with us.

Monarch butterflies have been known to visit my milkweed garden. The women’s group I helped found in the ’70s endures as we move from the consciousness-raising of that decade to today’s poetry of the new century. Nurturing the life of the mind is as important as walks twice a week in the park to stimulate long-used muscles. Brava, Linda! Maryann Whitehead Scherzo writes: “Our daughter, Beth, a single mom, died of metastatic breast cancer in Jan. We were with our grandsons in NYC for a week over the Fourth.” May Beth’s life be for a blessing. From your reporter in Lexington, KY: “Roommate Grace Elliott and I enjoyed an all-too-brief reunion in June at her airy apartment 10 floors up in Silver Spring.

Beautiful family photos, past and present, books, delicious meals—oh, the meatloaf!—and funny stories of husbands, boyfriends, Messiah weekend memories. Highlights and a big lowlight mark my past year. The lowlight is concern for grandson Colin Rooney, 24, ill with progressive liver disease.

Computer engineer Colin works at Leidos in Charlottesville and is a patient at the UVA Medical Center. Colin and his family are on a multitude of prayer and mindfulness lists. We ask that you add him to yours. A second poetry manuscript “Available Light,” off to publisher for release in the fall. Granddaughter Katherine Mandzak enjoys her role as Innkeeper at the Red Fox Inn and Tavern in Middleburg, VA, and will debut her novel later this month. Daughter Melinda’s eldest son, Ben, is running for mayor of Middletown, CT, his college town and new hometown. In April our 6th Bach Choir Vocal Competition hosted 10 finalists and prize-winners: a soprano from DC, a Univ. of KY soprano from Zimbabwe and a countertenor, also at Univ. of KY. For info and pictures, visit kentuckybachchoir.org. Next ARVC is set for April 2021. Thank you for these precious updates, dear classmates. Till next time. —Audrey

1961 Katharine Baum Wolpe 917-771-9846, kwolpe@gmail.com Marty Kaiser Canner 410.314.9440, plcanner39@gmail.com

Constance Ann Coleman Alexander still enjoys her position as director of music at Messiah Lutheran Church. She planned a trip to Bethany Beach in July 2019 with her family and a trip to Aruba in Sept.

2019 with her brother, Bill. Lynne Linzey Barnes and husband John have lived in Western Springs, IL, for 57 years. They spend winters near Sarasota, FL, where Lynne visits with Mary Jane Evans Hahn and Nancy van der Walde. Last year they were joined by Mary Drewal Regan. Nancy Brown Braudrick is going on a cruise that will include AK and Victoria, Canada. Nancy’s whole family will also be going as a celebration of her daughterin-law’s 40th birthday. Sally Bennett Edwards is still working and playing tennis. To celebrate her 80th birthday, she bought herself a 2016 Mercedes sports car. She will be taking 21 family members for a week’s vacation in Manchester, VT, and then she will spend the rest of summer 2019 on Cape Cod. Judy Arenson Friedman planned to spend July and Aug. 2019 in ME and MA and return to Boca Raton, FL, in Oct. One granddaughter has graduated from college and another is working at a Native American reservation in MT. Anne Bierstein Grenfell has returned to teaching and works with ill children. She and Mary Anne Fleetwood are trying to reunite the Kindred Spirits group. Brenda Sheaffer Hillard and husband Ray moved to an apartment in a retirement community in Lititz, PA, in March 2019. Jeanne Duncan Jehl attended Hood Commencement in May 2019 at the invitation of Brielle Rozmus ’19, student body president.

Jeanne was impressed by the fact that there were as many master’s degree candidates as bachelor’s degree candidates. Hilda Koontz has been giving presentations on PTSD. She is scheduled to give one in St. Louis in Sept. 2019 and one in Springfield, IL, in April 2020. She is planning to vacation in CO in the fall 2019. Christine Steere Lamb has moved from ME to Chevy Chase, MD, to be near son Bob and daughter Katie who live in Gaithersburg, MD. Kit Compton Long is living in San Luis Obispo, CA, and loves it. She and John have been married for 58 years, and she is now his full-time caregiver.

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Bring perspective and communications skills to the STEM fields!—Catherine Traini ’16 see polar bears. Dorothy Willis Rainwater and husband Roger are well. She enjoys swimming and kayaking in the Gulf of Mexico, which is close to their home. Their youngest son is a paramedic and continues his mother’s heritage as a health professional. In the effort to contact classmates for news for this column, we learned that Sally Sue Saylor passed away on July 12, 2018. We send our condolences to Sally Sue’s family. Barbara Hufham Wells and husband Richard continue to enjoy living in Moscow, ID. Every Saturday, from May to Oct., the local farmers’ market provides them with fresh organic fruits and vegetables, plus the opportunity to see and talk with their friends and neighbors.

Katharine Baum Wolpe saw 2 art shows in NYC in spring 2019. She remains active with her church and in Democratic politics, and enjoys attending dance performances and off-Broadway theater with her companion, Philip. She had a visit with Anita Ranoldo Miner in NYC in April 2019. Beth Lee Zehnder’s husband, Chuck, had 2 strokes in April 2019 and at the end of May, the Lord took him home to be with Him. Beth is comforted knowing Chuck is at peace. She is blessed with great support from her family. We send our condolences to Beth and her family. Sandy Doty Zeitler lives in Tomball, TX, near Houston and still communicates with Hood friends. Carol Handwerk Ziegler is busy with church-related activities. She is also doing needlepoint again. She is currently working on a 3D English village. Shirley Garrett Haley said she had no news, but asked me, Marty Kaiser Canner, how I was adjusting to Charlestown. I would say we are adjusting well. In May 2019 we visited a friend of ours who lives in a retirement community in Mechanicsburg, PA. During our visit, our friend mentioned a fellow resident who was a friend of hers. We later met that friend, Mary Louise Huebl Moran. Lou and I enjoyed seeing one another again so unexpectedly.

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Elizabeth “Betts” Davis Ackerman visited charming “Bavarian” village Leavenworth, WA, during an accordion festival and the OR coast for a week for biking, kayaking and hiking. Judy Hammond Blatchford: “Park and I traveled to Iceland, French Polynesia and the Adirondacks.

Our 3rd (of 5) grandchild is starting college. We continue to see Nancy Turner Heckscher, Jane Hoskins Bollman, Susan Shinnick Hossfeld and husbands from time to time.” Gail Dawson Clarke relocated to the Four Corners area of CO, studies plant and animal life, silversmithing, appreciates 54

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the landscape, and cuts and polishes stones. She installed wildlife cameras to watch deer, jackrabbits, skunks, foxes and coyotes. Caroline Fischer Giles: “Downsizing, moving into a continuing care retirement community. Getting rid of stuff, whether giving it to family or donating to various organizations is a real challenge for me, not for husband Brian. Keeping our Martha’s Vineyard cottage as a get-away.” Sunny Griffin: “After 25 years in fabulous Telluride, CO, we are moving to Ocean Hills Country Club, an active retirement community in Oceanside, CA, to be closer to our grandchildren—3-year-old twins who live in LA.” Nancy Turner Heckscher shared a photo (see online) of friends: Judy Hammond Blatchford, Jane Hoskins Bollman, Susan Shinnick Hossfeld and Nancy Turner Heckscher. They met for lunch in MD in June. Susan Shinnick Hossfeld: “Six family members spent 2 weeks in Hawaii to celebrate Carl’s 80th birthday; visited Maui, Kauai, Oahu and the big island of Hawaii. Hikes, zip lines (not me), beaches, a hike from the Diamond Head Crater to the top (me too) and swimming with the sharks (not me).” Harriet “Rusty” Papst Hougland: “Bill and I started our annual winter retreat to Amelia Island, FL, when we learned that a pipe burst in our CT home. $3,000 worth of water does a lot of damage! Insurance is a good thing!” Doris Dalziel Kimball: She and George commuted monthly to Minneapolis to care for daughter Marian’s chemo side effects, 10 hospital stays and stem cell transplant. They are hoping for her to be cured.

Doris enjoys bridge, reading groups and singing with quartets for hospice. Penny Mardoian: “Hi from ME. My son, Richard, and his wife, Christine, are now ME residents of Phippsburg. I will remain in CT where I have lived since 1967. Our family will travel to southern Spain for a week mid-Oct.” Linda MacDonough Morrow: Visited family and friends from Bellingham, WA, to San Jose, CA. In May, they visited England and Hungary. In July Lynn hosts the annual Morrow Family Reunion and a reunion of Nicaragua mission team members at Arch Spring Farm, a “non-hosted B&B.” Beth Pauley Teletski judged quilting shows on Long Island and Brookhaven. She and Lou cruised from Bucharest to Budapest. Moving to Heron Point in Chestertown, MD. Address: 481 Sandpiper Court, Chestertown, MD 21620. Beth loves life with Lou, driving grandchildren around, talking to plants, reading, attending graduations and quilting. Marvia Slade Perreault: “Husband of almost 56 years, Bill, died suddenly from heart failure. Daughters Michele and Melanie were with me; sons Bill and John came the next week. I have joined the Widows Group ‘majority’ here at Mallard Landing, though that was not my goal.” Barbara Arthur Pretzsch: At the Chain Link Conference she was on the

master’s committee; taught a day-long master’s crochet course, served as reviewer. Transports dogs to “furever homes.” Attends exercise classes and line dancing. Cruised from New Orleans with Linda Martin McManus and Marvia Slade Perreault.”

Regina Schlank Pyle: Winter break on Marco Island, attended Standup 2 Cancer conference in Santa Monica as guest of Tom’s oncologist at Mass General. Traveled to China; attended Beijing wedding of Bikui “Chinese son” who worked with Tom. Visited Chengdu and the Dujiangyan Panda Base. Liz Decker Rogers: Traveled to Greece and Portugal with son Matt, his wife Deepa, Deepa’s mom, 10-year-old Maya and 8-year-old Kishan. Liz plans to take both sons and families for a weeklong trip to Duluth, MN, to scatter Bill’s ashes. Barb Kirby Stewart: “I had a reoccurrence of breast cancer last summer, but avoided chemo. Live blood test to blood test. We are enjoying another beautiful ME summer with exquisite flowering rhododendrons, lupine and lilacs. My girls’ families all doing great.”

Sara Zimmerman: “Crossed the Atlantic again, this time on the QM2. Honored on board were WWII D-Day vets. Then in Berlin, I participated in the European Unitarian general assembly. In Tampa, I volunteer with USF OLLI as language and lit instructor and board member.”

1963 Mary-Verdella Wagner Nelson’s husband, Paul, passed away May 30, 2019. We offer our sincere condolences to Mary-Verdella and the entire Nelson family.

1964 Barbara Maly Fish 919-475-8301, barb2fish@yahoo.com

Satchel Paige once said this about age: “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” A group of women who seemed not to know their ages gathered at Hood for all or part of our 55th reunion weekend June 7-9. They included Betsey Covel, Cookie Johnson Bolig, Barbara Strayer Brittain, Connie Heard Damon, Marylou Herrmann Foley, Claire Fulenwider, Flo Sechler Miller, Kate Jenks Powell, Susan “Eloise” Varney Helfenstein Rauth, Sandy Borrelli Ricci, Ann McMillan Shuman, Susan Lyeth Sternfeld, Mary Frances Gaver Trunk, Harriet “Hardie” LeSourd Wise, Althea Bates Travis-McCarthy, Heidi Stephens Whitesel, and me, Barb Maly Fish. Laughter sometimes mingled with tears as we reminisced about those good old days and the happiness and sadness that have filled the years since then. Special thanks go to Harriet Wise for

Change careers with relative ease.

—Rebecca Betz Graves ’74

hosting our group at her new home that Friday night and to Marylou Foley for using her superpowers of persuasion to pull everything together. Too bad more of you couldn’t come. Although she could not come, Gayle Reed Carroll contributed a poem she had written for all of us. She was in Ireland in June working on an MFA in a joint program run

by Carlow Univ. in Pittsburgh and Trinity College in Dublin. Much of what she saw near Trinity seemed familiar and Gayle vaguely remembered rooming there with Betsey Covel when the Hood Choir made a singing tour of several European cities back in the day. Gayle wants to know if anyone else remembers that trip. Several people had to miss the reunion for less happy reasons. Eleanor Berklite Harris and husband Alastair have been dealing with treatment for his recent diagnosis of multiple myeloma. In April, he received an autologous stem cell transplant at M.D. Anderson in Houston and the Harrises will return there for follow-up over the next year. Alastair is doing well, and they are hopeful that the treatments will add to the quantity and quality of his life. Ed Sneckenberger, husband of Mary “Scottie” Hansbrough Sneckenberger, sent me the following message: “Scottie has been able to recover from the stroke that she experienced on her left side in Minnesota in Feb. enough that we could return to our senior living home in Morgantown, WV. Unfortunately, after just week of being back home in Morgantown, Scottie experienced a stroke on her right side. Fortunately, she has not suffered too much mentally from the 2 strokes, and she is able to move her upper body and both of her arms. The hospital assessment for Scottie’s second stroke has found that she has a defect in her heart that will probably need correcting in the near future.

This defect could be a contributor to the 2 strokes that she has experienced and is also a possible explanation for her often being tired.” Ed added that Scottie would love to receive messages from former classmates. Her address is 106 Heritage Point, Morgantown, WV 26505. This column ends with more sad news: Dave Johnson, husband of Pam Wallace Johnson, died March 28. I send the sympathy of the class to Pam and her family.

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Kathleen “Kate” L. Blatchford, 74, of Nashua, NH, died Dec. 17, 2018 at the Newton Wellesley Skilled Nursing Center in Wellesley, MA. Born in Southbridge, she graduated from Hingham High School, then earned a BA in education from Hood and a master’s in special education from the Univ. of DE. Kate taught at Appoquinimink High School in

Anything you want!—Jennifer English Keefer ’92

DE, retiring in 2002 to return to her New England roots where she enjoyed crafts and writing. Kate is survived by a son and daughter, grandchildren and 2 brothers. Marilyn “Lynn” Farnell “got real tired of ‘communal’ living” at the Boston-area condo where she’d been for some years. So back to a suburban rancher in Natick, MA, followed by months of upgrading the 1950s structure. “Money and time seem to fly out the window with some regularity!” Lynn wrote. She’s given up her longtime property management work at a Boston apartment building but continues researching esoteric subjects at the JFK Library for distant writers/researchers as well as being deeply involved in church work.

Last year, Lynne and her sister’s family retraced their father’s WWII movements through France and Germany, including his landing site at Normandy.

She and Deb Bentley Hall and husband Eric, of Quincy, MA, took a driving tour through England’s Poldark country in 2018, laughing all the way.

Deb still goes to the gym every morning and has boundless energy, Lynne reported, very useful for keeping up with 9 grandchildren. Judy Lang Spooner, another of the Hood students who moved to Cambridge after graduation, lives in Wellesley Hills, MA. Daughter Amy Spooner, M.D., is one of the top cardiologists at Mass General and “a wonderful young woman.” After a 23-year career as a teacher, Sue Hertzler Geery regretfully retired from the classroom years ago. Since then she has been a rolling stone of sorts, leaving her Darien, CT, home for frequent adventures, including amazing trips to Africa with her lifelong best friend and visits to her scattered family—one son in Taos, NM, another in NYC and a daughter and grandson in Hudsonville, MI. This past July 7, she and classmate Diana Regen Carter attended the Rolling Stones concert in Foxborough, MA, ticking one more item off her bucket list. A painful knee had restricted Bev Jones Gibson’s work as a MD realtor and her golf game, but with successful replacement surgery earlier this year, she is getting back in business. Contact her at newhomes.bg@gmail. com if you’re searching for property in Prince Georges or Anne Arundel County. Bev missed our 50th reunion because her daughter was injured in a serious auto accident at that time. Now with her daughter recovered and her own knee no longer paining her, Bev looks forward to our next reunion.

“My new life in Columbia, SC, is surprisingly full in many ways,” wrote Carolyn Oldman Gregory, who moved there from Albuquerque several years ago to live with her sister. “I am working with a small group, People for Reconciliation, that organizes events exploring and promoting anti-racism—a feisty group of Old South Carolinians for certain.”

Carolyn also delights in the local symphony, ballet, theater and underground music, poetry and writing

that thrive in the city. She teaches the occasional meditation and energy dynamics class and plays with a wonderfully inclusive spiritual group called Jubilee Circle. Unfortunately, Carolyn participates in these rewarding activities while enduring the consequences of an old injury that make walking extremely painful. So far, she has resisted surgery.

Her son relocated from Australia to the Philippines where a charming grandson was born about a year ago. In July, Marci Williams Ross reported that she and husband Chuck were “recuperating” in Chautauqua, NY, their summer home. The “ailment” had been a 2-week family reunion and extended Father’s Day surprise for Chuck in their hometown of Jacksonville, FL, and on Amelia Island just up the Atlantic coast. Their sons’ families, including 6 grandchildren, live in CA, SC and Jacksonville.

Thanks to our 50th communications, Marci reconnected with her Hood roommates, Zoe Clapp Marino ’64 and Bev Jones Gibson, discovering that Zoe also lives in Jacksonville. More recently, she’s provided expert commiseration to Bev during her knee surgery. Marci couldn’t attend the reunion because her first knee replacement had failed, but the second had a “great” outcome, and now her other knee will be getting a makeover in Aug. Surgeries aside, “Life has been good to the Rosses,” she wrote.

1966 Dianne Beebe Barske eldibarske@gmail.com

Gathering news can create such a mixture of sadness and joy. It was with a great jolt of sadness that I learned of the passing of Laurie Wheeler Brown. Laurie died May 8 at her home in Melbourne, FL, where she had managed the Museum Store and the museum’s national and international travel program, and had served as president of the Board of Trustees. Following her retirement from the museum in 2003, Laurie and husband Fayette “Brownie” split their time between FL and their second home in the mountains outside Asheville, NC. She and Brownie had been married for 53 years and have daughter Melissa of New Orleans, LA, and son Alexander, of Leicester, NC. Many of us at Hood will remember Laurie rushing off to visit Brownie many weekends at Yale, or heading off to the stables to ride. I am very grateful for the time I had with Laurie during our 50th reunion years ago. We had a long walk together to Downtown Frederick on a hot Saturday afternoon to get ice cream, visiting and sharing much laughter on the way. Words of happy developments in their lives came from classmates.

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Make a worthwhile contribution to society, and make a difference!—Shelley Wagar ’83 banjo and the hammered dulcimer! She is also a quilter, working on a queen-sized quilt. And since moving to Vermont, she’s been painting some barn quilts for the outside of her home. “I have a lovely upstairs guestroom if anyone is ever in the area and would like to stop by.” Sally is teaching classes online in advanced scientific writing and medical technology, and enjoying gardening more now that she has 2 bionic knees. Mary Marguerite Melville totaled up her family members for us. “My children are doing well, and I have 9 grandchildren and greats!” Mary still teaches one day a week, working with gifted children in a small school district in northern KY. Other activities include babysitting a granddaughter and ushering at a theater in downtown Cincinnati for Broadway shows, the symphony and local theater.

Betty Schmidt Martin is another grandmother babysitting a granddaughter. “Harold and I just spent a week in Orlando, FL, babysitting 3-year-old granddaughter Mackenzie while daughter-in-law Serena gave birth to 9 lb. 4 oz. Bryce Cameron Martin.” To be closer to this growing family, they purchased a condo in New Smyrna Beach, FL, just 2 blocks from the ocean. Son Chad and wife Kori have children and live north of Austin, TX. Daughter Suzanne is a traveling physical therapist. Betty and Suzanne try to travel abroad once a year, to the Galapagos Islands most recently. Betty also went to Normandy with a tour. She enjoyed it so much, she hopes to go on another Hood tour.

One of the fun aspects of putting together this column is going back and forth with classmates who respond, sharing Hood memories. Carolyn Wyckoff Platt and I both have memories of art history courses at Hood. You may remember her as Cammy. She explains, “I was Cammy only at Hood.” She’s continued her interest in art history, visiting art museums and spending a month each year with husband Andy in Paris. That’s where they met almost 50 years ago. “I’ve never used my French professionally, but it has added so much to my quality of life. Yay, Hood!” Carolyn was emailing from a family trip. “Andy and I are now at Point O Woods on Fire Island with my children and grandchildren—no cars here on the island, only bikes and wagons—and sailing with no motors!”

(I’m still smiling over our shared memories of art history professor Miss Randolph and taking notes from her slides in complete darkness.) Kenni Ward Pinckard shared her news from her home in Gainesville, FL, where she, like Sally, has offered a guestroom to Hood classmates. She states that she and husband Tom “have a good life there” and adds “Tom has coffee and lunch with former golfing pals and builds model boats in the back bedroom. I swim in an aerobics class, volunteer at church and attend Institute of Learning in 56

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Retirement classes.” It truly does sound like a good life. Highlights of recent months have been attending grandson Kyle’s graduation from Texas A and M, and traveling to Italy to visit grandson Matthew during his semester in Rome, studying civil engineering, also with Texas A and M.

1967 May Mumma Ohman may.mumma.ohman@gmail.com

Wonderful to hear from so many! Please read full report at classnews.hood.edu. Kris Campbell Joyce visited Pam Higginbottom Carey this spring and grandchildren nearby, enjoyed a trip to Florence, Italy, then traveled to Austria to visit the family Kris lived with in 1961-62. Pat Anderson Branning lives in Beaufort, SC, and writes books titled Shrimp, Collards and Grits. Ginny Price Bracken and Chuck enjoy a busy retirement in Cypress Landing, NC, with Susan Bracken and Little Sister Marilyn Mundy ’69! Ginny and Cheryl Wray Kirk met on the sad occasion of Vivian Lamberson Manis’ memorial service in April. Barb Cummings Stacks: “Several of us live near each other. Linda Carlson, Barb Schmidt MacGregor, Peggy Narducci Phillips….thanks to Carol Brink, we joined other ’67 classmates in Manchester By The Sea. Sharing memories with other classmates provided roots!

In Sept., we host another luncheon in Essex.”

Barb Wood Spellman’s granddaughter finished her freshman year at Northeastern in Boston. Barb and John spent time in NC visiting Ginny Price Bracken and Susan Bracken. They joined Sharon MacDowell Sheaffer and husband John at the 50th reunion of the Univ. of PA Dental School.

Angela Milea Mogin: “Mike and I have been attending graduations this summer. One grandson graduated from kindergarten, and then we were in Los Angeles for the high school graduation of our eldest grandchild.” Ginny Munson Hammell: “I married a widower on May 25. Tack (Henry Gordon Hamby). Marianne Kearney and Emily Riggs McNaughton ’69 attended the wedding. We flew to London 27 for a D-Day tour. Last fall we were in Italy, spent the winter in Boca Raton, did an Eastern Caribbean cruise and traveled 3 weeks in Spain.”

Susan Wadia-Ells on her “Busting Breast Cancer” book. “The author of a new theory, Boston College biologist Thomas Seyfried has mentored me… as I have created the first book on breast cancer prevention.” Meredith Cook Held is a realtor in Texas. “I’m a past president of our local association and still involved at state and national levels. I love what I do so I have no intention to retire. I love to read, play with my dog and relax with my husband of 39 years.” Laurie Seymour Carlson:

“I enjoy retirement and am lucky to live near my oldest grandchild. I also enjoy walking, reading, needlework and my small patio garden.” Debbie Smith Aldrich: “I love beautiful Newburyport and the ocean. I have an incredible group of friends and am active in my church. Recently spent a week at Myrtle Beach with my daughter and granddaughter.” Johanna Van Wert Thompson: “Michael and I continue to live in Williamsburg, VA. Just returned from MA where we saw Sally Raube Chandler and Gretchen Hahn Anderson on the sad occasion of Jim Chandler’s Memorial Service.

Visited the Panama Canal last spring and will go to the Canadian Maritimes this fall.” Meredith Howard Parham: “Bruce and I are still living in the not-so-frozen north after more than 30 years.

Retirement is busy— playing harpsichord and recorders with numerous groups. This past year, I went to New Zealand to play recorder and Irish whistle. This past spring, I spent a week in Portland, OR, at a music workshop. I tend our flowers, walk/ hike in the local parks.” Nancy Esau Jeschke: “I retired in 2007—after 40 years of teaching. I loved teaching high school. My husband and I traveled with Viking in the Mediterranean, Baltic, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. I volunteer at an animal shelter and feel like a social worker—matching personalities of people with the right cat! I golf with friends. Other than heart bypass in 2009, life has been good. I see Gail Hughes Williams, Lucille VanBaaren ’68 and Barb Locher Wilson.” Leilani Chen Viney: “Terry and I still live in my hometown of Milburn, NJ. I retired in 2011, but maintained my Registered Dietitian credential. Ballroom dancing has been my passion for decades. I’m on the Board of the Ruth Gottscho Kidney Foundation. Gwenn Sterling Thomas Engle and I stay in touch.” Judy Lehman Ballinger: “Still live in West Reading, paint silk, spend time with grandchildren, serve on committees. Blair and I visited Cheryl Wray Kirk on the Eastern Shore last fall. My art show is this June. I miss the home I no longer have in Cape May. We enjoyed wonderful mountains in Utah with clan Ballinger, celebrating the 100th birthday of my aunt, Ruth Austermuhl Blattenberger ’40.” Beth Costello Hobby and Susan Bracken attended the music festival on Ocracoke Island, NC, for a 4th year.

Good fun, good food, crazy golf cart rides! Cynthia Newby still serves on the Hood Board of Trustees and notes enrollment is way up—more than 300 freshmen in fall 2019! Linda Carlson: “I am another CT alum… [looking forward to] a regional Hood luncheon in Sept.” Diane Smail Robertson: “Life here in VA is filled with ordinary occurrences… rejoicing as grandchildren grow, spending time with family and friends, being grateful for good health and the blessings that God has given me. Life is good, and we are thankful.”

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As told by Martha "Marty" Gray ’69, M.S.’82 and Guy Gray ’74, M.S.’82

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s we reflect on our Hood reunions (50th for Marty and 45th for Guy—and our 48th wedding anniversary), we are extremely grateful for the profound, positive effect Hood has had on our lives. Our three main goals in life have been family, friends and community. Hood has been part of all three.

Marty: When I was a senior majoring in math and taking computer classes that were available, Hood took students to attend seminars at the National Bureau of Standards, now the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The federal government was recruiting math and computer people, so those contacts led to a 36-year career as a computer scientist at NIST. It also allowed me to hire two student interns from Hood to work at NIST. Guy: I dropped out of high school and joined the Navy. I was injured in a fire aboard the USS Oriskany in the Tonkin Gulf, Vietnam. We met through mutual friends in New Jersey during Marty’s senior year at Hood. After we got married, I moved to Maryland and went to Montgomery College since the University of Maryland wouldn’t count me as a state resident.

Marty: Even though a woman marrying a Maryland resident was granted residency, it didn’t work for a man marrying a woman.

Guy: I told them I could get a better education at Hood College and enrolled there as a day student. I eventually became the president of the Day Student’s Association and received the first male Hood ring. As a disabled Vietnam veteran, I firmly believe that Hood’s caring and accessible professors, the honor system, and the integrity of the student body provided the environment that allowed me to succeed.

My bachelor’s degree led me to a career in the intelligence community in the federal government.

Marty: We both felt our careers needed advanced graduate degrees, so we attended Hood together to get our master’s degrees.

Guy: We continued working full-time, and our son was just 9 months old when we started.

Marty: I even had our daughter during semester break.

Guy: We both received our master’s degrees in management and administration in 1982.

Marty: Perhaps more important than the degrees we earned are the lifelong friends we made at Hood. Before graduating, six of my friends* and I agreed to start a chain letter. Write a letter, send pictures, etc. and send it on to the next person.

Each one takes out their old letter and puts in a new letter.

We continue to this day, although two of our friends have died. Before the internet, this allowed keeping up to date with each other. Since three lived on the West Coast and three on the East with one in the middle, we decided to hold mini-reunions approximately every five years.

Guy: We have met at Bar Harbor, Maine; Whidbey Island, Washington; Edisto Island, South Carolina; Bend, Oregon; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Cambridge and Ocean City, Maryland; and Pagossa Springs, Colorado.

Marty: Spouses and children, when they were young, always came to the reunions so we all know each other’s children and now grandchildren. We have celebrated at weddings and mourned at funerals. There is just nothing like “old” friends.

Guy: Hood connections became part of life.

Marty: We truly believe that Hood provided us with a liberal arts education that developed us into well-rounded adults with interests not only in our major but interests that led to hobbies, community involvement and love of learning that lasts for a lifetime.

Guy: The values developed by the honor system and the caring environment of Hood also last a lifetime. * Linda Walls Bradley ’70, Nancy Roe Hebdon ’69, Nancy vom Eigen Rasmussen ’69, Sandra Jung Vrem ’69 and deceased Christine Herbst Cole ’69 and Linda Stockdale Warren ’69 FA L L

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Become who you’re meant to be through exploration!—Liz Lopez ’09

1969 Sayre Roney Steere 850-319-6018, sayre1126@gmail.com

It’s been gratifying to hear all the positive comments regarding our alma mater from the attendees of our 50th Reunion. Sadly, due to various reasons, some of us had to miss. Both Carolyn “Kip” Cantagalli Dumaresq and Christy Lundt Lambertus had back surgeries. Christy later reported a successful outcome and looks forward to a pain-free future and more travel this fall. Pat Etzel Parker and her husband were busy celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, as were Karol Bedyk Strang and Bill, who spent 2 months touring Europe, including a couple of days at the French Open. A baby granddaughter is due in mid-July. The excuse for Ginny Monaco Hatfield and me is that we both had daughters getting married this summer, precluding a trip back East from LA for Ginny, and Seattle for me. The school year is not quite complete for Susie Oliver Schneider. Ruth Coston Perencevich was unable to attend due to competing 50th reunions— her husband won the draw! Lila Wisotzki was involved in a mixed voice choral performance that entire weekend and had to beg out. Bad timing for Christine Diehl as well, as her church was celebrating a 300th anniversary. Chris finds life on the southern shore of CT still awe inspiring. She will continue part-time teaching in the Fall. Margaret Dunkle also regrets missing our reunion. She states that “my 2 years at Hood were very important to me and my development as both a feminist and a thinker.” Carole Downing Staton reports that husband Roy has finally joined the ranks of the retired. Son Andrew is deployed to Afghanistan again but hopes to be home by the holidays. Among those attending our reunion was Donna Holst Carr, who lives near Frederick and has been married to the same guy for 50 years! They have 2 sons and expect 2 grandchildren this year. She particularly enjoyed catching up with Joanne Ingoldsby Peters, who is currently concentrating on improving her golf game and plans to go to Greece in the Fall.

Linda Israel Lamm, Sue Korff Hammer and Marty Silcox Hankins rounded out their circle. Marty volunteers with Master Gardeners, works behind the scenes at Shiloh Pottery and continues her political activism. Pat Warren Carlson sat down with Dr. Chapdelaine and agrees with Joanne’s assessment that she is the right person to lead Hood into the future. Carol Crofoot Hayes gave high marks to Susan Taylor Shoch for arranging a great offsite dinner and amazing slide show. She bonded once again with Maureen Clancy Shiftan, Debby Jones Lash, Joan Esselen Foot, Charlotte Blum 58

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Moors, Shahrnaz “Nazy” Safavi Martin and Molly Stuart. Post-reunion, she took her twin 6-yearold granddaughters to Jamaica! Linnea Linden Morettini loved reconnecting with Janie Pickard Hahn, Karla Leum Stoner, Judy Baab Sunderlin and Karen Baab Harley. The only disappointment was the status of Coblentz—renovations are desperately needed! Rave reviews also came from Cheryl Brown Dreiling. She traveled in April with her sister, Melanie Brown Hughes ’76, to Andalucia (southern Spain) on the AHI Hood-sponsored trip.

Most enjoyable, she says. Sue Korff Hammer sent word of the death of Elizabeth “Libby” Marckwardt Oliver. Our sympathies to her family.

I, Sayre Roney Steere, continue to love my new life here in the Pacific Northwest. Our baby girl, Doris, was married July 5 in a lovely outdoor setting.

Our granddaughters were junior bridesmaids. The following day, our girls hosted a brunch for Dave and me to commemorate our 50th anniversary which took place a week later. We’ve become avid hikers and “pickleballers” and I recently took up Mah Jong. We highly recommend our Trilogy “over 55” community where constant activities abound.

1970 Marj Menchey Berkheimer mench49@gmail.com

I’m pleased to be your new class reporter but saddened that it is because Karin Ninesling Infuso, our loyal reporter, died in Dec. 2019.

I know that Karen “Kari” Blair misses her dear friend terribly... My first reply came from Marty Hassell with the very happy news of being newly married! Marty and Ellen Anthony (Vassar not Hood!) were married on June 2.

Linda Allan and Deborah Parsons ’71 were at the wedding. Much happiness and best wishes to them! Leslie Wenger Fitzgerald wrote from Savannah, GA, where she and Steve have been living since 2000. They left NJ when McGraw Hill shut down the department she and Steve headed. They are enjoying the quieter, slower pace of the south and now operate a business intermediary office. Although busy with work, Leslie has returned to painting—look for her website: www.LFitzgeraldArt.com. Lauren Frankel wrote from Pasadena, CA, where she is involved with organization development consulting. She met up with Phyllis Goodnow while attending a wedding in ME. She also keeps in touch with Martha Herbert Bounoure and Georgeanne Madouros Contoyannopoulos who are both overseas and Millie Smith Steinbrecher ’71 who is near Pasadena. Lauren shares the joy of being a new grandmother with Peggy Muncie.

Her daughter and wife live in Minneapolis where Lauren often visits to see baby Juna. Elaine Hubert writes from VT but spends much time in CA with daughter Laura and her children, Bodhi (3) and Bella (6 months). (There is definitely a grandmother theme in this newsletter!) Elaine and Myra Holsinger traveled together on a Hood alumni-sponsored trip to the UK. (I have also been on one of these trips and encourage you to take advantage of these opportunities.) Peggy Muncie became a grandmother on June 23. She is “over the moon with happiness.” Peggy and Stephen live in Greenville, SC. Cindy Besancon Walsh wrote from Spokane, WA. She and husband Dan retired there to be with their son and grandkids. Their outdoor activities include camping, fishing, golfing, horseback riding and “rock hounding.” She finds gems in the mountains and creates jewelry! She recently vacationed with Sally Miller Keehn ’69.

Nancy Schneider Alder is using her ECE degree taking care of a niece’s baby. She has also been fostering kittens, volunteering at a surgical center, nursing home and church and helps to care for her 95-year-old mother. That’s a lot of admirable help given! Myra Holsinger writes that she, Marie Oliver Brackbill and Ellen Sands Smith get together at Ellen’s home in Easton, MD, for eating, talking, shopping and watching Marie knit. I’m sure the food includes wonderful Eastern Shore seafood! I’m adding thanks to Myra as well as to Linda Allan for their many hours spent guiding our college as trustees. Donna Newman plans to be at our reunion, but she can’t believe its number 50! She says 2018 was her fun year—4 different beaches, domestic and Caribbean, 3-week Mediterranean cruise, couple of weeks in Paris and a month in Asia? Wow! 2019 is the year of homeowner obligations and repairs. Donna, I’d like to hear more about that month in Asia!

Christine Goodwin Oster writes: “just living in the woods, making pots and frequently visiting our family in the DC area.” As for me, Marj Menchey Berkheimer, life is very good! Phil and I have a home in Naples, FL, and have become snowbirds.

We enjoyed hosting friends and family the past winter and learning about southwest FL and its flora and fauna. Mary Rife James hosted Hood alums at her beautiful home in Naples in March.

I also see Linda Allan and Myra Holsinger at Hood Trustee events on campus. I am now on the Board of Associates with Ellen Sacks so I feel very involved with Hood. You can be proud of your alma mater! Sam, aka Mary Ryan Reeves, and I see each other constantly in Frederick. We are already planning our 50th reunion for June 5-7, 2020. Sam and I will be co-chairs, Peggy Muncie will lead the chapel service (with volunteers), and Linda Allan and Myra Holsinger will be heading the

Anything your heart desires.

Be well rounded and help others.

—Lisa Troth, MBA’09, C’11

—Courtney Fraser ’12

fundraising. Sam has designed a beautiful scarf in the Hermes style, bordered in yellow—our class color. We’re hoping you’ll buy and wear it proudly as we enter the reunion luncheon! Sam hosted Linda Israel Lamm ’69 for her 50th reunion last month. Sam and John also attended several reunion events especially enjoying the campus tour. I attended many events last month with Molly Stuart ’69, my roommate in Terrace House my junior year along with Barbara Hoagland Zeigler ’69. Susan Taylor Shoch ’69 and Barbara were the co-chairs of their reunion. The Class of ’69 had a big turnout at the reunion and was a wonderful weekend. Please mark your calendars now for our 50th! Let Sam and me know of ideas and suggestions you might have. We have set up a Facebook page, Hood College Class of 1970.

Please follow us as we plan and post plans for next June. Also add your comments and pictures.

1971 Mindy Wilcox 619-823-6230, mlwilcox3@gmail.com

Judy Ashway is enjoying her new home in Arlington, MA, and has been busy traveling to see her children and grandson in some very interesting places. In Feb. she visited son Dan and his wife in San Francisco where Dan is working on his Ph.D. in psychology. Judy enjoyed the city very much, particularly the many beautiful gardens throughout the city. In March, she traveled to Costa Rica to visit daughter Hannah and her grandson and enjoyed the warm weather and the pool. Judy sees Maylun Buck-Lew who also lives in the Boston area a few times each year. Candace Dudden still works full time in San Antonio as a nurse case manager for Medicare members, mostly elderly or physically and mentally challenged.

She assesses their needs and arranges for them to receive all necessary services. She is able to work from home and doesn’t think she will retire because, as she explained, “I can do this job until I fall out of my chair!” In Feb., she and husband Jim Schweitzera, retired Air Force Colonel and retired teacher, enjoyed a trip to Kauai, HI, to whale watch and were getting ready for a trip to the Calgary Stampede in the summer. At home they have 2 chiweenies, a cat and 8 honeybee hives. Candace ended her email by stating “I hope all my classmates are well and happy.” Sue Montag Wood wrote to say that in Nov. 2018 Nancy Loader Calabretta came to Australia via New Zealand to visit her daughter and family who were house sitting in Brisbane. They were able to spend a week together at Sue and Peter’s home in Wollongong just doing everyday things, which

included making small mince pies, an Australian specialty. They then drove up to Brisbane via the Blue Mountains where Nan has a good friend from her library days who runs an Airbnb. In Brisbane they shared a town house close to Nan’s family and cooked a delicious Thanksgiving meal together. All the old favorites—turkey, sweet potatoes and, of course, pies! Sue also said that Alice Kleiner Meckley is coming to Australia to visit this summer. In June, she and Peter are going to the US to meet up with friends and family as well as to do a bit of sight-seeing. Nancy “Nan” Loader Calabretta wrote to say that 4 members of the Class of ’71 met for a mini-reunion in Hudson, NY, June 18-21. The reunion was planned to coincide with Sue Montag Wood and husband Peter’s visit to the US from Wollongong, NSW, Australia. Sue and Peter met up with Nan and husband Anthony in Collingswood, NJ. Traveling together, they stopped for lunch and a tour at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY. Upon arriving in Hudson, NY, they were greeted

by Alice Kleiner Meckley, husband Gus, Nancy Ludder Koberlein and husband Al. The days were consumed with eating, drinking, talking, laughter and exploring the area. In short, it was the best of all possible times! They are already plotting for a repeat reunion, possibly on the West Coast or Hawaii. They are hoping to see lots of our classmates at the 50th in 2021. Sarah Wilcox lives in the small Tidewater community of Gloucester, VA. She spent the last 12 years managing the Wild Things Museum Store at the Virginia Living Museum (an incredible institution— sort of a combination zoo, gardens, aquariums and education all native to VA) and just retired in Feb. She is adjusting to retirement very happily and has returned to some old loves, watercolors, cooking and baking. She and her husband of 42 years, Al Heist, are contemplating short trips to VA historical sites they haven’t seen yet, but mostly they are just enjoying their newly found time together. They have 2 grandchildren, Courtney, 14, in Houston and Tyson, 16, in Tampa. She keeps in touch with Audrey “Beau” Earle Villecco. Linda Rosengarten reports that she is now a South Carolinian. After a divorce several years ago, she took back her maiden name. Last year, she retired from the government and moved from Baltimore to Conway, SC, near Myrtle Beach, to live near her sister. Her daughter and husband live in northern AZ and both work in Glen Canyon National Park.

Linda traveled to Iceland this past winter just before WOW airline went out of business. More travel planned for the future but now she’s just enjoying retirement. Mary and I are grateful to all of you who replied to our requests for news. If you haven’t written in a while, please do!

1972 Carol Schlosnagle Bradford cbradford043@gmail.com Cynthia “Candy” Clifford cynthiaclifford999@gmail.com

Suzanne Krepp Beckner still lives in a high-rise condo in North Bethesda with her 2 cats. In June, she was headed to her beach condo in Ocean City for the summer, looking forward to bridge games and good summer reading. She volunteers at the Montgomery County Animal Shelter and the Montgomery County Humane Society as a cat handler, adoption counselor and educator to lecture school children about responsible pet care and safety. Carol Schlosnagle Bradford continues to enjoy retirement—traveling and volunteering, looking after foreign diplomats in Washington, DC. Her volunteer organization plans tours and events that help them make friends with American volunteers and diplomats from other embassies. Carol also provides PR support to Rotary’s polio eradication and malaria efforts, which are supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Summer vacation plans include a trip to northern Greece, Albania and North Macedonia. Janet Stickley Kurzynske retired from the Univ. of Kentucky last Oct. and is now officially professor emerita. She continues to be involved in the academic arena on a limited basis, and in March, she became Gammie for the 6th time. With both her and Rick retired, and her anticipated full recovery from Haglund resection and Achilles tendon repair, they both look forward to again traveling internationally. After finishing at Franklin and Marshall in 1972 and getting an MBA from the Univ. of Pittsburgh, Lorraine Vitucci Lopezzo met husband Tom while working at Exxon. They have 2 sons.

Professionally, she worked as a gemologist appraiser and had an appraisal practice in NJ. Since retirement, they are enjoying living in Baltimore and taking Osher program courses through Johns Hopkins. Janice Williams Martin and Al are now totally retired. They like to take a cruise every year; this year they took a steamboat down the Mississippi, and visited family in CO and MS. 4-H and their 4-H Horse Club continue to be big parts of their lives. Susan Myers Mund sends greetings from Baltimore. She is retired and enjoying grandchildren who live in lovely Asheville.

Sarah Sonne O’Donnell and husband Bruce, for whom history has always been an avocation, retired in 2016 and purchased a house built in 1850 in Middletown, DE, which has been the never-ending project they wanted. Sarah was installed as regent of the Cooch’s Bridge Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She’s also involved with the Gibby, a local artist group, FA L L

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where she is dabbling in oil painting. Anne Francis Phillips returned to the coast of ME 2 years ago, after living in the southern CA desert for 7 years. She was recognized at a flea market in Portland by Liz Gruppe Stover. Anne is a volunteer for the library bookstore, which she started a dozen years ago, and by maintaining a little red house in the woods. Marti Murray Robinson is happily retired from teaching and busy attending workshops, seminars and travel programs through the NY Center for Jungian Studies in New Paltz, NY; and enrolling in a 2-year spiritual direction program with a Jungian emphasis at Haden Institute in Asheville, NC. This summer, she picked up rowing again after 44 years and loves it. Brenda Stup and husband Steve Tulloss continue to enjoy retirement, with gardening, working out at the gym, a weekly trivia contest and an annual jazz cruise. In April, they welcomed their 2nd grandchild and enjoy frequent trips to visit their daughter and her family in Niwot, CO. Allison Hagerich Zack (aka Jeffrey Ann Hagerich) is a grant writer for coastal restorations in southeast FL and for a Rochester, NY, refugee outreach center. She leads a team to create 150 new pollinator gardens in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, and has been certified by Florida Fish and Wildlife to monitor sea turtle hatchlings and collect research data. She toured Spain and Switzerland with husband Mike, and will spend a week at the Chautauqua Institution learning about climate change. I, Candy Clifford, rarely write letters, but am thoroughly enjoying email exchanges about the state of the world with Jane Chaisson Blake and Joe, Kathy Stewart, Kathy Martin Belikoff and Larry, and Barrie Parsons Tilghman and Mat; Gini Procino Hartmann actually writes letters, and has for years! Carol Schlosnagle Bradford and I speak for many of our classmates in saying what a pleasure it was to get to know Bob Crites at our reunions. Married to Linda Wicks Crites for 33 years, he passed away in March.

1973 Leslie Hawkins 509-947-1838, hawkins.leslie.a@gmail.com

Toni Mathias Harvey and Ted are continuing to enjoy their bed and breakfast and store, The Inn at Lost River and The Lost River General Store in Lost River, WV, so if any Hoodlums find themselves in the area, there is an ice cream cone waiting for you! They are doing a lot of traveling from WV to Philadelphia and Brooklyn to keep in touch with Toni’s mother, who’s 97, and with grandsons, Will and Ted, all gifts in their lives. Pat Henry Montgomery writes that she’s moving from San Mateo, CA, to Boulder, CO, this summer, and welcomes Hood contacts in the area (her sister, Claudia Henry Barkmeier ’78 lives nearby). She’s having a great time with grandchildren, 60

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“getting to see new things and fight for old causes,” and grateful for life (as are we all!). Jill Schonek Pollard is living in Sarasota, FL, and she and her husband just returned from a repositioning cruise from Europe, which she recommends for those relaxing days at sea at season’s end (May and Oct.). They own a beachfront rental condo with one month minimum, and interested Hoodlums can rent through Evolve.com, and enjoy paradise in Sarasota.

Elaine Williams Bielenberg says golf and summer go hand and hand in ME. She’s also working on multiple costume designs and creations for an “Into the Woods” production in Aug., with Cinderella, her mother and the witch giving her inspiration. Serving as junior warden at her church has her overseeing buildings, repair and construction, which leaves her no time to get into trouble! Donna Simmons Maneely has been traveling a lot in 2019, first a 5-week trip in March and April to Australia and New Zealand, including first-time zip lining in NZ, and then a cruise in June from Seattle to AK with her choral group, who performed on the ship and in Seattle for 4 performances, and thrilled by the spectacular beauty of the Northwest and AK. Peggy Weinbeck said that since retiring in July 2017, she’s traveling, dancing and enjoying life…she and her granddaughter Kaylie visited Ireland to celebrate her high school graduation, and since she’s been an Irish dancer, she had the opportunity to perform at an inn on the Irish Sea, before heading off to WVU. Peggy also visited Iceland in Sept. with friends, and just returned from CA, visiting with friends, and with her son in San Francisco. She is moving in July to VA Beach, to be closer to daughter Lindsay, enjoy beach life and hopes to visit Mary Layfield Law more often. Ann Jones writes that 2019 has been very busy so far; starting with the decision to sell her house of 18 years, and when she put it on the market in May, the buyers made an offer on the first day!

She went to Botswana for a vacation she said was amazing, tenting and traveling around to see lions, leopards and elephants, and came back to pack up and move the next day, and is renting a place while she downsizes and decides what’s next. Charlie Miller Ponticelli’s big news is son Michael’s wedding on July 6, and as mother of the groom is buying her dress and showing up! Chris McHenry, who retired from medicine in 2008, and had been involved in spiritual direction and supervisor and retreat training, is now doing spiritual direction for her church.

Condolences to Mary Stevenson who lost both sister-in-law, Georgia, and younger brother Steve on the same day in March. Steve was 59 and had a cardiac arrest; many of us remember “little Stevie” as a boy visiting us at Hood. Condolences also to Janis Wilson Polastre whose mother died peacefully in June at 94. She and Bob did their annual getaway to Cabo San Lucas in March, and spent 2 weeks in May

visiting daughter Lorena, husband and grandchildren in Italy, and glamping in Croatia. She’s got one more case left, and with Bob retired, they like doing what they want, when they want! As for me, I did a ski trip to Switzerland in Jan. and then to Hawaii in March (Big Island, then Kauai) which was fun, but a problem with my right foot curtailed my hiking and most activities by March, so I had surgery in April. Thank goodness I live in Tucson and can wear flip flops all year, and now I can wear a shoe again; life is good!

Keep the news coming!

1974 Patricia Kidd pat.kidd@hotmail.com

Dot Herdle Files writes: “now that Eben and I are retired, we’re free to travel. We went to Costa Rica, the Galapagos, Israel’s Holy Land and Egypt so far. Oberammergau in 2020. And to see our granddaughter... Gotta get the travel in before arthritis gets the best of me. Send my love to everyone!” Carolyn Schoemer Huyghe just had a wonderful visit in the Denver area seeing our classmate and Memorial Hall mate Ann Williams DeMers. She and husband Joe treated my husband, Patrick, and me to a wonderful dinner in their lakefront home in Arvada, CO. They are doting grandparents to their daughter’s son who is 5. As for me, I am still enjoying retirement in Charlottesville, VA, and Ft. Myers, FL. Spending my time trying to stay healthy and outdoors—definitely a full-time job! Ann and Sue Whaley went on a Hood-sponsored trip to Spain recently and had a wonderful time. I was at reunion on Friday and through lunch on Saturday. I believe there were 9 of us at the lunch. Beth Rittenhouse writes: “I retired from my technical writer job a year ago and have settled into a new routine. My husband, Steve, had retired the previous year. My younger daughter was married in April this year in Ellicott City; it was a beautiful day and everything went as planned. My elder daughter is planning a wedding for spring 2020. Steve and I are avid birders and I participate in my church choir and attend a yoga class twice a week. We have also become regular visitors at the local library.”

1975 Debbie Page Rath dp95942@aol.com

Last winter brought Steven and Rhea Bel-Jon Calkins a spectacular adventure. They flew to the Pacific Coast of northern Baja in a Piper Cub and spent 3 magical days meeting and touching grey

See the importance and strive to save the arts!!—Laine Beachley ’05 whales in one of their birthing lagoons. Then to the Sea of Cortez near Bahia de Los Angeles to glamp under horizon-to-horizon stars and swim with sea lions. Rhea has been busy with the NGO. She volunteers with Mujeres en Cambio revamping the donor and student scholarship systems and writing a partnership proposal to a Canadian fundraising organization. She is thrilled to say they were accepted. Cheryl Cuddeback is still in real estate but with a new brokerage firm. Daughter Samantha Mendl just graduated from Hunter College, NY, this year. Anne Cuppia ’74 and Cheryl are heading over to Billie Weise ’74 digs in Ocean Grove, NJ. They’ll stay out of trouble, obviously! Sue ShorbSterling has sad news to report. Her 10-year-old granddaughter, Norah Brubaker, died from septic shock in April. She was an active, healthy 5th grader who loved to read and was musically talented. Her family is coping as best as they can to accept this great loss. As her cousin stated, “Life is not fair!”

Sue is reminded that our children and grandchildren are to bury us, and not the other way around. Sue grieves the loss of Norah’s life and future. Peg Yanarella Hosky is glad to say that all is well in Washington, DC. They continue to enjoy running their successful marketing firm, fedinsider.com.

Their children, while in their 30s now, are all local, much to Peggy’s delight! Her garden and its several thousand purple irises flourishes, and she reads and knits voraciously. Joyce Klugh Wilson retired in Williamsburg, VA, after 25 years of teaching in Fairfax County. She recently returned from a lovely 2-week cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest. Joyce is a member of the LGA9 golf league in Ford’s Colony and volunteers often, especially for elementary school vision screening with the James City Lions Club.

Jane Ludwick Viprino is still working but hopes to retire sometime soon. She is the supervisor of the laboratory at a large veterinary clinic in the Reading, PA, area. In addition, Jane volunteers at the local Berks Jazz Fest that is held in the spring. Quite a big event. Jane has a son who just married in Feb. She will be a Nana by the end of Nov. and is so excited.

The big gender reveal was just at OBX on the beach.

It’s a boy! The whole family has been going to the OBX for more than 30 years. Her sister, Nancy Ludwick Warrenfeltz ’76, was up from FL and her family also gathered there. Always a busy and fun vacation. Thank you to everyone who continue to share their news. I am still designing retirement plans for small businesses. My mom has been working hard recovering from her stroke but really struggles with the feeding tube. If she could only eat, life would be so much better for her. Northern CA is already into “Fire Season.” Love seeing all of the wildlife outside our house but worry too much about potential fires.

Hope everyone has a great end to 2019. Wishing you, your families and friends the best! Debbie Page Rath

Use your heart, mind and hand to change the world!!—Mark Russ ’14

1976 Nancy Ludwick Warrenfeltz nlwfeltz@hotmail.com

Valerie Saxton Sharpe writes: “I enjoy reading about my fellow alums and seeing their many amazing accomplishments. I recently co-authored a book, with Roberta Strosnider, titled ‘The Executive Function Guidebook: Strategies to Help All Students Achieve Success.’ It was published by Corwin in April, and the ISBN number is 9781544379289. I received my BA in special education in May 1976 from Hood. Dr. Carla Lyon was my adviser with whom I continue to remain friends. My program at Hood prepared me well and opened the doors to many wonderful opportunities. One such opportunity was the privilege of serving as adjunct faculty at Hood for many years. After a full career in the field, I am still involved in special education currently as a consultant providing training in teaching executive function skills to psychologists, social workers, teachers, paraeducators, parents and students.”

David and Linda Fox-Jarvis are doing well in VA Beach. Linda has been practicing real estate for 36 years. She recently moved to Berkshire Hathaway Towne Realty. Daughter Stephanie joined her as partner about 10 years ago. It really is special working with family and passing along the business.

Stephanie has a real talent for the field. David retired about 2 years ago. He keeps busy with projects around the house, golfing and watching their 18-month-old granddaughter once a week.

Speaking of their granddaughter, Carter Wynne has changed their lives! Most of you know—being grandparents is so much fun! Linda and David’s daughter and son-in-law live less than a mile away (which is so nice). Son Brian lives with his wife in Fairfax and works for Amazon Web Services, so he is not too far away either. Linda and David are looking forward to a family trip in Aug. to OR to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. Both kids, their spouses, and Carter Wynne will be joining. If anyone is visiting VA Beach, give Linda a call! Mary Alice Peeling’s big news is that she retired from DE Law School Library on June 30—after almost 40 years. She looks forward to having time to volunteer, see friends and catch up on quilting projects. Congratulations, Murie! Barb Woolmington and Craig have finally started building their new (and final) home in Weaverville, NC. It is a small community about 15 minutes north of Asheville. They love Asheville…but apparently so do many other people. The traffic all around the city is getting more congested every year. The Smiths left CA for several reasons, heavy traffic being one of them. They didn’t want to repeat that in their

new community, so they decided to head a little out of the city—but not so far that they cannot pop in for an evening of dinner and theater. They went to St. Croix, USVI in March and were able to visit with Brad and Gail Lippert Ebersole while there. Lovely sailing and just a little snorkeling. In May, the Smiths traveled to Los Angeles to visit their youngest and to help celebrate his 30th birthday. Both of Craig and Barb’s children are doing well—Harrison in Los Angeles and Alisha in Portland, OR. Both are gainfully employed, but there are no grandchildren yet. They stayed on the West Coast when Craig and Barb moved east, so they don’t get to see them as often as they would like. Their new home will have a lovely guest room for anyone who wants to visit Asheville and would like a place to stay. Larry and I, Nancy Ludwick Warrenfeltz, flew to Los Angeles in April for a Navy reunion in Thousand Oaks. We visited the Ronald Reagan Library, Malibu, Hollywood and Solvang. It was a fun trip! Every June, we spend 2 weeks at OBX with family… priceless memories with our grandkids! Please email me your Hood news. I will include it in the next publication. Thanks!

1977 Elizabeth Anderson Comer 443-463-6437, ecomer@eacarchaeology.com

Elizabeth “Betsy” Stevens Watson died Nov. 21, 2018. Betsy’s obituary described her as “the light and life of everything she touched. She was always positive and encouraging, funny and insightful, and had a profound love for her family and friends.”

Our sincere condolences to Betsy’s family and her many friends. Nancy Armstrong Crochet passed away June 19 from complications associated with her 3-and-a-half year battle against lung cancer.

On July 14, a celebration of her life was held at her son’s restaurant in Philadelphia with husband Mike and sons Ed and Mike, and friends and family gathered. There was an open bar, great food and a lot of laughs as we remembered the awesome wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister and friend who we were lucky enough to know. Denise Swan Isacson writes: “just crossed 40 years with Delta.

I clearly remember Nancy Armstrong Crochet from our Hood days. Her obit photo could be her Hood yearbook photo—she hardly aged! Getting ready to go to Stockholm for about 5 weeks—Örjan has been there since Father’s Day. Liv just got her master’s in marketing from Stockholm Univ.’s Business School. Now, after she returns from Singapore and Bali, she’ll focus on securing a J-O-B.” Sharon Thorpe Kourtz writes: “I enjoyed a long weekend in NYC in the fall. Times Square has improved immensely since my last visit in the early FA L L

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Kas Kluth Rohm reports: “Greg and I are enjoying life in a seriously refurbished 1940s house in Lutherville, MD. Why didn’t anyone ever tell us being grandparents was going to be so much darn fun! We have a 1-year-old grandson, and this little guy has changed our lives! We’ll be celebrating our 42nd anniversary in a month, and we fondly recall all those weekends when husband Greg drove up to Frederick to visit the beautiful Hood campus so many years ago!” Adaline C. Smith says: “Megen Mack Opsahl, Faith Voth Stone, Kim Anderson McDonald ’78, and I have been getting together since we left Hood. In 2017, we enjoyed an Alaskan cruise together with our husbands, and we met this year (without husbands) in Nashville. Megen has been living in the Seattle area for the last 15 years with husband Mike, who is an infertility specialist with his own practice. Son Kevin is a writer for a newspaper in Utah and Matt, who was just married this year, is a graphic designer living in Boston.

Faith married Rick Hoffman in 2015 and moved to FL. Their next big trip is to the Galapagos Islands.

Adaline has been living in Boston with husband Gene where they both work in the pharmaceutical industry. Oldest daughter Monica was married this year, and Darrin and Ginger are both back in school working on advanced degrees. Kim just moved to Williamsburg, VA, with husband Brad and enjoys traveling (frequently to India) and visiting her growing number of grandchildren. Son Tyler is a Naval Officer currently stationed in Hawaii with wife Mary and 3 children. Poor Kim has to force herself to visit them in paradise quite often. Son Luke and wife Rose are living in VA, so they are close by and Kim can get a lot of “Mimi” time with her grandchildren!

Kath Weslock was on campus in June and it was abuzz with excitement! All were getting ready for reunion—tents were up, bars being set up (of course!) and there was a level of anticipation about the returning graduates. Record numbers were expected for reunion 2019! She reminded us to start planning for ours because it is literally around the corner! Mark your calendar for June 2022! Kathy reminds us all that more than ever, the college needs our support. “We have a wonderful president, 62

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terrific faculty and administration and they need our support, both in terms of our attendance at events as well as in financial contributions. I know I’ve talked to some of you who, like me, have competing colleges that ask for help—and, we’ve come to the conclusion that Hood needs it more than others with large endowments and have begun to rethink how we allocate between our charitable contributions.

You’ll hear a lot more from the college but I just wanted y’all to hear it from me that I have never been prouder of Hood or to have been a member of the class of 1977.” Kathy is correct on all accounts!

News from the Comer family: Anne received her BA from Bard College and Margaret received her Ph.D. from Cambridge Univ., both in 2019! Jacob is juggling his writing career and work trips to the Federated States of Micronesia, working on NASA funded grants. If you are near Catskill, New York, stop by the Thomas Cole National Historic Site and take a tour. You may have Anne as a tour guide as she has a yearlong fellowship at the site! I so enjoy being a member of the Hood Board of Associates!

It gives me an excuse to visit campus, hear about exciting new programs and meet amazing students!

We have hosted several excellent Hood students for internships at the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society, Inc. and one recent graduate, Alyssa Watson ’19, is our first emerging professional board member!

1978 Kathryn Brown Sandifer klsandman2002@yahoo.com

Susan Dornbusch Sohn loves living in southern MD and being a part of their grandchildren’s lives—Grace (7), Luke (5). Her daughter is expecting her first baby in Nov. Lynette Cuthbertson Smith and I continue to get together as often as we can. She loves being a Nana!

Tonya Thomas Finton says “Big changes for me.” She and Tim moved to Richmond, VA, in March. Our oldest son lives there. After a lifetime in Washington, DC, this was a big decision, but we are loving it! I’ve met another Hood alum, Eva Sayegh Teig Hardy ’65—we live in the same neighborhood! Kelly Walfred Miller says last summer, she and Ed had lunch in Gettysburg, PA, with Jennifer Goerk Lyden ’80 and husband Pete. At Christmas, they surprised us with a fabulous CD, “A Christmas Valentine for You,” hosted by Pete! In March, Kelly had lunch with Ann Kowitski Barber ’77. She was visiting her daughter, Kaelly, PA-C, in MA and Ann drove from NH to spend the day. “We talked about our law practices and then reminisced about the fun times at Hood!” Anne Reed is still

working full time as the executive director of the Transfiguration Spirituality Center just north of Cincinnati, and volunteers as deacon in the Episcopal Church for 2 local congregations. She’s also singing in a women’s barbershop chorus and in a barbershop quartet. “Once in while I am home to do laundry, attend symphony, opera, baseball and just bask in the glow of quiet.” She and husband Giff visited their son in CA in May, as they anticipate his completing his Ph.D. in linguistics. Every Christmas, their family gathers in FL to spend time with Anne’s mom, and last Oct., they joined with family in Wilmington, NC, to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of her aunt, Anne Van Looy Mallett ’58, and husband Jim. “I didn’t think there were any Hoodies in Cincinnati, and one day at work, I was facilitating a quiet day and used the Hood bag given to us at the reunion to carry my books. One of the participants came up to me and asked if I went to Hood. Dr. Christine McHenry ’73 (she was on the Board of Trustees) visits our center regularly and has been a planning colleague. So now I have a Hood buddy in Cincinnati!” She is also proud to say that Taylor Greenbaum ’19 is a family member through marriage. And recently she was talking with a young woman in Frederick, while attending a wedding, and urged her to attend Hood. Diane Zortman Duelfer shares that she retired as of Oct. 1, 2017. She married a wonderful gentleman and fellow bike rider, Jim Tice, Sept. 5, 2017.

They now ride a tandem and can keep up with the “big boys.” They moved to Loveland, CO, April 27, 2018. The biking and hiking are amazing. She still swims at a local high school about a mile from home. In Nov. 2017, she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. It took a bit to stabilize the meds, but now it is fairly well controlled. Hence the tandem bike. She has a grandson, Adeo, age 5. You can imagine the energy he has and how interesting he is. Laura, my daughter, and husband Aquee are expecting Sept. 16. Jim’s daughter-inlaw, Candace, and son Chris have a 2-year-old, Eva, and are expecting Sept. 30. Fortunately, they both live in the San Francisco area. Her other daughter, Lisa, and husband Scott live in the Philadelphia area and help out with Diane’s mom who is turning 90 in Oct. I trust this message finds everyone healthy and enjoying family and whatever passion fills their lives. Blessings to everyone. Joan Plant-Middleton lets us know that she is alive and enjoying life in DC! Suzanne Bohn Richardson sends greetings to all. Sally Whisner Hoague retired from FCPS after teaching special education 38 years. Samantha and I still live in Lake Linganore and our daughter, Abby, is a senior at UMD majoring in education. Our daughter also teaches at the Kiddie Academy in

Use your well-rounded background to be a leader.—Sarah Gowen ’08 New Market. As for me, Kathie Brown Sandifer, husband Herb and I are “thinking” about retiring.

We have 4 grandbabies, with the latest arrival in May, Trevor William, to our son, Brian, and wife Jen. We had an exciting adventure in June when we circumnavigated the Delmarva peninsula by sailboat, with an instructor and classmate.

1980 Allison Horne 267-251-2077, auntieal@verizon.net

It has been a few years since I have reported on the Lucky Ladies (and men) of 1980…Katie McCombs Zirnkilton, Ellen Higgins Kornfeld, Amy Falk Felker, Laurie Drysdale, Beth Ward Ross, Ann Lawrence Brooks ’79 and Sarah Ann Miller got together to celebrate their 60th birthdays in late Sept. on Nantucket at Sarah’s house. Audrey Tozer has kept in touch with many classmates via email, phone and Facebook. Last fall, she reported that she has been in touch with Anne Driscoll Williams, Theodora “Ted” Felegi Laws, Linda O’Toole Teebagy, Mary Zachry Tielking and Debbie Wills ’78. Audrey and Kim run their individual businesses and keep quite busy around the farmette. Their fur family consists of mini horses, standard sized horses, barn kitties and dogs. Deborah May Beckmann Austill is still working here in Frederick as a family practice physician assistant for Frederick Primary Care Associates. She and husband Dave have 1 grandson and 3 step-grandchildren. Susan Reeder Jessee ran for County Council in 2018 in Frederick Co. but lost by just 520 votes. She has started a new job at USAMRIID as a project manager and finds it a privilege to be working on therapeutics and vaccines that will help keep our soldiers safe. Daughter Emily will be a junior at Hood this fall. Kim Taylor Corle writes that her kids are in various stages of getting married, and she has rediscovered her art, actively painting and exhibiting while husband Blaine is golfing more than anyone she knows! Mary Newton Deighan and husband Mike live and work in Charlottesville, VA. Most of their 9 children have graduated from college and are adults finding their way in the world, working jobs and raising families. They are not quite the empty nesters yet with children still at home, (2 attending college and 1 in high school), but they’re getting there. She still has her part-time bookkeeping job, which has kept her mind nimble with all the advances in technology.

She shifted her sewing hobby from costuming for theater to teaching small hands to sew in a beginner sewing club. She and Mike have been taking river cruises, most recently traveling both the Rhine and Danube Rivers. Deborah Sheetenhelm

Win at trivia games.

—Kimberly Tordoff Sexton ’89

Hammond, since retirement, has published 19 books and about to release lucky #20, “Both Sides Now.” Her books can be found on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle versions. Julie Flynn wrote that Dec. 14, 2017, after being together for 20 years, she married her partner, RaDonna Burik. It was a small wedding performed by their pastors at the Lutheran Church they attend. She thinks that they were as excited as she was that they could finally, legally, get married! She recently retired from Siemens Healthcare after 30-plus years. She doesn’t miss work at all and highly recommends retirement to everyone. Valerie Cerrone Nelson is a practicing midwife at Jacobi Medical Center, a large NYC hospital that serves a united nation of patients speaking every language. Grandson Desmond was just 2 and is the light and joy of their lives! Anne Reynolds Gurney and I recently got together in Gettysburg for lunch and a few of us from Meyran (me, Ellen Aries Mulhern, Linda Curry Heartfield, Jak Killefer Cruthers and Kim Taylor Corle) got together last fall on Cape Cod for a weekend to celebrate our 60th birthdays. I also recently retired from Marsh and McLennan Companies after 26-plus years and 12 years at Thalhimers, and like Julie Flynn, I highly recommend it. I look forward to traveling and spending time with family and friends.

See you at our 40th Reunion next June!

1982 Elizabeth Bastian Chapin 610-823-2172, busybethc@aol.com

Hello, Class of 1982! I am so thrilled to hear from some new voices and appreciate the quick reply.

Susan Raffaele McHenry and husband Geoff will be empty nesters this fall. Their twins are heading off to college in OH and SC; their oldest child is a senior at William and Mary and hopes to go to medical school. Susan has volunteered and been involved in her children’s activities for many years! She might return to work someday but is currently caring for her parents as they both battle cancer. A family trip to Cabo San Lucas is planned for the summer and a trip to France in the fall.

Keeping the days busy is Susan’s goal to fill the void at home. Summer 2019 marks the 1-year anniversary of a state-of-the-sport 8-court indoor tennis center on the NJ shore (parkavetennis.com) where Elizabeth “Bambi” Maitland Grundwerg and husband are co-developers. The first year is looking good! Bambi has plans to travel to Portland, OR, late summer to celebrate Linda Esterhoy Segur’s birthday with Anne Connal Biron and a girls week on the NW wine trail and beach!

Life is good in Cincinnati for Dawson Casey Bullock! The kids are off the payroll! Her oldest,

Caroline, completed her master’s in biomedical engineering and is employed by a clinical trial company. Daughter Gibson recently moved to Milwaukee to begin her job in the marketing field.

While husband John travels a lot, Dawson still runs her own business and a staff of 7. “Designs by Dawson” is an invitation, stationery and gift store in Cincinnati. Her mother, Ann “Corky” Pattison Casey ’53, recently passed away. After discovering her mother’s Hood ring, Dawson proudly wore it to her mother’s service. Proud to know that Hood played a big part of her mother’s life and influenced lifelong friendships. If ever in Cincinnati, call Dawson! Joy Miller Beveridge continues to enjoy serving on the Alumni Executive Board with the new director of alumni and constituent engagement, Kellye Greenwald ’86, and on the Board of Associates with Magaly Maurus Green ’74, cochair, and Emily VanderWoude, director of leadership giving. She would love to hear from other local alums who have time to volunteer at many local events where we engage with the students and with the community, both on and off campus. Husband Don and Joy have been traveling more often to AZ and CA, visiting children and 2 granddaughters… retirement is looking better all the time, but no time soon! They look forward to their annual trip to the Kennett Square area where they enjoy the Labor Day weekend with Elizabeth Bastian Chapin and Chip Chapin, while celebrating the lives of Elizabeth LePatourel Powell ’50 and Mary Hendershot Bastian ’50, once again united! After a tough 2018, Jackie McDaniel West is celebrating her 59th year all year long! 2019 has been filled with travel, concerts, family and friends! Her birthday celebration began in Nashville with friends and was joined by Christy Belisle Fitzgerald. Family visits in Louisville, a few days in St. Michaels, MD, with Glynnis Edwards Cowdery, a family trip to AK and a girls trip to Wimbledon are now memories! She has renewed friendships with Kim Keeney and Amy Blades Steward. They all attended Hood and spent their high school years together! Kim and Amy have been a tremendous support to Jackie while she helps care for her sister who suffers from Alzheimer’s. Life is too short, so Jackie is embracing experiences and friends. Focus on the positive!

“Be where your feet are.” Back in Jan., Gretchen Steinmetz Keith and I, Elizabeth Bastian Chapin, attended the Hood/Albright basketball games in Reading, PA. We had a fun time cheering on the Blazer men and women with Kellye Greenwald ’86 and Hood’s athletic director, Susan Kolb. I manage to keep travelling or I’m on the go when not in the office. Despite a desired better work-life balance, work hard, play hard is my motto! Thanks to all who contributed to the column this issue. I hope to hear from more of you in the future. Best to all. –Liz. FA L L

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Anything you dream of!

Dream big. Fly high. Think strategically.

Find purpose. Be happy.—Ann Erker Bailey ’93

—Susan Taylor Shoch ’69

1983 Mary L. Townley 804-307-3608, hoodmlt@aol.com

I heard from our classmate Shelley Wagar this time around and she had lots of awesome news to share! She writes, “Dave and I moved to SC in May so we could be closer to my daughter, son-in-law and our new grandbaby, Madelyn. She was born in Dec. and brings us so much joy with her smiles. I retired in early May and recommend it to all. Love the free time to work outside and do whatever pops into my mind. Dave has been retired for 12 years, so we are busy planning some camping trips out west.

Our goal is AK next summer. And to top off what has been an awesome year so far is that Dave and I got married at the end of May. Very simple ceremony in our backyard. Life is very, very good, and I am blessed with all that has taken place. I hope all is well with the rest of the Class of ’83!” Life with me, Mary Townley, is going well. I’m still running a nonprofit (www.thenextmoveprogram.com), and Carol is happy working at VA Commonwealth Univ. running the Autism Center for Excellence. Our daughter, Emily, enters her senior year at Roanoke College this fall with a psychology major and an art history minor. She was lucky to spend 2 weeks in Kenya in mid-May as a part of her college coursework after spending the fall semester in Perugia, Italy. Yes, she has the travel bug! Take care everyone!

1984 Ellen-Marie Samsen Knehans emknehans@mchsi.com Susan Flanders Kleinschmidt susankle@comcast.net

From the trips to High Knob to the Strawberry Breakfast, our 35th Reunion was magnificent. It was wonderful to spend some time in Smith with all of our class attendees—yes, we were bunking on the second floor—and to sit and chat at each and every “food event.” Kellye Greenwald ’86 could not have made us feel more welcomed.

Thank you for the great events including the All Class BBQ and the Alumni Luncheon. Nancy Gillece ’81 was ever present smiling and chatting with us, making sure all was right at all of our activities. President Andrea Chapdelaine was in attendance at each and every event despite a summer cold. Her update on the College was informative and exciting. A new dorm will be built where the Marx Center was, near Coffman Chapel 64

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and ready for occupancy in the fall 2020. Thank you to the postcard writers who diligently wrote to their friends, acquaintances and others who were not in attendance. We missed you. We know many of you were at family celebrations and attending family milestone events, but we want you to know your presence was missed. If you were not at Hood in June and didn’t get a postcard, please update us on you. We want to celebrate you, and we hope you will attend our 40th in 2024. One of the most touching times for me was seeing the flowers placed by classmates on the brick purchased for our classmate Diana Proia Romeo. What a beautiful way to honor the memory of a classmate.

Thank you. Finally, please send information to Susan Flanders Kleinschmidt and myself. We wish to share your life events, joyous occasions and greetings. If we missed an event in your life, or if something didn’t make it to the column, please resend. Sometimes accidental editing or technology glitches cause unintended omissions.

I’m looking forward to the next few columns where we will share individual highlights.

1985 Susan Povich DelConte ahoodlumof85@hotmail.com

Hello Hoodlums! It has been far too long since I was able to get a column together—please send news when it comes up so I don’t have to hound everyone at the last minute! Kimberly Kieffer Brown was the first to respond: “Hood news for me: My husband, Bob, and I have entered semi-retirement and have relocated from central PA to Lewes, DE. We are enjoying beach living and looking forward to our next chapter!” Cathy Diem sent loads of news: “Hi! I am enjoying 6 years with Hilton as director of insurance industry sales, traveling about 50% of the time and loving it. My son, Will, was married earlier this month. Son Matt graduated from Ithaca College and is pursuing his master’s in taxation. Was lucky enough to see Robin Schneider Mahoney ’84 and her parents earlier this spring. Looking forward to catching up with everyone at the Reunion next June.” Greetings were sent from Marsha Evans: “I got together with Hood classmate Deborah Crawford-Reynolds and husband Dale Reynolds in Bethany Beach last month. Always fun sharing laughs and memories, not to mention enjoying the beach!” Her posting was noticed by Krista Stone Steiding, who added “We got together with Deborah Crawford-Reynolds and Trish WilsonWisner for Martha Church’s memorial service and had dinner at Cacique in Downtown Frederick prior to the service. I have had the pleasant experience of reconnecting lost Hoodlums several times—most

recently for Margaret Oliver. If you are missing a member of the class of ’85, let me know and I will act as a middle man for you! Thanks to everyone who responded so quickly—please consider adding something next time and sending it to Margie or me!

1986 Alison Drum Althouse 804-814-0470, alison.althouse@gmail.com

Sue Auger Manory started a new job this spring at Clarkson Univ. in Potsdam, NY, as an academic adviser in the undergraduate school of business.

Both her boys will be in college this fall: Will is a senior at St. Lawrence Univ. and Drew will be a freshman at the Univ. of Dayton. She hopes to visit with Lucy Noepel ’87 while in New England this summer. Shantih Clemans is the director of the Center for Mentoring, Learning and Academic Innovation at SUNY Empire State College, working with faculty all over NY State. She and partner Julie have 2 daughters, 12 and 10, and have adopted a puppy, adding to the craziness! Shantih is close friends with Nina Banks ’85. Kellye Greenwald loves being back in MD and feels so lucky to call Frederick home again! Sue Hastings started a new job in Feb. with R.H. Sheppard in Hanover, PA, as an automotive material planner/buyer. Martha Hearn Shimano, who recently finished her two 4-year terms on Hood’s Board of Trustees, is excited that her new home is slowly coming together but says she won’t be ready for visitors until sometime in 2020. Chrysti Hogan began her summer break spending a long weekend with mother Edee Howard Hogan ’59 at her beach house in Bethany Beach, DE. She was also able to catch up with Stacey Collins ’89 and RaeAnn Butler ’89 while there. Dana Humphreys-Acock is still in private practice as a mental health therapist in Columbus.

She’s working part-time as she cares for her mom who is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

It’s been a long, sad journey for her, but she’d like to offer support, wisdom or just an ear to any Hood sisters who are going through this currently with their loved ones. She and Mitch celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary and plan a trip to Italy this year. Their older son just finished his freshman year at Ohio State (Go Bucks). Their younger son is going to be a high school junior and keeps them busy with soccer and his college search. Marcia Menihan Kodlick lives near Harrisburg, PA, with husband Jim and younger son, William (17). Both are archaeologists working for different engineering and environmental firms in the area. Older son James (20) recently finished his US Army Combat Medic training and is currently awaiting orders to see where this adventure will lead him. Will is a rising

Position yourself to be the voice for change!—Lanee Higgins ’14 high school senior and is taking a planned gap year to travel after graduation. Marcia’s dad recently moved in next door and they love sharing their lives across generations. Marcia is in regular contact with Heidi Schwab-Jurmala (in Stockholm Sweden with husband Peter), Kathrine Anderson Cicala (back in MA with family), Kellye Greenwald and sees Anne Lamoureux frequently. I also recently re-connected with Sooz Edmiston ’87 and visit her, her wife, Cat, and their 2 boys in Frederick as often as possible. Lisa O’Brien Baio shared that on June 9, 2018, she married William (Bill) Baio in a beautiful vineyard wedding on Long Island. Hoodlums in attendance were Audrey MacDonald Wilcox, Gretchen Miller-Anderson, Debbie Daly Louis, and Robin Samuelman Kalfaian ’87, as well as their husbands. On June 15, 2019, Lisa’s daughter Elisabeth married her partner, Victoria, with Audrey, Debbie, Gretchen and their husbands in attendance.

Lisa reports that she retired this year from teaching after 33 years in the same school. She’s looking forward to an Alaskan cruise in Aug., and a trip to Malta! As for me, our older son, Drew Althouse ’12, is an athletic trainer at a small Catholic university in Michigan while our younger son, Evan, lives in DC working for the Mitre Corporation as he finishes a master’s from Georgia Tech. Michael took a new job with Barclay’s bank in Wilmington, DE, and we now live in Avondale, PA. I continue my work for Boordy Vineyards and am the sports photographer for the Mid Report, shooting Navy football, lacrosse and occasional basketball games. I hosted a visit with Teresa Martinez-Rivera Bean ’87, Janet Drogin Wilson and Marcia Groobert Ortiz this spring and was privileged to attend the memorial service for Dr. Martha Church, where I had the opportunity to visit with classmates, too many to mention without leaving out someone. I’m always happy to host Hoodlums, if any classmates are traveling… as long as it’s not a Navy home football weekend!

1995 Jacki Resop Amato jresop@yahoo.com

Hello Hoodlums! Next year is our big 25th reunion.

I can’t believe it’s been 25 years since we graduated. Seems just like yesterday! Hope to see you all there! In June, my daughter Julianna (Class of 2030) and I helped out at Reunion Weekend.

We had so much fun at the Alumni Luncheon and driving alumni around campus in golf carts. We chatted with many alumni and their families about their time at Hood and what they have been doing since graduation. It is always a pleasure and a rewarding experience. Being on campus brings back so many fond memories! So, if you have any news

Absolutely anything you want to do!—Jacki Resop Amato ’95

for me, please feel free to email any time of the year! I’d love to hear from you!

1996 Tanya Sander-Marks tsmvacation@gmail.com

Hello, this is Tanya Sander-Marks, and I am the new class reporter. Many thanks to Jewel Smith for her 20 years of coverage. It’s a tough act to follow! I heard some great updates when connecting with fellow Hoodlums this summer. Alesia Gallego Brand has been traveling recently, with trips to Disney World and Austin and Dallas, TX. She works as a care team coordinator with the Board of Child Care in WV. She and her husband share 7 children and grandchildren, with 4 of them (aged 21, 15, 13 and 11) living with them in Inwood, WV. Alesia invites Hoodlums who are going to be in nearby Harper’s Ferry, WV, Hagerstown, MD, or Winchester, VA, to connect with her at aluckybrand96@yahoo.com. Rachael Miskill Brown is currently living in London, England, and she and her husband regularly spend weekends in Wales with her father-in-law. They have a cruise planned for Aug. She is also enjoying watching her 2 goddaughters grow up. Quicha Tresvant Jones works in commercial property management for the real estate firm that owns and manages the NASA headquarters building in DC. She and her husband live in Silver Spring, MD, and have boys aged 20, 15 and 8 in their combined family. Christie Spencer Katora earned her master’s in comprehensive special education and a special education certification in 2018. She is a secondary learning support teacher for the Big Spring School District in Cumberland County, PA. She is also the assistant coach of both the high school swim team and the local aquatic club. She lives in Newville, PA, with her husband and 11-year-old son. Chris Laborde and her wife recently moved back to Frederick after spending the last 10 years in Anchorage, AK, and Vacaville, CA. They are in the process of building a home. She works for a consulting firm based in Sacramento, CA, developing emergency management exercises primarily for the health care industry and is an adjunct instructor for FEMA. Their older son married last year and lives in TX, and their younger son lives in Anchorage. I, Tanya Sander-Marks, live in Mt. Lebanon, PA, with my husband and 10- and 13-year-old daughters.

I am a vice president of marketing at a national bank based in Pittsburgh, where my team handles marketing for out-of-branch activities and the Bank at Work program. My volunteering now centers around my daughter’s PTA and sports. We will be stopping at Hood’s campus while driving to the beach this summer as we always do. Walking under the pergola can instantly take you back!

1999 Anne Hambrick-Stowe Rankin 717-945-4585, annehambrickstowe@gmail.com

Hey there, Class of ’99! For some of us, the summer of ’19 kicked off with our 20th class reunion. From the pictures and posts I saw on Facebook, it was definitely a special time to reconnect and reminisce with long-lasting friendships from our Hood days.

Even if you couldn’t be on campus in person to catch up, at least we can stay somewhat connected through sharing news in this column and reading about what is happening in the life of the College in the other articles and announcements in this magazine. Thanks to those who have contacted me with the latest updates in their lives; it’s always fun to hear from Hoodlums! We have several among us who have taken on new jobs or positions that are impressive and noteworthy. Marissa Vigneault’s big news is that she will be an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Sept. 2019 through Aug. 2020. Christina Tindal recently took a job as director of psychiatry for the Henry Ford Health System. She and her family are living the dream on a beautiful all-sports lake in Michigan.

Sounds like the ideal work-life balance! Shawn Ramsey also has moved up the professional ladder, having accepted a position as the chair of robotic surgery at Capital Regional Medical Center in Tallahassee, FL. And, one more: Allison Bell Barrett is now the state association meetings manager at the National Pest Management Association in Fairfax, VA. Super big congratulations to all of you on your professional achievements! On the more personal-life front, this past May, Sarah Sweet Knudsen moved her family from Houston, TX, back to the Columbus area in her home state of OH. Her new address is 7431 Cottonwood Dr., Plain City, OH 43064. Sarah would love to connect with any alums in the area so feel free to reach out to her! Johanna Lane Nathanson’s son, Samuel, graduated from Drexel Univ. with a degree in computer science this June. The funny thing is, Sam attended our Hood graduation when he was just 3 years old to see his mom get her diploma! Johanna remembers him all dressed up and enjoying the graduation events; she is glad it was finally her turn to get all dressed up and enjoy his graduation events. As for me, Anne Hambrick-Stowe Rankin, last Aug., I underwent a completely successful kidney transplant (donated to me by my brother); now, 1 year later, I continue to be so grateful for the new life that I was given and the medical expertise and advancements that make such a procedure possible. I hope this fall is a great one for us all, and, please continue to be in touch FA L L

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Play with deadly pathogens and live to tell about it.—Holly Goretski Bloomfield ’98, ’99, C’05, M.A.’07 with me about your work, your family, your sports, your travels…anything you want to share with the rest of us! Until next time—take good care.

2003 Leah Giambarresi MacDonald macdonaldleahg@gmail.com

Hi everyone! Welcome to this edition of the 2003 Class News! Julie Sirak Pacilli began 2 new jobs in June. She started with the LRAP Association as the director of client service and has launched her own travel agency! It’s called Four Mountains Travel Company, and while she specializes in Disney vacations, she can help plan trips all over the world.

I can vouch for how awesome she is—she’s helped my family plan more than one Disney trip already!

Her website is 4mtravelco.com, or you can find her on Facebook. Taryn Chubb has decided to add another degree to her name! She started law school at the Univ. of Oklahoma earlier this year, with plans to graduate in 2022 and work in intellectual property, art and cultural heritage preservation law.

I, Leah Giambarresi MacDonald, had a baby! My husband Matt and I welcomed Nicholas James in March. His big sister, Abigail, is very excited to have him around—well, as excited as any 2-year-old can be with the arrival of a younger sibling! That’s it for this season—don’t forget to join the Hood College Class of 2003 group on Facebook and to send me your news for the next column!

2005 Leslie Beck Hughan 410-303-2208, lhughan@gmail.com

In spring 2019, Judie Evans became an editor at the National Museum of American History. She works down the hall from Indiana Jones’ leather jacket, and says she gets to see cool things all the time. Ja’Bette Brown Lozupone is a doctoral candidate at Hood College, cohort 2020.

Andrew Noll and Lauren Sebald Noll moved.

They purchased Lauren’s parents’ house as they downsized. Lauren also is the director of the newly named Reverend Monsignor Lloyd Aiken Student Support Program at the Sacred Heart of Glyndon Catholic School. Sarah Robinson Rathbun became an entrepreneur, launching her own business this summer. Sarah developed a new product to repair ripped clothing and customize clothing and accessories. She calls her product Patcharoos and you can find them online at patcharoos.com. After more than 13 years of working as a production editor at Rowman and Littlefield, Patricia Stevenson graduated to working on some of the 66

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top-tier trade titles published by the company. She recently finished working on “Peary’s Arctic Quest,”

by Susan Kaplan and Genevieve LeMoine, a fully illustrated exploration of the North Pole expeditions of the early 1900s. Patricia encourages everyone to check it out. Amanda Wilber Thompson is living in Louisville, KY, and part of an operation management trainee program at Ryder Trucking. Son Emmett Dean was born in April 2014 and starts kindergarten in Aug. Joanna Grauel Zeisser welcomed a second daughter, Madeleine Hope Zeisser, on Aug. 20, 2018.

2007 Amanda Earp Hayes and husband Toby have just begun the process of building a new home by the Chesapeake Bay near St. Michaels, MD. They also celebrated 10 years of marriage this past Aug. and held a Battlestar Galactica-themed vow renewal for their closest friends and family members (including their amazing 7-year-old, James). Amanda works as an editor, teaches classes on nonfiction writing at various colleges throughout the Northeast, and is soon to embark on a career change as a licensed and board-certified trauma therapist.

2008 Sarah Haney Koons 301-992-5149, sarah@sarahkoons.com

Katlin Hassell celebrated her 4th year as a correctional officer and recently got engaged to the woman of her dreams. Lenae Franey King is expecting her 4th child (a girl!), due Sept. 23.

She also signed the lease for her 3rd business, Imaginarium Indoor Playground, which will be located in Solomons, MD. Elizabeth Thompson was promoted to director of events and alumni engagement at the Lab School of Washington.

Additionally, her niece Yolanda-Elizabeth will be attending Hood in the fall. Charly Mulligan Culler celebrated the high school graduation of daughter Katelyn Culler who is also the granddaughter of Hood alum Joan Kaufman Culler, M.A.’78. Jason Ruvinsky is getting married to finance Teresa on June 14 in a small ceremony. They are planning a honeymoon in Japan next year.

2009 Liz Lopez writes: “I am graduating this Aug. with my master’s in school counseling and have accepted a position for this coming school year at a high school.”

2010 Rebecca Norris Allen married Eric Norris on Oct. 6 in Norwood, MA.

Make a difference.

—Kayla Richardson ’18

2011 Megan Dancause 717-682-5267, mdancause@comcast.net

It’s crazy to think that 8 years ago, we left the comforts of Hood and began facing the real world.

The Class of 2011 is always making the most of life! Kristina Coggins made the jump from hotel events to academia events in fall 2018. With that transition, she also left the 100-plus degree north TX weather to more temperate CO weather. In Oct. 2018, Kristina moved to CO Springs to pursue a position at the Univ. of CO, Colorado Springs (UCCS).

As the manager of chancellor and university events, she works on UCCS’ VIP and donor events. This position allows her to continue practicing her love of events with a little more work-life balance. No more 1 a.m. events, and she even experienced snow days this year! On Aug. 2, 2019, Kristina will marry her fiance, Daniel Heck, in Pine, CO. In 2020, they are looking to purchase a home in CO Springs. If anyone is ever passing through CO Springs, please reach out! Megan Dancause is recently engaged and an Oct. 2020 wedding is planned. Jess Miller Kehler recently got her MD home inspection license and started a new job with US Inspect. Her family also grew in March as she adopted a rescue dog, Opal, a pit-bull mix. Chelsea Bosch Perry and her husband welcomed their first son, Andrew James, on May 24.

Emily Cucchi Raines and her husband welcomed their first child, Jace Allen Raines, on May 6. Dan Rocker bought a house in Pasadena, MD, this past year and also took a new job with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise as a partner business manager covering MD, DC, VA and NC. John Stiles started a new job in Dec. as a post producer for DAZN, a sports media company. Ysabel Suarez is recently retired but has started a home-based business that produces personalized books for children. The business is books4youandyours.com. In addition, Ysabel earned a master’s degree from Hood in 2011. Krista ZerbyCampbell got married in Oct. 2018. Krista also graduated with her master’s in marriage and family therapy from Northcentral Univ. this past winter. She will be joining a private practice.

2012 Laura Saad Voelker lauragvoelker@gmail.com Ashley Nokes Reidenauer adnokes@gmail.com

As always, the Class of 2012 has lots of exciting news and updates! Katelyn Vu Brady married Shane

Build a strong, individualized foundation for your personal/professional successes. —C.J. Blickenstaff ’17

Brady ’11 and lives in VA Beach where she works as an attorney with Whiteford, Taylor and Preston, LLP. Carley Altenburger completed her master’s in the history of decorative arts at George Mason Univ. and recently accepted the position of assistant librarian for the Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera at Winterthur Museum. Cara Dillon Clements celebrated her daughter’s first birthday and is looking forward to a new position in the Montgomery County Public Schools system.

Edwin Franco is the owner of a small real estate business in partnership with Keller Williams Capital Properties in Springfield, VA. Courtney Fraser has 2 nephews and a niece and is a consultant for both Usborne Books and More and 31 Gifts. Samantha Gertner celebrated her engagement to Francis Nebenburgh III last summer. They are getting married next spring in St. Martin where they shared their first date. Samantha’s private grief consulting business continues to grow. Lauren Hagan was promoted to senior digital marketing strategist at Immersion Active, a digital-first marketing agency in Downtown Frederick. Kelly Harris is working as a special education teacher at Bancroft. She has been married for almost 10 years and has 2 beautiful daughters, Sofia (5) and Charlotte (2). Rachael Conboy Harris had a baby, got married and is teaching special education. Jessica Henry is working at Vertex Pharmaceuticals and loving life in Boston, MA. Jose Sanchez Hernandez defended his thesis for the completion of the biomedical science master’s degree at Hood in July. He won “The People’s Choice Award” in the 2019 3MT competition and is loving his job at the Frederick National Lab for Cancer Research.

Troy Hubbard and Lauren Baranauskas Hubbard live in NC where he is finishing post-doctoral studies at the National Toxicology Program branch of NIEHS, and Lauren teaches 8th grade history in Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools. They are expecting their first child in Oct. Mike Lancaster is living in southern MD designing maps for the Marine Corps. Eric Leviton is continuing his service in the Air Force and was recently promoted to staff sergeant. He completed a year tour in Turkey and now lives in Germany.

Nathalie Lewis resigned as accounting associate at Nymeo Federal Credit Union in Frederick and as of June 3 became staff accountant for Maryland Oral Surgery Associates Management office in Rockville, MD. Scott Mauer worked as a historical researcher for a New York Times best-selling author and is now a technical writer for the Federal Aviation Administration. Elizabeth Ulmer Page celebrated the birth of their 1st daughter in May and is teaching at an independent all-girls school in Columbus, OH. Conor Prachar shifted his computer monitor about 6 inches to the right and is still working at Hood as the women’s soccer coach. Molly Poling and her fiance got a kitten to keep their cat, Escher, company.

Homeschool your children!

—Kelly Funk Esposito ’00, P’20

They have been working in their garden and are looking forward to their wedding in Sept. Doug Raftery stepped into the role as general manager, business operations of Reno 1868 FC, a professional soccer team in Nevada in April. Michelle Kuehl Randolph married husband Dane in Asheville, NC, in May. They also are expecting their rainbow baby this year. Ashley Nokes Reidenauer was married in Oct. and is working for an outpatient mental health clinic in Greenbelt. Kaitlin Hughes Retallick received a promotion to primary patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office last Sept. Drew Roderuck bought his first house and is currently working at the National Aquarium in Baltimore as a herpetologist. Kenneth Rupert was the winner of the 2019 Pitch Competition, published the Financial SelfDefense Training Guide and is now offering financial wellness training as a part of the Financial Black Belt Academy. Bonnie Lapp Seabolt just finished her 6th year as a 3rd grade teacher and is continuing her education at Hood. David Stanker is enjoying life to the fullest! Laura Saad Voelker has moved to Silver Spring, MD, with husband Bruce and is a 1st through 3rd grade science teacher at an independent school.

Taurean Washington will display a solo art exhibit in Hood’s Hodson Gallery on Nov. 21. He and his wife are expecting a baby boy in Aug.

2013 Elaheh Eghbal eeghbal14@gmail.com

Namaste, Class of 2013! As always, we’re continuing to lead beautiful and exciting lives.

Elizabeth Garner Drummond and husband Scott Drummond welcomed their 2nd baby girl, Cailin Faye Drummond, on April 9. Jordan Atha married Mikhael Weaver on March 8 in Washington County, MD. Kellie Duncan Clairmont and husband Matt welcomed their 2nd daughter, Sadie Rose Clairmont, on Jan. 4. Andrea Zona Baker and husband James Baker ’15 welcomed their 2nd child, Avery Gabriella Baker...also born on Jan. 4! Future members of the Hood College Class of 2041? Andrea is continuing her work with Frederick’s Woman to Woman Mentoring. In May, Mi’kea Bowie Hawkins earned her master’s in curriculum and instruction with a concentration in teacher leadership. In July, she and husband Adrian welcomed their 2nd child, a girl.

Carly Oeller earned her certificate in organizational management from Hood. Breanne Carbaugh started a new position at Coastal Hospice where she’ll be a bereavement counselor working with children and teenagers who are grieving the loss of a loved one. Nicole Crutchfield Tabbachino, LMSW is opening the Orenda Center of Wellness this summer, an inpatient women’s substance

abuse treatment facility and an outpatient women, men and children’s substance abuse and mental health treatment facility. Inpatient services will be in Sabillasville, MD, and outpatient services will be in Frederick. Ashley Birdsell is enjoying her work in DC as the director of marketing and sales at the National Theatre, is a board member for Story District and Rorschach Theatre and volunteers with the Smithsonian National Zoo. Amanda Blakeslee Darling and husband Will welcomed daughter Emma Mae on June 16. Baby, mom, dad and big brother Willie are all doing well and look forward to the 2019 alumni field hockey game this coming fall. Aimee Smith wrapped up her 6th year as a special education teacher for Heather Ridge School in Frederick County. She was named Heather Ridge School Teacher of the Year and FCPS Outstanding Special Educator of the Year. William Lewis is engaged to Robin Samek.

He is also teaching theater and voice, directing shows and has returned to the classroom for his secondary education teaching certificate! MJ Swicegood completed her PMP certification and was accepted into Johns Hopkins master’s program in biotechnology. Nicola Sussman earned her master’s in reading specialization at Hood and walked at Commencement for a 2nd time! I, Elaheh Eghbal, recently joined the team at Go2s, a social networking platform, and the board for Aythos, an NGO that does work in Nepal, and spent 2 weeks trekking through the Himalayan mountains. Keep soaring, everyone!

2014 Bianca Padilla bianca.e.padilla@gmail.com

Hey all! Reunion Weekend was lots of fun. It was great to see familiar faces and reminisce on our times at Hood. Here is what we are up to!

Emily Singleton Dimeler and husband Josh are expecting their baby girl in Nov. Olivia Sledzik is getting married in Sept. in Narragansett, RI. She and her fiance bought a 104-year-old home in Warwick, RI, and are having a blast restoring it. Chelsea Young moved to NC recently and got married. She started coaching CrossFit along with nutrition and personal programming for her fulltime job. Bianca Padilla is a 5th grade science, social studies and writing teacher in Montgomery County, MD. As a national trainer, she continues to certify people to become MixxedFit instructors.

Kate Kopasek Black graduated from Notre Dame of MD Univ. in May with her master’s in nonprofit management. Kate and her husband just bought and moved into their first home in July. Emily Kraatz Adesina married the love of her life, Segun FA L L

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Achieve dreams, lead responsibly, with integrity and vision.—Brent Harwood ’18

Adesina, in July 2018. She completed her master’s degree in educational leadership at Hood in May. She taught for 5 years with FCPS and came back to the Hood to work as the director of the Lab School preschool program. Have a wonderful summer, Class of 2014!

2015 Sarah Tapscott Rosier 301-807-7821, sarah.tapscott12@gmail.com

Hi all! I am counting down the days until our 5-year reunion! How crazy is that? Keep an eye out on Facebook and email for more information about the reunion. You may see a few emails directly from me!

I can definitely say that things are ramping up for us all as we’ve either settled, moved, re-invented or a combination thereof. Justin Cifuentes married fiance Sarah on Aug. 8 in upstate New York. He also finished his 3rd year of teaching 8th grade English in Fair Lawn, NJ. Jordan Fridenmaker, after graduating from John Hopkins in 2017, moved to Denver, CO, and has been working as an ICU nurse. Adding to his accolades, he became a flight nurse. He also wanted to include that though he has not gotten married, bought a house or had kids, he did adopt another cat.

Kacy Strasser completed her 1st year of full-time teaching at Oakdale Middle in Ijamsville, MD, where she teaches 7th grade creative arts. She is excited to be the yearbook adviser next year! She also spends countless hours at Oakdale High School as a color guard tech and is finishing up her master’s at Hood in curriculum and instruction, graduating spring 2020.

Cecelia Lee recently became the events coordinator at Vanish Brewery in Leesburg, VA. She is devising an original abstract theater piece at the Maryland Ensemble Theatre called “Transcend Receive.”

Regginald Daniels completed his master’s at Hood.

Julianne Berg is starting her 3rd year with the Girl Scouts Nation’s Capital. She has successfully directed both a spring break and summer camp for the organization, giving more than 200 girls the chance to experience Girl Scouts. Blair Tetter Schnapp has been substitute teaching for elementary schools in Frederick County. She hopes to get a full-time teaching position with FCPS. She and husband Ben Schnapp bought a house together in Frederick in Aug. 2017, then got married on Oct. 5, 2018 at Dutch’s Daughter in Frederick. Courtney Smith is still teaching 2nd grade in College Park. She began in 2017 and loves it! Travis Gilbert presented at the North Carolina Museum Council’s 2019 Conference on Hurricane Florence recovery at Old Baldy Lighthouse. He is learning to surf and is competing in his first sprint triathlon this fall. As for myself, Sarah Tapscott Rosier, Owen Rosier ’16 and I finally got married on June 8, and the day was perfect in every 68

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Be your own Prima Donna and go surprise the world.—Fred Michel, MBA’95

way. I am moving on to the next project, of course, because I absolutely cannot help myself. We’re hoping on going on a honeymoon to Europe next year! Please continue to send me updated mailing and email addresses or to remove any outdated info.

2016 Justin Fox jmf12@hood.edu

Sarah Marcello is now working as the corporate communications specialist at Stryker’s Spine Division.

Elizabeth Palena graduated from Rutgers with a master’s in information and is now a full-time librarian. She attended the NJ Library Association conference this year. Laura Shriver Talis is still a grant writer in Baltimore. She married Paul Talis ’17 in May, and the two recently celebrated their 1-year house anniversary in Towson, MD. Justin Fox started a new position as the program director for summer sessions at Georgetown Univ. Erin Murray is a teacher’s assistant at a special education school while pursuing a master’s in infant and toddler early childhood special education at St. Joseph’s College in Long Island, NY. Connor Asman thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2018. He started a new job in northern VA as a marketing production specialist for Ratner Companies. Jiselle Lopez is a search engine optimization administrator for Pearson Online & Blended Learning. She also adopted a cat. Jason Dagenhart has been teaching high school history for a few years and will be starting law school in the fall.

Caitlin Fay Smith is still teaching 1st grade. She and her husband just had their first baby, a boy named August Monroe Smith. Javier Zavala is a counselor and case manager at the Student Homelessness Initiative Partnership (SHIP) of Frederick County working with high school age students experiencing homelessness. Javier has also been promoting his mandala art in the Frederick community and had his work on display at Frederick Coffee Co. for the month of July. Michele Cirrincione finished her 3rd year teaching and will be moving from teaching 5th to 4th grade for the 2019-20 school year. Allen Paxton graduated from the Univ. of Iowa College of Law. He is currently studying for the Bar Exam and is working for the Cannabis Law Practice Group at Greenspoon Marder LLP in Denver, CO. Leah Hull has been working in healthcare administration and traveling but plans to pursue a master’s soon. Last summer, she got engaged to Jonathan Moughty ’13. The two currently live in Frederick with their 5 pets. Lydia Emory joined the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program in fall 2018 to teach English to high school students in Kagoshima, Japan. She plans to continue teaching in Japan until Aug. 2020.

Ashlee Metzger started a position as a physician

assistant at a family medicine practice in southern PA. Lauren Miller graduated with her J.D. from UMD Francis King Carey School of Law and will clerk for the Honorable Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera of the MD Court of Appeals. After, she will become a 2nd-year associate at Venable LLP. Yan Karavai is a business analyst at Fannie Mae and finishing an MBA at Hood. Yan welcomed a daughter in May. Cara Dye and Patrick O’Leary got engaged in Italy in Nov. and are moving to Baltimore. Cara is still enjoying teaching in Howard County. Caitlin Clark will be finishing a master’s at Penn State this Dec. After, she is considering moving to a new city to start her career in organization development and change. Sienna Bronson graduated with a master’s in liberal studies from AZ State Univ. in May and has accepted a fulltime math teaching position at GateWay Early College High School.

2017 Mary Milligan 717-824-7377, mrm15@hood.edu

Kaylene Wright got hired as a permanent park ranger for the National Park Service and will be working at Chiricahua National Monument in AZ. Caroline Kinna has a new job as a licensed social worker in MD. She works for the Department of Social Services in Frederick County in the Child Protective Services Unit and loves it! Shannon Welch will be graduating soon with a double master’s in national security and cyber intel. She is a special assistant to the CEO at A.R. International Consulting.

She is also the proud mother of a Goldendoodle and Maine Coon. Megan Poole bought her first home in Frederick, a 4-bed, single-family house! She also started her own business and CZASP certification!

Eliseo Bell-Uribe and his wife celebrated their 2-year anniversary on July 8. She’s a nurse. They also are looking to buy a house. Samantha Frizzell moved from Williamsburg, VA, back to Frederick and started a new job as an associate consultant in Washington, DC. Mary Milligan bought a house in Knoxville, MD, with her fiance. She will get married in Oct. Logan Samuels is in her 3rd and final year of law school at the Catholic Univ. of America, Columbus School of Law. This past summer, she clerked for the Universal Administrative Company Administration, and she has been named the vice chancellor for the National Telecommunications and Technology Moot Court Competition for 2020. Amber Tavenner is an accountant in Frederick at Hildebrand, Limparis & Associates CPA. She will be taking her final MBA class this fall at Hood. Guillermo Sobalvarro is an immigration paralegal in Washington, DC, at Haynes, Novick Immigration.

You can amaze people with the scope of your knowledge.—Mary Thompson Calhoun ’81

IN MEMORIAM

Become a data scientist and use data to power philanthropy. —Emily Kahn ’05

Remembering those we have lost.

Mary Potts Meyer ’37 January 2019

E. Ann Englehart Storey ’49 July 2019

Sally Sue Saylor ’61 July 2018

Elizabeth Ruth Edwards ’40 February 2017

Joanne McCutcheon Asher ’50 February 2019

Courtney Gurley Sieck ’62 February 2019

Doris McCoy Tilden ’40 May 2019

Charlene Wilkens Hursh ’50 January 2019

Suzanne Stoeckle Binetti ’64 December 2017

Virginia Brunner Cook ’42 January 2019

Judith Dunn Miller ’50 June 2019

Laurie Wheeler Brown ’66 may 2019

Judith Feild Gager ’42 March 2019

Elizabeth LePatourel Powell ’50 January 2019

Vivian Lamberson Manis ’67 April 2019

E. Gertrude Garman Lang ’42 June 2019

Kathryn DeWitt Staber ’50 May 2019

Elizabeth Marckwardt Oliver ’69 June 2019

Mary Saylor Steinert ’43 December 2018

Betsy McCain McAlpine ’51, H’17 May 2019

Ann Whittle Uliano ’73 March 2019

Gladys Reinert Aungst ’44 April 2019

Mary-Louise Springhorn Rude Leidheiser ’52 April 2019

Susan Burton-Murphy ’74, P’99 November 2018

Mildred Geiple Hufnagel ’44 January 2019 Nancy Wolfe Thurston ’45 January 2019 Dorothy Nolan Jennings ’47 October 2017 M. Jean Brohmer Paulson ’47 May 2019 Elizabeth Groft Sell ’47, P’74 January 2019 Janet Beck Agnew ’48 May 2019 Jackallen Handy Arthur ’48 June 2019 Jean Ballenberg Hecht ’48 July 2018 Elizabeth Benchoff Page ’48 March 2019 M. Rebekah Derr Schaffer ’48 July 2019 Lee Miller Gunther-Mohr ’49 December 2018 Jane Kremer Martin ’49 May 2019

Janet Rowe Smith ’52 February 2019 Joan Jazowski Fellows ’53 April 2019 Jerry Griffith Macomber ’53 January 2019 Sue Heubisch Milkey ’53 May 2019 Barbara Chandler Gerding ’54 March 2019 Elizabeth Lynch Sandt ’54 February 2019

Lynn Morse Familiar ’74 December 2016 Ann P. Barton ’75 February 2019 Charles E. Tressler, P’75, P’75 January 2019 Rebecca A. Baitty, M.A.’76 Unknown Nancy Armstrong Crochet ’77 June 2019 Perry L. Hipkins ’77 March 2019

Suzanne Martin DiPasquale ’85, M.S.’92 November 2015 Arlynn McCree del Greco, M.A.’85 December 2018 Mary A. Galloway ’86, M.S.’88 February 2019 Paul J. James M.S.’88 July 2019 Jeanne M. Medalis ’89 January 2019 Marjorie Hughey Koch, M.A.’91 May 2017 Kathleen J. Shino, MBA’95 June 2019 John J. Bogle ’96 August 2018 Janette Long Valliere ’97 June 2019 Manav S. Panwar, 2018 September 2018

Faculty and Friends Blanche Bourne, Board of Associates May 2019 Margaret L. Fox, Staff March 2019 Sara E. Hess, Faculty June 2019

Nancy Cort Amundsen ’55 December 2017

Bernice Ann Wilson Munsey, M.A.’77, P’79 November 2018

Elizabeth Brown Yoder ’56 February 2019

Donna Reed Wilhelm ’78 October 2017

Nan Young Strauch ’57 November 2018

Joseph E. Lebherz ’80, W’84 May 2019

Mary Jane Willis Bowman ’59 April 2019

Rebecca Koose Levine ’81 April 2019

Arthur E. Read Jr., Board of Associates March 2019

Janet Babcock Carlson ’59 February 2019

Clotene Hughes Barrett, M.A.’84 April 2019

Alice M. Rivlin, Honorary Alumna May 2019

Shirley Timmins Good M.S.’84 April 2019

James W. Spurlock, Staff March 2019

Antonio J. Mendez, Honorary Alumnus January 2019 Carol H. Pezowicz, Staff May 2019

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A LOOK BACK

Changing Times & Changing Roles ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS THEN AND NOW

By Mary Atwell Archivist, Collection Development Services Manager The 20th-Century Librarian When you picture a librarian, what do you see? Probably she (and it usually is a “she”) is wearing comfortable shoes and a pleated skirt, blouse and cardigan sweater ensemble. She wears glasses and a stern look. While librarians of the past 30 years have fought hard against this image, it was unnervingly accurate throughout the 20th century.

The 20th-century academic librarians were collectors of books. Behind the scenes, librarians perused publishers’ catalogs and sent book reviews to faculty for input. They purchased new books and created catalog cards for the books using subject, title and author.

Index cards were filed in the card catalog, and books were stamped, labeled and shelved. Out at the desks, librarians answered questions and helped students find books, maps, magazines and reference materials. Staff checked books in and out and kept reading areas quiet and clean.

Consider for a moment when knowledge was not accessible with a swipe or quick search on an electronic device.

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students and faculty in their institutions. This was not an easy task and required, above all, space —space to house enough of the world’s knowledge of the humanities and sciences, stored in books, maps, journals, newspapers and more, to satisfy the College’s needs.

Before the internet, the questions we “Google” today, beyond checking the household dictionary or encyclopedia set, belonged to reference librarians. Huge collections of reference books were near their desks to answer both academic and random questions. Questions that search engines answer in seconds took time for librarians; they looked up facts, statistics, definitions and explanations in encyclopedias, atlases and maps, and dictionaries. Students could not check out reference books because librarians and other students needed access to them daily. Keyword and natural language search methods did not exist, but Library of Congress subject headings did (and still do). A librarian was required to navigate them successfully.

The 21st-Century Librarian The internet forever changed our relationship with information and wreaked havoc on traditional publishing models. As early as the late 1970s, professionals predicted that both libraries and the printed book would die out by the turn of the century. While neither prediction actually occured, the methods of delivering information to students have undergone an enormous shift away from print materials and traditional purchasing models.

The 20th-century librarian spent most available funds on books, while the 21st-century academic librarian weighs the costs of expensive and expansive databases to meet the needs on campus. Academic databases aggregate journals, magazines, reports, e-books, white papers and data

TOP: APPLE LIBRARY, 1950 BY WILLIAM M. RITTASE BOTTOM: SLIME-MAKING, UGLY SWEATER DECORATING AND THERAPY DOG STRESS-BUSTING ACTIVITIES

for student use. Libraries subscribe to databases annually, almost always with a yearly price increase. Open access publishing helps ease the cost burden, but the open access landscape is complicated and unsettled.

Electronic databases extend the academic library’s available knowledge exponentially past their print collections. Students today are tech savvy, and they are confident in their abilities to find answers on the internet. But information literacy goes well beyond keyword searching or Googling.

It encompasses the skills required to find, retrieve, critically analyze and use information. It is the job of the academic librarian to teach these skills through instruction sessions, research assistance and outreach. The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) created the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education in 2015 to guide academic librarians in shaping instruction for students. Last year, using this framework, our librarians held 72 instruction sessions, at least one for each of the First-Year Seminar classes as well as many higher-level undergraduate and even doctoral classes. The library also held general orientation sessions and citation workshops.

Behind the scenes, librarians make sure e-books and electronic journals are “findable” in the online library catalog.

They upload thousands of book records into the catalog each quarter to update an e-book subscription package, and gather annual usage statistics for journals and databases to determine how to best allocate resources.

Finally, today’s academic librarians reach out to students through social media, work with other campus departments on recruitment and retention and create activities to get students in the library. We have therapy dogs visit each semester, serve coffee and tea the week before finals, and hold stress-busting activities such as slime-making, ugly sweater decorating and library minigolf. Academic librarians are no longer the “shhh-ing” librarians of yesterday!

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Apple Library, 1956-1957 Staff: 3 full-time librarians, 1 full-time clerk and 1 half-time clerk, 29 student workers Books: 46,429 Periodicals: 324

KAITLYN MAY, ACCESS SERVICES MANAGER, WITH ALEXIS HEMMING ’20; LIBRARY STUDENT WORKER, EARLY 1980s

Expenditures: books, $7,838 Interlibrary Loan: requested 53 books, received 24 Most Popular: study carrels Top Concerns: adequate funding for book purchases, space for books and periodicals, working with Friends of the Hood Library group, promoting library services.

Did you know? All new students took a library test at the end of their first week; those who scored under 80 percent were required to meet with a librarian.

Beneficial-Hodson Library and Technology Center, 2017-2018 Staff: 5 full-time librarians, 1 half-time librarian, 2 half-time para-professionals, 6 student workers

Physical Electronic

Books 113,587 367,563 Periodicals 2,434

24,223

Databases

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Streaming Video

70,616

Expenditures: books, $25,229; electronic resources, $177,507 Interlibrary Loan: 902 provided to other libraries; 2,501 received from other libraries Most Popular: white boards and “smart” study rooms Top Concerns: adequate funding for database subscriptions, preparing for the library renovation, information literacy instruction, “fake news.”

Did you know? Students can now reserve study rooms online; all first-year students attend at least one information literacy instruction class taught by a reference librarian.

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HEMMING, MAY, JACKIE LARIOS ’19 AND REFERENCE LIBRARIAN KATHRYN RYBERG IN A LIBRARY STUDY ROOM; STUDENTS IN APPLE LIBRARY MUSIC ROOM, 1963

LIBRARIANS AND STUDENTS AT THE BENEFICIAL-HODSON LIBRARY; HEAD LIBRARIAN KATHERINE DUTROW IN APPLE LIBRARY, 1952 BY FRANK J. KEEFER

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