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1950s
In 2014, emeritus professor of human development Dr. Jacob D. Goering (Ph.D. ’59) received the 2014 Faye McCoy Positive Aging Award from LeadingAge Kansas, a statewide association of not-for-profit providers of services to senior citizens. Well into his tenth decade, Dr. Goering lives at Kidron Bethel Village, a retirement community in North Newton, Kansas. Thomas R. Shipley, Ed.D. (B.S. ’56) has published The Revitalization of the American Classroom, described as “an inexpensive, briefly stated, common sense approach that will breathe new life and vitality into the traditional American classroom.” Dr. Shipley previously served as Acting Assistant Superintendent of Schools and as Director of Management Information Systems at the Maryland State Department of Education, and he was executive director of the National Association of Federally Impacted Schools. He began his educational career in the Anne Arundel County Public Schools, where he headed the Glen Burnie High music program for a decade.
1970s
Dr. Thomas Healy (Ph.D. ’72), who has
had a prolific thirty-five year career in higher education, was named to the Wall of Honor in his hometown of Kingsland, MN, in 2014. Healy received the University of Maryland’s Outstanding Leader in Education alumni award in 2005. Barbara Lockhart (B.S. ’72) won a silver medal in the 2014 Independent Publishers Book Awards for her historical novel, Elizabeth’s Field, which tells the story of free African Americans living on Maryland’s Eastern Shore before the Civil War. The novel explores the relationships between African Americans, both free and enslaved,
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their White protectors and sympathizers, and those who were intent on preserving the status quo. The novel attests powerfully to the pre-Civil War turmoil in Maryland.
1980s
Dr. Margaret Bartow (Ed.D. ’89) is the new provost of Delaware County Community College. She brings to this role extensive and various experiences in academia – as a chief academic officer, as a professor and department chair, as a member of the Maryland State Board of Community Colleges, and as director of institutional planning for the University of Maryland University College. Dr. Bert L’Homme (Ph.D. ’89) is the new superintendent of Durham Public Schools in North Carolina. The swearing-in ceremony took place in July on the steps of J.D. Clement Early College High School, which Dr. L’Homme was instrumental in founding as the district’s assistant superintendent for instructional services.
1990s
Dr. Jan Arminio (Ph.D. ’94), professor and director of the Higher Education program at George Mason University, has been named Associate Editor for the Research-inBrief/On Campus section of the Journal of College Student Development. Dr. Arminio’s newest co-written book is Student Veterans and Service Members in Higher Education (Routledge, 2015). Dr. Susan R. Jones (Ph.D. ’95), professor of higher education and student affairs administration at The Ohio State University, was honored with a Contribution to Knowledge Award by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) at the annual convention in Tampa.
Michael Martirano (B.S. ’81; M.Ed. ’92) is West Virginia’s 30th state superintendent of schools. In his new role, Martirano will oversee a public school system of around 282,000 students and serve as the state board’s policy advisor and executive officer. An educator for over 30 years, Martirano previously taught at Johns Hopkins University and served as superintendent of St. Mary’s County Public Schools in Maryland. Dr. Deborah Taub (M.A. ’89; Ph.D. ’93) is the recipient of this year’s Thomas Magoon Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Counseling, Higher Education and Special Education. Given in honor of the professor emeritus and longtime director of the University of Maryland Counseling Center, this award recognizes CHSE graduates working in the field of higher education who exemplify Dr. Magoon’s spirit of scholarship and practice. Edwina Smith (M.Ed. ’97) is principal of Dexter Elementary School, at Fort Benning, in the Georgia/Alabama district of the Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools.
2000s
Dr. Julie Wojslawowicz Bowker (Ph.D. ’05) has co-edited a new book, The Handbook of Solitude: Psychological Perspectives on Social Isolation, Social Withdrawal, and Being Alone (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), a reference work comprehensively compiling current psychological research on the construct of solitude. An associate professor of psychology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, Dr. Bowker and her husband Matthew, also a doctoral graduate of Maryland, recently welcomed into the world their daughter, Zoe Catherine.