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Volume LXVIII No. 2 Spring 2018 ISSN 2152-9531
Cover design by Marie K. Thomas. For this special issue about some of Washington College’s business leaders, entrepreneurs, and business programs, we wanted a cover that “pops.” Departing from our usual magazine paper selection, we chose a new sheet that would best show off a spot UV printing technique.
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Marcia C. Landskroener M’02 ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Wendy Mitman Clarke M’16 ASSISTANT EDITOR
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Shane Brill ’03 M’11 CLASS NOTES EDITOR
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Doryann Barnhardt M’15 Joan Katherine Cramer Sophie Grabiec ’20 Emily Holt ’19 Jamie Kirkpatrick Meghan Livie ’09 Victoria Smith
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Dear Readers, I
was just fifteen when I made my first foray into business. It would also be my last. I was robbed by a six-year-old. I never got over the humiliation. Marti’s Sweet Shoppe operated out of the basement of the Hotel Imperial in Chestertown. We sold Rheb’s Candies, a line of fine confections made in Baltimore, as well as nuts from Jeppi, another Baltimore icon. But the after-school crowd was more interested in the glass case full of penny candy. marcia c. It was my mother’s idea, landskroener actually, to open a candy store. m’02 As much as she loved sweets and antiques, I suspect it was her way of keeping me out of boys’ cars. She and I outfitted the space with wrought-iron tables and chairs, an antique brass cash register, and old oak and glass cases straight out of Baltimore’s Lexington Market. I would spend my afternoons and weekends at the shop, selling bags of goodies to the patrons of the movie theater and the downtown shoppers. I had my regulars. Henry Salloch, the husband of German professor Erika Salloch, came in every week for the dark chocolate almond bark. The neighborhood kids were always in and out. But business was generally slow. I got bored. We hired an 80-year-old lady to watch the shop while I ran around with boys. My entrepreneurial spirit sputtered completely when I walked in one morning to discover a screwdriver jammed into the brass cash register and a trail of Mary Janes and Squirrel Nuts leading out the back door. Some people are born for business. I was one and done. The risk of failing again was too great, even for all the chocolate turtles in the world. And oh, by the way, I know who you are.
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