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(The  First)  Eight  Things  You  Need  to  Know 
About  Science  at  IVIary  Baldwin  College 

Science  at  MBC  is  a  compelling  draw  for  young 
women  and  prepares  them  for  useful,  even  ground- 
breaking, work  and  study.  Today,  as  they  did  from 
the  institution's  beginnings  in  1 842,  alumnae/i 
stories  prove  again  that  science  is  for  women. 


F  E  A  T  U  R  E  S 


Active  and  Engaged  in  Life 

Athletics  and  wellness  take  center  court  on 
campus,  including  a  conference  change  to 
USA  South  in  NCAA  Division  HI. 
Bonus:  Tear  out  Spring  Sports  Schedule 


Pearce  Renovation  Will 
Secure  Scientific  Reputation 
for  21st  Century 

Pearce  has  served  students  of  science  well  for 
nearly  40  years.  Renovations  are  needed  to 
update  classrooms,  labs,  equipment,  safety, 
and  building  infrastructure. 


Message  from  President  Pamela  Fox 


MBCArts:  Visual  Arts 
Studio  Art  Attracts  Major  Interest 
'^  "'      MBCArts: Theatre 
Keats  Connection? 
MBC  Houses  Only  U.S.  Branch  of  Records 

5  J      Message  from  Alumnae/i  President 

Kellie  Warner  '90 
66      Memories  of  Mary  Baldwin  College  1940-44 


W  H  AT    1  J  ■  S.   LIKE...     j 

58      To  Be  a  Pioneer  in  the  Adult  Degre 

Program? 
62      To  Be  Serving  in  Iraq? 
65      To  Give  More? 


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MAGAZINE 


Vol.  21   No.  1   Winter  2008 

At  one  end  of  the  table,  tennis  legend  Venus  Williams,  and  at  the  other  (see  mirror), 
MBC  President  Pamela  Fox,  preside  over  a  graceful  fall  table  to  celebrate  the  sports 
legend's  Smyth  Leadership  Lecture.  Guests  included  William's  manager,  Carlos 
Fleming  (left,  bottom),  selected  students,  and  the  Smyth  Lecture  benefactors,  Mary 
Beth  Reed  Smyth  '47  and  H.  Gordon  Smyth,  among  others. 


Editor 
Carol  Larson   clarson@nibc.edu 


Assistant  Editor 
Dawn  Medley  dmedley@mbc.edu 

Art  Director 
Gretchen  Newman  gnewman@mbc.edu 

We  welcome  your  suggestions  and  ideas; 
clarson@mbc.edu.  The  Mary  Baldwin  College 
Magazine  is  published  two  times  a  year  by  the 

Office  of  Communication,  Marketing,  and 

Public  Affairs,  Mary  Baldwin  College,  Staunton, 

VA  24401.  ©  2008  All  rights  reserved. 

Mary  Baldwin  College  does  not  discriminate  on  the  basis  of 
sex  (except  that  men  are  admitted  only  as  ADP  and  graduate 
students),  tace,  national  origin,  color,  age,  disability,  or 
sexual  orientation  in  its  educational  programs,  admissions, 
co-curricular  or  other  activities,  and  employment  practices. 
Inquiries  may  be  directed  to  the  \^ce  President  for  Business 
and  Finance,  P.O.  Box  1500,  Mary  Baldwin  College, 
Staunton,  VA  24402;  phone:  540-887-7175. 


BMviN 

COLLEGE 
Mary  Baldwin  College 

BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 

2007-2008 


Louise  Rossett  McNamee  '70,  chair 

Charlotte  Jackson  Berry  '51,  vice  chair 

Aremtta  R.  Watson,  secretary' 

Tho\l\s  Brv.\n  Barton 

Charles  T.  Baskervill 

Sally  Armstrong  Bingley  '60 

Sue  Warheld  Caples  '60 

H.  C.  Stuart  Cochran 

Tracey  L.  Conges  "82 

Nancy  Payne  Dahl  '56 

JOHNiE  Davis 

Margaret  Wren  de  St.  Aubin  '81 

Willum  CoNR.Ar>  Doenges  II 

Kelly  Huff,vl\n  Ellis  '80 
Cynthia  Farr  Luck  Haw  '79 

BERTffi  DeMING  HEINER 

Molly  Fetterman  Held  '76 

James  D.  Lott 

Margaret  E.  McDERiUo  '95 

Susan  A.  McLaughlin 

Jane  Harding  Miller  '76 

Wellford  L.  Sanders  Jr 

C.  Hunt  Shuford  Jr 

Janet  Russell  Steelman  '52 

Susan  A.  Stover  '85 

Sue  McDowell  Whitlock  '67 

Donald  M.  Wilkinson  UI 

John  H.  Woodfin 
Carolyn  Amos  Yokley  '73 


Words  from  Our  President 
Dr.  Pamela  Fox 


On  the  chilly  but  sunlit  late  after- 
noon of  October  11,  the  magic 
of  community  warmed  the  col- 
lective spirit  of  Man'  Baldwin  College 
as  we  gathered  for  the  official  opening 
of  the  Samuel  and  Ava  Spencer  Center 
for  Civic  and  Global  Engagement.  The 
ceremony  was  driven  by  a  simple  and 
compelling  theme:  create  a  celebration 
of  community.  Involve  our  students. 
Orchestrate  a  convergence  by  the  stu- 
dents marching  in  from  the  four  corners 
of  the  campus.  Call  the  convergence 
forth  with  music  representing  a  global 
tradition.  We  had  African  drums, 
Appalchian  banjo  and  fiddle,  accor- 
dion, and  other  percussion  instruments 
playing  global  rhythms  together,  and 
song  from  the  Anointed  Voices  of 
Praise.  Dr.  Spencer  delivered  a  moving 
speech  directed  to  the  hundreds  of 
Mary  Baldwin  students  standing 
before  him  on  Page  Terrace.  Following 
the  ceremony,  we  processed  behind 
musicians  to  the  Spencer  Center  rib- 
bon cutting  and  a  reception.  The 
promise  of  the  future  was  palpable  as 
we  strengthened  our  historic  commit- 
ment to  MBC  women  changing  the 
world.  I  am  still  smiling  from  the  mar- 
vel of  the  occasion. 

This  fall  has  been  filled  with  excep- 
tional opportunities.  We  celebrate  our 
highest  overall  enrollment  ever.  For  the 
third  straight  year  we  are  surpassing 
our  own  historic  record  number  of 
applicants.  We  are  gaining  national 
recognition  as  demonstrated  by  Mary 
Baldwin's  participation  in  the  2007 
National  Survey  of  Student 
Engagement.  As  you  will  read  in  this 


issue,  NSSE  documents  that  women's 
colleges  provide  superior  learning 
environments.  MBC  excels  at  provid- 
ing what  NSSE  deems  Enriching 
Educational  Experiences,  scoring 
above  the  high-performing  women's 
colleges  and  the  top  10%  of  all  610 
participating  colleges  and  universities 
in  that  category. 

I  have  asked  the  college  community 
to  seize  the  urgency  of  opportunity 
before  us  to  build  upon  our  advanta- 
geous position  and  the  successes  of 
Phase  I  of  our  10-year  strategic  plan.  It 
is  our  creativity  that  drives  our  institu- 
tional achievement,  historically  and  in 
the  future.  Our  creativity  fosters  distinc- 
tions. In  the  next  five  years  —  a  phase 
to  invest  and  innovate  —  we  will  create 
programmatic  innovations  to  enable  us 
to  meet  our  enrollment  goals.  I  am  very 
excited  by  the  crucible  of  creative  think- 
ing that  is  taking  place. 

We  are  also  committed  to  enhanc- 
ing our  safety  and  security,  working 
closely  with  all  Virginia  higher  educa- 
tion institutions  and  the  Governor's         | 
Office.  And  we  have  formalized  our 
commitment  to  sustainability.  The 
Spencer  Center  was  designed  and  built 
upon  green,  sustainable  practices.  I 
have  signed  the  American  College  and 
University  Presidents  Climate  Initiative, 
formally  documenting  Mary  Baldwin's 
commitment  to  creating  a  sustainable 
environment  and  working  toward  cli- 
mate neutrality. 

I  invite  you  to  participate  in  forging 
the  bright  future  before  us.  Thank  you 
for  your  dedication  and  support.  Be 
courageous.  Help  us  innovate.  ▲ 


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National  Survey  Puts  MBC  at  Top  of  Class 


Results  from  the  2007  National  Survey  of  Student  Engagement 
(NSSE)  —  MBC's  first  year  of  participation  —  delivered 
invaluable  findings.  When  approximately  120  Mary  Baldwin 
College  students  were  polled  in  spring  2007  for  NSSE,  admin- 
istrators were  hopeful  the  study  would  elicit  useful  information 
for  the  college's  planning  and  programming.  Saying  they  were 
correct  is  an  understatement. 

Some  highlights  were  hard  to  miss.  First  and  most  broadly, 
women's  colleges  scored  substantially  higher  than  NSSE 
respondents  overall  (610  colleges  and  universities  nationwide) 
on  all  five  benchmarks  of  an  engaged  student  body  measured 
by  the  survey.  On  one  of  those  benchmarks,  Enriching 
Educational  Experiences,  MBC  reached  the  top  10  percent  in 
the  nation  and  outperformed  other  schools  in  both  of  its  peer 
groups,  the  high-performing  cohort  of  women's  colleges  and 
also  within  small  master's-level  colleges  and  universities 
(defined  by  NSSE  as  "Carnegie  Peers").  In  addition,  MBC 
scored  in  the  top  50  percent  in  the  nation  in  all  but  one  of  the 
five  benchmarks. 


Further  investigation  of  NSSE  data  revealed  that  MBC  sen- 
iors have  a  marked  increase  in  level  of  engagement  from  MBC 
freshmen  compared  to  seniors  and  freshmen  at  peer  institutions.  In 
other  words,  as  President  Pamela  Fox  noted  in  her  State  of  the 
College  opening  address,  "This  is  what  we  strive  for;  this  is  per- 
sonal transformation."  We  also  learned  that,  within  the  section  on 
Enriching  Educational  Experiences,  MBC  clearly  excels  on  ques- 
tions that  indicate  diverse  experiences  and  exposure  to  women's 
issues  and  perspectives.  Continuing  to  mine  the  information  will 
no  doubt  produce  more  connections  and  comparisons  to  guide 
MBC's  academic  and  co-curricular  future. 

First  administered  in  2000,  NSSE  surveys  seniors  and  fresh- 
men to  provide  an  estimate  of  how  undergraduates  spend  their 
time  and  what  they  gain  in  knowledge  and  personal  development 
by  attending  college.  The  concept  is  based  on  data  indicating  that 
students  who  put  more  time  and  energy  into  activities  that  matter 
to  their  education  —  inside  and  outside  the  classroom  —  take 
away  more  from  their  college  experience  than  those  who  are  not 
as  involved.  ▲ 


THE  HEART  OFTHE  MATTER: 

The  Aiumnae/i  Association  helped 
MBC  purchase  two  automated  elec- 
tronic defibrillators  for  use  on  campus 
—  one  portable  and  one  located  in  the 
Physical  Activities  Center. 


NATIONAL  PREMIERE,  RIGHT  HERE: 

MBC  Theatre  presented  the  U.S.  pre- 
miere of  The  Vic,  a  multi-narrative  play 
that  explores  the  dramatic  events  in 
the  lives  of  eight  women,  directed  by 
Clinton  Johnston,  assistant  professor 
of  theatre. 


Initial  NSSE  findings: 

Students  at  women's  colleges  are  more  engaged 
than  their  peers  at  coeducational  institutions.  The  21 

women's  colleges  included  in  the  2007  NSSE  sample  scored  higher 
than  co-ed  schools  on  all  five  dimensions  measured  by  the  survey: 
Level  of  Academic  Challenge,  Active  and  Collaborative  Learning, 
Student-Faculty  Interaction,  Enriching  Educational  Experiences,  and 
Supportive  Campus  Environment.  This  year's  data  is  not  the  first  to 
indicate  the  success  of  women's  colleges.  A  landmark  report  from 
Indiana  University  Center  for  Postsecondary  Research  employed 
NSSE  data  from  2000-02  to  demonstrate  that  students  at  women's 
colleges  are  more  empowered  for  academic  excellence  than  their 
peers  at  coeducational  institutions.  'Women  learn  more  about 
themselves,  hone  their  quantitative  analysis  skills,  excel  in  math  and 
science  at  significantly  higher  rates,  develop  strong  efficacy  to  serve 
their  communities,  work  more  effectively  in  peer  groups,  interact 
more  extensively  with  faculty  and  female  role  models  inside  and 
outside  of  class,  and  develop  stronger  leadership  skills,  according  to 
the  survey.  The  study  also  shows  that  women's  colleges  better  support 
diverse  interactions  and  understanding  of  diversity. 

MBC  excels  at  providing  Enriching  Educational 

Experiences.  Even  among  the  high-performing  women's  colleges 
group,  Mary  Baldwin  scored  significantly  higher  on  questions  that 
relate  to  co-curricular  learning,  diversity  experiences,  internships, 
community  service,  and  capstone  projects.  These  characteristics  are 
defined  by  NSSE  as  Enriching  Educational  Experiences.  MBC 
freshmen  and  seniors  answered  affirmatively  to  questions  such  as 
"Had  serious  conversations  with  students  of  a  different  race  or 
ethnicity  than  your  own,"  and  "Had  serious  conversations  with 
students  who  are  very  different  from  you  in  terms  of  their  religious 
beliefs,  political  opinions,  or  personal  values."  They  also  indicated  in 
high  numbers  that  they  have  done  or  plan  to  do  practicum,  field 
experience,  co-op  experience,  or  clinical  assignment,  and  community 
service  or  volunteer  work. 

MBC  students  experience  personal  transformation. 

MBC  students  show  a  marked  difference  between  engagement 
experiences  between  their  freshman  and  senior  years;  in  most  cases  it 
is  a  larger  jump  than  their  peers  at  other  institutions.  For  example, 
in  addition  to  scoring  higher  than  our  peer  women's  colleges  and 
small  master's-level  colleges  and  universities  in  Enriching 
Educational  Experiences  in  both  the  freshman  and  senior  years,  the 


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relative  advantage  of  MBC  seniors  is  more  pronounced  than  the 
advantage  of  MBC  freshmen.  In  other  words,  Mary  Baldwin 
students  embody  more  of  the  engagement  characteristics  encouraged 
by  the  college  as  they  progress. 

The  National  Survey  of  Student  Engagement  provides  MBC  with 
concrete  findings  which  can  translate  into  specific  progam 
enhancement.  It  also  gave  the  college  much  more:  That  "Aha!" 
moment  when  people  can  see  in  numbers  and  on  graphs  what  the 
college  community^  translates  to  growth,  engagement,  and  personal 
transformation.  ▲ 


DIALOGUES  DIG  DIVERSE  VOICES: 

Three  Diversity  Dialogues  in  the  fall 
semester,  organized  by  Director  of 
African  American  and  Multicultural 
Affairs  Joanne  Harris,  offered 
forums  for  discussion  of  race,  femi- 
nism, and  sexuality. 


RICHMOND  CENTER  RELOCATES: 

MBC's  oldest  regional  center  cele- 
brated 25  years  in  the  state  capital 
and  a  move  to  a  new  location  in 
October.  The  Richmond  center  for 
adult  and  graduate  studies  is  now  in 
Forest  Office  Park. 


BENAZIR  BHUTTO  1953-2007: 

Mary  Baldwin  College  joins  with  the  v/orld 
in  mourning  the  loss  of  a  courageous, 
peaceful  warrior  for  democracy,  former 
Prime  Minister  of  Pakistan  Benazir  Bhutto 
—  who  was  the  college's  10th  Smyth 
Leadership  Lecturer  in  Octobe'-  2006 


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MBC  Hits  Grand  Slam  with 


Tennis  phenomenon  Venus  Williams,  27, 
brought  the  college's  renewed  focus  on 
health  and  wellness  into  the  spotlight  as  a 
larger-than-life  sports  legend  during  her 
appearance  at  MBC  October  23  as  the 
college's  Smyth  Leadership  Lecturer. 

Coached  by  her  father,  Williams 
turned  pro  at  14  and  sealed  her  stardom 
with  a  win  against  one  of  tennis'  top  10 
players.  She  went  on  to  capture  the  2000 
Wimbledon  singles  crown  in  a  victory 
over  top-seeded  Lindsay  Davenport,  and 
won  Wimbledon  doubles  championships 
with  her  sister  and  partner,  Serena.  Two 
months  later,  Venus  Williams  became  the 
second  woman  ever  to  win  gold  medals 
in  singles  and  doubles  at  the  2000 
Olympic  Games.  In  February  2002, 


Williams  became  the  first  African- 
American  woman  to  be  ranked  number 
one  on  the  World  Tennis  Association 
Tour.  This  summer,  Williams  won  her 
fourth  Wimbledon  title  —  a  feat  previ- 
ously accomplished  only  by  Martina 
Navratilova,  Steffi  Graf,  and  Billie  Jean 
King.  To  make  her  achievement  even 
more  poignant,  her  victory  fell  on  the 
50th  anniversary  of  the  first  Wimbledon 
win  by  an  African-American  woman, 
Althea  Gibson. 

Venus  Williams  is  best  known  for  her 
work  on  courts  around  the  world,  but  she 
has  also  been  public  about  her  dissatisfac- 
tion with  female  compensation  versus  that 
of  males.  Newsweek  reported  in  its 
August  20,  2007  issue  that  "for  the  first 


MBC  VETERANS  HONORED: 

There  was  noVWil  Corps  of  Cadets  when 
retired  Army  Maj.Tracey  Cones  '82  and  cur- 
rent member  of  MBC's  Board  ofTrustees 
and  retired  Army  Col.  Melissa  Patrick  78 
attended  MBC,  but  they  were  honored  by 
the  corps  and  given  front  lawn  seats  for  the 
Staunton  Veterans  Day  parade. 


PROMOTING  'BROTHERLY'  LOVE; 

Greek  Cypriot  Dr.  Harry  Anastasiou,  faculty  member  in  Portland 
State  University's  Conflict  Resolution  graduate  program  and 
the  elder  brother  of  MBC's  Andreas  Anastasiou,  associate  pro- 
fessor of  psychology,  explored  how  religion  contributes  to  con- 
flict and  how  religion  becomes  a  catalyst  for  peace.  Anastasiou 
has  played  a  lead  role  in  a  citizen-based  peace  movement 
between  Greek  and  Turkish  Cypriots, 


Winter  2008 


Clockwise  from  bottom  left  on  page  6:  Williams  met  with  senior  Mary  Baldwin  athletes 
and  Sports  Information  Director  Donna  Miller  (far  right);  Williams  flanked  by  lecture 
benefactors  Mary  Beth  Reed  Smyth  '47  and  husband  and  former  trustee  H.  Gordon 
Smyth;  Williams  addressing  the  packed  house  at  First  Presbytehan  Church;  the  tennis 
superstar  holds  the  attention  of  media  in  a  post-lecture  press  conference;  Williams' 
vibrant  personality  and  easygoing  speaking  style  invited  the  audience  into  her  world. 


Venus  Williams  on  Campus 


time  in  the  history  of  women's  singles  at 
Wimbledon,  Williams'  prize,  $1.4  million, 
was  the  same  as  that  of  her  male  counter- 
part. Equal  pay  has  been  an  ongoing  cru- 
sade for  Williams,  who  wrote  an  op-ed  in 
The  Times  of  London  and  delivered  an 
impassioned  speech  on  the  subject  at  the 
All  England  Club.  "I  asked  them  to  imag- 
ine their  daughters  out  there,"  she  says, 
"playing  equally  hard  as  men  and  not  get- 
ting the  same  reward." 

Williams,  also  an  entrepreneur,  started 
her  own  interior  design  business,  V  Starr 
Interiors,  and  created  a  clothing  line, 
EleVen  by  Venus. 

The  Smyth  Leadership  Lecture  Series 
is  made  possible  by  the  Smyth 
Foundation,  an  organization  established 


by  former  Mary  Baldwin  College  Trustee 
H.  Gordon  Smyth  and  his  wife  Mary 
Beth  Reed  Smyth  '47.  The  Smyths  have 
long  supported  education,  leadership,  cul- 
ture, and  historical  preservation  in 
Staunton  and  beyond.  Through  the  lec- 
ture series,  the  Smyths  give  Mary  Baldwin 
students  and  the  community  privileged 
access  to  inspirational  female  leaders. 
Sports  Illustrated  Woman  of  the 
Year.  ESPY's  Best  Female  Tennis  Player 
and  Best  Female  Athlete.  One  of  Ladies' 
Home  journal's  30  Most  Powerful 
Women  in  America.  And  in  2007,  Mary 
Baldwin  College's  Smyth  Leadership 
Lecturer.  An  embodiment  of  so  many  of 
the  characteristics  to  which  MBC  women 
aspire.  Venus  Williams.  A 


HOMELESSNESS  HITS  HOME: 

PEG  Stephanie  Klusmann  '11,  who  was  once 
homeless,  put  a  face  on  the  nationwide  crisis 
during  Hunger  and  Homelessness  Awareness 
Week.  Slie  also  has  a  Web  site  to  raise  aware- 
ness: www.projectstreetorg.  A  Hunger 
Banquet  and  sleep-out  on  the  President's 
House  lawn  helped  the  MBC  community 
understand  the  magnitude  of  the  issue. 


POVERTY  PROVIDES  PURPOSE: 

New  minors  in  U.S.  poverty  analysis 
and  global  poverty  and  develop- 
ment draw  on  existing  courses  and 
resources  for  fields  of  study  with 
local  and  international  relevance. 


FLYING  HIGH: 

Katrina  Litchford  '11,  aVWILcadet,  was 
awarded  Outstanding  Civil  Air  Patrol  (CAP) 
cadet  in  Virginia  and  recognized  as  the  top 
physical  fitness  PT  Challenge  cadet  in  the 
state.  She  also  received  the  Commander's 
Commendation  letter  as  a  colonel  in  CAP 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


MBCNews 


Programs  and  Ideas  Come  to  Life  Through 


"Dr.  Samuel  R. 

Spencer  jr.,  for 

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and  Global 

Engagement  is 

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students  and 

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of  the  reasons 

MBC  initiated 

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of  proportions,  and  the 

college  recognizes  the 

demands  of  this  new, 

huge  world. '  The  former 

president  and  civic 

leader  also  emphasized 

that  the  new  center  is  'an 

academic  gift  to  all 

students'  to  expand  then 

world  atid  to  'go  to  the 

ends  of  the  Earth. 

—  From  a  news  articu 

Elizabeth  Dattilio  'O'j. 

FOR  MBC  Media  Writin' 


*eople  at  Spencer  Center  Opening  October  11,  2007 


Consuelo  Slaughter  Wenger  Hall  is  part  of  the  vision  detailed  in 
the  campus  master  plan  for  a  central  hub  of  student  life  that  will 
include  social  activities,  dining,  student  organizations,  daily  busi- 
ness, and  student  life  staff.  In  keeping  with  its  new  commitment 
to  climate   neutrality,   the 
renovation     was    accom- 
plished in  accordance  with 
many  of  the  environmental 
LEED       (Leadership       in 
Energy  and  Environmental 
Design)   standards,   based 
on   the   design   by   Geier 
Brown  Renfrow  Architects. 
Seven  individuals  are 
most   directly   connected 
with  the  leadership  at  the 
Center,    infusing    it   with 
multicultural   perspectives 
and     civic     involvement. 
L  tor;  Board  of  Trustees  Chair  Louise  McNamee  70,  Ava  Spencer,  MBC  President     Beyond  the  circular  foyer 
Pamela  Fox,  Dr  Samuel  R.  Spencer  Jr,  and  Interim  Dean  of  the  College  Edward         decorated  with  flags  from 
Scott  applaud  the  opening  of  Spencer  Center  for  Civic  and  Global  Engagement.         around  the  world  and  pic- 
tures of  the  MBC  community 
engaged  in  service,  two  key  people  make  the  Spencer  Center 
tick:  Director  of  Civic  Engagement  Julie  Shepherd  and  Director 
of  International  Programs  Heather  Ward.  Faculty-member-in- 
residence   Assistant    Professor    of    Communication    Bruce 
Dorries,    artists-in-residence   Srinivas   Krishnan   and   Claudia 
Bernardi,  faculty  fellow  Professor  of  Philosophy  Roderic  Owen, 
and  staff  fellow  Andrea  Cornett-Scott,  associate  vice  president 
for  enrollment,   enrich   the   Center's  makeup  with   projects, 
resources,  and  events,  ▲ 


Music  that  made  hearts  beat  in  unison  and  a  visceral  energy 
swept  across  the  lower  historic  campus  in  and  around  Page 
Terrace  October  11,  inviting  students,  faculty  staff,  and  visitors  to 
opening  ceremonies  for  the  college's  Samuel  and  Ava  Spencer 
Center  for  Civic  and  Global 
Engagement.  The  eclectic 
combination  of  sounds  of 
banjo,  fiddle,  accordion, 
African  drums  and  other 
percussion  instruments, 
pulsed  through  the  crowd. 
Student  groups  wound 
down  hillside  steps  from  all 
directions  of  the  globe  to 
unite  in  listening  to  Center 
namesake  Dr.  Samuel 
Spencer.  Mayor  of  Staunton 
Lacy  King  and  Delegate 
Chris  Saxman  R-Staunton 
spoke  of  their  own  personal 
and  longtime  connections 
with  the  college.  MBC 
President  Pamela  Fox  wore  a 

striking  gold-and-orange-hued  Indian  robe  and  Interim  Dean  of  the 
College  Edward  Scott  was  garbed  in  white  and  gold  Afncan  cloth. 
Anointed  Voices  of  Praise  lifted  spirits  higher  with  song,  before 
everyone  attending  left  Page  Terrace  and  made  their  way  up  the 
hill  to  the  new  Center  for  a  ribbon  cutting  and  reception. The  com- 
munity joyfully  celebrated  the  new  headquarters  for  its  multi-lay- 
ered civic  and  global  programs  and  projects. 

Renovation  of  the  Spencer  Center  has  been  on  the  fast  track 
since  it  was  first  announced  in  April  2007.  The  Center's  location  in 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


MBCNews 


uibright  Visitors 
Share  Scholarship 
from  Egypt,  Oman 


Founders  Day  Speaker 

Mary  Morrison  '95,  Clinton 
Global  Initiative  Director  of 
Membership 

Mary  Morrison  '95  wants  peo- 
ple to  know  that  the  CHnton 
Global  Initiative  (CGI)  is  "an 
ongoing  partnership  of  global 
leaders  who  are  working  on 
some  of  the  world's  most 
pressing  challenges. "Morrison 
spoke  about  Living  in  a  More 
Integrated  Global  Community 
as  Mar)'  Baldwin  College's 
Founders  Day  speaker  October 
4.  She  is  employed  by  the 
William  J.  Clinton  Foundation, 
which  supports  CGI. 

In  2005,  Morrison  was 
named  one  of  New  York  City's 
event  planners  of  the  year  by 
BizBash  Magazine  for  planning 
a  three-day  CGI  assembly. 
Among  the  participants  for  the 
2007  convention  were  Mar)' 
Robinson,  former  president  of 
Ireland  and  previous  speaker  at 
MBC;  bestselling  author  Toni 
Morrison;  Shimon  Peres,  presi- 
dent of  Israel;  and  media 
mogul  Ted  Turner.  The  organ- 
ization boasts  nearly  1,000 
members,  and  Morrison 
works  to  recruit  new  faces  — 
primarily  heads  of  state  from 


of  Art,  Academia, 
Civic  Engagement 
Converse  on  Campus 


around  the  world. 

As  an  MBC  student, 
Morrison  designed  an  inde- 
pendent major  in  international 
business.  An  internship  in  the 
Clinton  White  House  after 
graduation  set  her  career  path. 
She  went  to  work  as  deputy 
director  of  Oval  Office  opera- 
tions, and  stayed  on  Clinton's 
staff  when  he  left  office.  She 
signed  on  in  April  2004  to 
manage  the  CGI  conference. 
Visit  the  organization  online  at 
uunv.clintonglobalmitiative.org. 

Elizabeth  Kirpatrick 
Doenges  Visiting 
Artist/Scholar 

Judith  Blau,  professor  of 
sociology  at  University  of 
North  Carolina 

Judith  Blau's  official  title  at 
University  of  North  Carolina 
is  professor  of  sociology,  but 
if  "human  rights  activist" 
were  part  of  people's  aca- 
demic identification,  it 
would  suit  her  even  better. 
President  of  the  U.S.  chapter 
of  Sociologists  Without 
Borders  and  co-editor  of  that 
organization's  journal. 
Societies  Without  Borders, 
Blau  visited  campus  in 


October  and  will  be  back  to 
teach  a  May  Term  course 
when  she  will  guide  students 
in  rewriting  the  constitution 
to  include  human  rights. 

"By  its  very  nature, 
human  rights  is  interdiscipli- 
nary," reads  Blau's  Web  page 
at  UNC.  As  chair  of  the 
undergraduate  minor  in  social 
and  economic  justice  at  UNC 
and  in  her  previous  profes- 
sional appointments,  Blau  has 
examined  sociological  trends 
from  unique  angles  in  a  vari- 
ety of  environments.  The  titles 
of  books  she  has  authored 
and  edited  —  not  to  mention 
articles,  chapters,  presenta- 
tions, and  invited  talks  — 
demonstrate  her  range,  from 
Professions  and  Urban  Form 
to  Human  Rights:  Beyond  the 
Liberal  Vision. 

Blau  has  worked  for 
human  rights  and  done  socio- 
logical study  internationally 
as  well.  In  the  last  decade,  she 
traveled  to  Puerto  Rico  via  a 
grant  from  UNC's  center  for 
international  studies,  worked 
on  a  study  of  rural  black 
women  in  Peru  through  a 
grant  from  the  National 
Science  Foundation,  and  par- 
ticipated in  World  Social 
Forum  Workshops  in  Nairobi, 


Mary  Baldwin  College  welcomed  two  accomplished 
young  wonnen  to  campus  tlirough  the  Fulbright  pro- 
gram for  2007-08.  Heba  Mahmoud  Abdel-Naby  of 
Egypt  teaches  and  gives  presentations  as  a  visiting 
scholar,  and  Omani  niaster's  degree  candidate  Ibtihaj 
Al-Araimi  serves  ?'■  '-•■-'■-■■->  '--"-"Mage  teaching  assistant 
in  Arabic  thi5  yey 

Educated  a-i  '■:  .ersity  in  Egypt,  Abdel- 

Naby  teaches  Islar  st  that  institution  and 


specializes  in  Islamic  art  and  architecture.  Abdel-Naby's 
fall  course  at  MBC,  Art  and  Architecture  of  the 
Islamic  Wodd,  filled  rapidly,  illustrating  students' 
desire  for  courses  that  explore  subjects  outside  the 
United  States  and  Europe,  said  faculty  contact 
Marlena  Hobson,  associate  professor  of  art.  In  the 
spring,  she  will  teach  Islamic  Architecture  in  Cairo  at 
MBC  and  work  on  a  research  project  about  American 
perspectives  on  Islamic  culture  and  the  influence  of 


among  other  international 
experiences. 

Blau  was  in  Staunton 
October  17-20  to  give  a  pub- 
lic talk  titled  "Human  Rights 
and  the  U.S.  Constitution." 
She  will  return  to  campus  in 
April  for  a  May  Term  course 
that  examines  constitutional 
protections  of  human  rights. 

Elizabeth  Kirpatrick 
Doenges  Visiting 
Artist/Scholar 

Carole  Levin,  Willa  Gather 
Professor  of  History  at 
University  of  Nebrasl<a 

Having  addressed  a  large  audi- 
ence as  Mary  Baldwin's  2007 
Commencement  speaker, 
Carole  Levin  returned  to  cam- 
pus in  November  as  a  Doenges 
Visiting  Scholar  to  present  a 
lecture  open  to  the  campus 
and  community. 

The  meaning  and  use  of 
dreams  in  16th-  and  17th- 
century  England  is  the  topic 
of  Levin's  recent  research  as  a 
year-long  fellow  at  the  presti- 
gious Folger  Shakespeare 
Library  in  Washington  DC. 
Books  she  has  authored,  such 
as  The  Reign  of  Elizabeth  I 
and  The  Heart  and  Stomach 
of  a  King:  Elizabeth  I  and  the 
Politics  of  Sex  and  Power, 
and  articles  "The  Taming  of 
the  Queen:  Foxe's  Katherine 


and  Shakespeare's  Kate," 
among  others,  reveal  her 
broader  interest  in  advancing 
feminist  thought. 

Levin  earned  her  under- 
graduate degree  at  Southern 
Illinois  University,  and  her 
master's  degree  and  PhD  in 
history  from  Tufts  University. 
Her  specializations  in  late 
Medieval  and  Early  Modern 
England  and  Europe  and  in 
women's  history  combine 
with  an  unmistakable  passion 
for  teaching  to  create  bridges 
between  her  scholarship  and 
students.  "Questions  that  stu- 
dents have  asked  me  have 
opened  up  new  topics  for 
class  lectures  and  discussions; 
they  have  also  led  to  research 
and  public  talks,"  she  said. 

Levin  has  also  published 
numerous  articles  on 
Shakespeare's  characters  and 
works  and  counts  the  editing 
of  several  books  in  her  career 
credits.  Her  expertise  has  led 
to  interviews  on  National 
Public  Radio  and  televised 
segments  on  CNN.  Levin  has 
been  a  visiting  scholar  at 
Middle  Tennessee  State 
University,  a  fellow  at  the 
Newberry  Library,  a  distin- 
guished professor  at 
University  of  North  Carolina 
in  Asheville,  and  a  National 
Endowment  for  the 
Humanities  fellow  at 
University  of  Virginia. 


The  Doenges  series  was 
established  by  friends  and 
family  in  1996  in  memory  of 
Elizabeth  "Liddy" 
Kirkpatrick  Doenges  '63  to 
bring  distinguished  profes- 
sionals and  scholars  in  the 
visual  and  literary  arts,  criti- 
cism, and  analysis  to  MBC 
annually. 

Susan  Paul  Firestone 
Lecturer  in 
Contemporary  Art 

Janine  Antoni,  sculptor 
and  performance  artist 

Janine  Antoni  has  a  way  of 
transforming  eating,  bathing, 
weaving,  and  other  everyday 
activities  into  mesmerizing 
works  of  art.  The  New  York 
City-based  artist  has  gnawed 
giant  pieces  of  lard  and 
chocolate,  washed  away  the 
faces  of  soap  busts  made  in 
her  likeness,  and  made  a  rope 
from  personal  materials  col- 
lected from  friends  and  fami- 
ly. When  she  visits  in  spring 
2008,  the  Bahamian-born 
contemporary  artist  gives  life 
to  the  second  year  of  the 
Firestone  Lecture,  named  for 
artist,  art  therapist,  and  psy- 
chotherapist Susan  Paul 
Firestone  '68. 

It's  not  only  the  piece 
produced  at  the  end  of  the 
process  Antoni  is  interested 


in  sharing.  "I  sort  of  backed 
into  performance,"  she  said 
in  a  2003  interview  for  a  PBS 
series  "Art  21:  Art  in  the 
Twenty-First  Century."  "I 
was  doing  work  that  was 
about  process,  about  the 
meaning  of  the  making,  try- 
ing to  have  a  love-hate  rela- 
tionship with  the  object.  I 
always  feel  safer  when  I  can 
bring  the  viewer  back  to  the 
making  of  it."  Antoni  will 
have  the  opportunity  to 
explain  the  importance  of 
process  during  a  public  dis- 
cussion and  classroom  work 
and  critiques  with  students 
during  her  three-day  residen- 
cy in  spring  semester. 

Antoni  has  exhibited  at 
the  Whitney  Museum  of 
American  Art,  the  Museum 
of  Modern  Art,  the  Solomon 
R.  Guggenheim  Museum,  and 
the  Irish  Museum  of  Modern 
Art  in  Dublin.  She  is  the 
recipient  of  several  presti- 
gious awards  including  a 
John  D.  and  Catherine  T. 
MacArthur  Fellowship  and 
the  Larry  Aldrich  Foundation 
Award. 

The  Firestone  lecture 
series  was  initiated  through 
the  generosity  of  Ray  A. 
Graham  III  and  continues 
with  the  support  of  individual 
donors  committed  to  bringing 
significant  visual  artists  and 
art  critics  to  campus.  ▲ 


entage  tourism  in  Egypt. 

Al-Araimi's  role  in  the  classroom  at  MBC  is 
similar  to  her  experience  teaching  English  in  high 
schools  in  her  country.  She  graduated  in  2005  from 
Sultan  Qaboos  University  in  Oman  with  a  bachelor's 
degree  in  education  and  English  language.  After  her 
yearlong  assistantship  in  the  U.S.,  she  plans  to 
return  to  that  university  to  earn  a  master's  degree 
and  PhD  on  her  way  to  becoming  a  university  pro- 


tessor  in  Oman.  "She  is  looKing  torwara 
opportunity  to  teach  .Arabic  to  English  speakers, 
improving  her  command  of  the  English  language, 
and  learning  new  teaching  methods  that  will  help 
her  in  her  career,"  said  Ivy  Arbulu,  associate  profes- 
sor of  Spanish  and  coordinator  of  Al-Araimi's  visit. 
International  visitors  and  programs,  such  as 
Fulbright  scholars,  now  have  a  new  central  contact 
at  the  Spencer  Center  for  Civic  and  Global 


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^ngagerhent.  Director  of  International 
Heather  Ward  said  Fulbnght  visitors  put 
Baldwin  College  on  the  map  for  scholai 
around  the  world  who  are  interested  in  cultivating  a 
more  peaceful  and  cooperative  world.  "Not  only  do 
they  enhance  the  growing  culture  of  international 
engagement  on  the  Mary  Baldwin  campus,  but 
their  visits  open  doors  for  Mary  Baldwin  students 
and  faculty  to  study  and  teach  abroad,"  she  said. 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


MBCNews 


12  Winter  2008 


Orientation  'Wows'  Record  Number  of  New  Students 


"We  had  four  days  to  'Wow'  incoming  freshmen," 
said  Mehnda  Brown,  director  of  MBC's  First  Year 
Experience.  "Students  who  have  a  positive 
Orientation  experience  are  more  Ukely  to  'find 
themselves'  at  MBC,  and  we  beUeve  those  first 
few  days  are  key  to  retention." 

Brown  and  her  team  of  24  student  leaders 
launched  a  successful  introduction  to  college 
infused  with  the  college's  cross-curricular  theme. 
Voices,  beginning  August  23.  The  freshmen  class 
take  on  the  college-wide  theme,  "Many  Voices, 
One  Song,"  highlighted  the  individuality  of  each 
student  and  united  them  through  the  verses  of  A 
Hymn  for  Man  Baldwin,  the  unofficial  alma 
mater  that  will,  in  a  few  years,  become  as  familiar 
to  them  as  the  verses  of  Happy  Birthday. 

"A  crucial  part  of  our  job  is  in  those  first  few 
days,  but  the  responsibility  of  an  Orientation 
leader  extends  beyond  that,  too,"  said  Sam  Skiba 
'10,  a  first-time  Orientation  leader.  "Orientation 
made  my  adjustment  to  college  much  easier.  I  con- 
tinued to  run  into  my  Orientation  leader  through- 
out the  year,  particularly  when  I  got  involved  in 
campus  organizations.  I  wilt  encourage  my  group 
members  to  be  involved,  too." 

More  than  300  new  students  got  a  glimpse  of 
Staunton's  arts  and  cultural  scene  with  a  perform- 
ance of  Love's  Labour's  Lost  at  Blackfriars 
Playhouse  and  were  treated  to  two  firsts  in  the 


Orientation  line-up:  a  Diversit)'  Dinner  and 
"College  Rocks,"  a  performance  by  national  cam- 
pus motivator  Elaine  Penn.  The  Orientation 
Diversity  Dinner  featured  international  dishes  and 
set  the  stage  for  Diversity  Dialogues  that  were 
hosted  throughout  the  fall  semester  by  Joanne 
Harris,  director  of  African-American  and 
Multicultural  Affairs.  "College  Rocks"  is  one  of 
the  most  requested  performances  by  one  of  the 
most  popular  campus  motivational  speakers  in  the 
nation,  and  audience  members  were  involved  as 
performers  and  judges  while  Penn  addressed 
issues  faced  by  college  students  through  her  ver- 
sion of  "American  Idol." 

Community  service  participation  began  dur- 
ing Orientation  this  year,  introducing  new  stu- 
dents to  MBC's  commitment  to  service  learning 
and  the  creation  of  the  Samuel  and  Ava  Spencer 
Center  for  Civic  and  Global  Engagement. 
Students  volunteered  at  the  local  SPCA,  New 
Directions  Center,  Salvation  Army,  and  YMCA, 
all  activities  aimed  at  encouraging  four  years  of 
communit)'  participation. 

Aspects  of  the  Mary  Baldwin  College 
Advantage  (MBCA)  were  woven  into  Orientation 
activities.  MBC  101,  a  course  for  freshmen  that 
started  in  2006,  reinforces  the  MBCA  through 
weekly  meetings  with  staff  and  upperclass  peer 
advisors  during  fall  and  spring  semesters.  A 


MBC  by  the 

■^'"•^hers: 

Recording 
Record  Enrollment 

Enrollment  figures  for  the  2007-08  aca- 
demic year  make  it  clear  that  we've  set 
several  records  for  student  numbers, 
including  the  largest  pool  of  applicants. 
MBC  set  a  new  record  with  1,485  appli- 
cations for  admission  in  2006,  and 
exceeded  that  goal  this  year,  reaching 
1,625  applicants.  Here  is  the  Registrar's 
Office's  official  tally: 

TOTAL:  2,254 

(previous  record  2,242  in  2003) 

Residential  College  for  Women:  807 

(including  PEGandVWIL) 

•  Program  for  the  Exceptionally  Gifted:  67 

•  Virginia  Women's  Institute  for 
Leadership:  110 

Adult  Degree  Program:  1,268 

(previous  record  1,222  in  1999) 

Master  of  Arts  in  Teaching:  125 
Master  of  Letters:  35 
Master  of  Fine  Arts:  19 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


MBCINJews 


14  Winter  2008 


Voices  Rise  from  Around  the  College 

T™  w©rd  "voices"  invokes  many  images  and  sounds,  making  it  a  natural  as 

^u 11 — '^td^^em^this'^ear  to  help  establish  local  and  global  links  within 

rk;,,^th^^u|^f  Enhancement  Plan,  Learning  for  Civic 
Engagement  in  a  Global  Context.  The  theme  creates  a  relationship  between 
,  cOjUrses,  a  common  thread,  not  unlike  the  way  some  colleges  and  universities 
ii^^^o  connect  studies  in  a  given  year.  The  2007-08  theme  was  pro- 
ed|iby  tile  President's  Council  on  Diversity  and  Inclusive  Community  and 
i^^ed  by  faculty  in  January  2007.  In  future  years,  the  faculty's  Educational 
'^"  '^°"  Tiittee  will  propose  Bev4^faLuaL  themes.  This  is  a  sampling  of  how 
ting  and  enriching AeifflBC^Qnafeunitv. 


I  Kable  Russell  Aware 
u  iii®rSvork  on  a  project  titles. 
['Baldwin  College  as  We  Were:  An 
history  Project."  She  will  interview 
.|tary  Baldwin  alumnae/i  from  the  1940s.| 
Ihrough  the  1990s  to  learn  how  social 
ictivities  and  traditions  have  evolved.     * 
leveral  faculty  members  are  lending  theif 
if,oices  to  Speak  Up!,  a  series  of  conaiei' 
i.ons  that  connect  first-year  studeri 
kculty  outside  of  a  classroom.  Orj 
by  Director  of  the  First  Year  Expel 
?Melinda  Brown  and  held  in  residesfeL 
that  primarily  house  freshmen,  Speak  U| 
presenters  share  their  passions,  from 
marathon  running  to  environmentalism  t 
intercultural  communication. 
The  emotionally-charged  baritone  of  Dr. 
Edward  Scott,  interim  dean  of  the  college, 
once  again  treated  Honor  Scholar  students 
to  a  performance  of  Homer's  Iliad  as  part 
of  their  Bailey  Colloquium  course. 
The  voices  of  MBC  singers  joined  those  of 
Srinivas  Krishnan  and  other  international 
vocalists  and  musicians  in  "Step  by  Step 
with  India,"  a  rousing  public  concert  that 
included  hymns,  traditional  Indian  music, 
and  sollukattu,  rhythmic  chanting. 
The  11@250  project,  an  idea  that  has 
been  simmering  in  the  Department  of  Art 
and  Art  History  Department  for  a  few 
years,  will  further  explore  the  identity  of 


"*'i  Staunton,  a  community  that  lies  at  the 
intersection  of  major  commerce  routes 
11  and  250.  Under  the  umbrella  of 
11@250,  Pinhole  Photography  in  May 
Term  2006  engaged  students  in  interpret- 
ing the  concepts  of  community,  commu- 
nication, and  collaboration.  An  ongoing 
extension  of  11@250  is  an  interdiscipli- 
.'nary  text  project,  which  investigates  the 
Ways  individuals,  groups,  and  institu- 
fens  in  Staunton  use  text  to  communi- 
late,  tell  stories,  imagine,  share,  create, 
Understand,  and  identify.     '^,       Ǥ 
The  fall  theatre  productionApf  Lysistrata, 
an  anti-war  Greek  comedy  penned  by^ 
faistophanes,  is  a  classic  study  in  ho 

Kghts  embody  their  voices  in  plot, 
per,  and  language,  and  the  voices    5 
that  male  playwrights  give  to  female  char-* 
acters.  Director  and  Professor  Virginia  .'^ 
Francisco  '64  was  aided  by  translatpr^j^     1 
Sarah  Ruden,  who  came  to  see  the^^ 
duction.  A  classics  scholar,  poet,  Quik 
and  Yale  Divinity  fellow  shared  the  1,029 
readings  of  the  play  were  given  in  59 
countries,  including  Iraq,  on  March  3, 
2003,  to  protest  "Bush's  war."  She  also 
said,  "The  play  remains  a  means  of 
women's  expression  of  political  dissent." 
MBC's  voice  of  democracy,  student  Senate, 
began  meeting  in  September,  filling  Francis 
Auditorium  with  the  empowerment  of  the 
student  body.  ▲ 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


MBCNews 


President's  'State  of  the 
CoUege'  RaUies  MBC 
to  Celebrate,  Create 

The  announcement  of  two  recent  gifts  to 
the  college  totaling  more  than  $2  million 
inspired  a  buoyant  and  celebratory  tone 
for  Mary  Baldwin  College  President 
Pamela  Fox's  fifth  state  of  the  college 
address  August  22,  the  official  marker  of 
the  start  of  the  2007-08  academic  year. 

"Over  the  past  three  years,  the  suc- 
cesses of  Phase  I  [of  the  college's  strategic 
plan]  have  reinforced  and  revitalized  our 
college.  Today  we  enjoy  the  stunning 
restored  beauty  of  the  campus,  value  the 
quality  of  our  communications  materials, 
and  benefit  from  increasing  opportunities 
for  collaboration  with  colleagues,"  Fox 
said,  going  on  to  detail  recent  accom- 
plishments and  outline  future  goals  in 
relation  to  its  10-year  plan,  Composing 
Our  Future. 

Phase  II  of  Composing  Our  Future 
issues  a  call  to  "Invest  and  Innovate," 
and  momentum  is  already  growing  with 
significant  gifts  and  pledges  from  two 
MBC  alumnae.  Mary  Baldwin  Board  of 
Trustees  Chair  Louise  McNamee  '70  and 
husband,  Peter  McHugh,  demonstrated 
their  confidence  in  the  college's  plans 
and  leadership  with  a  $1.12  million 
commitment  that  will  provide  both  unre- 
stricted funds  and  enhance  scholarship 
endowments.  Longtime  supporters  Anna 
Kate  ^6i  and  Hayne  Hipp  solidified  their 
place  among  the  college's  leading  donors 
with  an  unrestricted  $1  million  gift  that 
will  be  employed  to  fund  recruiting  for 
the  Program  for  the  Exceptionally  Gifted 
and  Virginia  Women's  Institute  for 
Leadership,  among  other  initiatives  relat- 
ed to  "Invest  and  Innovate." 

Read  the  full  text  of  President  Fox's 
state  of  the  college  address: 
www.mbc.edu/college/stateofcollege_aug07.asp  A 


ACCOMPLISHMENTS:  Phase  l  Reinforce  and  Revitalize 
Make  Personal  Transformation  Our  Priority 

▲  Increased  applications,  enrollment,  and  retention:  highest  number  of  applications  for 
two  consecutive  years;  ADP  enrollment  up  19  percent;  MAT  enrollment  up  25  per- 
cent; retention  up  10  percentage  points  in  Residential  College  for  Women 

▲  Launched  the  Mary  Baldwin  College  Advantage  (MBCA) 

▲  Developed  Quality  Enhancement  Plan  for  reaffirmation  of  accreditation  by  Southern 
Association  of  Colleges  and  Schools 

▲  Designed  and  planned  opening  of  Samuel  R.  and  Ava  Spencer  Center  for  Civic  and 
Global  Engagement;  civic  engagement  in  every  major 

▲  Accepted  in  the  USA  South  athletic  conference 

Sharpen  Our  Focus  on  Academic  Excellence 

▲  Established  Capstone  Festival 

▲  Revised  General  Education  curriculum 

▲  Increased  Fulbright  awards  for  faculty  and  recent  alumnae;  hosted  Fulbright  scholars 
and  teachers  (see  page  10);  guests  from  around  the  globe  including  Mary  Robinson, 
Benazir  Bhutto,  Claudia  Bernardi,  and  Srinivas  Krishnan 

Unite  and  Enrich  Our  Community 

▲  Celebrated  anniversanes  of  signature  programs:  ADFJ  30  years;  PEG,  20  years; 
Quest,  10  years;  African-American  and  Multicultural  Affairs,  10  years 

▲  Increased  national  rankings  and  recognition  (see  pages  4  and  9) 

A       Community  partnerships:  Teaching  American  History  grant.  National  Oceanic  and 
Atmosphenc  Administration  grants  involving  local  teachers;  American  Shakespeare 
Center  collaboration  and  graduation  of  the  first  MFA  students 

▲  Drafted  and  adopted  a  college-wide  statement  of  inclusivity 

A       Established  Class  Leadership  program  within  the  AlumnaeAi  Association 

▲  Cross-college  collaboration  via  President's  Advisory  Team,  President's  Council  on 
Diversity  and  Inclusive  Community,  and  MBC  Advantage  task  forces 

Renew  Our  Environment 

▲  Campus-wide  wireless  network  completed 

▲  Deferred  maintenance  reduced  and  restoration  progressing 

▲  Completed  two  phases  of  Transforming  Our  Environment,  the  campus  master  plan 

Fund  Our  Future 

▲  Improved  financial  chemistry,  including  balanced  budgets,  refinanced  long-term  debt, 
and  earned  a  higher  Composite  Financial  Index 

▲  Increased  Annual  Fund  donor  participation  and  giving 

▲  Significant  progress  toward  Bertie  Deming  Smith's  '46  $6.5  million  challenge 


GOALS:  Phase  II  Invest  and  Innovate 

▲  Open  Samuel  R.  and  Ava  Spencer  Center  for  Civic  and  Global  Engagement  (see  page  8) 

▲  Renovate  Pearce  Science  Center 

▲  Continue  to  increase  recruitment  and  retention  to  grow  Residential  College  for 
Women  to  1,000  students,  including  growth  of  Virginia  Women's  Institute  for 
Leadership  to  200  and  Program  for  the  Exceptionally  Gifted  to  100 

▲  Strengthen  Global  Honors  Scholars  program 

▲  Open  a  sixth  regional  center  for  adult  and  graduate  programs 

A       Consider  new  graduate  programs  in  partnership  with  the  undergraduate  curriculum 
and  consider  developing  degree  programs  that  combine  bachelor's  and  master's 
completion  in  a  single  track 

A       Complete  Smith  Challenge  ($750,000)  by  June  30,  2008  to  help  toward  the  overall 
Annual  Fund  goal  of  $2.5  million. 


Winter  2008 


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Mary  Baldwin  Stands  Tall  in  National  Venues 

National  recognition  of  Mary  Baldwin,  one  of  the  objectives  of  the  college's  10-year 
strategic  plan,  Composing  Our  Future,  is  gaining  momentum.  Important  for  increas- 
ing MBC's  name  recognition  to  create  a  larger  pool  of  applicants  and  to  bring  attention 
to  the  college's  unique  educational  experience,  here  are  a  few  national  highlights: 


The  Washington  Post 

www.ti'aslnngtonpost.coni 

Imagine  that  before  you've  even  stepped  foot  on 
campus,  a  story  about  you  going  to  college  appears 
in  a  local  newspaper  and  is  picked  up  by  print  and 
broadcast  media  across  the  nation.  You  are  only  13 
years  of  age.  During  summer  2007,  that  is  just 
what  happened  to  Jackie  Robson,  who  entered 
MBC's  Program  for  the  Exceptionally  Gifted  (PEG) 
this  fall.  Her  story  caught  the  attention  of  The 
Washington  Post  national  education  reporter 
Maria  Glod,  who  came  to  campus  to  see  the  pro- 
gram firsthand,  primarily  through  the  eyes  of 
Robson.  Glod  and  photographer  Linda  Davidson 
attended  classes  with  Robson,  visited  her  room  in 
the  PEG  Center,  and  joined  her  for  lunch  in  the 
Dining  Hall  over  several  days  in  September. 
Reporter  and  photographer  also  spent  time  with 
other  PEG  students,  some  of  whom  are  also  includ- 
ed in  the  printed  story. 

"Trading  the  Prom  for  Descartes"  appeared 
Sunday,  December  2  in  The  Washington  Post,  on 
the  front  page  of  the  Metro  section.  The  Sunday 
edition  is  said  to  have  a  circulation  of  nearly  one 
million  —  not  including  the  number  of  people  who 
view  stories  on  their  Web  site,  which,  in  this  case, 
also  featured  a  color  photo  gallery  titled  "Young, 
Gifted,  and  Skipping  High  School." 

PEG  Director  Stephanie  Ferguson  said  their 
office  received  phone  calls,  emails,  and  a  rare  mid- 
year applicant  within  a  few  days  of  the  story's  pub- 
lication. You  can  link  to  the  story  online  via  Mary 
Baldwin's  Web  site  news  page  at 
wwiv.mbc.edu/news. 

U.S.  News  &  World  Report 

wivw.usnews.com 

In  its  sixth  year  of  classification  as  a  master's-level 
university,  Mary  Baldwin  College  continued  to 
climb  toward  the  top  of  the  list  of  the  best  colleges 
and  universities  in  the  South  by  U.S.  News  & 


World  Report.  Moving  up  eight  spots  since  2005, 
MBC  is  number  23  in  a  pool  of  119  ranked  schools 
in  the  region. 

"Mary  Baldwin  College's  incredible  dedication 
to  providing  personalized  and  transforming  educa- 
tion for  women  cannot  easily  be  captured  in  rank- 
ings. However,  the  hallmarks  of  our  success  have 
helped  us  continue  to  rise  in  U.S.  News'  annual 
report,"  said  MBC  President  Pamela  Fox. 

The  percentage  of  Mary  Baldwin  freshmen 
who  were  in  the  top  25  percent  of  their  high  school 
classes  rose  significantly  from  29  percent  in  fall 
2005  to  43  percent  in  2006,  contributing  to  the  ris- 
ing ranking,  according  to  the  report.  Student-to-fac- 
ulty ratio  (10:1)  and  average  class  size  (63  percent 
with  20  students  or  fewer)  are  lower  than  most 
schools  in  the  group.  Other  criteria  include  reten- 
tion rate,  graduation  rate,  and  average  alumnae/i 
giving  rate. 

Colleges  of  Distinction 

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Mary  Baldwin  College  learned  in  early  2007  that  it 
is  one  in  a  group  of  fewer  than  300  schools  in  the 
country  named  as  a  national  College  of  Distinction, 
a  new  effort  to  highlight  schools  that  "consistently 
excel  in  providing  undergraduate  education," 
according  to  the  group's  Web  site.  The  site  and  an 
upcoming  inaugural  guidebook  will  focus  on  "four 
pillars  of  a  solid  undergraduate  education:  student 
engagement  in  the  educational  process,  great  teach- 
ing, vibrant  learning  communities,  and  successful 
outcomes,"  said  Wes  Creel,  president  of  the  spon- 
soring organization  Student  Horizons. 

"This  recognition  is  particularly  gratifying 
because  these  elements  of  a  liberal  education  are 
written  in  what  [MBC  Board  of  Trustees]  Chair 
Louise  McNamee  '70  calls  our  'institutional  DNA' 
—  they  are  not  only  critically  important  to  MBC's 
success  but  also  a  defining  part  of  who  we  are," 
said  Fox.  "Judged  by  the  qualities  we  hold  dear, 
Mary  Baldwin  shines."  ▲ 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


MBCNews 


Steelman  and  Barton  Add  Dimension  to  Board  of  Trustees 

Four  new  members  joined  the  Mary  Baldwin  College  Board  of  Trustees  in  2007.  This  issue  and  the  summer 
2008  issue  of  The  Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine  will  each  feature  profiles  of  two  of  those  new  appointees. 
We  hope  you  enjoy  learning  what  is  behind  their  membership  and  connection  with  MBC 


Science  Became  Steelman's 
Passion  at  MBC 

Imagine  your  great-grandfather  is 
local  legend  Captain  William  Kable, 
founder  of  Staunton  Military 
Academy  and  the  person  for  whom 
MBC's  Kable  Residence  Hall  and 
Kable  House  are  named.  Your  grand- 
mother, Margarett 
Kable  Russell,  graduat- 
ed from  Mary  Baldwin 
College  in  1902  and 
set  a  standard  for  lead- 
ership and  civic 
engagement  as  an  early 
organizer  of  MBC's 
alumnae/i  association 
and  the  first  woman  on  the  college's 
Board  of  Trustees.  Nearly  half  a  cen- 
tury after  her  grandmother  was  hand- 
ed her  diploma,  Janet  Russell 
Steelman  '52  took  her  first  look  at 
Mary  Baldwin  as  a  student,  and  she 
felt  every  bit  of  the  responsibility  of 
upholding  her  family's  legacy. 

Although  Steelman  admits  to  a 
rocky  start,  the  retired  genetic  toxicol- 
ogy research  associate  and  project 
manager  for  a  major  pharmaceutical 
company  has  had  little  trouble  adding 
to  the  family  narrative.  "Life  has  been 
good  to  me  through  the  years,"  she 
said.  Steelman  has  served  MBC  as 
alumnae  class  secretary,  class  agent, 
member  of  the  Advisory  Board  of 
Visitors  and  Alumnae/i  Association 
Board  of  Directors,  and  contributor 
to  fundraising  efforts  and  an  impor- 
tant lecture  series  named  in  honor  of 
her  a  favorite  professor,  Mary  E. 
Humphreys.  A  New  Jersey  transport 
who  settled  in  Lottsburg,  Virginia, 
Steelman  dives  into  projects  in  her 
community,  too.  She  helped  land- 


scape public  buildings  as  past  presi- 
dent of  Virginia  Master  Gardeners, 
volunteers  with  Meals  on  Wheels,  co- 
chaired  the  fundraising  committee  for 
a  local  hospital,  and  served  as  docent 
at  Reedville  Fisherman's  Museum. 
Her  recent  appointment  as  a  member 
of  the  MBC  Board  of  Trustees,  fol- 
lowing the  lead  set  by  her  grand- 
mother in  1934,  marks  a  continuing 
legacy  and  a  heartfelt  commitment. 

What  was  your  first  impression  of 
MBC?  In  1948,  when  I  first  set  foot 
on  campus,  I  was  in  awe,  and  scared, 
and  very  concerned  that  I  would  not 
live  up  to  my  parents'  and  my  grand- 
mother's expectation  of  me. 

What  were  your  reasons  for  say- 
ing "yes"  when  accepting  mem- 
bership on  the  Board?  I  have 
always  felt  indebted  to  MBC,  so 
when  I  was  asked  to  take  on  a  leader- 
ship role,  I  accepted,  hoping  I  will  be 
able  to  repay  MBC  for  what  its  done 
for  me.  MBC  taught  me  how  to  be  a 
leader  and  what  my  talents  were  — 
at  a  time  when  I  wasn't  sure  I  had 
any.  My  grandmother,  Margarett 
Kable  Russell  (Class  of  1902),  was 
an  MBC  trustee  when  I  was  a  fresh- 
man. I  had  a  great  admiration  for 
her,  and  I  wanted  to  earn  her  respect 
and  get  to  know  her  better. 

What  aspect  of  the  strategic  plan 
are  you  most  Interested  to  see 
develop?  I  am  very  interested  in  the 
growth  of  the  science  program. 

How  will  you  support  MBC's  focus 
on  civic  engagement  and  global 
citizenship?  I  have  been  blessed  to  be 
able  to  give  back  to  my  college  and 


community  in  many  ways,  from  volun- 
teering in  a  hospital  bacteriology  lab  to 
gardening  clubs  to  serving  on  Mary 
Baldwin  College  committees.  I  have 
always  let  my  interests  guide  my  com- 
munity service,  and  I  will  be  able  to 
more  fully  answer  this  question  when  I 
learn  more  about  MBC's  goals  related 
to  civic  and  global  engagement. 

Would  you  recommend  MBC  to 
your  family  and  friends?  Yes.  I  have 
recommended  MBC  to  our  grand- 
daughter, Rachel  Bradley.  At  age  16, 
she  isn't  sure  right  now  about  her  college 
options,  but  hopefully  I  can  convince 
her  Mary  Baldwin  is  right  for  her,  as 
it  was  for  me.  She  is  bright  and  would 
be  an  excellent  MBC  student. 

What  did  you  want  to  be  when 
you  were  in  college?  I  went  to  col- 
lege because  my  parents  wanted  me 
to  —  I  wanted  to  join  the  Navy.   At 
that  time,  I  really  had  no  idea  what  I 
wanted  to  be.  Dr.  Mary  Humphreys 
[professor  emerita  of  biology]  and 
Dr.  Lillian  Thomsen  [former  profes- 
sor of  biology]  cornered  me  during 
my  sophomore  year  and  convinced 
me  I  needed  to  change  my  major  to 
science  and  get  my  academics  in 
shape  ...  I  was  barely  passing.  I 
thank  God  for  these  two  concerned 
professors.   I  loved  science  —  earned 
good  grades,  and,  upon  graduation, 
worked  at  Memorial  Sloan- 
Kettering  Cancer  Center  in  New 
York  City.  After  marrying  and  start- 
ing a  family,  I  volunteered  in  the 
histology/bacteriology  lab  at  Grand 
View  Hospital  in  Pennsylvania.  It 
paved  my  way  to  a  wonderful  posi- 
tion at  McNeil  Pharmaceutical  18 
years  later. 


Why  is  it  important  for  every 
alumna/us  to  support  iVIBC? 

A  college  cannot  grow  on  tuition 
alone.  We  must  contribute  what  we 
can  to  ensure  its  future. 

Barton's  MBC 
Connection  Began 
With  Daughter 

When  first  contacted  about  his 
appointment  to  the  Mary  Baldwin 
College  Board  of  Trustees,  IBM  execu- 
tive Thomas  Bryan 
Barton  thought  it 
unlikely  that  readers 
would  be  interested  in 
his  life,  ambitions,  and 
work,  but  we  begged 
to  differ.  Barton's  mili- 
tary service,  round-the- 
globe  travel,  communi- 
ty service  as  a  mentor  to  the  Student 
Government  Association  at  James 
Madison  High  School  in  Vienna, 
Virginia,  and  many  other  traits  and 
activities  indicate  that  he  has  much  to 
share.  A  resident  of  Oakton,  Virginia, 
Barton  also  works  with  Volunteer 
Fairfax  on  one  of  its  biggest  projects 
—  delivering  backpacks  loaded  with 
toys  and  school  supplies  to  needy  chil- 
dren during  the  winter  holiday  season. 
Barton  is  a  graduate  of  Virginia 
Military  Institute  and  has  completed 
professional  development  courses  at 
University  of  Virginia's  Darden  School 
of  Business  Administration  and  at  the 
Wharton  School. 

What  was  your  first  impression  of 
MBC?  My  first  recollection  of  Mary 
Baldwin  College  was  as  a  young  man 
on  my  way  to  matriculate  at  VMI  in 
1964.  Later,  I  learned  more  about  the 
college  while  visiting  my  future  wife's 
family  on  Taylor  Street.  I  was 
impressed  by  the  striking  architecture 
and  beauty  within  the  hills.  Over  the 
years,  as  our  daughter,  Ann,  Class  of 


2002,  became  interested  in  enrolling,  I 
came  to  know  that  it  was  a  first-rate 
college  because  of  the  people  I  knew 
who  attended  it,  and  I  realized  how 
fortunate  Staunton  is  to  have  such  a 
college  at  its  core. 

What  were  your  reasons  for  saying 
"yes"  when  accepting  membership 
on  the  Board?  My  true  involvement 
with  MBC  began  when  our  daughter 
matriculated.  My  wife,  Mary  Ann,  and 
I  served  as  members  of  the  Parent's 
Council  and  on  the  President's 
Executive  Council.  I  continued  my  rela- 
tionship with  the  college  as  a  member 
of  the  Advisory  Board  of  Visitors. 
Accepting  the  invitation  to  a  position 
on  the  Board  of  Trustees  was  a  natural 
extension  of  my  connection  to  the  stu- 
dents and  faculty  of  MBC. 

What  are  you  most  eager  to  learn 
more  about  as  a  new  board  mem- 
ber? I'm  looking  forward  to  being 
involved  in  a  different  capacity  with 
MBC  as  a  Board  member.  My  specific 
areas  of  interest  are  recruiting  and 
retention  of  high-quality  students  and 
faculty  and  the  campus  master  plan  to 
upgrade  the  facilities. 

How  will  you  support  MBC's  focus 
on  civic  engagement  and  global  cit- 
izenship? I've  been  involved  in  inter- 
national work  as  an  IBM  executive 
since  1977. 1  work  closely  with  the 
company's  employees  and  clients  in 
Asia,  Europe,  the  Middle  East,  Africa, 
Latin  America,  and  North  America, 
through  which  I  developed  a  strong 
sense  of  global  community.  I  have  spo- 
ken to  MBC  students  in  classes  about 
international  marketing  and  business 
ethics,  and  I  hope  to  continue  to  share 
my  experience  in  that  way. 

Would  you  recommend  MBC  to 
your  family  and  friends?  I  can't  offi- 
cially take  credit  for  Ann  becoming 


interested  in  attending  MBC,  but 
the  exposure  she  got  while  roaming 
the  campus  when  visiting  her  grand- 
parents was  probably  a  big  influ- 
ence on  her  decision.  Because  we 
knew  of  the  quality  of  the  college, 
we  certainly  encouraged  her  when 
she  expressed  her  interest. 

What  did  you  want  to  be  when 
you  were  in  college?  I  was  a  sci- 
ence major  at  VMI  —  primarily 
interested  in  the  biological  sciences 
—  and  I  had  an  interest  in  military 
service.  I  had  not  considered  a 
position  with  IBM,  but  the  compa- 
ny was  looking  for  young  people 
trained  in  math  and  science  who 
had  a  government  work  back- 
ground. I  had  completed  three 
years  of  active  duty  in  the  Army 
and  started  my  professional  life  as 
a  marketing  manager  for  the  Army, 
Navy,  Air  Force,  and  NASA.  I  had 
known  for  years  that  I  did  not 
desire  to  be  a  lab  scientist,  so  I 
took  the  opportunity  to  do  some- 
thing different  with  my  science 
degree.  The  journey  has  been  amaz- 
ing. It  has  afforded  me  the  oppor- 
tunity to  work  with  amazing  peo- 
ple around  the  world.  As  vice  pres- 
ident and  partner  of  IBM  global 
business  services,  my  business  trav- 
el in  the  past  year  has  included 
work  in  France,  Bulgaria,  the 
Netherlands,  the  Czech  Republic, 
Russia,  China,  Singapore, 
Australia,  and  Japan. 

Why  is  it  important  for  every 
alumna/us  to  support  MBC?  As  a 

graduate  of  Virginia  Military 
Institute,  I  have  a  clear  sense  of  the 
importance  of  alumni  involvement 
in  the  operation  and  direction  of  the 
institution.  Staying  connected  and 
involved  by  supporting  students  and 
faculty  is  critical.  I  believe  the  same 
is  true  for  MBC.  ▲ 


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Notable  Achievements 

Andreas  Anastasiou  was  awarded  tenure  and 
named  associate  professor  of  psychology. 

Bruce  Domes,  assistant  professor  of  communi- 
cation, was  awarded  tenure. 

Ralph  Cohen,  professor  of  English,  named 
MBC's  Virginia  Worth  Gonder  Fellow  for 
2007-08. 

Susan  Blair  Green  was  named  professor  of 
English. 

Robert  Grotjohn  was  named  professor  of 

English. 

Louise  Freeman  was  awarded  tenure  and 
named  associate  professor  of  psychology. 

Sarah  Kennedy,  associate  professor  of  English, 
was  awarded  tenure. 

Daniel  Metraux,  professor  of  Asian  studies, 
was  elected  to  the  governing  board  of  Central 
Virginia  Chapter  of  the  Fulbright  Association. 

Lundy  Pentz,  associate  professor  of  biology, 
was  named  a  scientific  review  administrator  for 
the  Army  Prostate  Cancer  Research  Program. 

Daniel  Stuhlsatz  was  awarded  tenure  and 
named  associate  professor  of  sociology. 


New  PEG  Director  Nurtures  Her 
(Gifted)  Nature 

After  earning  a  bachelor's  degree  in  education 
from  Millersville  University  in  Pennsylvania, 
Stephanie  Ferguson  began  teaching  middle  and 
high  school  reading  and  English 
in  Pennsylvania  and.  later 
Louisiana.  Six  years  into  her 
teaching  career  she  found  a 
position  working  with  gifted 
children  grades  6-8  and  got  her 
first  glimpse  of  Mary  Baldwin's 
Program  for  the  Exceptionally 
Giited  iPEG;  from  a  brochure  brought  to  her  by 
a  student. 

Ferguson  was  working  on  a  master's 
degree  in  curriculum  and  instruction  from 
Southeastern  Louisiana  University  at  the  time, 
and  she  investigated  PEG  while  she  focused 
on  gifted  studies  as  a  concentration  for  her 
degree.  She  completed  her  doctorate  —  also 
with  a  concentration  in  gifted  studies  —  at 
University  of  Southern  Mississippi.  Her  disser- 
tation on  moral  development  and  self-concept 
among  gifted  residential  high  school  students 
explored  many  of  the  elements  present  in 
MBC's  program. 

Ferguson  has  done  extensive  research  on 
social  and  emotional  issues  of  gifted  students, 
some  of  which  has  been  published  in  her  book. 
Social  and  Emotional  Teaching  Strategies,  as 
well  as  in  a  textbook  chapter  "Affective 
Education:  Addressing  the  Social  and  Emotional 
Needs  of  Gifted  Students  in  the  Classroom," 
and  several  journal  and  newsletter  articles. 

PEG'S  long  term  goals  include  increasing 
the  number  of  students  in  the  program  from 
about  75  to  100,  and  Ferguson  plans  to  contin- 
ue looking  for  new  and  innovative  funding 
sources  that  could  tailor  the  program  to  stu- 
dents' interests  and  most  critical  services.  She 
is  also  eager  to  investigate  the  possibility  of 
creating  PEG  academies  offering  dual  enroll- 
ment with  local  schools  through  some  of 
MBC's  regional  centers. 


Menzer  Embraces  IVILitt/MFA 
Leadership 

"I  go  way  back  with  Shenandoah  Shakespeare 
Inow  American  Shakespeare  Center),"  said  Paul 
Menzer,  who  met  Ralph  Cohen,  founding  direc- 
tor of  that  troupe  and  professor 
of  English  at  Mary  Baldwin 
College,  in  1990.  Menzer  was 
working  at  the  nationally 
renowned  Folger  Shakespeare 
Library.  "As  I  started  my  first  full 
professorship  in  the  English 
department  at  University  of 
North  Texas,  I  became  increasingly  jealous  of  all 
the  Shakespeare  action  developing  hundreds  of 
miles  away  in  Staunton." 

In  July.  Menzer  came  back  to  the  Bard  and 
to  the  Valley,  where  he  had  resided  in  the  early 
1990s  to  work  with  Shenandoah  Shakespeare 
Express  (SSE).  He  succeeded  Frank 
Southenngton,  the  first  and  only  director  of 
MBC's  graduate  program  that  carries  a  mouthful 
of  a  title  —  Master  of  Letters  and  Master  of 
Fine  Arts  in  Shakespeare  and  Renaissance 
Literature  in  Performance,  or  more  briefly, 
MLitt/MFA. 

Menzer  earned  a  bachelor's  degree  from 
University  of  Maryland  and  a  master's  degree 
from  Georgetown  University,  both  in  English, 
and  taught  the  subject  for  five  years  at 
University  of  North  Texas  prior  to  joining  MBC. 
He  earned  a  PhD  in  Renaissance  literature  at 
University  of  Virginia  and  served  as  director  of 
development  for  SSE  and  as  managing  director 
of  Folger  Library's  scholarly  journal  Shakespeare 
Quarterly.  Menzer  has  also  maintained  member- 
ship on  the  Shenandoah  Shakespeare-turned- 
Amencan  Shakespeare  Center  board  of  directors 
since  1997 

Specific  goals  for  the  program  are  under 
development,  and  Menzer  would  like  to  contin- 
ue reaching  out  to  performance-based  organiza- 
tions and  institutions,  and  increase  the  number 
of  faculty  to  promote  team-teaching,  accessibili- 
ty, and  continuity. 


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PEG  Research  Sets  Model  for  Early  College  Entrance  Programs 


Elizabeth  Conneli  '92  moved  on  from  lier  posi- 
tion as  director  of  Mary  Baldwin  College's 
Program  for  the  Exceptionally  Gifted  (PEG),  but 
her  connection  with  the  college  remains  intact  as 
she  continues  work  on  a  study  about  attrition  in 
the  program.  The  research,  funded  by  a  $9,950 
grant  from  the  University  of  Iowa's  Belin-Blank 
Center  for  Gifted  Education  and  Talent 
Development,  will  provide  valuable  information 
for  early  college  entrance  programs  around  the 
country,  Conneli  hopes. 

"As  the  only  program  of  its  kind  in  the 
nation,  PEG  serves  as  a  model  for  how  to  estab- 
lish a  successful  program,"  Conneli  said.  The 
benefits  of  the  study,  titled  "Investigating 


Attrition  in  a  Residential  Early  College  Program 
for  Girls,"  will  also  be  seen  right  on  campus, 
helping  MBC  pinpoint  how  to  improve  its  reten- 
tion rate,  which  was  about  76  percent  from 
freshman  to  sophomore  year  in  2006-07. 

"By  their  very  nature,  early  entrance  resi- 
dential programs  serve  students  who  may  be 
less  certain  about  their  academic  goals  at 
enrollment  than  are  traditional  age  students. 
Further,  since  such  programs  serve  a  relatively 
small  number  of  students,  even  small  fluctua- 
tions in  retention  rates  can  cause  significant 
annual  variations  in  enrollment  figures  and  dis- 
ruptions in  program  planning,"  the  grant  pro- 
posal states. 


Conneli  began  the  study  during  summer 

2007  with  co-researchers  Nancy  Heilbronner 
and  Sally  Reis  of  University  of  Connecticut  and 
Sally  Dobbins  of  University  of  Louisiana.  The 
first  step  was  to  convene  a  focus  group  of  cur- 
rent and  former  PEG  directors  and  faculty,  and 
members  of  the  MBC  Board  of  Trustees  to 
record  their  ideas  about  attrition  and  retention. 
From  that  conversation,  a  survey  was  developed 
and  will  be  distributed  to  PEG  alumnae  who 
graduated  between  1995  and  2005.  Follow-up 
interviews  will  be  conducted  with  several  of  the 
respondents  to  wrap  up  the  information-gather- 
ing phase.  Findings  will  be  presented  in  May 

2008  at  University  of  Iowa,  Conneli  said. 


Winter  2008 


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for  Leadership 

work  to  remove 

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BRECKEN  GEIMAN: 

Mystery  Religion,  Reinterpreting  the  Language  and  Spirit  of  an  Abandoned  House 


ALLISON  HASSON: 
Experiments  in  Togetherness 


"My  process  for  art-making  begins 
with  finding  the  inspiration,  current- 
ly revolving  around  the  exploration 
of  abandoned  houses.  The  experi- 
ence becomes  a  treasure  hunt  as  I 
intuitively  scavenge  through  the  lay- 
ers of  wreckage  as  if  in  search  of  a 
precious  find.  With  e\ 
search,  the  process  has  evolved  to 
become  more  and  more  conceptu- 
ally meaningful;  I  have  gained  a 
heightened  sense  of  awareness  to 
the  formal  elements  that  define  art 
(color,  shape,  line,  form,  texture, 
etc.).  I  look  for  objects  that  have 
strong  potential  for  use  in  an  artistic 
composition  and  that  possess  a 
special  energy.  In  rediscovering 
these  found  objects,  I  instill  in  them 
a  renewed  sense  of  life." 


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Studio  Art  Attracts  Major  Interest 


By  Dawn  Medley 

It  has  never  been  about  numbers  in 
the  studio  art  program  at  Mary 
Baldwin  College,  but  when  you  are 
tied  with  a  perennial  favorite,  psycholo- 
gy, for  the  highest  number  of  majors  in 
the  Residential  College  for  Women 
(RCW)  in  2006-07,  it  begs  for  a  bit  of 
numerical  discussion.  Not  only  were 
there  28  studio  art  majors,  but  there 
were  a  record  17  RCW  graduates  (21 
including  the  Adult  Degree  Program)  in 
2007.  Three  of  them  were  selected  to 
participate  in  the  elite  Capstone  Festival 
based  on  their  senior  thesis  work  — 
and  each  received  an  award  at  the 
Festival.  Those  projects  are  pictured 
and  described  in  the  artists'  words  on 
these  pages. 

That  brings  the  studio  art  focus 
back  to  where  it  has  long  resided:  in 


quality,  says  Paul  Ryan,  professor  of  art 
and  advisor  to  Brecken  Geiman  '07,  who 
earned  first  place  in  the  Capstone's  visual 
and  audio-visual  category.  "The  quality 
and  ambitiousness  of  student  work  was 
impressive.  We  have  built  a  creative  and 
intellectual  culture  that  is  open,  ener- 
getic, and  progressive,  and  students  feel 
the  excitement  and  see  the  wide  range 
of  creative  possibilities  in  this  environ- 
ment," he  said.  Ryan  is  already  confi- 
dent about  the  scope  and  potential  of 
student  work  by  this  year's  majors. 

Although  studio  art  classes  have 
been  popular  for  more  than  a  decade  — 
the  major  was  created  in  2004  when 
the  Art  Department  restructured  to 
become  the  Department  of  Art  and  Art 
History  —  Ryan  explained  that  several 
changes  in  the  past  five  years  have 


attracted  more  students:  the  addition  of 
a  second  full-time  faculty  member,  Jim 
Sconyers  Jr.,  assistant  professor  of  art;  a 
broader  curriculum  that  mcludes  more 
photography  and  printmaking  courses; 
annual  trips  to  Washington  DC  and 
New  York  City  art  venues;  access  to 
international  and  world-renowned  visit- 
ing artists  and  scholars;  and  the  addi- 
tion of  updated  equipment  in  some 
areas.  Studio  art  now  encompasses 
emphases  in  ceramics,  drawing,  paint- 
ing, printmaking,  photography,  graphic 
design,  and  extended  media. 

Considerable  progress  has  been 
made,  particularly  in  printmaking  and 
photography,  to  provide  students  with  a 
creative  and  conducive  artistic  environ- 
ment. A  greater  number  of  students  in 
the  major,  however,  leads  to  more 


Ill       ii;.i.,fl^:'=^^'^"^'^  CRAWFORD; 

i    '■fiiiokerT  Washington  Homework  Program 


^^,,,,„,^,,  ,„,  jsentation  [of  the  'second 
Df  consciousness  referred  to  in  philoso- 
er  Ken  Wilbur's  A  Theory  of  Everything.  I 
St.  various  body  parts  of  as  many  different 
:  different  cultures  as  would  allow  me 
leir  photograph  and  assembled  the 
photographs  to  create  five  life-size 
Igures  that  are  a  visual  representation  of  the 
-ietworl<  of  people  who  worked  together  to 
'help  me  create  the  pieces.  The  pieces  were 
mounted  on  Cannon  Hill  at  Mary  Baldwin 
College  to  compel  the  audience  to  raise  their 
physical  bodies  to  experience  the  work,  in  cor- 
relation with  the  rise  in  consciousness  that  the 
project  suggests.  There  are  also  broken  mir- 
rors mounted  in  mosaic  style  within  the  fig- 
ures, so  someone  looking  at  the  piece  will  see 
part  of  their  body  integrating  with  the  coopera- 
tive work.  The  broken  and  then  reassembled 
notion  of  the  mirrors  refers  to  what  would 
have  to  happen  to  a  broken  hi 
IWilbur'sl  theory  to  be  success. .-,. 


"  I  used  photographs  that  I  took 
at  the  Booker  I  Washington 
Homework  Program.  These  chil- 
dren are  the  future  of  Staunton, 
and  we  must  hope  that  they 
will  be  successful.  This  hope  is 
portrayed  through  the  use  of 
light.  An  individual  light  in  each 
of  the  light  boxes  is  seen  when 
a  viewer  takes  the  time  to 
come  close  and  really  take  a 
look  at  the  children's  photo- 
graphs. The  lights  are  connect- 
ed to  occupancy  sensors  that 
only  illuminate  when  a  viewer 
steps  into  the  children's  space, 
and  cut  off  when  they  leave  the 
space.  This  enforces  the  idea 
that  hope  can  only  be  seen 
when  a  person  takes  time  to 
come  into  the  spaces  and  lives 
of  the  children." 


immediate  concerns  about  building 
maintenance  such  as  its  tendency  to 
flood,  creating  spaces  that  include 
equipment  and  safety  measures  for  spe- 
cific art-making  processes,  and  further 
technology  upgrades.  A  grant  from 
Booth  Ferris  Foundation  in  2007  added 
a  specialized  projector  in  Deming  Fine 
Arts  Building  that  provides  state-of-the 
art  digital  color  projection  and  money 
donated  for  campus  improvements  pro- 
vided for  repair  and  sealing  of  Deming's 
roof;  steps  in  the  right  direction. 

Studio  art  embraces  the  college- 
wide  movement  toward  increased  civic 
engagement  at  Mary  Baldwin.  One  of 
the  most  visible  recent  examples  was  a 
May  Term  2007  course  featuring  artist 
and  human  rights  activist  Claudia 
Bernardi,  who  was  brought  to  campus 


through  the  Doenges  Visiting 
Artist/Scholar  series  and  connections 
with  faculty  in  the  Department  of  Art 
and  Art  History.  The  course.  Mapping 
History  and  Hope,  invited  students 
from  several  disciphnes  to  interview 
Staunton  citizens  and  create  a  huge  out- 
door mural  about  the  city  on  the  wall 
of  a  bakery  in  one  of  Staunton's  historic 
neighborhoods.  Studio  art  students  are 
also  involved  in  public  exhibitions  in 
Hunt  Gallery  and  other  locations  on 
campus  and  downtown  Staunton  such 
as  Coffee  on  the  Corner  and  Camera  & 
Palette.  In  2003  they  participated  in  a 
print  exchange  with  University  of 
Virginia  and  in  2006  in  a  national  print 
exchange  with  universities  in  Ohio, 
Indiana,  and  South  Carolina.  Student 
internships  have  included  work  at 


Staunton  Augusta  Art  Center,  Beverley 
Street  Studio  School,  and  Rockbridge 
Arts  Center.  Despite  less-than-ideal 
resources  and  working  environments, 
studio  art  students  are  making  names 
for  themselves  in  the  community  and 
professional  world. 

At  least  four  recent  alumnae  are 
pursuing  a  Master  of  Fine  Arts  (MFA, 
the  highest  degree  in  the  subject):  two 
in  painting,  one  in  graphic  design,  and 
one  in  sequential  imaging.  One  recent 
graduate  just  completed  her  MFA  in 
2006.  Three  highly  competitive  Virginia 
Museum  of  Fine  Arts  fellowships  were 
awarded  to  MBC  students  in  the  past 
three  years,  two  at  the  undergraduate 
level  and  one  at  the  graduate  level.  Just 
a  few  more  numbers  to  consider  in  con- 
nection with  studio  art  at  MBC.  ▲ 


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lBCArts::Theatre 


HIS 


Is  There 

a  Keats 
,  #  Connection 

in  the 

MBC 
•  ■  ■      Library 

Collection? 

"That  occurred  on  the  out- 
j  side  of  two  volumes  of 
'    Nathan  Drake's 

':.  Shakespeare  &  His  Times  donated 

i-  to  Mary  Baldwin  College's  collection 

at  Grafton  Library  this  summer  may 
be  just  as  intriguing  as  what  is  con- 
tained inside  the  books.  Both  vol- 

,;  umes  are  considered  a  groundbreak- 

ing comprehensive  study  of  The 

;'  Bard  and  his  background. 

;:  "It  is  not  an  unreasonable  flight 

of  fancy  to  think  that  poet  John 
Keats  might  have  held  those  two 
volumes,"  said  Frank  Southerington, 


mer  director  of  the  Master  of 
Letters/Master  of  Fine  Arts  in 
Shakespeare  and  Renaissance 
Literature  in  Performance 
(MLitt/MFA). 

Handwritten  inscriptions  in  both 
books  indicate  that  they  originally 
belonged  to  19th-century  painter 
Benjamin  Haydon.  Haydon  was  a 
friend  of  Keats  —  Haydon's  life  mask 


of  Keats  and  Keats'  published  letters 
to  Haydon  indicate  their  familiarity. 
Keats  had  a  habit  of  picking  up  his 
friend's  books  and  using  them  as 
poetic  fodder,  and  it  is  documented 
that  his  sonnet  On  First  Looking  Into 
Chapman's  Homer  refers  to  his  perus- 
al of  Haydon's  copy  of  that  book. 
Could  not  Shakespeare  &  His  Times, 
published  in  1817,  have  been  on  the 
bookshelf  or  reading  table  next  to 
Chapman's  works?  Keats  was  an 
enthusiastic  admirer  of  Shakespeare, 
Southerington  notes,  and  his  letters 
include  passages  that  are  themselves 
important  Shakespearean  criticism.  Is 
it  plausible  that  the  writer  flipped 
through  Haydon's  volumes  about  the 
playwright?  You  bet. 

Donated  to  MBC  by  Charles 
Salembier,  a  2005  MLitt  graduate,  the 
books  are  significant  primary  sources 
for  students  in  the  program.  Salembier 
received  the  volumes  as  a  gift  from  an 
associate  who  bought  them  at  a  rare 
books  store  in  London,  "not  for  the 
content,  but  because  they  would  look 
nice  on  a  shelf,"  he  said.  "However, 
as  a  graduate  of  MLitt,  I  discovered 
points  that  were  not  covered  in  other 
texts  I  had  read  and  how  much  we 
have  learned  about  Shakespeare's  life 
since  this  early  effort. "  Well-taught  by 
the  Shakespeare  scholars  he  has  met 
and  studied  with,  Salembier  recog- 
nized that  the  books  would  have 
greater  value  to  the  scholarly  commu- 
nity in  the  library  than  they  would  on 
a  shelf  in  his  home. 

"It  is  easy  to  get  excited  about  the 
world  of  Shakespeare,  and  excitement 
begs  to  be  shared,"  Salembier  said.  ▲ 


It's  Big.  MBC  Houses  Only 
U.S.  Branch  of  Records 


By  Dawn  Medley 

Don't  feel  remiss  if  the  Records  of  Earl> 
English  Drama  (REED)  project  is  not 
on  the  tip  of  your  tongue,  but  in  the 


the  whole  of  the  British  Isles,  Menzer 


25  volumes  of  data  —  which  include 


world  of  Shakespeare  and  early  modern      more  than  8,000  pages  of  records  and 
drania  studies  it's  big.  Really  big.  So  big      nearly  8,000  pages  of  apparatus  —  and 


that  it  jumped  the  border  from  its 

home  at  University  of  Toronto  in 

October  and  setded 

on  Mary  Baldwin 

College  as  its  United  . 

States  branch.  it  IS  c 

"MBC  is  the 
exclusive  American        OUT  pi 
site  for  the  most  1  i  n  U"  Ac 

important  documen- 
tary  theatre  project        ddnic 
going  on  right 

now,"  said  Paul  thc  UTl 

Menzer,  MLitt/MFA      , 
program  director  113.S,  3.1 


fessor  of  EngUsh  at 
MBC  and  member 
of  the  REED-USA 
board  of  directors. 
"We're  excited 
about  the  potential 
recruiting  draw; 
current  students  are 
excited  about 


tion,  and  education- 
al opportunities; 
and  all  parties  are 


"It  is  an  honor  for 
our  program  to  be 
linked  to  an  aca- 
demic undertaking  at 
the  university  that 
has,  arguably,  the 
best  Shakespeare  and 
early  modem  drama 
program  in  the 
world,"  Menzer  said. 
Leam  more  about 
REED-USA  online  at 
unvw.reed-iisa.org. 


MBC  now  houses  every  one  of  them  in 
Grafton  Library  as  a  result  of  a  signifi- 
cant donation  from 
REED-USA  presi- 
,  dent  Barbara 

lOr  for  Palmer. 

1  Palmer 

n  to  be  noted  MBC's 

n   arcx-  Master  of  Letters/ 

.11  aca  Master  of  Fine  Arts 

rtakinS!  at        '"  Shakespeare  and 

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ly  that  Literature  in 

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JCdiC  dilU        jiQj,  ^ifh  American 

n  drama  Shakespeare  center 

and  approached  the 

•mg  college  about  hous- 


exchanges  of  niaterial  and  students." 
Since  1979,  REED  has  sought  to 
catalogue  all  records  of  "drama,  min- 
strelsy, and  public  ceremony"  in 
England  prior  to  1642.  That  time  peri- 
od is  critical  to  scholars  researching  the 
entertainment  environment  that  might 
have  influenced  Shakespeare  and  his 
contemporaries.  Many  studies  have 
focused  on  the  theatre  and  drama 
scene  in  London  pre-1642,  but  REED 
has  expanded  the  documentation  to 


;nZer  Saia.  Publicly  announced 

1  at  the  annual 

about  Blackfriars 

^.-.K.-.^  ^+-  Conference  in  late 

online  at  October,  MBC  is 

tSU  OrS  ^'■'"  S'^'ploring  what 

"  its  partnership  with 

the  nonprofit 
REED  program 
will  entail,  Menzer  said.  What  he 
does  know  is  that  —  in  addition  to 
recruiting,  academic,  and  exchange 
opportunities  for  the  college  and 
graduate  students  in  MLjtt/MFA  — 
REED-USA  will  work  to  raise  funds 
to  continue  the  project.  MBC  Dean 
of  Adult  and  Graduate  Programs 
Nancy  Krippel,  Professor  Ralph 
Cohen,  and  Professor  Emeritus 
Frank  Southerins;ton  are  also  board 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


Athletics  and  Wellness  take  center  court  with  campus-wide  focus 


By  Dawn  Medley 

You  walk  through  the  front  doors  at 
Mary  Baldwin  College's  Physical 
Activities  Center,  familiarly  known 
as  "the  PAC."  After  a  warm  greeting 
by  a  student  worker  or  the  always- 
cheerful  "Mr.  Bill"  (William 
Matthews,  PAC  facilities  manager), 
you  are  welcomed  by  a  main  hall- 
way lined  with  bulletin  boards  that 
invite  you  to  get  moving  in  a  variety 
of  suggested  activities  and  reports 
about  the  college's  sports  teams.  In 
the  gym  to  your  left,  a  small  group 
plays  a  game  of  pick-up  basketball, 
and  through  the  next  doorway  on 
the  left  you  see  people  motivating 
each  other  through  cardio  workouts 
and  strength  training.  In  the  room  at 
the  end  of  the  hallway,  Brenda 
Bryant,  vice  president  for  enrollment 
management  and  student  life,  leads 
her  faithful  aerobics  class  through  a 
step  routine.  You  make  a  right  and 
head  up  the  stairs  to  check  on  fitness 
testing  in  the  Mabel  Fetterman  Held 
Fimess  Laboratory,  passing  student- 
athletes  meeting  with  their  coaches 
and  getting  started  on  coursework. 

This  is  part  of  new  Director  of 
Athletics  and  Wellness  Sharon 
Spalding's  vision  of  a  day  at  the 


PAC.  The  transformations  Spalding 
works  for  are  subtle  —  in  the  rea- 
sons people  come  to  the  facility 
and  the  way  they  interact  while 
there.  A  culture  of  wellness,  she 
believes,  will  start  at  the  PAC, 
which  is  on  the  perimeter  of  cam- 
pus, and  spread  throughout  the 
entire  MBC  community. 

"My  goal  is  that  people  think 
of  this  as  a  place  where  people  are 
active,  and  taking  care  of  them- 
selves, and  engaged  in  life," 
Spalding  said.  "If  you're  here, 
you're  moving  —  physically  in 
classes  or  activities,  or  mentally  by 
charting  future  plans  with  a  coach, 
balancing  academic  goals,  or  getting 
ready  for  a  competition." 

With  a  full-time  coaching  staff 
for  the  first  time  in  years  and  mem- 
bership in  a  new  conference,  USA 
South,  Mary  Baldwin's  focus  for 
2007-08  is  on  strengthening  its  ath- 
letic program.  To  meet  the  require- 
ments of  USA  South,  MBC  convened 
an  Athletics  Advisory  Committee, 
created  an  athletes'  section  of  the 
freshmen  seminar  MBC  101,  and 
completed  a  Division  III  self  study, 
among  other  items.  Mary  Baldwin 


leaves  the  Ariantic  Women's  Colleges 
Conference  after  a  successful  12-year 
tenure,  winning  1 1  conference  cham- 
pionships in  seven  sports,  with  bas- 
ketball, Softball,  and  volleyball  earn- 
ing bids  to  the  NCAA  tournament. 

New  coaches  Peter  Parikakis 
(soccer)  and  Paul  Yee  (volleyball) 
join  returning  coaches  Christy 
Shelton  (softball)  and  John  Stuart 
(basketball)  on  a  staff  that  will  have 
responsibilities  in  administration, 
fitness  testing,  teaching,  field  and 
court  preparation,  and  much  more, 
in  addition  to  working  with  ath- 
letes. Spalding  rounds  out  the  team 
as  cross-country  coach,  and  Donna 
Miller  stepped  into  the  position  of 
sports  information  director  and  ten- 
nis coach.  New  Athletic  Trainer 
Charles  Angersbach  and  returning 
Associate  Professor  of  Health  and 
Physical  Education  Irene  Sarnelle  — 
who  continues  in  her  role  as  well- 
ness liaison  to  the  MBC  community 
and  serves  as  faculty  advisor  for 
new  athletes  —  are  also  members  of 
the  athletics  and  wellness  staff. 

Wellness  ideas  that  dovetail 
with  athletics  and  apply  to  the 
wider  population  of  students, 


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V:'  ^■'■^V  Heart  Association  urges  all  women  to  know  their 
t-'.fe\,'''Ki  numbers.  Consult  with  your  physician  and  compare 
'^*  .Si  your  numbers  to  these  recommendations.  Find  out 
more  about  each  of  these  risk  factors  and  how  you 
can  keep  your  heart  healthy  on  the  Go  Red  for 
Women  page:  www.goredforwomen.org/index.html 


faculty,  and  staff  continue  to 
develop  this  year,  and  attention 
will  shift  more  heavily  to  include 
more  wellness  programming  in 
2008-09,  Spalding  explained. 
MBC's  goals  took  on  greater 
importance  for  her  at  the 
National  Wellness  Conference  in 
Wisconsin  in  the  summer,  organized 
by  the  National  Wellness  histitute. 
"One  of  the  keynote  speakers  said 
that  we  do  not  have  a  health  care 
crisis  in  America,  we  have  a  health 
crisis.  It  made  sense  to  me,  and  con- 
vinced me  of  the  need  for  what  we 
are  doing  with  wellness  program- 
ming," she  said. 

A  new  or  renovated  athletic 
and  wellness  center  is  an  ambitious 
and  exciting  part  of  the  long-term 
campus  master  plan.  In  the  mean- 
time, Spalding  believes  a  critical 
shift  in  attitude  toward  physical 
activity  and  wellness  is  possible 
with  the  additional  resources  of 
full-time  staff  members  for  recruit- 
ing this  year  and  collaboration  with 
other  departments,  such  as  dining 
services  and  student  life. 

"Come  to  the  PAC,"  she  said. 
"You'll  see  what  I  mean."  ▲ 


BLOOD  PRESSURE  --  High  blood  pressure  also 

increases  your  risk  of  heart  disease  and  stroke.  Please 
know  that  the  only  way  to  find  out  if  your  blood  pressure  is 
high  IS  to  have  it  checked. 


Blood  Pressure 


What  it  should  be: 

less  than  120/80  mmHg 


FASTING  GLUCOSE  —  Diabetes  is  one  of  the 
major  risk  factors  of  cardiovascular  disease. 


What  it  should  be: 

less  than  100  mg/dl 


Body  Mass  Inde 


What  it  should  be: 

less  than  25  Kg/m^ 

What  it  should  be: 


What  it  should  be: 

A  minimum  of  30 
minutes  of  moderate 
exercise  most  days 
of  the  week 


USA  South  Debut 

Mary  Baldwin  College's  discussion  about  entering  USA  South  began  in  earnest  in 
winter  2004,  and  the  college  earned  trial  membership  in  2005-06.  Based  in 
Fayetteville,  North  Carolina,  USA  South  includes  10  colleges  and  universities:  Mary 
Baldwin  College,  Shenandoah  College,  Christopher  Newport  University,  Ferrum 
College,  and  Averett  College  in  Virginia,  and  Peace  College,  Methodist  College,  North 
Carolina  Wesleyan  College,  Greensboro  College,  and  Meredith  College  in  North 
Carolina.  A  National  Collegiate  Athletics  Association  Division  III  conference,  it  recog- 
nizes seven  varsity  sports:  cross  country  lacrosse,  basketball,  soccer,  softball,  tennis, 
and  volleyball.  MBC  competes  in  2007-08  in  all  of  the  offerings  except  lacrosse. 


HOME  COURT  ADVANTAGE 

Cheer  on  the  Mary  Baldwin  Fighting  Squirrels  when  you  are  in  and 
around  Staunton  this  spring,  or  attend  an  away  game  near  your 
town  to  make  it  feel  more  like  home  sweet  home  for  the  team. 


SOFTBALL 

1           HOME  GAMES 

1          tvlarch  9 

McDaniel  College 

1pm 

1          tVlarcti  12 

University  of  Mary  Washington 

2:30pm 

1          March  18 

Ferrum  College 

2pm 

1          March  22 

Meredith  College 

1pm 

1          March  25 

Eastern  Mennonite  University 

3pm 

1          April  1 

Shenandoah  University 

3pm 

1          April  3 

Southern  Virginia  University 

3pm 

1          April  5 

Methodist  College 

2pm 

1          April  6 

Peace  College 

1pm 

1           April  8 

Guilford  College 

3pm 

1           AWAY  GAMES 

1           March  7 

Messiah  College 

Grantham  PA 

2pm 

1          March  14 

Catholic  University 

Washington  DC 

1pm 

1          March  16 

Randolph  College 

Lynchburg,  VA 

2pm 

1          March  20 

Randolph-Macon  College 

Ashland,  VA 

2:30pm 

1          March  26 

Christopher  Newport  University 

Newport  News.  VA 

3pm 

1          March  29 

Greensboro  College 

Greensboro,  NC 

1pm 

1          March  30 

Sweet  Briar  College 

Amherst,  VA 

1pm 

1           April  9 

Averett  University 

Danville.  VA 

3pm 

1           April  12 

North  Carolina  Wesleyan 

Rocky  Mount.  NC 

1pm 

1     TENNIS 

1           HOME  MATCHES 

1          March  20 

Southern  Virginia  University 

3:3apm 

1          March  26 

Christopher  Newport  University 

2pm 

1          March  29 

Greensboro  College 

2pm 

1          April  9 

Averett  University 

3pm 

1          April  12 

North  Carolina  Wesleyan 

noon 

1          AWAY  MATCHES 

1          February  27 

Hollins  University 

Roanoke,  VA 

3pm 

1           March  15 

Trinity  College 

Washington  DC 

1pm 

1          March  18 

Ferrum  College 

Femjm.  VA 

2pm 

1          March  22 

Meredith  College 

Raleigh,  NC 

2pm 

1          April  1 

Shenandoah  University 

Winchester,  VA 

3pm 

1          April  5 

Methodist  College 

Fayetteville,  NC 

noon 

1           April  6 

Peace  College 

Raleigh.  NC 

1pm 

1     BASKETBALL 

1           HOME  GAMES 

1           November  20 

Randolph  College 

7pm 

'         November  27 

Washington  &  Lee  University 

7pm 

1          January  8 

Ferrum  College 

7pm 

1          January  13 

Christopher  Newport  University 

2pm 

'          January  17 

Shenandoah  University 

7pm 

'          January  20 

North  Carolina  Wesleyan 

2pm 

1          February  3 

Averett  University 

2pm 

1          February  10 

Greensboro  College 

2pm 

1          February  16 

Methodist  College 

2pm 

1          February  22 

Meredith  College 

7pm 

1          February  23 

Peace  College 

2pm 

1           AWAY  GAMES 

1          December  7 

Eastern  Mennonite  Univer 

Harrisonburg,  VA 

7  pm 

'          January  5 

Methodist  College 

Fayetteville.  NC 

2pm 

1         January  6 

Greensboro  College 

Greensboro.  NC 

2pm 

1          January  12 

Averett  University 

Danville,  VA 

2pm 

1          January  26 

Meredith  College 

Raleigh.  NC 

2pm 

1          January  27 

Peace  College 

Raleigh,  NC 

2pm 

1          February  2 

North  Carolina  Wesleyan 

Rocky  Mount,  NC 

2pm 

1          Febnjary  14 

Shenandoah  University 

Winchester.  VA 

6:30pm 

1         Febnjary  17 
B         Febnjary  19 

Ferrum  College 

Ferrum.  VA 

2pm 

Christopher  Newport  Univer 

Newport  News,  VA 

7pm 

Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


Peter  Parikakis,  Soccer 


Christy  Shelton.  Sof 


Peter  Parikakis,  Soccer 

The  son  of  Greek  parents,  Peter 
Parikakis  is  fluent  in  what  he 
believes  is  an  international  language 
—  the  game  of  soccer.  Although  the 
sport  has  different  names  around  the 
globe,  Parikakis  invokes  a  universal 
knowledge  about  the  game  and  mul- 
ticultural connection  among  players 
and  fans.  His  father  was  a  skilled 
player,  and  Parikakis  had  the  penta- 
gon-patterned ball  at  his  feet  at 
about  four  years  of  age.  He  brings 
that  family  passion  and  formal  train- 
ing to  his  first  season  as  the  Fighting 
Squirrels'  head  soccer  coach. 

"Soccer  is  about  more  than  foot- 
work and  running.  Learning  to  com- 
municate succinctly  and  clearly,  put- 
ting the  team's  common  goal  ahead 
of  your  individual  goal,  and  getting 
over  setbacks  are  all  skills  I  learned 
as  a  player.  Those  are  more  impor- 
tant than  being  the  best  shooter  or 
passer  on  the  field,"  said  Parikakis, 
who  earned  a  bachelor's  degree  in 
athletic  training  at  Waynesburg 
College  in  Pennsylvania  and  a  mas- 
ter's degree  at  West  Virginia 
University.  As  a  graduate  student,  he 


got  his  first  experience  teaching 
physical  education  and  coaching. 

With  the  soccer  season  begin- 
ning in  early  fall,  there  was  no  time 
for  Parikakis  to  waste  after  his 
appointment  at  MBC  in  July.  He 
quickly  focused  on  connecting  with 
returning  players  prior  to  the  team's 
preparation  camp  before  the  start  of 
the  academic  year  and  honed  in  ini- 
tially on  local  recruiting.  He  hopes 
to  build  a  nationwide  network  of 
talent  scouts  as  time  goes  on. 

Parikakis  is  one  of  several  coach- 
es who  started  at  Mary  Baldwin  in 
the  college's  first  year  of  membership 
in  the  USA  South  athletic  confer- 
ence. "To  be  a  great  team,  you  need 
to  compete  with  and  beat  great 
teams,"  Parikakis  said.  "You  are 
often  only  as  good  as  your  oppo- 
nents, and  being  in  USA  South  will 
raise  MBC  to  the  level  of  other 
teams  in  the  conference."  He  hopes 
being  on  campus  to  teach  physical 
education  classes  and  develop  the 
fitness  and  wellness  program  at 
Mary  Baldwin  will  build  chemistry 
with  his  players  and  other  students 
who  will,  in  turn,  support  teams. 


Sharon  Spalding,  Cross-Country 


John  Stuart,  Basketball 


Paul  Yee,  Volleyball 


Christy  Shelton,  Softball 

Softball  was  not  a  varsity  sport  at 
Mary  Baldwin  College  when  Christy 
Shelton  '87  was  a  student  here,  but  by 
the  time  she  started  working  in  the 
college's  athletic  department  in  2000 
it  was  close  to  graduating  from  its 
status  as  a  club  sport.  She  was  eager 
to  help  make  that  happen.  Seven 
years  later,  Shelton  brings  leadership 
consistency  and  experience  as  MBC 
negotiates  another  transition,  this 
time  to  a  new  athletic  conference. 

"Each  year  has  been  a  challenge 
to  build  a  program  that  is  still  pretty 
young,"  said  Shelton,  who  played 
club  Softball  and  varsity  basketball 
and  volleyball  at  MBC.  Shelton's 
plans  for  taking  the  sport  to  the 
next  level  in  2007-08  include 
increased  strength  training  and 
introducing  four  to  five  weeks  of  fall 
training. 

It  didn't  take  long  for  MBC  soft- 
ball  to  reach  the  national  arena  — 
the  team  appeared  in  the  National 
Collegiate  Athletic  Association 
Division  III  tournament  in  2004  and 
2005  —  and  Shelton  is  looking  for 
even  more  success.  "Playing  better 


competition  should  make  us  better," 
she  said. 

She  also  believes  getting  to  know 
players  and  their  professors  better 
now  that  she  is  a  full-time  employee 
will  help  cultivate  stronger  student- 
athletes.  Shelton  has  also  served  for 
several  years  as  athletic  events  coor- 
dinator, which  includes  many 
responsibilities  that  go  unnoticed, 
such  as  marking  fields,  readying 
equipment  for  home  games  and  trav- 
el, setting  up  fields  and  courts, 
maintaining  the  gym  floor,  coordi- 
nating work-study  students,  and 
even  digging  into  laundry  duty  when 
needed. 

Shelton's  excitement  and  expert- 
ise is  based  on  her  passion  for  soft- 
ball,  a  sport  she  started  playing  in 
high  school.  She  coached  teams  for 
the  National  Softball  Association 
and  United  States  Slow-Pitch 
Softball  Association  prior  to  coming 
to  MBC.  She  continues  to  play  the 
game  —  slow-pitch  as  opposed  to 
the  fast-pitch  style  of  MBC  and 
most  college  teams  —  on  a  traveling 
women's  league  and  on  a  coed  team. 

"I  have  always  loved  softball. 


and  it's  great  because  it's  a  sport  you 
can  continue  to  play  after  college  to 
stay  active,"  Shelton  said. 

Sharon  Spalding, 
Cross-Country 

She  runs  at  least  three  times  a  week. 
She  has  competed  in  5K,  lOK,  and  half 
marathon  races.  She  has  twice  run  the 
26.2  grueling  miles  of  a  full  marathon. 
But  Sharon  Spalding  still  isn't  quite 
sure  she  considers  herself  a  runner. 
Coaching  the  Mary  Baldwin  cross- 
country team  for  2007-08,  along  with 
acclimating  to  her  new  position  as 
director  of  athletics  and  wellness, 
could  change  her  mind. 

"As  physical  education  majors  in 
college,  we  ran  whether  we  wanted  to 
or  not,"  said  Spalding,  who  earned  her 
undergraduate  degree  at  James 
Madison  University  and  master  of  edu- 
cation from  University  of  Virginia.  She 
is  also  certified  as  an  exercise  specialist 
by  the  American  College  of  Sports 
Medicine. 

Spalding  started  her  tenure  at 
MBC  in  1989  and  coached  volleyball 
the  first  10  years.  When  the  college's 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


'Soccer  is  ...  learning  to  communicate  succinctly 
and  clearly,  putting  the  team's  common  goal 
ahead  of  your  individual  goal,  and  getting  over 
setbacks.  Those  are  more  important  than  being 
the  best  shooter  or  passer  on  the  field.' 

—  Peter  Parikakis,  soccer  coach 


Virginia  Women's  Institute  for 
Leadership  (VWIL)  took  off,  she 
designed  the  fitness  component  for  cadets 
and  served  for  several  years  as  the  pro- 
gram's associate  direaor  and  direaor. 

"Running  is  one  of  the  corps'  physi- 
cal training  requirements,  so  that  started 
me  running  more  during  the  year," 
Spalding  said.  "Unlike  most  students,  I 
needed  to  keep  running  during  the  sum- 
mers to  stay  in  shape.  About  three  years 
ago,  I  realized  'I  like  this,'  and  started 
training  for  races." 

With  the  cross  country  team  that  is 
shaping  up  this  year,  Spalding  made  an 
accurate  pre-season  prediction  that 
MBC  would  place  second  in  its  new, 
more  competitive  athletic  conference 
tournament.  Seven  MBC  runners  com- 
peted in  NCAA  cross-country  regionals 
November  10.  See  www.mbc.edu/ath- 
letics/crosscountry/schedule.asp  for 
results. 

She  has  the  unique  perspective  of 
being  a  member  of  the  coaching  staff 
and  seeing  the  bigger  picture  of  athlet- 
ics and  wellness  as  director  of  the 
department.  "With  a  full-time  coaching 


staff,  we'll  be  able  to  reinforce  academ- 
ics and  athletics  together.  That  will 
hopefully  result  in  more  four-year  ath- 
letes who  value  both  aspects  of  their 
college  life  and  stay  for  their  entire 
term,"  Spalding  said.  She  also  antici- 
pates building  Mary  Baldwin's  reputa- 
tion in  the  wider  arena,  as  sports  teams 
and  players  are  featured  frequently  in 
newspapers  and  on  television  in  the 
area.  "We  have  a  real  chance  to 
increase  MBC's  visibility,"  she  said. 

John  Stuart,  Basketball 

John  Stuart  is  addicted  to  watching  col- 
lege basketball.  During  March 
Madness,  he  is  a  flurry  of  activity,  stats, 
and  brackets.  It's  no  surprise  that 
coaching  his  own  Division  III  college 
team  gets  him  pumped. 

"I  strengthen  my  coaching  philoso- 
phy as  a  defensive  strategist  by  watch- 
ing Division  I  college  games  —  espe- 
cially when  I  can  be  at  the  games.  I 
believe  defense  wins  games,  and  that's 
what  I  hope  spectators  will  see  on  the 
court  this  season,"  said  Stuart,  who 
returned  to  MBC  for  his  second  year  as 


ene  Sarnelle,  wellness  liaison 


head  basketball  coach. 

The  Fighting  Squirrels'  debut  in  the 
USA  South  athletic  conference  gives  him 
and  his  experienced  team  —  seven  play- 
ers will  return  from  the  previous  season 
—  an  opportunity  to  test  their  mettle 
against  colleges  with  better  facilities, 
larger  rosters,  and  more  funding,  he 
said. 

Stuart  is  not  intimidated.  "I  can  see 
the  team  developing  before  it  happens. 
We  are  going  to  surprise  a  lot  of  people 
with  how  well  we  compete  in  this  con- 
ference," Stuart  said  about  the  2007-08 
season,  which  starts  conference  play 
January  8  against  Averett  University'.  In 
addition  to  welcoming  solid  returning 
players,  Stuart  is  eager  to  work  with 
new  recruits. 

Stuart  is  filling  his  full-time  position 
by  helping  the  college  organize  an  intra- 
mural sports  program,  teaching  physical 
education  activity  classes,  and  working 
on  administrative  tasks  as  assistant  ath- 
letic director.  He  is  looking  forward  to 
creating  a  buzz  about  Mary  Baldwin 
College  basketball,  similar  to  the  enthu- 
siasm for  Robert  E.  Lee  High  School 


basketball  games  that  he  remembers 
when  growing  up  in  Staunton  and  con- 
tinues to  see  today.  "Building  a  relation- 
ship with  people  on  campus  and  getting 
them  excited  is  the  first  step,"  he  said. 

Paul  Yee,  Volleyball 

You  could  say  that  Paul  Yee,  a  2006 
graduate  of  Milwaukee  School  of 
Engineering,  is  something  of  a  transi- 
tional team  speciahst,  by  necessity.  Yee's 
first  coaching  assignment  —  as  an  assis- 
tant for  men's  volleyball  at  his  alma 
mater  —  found  him  establishing  a  regi- 
men and  rules  as  a  leader  of  players 
who  were  still  his  peers.  As  men's  and 
women's  volleyball  coach  at  Vassar 
College  in  2007,  Yee  helped  usher  play- 
ers through  the  instructional  and  philo- 
sophical transition  that  came  with  fill- 
ing in  for  a  longtime  coach  on  sabbati- 
cal leave. 

His  experience  guiding  athletes 
through  change  was  put  to  use  once 
again  as  he  joined  MBC  during  its 
first  year  in  the  USA  athletic  confer- 
ence. Yee  took  on  double-duty  as 


head  volleyball  coach. 

"I  really  want  to  build  something 
here,"  said  Yee.  "Being  a  full-time  mem- 
ber of  the  staff  and  looking  beyond  this 
first  year  are  exciting  prospects  for  me." 

Yee  concentrated  on  volleyball  dur- 
ing his  four  years  at  Milwaukee,  but  he 
played  volleyball  and  tennis  in  grade 
school  and  continued  tennis  in  high 
school  and  has  taught  both  sports.  As  a 
recent  student  who  juggled  academics 
and  athletics,  he  stresses  time  manage- 
ment and  prioritizing  with  his  players. 
"As  a  student  athlete,  everyone  tells  you 
time  management  is  huge,  and  it  is,"  he 
said.  Yee  earned  all-conference  honors 
and  a  degree  in  architectural  engineer- 
ing; both  required  substantial  effort. 
"When  I  graduated  with  my  degree  and 
four  years  of  college  competition  under 
my  belt,  I  said  'I  can  do  amthing.'" 

Yee's  recent  collegiate  experience 
convinced  him  that  athletes  can  influ- 
ence others  at  the  college  to  be  physical- 
ly active  and  involved  in  campus  life. 
He  believes  that  as  more  people  are 
active  on  campus,  others  will  want  to 
become  active.  ▲ 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


32  Winter  2008 


/ 


(The  First) 

Eight  Things 

You  Need  to 

Know  About 

Science  at  Mary 

Baldwin  College 

By  Carol  Larson 

1 .  Science  is  our  past,  present  —  and  future. 

2.  Science  is  more  than  theoretical  study  at  MBC; 
it  is  hands-on  and  real-time. 

3 .  Original  student  research  presented  to  campus,  state, 
and  national  peers  sets  the  study  of  science  apart  at 
Mar\^  Baldwin. 

4.  Students  are  prepared  for  real  jobs  in  the  real  world. 

5 .  There  is  solid  preparation  for  graduate  school. 

6.  The  liberal  arts  education  surrounding  MBC  science 
majors/minors  opens  the  way  to  many  paths. 

7 .  The  facult}'  inspires. 

8.  Science /5  for  women. 


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Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


ONE: 

Science  is  our  past, 
present  —  and  future. 

That  women  should  study  science  has 
never  been  questioned  at  Mary 
Baldwin  College.  Rufus  Bailey, 
founder  of  Augusta  Female  Seminary 
(AFS),  placed  a  statement  about  the 
school's  curriculum  in  the  Staunton, 
Virginia  newspaper.  Spectator,  on 
September  15,  1842,  a  week  before 
the  inaugural  day  of  classes: 
"English  Grammar  contmiied  in  its 
higher  branches.  Rhetoric  and 
Composition,  Comprehensive  History, 
Geography,  Astronomy,  Natural  and 
Moral  Philosophy  [physics  and  philos- 
ophy], the  Elements  of  Natural 
Science,  familiarly  explained  and  prac- 
tically enforced.  Geometry,  Algebra, 
and  the  simplest  form  of 
Bookkeeping. " 

Science  was  an  integral  part  of  a 
women's  education  at  Augusta  Female 
Seminary  —  unusual  as  that  was  in  the 
mid- 1800s.  It  would  remain  so. 
Random  notes  on  the  progress  of  the 
study  of  science  throughout  the  col- 
lege's historical  documents,  such  as  The 
History  of  Mary  Baldwin  College  by 
Mary  Watters,  tell  us  that  in  1874, 
during  Mary  Julia  Baldwin's  tenure  as 
principal,  students  could  choose  from  a 
variety  of  science  classes:  natural  phi- 
losophy (which  became  physics  in 
1889),  chemistry,  botany,  astronomy, 
physiology,  and  hygiene  (a  new  field  of 
study  for  colleges,  which  put  the 
Seminary  ahead  of  the  game  once 
again,  as  it  wouldn't  be  a  college  for 
another  49  years). 

In  its  sixth  year  as  a  college,  the 
Board  of  Trustees  approved  the 
granting  of  a  bachelor  of  science  (BS) 
in  1929.  Admission  requirements  for 
students  seeking  a  BS  at  that  time  were 
the  same  as  those  for  a  bachelor  of 


arts,  except  that  a  candidate  for  a  BS 
needed  four  credits  in  a  foreign  lan- 
guage rather  than  two  credits  in  Latin. 
Biology  and  chemistry  have  been  alter- 
nate favorites  throughout  the  school's 
history.  In  1931,  biology  appears  to 
have  been  the  favorite  and  there  were 
classes  in  genetics  and  bacteriology, 
ornithology,  local  flora,  biological  meth- 
ods, and  a  research  course. 

Mary  Baldwin  College  would  also 
adapt  its  science  curriculum  for  the 
times.  In  one  pointed  example  during 
World  War  II,  household  physics  was 
taught  with  instruction  in  simple 
plumbing,  repair  of  electrical  equipment 
and  other  mechanical  needs  in  homes. 
With  so  many  soldiers  gone  to  war, 
"Rosie"  needed  to  know  more  than  just 
how  to  rivet. 

The  department  of  science  would 
inhabit  different  locations  on  the  chang- 
ing campus  landscape  until  1970  with 
the  opening  of  the  state-of-the-art 
Pearce  Science  Center.  But  the  science 
curriculum  has  continued  to  evolve  with 
scientific  breakthroughs,  the  interests  of 
its  students,  and  resources,  slowly  but 
surely  outdating  the  building's  labs  and 
classrooms. 

The  study  of  science  has  been  a 
mainstay  of  the  institution's  curriculum. 
No  surprise  then  that  a  renovated  Pearce 
Science  Center  is  identified  as  a  vital  part 
of  the  campus  master  plan.  Transforming 
Our  Enviromnent  1842-2042 
(www.inbc.edu/strategic_plan/masteiplaii06.asp). 

We  asked  alumnae  who  majored 
in  science  to  tell  us  about  their  MBC 
experience  and  what  they  are  doing 
now.  Their  stories  (many  more  than 
we  can  print  here)  provide  wonderful 
detail  about  the  past  and  present  study 
of  science  at  MBC.  In  each  case,  it 
seems  these  graduates  learned  all 
"eight  things"  about  science  at  Mary 
Baldwin  —  and   then  some  (making  it 
difficult  to  place  their  stories  into  just 
one  category). 


'I  helped  develop  comprehensive  HIV 
care  and  treatment  programs  in  three 
countries  in  Africa  where  they  were 
conducting  HIV  research  trials.' 


■TIFPANYHAMM'89 


TWO: 

Science  is  more  than 
theoretical  study  at 
MBC,  it  is  hands-on 
and  real-time. 

"We  had  opportunities  that  were  not 
afforded  my  fellow  medical  students, 
who  had  been  to  big  universities  in  pre- 
med  programs.  We  were  by  no  means 
spoon-fed  [at  MBC],  and  even  in 
physics,  we  were  charged  with  develop- 
ing projects  in  small  groups  in  order  to 
do  the  experiments  and  then  teach  the 
rest  of  the  class  about  the  subject  of  our 
research,"  said  Annabel  Barber  '81,  MD 
and  associate  professor  of  surgery  at 
University  of  Nevada  School  of 
Medicine. 

There  was  a  brief  time  in  the 
school's  earliest  history  when  professors 
conducted  experiments  and  students 
watched.  It  took  little  time  for  the  facul- 
ty to  determine  that  learning  science 
was  —  at  its  best  —  a  hands-on  propo- 
sition conducted  in  field,  lab,  and  class- 
room. Today,  students  use  scientific 
equipment  from  gas  chromatography- 
mass  spectrometers  to  nuclear  magnetic 
resonance  (NMR)  spectrometers  to  a 
scanning  electron  microscope,  and 
more.  They  work  in  labs  for  cell  and  tis- 
sue culture,  molecular  biology,  microbi- 
ology, chemistry  instrumentation  NMR, 
and  wet  labs,  among  others.  Students 
participate  in  and  generate  study  outside 
the  classroom.  All  science  students, 
majors  and  non-majors  alike,  must 
design  experiments  and  do  research. 


Annabel  Barbe 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


THREE: 

Original  student 
research  presented 
to  campus,  state,  and 
national  peers  sets 
the  study  of  science 
apart  at  Mary  Baldwin. 

Research  is  considered  an  integral  parr 
of  the  study  of  science,  not  an  add-on. 
Opportunities  for  research  abound 
through  independent  study,  summer 
intern  work  at  larger  institutions  fund- 
ed by  the  National  Science  Foundation, 
and  a  year-long  senior  project  that  cul- 
minates in  a  thesis  and  its  defense. 

"Building  on  my  skills  from  col- 
lege, I  was  able  to  work  in  a  medical 
research  lab  during  my  final  year  of 
medical  school  and  chose  an  academic 
rather  than  community-based  resi- 
dency at  Cornell  University,"  Barber 
said.  After  her  third  year  of  residen- 
cy, she  entered  a  two-year  research 
fellowship  in  Shock,  Nutrition,  and 
Metabolism,  published  about  20 
papers,  and  won  a  national  award 
for  her  research.  Barber  presented 
her  work  at  national  and  internation- 
al scientific  meetings.  She  and  hus- 
band, Tom  Shires  MD,  have  a  labo- 
ratory at  University  of  Nevada 
School  of  Medicine,  where  she  also 
teaches  medical  students  and  surgery 
residents,  while  maintaining  a  private 
practice  in  surgical  oncology.  Barber 
has  now  authored  some  70  publica- 
tions and  book  chapters. 

Margaret  Sorenson  '89  was  in 
the  Adult  Degree  Program  and  grad- 
uated with  a  BA  in  chemistry.  She 
does  research  at  Bristol-Myers 
Squibb  in  Connecticut.  "The  small 
classes  at  MBC  were  definitely  a 
plus,  allowing  the  classroom  environ- 
ment and  instruction  to  be  more  nur- 
turing. There  were  several  graduation 
requirements  that  ultimately  helped 
me  secure  a  job  in  research  in  the 
pharmaceutical  industry:  an  extern- 
ship,  I  did  one  summer  at  Upjohn  in 


Michigan,  and  a  senior  project  that 
taught  me  to  balance  my  responsibiH- 
ties  and  time,  work  independently, 
and  work  on  a  project  where  the  final 
answer  is  unknown.  I  do  a  lot  of  this 
in  my  job.  Having  to  write  a  thesis 
and  defend  it  prepared  me  for  the 
interviewing  process,  the  many  meet- 
ings where  I  must  present  my  work, 
and  the  occasional  seminars  I  present 
on  the  job.  The  impressive  part  about 
this  is  that  MBC  helped  prepare  me  to 
compete  in  a  job  market  where  the 
vast  majority  of  my  colleagues  have  a 
minimum  of  a  master's  in  chemistry," 
Sorenson  wrote.  "I  have  worked  on  a 
number  of  projects  including  anti- 
inflammatory agents,  anti-bacterials, 
and  I  am  currently  working  to  discov- 
er new  drugs  to  fight  HIV." 

FOUR: 

Students  are 
prepared  for  a  real 
job  in  the  real  world. 

Ahead  of  the  times,  Mary  Baldwin 
College  was  training  female  scientists 
and  preparing  them  for  careers  in  the 
field.  Vera  Moulton  Wall  Dunlevie  '48, 
who  passed  away  on  Mother's  Day  in 
1988,  was  a  double  major  in  the  sci- 
ences —  biology  and  psychology  — 
and  upon  graduation  became  a  lab 
technician  for  a  state  health  depart- 
ment. She  went  on  to  work  in  a  uni- 
versity hospital  and  later  an  Army 
medical  laboratory.  As  her  young  fam- 
ily grew,  her  focus  shifted  in  that 
direction.  Imagine  the  challenges  and 
obstacles  she  faced  then.  What  would 
she  think  today  about  the  opportuni- 
ties for  women  in  science  and  the 
study  of  science? 

Armed  with  a  degree  in  biology 
and  medical  technology.  Dawn  Tusing 
Burris  '85  is  now  the  medical  center 
manager  of  the  Clinical  Core 
Laboratory  for  University  of  Virginia 
Medical  Laboratories  in 
Charlottesville,  Virginia.  "The  core 
laboratory  is  a  fully  automated  med- 
ical laboratory  which  operates  24 


hours  a  day  to  provide  routine  and 
Stat  testing  for  clinical  chemistry, 
hematology,  coagulation,  and  microbiology 
analyses  for  inpatients,  outpatients, 
and  outreach  patients  in  the  UVA 
Health  System.  We  do  approximately 
three  million  tests  a  year,"  Burris  tells 
us.  "I  am  also  manager  of  the  Cancer 
Center  Laboratory  for  the  UVA 
Cancer  Center."    Her  connection  with 
her  employer  of  20  years  began  in  her 
last  year  at  Mary  Baldwin  College, 
when  she  simultaneously  attended 
UVA's  medical  technology  program, 
which  was  associated  with  MBC  at 
the  time. 

UVA  has  benefitted  from  numbers 
of  Mary  Baldwin  science  grads. 
Tiffany  Hamm  '89,  with  a  major  in 
chemistry  and  a  minor  in  biology, 
journeyed  on  to  Georgetown 
University  and  the  National  Institutes 
of  Health  for  a  three-year  stint  as  a 
research  assistant  "studying  simian 
immunodeficiency  virus  (SIV)  as  an 
animal  model  for  HIV  replication  and 
vaccine  development."  Hamm  contin- 
ued, "I  went  on  to  UVA  for  a  doctor- 
ate in  microbiology  studying  HIV 
replication  and  RNA  transports."  She 
joined  the  Peace  Corps  and  taught  sci- 
ence at  a  school  in  the  Solomon 
Islands  while  also  working  as  a  pro- 
gram manager  for  a  non-government 
organization  supporting  women's 
development  in  Tonga.  She  returned 


'I'll  be  spreading  the 
word  [as  a  middle  or 
high  school  science 
teacher]  and  convincing 
new  generations  that 
science  is  great!' 

—  VERONICA  STOKES  '05 


Vera  Moulton  Wall  Dunlevie 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


37_.     Winter  2008 


to  the  U.S.  and  in  2003  started 
working  for  the  U.S.  Mihtary  HIV 
Research  Program  at  Walter  Reed 
Army  Institute  of  Research.  "I 
helped  develop  comprehensive  HIV 
care  and  treatment  programs  in  three 
of  the  countries  in  Africa  where  they 
were  conducting  HIV  research  trials. 
Since  then,  I  have  become  director 
for  the  Africa  HIV  Care  and 
Treatment  programs,  which  receive 
funding  from  the  President's 
Emergency  Plan  for  AIDS  Relief," 
Hamm  said. 

Jen  Yavorsky  '95  translated  her 
degree  in  biology  into  her  own  gar- 
den design  business.  "I  utilize  my 
botany,  horticulture,  and  field  biolo- 
gy education  on  a  daily  basis," 
Yavorsky  said. 

There  are  companies  that  seek 
MBC  science  grads  for  employment. 
Wyeth  Pharmaceuticals  may  be  one 
of  those.  Kamala  Payne  '05,  bio- 
chemistry major,  is  now  a  scientist 
for  Wyeth  in  Richmond,  Virginia.  She 
tests  the  shelf  life  of  the  company's 
drug  products  to  determine  proper 
expiration  date  and  uses  data  includ- 
ing FDA  rules  to  test  the  drug's  sta- 
tistics under  different  conditions, 
such  as  the  temperature  at  which  a 
drug  degrades. 

"If  it  hadn't  been  for  the  train- 
ing at  MBC  in  people  skills,  the 
small  class  settings,  the  do-it-your- 
self experimentation,  and  the 
research  skills  I  developed  through 
projects  like  my  senior  thesis,  which 
I  had  to  plan,  execute,  and  present 
to  faculty  and  students  ...  well,  I 
don't  know  what.  That's  everything 
I  do  now  in  my  job,"  Payne 
explained.  She  believes  that  her  lib- 
eral arts  education  helped  her 
become  valuable  to  her  employer  as 
a  well-rounded  individual  who  can 
relate  to  others  in  different  fields. 
She  is  currently  working  to  give 
back  to  her  alma  mater  by  connect- 
ing members  of  MBC  science  faculty 
with  her  employer.  They  are  work- 
ing together  on  a  gift  of  equipment 
needed  by  the  college  that  is  no 
longer  used  by  Wyeth. 


FIVE: 

There  is  solid 
preparation  for 
graduate  school. 

"I  majored  in  chemistry  and  graduated 
in  1973.  Went  on  to  pharmacy  school  at 
Medical  College  of  Virginia  [now 
Virginia  Commonwealth  University]  and 
have  been  the  director  of  pharmacy  at 
Riverside  Walter  Reed  Hospital  in 
Gloucester,  Virginia  since  1989,"  said 
Ruth  Luoma  Fenstermacher,  whose 
daughter  Katherine  graduated  cum  laitde 
from  MBC  last  year  with  a  double  major 
in  biology  and  chemistry  and  is  now  in 
graduate  school  at  University  of 
Maryland's  microbiology  doctoral  pro- 
gram. "The  personal  attention  science 
majors  receive  at  MBC  is  invaluable." 

What  was  true  in  1973  in  terms  of 
solid  preparation  and  acceptance  to 
graduate  school  is  still  true  for  Veronica 
Stokes,  who  graduated  in  2005  with  a 
degree  in  biology  and  "went  immediately 
into  graduate  school  at  University  of 
Virginia  in  education."  She  has  since 
earned  a  master's  in  teaching  and  plans 
to  teach  middle  or  high  school  science  in 
Florida.  "I'll  be  spreading  the  word  and 
convincing  new  generations  that  science 
is  great,"  she  said. 

SIX: 

The  liberal  arts 
education  surrounding 
an  MBC  science 
major/minor  opens 
many  career 
pathways. 

What  can  you  do  with  a  degree  in  bio- 
chemistry? Stephanie  Lawley  '99  headed 
for  The  College  of  William  and  Mary  for 
a  master's  in  biology,  before  attending 
law  school  at  George  Mason  University 
where  she  graduated  in  2004.  Now  a 


'We  do  approximately  three  million 
tests  a  year  [in  the  Clinical  Core 
Laboratory  at  University  of  Virginia 
Medical  Laboratories]  and  I  also 
manage  the  Cancer  Center 
Laboratory  for  UVA  Cancer  Center.' 


—  DAWN  TUSING  BUREIS  '85 


patent  attorney  in  Washington  DC,  she 
prepares  patent  applications  and 
obtains  patents  for  many  different  tech- 
nologies. "My  education  at  MBC  pre- 
pared me  well  for  my  profession.  Not 
only  did  I  receive  the  scientific  knowl- 
edge and  expertise  necessary  to  under- 
stand the  inventions  I  now  work  with, 
but  I  also  developed  the  critical  think- 
ing and  creative  problem-solving  skills  I 
use  to  distinguish  the  inventions  from 
what  is  already  in  the  field,"  Lawley 
said. 

About  her  liberal  arts  education,  she 
added,  "I  appreciate  that  at  MBC  I  had 
the  opportunity  to  study  not  only  sci- 
ence, but  other  disciplines  as  well.  The 
English,  business  law,  and  constitutional 
law  courses  I  took  helped  prepare  me  for 
law  school  and  also  helped  develop  the 
writing  skills  I  use  every  day  as  an  attor- 
ney. I  even  use  my  German  minor  to  read 
German  reference  material  and  commu- 
nicate with  our  German-speaking 
clients." 

Belynda  Phillips  Randolph's  '93 
degree  in  psychology  became  most  valu- 
able to  her  in  her  personal  life.  "My  chil- 
dren are  both  profoundly  autistic.  I  have 
learned  that  when  my  knowledge  about 
something  isn't  what  I  need  it  to  be,  I 
have  the  research  skills  that  are  essential 
to  getting  my  children  the  care,  therapies, 
and  education  they  require,"  said 
Randolph.  She  went  from  Mary  Baldwin 
directly  to  graduate  school  for  a  master's 
in  marriage  and  family  therapy. 

Pam  Wavell  Clark  '66  is  a  legacy 
that  requires  a  diagram  to  understand. 
Her  mother  started  the  Mary  Baldwin 


chain  of  Wavell  clan  attendance,  which 
would  include  her  daughter  Pam,  three 
cousins,  her  son's  daughter,  Pam's  sister, 
and  a  sister-in-law.  Clark  was  a  theatre 
major,  who  also  lost  herself  in  science. 
After  graduation  she  did  15  hours  of 
graduate  work  with  Dr.  John  Mehner, 
professor  emeritus  of  biology,  at 
University  of  Minnesota's  biological  field 
station  and  then  returned  to  MBC  to 
teach  botany  and  zoology  labs  for  a  year. 
She  moved  back  to  her  home  state, 
Texas,  to  teach  biology  and  physical  sci- 
ence in  high  schools  before  getting  a  real 
estate  license.  "I  tripled  my  income  the 
first  year  in  real  estate,  got  my  broker's 
license  and  sold  real  estate  until  2002." 
At  some  point  in  those  years,  still 
attached  to  science,  she  earned  a  master's 
in  environmental  science  at  Texas  A&M. 
"It  wasn't  easy  because  I  was  working, 
raising  three  children,  and  going  through 
a  divorce  at  the  time,  but  I  still  managed 
to  graduate  magna  cum  laude,"  she  said. 

And  now?  Remarried,  she  lives  in 
Georgia  and  raises  Tennessee  Walking 
horses  on  a  500-acre  farm,  where  she 
says,  "I  use  my  scientific  knowledge  all 
the  time.  I  thank  Dr.  Mehner  for  my  love 
of  science.  I  kept  in  touch  with  him 
always  —  continuing  to  send  him  a 
'Whooping  Crane  Report'  (I  was 
assigned  that  duty  in  school  because  I 
was  from  Corpus  Christi).  We  stopped  in 
to  see  him  about  six  months  before  he 
died  [in  April  2006],"  she  said.  "Now  I 
am  painting  and  traveling.  Fimny,  I  usu- 
ally paint  birds  or  fish." 

Tenea  Watson  Nelson  '98  graduated 
with  distinction  with  a  BS  in  chemistry. 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


She  came  to  MBC  via  the  Program  for 
the  Exceptionally  Gifted  and  went  on 
to  earn  a  master's  and  doctorate  in 
toxicology  from  University  of 
Rochester.  "I  worked  on  drug  develop- 
ment, particularly  on  drugs  for  the 
treatment  of  autoimmune  diseases, 
cancer,  and  HIV  at  Genentech  and 
Gilead  in  the  San  Francisco  Bay  area.  I 
recently  took  some  time  off  to  establish 
a  real  estate  career  and  launch  an 
online  magazine  for  young  professional 
women  ( www.  moxy magazine,  com) , " 
she  said.  Her  real  estate  business  con- 
tinues, as  does  her  online  e-zine,  and 
she  has  also  accepted  a  position  with 
Stanford  University's  School  of 
Medicine  as  director  of  diversity  and 
outreach  for  the  genetics  department. 

"I  had  a  double  major  in  medical 
technology  and  biology,"  Constance 
Anne  Bak  '75  said.  "I  am  now  in  the 
32nd  year  of  a  career  that  has  been 
wondrous  to  me.  Mary  Baldwin  gave 
me  an  advantage  in  a  competitive 
marketplace.  I  had  an  excellent  back- 
ground to  pursue  a  career  in  medical 
technology  and  my  liberal  arts  back- 
ground gave  me  an  edge  over  "pure" 
scientists  when  it  came  time  to  rise 
through  the  ranks  of  management," 
said  Bak,  director  of  employee  devel- 
opment for  Virginia  Blood  Services  in 
Richmond,  Virginia.  She  explained 
that  medical  technology  is  now  called 
clinical  laboratory  science  (CLS),  but 
"no  matter  the  name,  it  is  a  noble 
profession  and  there  is  a  looming 
shortage  of  clinical  laboratory  scien- 
tists that  will  offer  unlimited  possibili- 
ties to  those  preparing  to  enter  that 
field.  I  will  always  be  grateful  for  the 
education  I  received.  And  even  more 
importantly,  more  than  three  decades 
later,  my  MBC  friends  remain  the  best 
friends  I  have  in  life,"  Bak  shared. 

SEVEN: 

The  faculty  inspires. 

Julia  Andrews  Allen  '72  began  work 
on  her  science  major  in  classrooms  in 
the  college-owned  house  on  the  corner 
across  from  the  Administration 


Building.  She  was  also  in  the  class  of 
students  who  were  among  the  first  to 
utilize  the  new  Pearce  Science  Center. 
"It  was  as  exciting  then  to  move  into 
Pearce  as  it  must  be  now  for  all  of 
today's  students  to  dream  of  a  renovat- 
ed Pearce,"  she  said.  "It  was  an  amaz- 
ing experience  for  us  to  walk  in  for  the 
first  time.  Having  new  labs  and  class- 
rooms opened  up  a  whole  new  level  of 
opportunity  for  teachers  and  students 
alike.  My  favorite  place  was  the 
ornithology  lab,  which  was  second  to 
none  in  the  region,  thanks  to  the  efforts 
of  Dr.  Mehner.  We  spent  many  late- 
night  hours  there  memorizing  the 
details  of  100  bird  skins  in  order  to  pre- 
pare for  a  lab  practical.  Of  course  we 
had  music  going  and  didn't  always 
leave  the  lab  the  way  we  found  it.  One 
morning.  Dr.  Mehner  began  his 
ornithology  lecture  and  then  paused, 
reaching  across  the  table,  he  picked  up 
a  vinyl  record  and  read  slowly,  and 
without  expression:  'Build  Me  Up, 
Buttercup.'  No  one  said  a  word.  He 
turned  back  to  his  text  and  began 
again.  We  worshipped  him,"  Allen 
recalled.  A  biology  major,  Allen  believes 
she  was  inspired  in  her  lifelong  pursuit 
by  Dr.  Mehner,  "who  was  such  a  won- 
derful example  as  a  teacher  and 
ornithologist." 

Allen  has  taught  middle  school  life 
science  for  25  years.  She  became  inter- 
ested in  the  Rappahannock  River  Valley 
National  Wildlife  Refuge  and  helped 
form  a  Friends  group  to  support  their 
efforts.  "Through  my  work  on  the 
board  of  the  Friends  group,  I  became 
interested  in  phragmites,  a  non-native 
invasive  marsh  plant  that  is  threatening 
mid-Atlantic  marshes.  Next  thing  you 
know,  our  life  science  class  research 
project  at  Aylett  Country  Day  School 
became  a  model  for  the  Cornell 
University  student/teacher/scientist  part- 
nership. Dr.  Bernd  Blossey,  internation- 
ally renowned  expert  on  phragmites, 
directs  the  program  and  his  work  with 
bio-control  is  being  evaluated.  You  can 
see  what  we  did  online  at  www.invasive- 
plants.net/phrag}?iites/STSP/example.htm," 
Allen  explained. 

"As  a  biology  major  under  the 
inspiration  of  a  most  favored  teacher, 


Dr.  Mary  Humphreys,  I  have  taught  ele- 
mentary school  and  helped  develop  two 
living  history  programs  in  country  set- 
tings on  land  that  was  preserved,"  Mary 
Cloud  Hamilton  Hollingshead  '61 
recounted.  And  in  a  decision  that  will 
have  lasting  impact,  she  voted  to  turn 
her  family's  six-generation  Kentucky 
farm  over  to  the  Nature  Conservancy  to 
preserve  it  forever.  "My  field  botany 
trips  in  the  woods  of  Virginia  can  claim 
Griffith  Woods  [part  of  her  family's 
Silver  Lake  farm]  was  saved  with  its 
ancient  trees  and  running  buffalo  clover 
because  of  the  awareness  and  apprecia- 
tion of  nature  that  I  garnered  at  Mary 
Baldwin,"  she  said. 

Hollingshead's  grandmother  and 
great  aunt  attended  August  Female 
Seminary,  making  her  a  legacy  at  Mary 
Baldwin  College.  She  volunteers  at  The 
Barclay  Farmstead,  a  30-acre  living  his- 
tory museum  in  Cherry  Hill,  New 
Jersey,  and  at  Peachfield  Plantation,  a 
120-acre  preservation  site  in 
Westhampton,  New  Jersey.  Peachfield  is 
owned  and  operated  by  the  National 
Society  of  Colonial  Dames,  New  Jersey 
chapter,  and  she  tells  us,  "Stuart 
Chapman  Cobb  '65  (a  psychology 
major)  is  currently  the  organization's 
national  president. 

EIGHT: 

Science  is  for  women. 

Women  who  study  at  single-sex  colleges 
are  more  likely  to  explore  and  major  in 
subjects  that  are  not  considered  tradi- 
tional for  females,  such  as  math  and  sci- 
ence, according  to  the  National 
Association  for  Single  Sex  Public 
Education.  Students  at  women's  colleges 
also  continue  toward  doctorates  in 
math,  science,  and  engineering  in  dis- 
proportionately larger  numbers  than 
their  peers  at  coed  schools. 

We  heard  from  Charlotte  Wenger 
'83,  a  double  major  in  biology  and 
chemistry,  who  worked  at  The 
University  of  Texas  Health  Science 
Center  on  the  oncology  research  net- 
work, "the  world's  largest  database  of 
lab  results  on  breast  tumors  from  more 


than  245,000  patients  and  clinical 
information  on  a  subset  of  about 
47,000  of  those  patients."  She  traveled 
to  hospitals  around  the  country, 
abstracting  data  from  medical  records 
to  add  to  the  database.  Later  she  man- 
aged the  entire  project. 

"For  the  past  eight  years  I  have 
worked  in  the  genetics  department  at 
Southwest  Foundation  for  Biomedical 
Research  in  San  Antonio,  Texas.  I  have 
managed  data  for  a  type  2  diabetes 
study  and  studies  on  heart  disease  in 
Mexican  Americans  and  American 
Indians,"  Wenger  tells  us.  She  is  current- 
ly focused  on  a  study  of  genetics  in 
coronary  artery  disease  in  Alaska 
natives,  as  the  data  coordinator.  She  has 
written  a  Microsoft®  Access  database 
application  for  field  staff  in  Alaska  for 
data  collection.  Wenger  also  maintains 
the  study's  Web  site  and  edits  a  newslet- 
ter for  participants. 

"A  degree  from  a  liberal  arts  college 
prepared  me  well  for  the  variety  of  tasks 
I  perform.  I  don't  remember  some  of  the 
factual  information  I  learned,  but  Mary 
Baldwin  gave  me  a  broad  base  of  gener- 
al knowledge  and  skills  Fve  used  in  my 
career  and  personal  life.  Maybe  I 
shouldn't  confess  that  the  main  things  I 
remember  from  my  chemistry  classes  are 
that  hot  glass  looks  hke  cold  glass,  and 
that  a  substance  will  chill  much  more 
quickly  if  it's  surrounded  by  ice  water 
and  not  just  ice  cubes,"  she  said.  "I  do 
rely  on  this  knowledge  while  Fm  cook- 
ing and  Fve  never  burned  my  hands  on 
a  hot  casserole!  Fve  used  my  writing 
skills  from  English  classes  when  contact- 
ing participants  in  studies,  preparing 
grant  applications  and  manuscripts  for 
publication,  and  for  editing  study 
newsletters.  I  can  no  longer  solve  a  cal- 
culus problem,  but  similar  reasoning  is 
required  when  I  write  computer  pro- 
grams that  have  complex  mathematical 
calculations,"  Wenger  said.  "The  educa- 
tion I  received  at  MBC  gave  me  the 
broad  knowledge  and  confidence  to 
learn  new  things." 

Leigh  Frame  '06  graduated  with 
distinction  in  biochemistry  and  is  doing 
patient-oriented  research  examining  the 
pathogenesis  and  treatment  of  sleep 
apnea  at  Johns  Hopkins  University 


'As  a  biology  major  under  the  inspiration 
of  a  most  favored  teacher,  Dr.  Mary- 
Humphreys,  I  have  taught  elementary 
school  and  helped  develop  two  living 
history  programs  in  country  settings  on 
land  that  was  preserved. 

—  MARY  CLOUD  HAMILTON  HOLLINGSHEAD  '61 


School  of  Medicine,  as  a  research  assis- 
tant and  polysomnogram  technician. 
Frame  is  currently  applying  to  medical 
schools. 

As  a  1989  graduate  with  a  major  in 
biology  and  a  minor  in  computer  sci- 
ence, Anne  Byford  figured  out  how  to 
work  both  her  major  interests.  She 
earned  a  master's  in  medical  genetics 
from  Oregon  Health  Sciences  University 
and  worked  in  its  research  lab.  She  con- 
tinued lab  work  back  in  Virginia  in 
pediatric  cardiology  until  2003  and 
taught  fencing  and  biology  classes  at  her 
alma  mater.  Byford  said,  "1  enjoyed  the 
teaching  more  than  the  time  in  the  lab, 
so  1  accepted  a  job  teaching  middle  and 
high  school  science  in  North  Carolina. 
This  summer,  1  shifted  from  teaching  full 
time  to  being  the  director  and  sole  mem- 
ber of  the  information  technology 
department  at  the  school,  while  still 
teaching  an  advanced  biology  class.  This 
way  1  still  get  to  teach,  but  1  also  get  to 
fiddle  with  things  and  work  on  puzzles 
and  tech  toys,"  she  said.  Byford  credits 
Professors  Lundy  Pentz,  Eric  Jones,  and 
James  Patrick  as  models  for  her  teaching 
style  and  methods  now. 

Rebecca  Lovingood  '82  is  just  stub- 
born about  science,  she  says.  "1  majored 
in  biology  and  mathematics,  mainly 
because  I  am  stubborn.  If  someone  tells 
me  I  can't  do  something  [as  too  many 
people  have  told  young  women  about 
math  and  science],  that  just  makes  me 
want  to  do  it  even  more.  1  enjoyed  math 
and  science  from  elementary  through 
high  school.  I  also  traveled  a  lot  as  a 
child  and  enjoyed  seeing  new  places. 
Some  family  friends  suggested  that  a 
profession  in  oceanography  would  be  a 
great  way  to  combine  my  interests  in 


math,  science,  and  travel,"  she  said. 
Among  the  reasons  she  chose  to  come  to 
Mary  Baldwin  was  its  small  size.  "My 
high  school  graduating  class  was  over 
800,  and  although  1  did  well  in  high 
school,  1  was  neither  the  troublemaker, 
class  clown,  nor  exceptionally  gifted,  so 
none  of  my  high  school  teachers  really 
knew  who  1  was.  I  wanted  a  college 
where  1  was  able  to  reach  my  potential 
and  be  challenged,  and  receive  individu- 
alized attention." 

Upon  graduation  from  MBC, 
Lovingood  attended  graduate  school  at 
Johns  Hopkins  University  studying  geo- 
physical fluid  dynamics  and  then  trans- 
ferred to  Old  Dominion  University  to 
complete  her  master's  in  physical 
oceanography.  "1  am  a  senior  scientist 
presenting  work  for  the  U.S.  Navy  at  the 
Naval  Oceanographic  Office,  and  pro- 
viding analytical  and  model  data  to  the 
Navy." 

Minerva  Thompson  Nolte  '65  has 
found  the  most  appealing  ways  to  fill 
her  life  with  the  arts,  sciences,  and  natu- 
ral world  that  mean  so  much  to  her.  "1 
can't  say  enough  good  things  about 
Mary  Baldwin  and  the  well-rounded 
education  it  gave  me,"  said  Nolte  in  a 
2002  article  in  MBC's  Cohtimis.  She 
plays  guitar,  attends  ballet  and  sympho- 
ny. She  became  a  pediatrician  and  aller- 
gist, before  "retiring"  to  manage  her  28- 
acre  organic  farm  in  Oregon  where  she 
raises  cattle,  goats,  walnuts,  and  hazel- 
nuts (  wu'w.  laffalotfarm.  com ) . 

Nolte  finished  her  degree  in  chem- 
istry from  Mary  Baldwin  while  complet- 
ing the  first  year  of  medical  school  in 
Kentucky  at  Universit)'  of  Louisville.  She 
did  a  pediatric  residency  in  Chicago  while 
her  husband  was  a  surgical  resident. 


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Several  years  later,  she  did  a  fellowship 
in  immunology  and  allergy  that  became 
very  important  later  when  her  husband 
was  stationed  by  the  U.S.  Navy  at  the 
military  hospital  on  Guam.  She  was  the 
only  allergist  on  the  island  at  that  time. 
She  also  did  a  study  on  two  diseases  that 
were  prevalent  on  Guam  for  the 
National  Institutes  of  Health. 

The  Nolte  family  was  on  the  island 
of  Guam  when  Super  Typhoon  Pamela 
hit  the  island  with  deadly  force.  [A 


t)'phoon,  which  spins  in  the  opposite 
direction  as  a  hurricane,  sustains  winds 
of  at  least  111  mph  versus  a  super 
typhoon,  which  sustains  winds  of  at 
least  150  mph.  Super  Typhoon  Pamela 
sustained  winds  of  190  mph.]  "At 
Guam  Memorial  Hospital,  the  lab  was 
demolished.  A  coconut  tree  flew  through 
a  tiny  window  and  harpooned  the  freez- 
er, where  much  frozen  data  was  stored. 
The  wind  force  stripped  all  the  paint  off 
of  cars  and  destroyed  the  homes  of  most 


of  my  patients."  The  tropical  island 
also  launched  Nolte's  photographic 
career,  something  she  continues  to  enjoy 
(www.noltestockphoto.com). 

No  longer  a  practicing  physician, 
Nolte  does  consultation,  and  "I  do  most 
of  the  veterinary  care  of  the  livestock  on 
my  farm  —  my  brain  still  works  scientif- 
ically," she  laughed. 

Kennon  Poynter  '00,  a  major  in 
biology  and  minor  in  chemistry,  just 
earned  a  doctorate  in  human  genetics 


from  Virginia  Commonwealth 
University,  where  she  specialized  in 
breast  cancer  research,  and  is  job  hunt- 
ing now. 

Allison  Hurley  Predecki  '94,  a 
major  in  chemistry,  went  to  Wake  Forest 
University  and  earned  a  PhD  in  organic 
chemistry  in  1998.  She  did  a  postdoctor- 
al fellowship  at  Emory  University  before 
accepting  assistant  professorship  of 
chemistry  at  Shippensburg  University, 
where  she  is  currently  applying  for 


'I  worked  on  the  world's  largest  database  of 
lab  results  on  breast  tumors  from  more  than 
245,000  patients  and  clinical  information  on  a 
subset  of  about  47,000  of  those  patients.' 


—  CHARLOTTE  WENGER  '83 


tenure  and  promotion. 

Saundra  Eareckson  Seifert  '84 
wanted  to  be  a  pediatrician  from  the  age 
of  eight  and  planned  to  major  in  biolo- 
gy. The  best  laid  plans  ...   "I  fell  in  love 
with  Professors  James  Patrick,  Elizabeth 
Hairfield,  and  Margaret  Pinkston,  and 
my  major  changed  to  chemistry.  My 
years  at  MBC  were  among  the  best  in 
my  life,"  she  recalled.  Seifert  went  on  to 
University  of  Texas  Health  Science 
Center  for  medical  school  and  a  pedi- 
atric residency  at  Georgetown  University 
in  Washington  DC.  She  later  taught 
pediatrics  at  Texas  Tech  Health  Science 
Center  before  settling  in  San  Angelo, 
Texas.  "I  still  practice  pediatrics  and 
cannot  envision  a  time  when  I  won't," 
she  declared. 

There  are  many  studies  and  much 
debate  on  the  subject  of  women  in  sci- 
ence. Prominent  debates,  such  as  those 
between  Marc  Hauser  and  Elizabeth 
Spelke  of  Harvard's  Mind,  Brain,  and 
Behavior  Inter-Faculty  Initiative,  have 
kept  the  issue  lively  and  in  the  news. 
At  Mary  Baldwin  College,  it  has  been 
accepted  from  day  one  of  Augusta 
Female  Seminary  to  now,  that  science 
is  for  girls. 

Here's  the  thing  about  telling  the 
stories  of  science  majors  at  Mary 
Baldwin  College:  they  go  on  and  on, 
each  as  inspiring  as  the  next,  each  a 
case  in  point  for  women  in  science,  each 
a  compelling  reason  for  Mary  Baldwin 
College  to  grow  its  science  program  and 
facilities.  A 


Saundra  Eareckson  Seifert 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


Pearce  Renovation 
Will  Secure 
Scientific  Reputation 
for  the  21st  Century 


By  Dawn  Medley 


"In  my  1952  yearbook,  the  building  where  I  spent  much  of  my  time  is  just  called 
the  'Biology  Building.'  The  biology  club,  Tri  Beta,  met  in  the  first  floor  lecture  room 
or  outside  in  the  garden.  Botany  and  genetics  were  taught  in  the  lecture  room,  and 
downstairs  were  labs  —  embryology,  comparative  anatomy,  histol- 
ogy —  and  microscopes.  I  studied  downstairs  in  a  small  ,^^*»' 
room  because  the  dorms  were  too  noisy  for  me! 
I  count  seven  science  majors  in  1 952.  Dr.                   ^^ 
Mary  Humphreys  [professor 


emerita  of  biology]  used  to 
drive  us  to  the  movies.  We 
had  fun  —  biology  students 
were  socially  close. " 


—  Janet  Russell 
Steelman  '52,  who 
recently  made  a  sig- 
nificant contribution 
for  tlie  renovation  of 
Pearce  Science  Center 


44  Winter  2008 


From  the  time  Augusta  Female  Semmary 
opened  and  began  offering  science  courses, 
study  of  the  sciences  has  made  its  home  in  mul- 
tipurpose classrooms  and  in  several  buildings. 
Between  1936  and  1966,  most  sciences  were 
taught  in  Beckler  House  —  a  building  at  the 
corner  of  Frederick  and  Market  Streets  that 
was  leveled  to  make  way  for  Grafton  Library. 
For  the  next  few  years,  sciences  were  split  up 
in  buildings  around  campus  such  as  the  "old 
dining  room"  or  "old  kitchen"  until  the 
department  found  its  current  home  in  Jesse 
Cleveland  Pearce  Science  Center  in  1970, 
named  in  memory  of  the  husband  of 
argaret  Henderson,  Class  of  1908. 


jft       source  of  great  pride  as  a  visionary  build- 
/  " ■      ing  when  it  opened  in  1970,  Pearce 

Science  Center  has  served  the  college  well 
for  nearly  40  years.  As  Mary  Baldwin  College 
looks  into  the  future,  renovating  the  building  is  a 
necessity  in  the  face  of  the  evolving  nature  of  sci- 
ence education,  technological  and  equipment 
advances,  and  infrastructure. 

Architects  at  Geier  Brown  Renfrew  worked 
with  the  college  to  develop  a  plan  that  would  suc- 
ceed in  helping  MBC  meet  five  goals  for  a  new 
collaborative  learning  environment  in  Pearce:  to 
enhance  opportunities  for  student  research,  inte- 
grate technology  consistently,  accommodate  multi- 
ple methods  of  learning,  encourage  planned  and 
informal  interaction,  and  create  a  sense  of  discov- 
ery and  achievement. 

As  illustrated  in  architectural  renderings,  the 
vision  includes  a  Science  Commons  that  would 
signal  a  revitalization  of  scientific  learning  and 
discussion  with  research-oriented  displays  and 
collections  showcasing  the  vibrant  learning  envi- 
ronment. The  building's  main  entrance  will  open 
into  the  Commons,  where  students  and  faculty 
can  meet  and  intersect  en  route  to  class,  do 
research  in  a  science  library,  and  study,  interact, 
and  lounge  in  the  Greenhouse  Cafe.  The 
Commons  will  tangibly  communicate  that  scien- 
tific study  is  important,  current,  and  competitive 
at  MBC. 

Envisioned  renovations  will  better  align 
classrooms  and  labs  with  the  teaching  and  meet- 
ing activities  that  take  place  in  Pearce  along  with 
the  addition  of  subject-specific  research  labs  near 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


faculty  offices  creating  research  clusters.  A  state- 
of-the  art  classroom  near  the  Commons  will 
expose  students  to  high-tech  instruction  that  more 
closely  represents  what  they  will  encounter  in  grad- 
uate school  and  work  environments. 

Pearce  was  modestly  renovated  in  1998;  labs 
and  classrooms  were  rewired  and  a  new  coat  of 
paint  brightened  the  interior  Wireless  Internet  serv- 


ice was  completed  on  campus  in  2007.  Funding 
from  Booth  Ferris  Foundation  this  year  allowed 
the  college  to  upgrade  instruction  technology  in  all 
primary  classrooms  in  Pearce:  projectors;  docu- 
ment cameras  capable  of  enlarging  books,  papers, 
and  more;  upgrades  to  make  the  sound  from  com- 
puters audible  around  the  room;  and  wall  controls. 
One  lecture  room  in  the  building  features  a  sym- 


podium  —  a  presentation  station  that  allows  pro- 
fessors to  write  on  slides  in  digital  ink,  access  Web 
sites  or  multimedia  files,  and  project  onto  a  large 
screen.  All  of  that  represents  vital  technological 
improvement,  but  it  is  a  fraction  of  what  will  be 
needed  to  bring  Pearce  up  to  standards  for  21st- 
century  studies. 

Mary  Baldwin  College  professors  pride  them- 


selves on  giving  students  hands-on  experience  that 
is  usually  found  only  in  graduate  school,  but  those 
who  work  and  study  in  Pearce  know  that  the  day 
is  approaching  when  students'  aptitude  and  inquiry 
will  surpass  the  college's  scientific  resources.  DNA 
sequencing  and  molecular  and  cell  biology  technol- 
ogy must  reflect  the  enormous  advances  of  recent 
years.  The  addition  of  a  computational  chemistry 


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'■IWbludes  opening  access  to  an  existte9*iddew  stair  (to, 
third  levels  of  the  building  (bottom).  A  new  stair  would  connect  the  first  and  second 
rculation  through  the  building  and  into  Francis  Auditorium. 


station,  fluorescence  microscope  with  digital  image 
capture,  geographic  information  system  technology, 
and  a  high  vacuum  system  would  amplify  students' 
opportunity  to  excel  in  research.  The  building's 
infrastructure  ("circulatory  system",  so  to  speak) 
needs  overhaul  to  include  new  plumbing,  electrical 
wiring,  lighting,  and  heating/cooling  systems, 
among  others.  Those  are  all  requirements  necessary 


for  scientific  study  as  well  as  safety. 

"We  believe  the  best  way  to  learn  science  is 
by  doing  it,"  reads  the  first  sentence  on  the  MBC 
biology  faculty's  Web  site 
(wwwJacademic.mbc.edulbiology).  Unlike  so 
many  schools  where  students  may  only  watch 
faculty  using  scientific  equipment,  visitors  to 
Pearce  do  not  find  rows  of  equipment  untouched 


Winter  2008 


by  student  fingerprints.  Instead  they  see  some  new 
pieces  scattered  among  many  that  are  affection- 
ately used  and  dutifully  cared  for.  The  "discovery 
method"  —  hands-on  learning  that  encourages 
students  to  engage  in  everything  from  extracting 
strands  of  DNA  to  lifting  their  binoculars  to 
glimpse  a  Field  Sparrow  in  a  meadow  at  7  a.m. 
—  reigns  supreme. 


Pearce  is  the  established  home  of  the  sciences 
at  MBC.  With  modernization  of  Pearce  "in- 
place"  (without  building  a  new  structure)  it  will 
be  a  home  that  reflects  the  inventive,  original 
research  and  hands-on  learning  that  occurs  there. 
It  will  be  a  home  that  makes  the  name  Mary 
Baldwin  College  synonymous  with  science  educa- 
tion for  women.  ▲ 


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THE  MARY  BALDWIN  COLLEGE 


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MBC  Flip  Flops  —  our  hottest  new  item. 
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RETROSPECT:  THE  TYSON  YEARS 

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depicting  our  historic 
Administration  Building, 
made  in  England. 
Old  English  Staffordshire 
ware,  blue/white 
$50 

MBC  SCARF 

You're  stylin'  now  —  when 
you  wear  this  beautiful 
hand-painted  scarf.  Pale 
yellow  with  blue,  green, 
gold  or  pink  with  grey. 
$25 

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Show  your  school  spint 
even  when  you're  at  home 
with  this  handsome 
flag.  Yellow  with  green 
MBC  logo,  28"  x  42 
$25 

MBC  WINE  GLASSES 

Toast  any  special  occasion 
using  these  wine  glasses 
with  the  MBC  logo  etched 
on  each  glass. 
One  glass  $6 
Set  of  two  $10 

WINE  GLASS 
CHARMS 

Set  of  six  Mary  Baldwin- 
specific  charms  to  identify 
your  wine  glass,  includes  an 
Apple  Day  charm.  Ham  and 
Jam,  Gladys  the  Fighting 
Squirrel,  MBC  logo,  MBC 
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with  color  art  and  two  sparkly 
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Many  Voices,  One  Song 

The  many  voices  of  Mary  Baldwin  College's  alumnae/i  have  resonat- 
ed for  165  years  unified  by  one  song  sung  around  the  globe.  Your  alma 
mater  invites  you  to  gather  together  in  festive  events  hosted  in  cities 
near  you.  We  hope  you  will  come  to  one  or  more  of  these  events. 


■:m: 


It  Was  So  Nice  to  See  You! 

September  8,  2007  Baltimore,  MD 
September  30,  2007  Charlottesville,  VA 
October  5-7,  2007  Staunton,  VA 

Family  Weekend  on  Campus 
October  16,  2007  Roanoke,  VA 
November  1,  2007  Washington  DC 
Weekend  of  November  10,  2007  New  York,  : 
December  13,  2007  Staunton,  VA 
December  19,  2007  Richmond,  VA 


Coming  to  Your  Area  Soon  ... 

February  2008  Dallas,  TX 

February  26,  2008  Atlanta,  GA 

March  3,  2008  Philadelphia,  PA 

March  11-13,  2008  Raleigh,  NC  /Durham,  NC 

Chapel  Hill,  NC  /Columbia,  SC 
April  3-6,  2008  Staunton,  VA 

Reunion  2008  on  Campus 
April  19,  2008  Staunton,  VA  , 

Staunton  Spring  Luncheon  M 

May  7,  2008  Richmond,  VA  1 


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UNIQUE  EDUCATIONAL 


VIENNA'S  HOFBURG  PAIACE 


OPPORTUNmES 


ALUMNAE/I,  FRIENDS,  AND  RELATIVE! 

You  are  invited  to  join  Mary  Baldwin  College  faculty 
and  students  on  a  study  tour  of  Central  Europe. 

VIENNA  -  SALZBURG  -  MUNICH  -  STRASBOURG  -  PAW 
(5 -20  AMY  2008) 


The  cost  for  this  program  is  $2670,  which  includes  the  airfare  from  New 
York  City,  accommodation  in  first-class  hotels  on  a  bed-and-breakfost  basis 
in  double  rooms  with  private  baths,  bus  transportation,  city  tours,  all  insur- 
ance and  other  organizational  fees. 


A  non-refundable  deposit  of  $900  is  due  by 
January  31,  2008,  For  further  information, 
including  detailed  itinerary,  please  contact  Dr. 
Vladimir  Garkov  by  e-mail  at  vgarkov@mbc.edu 


Alumnae/i  Board  President 

Kellie  Warner '90 

in  Conversation  with  the  Editor 


We  have  just  seen  a  powerful 
glimpse  of  what  alumnae/i  can  do 
when  challenged  to  step  up.  Tell  us 
more  about  2007-08  successes. 

It  was  a  fantastic  year.  This  a  very  exciting 
time  to  be  engaged  with  the  college,  especial- 
ly as  we  continue  to  see  fulfillment  of  the 
goals  and  objectives  of  the  college's  strategic 
plan.  Composing  Our  Future. 

As  an  Alumnae/i  Association,  we  made 
terrific  progress  towards  those  goals  through 
an  interactive  Class  Leadership  workshop 
and  the  largest  Reunion  Weekend  in  years. 
Reunion  classes  (2s  and  7s)  and  the  Grafton 
Society  gave  more  than  $500,000  to  the 
2006-07  Annual  Fund  and  met  the  generous 
challenge  match  (1:1)  extended  by  Bertie 
Deming  Smith  '46.  Our  other  alumnae/i,  par- 
ents, and  friends  of  the  college  raised  about 
$1.5  million  towards  the  Annual  Fund  goal. 

Proceeds  from  our  Gift  Shop  also  helped 
to  fund  Class  Leadership  and  Reunion  week- 
ends as  well  as  purchase  two  automatic 
external  defibrillators.  One  of  the  life-saving 
defibrillators  is  in  the  Physical  Activities 
Center  and  when  removed  from  its  holder, 
alerts  someone  to  contact  rescue  services  and 
security  personnel.  The  other  will  be  used  as 
a  mobile  unit,  stored  in  the  Security  Office 
for  fast  transport  to  wherever  it  may  be 
needed  on  campus. 

Just  in  its  second  full  year  of 
activity,  how  is  the  Class  Leadership 
initiative  progressing? 

The  program  is  well  underway  and  has 
achieved  terrific  momentum.  To  date,  we 
have  conducted  workshops  with  all  classes 
except  those  ending  in  1  and  6  with  whom 


we  will  meet  in  fall  2008. 

The  classes  engaged  thus  far  have 
formed  their  leadership  teams  and  continual- 
ly raise  the  bar  with  respect  to  their  creativi- 
ty and  commitment  in  increasing  the  level  of 
engagement  and  connectedness.  We  certainly 
witnessed  that  this  past  spring  with  the  class- 
es who  returned  to  campus  as  the  first  partic- 
ipants in  the  Class  Leadership  program  to 
attend  a  Reunion  Weekend. 


What's  at  the  top  of  your  list  for 
alumnae/i  goals  this  year? 

We  continue  to  focus  our  efforts  on  the  Class 
Leadership  Program  and  Reunion  Weekend 
2008.  We  are  also  working  with  the  Advisory 
Board  of  Visitors  and  Student  Life  Office  to 
establish  a  mentoring  program  for  students 
and  alumnae/i. 

Full  engagement  in  this  year's  Annual 
Fund  campaign  is  also  a  priority.  As  you  may 
know,  private  colleges  and  universities  receive 
no  assistance  for  the  maintenance  of  buildings 
and  grounds,  among  other  things.  As  such,  the 
college  is  reliant  upon  unrestricted  contribu- 
tions to  the  Annual  Fund  for  its  operating 
expenses. 

We  achieved  fantastic  success  during  last 
year's  campaign  as  Annual  Fund  contributions 
totaled  almost  $2  million.  We  have  even  more 
work  to  do  this  year  (July  1,  2007  to  June  30, 
2008)  to  meet  the  $2.5  million  goal,  which 
includes  the  final  phase  of  Mrs.  Smith's  chal- 
lenge (i.e.,  a  matching  gift  of  $750,000).  It  is 
our  support  that  will  make  the  difference  and  I 
am  confident  that  we  will  reach  our  goal. 

More  information  regarding  Bertie 
Deming  Smith  '46  and  her  remarkable  com- 
mitment to  the  college  can  be  found  at: 
www.mbc.edu/smitbchaIlenge/aboutsmith.asp. 


ALUMNAE/I  ASSOCIATION 
BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS  2007-08 


Kellle  Warner  '90,  president 
Dorian  Akerman  Steifel  '92,  vice  president 
Susan  Powell  Leister  '68,  secretary 
Kelly  Kennaly  '93,  treasurer 

Pamela  Leigh  Anderson  '84 
Trisha  Vaughan  '08,  STARS  chair 
Nancy  Clark  Brand  '94 
Diahann  "Buffy"  DeBreaux-Watts  '93, 

continuing  education  chair 
Susan  Jennings  Denson  '62 
Donia  Stevens  Eley  '02 
AnnTrusler  Faith  '69 
Helen  Stevens  Forster  '83 
Virginia  Royster  Francisco  '64, 

faculty  representative 
Helen  Radcliffe  Gregory  '74, 

marketing/sales  chair 
Jessie  Carr  Haden  '54 
Heline  Cortez  Harrison  '48 
Jennifer  Brillhart  Kibier '91, 

executive  director,  ex-officio 
Nancy  Cohen  Locher  '50 
Nina  Reid  Mack  '72 
Becky  Cannady  Merchant  '63 
Julie  Clark  Reedy  '73 
Kelley  Rexroad  '79 
Sallie  Chellis  Schisler  '67 
Carolyn  Gilmer  Shaw  '60 
Debra  Wolfe  Shea  '77 
Elizabeth  Jennings  Shupe  '70 
Ethel  M.  Smeak  '53 

honorary  member,  ex-officio 
Elizabeth  "Ring"Torrence  Stafford  '78 
A.  Jane  Townes  '69,  nominating  chair 
BIythe  Slinkard  Weils '00 
Valerie  Wenger  '81 


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VISA  Credit  Card 

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enue  for  every  purchase  you  make  with  the 
card.  Call  866-867-6339,  select 
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Send  Your  Annual  Fund  Gift  Now 

Make  this  your  biggest  gift  yet  and  make  a 
promise  to  yourself  to  do  that  every  year  — 
your  gifts  make  all  the  difference.  Call  800- 
622-4255  or  go  online  to 
www.mbc.edit/ssl/giving/ 

Get  Licensed  for  Mary  Baldwin  College 

When  you  need  a  new  Virginia  car  license 
place,  don't  forget  your  alma  mater.  MBC 
receives  $15  of  every  $25  fee.  www.dnn'.vir- 
ginia.goi'/exec/uehide/sphites/info. 


Who  Is  Your  Legacy? 

Have  you  introduced  a  family  member, 
friend,  or  colleague  to  Mary  Baldwin?  If  you 
recommend  prospeaive  students,  we  will 
make  them  feel  welcojne.  Call  800-763-7359 
or  go  online  to  complete  a  referral  at 
www.mbc.edu/fomis_l}ub/cilum/refer_frm.L!sp 

Shop  (MBC)  Til  You  Drop 

One  of  your  classmates  just  had  a  baby?  Get 
her/him  an  MBC  onesie.  Need  a  hostess  gift? 
How  about  MBC  wine  glasses?  You  know 
you're  going  to  get  new  flip  flops,  so  pur- 
chase the  MBC  version!  See  some  of  the  Gift 
Shop  goods  on  pages  50  and  5 1  of  this  issue 
or  visit  the  store  online  at 
www.inbc.edu/ssl/alumgiftshop/. 

Renovate  a  Building:  Name  It  for  Yourself  or 
Someone  You  Love 

Our  beautiful  historic  campus  is  working 

towards  major  renovations  of  I'earce  Science 

Center,  Deming  Fine  Arts  Center,  Hunt 

Dining  Hall,  and  Physical  Activities  Center 

for  Athletics  and  Wellness  ... 

Call  us  to  get  die  reno  crews  rolling 

at  800-622-4255. 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc-edu  by  January  18. 
HAZEL  ASTIN  Nelson-Spillman  of  San 

Antonio  TX  marned  Andrew  in  2005.  Her 
grandson's  wife  gave  birtfi  to  twins,  a 
boy  and  a  girl.  Both  of  Hazel's  military 
grandsons  have  been  promoted  to  lieu- 
tenant colonels. 


1942 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumn3e@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
MAXINE  HAM  Ham'son  of  Alexandria 
VA  lost  her  husband  in  2006.  She  has  2 
children,  2  grandchildren  and  2  great- 
grandchildren, all  of  whom  live  nearby  • 
ANNE  HAYES  Davis  of  Greensboro  NC 
and  a  few  of  her  "MBC  girls"  and  their 
families  met  in  Williamsburg  VA  for  a 
mini-reunion. 


1944 


Send  your  class  notes  to; 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
BETTY  COOKE  Wood  of  Dallas  TX 
enjoys  being  a  grandmother. 


1946 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
ALICE  PARSON  Paine  of  Salem  VA 
enjoys  spending  time  with  her  3  great- 
grandchildren, Adeline,  Lennon,  and 
Collier. 


1947 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
ELEANOR  "BUNNY"  ARMISTEAD 
Knipp  moved  to  a  retirement  home  in 
Cockeysville  MD.  "Have  cycled  around 
Europe  7  times  and  am  now  into  River 
Boat  Cruises.  Last  one  was  beautiful  — 
Moscow  to  St.  Petersburg." 


1950 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
FRANCES  COSTELLO  Roller  of  McLean 
VA  celebrated  her  80th  birthday,  "and  the 
celebration  lasted  for  months!" 


1952 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
In  2006,  MARY  "DUFFIE"  McBRYDE 
Gray  of  Sparks  MD  observed  her  75th 
birthday  in  Egypt.  "It  was  magical!" 


195 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
The  Miller  School  of  Charlottesville  VA 
and  its  Alumni  Association  presented  the 
Samuel  Miller  Memorial  Award  to 


JESSIE  CARR  Haden  of  Charlottesville 
VA  last  March,  The  school  hosted  a  gala 
reception  in  her  honor.  The  Award  recog- 
nizes a  significant,  long-term  commit- 
ment to  improving  the  lives  of  young 
people  in  Albemarle  County  and 
Charlottesville. 


1956 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
MARY  "ELAINE"  BALDWIN  moved  to 

San  Ramon  CA  with  her  daughter  and 
grandson.  She  enjoys  the  arts.  AAUW, 
yoga,  politics,  and  visiting  with  classmate 
JEANETTE  FISHER  Reid  in  Black 
Mountain  NC. 


1957 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
ANN  KENNEDY  Melton  of  Davidson 
NC:  "Julius  and  I  have  sold  our  home  to 
our  daughter  and  her  family  and  moved 
around  the  corner  to  The  Pines  at 
Davidson  retirement  community.  We 
have  a  lovely  apartment  with  a  view  of 
the  woods."  They  enjoy  local  activities 
and  travel. 


1^60 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
PATSY  LITTLE  Culpepper  of  Oxford  MS 
writes  that  her  husband  has  retired.  They 
divide  their  time  between  Oxford  MS 
and  Montreal  NC.  •  N.  ELAINE 
VAUGHN  Cotner  of  Muncie  IN  has  5 
grandchildren  and  recently  visited  Kenya. 


1962 


Contact  one  of  your  class  secretaries 
by  January  1 8  with  news  for  your 
class  column: 
Sally  Heltzel  Pearsall 
shpearsall@comcast.  net 
Kent  Seabury  Rowe 
kwsrowe@hotmail.  com 
JANE  COLEMAN  Balfour  of  Richmond 
VA  and  husband  Dan  took  a  cruise  on  the 
Danube  River  through  Germany,  Austria, 
Slovakia,  and  the  Czech  Republic,  and 
ending  in  Budapest.  •  Have  you  ever 
been  accosted  by  the  police  in  Acropolis? 
Have  you  ever  been  detained  by  security 
in  a  foreign  country?  No?  Then  you 
missed  a  chance  to  travel  with  MBC's 
enthusiastic  and  energetic  Dr.  Vladimir 
Garkov,  associate  professor  of  chemistry. 
Such  was  the  trip  to  Turkey  and  Greece 
which  brought  together  classmates 
KENT  SEABURY  Rowe,  LINDA  DOLLY 
Hammack  and  husband  Paul,  as  well  as 
traveling  companions  ANN  GORDON 
ABBOTT  Evans  '65  and  husband  Rusty, 
VIRGINIA  ROYSTER  Francisco  '64,  and 
students  from  MBC,  Sweet  Briar,  and 
University  of  Sophia  in  Bulgaria.  It  was 
wonderful  and  never  dull.  •  BETSY 
SCOTT  Featherstone  of  Richmond  VA 
says  her  mam  volunteer  job  is  taking  care 


ANNE  PERRIN  Flynn  '74,  KRISHNA  "MISSY"  MALLONEE  Buckingham  '74, 
ANNE  TRICE  Chewning  '74,  SUSAN  HAZELWOOD  Buffington  '76,  MARY 
Mccarty  Martin  '76,  NANCY  BROWN  LAWLER  Milam  '76,  DOROTHY    DOT" 
TULL  Mothershead  '76  and  SALLIE  PERRIN  White  '76  have  a  mini-reunion  at 
Sallie's  home  in  Greenville  SC. 


MBC  ladies  from  the  1950s  gathered  in  Durham  NC  for  a  mini-reunion.  Front  row/,  I 
to  r  M.  ELIZABETH  "LIZ"  DE  LOACH  '54,  SUSANNAH  "PAGE"  SMITH  Hartley 
'55,  JULIA  VANN  Kenan  '54,  NANCY  RAWLES  Grissom  '54  MARGARET  NEEL 
QUERY  Keller  '55  Back  row,  I  to  r  ANN  SHAW  Miller  '54  JESSIE  CARR  Haden 
'54,  BETSY  ROBINSON  Harrison  '55,  WINIFRED  "WINI"  BOGGS  Myrick  '54,  and 
JOHANNA  PAUL  Elder  '54 


of  her  7  grandchildren.  Her  church 
involvement  includes  prayer  shawl 
and  hat-knitting  ministries  and 
singing  in  the  choir.  •  PRIOR 
MEADE  Cooper  of  Norfolk  VA  is  a 
massage  therapist  and  enjoys  paint- 
ing watercolors.  She  and  husband 
Gerry  help  with  grandchildren  who 
live  in  Charlottesville.  'The 
Richmond  gals  have  formed  a  lunch 
bunch  ANOINETTE  "TON!"  HAR- 
RISON Jamison,    DOUG" 
LAUGHON  Wallace,  BETSY 
SCOTT  Featherstone,  SHIRLEY 
FILE  Robbins,  BETTY  KELLEY 
Peple,  CATHERINE    KIT" 
KAVANAGH,  JANE  COLEMAN 
Balfour,  and  KENT  SEABURY 
Rowe  meet  once  a  month,  •  VERA 
THOMAS  James  of  Trophy  ClubTX 
IS  retired  and  stays  busy  with  family, 
travel,  the  arts.  Disciple  Bible  class, 
and  church  activities  •  MARY 
"BONNIE"  STONE  Adier  of  Atlanta 
GA:  "Enjoyed  a  trip  to  Russia  in 
2006  with  my  husband.  We  have  3 
grandchildren." 

1963 

REUNION  '08 

Contact  your  class  secretary  by 
January  18  with  news  for  your  class 
column:  Minta  McDiarmid  Nixon 
cnixonl7@comcasLnet 
Come  one,  come  all!  A  great 
Reunion  week  has  been  planned,  so 
mark  your  calendars  and  |Oin  us.  We 
will  begin  at  Peaks  of  Otter  on  the 
evening  of  March  31  and  stay  until 
April  4.  Please  let  JUDY  LIPES 
Garst  {mbcjudyg@aol.com)  of 
Salem  VA  know  your  plans,  as  she 
IS  making  our  event  reservations. 
However,  we  each  need  to  make 
our  own  lodging  reservations  at  the 
Stonewall  Jackson  Hotel  (540-885- 
4848)  for  the  nights  of  Apnl  4  and  5. 
It  won't  be  a  great  Reunion  without 
you  •The  mini-reunion  held  in 
California  last  April  was  a  success. 
Enjoying  the  fun  were  SHEARER 


TROXELL  Luck,  CAROLYN  HALDE- 
MAN  Hawkins,  EMILY  DETHLOFF 
Ryan.  SUE  JORDAN  Rodarte, 
DOROTHEA  "HONEY"  BESSIRE 
Monis,  TERRY  GEGGIE  Fridley, 
BETSY  BAKER  Baxter  and  BECKY 
CANNADY  Merchant  •  LUCY 
MORRIS  Gay  of  Carrollton  GA  and 
husband  Jim  have  retired  and  spend 
time  at  their  mountain  cabin  in 
North  Georgia.  Jim  has  published  a 
histoncal  novel.  •  PEGGY  MAPP 
Thacker  of  York  PA  remarried  in 
2004  but  kept  her  legal  name.  She 
has  5  granddaughters  •  MINTA 
McDIARMID  Nixon  of  Augusta  GA 
and  Cobbs  spent  time  in  Santa  Fe 
NM  •  JULIA  "LANE"WRIGHT 
Cochrane  of  Salem  VA  is  busy  with 
5  grandchildren.  She  spent  a  month 
in  Europe  this  summer  and  looks 
forward  to  Reunion  •  LYNN  BUTTS 
McNeese,  SHEARER  TROXELL 
Luck,  and  BECKY  CANNADY 
Merchant  enjoyed  a  week  at 
Pawleys  Island  SC. 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbcedu  by  January  18. 
VIRGINIA  "GINGER"  TIMBES 
Ewing  of  Westport  CT  and  husband 
Hem  welcomed  first  grandchild 
Jackson  Wainwright  Ewing.  He  was 
born  to  eldest  son  Meredyth  III  and 
Whitney  just  before  the  new  grand- 
parents set  sail  on  the 
Mediterranean.  Son  Spencer  works 
in  Washington  DC. 


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Contact  one  of  your  class  secre- 
taries by  January  18 
with  news  for  your  class  column: 
Kathy  Rice  Knowles 
Hgknowles  1  @verizon.  net 
Susan  McKeown  Waters 
Smckwaters@comcast.net 
Lucia  LionbergerThomas 
thomaslfl@earthlink.  net 
Greetings,  angels  in  disguise,  from 


your  new  class  secretaries!  At  the 
Reunion  in  March  2007,  we  dis- 
cussed the  possibility  of  creating  a 
class  round-robin  email.  There  was 
much  enthusiasm,  and  by  the  time 
you  read  this,  you  should  have 
received  the  first  invitation  to  share 
your  news  with  the  class  by  email. 
We  will  be  in  touch  with  all  of  you 
this  year,  requesting  news,  views, 
photos,  sharing  plans,  joys,  and  sor- 
rows. We'll  organize  them  into  peri- 
odic class  notes  and  zap  them  off  to 
everybody  in  the  class.  Thanks  in 
advance  for  participating;  we  look 
forward  to  hearing  from  classmates 
all  over  the  worid  •  ANNE  SLATER 
Coyner  restored  her  mother's  home 
(circa  1810)  in  Delaplane  VAand 
moved  in  last  spring  •  PATRICIA 
FORBES  of  Albuquerque  NM  cele- 
brated the  wedding  of  her  daughter 
in  2006  •  BARBARA  HORNER- 
Millerof  Fairbanks  AK:   "In 
November  2006  I  was  general  chair 
of  SC06,  the  most  renowned  con- 
ference in  my  field.  Jack  and  I  had 
lunch  with  MBC  classmate 
JACQUELYN  "JACKIE"  STROUPE 
Pace  of  Mooresville  NC  on  the  way 
to  the  final  committee  meeting." 


REUNION  '08 

Contact  your  class  secretary  by 
January  18  with  news  for  your 
class  column: 
Jane  Starke  Sims 
jane5ims@comcast.  net 
JENNIFER  JAMES  of  Annandale  VA 
hosted  son  Brian's  wedding,  went 
to  Canada  to  visit  her  first  grand- 
daughter, son  Chnstopher,  and  his 
wife  Jenny.  Work  has  taken  her  to 
the  Dominican  Republic,  Panama, 
Afghanistan,  Pakistan,  and  Kenya  • 
SUE  OGLESBY  Doyle  and  Chris 
moved  to  Riverhead  NY  where  he  is 
pastor  of  Riverhead  United 
Methodist  Church.  She  works  as  a 


BRENDA  NICHOL  Goings  '71  and  MARGARET 

WOODSON  Nea  '63  met  when  travelling  with  a 
group  to  lona  and  other  Celtic  sites  in  Scotland. 


LYNN  BUTTS  McNeese  '63,  SHEARER  TROXELL 
Luck  '63,  and  BECKY  CANNADY  Merchant  '63  rem- 
inisced while  visiting  Pawley's  Island  GA. 


On  family  vacation  in  Washingtor  ;  _  _   _  ;  = 
Shenandoah  Valley  JULIE  SLAVIK  Budnik  '84  intro- 
duced daughters  Jordan  (I)  and  Brooke  (r)  to  MBC. 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


L  to  r;  ALISON  KAUFMANN  '07,  ANGELA 
GONZALEZ  '06,  LYNN  GILLILAND  '80,  bride  CARA 
MAGOLDA Tucker  '06,  LEIGH  FRAME  '06,  ASHLEY 
BARKSDALE  '06.  and  JULIA  MESSER  '06 


"JANIE  "  CARTER  Vaughan  '69   DIXIE  EPES  Hoggan  '67   ELIZ- 
ABETH BARKLEY  Ravenal  '67,  ANNIE  CAROLINE  BUTT  Reid 
'67,  and  GAY  GILMORE  Butler  '67  celebrated  the  wedding  of 
Dixie's  daughter  in  September  2006 


KAMALA  PAYNE 

'06  (i)  and  Rev. 
Andrea  Cornett- 
Scott  (r)  flanked 
bride  JENNIFER 
OLIVER  '03  at  her 
wedding. 
Jennifer  was 
Kamala's  Big  Sista 
at  MBC, 


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RUTH  LEONARD  72  to  Dale  Wright,  September  30,  2005 

DIANA  "DINKY"  PHINNEY  '73  to  Gerald  Moore,  February  23,  2005 

SUSAN  "CEA  CEA"  MUSSER  "88  to  Lewis  Cazenave,  May  2,  2007 

AIMEE  RAY  '92  to  Stephen  Dcarsley,  July  29,  2006 

MEREDITH  MOLTENI  '98  to  Frederick  "Marshall"  Luck,  Jr.,  October  21,  2006 

REBECCA  MORRISON  '98  to  Geoffrey  Jackson,  August  8,  2006 

MELODYE  HUGHES  '00  to  Patrick  Paruszkiewicz,  August  2005 

I  LIZABETH  "BETH"  WILLIAMS  '00  to  Michael  Navarro,  November  11, 

KELLY  REESE  '01  to  Dr.  Evan  Kaufman,  June  9,  2007 

A'LEIGH  SPENSIERI  '02  to  Tracy  Hamncr,  August  11,  2007 

SUSANNAH  BASKERVIL  'O-l  to  Lonnie  Pittman,  May  19,  2007 

LFTA  STASKEY  'OS  to  R.  Colin  Mitchell,  January  29,  2007 


2005 


KATHRYN  "FIELD"  SYDNOR  Sheffield  '96  and  Walter  tied  the  knot  in 
Richmond  VA    Joining  in  the  celebration  are  II  to  rl:  KATHERINE  KREBS 
Kogel  '96,  MARY  KATHERINE  EVANS  Hogg  '96.  the  bride.  JENNIFER 
KELSAY  '96   LAUREN  McGEE  '96   ASHLEY  WHALEN  Johnson  '96.  and 
RANDALL  "RANDY"  HORNE  Cullen  '96 


KELLY  REESE  Kaufman  '01  and  Evan  were  married  in  Staunton  last  June 
and  held  their  reception  at  MBC  Back  row  (I  to  r):  CATHY  SINGLETON 
'01.  LEAH  GRIFFITH  '03.  Middle  row  (I  to  rl  EMILY  MOTLEY  '02.  LISSIE 
RICHMOND  Lockard  '05.  CATHERINE  "DEE  DEE"  LEWIS  Maxwell  '74, 
the  bride.  ELIZABETH  HOLLAND  01.  ERIKA  GIRALDO  Smith  '04.  and 
MEGHAN  WARD  '04.  and  (kneeling  in  front  row)  the  groom. 


MBC  friends  reconnected  at  the  October  2006  wedding  of  MEREDITH  MOLTENI 
'98  and  Frederick  Pictured  (1  to  r):  CHRIS  ZIEBE  Blanton  '70,  ANGIE  AMOS 
Rowe  '98,  ELIZABETH  CALHOUN  Swarr  '98,  COURTNEY  STRAW  Keyes  '98, 
the  bride  and  groom,  SUZANNA    PAIGE"  CROCKETT  Baker  '95,  ANNE 
HUNTER  PLONK  Boone  '75,  "BETH"  ZIEBE  Elliott  '74,  and  ELIZABETH  "ASH- 
LEY" FISHER  '98 


KENT  SEABURY  Rowe  '62  and  LINDA 

DOLLY  Hammack  '62  enjoyed  gelato  on 
the  Greek  island  of  Syros. 


Members  of  class  of  1963  enioyed  the  sites  in  Napa 
Valley  CA.   Clockwise,  I  to  r  SHEARER TROXELL  Luck, 
CAROLYN  HALDEMAN  Hawkins,  EMILY  DETHLOFF 
Ryan,  SUE  JORDAN  Rodarte,  HONEY  BESSIRE 
Morris,  TERRY  GEGGI  Fridley,  and  BETSY  BAXTER 
Evans 


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Five  MBC  alumnae,  whose  friendship  goes  back  to  fall  of  1938, 
gathered  in  Williamsburg  VA  last  April  for  a  mini-reunion.    Front 
row,  I  to  r:  ANNE  HAYES  Davis  '42  and  EVELYN  ENGLEMAN 
Mathews  '42    Back  row,  I  to  r    LAURA  "LIZ"  LUCK  Stiles  '42, 
JANE  CRAIG  Morrison  '42,  and  MARGARET  "PEGGY"  MERED- 
ITH Darden  '42. 


reference  libranan  in  a  large  public  library 
and  teaches  ESL  conversation  classes  • 
DR.  LUNDIE  SPENCE  of  Charleston  SC 
has  been  the  director  of  the  Center  for 
Ocean  Sciences  Education  Excellence 
SouthEast  since  2003.  She  teaches 
courses  at  College  of  Charleston, 
University  of  South  Carolina-Baruch 
Marine  Institute,  and  North  Carolina 
State  University.  Lundie  also  enjoys 
kayaking  and  sailing. 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
ANGIER  BROCK  of  Richmond  VA  is 
teaching  and  writing  •  MARY  BAKER 
Hoffman  of  Waxhaw  NC  celebrated  the 
wedding  of  her  eldest  son.  Her  youngest 
has  just  started  college. 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
VIRGINIA  LEE  KINTZ  of  Schoharie  NY  is 
a  partner  in  a  national  LTC  insurance 
business  •  ISABELLE TURNER  Knight 
of  LaGrange  GA  is  a  realtor  and  has  3 
grandchildren  •  ELIZABETH  "LIZ"  JEN- 
NINGS Shupe  moved  to  Lexington  VA, 
where  she  is  associate  director  of  Career 
Services  Center  at  Washington  and  Lee 
University,  She  and  her  husband  are 
building  a  home  on  the  12  acres  where 
they  originally  rode  horses  and  ran  their 
dog  during  the  first  year  of  marriage. 


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Contact  your  class  secretary  by  January 
18  with  news  for  your  class  column: 
Laurel  "Lolly"  Catching  Anderson 
LollY@thespiritualtimes.  com 
When  I  (Lolly)  worked  at  MBC  in  the 
early  1990s,  I  met  alumnae  from  other 
classes  who  became  lifelong  fnends 
along  with  my  classmates.  Last  fail  I  was 
thnlled  to  see  MOLLIE  REHMET 
Cannady  '64  and  FLORENCE  JONES 
Rutherford  '75,  both  of  Houston  TX,  at 
my  book  signing  •  In  Apnl  in  her  home- 
town of  Washington  DC,  KAY  CUL- 
BREATH  Heller  '69  (my  big  sister  when  I 
was  a  freshman!  co-hosted  a  book  sign- 
ing for  me  MARGARET  "MARGIE" 
ADDISON  Shepard  of  Washington  DC 
was  there  She  is  associate  vice  presi- 
dent for  advancement  at  George 
Washington  University  •  In  May  I  saw 
SUSAN  THORN  Man-  '73  of  Rancho 
Santa  Fe  CA  at  her  home  •  KATHERINE 
DOWNIE  of  Little  Rock  AR  loves  travel- 
ing the  state  implementing  the  Even 
Start  Literacy/Parenting  from  Prison  pro- 
gram for  the  Centers  for  Youth  and 
Families  She  sees  MARTHA  BOOTH 
Jennison  '70  of  St.  Augustine  FL  once  a 
year  •  BRENDA  NICHOL  Goings  of 
Mount  Airy  NC  and  MARGARET 
WOODSON  Nea  '63  of  Richmond  VA 
met  each  other  when  they  traveled  with 
a  group  to  lona  and  other  Celtic  sites  in 
Scotland  •  NANCY  MORSE  Evans  of 
Pattison  TX  is  an  oncology  nurse  • 
KATHY  TERRELL  of  Ann  Arbor  Ml  Is  a 
professor  of  business  economics  and 


public  policy  at  University  of  Michigan. 
"My  husband  Jan  and  I  write  papers 
together  and  will  be  on  sabbatical  next 
year  at  the  World  Bank  in  Washington, 
DC,  so  let  me  know  if  you  are  in  town" 
•  BONNIE  BRACKETT  Weaver  of  West 
Palm  Beach  FL  gets  together  with 
BRENDA  NICHOL  Goings,  LAURA 
REINHARDT  Houston,  and  BARBARA 

BABSIE"  PAGE  •  CATHERINE  "KATE" 
GLADDEN  Schultz  of  Winchester  VA 
welcomed  home  eldest  son  Tommy  from 
the  Philippines  with  the  Peace  Corps. 
Sons  Preston  andTas  are,  respectively, 
an  environmental  consultant  and  a 
lawyer. 

Contact  your  class  secretary  by  January 
18  with  news  for  your  class  column: 
Liz  Smith  Strimple 
lizstrimple@vehzon.net 
Your  new  class  officers  are  looking  for- 
ward to  our  next  gathering.  SUSAN 
RICHARDS  Tyler  of  Madison  Heights  VA 
works  for  WorldStrides,  an  organization 
that  assists  teachers  across  the  countn/ 
in  planning  domestic  and  international 
travel  programs  for  students  •  GINA 
HEISE  Lodge  of  Nashville  TN  is  commis- 
sioner of  the  Department  of  Human 
Services  for  Tennessee  •  BARBARA 
ROBERTSON  Burke  of  Richmond  VA 
had  orthopedic  surgery  on  her  foot  and 
hand.  She  isn't  ruling  out  plastic  surgery 
to  get  in  shape  for  our  40th  •  DENISE 
CRAIG  Stafford  of  Spotsylvania  VA 
enjoys  retirement  with  husband  Alan  on 


their  farm  •  ROWENA  LLOYD  Turco  of 

Paris,  France  sends  best  wishes  •  DONA 
CONNOLLY  Mastin  of  Beavercreek  OH 
missed  our  Reunion  as  son  Charlie  was 
married  that  weekend.  She  is  a  reference 
librarian  and  volunteer  •  SALLIE 
HUBARD  Moore  and  husband  Owen  are 
moving  to  Celebration  FL  In  2008  to  be 
closer  to  daughter  Emily  and  family  • 
LINDA  VERNER  Smith  of  Lake  Oswego 
OR  Will  soon  be  a  grandmother  • 
JEANNE  JACKSON  of  Birmingham  AL 
got  together  with  EVE  BREMERMANN 
Collard  in  San  Francisco  CA.  They 
shopped,  hiked,  and  laughed  about  their 
junior  year  in  Pans.  Jeanne's  youngest 
son  is  a  senior  at  Washington  and  Lee  • 
RUTH  "LOVELACE"  COOK  of  Falrhope 
AL  offers  marketing  and  public  relations 
services  through  her  company,  Lovelace 
Cook  Communications.  She  has  lots  of 
adopted  furry  critters,  writes,  and  does 
photography.  She  thinks  about  PLAYER 
MCPHAUL,  MARY    BARBIE"  PHIPPS 
Such  and  CLAUDIA  TURNER  Bagwell  • 
RUTH  LEONARD  of  Alexandria  VA  has 
worked  for  the  State  Department  Foreign 
Service  since  1999.  She  married  Dale 
Wright,  a  U.S.  foreign  commercial  serv- 
ice attache,  in  Maui  in  2005.  •  JANIE 
DAVIS  Richardson  of  Shreveport  LA  is 
volunteenng,  traveling,  taking  Spanish, 
and  enjoying  a  new  grandbaby  •  MELIN- 
DA  BELLWairen  of  Trent  Woods  NC  is  a 
dentist  and  grandmother  of  2.  Her 
daughter  has  joined  her  dental  practice 
and  her  son  obtained  a  master's  degree 
at  UCU\. 


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What's  it  like... 

to  be  a  pioneer  in  the  Adult  Degree  Program? 

Through  and  through,  Diane  Babral  is  a  member  of  the  Mary  Baldwin  College  Class  of 
1978.  True,  she  may  not  have  entered  the  college  as  a  17-  or  18-year-old  freshman  m 
1974,  as  many  of  those  who  graduated  with  her  did.  She  did  not  live  on  campus  and 
take  classes  full-time,  but  that  did  not  diminish  her  association  with  the  college  or  weak- 
en her  kinship  with  members  of  the  class.  At  age  25,  Babral  was  a  working  mother.  She 
was  also  a  student;  one  of  the  first  in  MBC's  inventive  program  that  set  a  precedent  for 
adult  education  in  Virginia. 

"Even  though  I  wasn't  much  older  than  the  regular  students,  I  did  feel  like  a  pio- 
neer," said  Babral,  who  manages  an  inpatient  psychiatric  unit  at  Rockingham  Memorial 
Hospital  in  Harrisonburg,  Virginia. 

When  Babral  started  taking  classes  at  Mary  Baldwin  in  1976,  the  college  had  not 
yet  finalized  the  Adult  Degree  Program  (ADP),  so  she  enrolled  as  a  full-time  student  in 
the  only  program  available  at  that  time  —  traditional  undergraduate.  However,  as  a 
young  mother  working  part-time,  a  full  course  load  with  classes  during  the  typical  work 
day  was  a  struggle. 

Babral  stuck  with  it  as  a  full-time  student  until  ADP  officially  launched  in  Staunton 
in  1977.  She  was  eager  to  be  one  of  the  first  eight  students  to  enroll  and  grateful  to 
replace  some  daytime  classes  with  independent  studies.  She  also  convinced  administra- 
tors to  apply  her  on-the-job  experience  as  a  nurse  —  now  referred  to  as  experiential 
learning  —  and  previous  credits  from  University  of  Pittsburgh  toward  her  degree.  Other 
colleges  and  universities  Babral  looked  into  did  not  offer  those  options.  Although  work 
and  family  obligations  took  much  of  her  time  outside  class,  she  was  honored  as  a  mem- 
ber of  Psi  Chi,  the  psychology  honors  club,  and  participated  in  its  activities. 

"I  do  feel  like  we  helped  shape  the  program  because  they  want  a  lot  of  feedback," 
said  Babral,  a  sociology  and  psychology  double  major.  She  helped  persuade  the  college 
of  the  value  of  experiential  learning  and  she  noticed  that  several  other  registered  nurses 
entered  the  program  after  her  tenure. 

Twenty  years  after  her  graduation,  a  significant  person  in  Babral's  life  finished  the 
Adult  Degree  Program,  too.  Her  husband,  Jerry,  completed  his  bachelor's  degree  through 
an  expanded,  increasingly  flexible  version  of  the  program  in  1998. 

"I  convinced  him  to  wear  his  cap  and  gown  and  participate  in  graduation.  I  knew 
he  would  feel  that  he  missed  something  if  he  didn't,"  Babral  said. 

Babral  did  not  doubt  that  ADP  —  celebrating  its  30th  anniversary  in  2007  — 
would  have  longevity,  but  she  couldn't  envision  its  geographic  expansion  and  the  addi- 
tion of  multiple  ways  for  adults  to  complete  courses.  Aduk  and  graduate  programs  are 
now  offered  in  Charlottesville,  Richmond,  Roanoke,  South  Boston,  and  Weyers  Cave. 
The  college  will  open  a  sixth  regional  center  at  Thomas  Nelson  Community  College  in 
Hampton,  Virginia  in  January  2008.  Students  can  do  their  coursework  via  lecture-style 
classes,  online  tutorials,  or  independent  or  group  study. 

"I  may  have  been  a  little  older,  but  I  feel  that  I  earned  my  degree  like  everyone  else 
who  graduated  that  day,"  Babral  said.  ▲ 


Mary  Baldwin  College 

Changing  the  World 
REUNION 

2008 

Thursday,  April  3  - 
Sunday,  April  6 

Make  plans  now  to  join  us  for  Mary 
Baldwin's  biggest  alumnae/i  event  of  the 
year:  Reimion  2008. 

Classes  ending  in  3  and  8:  This  is  your  spe- 
cial time  to  return  to  our  beautiful,  historic 
campus  to  visit  with  classmates,  catch  up 
and  reminisce,  and  show  your  Baldwin 
Pride.  Enjoy  good  food,  good  company,  and 
rediscover  the  MBC  spirit  within  you. 

Mary  Baldwin  College's  campuswide  theme 
this  year  is  Voices  —  as  in.  Many  Voices, 
One  Song.  Bring  your  voice  home  to  Mary 
Baldwin  for  Reunion  2008. 

You  will  soon  receive  details  from  your  class 
leadership  and  you  may  check  the  Web  site 
for  updates,  too.  If  you  have  questions,  con- 
tact your  class  leadership  or  Alumnae/i  and 
Parent  Relations  Office  at  800-763-7359  or 
email  almnnae@nibc.edu. 


The  Adult  Degree  Program  celebrated  30  years,  traditionally  known  as  the  "pearl 
anniversary"  with  a  reception  in  June  2007  in  Staunton.  MBC's  adult  program  was  the 
first  of  its  kind  in  the  state  in  1977 


Anastasia,  daughter  of  SUZAN- 
NAH  MEYER  Zachos  '97  and  hus- 
band Nick,  was  born  in  February 
2007.  Ana  is  the  niece  of  "KATY" 
MEYER  Hulse  '02. 


MEREDITH  TOWNSEND  Carrington  '02  and  Bobby  welcomed 
Tripp  into  the  world  in  May  2007. 


George  is  the  son  of  ANIMI  LORI 
HILL  Foster  '99  and  husband 
David. 


Little  Abigail  is  the  niece  (and  par- 
tial namesake)  of  KELLEY 
REXROAD'79.   "A  Squirrel-to-be!' 
Kelley  writes.   "I  figure  that  as  a 
residential  student,  she  would 
graduate  in  2029  -  my  50th 
Reunion  year." 


SHELBY  POWELL  Drinkard  '89  and  Rodney:  a  son,  Powell  Scott,  June  19,  2007 

MARY  FRANCES  "FRANCIE"  HUFFSTETLER  Teer  '92  and  Edward:  a  daughtci;  Sadie,  December  6,  2006 

BETH  BOWLES  Duchanaud  '92  and  Stephane:  twin  girls,  Margaux  Dale  and  Charlotte  Boxley,  Oaober  13,  2006 

BRTTTNEY  HALL  Gill  '93  and  Matthew:  a  son,  Landon  Whiteley,  June  17,  2006 

DL\HANN  "BUFFY"  DeBREAUX-Watts  '93  and  Clyde:  a  son,  Clyde  Sherman,  October  10,  2006 

DUSTIN  WELLS  '94  and  Patti:  a  daughter  Nora  Elisabeth,  March  13,  2007 

GRETA  SCOTT  Selden  '95  and  Stephen:  a  son,  Landon  Kirby,  September  29,  2006 

MARTA  GALOPIN  Kalleberg  '96  and  Jack:  a  son,  Kristian  Torbjorn,  May  2,  2007 

CAMALA  BEAM  Kite  '96  and  Robbie:  a  son,  Bryden  Carter;  June  18,  2006 

KERRY  ROLAND  Martinez  '96  and  Nick:  a  son,  John  Cade,  February  22,  2007 

JENNIFER  HOPKINS  Rittling  '96  and  Charles:  a  son,  Charles  "Charlie"  Conway,  March  20,  2007 

TAMARA  AVIS  Smith  '96  and  Jason:  a  daughtei;  Martha  Addison,  November  14,  2006 

LESLIE  COKER  Crocker  '97  and  Warren  Randolph:  a  daughter,  Olivia  Batson,  September  5, 2006 

ELIZABETH  "RENEE"  GIBSON  Dunford  '97  and  Wade:  a  son,  Connor;  September  18,  2006 

CRYSTAL  CASTEEN  Pullen  '97  and  Kirk;  a  daughte^  Isabelle,  September  5,  2006 

KATHLEEN  "KATTE"  McCABE  Thielen  '97  and  Jason:  a  dauglitet,  Satori  Rose,  May  23,  2007 

SUZATvlNAH  MEYER  Zachos  '97  and  Nick:  a  daughtei;  Anastasia  "Ana"  Maro,  February  5,  2007 

EMILY  ALEXANDER  Douglas  '98  and  Kris:  a  daughter;  Eleanor  Bell,  March  14,  2007 

SARA  MACKEY  Dunn  '98  and  Dan:  a  son,  Isaac  Salvatore,  January  9,  2007 

KATHERINE  "KATE"  LANGLOIS  Faraci  '98  and  Steve:  a  son,  Stephen  Matthew,  Jr.,  February  25,  2007 

CHARISSA  STOUFFER  Larson  '98  and  Michael:  a  son,  Tyler  Nichols,  January  30,  2007 

ERIN  BERNACHE  Alberts  '99  and  Kirk,  a  son:  Leo  Timothy,  August  17,  2007 

ANNI  LORI  HILL  Foster  '99  and  David;  a  son,  George  William  "Will,"  AprU  14,  2007 

LEILA  McINTYRE  King  '99  and  Chris:  a  daughter,  Scarlett  Grace,  January  2,  2007 

SARAH  LANGLOIS  Luther  '00  and  Stephen:  rwins,  Austin  Lee  and  Emma  Frances,  January  7, 2006 

MELOD'YE  HUGHES  Paruszkiewicz  '00  and  Patrick:  a  daughter;  Mira  Grace,  April  2007 

LAURA  FRENCH  Pearson  '00  and  Brian:  a  son,  Jonatlian  Ashen,  June  19,  2007 

REBECCA  CUSTER  Snyder  '00  and  Mark:  a  daughtei;  Ember  Rose,  November  22,  2006 

MEREDITH  TOWNSEND  Carrington  '02  and  Bobby:  a  son,  Robert  Dale  IH  ("Tripp"),  May  31,  2007 

KRISTEN  BRYANT  Gould  '02  and  Lee:  a  daughtei;  Bridget  Allison,  August  3,  2006 

EMILY  ALLEN  Jiancristoforo  '02  and  Mike:  a  daughtep  Hannah  Colyei;  April  16,  2007 

CHINYELU  "Cm-CHl"  CHIEMELU  Tyler  '02  and  Chaz:  a  daughter,  Anaiah  Deanzy,  July  9, 2007 

JENNIFER  CHEATHAM  '03  and  Jeff  Rew,  a  son:  Matthew  Lynn,  February  2,  2006 

KRISTIN  COOPER  Mullen  '03  and  Keith,  a  daughter:  Kaidynn  Madison,  Oaober  11,  2006 

JENNIFER  CARMAN  Lovell  '04  and  Conrad,  a  son;  C)tus  Nadianiel,  September  10,  2006 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


HELEN  MUCCITELLI  '94  fulfilled  a  lifelong  dream  last  spring  when  she  earned  her  pilot's  license. 


EMILY  OEHLER  '93  was  installed  as  president  of  the  Junior  League  of 
Northern  Virginia.  During  her  tenure,  the  organization  will  celebrate  its 
50th  anniversary. 


1973 

REUNION  '08 

Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
"JOAIMIE"  KIRBY  Brawley  of  Winter 
Haven  FL  graduated  from  Asbury 
Theological  Seminary  in  May  and 
became  an  ordained  priest  in  the 
Episcopal  Church.  "All  four  children  have 
graduated  from  college  -  a  new  chapter 
begins"  •  DIANA  "DINKY"  PHINNEY 
Moore  married  John  in  2005.  "Our  time 
is  filled  with  traveling,  sailing  and  RV'ing 
while  staying  at  state  and  national  parks, 
where  we  bike  and  hike.  The  highlight  of 
our  trips  was  the  journey  to  South 
America  which  was  life-altering.  We 
renewed  our  vows  deep  in  a  Costa  Rica 
jungle;  on  our  second  anniversary,  we 
had  our  marriage  blessed  by  a  shaman  in 
a  Mayan  ceremony  at  the  ruins  of  Copan 
in  Honduras."  She  looks  forward  to  see- 
ing classmates  at  the  reunion  in  April. 


1974 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
MARY  "KATHARINE"  BEAMAN 

Freuchtenicht  of  West  Bloomfield  Ml  pub- 
lished her  first  book.   The  Translator  is  an 
historic  romance  set  in  Germany  in  1945 
and  is  available  through  www.publishamer- 
ica.com,  www.barnes3ndnoble.com,  and 
www.bordefS.com. 


1976 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
SALLIE  PERRIN  White  of  Greenville  SC 
and  several  of  her  classmates  met  up 
with  Sallies  sister  ANNE  PERRIN  Flynn 
'74  and  some  of  Anne's  classmates  for  a 
spirited  gathering. 


1977 


Contact  your  class  secretary  by  January 
18  with  news  for  your  class  column: 
Pamela  Martin  Comstock 
gcmartinco@aol.com 
MARY  HUNTER  LEACH  of  Kilauea  HI: 
"Uprooting  my  parents'  home  after  45 
years  was  a  monumental  mid-life  review. 
Life  in  paradise  continues  to  evolve  -  am 
becoming  more  of  an  activist  about  com- 


munity environmental  concerns.  Aloha." 
•  ANN  BARTLEY  Gardner  of  Staunton 
VA  earned  a  master's  degree  from  Virginia 
Commonwealth  University  and  works  as 
a  certified  rehab  counselor  Her  daughter 
attends  Hollins  University  •  MARCIA 
WHITED  of  South  Portland  ME  took  a 
new  job  as  senior  claims  consultant  for 
ETNA  Insurance.  She  keeps  busy  with 
tap  and  piano  lessons,  Chinese  school, 
and  renovating  her  home  •  SARAH 
THOMSON  Dick  of  Winchester  VA: 
"Daughter  Amy  graduated  from  college. 
Daughter  Christine  is  interning  with 
Atlantic  City  Church  in  Georgia." 


1978 


REUNION  '08 

Contact  your  class  secretary  by  January 
18  with  news  for  your  class  column: 
Martha  Gates 

marttia_gatesl956@hotmail.com 
SUSAN  McKEMY  of  Palm  Beach  Garden 
FL  just  completed  certification  and  is  a 
trainer  and  facilitator  for  Bob  Proctor  Life 
Success  Consulting. 


1979 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
3lumn3e@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
KELLEY  REXROAD  of  Odessa  FL  started 
a  firm  three  years  ago  and  is  a  nationally 
published  author  and  speaker,  known  as 
America's  HR  Specialist.  In  April  on 
29,000  worldwide  America  Airline  flights, 
passengers  heard  an  interview  with 
Kelley  on  Sky  Radio's  "Business  and 
Technology  Report."  To  hear  it,  visit  her 
website:  www.l<rexconsulting.com. 


1981 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
3lumn3e@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
WILMI  BALLESTER  Schmidt  of 

Palestine  IL  was  promoted  to  manager  of 
Marketing  Innovators'  new  division.  Client 
Services.  This  summer  she  celebrated 
three  years  of  marriage  to  Martin. 


1982 


Contact  one  of  your  class  secretaries  by 
January  18  with  news  for  your  class  col- 
umn; 

Laura  O'Hear  Church 
youcanwriteus@hotmail.com 


Joy  Breed 

jOY_breed@novartis.  com 

MARIAN  "ELIZABETH"  VENEY  Okoye 

of  Centerville  OH  is  an  international  finan- 
cial specialist.  She  and  husband  John  (an 
OB/GYN  currently  in  Turkey)  have  2  sons, 
Adam  and  Daniel.  Elizabeth  volunteers  for 
the  Epilepsy  Foundation  of  Western  Ohio, 
Junior  League,  Jack  and  Jill  of  America, 
Inc.,  and  Delta  Sigma  Theta  •  SARA 
PENDLETON  Tartala  of  Newport  News 
VA  is  going  back  to  sschool  for  certifica- 
tion in  English  as  a  second  language  • 
DAPHNE  ANDREWS  Stickley  and  family 
have  moved  into  a  new  home  in 
Lexington  VA  and  her  daughter  started 
college  •  LUANNE  WHITLOW  Goodloe 
of  Staunton  VA  and  husband  bought  Rask 
Florist  several  years  ago. 


1987 


1984 


Send  your  class  notes  to; 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
On  a  recent  family  trip  to  Washington 
DC,  JULIE  SLAVIK  Budnik  of  Decatur 
GA  visited  the  MBC  campus  with  hus- 
band Tom  and  daughters  Jordan  (15)  and 
Brooke  (12).  While  in  the  area,  Julie  and 
family  had  dinner  with  classmate  ROBIN 
NEWCOMB  Lermo  of  Springfield  VA  and 
her  family 


1985 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
3lumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
SUSAN  MARIE  BROECKER  Gish  of 

Randolph  NJ  has  a  home-based  cookie 
business.  You  can  see  her  work  at 
www.mrsgishshomem3decookies.com 
and  www.coopergifts.com.  Susan  taught 
school  before  launching  her  at-home 
business. 


1986 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
a/umnae@mfac.edu  by  January  18. 
SUSAN  ESLER  of  Ashburn  VA  was  pro- 
moted to  hospital  sales  specialist  with 
AstraZeneca  Pharmaceuticals,  LP  She 
has  a  master's  in  education  from  The 
College  of  William  &  Mary  She  enjoys 
getting  together  with  MBC  classmates 
JULIE  ELLSWORTH  Cox,  KAREN  LAT- 
SHAW  Schaub,  and  CHARISSA  CAMP 
Hutchings 


Contact  your  class  secretary  by  January 
18  with  news  for  your  class  column: 
MacKay  Morris  Boyer 
m3Ck3yesq@comcast.  net 
MELISSA  McCULLOUGH  Carter  moved 
to  a  new  home  in  Columbia  SC.  She  and 
husband  Stewart  have  2  daughters,  Reid 
and  Weils.  Melissa  works  as  manager  of 
the  state's  optional  retirement  program 
and  enrollment  fund  •  JANICE  ANDER- 
SON Femeyhough-Tanner  of  Milton  DE 
was  widowed  in  2001  and  is  remarried  to 
Nathan.  They  have  a  new  baby 
Samantha,  and  son  Goss  (9)  •  HELEN 
lAMS  of  Cheyenne  WY  works  as  a 
sports  medicine  doctor  for  Jelly  Belly 
Professional  Cycling  Team.  She  has  been 
married  to  husband  Rich  for  18  years  • 
TERRI  HINTON  of  Raleigh  NC:  "I'm 
wondering  how  my  old  classmates  are 
doing  these  days?  Feel  tree  to  call  or 
email  me"   •  LENORE  PATTERSON-Ball 
of  Chapel  Hill  NC  is  CEO  and  publisher  of 
The  Bride's  Book,  a  bridal  magazine, 
which  was  awarded  a  Gold  Hermes 
Award  for  outstanding  work  in  the  mar- 
keting and  communications  industry. 


REUNION  '08 

Send  your  class  notes  to: 
3lumn3e@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
MARY  MELISSA  "LISA"  DERBY  of 

Kirkland  WA  joined  Microsoft  in  late 
January.  She  is  on  the  strategic  market- 
ing team,  which  produces  the  Worldwide 
Partner  Conference  and  several  Partner 
Advisory  Councils.  "I  have  traveled  to 
Denver  Seattle,  Sao  Paulo,  Brazil  and 
San  Diego"   •  SUSAN  "CEA  CEA" 
MUSSER  Cazenave  of  Montezuma  GA 
teaches  6th  grade.  "On  May  2,  2007  I 
married  Lewis,  who  stays  busy  with  two 
fulltime  jobs  as  deputy  sheriff  of  Macon 
County  GA  and  a  security  officer  for 
Georgia  Power.  Sons  Tommy  (12)  and 
Bradley  (9)  enjoy  their  new  stepfather." 


1989 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
3lumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
SHELBY  POWELL  Drinkard  of  Smyrna 
GA  and  husband  Rodney  welcomed  son 
Powell  Scott  in  June  2007  Mayson  (2)  is 
excited  to  be  a  big  sister. 


Achieving  Our  Vision 

FOCUS  ON  ACADEMIC 
EXCELLENCE 

Students  are  the  heart  of  Mary 
Baldwin  College.  We  work  hard  to 
create  opportunities  to  learn, 
explore,  and  succeed  at  MBC  and 
beyond.  The  Annual  Fund  helps 
keep  the  student/faculty  ratio  low 
and  the  class  sizes  small  and 
provides  vital  learning  resources. 

PERSONAL 
TRANSFORMATION 
IS  OUR  PRIORITY 

For  generations,  students  have 
loved  MBC  because  they  find  their 
voices  here.  The  Annual  Fund 
enriches  co-curricular  offerings  to 
nurture  development  of  the  whole 
person  and  enhances  MBC's 
special  personalized  approach. 

RENEW  OUR 
ENVIRONMENT 

For  165  years,  Mary  Baldwin  has 
provided  an  exceptional  education 
on  a  remarkably  beautiful  campus, 
and  more  recently  at  regional 
centers  throughout  Virginia.  The 
Annual  Fund  helps  us  to  keep  our 
historic  buildings  sparkling, 
allowing  us  to  invest  in  quality 
facilities  that  support  academics 
and  attract  the  best  students. 


Achieving  Our  Vision: 

Make  the 
Difference 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine  61 


What's  it  like... 

to  be  serving  in  Iraq? 

Friends  and  family:  I  miss  you  all  so  much.  Life  in  Baghdad  has  been  very 
busy.  Other  than  the  understandable  stress  of  war,  the  soldiers  are  doing 
fine.  The  military  tries  to  keep  our  morale  up  with  three  "hots  and  a  cot" 
(three  good  meals  and  a  place  to  sleep).  I  guess  it  works,  but  nothing  can 
negate  the  fact  that  we  live  in  a  place  where  people  die  uselessly  every  day. 
I  cover  at  the  hospital  sometimes.  It  is  the  only  trauma  center  that  treats 
civilians  and  military.  I  don't  know  how  the  nurses  work  there  every  day.  I 
only  go  once  a  week  and  it  is  a  sobering  reminder  that  life  is  more  precious 
and  more  serious  than  most  people  will  ever  understand. 

We  try  to  stay  positive  and  do  what  we  can  to  help  one  other.  We  do 
various  humanitarian  projects.  The  Iraqis  that  live  around  us  are  very 
poor,  but  have  very  big  hearts.  We  visit  often  and  bring  them  supplies.    It 
makes  my  day  to  play  with  the  children  and  hold  the  babies.  I'm  heading 
Operation  Habibi  (love).  Small  groups  of  soldiers  adopt  a  local  family  and 
find  ways  to  improve  their  quality  of  life.  We  teach  them  to  do  the  same 
by  helping  each  other  so  when  we  leave,  things  won't  fall  apart.  For  exam- 
ple, we  help  them  by  repairing  a  house,  and  then  we  take  that  family  to 
help  another  family  repair  their  house  —  experiential  learning  at  its  finest. 

Life  in  Baghdad  is  very  hard  for  the  Iraqis.  If  they  work  for  us  (which 
is  practically  the  only  way  to  earn  money)  and  get  caught,  they  are  usually 
held  for  ransom,  tortured,  and  killed. 

I  often  wonder  what  I'm  doing  here  and  if  I  can  even  make  a  differ- 
ence, but  I  think  of  the  starfish  on  the  beach  story,  and  I  know  I  make  a 
difference  one  child  at  a  time.  I  lose  a  lot  of  sleep,  but  when  I  lay  my  head 
down  at  night,  I  can  do  so  knowing  that  I've  done  everything  I  can  to 
make  a  difference.  I  miss  you  all.  ▲ 

—  Amy  (Swope  '07) 


Now  a  chaplain's  assistant 
working  primarily  in 
hospitals  and  orphanages  in 
Baghdad  with  the  1 1 6th 
Infantry  Brigade  Combat 
Team  of  Staunton 's  National 
Guard  unit,  Swope 
graduated  from  Mary 
Baldwin  College  in  May 
2007.  She  deployed  before 
Commencement,  so  her 
parents,  Bob  and  Linda 
Swope,  were  on  hand  to 
accept  the  diploma  for  studio 
art  (pottery  and  interior 
design)  major. 


1992 


Contact  one  of  your  class  secretaries 
by  January  18  with  news  for  your  class 
column: 

Heather  Jacl<son 
heatheriiackson@comcast.  net 
Katherine  Brown 
kebrown  1004@Yahoo.  com 
AIMEE  RAY  Dearsley  of  Midlothian  VA 
and  Stephen  were  married  in  July  2006, 
"Many  friends  from  our  class  were 
there"   •  MARY  FRANCES  "FRANCIE" 
HUFFSTETLERTeer  of  Williamsburg  VA 
is  director  of  development  for  the  Boys  & 
Girls  Clubs  of  the  Virginia  Peninsula.  She 
enjoys  children  Jacob  and  Sadie  • 
NICOLE  FISHER  Parkerson  of  Wake 
Forest  NC  is  a  partner  in  a  pediatric  med- 
ical practice.  She  and  Michael  are  parents 
of  Amelia  (8)  and  Ainsley  (3)  •  HEATHER 
JACKSON  of  Alexandria  VA  took  a  basic 
culinary  class  at  Le  Cordon  Bleu  in  Paris 
•  LISA  GUARIGLIA  of  Mechanicsville  VA 
has  a  10-year-old  daughter  and  works  as 
an  administrative  office  manager  at  a 
family  practice  in  Richmond  •  ROSE 
CHU  Beck  of  Cleveland  Heights  OH  is  a 
professor  of  pathology.  She  and  husband 
Rex  welcomed  their  second  child, 
Andrew  •  SHERRY  HIGGINS  of 
Lexington  VA  is  a  real  estate  appraiser  • 
REBECCA  STILL  of  Richmond  VA  is 
attending  seminary  to  become  a  mission- 
ary •  JULIE  KING  Maxwell  lives  in 
Fishersville  VA  with  husband  Rob  and 
daughter  Emma  Kate  (3).  "After  12  years 
of  teaching  high  school,  I  moved  to  mid- 
dle school  to  be  special  education  coordi- 
nator and  assistant  pnncipal"  •  BETH 
BOWLES  Duchanaud  of  New  York  NY 
married  Stephane  in  2000  and  welcomed 
twin  daughters  Margaux  and  Charlotte  in 
2006.  She  earned  a  PhD  in  French  litera- 
ture from  New  York  University  and  is  lec- 
turing there. 


REUNION  '08 

Contact  your  class  secretary  by  January 
18  with  news  for  your  class  column: 
Kelly  Kennaly 
kellyk  101  @gmail.  com 
Hope  everyone's  calendar  is  marked  for 
our  Reunion  April  3-6,  2008!   Can  you 
believe  it  has  been  15  years?  EMILY 
OEHLER  of  Alexandria  VA  joined  Booz 
Allen  Hamilton  as  a  senior  consultant  in 
the  strategic  communications  division. 
She  is  president  of  Junior  League  of 
Northern  Virginia  'ALLIE  WITT  Jamison 
of  Lawrenceville  VA  is  teaching  first 
grade  at  Brunswick  Academy  • 
MICHELE  ALLEN  Angelo  of  Stafford  VA 
teaches  pre-kindergarten.  She  plans  to 
return  to  elementary  teaching  when  her 
son  starts  school,  Michele  stays  in  touch 
with  BRITTNEY  HALL  Gill  of  Colonial 
Heights  VA  and  SHAWN  YOSPIN  of 
Amelia  Court  House  VA  •  Speaking  of 
BRITTNEY,  she  is  the  mother  of  two 
boys.  Grant  and  Landon.  Landon  arrived 
in  June  2006  |ust  after  husband  Matt 
changed  jobs.  Brittney  runs  their  med- 
ical supplies  business  •  Also  running  a 
business,  ASHLEY  TRIPPLEHORN 
Emerson  of  Dallas  TX  owns  a  design 
company,  Ashley  Emerson  Interiors  • 
TRISH  HYLTON  Gregory  and  AMY 


BURROUGHS  Ikerd  both  live  in  Raleigh 
NC.  Tnsh  IS  a  lobbyist  for  Raleigh 
Regional  Realtors  and  a  certified  yoga 
instructor.  Amy  works  for  the  State 
Hazardous  Material  Regional  Response 
Teams  as  program  manager  •  Have  you 
heard  that  STACI  BUFORD  Hand  of 
Homewood  AL  and  MARYLON  HAND 
Barken  of  Birmingham  AL  are  now  sis- 
ters-in-law?  • DONNA  JONES 
Robinson,  husband  Donnie  and  daugh- 
ter Marilyn  live  in  Powhatan  VA.  Donna 
works  for  Ryder  Transportation  Services 
as  an  area  rental  operations  and  asset 
manager  •  CHRISTYN  "CHRISTY- 
HAWKINS  Howell  andTrae  bought  a 
condominium  in  downtown  Chicago  IL  • 
REBEKAH  "BEKAH"  CONN  Foster  of 
Lewisburg  WV  is  education  director  at 
Carnegie  Hall  She  and  husband  John 
have  children  Georgia  and  Field  • 
JACQUI  ELLIOTT  of  GreenevilleTN  is 
vice  president  for  admission  and  finan- 
cial aid  atTusculum  College  •  DANA 
AILSWORTH  of  Richmond  VA  is  a  busi- 
ness developer  at  Aquent  •  LISA 
NICHOLS  Hickman  of  New  Wilmington 
PA  is  a  pastor  at  New  Wilmington 
Presbytenan  Church  •  DIAHANN 
"BUFFY"  DeBREAUX-Watts  of  Fort 
Washington  MD  works  in  Washington 
DC:  "I  am  mother  of  two  wonderful  chil- 
dren, Tyne  Ophelia  (4)  and  Clyde,  who 
was  born  in  2006"  •  KELLY  KENNALY 
of  Lewiston  ID  is  on  the  MBC  Alumnae/i 
Board  and  became  an  "auntie"  again. 
She  works  with  Regence  BlueShield. 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
HELEN  MUCCITELLI  of  Haverhill  MA  is 
a  private  pilot,  proficient  in  both  high 
wing  and  low  wing  planes:  "This  turned 
out  to  be  a  real  passion  and  I  am  psy- 
ched that  I  have  the  rest  of  my  life  to 
enjoy  and  grow  with  it"  •  LORI 
BROGLIO  Severens  and  family  moved 
to  Cairo,  Egypt  in  January.  She  is  work- 
ing as  regional  communications  officer 
for  the  U.S.  Agency  for  Development. 
Children  Soren  andThea  like  the  camels, 
donkeys,  and  trips  into  the  desert  • 
DUSTIN  WELLS  and  wife  Patti  of  San 
Francisco  CA  welcomed  daughter  Nora 
last  March.  Dustin  won  the  Penknife 
Fiction  Award  and  was  a  finalist  for  the 
Zoetrope  Fiction  contest. 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
3lumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
GRETA  SCOTT  Selden  of 

Mechanicsville  VA  and  husband  Stephen 
welcomed  second  child  Landon  in  2006. 
Brother  William  12)  is  thrilled  •  CARLA 
CUSTIS  Russell  of  Midlothian  VA  is  a 
human  resources  integration  manager  for 
Dominion  Resources  Services,  and  is 
responsible  for  leading  HR  efforts  related 
to  acquisitions  and  divestitures. 


1996 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18 
KATHRYN  "FIELD"  SYDNOR  of 

Richmond  VA  marned  Walter  in 


December  2006.  Squirrels  in  attendance 
included  KATHERINE  KREBS  Kogel, 
MARY  KATHERINE  EVANS  Hogg,  JEN- 
NIFER KELSAY,  LAUREN  McGEE,  ASH- 
LEY WHALEN  Johnson,  RANDALL 
"RANDY"  HORNE  Cullen,  SARAH 
BARR  Clark  '97,  and  ANN  GORDON 
ABBOTT  Evans '65  'TAMARAAVIS 
Smith  of  Wilmington  NC,  husband 
Jason,  and  daughter  Vivian  announced 
the  arrival  of  Martha  in  November  2006  • 
MARTA  GALOPIN  Kalleberg  of  Mesa 
AZ  and  Jack  welcomed  son  Knstian  in 
May  2007  •  KERRY  ROLAND  Martinez 
of  Virginia  Beach  VA  and  Nick  announced 
the  birth  of  son  John  in  February  2007. 
Kerry  is  a  senior  account  executive  with 
Anthem  •  JENNIFER  HOPKINS  Rittling 
of  Atlanta  GA  and  husband  Charles  wel- 
comed son  Charles  last  spnng. 


Contact  one  of  your  class  secretaries 
by  January  18  with  news  for  your  class 
column: 
Annie  McGinley 
annmcginleY@hotmail.  com 
Jenna  Smith 
mbcyaya@Y3hoo.  com 
We  had  a  blast  at  Reunion  last  March 
with  a  fabulous  turnout  and  many 
opportunities  to  reconnect.  What  great 
women  we  have  become!    Our  class  is 
experiencing  a  baby  boom.    In  2006, 
LESLIE  COKER  Crocker  of  Norfolk  VA 
and  Warren  welcomed  Olivia:  TAMBER- 
LY  "TAMMY"  HILKER  Congdon  of 
Germantown  MD  welcomed  son  Riley: 
ELIZABETH  "RENEE"  GIBSON 
Dunford  of  Fredencksburg  VA  was 
blessed  with  son  Conner,  and  CRYSTAL 
CASTEEN  Pullen  of  Warsaw  NC  and 
Kirk  had  Isabelle.  In  2007  SUZANNAH 
MEYER  Zachos  of  Columbia  MD  and 
Nick  greeted  first  child  Anastasia.  Ana  is 
the  niece  of  KATY  MEYER  Hulse  '02. 
In  the  true  spirit  of  Mary  Baldwin,  she 
is  also  the  happy  recipient  of  3  more 
unofficial  aunts:   LINDSEY  NORTON 
Caines,  BETH  SILVERMAN  Sprenkle, 
and  LEIGH  WHITT  League  •  SUSAN 
SMITH  Alsdorf  of  Wayne  NJ  has  a 
master's  from  Fairleigh  Dickinson 
University  and  works  for  Blue  Sky,  a 
small  consulting  firm  •  NICOLE  MEDI- 
NA of  Staunton  VA  is  an  adult  protec- 
tive social  worker  for  the  City  of 
Staunton,  Last  summer,  she  was  hon- 
ored as  City  Employee  of  the  Year  • 
INDIRA  SHAIK  of  Ellicott  City  MD 
works  as  a  prevention  and  wellness 
coordinator  for  a  managed  care  organi- 
zation and  is  working  on  her  master's 
degree  •  LEIGH  WHITT  League  of 
Mechanicsville  VA  and  husband  Shelton 
have  2  sons,  Patrick  and  Tanner  BETH 
SILVERMAN  Sprenkle  of  Bristow  VA  is 
the  boys'  godmother  Leigh  is  a  line  of 
business  leader  for  Hewitt  Associates 
and  teaches  online  business  classes  for 
University  of  Phoenix  •  ANGELA 
WOOD  Porter  of  Roanoke  VA  earned  a 
master's  degree  in  social  work,  got 
marned,  and  "best  of  all,  gave  birth  to 
son  Ty  Dylan  Porter."   Angela  is  a 
licensed  clinical  social  worker 


1998 

REUNION  '08 

Contact  your  class  secretary  by  January 
18  with  news  for  your  class  column: 
Anne  Wagner 
3nnebwagner@gmail.  com 
MEREDITH  MOLTENI  Luck  of  Richmond 
VA  tied  the  knot  with  Frederick  in 
October  2006.  Many  MBC  friends  were 
there  to  celebrate  •  EMILY  ALEXAN- 
DER Douglas  of  Nashville  TN  and  hus- 
band Kris  welcomed  first  child  Eleanor  In 
March  2007  •  RHONDA  JOHNSON 
Edmunds  of  Chariottesville  VA  published 
the  debut  issue  of  The  Light  Magazine 
iwww.thelightmag.netj.  This  quarterly 
publication  is  the  first  of  its  kind  in  the 
area  and  is  dedicated  to  highlighting  the 
Central  Virginia  African-American  commu- 
nity •  SARA  MACKEY  Dunn  of  King 
George  VA  and  Dan  welcomed  Isaac  in 
January  He  joins  2  older  brothers  and  a 
sister  "As  a  homeschooling  mother  of 
four,  I  stay  busy,  but  find  time  to  volun- 
teer at  my  church"  •  CHARISSA 
STOUFFER  Larson  of  Leesburg  VA  and 
Michael  welcomed  first  child  Tyler  in 
January  •  ANNE  WAGNER  of  Roanoke 
VA  was  honored  with  a  celebratory 
luncheon  by  MBC  fnends  FRANCESCA 
RUSK-Wallace  of  Dumfries  VA  and 
SUSAN  NICHOLS  Wright  of 
Washington  DC,  both  Class  of  '97  on  the 
occasion  of  her  relocation  and  new  job. 
Anne  is  a  graphic  designer  for  Carilion 
Health  Systems  •  REBECCA  MORRI- 
SON Jackson  of  Hyattsville  MD  miarried 
Geoffrey  in  August  2006.  Both  are 
employed  by  the  Census  Bureau.  "Two 
MBC  grads  were  at  our  wedding,  SHAN- 
NON BAYLIS  Sarino  '99  of  Rockville  MD 
and  HOLLY  SOUTH  '99  of  Callaway 
MD     •  KATHERINE  "KATE"  LANGLOIS 
Faraci  and  Steve  of  Manakin-Sabot  VA 
welcomed  first  child  Stephen  in  Febnjary 


1999 


Contact  one  of  your  class  secretaries 
by  January  18  with  news  for  your  class 
column: 
Jennifer  Lordan 
ielordan@cox.net 
Mary  Margaret  Kenney  Marshall 
themarsh3lls3ndmo-b@juno.com 
LEILA  MclNTYRE  King  of  Winston- 
Salem  NC  and  husband  Chris  welcomed 
second  child  Scariett  in  January  2007 
She  joins  brother  Jack  (3)  •  SHANNON 
BAYLIS  Sarino  of  Rockville  MD  was  pro- 
moted to  supervising  editor  for  The  View 
newspapers,  four  publications  in  Elliott 
City,  Western  Howard  County,  Elkridge 
and  Catonsville  MD.  Shannon  and  hus- 
band Ernie  enjoy  daughter  Gaby  (4)  • 
ANNI  LORI  HILL  Foster  of  Phoenix  AZ 
and  husband  David  welcomed  Will  in 
April  2007  Anni  enjoyed  three  months  off 
from  her  job  as  an  assistant  attorney  gen- 
eral for  the  state. 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


2000 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc-edu  by  January  18. 
MELODYE  HUGHES  Pamszkiewicz  of 

Chesterfield  VA  married  Patrick  in  August 
2005.  The  couple  welcomed  first  child 
IVlira  in  April  2007.  Melodye  is  an  elemen- 
tary math  specialist  for  Hopewell  City 
Schools  •  SARAH  LANGLOIS  Luther 
and  Steve  of  Lynchburg  VA  have  3  chil- 
dren:  Madison  (4)  and  twins  Austin  and 
Emma,  who  were  born  in  January  2006 
•  LAURA  FRENCH  Pearson  of  Abilene 
TX  and  Brian  just  welcomed  third  son 
Jonathan,  who  joins  brothers  Boyd  and 
Levi.  She  started  school  again  this  fall  • 
JENNIFER  KNOXVILLE  of  Staunton  VA 
IS  a  teacher  •  REBECCA  CUSTER 
Snyder  of  Summerhill  PA  married  Mark 
in  2003  and  is  a  physician's  assistant. 
They  built  a  new  home  and  welcomed 
daughter  Ember  last  fall. 

ZUUi 

Contact  your  class  secretary  by  January 
18  with  news  for  your  class  column: 
Amberleigh  Covell  Powell 
chrisandal200WYahoo.com 
KELLY  REESE  Kaufman  of  Lexington 
KY:   "I  graduated  from  Austin  Theological 
Seminary  with  a  master  of  divinity 
degree  and  am  seeking  a  call  as  a  pas- 
tor in  the  Presbyterian  Church."    Kelly 
wed  Evan  in  June  at  MBC  •  AMANDA 
TYNER  Ironmonger  lives  in 
Chesapeake  VA  with  husband  Sean  and 
puppy  Alex.  She  teaches  eighth  grade  • 
ASHLEY  ADAMS  Miller  and  husband 
Joe  live  in  HuttoTX  with  son  Adam  (3)  • 
MELINDA  "MlNDY"TODD  moved  to 
San  Jose  CA. 


2002 


Contact  your  class  secretary  by  January 
18  with  news  for  your  class  column: 
Anna  Henley 

annalhenley@hotmail.  com 
MEREDITH  TOWNSEND  Carrington  of 
Richmond  VA  and  Bobby  welcomed 
first  child  Robert  in  May  2007  • 
A'LEIGH  SPENSIERI  Hamner  of 
Ypsilanti  Ml:   "I  moved  to  Michigan  and 
married  Tray  in  August  2007"   • 
KYLENE  CRAIG  Thompson  of  Bon  Air 
VA  reports  that  her  husband  is 
deployed.  She  is  caring  for  son  Reece 
(3)  and  pursuing  a  master's  in  art  edu- 
cation •  KRISTEN  BRYANT  Gould  of 
Midlothian  VA  and  husband  Lee  wel- 
comed daughter  Bridget  in  2006.  She  is 
a  marketing  communications  coordina- 
tor for  Alfa  Laval,  Inc.'s  USA  Division  • 
WINDSOR  HALL  Johnson  of 
Manassas  VA  is  a  stay-at-home  mom 
and  substitute  dance  teacher  •  BETH 
CHAPMAN-Ford:   "Greetings  from  San 
Diego  CA.   My  husband  Cliff  returned 
last  January  from  overseas  deployment 
and  daughter  Mann  is  almost  2"    Beth 
works  at  Sony  Playstation  •  EMILY 
ALLEN  Jiancristoforo  lives  In 
Richmond  VA  with  Hannah,  who  was 
born  in  ApnI.  She  is  director  of  opera- 
tions for  a  non-profit  organization  that 
helps  connect  families  of  children  with 
disabilities  and  community  resources 


and  educational  opportunities  • 
CHINYELU  "CHI-CHI "  CHIEMELU 
Tyler  of  Claymont  DE  and  husband 
Chaz  had  daughter  Anaiah  in  July.  She 
joins  brother  Avon  (2)  •  CASEY  BRENT 
of  Baltimore  MD:   "Shortly  after  our 
reunion,  I  became  the  proud  owner  of 
White  Tent  Events  www.awhiteten- 
teventcom),  my  own  event  planning 
business  with  help  from  classmates 
AMANDA  DAVIS  Holloway  and 
MEREDITH  TOWNSEND  Carrington 
and  KIMBERLY  MOREHEAD  '01    I  am 
going  back  to  school  for  my  doctorate." 


2005 


2003 


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REUNION  '08 

Contact  your  class  secretary  by  January 
18  with  news  for  your  class  column: 
Elizabeth  Hill 
hilleg@gmail  com 
Greetings  classmates!  JENNIFER 
CHEATHAM  bought  a  new  house  in 
Sandston  VA  with  boyfriend  Jeff  and 
their  son  Matthew,  who  was  born  in 
2006  •  LINDSAY  MORRIS-Martin  of 
Stuarts  Draft  VA  married  Michael  in 
2005  and  is  excited  about  beginning  her 
nursing  career  •  HOLLY  MOSKOWITZ 
of  Fort  Bragg  CA  works  for  the 
Thanksgiving  Coffee  Company,  a  social- 
ly responsible  company  specializing  in 
fair  trade,  organic,  and  shade  grown 
coffees  sourced  from  all  over  the  worid. 
She  is  also  taking  an  anatomy  course 
and  learning  to  play  cello  •  ROBIN 
WHITE  of  Fairfax  VA  is  executive  assis- 
tant to  the  associate  libranan  of  strate- 
gic initiatives/chief  information  officer  at 
the  Library  of  Congress  •  KELLY  GUR- 
LEY  Roberts  of  Norfolk  VA  passed  the 
Virginia  Bar  Exam  in  June  •   KRISTIN 
COOPER  Mullen  moved  to  Odenton 
MD  to  be  a  commander  in  the  Air 
Force.  She  and  Keith  have  a  baby 
daughter,  Kaitlyn. 


2004 


Contact  your  class  secretary  by  January 
18  with  news  for  your  class  column: 
Lea  Thompson 
sunshine3482@yahoo-  com 
SUSANNAH  BASKERVIL  Pittman  of 
Dothan  AL  graduated  from  seminary  at 
Emory  University,  marned  Lonnie  and 
became  associate  pastor  of  First  United 
Methodist  Church  in  Enterpnse  AL  • 
JENNIFER  CARMAN  Lovell  of  Virginia 
Beach  VA  gave  birth  to  first  child  Cyrus 
in  September  2006  •  In  Centerville  WA, 
CATRINA  METTAM  bought  a  60-acre 
farm:  "I'm  doing  what  I  have  always 
wanted  to  do:  live  in  the  country  and 
raise  horses  and  livestock"    •  BAR- 
BARA ZSELECZKY  Hurd  of 
Chariottesville  VA  published  the  book 
Back  to  My  Knitting,  which  is  available 
at  www.bn.com  or  wherever  books  are 
sold   •  DRISANA  GARLINGTON- 
Rodriguez  of  Philadelphia  PA  is  work- 
ing in  financial  aid  at  Villanova 
University.  She  and  Juan  have  daughter 
Daniella  (2). 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
BRANDY  PERRIN  Hyder  of  Farmville 
VA  IS  an  information  technology  special- 
ist for  Longwood  University  •  VERONI- 
CA STOKES  moved  to  Gainesville  FL  • 
STEPHANIE  HATLEM  of  Stafford  VA  is 
a  flight  attendant  based  out  of 
Washington  DC,  flying  from  Dulles, 
Reagan  and  BWI  Airports  to  internation- 
al points.  "With  United's  new  routes  to 
Kuwait  City,  Kuwait  and  Rome,  Italy,  my 
love  of  cultural  experiences  will  soon 
increase'  •  LITA  STASKEY  Mitchell  of 
Virginia  Beach  VA  earned  a  master's  and 
is  working  as  a  counselor.  She  married 
Colin  last  January. 


third-grade  teacher.  Sarah  is  singing 
Puccini's  La  Boheme  in  Italian  at 
DuPage  Opera  Theatre  •  ASHLEY 
LUMBARD  of  West  Haven  CT  is  work- 
ing in  the  Office  of  Counseling  and 
Disabilities  at  New  Haven  University. 
She  sends  her  best  wishes  to  all  her 
friends  in  the  Spencer  Society  • 
ANDREA  JETT-Wilson  of  Amherst  VA 
gave  birth  to  Andrew  in  November  2006 
•  MARGARET  RALSTON  of  Staunton 
VA  is  a  library  administrator  and  inter- 
preter at  Woodrow  Wilson  Presidential 
Library. 


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2006 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
SARAH  BENKENDORF  of  Oak  Brook 
IL  became  the  youngest  person  in  the 
educational  graduate  program  at 
Harvard  University,  where  she  earned  a 
master's  and  is  certified  to  teach  in 
Virginia  and  Illinois.  She  hopes  to  be  a 


Send  your  class  notes  to: 
alumnae@mbc.edu  by  January  18. 
ALISON  KAUFMANN  of  Richmond  VA  is 
energy  conservation  communication  spe- 
cialist for  Dominion  Power  "I  will  be 
working  on  the  communication  strate- 
gies and  public  relations  campaigns  for 
Dominion's  conservation  programs"  • 
RACHEL  YIM  of  Annandale  VA  is  teach- 
ing 4th  grade  at  Mount  Vernon  Woods 
Elementary  School. 


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ELSIE  PALMER  Fctner 

JANE  DOUGLAS  SUIVIMERS  Brown 

MARGARET  MAUZE  Carson 

VIRGINIA  MABEN  Stokes 

WINIFRED  "WINNIE"  YOUNG  Bowman 

ADELE  "DELL"  GOOCH  Kiessling 

CAROL  BOWMAN  Coven 

MARY  SHEETS  Prcstwood 

DONNIE  ERASER  Stitt 

ELIZABETH  MCGRATH  Anthony 

ANNE  HANEKE  McGough 

BILLIE  JEAN  JOSEPH  Ameen 

NANCY  McFARLANE  Bonner 

BETTY  LEE  EDWARDS  Watkins 

NANCY  ANDERSON  Blakcy 

JOAN  "JO"  MOORE  Woltz 

DORIS  LIDDLE  Newman 

^LARNIE  GRAF  Davidow 

ELIZABETH  "BUTCH"  WOOD  Marks 

ELIZABETH  "LIZ"  LEHMANN  Bradshaw 

SANDRA  "SANDY"  BOURKARD  Lockett 

MARY  CHENAULT  Bomar 

NANCY  WILLLAMSON  Lamb 

KATHLEEN  "KATHY"  AURE 

JOSEPHINE  LEIGH  SMITH 

EVELYN  EAST  Diment 

NATALIE  ANNETTE  DUFNER 

CLYDENNE  REINHARD  Glenn 

PAIGE  WILLHITE  Woolwine 

DOROTHY'  BRYAN  BOOTH  Kervick 

DAVID  GLENN  BLEVINS 


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to  give  more? 

It  is  my  pleasure  to  contribute  the  attached  annual  gift  to  benefit  all  who  are  associated 
with  Mary  Baldwin.  It  is  unfortunate  that  I  am  unable  to  attend  my  five-year  reunion  to 
celebrate  and  commemorate  the  Class  of  2002,  as  I  am  serving  with  the  759th  Military 
Police  Battalion  in  Baghdad,  Iraq. 

Since  graduating  from  Mary  Baldwin  and  commissioning  in  the  United  States  Army 
in  May  of  2002, 1  have  served  in  numerous  capacities  from  a  platoon  leader  in  the 
Republic  of  Korea,  to  the  special  reaction  team  officer  in  charge  (S.W.A.T)  at  Fort 
Carson,  Colorado,  to  the  adjutant  of  the  759th  MP  [military  police]  BN  in  Iraq. 

In  the  performance  of  my  duties  I  feel  as  though  I  continue  to  exceed  the  standard, 
have  achieved  much,  and  have  done  very  well.  Aside  from  my  wonderful  family,  I  owe  a 
tremendous  amount  of  gratitude  for  preparing  me  to  accept  these  roles  to  Mary 
Baldwin  and  the  Virginia  Women's  Institute  for  Leadership.  I  believe  that,  at  times,  the 
two  are  viewed  as  separate  from  one  another,  but  I  stand  firm  in  the  knowledge  that 
they  are  one  in  the  same  for  me,  part  of  a  time-honored  tradition,  and  I  am  truly  grate- 
ful for  the  Mary  Baldwin,  VWIL  experience. 

My  only  humble  request  as  I  contribute  my  annual  gift  is  that  all  Mary  Baldwin 
women  are  reminded  of  their  greatness.  The  women  of  Mary  Baldwin  are  strong,  inde- 
pendent, intellectual,  refined,  charismatic,  selfless,  and  loyal;  continuously  seeking  ways 
to  improve  the  conditions  they  find  themselves  in.  Since  arriving  in  Baghdad,  I  have 
come  across  three  of  my  fellow  alumnae  from  Baldwin:  Captains  Christina  Murray  '01, 
Kristy  Wheeler  '01,  and  Rachel  O'Connell  '02.  I  have  also  read  the  college  magazine 
and  other  correspondence  sent  to  me  by  Brigadier  General  Mike  Bissell  [commandant  of 
VWIL].   I  take  pride  in  seeing  the  multiple  ways  in  which  Mary  Baldwin  women  are 
serving  around  the  world.  I  am  honored  to  serve  alongside  these  women  of  greatness, 
women  like  Sarah  Small  '02,  who  tragically  lost  her  life  in  the  pursuit  of  contributing  to 
a  stronger  nation.  In  short,  I  am  honored  to  be  part  of  the  Mary  Baldwin  tradition. 

Upon  receiving  the  Bertie  Deming  Smith  Challenge  in  the  mail,  with  a  note  signed 
by  my  fellow  alumna,  Staci  Boone,  I  decided  to  take  this  challenge.  It  is  the  very  least  I 
can  do  to  acknowledge  and  convey  a  deep  gratitude  for  Mary  Baldwin  College  and  all 
that  it  offers  to  bright  young  women. 

Bless  Mary  Baldwin  College  and  may  it  serve  to  strengthen  our  resolve  to  continue 
on  in  the  face  of  any  adversity  so  that  greatness  can  be  achieved.  ▲ 

—  Erinn  Singman  '02 


While  stationed  in  Iraq, 
Captain  Singman  sent  this  let- 
ter and  her  very  generous  gift 
to  her  alma  mater  to  make  a 
difference  for  the  Annual 
Fund.  Now  stationed  at 
Quantico  Marine  Corps  Base 
in  Virginia,  she  is  doing 
Marine  Corps  Expeditionary 
Training.  This  is  our  small 
way  of  meeting  her  request  to 
remind  "Mary  Baldwin 
women  of  their  greatness. " 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


Memories  of  Mary  Baldwin  College  1940-44 


Eva  Vines  Eutsler  '44,  Spanish  major 


L  to  r:  Louise  Mitchell  '47  Eva  Vines  Eutsler  '44, 
and  Martha  Rodrigues  '46 

Glimpses  of  Eutsler's  MBC: 
1940-44 

Class  Colors:  Purple  and  Gold 
Basic  attire  for  the  Class  of  1944:  socks  and 
saddle  shoes,  sweaters,  and  skirts  just 
below  the  knee,  and,  yes,  pearls. 

FRESHMAN  YEAR  1940-41 

Eutsler's  extracurriculars:  Athletic 
Association,  Day  Student  Club,  Glee  Club 

John  Robert  Powers  of  the  famed  acting 
and  modeling  school  for  young  people  in 
New  York  City  selected  the  most  beautiful 
girls  at  MBC  that  year  for  the  beauty  section 
of  The  Bluestocking  yearbook.  Pearl  Epiing 
'42  placed  first. 

SGA  president:  Dorris  Withers  McNeal  '41, 
sociology  major 

SOPHOMORE  YEAR  1941-42 

Eutsler's  extracurriculars:  Athletic 
Association,  Day  Student  Club,  Spanish  Club 

Centennial  of  the  school  was  celebrated  at 
the  end  of  the  academic  year  in  June  1942. 

William  Wayt  King  Building  was  under  con- 
struction. 

SGA  president:  Adelaide  McSween  '42, 
sociology  major 


My  mother  and  father  were  married  when  she  was  17  years  old  and  he 
was  34.  In  the  early  1920s  he  began  building  a  10-room  house  for 
her,  believing  she  would  outlive  him.  I  was  the  youngest  of  six  chil- 
dren. On  May  14,  1927  when  I  was  not  quite  five  years  old,  my  mother  died 
as  a  result  of  a  bungled  operation.  My  father  was  devastated  and  sought  sol- 
ace in  alcohol.  He  did  not  finish  the  finer  aspects  of  the  house  such  as  indoor 
plumbing.  My  oldest  sister  waited  as  long  as  she  could  to  marry,  which 
occurred  the  day  after  my  13th  birthday. 

I  learned  to  cook,  wash  clothes,  clean  house,  and  look  after  my  father 
and  the  house.  We  were  in  the  middle  of  the  Great  Depression  and  my  father 
went  bankrupt.  We  had  little  food  and  very  few  clothes  to  wear.  I  had  little 
hope  of  going  to  college  because  of  the  tight  economics  and  the  fact  that  none 
of  my  siblings  had  gone.  Fortunately,  Dr.  Herbert  S.  Turner  [professor  of  phi- 
losophy and  Bible],  who  taught  at  Mary  Baldwin  and  was  pastor  of  Bethel 
Presbyterian  Church  (near  my  hometown  of  Greenville,  Virginia),  took  an 
interest  in  me  and  got  me  enrolled.  He  remained  my  mentor  throughout  my 
college  years.  I  received  scholarship  aid  through  the  National  Youth 
Administration,  but  I  also  had  to  work  in  the  reference  library  at  Mary 
Baldwin  and  in  the  public  library,  which  was  in  the  YMCA  building. 

I  was  only  marginally  prepared  for  college.  In  high  school  I  had  an  excel- 
lent grammar  teacher,  but  we  did  not  write  essays.  When  I  went  to  Mary 
Baldwin  I  was  up  against  classmates  who  had  gone  to  private  schools  such  as 
Stuart  Hall  [in  Staunton]  and  who  were  much  better  prepared  to  do  college 
work. 

I  was  a  day  student  at  Mary  Baldwin  and  had  to  get  rides  or  walk  from 
Greenville  to  Staunton  (12  miles).  I  rode  with  a  barber,  a  hairdresser,  a  man 
who  worked  at  White  Star  Mills,  and  others.  Fortunately,  during  my  college 
days,  one  of  my  sisters  and  her  family  moved  back  home  and  hired  a  maid 
who  took  over  my  household  chores. 

During  this  time  our  church  welcomed  a  new  minister.  Usually  we  would 
get  a  minister  soon  to  retire  or  one  who  was  poorly  educated  and  murdered 
the  King's  English.  This  time  was  different.  He  was  young  and  a  recent  gradu- 
ate of  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  New  York  City,  where  he  had  studied 
under  some  of  the  great  theologians  of  the  20th  century  such  as  Reinhold 
Neibuhr.  For  a  couple  of  Sundays  after  his  arrival,  I  was  attending  functions  at 
Mary  Baldwin  and  missed  church  services,  but  I  asked  someone  what  his 
name  was.  Eutsler,  they  said.  My  comment:  "Imagine  going  through  life  with 
a  name  like  that." 

I  attended  Mary  Baldwin  during  World  War  II  years  1940-1944.  Martha 
Grafton  [then  dean  of  instruction]  helped  me  determine  how  many  classes  I 
could  take  without  being  bogged  down.  I  wanted  to  take  music  and  art  appre- 
ciation but  did  not  have  the  time.  One  of  my  older  sisters  arranged  for  me  to 
take  private  voice  lessons. 

I  was  in  the  Glee  Club  during  my  first  year.  Daily  chapel  was  required.  I 
recall  one  day  during  the  week  we  had  an  entertainment  show.  Several  girls 
stood  behind  a  curtain  and  tried  to  imitate  popular  singers.  I  imitated  Dinah 
Shore  singing  Chattanooga  Choo  Choo. 

At  Christmas  time  I  sang  second  soprano  in  Lo,  How  a  Rose  Er'e 


Blooming.  The  director,  Dr.  Carl  Broman,  told  us  we  would  have  to  stay  for 
another  practice  one  night.  I  told  him  I  couldn't  because  I  had  no  way  to  get 
home.  I  stayed  and  he  took  me  home. 

Mary  Baldwin  let  out  December  15  for  Christmas  [break]  and  re-opened 
January  15.  This  allowed  [wartime]  soldiers  to  use  all  available  transportation 
to  get  home  for  the  holidays  and  back  to  camp.  We  had  exams  twice  a  year,  in 
January  after  break  and  at  the  end  of  the  second  semester.  After  being  on  win- 
ter break  for  a  month,  we  had  to  relearn  everything  for  exams. 

We  still  had  May  Day  at  Mary  Baldwin.  I  recall  that  in  my  senior  year, 
Mildred  Mohun  '44  was  May  Queen.  Her  attendants  were  Ann  Easterly  '44 
and,  I  don't  recall  who  the  other  one  was  [Sara  Nair  '44].  My  two  attendants 
were  Louise  Mitchell  '47  and  Martha  Rodrigues  '46. 

One  of  my  most  vivid  memories  at  Mary  Baldwin  was  the  day  [March 
13,  1942]  Helen  Keller  spoke  in  First  Presbyterian  Church.  I  could  understand 
her  [in  reference  to  the  effect  of  deafness  on  her  vocal  presentation],  but  it 
sounded  as  if  her  voice  was  in  a  barrel.  We  each  received  a  card  with  her  auto- 
graph written  on  it.  [Keller's  niece,  Katharine  Keller  Ewin  '45  was  a  student  at 
MBC  at  the  time.] 

Occasionally  I  would  walk  to  the  Alumnae  Club  House  to  get  a  bun  or  a 
cup  of  coffee.  The  room  was  so  full  of  smoke,  I  could  hardly  see.  Most  of  the 
girls  were  playing  bridge.  [The  Cochran  home  was  rented  by  the  college  in 
1931  and  later  purchased  in  1937  for  $14,000.  As  the  Alumnae  Club  House, 
located  on  Frederick  and  New  Streets  across  from  the  Administration 
Building,  it  housed  the  offices  of  the  Alumnae  Association,  whose  members 
ran  the  club  —  a  lounge  and  tea  room.  The  association  felt  it  was  an  effective 
way  to  build  and  maintain  relations  with  current  students  and  future  alum- 
nae.] 

During  my  last  year,  I  started  dating  Kern  Eutsler,  the  new  minister  at  my 
church.  I  was  impressed  with  his  knowledge.  He  told  me  that  while  he  was  at 
Union  Theological  Seminary,  little  did  he  know  that  the  Manhattan  Project, 
which  led  to  the  creation  of  the  atomic  bomb,  was  practically  in  his  backyard 
at  Columbia  University. 

We  married  October  10,  1945.  As  I  look  back  on  nearly  62  happy  years 
together,  our  two  daughters,  and  four  grandchildren,  I  am  sure  Kern  [who 
retired  as  a  bishop  in  the  Methodist  Church]  would  never  have  married  a  girl 
with  only  a  high  school  education.  The  answer  is  always  Mary  Baldwin 
College. 

Dr.  [L.  Wilson]  Jarman,  president  of  the  college,  was  often  heard  to  say 
that  98  percent  of  MBC  graduates  married.  About  the  only  occupations  open 
to  women  then  were  nursing,  teaching-  or  secretarial  work.  Married  women 
were  allowed  to  enter  Mary  Baldwin  for  the  first  time  while  I  was  there, 
because  their  husbands  were  soldiers  wounded  in  World  War  II  and  were 
patients  at  Woodrow  Wilson  Rehabilitation  Center  in  Fishersville. 

Dances  were  finally  allowed  at  Mary  Baldwin  during  my  early  years 
there,  too.  They  were  held  in  the  old  Dining  Hall  and  we  would  hit  a  post 
every  time  we  took  a  step.  [By  1943,  dances  were  held  in  the  new  gymnasium 
in  King.] 

These  are  some  of  my  memories.  ▲ 


JUNIOR  YEAR  1942-43 

Eutsler's  extracurriculars:  Athletic  Association, 
Day  Student  Club,  Spanish  Club 

First  dance  in  the  new  gymnasium  in  King. 

Hollywood  star  Greer  Garson  came  to  campus 
for  a  War  Bond  Rally 

War  time  efforts  continued  apace,  and  by  this 
year  included  making  surgical  dressings  for  the 
Red  Cross,  buying  weekly  quotas  of  war 
stamps,  collecting  scrap  metal  for  the  war 
effort,  staying  physically  fit  and  "prepared,"  col- 
lecting books  for  soldiers,  and  more. 

SGA  president:  Kathryn  Lucas  '43,  English 
major 


SENIOR  YEAR  1943-44 

Eutsler's  extracurriculars:  Day  Student  Club, 
Freshman  Advisor,  Spanish  Club 

Commencement,  by  tradition,  was  preceded  by 
three  days  of  events,  most  attended  by  all  stu- 
dents at  MBC,  including  High  Tea  for  seniors 
hosted  by  President  Jarman  and  the  college 
deans,  faculty  and  staff  concerts,  art  exhibits, 
garden  party,  and  May  Day  Pageant. 

SGA  president:  Josephine  Hannah  '44,  chem- 
istry and  biology  major 


With  thanks  to  William  Pollard,  college 
librarian  emeritus  and  college  archivist,  for 
his  help  to  fill  out  historical  facts,  including 
names  and  dates  in  the  memoir 


Mary  Baldwin  College  Magazine 


68  Winter  2008 


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campuses  in  the  nation  and  we  will  never  take  that  for  granted. 
This  year's  emergency  planning  committee  is  working  hard  on 
new  initiatives  for  emergency  communication. 

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Exceptionally  Gifted 

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even  have  a  blog.  Read  about  PEGs  here  now  and  recently,  learn 
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