Alumni Spotlight Archives - Goucher Magazine

Altomease Rucker Kennedy ’71

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2018 Marguerite Barland ’60 Merit Award Recipient To Receive Award at 12th Annual Jewel Robinson Dinner.

Q&A: Darl Andrew Packard ’04

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“If pressed I would title myself a Jack-of-all trades. So I may not know exactly what my “career” is but I know what I do and why I do it.”

Q&A: Camille Baudot Wheeler ’63

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Social Services Executive

Tobi Elkin ’86

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Amtrak writer-in-residence watches the world go by.

Eye in the Sky

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Ross Shaffer ’10 takes to the air

Virginia “Jinny” Muse Fleischman ’68

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Fleischman and her classmates have been looking back as they gear up for their 50th reunion, organizing get-togethers to drum up enthusiasm.

By Chris Landers No one can accuse Theo Emery M.F.A. ’14 of choosing an easy topic. His book, Hellfire Boys, due out in November, is subtitled “The Birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and the Race for the World’s Deadliest Weapons,” and deals with the American response to German

Jill Sisson Quinn M.F.A. ’08

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By Molly Englund Jill Sisson Quinn M.F.A. ’08, like many of the writers who have gone through Goucher’s Creative Nonfiction Program, was fairly established in her writing career when she came to graduate school. While working as a high school English teacher, she had published several personal essays that dealt with

Porscha Burke M.F.A. ’17

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By Chris Landers Porscha Burke M.F.A. ’17 has a simple answer for how she became a publishing manager and associate editor at Random House 13 years ago: prayer. The self-described “unapologetic Christian girl” isn’t exaggerating. She did pray for direction. Three years out from the University of Virginia, she was

Jean Guerrero M.F.A. ’15

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Jean Guerrero M.F.A. ’15 was majoring in journalism at USC, and everyone kept reminding her it was a struggling industry. But through internships and hard work, Guerrero proved otherwise.

Q&A with Melinda Burdette ’72

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Goucher Trustee

C. Lu Bell ’51

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A Librarian Inspired by Learning

SaraKay Smullens ’62

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Social work and activism go hand in hand

Q&A with Risa Gorelick ’91

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Dissertation/Writing Coach, Defend & Publish, LLC

Q&A: Justin Holbrook ’10

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2017 Baltimore City Teacher of the Year

Q&A with Vince Connelly ’98

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Owner, Connelly & Associates Fundraising, LLC

Q&A with Maya Alexandri

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Novelist, short story writer, medical student

Q&A with Mary DeArment ’83

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Owner & Designer, Mary DeArment Word Art

Betty Overington Knupp ’67

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AAGC Award for Excellence in Public Service Winner

Q&A With Jesse Holland M.F.A. ’12

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Goucher Magazine talks to the author and Barland Award recipient

Q&A: Beth Goldsmith ’72, M.Ed. ’73

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Trustee and philanthropist

Laura McElwain Colquoun ’99

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Prime minister’s former intern reflects on Brexit

Dalen Butler, M.A.C.S. ’14

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Bringing a hidden culture to light

Jaime Bogardy ’08

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An alumna finds her niche on the side of a mountain

Q&A: Jon Soderberg ’90

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“I was blessed with exceptional professors and mentors; Jean Harvey Baker, Joe Morton and Julie Jeffery most notably.”

Q&A: Linda Himmelberger ’74

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“Goucher prepared me for my career and for my life by being the best of what a liberal arts college should be…”

Q&A: Lisa Stromberg ’83

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“Hot Steel concert/party in September at the College Center Courtyard, our first party with boys invited! This is where I met my husband in 1979.”

Q&A: Kimberlee Van Newkirk Shaffir ’83, P ’15

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“I left Goucher thinking that I could do practically anything if I just put my mind to it and I still feel that way today.”

Andrew Ervin ’93

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Goucher’s Spring 2016 Kratz Center Writer-in-Residence

Tupper W. Thomas ’66

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Saving the World One Green Space at a Time

Margery Leveen Sher ’69

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A Mindful Evolution

Q&A: Dr. Elizabeth Rhudy Austin ’60

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Composer and teacher of piano and music theory and the 1998 winner of the first prize in the International Alliance for Women in Music’s Miriam Gideon Competition Briefly describe your career (what you do, where you do it, why you do it). I really don’t use the word ‘career’ because

Q&A: Paul Des Marais ’07 M.Ed. ’10

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Creative asset manager at Optimist, a Los Angeles-based, full-service agency specializing in experiential branding Please describe your career (what you do, where you do it, why you do it). I manage a creative team at Optimist. We specialize in experiential branding, working on anything from animation, graphic design, and event

Q&A: Dana Kayser ’13

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English teacher in Štip, Macedonia, where she is a Peace Corp volunteer Could you describe your career (what you do, where you do it, why you do it)? Well, I wouldn’t say that what I have right now is a “career” exactly. Since graduating from college, I’ve been doing stints

Q&A: Wendy E. Chmielewski ’77

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Historian, author, and the George R. Cooley Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection Could you describe your career (what you do, where you do it, why you do it)? I’m the George R. Cooley Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, a special collections library and archives here at

Faye Yvette McQueen ’83

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Hanging Sheetrock or falling out of windows, she’s up for anything

La Jerne Terry Cornish ’83, M.Ed. ’94, P ’18

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La Jerne Terry Cornish knows the potentially transformative power of a Goucher education.

Arienna Grody ’10, Esq.

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Inspired by Atticus Finch and Johnny Cochrane, Arienna Grody ’10 serves indigent clients as a public defender.

Susan Epstein Leeman ’51

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Dr. Susan Epstein Leeman ’51 says the joy of an unexpected discovery makes a career in science worthwhile.

Sheila K. Sachs ’61, Esq.

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BY HOLLY SELBY Sheila K. Sachs ’61, Esq. didn’t set out to be a pioneer, but more than once in her career she has found herself on the cusp of change. In 1961, when she entered the University of Maryland School of Law, she was the only woman in her class of