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T<\/span>he shelves of Mary Hyman \u201971\u2019s<\/strong><\/span> home are stacked with books, the walls crowded with art. The tract house, nestled in a wooded area of Baltimore County, has grown with her through the years, and she leads a visitor through the rooms, delivering an art history lesson as she goes. Recently retired from Loyola College, Hyman gives no sign that her lifelong commitment to education\u2014both her own and others\u2019\u2014is slowing down.<\/p>\n

In October, the Sigmund M. Hyman Foundation, which Mary B. Hyman heads, announced a $2.5 million bequest to Goucher that will support merit scholarships, improvements to science facilities, and student-faculty research.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so grateful for her vision and her philanthropy,\u201d says Goucher President Jose\u0301 Bowen.\u00a0\u201cShe has helped us become the innovative model for the liberal arts that we truly want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her gift stems from the same belief in education that brought her to Goucher. Hyman had left college in Boston after a year and a half to get married in Baltimore and raise two children. Once her daughters were grown, though, she felt she\u2019d missed out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got really upset about it,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI wanted to be educated. I wasn\u2019t getting any intellectual stimulation, and I didn\u2019t feel part of the community. I couldn\u2019t analyze things. I like to be, as best I can, up-to-date. Informed. And sort of challenged.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most women\u2019s schools didn\u2019t admit married women, but Goucher, despite its old-fashioned trappings of white gloves and tea parties, had applied for a grant specifically to influence women to return to college. Hyman took the classes Goucher offered: modern diplomatic history, genetics, and short story writing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I loved it,\u201d she says. \u201cI went back to the dean and said \u2018Can I enroll?\u2019\u201d She could and did, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a major in sociology. \u201cIt was fabulous,\u201d she says, \u201cand they were much more forward thinking than all the other places that just didn\u2019t even concern themselves. Goucher, through the years, tries things out. They\u2019ll take a chance when they see a need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hyman went on to get a master\u2019s degree in adult education at Johns Hopkins. Through a Goucher connection, she landed a job at the Maryland Science Center, where she stayed for two decades, becoming the director of education. While there, she became involved with Johns Hopkins\u2019 Center for Talented Youth (where she is still on the board), designing the first science curriculum for the center\u2019s summer programs.<\/p>\n

She loved the Science Center, she says, but working weekends and holidays became a drag. A Loyola professor who volunteered at the center put her on to a job at his school, and she began a 26-year stint at the Jesuit university, which she retired from in September as the coordinator of science education programs at the Institute for Childcare Education.<\/p>\n

Interacting with the public at the Science Center left Hyman with an unease about the state of science education. \u201cI\u2019ve always liked science,\u201d she says, \u201cand I worry about the fact that there\u2019s so little science literacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

To that end, the Hyman Foundation has recently supported science education not only at Goucher but also at Loyola and at Franklin and Marshall College, where the late Sigmund Hyman was a graduate and longtime trustee.<\/p>\n

And Mary Hyman\u2019s own education continues as well. Since retiring in September, she\u2019s been taking two classes at Johns Hopkins\u2014comparative monotheistic religion and screenwriting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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