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\u201cIn these days when teenagers often find themselves regarded as members of a \u2018lost generation,\u2019 it comes like a fresh clear wind when a youngster such as Miss Marguerite Barland appears on the scene.\u201d So begins a write-up of Marguerite Barland \u201960 in the Baltimore Afro-American<\/em> on March 2, 1957, as part of \u201cAfro\u2019s 1956 Honor Roll.\u201d She was\u00a019 years old, and she would become the first African American to graduate from Goucher College.<\/p>\n

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Fresh clear wind, indeed. At Douglass High School, she was in the student council, edited the yearbook, and was elected city comptroller of the model youth city council. She was the valedictorian of her class and president of the junior usher board of the Leadenhall Baptist Church in South Baltimore. (She later became the superintendent of the church\u2019s Sunday school.) Her family remembers her as a studious, brilliant woman who loved to debate as much as she loved telling jokes, all while clad in impeccable outfits and fashionable high heels.<\/p>\n

Barland died in 2002, but to her family and former students, there\u2019s still so much of her alive in the world. \u201cCollege was not really an option [in our family], it was a given,\u201d says her niece, Karen Barland. \u201cAnd that\u2019s because of my Aunt Marguerite, and the value she held on education.\u201d A chemistry major at Goucher, she went on to teach the subject at Douglass and several other Baltimore schools. She got great satisfaction out of teaching and having an influence on her students.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was flexible and able to deal with anybody. That\u2019s a remarkable thing for somebody with her intellect,\u201d says Michael Barland, her nephew. And she was never one to flaunt her cleverness.<\/p>\n

Barland enjoyed her classes, determined to overcome any obstacles to obtaining a degree. Asked about the discrimination she might have faced as one of the few African Americans at Goucher, her niece Carolyn Scott-Harris explains, \u201cIt was difficult, but not everyone was prejudiced toward her. She did make friends.\u201d Scott-Harris says Barland visited Seattle during the 1962 World\u2019s Fair, staying with a Goucher friend who lived there. Throughout her life, Barland made friends the world over. She had a cross-cultural outlook, believing that everyone could expand their minds if they interacted with people unlike themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI think she would have been better suited had she been a young woman in these times, when the watchword is \u2018global,\u2019\u201d her niece Carol Melvin says.\u00a0\u201cFor her that was very important.\u201d<\/p>\n

For all her forward thinking, she was also the\u00a0family historian. Her father left Mississippi for a new life in Baltimore after serving in WWI. Barland delved into research on their Southern roots, curious about their name and enslaved ancestors, her nephew says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho all these people were, and what they meant in our lives\u2014the dynamic of early family history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barland herself is a significant figure in her family\u2019s history, and Goucher\u2019s as well. At the annual Jewell Robinson Dinner in February, the college bestows a Marguerite Barland \u201960 Merit Award to an alumna\/us who has significantly contributed to the diversity of Goucher through leadership or philanthropic support. Awardees exemplify the college\u2019s community principles\u2014respect, inclusion, communication, service and social justice, and responsibility. Her legacy lives on. As the Afro-American<\/em> optimistically put it, \u201cThose who are concerned with the future of the world can dismiss their fears when they look at the citizens of tomorrow such as Miss Barland.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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