{"id":1235,"date":"2017-04-07T17:47:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T17:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2025-07-26T17:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:19:36","slug":"betty-overington-knupp-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/betty-overington-knupp-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty Overington Knupp \u201967"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <strong>Betty Overington Knupp \u201967<\/strong> was reached by cell phone this past March, she was on a boat off the coast of Cumberland Island, Georgia, exploring the local wildlife. Could she call back?<br \/>\nBack on the mainland that afternoon, Knupp, winner of the AAGC 2017 Award for Excellence in Public Service, reflected on her career in arts education and how she has entwined it with a life of travel.<br \/>\nKnupp\u2019s love of art first formed in\u00a0her dorm room at Goucher. Her first- year roommate had gone to France the previous summer and come back smitten with the French Impressionists. The two decorated their room with Monet posters. Then when Knupp, a political science major, finished college, she went on her own Goucher-sponsored trip to Europe. \u201cI spent that whole summer after my graduation in 1967 visiting art museums and churches. I got really excited about art,\u201d she said.<br \/>\nAfter interning with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, Knupp was hired there full time as a research analyst. (The internship was thanks to Goucher\u2019s Political Science Department, which had set up a formal internship program\u2014an almost unheard of concept in the late 1960s.) She was later promoted to supervisor, and found the work in civil rights very rewarding.<br \/>\nBut art would continue to tug at her attentions. She and her husband, John, had four sons, and Knupp decided to volunteer at their elementary school. She created the Picture People Program, which\u00a0brought parents into the classrooms to teach children about famous artists and their paintings. \u201cI found that so much fun because you could see how children could be very excited about really exploring a painting in-depth,\u201d she said.<br \/>\nIt was so much fun that she didn\u2019t want to stop after her kids left elementary school. She began teaching an art appreciation class at Ginger Cove, a retirement community in Annapolis, and then added another one at her church. Knupp also contacted Anne Arundel Community College and began teaching\u00a0a class for senior adults through its continuing education program. The college gave her another class, then another, and pretty soon she was teaching seven classes a week, a career that spanned 25 years.<br \/>\nKnupp also planned trips for all her classes\u2014to Paris and the Loire Valley when they studied French art, to Italy when covering Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, and to Holland for Dutch paintings.<br \/>\n\u201cI got so if I wanted to go someplace, I would plan a trip there and teach a course,\u201d she said. Her husband jokes that her classes were so popular because of her fabulous trips. Knupp took care of everything, so seniors could have a carefree time visiting museums, churches, historic houses, and gardens around Europe and the U.S. She made over 20 trips to Europe alone.<br \/>\nAn avid gardener, Knupp volunteers in the gardens of her church, a children\u2019s museum, and a senior center. She\u2019s also worked with the Anne Arundel Literacy Council, teaching an adult man with two\u00a0young sons how to read, and co-founded the South County Concert Association, bringing music to the Annapolis area. She has served on its board for 42 years.<br \/>\nShe\u2019s retired from teaching now, with more time to spend reading, gardening, and with her large family. And she\u2019s still planning trips. On a recent one to Machu Picchu with her sister, Knupp prevented a fall by bracing against an Incan stone wall. She fractured her hand, but that wasn\u2019t going to slow her down. \u201cAt least it was my hand and not my foot,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I could keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Betty Overington Knupp \u201967 will be presented with Goucher\u2019s AAGC 2017 Award for Excellence in Public Service on Saturday, April 29 (Alumnae\/i Weekend) during the AAGC Annual Meeting and Presidential Update. 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