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On Goucher\u2019s campus there are three entombed Goucher presidents, as well as a wife; a nuclear fallout shelter; and\u2014ghosts?! If these claims are unfamiliar, you\u2019ve likely never been on Professor Michael Curry\u2019s wildly popular Goucher Myths & Legends Tour over Alumnae\/i or Family & Friends weekend.<\/p>\n

M<\/span>ichael Curry\u2019s Goucher career, which began in 1987, has spanned six Goucher presidents. Over his 36-year tenure, he\u2019s gathered facts and folklore from them and many others. And, in addition to reading the 2016 encyclopedic biography, John Franklin Goucher\u2014Citizen of the World<\/em>, by Marilyn Southard Warshawsky \u201968<\/strong><\/span>, Curry\u2019s done his own research.<\/p>\n

This infamous tour shines a spotlight on the integrative arts studies and theatre professor\u2019s institutional knowledge and professional storytelling powers. It begins when he climbs atop the three-foot high wall between the Athenaeum and Mary Fisher Hall so the crowd, which has numbered as many as 200, can hear him. He starts here because the hall is the first building the college built after purchasing the land from the Chew and Ridgely families, when it was known as Epsom Farm, in 1921.<\/p>\n

Curry asks his tourists who Fisher was and, invariably, at least one person knows she was John Goucher\u2019s wife. Her eponymous hall, built in 1942, housed the first library on campus, as well as the main dormitory, the dining hall, a laundry, and classrooms.<\/p>\n

He points out the predominant feature of the buildings\u2019 architecture\u2014the warm-toned gray and brown Butler stone with its shiny flecks of mica, which comes from a quarry 80 miles north. In recent years, new campus buildings have continued to accent modern architecture with the traditional Butler stone.<\/p>\n

He then talks about the Athenaeum behind him, which was completed in 2009. \u201cAthenaeum is a Greek word meaning \u2018meeting place,\u2019\u201d he informs. \u201cIn ancient Greece, it was where people went to find a teacher to study under.\u201d These details are his flourishes, additions that make the school\u2019s history come alive.<\/p>\n

Sandy Ungar was president of Goucher from 2001 to 2014. Through his vision the Athenaeum became the most prominent and important manifestation of Goucher\u2019s ideals. It\u2019s home to the library, a spacious open forum, an art gallery, and a radio station, among other features.<\/p>\n

Near Mary Fisher Hall is the study abroad pole, erected when the Athenaeum was completed. With arrows pointing in all directions, it indicates the distances from Goucher to locations with semester-long study abroad programs.<\/p>\n

Walking in the direction of Van Meter, just before the chapel, is the labyrinth\u2014a single path from the edge to the center outlined by bricks used for walking meditation. Curry asks his tourists, \u201cWhat\u2019s the difference between a labyrinth and a maze?\u201d The answer: \u201cYou go into a maze to lose yourself. You go into a labyrinth to find yourself.\u201d He smiles.<\/p>\n

Next stop is Alumnae\/i House, with the Alumnae\/i Relations and Annual Giving offices, as well as Buchner Hall. Above the mantel in Buchner hangs a large pastoral painting of campus from the perspective of a woman who lived on a top floor at Edenwald, the high-rise senior living community to the southwest\u2014land that was originally part of Goucher College. The painting was donated by the woman\u2019s family after her death.<\/p>\n

Next stop is the permanent Stone & Spirit<\/em> exhibition. Arranged by Rhoda Dorsey, the college\u2019s president from 1974 to 1994, it offers viewers a black-and-white photographic pilgrimage of Goucher\u2019s first 120 years, from Baltimore City to the Towson campus.<\/p>\n

Some notables include the photo of Bennett Hall on the old Goucher campus, which housed the Physical Education Department. Another depicts a fencing or a dance class, with students in black bloomers and long-sleeved black tops. \u201cBennett Hall had a pool in the basement at a time when inground pools were rare,\u201d Curry informs. There\u2019s a photo from 1935 with six students sitting on the side of the pool and another in the water holding a beach ball, all wearing swim caps and one-piece bathing suits.<\/p>\n

Bennett Hall is now home to the Geological Survey of the State of Maryland.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a photo of President Guth and his wife holding a corner of a sign reading, \u201cThe Campus of Goucher College \/ 421 Acres.\u201d Interestingly, they are standing near the spot where their ashes would be interred years later in the Guth Memorial Gate at the campus\u2019s main entrance.<\/p>\n

In 1921, when Goucher was still located in Baltimore City, Guth committed to buying the land for approximately $150,000. At that time, however, only one board member had seen it, and Guth hadn\u2019t received permission from the others. Nevertheless, a $6 million fundraising campaign began for the land, for construction, and to add to the school\u2019s endowment. Students were instructed to raise money and bring it back to campus.<\/p>\n

We walk toward the Academic Center at Julia Rogers and spot the silo with an observatory, which still has the telescope from 1954. \u201cBut when Towson Town Center was built, the light pollution was too intense, rendering the telescope unfeasible,\u201d Curry explains. \u201cIt was replaced by a radio telescope on a tripod, which turned out to be useful, except that it kept getting hit by birds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then we\u2019re off to the Psychology Annex, where monkeys once lived. \u201cThey were used for behavioral studies by a psychology professor, but she didn\u2019t stay long,\u201d says Curry, \u201cand the monkeys left when she did.\u201d The Psychology Annex is near the Springhouse, one of two buildings on campus that were part of Epsom Farm.<\/p>\n

Outside Meyerhoff Arts Center is a stone bench in which the ashes of Otto Kraushaar are interred. Kraushaar was Goucher\u2019s president from 1948 to 1967. A sign on the bench reads, \u201cIf you would see his monument, look around you.\u201d In other words, Kraushaar had a big influence on the layout of the campus. He chose the architect and maintained the fa\u00e7ade of Butler stone. Curry tells his tourists, \u201cKraushaar is one of the ghosts spotted on campus. He was seen in the basement of what used to be the Julia Rogers Library. The campus archive was in the basement. It was all enclosed. When Kraushaar died, his hat, walking stick, and favorite chair were on display in the basement and the archivist insisted she saw him by his chair regularly. But when the library moved to the Athenaeum, they discovered a lot of black mold, which may have contributed to the archivist seeing things\u2014like ghosts.\u201d For Curry, every ghost sighted has an accompanying scientific explanation. (For every ghost story, Curry offers a possible reasonable explanation.)<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother ghost spotted is thought to be the son of Charles Ridgely of the Ridgely Estate,\u201d he continues. Ridgely Estate is now part of Hampton National Historic Site, just north of campus on the other side of the Baltimore Beltway. \u201cThe son was fond of riding horses around twilight, and at one point his horse tripped. Ridgely fell, broke his neck, and died. It\u2019s thought to have happened on campus. Sometimes people go down to the stables in the middle of the night and swear they see his ghost. But there are other reasons people go to the stables at night,\u201d he says, smirking.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got confirmation on Ridgely\u2019s sighting, however,\u201d he admits. \u201cOn the spring tour, someone said her mother was a student here and when her mother came out of the barn one evening after a performance\u2014because the barn is where they used to perform the plays\u2014she saw this figure on a horse run by.\u201d<\/p>\n

The third ghost is that of Mildred Dunnock 1922<\/strong><\/span>, for whom the theater in Meyerhoff Art Center is named. \u201cShe was a Goucher student,\u201d Curry says. \u201cIn her late 30s, she decided she wanted to be an actor, so she moved to New York. She was a classmate of Marlon Brando and became well known herself. She is best known for her Broadway portrayal of Linda, the mother in Death of a Salesman<\/em>. She played Big Mama in the premier of Tennessee Williams\u2019s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof<\/em> and was in the film in which Elizabeth Taylor won her first Oscar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Curry remains skeptical of her ghostly presence. \u201cStudents have insisted they\u2019ve seen a tiny figure move around in the tech booth on the second floor,\u201d he says. \u201cBut this is after students have been awake for three days preparing for opening night.\u201d<\/p>\n

But during Curry\u2019s production of Hamlet<\/em> he admits that Dunnock\u2019s ghost may have stopped by. In the play\u2019s opening, the actors (characters in the play) are looking for a ghost. Then, though it wasn\u2019t part of the script, all the lights went out, except for one, \u201ccalled the Ghost Light, in theater [vernacular].\u201d he says. \u201cThe actors finished their scene. Then the lights came back on, and no one could ever figure out why.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moving toward the Dorsey Center, mounted along some stairs we come upon a cannon, which, Curry notes with amusement, \u201cis aimed right at the administration building.\u201d It\u2019s from the War of 1812 armory and was unearthed in 1951 when construction of the Julia Rogers Library began.<\/p>\n

We walk over to Dorsey College Center, which is named for Rhoda Dorsey\u2014the third president interred on campus, in a wall near the center\u2019s central fountain. Dorsey started as a history professor at Goucher in 1954, then became a dean, then, acting president, then, in 1974, president. \u201cWhile it\u2019s very rare for that progression to occur now, it was much more common in those days,\u201d says Curry. She was the first president he knew, and he describes her as \u201ca strong-willed woman who saw where things needed to go, and she went there. The hardest probably being going coed, in 1986. There was a lot of opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right below that outdoor fountain, and Dorsey\u2019s ashes, is a nuclear fallout shelter, which has been there since the 1960s. A National Defense symbol marks the entrance and it still has a couple of big cans with giant plastic bins filled with drinking water.<\/p>\n

Our last stop is the Admission Office, where a triptych of stained-glass Tiffany windows hangs. A gift to the college from the Class of 1903 in honor of Fisher, who died in 1902, the windows were in the chapel on the Baltimore campus. The largest, center, image\u2014of a woman who\u2019s blindfolded\u2014is said to be a likeness of Fisher. The word CREDO<\/em> (Latin for \u201cI believe\u201d) is across her chest. \u201cWhy she\u2019s blindfolded, is unknown,\u201d Curry says, \u201cbut perhaps it symbolizes blind faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

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