HEALTHY CHOICES
Senior class president Kadijat “Yemi” Olaridan, a Business Administration major with minors in Chemistry and Sociology, will intern this summer at the Public Health Foundation in D.C. before pursuing graduate studies in Public Health in the fall. This summer Yemi, who moved to the U.S. when she was 12, will join her parents for a trip back to their native Nigeria, where all but her immediate family still live.
FIT FOR THE CLASSROOM
Exercise Science and Physical Education major Michelle Fluty took top athletic honors and top all-around female student honors at the May 3 honors ceremony. The four-year starter on lacrosse and field hockey teams heads to the front of the classroom – or field – as a teacher in the fall.
THE PERFECT PROFILE
With his focus on Forensic Science plus two summer internships and now a job as investigative specialist with the F.B.I., Cody Crutchley has a jump-start in realizing his ambition to make a career of studying the criminal mind. After grad school in a year or so in criminal justice, he’ll pursue becoming a Special Agent with the Bureau. A Psychology and Sociology double major who won the top all-around male student award, he was a teaching assistant in forensics, co-founded the Psychology Club, is a member of seven honor societies and ran cross country and indoor and outdoor track.
ON THE BALL
One of the College’s top five career hitters and an outstanding catcher, top athletic award winner Justin Reitz has a season-long internship with the Baltimore Orioles. He’ll play a different position during each of the games — running errands, working in the press box, the control room, or the kids’ corner.
A LOBBYIST TO LOVE
Before Greg Miller begins law school, the Honors Political Science major will spend a year as an intern on Capitol Hill lobbying for children’s hospitals. An Eagle Scout, a volunteer firefighter and EMT and member of the Manchester (Md.) Planning and Zoning Board, Greg has been a student visitor to the College Board of Trustees and is a member of Phi Alpha Delta, the pre-law fraternity.
RUBIK’S CUBE REDUX
Mathematics and Computer Science double major Shannon Jackson designed, built and programmed Jasper, a robot made from a Lego Mindstorm kit, to solve the Rubik’s Cube. She’s headed for defense contractor AAI in Hunt Valley, Md., where she has interned the past two years, and will pursue her Ph.D. in Computer Science.
CAPITOL IDEA
Emily Taylor, an English major with a Political Science minor, will put her degree to work this summer as an intern for Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon while she studies to take the Law School Admission Test in the fall.
FRIENDS TO THE CORPS
Best friends since sixth grade in Columbia, Md., History major April Curley and Sociology major Jen Beckwith add the prestigious Teach for America corps to the long list of activities, accomplishments and life-changing experiences they’ve shared. Curley will teach in a Baltimore city elementary school, and Beckwith is D.C.- bound to teach high school chemistry.
MED SCHOOL Rx
Anja Jones’ findings during her internship with a Johns Hopkins team investigating prostate cancer may someday help disprove a current theory. For certain, the Biology major’s research experience will enrich her studies when she heads for University of Maryland medical school later this summer.
THE COLOR OF MONEY
An Environmental Policy and Science and Political Science double major, Katie Lawson’s belief in collaboration between the environmental and labor movements took root last spring when she worked for the Social Service Employees Union Local 371 in NYC. Now she’s hoping to land a job with a non-governmental organization where labor and the environment intersect.
FORMULA FOR SUCCESS
Biochemistry majors Gregory Trzcinski and Thao Tran are headed for Ph.D.s at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Greg will remember the many students he tutored, and their enlightened faces when they figured out how to solve a chemistry problem. Thao, with parents and relatives in Vietnam cheering her on, hopes to someday pursue research that will help find a cure for Parkinson’s disease, which she’s watched her aunt battle.
OFF TO SCORE A Ph.D.
Psychology major and self-designed Sports Studies minor Bianca Rieti will focus on a master’s in school psychology at Immaculata University near Philadelphia – and she’s already planning to keep going to the doctoral level.
MORE LAB TIME AHEAD
Her double major in Biology and Psychology in tow, Elizabeth Peters heads to the University of Delaware for graduate studies in Biological Sciences.
SAY “GUTEN TAG” TO GERMANY
Sarah Brackbill first stepped onto McDaniel College’s hilltop campus as a high school student when she participated in German-American Day. The senior German and Business Administration double major hasn’t looked back since. She had a study-abroad internship at the University of Heidelberg in Germany in the spring of 2008 and has applied for a position at the German Embassy in D.C., where she would be corresponding with German and American officials in German and English, doing some translation, and performing general office tasks in both languages. She’s also considering taking a business-related internship in Germany and becoming fluent in the language again.
FOOTSTEPS WORTH FOLLOWING
Psychology major and member of the Order of Omega Greek leadership honor society, Lauren Hild will pursue her master’s in Human Services Management through Target, Inc., right here on the Hill, where she kicked up her heels with the McDaniel Dance Company and chaired the St. Jude’s Up ’Til Dawn fund-raising effort.
IF SHE TELLS YOU, SHE’LL HAVE TO …
Lauren Wyble has the perfect background for her job doing software development and security. But that’s all she’ll say. The Mathematics and Computer Science major and Psychology minor can’t reveal any more details about her top-secret job with the Department of Defense.
DIG IT
McDaniel’s own Indiana Jones, Adam Pritchard, will dig into paleontology as a graduate student this fall at the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University in New York.
THE JOURNEY CONTINUES
Defining success as enjoying what she does, Jennifer Sandler will take a detour before pursuing her ultimate career goal of becoming an English Literature professor. An English major with a French minor, Jen loves her work with prospective students in McDaniel’s Admissions Office and hopes to stay in college admissions in the area.
SPEAKING OF …
English major Devon Brackbill is heading to Pennsylvania State University for a master’s/doctoral program in Rhetoric as he works toward the goal of someday teaching on the college level.
FIRST RAYS, THEN RESEARCH
Psychology major Kate Maloney will work as a research assistant at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is grateful for undergraduate research experiences with professors Stephanie Madsen and Holly Chalk that qualified her for the position. She’ll report to work next month after a week at the beach in Nags Head, N.C. with best McDaniel buds Kelly MacKinnon, Danielle Lombardi, Michael Thomas, Eric Shifflett’10 and Jess Curtis ’10.
NO LONGER IN THE DARK
Memories of “the night the lights went out” her freshman year and all the Gamma Sigma Sigma service events will go along with Psychology major Katie Linton as she begins a new educational journey in pursuit of her master’s in Social Work at Salisbury U.’s satellite campus in Hagerstown, Md.
GOALS ON AND OFF THE FIELD
Having a winning soccer season during his freshman year gave Sociology major Brandon Smith the motivation he needed to make the most of being on the Hill. He starts work soon for the National Security Agency.
DOLLARS AND GOOD SENSE
White-collar criminals beware: there’s a new investigator in town. Donzell Tate, who majored in Sociology with a concentration in Criminal Justice and a minor in Business, begins work next month as a special agent for the FDIC.
NUMBERS SENSE
Economics and Accounting Economics double major Tara McKinney is moving to Silver Spring to begin her accounting career with Bond Beebe Accountants and Advisers as a staff accountant in the auditing department. Also headed to Bond Beebe is triple major (Business Administration, Economics and Accounting Economics) Josh Smith, who worked with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program during all four of his years at McDaniel. Business Administration and Accounting Economics double major Brian Bauder heads to CPA firm McGladrey and Pullen.
BRIGHT IDEA
As a member of the Green Terra Committee, Zach Hetrick helped develop McDaniel’s carbon report and sustainability plan. The Environmental Policy and Science major took that one step further in his senior research, finding that solar energy is a feasible option in generating some of the College’s electricity. He’ll work in environmental consulting before entering grad school in a year or two.
LAP AND LAB
If you can catch up with Kevin Bowman – he holds five of the College’s top 10 records for fastest indoor mile – you’ll find out that the Environmental Policy and Science major will be on campus next year earning a second bachelor’s degree, this one in Chemistry.
HAPPY TO SERVE
Spanish and Art History major Siri Hiltz will serve the Westminster community through her work with the College and AmeriCorps. She loved her involvement with the Women’s Issues Group and its production of “The Vagina Monologues.”
MONGOLIAN GIRL GOES GLOBAL
Ankhchimeg Byambasuren grew up in a yurt in the steppes of Mongolia. She made a chance connection with Americans Caleb and Janie Gould while selling trinkets and practicing her English on the side of a dusty road. Several years later, she arrived on the Hill after the Goulds offered to sponsor her to attend college in the States. Now the Business Administration major, who goes by the nickname Chimgay, is a citizen of the world. Thanks to her semester at McDaniel-Budapest and travels around Europe, she is comfortable talking to anyone and could live anywhere. For the short term, she plans to rent an apartment in Laurel near her job in the accounting department at Konterra Realty before going to grad school to pursue her M.B.A.
OUR CAMPUS COLLEAGUES
Several members of the immediate campus community are earning degrees today: Master’s degrees to Amanda Blankenship, career services; David Dahlberg, residence life; Jose Flores, ROTC; Barbara Granlund, foreign languages; Bobbi Hollingsworth, human resources; Brent Myers, institutional advancement; and Blair Taylor, athletics, and a bachelor’s degree to Dorita Dorm, graduate and professional studies.
CAN’T GET ENOUGH
Steve Wilson, a Sociology major with a concentration in Criminal Justice, loves McDaniel so much that he’s planning to stick around a bit longer – at least long enough to earn a Master of Liberal Arts degree on the Hill.
SEEING DOUBLE
Among the graduates today are two sets of twins, Psychology major Jennifer and Political Science major Robert Holt and Biology majors Katherine and Rachel Griffith.
SHE’S A KEEPER
Kara Miller has accepted a position as a long-term substitute for first-graders at Sandymount Elementary School in Finksburg, Md.
MOM ON A MISSION
Beatrice Ochieng’, a dual Sociology and Spanish major, waited for her youngest to start kindergarten before she began her studies at McDaniel, and now she is graduating just as her oldest child prepares to start college in the fall. She plans to work in the nonprofit sector or for a government agency helping foreign-born residents navigate social services resources.
NO SNOOZING ON THE JOB
Biology major Amy Faby begins her job as a lab/research assistant in the Anesthesiology department at Johns Hopkins. She’ll always remember times with friends, among them seniors Amanda Brady, Desilyn Coverley, Kacey Decker and Erin Balsamo, Homecoming on the Hill and participating in Relay for Life through service organization Gamma Sigma Sigma.
YALE IS PLAYING HER TUNE
With a full scholarship and triple major in History, Music and Art History in hand, Christin Thomas is bound for Yale University, where she will pursue a graduate degree in Music History and Literature.
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE
As an Election Administrator for Carroll County’s Board of Elections, Katherine Helwig, a Sociology major with a concentration in Criminal Justice and a minor in Political Science, will be training elections judges, writing judges’ manuals and otherwise keeping track of the folks who volunteer to serve in that capacity.
NEIGHBORS IN LAW
Stacey Kight plans to start law school in the fall at the University of Maryland, while Stuart Clarke plans to study law at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., to become a Constitutional lawyer and someday run for office.
365 DAYS OF ART
Studio Art major M.J. Alexander, who minored in Art History, is taking a year off to work on her portfolio before going to graduate school in the fall of 2010.
THE WRITE STUFF
Laura Davis, who hopes to soon land a job with a Maryland or D.C. publication, will always remember warm, sunny days out on the Quad.
WHAT WOULD PROUST SAY?
For Kristin O’Toole, the recipe for memories calls for several pumpkins and soda bottles to substitute for bowling balls and pins, a long hallway at North Village Apartments and a few stale cupcakes for – what else? – a good old-fashioned food fight! O’Toole, a Communication major, begins a new job next week for the publication department at DynPort Vaccine Co. in Frederick, Md.
NO STARVING ARTIST
With plans to land a professorship and support herself as an artist, Emily Biondo, an Art major with a concentration in Graphic Design, is heading to American University to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing.
SHE’LL TAKE AN M.S. WITH THAT MRS.
Marriage and a master’s degree are in store for Amanda Caroe, a Social Work major and Sociology minor. She plans to begin studies in the fall at Salisbury University and marry fiancé Joshua Hill during the summer of 2010. She’ll miss her friends from InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and her sisters from Phi Mu, friends who have been a constant source of encouragement.
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