Here’s a look at the accomplishments, plans, hopes, and dreams of members of the Class of 2007. We salute them and wish them success. Special thanks to the staff of The McDaniel Free Press for their contributions to these stories.
FIRM DECISIONS
Business and Economics majors already have a jump start in the job market. Heather Donhauser will work at the Planning Solutions Group. Jeffrey Quinn will work at Weil, Akman, Baylin and Coleman, P.A. Rachel Button plans to work at a finance company.
DIVINE ASPIRATIONS
History major Tori Butler will attend Duke Divinity School. “What better way to teach the love of Christ, the tenets of the faith and the undeniable wisdom of God than to teach it in a college classroom where hearts and minds are open to many possibilities?” she writes.
ASIAN INFUSION
Foreign Languages major James Gibbs will attend a Chinese language certification program run by Cornell University. The intensive program is designed for students who have a solid interest in the language but no prior Chinese instruction.
GOOD, CLEAN FUN
Kate Chilson, the first to graduate with the new EPS major along with Michelle Mullen and Anna Kulow, will always remember freshman year when she, Jessica Bernstein, Rachael Boteler and Brian Kastner set up a Slip ’N Slide outside of Whiteford Hall. Lacking flowing water, the group sudsed themselves with shampoo before taking a slide.
SIBLING REVELRY
Twelve graduates have siblings who also walked across McDaniel’s stage. Cristen Callegary’s sister Tara graduated in 2006. Ashley Chandler’s sister Crystal graduated in 2006. George Cornias’ brother Mark graduated in 1989. Stephanie Hartman’s sister Kate graduated in 2004. Jillian Hoffman’s sister Robyn graduated in 2002. Ashley Kretzer’s sister Kelly graduated in 2004. Anna Kulow has two sisters, Sara ’98 and Christina ’00. Michael Prush’s sister Nicole graduated in 2004. Twins Christen and Crystal Radford are graduating together. Maggie Ross’ sister Jessica graduated in 2001. Matthew Rouse’s sister Jessica graduated in 2002.
HIGH-SCORERS ON AND OFF THE COURT
The women’s basketball team earned its first at-large bid to the NCAA tournament and hosted the Centennial Conference women’s basketball championship tournament this year – due in part to the dedication of five seniors on the team: Katy Powell, Heather Thompson, Theresa Hess, Amy Watson and Allison Biggs. The seniors have a cumulative GPA of 3.78, and four have been invited to join the nation’s most prestigious honor society, Phi Beta Kappa. Thompson, a double major in Business Administration and Economics, will move to the Philadelphia area with her fiancé, Joe Meier ’04, and work at the accounting firm LarsonAllen. Biology major Powell, the first Green Terror player in the 14-year history of the Centennial Conference to be named Player of the Year, is planning to work in cancer research or public health. Biology and Biochemistry major Hess is going to the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois.
SOME LIKE IT HOT
Psychology major Ryan Newman is deploying to Iraq as an infantry officer, and upon his return in 2008 plans to become a full-time firefighter and medic. He will always remember the day he was commissioned as a second lieutenant, and says he’ll always remain friends with freshman roommate Jared Nutter.
LABOR, THEN DELIVERY
After working for a year, Biology major Lindsey Grieb plans to go back to school to become a nurse-midwife.
A MEMORABLE MATCH
Psychology major Caitlin McGill will always remember the men’s soccer game freshman year when she met her best friend, Business and Economics major Laura Borchers. After graduation, McGill heads to nursing school.
SAY “SZIASZTOK” TO THESE GRADS
Six students from McDaniel’s Budapest campus, a.k.a. “Eastminster,” graduated this year. They are Giora Fried, Sarah Wolf, Anjexa Kadilli, Xuan Zhao, Hajnalka Módis and Ágnes Pataki.
ART APPRECIATION
Art History major Cynthia Reimbold says, “After all of the papers, lectures and presentations, I am leaving with not only knowledge, but also a true passion for the arts. I have indeed fallen in love with Art History. My diploma will be a reflection of what I know and feel.”
THE DOCTOR IS IN
Joseph Scholz, a former college professor, came back to college at McDaniel because he wanted to study pre-med. Now this Ph.D. is applying to medical school to become an osteopath. Biochemistry major Mark Nakasone plans to earn his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland College Park. Biology major Clare Bodnar will work in the medical field for a year, before returning to graduate school to become a physician’s assistant. Biology major Matt Rouse next heads to the University of Maryland Dental School.
JUST CALL THEM “SIR”
Students commissioned today as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army include Timothy Clare, James Dell, Ryan Hobbs, Randy Lawson, Michael Prush, Kurt Rauschenberg and Christopher Smith.
SILLY TIES WILL NOT BE BROKEN
Kim Rodney’s birthday happens to fall on April Fool’s day. Freshman year, Matt Weese and Nicholas McCourt danced in her Whiteford room and pelted her and friends Vicki Levanduski, Betsy Beveridge and Allison Dower with silly string. “The silly string was everywhere,” Rodney says. “We found silly string until the last day of school and that stuff sticks to everything.” Rodney will intern at CenterStage in Baltimore.
NEXT ROOMMATES ARE FOR KEEPS
Something is in the water in the North Village apartment shared by Ellen Inverso, Alison Bradley, Sarah Black, Lenea Rader and Ashley Baker. Three are now engaged: Inverso is marrying Mark Wheeler ’05, Bradley is marrying Vince DiAugustino ’05, and Black is marrying longtime love Jarott Ward. Psychology major and SGA president Inverso is enrolling in a Clinical Psychology doctoral program at Immaculata University, while Rader is joining a doctoral program at the University of Maryland for Organic Chemistry. Baker will become a math teacher. “I don’t think there’s any way to really put into words how phenomenal the past four years have been,” says Inverso. “Graduation will be bittersweet.”
SETTLING DOWN IN NoVa
Amanda Eason plans to marry fiancé Tim Wallace in August, and after a honeymoon in
St. Maarten, the duo will start their careers in Fairfax, Va. Eason, who majored in Communication and Philosophy, will always remember her Phi Sig sisters Meredith Adams, Andrea Mandato, Jessica Volz, Amanda Klein, Caitlin Cooney, Lindsey Vitek, Rachel Clary, Ali Gargon, Jill Hoffman, Brittany Parrish, Chrissy Starcher, Ashley Parker and Megan Kingston.
IT’S A WRAP
Budding filmmaker Maggie Ross will be a post-production coordinator at Renegade productions in Hunt Valley. The production house creates commercials, TV spots and short films.
SIGN OF SUCCESS
Jena Ehmann, who graduates with a self-designed major English Language and Literacy Acquisition, awaits the publication of her article examining the language development of Deaf children with Cochlear Implants, their sentence fluency in American Sign Language (ASL) and English, and the use of literature models to teach Deaf children how to write in English. In the fall, she will begin student teaching at Elmer Wolfe Elementary School, where she plans to develop the school’s first after-school ASL club for elementary students.
SEE WHAT SHE MEANS
Sociology major Lindsay Martin, who plans to become a certified Sign Language interpreter, says attending Gallaudet University as a visiting student clarified her life goals. “This experience really enhanced my liberal arts education because it gave me a chance to have a different perspective that others would not be able to understand unless they’ve experienced it,” says Martin. “This has done nothing but strengthen my goal to be a bridge that links the hearing and Deaf community together.”
DISPERSED BUT STILL DEVOTED
Best friends Katie Bowen, Dixie Clough, Liz Davis, Kaitlin McLean and Allison Waters are sure to stay close after graduation despite heading for different parts of the world. Davis, a dual major in Biology and Mathematics, will go to the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Bowen, an English major, will intern under the curator of art at the U.S. Senate. English major Clough is moving to Panama City, Fla., after graduation and plans to start an internship in Australia, while Mathematics major Waters will teach math in Maryland. McLean, a Biochemistry and Biology major, is choosing among several medical schools and plans to become an emergency-room doctor.
FIT FOR THE PROS
To his friends, Greg Wagner will always be “The Cannon.” The Communication major, who has been training to pitch in professional baseball since childhood, is being scouted this summer by the Milwaukee Brewers, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers. They’ll watch him pitch for the Carroll County Rangers in the Eddie Brooks league. Christian Turner is trying out for the Canadian Football League (CFL). It’s looking promising so far, and he has had several callbacks.
MAJOR PHUN
All five senior Physics majors are planning to go into business or industry. They are: Kate Chapman, Frank Ingellis, Keith Greenway, Jim Petrillo and Rob Jones.
TALKS THE TALK, WALKS THE WALK
Communication and Theatre Arts major MaxJulian Ham is most proud of being cast as Prospero in the Shakespearean play The Tempest, working with Residence Life, and winning the 2005 public-speaking competition. “Leaving McDaniel, I know that when it comes to one’s rhetoric, I can stand with the best of them.”
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