After graduation, McDaniel students are well-prepared for the next step. A recent survey of the undergraduate Class of 2004 showed that within months of graduation, 98 percent began careers or advanced study.
What do some of those careers look like?
Yurenda “Yuri” Basset ’03 is a graduate student at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies. A native of Nepal, he co-founded McDaniel’s chapter of Amnesty International while an undergrad.
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Painter Sara Lundberg ’94 illustrates children’s books about monsters and angels, and travels around the world. She also paints for exhibitions.
Greg Street ’91 creates entire worlds for the history-based blockbuster computer game series Age of Empires. A one-time oceanographer, Street is now a lead designer, which means that he defines the vision for the games, and works with Ensemble’s 80-plus team of artists, animators, musicians, and programmers.
Thomasina Piercy M.Ed. ’79 is an expert in literacy and the principal of Mount Airy Elementary School in Maryland. Under her leadership, the school raised its reading scores 25 percent in just three years.
Anita Jones ’73 is the textiles curator for The Baltimore Museum of Art. Her work involves researching and explaining the origins and nature of quilts, lace, and other textiles in cohesive narratives for museum visitors.
David Carrasco ’67 is a Harvard professor of divinity. He is the author of four books, including City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization, and is the founder and director of the Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project..
Ron Liebman ’66, senior partner in the Washington law firm of Patton Briggs, is probably best known for prosecuting Vice President Spiro Agnew. But he’s also the author of Shark Tales, a compendium of amazing-but-true tales of life in the legal profession.
Kay Mehl Miller ’56 is a therapist and scholar, and author of the book Talking it Over: Understanding Sexual Diversity. The book draws on her own experience as the mother of a gay man.
Ellen Sauerbrey ’59 is ambassador to the U.N.’s Commission on the Status of Women and a former Maryland state legislator. She has made two impressive runs for governor.
Wayne Cowan ’48 walked with Martin Luther King to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL in 1965. Until 1993, he served as editor of Christianity and Crisis, a liberal ecumenical journal of religion, public affairs, and social justice. He was awarded an honorary degree in 1982.