CHAMP SETS
GRAD SCHOOL GOAL
Laura Baggaley has field hockey down to a science. Literally. The Physics major measured the differences between playing on grass and turf for her senior Capstone project. Baggaley, who will always treasure the memory of being a member of the Centennial Conference winning field hockey team her freshman year, plans to go to graduate school to study medical physics, a field that relates to diagnostic therapy and planning radiation treatments for cancer patients.

FOR ART'S SAKE
“Going to graduate school,” is the phrase frequently heard by students in the Department of Art and Art History. Those going after an advanced degree include Elizabeth Cosby to the School of the Visual Arts in Manhattan, and John Ruiz to the University of Maryland in College Park.

LONG WAY TO GO
David Long comes from a long line of Longs connected to the College. His father is Biology Professor Wilbur Long and his brother Tom graduated in 2002. The History-turned-Physics major built a ping-pong cannon that launches balls 300-600 miles per hour. Long plans to coach soccer next year. As for ping-pong, he has an embarrassing admission. “I'm terrible at the game. I lose every time I play.”

CHAIR-ISH THE MEMORIES
Graduates typically get a diploma when they walk across the stage. To go along with his diploma, Brian Hamper has been offered a chair in Peterson Hall. It's the chair he sat in for nearly every Art and Art History class he's taken. “I have been teasing him about taking the chair with him when he leaves,” says Assistant Professor Susan Scott. “Probably no one else will ever sit on it!”

FROM BUDAPEST, WITH LOVE
Three students from McDaniel's Budapest campus a.k.a. “Eastminster,” are graduating here today. They are Lingling Guo, Yanlin Guo and Márton Mikó.

FORMULA FOR SUCCESS
Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry majors are scattering to graduate schools all over the country, among them Yale University in Chemistry/Chemical Biology for Katie Dunne Smith; University of California in Chemistry for Robert Carp, University of Colorado at Boulder in Chemistry and Biochemistry for Nicole Grimm, Michigan State in Paleontology for Sarah Kraig, University of Wisconsin at Madison for its Integrated Program in Biochemistry for Matthew Copeland, and Johns Hopkins University in Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology and Biophysics for Stephanie Dirla.

HOLD THE FRIES
American college students are more likely than Spanish students to eat fast food, according to Rachel Bryant, a Psychology major who made the comparison for her Capstone project. Bryant dislikes fast food and isn't planning to eat any on her post-graduation trips to Ocean City and upstate New York.

CHECKING OUT OF THE LIBRARY
Each May, Associate Librarian Jane Sharpe bids a bittersweet farewell to graduating students who have worked in Hoover Library. Proud of their accomplishments but sad to say good-bye, Sharpe will be cheering as Joseph Cross, Jon Fitzgerald, Suzanne Gilbert, Ian Kelly, Marci Ryan and Lindsey Sherman stride confidently across the stage.

(STUDYING) CRIME DOES PAY
Sociology major Lana Blitstein presented a lesson she learned in Associate Professor of Sociology Lauren Dundes' class, “Sociology of the Criminal Justice System,” at a professional Sociology conference in October. “Everything I've learned at McDaniel, I was able to use in the real world,” Blitstein said of her whirlwind experience.

IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY
Several members of the immediate campus family are earning degrees today: women's field hockey/lacrosse coach Muffie Bliss, Human Resources secretary Bobbi Hollingsworth, women's basketball assist. coach Brian Hollingsworth, ROTC lecturer Jose Flores, campus safety officer Jeremy Sherfey, and Development Div. researcher Troy Smith. Relatives of our faculty, staff, administration, and trustees who will cross the stage today are Celia Bronson, Christina Collins-Smith, Mary Easterday, Allison Fordyce, Tyler Graham, Matt Keating, David Long, Jessica Nimmo, Ashlee Patterson, Joanna Penn, Melissa Wisner, and Andrew Wu.

TEEN DATING DIVA
At the 11th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence in San Francisco, Psychology student Rachel Schmidt co-presented with Assistant Psychology Professor Stephanie Madsen on the subject: “Aussie Elders Ask and Yankee Youth Yak: Parent-Adolescent Communication About Dating in Australia and America.” She'll begin graduate work in Counseling Psychology at Loyola College in the fall.

POST-KATRINA SUPERHEROES
You might not recognize Veronica Armstrong when she's wearing gloves and a face mask. The Business Administration major organized a spring break trip to help Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts. Ronald Valentine, Wayne Mack, Tara Brown and Nia Jervay also helped clean schools and homes in Alabama and Mississippi. After graduation, Armstrong is going back down South to help finish the job.

WESTMINSTER WHITEWATER?
When the Class of 2006 packs bag and baggage and leaves campus, a familiar sight will also disappear. That sand-colored Toyota Tacoma with the kayak on board will no longer be parked along West Main beside WMC Alumni Hall or in the lot behind Harrison House. The wondering, “A kayak in Westminster ?” or “Class 5 rapids on 140?” will no longer echo across the quad. Dave Moffatt, Biology and Philosophy double major, expert kayaker, is heading out of town and taking truck and kayak with him. Eventually Moffatt plans to go to graduate school in anatomy. But for the immediate future he will spend his fifth summer teaching kayaking and climbing to pre-teens at Passages Adventure Camp in his hometown of Richmond, Va.

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