Contributors
SARAH HANLEY BLACKMAN graduated summa cum laude in May 2002 with a degree in English and a minor in creative writing. She also received the Sophie Kerr Prize, for "having the best ability and promise for future fulfillment in the field of literary endeavor" and the Emil K.C. Hildenbrand Memorial Medal "for attaining the highest average in English during the four years of study at Washington College." She loves apple pie, ornithology and long walks off short piers. She is moving to Los Angeles this summer to become a lotus eater.
FRED CHALMERS, from Hereford, Maryland, graduated in 2002 with a B.A. in anthropology. He was active in Lambda Alpha, the national honor society for anthropology, as well as in Omicron Delta Kappa. He was a captain on the Washington College Men's Baseball Team. He would like to give special thanks to Dr. John Seidel and Dr. Jeanette Sherbondy for their guidance and support.
MICHAEL DUCK, of Ellicott City, Maryland, graduated summa cum laude in May 2002. He was awarded the Erika and Henry Salloch Prize as "the student whose achievement and personal commitment have contributed to the understanding of other cultures," and the Norman James Humanities Award for Excellence as "the senior majoring in humanities who has shown academic distinction and represents the ideals of humanistic study." Following his marriage to Stacey Myers in June of the same year, he began his studies towards a Master's degree in journalism at Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He thanks the editors of the Washington College Review for their support and their patience, as well as the professors who initially encouraged him with their responses to these manuscripts.
STEPHANY FONTANONE '02 majored in English. She thanks Dr. Kathryn Moncrief "for suggesting that I submit to this volume and for all of her encouragement and relentless guidance, especially with my neverending thesis-turned-dissertation project. I'd also like to thank Dr. Donald McColl for "imbuing" art history with so much passion and excitement. Lastly, a special thank you to my good friend Lord Salisbury for allowing me to reproduce the portrait of the queen...and anyone else who has endured my endless talk of renaissance drama-the coolest thing since ramen in a cup."
JOHN FITZPATRICK KILLEEN "is a virgo with long, radiant blonde hair. During the week, he works as a roofer in the Mayfair section of town and on the weekends you can always catch him at Louie's on Harbison Avenue. The notion of law enforcement by reward tickles his fancy."
ELIZABETH MUMFORD, class of 2005, is a native of the northeast region of Cecil County, Maryland. She is an English major and plans on getting a certification in secondary English education and showing rowdy high school students why they should continue to take classes in their native language. She blames "The Measure of a Man" on entirely too much Star Trek. Thanks are due to her mother, Michelle, and the dry wit of all the posse back in Cecil County.
YUKIKO OMAGARI, class of 2005, is majoring in international studies. Her hometown in Japan is a little city that lies in the south. "I would like to be a bridge that connects Japan and the rest of the world by studying abroad!"
MAX ORSINI will graduate in the class of 2003. "My mother tells me that when I was just an infant [in Brooklyn], she would read me Shakespearean sonnets on cold winter afternoons. She says that I seemed disinterested because I would always nod off after a couple of lines. As I got older, however, I began to read with passion." He moved to New Jersey where he began to play the guitar and later attended boarding school in the French Alps. "As I get ready to enter my final year at Washington College, my studies here prove to be perhaps the most wondrous of travels. I am working toward a major in English with minors in gender studies and creative writing. I hope to attend grad school in New York...I suppose we can never get too far from home."
PAULA PERSOLEO graduated cum laude in the class of 2002. She majored in English and minored in gender studies and anthropology. She was elected to Lambda Alpha, the national collegiate honor society for anthropology. Paula wrote for The Elm, worked as its distribution manager, and served as a member of the Printers' Devils press club. She is currently working on her Master's Degree in English literature at Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, Kansas, where she has a teaching assistantship.
EMANUEL LYNWOOD SIMMONS, from Landover, Maryland, will graduate in 2004. He is active in the Black Student Union, the Anthropology Club, and the International Relations Club. He is an anthropology major and a computer science minor.
WILLIAM SMILEY of Ocean Pines, Maryland, plans to graduate in 2004 with a major in Anthropology and minor in Philosophy. He is currently the president of the Encouraging Respect of Sexuality (EROS) Alliance, treasurer of the Sexual Assault Response and Awareness (SARA) Team, and a peer mentor.
LAURA WALTER grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but in the past year she has lived in London, Cleveland, the Philadelphia area, and Chestertown. She feels she's had enough moving experience to write "House" and is relieved to settle in Chestertown for her final year of college. She will graduate in 2003 with an English major and a creative writing minor. She would like to thank professor Bob Day for his revision suggestions for her poems "House," "Borderline," and "To Beat the Waves."