Our Tenth Anniversary
What a joy it is to bring out our tenth volume of high-quality student writing and graphic art! This publication is a tribute to the constant efforts of the Washington College faculty and the Washington College Review editorial boards as well as a testimony to the creativity, talent, and disciplined work of our best students who not only contributed to these volumes but also helped edit, design, and produce them. We wish to recognize all the editors and contributors, whom we will list separately. One name is present on every editorial board: Meredith Davies Hadaway. Thanks to her vision, determination, and expertise, we produce a review of student work that is outstanding.
In this volume, we celebrate the poetry and prose of this year's Sophie Kerr Prize winner, Sarah Hanley Blackman. The excellent essay on Diderot was written in French by Michael Duck while he was studying abroad at the Université d'Artois in France. Creative writing, graphic art, and works initially prepared for classes in anthropology, art history, biology, and political science appear in this volume. We also have the pleasure of including papers presented at Washington College's first student research conference on Redefining the American Identity.
I wish to express my deep appreciation to all who have worked on this volume as well as to all whose efforts resulted in these first ten issues of the WCR!
Jeanette E. Sherbondy
Editor