Goucher College

Goucher College has named its first provost, Marc M. Roy of Coe College in Iowa, in a process that drew more than 100 applications, school officials said in a statement released yesterday. Roy, expected to begin the job in June, also will serve as Goucher's chief academic officer. He is Coe College's vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty. As Goucher's provost, Roy will be the school's second-highest ranking administrator and will direct its academic program. In selecting its first provost, the college convened a committee made up of faculty, students, staff and trustees.

The kick knifed through the thick fog and split the uprights at Memorial Stadium, giving the Colts a 10-7 victory in sudden-death overtime. In a flash, fans swarmed the field. Down came the goal posts. Up went Toni Linhart, on someone's shoulders. Linhart's 31-yard field goal defeated the rival Miami Dolphins late in 1975 and all but clinched Baltimore's first of three straight AFC East titles. It was the kick of a lifetime for Linhart, who died Sunday morning of cancer, at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium . He was 70. One of only six Austrian-born NFL players, Anton Hans Jorg Linhart signed with the Colts in 1974 after one season with the New Orleans Saints and an 11-year soccer career in Europe.

On Thursday, Jan.19, Gettysburg College Symphony Orchestra will visit both Towson High School and Dulaney High School to conduct a clinic and concert with each school. The visit and clinics were arranged by former Dulaney High student Elizabeth Amrhein, a graduate of the Class of 2008. Amrhein, a bassoonist with the Gettysburg College Symphony Orchestra, is a member of Gettyburg's Class of 2012. Another Dulaney graduate, Connelly Doan, is also a member of the Gettysburg orchestra, performing as a percussionist.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a Baltimore native, will deliver the commencement address at the University of Baltimore law school in May, the congresswoman's office said Wednesday. Pelosi, a California Democrat, will also be awarded an honorary law degree. The former House Speaker gave the keynote graduation address at Goucher College in 2005 and spoke at Hopkins in 2009. Pelosi is the daughter of former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. Her brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, also served as mayor.

Thomas Jackson Turner, a Goucher College student who was an outstanding athlete, took his life Monday on the school's campus in Towson. He was 19. "Tom was the all-around, all-American college kid," said Goucher President Sanford J. Ungar. "He had many friends from all different parts of the campus. He was everybody's friend. He had an impact on an awful lot of people here at Goucher. He was a very sensitive young man, and we're all just stunned by this." Mr. Turner was born in Denver and raised in Los Osos, Calif.

Basking in warm waves of applause from the students, faculty and alumni of her new campus, Judy Jolley Mohraz was inaugurated as the ninth president of Goucher College yesterday afternoon.The indoor ceremony, attended by nearly 900 people, formally invested Dr. Mohraz with the powers of president, although she took office July 1.Accompanied by the august sounds of a six-piece brass ensemble playing classical processionals, representatives of nearly 100 colleges and of Goucher's faculty walked into Kraushaar Auditorium in full academic regalia.

R. Kent Lancaster, a retired Goucher College history professor who spent a decade researching the lives of slaves who lived at what is now the Hampton National Historic Site, died Monday of complications from cancer at St. Joseph Medical Center. The Towson resident, who lived for many years in Lake-Evesham, was 76. "He was a wonderful teacher with a wicked, wicked sense of humor," said former Goucher president Rhoda Dorsey. "He had enormous patience and great respect for his students. His students appreciated his care and his high historical standards.

Neal Gallico and James Sherwood don't dip their toes into the same bodies of water. Sharing an exhibition at Goucher College, they seem only to have watery settings in common.When painter Gallico goes to the beach, he sees how the ocean, sand and sunbathing women all seem to merge in one bright vision. When photographer Sherwood goes to the pool, he sees how the masses of humanity congregate.The semi-tropical fervor of Gallico's paintings comes through even before one learns the title of this series, "Southern Light."

In an artist's statement accompanying his "Passing Time" exhibit at Goucher College, Ed Worteck says he got the idea for the show from H. L. Mencken. The Baltimore journalist had once described the rail route from here to New York as, in Worteck's paraphrase, "the most Godforsaken and depressing route in all of America."A photographer who heads Goucher's art department, Worteck has lived or worked near railroads much of his life, and the shots he's taken during the last two years along the New York-Washington route bear Mencken out. There is certainly ample ugliness here -- rotting cars, dilapidated buildings, cityscapes marred by billboards and power lines, back yards that look like dumps.

The Washington Ballet packed Goucher College's Kraushaar Auditorium Saturday night with fans hungry for ballet. Artistic director and founder Mary Day satisfied everybody with her company's first-rate , dancing and with a program of three solid works by George Balanchine, Nils Christie and Choo San Goh.Opening the evening was Balanchine's "Serenade" to "Serenade in C major for String Orchestra" by Tchaikovsky. It is the first ballet Balanchine created in the United States, and it remains the epitome of modern classical style.

Description: Baltimore has a per-person "ecological footprint" that is 13 percent higher than that of the average American, according to a study of local consumption habits led by a researcher at Goucher College. The measure takes into account how large of an area would be needed to accommodate the city's waste and to secure the resources needed to do so. For all of Baltimore, the area is the combined size of West Virginia, Delaware and Rhode Island, the study found. The largest impacts come from traffic and electricity use, according to the research.

The Greater Towson Committee will hold a Town Hall Meeting on Jan. 29 featuring Steve Mouzon, author of the "Original Green: Unlocking the Mystery of True Sustainability. " Mouzon will speak about a unique way to live more efficiently in an urban environment like Towson. According to GTC's website, " 'Original Green' aggregates and distributes the wisdom of sustainability through the operating system of living traditions, producing sustainable places in which it is meaningful to build sustainable buildings.

More than a quarter-century has passed since Tom Wopat last jumped, feet first, into the General Lee and sped away for a half-hour of redneck fun on TV's "The Dukes of Hazzard. " But in a career that has included Tony and Grammy nods (thanks to his stint on Broadway in "Annie Get Your Gun") and television appearances aplenty, he's still Luke Duke to legions of fans. "It's amazing, it's crazy," says the 61-year-old Wopat, who still gets together with "Hazzard" co-star John Schneider (and sometimes even the original Daisy, Catherine Bach)

Last weekend, downtown Towson was rocked by a disturbance that was extraordinary in the history of our county seat. Those responsible should be held accountable, and we need to take steps to ensure it never happens again. But I believe the incident is a momentary pause as downtown Towson continues its economic transformation. Towson is a center of law, medicine, higher education and government. This area includes some of the most appealing neighborhoods in Baltimore County - places like Anneslie, Rodgers Forge and Stoneleigh that are filling up with young families.

Brian Kelly, hired five years ago to be the top offensive assistant on Kyle Hannan's staff at Goucher, is succeeding Hannan as head coach at Goucher, the school announced Friday. "We are genuinely excited by the prospect of Brian Kelly taking over our men's lacrosse program," athletic director Geoffrey M. Miller said in announcing the hiring. "Following a national search, we feel we found the person internally who can sustain the progress made in recent years and propel us forward to an even higher level.

This year's Goucher College graduates will likely enjoy one of region's quirkier commencement speeches. The school announced that Ira Glass, host of public radio's "This American Life," will give the graduation keynote on May 18. He'll also be getting an honorary degree from the school. Glass is a Baltimore native. He grew up in Baltimore County and attended Milford Mill High. Goucher also points out that he's the grandson of Frieda Friedlander from Goucher's Class of 1931.

C. Stanley Bosley Jr., who as Goucher College comptroller for 31 years made sure the books were balanced and necessary disbursements made, died Tuesday of pneumonia at Manor Care-Ruxton. He was 81 and lived in Cockeysville. A man of medium build who wore glasses and a big smile, and was seldom without his snap-brim fedora, he was one of the most recognized and revered figures on the campus of the Towson college. Family members said he loved his work and enjoyed working with faculty members and students.

Goucher College has narrowed its search for a new president to three finalists -- an administrator at Southern Methodist University, a historian from Stanford University, and the longtime No. 2 official at Baltimore's Loyola College.The next president will succeed Rhoda M. Dorsey, who will retire in May after 20 years running the liberal arts college in Towson.The finalists are Judy Jolley Mohraz, associate provost for student academic affairs at Southern Methodist; Judith C. Brown, a Stanford history professor specializing in Renaissance Italy; and Thomas E. Scheye, the provost and acting president of Loyola.

Sarah Bart's run at the college championship on 'Jeopardy!' ended Tuesday with the senior  history major finishing second. But as runner-up, Bart left with $50,000 for her effort. Here's the release from the show: Sarah Bart, a 22-year-old history major at Goucher College, placed second in the “Jeopardy!” College Championship, taking home $50,000 in cash winnings.  Bart competed against 14 undergraduates from across the country during the competition.  This is the first time that the 1,446-student liberal arts and sciences college, located in Baltimore, Md., has been represented in the College Championship.

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