Faculty and staff recognized for milestone years of service
During the College’s annual seniority recognition luncheon, 37 faculty and staff members were recognized for 10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 years of service — a total of 550 years.
Among them is Kathy Mangan, professor of English and the inaugural Joan Develin Coley Chair in Creative Expression and the Arts, who has been teacher, mentor and muse to her students since joining the faculty 40 years ago in 1977. Recipient of the College’s Distinguished Teaching Award, her classroom credits span more than two dozen courses at the College from first-year seminars to senior seminars, from Honors courses to classes in McDaniel’s Master of Liberal Arts (MLA) program. Her teaching interests include creative writing, American literature and women’s literature.
The author of several poetry collections and printed broadsides, her work has been published in numerous literary journals, including Shenandoah, Ploughshares and The Gettysburg Review. Her poem, “The Light-Gatherers,” was written to commemorate the inauguration of Joan Develin Coley as the College’s eighth president in 2001.
In September, one of her poems, "Blizzard at the Artists' Colony," was included in Baltimore STYLE magazine's Fall Arts Preview issue. The article, "A Sense of Place," included four local poets, three of whom gave a joint reading at Bird in Hand Café in Baltimore in October. Mangan ran the Gabriel A. Zimpritch Poetry Symposium in April for the Cape Elizabeth High School in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. She taught a group of 12 writing students during the day and that evening gave a reading and hosted her students' readings of their poems.
Her poem, “The Whistle,” was selected in November 2009 by the former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser as the poem of the week for his syndicated column and also featured on Baltimore buses and subways as part of the Poetry in Motion project. Others include such trademark Mangan poems as “Making Applesauce,” “An Arithmetic,” and prestigious Pushcart Prize-winner “Above the Tree Line,” which has been widely published and is the title poem of her first full-length book published in 1995 by Carnegie Mellon Press.
In addition, Mangan has taught at Common Ground on the Hill’s Traditions Weeks, a summer series of workshops celebrating multicultural art and music that take place at McDaniel and other locations in Westminster, Md. She has also been invited to numerous artist colonies and helped build, with McDaniel students, Habitat for Humanity homes in Westminster, Md., and Beius, Romania. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Denison University and master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio University.
30 years: (not pictured) Gregory D. Alles, Professor of Religious Studies, and Donna Evergates, Professor of History.
20 years: (left to right) President Roger Casey; Simeon K. Schlossberg, associate professor of Education; Walter M. Michael, artist in residence, Academic Affairs; Ochieng’ O. K’Olewe, associate professor of Education and coordinator of Graduate BEST and Secondary Education Program; Justina M. Carloss, cashier, Bursar’s Office, and Carolyn B. Boner, director of Math Placement Program, Mathematics and Computer Science. Not pictured are Lisa Breslin, associate dean of Student Academic Life, Academic Affairs; Dana D. Plevyak, nurse, Wellness Center, and Stephanie D. Stahler, senior associate director, Admissions.
15 years: (left to right) President Roger Casey; Lisa M. Russell, supervisor – Interlibrary Loan, Hoover Library; Ellen E. Rugemer, director of Purchasing; Kristin C. Lister, associate director of Prospect Research, Advancement Services, and Peggy Fosdick, director of Communications, Communications and Marketing. (Not pictured are Steve A. Kerby, director of Instructional Technology, Instructional Technology, and Wayne E. Little, general maintenance mechanic, Building Maintenance and Repair.)
10 years: (left to right, front row) Andrea R. Selivan, Curriculum and Instruction program assistant, Graduate and Professional Studies; Julie L. Routzahn, associate professor of Economics and Business Administration and faculty innovation fellow for The Encompass Distinction Program; Spencer R. Hamblen, associate professor of Mathematics; Holly M. Chalk, associate professor of Psychology; Sara B. Raley, associate professor of Sociology; Daria E. Buese, associate professor and associate dean, Off-Campus Programs, Graduate and Professional Studies; (back row, left to right) President Roger Casey holding photo of Lawrence “Chip” Junkin, special philanthropy advisor, Development; Michael L. Robbins, associate dean of students and director of residence life and student engagement, Student Affairs; Ann M. Mathias, operations manager, Residence Life; Diane J. Martin, associate professor of Education; Catherine M. Gunther, executive secretary, Student Affairs; Rebecca A. Gibson, assistant professor of Education, and Susan N. Parrish, John Desmond Kopp Professorship in the Sciences and associate professor of Biology. (Not pictured are Joshua Baron, lecturer in Philosophy; Marylin L. Bell, associate registrar - information systems and data, Registrar’s Office; Elizabeth B. Cotton, senior associate director, Admissions; Kevin J. Curley, head men’s basketball coach, Intercollegiate Athletics; Gené Fouché, lecturer, Theatre Arts; Robert J. Trader, associate professor of Communication, and Carol N. Zaru, senior lecturer, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
