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President Bush
© 2004, The Washington Post. Photo by Robert A. Reeder. Reprinted with permission. 		Star treatment

Chris Ensign ’95 and his wife, Susie Thorpe Ensign ’96, received national media exposure during the 2004 presidential campaign. Derek Bottcher ’96 proposed the couple as examples of “ordinary” Americans who could talk to the President about tax cuts, retirement savings and Social Security reform.
Sharing the stage with President Bush in front of 1,400 people at a campaign event in Northern Virginia, the Ensigns received extraordinary coverage. Their appearance was captured in national newspapers, including USA Today and The Washington Post.
Alumnus saluted
Jennifer Freed ’92 was recognized at a ceremony in conjunction with the 85th anniversary of the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va. Freed is the center’s site project leader for the Navy Marine Corps Intranet Project, the largestgovernment information technology contract ever awarded.

David Hardin

Fulbright fellows

David S. Hardin ’83, assistant professor of geography at Longwood University, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to conduct four months of research next year in the Republic of Croatia. He will concentrate on the causes, conduct and outcomes of the 1991-95 Homeland War in Croatia’s Western Slavonia, which lies between Bosnia and Hungary in northern Croatia.
Meanwhile, Rola Abimourched ’04, has received a Fulbright grant to continue in Jordan the research she began in Lebanon under a Mary Washington undergraduate research grant. Her research in Lebanon formed her honors thesis, “Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon: Acknowledgement of the Worker, Denial of the Person.”

Sandy Reynolds

Gifted and talented

For most first-year teachers in the public schools, survival is the reward. Sandy Reynolds, a second grade teacher in Manassas City Public Schools, not only survived, but also was named the district’s 2003-2004 Outstanding First Year Teacher.
Reynolds, who is working toward her master’s degree at Mary Washington’s College of Graduate and Professional Studies, said, “I was able to take all those theories, lesson plans and strategies I am learning in graduate school and bring them to life in the classroom.”
Reynolds also gives credit to her colleagues. “Many say it takes a whole community to raise a child,” she said. “Likewise, it takes a whole school to ‘raise’ a first year teacher.”



Alumnus saluted
Jennifer Freed ’92 was recognized at a ceremony in conjunction with the 85th anniversary of the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va. Freed is the center’s site project leader for the Navy Marine Corps Intranet Project, the largest government information technology contract ever awarded.

 

 

 

 

 

“The University of Mary Washington is committed to being a premier institution of higher education, cultivating an environment of academic excellence and fostering lifelong learning.”

– Preamble to the UMW Mission Statement, adopted July 2004, that officially delineates the undergraduate, residential college of arts and sciences, Mary Washington College on the Fredericksburg campus, and the University’s College of Graduate and Professional Studies on the Stafford campus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The President’s Travel Club is booking reservations for its upcoming trip to England and the Scottish Highlands. Called “The Royal Tour,” it will take place May 20 through 28, 2005. With lectures and commentary provided by W. Brown Morton III, Mary Washington’s Prince B. Woodard Chair of Historic Preservation and Professor of Historic Preservation, the trip will include private visits to estates, castles and special sites. Highlights will include a luncheon at The House of Commons and House of Lords and a tour of Chartwell, led by a member of the Churchill family. There also will be visits to official residences of the Royal Family, including Windsor Castle and Balmoral.

James and Gladys Bowen

James & Gladys Bowen


The trip will conclude with a farewell dinner at the Inverness summer home of Professor and Mrs. Morton. As in the past, world-class accommodations will be available throughout the journey.
“Princes and Palaces: Masterpieces of Northern Italy” was the 2004 excursion of the President’s Travel Club. The group stayed at the Villa d’Este on the shore of Lake Como, visited the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie to see Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper”, and boarded River Cloud II for a cruise on the Po River from Cremona to Venice. Lectures and cultural insight were provided by Mary Washington Professor Emeritus Clavio F. Ascari and his wife, Rosalia Colombo Ascari, professor of modern languages and literature at Sweet Briar College.

James and Gladys Bowen of Fredericksburg, who had been on the 2003 President’s Travel Club excursion to Paris and Provence, also were on board for the trip to Italy. Gladys said she had visited both locales before, but found these trips to be a completely different experience. “There is such a feeling of camaraderie when you travel with people who have a common bond,” she said. “With President Anderson and the professors, we were able to visit private homes and see exhibits that a regular tourist could not. One night at a private dinner, I even sat next to a Count.”
For more information about the President’s Travel Club, call Jeff W. Rountree ’91 at 540/654-1137