Summer 2005 - Hood College

Summer 2005
Hood Magazine 21
Inspirational
Faculty
We asked subscribers to Inter(Net)Actions,
Hood's electronic newsletter for alumnae
and alumni, to tell us about faculty members
who were particularly influential in
their lives. Here are two of a number of
responses we received.
Jennifer Massagli ’98
High school biology teacher, Eleanor Roosevelt
High School, Greenbelt, Md.
JENNIFER MASSAGLI AND DOUG BOUCHER
TANYA SANDER-MARKS AND CAROL KOLMERTON
“Douglas Boucher arrived at Hood during
my junior year. As an environmental
science and policy major I had to take his ecology course, which I
absolutely loved. Through that course, Professor Boucher became
a mentor of sorts. My senior year I went on a research trip to
Nicaragua with Professor Boucher. At the time I was dealing Tanya Sander-Marks ’96
with family issues and had really begun to doubt myself and my Regional Marketing Manager, Schwan’s Home Services
abilities. Due to the nature of our research and living conditions,
I challenged myself over those two weeks and experienced the
world through the eyes of a child again, exploring and learning.
Professor Boucher helped rekindle an adventurous spirit that had
been lost.
A few years later, I reflected on the impact that teachers have
on students. I am now a high school biology teacher inspiring
future scientists. Some of my students’ favorite stories are centered
on the field research that we did in Nicaragua. Whether it
was the time I stepped over a poisonous snake or Professor
Boucher fell off a log into a stream, or the fact that I can answer
firsthand that a jaguar does sound like a baby crying in the rain-
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forest, the students never grow tired of them. Whether he realizes
it or not, Professor Boucher is inspiring scientists and students
through the inspiration he has given to others.”
“Carol Kolmerten, who was the director of the Honors
Program when I was an undergrad in the late ’90s, was a huge
influence on me. I came to Hood interested in finance and business,
and Carol constantly reminded me that English, political
science and the general college experience were just as important.
Those words, and my work study job as student coordinator of
the Honors Program, as it was run at the time, were hugely
influential in helping me get my first job at an investment bank,
managing their large client proposal process. I think daily of
those words, and my M.B.A. proves it; I concentrated in finance,
marketing and business strategy and use all three seamlessly on a
daily basis.”
1,345 years of teaching experience
of all full-time faculty*
76 full-time faculty
39 full-time female faculty
37 full-time male faculty
full-time faculty with doctorates
75 or a terminal degree in their field
21 part-time faculty
*This is the total number of years full-time faculty have taught at Hood