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Anne Arundel 

Community College 

WINTER • 2008 

Of Alumni & Friends

ABOUT THIS ISSUE 

Worlds of Change 

This issue of Community magazine is a trip through our world today.We 

find that the world of higher education is a very diverse and inclusive one. 

Stories on travel study programs in Japan, China and Europe, a Fullbright 

scholar’s adventure in Nicaragua, a new (very real) Dean of AACC’s virtual 

world, and a glimpse into the classroom of students from around the world 

whose primary language is not English. 

Today, too, a theme of taking better care of our collective world is resonating louder. 

For years now the campus has encouraged and been committed to saving the environment.We 

include it in the college strategic plan. We’ve maintained a paper recycling 

program and even designed and 

built the newest college building 

with a green roof that saves energy 

and money. We’ve instituted a 

carpool program and now are 

recycling cans, glass and plastic 

containers.The college bookstore 

has developed cool new cloth 

bags and made them available on 

the “honor” system to cut down 

on the need for and use of plastic bags. Coming soon too will be cloth chico bags for 

the dining hall for carrying food and coffee travel mugs made out environmentally 

friendly soybeans. These and more planned initiatives are part of Anne Arundel 

Community College’s new “It’s easy being green” campaign. 

We offer eco-friendly courses, too, teaching ways to conserve energy at home or 

business and changes that people can make at home to protect the environment. AACC 

also shows children in Grades 1-8 how to be “green” with several camps in summer 

2008. For adults, courses include “Backyard Wildlife Habitat” (ECO 344),“Build a Bog 

(or Two) (ECO 345),“Clean Water” (ECO 346), Making Your Business Green (WIN 

377),“Using Green Gadgets and Technology” (CTC 325) and “Vermi Composting” 

(ECO 347). 

On the credit side,AACC offers an Associate of Science degree option in Environmental 

Science as well as individual courses in ecology, biology and environmental sciences. 

AACC’s Environmental Center also continues to share its expertise in bay grass restoration 

projects. 

Now higher education offers a step in the right direction for a career in saving the 

earth and also a step toward reducing our collective carbon footprint. 

AACC President: 

Martha A. Smith, Ph.D. 

AACC Board of Trustees: 

Chair: 

Arthur D. Ebersberger 

Vice Chair: 

James H. Johnson Jr., Ph.D 

Gene E. Floyd 

Victoria K. Fretwell 

Walter J. Hall 

Courtney L.Tipton, student member 

James D.Tschechtelin, Ed.D. 

AACC Foundation Inc.: 

President, F. Carter Heim, C.P.A. 

Vice President, Alan J. Hyatt, Esq. 

Treasurer, Dominic J. Souza, Esq. 

Secretary, Sue A. Lindsay 

Executive Director 

of AACC Foundation Inc.: 

Stacey Sickels Heckel, CFRE 

Editor: 

Linda L.S. Schulte 

Contributors to this issue: 

Susan M. Donaldson 

Susan S. C. Gross 

Debbie McDaniel-Shaughney 

Leslie Salvail 

Photography: 

Jim Burger 

Rob Hendry 

Keith Weller 

Community of Alumni and Friends is 

available as a pdf file from the AACC 

Web site at www.aacc.edu. 

The Community of Alumni and Friends 

magazine is published quarterly by 

Anne Arundel Community College. 

Reproduction in whole or part 

without written permission is prohibited. 

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send change of address information 

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In the interest of encouraging broad 

and open discussion of issues relating 

to education, Community of Alumni 

and Friends magazine may contain 

statements of opinion on such issues. 

These statements are those of the 

author, or interviewee, and do not 

necessarily reflect the opinion of 

AACC or its officers. 

Volume 5. No. 1.Winter 2008 

© Anne Arundel 


An equal opportunity, affirmative 

action,Title IX,ADA Title 504 

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Support Services, 410-777-2306 or 

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Forty Years of Support 

This issue of Community 

Magazine includes the 

annual report for the 

AACC Foundation, Inc. 

Two-thousand and eight is 

an exciting year for the Foundation 

because it is the 40th Anniversary of the 

organization. An excerpt from the book 

A Stepping Stone written by Jeanne 

Marie Likins which chronicles the early 

history of the college, reads: 

Another way in which the local 

community assisted in AACC’s 

financial support was through 

special contributions from individuals 

and groups. In October, 

1963, the Trustees approved 

(President Andrew G.) Truxal’s 

request to solicit such gifts. For 

several years, this was done 

informally and the money provided 

scholarships. In the winter 

of 1967, this process was 

formalized when a joint 

Trustee-Lay Advisory Board 

Committee was formed to create 

the Anne Arundel 


Foundation.“This fund is 

essentially an endowment …” 

Truxal explained in the 

Evening Capital. A $1,000 gift 

from the Severn Town Club, 

Inc. officially launched the fund 

in the fall….By the end of the 

1967-1968 academic year, a 

total of $17,735 in gifts had 

been received. 

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From that ambitious beginning, the college 

Foundation has grown to become a 

powerful partner with the college in serving 

thousands of AACC students. Over 

the years, the number of scholarships provided 

through the Foundation has grown 

ensuring the core of AACC’s mission – to 

provide access to higher education as the 

gateway to successful and fulfilling lives. 

The variety of support from the 

Foundation has expanded as well. In 

2002, the Foundation and the college — 

in a truly innovative initiative — provided 

the funding to construct and equip the 

AACC Regional Higher Education 

Center at Arundel Mills.This partnership 

made it possible for the college to build 

this facility without any public funding. 

Last year, the Foundation generously contributed 

the funding for the college to 

build more classrooms in the lower level 

of that Arundel Mills facility. 

The Foundation contributes to the 

economic well-being and quality of life 

for Anne Arundel County by providing 

essential and active support for our 

growing student population and related 

workforce development training programs.This 

visionary organization continues 

the tradition of excellence that has 

always been the hallmark of Anne 

Arundel Community College. 

To celebrate this legacy of excellence 

and investment, we would like you 

to note that this fall, on October 18, 

2008, the 2008 Foundation 40th 

Anniversary Gala will be held and we 

hope you’ll save the date and join the 

celebration! ■ 

Martha A. Smith, Ph.D., president 

FROM THE PRESIDENT 

MARTHA A. SMITH, PH.D. 

“The Foundation 

contributes to the 

economic well-being 

and quality of life for 

Anne Arundel County 

by providing essential 

and active support for 

our growing student 

population …” 

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CONTENTS 

Flying High, 3 

Corporate pilot, Larry Esser, credits AACC with his start. 

ONE WORLD: 

Accepting the Japanese 

Challenge, 6 

Having three students accepted to Temple University Japan 

Campus in Tokyo is exceptional.That acceptance rate puts 

AACC among the top five United States colleges other than 

those in the states of California and Washington. 

Students Expand Their Vision 

of the World, 8 

AACC travel-study abroad opportunities are thriving. 

The Virtual Campus, 11 

Virtual is real, and it is growing strong at AACC. More than 

one third of AACC’s students take at least one distance learning 

course, the highest online enrollment of any community 

college in the state. 

Ability and Inclusion, 13 

AACC recently reorganized the Counseling, Advising and 

Retention Services area to meet a strategic plan objective to 

recruit and retain a diverse student body. 

Keys to the Global Village, 15 

The English as a Second Language students range in age from 

older teens and college age students to seniors. But what matters 

is helping each other master this language they find so difficult. 

AACC Foundation Report, 19 

Of Alumni & Friends 

DEPARTMENTS 

From the 

President, 1 

Alumni 

Updates, 29 

Faculty/Staff 

Updates, 33 

AACC Sports 

Update, 34 

Calendar of 

Events, 36 

COMMUNITY of Alumni & Friends Anne Arundel Community College • Winter 2008 • 2

Corporate Pilot Credits AACC with His Start 

By Susan S.C. Gross 

Larry Esser thinks he has the 

best job in the world. He 

travels to exotic spots in the 

Caribbean, tourist destinations 

on both the East and 

the West coasts – even to Europe, and 

someone else picks up the tab. 

Esser, 52, is a corporate pilot, and he 

credits Anne Arundel Community 

College with giving him his start. 

About 18 years ago, Esser had a 

bachelor's degree in psychology, an 

M.B.A. in industrial relations and a solid 

job working for a railroad company in 

Baltimore, but he says he wasn't satisfied 

with his job. Growing up in 

Connecticut, he and one of his brothers 

often went over to Danbury Airport to 

watch the planes take off and land, but 

he never thought of being a pilot. It was 


his good friend Thomas Frank Toth, who 

had been in the Air Force, who suggested 

Esser learn to fly. It would be years 

before Esser was able to begin. 

“Back then, he (Toth) and I were 

busy 24/7 taking care of family. Flying 

takes time and money,” he said. 

Then, in the late1980s, he got his 

chance. He and Toth were playing tennis 

on AACC’s courts when they picked up 

a noncredit schedule of classes and saw a 

private pilot course.Toth, who had given 

him the idea of becoming a pilot, 

encouraged him to try it. 

“I had time and money – and 

maturity,” he laughed. 

He still remembers his instructor, 

Mike McEntire, encouraging the 12-to- 

15 students as he prepared them to take 

the Federal Aviation Administration’s 

ALUMNUS PORTRAIT 

ground exam. 

“The course here was excellent,” he 

said, giving him the foundation to do 

well on the FAA exam. By that time, he 

knew he wanted to pursue being a pilot. 

Someone in that class knew the chief 

flight instructor at a small airport in 

Frederick, and he headed over there. 

“The biggest mistake my instructor 

made was letting me fly,” he said.“I was 

sold, hook, line and sinker.” 

He continued his flight training and 

earned his private pilot license in fall 

1990. He then sought flying by instrument 

training both at BWI Flight 

School and at Frederick.The owner of 

BWI Flight School also owned a charter 

company, so Esser started co-piloting 

with him and ferrying planes. 

By this time, he already was think- 


Larry Esser 

ing of doing commercial flying. Each 

level of licensing required both more 

training and experience measured in 

hours flown. Briefly, he detoured into 

helicopter flying, but he knew he loved 

the long distances that fixed-wing planes 

flew better, so he resumed that training. 

As he continued working to advance 

his piloting skills, he kept running into 

Mike Hinson, grandson of the owner of 

BWI Flight School and owner of his 

own charter company. Hinson suggested 

that Esser fly as his co-pilot to get experience 

and hours flying a multi-engine 

plane. Esser soon reached a point where 

he had a decision to make: stay at his 

current level or do intense training to 

become a captain. He took that training 

in Frederick and in 2002 became a captain, 

able to fly solo in the charter's two 

Cessna pressurized piston twins. 

Then, one of the charter customers 

bought a small private jet.While Esser 

didn’t fly much in that one, when that 

same customer purchased a much bigger 

Cessna Citation jet, he jumped at the 

chance to train to fly it. He then needed 

to fly as co-pilot until he gained enough 

experience and hours to go back to 

school for classroom and simulator training. 

Now, he’s fully qualified as a captain 

in each one. 

“The hardest work I ever did in my 

life was qualifying to be a captain of these 

Then, in the 

late1980s, he got 

his chance. He 

and Toth were 

playing tennis on 

AACC’s courts 

when they picked 

up a noncredit 

schedule of classes 

and saw a private 

pilot course.Toth, 

who had given 

him the idea of 

becoming a pilot, 

encouraged him to 

try it. 

jets – it’s really intense and doing it gave 

me a feeling of accomplishment,” he said. 

He’s now works as an independent 

contractor as a full-time pilot for Hinson 

Corporate Flight Services and can't 

think of a better life.You have to like 

traveling and it helps to be flexible, he 

said, but he enjoys each part of his job. 

He lives in Glen Burnie, only minutes 

away from the airport and arrives about 

an hour before departures to check out 

the aircraft and make sure everything is 

ready for the owners, including the 

proper snacks for the ride. 

The hardest part of the job can be 

waiting while the owner conducts business, 

but he enjoys exploring new cities 

or visiting favorite spots in places he's 

already been. 

“I personally never get bored,” he 

said. 

His favorite city is Los Angeles, but 

his recent trip to Europe – including flying 

into Paris – was the "piece de resistance,” 

he said. 

As a corporate pilot, he has seen 

great changes in the industry in recent 

years.While 20 years ago, having a corporate 

plane was a luxury, since Sept. 11, 

2001, many corporations and wealthy 

individuals think of a private plane as a 

convenience. So, business is booming, 

and the corporate pilot and charter 

industries are growing to meet that 

demand, he said. 

“This is definitely the time to be a 

pilot - the industry needs pilots at every 

level,” Esser said. 

He hopes to continue flying at least 

another 15 years. 

“You can fly, fly, fly and every once 

in a while, you see something that is 

breathtakingly beautiful and you realize 

why you're doing this,” Esser said. 

When he’s not flying, he and Toth 

can often be found eating lunch at 

AACC's dining hall. 

“The food is good, the people are 

nice, and this is the place where this part 

of my life started. I like it at AACC.” 

Susan S.C. Gross is part of the AACC 

Public Relations and Marketing team. 


New Scholarship Aids Meade 

High School Graduates 

By Debbie McDaniel-Shaughney 

An Anne Arundel 

Community College engineering 

major is the first 

to benefit from a new college 

scholarship established 

to help qualifying Meade High School 

seniors and graduates. 

The $1,500 scholarship awarded to 

Lasean Burnham of Severn for each of 

the fall 2007 and spring 2008 terms has 

helped him significantly, he said. 

“I would have had to take out a 

loan,” Burnham said.“The scholarship 

really did make a difference.” 

Burnham and future scholarship 

recipients can thank the family of the 

late George Revitz and Mike Caruthers, 

president of Somerset Construction 

Company.The family and Caruthers 

established the George Revitz Memorial 


Scholarship fund at AACC with a gift of 

$200,000 from Dorchester Ltd. 

“George Revitz was a successful 

businessman who was always concerned 

with the welfare of others and always 

had time to help those in need,” said 

Stacey Sickels Heckel, executive director 

of institutional advancement at AACC 

and executive director of the AACC 

Foundation Inc.“He strongly believed in 

the importance of education, loved 

sports and will always be remembered in 

the lives of those he was able to help.” 

The scholarship is awarded annually 

to one or more students from Meade 

High School who enroll full time at 

AACC and show outstanding interest in 

and the ability to make a difference in 

their communities. Applicants must be 

currently enrolled at Meade High or a 

Meade High graduate, live in Anne 

Arundel County, have demonstrated academic 

excellence and be able to show a 

history of involvement in extracurricular 

activities. Preference for the initial scholarship 

funded each year will go to a student 

pursuing nursing. 

Revitz, a Dartmouth College engineering 

graduate described by Caruthers 

as a “man’s man” who enjoyed athletics, 

was also a literature lover who sometimes 

read a book a day. Caruthers had 

wanted to do something in memory of 

Revitz, his former boss and mentor, ever 

since his death in 1987. 

“I was going to build a gazebo, 

originally, in some quiet spot,” Caruthers 

said, but reconsidered because gazebos 

aren’t permanent structures. 

Shortly before 9-11, Caruthers had 

started giving scholarships to Meade High 

graduates bound for college. His company 

is involved in western Anne Arundel 

County as master developer of Arundel 

Preserve, a 268-acre mixed-use community 

that is part of the 1,100-acre Arundel 

Mills development. So, Caruthers considered 

the idea of setting up a permanent 

scholarship in Revitz’s memory. 

He just wasn’t sure how to proceed. 

Then, Caruthers talked with fellow 

members of the board of directors of the 

Baltimore Washington Medical Center. 

Some of those members also serve on 

the AACC Foundation board of directors. 

Caruthers discovered, through discussions 

with them, that the college 

foundation could set up such a scholarship 

and administer the scholarship fund. 

The rest is history. 

The fund is open to contributions 

by individuals, corporations and organizations. 

For information on the scholarship 

and how to apply or contribute, 

contact Meredith Watson, assistant director 

of development, at 410-777-2788 or 

e-mail mjwatson1@aacc.edu. 


ONE WORLD 

Accepting the Japanese 


Having three 

students 

accepted into 

one transfer 

program 

does not sound unusual, but 

having three students accepted 

to Temple University 

Japan Campus in Tokyo is 

exceptional. 

Eric Korpiel, manager of 

overseas admissions counseling 

for TUJ, said that acceptance 

rate puts AACC among 

the top five United States 

colleges other than those in 

the states of California and 

Washington. 

Competition for entry is 

fierce. More than 60 percent 

of the undergraduate students 

are Japanese, with 

Americans comprising 23 

percent of the student body 

and the other 14 percent 

hailing from around the 

globe.TUJ has about 1,642 

students in 11 undergraduate 

programs, two master’s 

degree programs or studying 

law. Others can enroll in 

continuing education or cor- 

porate education courses. 

And while it is not required 

that all students speak 

Japanese, it is recommended. 

All of the AACC transfers 

to TUJ have been 

involved in the college’s 

Japanese language studies. 

Through an affiliation agreement 

this fall between 

AACC and TUJ, AACC 

transfers have a more formal 

pathway through the admissions/application 

process, will 

be considered for scholarships 

and financial aid and 

will be provided preferential 

access to home-stay and dormitory 

housing. 

These three students 

attending TUJ this semester 

are not the first AACC students 

accepted into Temple’s 

elite program, so Korpiel visited 

AACC’s campus last 

spring to get a better picture 

of why our language program 

inspires so many students to 

apply to TUJ. 

“Regionally speaking, I 

think you should be very 

proud of the (AACC) pro- 

gram,” Korpiel said.“If you 

look up the number of 

Japanese book stores, video 

shops and the endless numbers 

of Japanese restaurants in 

cities like Los Angeles, San 

Francisco, Seattle and 

Honolulu, you see that students 

have lots of ready access 

of ‘all things Japanese.’ 

Arnold, Maryland, however, is 

not typically thought of as a 

place where you might go for 

Japanese language and cultural 

understanding. Having said 

that, I feel your teachers have 

brought a true Japanese experience 

to Anne Arundel.” 

He was impressed by 

both the teaching techniques 

and the students’ enthusiasm. 

“In the time (that) I 

could observe your program, 

the interaction between 

teacher and students was 

excellent.There have been 

about a dozen times or so 

where I observe a class and 

students seem truly inspired by 

their ‘sensei’ (teacher in 

Japanese) and (Miyoko) 

Dickerson Sensei’s class defi- 


Challenge 

nitely had that feel,” he said.“I 

certainly felt the students in 

both teachers’ classes were well 

prepared and motivated. In 

short, yes, the Japanese level of 

instruction was very high for a 

class being held in the U.S.” 

Another benefit students 

have at AACC is the Japanese 

Language Club. Open to the 

entire campus, whether or 

not they study the Japanese 

language, the club meets on 

Thursdays. Faculty sponsor 

and Japanese language 

instructor Miyoko Dickerson 

said the club allows students 

to resolve issues they might 

not have understood fully in 

class. 

“The more experienced 

students work with the newer 

students and help them 

through these initial stumbling 

blocks,” she said. 

Japanese exchange students 

also attend club meetings, 

giving English-speaking 

students a chance to practice 

their Japanese, and the 

Japanese students an opportunity 

to perfect their English. 

Club members also can 

prepare for the Japanese 

Language Proficiency Test 

given each December.The 

Japanese Foundation runs the 

tests as an internationally recognized 

certification of 

Japanese proficiency at specific 

levels. Several AACC students 

have received certification 

at both the Level Four 

(basic) and Level Three 

(intermediate) levels, 

Dickerson said. 

Another part of the college’s 

Japanese studies exposes 

students to Japanese culture. 

Dickerson said a Japanese 

Anime Club meets on 

Tuesdays, she and Kazuo 

Tsubata - AACC’s other 

Japanese language instructor, 

take students on field trips 

that pertain to Japanese culture.They 

also both have led 

students on 10-day trips to 

Japan over the past two summers.Tsubata’s 

next trip is 

this spring. 

Part of AACC’s success, 

Dickerson said, is an understanding 

of why students 


enroll.While some may be 

pulled in by a love of 

Japanese culture, others may 

just be looking for a “cool” 

way to satisfy their foreign 

language requirement. Once 

enrolled, though, Dickerson 

said it’s the teachers’ task to 

help the students accept the 

challenge of learning a non- 

European language and to 

overcome students’ perception 

that learning Japanese 

can be “daunting.” 

“Once a student enrolls, 

we make every effort to 

make it an enjoyable experience,” 

Dickerson said.“There 

is a lot of one-on-one interaction, 

and we try not to 

leave anyone behind.This 

sometimes involves extra, 

out-of-the-classroom, study 

sessions designed to build 

self-confidence in studying 

the language.” 

It’s that enjoyment that 

keeps bringing students back 

each week to the club sessions 

and leads many to 

continue their studies when 

they transfer. 


ONE WORLD 

Students Expand Their 


David L. 

Tengwall has 

been leading 

travel-study 

courses at 

Anne Arundel Community 

College for 28 years. Joyce A. 

Ezrow was a co-leader of her 

first travel-study trip abroad 

last summer. But the benefits 

to students are so profound 

that both the veteran and the 

new trip leader can visibly 

see the participants’ growth as 

the course progresses. 

“Diversity is without a 

doubt the major benefit – 

seeing and experiencing new 

cultures and people,” said 

Tengwall, Ph.D., professor and 

department chair of history, 

honors, philosophy and political 

science. He has led study 

trips to many countries in 

Europe, but for the past 14 

years, his main course has 

been “Medieval and 

Renaissance England,” which 

he offers during AACC’s 

two-week Winter Term. 

“Students come back 

from two weeks in London 

with a new sense of the 

world, realizing, perhaps for 

the first time, that there is life 

outside of Anne Arundel 

County,” he said. 

Ezrow echoed that sentiment, 

saying that for many of 

the students in the “European 

Common Market - Travel 

Studies” course, the trip to 

Europe was their first time 

on an airplane, as well as their 

first trip abroad. 

“Their horizons have 

been expanded and many 

expressed an interest in going 

back to see and do more in 

Europe,” said Ezrow, an 

AACC associate professor of 

business management. 

One of the main objectives 

of that course was to 

expose students to how business 

is conducted in countries 

that, while independent, are 

also working together on 

common issues. Students 

attended lectures on both the 

European Union and the 

European Council, as well as 

visited marketplaces in each 

country to see the differences 

in how they operate. 

“For many of them, this 

was their one and only 

exposure to how business is 

done in foreign countries,” 

Ezrow said. 

AACC is about to offer 

them another one. Bill P. 

Yuan, assistant professor of 

business management, was the 

lead instructor on that 


Vision of the World 

“European Common 

Market” course trip and he 

and Ezrow are teaming up 

again this spring to lead 

“Doing Business in China” 

(BPA 296), which still has a 

few seats available. 

Local entrepreneurs and 

employees of business and 

industry are urged to join the 

March 17-June 1 course, 

which may be taken for credit 

or noncredit. During the May 

19-30 travel portion of the 

trip, participants will get a 

behind-the-scenes look at one 

of the high-tech enterprises 

in Beijing’s Zhong Guan 

Cun; tour a leading company 

in Xi’an and in Shanghai and 

visit one of the companies in 

the Special Economic Zone 

of Shenzhen, which borders 

Hong Kong.They also will 

learn about special tax incen- 

tives the city offers to encourage 

foreign investment. 

Time also will be available 

for exploring the country’s 

history and culture, with 

trips to Tiananmen Square, 

the Forbidden City, the Great 

Wall of China, the Terracotta 

Army Museum, a traditional 

tea house and a rickshaw tour 

among the hutongs. 

Experiencing another 

culture is a major part of 

each trip. Just seeing how 

other people live – the smaller 

apartments and houses, the 

smaller cars, the different priorities 

that some cultures 

have for their time and their 

money makes an impact on 

the students, Ezrow said. 

“I learned to love the 

minimal lifestyle of 

Europeans, from the minimal 

bathrooms (our shower in our 


first hotel had to have been 

no more than two square 

feet) and basic meals to the 

minimal work hours, as most 

businesses opened at 9 a.m. 

and closed at 7 p.m.,” said 

Brian P. Robinson, who traveled 

with Ezrow and Yuan. 

Tengwall said that traveling 

in a country for two 

weeks allows students to 

experience that country’s 

economy, language, politics 

and social life. 

It’s “about taking care of 

yourself for two weeks in a 

foreign country,” he said. 

If students include history 

and the arts in their itineraries, 

the cultural benefits increase. 

“Seeing the Louvre was 

amazing! The Mona Lisa, 

Venus De Milo and I.M. Pei’s 

glass pyramid were something 

I could only have dreamed 

about a few months back,” 

said Courtney L.Tipton, 

student member of the 

AACC Board of Trustees 

and a participant on the 

“European Common 

Market” course trip. 

Michael D. Ryan, 

associate professor and 

chair of architecture at 

AACC, recognizes the 

possibilities for his architecture 

students in Paris 

and is considering a travel-study 

course to explore 

architecture in that city. 

Right now, Ryan leads 15 

to 20 students each June 

in “The Chicago Frank 

Lloyd Wright 

Experience.” 

“Seeing great architecture 

firsthand, being 

able to walk through and 

experience the space first- 


AACC Travel-study 

Programs This Spring 

“A Visit to Luther’s Germany” in 

conjunction with “The Protestant 

Reformation” (HIS 280) from March 

20-30, estimated cost $3,000; contact 

Kathy J. Lohff, 

kjlohff@aacc.edu or 410-777-2434. 

“Shakespeare’s Plays in 

Shakespeare’s England” (ENG 

260) from May 9-18, estimated 

cost, $2,800; contact Margaret A. 

Boas, maboas@aacc.edu or 

410-777-2735. 

“Doing Business in China” (BPA 

296) from May 19-30, estimated 

cost $3,170; contact Bill P. Yuan, 

bpyuan@aacc.edu or 

410-777-2765. 

“The Chicago Frank Lloyd 

Wright Experience” (ACH 260), 

June 16-23, estimated cost $1,500; 

contact Michael D. Ryan, 

mdryan@aacc.edu or 

410-777-2437. 

For Hospitality, Culinary Arts and 

Tourism Institute internships, call 

410-777-2398 or visit 

www.aacc.edu/hcat 

AACC Travel-study Courses 

“History of Medieval and 

Renaissance England” (HIS 227); 

contact David Tengwall, Ph.D., 

dltengwall@aacc.edu or 

410-777-2434. 

“The Italian Renaissance” (HIS 

281); contact Frank W. Alduino, 

Ph.D., fwalduino@aacc.edu or 

410-777-2469. 

“History and Culture of Spain and 

Portugal,” with David L. Tengwall, 

Ph.D., and Thomas Edison, Ph.D.; 

contact Tengwall, 

dltengwall@aacc.edu or 

410-777-2434. 

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hand … gives them a strong base and 

advantage when they transfer to a university 

program,” he said. 

Giving students an international 

experience is especially pertinent to 

the culinary arts, too, so in 2002, 

AACC’s Hospitality, Culinary Arts and 

Tourism Institute launched a 10-week 

culinary internship on the Amalfi Coast 

of Italy. Students work for usually 10 to 

12 hours a day, five to six days a week in 

some of the world’s leading resorts. 

Immediately, they are immersed in the 

daily life of an Italian culinary worker, 

speaking only Italian, grasping nuances 

of co-workers and bosses and gleaning 

the culture.While they arrive with 

strong culinary skills and the basics of 

the Italian language, they have to adapt 

to new ways of food preparation, different 

work ethics and people speaking a 

foreign language, all very quickly. 

Mary Ellen Mason, director of the 

HCAT Institute, said that international 

experience gives the students an advantage 

in competing against other emerging 

chefs. Most participants come back 

with enhanced skills, she said, but more 

importantly, with a global perspective 

and an appreciation of a new culture. 

The students recognize the value of 

the opportunity. David Garcia-Reyes, 

who went to Italy two summers ago, said 

he wanted to go because he felt learning 

from international chefs in their home 

country ought to be a requirement for 

every well-educated chef. 

Former HCAT student and one of 

the first Italian interns, Eric Johns, 

agrees, saying that the internship was the 

“most intense work/life environment 

ever, (but) I loved the challenge.” 

Mason also has a new opportunity 

for her students, a 16-week internship 

in Hawaii in collaboration with 

Kapi'olani Community College in 

Honolulu. Students participate in 

HOST 290E, a three-credit internship 

course with the option of interning in 

culinary or management at local hotels 

and restaurants. Projected cost is $6,000, 

which includes airfare, tuition and rent 

for student housing. 

A challenge for all travel-study 

courses is funding. Mason said the students 

in HCAT’s Italian culinary 

internship have received some scholarships 

to help make that trip affordable. 

Yuan set up the China trip so that the 

travel was part of the credit course, so 

students will be able to use financial 

aid for the trip. Also, he said that Philip 

E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation 

Entrepreneurial Studies Scholarship 

students can use that scholarship to 

finance the trip. Ezrow said another 

barrier is that some students work full 

time. Even if they can get the time off 

for the trip, they may not be able to 

lose the income from that job while 

they are traveling, she said.Tengwall 

suggested setting up the course travel 

fees as lab fees so that they would be 

considered part of a course’s tuition 

and fees to help students receiving 

financial aid afford the courses. 

The AACC Foundation worked 

with HCAT to set up the Italian scholarships 

and can help donors set up a 

scholarship that would help defray travel 

costs of other programs.The privately 

funded scholarship program at the foundation 

has grown tremendously over the 

years due to the generous and consistent 

support of individuals, corporations and 

community organizations. Anyone interested 

in establishing a scholarship fund 

to benefit AACC students may contact 

Stacey Sickels Heckel, executive director, 

at 410 777-2515 or 

foundation@aacc.edu. 

But the students’ reflections on their 

trips prove that they realize what they’ve 

learned from the trips. 

“I recommend everyone get out of 

the country at least once to gain a true 

international, even universal, perspective,” 

said Robinson. 

“I have truly met a goal I thought I 

could never touch. I have met friends to 

last a lifetime and (gained) enough experience 

to use in everyday life,” said Tipton. 

Anne Arundel Community College • Winter 2008 • 10

A Virtual Campus 


When Jean 

Runyon’s 

oldest 

son heard 

that she’d 

taken a job as dean of 

AACC’s virtual campus, he 

joked that it sounded as if she 

were overseeing a pretend 

world. He was kidding, of 

course, but the description 

made her chuckle. 

Virtual is real, and it is 

growing strong at AACC. 

More than one third of 

AACC’s students take at least 

one distance learning course, 

Runyon said, and the college 

has the highest online enrollment 

of any community college 

in the state.As part of her 

new job, she will work with 

both credit and noncredit faculty 

and staff to make sure distance 

learners have the same 

access to services that traditional 

students have. 

“Everyone in this institution 

will play an important 

role in the virtual campus,” 

she said. 

The idea is to provide a 

fully integrated entity to 

learners who access the college’s 

services from a distance. 

AACC already offers at least 

50 different services to learners 

who take distance learning 

classes.The virtual campus 

brings those services together 

in one place, she said. 

“The virtual campus is a 

campus for online learners,” 

she said. 

AACC offers various 

formats for the distance 

learner – online classes, interactive 

classes, telecourses and 

hybrid courses, which offer 

the flexibility of online classes 

combined with the face-time 

with an instructor and classmates. 

Using distance learning, 

students can complete 

four credit degree programs 

and more than 10 certificate 

programs or sign up for 160 

distinct online classes in 34 

subjects. Students can take 

noncredit courses, too. 

“The focus is on learning, 

not distance,” Runyon 

said.“The technology is just 

what gives us access.” 

AACC rolled out a new 

learning management system 

for taking online courses in 

January. ANGEL replaced 

WebCT in delivering all 

online and hybrid courses. 


Students should notice a 

slightly different look to the 

home page, which will offer 

additional features, such as 

an interactive calendar that 

will show them course 

assignments and allow them 

to add postings of their 

own.They also will be able 

to upload podcasts and 

access RSS feeds. 

Runyon credits faculty 

and AACC's information 

services department for their 

collaboration on the migration 

to Angel. AACC faculty 

members are committed to 

excellence in teaching and 

learning and have been 

attending training since 

August to prepare their 

courses for the new learning 

management system. 

Information Services staff has 

worked closely with the 

Virtual Campus team 

throughout the implementation 

period. Both online and 

on-campus orientations to 

ANGEL are available. 

AACC also has an 

account with iTunes U that 

allows students to download 

courses, faculty lectures, 

interviews, music and sports; 

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students to burn a CD; professors 

to post lectures; and 

password-protected sites, for 

both online learners and 

learners in on-campus classes. 

In addition, some professors 

are working with Second Life 

software that allows students 

to create avatars and interact 

in a virtual classroom setting. 

“We’re using technology 

to enhance learning. 

Technology is not the focus; 

it only supports learning and 

teaching,” Runyon said. 

Although AACC already 

offers a variety of distance 

learning options, Runyon and 

her instructional design team 

will continue to work with 

faculty to identify courses 

that would be good online. 

They also will check with 

textbook publishers to see 

what online options and 

enhancements are available. 

To make sure AACC’s 

virtual campus encompasses 

all facets of services to online 

learners, the college created a 

19-member learning design 

team to ensure the college’s 

“excellent learning programs 

(are) supported by fully integrated 

and responsive student 

success services delivered any 

time and any place – locally, 

regionally, nationally and 

globally – to learners with 

academic, professional and life 

enrichment goals.”The team 

is composed of representatives 

from each academic school, 

its contract training center, 

noncredit continuing education 

and student services such 

as advising, enrollment and 

technical assistance. 

Romy Jones of Fort 

Meade, the student team 

member, graduates from 

AACC this December after 

taking 15 of her 20 courses as 

online or hybrid classes. She 

found AACC’s online classes 

very good and rarely encountered 

any problems. If she had 

to offer a suggestion for 

improvement, though, she 

would like to see a contact 

person whom online learners 

could reach if they have concerns 

they cannot resolve 

with their professor. 

Jones also hopes the 

team can find a way for the 

virtual campus to incorporate 

alternatives for online users 

who cannot travel to campus 

for tests or for professor office 

hours. 

“It is often a hassle for 

distance students to make it to 

campus office hours due to 

other responsibilities,” she said. 

Runyon said one of the 

reasons for having a student 

serve on the core team is “to 

gather feedback and suggestions 

such as these.We will be 

involving other students in 

the discussions as well, and 

we will definitely take these 

recommendations into consideration.” 

With testing, the team is 

paying attention to discussions 

at the national level 

about the best ways to assess 

online students, including 

ways to verify that the 

enrolled student is actually 

the student taking the assessment, 

Runyon continued. 

“We’ll continue to 

explore a variety of assessment 

strategies for use in 

our online courses, but we 

will also monitor legislation 

and state/national policies,” 

she said. 

The move to online 

learning is also growing 

around the country. 

Nationwide, 3.5 million students 

took at least one class 

online in fall 2006, the latest 

figure available according to 

the Alfred P. Sloan 

Foundation which tracks 

online learning. Distance 

learning enrollment rose 9.7 

percent from 2005 to 2006, 

exceeding the 1.5 percent 

growth of the overall higher 

education student population. 

Runyon is excited to lead 

AACC’s virtual campus as its 

first dean during this time of 

growth. She came to the college 

from the College of 

Southern Maryland where she 

was director of the Innovative 

Teaching Center and a faculty 

member for both on-campus 

and online courses. She is the 

Northeast Regional board 

member for the Instructional 

Technology Council, a 

national organization that provides 

leadership, information 

and resources for enhancing 

distance learning through the 

use of technology. She also is 

president, Maryland Distance 

Learning Assocation; co-chair, 

Instructional Design Affinity 

Group (MDLA); vice chair, 

Maryland Online Board of 

Directors; and president-elect, 

College of the Air Distance 

Education Consortium 

(COADEC). 

Runyon has a master’s 

degree in education and 

human development from 

George Washington 

University, a graduate certification 

in instructional design 

for online learning from 

Capella University and is 

continuing graduate studies at 

Northcentral University – 

online, of course. 

It’s a virtual world, and 

AACC is definitely part of it. 


Ability and Inclusion 


Although the 

Arnold campus 

as a whole and 

its buildings are 

fully accessible 

to people with disabilities, 


College isn’t content to stop 

there when it comes to meeting 

needs of this growing segment 

of the population. 

In fact, AACC recently 

reorganized the Counseling, 

Advising and Retention 

Services area – which oversees 

the college Disability 

Support Services team — to 

meet a strategic plan objective 

to recruit and retain a 

diverse student body. Peter 

Goeden, a new part-time 

DSS specialist, has joined 

part-time DSS assistant Nick 

Kindrat on the team while 

Mimi Stoops, working since 

2000 as coordinator of services 

to students with disabilities, 

was named the new DSS 

program manager. 

“The college is very 

committed to complying 

with the Americans with 

Disabilities Act (ADA) and 

helping students with disabilities 

earn credentials that can 

lead to careers,” said Stoops, 

who worked as a school psychologist 

in Delaware before 

joining the college.“AACC 

agrees that providing these 

services and accommodations 

is the right thing to do.” 

The college strives to 

remove obstacles, where possible, 

that prevent those with 

disabilities from achieving 

their educational goals. One 

such obstacle, for example, 

involved helping students 

with disabilities avoid problems 

with inclement weather. 

Many students walk 

across the 230-acre campus to 

attend classes held in distant 

buildings.Traveling distances 

while on crutches, using a 

cane or walker or in a wheelchair 

while juggling books is 

no easy feat.Add to this the 

element of a steady downpour, 

freezing rain or snow to 

the individual’s 2,365-foot 

trek between the Careers 

Center and the Cade Center 


for Fine Arts, for example, and 

the obstacles become greater. 

In spring 2007, after the 

college Diversity committee 

identified this issue, the college 

launched a free, door-to-door 

Mobility Van service during 

extreme inclement weather. 

Van usage is restricted to students 

on the Arnold campus 

who have temporary or permanent 

mobility or vision disabilities 

who register for the 

service with the DSS office. 

Stoops notes that this is 

just one of many examples 

of how AACC today not 

only welcomes students with 

disabilities, but is also proactive 

in removing obstacles to 

this growing population’s 

education. 

In fall 2007, the college 

served about 441 students who 

registered disabilities with the 

DSS office and received 

accommodations compared to 

350 students in spring 2007. 

These students represent only 

the tip of the iceberg, Stoops 

said, because there is no 

requirement that students with 

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The DSS office is 

located in the Student 

Services Center 

Room 200. Hours are 

8:30 a.m.-8 p.m. 

Monday-Thursday, 

8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 

Friday and 9 a.m. to 

1 p.m. Saturday, 

except in June. 

temporary or permanent disabilities 

register with her 

office.They only do so if they 

need accommodations. 

“We have close to 1,000 

who are self-identified,” she 

said. 

Students with disabilities 

must provide current documentation 

of their disability 

to DSS to use its services, 

which include: 

● Help with admissions 

applications and 

registration. 

● In-class notetakers. 

● Sign-language 

interpreters for hearingimpaired 

students who 

submit a class schedule 

to DSS at least 30 days 

before classes begin. 

● Test modification services 

(extended time or test 

readers or scribes). 

● Special seating 

arrangements. 

● Access to the Mobility 

Van — Students who 

have registered their disability 

with DSS must 

sign up separately for the 

van service — before 

inclement weather 

occurs.They will receive 

a ticket for the van and a 

phone number to call. 

DSS student workers and 

staff are trained to use the 

van’s wheelchair lift and 

other special equipment. 

● Adaptive equipment and 

software programs for 

students with disabilities. 

These include CCTV 

large print display processor, 

computer monitor 

enlargers, computerized 

print enlargement for 

classroom use, listening 

devices, hand-held magnifiers, 

Kurzweil personal 

reader software, the JAWS 

screen reader software, the 

Dragon Dictate voice 

recognition software program 

and ZoomText 

Windows software. 

AACC’s mission mandate for 

accessibility is clear. Early on, 

the college commited to create 

an accessible campus and, 

as a result, all campus buildings 

have barrier-free access 

through lifts, ramps and elevators 

at strategic locations, 

curb cuts to accommodate 

wheelchairs and marked 

parking spaces reserved for 

individuals with disabilities. 

AACC was even one of the 

first colleges in the nation to 

install a swimming pool chair 

lift. Additional facilities 

improvements include renovations 

to the Astronomy 

Lab, a wheelchair lift in the 

gym, renovation of more than 

a dozen restrooms and installation 

of fire alarms for visual 

and audio compliance. 

To help provide a 

smoother transition to college 

for students coming from the 

county public school system 

and private schools, Stoops 

this spring is meeting with 

parents and students through 

county educational meetings. 

“We’re trying to minimize 

concerns of students,” 

she said.“It’s a huge transition 

for any student coming to 

college for the first time and 

even more so for students 

with disabilities.” 

Educating those on campus 

about DSS is among 

Stoop’s tasks.The office has a 

program for new faculty 

members to educate them 

about ADA and the office’s 

services. Stoops also attends 

campus departments’ meetings 

by invitation to discuss 

DSS services and can meet 

with individual faculty members 

to discuss difficult issues 

involving students. 

“Instructors here are 

wonderful in working with 

students with disabilities,” 

she said. 

In anticipation that 

AACC could see an increase 

in enrollment of veterans 

with disabilities, Stoops is 

working with the Veterans 

Administration’s educational 

coordinator in Baltimore to 

promote services DSS can 

offer county residents who 

are veterans with disabilities 

seeking an education. In FY 

2007, seven veterans who 

were awarded degrees or certificates 

were registered with 

DSS, she said. 

Stoops also serves as the 

adviser to Students Organized 

for Disability Awareness 

(SODA), which is an organization 

for all students, including 

those with disabilities, 

interested in communicating 

about and sensitizing the college 

community to needs and 

issues involving disabled students. 

SODA provides peer 

support, educational programs, 

social activities, 

resource referrals and is a 

source of advocacy for individuals 

with disabilities. 

She’s been working with 

special populations of students 

of all ages throughout her 

career beginning with her 

first job as a special education 

teacher and she wouldn’t have 

it any other way. 

“It’s my whole life’s 

work,” Stoops said.“I can’t 

imagine being any place else 

or doing anything else.” 


Keys to the 

Global Village 


On the first 

day of class 

at Anne 

Arundel 

Community 

College, they file into the 

room as strangers. 

The English as a Second 

Language students range in 

age from older teens and 

college age students to seniors. 

Some may have resident 

or U.S. citizen status while 

others are in the state on 

visas. Because they hail from 

so many different countries, 

they may collectively speak a 

dozen different languages 

and dialects. 

But none of those differences 

matter when the 

instructor begins class speaking 

only in English.What 

matters is helping each other 

master this language they find 

so difficult. 

“They bond and they 

commit to help each other,” 


said Philip Knighton, assistant 

director for English as a 

Second Language who witnesses 

this classroom dynamic. 

“Learning a new language is 

not easy. It’s a daunting task.” 

And, having a person 

from Russia seated next to a 

person from China actually 

works well. 

“That’s an advantage, 

when the only language they 

have in common is the one 

they’re learning,” Knighton 

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said.“In teaching methodology, 

there is no role for the 

native language.The idea is to 

move them as quickly as you 

can from reliance on the 

native language.” 

Word of the college’s 

success in teaching English 

basic skills and English for 

academic purposes to nonnative 

speakers is spreading. 

Janet Paulovich, director of 

English language learning and 

adult education, said students 

are flocking to the classes. 

In fiscal year 2007, 577 

students from 63 countries 

enrolled in the ESL English 

for Academic Purposes program.The 

English Basic Skills 

program attracted 925 students 

from 55 different countries. 

And the numbers just 

keep rising. From July 1, 

2007 to Jan. 7, 2008, at about 

the halfpoint of the fiscal 

MARTHA A. SMITH, PhD., Anne Arundel Community 

College president, and AACC Board of Trustees member Gene E. 

Floyd, right, congratulate Syed Ahmed, who was completing last 

semester’s English as a Second Language program. 

year, 399 students were 

enrolled in the English for 

academic purposes program 

and 496 in the English basic 

skills program. 

To accommodate these 

students, classes are offered at 

about 16 sites around the 

county ranging from churches, 

schools and a senior center 

to the Stanton Center in 

Annapolis, the Arnold campus 

and the Lula G. Scott 

Center in Shady Side. 

A state grant 

allows the college 

to offer the 

English basic skills 

courses at no cost 

to students who 

are U.S. citizens or 

permanent U.S. 

immigrants and 

who reside in the 

county.Those 

attending classes 

for academic purposes 

pay set fees 

per class, such as 

$245 for U.S. citizens 

and permanent 

U.S. immigrants 

who are 

county residents. 

With enrollment 

so strong, 

the department 

has decided to 

expand and reconfigure 

its offerings 

to meet students’ 

needs. It also plans 

to upgrade both 

its ESL computer 

lab and instruction 

to embrace new 

technologies such 

as podcasting and blogging, 

Paulovich said. 

The department has discovered 

that some students 

favor more intensive instruc- 


tion because of the time commitment. 

Child care is offered 

at two locations and transportation 

to class is offered at 

one location through community 

partnerships. 

Last fall, the department 

piloted what became a very 

popular three-hour English 

basic skills class offered four 

times a week at the Glen 

Burnie Town Center (GBTC) 

and the Opportunities 

Industrialization Center 

(OIC) in Annapolis. In contrast, 

most classes are offered 

in two-hour segments twice 

per week.This spring, in 

response to student demand, 

the department expanded the 

pilot program again and is 

offering two levels of the 

intensive classes at both 

GBTC and OIC. 

Also new is an online 

version of an advanced writing 

course. Designed by an ESL 

department instructional specialist 

using ANGEL, the college’s 

new learning management 

system, the course made 

a successful debut this spring. 

And, a huge change is 

coming later this spring to 

English Basic Skills and Adult 

Basic Skills sites lacking computers 

and Internet access, 

thanks to Verizon. A $20,000 

grant from the company is 

funding the purchase of six, 

lightweight, portable laptop 

computers, six InFocus projectors 

and $1,500 worth of 

software for teachers’ use at 

sites lacking Internet access 

or even computers.The software 

will include GraspMath, 

Oxford Picture Dictionary 

Interactive, Step Forward 1 

and 2 and Top Notch. 

“This will give our 

instructors new tools to 

illustrate specific lessons and 

keep students interested in 

what they are learning,” 

Paulovich said. Some of the 

sites have only a blackboard 

or white board for the 

instructor’s use. Department 

staff demonstrated the equipment 

in January at an ESL 

faculty meeting and received 

an enthusiastic response. 

“For many of these 

adult immigrants, the 

portable computers and new 

software will bridge the digital 

divide,” Knighton said. 

“Just having this equipment 

at class will teach them 

things that many of them 

have not done before, such 

as how to turn on a laptop 

and access loaded software.” 

But the changes to the 

department’s programs don’t 

stop there.This spring, the 

ESL computer lab in the 

Johnson Building on the 

Arnold campus will get software 

upgrades and evolve into 

an ESL multimedia lab.The 

upgrades will allow students 

to collaborate on languagelearning 

assignments involving 

Web page development, digital 

video presentations, podcasting 

and production of class 

newsletters, fliers, brochures 

and other materials using 

logos, graphics and photos. 

The changes also will 

give students experience in 

information technology skills 

needed to succeed in college 

credit courses – the same 

skills sought by employers, 

Paulovich said. ESL students 

in the college-prep program 

already use Skype (video 

phone calls made online 

using a computer), Springdoo 

(video e-mails) and blogs as 

they hone their English skills. 


Other changes are 

requiring more planning. 

During the coming year, the 

department will work on a 

fall 2009 expansion of its 

three-level English for academic 

purposes program to 

five levels.The expansion will 

split both the intermediatelevel 

classes into two levels 

and add a Capstone Transition 

to the college level advanced 

classes concentrating on mastering 

college skills. In all, the 

department will then offer 20 

classes in five levels. 

“There’s a lot of work in 

changing a program of this 

magnitude,” Paulovich said. 

Several relatively new 

department initiatives rolled 

out in recent years will 

continue. 

The first, called the 

Conversation Partners program, 

links 25 AACC service-learning 

students and 25 

English Language Learning 

students each term for informal 

conversations.A partnership 

between the college 

Center for Learning through 

Service and the department, 

the program has resulted in 

friendships that continued 

after the term ended. 

A second initiative, the 

Language Learning Exchange 

Program, connects students 

who are native Spanish speakers 

with AACC students who 

are learning Spanish. Students 

practice both English and 

Spanish conversation skills 

during the program.Though 

conducted on a smaller scale, 

this program has benefited 

both sides and “helped the 

native Spanish speakers take 

on a leadership role and feel 

proud of their native heritage,” 

Paulovich said. 

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For information on 

the ESL department’s 

programs, call 

410-777-2901. 


FOUNDATION MEMBERS 

‘It’s a great journey’ – John Cantrell 

Foundation 

Welcomes 

New 

Members 

By Sue Donaldson 

They have a strong 

belief in the value 

of publicly-supported 

higher education. 

They firmly believe that 

AACC is a significant asset to 

the state, region and country. 

They have a willingness to 

improve the quality of the 

college. 

They are the newest 

members of the Anne Arundel 

Com-munity College 

Foundation board of directors. 

Each year, the board welcomes 

new volunteers to its 

team who have the same 

ideals and commitment to 

both the foundation and the 

college. Each member serves 

a three-year term. Among this 

year’s newcomers are John 

Cantrell and J. Jeremy Parks. 

JOHN CANTRELL 

Cantrell and his wife, 

Rose, are big supporters of 

community colleges in general 

and of Anne Arundel 

Community College in particular.They 

and their sons, 

Jeff, Brent and Brian, all have 

taken courses at AACC at 

one time or another. 

“Our boys went on from 

AACC to Arizona State, 

Virginia Tech, and the 

John Cantrell J. Jeremy Parks. 

youngest went into the Naval 

Academy.The first two took 

courses here and did well in 

other schools.The oldest, Jeff, 

just got an MBA from 

Phoenix.They’ve all done 

well after having a foundation 

at AACC,” he said. 

Becoming part of the 

foundation’s board of directors 

was a natural progression 

for Cantrell. In addition to his 

entire family taking classes, 

he’s worked with an alumni 

group here as well. “I got 

involved with the alumni 

association and got to address 

the graduating students a few 

years ago. Both my wife and I 

feel this way of education is 

important,” he said. “There 

are a lot of people who can 

use help getting an education. 

We can provide money for 

scholarships.The more we can 

help foster education, the better.” 

Cantrell, who is TASC 

senior manager and analyst at 

Northrop Grumman 

Information Technology, plans 

to draw on his technical 

background to help further 

the foundation’s mission. 

“Technology changes 

very quickly, and the community 

college keeps up with 

that change. For instance, 

they’ve developed a CISCO 

test site, and by becoming a 

test site it gives people 

insight. I can talk to people 

about the technology. It’s 

knowing where to go to get 

the answers to your questions 

that’s important.” 

While Cantrell believes 

funding will be a major challenge 

for the college in the 

future, he also feels AACC is 

on pace to keep up with the 

students’ needs. 

“I believe the college is 

growing quick enough.We’re 

looking at BRAC (Base 

Realignment and Closure) 

coming on and impacting the 

area.As these people come 

here they’re going to need 

education, but in different 

fields, not just in IT.They’re 

going to need education in 

things like construction, too. 

There’s a physical plant and 

there’s also the virtual classroom. 

I think the challenge is 

going to be having the right 

balance between the two to 

meet the needs of the people.” 

Continuing education 

also is a focus for Cantrell, 

and teaching students what 

they need to know to benefit 

the county’s employers is the 

best way to benefit the entire 

community. “By providing 

the education of the companies 

in the county, we’ll be 

able to get people who live 

in the county established 

here. People tend to stay 

where they work, so they’ll 

be contributing members to 

the county.When you 

recruit, you recruit people 

who live close; they tend to 

stay with the company.” 

Cantrell has one piece of 

advice for today’s youth. 

“Understand that education is 

a lifetime adventure and that 

graduating once is only the 

beginning.You’ll probably 

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Anne Arundel Community College Foundation 

July 1, 2006 — June 30, 2007 

FROM THE CHAIR OF THE FOUNDATION 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

2006-2007 was a great year for Anne Arundel Community College and the Anne Arundel Community 

College Foundation, Inc.With goals of raising money for scholarships and increasing unrestricted support for 

the College, the Foundation is moving forward with a renewed vision for the future. 

Donations from the more than 675 members of the AACC community were vital in providing funding for 

scholarships, as well as program development, technology, professional development, and emerging college 

needs. Here’s just a short list of the Foundation’s impact on AACC in 2007: 

● Contributions and revenue climbed to $1.3 million, meeting the annual goal 

● 112 scholarships totaling $460,000 were awarded to 315 deserving AACC students 

● 7 new scholarship funds were created for AACC students (1 endowed and 6 annuals) 

THE FOUNDATION: 

● Funded an expansion of the lower level of the Arundel Mills building 

● Hosted a “Bond with Us” Gala 

● Held the first annual golf tournament to benefit the School of Health Professions, 

Wellness & Physical Education 

On behalf of the Foundation Board of Directors and the college Trustees, I extend my deepest gratitude to those 

of you who supported the Foundation in 2006-2007. Every gift to the Foundation - no matter the size - makes a 

difference in the lives of the students, faculty, and staff of Anne Arundel Community College. Only with your 

help can we continue the tradition of excellence in innovation at AACC. Thank you again for your support! 

Sincerely, 

F. Carter Heim Stacey S. Heckel 

Foundation Board of Directors, Chair Foundation Executive Director 




Mission 

July 1, 2006 — June 30, 2007 

The Anne Arundel Community 

College Foundation, Inc. is a 

501(c) 3 corporation whose mission 

is to secure and steward private 

funds sought to enhance the 

educational endeavors of Anne 

Arundel Community College. 

The Foundation supports 

AACC to maintain its standing 

as a premier learning community, 

whose students and graduates are 

among the best-prepared citizens 

and workers of the world. 

Purpose 

The AACC Foundation, Inc. 

solicits, receives and administers 

private gifts, bequests and donations 

to benefit students and to 

enhance the quality of teaching 

and learning at the College. 

Donations to the Foundation 

support scholarships, programs 

and activities not funded through 

traditional sources. 

ANNUAL GIFTS 

Annual gifts are the cornerstone of the foundation fund-raising efforts. 

Dollars raised through the Annual Fund represent gifts from alumni, faculty, 

staff and friends of AACC. These contributions can be designated 

to benefit a particular area or scholarship at the college, or they can be 

unrestricted. Unrestricted contributions are of particular importance. 

Unrestricted gifts fund AACC’s most pressing needs as determined by 

the President and Board of Trustees. 

SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS 

AACC tuition is among the most reasonable in the Maryland state community 

college system. Still the combined cost of educational and living 

expenses mean that many current and prospective students require financial 

assistance in order to attend AACC. Scholarships provide that aid for 

hundreds of students each year. The privately funded scholarship program 

has grown tremendously due to the generous and consistent support 

of the community. 

NEW FUNDS STARTED TO BENEFIT AACC STUDENTS AND 

PROGRAMS: 

● George Revitz Memorial Scholarship 

● Shirley Ann Dukes Memorial Scholarship for Nursing 

● Abdul Nayeem, M.D. Memorial Scholarship Fund 

● American Military Education Scholarship 

● Fund for Innovation 

● Raven Roost #23 Scholarship in Memory of Kate Davis 

● Arundel Mills Renovation Fund 

● Rebecca A. Randall Memorial Scholarship 

● Maureen O’Grady Hynes Memorial Scholarship 

● Marjorie Flack Award 

● Fund for Women’s Studies 

WHAT DID FOUNDATION 

BENEFACTORS SUPPORT? 

Endowed 

Scholarships 

40% 

In Kind 

Less than 1% 

Unrestricted 

21% 

Annual 

Scholarships & 

College 

Programs 

39% 

To give an online gift, go to www.aacc.edu/foundation and click on “Give a Gift to AACC.” 


Audited financial 

statements of the 

AACC Foundation 

Inc. are available upon request 

by contacting: 

ANNE ARUNDEL 

COMMUNITY COLLEGE 

FOUNDATION INC. 

101 College Parkway 

ADMIN 116 

Arnold, Maryland 21012-1895 

Phone: (410) 777-2515 

Fax: (410) 777-2725 

E-mail: foundation@aacc.edu 

Web: www.aacc.edu/ 

foundation 

VISIONARY SOCIETY — $100,000 + 

Dorchester Ltd Partnership 

Ms. Lola Grimm 

Kathy and Jerry Wood Foundation 

Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe 

Foundation, Inc. 

SUMMA CUM LAUDE — 

$15,000 -$24,999 

Creston G. and Betty Jane Tate 

Foundation 

Mr. Robert G. Pozgar 

MAGNA CUM LAUDE — 

$10,000 - $14,999 

Anne Arundel County Association of 

Realtors 

Arundel Federal Savings Bank 

Belle Grove Corporation 

Clauson Family Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. James Mandrin 

CUM LAUDE — $5,000 - $9,999 

American Military Spouse Education 

Foundation 

Baulch Family Foundation 

BB&T Charitable Foundation 

Capital-Gazette Communications Inc. 

Chesapeake Contracting Group, Inc. 

Comcast Cable 

County National Bank 

Force 3 Inc. 

Hall Investments, Inc. 

Hyatt & Weber, P.A. 

Raven Roost No. 23 

Severn Savings Bank 

SCHOLARS — $2,500 - $4,999 

Bilderback Lacrosse Foundation, Inc. 

Constellation Energy 

Mr. Mark Dollins 

ETS 

Mr. and Mrs. Gene E. Floyd 

HERO’s Lacrosse Inc. 

Hilton Baltimore BWI Airport 

Ms. Nina R. Houghton 

Italian Cultural Center, Inc. 

Mr. and Mrs.Thomas C. Lindsay, Sr. 

Loews Annapolis Hotel 

Olson, Inc. 

Rathmann Family Foundation 

Dr. Martha A. Smith 

Therapeutic Massage School 

Dr. and Mrs. James D.Tschechtelin 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wade, Sr. 

BRIDGEBUILDERS — 

$1,000 - $2,499 

A.J. Properties, Inc. 

Annapolis Rotary Club 

Anne Arundel Medical Center 

Bank Annapolis 

Mr. Charles W. Brasse and Ms. Patricia A. 

Barland 

Reverend and Mrs. Robert S. Bower 

Broadneck Elks Lodge No. 2608 

Bruce C. Burns and Associates 

Mr. Jerry C. Bucklen 

Building Owners & Managers Institute 

International 

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Cantrell 

Mrs. Esther H. Carpenter 

CINTT Corporation 

CommerceFirst Bank 

Corporate Office Properties Trust 

Dr. Henry L. and Dr. Susanne D. Dragun 

Mr. M. J. Dragun 

Drexel University 

The Honorable Judith L. Duckett 

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Ebersberger 

Mr. and Mrs. Karl Eser 

Mrs. Margaret Evans Bell 

Dr. and Mrs. Dwight N. Fortier 

Mr. and Mrs.Walter J. Hall 

Mr. Alan J. Hyatt, Esq. 

John J. Leidy Foundation, Inc. 

Dr. and Mrs. Neil M. Keats 

Kevin E. Reichardt Foundation 

Ms. Lauraine E. Kirkpatrick-Howat 

Mrs. Barbara L. Kirven 

Mr. and Mrs. J. Mitchell Krebs 

Ladies of the Elks of Severna Park, Inc. 

Liberty Technologies Unlimited, Inc. 

Mr. Joseph G. Lyle 

M&T Bank 

Maryland Law Enforcement Officers, Inc. 

Mr. and Mrs. Doman O. McArthur 

Dr. Andrew L. Meyer 

Mr. and Mrs.Thomas Milan 

Parole Rotary Club Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Roth 

Sandy Spring Bank 

Severn River Lions Club 

Dr. Daniel F. Symancyk 

Whole Foods Market 

Mr. and Mrs. Jay I.Winer 

BENEFACTOR’S SOCIETY — 

$500 - $999 

American Society of Association 

Executives 

Professor Elizabeth H. Appel 

Dr. and Mrs. Louis L. Aymard 

Mr. Justin H.Weyerhaeuser and Mrs. 

Emilie L. Baratta 

Mr.Timothy Barnum and Mrs. Darlene 

Enix-Barnum 

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Beardmore 

Mr. Bernard N. Bragg 

Canine Fitness Center 

Mr. and Mrs. Maurice L. Chaput 

Clark & Anderson, CPA’s 

Mr. and Mrs. Jan W. Clark 

College Women’s Club of Annapolis and 

Anne Arundel County 

DFC Jason C. Schwenz Foundation 

Professor Joan B. Doolittle 

Mrs. Charlotte L. Evans 

Dr. Richard L. Faircloth 

Fiber Plus, Inc. 


Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Florestano 

Mr. and Mrs. John G. Gary, Jr. 

Mr. Lloyd Greenfield 

Guild for Life 

Dr. Faith A. Harland-White and Mr.Todd 

Harland-White 

Mrs. Stacey Sickels Heckel 

Ms.Vera O. Herath 

Lt. Colonel (Ret.) and Mrs.William P. 

Jacobsen 

Dr. and Mrs. James H. Johnson, Jr. 

Professor Thomas J. Karwoski 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. Kesselman 

Ms. Marianne K. Kolodny 

Professor Thomas A. Luby, Jr. 

M&T Bank Foundation, Inc. 

Maryland Environmental Service 

Dr. Carole A. McCoy and Mr. Don 

McCoy 

Mr. and Mrs.Thomas J. McGinn 

Mr. Louis L. Miraglia 

Mr. and Mrs.Webster J. Pitts 

Ms. Jeanne H. Randall 

Mr. and Mrs. Keith A. Reals 

Rho Chapter Delta Kappa Gamma 

Society International 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schaller 

Ms. Linda S. Schulte 

Mrs. Mary L. Sexton 

Ms. Madeline M. Shea 

Dr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Steele 

Mr. and Mrs. David J. Steinhoff 

Usterra Marley, LLC 

Mr. and Mrs. Dan Weidner 

Wheeler Goodman Masek and Associates 

Winner’s Circle Raffle Committee 

PIONEERS — 

$250 - $499 

AACC - Biology and Physical Science 

Departments 

Dr. Anne H. Agee 

Dr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Ailstock 

Annapolis Professional Resources, Inc. 

Mr. and Mrs. Mike Barba 

The Honorable Pamela G. Beidle and Mr. 

Len Beidle 

Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Bennett 

Buck Distributing Company 

Mr. and Mrs. H. Stafford Bullen, III 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burash 

Ms. Lois E. Burton 

Mrs. Ardath Cade 

Professor Roy D. Carson 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Casey-Whiteman 

Mr. and Mrs. Parker O. Chapman 

Mr. and Mrs. John Clark 

Professor Karen L. Cook and 

Mr.Terrance Cook 

Courtyard by Marriott - Ft. Meade 

Mr. Charles Crawford 

The Honorable and Mrs. James E. 

DeGrange, Sr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Loc D. Do 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dukes 

Mr. John P. Edwards 

Professor Shad B. Ewart 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Madison 

Dr. and Mrs. Richard T. Fields 

Fine Insurance Services 

Drs.Thomas E. and Patricia Florestano 

Mr. Dale K. Ford 

Ms. Phyllis N. Gehman 

Mr. and Mrs.Todd M. Griffith 

Professor Kathleen Happ 

Mr. Jeffrey R. Harding 

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Heacock 

Mr. and Mrs. F. Carter Heim 

Mr. and Mrs. George D. Hill 

Dr. Steven Lee Johnson 


July 1, 2006 — June 30, 2007 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Kangas 

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew A. Kramer, III 

Mr. Paul I. Latta, Jr. 

Mr. Samuel M. Libber 

Dean Leonard J. Mancini 

Ms. Mary Ellen Mason 

Mr. and Mrs.Theodore Mathison 

Mr. and Mrs.Tim McGrath 

Professor and Mrs. Barrett L. McKown 

Professor Joseph M. McQuighan 

Dr. Daniel Nataf 

Professor Joann M. Oliver and 

Mr. James D. Oliver 

Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Poulos 

Ms. Erna S. Ray 

Dr. Sue A. Ricciardi 

Mr. and Mrs. Glenn E. Ross 

The Honorable Barbara Samorajczyk and 

Mr. Stan Samorajczyk 

The Honorable William Donald Schaefer 

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Scheleur 

Mr. and Mrs. Ellis J. Schwartzenburg 

Professor and Mrs. Jack P. Shilkret 

Ms. Janie S. Stevenson 

Mr. Kevin R. Struxness 

Summit Associates, LLC 

Take Two Unlimited 

Mr. and Mrs.Thomas O.Tilghman, Jr. 

Dr. Lynn J.Tracey and 

Mr. Howard F.Tracey 

Mr. and Mrs.Wallace Treiber 

West Annapolis Family Denistry, LLC 

CENTURY CLUB — $100 - $249 

Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. Albert 

Alpha Delta Kappa-Kappa Chapter 

Dr. and Mrs. Fadel H. Arafat 

Mrs. Betty Ballas 

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Batch 

Ms. Beth A. Batturs 

Mr. and Mrs. George W. Beal 

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Behm 

Mr. Stanley W. Behnken 

Dr. Bruce Bird 

Mr.Timothy Blanchfield 

Ms. Kathleen E. Bolton 

Mr. Joseph J. Borkoski 

Dr. Jerry Bozek 

Ms. Patrica A. Brady 

Mrs. Phyllis C. Brian 

Dr. June K. Bronfenbrenner 

Ms. Evette Y. Brown 

Ms. Nancy Brown 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Buck 

Ms. Patricia C. Capuzzi 

Mr. James J. Carter 

Ms. Carlene M. Cassidy 

Mr. and Mrs.Thomas J. Clark, Jr. 

Ms. Deborah V. Collins 

Mr. and Mrs.Thomas W. Collinson 

Dr. R. Craig Cook and Mrs. Evelyn D. 

Pisegna-Cook 

Ms. Frankie J. Cooke 

Ms. Diane E. Corwell-Young 

Ms. Judith A. Coughlin 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Covern 

Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd P. Crockett 

Ms. Anne K. Davis 

Ms. Joy L. Day 

Mr. Hillard Donner 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Douglas 

Ms. Cathleen H. Doyle 

Ms. Ardith Dukes 

Ms. Elisabeth C. L. Dukes 

Ms. Kathleen J. Durham 

Ms. Anne Dziuban 

Ms.Vera Ehrlich 

Ms. Colleen K. Eisenbeiser 

Mr. Larry A. Ellison 

Mr. and Mrs. James J. Ertter 



Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Fach 

Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Falk 

Ms. Marion Francis 

Professor and Mrs. Paul D. Gabriel-Tucci 

Professor A. Lawrie Gardner and Mr. 

Keith D. Gardner 

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory N. Gibson 

Ms. Mary L. Gillis 

Dr. and Mrs. Michael S. Glasgow 

Mr. Aurelio F. Goicochea 

Ms. Shirin M. Goodarzi-Ghatineh 

Mr. and Mrs. Greg Greene 

The Honorable Janet Greenip 

and Mr. Gary Greenip 

Mr. and Mrs. R. Scott Gregory 

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gronkiewicz 

Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Gross 

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gross 

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Hannon 

Professor Patricia S. Hanzook 

Ms. Margaret S. Harris 

Ms. Kathy E. Hays 

Ms.Taube P. Heddings 

Ms. D. G. Hensley 

Ms. Karen A. Hill 

Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hirshman 

Mr.Thomas L. Holliday 

Mr. Joel P. Holman 

Ms. Judy C. Holmes 

Ms. Sharon K. Horstman 

Mrs. Margaret L. Hughes 

Mr. Kenny Hynes 

Dr. Sylvia Ingram 

The Honorable Richard E. Israel 

Dr. Sridharan S. Iyengar 

Professor Kenneth Jarvis 

Mr. Glenn E. Johnson 

Mrs. Suzanne M. Jolley 

Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce Jones 

Professor Cherry A. Karl 

Professor and Mrs. Robert E. Kauffman 

Mr. Kevin R. Kess 

Mr. Mark Kidwell 

Professor Sandra King and Mr. Gary King 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Klau 

Ms. Kathleen Koegel 

Ms. Charlette Koehler 

Professor Christine T. Koehler 

Professor Kelly A. Koermer 

Kramer & Associates Inc. 

Dr. David Krimins 

Mr. Kip A. Kunsman 

Mr. David H. Schwartz and Mrs. Mary T. 

Lane 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Lesar 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Leslie 


Ms. Billie Jean Levely 

Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Lighthizer 

Professor Leonard R. Lindenmeyer 

Mr. Andrew P. Little 

Ms. Kathleen L. Long 

Magothy River Association Inc. 

Professor Barbara H. Marder 

Mr. and Mrs. James C. McFalls 

Mr. David K. McMaster 

Ms. Pamela J. McNally 

Mr. Raphael J. Milio 

Mr. and Mrs.Wylie H. Mitchell 

Mr. Robert W. Morgan 

Mr. and Mrs. A. Newth Morris 

Ms. Alicia M. Morse 

Mr. Andrew Moser 

Mr. Max E. Muller 

Ms. Diann M. Naylor 

Mr. Edward E. Neese 

New Wave Cleaning Company 

Professor and Mrs. Richard A. Niewerth 

Ms. Patricia O. Nolton 

Ms. Mary R. Norris 

July 1, 2006 — June 30, 2007 

Mr. and Mrs. Hilary T. O’Herlihy 

Ms. Martha W. Olson 

Dr. and Mrs. Donald P. Orso 

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Oxman 

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin W. Parris 

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Pasco 

Mr. Peter Perhonis and Mrs. Faye Polillo 

Professor Calvin H. Peterson 

Ms. Mary Peterson 

Ms. Michele K. Peterson 

Mrs. Joyce Phillip 

Dr. and Mrs. Gary L. Pielemeier 

Ms. Linda S. Pierce 

Mr. James Privitera 

Provost, Salter, Harper & Alford, L.L.C. 

Mr. Paul J. Quible 

Mr. and Mrs. George Reed 

Professor Steven F. Renz 

Dr. and Mrs. Harry C. Rhodes 

Dr. Rosalind T. Rivera 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Rosol 

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Rothstein 

Rudolph’s Office & Computer Supply 

Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Schram 

Mr. Dennis L. Seggerty 

Ms. Brandi R. Shepard 

Ms. Ida A. Shiflett 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Shoemaker 

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Showacre 

Dean Claire L. Smith and 

Mr. Robert L. Smith 

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Smith 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Smith 

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Snider 

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Snyder 

Professor Bruce D. Springer 

Ms. Mary S. Stoops 

Mr. and Mrs. Matt Storck 

Ms. Patricia A. Stratton 

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Strunk 

Ms.Valerie J. Sutton 

Ms. Rachelle E.Tannenbaum 

Temple Beth Shalom 

Dr. David L.Tengwall 

Mr. and Mrs. Evan F.Thomas, Jr. 

Professor and Mrs. Billy H.Thompson 

Dr. Susan Tobia 

Mrs. Gretchen Tomkies 

Mr. and Mrs. H.Walter Townshend, III 

Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Tribble 

Mr. and Mrs. David E.Turner 

Dr. Jean Turner Schreier and 

Mr. Jim Schreier 

United States Deaf Golf Association, Inc. 

Mr.Wilfredo Valladares Lara 

Mr. and Mrs. Daryl Vaughan 

Professor Carol B.Veil 

Visco Contracting 

Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore Vitale, Jr. 

Ms. Abbie J. von Schlegell 

Mr. C. Rodger Waldman 

Ms. Meredith J.Watson 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F.Weiner 

Melvin J.Weissburg, D.M.D., P.A. 

Mr. Rayner C.Wharton, Sr. 

Mr. Charles C.Wheeler, III 

Mr. and Mrs. John Wibbe 

Mr.Thomas Wilbur 

Professor David A.Wiley 

Professor Aressa V.Williams 

Mr. Ernest G.Wilson, Esq. 

Mr. H. Michael Wilson 

Mr. Melaku E.Woube 

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Zablotny 

CONTRIBUTORS — 

GIFTS UP TO $99 

AACC Allied Health Sunshine Fund 

Professor Judy L. Adams 


Ms. Hilary R. Ainbender 

Ms. Dorothy A. Alexis 

Mr. Mark E. Alford 

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Anthony 

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Avallone 

Professor and Mrs. John Baer 

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Bagnall, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Ball 

Ms. Donna Bartz 

Ms. Nancy Bauer 

Mr. and Mrs. Randall L. Baumbach 

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Beach 

Ms. Kathleen M. Beauman 

Ms. E. Renee Frenzel Becker 

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Becker 

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis G. Berrigan 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Billmyre 

Ms. Julia B. Binnie 

Mr. Donald M. Blakemore 

Mr. and Mrs. Sidney M. Blitzer, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs.William Borges 

Mr. and Mrs. David E. Bosworth 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Branan 

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Brendle, Sr. 

Professor and Mrs. Rowland A. Brengle, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. John Burash 

Ms. Joyce M. Burke 

Ms. Rena S. Burkowsky 

Ms. Naomi Carlson 

CASWS-MSSD 

Ms. Jeanne Chapman 

Professor Daniel S. Chesley 

Mr. Clinton R. Church 

Church of St. John the Evangelist 

Mr. Michael Clemmens 

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Clesh 

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Collinson 

Mr. and Mrs.William Cone 

Ms. Deborah A. Conklin 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Connell, Jr. 

Ms.Yvonne Cornish-Marlowe 

Dr. Harold J. Counihan 

Mr. and Mrs. Leo E. Cousineau 

Mr. Herbert Dahlman 

Ms. Eileen Davids 

Dr. Charles S. Davis 

Mr. and Mrs. Larry B. Davis 

Ms. Linda E. Daye 

Professor Ronald A. DeAbreu 

Mr. and Mrs. F.Ward DeGrange 

Ms. Anita Delaporte 

Ms. Sandra R. DeMarino 

Ms. Linda M. Destasio 

Mr. Robert A. Destasio 

Ms. Rosanne DiMaggio 

Mr. Michael A. Dipatri 

Mr. Bruce Thompson and 

Mrs. Marisin I. Dixon 

Ms. Arline Doerrmann 

Ms. Priscilla Dolan 

Mr. Patrick W. Dougherty, II 

Mr. and Mrs. George F. Dyess 

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Ebersole 

Mr. Merrill H. Eglin 

Ms. Patricia J. Ernst 

Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Eversberg 

Ms. Mary I. Ewenson 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Fields, Sr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Fitzgerald 

Mr. and Mrs. Randall A. Fooshee 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Frank 

Ms. Susan D. Frutchey 

Ms.Tammy L. Garret 

Mr. Charles W. Gauthier 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gerald, Jr. 

Ms. Clarissa C. Gerraty 

Ms.T. Sue Gladhill 

Mrs. Karen L. Goss and 

Mrs. Katherine A. Jankowski 

Ms. Fran A. Gower 

Mr. John Gower 

Mr. Raymond Grant 

Mr. and Mrs. C.B. Hackett 

Ms. Eugenia C. Hamilton 

Professor Marie A. Hardink 

Mr. and Mrs. John Hayes 

Mr. and Mrs.Tommy M. Heffner 

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard E. Helinski 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Hendry 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hoch, Jr. 

Professor Sherry M. Hopkins 

Mr. J. D. Becker and 

Mrs. Margaret L. Horner 

Dr. Sally G. Hornor 

Mr. and Mrs. C. Dale Hotard 

Mr. and Mrs.William E. Howell 

Ms. Elaine C. Hubbard 

Professor Gail A. Huff 

Dr. Beth R. Hufnagel 

Ms. Sandra Hunt 

Ms. Arlene H. Hurst 

Mr. and Mrs. David E. Illig 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Innes 

Mr. and Mrs. Gary W. Jacobs 

Mui Jade 

Ms. Janie M. Janz 

Ms. Ashley F. Jewell 

Ms. N. Rae Johnson 

Ms. Jean A. Jones 

Ms. Kathy L. Jones 

Ms. Carole M. Kaline 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Karol 

Dr. Carol Keydel 

Professor Christopher T. Kilian 

Ms. Patricia Kinlein 

Dr. Frederick Klappenberger 

Mr. and Mrs. Jerome W. Klasmeier 

Mr. James Knipe 

Dr. Jill E. Kolody 

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Krispin, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Krowel 

Professor Dan W. Kuhne and 

Mrs. Charlotte Berry 

Dr. and Mrs. E. Joseph Lamp 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen N. Lashick 

Mr. Paul C. Lee 

Ms. Susan M. Lee 

Professor and Mrs. Peter E. Liimatta 

Ms. Nancy S. Lindell 

Ms. Lisa M. Litts 

Mr. and Mrs. George Lorentzen 

Ms. Nancy L. Lundborg 

Mr. Joseph S. Lunsford 

Mr. Kenneth E. Lyons and 

Mrs. Sharon E. Serio 

Professor Sangeeta Maheshwari and Mr. 

Govind Maheshwari 

Ms. Linda K. Marchand 

Dr. Christine A. Marino 

Professor John V. Markowski 

Mr. and Mrs. Burton B. Marmande 

Professor Vera Martin 

Maryland Academy of Family Physicians 

Mason-Dixon Deaf Golfers Association 

Professor Mark R. Matthews 

Mr. Alvin Reeder and 

Mrs.Yvonne Mattiello 

Mr.William B. Maxwell 

Ms. Beth A. Mays 

Mr. and Mrs.Timothy R. McCarty 

Mr. and Mrs. Princeton D. McClure 

Ms. Debbie A. McDaniel-Shaughney 

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald McGuirk 

Mrs. Joan H. McKeeby 

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick McLellan 

Ms. Patricia H. McNitt 

Ms. Ellen A. McVeigh 

Ms. Deborah Meyer-Mercado 

Mr. and Mrs. Gary S. Miller 

Ms. Katie Miller 

Dr. Laurence W. Miller 


Mr. and Mrs. David C. Miller 

Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Moebius 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Moore 

Mr. Jon E. Morlock 

Ms. Sophia V. Morrissey 

Mr. Alhakam Mourad 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mouterot 

Mr.Willard R. Mumford 

Ms. Joyce C. Murphy 

Mr. Lee C. Murphy 

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Newman 

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Niemi 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nistico, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Nomeland 

Mr. Michael Norman 

Ms. Laura Norton 

Ms. Hoit D. Palmer 

Professor Nabilah S. Pape 

Mr. and Mrs. Devang Parikh 

Dr. Shirley C. Parry 

Mr. Emilio Partida 

Mrs. Jean Paterson 

Ms. Carolyn D. Patton 

Ms. Janet M. Paulovich 

Ms. Lori K. Perez 

Ms. Jean L. Pitt 

Ms. Pamela N. Polgreen 

Ms. Rochelle Pollero 

Ms. Cora W. Porter 

Ms. Kathleen A. Puckett 

Ms. Janet K. Pumphrey 

Dr. Jessica G. Rabin 

Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell B. Rainess 

Ms. Kelly M. Rainey 

Ms. Anita H. Ramundo 

Ms. Deborah M. Reeder 

Professor Eveline B. Robbins and Mr. 

Stanley W. Robbins 

Ms. Joan B. Roberts 

Mr. and Mrs. Darryl Robertson 

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Robins 

Ms. Constance D. Robinson 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Robinson 

Mr. and Mrs.Wayne H. Ross 

Ms. Mary Carol Rossing 

Mr. and Mrs. Gene J. Rosso 

Dr. Stacy R. Rushing 

Professor Michael D. Ryan 

Mrs. Leslie H. Salvail 

Mr. Richard Sarkisian 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Sarnouski 

Ms. Christine S. Scanlon 

Mr. and Mrs.William L. Schardt 

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schaughency 

School of Business Computing & 

Technical Studies 

Ms. Elizabeth A. Schultz 

Ms. Beatrice P. Schuman 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Schwartz 

Professor and Mrs. Richard H. Seabrook 

Professor Gregory J. Segreti 

Ms. Kelly K. Sell 

Mr. Manu Shah 

Reverend and Mrs. James J. Shand 

Ms. Patrice H. Shoemaker 

Ms. Mary L. Smetana 

Ms. Anne Marie Smith 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Smrz 

Mr. and Mrs.Thomas Soroka 

Mr. Robert H. Speer 

Mrs. Mary E. Spengler 

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C. St. Martin 

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Steffek 

Ms. Jean C. Steiner 

Mr. Nicholas D. Stellhorn 

Mr.Todd H. Stephens 

Ms. Marilyn J. Stimson 

Ms. Lisa M. Strack 

Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Struthers 

Professor and Mrs. Michael A. Sullivan 

Ms. Mary E. Surgenor 

Ms. Pamela Tauber 

Mr. and Mrs. James W.Taylor 

Ms. Dawn M.Teeple 

Mr. Lamont Thomas 

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Thomaszewicz 

Mrs. Andrea Thompson 

Ms. Emma B.Thompson 

Ms. Louann Tracy 

Ms. Frances M.Turcott 

Dr. Richard F.Tyler 

Mr. Gary L.Viall 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward J.Vogel 

Dr. Jerina V.Wainwright 

Mr. Paul Ward 

Mr. and Mrs. Joel Weisman 

Ms. Marguerite S.Weiss 

Mr. and Mrs.Walter M.Werner, Jr. 

Ms. Elizabeth M.White 

Mr.William A.Whiteford 

Ms. Helen Williams 

Ms. Kathy L.Williams 

Mr. Marc Wirig 

Mr. and Mrs.Wilton K.Witzgall 

Mr. Richard J.Wixon 

Mr. John C.Wood 

Mr. and Mrs. Keith J.Worek 

Ms. Jeanne Wright 

Mr. Barton J.Yates 

Ms.Thomasine W.Young 

Ms. Alicia M.Youngbar 

Mr. and Mrs.Thomas J. Zabetakis 

Ms. Dorothy Zukor 

Ms. Susan Zupnik 

HONOR AND MEMORIAL GIFTS 

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Anne Arundel Community College 

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Mason-Dixon Deaf Golfers Association 

Mr. Alvin Reeder and 

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Professor Joseph M. McQuighan 



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Provost, Salter, Harper & Alford, L.L.C. 

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Visco Contracting 

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Mr. and Mrs.Walter M.Werner, Jr. 

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IN MEMORY OF MR. JAY KUNKLE 

AACC - Biology and Physical Science 

Departments 


Ms. Eileen Davids 

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Dr. Jill A. Loukides 

Ms. Deborah M. Reeder 







Mr.Thomas Wilbur 

IN MEMORY OF MR. CALEB LINDER 

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MR. STEPHEN AARON LUCK 

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IN MEMORY OF 

MRS. CHARLOTTE LUNSFORD 



IN MEMORY OF 

MR. LAWRENCE F. MARCOUS 

AND MR. GEORGE C. COUNCILL 

Severn River Lions Club 

IN MEMORY OF 

MS.TERESA DENICE MCCARTY 

Ms. Susan M. Lee 


July 1, 2006 — June 30, 2007 

IN MEMORY OF PROFESSOR GEORGE 

T. MCGUCKIAN 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Frank 


AACC School of Business Computing & 

Technical Studies 


IN MEMORY OF 

MRS. DOROTHY E. MEYER 


Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Kangas 

Dr.Andrew L. Meyer 


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IN MEMORY OF MICHAEL 

AND MARGUERITE MIRAGLIA 

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IN MEMORY OF 

MS. DONNA MORRISON 

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Harland-White 

IN MEMORY OF 

CHARLES STANLEY MOSER 

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IN MEMORY OF 

DR. ABDUL NAYEEM 

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Maryland Academy of Family Physicians 

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IN MEMORY OF 

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IN HONOR OF 

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IN MEMORY OF 

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IN MEMORY OF 

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IN MEMORY OF PROFESSOR 

REBECCA ANN RANDALL 

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IN MEMORY OF KIM REALS 


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IN MEMORY OF 

MRS. CHARLOTTE A. SMITH 

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IN HONOR OF 

DR. MARTHA A. SMITH 

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Mr. J.E. Adams 

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ETS 


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MR. CLARENCE W. WENTWORTH 

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FOUNDATION AND MATCHING 

GIFT COMPANIES 

American Military Spouse 

Education Foundation 

Baulch Family Foundation 

Bilderback Lacrosse Foundation, Inc. 

Clauson Family Foundation 


Creston G. and Betty Jane Tate 

Foundation 


John J. Leidy Foundation, Inc. 


Kevin E. Reichardt Foundation 

M&T Bank Foundation, Inc. 

Maryland Law Enforcement Officers, Inc. 

Northrop Grumman Foundation 

Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation 

Parole Rotary Club Foundation 

Philip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe 


Rathmann Family Foundation 


ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY 

COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC. 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2007-2008 

F. Carter Heim, CPA, Chair 

Alan J. Hyatt, Esq., Vice Chair 

Dominic J. Souza, Esq., Treasurer 

Sue A. Lindsay, Secretary 

Stacey Sickels Heckel, CFRE Executive Director 

Martha A. Smith, Ph.D., AACC President 

Chip Bullen 

John Cantrell 

Parker O. Chapman, Jr. 

Professor Karen L. Cook, Esq. 

Andrew Coyne 

Angela Ewell-Madison 

Jason L. Groves, Esq. 

Karl R. Gumtow 

Walter J. Hall 

James H. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D. 

J. Mitchell Krebs 

James L. Micek 

J. Jeremy Parks 

Robert G. Pozgar 

James D.Tschechtelin, Ed.D. 

Sharrie K.Wade 

Jay I.Winer 



July 1, 2006 — June 30, 2007 

The Anne Arundel Community 

College Foundation Inc. entertained 

more than 220 guests at its “Gala 007 

- Bond with Us!” fundraiser last fall at 

the Center for Applied Learning and 

Technology on the Arnold campus. Event proceeds 

support scholarships for AACC students.The gala 

included presentations on AACC’s Bond-related 

academic programs of Homeland Security 

Management, Forensics and Cybercrime along with 

student performances by the AACC Dance 

Company and AACC Moonlight Troupers drama 

club. Jan Clark of Pasadena received the AACC 

Distinguished Service Award for long-term civic 

involvement and contributions to strengthen the 

college community, including service to the foundation.The 

Distinguished Citizen Award was presented 

to Creston G.Tate of the Creston G. and Betty 

Jane Tate Foundation. 

ANDY MOSER, Maryland Department of Labor assistant secretary; Stacey 

Sickels Heckel, C.F.R.E., AACC Foundation executive director; Martha A. 

Smith, Ph.D., AACC president; Margaret Evans-Bell and Patricia Nalley, both 

of Annapolis. 


FOUNDATION MEMBERS 

From page 18. 

change your career a number 

of times and you’ll have to go 

back and refresh. And eventually 

you’ll want to give something 

back so you go back to 

your school and teach.” 

Giving back has been 

rewarding for Cantrell.“It’s a 

great experience! I’m having 

a wonderful time learning 

and becoming involved. It’s a 

great journey!” 

J. JEREMY PARKS. 

J. Jeremy Parks has his eye on 

helping not only the college, 

but the students as well. “I 

wanted an opportunity to get 

involved with the college and 

a way to give back to a great 

institution,” Parks said of his 

desire to join the board.“I 

wanted to be able to help 

people who might not be able 

to further their education due 

to financial or other reasons. 

“I’d like to try to help 

contribute toward dispelling 

the lifelong picture that people 

have of community colleges.The 

education you’re 

able to garner specifically at 

AACC is equivalent to any of 

the four-year colleges that are 

out there. It’s proven by the 

school’s standing against its 

peers in the country,” he said. 

As with his fellow newcomer 

to the board, Parks 

believes financial issues will 

be one of the biggest challenges 

to face the college and 

the foundation in the future. 

But he also believes AACC 

will rise to meet any challenge. 

“I think with continued 

focus and the efforts of 

everyone involved, from the 

foundation’s board straight 

through to the administration, 

faculty, staff and students, 

it will continue to be a 

shining star in education at 

the national level,” he said. 

After a few 

months as a member, 

Parks has 

nothing but praise 

for the foundation’s 

board. 

“They’ve got 

a great structure in 

place. Quite honestly, 

I think that 

other boards 

would take note of 

that and adapt. It’s 

always efficient. 

They do a great 

job. They are 

always focused on 

the job at hand. 

Too often you get into these 

board meetings where everyone 

has their own agenda and 

the focus gets lost.” 

A partner in the Jerome 

J. Parks Companies, Parks is 

responsible for overseeing 

day-to-day management 

operations in the company’s 

residential and marina operations. 

He manages the corporations’ 

retail and commercial 

properties and contributes 

to strategic issues, 

joint venture development 

and due diligence reviews. 

He also is the liaison to city 

and county public officials. 

Parks is a member and 

co-founder of the Annapolis 

Triathlon Club and has a personal 

interest in the arts. “I 

played lacrosse in college and 

the focus is always on the 

sports-related and the ultraacademics 

as opposed to these 

kids who give everything to 

their art. Art can be traditional, 

or something more modern 

like dance. I’d love to see 

more of a focus on that.” 

“It’s all about fun. It’s 

creating an opportunity to 

come out, have fun, yet at the 

same time give back to the 

college,” he said. 

THE FIRST RECIPIENTS of the Sarbanes Spirit Awards 

were Barbara Huston, second from right, president and chief executive 

officer of Partners in Care Inc., and Harriet B. Stephenson, 

Ph.D., professor of management at Seattle University. Each recipient 

received a plaque and an individual award. Huston received a 

gift card for AACC tuition for professional development training 

for her staff. Stephenson received a packet of DVDs and books 

for use with her students. Presenting the awards were former U.S. 

Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes, AACC President Martha A. Smith, 

Ph.D., left, and Cathy H. Doyle, director of AACC's Sarbanes 

Center for Public and Community Service (not pictured). 

Sarbanes Recognizes 

Social Entrepreneurs 


Former U.S. Sen. 

Paul S. Sarbanes 

honored two 

women who created 

businesses or 

organizations that met social 

needs, both in their community 

and around the world, at 

the inaugural Sarbanes Spirit 

Awards Dinner Oct. 13. 

Sarbanes was familiar 

with the county winner, 

Barbara Huston, president 

and chief executive officer of 

Partners in Care Inc., which 

uses a model of service 

exchange and time banking 

to provide services to help 

aging individuals and adults 

with disabilities live with dignity 

and independence in 

their own homes. Her model, 

he said, should be emulated 

not only in the state but 

around the nation. Huston 

said the beauty of her organization 

is the interdependence 

of its members and volunteers. 

She said the award 

“rests on all of them.” 

Cathy H. Doyle, director 

of the Sarbanes Center for 

Public and Community 

Service at Anne Arundel 


Community College, 

called national winner 

Harriet B. Stephenson, 

Ph.D., a social entrepreneur, 

educator and 

innovator. Stephenson, a 

professor of management 

at Seattle 

University, founded that 

college's 

Entrepreneurship 

Center and Small 

Business Institute. Using 

graduate students, she 

created a micro-loan 

program in Ghana that 

helps villagers develop 

businesses to sustain the 

village, as well as a program 

in Nepal that 

helps people with disabilities 

create jobs. Stephenson praised 

the Sarbanes Center's activism and outreach 

for the “lessons learned and 

applied.” 

AACC President Martha A. Smith, 

Ph.D., said the Sarbanes Center for 

Public and Community Service allows 

students to help build America and create 

social change. Just last year, the center 

passed its one-millionth hour of community 

outreach and service. 

Sarbanes said he was pleased to 

present these awards for social entrepreneurship, 

saying entrepreneurial projects 

are really imaginative and far-reaching 

and “take us in the realm of international 

and global change, which is where the 

world needs to be looking.” 

He lauded community colleges, particularly 

AACC for its success in its mission 

of both offering an opportunity to 

people to gain that first step in postsecondary 

education and allowing development 

of the human spirit, helping people 

to see an alternate vision of what 

might be. 

“I am also deeply grateful to AACC 

for establishing the center to honor my 

work.The emphasis on social entrepreneurship 

is particularly good - the link 

between entrepreneurship and social 

issues is also a good link for the community,” 

he said. 


FOUR MEMBERS of Anne Arundel Community College’s Center for the Study of 

Local Issues political club traveled to New Hampshire with center director and club sponsor 

Daniel D. Nataf, Ph.D., to New Hampshire to experience the nation’s first primary 

in the 2008 Presidential Elections.They arrived in Manchester, N.H., Sunday morning, 

two days before New Hampshire’s Tuesday, Jan. 8, primary. Students, from left, Neil 

Murphy, Stephon Hutt, Ryan Ramos and Sarah Storch, spent the day visiting campaign 

headquarters for candidates of both parties to see how they were handling the last-minute 

drives to persuade the voters to choose their candidate. On Monday, the students traveled 

around the Concord area, listening to two or three candidates make their appeals to voters. 

After the trip, students had several observations. For instance, while they found some 

campaign staffs were more organized than others, most offices were set up similarly, with 

maps of election districts hanging on walls and volunteers staffing phone banks to call 

voters. Entrance to one headquarters was almost blocked by protesters, which none of the 

students had expected. By seeing the candidates in person, the students observed the differences 

in the candidates’ campaign style. One candidate took time to answer questions 

and another gave a set spiel before heading to the next stop. On Tuesday, some of the 

students helped canvass voters. Because Maryland’s primary is later in the campaign season, 

the students felt the trip allowed them to see parts of the political process they might 

otherwise not experience. As one student said, “The experience was quite enlightening.” 

ROWS OF CAM- 

PAIGN SIGNS for 

candidates of every 

party, as well as some 

signs focusing on a 

particular issue, greeted 



students when they 

arrived in New Hampshire, just two days before the Jan. 8 New Hampshire Presidential 

Primary.The four students are members of the Center for the Study of Local Issues political 

club and traveled there with center director and club sponsor Daniel D. Nataf, Ph.D., 

to see how candidates and campaigns operated in the nation’s first presidential primary. 


FACULTY PROFILE 

AACC Fulbright Scholar 

Focuses on Race, Ethnicity 

Views of Nicaraguans 


Often it’s the professor 

who changes a student’s 

life for the better. In the 

case of Thomas Edison, 


Community College assistant professor 

of world languages, the reverse was true. 

His journey to receive a Fulbright 

Scholarship in spring 2007 began several 

years ago, when one of his students 

made the comment that there are blacks 

living in Nicaragua. 

Edison, curious, decided to see for 

himself. He scheduled a vacation to this 

largest nation in Central America, which 

is renowned for its lakes, seven active volcanoes, 

cloud forests, nature preserves and 

beach resorts. He found that the student 

was only partially correct.Although the 

people Edison found were “black” as 

Americans categorize people by race, not 

all Nicaraguans consider themselves black. 

They identify themselves by ethnicity. 

“The whole concept of black identify 

is very different from here,” Edison 

said.“In Nicaragua, it's awkward to talk 

about race. I would observe and try to 

find out from people what kind of racial 

tensions there are.” 

That perception sparked an idea that 

led, after two more trips to Nicaragua, to 

Edison's successful application for the 

scholarship and his fourth trip to the “second 

poorest country in this hemisphere.” 

Edison was one of more than 750 

U.S. academics, professionals and scholars 

who in 2006-07 received awards to lecture, 

consult or conduct research abroad. 

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of 

State, the program is run by the Council 

for the International Exchange of 

Scholars. Edison is one of at least three 

AACC faculty members in recent years 

to receive a Fulbright Award. 

In February, based on his Fulbright 

experience, Edison helped organize a 

Black History month event at the college 

entitled,“The Other African- 

American: Nicaragua, Central America.” 

The free event included his observations 

from his travels and studies, a performance 

of Nicaraguan dance by the AACC 

Dance Company plus examples of 

Nicaraguan poetry, culture and cuisine. 

Bordered by the Pacific Ocean to 

the west and the Caribbean Sea to the 

east, Nicaragua is divided by its geography 

and ethnic cultures. Mountains mark 

the center of the country.To the east are 

the swamps which led to the region's 

nickname as the “Mosquito Coast.”The 

country is so sparsely populated that its 

capital, Managua, is the only large city 

with more than 1 million citizens. 

During his travels and his lectures, 

from mid-January to May 15, Edison 

studied residents' perceptions of race, the 

country's poetry and culture. 

In the Pacific Coast region, which 

was colonized by Spain, the people primarily 

speak Spanish and perceive themselves 

as “mestizo.”They have Mexican 

and European features and their culture 

is a blend of Spanish and native Indian 

influences.They say the “blacks” are on 

the Caribbean coast. 

That area was at one time under 

British control. Many of the older people 

only speak Creole English, although 

the government has mandated Spanish as 

the country’s language. One large group 


has African features 

and reflects a 

Jamaican heritage. 

These residents are 

descended from 

immigrants who 

came to work the 

rubber and fruit 

plantations at the 

beginning of the 

20th century 

or from slaves 

who escaped 

ships 

wrecked off 

the coast in 

the 1700s. 

On the 

Atlantic coast 

side, he visited Bluefields in the south 

and Puerto Cabezas in the north.The 

class he was to teach in Spanish, 

“Introduction to African-American 

Studies,” didn't get up and running until 

mid-April so Edison had plenty of time 

for field research. He also gave workshops 

at two universities in Puerto 

Cabezas and at three sites in Bluefields. 

He talked to the groups about the civil 

rights movement in the United States, 

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm 

X, among others. 

He also talked about the issue of 

identifying a person by race vs. ethnic 

group. For example, Edison would ask a 

group,“How many of you have Indian 

blood?” and maybe two of 100 participants 

would raise their hands.When he 

asked,“How many have European or 

Spanish blood?” only one or two would 

raise their hands. And when he asked, 

“How many of you have black blood?” 

he recalls,“they laughed.” 

So, Edison would ask them,“Who 

are you?” and they would answer,“We 

are mestizo,” which in the past reflected 

a mix of native Indian, European and 

African cultures.“Unfortunately, now, 

the term does not include the African 

culture.They are erasing the African 

component,” he said. 

“They view their communities in 


terms of ethnic groups, not races,” Edison 

said.“That was amazing to me to learn 

that in communities where there are so 

many groups that are phenotypically similar, 

looking at them as ethnic groups 

makes it easier to make distinctions.” 

A native of Louisville, Ky., Edison 

recalls always wanting to win a 

Fulbright Scholarship. He earned his 

doctorate in Afro-Caribbean 

Hispanophone literature and loves 

teaching and conducting research. 

Although very fluent in Spanish, 

Edison recalls at least one occasion during 

his Nicaraguan classes when language 

issues led to confusion. He meant to say 

that a woman had a turban on her head 

but it came out in their dialect as turbine. 

“They all stopped and they looked 

at each other," he recalled, laughing, and 

then they explained his mistake. "I got to 

be humbled.” 

Edison also did research on Afro- 

Nicaraguan poetry during his trip, noting 

that the country was home to the 

great Spanish poet Rubin Dario.“He 

created this whole new genre,” Edison 

said.When he asked people in Dario's 

hometown about Dario's background, he 

discovered, again, that no one thinks of 

him as having any African heritage. 

“For me the whole race thing is 

amazing,” Edison said."When we, as 

African Americans in the United States, 

start looking at where we are, we don't 

realize the progress we’ve made and 

refuse to look at the black experience in 

other parts of the Americas.” 

ALUMNI UPDATES 

To update personal news, awards, job 

changes or achievements to share with 

college classmates, please send the information 

to Leslie Salvail at 

alumni@aacc.edu or use our 

“Reconnect with AACC” form on the 

AACC Web site, www.aacc.edu/alumni. 

1980s 

1981: Auburn University head track and 

field coach and former NJCAA All- 

American, RALPH SPRY, is entering his 

11th season as the coach of the Tigers. 

Ralph competed for AACC where he 

became one of the best jumpers in the 

country. He won four NJCAA 

Championships as a Pioneer and was 

inducted into the NJCAA Track & Field 

Hall of Fame in 1992. He transferred to 

University of Mississippi where he was 

the first All-American honors and first to 

win a NCAA title in a Outdoor Long 

Jumping Championship. In 1983, Ralph 

was ranked fifth in the U.S. and seventh 

in the world. He was inducted into the 

University of Mississippi Hall of Fame in 

2003. After graduation, he entered the 

Army where he continued to compete. 

He served for eight years then immediately 

began coaching. Ralph was 

extremely successful for the University 

of Florida, then the University of South 

Carolina. In 1997, Ralph took the position 

at Auburn. He is now regarded as 

one of the best track and field coaches in 

the NCAA. 

1990s 

1994: COLIN HINTZ received his bachelor's 

in Business Administration and 

Management from the University of 

Wisconsin and his master's in Education 

Counseling from Long Island University. 

Colin also attended Northwood 

University in Midland, Michigan for his 

MBA in Business Administration. He now 

works as a Quality Assurance Manager for 

the Wausau Steel Service Center. 

1997: A neonatal nurse at Anne Arundel 

Medical Center, Cheryl Briggs received 

this year's Excellence in Neonatal 

Nursing Practice award for her work 

with patients. Her pictures of newborns 


AACC 

Commemorative 

Stamp 

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up those letters 

to your 

friends and 

fellow alums 

and serve a good purpose too? 

Use the new AACC commemorative 

stamp that celebrates Anne 

Arundel Community College’s 

45th Anniversary (1961 – 2006). 

The stamps may be purchased 

online at zazzle.com (keyword 


College). Twenty-seven percent of 

the profits from the sale of the 

stamps goes to the AACC 

Foundation, Inc. Prices vary with 

the amount of stamps you buy. 


in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 

have been published in a calendar from 

the National Association of Nurses and 

also in Preemie Magazine. 

1998: JOHN RALEY received his 

Masters of Fine Arts Degree from 

NYU’s Tisch School of Performing Arts 

in May 2007. He has accepted a teaching 

position at Louisiana State 

University in Baton Rouge. 

1999: In 2003, THOMAS TERENYI 

received his bachelor's degree in 

Information Systems from UMBC. He 

currently works as a Web 

Developer/Systems Integrator at 

Broadridge Financial Solutions. He and 

his wife are expecting a baby boy. 

2000s 

2000: CHRISTY WAGNER of Frostburg 

currently works in Human Resources at 

the Maryland Environmental Service. 

2001: TIMOTHY L. WHITE became a 

police officer in Greenbelt, in 

September. He was formerly employed 

as a police officer with the Anne 

Arundel County Police Department. 

Timothy resides in Glen Burnie with his 

wife and three children. 

2005: AMY BALONIS and MICHAEL 

FERANEC were married in November. 

Amy completed the physician assistant 

program at AACC. She received her 

bachelor's in biology from University 

of Maryland Baltimore College and her 

master's of medical science at St. 

Francis University. 

2006: A January wedding is planned for 

SARAH SLATTERY and JEREMY 

GILLIKIN. Sarah graduated with an associate’s 

degree in graphic design and general 

studies. She is employed as a dental 

assistant in Annapolis. Jeremy is serving 

as the Young Adult Worship Pastor at the 

Bay Area Community Church. 

2006: An April wedding is planned for 

JENNIFER DARBRO and MARK 

STEGMEIER. Jennifer is currently 

employed by RV Resort. She plans to 

return to AACC for a degree in medical 

assisting. 

2007: JESSICA SCHILLO (CALDWELL) 

and JONATHAN SCHILLO were married 

on June 8, 2007 at Quiet Waters Park in 

Annapolis. A reception followed on the 

S.S. Lady Baltimore. Jessica is currently 

employed as a physical therapist assistant 

at AAMC and Jonathan is a Second 

Lieutenant of the First Division U.S. 

Marine Corps. 

An October wedding was planned 

for TRACY SAVOY and DUSTIN 

D’ANGELO. Tracy is a graduate of Old 

Mill high school. She attended Catholic 

University before transferring to AACC. 

IN MEMORIAM: 

GRACE CHAPMAN, member of the 

Steering Committee that founded 

AACC, died July 21, 2007. 

WALTER JONES, Class of 1971, died 

September 19, 2007.Walter graduated 

from Severna Park High School, AACC 

and the Naval Air Technical Training 

Center in Tennessee, where he was top 

in his class. He served in the Navy as an 

aviation electronics technician servicing 

helicopters. 

ROBERT ROSS, Class of 1972, died 

August 10, 2007. Robert attended 

California State College in Pennsylvania 

and AACC. He served in the Navy during 

the Korean War from 1951 to 1955. 

Robert retired after working 35 years as 

a purchasing officer for the Anne 

Arundel County school system. He 

began his career as an industrial arts 

teacher at Brooklyn Junior High School, 

Corkran Junior High, and Northeast 

High School. 

CARLA MATHEWS, Class of 1980, died 

September 23, 2007. Carla lived in Melfa, 

Virginia for 20 years before moving to 

Stevensville. She attended Anne Arundel 

Community College, and then worked as 

a social services director at Knollwood 

Manor Nursing Home in Millersville. 

She also was a co-owner of Country 

Flowers and Country Treasures in Melfa. 


LISA SACHS, Class of 1990, died 

October 6, 2007. Lisa graduated from 

Anne Arundel Community College as 

valedictorian. She graduated magna cum 

laude with a bachelor’s in business and 

accounting from the University of 

Baltimore. Shortly after passing the certified 

public accountant exam, she founded 

L.A. Sachs and Associates, an accounting 

firm in Shady Side where she served 

many local and regional customers. 

JOHN KRESSLER, Class of 1994, died 

September 21, 2007. John graduated 

from Glen Burnie High School in 1960, 

earned a bachelor's degree in biology 

and education from Western Maryland 

College in 1964 and a master's degree in 

biochemistry from the University of 

Maryland College Park in 1966. He 

earned his medical degree from the 

University of Maryland at the Baltimore 

School of Medicine in 1972.Later he 

earned an associate's degree in fine arts 

and music from Anne Arundel 

Community College in 1994 and a 

bachelor of arts degree in music and 

composition from the University of 

Maryland Baltimore Campus in 1998. 

Currently he was working towards a 

Ph.D. in ethno- musicology at the 

University of Maryland College Park. 

He was to graduate in May 2008. John 

served in the Army as a major with the 

Medical Corps, then as a general surgeon 

at Baltimore Washington Medical 

Center for 20 years. Subsequently, he 

taught geography at Anne Arundel 

Community College for 16 years. 

KATHY JO LETWINSKY MORIARTY, 

Class of 2007, died August 14, 2007. 

Kathy graduated from Arundel High 

School and was most recently attending 

Anne Arundel Community College. 

JAMES SMITH died November 3, 2007. 

James attended AACC and was certified 

as an emergency medical technician. He 

was a member of Riviera Beach and 

Ritchie volunteer fire departments, and 

was a master diver and member of the 

Scuba Diving Association. 


‘Experience AACC’ Event 

is a Big Success! 

December 7th over 60 

alumni, college retirees, 

faculty and staff enjoyed a 

reception to mix and mingle 

with friends and meet 

local author Peg Burroughs who sold 

signed copies of her book to benefit an 

AACC communication arts scholarship as 

well as view Rob Hendry’s, class of 1970, 

photography exhibit “AACC Through the 

Years.” Rob Hendry collected or shot the 

photos showing the college’s transitions 

from its birth in the 1960s to present day. 

After the reception, many attended the 

winter production of the award-winning 

AACC Dance Company’s “Escape from 

Reality.” To view pictures of the event, go 

to: http://www.kodakgallery.com/aacc 

foundation/main/aacc_through_the_years 

_reception. 

DANCE COMPANY REUNION 

All Dance 

Company Alumni, 

please mark your 

calendars for the Dance 

Company’s 20th 

Reunion, which will be 

celebrated on May 8 & 

9, 2009! More 

information will be 

coming your way. 



Save the Date 

Put these dates on your calendar. You 

will be hearing more about these exciting 

events in the near future. 

April 10, 2008 

Scholarship Reception, 6 p.m. 

April 15, 2008 

Real Life After AACC 

Part I: The “Unwritten Rules” for 

Career Success (What Your Boss 

May Not Tell You) 

• Networking Basics 

for the Job Search 

• How to be the 

Employee Every Boss Wants 

April 30, 2008 

Real Life After AACC 

Part II: Social Etiquette 

Presentation and Dinner 

June 4, 2008 

AACC Retirees Reunion 

June 6, 2008 

2nd Annual Pioneers Golf 

Tournament hosted by the 

AACC Foundation Inc. 

May 8-9, 2009 

Dance Company’s 20th Reunion 

Alumni – 

Show your 

AACC Pride! 

Visit the AACC college store to buy 

your alumni sweatshirt, polo shirt, coffee 

mug, and/or baseball hat. 

Athletic Hall of Fame Award 

Make your nominations now! 


Community 

College 

Athletic Hall of Fame 

honors former student 

athletes and 

coaches, who have 

demonstrated outstanding 

athletic 

achievement while a 

student athlete at AACC, made outstanding 

contributions as a coach at the 

college, made outstanding athletic 

achievement as a player or coach aster 

leaving the College, or an outstanding 

supporter of the athletic program. 

Nominations are 

invited from alumni, faculty 

and staff. A selection 

committee composed of 

athletic directors, physical 

educational department 

heads, current and past 

coaches of AACC and an 

alumnus/a from the 

AACC Alumni Scholarship 

Committee will review all nominations 

and make the selection. 

Please call Leslie Salvail, 410-777- 

2709 or email, lhsalvail@aacc.edu, to 

receive the criteria, nomination procedure, 

selection process and nomination form. 

New Connections! 

JOB SHADOWING PROGRAM AT AACC 

College students need "real 

life" career information to 

help them make good 

career and academic 

choices. In Fall 2007, 


launched the CONNECTIONS! 

Program, which connects students with 

working professionals in the community 

for information interviews and job shadowing. 

An information interview is a 

half-hour conversation with a student at 

the professional’s place of work that gives 

the student an opportunity to ask questions 

that will help them make better 

career choices. Job shadowing is a halfday 

or full-day experience where a student 

observes and/or participates in 

activities at the professional’s workplace. 

Both of these experiences will give 

students direct access to the real world of 

work.This is invaluable to students as it 

helps them hone their career goals, identify 

appropriate training and education, 

and expand their professional network. 

The experience is beneficial to employers 

as it boosts their visibility with tal- 

ented potential staff and increases the 

career savvy of the county's workforce. 

The CONNECTIONS! Program is 

managed by AACC’S Career and 

Transfer Resource Center (CTRC), 

which facilitates the process and provides 

guidance to both the professional and 

the student to ensure that the experience 

is productive for both. To professionals 

who volunteer, CTRC staff emphasize 

that they are in control and can structure 

the experience in any way that accommodates 

the demands of their work.The 

professional is not expected to be the 

‘perfect’ employer; to have the ‘perfect’ 

solution for the student’s career; to be an 

‘industry expert’; or to offer the student 

a job.The professional’s role is to share 

their unique professional experience and 

insights to the student. 

The CTRC is now seeking community 

professionals who are willing to 

host a student for an information interview 

or job shadowing. Interested professionals 

should contact Peter Goeden at 

410-777-2764 or at pjgoeden@aacc.edu. 


THE FOLLOWING PUBLIC 

SAFETY PERSONNEL WERE 

PROMOTED IN AUGUST: 

OFFICER CHARLES MCGINNISS was 

promoted from Public Safety Officer III 

to Corporal. 

OFFICER ANTHONY DIGGS was promoted 

from Public Safety Officer II to 

Public Safety Officer III. 

OFFICER VANCE EPPS was promoted 

from Public Safety Officer I to Public 

Safety Officer II. 

OFFICER GREGORY HILL was promoted 

from Public Safety Officer I to Public 

Safety Officer II. 

OFFICER JOSHUA RINEHART was promoted 

from Public Safety Officer I to 

Public Safety Officer II. 

OFFICER MICHAEL THOMPSON was 

promoted from Public Safety Officer I 

to Public Safety Officer II. 

STACEY SICKELS HECKEL, executive 

director, Institutional Advancement, and 

CHARLENE TEMPLETON, executive 

director, Continuing and Professional 

Studies, have been selected as members 

of Leadership Anne Arundel’s Flagship 

Class of 2008. 

This year’s theme is “Building 

Understanding for Change.” Flagship 

class members participate in a ninemonth 

curriculum that focuses on civic 

information and leadership skills development.The 

program is based on building 

community knowledge and gaining a 

philosophical understanding of community 

trusteeship, officials said. 

BARBARA MARDER, associate professor 

and department chair, Performing Arts, 

was part of a panel discussing the Dead 

Man Walking Project at the annual conference 

of the Association for Theatre in 

Higher Education in New Orleans 

recently. 

The panel was composed of the 

national coordinator Maureen Fenlon 

and representatives from colleges across 

the country which have presented the 

play version. 

AACC was the only two-year 


community-based school represented. 

Marder is also a conference planner for 

the association. 

FRED PARMENTER, HCAT instructional 

specialist and certified executive chef, 

was inducted in to the American 

Academy of Chefs (AAC) during a formal 

ceremony and dinner at the 2007 

American Culinary Federation (ACF) 

National Conference in Orlando during 

the summer. 

The AAC is the honor society of 

the ACF, which recognizes those individuals 

who have made a significant contribution 

to both the culinary profession 

and the ACF. Demanding criteria must 

be met in order to be elected to the 

AAC, including certification at a level of 

executive chef or higher, no less than 15 

years culinary experience, an ACF member 

in good standing for a minimum of 

10 consecutive years and sponsorship by 

two AAC members. 

KAREN BAUMBACH, adjunct math faculty, 

recently received the Donald R. 

Stoddard Faculty Award of Excellence 

from Strayer University. 

Each year, graduates nominate outstanding 

faculty members. From the 11 

campuses represented at the Strayer 

University commencement exercises, 

two faculty members were honored. 

Faculty members are nominated for outstanding 

teaching skills, superior ability 

to motivate students, contribution to a 

positive learning environment and sincere 

passion for their profession. 

ERNA RAY, administrative assistant to 

Vice President Andrew Meyer, recently 

received a Commitment to Excellence 

Award on behalf of the board of directors 

and the members of the Delaware- 

Maryland-Dictrict of Columbia Division 

of the International Association of 

Administrative Professionals. 

LYNNE EDWARDS, third party billing 

specialist, accounts receivable assistant, 

recently was appointed to serve on the 

Local Management Board of Anne 

FACULTY/STAFF NOTES 

Arundel County for Children,Youth and 

Families by County Executive John R. 

Leopold. 

Biology professor SALLY HORNOR 

recently presented a talk entitled “Using 

Enterococci Population Levels in Water 

Quality Monitoring as a Metric for 

Stormwater Treatment in a Restored 

Wetland” at the 10th annual Watershed 

& Wetlands Workshop, a regional meeting 

sponsored by Maryland Department 

of the Environment and the Mid- 

Atlantic chapter of the Society of 

Wetland Scientists. 

This paper was co-authored by 

Valerie Washington, a student in the 

Biology department. 

TRACEY L. LLOYD, coordinator, 

Medical Assisting Department, School 

of Health Professions,Wellness and 

Physical Education, has been approved 

to be a site surveyor for the American 

Association of Medical Assistants. 

To become a site surveyor, Lloyd 

had to submit a résumé and application 

to participate in training at the national 

convention in September.The training 

was followed by a surveyor examination. 

After new surveyors participate in two 

on-site surveys and with AAMA review 

and approval, the surveyor may become a 

survey team leader. Site surveyors must 

participate in at least three surveys per 

year, and must participate in annual 

meetings for updates pertaining to initial 

program accreditation, reaccreditations 

and the survey process. 

Additionally, site surveyors, after 

two or more years of service, may serve 

on the Curriculum Review Board, 

which reviews the curriculum for medical 

assisting programs and interacts with 

the other governing boards for medical 

assisting and the Commission on 

Accreditation of Allied Health 

Education Programs. 

Associate professor JOHN SAGI and professor 

GARY THOMAS of the School of 

Business, Computing and Technical 

Studies are co-authors of "Globalization 


FACULTY/STAFF NOTES 

and e-Commerce: A Cross-Cultural 

Investigation of User Attitudes”. 

This research was coordinated with colleagues 

at The George Washington 

University and originally was published 

in the Journal of Global Information 

Management. It was subsequently chosen 

for the text Advanced Topics in Global 

Information Management. It now has 

been selected for inclusion as a chapter 

in the book Electronic Commerce: 

Concepts, Methodologies,Tools and 

Applications, edited by Annie Becker 

and published by IGI Publishing, 

Hershey, Pa. 

LYNDA FITZGERALD, coordinator of 

Performing Arts – Dance, was joined by 

adjunct faculty members Laura Garza 

and Kimberly Garza on Dec. 2 as they 

adjudicated the Maryland State High 

School Dance Festival. 

New Home for Central Services 

THE RIBBON CUTTERS were, from left, J. Gary Lyle, director of AACC’s Public 

Safety; Melanie Conopask of Wheeler, Goodman, Masek; Dave Weldon of Scheibel 

Construction; James M.Taylor, director of Capital Development at AACC; Martha A. 

Smith, Ph.D., AACC president; Gene E. Floyd, trustee, AACC Board of Trustees; 

Diane Jennings, aide to County Councilwoman Cathy Vitale; Robert C. Leib, the county 

executive’s special assistant for Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC); and Maurice L. 

Chaput Jr., executive director of administrative services at AACC. 

If you’re looking for any of the personnel 

who offer key services to 

the college community, they are 

now easier to find. Late in 2007, officials 

cut the ribbon on its Central 

Services Building on the Arnold campus.The 

34,000-gross-square-foot, 

one-story building is the home to 

Capital Development, Document 

Services, Facilities and Public Safety. 

Designed by the architectural firm of 

Wheeler, Goodman, Masek of 

Annapolis and constructed by Scheibel 

Construction of Huntingtown, the 

building cost $7,161,000. Funding was 

split between the county ($4.1 million), 

the state ($2.5 million) and the 

college ($511,000). 

AACC SPORTS UPDATE 

FALL TEAMS WRAP-UP 

Our teams enjoyed a great season in Fall 

2007 with one team earning a trip to 

their national tournament! 

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY 

Women's cross country was revived after 

a three-year hiatus, and coach JIM 

GRIFFITHS took on the challenge of resurrecting 

the program. Griffiths coaches 

women’s soccer and lacrosse at AACC 

and has proven his ability to lead those 

successful programs, so it comes as no 

surprise that he continued that standard 

of excellence with the cross country program. 

His 2007 runners were crowned 

champions the Maryland Junior College 

Athletic Conference (MD JUCO) and 

won the National Junior College Athletic 

Association (NJCAA) Region XX tournament, 

which earned them a trip to the 

Division III National Championship in 

Suffolk, New York on Nov.10 where 

they finished 11th in the nation. His 

team of seven women all plan to play 

lacrosse in 2008, so they look forward to 

starting practice in great physical shape, 

which will help them as they work 

towards a goal of winning the national 

championship for the third year in row. 

WOMEN’S SOCCER 

Griffiths also coached women’s soccer 

this past spring, although he had planned 

to give it up to focus on lacrosse and 


cross country. Due to some 

last minute coaching changes 

he ended up staying for a 

seventh season.“Our goal at 

the beginning of the season 

was to finish the season without 

folding.We were short 

players due to the last minute 

change in coaches and the 

lack of recruiting that was 

done.The players were competitive 

and gave a good 

effort.We just were short 

bodies and athletes. Our goal 

right now is to return the 

program in the 2008 season 

to the success level it has 

enjoyed in the past.” Griffiths’ 

teams have been nationally 

ranked each year from 2001 

through 2005. In 2003 he 

earned the title of Coach of 

the Year for MD JUCO 

when his team took the 

region and conference championship 

titles. 

This year’s team struggled 

against their Division I 

competitors and finished with 

a record of 4-12. Excelling 

for the Pioneers was freshman 

midfielder, Jackie 

D’Orsaneo of Harwood who 

was selected NJCAA All 

America – 2nd team.This 

was an exceptional accomplishment 

for the Bowie 

High School graduate, since 

the team did not 

participate in the 

region tournament. 

MEN’S SOCCER 

Second year coach 

NICK COSENTINO’S 

men's soccer team 

did well finishing as 

the runner-up in the 

NJCAA Region XX 

tournament for the 

second year in a row. 

The championship 

game was tied 1-1 

after two overtime 

periods when the 

game was ultimately decided 

on penalty kicks.The team 

finished with a respectable 

record of 12-3-5.They 

missed making the NJCAA 

national ranking polls for the 

top 10 teams, but are listed as 

one of the other schools 

receiving votes. Sophomore 

forward Justin Hovaker of 

Pasadena, a Chesapeake High 

School graduate, stood out 

for the Pioneers as he earned 

honors as a second team All 

American. Cosentino says of 

the season,“We were happy 

with the way we came 

together as a team. Going 

undefeated in 10 of the last 

11 games was a great way to 

end the season. Also, breaking 

the record for having the 

highest winning percentage 


[for AACC teams] was a great 

team accomplishment. I hope 

we can keep a core of our 

players so we will continue 

with our success.” Cosentino's 

two-year record advances to 

25-9-5. He started at AACC 

as the assistant coach in 2000, 

and worked with longtime 

head coach and AACC professor 

Ken Wolf until Wolf 

retired after the 2005 season. 

When Cosentino took over, 

the duo’s roles reversed and 

Wolf now serves as 

Cosentino’s assistant. 

The 2007 women's volleyball 

team earned the title 

of NJCAA Region XX 

champs, and just missed a trip 

to their national tournament 

when they finished the season 

as the District "G" runnerup.The 

team's final record 

was 16-7, a great turnaround 

from last season when the 

Pioneers posted a record of 

4-11.This was ROMONZO 

BEANS’ second year as coach, 

and his first full year having 

had the opportunity to 

recruit. He also coaches the 

Broadneck High School girl’s 

volleyball team, and is the 

director of the local recreational 

Chesapeake Volleyball 

Club.“I am fortunate to have 

a background in Anne 

Arundel County and look to 

draw players I have either 

AACC SPORTS UPDATE 

coached or seen play on high 

school and club teams.” 

BASKETBALL 

TOM SMITH took the helm 

for the men. Smith is no 

stranger to basketball at 

AACC since he coached our 

women's teams with great 

success from 1990-2000. He 

won the MD JUCO tournament 

in 1994 (Div. II) and 

1997 (Div. III) and his team 

finished seventh at the 

NJCAA national championship 

in 1997.“My goal for 

the team is to maintain the 

academic standards set by the 

2006-07 team who were the 

NJCAA Academic Team of 

the Year, and to improve our 

overall performance on the 

court.” Smith’s assistant 

coach is longtime AACC 

staffer, JOE SNOWDEN who 

has worked many years 

alongside Tom, and was the 

head coach for the AACC 

women for several years. 

Please visit 

www.aacc.edu/ athletics for 

information about all of our 

teams.We would love to hear 

from you, especially our former 

student-athletes. Drop us 

a line and let us know what 

your experience at AACC 

has meant to you! 


AACC CALENDAR OF EVENTS 

Unless otherwise noted, these 

events take place on the Arnold 

campus, 101 College Parkway. 

Call Disability Support Services, 

410-777-2306 or Maryland 

Relay 711, 72 hours in advance 

or e-mail dss@aacc.edu to 

request special accommodations. 

2007 

THROUGH FEB. 29 — 9 

A.M.-4 P.M. MONDAYS- 

FRIDAYS, 6-9 P.M. 

WEDNESDAYS “The 

Aktuell,” national all-media 

juried show featuring works 

that express deep interests, 

passing interests and current 

events in art, juror: Carol 

Lukitsch, curator of Arlington 

Arts Center,Arlington,Va.; 

noon Feb. 13, juror’s talk; 6-8 

p.m. Feb. 13, reception; all at 

Cade Center for Fine Arts 

Gallery; free; 410-777-7028; 

cpmona@aacc.edu; 

www.aacc.edu/cadegallery 

FEB. 1-28 — 9 A.M.-8 

P.M. MONDAYS- 

THURSDAYS, 9 A.M.-4 P.M. 

FRIDAYS Black History 

Month display, sponsor: 

AACC Black Student Union; 

Pascal Center for Performing 

Arts Gallery; free; 

410-777-2218; www.aacc.edu 

FEB. 6, 13, 20, 27 – 2-3 

P.M. Meeting, Alcoholics 

Anonymous 12-step program; 

Schwartz Building 

Room 201; information: 

Allyson Riscart, 

ariscart@aacc.edu 

FEB. 6 – 11 A.M. “Saheri’s 

Choice: Arranged Marriages 

in India,” part of the AACC 

Women’s Institute Spring 

Film Series, see how the tradition 

of arranged marriages, 

which is practiced by people 

in every socioeconomic class 

in India and often determined 

by wealth, education 

and astrology, impacts 

women; Center for Applied 

Learning and Technology 

Room 107; free; 

410-777-2448; 

www.aacc.edu/womensinst 

FEB. 7 – 12:30-1:30 P.M. 

“Let it be a Dark Roux,” 

poetry reading, discussion and 

book signing, with author 

Sheryl St. Germain, sponsor: 

AACC Cultural Events committee; 

Cade Center for Fine 

Arts Room 219; free; 

410-777-2545. 

FEB. 7 – 4-6 P.M. “The 

Other African-American: 

Nicaragua, Central 

America,” Black History 

Month event features a lecture 

by 2007 Fulbright scholar 

Thomas Wayne Edison, 

AACC assistant professor of 

world languages, whose 

scholar assignment was in 

Nicaragua in spring 2007; 

Afro-Nicaraguan music; a 

dance performance by the 

AACC Dance Company; cuisine, 

poetry and other examples 

of the Afro-Nicaraguan 

culture; Pascal Center for 

Performing Arts; free; 

410-777-1955 or 

twedison@aacc.edu. 

FEB. 9 – 8:30 A.M.-1 P.M. 

“Community Law 

Forum,” local attorneys and 

Anne Arundel County judges 

introduce and discuss civil, 

criminal and family legal 

issues, co-sponsors: Anne 

Arundel Bar Association and 


College’s Legal Studies program; 

Florestano Building 

Room 101; free; pre-registration 

required: 410-777-2325. 

FEB. 9 — 8-11 P.M. 

Stargazing, “Community 

Observing Night,” sponsor: 

AACC Astronomy Club, 

bring your own telescope and 

binoculars or use one of the 

eight AACC telescopes to 

view planets, stars and moon, 

weather permitting; 

Astronomy Lab beside 

Resource Management 

Building; free; 410-777-1820; 

www.aacc.edu/science 

FEB. 14 – 11 A.M. 

“Valentine’s Day Thing” 

featuring songwriter and performer 

Libbie Schrader 

(www.libbieschrader.com) in 

concert, free photo booth for 

AACC students, refreshments, 

sponsor: AACC Campus 

Activities Board; dining hall; 

free; 410-777-2218; 

www.aacc.edu/studentlife 

FEB. 14 — 7-9 P.M. 

Chesapeake Civil War 

Round Table, “Battle of 

Franklin” led by Bob 

Mullaur; Cade Center for 

Fine Arts Room 219; free; 

410-777-2428; www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/ 

9925/CCWR.html 

FEB. 19 – 10 A.M.-1 P.M. 

AACC College Transfer 

Advising Day, more than 40 

colleges and universities 

attend, discuss admissions and 

transfer requirements; Student 

Union Room 100; free; 

410-777-2634; 

www.aacc.edu/transfer 

FEB. 20 – 11 A.M. “Sworn 

Virgins,” part of the AACC 


Film Series; in Albania, where 

women are on the bottom 

rung of society, a few use a 

loophole to maintain freedom 

of movement and activity by 

publicly vowing to remain 

virgins; Center for Applied 

Learning and Technology 

Room 107; free; 

410-777-2448; 


FEB. 21 — 5-7 P.M. 

AACC INFORMATION 

SESSION, learn about academic 

opportunities, admissions, 

financial aid, academic 

support and student life; Cade 

Center for Fine Arts Room 

207; free; 410-777-2831; 

www.aacc.edu/admissions 

FEB. 23 — 9 A.M.-NOON 

Kids in College and 

Explore Open House and 

beginning of summer camp 

registration; Cade Center for 

Fine Arts Room 219; free; 

410-777-2325; 

www.aacc.edu/kic 

FEB. 26 — 6:30 P.M. 

Board of Trustees meeting; 


Arts Room 219; 410-777- 

1177; www.aacc.edu 

MARCH 1 – 10 A.M.- 

NOON AACC Information 

Session, learn about academic 

opportunities, admissions, 

financial aid, academic 

support and student life; Cade 

Center for Fine Arts Room 

207; free; 410-777-2831; 

www.aacc.edu/admissions 


MARCH 4-21 — 9 A.M.-8 

P.M. MONDAYS- 

THURSDAYS, 9 A.M.-4 P.M. 

FRIDAYS “Socialization of 

Gender: Photos and 

Essays,” a Women’s History 

Month exhibit by AACC students, 

sponsor: AACC 

Women’s Institute; Pascal 

Center for Performing Arts 

Gallery; free; 410-777-2448; 


MARCH 5, 6 – 10 A.M.- 

10 P.M. “Video Game 

Madness,” 24-hour tournament 

over two-days complete 

with prizes, raffle drawings, 

more than 20 screens including 

new releases and systems 

such as Playstation 3, 

Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and 

old favorites, sponsors: AACC 

Campus Activities Board, 

AACC Interactive 

Technology Association and 

BACCHUS (Boosting 

Alcohol Consciousness 

Concerning the Health of 

University Students) student 

clubs; dining hall; free; 

410-777-2218; 


MARCH 5 — NOON-1 

P.M. Literary discussion on 

Deborah Tannen’s 

“Talking from 9 to 5” 

with AACC associate professor 

of communications Susan 

Kilgard, sponsor: AACC 

Women’s Institute as part of 

the college’s Women’s History 

month observance;Truxal 

Library Room 302; free; 

410-777-2448; 


MARCH 5, 12, 19 – 2-3 

P.M. Meeting, Alcoholics 

Anonymous 12-step program; 

Schwartz Building 

Room 201; free; information: 

Allyson Riscart, 

ariscart@aacc.edu 

MARCH 6 – 9 A.M.-2 P.M. 

AACC Career and 

Transfer Resource Center 

Open House, meet the staff 

and review available 

resources; Student Services 

Center Room 200; free; 

410-777-2512; 

www.aacc.edu/careers 

MARCH 6 — 12:30-1:30 

P.M. “Songs of the Labor 

Movement” performed and 

discussed by musician Joe 

Jencks (www.joejencks.com), 

who will also share his songwriting 

process, sponsor: 

AACC Cultural Events committee; 


Arts Room 224; free; 

410-777-2545. 

MARCH 6 – 4-6 P.M. 

Three short films on body 

image: “Belly: Overcoming 

Bulimia,” After hating her 

body and struggling against 

bulimia for ten years, 

Katherine Laing discovered 

an art form that changed her 

body image: belly dancing; 

“Mirror Mirror,” take a 

provocative look at the relationship 

between the idealized 

body and real ones; and 

“Black Women On:The 

Light, Dark Thang,” moving 

stories about struggles with 

the meaning of skin color 

and the history that created a 

caste system in U.S. society; 

all are part of the AACC 


Film Series; Humanities 

Building Room 112; free; 

410-777-2448; 



AACC CALENDAR OF EVENTS 

MARCH 7 — 8 P.M. 

“Chamber Music Series,” 

AACC Orchestra and faculty 

perform under the direction 

of Anna Binneweg, orchestra 

music director and conductor; 

Pascal Center for 

Performing Arts; ticket sales 

begin March 3; box office: 

410-777-2457; 

www.aacc.edu/ 

performingarts. 

MARCH 8 – 2-3:45 P.M. 

Dance, “Folk Dances of 

India” presented by SG 

Theater Group of Severn, 

Maryland students in Indian 

dance schools in the 

Baltimore-Washington region 

perform a variety of folk 

dances from different regions 

of India, sponsor: AACC 

Cultural Events committee; 


Arts; admission; 

410-777-2266. 

MARCH 8 — 8-11 P.M. 

Stargazing, “Community 

Observing Night,” sponsor: 

AACC Astronomy Club, 

bring your own telescope and 

binoculars or use one of the 

eight AACC telescopes to 

view planets, stars and moon, 

weather permitting; 

Astronomy Lab beside 

Resource Management 

Building; free; 410-777-1820; 

www.aacc.edu/science 

MARCH 11 – 6-8:30 P.M. 

“College Fair 2008,” get 

information about more than 

150 colleges and universities 

from across the region; 

Jenkins Gymnasium; free; 

410-777-2831; www.aacc.edu 

MARCH 11 — 6:30 P.M. 

Board of Trustees meet- 

ing; Cade Center for Fine 

Arts Room 219; 

410-777-1177; www.aacc.edu 

MARCH 12 – NOON 

AACC Campus Activities 

Board presents Phyllis 

Heitjan (www.phyllisheitjan.com) 

in concert as part of 

the college’s celebration of 

Women’s History Month; 

dining hall; free; 

410-777-2043; 


MARCH 12 — 3-4 P.M. 

“Socialization of Gender: 

Artists Talk About Their 

Photos,” AACC students 

discuss their photos and essays 

with Heather Rellihan, 

AACC assistant professor of 

women’s studies, sponsor: 

AACC Women’s Institute as 

part of the college’s Women’s 

History Month observance; 


Arts gallery; free; 

410-777-2448; 


MARCH 12 — 6-7:30 

P.M. Open house, 

Hospitality, Culinary Arts 

and Tourism Institute; 

Humanities Building Room 

214; free; 410-777-2325 or 

toll free 1-866-456-4228; 

www.aacc.edu/HCAT 

MARCH 13 — 4-6 P.M. 

Two films on the sex 

trade: “Say I Do: Mail Order 

Brides” and “Remote 

Sensing: Sex Trafficking,” 

sponsor: AACC Women’s 

Institute as part of the college 

Women’s History Month 

observance and the Women’s 

Institute Spring Film Series; 

Humanities Building Room 

112; free; 410-777-2448; 


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