Visiting Washington College got two goals in a 2:51 span of the second half to rally from a 1-0 halftime deficit to top host Neumann University, 2-1, on Wednesday evening at Turf Field in a non-conference women’s soccer match.  With the win, the Shorewomen improve to 1-0-1 on the season, while the Knights drop to 1-2 with the loss.

Trailing 1-0 enter the second half, Washington evened the match at 1-1 when freshman forward/midfielder Heather Smith (Glen Burnie, MD/Glen Burnie) scored her first collegiate goal on the first shot of the second half for the guests at the 64:04 mark.  WC took a 2-1 lead just 2:51 later at 66:55 when junior midfielder Gabby Devaud (Baltimore, MD/Institute of Notre Dame) finished off a feed from junior forward/midfield Kira Pancotti (Briarcliff Manor, NY/Briarcliff).  The goal, Devaud’s first of the season, proved to be the deciding tally.  Neumann had two chances in the final 1:36 to try to send the contest to overtime, but junior goalkeeper Tori Ripple (Baltimore, MD/John Carroll) stopped both of them and the Shorewomen chalked up their first win of 2010.
Neumann’s Heather Hopkins scored 1:54 into the match as she scored off of a rebound of her own shot to put the Knights up 1-0 with Alexis Tiernan tallying the assist.  Kathleen Maleski (Mt. Airy, MD/South Carroll), but was stopped by Neumann’s keeper Jacquell McAllister.  After surrendering seven of the first eight shots in the first half, Washington had the last five shots of the opening half.

Ripple stopped seven shots in recording the victory for Washington, while Neumann’s Jacquell McAllister made six saves.  The Knights outshot the Shorewomen by a 14-12 margin and held a 4-3 edge in cornerkicks.

The Shorewomen return to action on Saturday afternoon with a 4:00 p.m. kickoff against visiting Cabrini in the home opener.

Twentieth-ranked host Salisbury University scored once in each half to defeat visiting Washington College, 2-1, in non-conference men’s soccer action this afternoon in Salisbury, MD.

Salisbury (3-0-1) got on the board with its ninth shot of the first half whenStafford Chipungu scored off an assist from Pat Callahan at 34:29.  Senior midfielder Gavin Rayburn (Bel Air, MD/John Carroll) took the Shoremen’s lone shot of the half, which was saved by Salisbury goalkeeper Brandon Mumby at 16:55.  

The Shoremen (1-1) knotted the score at 1-1 on their second shot of the game as freshman forward Trevor Francis (Bel Air, MD/Calvert Hall) headed in a ball sent into the box by sophomore midfielder Justin Geho (Westminster, MD/Cardinal Gibbons) at 51:51. The goal by Francis was the first of his collegiate career and was also Washington’s first against the Sea Gulls since a 3-1 loss in 1999, breaking a streak of five straight shutouts for Salisbury over the Shoremen. 

Chipungu assisted on what would prove to be the game-winning goal, finding Phil Bucheimer for a shot near the top of the box at 77:43. 

Washington junior goalkeeper Chris Phipps (Newark, DE/St. Mark’s) made 10 saves in the loss for the Shoremen. Mumby made one stop for Salisbury.

The Sea Gulls enjoyed a 36-2 advantage in shots and a 5-3 edge in corner kicks in the game. 

The Shoremen return to action Saturday with a 2:30 p.m. game at Randolph-Macon as part of the Randolph-Macon Select Tournament.

Historian Richard Striner will read from his new book, Lincoln’s Way: How Six Great Presidents Created American Power, and discuss presidential leadership Thursday, September 23 on the Washington College campus. The reading, sponsored by the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Sophie Kerr Room of the Miller Library and will be followed by a reception and book signing. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Published by Rowman & Littlefield, Striner’s book explores the power of the U.S. presidency to create sweeping and positive changes throughout the nation and the world. Scheduled for release on September 16, it has earned praise for combining scholarship and depth of knowledge with an engaging and clear style of writing. Blending intellectual history and presidential biography, it creates a valuable lens for viewing the present.

Striner explains how Abraham Lincoln set the stage for America’s global superpower status by using his federal authority in shrewd ways, borrowing from both ends of the political spectrum. It was a powerful, centrist way of leading that was adopted by five subsequent presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy.

These presidents denounced the idea that government was “always the answer” but did believe it was “sometimes the answer” when it came to necessities. “They believed in the value of coordinated national life—in teamwork,” Striner writes in his introduction.

Lincoln’s Way earned advance praise from two well-known fellow historians and authors, James MacGregor Burns and James M. McPherson. Burns called Lincoln’s Way “an unforgettable book” and “must reading for lovers of American History—a fresh and spirited presentation of some of our greatest leaders, with special emphasis on key ideas, presented in a broad intellectual framework.”

Noting Striner’s “remarkable range of knowledge,” McPherson wrote: “Drawing on a lifetime of scholarship, the author writes with great clarity for a general audience beyond the academy, while at the same time offering original insights that deepen and broaden our understanding of how the government promoted greater justice and equity in the American socioeconomic order during the century from the 1860s to the 1960s.”

Striner’s earlier book, Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle to End Slavery, was published in 2006 by Oxford University Press. A professor of history at Washington College, he is also is a senior writer for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Committee.
For more information on the reading, visit starrcenter.washcoll.edu or call the Starr Center at 410-810-7161.

Senior crew Caroline Hill (Tiverton, RI/Bishop Stang)has been named the captain of the Washington College sailing team, head coach Josh Putnam recently announced.

Hill recorded the highest intersectional finish of her collegiate career at last year’s Eckerd Intersectional, sailing with skipper Mike Whitford (Chicago, IL/Francis W. Parker School) to place third in B Division. Washington College finished second overall at that event. She matched her third-place B Division finish two weeks later at the Boston Dinghy Cup, again sailing with Whitford.  Later in the season, she turned in her best-ever finish at a conference championship regatta, placing fourth in B Division with Whitford at the America Trophy, which serves as the Mid-Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Associations’s (MAISA) Spring Co-Ed Dinghy Championships. She went on to sail at the Intercollegiate Sailing Association’s (ICSA) Co-Ed Dinghy National Semifinals, placing 14th in B Division while splitting time with Mildred Conroy (Newton, MA/Tabor Academy) as Whitford’s crew.

As a sophomore, Hill finished sixth as an A Division crew at the America Trophy.  During her freshman year, she placed sixth as a B Division crew at the MAISA Fall Women’s Championships.

The Washington College sailing team, which has advanced at least as far as the ICSA Co-Ed National Semifinals each of the past three seasons, opens its fall 2010 schedule this weekend at the prestigious Anderson Trophy, hosted by Yale University. 

Ned Sublette, the 2010-11 Patrick Henry Writing Fellow at Washington College, will explore the cultural heritage of New Orleans in a performance titled “Kiss You Down South: An Evening of Music and History” September 21 at 6:30 on the College campus. Combining musical performance and history in a coffee-house setting, the event will take place in Center Stage, an intimate space in Hodson Hall Commons. It will include a book signing and reception; admission is free and open to the public.

Sublette will share stories of America’s most unique city, home to a vibrant cultural heritage that has endured in the face of crippling poverty, endemic racism, and rising floodwaters. New Orleans’ history is, in many ways, best told through its music, a product of centuries of interaction between diverse groups: Africans, West Indians, Creoles, Native Americans, Cubans, Haitians, and European-Americans. Through that diversity, the city has birthed or nurtured many of America’s great musical traditions, including jazz, blues, gospel, zydeco, hip hop, funk, Cajun, and rhythm & blues.

Sublette is an internationally renowned musician and cultural historian who brings a special perspective to the study of early America. A native of Texas, he has spent most of his working life in New York City. He is the author of several well-received books, including The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans (2009) and The World that Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square (2008), both published by Lawrence Hill Books, and Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo (Chicago Review Press, 2004).

The Guardian (U.K.) has called his writing “astonishing work that explains much about our modern world,” and the Boston Globe has lauded The World That Made New Orleans as “an energetic and fascinating read … the best argument yet for why we need to save New Orleans.”

The Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship, provided by Washington College’s C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and supported by the Rose O’Neill Literary House (the College’s center for literature and creative writing), offers a yearlong residency to authors doing innovative work on America’s founding era and its legacy. It is permanently endowed as part of a $2.5 million challenge grant package that the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded through its nationwide “We the People” initiative.

Sublette will use his residence at Washington College to continue work on a history of the American “slave coast” and the vast but little-known black migrations that shaped American history and culture from the 18th century to the present. Adam Goodheart, Hodson Trust-Griswold Director of the C.V. Starr Center, describes Sublette’s approach as “groundbreaking,” and explains that, “while several excellent monographs have chronicled the role of specific mid-Atlantic port cities in the oceangoing domestic slave trade, none have explored the region as a whole as a ‘slave coast,’ similar in character and function, if not in scale, to the West African coast.”

As part of the fellowship, Sublette and his wife, the writer Constance Ash, are living in a restored 1735 house in the heart of Chestertown’s colonial historic district. Sublette will co-teach a course at Washington College in the spring.

He is a previous recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. He is also a classically trained guitarist and a songwriter. His albums as composer and vocalist include Cowboy Rumba, Monsters from the Deep and the forthcoming Kiss You Down South. He has been a producer for Public Radio International’s Afropop Worldwide, co-founding that program’s scholarly Hip Deep series, and was co-founder of the record label Qbadisc, which distributed Cuban music in the United States.

Visiting Franklin & Marshall got a match-high 23 assists and team-best nine digs from Caitlin Krutsick as the Diplomats swept host Washington College, 3-0, (31-29, 25-19, 25-19) on Tuesday night at the Cain Athletic Center in Centennial Conference volleyball action.  It was also the home opener for the Shorewomen.

In the opening set, Washington had five set point chances to win the first set, but could not close out the set.  With the Shorewomen leading 29-28, Sydney Seydel recorded a kill to level to set at 29-29.  F&M would grab the lead at 30-29 on a hitting error by the Shorewomen and captured the set Nicole Morano kill. 

In set two, WC jumped out to a 5-1 lead on an ace by sophomore defensive specialist Rita Rivera (Plymouth Meeting, PA/Plymouth-Whitemarsh).  But the Diplomats won 17 of the next 21 points to take an 18-9 lead on a service ace by Krutsick. 

In the third and final set, WC took a 7-5 lead on a kill by senior middle hitter Maria Whitman (Galesville, MD/Southern) on a pass from freshman setter Lauren White (Huntingtown, MD/Huntingtown).  The Diplomats would go on a 19-8 spurt to take a 24-15 lead on a ball handling error by the hosts.  The Shorewomen cut it to 24-19 on a kill by senior defensive specialist/libero Traci Daelemans (Tracys Landing, MD/Southern), but a service error by Washington ended the set and match.

For the visitors, Seydel pounded out a match-topping nine kills and tied for tops in the contest with three blocks.  The Diplomats served up 10 aces in the win.

For Washington, White handed out a team-best 21 assists, while Rivera led all players with 11 digs.  Whitman tied for Seydel in blocks with three.

Washington is back on the road on Thursday night with a 7:00 p.m. non-conference tilt at Stevenson.

Men’s Swimming Captains
Senior Matt Violette (Westbrook, ME/Westbrook) and junior Johnny Helenek (Gaithersburg, MD/Gaithersburg) have been named the captains of the Washington College men’s swimming team for the 2010-11 season, head coach Kim Lessard recently announced.

Violette holds the school record in the 500 freestyle and is WC’s second-fastest swimmer ever in the 400 individual medley, fourth-fastest in the 200 backstroke, sixth-fastest in the 100 backstroke, and eighth-fastest in the 200 freestyle and 200 individual medley. He is also a five-time silver medalist in relay events at the Centennial Conference Championships and swam on the school-record 800 freestyle relay team.

Helenek is the Shoremen’s seventh-fastest swimmer ever in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke events.  He finished in the top 12 in both breaststroke events at both the 2009 and 2010 Centennial Conference Championships.  This past summer, he served as an assistant coach for the Lake Marion Lasers youth swim team in Montgomery County, MD.

The Washington College men’s swim team opens its regular season schedule November 6th with a Centennial Conference home dual meet against Gettysburg at 1:00 p.m.  The Shoremen will also host an intrasquad scrimmage, the Maroon & Black Meet, October 23rd at 9:00 a.m.

Women’s Swimming Captain
Senior Rachel Glasser (Silver Spring, MD/Springbrook) has been named the captain of the Washington College women’s swimming team for the 2010-11 season, head coach Kim Lessard recently announced.

Through three years, Glasser is already Washington College’s most-decorated swimming All-American in program history, having earned All-America first-team honors three times and All-America honorable mention twice.  A three-year NCAA Championship qualifier, her best-ever finish at nationals was a third-place and bronze-medal performance in the 200 butterfly in 2009. She has been named the female Most Outstanding Performer at the past two Centennial Conference Championship meets and has 13 career gold medals, four career silver medals, and three career bronze medals at Centennial Championship meets.

Glasser holds the school and conference records in the 500 freestyle, 1000 freestyle, 1650 freestyle, and 100 butterfly, the school record in the 200 butterfly, and is a member of five school-record relay teams, two of which are also conference record-holders. She was named her team’s Most Valuable Swimmer in 2009 and Co-Most Valuable Swimmer in 2010 and was tabbed as the female recipient of Washington College’s 2010 Elizabeth “Bo” Blanchard Memorial Sportsmanship Award.

The Washington College women’s swim team opens its regular season schedule October 30th with a Centennial Conference home dual meet against Bryn Mawr at 1:00 p.m.  The Shorewomen will also host an intrasquad scrimmage, the Maroon & Black Meet, October 23rd at 9:00 a.m.

A resident of Brazil, Le Breton is a former concert pianist who rebuilt her life as a writer after she and her husband moved to an isolated farm in the Amazon Rainforest. Her 2003 book Trapped: Modern Slavery in the Brazilian Amazon(Kumarian Press) documented Brazil’s illegal trade in migrant workers. It was translated into three languages and earned a Judges Award at the 2004 Harry Chapin Media Awards, which recognize outstanding journalism works in the areas of hunger and poverty.

Her most recent book is a memoir titled Where the Road Ends: A Home in the Brazilian Rainforest (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, 2010). She and her husband, Robin, a World Bank economist, decided to leave the Washington D.C. suburbs and start a new life in a remote mountain area of Brazil in 1989. “We’d educated our children, paid our mortgage, and found a country where it never snowed,” she writes. “Still in our forties, we had time and energy on our side. It was now or never.”

They named their farm “Iracambi,” the Tupi Indian name for “Land of Milk and Honey,” and later established theIracambi Atlantic Rainforest Research and Conservation Center. The Center provides educational opportunities for Brazilian children as well as research programs for people from across the globe.

Le Breton’s talk at Washington College is free and open to the public. Earlier in the day, she will meet with students in criminology and anthropology classes and with the College anthropology club.

Senior men’s soccer player Gavin Rayburn (Bel Air, MD/John Carroll) is this week’s “Shoreman of the Week.”  Rayburn scored two goals and assisted on another in the Shoremen’s season-opening 7-0 win over Penn State-Brandywine Saturday night.

Rayburn scored the game’s first goal in the 17th minute, assisted on a goal in the 59th minute, and knocked in a rebounding shot for his second goal in the 66th minute. The Shoremen’s seven goals in the game were their most in a single game since an 8-0 win over Wesley on October 17, 2001.

Shorewoman of the Week
Jenny Lee

Sophomore volleyball player Jenny Lee (Wilmington, DE/Mount Pleasant) is this week’s “Shorewoman of the Week.”  Lee was named to the All-Tournament Team at the Gettysburg Battlefield Classic, held Friday and Saturday.

Lee averaged 2.38 kills, 0.62 aces, and 1.31 digs per set while hitting .173 as the Shorewomen went 1-3 at the tournament.  She hit .429 (seven kills, one error, 14 attempts) against three-time defending Capital Athletic Conference Champion Salisbury, tallied a double-double of 11 kills and 10 digs against Messiah, and served six aces to go along with six kills in a three-set win over Lincoln.

The Superintendent and Board of Education is pleased to announce the hiring of Mr. Dexter Lockamy as Chief Operating Officer for the Kent County Public Schools. Mr. Lockamy’s first official day is October 4, 2010.

Mr. Lockamy holds a Masters in Business Administration and a Masters in Public Health in Health Management from Columbia University. He also earned a certificate in International Finance and Global Markets from Georgetown University.

Mr. Lockamy has more than 25 years experience working in the finance arena. He had an 18 month contract with the Office of the Superintendent in Washington DC. In that consultant role he stabilized, transformed, and strengthened the financial operations of the school system after a fiscal period that resulted in a 65 million dollar annual deficit.

As a Financial Consultant he has had contracts with the World Bank Group where he had a short-term assignment in Nairobi, Kenya. He also worked as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Financial Manager, District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority in Washington DC.

Mr. Lochamy is happy to trade his consultant role for a career in a school system where his expertise will make a difference for children and the community.