Clifton Miller Library’s Rare Book Room contains many books donated by other charitable libraries, former professors, alumni, and students. The bookplates tell the story of their former owners. However, many of the bookplates themselves are a mystery.
In celebration of April Fool’s Day, we present to our readers two truths and a lie about Washington College history and tradition. See if you can guess which are which! Just for fun, the lie will contain a grain of truth!
Washington College’s excellence in Environmental Science has deep roots. It is possible that the local environment attracted Dr. Kathleen E. Carpenter, sometimes called the Mother of Freshwater Ecology, to the Eastern Shore and Washington College.
Clifton Miller Library’s Rare Book Room contains many books donated by other charitable libraries, former professors, alumni, and students. The bookplates tell the story of their former owners. However, many of the bookplates themselves are a mystery.
One of the oldest Eastern Shore recipes is also one of the area’s most contentious. Variously called “Virginia”, “Delaware”, and “’Maryland’ beaten biscuits” depending on which state you happen to be in at the time, these biscuits are well-known in the region for their unique manner of being made.
March 3, 1978: Spring Break-themed comic strip by student J. Dixon
Behold this six-inch tall two-volume poem on Charlemagne’s conquests.
Charles Reid served as Washington College’s 14th President and is responsible for instituting coeducation. It would then come as no surprise that his wife shared his academic pursuits.
45’ 11”! Breaking his previous shot-put record of 43’ 3”, and 6 inches farther than the record set in 1929: even in 1971, Norris Commodore was making a lasting impression at Washington College.
In 1972, Title IX was passed by Congress, prohibiting sex-based discrimination in education and changing the landscape of athletics for women.
