A Chronology of Goucher College 1881-1996_Page015

The Center for Continuing Studies offered a certificate program in historic preservation.

A Bachelor of Arts degree in cognitive studies was added to the curriculum in the Interdisciplinary Studies Division.

The Admissions Office was remodeled and expanded to include an interviewing area in the Latzer Room, formerly the snack bar.

The Jazz Ensemble gave its first concert under the direction of Jeffrey Chappell.

1993

A satire of female beauty pageants, "Ms. Goucher", caused much controversy this year. A professor filed a sexual harassment complaint and the SGA voted against sponsoring it in 1994.

The last graduation of Dance Movement Therapy students occurred in May.

The faculty voted to reinstate minors to accomodate interdisciplinary courses and to circumvent the cumbersome combination majors.

The library started automated check out/in.

Goucher sponsored the Renie Amoss Memorial 5K Run/Walk to honors Ms. Amoss '93 who died in a car accident two weeks after her graduation.

The Dance Department started an exchange program with Roehampton Institute in London.

1994

A bell used at Goucher's original location was restored and dedicated to President Rhoda Dorsey by the SGA. The bell was mounted near the entrance to the Field House.

Miss Dorsey received many encomiums for her forty years at Goucher, twenty as president, when she retired. Among them were an honorary degree, a scholarship in her name, and the renaming of the College Center to the Rhoda M. Dorsey College Center.

The Center for Continuing Studies began an expanded historic preservation program offered both on campus and in Washington, D.C..

The Center also obtained a state grant to train teachers of gifted and talented students at various sites in Maryland.

Seven hundred twenty-eight panels of the AIDS memorial quilt were displayed in the gym. It attracted over 2,700 people from all over