A Chronology of Goucher College 1881-1996

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

1996

In May the college announced the beginning of the public phase of its $40 million campaign, "A Legacy of Excellence - A Future of Distinction".

The freshman core curriculum was revised. There is a new seminar in which students choose courses from among a variety in all of the Divisions. The CIE was offered first semester only.

Goucher II students were mainstreamed with traditional undergraduates. In the past these students started out taking classes on Thursdays only.

In conjunction with Loyola College Goucher offered a new minor in German.

In September about 200 students, faculty and staff participated in the third annual Goucher Morning of Community Service. The program is mandatory for new students.

Parking lots in Dorsey Center and Hoffberger were enlarged to hold 400 more cars. Freshmen were allowed to have cars on campus for the first time.

The MTA #11 bus extended its route to the campus.

Five members of Choregraphie Antique performed in the movie Washington Square being made in Baltimore.

President Mohraz was appointed as the co-chair of the USNA Board of Visitors.