She brought one suitcase with her from Bulgaria. After the 12-hour flight from Istanbul via Amsterdam, she was nervous and excited to start her new life. Beside her was her fiancé, Behrang, an American she had met in Istanbul two years earlier. She did not speak any English, though she knew Russian, Bulgarian, Turkish, and […]
“People were lined up for hours,” says Kenia Avendano-Garro ’10, who was the sole American and only female in her Japanese university’s manga club (Japanese comics). When she heard about the club’s part in an annual fall cultural festival, she volunteered to help. On the day, she drew manga-style portraits of people who came to […]
MC professors encourage students to be lifelong learners and to reach for the stars when setting goals. David Matheny ’16 took that advice to heart when he organized a group of students from Roanoke College, along with Carlos Iraheta ’17 and Daniel Matheny ’18, to participate in events for the recent solar eclipse. On August […]
Derrick Douglass ’11 wants to hold moments in time so he—and anyone else—can examine them more closely. Rather than use photography, the computer programmer-turned-graphic designer/web designer/web developer does this by putting pen to paper. His pen-and-ink pieces are so intricate they almost startle. Through busy linear forms—patterns of swirls, arcs, angles, dots—he creates a […]
The same year eight-track tape decks were introduced in Ford cars, a postage stamp cost five cents, and “Beam me up, Scotty” was first uttered in a Star Trek episode, Montgomery College opened a nursing program at the Takoma Park Campus. From its first academic year, 1966–1967, through today, the program has graduated 2,294 nurses. […]
Between 50 and 70 million US adults have sleep or wakefulness disorders, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Moreover, studies at the National Institutes of Health show people whose sleep sessions are irregular or short are more likely to develop diseases that can lead to an early death, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, […]
He stopped by Taco Bell so often the employees knew his $20 order by heart. Some days he went twice. Over the course of a year, Chuck Carroll estimates he spent $10,000 at the fast-food restaurant. The only thing surpassing his big expense was the 400-plus pounds he carried on his 5′ 6″ frame. Today, […]
Shrouded by November’s predawn darkness, Manjula Dissanayake ’03 gets into the Uber car that will take him to Dulles International Airport. Chara, his wife, and Ayaan, his six-month-old son, are still asleep. The journey to Sri Lanka—approximately 10,000 miles across the Atlantic, over Europe through Dubai, and on to South Asia—is arduous, but the athletic, […]
How Two Harvard Business School Students Discovered Their MC Roots As a first-year senior lecturer at Harvard Business School last spring, Larry Culp perused the 61 candidates in his Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) Global Immersion course and dis-covered he had two Montgomery College graduates—Gilles Mepossi Noutcha ’07 and Ivan Salas Orono ’08—on […]
Summer Dinner Theatre Celebrates 40 Years No story about the College’s Summer Dinner Theatre would be complete without a chat with Dr. Gerry Muller, who was one of the project’s founding faculty. “In 1967,” says Muller, “the chair of the Music Department wanted to produce an opera. The opera, Die Fledermaus, was produced in the […]
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