"George Goes Green is an annual, campus-wide initiative at WC to raise awareness about sustainability and conservation. Though it began two years ago as a three-week-long exercise, the program has flourished, now running for a full semester and featuring a building efficiency competition, a sustainable ideas contest, a Green Pledge and a No Energy Day."
— "Shower With Your Roomie, and 33 More Ways You Can Save the Planet," cover story (with cover photo featuring Washington College students) in Newsweek's campus magazine Current, Fall 2007
"The non-profit Hodson Trust this fall launched a scholarship for veterans enrolled in four private Maryland colleges. Five veterans, attending either Washington College in Chestertown or Hood College in Frederick, are participating this semester. 'Anybody who gives up years of his or her life and serves our country in harm's way should, at the very least, be given a fully paid higher education,' says Hodson Trust chair Finn Caspersen."
— "College-bound GIs get extra help," front-page article in USA Today, November 15, 2007
"So what do you do if you're Superman, and you love Lois, but she's already found herself a great guy and married him? The smart thing would be to keep your mouth shut. I wasn't that smart. I told her that I loved her. It was a line I shouldn't have crossed, I know. But I thought if that's all it was, just me telling her how I felt, without asking anything of her, that maybe it would be okay. And it sort of was. When I told her I loved her, all she said was, 'I know.' This only made me love her more."
— 1988 Sophie Kerr Prize winner Dean Hebert, writing "Love is Kryptonite," winner of the Washington Post Valentine's Fiction Contest, in the Washington Post Magazine, February 10, 2008
"...the British Broadcasting Corporation conducted a public survey to determine the '100 Greatest Britons' of all time... an honor roll of long-dead heroes and pop headliners, from Lloyd George to Boy George.... all of the hundred were white. Soon after, a black history Web site responded with its own roster of "100 Great Black Britons." This time, the remarkable thing was just how obscure nearly all the honorees were.... The two experiments were a reminder that even if the multiethnic crowd on the London tube is ever more difficult to distinguish from the one on the New York Subway, British self-identity and British history remain somehow fundamentally white... Caryl Phillips's new book looks back over more than 200 years of black history in Britain..."
— Adam Goodheart, Hodson Trust-Griswold Director of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, reviewing Caryl Phillips's Foreigners in the New York Times, December 23, 2007
"After serving in the Navy in World War II, Marylander Charles Schelberg was able to attend Washington College in Chestertown, thanks to the GI Bill... Two of Mr. Schelberg's grandsons have answered their country's call... The brothers [Matthew and James Schelberg] both served as Marines in Iraq's Anbar province... Matt attends Pennsylvania's Bucknell University, where his veterans' benefits cover only a small part of his educational expenses... James attends his grandfather's alma mater, Washington College.... James is one of the first recipients of a veterans scholarship program created by the Hodson Trust... While his brother faces years of debt repayment, James' education is covered in full. Initiatives similar to the Hodson Trust scholarships are emerging across the country. More must be encouraged."
— Finn Caspersen, Chair of the Hodson Trust, writing "Give vets their due: a college education," an op-ed column in the Baltimore Sun, January 27, 2008
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