Firm Foundations – Biology & Family
Over the past 42 years, Susan Schneider has worked at UMBC, left, and returned several times. She has witnessed the arc of the university’s growth. In fact, Schneider knew the hillside selected as a home for UMBC before the campus was designed and built. Growing up in the Catonsville area, she remembers when the area was mostly fields. When she first started driving, Poplar Avenue was a “dark” and “spooky” route that ran directly to Walker Avenue. Schneider took her first job at UMBC in 1974, working as a secretary for then-vice chancellor Sallie Giffen and comptroller Edward Minion. Though… Continue Reading Firm Foundations – Biology & Family