Policy & Society

Cristina Dalton ’12, Spanish, spent the summer at Greenbriar State park, where she translated common park announcements to Spanish and helped the multicultural patrons understand park rules. “I love that moment when I explain something to both people in a situation and see their faces light up when they get it,” she says. Her job was part of a growing effort within Maryland’s state parks, which are learning to adapt to a rapidly growing and enthusiastic clientele: Hispanic families. The Baltimore Sun reported on this trend in an August 20 story entitled “Demographic Shift Causes State Parks to Adapt.”

Christopher Corbett, professor of the practice of English, will give a talk at the National Postal Museum on Sunday, October 8, at 1 p.m. The subject of his talk will be his book, “Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express,” and the 150th anniversary of the end of the Pony Express. A book signing and opportunity to tour the exhibit “Pony Express: Romance vs. Reality” will follow. The National Postal Museum, a Smithsonian Institution museum, is located in the old Post Office building next to Union Station in Washington, D.C.

Robert Deluty, associate dean of the graduate school, has published a new book of poetry, “Between Nothing and All.” In his review, Richard Berlin writes, “The French poet and critic Stephane Mallarme said that poetry purifies the language of the tribe and puts it on display. Robert Deluty’s poems take this idea a step further by purifying our vision of ourselves: our behavior, our love and our humanity. He has achieved full mastery of his poetic form, and uses his skill to make us laugh out loud and to make us cry over our heartbreaks. ‘Between Nothing and All’ is… Continue Reading Robert Deluty, Graduate School, Publishes His 33rd Book