Charles Reid served as Washington College’s 14th President and is responsible for instituting coeducation. It would then come as no surprise that his wife shared his academic pursuits.
45’ 11”! Breaking his previous shot-put record of 43’ 3”, and 6 inches farther than the record set in 1929: even in 1971, Norris Commodore was making a lasting impression at Washington College.
In the Maryland Special Collection, within the pages of an ordinary-looking spiral-bound church cookbook is a most unusual recipe: Baked Rock with Curry Stuffing.
Though Sophie Kerr is most known on Washington College’s campus for her endowment which funds the largest undergraduate literary prize in the United States, she was an accomplished woman with many interests.
The search for the Northwest Passage, a route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic Seas, is what drove many 19th century early expeditions.
