Once an aspiring professional baseball player, HARRY HUGHES was the 57th governor of Maryland. He served two terms, receiving more than 700,000 votes in each election.

Hughes graduated from the University of Maryland in 1949. He earned his law degree from George Washington University. Two years later he was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates and went on to serve in the Maryland State Senate and as the state's first Secretary of Transportation.

Elected governor in 1979, Hughes left a record of progress in social reform, environmental protection and fiscal responsibility. Under his administration, Maryland launched a program to save the Chesapeake Bay and became a national leader in efforts against drunk driving. Capital investment by new and expanding business averaged $1 billion a year, while unemployment remained below the national average. Hughes submitted a balanced budget each year to the General Assembly while launching the greatest tax-relief program in the state's recent history.

The Hughes Administration also created the National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence in Baltimore, established a new department of Employment and Training, and appointed more women and minority citizens to the judiciary and key government posts than any previous administration.

CARLISLE H. HUMELSTINE
PRESERVATIONIST AND STATESMAN

CARLISLE HUMELSINE dedicated nearly 35 years to historic preservation and as a national leader in cultural affairs. Winston Churchill, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia and the Shah of Iran were among those he entertained during the course of his tenure at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation where he served as president from 1958 to 1977 and chairman until 1985. Under his leadership, Colonial Williamsburg became one of America's most popular historical attractions and developed a broad base of financial support.

Even before his long career at Colonial Williamsburg, Humelsine distinguished himself in World War II military service, reaching the rank of full colonel at age 29 and earning both a Distinguished Service Medal and a Bronze Star. Following the war, he joined the State Department for six years, serving four secretaries of state including Dean Acheson and John Foster Dulles.

As a trustee at the National Geographic Society, the National Gallery and the Smithsonian as well as chairman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Humelsine proved himself to be, as in the words of one of the many tributes paid him: "a champion of this nation's cultural heritage." The conservationist, who compiled an impressive record of public service, died in 1989 at the age of 73.

HUGH NEWELL JACOBSEN
WORLD RENOWNED ARCHITECT

HUGH JACOBSEN is widely recognized as one of the top architects in the world. Since starting his own business in 1958, the buildings he has designed have earned more than 110 awards for design excellence.

Jacobsen has built commercial and institutional structures in countries around the world. They include the American University in Cairo, Egypt; the University of Michigan Alumni Center in Ann Arbor; an addition to the U.S. Capital; renovations to the Renwick Gallery; and the American embassies in Paris and Moscow.

Yet Jacobsen is perhaps best known for his modern homes that abstract traditional styles, such as the Buckwalter House in Pennsylvania. Many of his minimalist building can be found in historical districts.

Jacobsen has built some 400 homes during his 40-year career. After graduating from Maryland in 1951, the former Diamondback cartoonist headed to Yale, where he earned a master's in architecture in 1955. Three years later, he opened his firm in Washington, D.C., and today employs 11 professionals.

Last year, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. , honored Jacobsen with a retrospective of his work. "I've had the most wonderful life, you must leave some record that you went through this thing."

ALBIN O. KUHN
GROWING THE BALTIMORE CAMPUSES

Thanks in large part to ALBIN KUHN, the University of Maryland has thriving campuses in Baltimore City and County.

In 1965, Kuhn was appointed to vice president and later chancellor of the Baltimore campuses—University of Maryland, Baltimore and University of Maryland Baltimore County. At the time, UMBC was located on a 450-acre farm owned by the state.

Kuhn remained chancellor of UMBC until 1971 but continued in that capacity for the city's campus for eight years. During that time, Kuhn continued a building program to provide more space for teaching and research.

Kuhn went on to become executive vice president for the University System of Maryland in 1979 and retired in 1982. That year, UMBC named the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery to honor the man who had devoted his entire education and professional career to the University of Maryland.

Kuhn was an instructor and professor in the university's agronomy department from 1939-1944 before serving two years in the U.S. Naval Reserve. When he returned to Maryland, he was named associate professor in the agronomy department and in 1948 was appointed professor and head of the department. Kuhn later became assistant to the university's president and later executive vice president, which entailed expanding the university to Baltimore City and County.

With booming enrollment at both campuses, it's easy to see the Kuhn accomplished those goals.

WILBUR MONROE (MUNRO) LEAF
FERDINAND: A LASTING LEGEND

MUNRO LEAF, author and illustrator of dozens of children's books, is best remembered for his signature character, Ferdinand, the Spanish bull who preferred smelling flowers to fighting in a ring in Spain.

One Sunday afternoon in 1935, Leaf decided to write a children's story so that his close friend Robert Lawson (a relatively unknown illustrator) could show his talents. In less than one hour, Leaf composed the beloved 800-word story as it stands today, nearly 60 years later.

When published by Viking in 1936 as The Story of Ferdinand, the book sparked controversy. With the Spanish Civil War waging, political critics charged it was a satirical attack on aggression. In Germany, Hitler order the book burned while fellow dictator Stalin granted it privileged status as the only non-communist children's book allowed in Poland. And India's spiritual leader Ghandi called it his favorite book. In spite of the notoriety, the nation embraced the peaceable bull.

That same year, Leaf published his second most popular book, Manners Can Be Fun, illustrated with the notorious "watchbird" stick figures who observe the behavior of boys and girls. Since Leaf's death in 1976 at age 71, Ferdinand continues to charm children worldwide as the simple story is retold in more than 60 language translations.

GEORGE J. LAURER
INVENTOR OF THE UNIVERSAL PRODUCT CODE

An instructor at a technical school for radio and TV repair perhaps gave GEORGE LAURER the best advice of his life: go to college. So Laurer took his high school equivalence exam and was admitted to the University of Maryland.

Some 30 years later, around 1980, most of the world was benefiting from the advice of that instructor. That's when the Universal Product Code, a 12-digit bar code began popping up in grocery stores.

After graduating from Maryland in 1951, Laurer joined IBM as a junior engineer. He worked up the ranks to senior engineer and spent 15 years as an engineering manager. In 1969, he returned to his "first love," the technical side of engineering, as a senior engineering manager. A couple of years later, Laurer was assigned the monumental task of designing a code and symbol for product identification for the Uniform Grocery Product Code Council.

With competition from the likes of RCA and Pitney-Bowes, in 1973, Laurer's proposal was accepted and radically changed the retail world.

Since then, the UPC Council, Inc., has enhanced the code, thanks to Laurer. He added a 13th digit for country identification, a price check digit for the domestic market and another for the European market.

Laurer retired from IBM in 1987. He holds some 25 patents and is a member of the university's Engineering Hall of Fame.

SAMUEL J. LE FRAK
MASTER BUILDER, CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY

SAMUEL LE FRAK is recognized internationally for his accomplishments as a teacher, communicator and builder. As chairman of The LeFrak Organization, he presides over one of the world's largest and most successful private building firms. A man with wide-ranging interests, LeFrak's diversified company is also in global gas and oil exploration, international financing as well as publishing and entertainment production.

Known for its commitment to affordable urban housing, the firm's development projects include New York's LeFrak City, Battery Park City, Gateway Plaza and the $10 billion Newport City Complex in New Jersey--one of the world's largest planed communities.

Five U.S. presidents, seven New York governors, seven New York City mayors and the United Nations have called upon his expertise in current urban development and planning for the 21st century. In addition, the People's Republic of China invited him to share his views on mass housing and modern construction technology with that nation's leaders to help solve their shelter crisis.

For his efforts LeFrak has been knighted by kings and cited by presidents. Among LeFrak's many honors is the John F. Kennedy Peace Award. Several universities, the University of Maryland among them, have paid tribute to LeFrak's humanitarian efforts with honorary doctorates.

KATHLEEN MAGEE
NURSE AND PHILANTHROPIST

Since 1982, KATHLEEN MAGEE has brought smiles to the faces of more than 50,000 children and adolescents around the world though Operation Smile, an organization that funds and performs oral surgery.

In 1981, Magee and her husband, William Magee, joined a group of medical volunteers in the Philippines. While there, the Magees encountered hundreds of children with oral disfigurements. Kathleen, a nurse and clinical social worker, and William, a plastic and craniofacial surgeon, helped many children, but many remained unassisted. The Magees began soliciting monetary and medical supply donations back in the States. By 1982 they founded Operation Smile.

A mother of five children and a grandmother of two, Magee has devoted much of her career to kids. In 1980, she founded "run for the Children," to raise money for child surgery programs. She aided with legislation and public education on child sexual abuse in 1984. In 1986, she organized a support group, "The Same Inside," for craniofacial patients and their families.

Magee is now director of medical education and the development of chapters and youth programs for Operation Smile. She assists in more than half of the international surgical missions each year, helping children to smile wherever she goes.

PARREN J. MITCHELL
STATESMAN OF CIVIL RIGHTS

PARREN MITCHELL has described himself as a crusader. His lifetime of achievements, battling inequities, is proof. At 27, he successfully fought university segregation when he became the first African American admitted to the College Park campus in 1950, after filing a petition to force the university to accept him as a graduate student in sociology.

Later, in 1970, he became the first African American elected to the United States Congress from Maryland, where he led a distinguished six-term career in the U.S. House of Representatives (Md.-7th District). His constituents were those he came to know as director of the Baltimore City Community Action Agency, as part of President Johnson's War on Poverty. Among his other achievements he chaired the Congressional Black Caucus.

Throughout his career in public service, he served as both activist and advocate for minorities and the poor. Mitchell retired from Congress in 1986, and today the elder statesman of civil rights chairs the D.C.-based Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund which he founded in 1980. There, Mitchell works with lawyers, filing suits wherever a "pattern of discrimination against minority businesses can be established."

JANE CAHILL PFEIFFER
MAKING BROADCAST NEWS

JANE CAHILL PFEIFFER joined IBM in 1955 as a systems engineering trainee and quickly proved to be a leader, rising through management positions, which included that of Bermuda site manager for NASA's computer complex, where she coordinated IBM's computer programming and engineering efforts. Heady stuff for the recent graduate who had majored in speech and dramatic arts.

More acclaim followed when, in 1966, Pfeiffer was the first woman selected as a prestigious White House Fellow. Returning to IBM following that year's leave of absence, she achieved a national reputation as a highly successful business executive, who brought IBM into television as a major sponsor of public affairs programming. She was serving as vice president of communications when she left IBM in 1976 to become an independent consultant to such major companies as RCA, as well as many educational institutions..

When the National Broadcasting Company picked her as chairman of the board in 1978, the Los Angeles Times called her "perhaps the most powerful woman in America." In 1980, she became a consultant in management organization, communications and government relations, a career she continues today.

The university previously honored Pfeiffer with the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1975 and an honorary doctoral degree in 1979.

JUDITH A. RESNIK
CHALLENGING THE FINAL FRONTIER

JUDITH RESNIK joined America's astronaut program in 1978, the year after receiving her doctorate in electrical engineering at Maryland, to embark on a year-long training program to prepare her for the challenges of space—our final frontier.

Previously, Resnik's earth-bound accomplishments included integrated circuit design for RCA, systems engineering for the Xerox Corporation and biomedical engineering studies in the physiology of human sight at the National Institutes of Health.

Resnik returned to the university in September 1983 to speak at the dedication of the Adele Stamp Union, named in honor of the first dean of women. On that occasion, Resnik told the audience: "We must continue forward with our endeavors and firsts, and broaden our horizons at every opportunity."

Resnik became the second American woman astronaut in space aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1984. In addition to that pioneering role, she made many contributions to the space program, including experimental software development and work on the shuttle's remote manipulator system. In 1986, Resnik and her six fellow crewmates died tragically in the Challenger space shuttle disaster. To honor her pioneering spirit, The Judith A. Resnik Memorial Scholarship and Fellowship Endowment was established at the university.

CHUN-SHAN SHEN
TAIWAN'S EDUCATIONAL LEADER

CHUN-SHAN SHEN arrived at the University of Maryland in 1957 as a physics doctoral student from Taiwan. Shen had picked Maryland because it was the first American university to offer graduate assistantships to prospective students from his native country.

After graduation, Shen held positions in the United States during the 1960s, including those at NASA, Princeton and Purdue, before accepting a professorship in physics at Taiwan's National Tsing-Hua University in 1971.

Prior to becoming president of National Tsing-Hua University in 1994, Shen served nine years at the College of Science during which time many departments received top ranking by the Ministry of Education.

Beyond the university setting, Shen has proved to be a persuasive force as well. He served as minister in the Taiwan Cabinet and played a major role in building the science and technology infrastructure for Taiwan's modernization. As a member of both the influential Central Election Commission and the National Unification Council, Shen has been highly regarded for his part in conceptualizing and implementing political reforms in Taiwan and in improving relations with Mainland China in the 1990s.

As president of the first international University of Maryland Alumni Association chapter, Shen maintains close ties to his welcoming alma mater.

WILLIAM WOOLFORD SKINNER
BAY'S FIRST GUARDIAN CHEMIST

WILLIAM WOOLFORD SKINNER returned to the university in 1917 to receive an honorary doctorate for his achievements and later still to serve on the Board of Regents for 18 years, seven of those as chair.

But at the turn of the century Skinner was westward-bound, spending five years at the Arizona Experiment Station, investigating the mineral make-up of underground and surface waters. That experience launched his 40-year career as a specialist in the chemistry of water at the U.S. Department of Agriculture where he guided important labs for 25 years, retiring as chief of the Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry in 1944.

Skinner, a nationally prominent agricultural research chemist, was one of the first in his field to study the effects of agricultural chemicals and water pollution. His wide-ranging interests led him to projects involving irrigation waters, mineral waters and waters for sanitary, technical and domestic purposes. As early as 1910 the forward-thinking Skinner chaired a committee, which brought together representatives from Virginia and Maryland, to study pollution of the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay and its effect on oyster production.

Following his death in 1953 at age 79, the university named the Skinner Building in his memory.

ADELE HAGNER STAMP
CHAMPION OF WOMEN

ADELE HAGNER STAMP served as teacher, counselor, philosopher, administrator and role model to countless women during her 38 years as Maryland's first dean of women. When she took the "one-year" position as the first dean of women in 1922, 93 women were en rolled, sharing a converted World War I barracks as their dorm.

Stamp learned the meaning of growing pains as the enrollment of women swelled, reaching 4,000 by 1960. When Stamp retired that year, the Board of Regents granted her emeritus rank, the first woman to receive this highest faculty honor.

To encourage women to excel, Stamp started the first women's student government association, not surprising for a woman who was herself a three-time delegate to the Democratic National Convention. She also formed a branch of the American Association of University Women, as well as the Mortar Board honor society.

As education chair, State Federation of Women's Clubs, she urged higher salaries for teachers, better schools, especially for the handicapped, and support of education bills in the legislature.

Following her death in 1974 at the age of 81, the student union, the hub of so many activities, was renamed to honor her achievements as an advocate for women at Maryland.

REGINALD VAN TRUMP TRUITT
NATURALIST AND BAY ADVOCATE

REGINALD VAN TRUMP TRUITT, a leading naturalist and marine biologist, was founder and first director of what is now the University of Maryland's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at Solomons. He began investigations into issues affecting the bay during the 1920s as a faculty member at the University of Maryland. Later, he helped establish regional marine laboratories in several states on both the East and West coasts.

Truitt came from an Eastern Shore family of oyster planters, so it was a natural path that led him to devote his life to researching the problems of the bay and the effect of pollution on the spawning of oysters, the migration of crabs and the biology of major species of fish found in the Chesapeake. Long before ecology and environmentalism became popular, Truitt warned about dwindling and mismanaged resources of the Chesapeake.

Following retirement in 1954 his work as a naturalist continued as Truitt led the campaign to convert Assateague Island into a National Seashore. He was awarded Maryland's Rachel Carson Award in 1981 for his efforts to preserve the Chesapeake Bay and its environment. When Truitt died in 1991, at age 100, the Washington Post described him as "one of the first scientists to undertake serious research on problems of the Chesapeake Bay."

MILLARD E. TYDINGS
STATESMAN AND SOLDIER

MILLARD E. TYDINGS was one of Maryland's most celebrated war heroes in World War I, serving with the 29th Division, enlisting as a private, rising to Lt. Colonel and earning the Distinguished Service Cross and the Distinguished Service Medal.

Early in his political career, as speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, Tydings introduced and achieved the passage of legislation which merged the Maryland Agricultural College with the professional schools in Baltimore, creating the modern University of Maryland in 1920. Later, he would serve the university as a member of the Board of Regents.

During Tydings' 24 years in the United States Senate he was regarded as one of the most powerful and outspoken leaders of this century's first half. He authored the Philippine Independence Act in 1934 and the Armed Services Unification Act in 1949, and served as first chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

In 1950, Tydings chaired the committee which investigated Senator Joseph McCarthy's charges that the State Department was employing Communists. At the close of his six-month investigation, he publicly exposed the charges as baseless and McCarthy a fraud.

At the time, that outspoken stance cost Tydings his re-election later that year as McCarthy clandestinely directed the Senate campaign of his Republican opponent, John Butler.

When Tydings died in 1961 at age 70, a newspaper account stated: "He crossed swords with Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, and stood up against the Communist-hunting tactics of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy at a time when few others challenged him."

EVELYN PASTEUR VALENTINE
EDUCATOR AND ENTREPRENEUR

EVELYN PASTEUR VALENTINE has held just about every title in the education profession: teacher, assistant principal, principal, department head, administrator and adjunct professor. Today she is president and CEO of The Pasteur Center for Strategic Management.

Valentine began her career as a teacher in Beaufort, N.C. When she moved to Baltimore, she held a variety of roles in the city's public school system and, in 1974, was elected Teacher of the Year for Maryland and then a National Teacher of the Year Merit Award Winner.

Valentine also was an assistant professor at Loyola College in Baltimore and an adjunct professor at Morgan State University, also in Baltimore. Along the way, she earned her M.S. in family life and child development and an Ed.D. in education and business management from the University of Maryland.

Valentine's doctoral dissertation, a strategic model for education, paved the way for The Pasteur Center for Strategic Management, which was founded in 1987. The Baltimore firm provides management planning and leadership training to business, education, government and public service organizations.

Valentine lent her management skills to the University System of Maryland in 1988 when she helped the system form the University of Maryland Alumni Association. She served as the new association president in 1990.

In 1997, the university recognized Valentine's service to the University and honored here with the Ralph J. Tyser Medallion.