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News Updates and Briefs
Bring
Your Child to Work
Day — April
24, 2003
 Gene
Rubin, chair of the
Master of Distance
Education program
in the Graduate School,
with daughter, Mary,
11, who attends Wood
Middle School in
Rockville. |
 Anna
Nemchinova was
evidently put to
work while
her mother, Yulia,
distance education
coordinator in
the Graduate School, attended
a meeting. |
 Paula
Reed, director
of university outreach
marketing in the
Office of Communications,
with son, Adam. |
Consul General Visits Mannheim
Campus Consul
General Peter Bodde of the
Frankfurt American Consulate
visited UMUC’s Mannheim
Campus May 5, 2003, to discuss
American-German relations and
his experiences as a student
of the Munich Campus.
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| Consul
General Peter Bodde (center)
looks at his 1974 Munich
Campus catalogs and yearbooks
with Patrick Dua, professor
(left), and student Jason
Graff (right). |
As
a 1974 alumnus of the two-year
program, Bodde opened with
a statement about the value
of an overseas education. He
encouraged students to learn
a foreign language and to reach
out and strengthen their ties
with the Germans. Bodde also
discussed the diplomatic changes
that have taken place between
the United States and Germany
since the terror attacks of
September 11, 2001. He suggested
that Germany’s long and
productive history with the
U.S., combined with the country’s
shared core values, will
be long lasting and will outweigh
the current disagreements between
the countries.
"I implore you to commit
yourselves to Europe,” Bodde
said, in conclusion. “Get
out there and be active.” Following
his lecture, Bodde met with
students and faculty to reminisce
about his student days at the
Munich Campus.
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