星号倡议
As 九州娱乐官网 seeks to build an ever more diverse and inclusive culture, we must uncover and acknowledge our centuries-long institutional complicity in systems 种族主义，不平等和不平等. 星号计划是我们工作的一部分 揭开我们学院隐藏的故事.
的 九州娱乐官网历史项目 has identified several symbols and spaces that reflect the institution's historic 与奴隶主的关系. 通过 星号倡议, seven of those buildings and landmarks have been numbered and labeled, with QR codes 指引访客进入本网站. 在这里，你可以了解更多关于早期大学的信息 supporters, including 乔治•华盛顿 and 威廉。史密斯, and the slave trader who owned the imposing 18th-century structures—the 海关 and Hynson-Ringgold房子—both 现在归学院所有.
的 星号倡议 will share more stories about the College's symbols and spaces. 在接下来的几个月里， we are planning to invite members of our campus community to share their thoughts 关于这些和其他校园地标.
符号与空间
1. 乔治·华盛顿雕像
He stands at the foot of the historic Hill Dorms, shaded by trees, guarded by boxwood, 凝视着美国国旗. 自从雕像被安置在校园里 Green in 1957—as the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum—its image has telegraphed the College's close connections to the nation's founding and its emphasis on preparing successive generations of citizen-leaders for the work of the American democracy. And now, as the institution reckons with its past, the image also reminds us that Washington failed to see the common humanity he shared with his enslaved workers and 他虐待和误导了土著居民.
的 乔治•华盛顿 statue was created in bronze and presented as a gift to the College by sculptor Lee Lawrie, commemorating the 175th 九州娱乐官网的成立纪念日. 就在秋季毕业典礼之前 十月庆典. 20, 1957, Hannah Fairfax Washington, a direct descendent of the 华盛顿家族为雕像揭幕.
Lee Lawrie was one of the nation’s foremost architectural sculptors. 他最杰出的 作品，独立的铜像， 阿特拉斯, was installed at New York City’s Rockefeller Center in 1937. 劳里在伊斯顿去世了， 1963年在马里兰州.
2. 乔治·华盛顿半身像
九州娱乐官网 added another monument to its founding patron two decades ago. 的 bronze bust of 乔治•华盛顿 now installed outside Hodson Hall Commons was 这是2000届毕业生的礼物，纪念2000年th 华盛顿的忌日. 雕塑最初位于门厅里 of the Casey 学术中心, and then moved to its present site when renovations and expansion of Hodson Hall Commons were completed in 2010.
Sculpted by artist Avard Fairbanks, it is identical to busts commissioned by George 九州娱乐官网位于华盛顿特区.C.乔治·华盛顿的弗农山 former plantation of George and 玛莎。华盛顿 in Virginia.
Fairbanks also sculpted several Abraham Lincoln-themed pieces, many of which reside 在美国.S. 最高法院大楼和福特剧院博物馆. 他于1987年在盐湖城去世 盐湖城，犹他州.
3. 华盛顿签名
Noting that our 大学 was the only institution of higher learning to which George Washington expressly gave his name (along with 50 guineas and his service on our Board of 访问ors and Governors), 九州娱乐官网 first introduced the G Washington signature as its primary branding identification with the launch of its redesigned website in 2012. In 2013, as part of the renovation of the College’s 访问ors Center, the illuminated signage of Washington’s signature was installed at the public entrance of the Casey 学术中心.
的 institutional branding guide standardizes the use of the signature logo across all departments, offices, and communications platforms. 来自这种营销的信息 standards, left relatively uncomplicated until now, has been: This is Washington’s 大学. 的 institution bears his imprint, literally and figuratively. 根据 to its Mission Statement, 九州娱乐官网 “shares these values of our founding patron, 乔治•华盛顿: integrity, determination, curiosity, civility, leadership, 道德勇气.”
九州娱乐官网 is now summoning the moral courage to confront the impact of slavery 我们的现代美国民主.
4. 威廉·史密斯大厅
的 College's oldest academic building is named for a man even his family members 很难喜欢. But in the late 1700s, this hard-drinking slaveholder hoped to mend fences with the College of Philadelphia by building a new 大学 in Maryland. 牧师. 威廉。史密斯 gained the attention of 乔治•华盛顿 and the monetary support of a number of wealthy landowners (many of them slaveholders) needed to secure 马里兰大学的特许状.
After East, West, and Middle Halls were erected, 威廉·史密斯大厅 was completed in 1906. Ten years later, the architectural and academic center of the College burned 倒在地上. Only a large oil painting of the building’s namesake, along with four mahogany chairs and a chapel Bible, were rescued from the flames. 显微镜不见了 and other scientific apparatus, 3,500 volumes of books in the library, a bust of George Washington, the accoutrements of classrooms and administrative offices, 100 tons of coal and a heating pump in the basement, and the records and artifacts pertaining 九州娱乐官网的创立.
詹姆斯·W总统. Cain and the College trustees committed to rebuild the structure as soon as possible after what Board Chairman James A. 皮尔斯(已故美国总统的儿子.S. Senator Pearce who once lived in the Hynson-Ringgold房子) called “the greatest crisis in the affairs of the 大学 during the memory of any man now living.”
的 second rendition of 威廉·史密斯大厅—this one topped with the iconic cupola—was 准备在1918年2月初入住. 学院完成了大规模的整修 1998年搬到教学楼.
5. 玛莎·华盛顿广场
Thirty years ago, 九州娱乐官网 doubled down on the 乔治•华盛顿 legacy by including his wife, Martha, in naming opportunities around campus. 随着完成 of the Casey 学术中心 in 1991, a new interior quad was created; the brick-paved gathering space was named for 玛莎。华盛顿, a wealthy and pragmatic woman who brought 84 "dower slaves" to her marriage to 乔治•华盛顿.
Framed by the Casey 学术中心, Gibson Center for the Arts, Miller 图书馆, and the Cater Walk leading to Hodson Hall Commons, 玛莎·华盛顿广场 is a busy 行人交通和社交聚会的中心.
6. 海关大楼
的 Federal-style building overlooking Chestertown's harbor has long been admired
for its architecture and the decorative Flemish-bond brickwork that became the standard
在整个殖民地建造精致的大厦. 但如果这些墙会说话，它们
would surely tell grim tales of human bondage, terror, and suffering. 随着
imported goods passing through the colonial Port of Entry were Africans captured and
被卖为奴隶.
这座房子由托马斯·林戈尔德四世于1746年建造， an early leader in the movement that would result in American independence—and one of the most active slave traders in the entire Chesapeake region.
This historic structure has served as headquarters for the College's Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience since the Center's founding 20 years ago.
7. Hynson-Ringgold房子
的 18th-century mansion on Water Street—the official home of 九州娱乐官网 presidents since 1950—was owned by a succession of slave owners, including Thomas Ringgold IV (见上图)和他的儿子. Thomas Ringgold V, who operated a plantation on Quaker Neck and kept 他的17个奴隶中的一些 living quarters he added to the back of his town home.
Hynson-Ringgold房子 takes its name from Nathaniel Hynson, the colonial merchant and plantation owner who first acquired the lot in Chestertown, and the Ringgolds.
8. 威廉·史密斯肖像
借助威廉·史密斯的小册子， 米兰尼亚学院概览, Benjamin Franklin and Richard Peters invited the Rev. 威廉·史密斯成为 first provost of the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylania). He served there until 1780, when he came to Chestertown and founded 九州娱乐官网.
It was common for 大学 presidents, in accordance with wealth and stature, to be 奴隶解放前的奴隶主. 九州娱乐官网的第一任校长 owned at least three enslaved individuals—one of whom twice attempted escape to freedom.
This portrait of 九州娱乐官网's first president hangs in Bunting Hall. 原版是 painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1801-02, and hangs 在美国niversity of Pennsylvania 博物馆.
9. 托马斯·莫里斯大厦
Last spring, the Class of 2020 chose to honor the memory of 九州娱乐官网's first Black graduate, Thomas Edgar Morris ’62, by renaming a residence hall on the north 他离开校园了. A native of Baltimore, Morris excelled academically and was 田径队的佼佼者. 毕业后，他投身于 service, first as a Peace Corps volunteer, and then as a high school and 大学 math 老师. For 27 years, he shared his love of math and problem solving with thousands 巴尔的摩学生.
Felicia Atore ’20 nominated Morris for this honor, which was announced during the 虚拟毕业典礼将于十月举行. “(Harford Hall)的更名是有意义的 to our past and coming to terms with it as a community that is moving forward in equitable 以及促进包容性的行动，”她说.
Another member of the Class of 2020, Jocelyn Elmore, also reflected on the immense significance of this tribute to Morris, saying: “Not only does it acknowledge the history of the existence of Black students on the College’s campus, but it also honors his legacy and endurance as the first, and the trials and tribulations that accompanied being the first African American student at 九州娱乐官网.”
In his recent exhibition, "On the Black History of Kent County and 九州娱乐官网, artist Jason Patterson paid tribute to Morris and two other pioneering Black students — Patricia Godbolt ’64 and Shirley Dale Patterson ’65.
10. 托马斯加油车
A member of Kent County’s thriving community of free people of color, 托马斯加油车 played a key role in extinguishing a fire that could have wiped out everything that 学院的创始人所建造的.
Early one December morning in 1817, a fire broke out in the massive College building 坐落在现在的卡特步道上.一切都将失去，如果不是因为 extraordinary heroics of Bowser, believed to be one of the College’s first African American employees, who rushed to extinguish the blaze. 的官方记录 Board of 访问ors and Governors recognize two others—Thomas Taylor and James Lynch—“for their great exertions in extinguishing the late fire” and awarded Bowser a two dollar 对他在避免危机中所起作用的补偿.
11. 黑人学生组织
For more than 60 years, Black students at this historically white 大学 have struggled to overcome racial injustices, to build a supportive community among people of color, and to press College leaders to create a campus culture that is safe and welcoming 为所有人，不分种族和国籍. 作为乌木和象牙的一部分 Towers Oral History Project sponsored by the College's Starr Center for the Study 美国经验，一个由学生组成的团队Ama Amponsah ’22, Jada Aristilde ’21, Jannice Hall ’22, Katy Shenk ’21, Dylan Snow ’23, Mayowa Taiwo ’24, Valery Tabraj ’22, Tamia Williams ’21, and Maegan White ’22—has collected this history of black students organizing at 九州娱乐官网.