Fort Schuyler Magazine Spring 2023

With students from the Haiti Project at the waterfront.

appointed to the position of Humanities Department Chair and throughout the next 30 years, fully dedicated herself to administering the Department. She was instrumental in recruiting all of the Humanities faculty members, and is proud of the talented group of professors who taught English, history, art, music, film, and foreign languages at the College. “Hiring faculty was one of the greatest satisfactions of my career, and these group decisions were the product of

involving faculty and students. I believe students were ultimately the beneficiaries of the group’s diligence,” she said. Over her decades at Maritime College, Markoe helped change the lives of students selected to participate in the prestigious Williams Mystic Program. The undergraduate scholarship program in Mystic, CT offers semester-long courses in maritime literature, history, policy and science, and between one to three Maritime College students are selected to take part in the program each semester. “Students return and say the experience was life changing, and I am proud to have contributed to their success,” said Markoe.

Additionally, she led the Haiti Project, an immersion program for participants to learn English, experience American culture and learn the importance of becoming strong leaders within their communities. During the summer of 2019, twenty young adults from Haiti came to Maritime College to participate in the three-week inaugural offering of the Sustainable Village Learning Community project. Among Markoe’s most significant accomplishments include the establishment of the Fort Schuyler Press, the academic press of the State University of New York Maritime College over 25 years ago, which she anticipates will continue to benefit faculty and students for years to come. Now amid the many successful

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