Fort Schuyler Magazine Spring 2023

Naval Studies program serves students who wish to advance their maritime career by pursuing a Master of Science. At the end of 2022, after almost five decades of teaching, Markoe retired from Maritime College and left her beloved Fort Schuyler office. “Looking back, I recognize it was a truly satisfying experience. It has been wonderful to see more women faculty beyond the handful who started with me in the mid-seventies, and witness a new generation of students, faculty and staff coming to the College from diverse neighborhoods across New York City and around the world. I did my best to be a good, fair teacher and I hope that is how students will remember me.”

publications of the Fort Schuyler Press is her book, Eddie Grant, Baseball, and the Great War, released in 2022. Among her significant accomplishments has been the creation of the College’s

online master’s degree program that combines

maritime subjects and the humanities. The only degree program of its kind in the country, the Maritime and

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

1 974 1980

Joins Humanities Department

Awarded Professor of the Year 1987–1991 SUNY University Faculty Senate President 1992–2022 First Female Department Chair, Humanities 1998 Established the Fort Schuyler Press 2019 Led the Haiti Project 2022 Released Book Titled, “Eddie Grant: Baseball and the Great War”

Family, friends and colleagues attended Markoe’s retirement celebration to bid her farewell.

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