"I was a non-traditional student," says Maureen McCormick, English '91, who was honored as Volunteer of the Year. McCormick worked full-time as a UMBC admissions counselor while raising four children and going to school. "If you're enjoying what you're doing, it's not hard."

After graduating, McCormick continued to work in admissions and earned her master's degree from the University of Baltimore in legal and ethical studies. A 10-year UMBC veteran, she is now coordinator of enrollment programs and oversees the programmatic aspects of orientation, scholarship and admissions events. She has also seen three of her children and one daughter-in-law earn undergraduate degrees at UMBC and a fourth child do Ph.D. work on campus.

McCormick serves on the board of directors of the Alumni Association, as president of the English Alumni Society and as vice president of the On-Campus Alumni Chapter. She is also involved in Friends of the Library and the steering committee for the International Student Friendship Program. She lives in Columbia, MD.

Known for being positive and upbeat, James P. M. Atsaides, psychology '71, is a management psychologist with his own consulting firm, Corporate Consulting Services Inc., which helps corporate clients with a wide array of organizational issues. Atsaides was honored with the Community Leadership Award.

Atsaides is a member of the University System of Maryland Chancellor's Advisory Council and is a current member and past president of the UMBC Alumni Association board of directors. He is a President's Club member and an adjunct professor in industrial and organizational psychology at UMBC. This past summer, Atsaides opened his homeland, Greece, for a 14-day UMBC alumni trip with 28 participants. "Everyone developed close friendships, and it was a trip to remember," says Atsaides.

After graduating from UMBC, Atsaides earned his master's from Springfield College and his doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Kansas. He returned to Maryland in 1983 to run the family business before opening his practice. Atsaides lives with his wife, Karen, in Catonsville, MD. They have two daughters.

An enthusiastic alumnus and prominent young attorney in Philadelphia, Roosevelt Hairston Jr., political science '87, is assistant general counsel at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He supervises all litigation matters, including representation of the institution and its physicians in medical malpractice cases, labor and employment matters and healthcare related litigation. Hairston was honored as Outstanding Alumnus of the Year.

“UMBC is a wonderful academic institution,” says Hairston, who participates in an annual admissions recruitment reception in Philadelphia for prospective students. “The professors are accessible, the campus is modern and beautifully designed, and you can find as much to do as you want within a diverse student body.” Hairston earned his law degree in 1990 and graduated first in his class with a master’s in law in 1997 from Temple University Law School, where he is an adjunct professor.

A student leader at UMBC, Hairston was vice president of the student government association, speaker of the student senate, captain of the men’s basketball team, president of his fraternity and president of the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society.

Robert G. Seasonwein, history ’71, was honored with the Alumni Association’s highest award, Distinguished Alumnus. He has achieved national recognition for excellence during an exceptional 25-year legal career.

Perhaps most notably, Seasonwein served as a senior trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Office of Special Investigations from 1991 to 1997. Because of his work, five Nazi persecutors relinquished their naturalized U.S. citizenship and six others were permanently deported.

“Hopefully, my work as a war crimes prosecutor gave some satisfaction to survivors and families of victims and served to educate people about the reality of the Holocaust and the evil that results from hatred and intolerance.” Today Seasonwein is regional director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s criminal assistance programs in Central and Eastern Europe.

Seasonwein is an annual speaker at UMBC on Holocaust Remembrance Day and an active member of the Alumni Association’s Public Policy Forum. He is a 1974 graduate of Syracuse University College of Law. He has fond memories of UMBC. “I remember when UMBC didn't have dorms and there were cows across from my apartment on Rolling Road.” He and his wife, Diana, live in Potomac, MD. They have three grown children.