Johns Hopkins University: Neighborhood Matters

The people and programs linking Johns Hopkins and its Homewood communities

S P R I N G 1 9 9 8 Beyond the green lawns and scholarly buildings of The Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus is a vital, resiliant and beautiful neighborhood. Both campus and community have a profound impact on each other. That is why the university and its neighbors have learned that with a commitment to working together, both can grow stronger.

What's up, down The Avenue
Even a couple of years ago, to most Hopkins students Hampden was unknown territory, best known for the elaborate display of Christ-mas lights that illuminate 34th Street each year. Located just west of the Homewood campus, across Wyman Park, Hampden was founded over a century ago as living space for workers in the mills along the Jones Falls valley; a quick stroll past the Formstone-fronted and brick row houses or along 36th Street, the center of the neighborhood's commercial life, makes its blue collar roots apparent. Full story...

1,200 helping Hopkins hands
Indu Bulbul Sandwa helps homeless people find jobs. Jody Kaplan helps Baltimore schoolchildren retain over the summer what they've spent a winter learning in school. Matt D'Agostino teaches inner city kids to take photographs, and watches the pleasure they get from exhibiting their pictures. Full story...

Homing instincts
John Seeley moved into a tidy little row house on East 23rd Street just after the first of the year-with a little help from the city, the state and his employer, Johns Hopkins.
Participation in a special program called Live Near Your Work tipped the balance for Seeley, who is assistant to the director of the Child Health and Survival Fellows Program, part of the School of Public Health's Department of International Health, located in Henderson House on Mount Royal Avenue. Full story...

Fair game
El Nino may have brought warm weather in February, but spring doesn't arrive officially at Johns Hopkins until Spring Fair opens in mid-April. For the 27th year in a row, the event will welcome Baltimoreans to campus, this year with carnival rides, rocking music, an antique-car show, arts and crafts vendors and fabulous food. Full story...

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Breaking ground

Student Volunteer Groups for 1997- 98

Strolling around

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S T A F F
NEIGHBORHOOD MATTERS | SPRING 1998 | VOL. 1 NO. 2

Editor: Lois Perschetz, Office of Communications and Public Affairs
Designer: Royce Faddis, Office of Design and Publications
Online Edition: Debra J. Gips, Office of Communications and Public Affairs

NEIGHBORHOOD MATTERS ADVISORY BOARD

Office of Human Resources: Judy Peregoff
Office of Multicultural Student Affairs: Ralph Johnson
Office of the Provost: Janet Sanfilippo
Office of Student Activities: William Smedick
Office of Student Affairs: Dorado Kinney
Office of Volunteer Services & Community Relations: William Tiefenwerth
Student Council: Karen Sharhar
Vice President and Secretary: Ross Jones