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 Helping Students Reach for the Stars
 Maryland's First Woman to Receive an Economics Degree Helps Others Achieve
"I would like to give back because I got so much out of my Maryland experience. It was quite remarkable," says Hartline. To assist graduate students who often are already established in their careers, she created the Dr. Jessie Cowan Hartline Economics Scholarship with a generous gift. Knowing Maryland's highly rated economics department with its world-renowned faculty, including 2005 Nobel Prize Laureate Thomas Schelling, she says, "This may be a way to give the economics department the best and brightest students at the graduate research level."
The recipient of the Outstanding Graduating Senior award in 1955, she was delighted to wear the medal when she visited Maryland several months ago and gave remarks to graduating students. Her advice to students was "don't fall for the window dressing; don't fall for the periphery. Go to the heart of the matter and use your education to further your dreams in a solid way." To illustrate her point, she told the story of a famous psychologist that was interviewed by a journalist. "The psychologist asked the reporter, 'if there were a teaspoon, a cup and a bucket on a counter next to a bathtub filled with water, how would you most efficiently empty the tub?' The reporter said, 'That's easy. Just get the bucket.'" With a chuckle, Hartline said, "the psychologist shook his head and said, 'No, no. You reach over and pull out the plug.' "My experience at Maryland prepared me extremely well for the demands of working as an investment analyst for a Wall Street firm," she says. Because Hartline enrolled in nearly every economics course Maryland offered, she received advanced credit in the M.B.A. program at New York University, then went on to complete her doctorate in three years at Rutgers. Her professors strongly recommended that undergraduate students spend time at the Library of Congress. "This gave me a wonderful background to do research and to be a responsible faculty person at Rutgers because I was familiar with doing top academic research." Whether it was academic work or athletics that included about a half dozen different sports including archery, basketball, field hockey, swimming and tennis, Hartline maximized her Maryland experience. After 40 years at Rutgers, she is now professor emerita of economics. With more time to devote to her research, she is focused on productivity in the service sector. Hartline is also a member of the Literacy Volunteers of New Jersey, teaching English to immigrants. Thinking about her career, she offers this advice to alumni: "Think about the most wonderful days of your life, but not just the fun and games. Think about what you learned to do and how you learned to think. Maryland gave you this scope of imagination. Maybe give back a little."  | ||||||
