Spencerville resident Erma Quimat, a senior at McDaniel College, is a Founding Member of McDaniel's Rotaract Club

2014 Oct 31

Erma Quimat, a senior from Spencerville, Md. (20868), is a founding member of the McDaniel College Rotaract Club, a service and leadership organization officially chartered by Rotary International. The formal chartering ceremony took place on October 6.

Rotaract clubs are the college equivalent of Rotary clubs. Members commit themselves to community and international service alongside professional and leadership development.

McDaniel students are involved as members of more than 90 student organizations, such as student government, community service, arts and culture, sports and recreation, honor societies and others.

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McDaniel College, recognized nationally among "40 Colleges that Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.