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After four years on the Brandeis women’s fencing team, this senior eyes a career in political research Judges fencing captain Joanne Carminucci ’19 recently completed her final season on the varsity women’s team. When she’s not on the fencing strip, the politics and economics double major from Brewster, New York is likely working with professor Jill Greenlee on research related to political and gender socialization in children. BrandeisNOW caught up with Carminucci to learn more about her fencing and her academic work on campus: Did you think you were going to fence in college from the beginning? When I was just 11 or 12, when I was just starting out, my original club had some posters and info sheets around the club saying "These colleges have fencing teams!" When I started looking at schools, there were only two schools that I was really interested in fencing for and Brandeis was one of them. I liked Brandeis the best of all the schools I was looking at. Politics professor Jill Greenlee has been working on a research project about political and gender socialization of kids, so I have worked with her for the past year-and-a-half or so on that. Overall, being a research assistant for professor Greenlee was a really great experience. We’ll see, but I want to get into economic policy research, social science research, things like that. I’m in the middle of my job search now and a lot of the positions I'm looking for are designed to last a year or two so that you have the flexibility to attend graduate school if you want.

Mascotte was the family dog of Gov. Bob Martinez and his wife, Mary Jane Marino. George and Barbara Bush seem at first glance very different from Bob and Mary Jane Martinez. Bob Martinez and Mary Jane Marino grew up in West Tampa and Ybor City, grandchildren of Spanish and Sicilian immigrants. In Tampa, Bob Martinez was elected mayor in a non-partisan election. Vice President Bush was also there. Mary Jane Martinez became close friends with Barbara Bush when the latter visited Tallahassee in 1988. In 1990, President George H.W. Bush paid a visit to Tallahassee to see Florida’s First Family. Fortunately, the president loved dogs.