Julian Jones

So sorry to hear of Larry's passing, but glad I had a chance to chat with him at the November 2022 OMA gathering in Adelphi. I got to know Larry after he became Area Director, Korea, during my stint as Asian Divison Director. He brought a deep knowledge of Korean life and culture to the position, and no one was better at working with ESOs, matching faculty skills and temperaments to difficult assignments and handling courses and field study requiring Korean faculty and staff. I soon learned to "leave it to Larry," one of my better decisions as Director.

Occasional administrative trips to Korea always went smoothly, leaving time for a few pleasures of travel, oten suggested or curated by Larry and his wife, Hi Soo. Sometimes with my wife, Pat, we visited museums and collected Korean art and crafts they suggested. Today the walls of our home are enriched with the paintings of a notable postwar artist, Young Rim Choi. In addition, we were fortunate to benefit from Hi Soo's guidance on Korean cuisine and Seoul restaurants. Gradually we learned the depth of her culinary knowledge, later brought together in a widely read volume, Growing up in a Korean Kitchen: A Cookbook (2001).

The Overseas Program has lost one of the pillars of its success in Larry Hepinstall, and we will miss him.

So sorry to hear of Larry's passing, but glad I had a chance to chat with him at the November 2022 OMA gathering in Adelphi. I got to know Larry after he became Area Director, Korea, during my stint as Asian Divison Director. He brought a deep knowledge of Korean life and culture to the position, and no one was better at working with ESOs, matching faculty skills and temperaments to difficult assignments and handling courses and field study requiring Korean faculty and staff. I soon learned to "leave it to Larry," one of my better decisions as Director.

Occasional administrative trips to Korea always went smoothly, leaving time for a few pleasures of travel, often suggested or curated by Larry and his wife, Hi Soo. Sometimes with my wife, Pat, we visited museums and collected Korean art and crafts they suggested. Today the walls of our home are enriched with the paintings of a notable postwar artist, Young Rim Choi. In addition, we were fortunate to benefit from Hi Soo's guidance on Korean cuisine and Seoul restaurants. Gradually we learned the depth of her culinary knowledge, later brought together in a widely read volume, Growing up in a Korean Kitchen: A Cookbook (2001).

The Overseas Program has lost one of the pillars of its success in Larry Hepinstall, and we will miss him.

Ellie Seidel was my friend and confidant over nearly fifty years. Like so many new faculty in the overseas program, I met her in College Park.  A few years later, in 1975, we began to work together recruiting new faculty for the European, Atlantic and Far East Divisions.  After Ellie’s retirement in the 1980s and mine in the 1990s, we remained friends.  Both of us loved exchanging stories on overseas history and discussing current events, cooking, good restaurants and, of course, travel.

In recent years, I admired Ellie’s efforts to bring the Overseas Marylanders Association and the UMUC administration closer. She encouraged UMUC President, Javier Miyares, to archive the extensive papers of Mason G. Daly, one of the most notable of overseas staff, and she became an early and enthusiastic supporter of a documentary film on the overseas program’s history. All who worked on the film were sad that she did not live to see it completed in late 2017.

I will miss my oldest friend at UMUC.