BRIDAL PATHS


ON THE MEND A speedy recovery to… …Heather McLaughlin of Painted Horsepower Farm in Finksburg broke her back and ribs after a fall while trail riding at Liberty Reservoir;


Congratulations to new Damascus Equine vet Dr. Kaela Paternoster and Stephen Schraer, who were married September 2 in Annapolis.


Congratulations to Potomac Hunt professional huntsman Brian Kiely and whipper-in Lindsey Taylor, who were married on August 5 at the Comus Inn.


Maryland Will Miss...


…Jane Nicolet Toal, who passed away on Au- gust 14, at 96. In May 2011, T e Equiery and the Mary-


land Jockey Club honored a unique sorority of Maryland horsewomen who broke through gender barriers, whether in the horse world or the “real world,” as


“Lady Legends.”


T e following is condensed from the full version, which can be found on our archives on equiery.com. For a woman born in 1921,


a 30-year career as a research scientist at the National In- stitutes of Health was highly unusual – but Jane was un- usual, growing up surrounded by male and female doctors, scientists, and athletes. Jane’s father, Benjamin H. received his PhD


Nicolet,


earn. According to Jane, the award, which was modeled after the Boy Scouts’ award, was dis- continued precisely because it was too much like the boy’s program (with a high level of camping and outdoor skill requirements) and organizers thought that the girls’ program should not be quite as rugged. Two friends of her parents,


Jane Nicolet Toal


from Yale at age 21, served on the faculty for the Chemistry Department at the University of Chicago, ultimately settling in Maryland work- ing for the United Stated Department of Ag- riculture’s Dairy Research Facility in Beltsville. Jane was an active Girl Scout, earning her Golden Eaglet in 1938, the last year it was of- fered and the highest award a Girl Scout could


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Wilton and Emogene Earl, were infl uential in Jane’s life. Emo- gene Earl had her PhD in ani- mal nutrition and worked with Jane’s father at the USDA Dairy Research facility. Her husband, Dr. Wilton Earl, was a tissue researcher for NIH. Emogene Earl would invite young Jane to visit her horse, which was board- ed with the Aitcheson family’s original stable on Gunpowder Road in Laurel (before they es- tablished their famed stables on


what became Riding Stable Road in Laurel). And when Whitney Aitcheson starting tak- ing groups of riders out when he took out his hounds, Jane was right there with him. Soon, two of Aitcheson’s boarders, Drs. Sy


and Kate Karpeles, a husband and wife phy- sician team who practiced in Washington, de- cided that the riders at the Aitcheson stables


should pool their funds and help feed the hounds, and the Iron Bridge Hunt Club was formalized in 1937.


Jane attended McKinley Tech High School


in Washington, DC, the country’s premier sci- ence and technology public school built in 1926 with a $26 million dollar grant from Congress. From there, she attended Oberlin College of Arts & Science in Ohio, majoring in chemis- try and pre-med, with the idea of becoming a veterinarian. However, when she was unable to put ointment on a horse’s ear, that idea went out the window! In 1946, she received her Masters in biochemistry from Cornell University. After Cornell, she went to work at Rutgers


University, but longed to be home with the hors- es. So, in 1948, when Dr. Wilton Earl, needed a research assistant at the National Institutes of Health, Jane eagerly accepted the position, and it was back home to Maryland, with long days in the lab and long days in the hunt fi eld! Jane worked in tissue cultures, the science of


growing cells, a science that ended up lending it- self well to the schedule of foxhunting, as the cells needed intensive care for three days (regardless of what days of the week they might be), so Jane was able to arrange her schedule so that she could usually hunt on Wednesdays and Saturdays. By this point, the Iron Bridge Hounds were continued...


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…National Barrel Horse Association member Louis Varnado, who is being treated for a brain injury, broken scapula, vertebrae, ribs and fi bula from a riding accident in September; …Janice Nicholson (Rolling Acres in Brookeville) and Ron Cox (owner of Maryland Tack), who each had a hip replaced in September;


…HCIBH member Rita Bush, who broke a few vertebrae after falling on a rock out cub hunting; …Andy Cashman (general manager of the Maryland State Fair), who is recovering from surgery.


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