Roques named CEO of Keswick organization

Posted: 6:00 am Fri, February 10, 2012
By Wayne Countryman

Carmel Roques has been appointed chief executive officer of Keswick, a not-for-profit organization with corporate offices housed at Keswick Multi Care Center in North Baltimore.

She succeeds Libby Bowerman, who retired at the end of 2011.

Roques had been chief operating officer of Virginia United Methodist Homes since 2007. In the early 1990s, she was director of adult day care and director of home care services for Catholic Charities in Baltimore, and then an executive with Episcopal Ministries to the Aging.

The Keswick Multi-Care Center campus encompasses a skilled-nursing care facility, a sub-acute rehabilitation center, an assisted living memory care facility, and an adult day care program. Also, Keswick provides support and resources to the greater community.

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Carmel Roques

Education: B.A., Mills College; M.A., University of Chicago.

Daily commute: I travel from Columbia without getting on I-695. It takes about 45 minutes and I enjoy seeing many of Baltimore’s neighborhoods on my way in.

Recent vacation: A long weekend in New York City with my husband. Lots of walking and visiting our favorite restaurants, museums and theater.

Hobbies: Yoga, theater of all types, hiking and backpacking. These days instead of camping as part of backpacking I need to end a day of hiking at a resort with a hot tub!

Favorite books: I am rereading Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero’s Journey” and Peter M. Singe’s “The Fifth Discipline.”

Most recently read: I usually have a couple of books going. Most recently: “Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work and Learn” by Cathy N. Davidson; and “Doc: A Novel” by Mary Doria Russell about the friendship between Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp.

Favorite food: Food someone else has prepared. In particular my husband’s homemade pizza.

Favorite quotation: “Compassion is a verb.” — Thich Nhat Hanh