Outward Bound finds the inner self  August 18, 1996|By Sara
Engram  TEN YEARS AGO this summer, Stephanie Rawlings reported
for a three-and-a-half week Outward Bound course prepared for
anything -- anything, that is, but really roughing it.  Hair
dryer, make-up, clothes. You name it, she had packed it. As the
instructors surveyed her luggage, weeding out all the items she
would learn to live without, she began to learn the difference
between frills and necessities.  She did manage to sneak a hair
brush past their eagle eyes by hiding it in her clothes.  And
for the next few weeks she provided a stream of cynical
commentary worthy of a self-described 16-year-old "priss." One
of her favorite ploys was to glance at her watch and remind the
group of the TV shows they were missing.  But the cynical
16-year-old grew up that summer -- in an experience that her
father, Del. Howard P. "Pete" Rawlings, thinks helped forge the
determination that last year made Ms. Rawlings the youngest
person ever elected to the Baltimor