Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/
Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art One-half Banana Stems
Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art One-half Banana Stems - www.kevindayhoff.com Address: PO Box 124, Westminster MD 21158 410-259-6403 kevindayhoff@gmail.com Runner, writer, artist, fire & police chaplain Mindless ramblings of a runner, journalist & artist: Travel, art, artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists and journalism, reporters and reporting, technology, music, culture, opera... National & International politics www.kevindayhoff.net For community: www.kevindayhoff.org For art, technology, writing, & travel: www.kevindayhoff.com
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Kevin Dayhoff Eagle Archive Mike Eaton inspired a love of Carroll living
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Mike Eaton Room Dedication at the Historical Society of Carroll County – Sunday, August 22, 2010 Noon To 4 P.M
http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2010/08/mike-eaton-room-dedication-at.html
*****
Monday, August 09, 2010
Mike Eaton Room to be dedicated at the Historical Society of Carroll County on Sunday, August 22, Noon to 4 P.M.
Mike Eaton Room to be dedicated at the Historical Society of Carroll County on Sunday, August 22, Noon to 4 P.M.
All students, friends, and colleagues of Mike Eaton are invited to attend a special, progressive event in Cockey’s,
There is no charge for attendance but donations will be encouraged.
Attendees should be prepared to share stories and photos and/or to be taped for a “Mike Remembered” DVD to be produced by the
TENTATIVE PROGRAM
NOON
Doors open at Cockey’s
~
Catering throughout the day by Bud’s at Silver Run courtesy of Evelyn Babylon
~
Music throughout the day by Herb Sell
~
Continuous showing of Mike’s American Heart Association Roast
Taping of memories from attendees by Jim Mayola of the
for “Mike Remembered” DVD throughout the event
~
1 PM
Greetings and remembrance by Dr. Chuck Ecker
Presentation of Mike’s dictionary stand and dictionary by B. Delores Wardenfelt
Sharing of photos and other memories
2 PM
Greetings and remembrance by Donna Sellman
Ribbon cutting at the Mike Eaton Room by Jim Head
Presentation of bed on loan by Doug Manger
Presentation of Mike’s diplomas and recognition plaques by the Babylon Family
Other sharings
3 PM
Greetings and remembrances by Mo Dutterer
Presentation of “The Nude” by Evelyn
Video reviews
THE MIKE EATON COMMITTEE
Evelyn
Timmi Pierce, Staff
Steering Committee
Caroline Babylon
Glenn Bair
Dr. Chuck Ecker
Jim Head
Ober Herr
Brian Lockard
Doug Manger
Jim Mayola
Bob Seeley
Alvie Spencer
Doug Velnoskey
For further information, call Timmi Pierce, Executive Director, Historical Society of Carroll County at
410-848-6494.
[20100822 M Eaton Dedication at HSCC]
See also: Historical Society of Carroll County Announces the Creation of a Lasting Memorial to William Granville (“Mike”) Eaton
http://www.facebook.com/kevindayhoff?v=app_2347471856#!/note.php?note_id=419153977653
http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/08/historical-society-of-carroll-co.html
LABELS: CARROLL CO COMMUNITY EVENTS, CARROLL CO SCHOOLS WESTMINSTER H S,CURRENT EVENTS, HISTORY, PEOPLE EATON MIKE, PEOPLE WHS CLASS OF 1971
Mike Eaton Room to be dedicated at the Historical Society of Carroll County on Sunday, August 22, Noon to 4 P.M.
Undated picture of Mike Eaton standing (right) in the doorway of
http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/08/mike-eaton-room-to-be-dedicated-at.html
*****
Kevin Dayhoff Soundtrack: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/ = http://www.kevindayhoff.net/ Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/ or http://kevindayhoffart.com/ = http://www.kevindayhoff.com/ Kevin Dayhoff Westminster: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/ or http://www.westgov.net/ = www.kevindayhoff.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoff Twitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net Explore Carroll: www.explorecarroll.com The Tentacle: www.thetentacle.com
Historical Society of Carroll Co Announces the Creation of a Lasting Memorial to Mike Eaton
Historical Society of
News Release DATE: July 30, 2010
CONTACT: Timmi Pierce , Executive Director, Historical Society of
Email: tpierce@carr.org Phone: 410-848-6494
A Legacy of Learning Lives On
The
and the Historical Society of
Announces the Creation of a Lasting Memorial to
William Granville (“Mike”) Eaton
William Granville “Mike” Eaton (1908) was a renaissance man until he died in 1995,
For 41 years, Mike Eaton taught English and drama in
He gave to his community through the Westminster Kiwanis Club. He gave to the community through his affiliation with
Eaton nurtured future leaders through the Kiwanis Key Club and inspired many students, friends and colleagues to higher glory. Among his students was writer (On Golden Pond), director and actor Ernest Thompson whose work has won him an Oscar, a Golden Globe and Writer’s Guild of America awards. Although best known perhaps, Thompson is not the only student Eaton inspired to excel in the creative arts.
For over three decades, Mike Eaton was Thelma Hoffman’s star boarder at Hoffman’s
In life Mike Eaton was roasted and toasted. In death he is being memorialized in the room that was his very own at Cockey’s.
Under the partnership of the David Babylon family of
The first $10,000 has been raised to open the Mike Eaton Room on the third floor of Cockey’s, complete with much of his memorabilia catalogued and displayed. The second goal is the raising of $25,000 to name a second floor conference room. When that goal is accomplished, the Mike Eaton Committee and the Historical Society will raise a $250,000 endowment that will carry the Eaton name forth in perpetuity for years to come.
Eighty percent of the earnings generated by the scholarship endowment will go directly to qualifying, graduating students who will also be asked to name their most inspirational teacher for a recognition gift. Twenty percent of the scholarship fund will go to support the educational mission of the Historical Society.
Committee Chairperson Evelyn Babylon notes that it will take much dedication and time to develop a scholarship endowment of this magnitude. Criteria for scholarship applications will be completed at a later date and amounts will be determined by the returns on the endowment investments.
http://www.facebook.com/kevindayhoff?v=app_2347471856#!/note.php?note_id=419153977653
[20100730 HSCC Announces the Creation of a Lasting Memorial]
http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/08/historical-society-of-carroll-co.html
*****
Kevin Dayhoff Soundtrack: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/ = http://www.kevindayhoff.net/ Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/ or http://kevindayhoffart.com/ = http://www.kevindayhoff.com/ Kevin Dayhoff Westminster: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/ or http://www.westgov.net/ = www.kevindayhoff.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoff Twitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net Explore Carroll: www.explorecarroll.com The Tentacle: www.thetentacle.com
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Westminster High School in the 1920s
Westminster High School, Westminster, MD, in the 1920s
http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/westminster-high-school-in-1920s.html
http://tinyurl.com/kmgez3
Catching with some old friends today, coupled with some recent reader questions, reminded me of a piece I wrote in March 2007 on the Westminster High School building on Longwell Avenue in Westminster.
The image above is from 1908, is the first Westminster High School building, 1898-1936, at Center and Green Street in Westminster, MD. Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/d936f
This image is a 1977 picture of the second Westminster High School building, 1936-1971, at Longwell Avenue in Westminster, MD. Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/d92z2
Westminster High School in the 1920s
March 28th, 2007 by (c) Kevin Dayhoff
East Middle School, located on Longwell Avenues just north of Westminster City Hall, originally opened as a new “Westminster High School” on November 30, 1936. It is one of two buildings in Carroll County built in the Art Deco style. The other is the Carroll Arts Center which opened as the Carroll Theatre on November 25, 1937.
Art Deco was all the rage from 1920 to 1940 but some argue that the style had a significant presence in architecture and art from 1900 to 1950. A highly decorative and elegant style, it was considered ultra-modern in its day.
The 1936 school building was not the “first” Westminster High School. The first was located at the corner of Green and Center Streets in Westminster and was built in 1898. By all accounts it was the first “public” high school built in Carroll County. It is accepted that the first “public” high school in Maryland started in Talbot County in 1871. By 1907 there were still only 35 public high schools in the entire state.
It was not too long after the 1898 structure was built that complaints began about the inadequacy of the physical plant. As with so many infrastructure improvements in Carroll County, getting a new high school built was fraught with a great deal of acrimony and dissent. In 1921, the Westminster High School yearbook, “The Mirror,” editorialized the increase in enrollment since 1898 with alarm. It had increased from “less than fifty” to over 260 students.
In those days the school housed all 11 grades. There were 7 students in the graduating class of May 1900. Compulsory school attendance was not passed into law until 1916; however, Lisa Kronman reported in an account entitled a “History of Public Schools in Westminster,” “the attendance rate was 93.8 percent of school age children.”
The Mirror lamented “we have seen the school out-grow its surroundings. The present building and equipment are entirely inadequate to the needs of the school…” The editorial explained dire consequences would result if the school were not replaced quickly. Of course, “quickly” in Carroll County took another 15 years.
According to historian Jay Graybeal, there were 139 schools in Carroll County in 1920. 107 had only one teacher. There were approximately 7500 students and 208 teachers. 158 of the teachers were female and only 9 were married as marriage was strongly discouraged for the county’s female teachers. As a matter of fact, a resolution, passed by the school board in the 1928 – 1929 school year, barred female teachers from getting married unless a special exception was granted.
Mr. Graybeal explained that high school teachers were paid an average $903.70 and “elementary teachers in white and black schools had average salaries of $537.85 and $431.87 respectively… Teachers who had served twenty-five years, reached the age of sixty, were no longer able to continue their duties in the schoolroom, and had no other means of comfortable support received $200 per annum” from a state financed pension system.
In 1920, the Carroll County public school budget was $204,000 and the school administration was a staff of four; Superintendent Maurice S. H. Unger, Miss L. Jewell Simpson, Supervisor; G. C. Taylor, Attendance Officer and Charles Reed, Clerk. In 1916, the state board of education was run by three individuals.
The Union Bridge Pilot reported on February 18, 1921: “Teachers' pay are being withheld owing in lack of funds and it appears the county has reached the limit of its credit.”
It is in this air, atmosphere, and environment that the county unsuccessfully tried three times, May 15th, 1922, September 26, 1927, and April 3, 1934, to get the voters to approve bond bills for roads and schools – to include a new Westminster High School.
E-mail him at: kevindayhoff AT gmail DOT com r visit him at http://www.westminstermarylandonline.net/
####
http://twitpic.com/d936f 1st Westminster High Sch bldg 1898-1936 Full story: http://tinyurl.com/kmgez3
20090808 sdsom
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Daniel L. Selby, 58, of Westminster
(June 13, 1950 - February 21, 2009)
Danny is the older brother of Westminster High School class of 1971 classmate Dave Selby.
I have fond memories of Danny, especially how he enjoyed cutting up catalogs and magazines. It is a behavior that I copy to this day…
Daniel L. Selby, 58, of Westminster, died Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009, at Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster.
Born June 13, 1950, in Gettysburg, Pa., he was the son of Sterling and Geneva Ohler Selby of Summerville in Westminster.
He attended Change Inc. and The Arc of Carroll County.
Surviving, in addition to his parents, are brothers David Selby, of Silver Spring, and Dennis Selby, of Houston.
A private graveside service will be held at Mount Pleasant United Methodist Cemetery in Taneytown.
Memorial contributions may be sent to The Arc of Carroll County, 180 Krider’s Church Road, Westminster, MD 21158; or to Change Inc., 115 Stoner Ave., Westminster, MD 21157.
Online condolences may be made at http://www.myersdurborawfh.com/.
Arrangements are by Myers-Durboraw Funeral Home in Taneytown.
http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2009/02/24/public_record/obituaries/obits354.txt
19500613 20090221 Daniel L Selby obit