Showing posts with label History 1971. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Bob Lewis. Westminster High School Class of 1971 classmate died Sept. 5, 2015

Bob Lewis. Westminster High School Class of 1971 classmate died Sept. 5, 2015
Robert Alan Lewis, age 62 of Westminster, died Saturday, September 5, 2015 at Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster after an extended illness.

Born February 9, 1953 in Danville, PA, he was the son of the late Thomas W. and Gladys Simonton Lewis. He was the husband of Robin J. Lewis of Westminster.

He had been a police officer. He enjoyed collecting trains and was a member of the Westminster Elks. He was a devoted family man.

Surviving in addition to his wife are daughters and sons-in-law Heather and Alex Webb of Lutherville, and Jenny and Zac Dancy of San Diego, CA, brother Thomas W. Lewis II and his wife Laurie of Mt. Airy, sisters-in-law Sherry Hirth and her husband Wayne of Baltimore, and Bettie Modrak and her husband John of Hampstead, cousin Barry Lewis and his wife Roberta of Sunbury, PA, grandson Paul Webb of Lutherville, devoted friends Sheri Bitzel, Jeff Cardwell, and Tim Jones, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Services and interment will be private.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Dankmeyer Prosthetics & Orthotics, Attn: Mark Hopkins, 825D N. Hammonds Ferry Rd., Linthicum, MD 21090-1355.

Online condolences may be offered at www.haightfuneralhome.com

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Friday, January 16, 2015

February 5, 1971: Carroll County Maryland Board of Commissioners meet with Town Officials


January 15, 2015 update: I noticed today that the Carroll County Commissioners scheduled a meeting today with the Carroll County Mayors: “Thursday ~ January 15, 2015 7:00 p.m. Joint Board of County Commissioners/Mayors Meeting County Office Building ~ Reagan Room Commissioners Howard, Wantz, Weaver, Frazier & Rothschild”

I would have like to have attended but got behind… Anyway it reminded me of this news brief from February 5, 1971…. If I am not mistaken – I attended this meeting… The commissioners were G. Herbert Rice, Norman Graham, and John Meyer.



Commissioners Meet With Town Officials - The County Commissioners of Carroll County during the week of January 18th scheduled a meeting with the Mayors and Representatives of the incorporated towns of Carroll County to discuss several matters pertaining to the two general governmental units within the county.

Included in the discussions were procedures which could be implemented by town and county in establishing coordination between planning and zoning programs, the development and implementation of the county wide water and sewer plan and cooperation in further studies involving the financing of facilities of joint concern within and without the incorporated area.

General agreement was expressed at the meeting that periodic meetings should be scheduled and that the programs proposed would be given further study, and discussion would be continued at such further meetings.

Community Reporter, February 5, 1971


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Friday, February 26, 2010

Community Reporter, Feb 26, 1971: Get Ready For Eight-Cent Postage

Get Ready For Eight-Cent Postage

Community Reporter, February 26, 1971 http://tinyurl.com/yhla4ny

Editorial - GET READY FOR EIGHT-CENT POSTAGE - Postage Rate increases now planned for May 13, will bring into use a number of special, new postage stamps of various denominations, but the one which will first proclaim to the public that letters are going to cost more will be the Missouri Commemorative stamp, marking the 150th anniversary of that State as a member of the Union.

There will be, in all, a dozen new types of postage stamps, three kinds of stamped envelopes and three postal cards.

Additional new stamps and cards and a new aerogramme will be needed by July 1st for the new international rates which go into effect at that time.

The Missouri commemorative will carry a portion of the mural gracing the wall of the Harry S. Truman library at Independence, Missouri, and will be the first stamp to bear the designation showing the new 8-cent first-class mail rate.

It will go on sale on May 8, at Independence, Missouri, according to Post Office Department announcement, and will be available at other Post Offices throughout the country the day after, May 9.

The day is chosen because May 8 will be President Truman's 87th birthday. The theme is from the painting, "The Winning of the West," by a noted Missouri artist, Thomas Hart Benton, who will be 82 years old himself on April 15.

Community Reporter, February 26, 1971.

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Sunday, December 27, 2009

Crime and vagrants greeted the new year in days gone by

Crime and vagrants greeted the new year in days gone by

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As the New Year approaches and we look back upon local history, we're reminded that the good old days weren't always that good, and the more things change, the more they remain the same:

A Dec. 30, 1971, article in the now-defunct Democratic Advocate noted that, "Unknown burglars broke into the J.C. Penny department store over the weekend, ransacked the offices, and stole a $1.59 flashlight from the basement work table, the Westminster city police reported.

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Friday, December 4, 2009

All aboard for Ozzy Osbourne day


Ozzy Osbourne was born today, December 3, 1948

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Born in Birmingham, England, musician Ozzy Osbourne is known as lead singer of Black Sabbath, which recorded metal anthems like “War Pigs” (1971). He went solo in 1978, cultivating a social misfit image, then struggled with substance abuse. Osbourne regained popularity with reality TV show 'The Osbournes', which... http://tinyurl.com/yl2k5wb

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Black and Decker sold to Stanley


Black and Decker sold to Stanley http://tinyurl.com/yh5ll4v
Top picture: S. Duncan Black – and – Alonzo G. Decker unattributed, undated photos, perhaps c. 1910s Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/o3xt9 or here: http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/231675270/black-and-decker-sold-to-stanley-pic-s-duncan

Word spread quickly through Carroll County early Monday evening, November 2, 2009 that The Black and Decker manufacturing Company is merging with The Stanley Works.

The company has always had a profoundly strong presence in Carroll County because of the large manufacturing facility that employed generations of workers at the Hampstead plant - including various members of two generations of my family.

The company has always been an economic engine for Carroll and Baltimore County and Maryland. It was on November 8, 1973 that the old Carroll Record newspaper in the county reported: "$1,250,000 Black and Decker Expansion Among Building Permits—A $1,250,000 Black and Decker expansion tops those building permits granted in Westminster since October 24. District Eight - Black and Decker for a steel and masonry addition to an existing building and repair to an existing roof, together valued at $1,250,000."

That was a lot of money in 1973...

One of the earliest reference in Carroll County newspapers to the manufacturing giant occurred in the
July 25, 1924 issue of the Westminster American Sentinel newspaper: "Carroll County has a number of incorporated cities surrounding Westminster. These cities furnish labor for several nationally known industries such as the Black & Decker Co. at Hampstead, The Blue Ridge Rubber Co. at Taneytown, the Lehigh Portland Cement Co. at Union Bridge and the Lincoln Manufacturing Co. at New Windsor. The Western Maryland and Baltimore & Ohio Railroads long have been the carriers for county industrial and farm products to the large marketing area. Carroll County is connected by a modern system of roadways..."

The Baltimore Sun picked up the story about the merger quickly: "Stanley Works to buy Black & Decker for $4.5 billion, By Lorraine Mirabella:

"Towson-based tool maker Black & Decker Corp., one of only three Fortune 500 companies in the Baltimore area, is merging with The Stanley Works in a $4.5 billion all-stock deal, the companies announced Monday. "The merger will create Stanley Black & Decker, an $8.4 billion company, that will be headquartered in New Britain, Conn., the companies said. "The boards of directors of both companies have approved the transaction, which will give Black & Decker shareholders 1.275 shares of Stanley common stock for each share of Black & Decker common stock, or a premium of 22.1 percent to Black & Decker's closing share price on Friday."
The Wall Street Journal also carried some excellent analysis: "Stanley to buy Black and Decker." I believe that the article is behind a pay wall, (I am subscriber,) however, the excellent article and analysis may be found here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703932904574511913680817266.html?mg=com-wsj


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For some history on Black and Decker:

In the fall of 1910, Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker invested $1,200 in a dream of making specialized machinery. Their first shop was on Calvert Street in a Baltimore industrial district. Their product line, manufactured under contract for other companies, was diversified. It included a milk bottle cap machine, a lettergraph, a vest pocket adding machine, a postage stamp splitting and coiling machine, machinery for the U.S. Mint, a candy-dipping machine, a shock absorber, and a cotton picker.[http://www.blackanddecker.co.uk/about/history/]


The following history of the Black and Decker Manufacturing Company may be found at: http://www.blackanddecker.com/CustomerCenter/Company-Information.aspx

Two young entrepreneurs, S. Duncan Black and Alonzo G. Decker, founded a small machine shop in Baltimore, Maryland. They called it The Black & Decker Manufacturing Company. Their shop has grown beyond anything they could have imagined.

Today, Black & Decker is a global marketer and manufacturer of quality products used in and around the home and for commercial applications. With products marketed in over 100 countries and approximately half of its revenues from outside the United States, Black & Decker's product lines hold leading market share positions in their industries.

The company is the world’s largest producer of power tools and accessories. Its household products business is the U.S. leader and among global competitors in the small household appliance industry.

So what were the chain of events that grew the small machine shop of the early 1900s into today's global manufacturing and marketing powerhouse? The answer may be revealed with a look at the timeline of major events spanning the Company’s history.

  • 1917 -The Company received a patent for the pistol grip and trigger switch on its drill. It also built the first Black & Decker plant, with 12,000 square feet of floor space in a frame building in Towson U.S.A., then a rural suburb of Baltimore U.S.A.

  • 1922 - The Company formed its first foreign subsidiary, Black & Decker Manufacturing Company, Ltd., in Canada and built its first wholly owned assembly operation and sales, service and warehouse facility outside the U.S.A. The Company also added the electric screwdriver to its growing product line.

  • 1925 - International expansion continued. Black & Decker, Ltd. was organized in London, England, as a wholly owned sales, service and warehouse subsidiary serving the United Kingdom.

  • 1928 - Black & Decker acquired Van Dorn Electric Tool Company of Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., a manufacturer of industrial power tools.

  • 1929 - Black & Decker (Australasia) Pty., Ltd. was established in Sydney, Australia. The subsidiary was a wholly owned assembly, motor winding, sales, service, and warehousing operation.

  • 1941 - The Towson plant began to manufacture fuses, gun shells and other ordnance for the Allies. Despite the diversion of resources to the war effort, the Company continued to produce power tools within legislated limits.

  • 1943 - Black & Decker received the prestigious Army-Navy "E" award for production, one of four World War II citations awarded to the Company.

  • 1946 - A subsidiary was established with responsibility for developing business in the Western Hemisphere. Pushing south, the Company opened sales, service and warehouse facilities in São Paulo, Brazil.

    Bottom picture: Black and Decker ad, from the late 1920s, featuring the use of its tools in the building of Conowingo Dam. [Image credit: http://www.conowingolake.com/gpage4.html] Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/o7wxh or here: http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/232652009/black-and-decker-ad-from-the-late-1920s
  • 1950 - The one-millionth 1/4" Home Utility drill came off the assembly line, a milestone in the Company's manufacturing history.

  • 1951 - S. Duncan Black, co-founder and president since 1910, died on April 15 at the age of 68, and Alonzo G. Decker, Sr. became president. The Company broke ground for a 121,000 square foot plant in Hampstead, Maryland U.S.A.

  • 1954 - While continuing to serve as president, Alonzo G. Decker, Sr. was elected to the newly created position of Chairman of the Board of Directors.

  • 1955 - Black & Decker South Africa (Pty.), Ltd. was set up as a wholly owned sales and service subsidiary in Johannesburg (relocated to Cape Town in 1958), and the Company built a 50,000 square foot plant at Croydon, Victoria, Australia.

  • 1956 - Alonzo G. Decker, Sr. died on March 18, at the age of 72. Robert D. Black, a long-time executive of the Company and brother of S. Duncan Black, was named chairman of the board and president.

  • 1957 – 1958 - Black & Decker (Belgium) S.A. was created as a wholly owned sales, service and warehouse subsidiary in Brussels. In 1958, Black & Decker (New Zealand) Ltd. was opened in Auckland while Black & Decker, G.m.b.H. was established in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Black & Decker (Nederland) B.V. was organized in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

  • 1959 - Black & Decker organized a subsidiary called Master Power Corporation to acquire Master Pneumatic Tool Company, a manufacturer of portable air tools with operations in Ohio and Canada.

  • 1960 - Alonzo G. Decker, Jr., son of the co-founder and a Black & Decker employee since 1930, succeeded Robert D. Black as president. Mr. Black continued as chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Black & Decker acquired DeWalt, Inc. of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a manufacturer of radial arm saws and other stationary woodworking equipment in the U.S. and Canada.

  • 1965 - The Hampstead plant grew by 240,000 square feet to accommodate a transfer of manufacturing from Towson. The move marked the end of manufacturing at Towson, where plant facilities were refurbished to accommodate expanded research and applied technology activities.

  • 1967 – 1968 - The United Kingdom company was awarded the Queen's Award to Industry for outstanding achievement in increasing exports. The Italian company won the coveted Oscar del Commercia from the Italian government for its overall contributions to the domestic economy.

  • 1970 – 1971 - The Company acquired the Carbide Router Company, Inc. of Moonachie, New Jersey, U.S.A. In 1971, Black & Decker (Nigeria), Ltd. in Lagos and Black & Decker Argentina S.A.C.I. in Buenos Aires were organized as wholly owned sales and service subsidiaries.

  • 1972 - The Japanese government granted approval in 1972 for Black & Decker to manufacture power tools in that country. Nippon B&D KK became the first non-Japanese company in five years to be given such approval on a private ownership basis.

  • 1974 - Sales passed the $500 million mark. The first one-year customer satisfaction guarantee was introduced by Black & Decker in the U.S.A.

  • 1975 - Alonzo G. Decker, Jr. relinquished the position of chief executive officer, but continued as chairman of the board. Francis P. Lucier succeeded Mr. Decker as chief executive officer and continued as president. It was the first time in the Company's history that a member of the Black or Decker families did not hold the post of chief executive officer.

  • 1979 - The U.S. power tools business was incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary under the name of Black & Decker (U.S.), Inc. Annual sales topped $1 billion for the first time.

  • 1981 - Robert D. Black, former chairman of the board and chief executive officer, died on March 21, at the age of 84.

  • 1984 - Black & Decker announced a major reorganization plan to realign corporate management and consolidate manufacturing. Plants were closed at Maidenhead and Harmondsworth, England; Kildare, Ireland; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Solon, Ohio U.S.A. Manufacturing was transferred to other Black & Decker facilities. Also in 1984, the Company acquired General Electric Company’s small household appliance business. Black & Decker launched a brand transition program; unprecedented in scope, to transfer the Black & Decker brand name to the household appliances acquired from General Electric.

  • 1984 - Reflecting its broader product line and global marketing expertise, the Company adopted a new logo. The new logo retained the strong orange color that had long been identified with the Company and kept the heritage of the hexagon.

  • 1985 - Black & Decker turned 75. A celebration marking the occasion included placing a capsule of Company memorabilia in the newly renovated engineering building at Towson. The capsule will remain sealed until 2085. Signaling greater emphasis on marketing and sales, the Company’s stockholders approved a name change to The Black & Decker Corporation.

  • 1987 - Black & Decker’s rebound gathered steam. Earnings doubled, and sales were the highest in the Company’s history. Sales exceeded $2 billion, and Black & Decker were ranked by Fortune among the 200 largest U.S.-based industrial companies. Sales & Marketing Management Magazine ranked Black & Decker as having the best sales force in an U.S.A. survey.

  • 1988 - The Company was awarded the Medal of Professional Excellence by Purchasing Magazine for its world-class purchasing operations and expertise.

  • 1989 - Black & Decker acquired Emhart Corporation ($2.8 billion in revenues) in 1989, nearly doubling the Company’s size and adding a compatible global presence and an array of well-respected brand names, including Kwikset® residential door locks and hardware, Price Pfister® faucets, Molly® wall anchors, POP® rivets, True Temper golf club shafts and many other consumer and commercial products. Black & Decker was inducted into the U.S.A. Space Foundation’s Space Technology Hall of Fame for its cordless power tool achievements and contributions to NASA’s Gemini and Apollo programs.

  • 1990 - The Company repaid nearly $700 million of acquisition debt with proceeds from the sale of six non-strategic businesses. (Two additional operations were sold early in 1991, generating over $100 million in additional proceeds for debt repayment.) Of 6,000 brands surveyed among 10,000 consumers, Black & Decker ranked seventh in brand name awareness and esteem in the U.S. and nineteenth in Europe. Black & Decker initiated a Total Quality Process focusing on raising the level of customer satisfaction within every segment of the Company’s operations.

  • 1992 – The entirely new DEWALT line of professional products for North America was launched.

  • 1993 – The Company’s new product and service commitment to the consumer channel of distribution earned it the Vendor of the Year awards from Wal-Mart, Builders Square, L.G. Cook, BMA, Channel Home Centers, and several other U.S.A. key accounts. Also launched the selected Elu line of professional power tools for Europe.

  • 1995 – The new line of DeWalt Professional Power Tools & Accessories launches in Europe

  • 1996 – Nearly all businesses hold first- or second- place market shares in their industries and improved their positions during the year, reflecting the continuous flow of innovative new products.

  • 1998 – Black & Decker reports the strongest balance sheet in ten years and sales of core businesses reach record levels.

  • 1999 - Focus begins on more fully globalizing the business by employing the internet and "e-business" strategies to support key retail partners as they expand in North America and around the world.

  • 2002 – Black & Decker ® and Hitachi Koki enter into cooperative arrangement in the power tools business

  • 2003 – Black & Decker ® sells its European security hardware business to Assa Abloy for $108 million

  • 2003 - Black & Decker ® purchase Baldwin Hardware Corporation and Weiser Lock Corporation from Masco, for a cash purchase price for the transaction in the region of $275 million

  • 2004 – Black & Decker ® reports earnings per share before restructuring charges of $1.35 for the fourth quarter of 2003 and record $4.02 for the full year; generating $480 million free cash

  • 2004 – Black & Decker ® reports a record earnings per share from continuing operations in the second quarter of 2004

  • 2004 - Black & Decker ® announce the purchase of the Tools Group from Pentair, Inc. (NYSE: PNR) for approximately $775 million in cash. The Tools Group, which includes the Porter-Cable, Delta, DeVilbiss Air Power, Oldham Saw, and FLEX businesses, had sales of $1.08 billion and operating profit of $82 million in 2003.

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    Top picture: S. Duncan Black – and – Alonzo G. Decker unattributed, undated photos, perhaps c. 1910s Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/o3xt9 or here: http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/231675270/black-and-decker-sold-to-stanley-pic-s-duncan

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    Tuesday, October 27, 2009

    Cowgirl In The Sand

    Neil Young & Crosby Stills Nash - Cowgirl In The Sand (4 Way Street)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq9hEZNCFwI



    From 4 Way Street

    Released April 7, 1971 (original)

    Recorded June 2 July 5, 1970, New York, Chicago & Los Angeles

    Original album

    LP side one

    1. "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (coda)" (Stephen Stills) 0:33
    2. "On the Way Home" (Neil Young) 3:19
    3. "Teach Your Children" (Graham Nash) 2:46
    4. "Triad" (David Crosby) 5:07
    5. "The Lee Shore" (Crosby) 4:14
    6. "Chicago" (Nash) 3:03

    LP side two

    1. "Right Between the Eyes" (Nash) 2:19
    2. "Cowgirl in the Sand" (Young) 3:50
    3. "Don't Let It Bring You Down" (Young) 2:35
    4. "49 Bye-Byes/America's Children" (Stills) 5:30
    Includes a live version of Stephen Stills' "For What It's Worth"
    5. "Love the One You're With" (Stills) 2:57

    LP side three

    1. "Pre Road Downs" (Nash) 2:48
    2. "Long Time Gone" (Crosby) 5:33
    3. "Southern Man" (Young) 13:15

    LP side four

    1. "Ohio" (Young) 3:24
    2. "Carry On" (Stills) 13:06
    3. "Find the Cost of Freedom" (Stills) 2:16

    COWGIRL IN THE SAND

    Hello cowgirl in the sand
    Is this place at your command
    Can I stay here for a while
    Can I see your sweet sweet smile
    Old enough now to change your name
    When so many love you is it the same?
    It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.

    Hello ruby in the dust
    Has your band begun to rust
    After all the sin we've had
    I was hopin' that we turn back
    Old enough now to change your name
    When so many love you is it the same
    It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.

    Hello woman of my dreams
    This is not the way it seems
    Purple words on a grey background
    To be a woman and to be turned down
    Old enough now to change your name
    When so many love you is it the same
    It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.

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    Sunday, August 30, 2009

    A Tribute to Dr. Zepp



    A Tribute to Dr. Zepp

    August 29, 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff

    Hundreds packed a “Celebration of the life of Dr. Ira G. Zepp, Jr., Saturday afternoon at Big Baker Memorial Chapel on the college campus of McDaniel College.

    The celebration was led by Rev. Carroll Yingling. Folks from all over the country came early and stayed late at a reception at McDaniel Lounge after the ceremony.

    Dr. Zepp graduated from McDaniel College in 1952 and later returned to serve for decades as a professor of Religious Studies at the four-year liberal arts college, founded in 1867 and situated on shining hill overlooking Westminster, Maryland.

    He passed on to his next great adventure on August 1, 2009 after inspiring generations of students and community leaders to lead their lives committed to service, activism and peace.

    Dr. Zepp truly touched many lives, including mine. He was many different things for many people. In addition to his many professional accomplishments, if you were fortunate enough to have crossed his path, he was a trusted friend and advisor, a college professor, a stalwart foot soldier in the civil rights movement, an author of twelve books, and certainly the conscience and soul of McDaniel College and Westminster.

    He was a teacher like no other. In one of his most recent books, Dr. Zepp wrote:

    “A teacher is someone who is willing and humble enough to drink from the instructional wells of those who have preceded us and continue to be nourished by them: the Hindu sages, the prophets' call for justice, the discipline of the shamans, the wisdom teachers of all traditions, the gifts and graces of the saints, plus every teacher we've ever had.

    “A teacher is someone who is devoted to students and is willing to endure the vertigo of vulnerability which inevitably accompanies the intimacy of human relationships and unanswered questions. This is the pedagogy of the heart.”

    Pasted below is the long version of a tribute I wrote shortly after Dr. Zepp died. A shorter version may be found in Explore Carroll.com here: http://explorecarroll.com/ Dr. Ira Zepp, 79, McDaniel College and Westminster civil rights leader, dies http://tinyurl.com/mpoyfm
    http://explorecarroll.com/news/3252/zeppobit/ http://tinyurl.com/mpoyfm

    A second tribute to Dr. Zepp, written by me, was publiched in The Tentacle. It may be found here: R.I.P. – Dr. Ira Zepp Wednesday, August 5, 2009 Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/ Rev. Dr. Ira Zepp prof emeritus at McDaniel has died http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3296

    For more articles on Dr Zepp click here: http://tinyurl.com/n3u32e

    Zepp, a McDaniel College and Westminster civil rights leader, has died

    By Kevin Dayhoff, August 4, 2009

    Westminster, MD - On Saturday, August 1, Rev. Dr. Ira Gilbert Zepp Jr., Professor Emeritus of the Religious Studies department at McDaniel College, died peacefully at his home. He was 79 years old.

    In a memorial tribute by McDaniel College president Joan Develin Coley; she recalled that Dr. Zepp “joined the faculty in 1963, first as Dean of the Chapel, then as full-time Professor of Religious Studies, and taught full time until his retirement in 1994.

    “His electrifying courses on taboo topics like human sexuality, death and racism, and his serious scholarship on a wide range of subjects, from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X to the culture and religion of Islam, earned him much popularity and esteem.”

    After his retirement, he taught an occasional “honors” classes at McDaniel and he continued to teach at Carroll Community College until 2008.

    Zepp was born November 15, 1929 in Madonna, MD; he was the son of the late Ira G. and Nellie Katheryn (Foard) Zepp, Sr.

    He was the husband of 57 years to Mary Elizabeth (Dodd) Zepp. Surviving in addition to his wife are children, Alan P. Zepp and wife Noelle DeMars of Westminster, Karen P. Zepp of Columbia, MD, Paul H. Zepp and partner Vincent Sargent of Van Nuys, CA, and Jody K. Zepp of Owings Mills; a granddaughter, Rachael E. Carter; siblings, Murray Zepp of Rising Sun, MD, Patricia Mikkonan of Bel Air, MD, and Dale Zepp of Montana. He was predeceased by a sister, Elsie Hutchison.

    Dr. Zepp graduated from McDaniel College, then-Western Maryland College, in 1952. He went on to graduate magna cum laude from Drew Theological Seminary; after which he served a number of churches in Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Jersey before joining the faculty at McDaniel. He earned a Ph.D. in 1971 from St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore.

    Zepp truly touched many lives. He was a profound man of enormous charisma, wisdom, and compassion. He returned to Westminster and McDaniel College, then-Western Maryland in the turbulent 1960s after the community and the college had begun wrestling, in the mid 1950s, with race relations and the civil rights movement.

    The college has always been known as the first co-education college below the Mason-Dixon Line and according to 2001 interview with Dr. Jim Lightner, there has always been a strong heritage of foreign students at Western Maryland College. In his book on the history of the college, “Fearless and Bold,” Lightner refers to a Japanese student in the late 1880s, “in the person of Misao Tsune Hirata, the first foreign-born student at Western Maryland College.”

    Lightner also shared in the interview that just after World War II, Western Maryland College pushed society's social envelope by welcoming a Jewish student named Alleck Resnick, who graduated around 1947.

    However, integrating the college was a different story altogether. It was a struggle.

    In an article by Dr. William David, entitled, “When the Wall Cracked,” published in “The Hill’” in February 1990; Dr. David writes, “The first and most courageous act leading to the integration of WMC was a statement by Dr. Charles Crain, professor of religion, in a faculty meeting in 1955… (He) wanted it known that he considered it his Christian duty to do what he could to bring about the admission to the college of black students.”

    The Baltimore Colts began their summer practice at Western Maryland College in the late 1950s. Many local historians accept that it was the dynamic of having African-American athletes on the Baltimore Colts that provided a major impetus in the desegregation of Westminster – and the college.

    From 1955 until the mid 1960s there were a series of false starts and trials and tribulations integrating both McDaniel College and Westminster. In a February 3, 2001 correspondence with Zepp, he reported that the “first African-Americans to graduate were Charles Victor McTeer … and Charles Smothers. They graduated in 1969.”

    Dr. Charles Collyer remarked in a phone interview that he first met Dr. Zepp about twelve years ago. Collyer said that Dr. Zepp “participated in, and freed others to participate in, the American civil rights movement.”

    Coley’s tribute noted that Zepp “participated in non-violent activism and marched in Selma, Alabama, with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”

    Collyer reiterated that Dr. Zepp “was one of the members of the clergy who went to Selma, Alabama, in 1965… These efforts resulted in the Federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 which made barriers to voter registration and voting illegal and Dr. Zepp was a part of that.”

    It was not easy. In Coley’s tribute to Zepp, she wrote: “Daughter Jody Zepp said her parents’ advocacy of civil rights was unpopular in their Westminster neighborhood of the mid-1960s. The family received hate mail and dirty looks from neighbors who didn’t like the sight of black guests at their house.”

    “‘By virtue of taking stands you will have some people who are on the other side. I’ve made enemies, but I never think of them as enemies,’ Ira said. ‘I will love the hell out of them, or better yet, heaven into them.’”

    Dr. Pam Zappardino, who along with Dr. Collyer, were inspired and encouraged by Dr. Zepp to be co-founders of the Ira & Mary Zepp Center for Nonviolence and Peace Education, remembers:

    "I was a student at McDaniel (then Western Maryland) College in the late sixties, when change was all around us. Ira freed us as students to stand up for what we believed and to stand strong in the face of criticism.

    “He also taught us how to question and how to enter into real dialogue with folks with whom we disagreed. I learned from Ira, mostly by example, how to confront issues nonviolently. I came to understand by watching him that nonviolence is more than just a tactic, it is a way of life.”

    Collyer and Zappardino recall that Zepp always stressed the need for students to get involved. He inspired generations of students to lead lives committed to service, activism, and peace.

    The author of a dozen books, Zepp viewed language as a powerful tool for both shaping and expressing his ideas. In 1981, he wrote “Sacred Spaces of Westminster.” In part of his introduction, he wrote, “This study is an attempt to suggest the religious significance of the large number of ‘natural’ and ‘secular’ symbols and areas of Westminster and in so doing to observe how the city reflects archetypical … human consciousness.”

    Zepp was many different things for many people. In addition to his many professional accomplishments; if you were fortunate enough to have crossed his path, he was a trusted friend and advisor, a college professor, a stalwart foot soldier in the civil rights movement, an author of twelve books, and certainly the conscience and soul of McDaniel College and Westminster.

    Although, Westminster and McDaniel College are quick to claim Dr. Zepp, he was foremost, a true citizen of the world. In the biographical notes from the book, “Sacred Places,” it says that Dr. Zepp “also studied at the University of Edinburgh, Gottingen, Harvard, and at the Center for Intercultural Documentation in Cuernavaca, Mexico, as well as in India and Eastern Europe.”

    In a tribute written by Collyer, he observed that Zepp, “carried out scholarly research on Martin Luther King, Jr., producing books such as ‘The Social Gospel of Martin Luther King, Jr.,’ ‘Search for the Beloved Community,’ with Kenneth L. Smith; and ‘Nonviolence: Origins and Outcomes’,” which Zepp wrote with Collyer.

    Collyer further elaborates that Zepp’s “most recent book, on teaching, is ‘Pedagogy of the Heart,’” in which he explored diverse definitions of the art of teaching and examines the intimacy of human relationships in the pursuit of wisdom.

    “He was a strong and rigorous defender of Dr. King against his critics,” said Collyer.

    Since his death, many have observed that Zepp leaves a legacy with which it is our responsibility to continue to build upon. Fortunately, he laid a substantial foundation upon which we can work.

    Zappardino notes that Zepp “was a critical partner with Walt Michael in the founding of Common Ground on the Hill, an organization in which the traditional music and art of many cultures brings people together in community.”

    Collyer wrote that the Ira and Mary Zepp Center for Nonviolence and Peace Education, of which he and Zappardino are co-founders, is another legacy of Zepp. The Zepp Center “is a program of Common Ground that carries on Ira’s legacy by promoting greater knowledge of the civil rights movement and of the worldwide family of nonviolence traditions to which that movement belongs.”

    Zappardino said that “Ira taught me that questions are much more important than answers. ‘Questions Unite. Answers Divide,’ he always said."

    Many agree with Zappardino’s observation: “Ira was an optimist. In a very real way, I am who I am because I knew Ira...and we often laughed about some of the trouble that's gotten me into. I expect I'll get into more trouble as I go along. And that Ira will still be cheering me on.”

    A memorial service celebrating Zepp’s life will be held at 2 o’clock on Saturday, August 29, 2009 at Big Baker Chapel on the campus of McDaniel College with Rev. Carroll Yingling officiating.

    Arrangements are by the Myers-Durboraw Funeral Home in Westminster, MD. The family will receive friends immediately following the service at McDaniel Lounge on campus.

    In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the “Ira & Mary Zepp Center for Nonviolence and Peace Education,” P.O. Box 552, Westminster, MD 21158.

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    Dr. Ira Zepp, 79, McDaniel College and Westminster civil rights leader, dies Published August 4, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
    The Rev. Dr. Ira Gilbert Zepp Jr., professor emeritus of the religious studies department at McDaniel College, died peacefully at his home on Aug. 1. He was 79. In a memorial tribute by McDaniel College president Joan Develin Coley, she recalled that Dr. ... ...

    Wednesday, August 5, 2009
    R.I.P. – Dr. Ira Zepp
    Kevin E. DayhoffLast Saturday word spread quickly throughout the greater Carroll County community that Rev. Dr. Ira Gilbert Zepp, Jr., professor emeritus of the Religious Studies department at McDaniel College, had died peacefully at his home. He was 79 years old.

    Drs. J. W. Hering and Ira Zepp, Sacred Places and Westminster City Hall
    http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/drs-j-w-hering-and-ira-zepp-sacred.html
    http://tinyurl.com/nfe522
    Pictured is Westminster City Hall MD around 1953. Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/ddez2
    The death of Dr. Ira G. Zepp has reminded me of one of my columns which was published in http://www.explorecarroll.com/ on July 25, 2008. Find it here: http://tinyurl.com/6yb23j or find the full story on http://www.explorecarroll.com/ here: http://tinyurl.com/krebky

    The Rev. Ira Zepp: Legacy of lessons
    http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/rev-ira-zepp-legacy-of-lessons.html

    Westminster's sacred places are shrines of community life EAGLE ARCHIVE By Kevin Dayhoff Posted on http://www.explorecarroll.com/ on 7/25/08 http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2008/07/westminster-sacred-places-are-shrines.html

    20090829 sdsom Mem service to celebrate professors life Aug 29 2009

    http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/search/label/People%20Zepp-Dr%20Ira%20Zepp

    Memorial service McDaniel College Westminster MD to celebrate Dr Ira Zepp’s life Aug 29 2009 http://tinyurl.com/mrsl8y

    http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/memorial-service-to-celebrate-dr-ira.html http://tinyurl.com/mrsl8y

    For more articles on Dr Zepp click here: http://tinyurl.com/n3u32e

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    Sunday, August 9, 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.


    Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster Maryland USA.
    E-mail him at: kevindayhoff AT gmail DOT com r visit him at http://www.westminstermarylandonline.net/
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    http://twitpic.com/d92z2 2nd Westminster High Sch bldg 1936-1971 Full story: http://tinyurl.com/kmgez3

    http://twitpic.com/d936f 1st Westminster High Sch bldg 1898-1936 Full story: http://tinyurl.com/kmgez3
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    Friday, May 1, 2009

    Music that came up in my April 29, 2009 The Tentacle column, “The Mockingbird’s Song”:





    The reclusive and enigmatic childhood friend of Truman Capote, Harper Lee, celebrated a birthday yesterday. She was born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama…

    She is best known for her one and only book, which just happened to be a Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” published in (July 11,) 1960, when she was 34 years old.

    Ms. Lee and “Mockingbird” come to mind for a number of reasons which I thoroughly do not understand; and that’s just fine with me.

    I’ve been told artists dream of castles in the clouds, writers live in them and psychologists are the landlords that charge rent.

    At my advanced age, I’m comfortable with the concept that my cloud is my castle, and I own it and I’m too tight to pay rent.

    […]

    From those long-gone lazy days, I usually associate “Mockingbird” with short stories like Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” “Rain” by W. Somerset Maugham and “Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth – and why I’m still traumatized by the word spatula – except when Rachel Ray says it on her cooking show.

    I think of the film “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” by Robert Altman. I was initially introduced to him when he directed a number of episodes of “Bonanza.”

    “McCabe” introduced me to Leonard Cohen – and later his song “Famous Blue Raincoat.” Remember: “It’s four in the morning, the end of December. I’m writing you now just to see if you’re better…”

    (An outtake: “Many of the “summer anthems” also come to mind when I recall those childhood summers. Who can forget “Summer in the City” by the “Lovin’ Spoonful,”In the Summertime” by Mungo Jerry, “Summertime Blues” by “The Who,” or one of my favorites, “Red Rubber Ball” by “The Cyrkle.”)

    I think of Carole King’s “It’s too late,” and Carly Simon’s “That’s The Way I Always Heard It Should Be” – “My father sits at night with no lights on. His cigarette glows in the dark…”

    It was over 40 years ago in the summer of 1967 that I first heard the song, “Ode to Billy Joe,” by Bobbie Gentry on WCAO on the AM dial of the car radio.

    […]

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    “Ode to Billy Joe,” by Bobbie Gentry
    http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2007/11/20071101-today-billy-joe-macallister.html

    Famous Blue Raincoat Leonard Cohen
    http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2009/03/famous-blue-raincoat-by-leonard-cohen.html

    Carole King “It’s Too Late” released April 1971
    http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2009/04/carole-king-its-too-late-released-april.html

    McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) Directed by Robert Altman
    http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2009/04/mccabe-and-mrs-miller-1971.html

    Carly Simon’s “That’s The Way I Always Heard It Should Be”
    http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2009/04/carly-simon-live-in-grand-central.html

    20090429 Music that came up in my Apr 29 2009 Tentacle column

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