The Golden Apple Award goes to the faculty member who has done the most in the current school year to affect the retention of students at the Baltimore City College.
The recipients for the 2011-2012 school year are: Linda Hall & Lena Tashjian. Under the leadership of Curtis S. Anderson’67 Delegate from the 43rd District and the Baltimore City Delegation, funds totaling 9 million dollars were given to the Baltimore City Public school system. Recently, Curtis S. Anderson ’67 and Jacob Howard, III ’74 requested a meeting with Dr. Alonso. Dr. Alonso was out of town, so they met with Ms. Dawana Sterrette Legislative Liaison and Mr. Keith Scoggins Chief Operating Officer. At this meeting Mr. Anderson and Mr. Howard express the dire need to use some of these funds to renovate the track and field at Baltimore City College. Curtis Anderson had a follow up meeting with Dr. Alonso and on 8/4/2011 received the letter below, stating we had been given the funds to renovate the field.
Please congratulate Curtis S. Anderson for his hard work on this endeavor. A lot of work by us has gone on over the past ten years, but without the funding this project would never have happen. The project will start in September with the hiring of an engineer and conclude with the project being completed in August of 2012. Please see attached letter for the complete schedule. The Alumni Association now has to step up to the plate. We need to raise approximately $100,000 for a new fence to protect the field. This money must be raised before construction starts in March of 2012. We can do this if we all work together. The next phase will be to raise funds for new seating and lights. On 9/14/2011 The Alumni Association will present a ground breaking ceremony. The ceremony will begin at 8:45 am on Alumni Field. A reception will take place in room 150 at 8am. The ceremony itself should last no more than 20 minutes. We will be inviting the Baltimore Delegation of the State Legislator, Senator’s Cardin and Mikulski, Congressman Cummings, and Ruppersberger, Governor O’Malley and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. All of the local media will be invited. A student representative from the following teams, that will be using the field, will do the actual ground breaking: Varsity Football, JV Football, Men’s Soccer, Women’s Soccer, Men’s Lacrosse, Women’s Lacrosse, Track and Cross Country teams. Please make every attempt to be there for this historic occasion. This is a time when the Baltimore City College Alumni Association needs to show what it has done for the school. A Service in Celebration of the Life of William Donald Schaefer Nov 2, 1921 – April 18, 20115/5/2011 On June 16, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs will present Bruce Kahn ’63 its Alfred McKenzie Award. The award, established in 1994, is named for Alfred McKenzie a long-time Washington figure. During World War II, McKenzie left his entry-level position in the Government Printing Office (GPO) to join the Army Air Corps where he served with distinction as one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen. Returning to the GPO in 1946, McKenzie was assigned to the same low-level position he had held before his military service. He began to see fellow employees who were white and with less service time receive promotions. The discrimination was obvious. At that point he then began a career-long struggle to win fair employment treatment for all African American GPO employees. Past recipients of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee McKenzie Award include the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the National Urban League, Washington Urban League and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). The presentation will take place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel at Metro Center in downtown DC. The event is called the Wiley A. Branton Awards Luncheon. Wiley A. Branton was a famous civil rights attorney who represented the Little Rock Nine when then Governor Faubus blocked them from entering Central High School in 1957. Wiley Branton’s life was devoted to such cases. This year’s recipients of the Branton Award are Kim Keenan, General Counsel of the NAACP and a founding board member of the Equal Rights Center; and George Ruttinger, senior partner at Crowell and Moring, the immediate past co-chair of the Lawyers’ Committee Board of Directors, and for 15 years the General Counsel of the Equal Rights Center. To say the least, receiving the McKenzie Award is very humbling and most gratifying. Those feelings are greatly intensified by the privilege of sharing the day with Kim and George. On August 2, 2010, a team of CITY alums won the 23rd Annual Alumni golf outing with a net team score of 112, 3 strokes ahead of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th place teams. Headed by J.C Weiss, III, the City team is to be congratulated on their achievement and effort. The City contingent seemed larger in number than that of past years, and grave a rousing rendition of CITY FOREVER at the conclusion of dinner and the presentation of awards. Come on alums!!! We know there are plenty of golfers among you out there we NEED your participation. All proceeds go to benefit the Alumni scholarship programs of both City and Poly (share based on %-age of participants). Mark your calendars now for the first Monday in August, 2011 for next years’ outing. (location to be announced) The Baltimore City College Alumni will be participating in the Summer Bridge Program at BCC. Summer Bridge is an orientation program for the incoming freshman class. In 2007, alumni president, Jacob Howard ‘74, came up with the idea of having a scavenger hunt for the incoming freshman class. Each student was given a list of questions pertaining to the history and tradition of City. The students had to tour the building in order to answer some of the questions. The questions asked were centered around items in the building, history and traditions of Baltimore City College. Again this year, the BCCAA will sponsor the scavenger hunt. Each student will be given a list of questions to complete. The first student to correctly answer the most questions will receive a $75 gift certificate to the school store. Other prizes will be $50 and $25 gift certificates and tickets to City-Poly game. On Aug 8, 2010, in the school auditorium, the Alumni Association will make its presentation to the incoming class of 2014. All Alumni are welcome to attend. Tiffany Turpin was born and raised in Baltimore, MD. She attended Baltimore City College High School, a college preparatory school. Reading was a requirement for graduation, but at that time in Turpin’s life, reading was not something she liked to do. Once she graduated from high school, and reading was no longer a requirement, she began to enjoy the places that books allowed her to visit. Turpin began to reread all of the books that were required in high school, but now for fun and without requiring a ten paged report. That’s when she fell in love with reading and has been an avid reader ever since. After high school Turpin attended Morgan State University on an academic scholarship in which she majored in accounting. Turpin has always loved math and science and figured accounting was a career that would allow her to further explore that love of math. Tiffany graduated from Morgan State University in May of 2002 with a BS degree in Accounting and began her career in the accounting field. But, Turpin never gave up on her love for reading. One day during one of the winter blizzards that Baltimore, MD is known for having, Turpin made a decision. She had read every book in her home, and there were several, some that she had read more than once. Turpin decided to take her passion for reading and transform it into a story of her own. So she wrote a book based on things that she has seen in her years on this earth. And “I Wish I Was Her” was created. “I Wish I Was Her” is a story of how four women’s lives are changed forever after meeting one man with a secret that proves to be fatal. Just when you think you’ve figured it out, there’s another twist to keep you wanting more. This is the author’s first published novel and she is currently working on her second. About the Book Have you ever wished you had someone’s life solely based on appearances? From the outside looking in Amaria seems to have the perfect life, but she’s unhappy. Meanwhile her best friends Samone and Renae are smiling in her face to conceal their resentment. Trying to hide the fact that, they want her life! Chantell is determined to take from Amaria what matters most to her, her man. But Amaria is not giving him up without a fight. Then there’s Andre a handsome stranger that turns their world upside down. Andre is HIV positive, angry, and determined to spread the virus to as many people he can. I Wish I Was Her is a story of how four women’s lives are changed forever after meeting one man with a secret that proves to be fatal. Just when you think you’ve figured it out there’s another twist to keep you wanting more. Maryland Public TV is rebroadcasting HALLOWED GROUNDS at 10 PM on Memorial Day, May 31. Hallowed Grounds features a meeting between fellow alum, Glenn Marcus BCC ’65 and Marcel Millet BCC’54, who is the Superintendent’s Special Representative of a U.S. Military Cemetery in France, when they discover they’re both City alums.
To read more on the documentary, please visit, www.pbs.org |
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