Summary
Morgan State University is a historically black college located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Methodist Episcopal Church founded Morgan State, then named the Centenary Biblical Institute, in 1867. It was renamed Morgan College in 1890 after Reverend Lyttleton Morgan, the first chairman of its board of trustees. The school became a public institution when it was purchased by the state in 1939 and opened to students of all races. The school was given university designation and the authority to offer doctorates in 1975 by the state. Morgan State is a founding member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and is a Division I school, but its football team is a Division I-AA team. The school is home to the Morgan...
Morgan State University is a historically black college located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Methodist Episcopal Church founded Morgan State, then named the Centenary Biblical Institute, in 1867. It was renamed Morgan College in 1890 after Reverend Lyttleton Morgan, the first chairman of its board of trustees. The school became a public institution when it was purchased by the state in 1939 and opened to students of all races. The school was given university designation and the authority to offer doctorates in 1975 by the state. Morgan State is a founding member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and is a Division I school, but its football team is a Division I-AA team. The school is home to the Morgan State University Choir and the "Maginificent Marching Machine," the school's marching band. Student activities include The Spokesman newspaper, The Promethian yearbook and 20 fraternities, sororities and social clubs. Famous Morgan State alumni include author Zora Neal Hurston and former U.S. congressman Kweisi Mfume.
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Schools administrator picked
Harford County Public Schools has named Roger L. Plunkett, 51, a 31-year veteran of the Howard County public schools, as the new assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. He was appointed by the Board of Education at its business meeting...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Johns Hopkins University, Curricula
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Teacher, mentor drowns at UMBC
Sun reporterDeon Oneil Henry Jr. had the summer off as a health education teacher, so he decided to take a job working with 38 low-income high school students in an Upward Bound program. One of nine counselors in the program, Henry, 25, helped expose students to...Tags: Law Enforcement, Health and Safety at School, Colleges and Universities, Witnesses, Prosecution
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Colonials hire M. Bozeman
Sun reporterGeorge Washington unveiled new women's basketball coach Michael Bozeman at an early-afternoon news conference yesterday, but his big brother, Todd, couldn't wait that long. Todd Bozeman, the men's basketball coach at Morgan State, had already released...Tags: NCAA Tournament, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Walter J. Ennals, 91
Walter James Ennals, a retired city recreation leader for whom a West Baltimore basketball court was named, died of cancer June 17 at Joseph Richey Hospice in downtown Baltimore. The Catonsville resident was 91. Born in Baltimore and raised by his...Tags: Bethlehem Steel
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Hope blooms from adversity
Sun ReporterOnce, the intersection of Cator Avenue and Old York Road in the Pen Lucy neighborhood was so troubled that people wouldn't sit outside on their porches or walk through on their way to church. Young men were being shot and killed on the street. And the...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Television Industry, Local Authority, Interior Policy, Satellite and Cable Service
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Plunkett moves to Harford position
Sun ReporterRoger Plunkett, the Howard County school system's business, community and government relations officer, will leave in mid-July to take the position of assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction with the Harford County school system. The...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Johns Hopkins University, Elementary Schools
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Free for all
If there is one thing Mr. Flip can back 100 percent, it's getting paid to do very little (as readers of The Flip Side no doubt are aware). So, of course, he has to pass along the lists of highest-paid benchwarmers, compiled by Forbes.com. Baseball:...Tags: Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, Texas Rangers, New York Jets, Jay Payton, Sacramento Kings
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Fine Arts
Fine ArtMUSEUMSAmerican Visionary Art Museum // 800 Key Highway / 410-244-1900. Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays. • Permanent exhibits: Rotating selections from museum archives. • Through Aug. 31: All Faiths Beautiful....Tags: Village Green, Karen Johnson, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland), Baltimore Museum of Art, Walters Art Museum
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Architects and planners ponder a city design center
Sun architecture criticParis has one. Copenhagen has one. San Francisco just opened one. Should Baltimore have a design center? That's the question local architects and planners are asking as they seek ways to improve the quality of architectural design and urban planning in...Tags: Architecture, Colleges and Universities, College Park
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In the city, commuting by bicycle gains traction
Sun reporterJohn Nethercut leaves his car in the driveway two or three times a week, hops on a bike and pedals the seven miles from his home to his office in downtown Baltimore. That, he says, is the easy part. Things get more dicey once Nethercut arrives at work....Tags: Vehicles, Sheila Dixon, Patterson Park, Passenger Cars, Global Warming
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