Born: Washington, D. C. January 27, 1943.
Height: 6' 3".
Weight: 215. Married. Three daughters.
541 Norton Lane, Arnold, Maryland 2l012.
410-757-0499.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND DeMatha Catholic High School,Hyattsville, Maryland---won four year academic scholarship. National Honor Society, Senior Class President, Student Government President. Won six letters in football and basketball. Bowie State College, Bowie, Maryland---B.S., 1965. Secondary Education---History. Graduated first in a class of 57. Lettered in Basketball. Dean's List. University of Maryland, College Park---M.Ed., l969. Secondary Education---American History. Master's Seminar Paper in Education: "An Examination of the Advanced Placement Program from Its Origins to the Present," 35 pages, 1968. Master's Seminar Paper in History: "Negro Education in Colonial Maryland, 1634-1790," 36 pages, 1969. University of Maryland, College Park---Ph. D., 1989. Dissertation, "The Maryland Test of Citizenship Skills:A Profile of Student Failures." Secondary Education---American History and Social Science.
AWARDS Rotary Club of College Park---Certificate of Merit, l96l. Alpha Kappa Mu National Honor Society---Secretary-Treasurer, l964-l965. Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities---l964-l965. Rotary Club of Bladensburg---Teacher of the Month, l969. Who' Who in the East, l978-l979. Teacher-Historian, Anne Arundel County Public Schools, National Capitol Historic Society, l98l. Rockefeller-Scholar Award, Organization of American Historians, Los Angeles, April 1984. Bicentennial Leadership Award, Bicentennial Leadership Project, Washington, D. C., December 4, 1987. Bicentennial Leadership Award, Maryland Delegation of the 100th Congress, Spring 1988. Bicenennial Leadership Award, Council for the Advancement of Citizenship, Annapolis, Maryland, April 6, 1989. Certificate of Appreciation, Center for Civic Education, Washington, D. C., September 25, 1991. Certificate of Appreciation, National Council for the Social Studies, Washington, D. C., November 25, 1991. Governor's Citation, Annapolis, Maryland, December 10, 1991.
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE De Matha Catholic High School, l963-l964, l965-l973. Bowie State College, l973-l975. Prince George's Community College, l973-l974. Annapolis Senior High School, l973-l977. South River Senior High School, 1977-86. Annapolis Middle and Bates Middle Schools, 1991. Anne Arundel Community College, 1983- Co-founder, ECHA Educational Consultants in the Humanities Associates, Inc., 1984-87. Social Studies Specialist, Gifted/Talented/Advanced Programs, Anne Arundel County Public Schools, 1986- University of Maryland, College Park, 1991 - Johns Hopkins University, 1993- Towson State University, 1994-
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Currently involved in 18 professional organizations. Among the educational organization include: National Education Association, Maryland State Teacher's Association, Teacher's Association of Anne Arundel County, National Council for the Social Studies, the Maryland Council for the Social Studies, the Anne Arundel County for the Social Studies, and the Society for History Education. Historical and social science groups include: The Maryland Historical Society, Archaeological Society of Maryland, University of Maryland Seminar on Early American History, National Archives, Institute of Early American History, Southern Historian Association, American Historical Association, Maryland State Archives, History of Education Society, Smithsonian Residents, World Affairs Council of Washington, D. C.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Has served in a variety of administrative capacities at local, state, and national conventions for groups such as, the Organization of American Historians, Southern Historical Association, American Historical Association, National Council for the Social Studies, Middle States Council for the Social Studies, Maryland Council for the Social Studies, Anne Arundel County Council for the Social Studies, Citizenship/Law-Related Education Program in the Maryland Schools, Maryland State Archives, Anne Arundel Heritage, Eastern State Archaeological Society, and the Oral History for the Mid-Atlantic Region Association.
Has served as an Educational Consultant and/or workshop leaders for groups, such as, The Maryland Historical Society, the Baltimore Consortium for American History, the Maryland State Department of Education, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the Maryland State Archives, Historic Annapolis, Temple - LEAP, Instructional Resources Corporation, Harcourt Brace College Division, Glencoe Publishers, Mershon Center of Ohio State University, the Citizenship/Law-Related Education Program in the Maryland Schools, the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Maryland Humanities Council, the World Affairs Council of Washington, D. C., the Anne Arundel County Committee for the Maryland Historic Trust, the London Town Publik House Assembly, the 1840 House, the Baltimore Museum of Industry and Technology, the National Archives, National Historical Records and Publication Commission, Maryland Public Television, Maryland Instructional Television, Center for Civic Education, American Historical Association, and the Organization of American Historians. Selected as an AP US HIstory Reader beginning 1994.
Has given over 70 sessions at local, state, and national conferences including the National Council for the Social Studies, the Middle States Council for the Social Studies, the Northeast Council for the Social Studies, the Southeast Council for the Social Studies, the Maryland Council for the Social Studies, the Virginia Council for the Social Studies, National Archives, Maryland State Archives, Maryland Historical Society, Organization of American Historians, Anne Arundel Heritage, l8th Century Colonial Dames, Anne Arundel Genealogical Society, the Maryland Historic Trust, the London Town Publik House Assembly, Historic Annapolis, Retired Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County, the Anne Arundel County Council for the Social Studies, Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Montgomery County Public Schools, Carroll County Public Schools, Calvert County Public Schools, Center for Civic Education, Maryland, We the People, National History Day, St. Mary's High School, Association of Independent Maryland Schools, Severn School, and Historic Annapolis.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Has published numerous articles, book and media reviews in both educational and historical journals including: Social Education, The Social Studies, The History Teacher, American Secondary Education, OAH Magazine of History, The AHA Perspectives, The Maryland Historical Magazine, The History of Education Quarterly, Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, ERIC Clearinghouse, OHMAR Newsletter, The Arundel Advocate, The Southern Social Studies Quarterly, The Ohio Social Studies Review, The Arkansas Social Studies Teachers, Virginia Resolves, The Capital, and The Maryland Council for the Social Studies Communicator.
Has developed curriculum materials for Anne Arundel County Public Schools, the Maryland Historical Society, the Citizenship/Law-Related Education Program in the Maryland Schools, the Maryland State Archives, and the London Town Publik House and Assembly.
Has been awarded five Maryland Humanities Council school grants as well as grants from the American Association for State and Local History, Center for Civic Education, and the Bicentennial Commission for the Celebration of the United States Constitution. Has been a standing panelist with the National Endowment for the Humanities and a grant consultor for the Citizenship/Law-Related Education Program in the Maryland Schools, the Organization of American Historians, the Maryland Commission on Afro-American History and Culture, Historic Annapolis, the Maryland Historical Society, the Maryland State Archives, Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Baroque and Renaissance Center of the University of Maryland, College Park, and the 1840 House.
Has published a teacher's guide and workbook to accompany Maryland: A History of Its People (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986) and has two books in press to be published by the Maryland State Archives entitled A Documentary History of Maryland and The Anne Arundel County Free School, 1723-1912 both to be released in 1994.