English Teacher

Washington -- Even now, more than 25 years after the fact, I feel the sting of being unmasked on television as a plagiarist. It happened in Baltimore about 1964, when I was about 12. I wanted to write. But even more -- perhaps I was already a budding academic -- I yearned to ''publish.''I found my vehicle in a man named John Bartholomew Tucker. Young and personable -- I believe he was a former English teacher -- with a voice that dripped neighborliness, Tucker hosted a local late-afternoon television program called ''People Are Talking.

Laura Doolan, an English teacher at Westminster High School, was named Carroll County 2013 Teacher of the Year during the Board of Education's employee recognition ceremony on Thursday. "Ms. Doolan is a champion of students, working tirelessly beyond expectations to nurture students' academic growth and social well-being," said Janetta Jayman, supervisor of English and World Languages for Carroll County Public Schools. "Her belief in creating successful learning experiences for all students has been the foundation for her own successful teaching career.

Philip X. "Phil" Kaltenbach, a former high school English teacher who later became an expert in the field of collectible comic books, died Tuesday at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Fla., while recovering from foot surgery. He was 63. The son of a Loyola University Maryland dean and a Loyola Blakefield High School administrative assistant, Philip Xavier Kaltenbach was born in Baltimore and raised in Towson. Mr. Kaltenbach was a 1967 graduate of Loyola Blakefield and earned a bachelor's degree from what is now Loyola University Maryland.

Frances H. Mueller, a retired educator who had chaired the Bryn Mawr School's English department and also taught at Towson University, died March 24 of complications from dementia at Roland Park Place. She was 94. Born and raised on her parents' farm in Painesville, Ohio, Frances Heckathorne was a graduate of local public schools. After earning a bachelor's degree in 1939 from Lake Erie College, Mrs. Mueller taught English from 1943 to 1946 at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pa. While at Penn State, she earned a master's degree in English from Columbia University in 1945, and the next year married William Randolph Mueller, a philosopher, clergyman, literary historian and author.

FOR YEARS, I have been told that I look like an English teacher -- or that I don't. In a world of logic, neither observation should mean anything to anyone, least of all to me.I love my profession and feel honored to be an English teacher. But after 25 years I have decided that it is now or never if I am to decipher what people mean when they say to me, ''You look just like an English teacher,'' or ''You don't look anything like an English teacher at all!''I have an uncomfortable feeling that looking like an English teacher is not a good thing, at least not by the standards of traditional feminine beauty.

Jeannette R. Cadwallader, an English teacher at Franklin High School in Reisterstown, died Tuesday of complications of ovarian cancer at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Reisterstown resident was 57. Born Jeannette Ruth Liberda in Philadelphia, she attended Abraham Lincoln High School there and received a bachelor's degree in education from West Chester University in Pennsylvania. She began her career with the Baltimore County public school system in 1972. She taught English at Franklin Junior High School, Woodlawn Junior High School, Deer Park Junior High School and Franklin High School.

Daniel Fader, an English teacher and author, died Monday of cancer at his Truro, Mass., home. The former Northwest Baltimore resident was 73. Born in Baltimore and raised in Ashburton and on Dolfield Avenue, he was a 1948 City College graduate and attended Loyola College. He earned degrees at Cornell University and a doctorate at Stanford University. He also studied at Cambridge University. In 1961, he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, where he taught English and was the founding chairman of the English Composition Board.

Helen M. Daniels, a former college English teacher and active member of Metropolitan Community Church of Baltimore, died of a heart attack Friday at her Catonsville home. She was 48. Born and raised in Laredo, Texas, Ms. Daniels earned a bachelor's degree in liberal arts in 1978 from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and a master's in creative writing from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 1980. After a decade of teaching at City University of New York, she taught English from 1998 until last year at the Community College of Baltimore County's Catonsville campus.

Beulah Georges, a retired high school English teacher, died of a stroke Tuesday at Blakehurst Health Center in Towson. She was 83. Born Beulah George in Towson above the Candy Kitchen, a business her father owned, she was a 1939 Towson High School graduate and earned an English degree at Goucher College. In 1956 she married Dr. Constant J. Georges, a dentist who is now retired. She began teaching in the Baltimore County public school system and later earned a master's degree at what is now Towson University.

Donald Byrd Marston Sr., an English and reading teacher who was once a top-ranked table tennis player, died of pneumonia Jan. 9 at Sinai Hospital after an extended illness. He was 79 and had lived in Sykesville. He taught for more than 30 years at the old Brooklyn Park Junior/Senior High School in Baltimore. He was stern in the classroom, said his daughter, Barbara Fost of Catonsville, but was also funny and passionate about his work. Mr. Marston, who was born in California, earned a bachelor's degree from the Johns Hopkins University and a master's degree in education from the University of Maryland.

Philip X. "Phil" Kaltenbach, a former high school English teacher who later became an expert in the field of collectible comic books, died Tuesday at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Fla., while recovering from foot surgery. He was 63. The son of a Loyola University Maryland dean and a Loyola Blakefield High School administrative assistant, Philip Xavier Kaltenbach was born in Baltimore and raised in Towson. Mr. Kaltenbach was a 1967 graduate of Loyola Blakefield and earned a bachelor's degree from what is now Loyola University Maryland.

Let me put this up quietly tonight in hopes that everyone is too tired to argue.  There was some nervous tweeting among editors today about the that/which  rule. You may have been taught it under various terms: Restrictive (limiting, essential, defining) relative clauses begin with that  and are not set off with commas; non-restrictive (non-limiting, non-essential, non-defining, parenthetical) relative clauses begin with which  and are  set off with commas. You know it is a rule because your English teacher told you so, and besides, there it is in black and white in the Associated Press Stylebook .  There is just one little hitch: IT IS NOT A RULE.  The Fowler brothers suggested in The King's English  that it would be a useful distinction to observe; it would tidy up the language a little.

I grew up in Baltimore reading The Sun, The Evening Sun and The News American initially for comics then on to sports and finally the actual "news. " I remember my English teacher at City College, Mr. Rosskopf, teaching us about H.L. Mencken and the heyday of journalism in America. I wake up Wednesday morning in Afghanistan to find the legacy of that time in shambles. The Baltimore Sun has became a joke when a headline that read "College Park shooter identified as Morgan State University graduate" (Feb.

More than 100 students and members of the University of Maryland, College Park community attended a tear-filled ceremony Tuesday night to mourn Stephen Rane, a 22-year-old student who classmates and friends remembered as a wisecracking, kind-hearted young man. Rane was killed early in the morning by his roommate outside his home in a neighborhood near the campus, police said. Police say Dayvon M. Green, a graduate student, killed himself after shooting Rane and another roommate, who was released from the hospital as of Wednesday afternoon.

A Cecil County high school teacher who once considered dropping out of school but "worked and borrowed" her way to become the first in her family to graduate from college has been named one of the four finalists for the title of National Teacher of the Year, the state department of education announced Thursday. Rhonda Holmes-Blankenship, an English teacher at Rising Sun High School and Maryland's reigning Teacher of the Year, will compete against teachers from Florida, New Hampshire and Washington, the department said in a release.

Shirley R. More, a retired social worker who earlier had been a Baltimore County public school teacher, died Monday from complications of Alzheimer's disease at Bonnie Blink, the Maryland Masonic Home in Hunt Valley, where she had moved this year. She was 90. The daughter of Walter A. Reed, a bank president, and Agnes Gordon Reed, a homemaker, Shirley Agnes Reed was born and raised in Corning, N.Y., where she graduated from high school in 1940. After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1944 from Albany State Teachers College — now the State University at Albany — she began teaching math at Oneonta High School in Oneonta, N.Y. A graduate of the school, Capt.

ENGLISH TEACHER Cindy Drummond is "a wonderful person who truly enjoys teen-agers," according to Maryann West, ninth-grade team leader at Wilde Lake High School."

Gwendolyn Brooks Stewart, a retired Baltimore high school English teacher and newspaper adviser, died Feb. 15 of pneumonia at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. The Northwest Baltimore resident was 84. Born Lillian Gwendolyn Costen in Waterbury, Conn., she was raised in Washington, where she graduated from the old Miner Teachers College and earned a master's degree in English from Howard University. She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She moved to Baltimore and taught at Booker T. Washington Junior High School and later Frederick Douglass High School, where she was faculty adviser of the Douglass Courier student newspaper.

An Anne Arundel County high school teacher and basketball coach has been reassigned amid an investigation that school officials have described as a matter involving student safety. School officials said Friday that English teacher and girls basketball coach Erin Thorne has been reassigned from the school and relieved of her duties as coach while the investigation is underway. On Thursday the school system sent a letter from Broadneck Principal David Smith to parents. "I fully realize that any number of rumors are likely to begin swirling about this matter, and I urge you as parents to talk with your child and do everything you can to allow this investigation to proceed as quickly, efficiently, and thoroughly as possible," Smith said in the letter.

Mercy High School President Sister Carol E. Wheeler, RSM, has announced she will retire at the end of the academic year, after 35 years leading the all-girls Catholic school. During her tenure, she organized capital campaigns that built The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Auditorium in 2003 and renovated five science labs in time for the opening of school this year. A member of the Sisters of Mercy, Wheeler came to the school as an English teacher soon after it opened in 1960. In 1977, she became principal and held the office until 2009, when she was named president.