Hosanna

Ferndale United Methodist Church is sponsoring Hosanna Day on Sunday. Activities include Sunday school and adult Bible study at 9:15 a.m.and a worship service at 10:30 a.m.After the service, worshiperswill eat lunch and enjoy several activities. An Easter egg hunt willbe held for the children.* Tomorrow, the United Methodist Women will prepare and serve theLenten luncheon at Holy Trinity Church at noon. The cost is $2.Pastor Susan Ducheaneau will be the speaker. UMW President Fay Deli requests that you call her at 766-9220 if you can help with the luncheon.

A plan to open an Edgemere residential program for homeless women is stirring concern among some residents in southeastern Baltimore County, highlighting a struggle that advocates for the homeless say they face in finding space for hundreds of people in need. Catholic Charities wants to open a facility called Hosanna House for 14 women, age 50 and older, at a former assisted-living facility and convent next to St. Luke's Roman Catholic Church. A county administrative law judge approved that plan earlier this year, but the North Point Peninsula Council and some residents filed an appeal.

Not all of Gladys Williams' pupils could afford their own tin cups when she was a teacher. Williams would show them how to make cups for the day out of a sheet of paper, so they could have something to hold water from the blue bucket filled each morning from a nearby spring. It was the 1940s, and the war was on. Resources were scarce all over - but even scarcer at Hosanna School north of Darlington, where Williams taught: She and her pupils were black, and the school, in the Berkley community in northeast Harford, was an outpost of segregation.

June 20 through 24 Hosanna School Museum Offers American Girls Summer Camp. Have fun with the American Girls! From the past to the present learn and create like the American Girl does. Make crafts, toys, decorations, recipes, cultural projects and other activities like those done by Kristen, Josephina, Addy and others. This is a fun and creative American history and culture. The community wishes to extend sincerest sympathies to the family and friends of Tim Dudeck. Tim who grew up in the Dublin area and attended both Dublin Elementary and North Harford Middle and High School was well liked by all who new him. He surely will be missed . Cornerstone Baptist will be holding Bible School on June 20 through 24. Classes for ages from 4 and up. Grace Memorial Episcopal Church and the Wilson Ministry Center invite you to Wednesday night pizza dinner and the showing of a family friendly movie.

The students in Janet Adams' fourth-grade class aren't denied a bus ride to school because of the color of their skin. They don't have to fetch a pail of water every school day. They don't get spanked by their teacher for misbehaving.But when they visited a restored one-room schoolhouse yesterday, the 25 Harford County students got a taste of what school was like for black youngsters who attended the Hosanna School north of Darlington from 1867 to 1946.After a 12-year restoration effort, the Hosanna School is a tangible lesson for Harford students and residents who might otherwise know little about the days of segregation and the accomplishments of blacks despite hardships.

Fortunately for Hope Wideman, it only takes five minutes to travel between Darlington United Methodist Church and Hosanna African Methodist Episcopal Church.Even so, the Rev. David Zoller, pastor at Darlington United Methodist Church where Wideman is the Sunday organist,said he tries to keep a close check on the length of his 9:45 a.m. service.That's so Wideman can -- from her seat at the organ at DarlingtonMethodist in time to be seated at her piano, ready to play for the 11 a.m. service at nearby Hosanna Episcopal.

1867: SCHOOL FOR `COLORED PEOPLE' On Oct. 26, 1867, Joseph Peaker and several trustees of the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church arranged to build "a school for the colored people of Havre de Grace." The Anderson Institute was built on Stokes Street on land that Peaker inherited from his father, Cupid Peaker, and sold to the trustees. Though the institute no longer stands, the Hosanna School remained in its place for many years. Cupid Peaker and his sons Joseph and James were at the forefront of the struggle for equality in Harford County.

In the late 1800s, school started at 9 a.m., when the teacher rang a brass handbell to summon the pupils. The children sat on backless benches and wrote their lessons on slates they held in their laps. In the 1940s, a teacher woke early to get to the school and fire up the potbelly stove so the building would be warm for the arrival of students, some of whom walked seven miles. In those days, all the students walked. Established in 1867 as Harford County's first public school for blacks, the Hosanna School in Darlington boasts a rich history.

For decades, Christine Presberry Tolbert watched the slow deterioration of the one-room schoolhouse that generations of her family attended. She feared that the rich history of the Hosanna School in Darlington and of its students would be demolished along with the dilapidated structure if she didn't try to save it. In 1982, Tolbert went before the General Assembly seeking money to restore the schoolhouse to its original state and establish a museum....

IN 1958, ALASKA became the 49th state to join the union; "The Chipmunk Song" and "The Purple People Eater" dominated the airwaves; and Arnold Palmer won his first Master's tournament.It was also the year Libby Joyce Hopkins and her classmates at Annapolis High School donned caps and gowns to celebrate the end of their last year in high school.Now Hopkins is organizing the class's 40th reunion.She wants anyone who was in that class, or knows someone who was, to call her at 410-267-8311.The reunion is scheduled for Aug. 8 at the Annapolis Elks Club.

For decades, Christine Presberry Tolbert watched the slow deterioration of the one-room schoolhouse that generations of her family attended. She feared that the rich history of the Hosanna School in Darlington and of its students would be demolished along with the dilapidated structure if she didn't try to save it. In 1982, Tolbert went before the General Assembly seeking money to restore the schoolhouse to its original state and establish a museum....

In the late 1800s, school started at 9 a.m., when the teacher rang a brass handbell to summon the pupils. The children sat on backless benches and wrote their lessons on slates they held in their laps. In the 1940s, a teacher woke early to get to the school and fire up the potbelly stove so the building would be warm for the arrival of students, some of whom walked seven miles. In those days, all the students walked. Established in 1867 as Harford County's first public school for blacks, the Hosanna School in Darlington boasts a rich history.

1867: SCHOOL FOR `COLORED PEOPLE' On Oct. 26, 1867, Joseph Peaker and several trustees of the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church arranged to build "a school for the colored people of Havre de Grace." The Anderson Institute was built on Stokes Street on land that Peaker inherited from his father, Cupid Peaker, and sold to the trustees. Though the institute no longer stands, the Hosanna School remained in its place for many years. Cupid Peaker and his sons Joseph and James were at the forefront of the struggle for equality in Harford County.

Fifty years ago next month, the U.S. Supreme Court voted unanimously that the doctrine of "separate but equal" had no place in the public school system, marking the long process of desegregating America's public schools. Yesterday, several dozen residents gathered inside the one-room, wood-frame building that until 1946 served as the Hosanna School in Darlington, Harford's first public school for African-Americans. Established in 1867 by the Freedman's Bureau, Hosanna is now a museum and national historic landmark.

Not all of Gladys Williams' pupils could afford their own tin cups when she was a teacher. Williams would show them how to make cups for the day out of a sheet of paper, so they could have something to hold water from the blue bucket filled each morning from a nearby spring. It was the 1940s, and the war was on. Resources were scarce all over - but even scarcer at Hosanna School north of Darlington, where Williams taught: She and her pupils were black, and the school, in the Berkley community in northeast Harford, was an outpost of segregation.

The Harford community of Berkley, overlooking the Susquehanna River in the northeastern corner of the county, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The hamlet is being recognized for its place in history, which included the effort by the Marquis de LaFayette to quell a rebellion within his troops while encamped at Col. James Rigbie's farm. In addition, Berkley has been home to free land-holding African-Americans since the late 1700s and was a documented stop on the Underground Railroad.