Private Schools

Theodore E. "Ted" Thormann Jr., a longtime popular Calvert Hall College High School math teacher, died Nov. 23 of a heart attack at the Towson private school. He was 62 and a resident of Towson's Campus Hills neighborhood. Mr. Thormann, who had heart bypass surgery several years ago, regularly exercised and rode his bicycle. He often would return to school in the evening and work out in the gym or walk the halls for exercise. He went to Calvert Hall on the evening of Nov. 22, and when he did not return home, his wife of 17 years, the former Janice Flynn, a lawyer with the Public Service Commission, became alarmed and called Baltimore County police.

When it comes to public money for private schools and oversight of charter schools, the Harford County Board of Education and the administration of Harford County Public Schools have it right by being opposed. When it comes to public money for private schools and oversight of charter schools, the Harford County Board of Education and the administration of Harford County Public Schools have it right by being opposed. In the school system's recently-released 2012 legislative platform, Harford County Public Schools is against any public funding of private education and it's equally opposed to any new laws that would allow charter schools to operate without being required to comply with "state law and [Harford school]

Edward Standish "Brad" Bradford Jr., a career educator who had been headmaster of Boys' Latin School during the early 1980s, died Thursday from complications after surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 83. The son of a businessman and a homemaker, Mr. Bradford was born and raised in Longmeadow, Mass. After graduating from Admiral Billard Academy in New London, Conn., he served in the Air Force during the Korean War. After being discharged from the service, he earned a bachelor's degree in 1956 from the University of Connecticut.

In many ways, Evan Chase and Nathan Carothers are typical high school football players. Both love the primal battle in the trenches, both skirmish fervently on game day and both embrace their teammates as family. Their high school teams, however, are anything but typical. Chase plays for the Maryland Christian Saints and Carothers plays for the Central Maryland Christian Crusaders. Neither team has an actual school. Both cater to high-school aged boys who are home-schooled or attend a school without a football program.

Even before his senior year of high school began, Mason Graham knew that he wanted to play football at Navy. But Jabaree Tuani, Graham's teammate at Brentwood Academy outside Nashville, Tenn., wasn't sold on making the same military commitment. As much as Navy assistant coach Ashley Ingram was recruiting Tuani, Graham was too. "Jabari and myself had always talked about playing somewhere together," recalled Graham, now a senior at Navy. "I was interested in the Naval Academy and he was kind of lukewarm to the idea.

Harford County's newest private school hasn't even opened, but members of its first senior class recently labored together in a kitchen on a hot summer evening. Why? The answer can be found in mission statement of the school that each of these rising seniors has chosen to enter this fall: "…inspiring (students) to lead and serve others, for the glory of God. " Oak Grove Classical Christian School, which is opening its doors for the first time to 100 students in grades pre-K through 12 on Sept.

Nellie H. "Nonnie" Bartlett, a retired private school educator and former Roland Park resident, died July 24 of pancreatic cancer at William Hill Manor in Easton. She was 83. Nellie Gorman, the daughter of a dairy broker and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised in Roland Park. After graduating in 1945 from Roland Park Country School, she received a bachelor's degree in English from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., in 1949. She earned a master's degree in education in 1968 from the Johns Hopkins University.