Mount St. Mary's University is a private Catholic university in Emmitsburg,Maryland. It has the largest Catholic seminary in the United States. Undergraduate programs are divided between the College of Liberal Arts,the Richard J. Bolte School of Business,and the School of Natural Science and Mathematics. "The Mount" has over 40 undergraduate majors,minors,concentrations,and special programs,as well as bachelor's/master's combinations in partnership with other universities,8 master's programs,and 6 postgraduate certificate programs.
The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is a private art and design college in Baltimore,Maryland. Founded in 1826 as the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts,it is regarded as one of the oldest art colleges in the United States.
Daniel Mark Epstein is an American poet,dramatist,and biographer. His poetry has been noted for its erotic and spiritual lyricism,as well as its power—in several dramatic monologues—in capturing crucial moments of American history. While he has continued to publish poetry he is more widely known for his biographies of Nat King Cole,Edna St. Vincent Millay,Bob Dylan and Abraham Lincoln,and his radio plays,"Star of Wonder," and "The Two Menorahs," which have become holiday mainstays on National Public Radio.
Jane Margaret O'Brien,also known as Maggie O'Brien,is an American professor of chemistry,college president,and academic administrator. She is president emerita of St. Mary's College of Maryland,and was president of Hollins College.
St. Mary's Seminary and University is a Catholic seminary located within the Archdiocese of Baltimore in Baltimore,Maryland;it was the first seminary founded in the United States after the Revolution and has been run since its founding by the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice.
St. Charles College was a minor seminary in Catonsville,Maryland,originally located in Ellicott City,Maryland.
The Cardinal Gibbons School,also referred to as Cardinal Gibbons,CG, and most commonly as Gibbons,was a Roman Catholic high school and middle school for boys in Baltimore,Maryland,USA. A private institution for grades 6–12,Gibbons drew its enrollment from the neighborhoods of southwest Baltimore City and the counties surrounding the Baltimore metropolitan area,with some as far away as Harford County,Carroll County,and Frederick County.
Saint Frances Academy is an independent Catholic high school in Baltimore,Maryland. Founded in 1828 to educate African-American children,it is the first and oldest continually operating Black Catholic school in the United States.
Nathan Covington Brooks was an American educator,historian,and poet. Born in West Nottingham,Cecil County,Maryland,Brooks grew up to become the first principal of Baltimore City College,the third oldest public high school in the United States,and the only president of the Baltimore Female College,the first institution of higher education for women in Maryland. He also was the owner of the literary magazine The American Museum in which he published several works of the famed poet Edgar Allan Poe,and the author of several textbooks on classical literature. Brooks died in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.
Sylvia Snowden is an African American abstract painter who works with acrylics,oil pastels,and mixed media to create textured works that convey the "feel of paint". Many museums have hosted her art in exhibits,while several have added her works to their permanent collections.
The 1892 Maryland Aggies football team represented the Maryland Agricultural College in the 1892 college football season. It was the first football team to officially represent the school. Maryland played three games,all of which it lost,and failed to score any points. Halfback Pearse "Shorty" Prough gained the only positive yardage for the team against Episcopal High School. He netted 35 yards from scrimmage after first running 30 yards in the wrong direction. It remained the only winless Maryland team until matched by the 1967 squad coached by Bob Ward.
Jeffrey Alfred Legum is an American philanthropist,investor and former automobile dealer.
David Brewster is an American painter active in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States.
Albert Lewis Barthelme Sr. was an American basketball coach at the high school,college and professional levels.
Maria Briscoe Croker was an American poet and Maryland's first Poet laureate.
Jonathan Silver was an American figurative sculptor,and visual artist "known for infusing classical forms with an extreme,implicitly modern sense of emotion." His work draws from the hellenistic tradition,as well as Rodin,Giacometti and Freudian psychoanalysis.
Mathias J. DeVito was an American businessperson and lawyer. He served as the president and chief executive officer of The Rouse Company. DeVito was previously a Maryland assistant attorney general and partner at Piper and Marbury law firm.
Aloysius Leo Knott was an American politician,lawyer and educator from Maryland. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates,representing Baltimore's 2nd District in 1867 and from 1900 to 1901.
