'Coach' Charlie Havens was a good sport, and a patriot, too
EAGLE ARCHIVE By Kevin Dayhoff Posted http://www.explorecarroll.com/opinion/3805/archive/ 1/17/10
Much of the interest in Carroll County history is focused on certain dates or this or that building or road, but what makes any county truly great are its people.
I was fascinated to recently run across an old newspaper item from Aug. 7, 1999, written by Baltimore Sun writer David Greene, in which he described Laurie Walters' 100-year birthday party for her house in the historic Belle Grove area of Westminster.
This is, the party was not so much a birthday gala for the structure as it was a celebration of the people who had been associated with the house.
One of those celebrated folks mentioned was Lt. Col. Charles W. "Coach" Havens. For those who did not know Coach Havens, he wore many hats over his years in Westminster.
Havens died in May 1996 of kidney failure, according to an obituary, also in The Sun, by Fred Rasmussen.
He was a 1930 graduate of then-Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) who later returned to the school on the hill to serve as its athletic director and coach of the football, baseball, basketball and boxing, a well as an instructor in physical education and health, according to the obituary.
Read the entire article here: http://www.explorecarroll.com/opinion/3805/archive/
EAGLE ARCHIVE By Kevin Dayhoff Posted http://www.explorecarroll.com/opinion/3805/archive/ 1/17/10
Much of the interest in Carroll County history is focused on certain dates or this or that building or road, but what makes any county truly great are its people.
I was fascinated to recently run across an old newspaper item from Aug. 7, 1999, written by Baltimore Sun writer David Greene, in which he described Laurie Walters' 100-year birthday party for her house in the historic Belle Grove area of Westminster.
This is, the party was not so much a birthday gala for the structure as it was a celebration of the people who had been associated with the house.
One of those celebrated folks mentioned was Lt. Col. Charles W. "Coach" Havens. For those who did not know Coach Havens, he wore many hats over his years in Westminster.
Havens died in May 1996 of kidney failure, according to an obituary, also in The Sun, by Fred Rasmussen.
He was a 1930 graduate of then-Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) who later returned to the school on the hill to serve as its athletic director and coach of the football, baseball, basketball and boxing, a well as an instructor in physical education and health, according to the obituary.
Read the entire article here: http://www.explorecarroll.com/opinion/3805/archive/
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