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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Eagle Archive: Reflecting on Easter with grace and peace http://tinyurl.com/c8k2oh4 by Kevin Dayhoff

Eagle Archive: Reflecting on Easter with grace and peace


Happy Easter. Grace and peace to you. 

In Carroll County, the celebration of Easter has always had an emphasis on the religious aspects of the holiday. However, childhood thoughts of Easter in Carroll are also filled of memories of community Easter egg hunts and other community activities.

Some 65 years ago, the Venture Club of Westminster sponsored the annual hunt on Easter Sunday on the Westminster Playground. An article in the now defunct Democratic Advocate on March 26, 1948, offers an example of how various aspects of the community got into the Easter spirit: There was a concert by the Westminster Municipal Band; an invocation by Father William T. McCrory, assistant pastor of St. John Catholic Church; and City Councilman J. Albert Mitten served as master of ceremonies.


Another childhood memory is that all the church services and activities during Holy Week and Easter were observed with strict pomp and ceremony — as dictated by the ecclesiastical liturgists in the congregation.

I learned at a very young age that the difference between a terrorist and liturgist is you can negotiate with a terrorist. For those unaware of ways of the church, a liturgist is sort of like a "parliamentarian" — with an edge… http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0324-20130327,0,6902860.story

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Sunday, August 02, 2009

Elon University alum Umpire Joe West works 4000th game

Umpire Joe West works 4,000th game By COLIN FLY AP Sports Writer Jul 30, 6:57 PM EDT

Hat Tip: elonuniversity Elon University alum Joe West works 4,000th MLB game as umpire in Brewers vs. Nat's game. http://ow.ly/iJ9L

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Joe West picked up his plaque behind home plate, and the ball from the first pitch was saved as a souvenir.

Then, it was back to business as usual for baseball's Cowboy Joe.


Find the rest of article here: http://ow.ly/iJ9L

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Alexis de Tocqueville and Charles Carroll of Carrollton


Alexis de Tocqueville and Charles Carroll of Carrollton

July 29 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/lyt9pw

Today is the birthday of a famous French aristocrat, Alexis de Tocqueville, who published in 1835 what many historians to this day, consider to be the foremost classic analysis of American culture, society, and government, “Democracy in America.”

To see a copy of “Democracy in America,” go here: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/home.html; or here: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/tocqueville/alexis/democracy/.

For more information on “Democracy in America,” go here: http://www.tocqueville.org/.

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville was born on July 29, 1805 in Paris.

Today’s segment of “The Writer’s Almanac,” narrated by Garrison Keillor, noted, “In 1831, (Tocqueville) was 25 years old, and he and Gustave de Beaumont, who was just 29, were sent by the French government to study the prison system in America. They arrived in Manhattan at sunrise on May 11, 1831.”

According to my Elon College history textbook, “The American Nation,” written by John A. Garraty, Tocqueville wrote at the time, “We are leaving with the intention of examining, in detail and as scientifically as possible, all the mechanism of that vast American society which everyone talks of and no one knows… We are counting on bringing back the elements of a fine work.”

[I used notes from my 1971 Elon College history class for the http://www.explorecarroll.com/ column I wrote last night for this Sunday’s Archives column on this topic. (Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/c0ysz)

In addition to my Elon College history textbook, “The American Nation,” written by John A. Garraty.

In the fall of 1971, I had Mrs. Holt for History 211-E, 9:05 AM, MWF. The classroom was in CO-206.

In the spring of 1972, I had George Troxler for History 212-G, 10:10 AM, MWF. The classroom was in CO-213.]

In 1831, our fledgling nation was much on the minds of the French for many reasons, but most notably for the fact that it was in that year that France and the United States teetered on the brink of war over monetary claims accumulated against the French for their actions during the Napoleonic Wars.

The dispute raged-on for years and was prosecuted, for the most part, by President Andrew Jackson, who was not only upset with the French, but also with Great Britain – and Canada – and native Americans...

In today’s world, Jackson would have been diagnosed with an anger management problem. Eventually, the French settled the dispute because, as Garraty puts it, Jackson “showed poor judgment, being ready to take monumental risks to win petty victories… (It) reinforced the impression held by foreigners that the United States was a rash young country with a chip on its shoulders and pathologically mistrustful…”

It is an attitude held by much of Europe to this day.

Historians have developed a number of explanations as to why these young writers made the trip. One accounts says: “Both were at odds with the new government of Louis Philippe,” (the last King of France, Louis-Philippe I,) who had just come to power on August 13, 1830, and they were looking for an excuse to leave France.

Whatever the reason, the result was an ageless classic which is studied and interpreted over and over again, to this day.

My Elon College history textbook, “The American Nation,” written by John A. Garraty, observed that “… many of the fundamental traits of the (American) society Tocqueville analyzed may still be observed in America today.”

For example, “The Writer’s Almanac” segment notes that Tocqueville observed: “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”

The “Almanac” segment reports, “For the next nine months, they traveled more than 7,000 miles, from New England to Wisconsin to Louisiana.” I have yet to determine whether or not they came through what we now know as Carroll County.

Although there is an oblique Carroll County connection nevertheless because the man, after whom our county is named, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, was one of the many Tocqueville interviewed – just before Carroll died on November 14, 1832.

Carroll, who was, at the time Tocqueville interviewed him, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was also the only Catholic to sign; and was considered to be one of the wealthiest men in the U.S.

One publication on the travels and work of Tocqueville notes “Tocqueville interviewed presidents, lawyers, bankers and settlers and even met with Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland…”

Carroll was probably a fascinating interview because it was not until after his death that his reputation was rehabilitated…

Dr. Bradley J. Birzer is currently writing a new biography on Carroll, “American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll (Lives of the Founders) ,” that is scheduled to be released in February 2010.

In a recent interview with Dr. Bradley J. Birzer, in the Washington Times, (Hat Tip: “Against The Grain,”) it was brought out that Carroll “was one of Alexis de Tocqueville's main informants. So there are moments in de Tocqueville's Democracy in America … when he is being critical of the democratic spirit, and it seems very clear to me that he is taking that from his interview with Carroll…

“He was so critical of what happened to the republic after the founding. He's very critical of the democratic element in the American republic - he's worried that self-interest and greed are replacing republican virtue.”

“So from the late 1700s, Carroll starts being called ‘the hoary-headed aristocrat.’ He starts to be seen as a relic of an older age. But after Carroll dies, there's a resurgence of his reputation. All across the country, the headlines read, ‘The last of the Romans is dead.’”

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A Tribute to Paul Causey of Westminster MD Elon College Class of 1950.




I used notes from my 1971 Elon College history class for the http://www.explorecarroll.com/ column I wrote last night for this Sunday’s Archives col http://twitpic.com/c0ysz


It brought back many memories, including:


20080630 A Tribute to Paul Causey of Westminster MD Elon College Class of 1950.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Kevin Dayhoff Fall 1971 Elon College


Kevin Dayhoff Fall 1971 Elon College

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

The evolution of an Elon baseball player by Sam Calvert

The evolution of an Elon baseball player by Sam Calvert, May 12, 2009

Players pave the way to program’s success

Elon Baseball on Dipity.

Throughout the years, Elon has enjoyed a rich tradition in intercollegiate athletics. Several sports have had successful seasons, but none have sustained the long-term success of the Elon baseball program. Since World War II, the baseball team has posted a record of 1498-905-4 and a .622 winning percentage.

This two-part series will delve into the factors that have contributed to a successful program. Part two looks at the players who have made up the Elon baseball program and the roles they have played in the success of the program.

Although it is easy to see the success of the Elon baseball team in the number of coaches, to truly understand the cause of the success one must dig deeper into the biggest assets the coaches have — players.


Read the entire article here: The evolution of an Elon baseball player by Sam Calvert
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Kevin Dayhoff Fall 1971 Elon College


Kevin Dayhoff Fall 1971 Elon College

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Monday, December 01, 2008

Associated Content: Tony Snow, Writing, Libertarianism and Me By Kevin Dayhoff

Associated Content: Tony Snow, Writing, Libertarianism and Me By Kevin Dayhoff

Reflections Upon Being an Aspiring Writer, Tony Snow, Libertarianism, and What If…

Photo: That’s Tony Snow in the 1970s…

I originally wrote this piece on October 31, 2008, after I had stopped by the "Carroll County Times" to drop off a piece of art for the Carroll County Times Newspaper in Education annual auction.

It was published by Associated Content Nov 26, 2008…

[…]

* As an aspiring writer, who stumbled around for several years after I dropped out of Elon College in 1973 to be a "writer," I could easily relate to what Tony Snow may have gone through after he graduated from Davidson and "shuffled from job to job."

* After Mr. Snow graduated from Davidson, he went to work in 1979 for "The Greensboro Record."

* That paper, now "The Greensboro News and Record," is owned by Landmark Communications.

* I interviewed at "The Greensboro Record" in 1973. I had just dropped out of Elon "to be a writer."

* I have followed Mr. Snow's career for many years and I am amused when the media felt the need to label him as a "conservative." He was a libertarian. There is a difference.

Read the entire piece here: Tony Snow, Writing, Libertarianism and Me by Kevin Dayhoff Published 11/26/2008


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Saturday, May 24, 2008

20080518 Paul E. Causey, 81, of Westminster Obituary

Paul E. Causey, 81, of Westminster Obituary

Paul E. Causey, 81 of Westminster died Sunday May 18, 2008 at the Carroll Hospital Center from congestive heart failure.

Born September 12, 1926 in High Point, NC he was the son of the late Charlie Leslie Causey and Ila Morgan Causey.

He was the husband of Elinor Argenbright Causey his wife of 60 years.

Before retiring he was a teacher from 1950 to 1981, in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland teaching Physical Education and Health, Math, then after Sputnik, Science.

He taught at West Middle, Westminster Junior High, and Westminster High School in Carroll County.

He was a B.A. major in Biology and physical Education from Elon College in NC, graduate studies and Masters Equivalent at various universities (Northern Illinois U., Northeastern U., Lincoln U. and University of Maryland).

He coached football, basketball, baseball, track and field and was a line coach at Westminster High School and Athletic Director at King George High School in Virginia.

He was raised a Quaker/Friend; and joined Grace Lutheran Church in 1958.

He was a member of the Elks, Masons (Tobasco 271 in his home state of North Carolina), Carroll County Retired School Personnel Association, Maryland Retired Teachers Association, National Retired Teachers Association, AARP, "Lifelong Democrat," member of Iota Tau Kappa fraternity at Elon College.

He served as the legislative Co-chairman of the CCRSPA and was Chief Democratic Judge in his home precinct 7-1 for many years, was a volunteer for Meals On Wheels.

He served in the Navy during World War II in the Pacific Theater.

He enjoyed playing and watching nearly all sports, gardening in his rose garden with 41 bushes, cooking, reading, traveling, art and going to the Charles Town Races.

Surviving besides his wife is daughters; Jennifer Causey Breen of Media, PA, Donna Sue Causey Bongardt and husband Chuck of New Freedom, PA, grandchildren; Morgan Heather Wayne, Eric Causey Wayne, Susan Breen Irwin and husband Brian, Alexander Mark Bongardt and Coleman Benjamin Bongardt, great granddaughter, Haley Lynn Irwin and dear pal; James Bongardt.

He was predeceased by son; Mark Ewell Causey in 1971, son-in-law; Joseph Breen, brothers; Chester Ray Causey, William Garland Causey and Sylvester Newlin Causey.

Memorial services will be held on Sunday May 25, 2008 at 2 PM at Grace Lutheran Church, 21 Carroll St., Westminster with his pastor the Rev. Martha W. Clementson officiating.

Arrangements by the Fletcher Funeral Home, 254 E. Main St.,Westminster.

Memorial contributions may be made to Carroll Hospice, 292 Stoner Ave., Westminster, Md 21157, Grace Lutheran Church Building Fund, 21 Carroll St., Westminster, MD 21157, Meals On Wheels, 225 Clifton Blvd., Westminster, MD 21157 or to Fisher House Foundation, 1401 Rockville Pike, Suite 600, Rockville, MD 10852.

Online condolences may be made to the family at www.fletcherfuneralhome.net

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Elon College Professor Overton Introductory Rite

Elon College Professor Overton Introductory Rite

Sunday, March 23, 2008 by Kevin Dayhoff

An excerpt from “Easter years ago was a time for new clothes and Easter Egg Hunts”

Sunday Carroll Eagle, Sunday, March 23, 2008 by Kevin Dayhoff



We have new pastors at our church and I can’t wait to see how they deal with liturgy issues.  If they are smart, they will nod appropriately and do as they are told by the congregational liturgists and repeat “et cum spiritu tuo” as often as possible.

Keep up with me now.  In the “Introductory Rite,” the pastor or a cantor will say, “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.”  At that point the congregation responds, “And also with you.”

However, if you go back to original Latin, the response is “et cum spiritu you,” which means “and with your spirit.” 

I learned at in my Religion III class (MWF 10:10) at Elon College that one does not question the translation.  I once asked Professor Overton why the translation was wrong.  (Remember even though Prof Overton was friendly and accessible, religion professors are liturgists on steroids…) 

“Because that is the way it has always been Mr. Dayhoff.  Do you have any additional impertinent questions to share with the class today?”

“Good.  Now please explain to the class why the remainder of the Chronicler’s history – Ezra, Nehemiah – is not paralleled in the Deuteronomic History, which concludes with the Exile.”


Professor Overton emphasized the word “Exile” with a smile. I caught his drift.  It was then that I realized that the fear of liturgists that I had learned as a child was real.  You could say it was my “Road to Damascus” experience in learning the liturgist mantra, “that’s the way we have always done it,” the hard way.
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Monday, March 24, 2008

Easter years ago was a time for new clothes and Easter Egg Hunts - by Kevin Dayhoff

Easter years ago was a time for new clothes and Easter Egg Hunts

Sunday Carroll Eagle, Sunday, March 23, 2008 by Kevin Dayhoff long version

Sunday Carroll Eagle, Sunday, March 23, 2008 by Kevin Dayhoff
Happy Easter.  Yes it’s not quite warm out although warmer weather should be just around the corner.  The first day of spring was – thankfully – last Thursday. 

And yes, it seems like Christmas was just yesterday.  As a matter of fact, Easter will not be this early again for about – oh, another 220 years or so in the year 2285.

The last time Easter was this early was in 1913, but in 1818, Easter arrived on March 22.  If you usually associate Easter with April, there is good reason.  According to an ecclesiastical mathematician in desperate need of a life, the “cycle of Easter dates repeats after exactly 5,700,000 years, with April 19 being the most common date, happening 220,400 times.”

For those of you following along in your book at home, the story of Easter - the Resurrection of Christ - is told in Matthew 28: 8-20, Mark 16: 9-20, Luke 24:13-49, John 20: 11-21 and Acts 1: 1-11.  However the best version is 1 Corinthians 15: 3-9, because it was written by my favorite writer, Paul of Tarsus, only a few years after it all happened in 33 AD.

For those of us who grew up in the church Easter marked the opportunity to wear our “Easter Sunday Best” new clothes.

Another childhood memory is that all the church services and activities during Holy Week and Easter were observed with strict pomp and ceremony as dictated any number of ecclesiastical liturgists in the congregation.

I learned at a very young age that the difference between a terrorist and liturgist is you can negotiate with a terrorist.  For those readers who aren’t aware of ways of the church, a liturgist is sort of like a “parliamentarian” in public meeting – only with an edge.

We have new pastors at our church and I can’t wait to see how they deal with liturgy issues.  If they are smart, they will nod appropriately and do as they are told by the congregational liturgists and repeat “et cum spiritu tuo” as often as possible.

Keep up with me now.  In the “Introductory Rite,” the pastor or a cantor will say, “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.”  At that point the congregation responds, “And also with you.”

However, if you go back to original Latin, the response is “et cum spiritu you,” which means “and with your spirit.” 

I learned at in my Religion III class (MWF 10:10) at Elon College that one does not question the translation.  I once asked Professor Overton why the translation was wrong.  (Remember religion professors are liturgists on steroids…) 

“Because that is the way it has always been Mr. Dayhoff.  Do you have any additional impertinent questions to share with the class today?”

“Good.  Now please explain to the class why the remainder of the Chronicler’s history – Ezra, Nehemiah – is not paralleled in the Deuteronomic History, which concludes with the Exile.”

Professor Overton emphasized the word “Exile.”  I caught his drift.  It was then that I realized that the fear of liturgists that I had learned as a child was real.  You could say it was my “Road to Damascus” experience in learning the liturgist mantra, “that’s the way we have always done it,” the hard way.

Of course, throughout Carroll County’s history, the celebration of Easter has always had an emphasis on the religious aspects of the holiday.  However childhood thoughts of Easter in Carroll County are full of memories of community Easter Egg Hunts.

I only vaguely remember Easter Egg Hunts in the Westminster Playground.  60 years ago, the Venture Club of Westminster sponsored the annual event on Easter Sunday.  An article in the Democratic Advocate on March 26, 1948 also detailed a planned concert by the Westminster Municipal Band; an invocation by Father William T. McCrory, Assistant Pastor of St. John's Catholic Church and that City Councilman J. Albert Mitten would be Master of Ceremonies.

I was recently asked about Easter parades in Westminster and I have no recollection of any such parades.  More research is on order, however, local historian Joe Getty noted in an article he wrote a number of years ago for the Historical Society of Carroll County: “Easter Monday parades were held in Westminster in 1884, 1885, and 1887.  After a short lapse, a large parade was held in 1892…”

For the folks who have asked about story behind the historical marker at the old Post Office at the corner of Main Street and Longwell Avenue, that will be the subject of a future column.  Meanwhile, there is an Easter connection.

However, according to the Historical Society in 1899 “Carroll County was selected by the U. S. Post Office Department as the first county to receive full Rural Free Delivery.  Edwin W. Shriver was the leading proponent of countywide service…  He initiated an experimental delivery on Easter Monday 1899 and full service was inaugurated on December 20th.”

In other news, 85 years ago, on March 23, 1923, the Democratic Advocate newspaper ran a story about a controversy over a proposed site for a high school to be built in Sykesville to serve southern Carroll County.  The article reported that some folks wanted the school to be in Eldersburg and not in Sykesville.

The Carroll Record carried an article on March 23, 1972 which noted that the Carroll County commissioners had asked the state to accelerate the Route 30 by-pass around Manchester and Hampstead.  “Construction funds are presently ear-marked for 1975 and 1976.”

Of course, over 35 years later, the portion of the road around Hampstead is not quite completed.  Speaking of the Hampstead by-pass, word is that there is a movement to name it after the late Carroll County Delegate Richard C. Matthews.

Delegate Matthews, from Hampstead, passed away on December 13, 2007 and was the subject of my December 30th Sunday Eagle column.  The popular elected official faithfully served Carroll County in Annapolis from 1967 to 1994 and it is only fitting and appropriate that the road be named after him.



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Thursday, October 04, 1973

October 4, 1963 Elon Has New Dean of Men - Dr. James H. Overton, Jr


October 4, 1963 Elon Has New Dean of Men - Dr. James H. Overton, Jr

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Dr. James H. Overton, Jr., a native of North Carolina, who has had wide experience in both educational and religious work, is the new dean of men at Elon College, having assumed his new duties with the opening of the 1963-64 college year.

Dr. Overton, who was born in eastern North Carolina, received his undergraduate training at the University of North Carolina and then attended the Divinity School of Duke University, where he received his Ph.D. degree.

He has since earned his doctorate at Duke in the field of church history. He comes to the Elon position from Nashville, Tenn., where he has been with the Board of Evangelism of the Methodist Church for the past three years.

He had previously taught at Lambuth College in Jackson, Tenn., had done religious work with students at both Duke University and N. C. State College and has held a number of Methodist pastoral appointments.


In connection with his work in education and religion, Dr. Overton holds memberships in Pi Gamma Mu, honorary social science group; International Society of Theta Pi, honorary ministerial organization: American Society of Church History and National Association of Biblical Instructors.
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