| Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:34 | Secretary was at school for 42 years by John G. Bailey
If one person has shaped the character of Our Lady of Hope/St. Luke School more than anyone else, it may be Kathleen Shea.
After 42 years of service as the secretary, Shea retired earlier this month.
“She’s the heart of the school,” longtime second-grade teacher Janet Myers told The Eagle.
Many of the students whom Shea dealt with in later years are the children of parents whom she ministered to when they themselves attended the school during her tenure.
Shea knew all students by name. Since 1972, when she started at the school, she got to know each of them by greeting students every morning in the office.
“And she wouldn’t go home at the end of the day until the last student had left, no matter what time it was,” Myers said.
She was active with faculty as well; planning events, helping teachers find things and making sure they were caught up on paperwork.
“She was like a mother to teachers,” said Myers, who knew Shea both as a teacher and as a student.
Shea witnessed all the small and large changes at the school over the years. Her career spans the tenures of four principals, serving Sister Irene Pryle, the current principal, the longest.
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| Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:32 | This year’s retirees include teaching couple by Ben Boehl
Most teachers will say that the end of the school year is tough because the students they were mentoring all year are moving on, while the teachers will come back the following year and get attached to a new set of students. This cycle goes on for years — and in some cases, decades.
Local teachers Jack Sheehe, Bernadine Zienkiewicz and Rick and Bonnie Zentz have seen many years’ worth of students come and go, and now it is their time to “leave school.”
All are Dundalk-area educators who are finishing their last school year before retiring.
Jack Sheehe has been a culinary arts teacher at Sollers Point Technical High School for the last 17 years. He ended his 40-year teaching career last week.
“It’s like I’ve been telling everyone, I don’t know [what is next]. This summer will be like another summer vacation,” Sheehe said. “It won’t hit me until next year.”
Sheehe said he will probably do some volunteering next year at park locations such as Oregon Ridge in Hunt Valley now that his teaching days are over.
The 62-year-old Sheehe felt it was time to retire, since he is now eligible for Social Security and has finished his 40th year in teaching. Also, this was the school’s last year in its old historic building, as Sollers is moving to a new campus it will share with Dundalk High School.
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| Wednesday, 19 June 2013 09:55 | No charges filed against driver as of press time by Bill Gates
Baltimore County Police were still investigating an automobile accident that killed a four-year-old child last week.
Anthony C. Sering, of the 7200 block of Dunmar Court, was struck by a taxicab on Liberty Parkway near Dunmanway just after 6 p.m. on Friday, according to police.
The child was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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| | Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:29 | Dundalk Avenue union hall site set to be sold by Nicole Rodman
After the closing of the Sparrows Point steel mill last year, the United Steelworkers (USW) international union took control over the USW Local 9477 in February, placing the local union chapter under administratorship.
As part of the arrangement, the international union also took over the union hall at 540 and 550 Dundalk Avenue.
At that time, most of the Local 9477 officials were removed, with the exception of financial officer Mike Lewis, who was retained to help with preserving records and dealing with financial obligations.
Since that time, union officials, including Lewis and Jim Strong, subdistrict Maryland director of USW, have worked to close out the affairs of the Local 9477 and prepare the hall for eventual sale.
According to Strong, who spoke with The Eagle last Wednesday, USW is still in the process of going through the 60 to 70 years worth of records at the Dundalk Avenue steel hall.
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| Wednesday, 12 June 2013 12:02 | Weber worried over future of park land, fields by Ben Boehl
Dundalk resident and former Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks Director John Weber does not want to see anything happen to the land at the North Point Government Center.
The county wants to sell the North Point Government Center land and wants the eventual developer to provide a new building to house recreation programs. The county Request for Proposal [RFP] also requires that athletic fields be provided by the developer, either at the current site or elsewhere.
The county government is currently reviewing two proposals. The Vanguard Retail Property Development proposal would leave the athletic fields untouched while providing a new recreation center and building as many as seven new retail slots.
The Sollers Investors LLC plan calls for bringing retail to the site and moving all recreation programs and athletic fields to the former Seagram’s distillery property on Sollers Point Road, now owned by Sollers Investors participant John Vontran.
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