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ROLAND PARK NEWS Neighborhood Treasure: 305 Cable Street Summer 2012 By Kate Culotta At the age of 33, Head tried downhill skiing for Volume Did you hear the first time. As a lanky the one about 6-foot 4-inch man, he Forty-Six the horse, the was dismayed by his engineer and the clumsy performance nun? It sounds on the heavy wooden like the start of a This Issue’s skis. He found the task bawdy joke, but tiresome, and the skis Highlights it’s actually how unwieldy. Head started the story of an to tinker with the ski engineer who came KidsView design, putting his to Baltimore, rose engineering mind to to become one of Page 6 the project. He once the greatest sports quipped, “If hickory Greater Roland innovators of our was the best material Park Chili time, bought an old for skis, then they’d stable and sold it Cook-Off make airplanes out of to a religious order it too.” Head looked at Page 10 begins. Sit back and the problem from an enjoy the story of Summer aeronautical perspective, 305 Cable Street. adhering thin layers of Thoughts: The old stable at 305 Cable Street, renovated by ski and tennis racket innovator Howard Howard Head was Head, is now home to the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. aluminum to slender Rain Barrels born to a prominent Photos: Kate Culotta strips of plywood. Page 17 Philadelphia family on July Towering Trees: 3, 1914. He American Beech graduated from Harvard in Page 19 1936 with an engineering Home Sales degree, and Page 22 a job with the Glenn Bookends: A L. Martin Closer Look at Company the Toxins We (now the Meet Every Day Lockheed Martin During the meticulous renovation, the exterior stall Page 24 Corporation) doors were duplicated and replaced. brought him to Ciclovía 5: From Baltimore. Head The stable’s trap door and pulley system from the hayloft remains to this day. Park to Park! started with the aerospace manufacturing company as a riveter in its then newly built Middle River plant, Page 28 The new skis were very lightweight, and pro skier and stayed with the company for the next 12 years as Neil Robinson offered to test them on downhill runs an aeronautical engineer. With his wife, Martha, Head in Stowe, Vermont. The skis broke each time, and raised a family here, on Blythewood Road, in north Robinson sent the broken bits back to Head, who Baltimore. Continued on page 14 Editor’s Notes Roland Park News By Martha Marani might include a leisurely breakfast at the newly expanded Miss Shirley’s Café, Volume 46 Eight years ago, I wrote the fol- followed by a walk past the house at Summer 2012 lowing in my editor’s notes for 305 Cable Street. Kate Culotta shares the summer issue: the interesting history of this reno- vated stable in our cover story. Table of Contents Summer is a great time for the 1 Neighborhood Treasure: 305 Cable Street impromptu backyard barbeque. On our way home, we might stop to 2 Editor’s Notes The kids play on the swings or admire the enormous beech tree on 2 Ciclovía 5: From Park to Park! whack the tetherball back and Oakdale Road, which we now know to be a beech that weeps rather than 3 Art Happenings forth, the grown-ups sip a cold drink and catch up over grilled a weeping beech. The kids will likely 6 KidsView whatever-you’ve-got-in-the-‘fridge. Night veer off and go solo to the Roland Park Pool 7 Calendar & Announcements falls and sleepy kids use their last bit of ener- (something they weren’t old enough to do 8 Friends Senior Awarded Princeton gy to chase fireflies. This summer, as you’re on their own eight years ago), while I head Prize in Race Relations thinking about firing up the coals, consider home to round the dogs up for a trip to 8 4th of July Family Parade inviting the new family across (or down or Robert E Lee Park’s Paw Point dog park. 9 Roland Park Pool News up) the street. It’s a great way to make our In the afternoon, maybe there will be enough 9 Exceptional Teaching Honored new neighbors feel welcome. It’s the Roland time to consider implementing some of the Park way. 10 Greater Roland Park Chili Cook-Off energy-saving tips our new “EnergyWise” 12 EnergyWise: Time-Tested Tips That year, my children were 3 and 4. Today, columnist, Polly Bart, suggests. Polly is tak- 13 Summer Recipe: Tilghman Island Crab Cake the swings are gone and an umbrella clothes- ing over for Shannon Putman who, with Lynne Heller, started the “EnergyWise” 15 Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur line has replaced the tetherball pole. Kate still chases fireflies, but it takes her far longer column in the summer of 2006. Thanks 16 Spring Celebration to get sleepy. The “new” families across the Shannon, and best of luck to you and your 17 Summer Thoughts: Rain Barrels street and next door are among our dearest family in your new neighborhood! 18 Maintenance Update friends. Some things have changed, but we Finally, I’ll try to steal a relaxing moment 19 Towering Trees: American Beech still enjoy summer “the Roland Park way.” on the porch swing with one of the books 20 Robert E Lee Park Springs into Action I wrote in another summer issue that, “the suggested by Julie Johnson from the Roland 21 Welcome New Neighbors! frantic, get-up-and-get-to-work/school or Park Library. 21 Summer Recipe: Soup Vichyssoise -baseball/soccer/lacrosse or -dance/art class/ 22 Message from the piano lessons pace we experience during the Not bad for Day 1! Relax and enjoy your summer in Roland Park, whichever way Architectural Review Committee rest of the year leaving us longing for lazy O 22 Miss Shirley’s Café Roland summer days.” This year, those lazy days you want! Park Has Expanded! 22 Home Sales 24 Bookends: A Closer Look at the Toxins We Meet Every Day Ciclovía 5: From Park to Park! 25 The Book Nook The Roland Park Civic League, Keswick Multi Care Center and Baltimore City BMore Streets 28 Ciclovía 5: From Park to Park! for People Program hosted a fifth ciclovía on May 5. In this “Park to Park” car-free event, vehicular traffic was diverted from southbound Roland Avenue and W. University Parkway, as well as Tudor Arms Avenue, Beech Avenue, Gilman Terrace and Wyman Park Drive, allowing participants to bike, skate, jog or walk a three-mile course from Roland Park to Druid Hill Park. Also collaborating in this first multi-neighborhood ciclovía was Friends Editorial Board: Martha Marani, Anne Stuzin and of Druid Hill Park; the Rolden, Hoes Heights, Wyman Park, Hampden and Remington Henry “Chip” Mortimer neighborhood associations; the City of Baltimore; and Johns Hopkins University. Advertising Manager: Marni Toop Advertising Coordinator: Elena Kirkpatrick Mills Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was on hand to kick off the event, along with Roland Park News is published quarterly by the Roland Councilmembers Mary Pat Clark and Sharon Green Middleton. Mt. Washington Bike Shop Park Community Foundation, tuned bikes along the course and instructed children on bicycling safety. Bike Maryland 5115B Roland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21210 organized kids’ bike safety rodeos. Teachers for Sale, a band comprised of members of Telephone: (410) 464-2525 Gilman’s faculty, performed outside the Roland Park Library. Charm City Yoga offered FAX (410) 464-2533 15-minute Yoga Pit Stops at Druid Hill Park. Participants enjoyed another Tunes @ The E-mail: [email protected] Chair, Mary Page Michel; Vice Chair, Ellen Webb; Treasurer, Tower festivities at the Roland Water Tower. There was live music, games, a kids’ bike Paul Anderson; Secretary, Helen Montag decorating workshop, a raffle and fabulous food, all offered by the Friends of the Roland Water Tower. Graphic Production: DesignConcept.com Printer: Swanson Graphics Through its BMore Streets for People Program, which is focused on promoting health, Deadlines for copy, including announcements and calendar community and business, Baltimore is one of scores of cities worldwide developing ciclovía items, are February 1 for Spring issue, May 1 for Summer programs. More than a thousand people have participated in each of the five Roland Park issue, August 1 for Fall issue, and November 1 for ciclovías. Look for news of the next event! Winter issue. You’ll find photos of the event starting on page 28. 2 opportunity to study the artist’s development over nearly four Art Happenings decades, from her early works under the tutelage of French Nabi Evergreen Museum & Library (4545 N. Charles Street) is housed painter Maurice Denis, to her mature compositions of sensual in a former Gilded Age mansion surrounded by Italian-style portraits and haunting landscapes that fused traditional Asian gardens. It is at once an intimate collection of fine and decorative styles with the spirit of Western modernism. The exhibition arts, rare books and manuscripts assembled by two generations of includes never-before-exhibited paintings, drawings, lacquer the B&O’s philanthropic Garrett family, and a vibrant, inspirational panels and book illustrations chronicling a career that was much venue for contemporary artists. The museum is open by guided inspired by the artist’s more than 20 years of living and teaching tour only, offered on the hour 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through in Indochina. Included with paid museum admission and on Friday, and noon to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday.