QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER of CALVERT MARINE MUSEUM

"Paddle Your Own Canoe" - A Brief History of Solomons High School, 1921 to 1939 By Clara M. Dixon

[Editor's Note: this article is based on a draft chapter in a history of Solomons employ another teacher and to appoint Mr. William Hellen to that Clara Dixon worked on for several years. The article is a fitting memorial chair a committee to investigate housing. recognition of Clara Dixon's contributions both to education in Calvert County The committee reported back to the board on February 9, (as a student in the Solomons High School and a teacher in Prince Frederick), and to the Calvert Marine Museum. It is also timely in relation to the planned 1922 — again with unusual speed — with the recommendation renovation of the Solomons school as the museum's administration building. Much that a six-room school be erected and that transportation be pro- of the material in the article appeared in a Solomons High School reunion booklet vided by boat for students from Olivet, Rousby, and Mill Creek, issued in 1979, a copy of which is in the museum's library.] and by bus from Coster, and possibly Sellers. The Lower Calvert Educational Association was formed with Marcellus Mitchell he first high school in Calvert County opened on Solomons Davis as president to undertake the raising of funds for the pur- Island on January 13, 1921, in the Episcopal Parish Hall, near chase of land for the school. Since it was not until June 24, 1924, T the end of the present State Route 2. The Reverend Dr. that the school board met to receive a deed for 4.11 acres, the William Wilberforce Costin of the Solomons-Olivet Methodist two years needed to raise the money was the most time- churches read the scriptures, offered prayer, gave an address, and consuming job of all. On that date, Messrs. Davis and Hellen later noted in a release to the church paper, The Methodist, that ". . . presented on behalf of the Lower Calvert Education Associa- there was an enrollment of twenty-nine students. tion a deed to four acres of land at that place for the purpose Governmental machinery evidently moved more rapidly in of erecting a building for high and elementary school purposes the early 1920s than it does today, for records indicate that Dr. thereon." The school board, having been saved the purchase price Costin initiated work for a high school at Solomons before of land, immediately accepted the deed for the ". . . land at Christmas 1920. Minutes of the Calvert County Board of Educa- Solomons purchased most generously by the citizens of that tion for January 6, 1921, report that the board voted to locality..." and expressed "...its thanks for the splendid ". . .establish a group high school at Solomons. Miss Ruth Mills cooperation of the citizenry of that locality." The land had been of Cambridge was appointed purchased from Mr. and Mrs. J. teacher at $720, to begin Cook Webster for $2,400 with teaching in the week of January contributions from the citizens 10, 1921, in a room to be rented of the several communities. for the purpose." Barely six Perhaps two years was not too week elapsed between public long a time in those days for the initiation of the idea and ac- raising of that sum of money. complished fact! Bids for the construction of the By late 1921 the State Board building were advertised, but of Education expressed its con- the first two bids were rejected cern for the status of the in July. Three others offered in Solomons school by citing the August ranged from a high of need for an extra teacher and $40,150 to a low of $19,850, the making a plea that an effort be low bid being from John B. made to remedy the unsatisfac- Lusby, to whom the contract was tory housing conditions. The finally awarded. (The final cost, local board's response was to however, increased to $21,500.} authorize the superintendent to (Continued on page 14)

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TURTLES, AGAIN! FOSSIL FACTS The museum is interested in any By Sandy Roberts sightings in the region of marine turtles, Isognomon maxillata live or dead. Large turtles, primarily log- gerheads, migrate occasionally to this The large bivalve Isognomon maxillata ment joins the two valves and pushes area, especially in the springtime. We are is common in Calvert Cliffs exposures of them apart when the adductor muscle is interested in maintaining records of the mid-Miocene Calvert and Choptank relaxed. The ligarnental area in /. max- sightings and will send the data to state Formations. The genus first appeared illata is composed of a series of fifteen and federal agencies that monitor marine some 210 million years ago fin the Up- to twenty wave-like ridges separated by turtle populations. per Triassic) and survives today shallow grooves. These run transversely If you see a marine turtle, please call throughout many of the world's oceans. on a raised, flat surface across the margin Ken Kaumeyer at the museum. If possi- The thick, white shell has a somewhat of the shell. ble, we will attempt to determine the quadrangular outline. Its beak is pointed Despite its large size — five or more species, sex, size, and certain other and curves slightly forward, while the inches — /. maxillata is a somewhat information. posterior edge of the shell is gently fragile fossil. In life the shell is highly rounded. The two valves are nearly equal nacreous, with layers of organic material in size and moderately convex. Concen- interspersed between limy layers. In fossil tric growth lines show on the outer sur- specimens this organic material has long Two Canoes for Sale face, while the inside surface of the shell since decayed and disappeared, causing CMM has two used aluminum canoes bears a single muscle scar. the limy layers to flake and separate in for sale, each twelve-feet long, in good Isognomon maxillata is readily iden- layers perpendicular to the ligarnental condition. Call Craig DeTample tified by its broad, heavily grooved area. A whole specimen of /. maxillata (326-2042) for further information. ligarnental area, where an elastic liga- is a rare find.

/. maxillata Exterior Clara M. Dixon: 1912-1991 On February 7 the museum lost long- Solomons by Foot, Bicycle or Boat, a pro- time volunteer Clara M. Dixon. She died ject of Southern Maryland Today. Signifi- in St. Mary's Hospital following a stroke cant articles for the Bugeye Times includ- on February 6. ed one on the Weems Steamboat Line in A native of Calvert County, Clara Dix- 1982 and another on the steamboat pain- on had attended school in the local area tings of Joseph Saunders Bohannon in /. maxillata through high school. (See the article on 1983. For several years thereafter, Clara Interior - showing the Solomons High School in this issue.) worked on collecting material fora fuller ligamental area After attending the University of history of Solomons, but this project re- Maryland, she returned to teach for nine mained unfinished at the time of her years in the high school in Prince death. Frederick. She then taught in Prince Clara Dixon's knowledge of maritime George's and Anne Arundel counties, at activities grew from her personal interest Bugeye Timed the same time completing graduate work in the bay and river. She demonstrated Quarterly Newsletter of the in library science, enabling her to seafood cookery; taught the skill of mak- Calvert Marine Museum establish the library for Glen Burnie High ing eel pots at several museum courses; and the School. She retired in 1973 and return- was an excellent guide for tours through Calvert Marine Society, Inc. ed permanently to Calvert County. the collections; and was most willing to (ISSN 0887-651X) In the early 1970s Clara became in- pass on her knowledge of the area C. Douglass Alves, Jr., Director terested in the Calvert Marine Museum whenever asked. She gave freely of her Paul L. Berry, Editor where she served as a host, decent, and skills and energies for many other wor- Other contributors to this issue: member of the Board of Governors. Clara thwhile activities, particularly for her Layne Bergin organized the museum's library when it church in Olivet and with the Calvert Ken Kaumeyer was first formed; for a decade she work- Retired Teachers Association. Above all, Rita Adams ed at cataloging the museum's large col- Clara was a gentle friend to all those who The bugeye was the traditional sailing craft of lection of photographic slides. In the knew her, but with a quiet self-assurance the Bay, and was built in all its glory at Solomons, spring of 1976 she began as editor of the that conveyed strength. Her help and the "Bugeye Capital of the World." Membership museum newsletter, Bugeye Times, counsel will be missed at the museum. dues are used to fund special museum projects, programs, and printing of this newsletter. Ad- which she continued to edit through Clara Dixon was one of four long-term dress comments and membership applications 1983. Clara also served on the museum's volunteers to be recognized at the to: publication committee, with special ex- volunteer dinner on January 23. In Calvert Marine Society, Inc. pertise and interest in the history of recognition of her many services to P.O. Box 97 Solomons. In 1983, Ralph Eshelman and CMM, memorial contributions may be Solomons, MD 20688 Clara prepared the booklet Historical made to the Calvert Marine Museum. (301) 326-2042 Tours Through Southern Maryland: (See photo on page 2) >• 1991 3

NATURAL HISTORY ON EXHIBIT CMM VOLUNTEERS If you have visited the museum in the porated in the design. There has been HONORED AT past few months, you have most likely favorable response to the exhibit, which TWENTIETH seen the new exhibit "Treasure from the reinforces our team's direction. Cliffs: Collecting Fossil Whales." It is a Research continues on the permanent ANNIVERSARY small show, but unique in a number of exhibit, "A Window in Time: Maryland THEME DINNER ways: as the first natural history exhibit in the Miocene." With trips to other The gathering at the Solomons Island specifically designed for and opened in museums, planning meetings, and in- the exhibition hall; as a pilot project for dividual research, progress is being made Yacht Club on January 23 demonstrated the wide diversity of talents contributed our future permanent paleontology ex- toward our 1993 opening goal. We are to CMM in its twenty-year history. The hibition; and as an attempt to broaden also looking at the option of an earlier our offerings beyond what has been opening of the hall in order to complete program following the annual Volunteer predominantly maritime history. a path through to the estuarium. This Dinner recognized all individuals who CMM's recently formed paleontology would give visitors the opportunity to see have given of their time, with special at- tention devoted to those who had one work group, including staff from the ex- the exhibit as it is being built and to learn hundred hours or more of volunteer ser- hibits, paleontology, and education more about exhibit techniques. vice in 1990. In honor of the twentieth departments, researched, designed, and Although the "Treasure from the Cliffs" anniversary theme, four special Volunteer produced the exhibit. We felt that show- exhibit ended in March, it will return for ing the process of collecting whale skulls a few months in mid-summer. We invite Achievement Awards were presented to Judge Perry G. Bowen, Clara M. Dixon, in simple steps would be an accessible your comments and want you to offer and revealing approach. The choice of your opinions. They are welcome and Anna Weems Ewalt, and LeRoy "Pepper" Langley for their key roles in the history large caption type positioned at visitor will help us to develop more "treasures" eye level and the chance to view large in the future. and success of the Calvert Marine fossils in the round were also incor- (Curt Bowman, Curator of Exhibits) Museum. Many thanks to Capt. Smith's Seafood, Adam's Rib Restaurant, Rhumbline, ANOTHER "SCHOONER FARE" CONCERT Naughty Gull, Bowen's Inn, and Sol- AT CMM, MAY 25 omons Island Florist for their generous contributions to the evening. Special ap- The popular folk group from Maine, general seating and $30.00 for reserved preciation is extended to CMM staff for "Schooner Fare," will make its fourth ap- seating of one hundred in a special sec- their assistance in honoring their unpaid pearance at this year's Waterside Music tion. Those purchasing the reserved seats colleagues. Festival on Saturday evening, May 25, at will be invited to a pre-concert wine and 7:00 p.m., around the museum's boat cheese reception with a chance to meet basin. Those attending will have another the performers. Tickets may be obtained opportunity to enjoy a lively program of by calling CMM {301-326-2042} or rousing sing-alongs, fetching ballads, and through an order form that will be sent a "winning, slightly askew sense of out in a separate mailing. humor." Funds raised will go toward the As has been the case in the past two estuarium exhibit. years, the "Schooner Fare" concert is Tickets this year will be $15.00 each for underwritten by Zahniser's, Inc.

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Clara Dixon and Ralph Eshelman, fune 1990. CMM photo by Paula

CMM photo by Alan Manuel Volunteer Helen Hooper accepts award from curator oieducation Craig DeTample at the annual volunteer dinner, January 23, 1991. Bugeye

right: Don Miller, Pat Miller. Awtiw£ 1990

TWENTY YEARS OF GROWTH ffblebrating AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

1970 - 1990

ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1990

he year 1990 marked the twentieth nounced to begin in 1991. A notable Attendance at the museum during anniversary of the opening of the change was the retirement of Director 1990 exceeded 54,000, due largely to the T Calvert Marine Museum. Many of Ralph E. Eshelman after sixteen years of attraction of the new building and its the events during the year used this an- dynamic leadership. Late in the year a new maritime exhibit. Of the museum's niversary theme: in May, there was Inter- new director was appointed — C. Doug- specific attractions, the Drum Point national Museum Day and a special lass Alves, Jr. And the staff and communi- Lighthouse logged 11,600 visitors, the reception to introduce a twentieth-anni- ty felt the absence of the museum's first J. C. Lore Oyster House exhibit, 5,935, versary poster; the Bugeye Ball and twen- curator of maritime history when Paula and the Wm. B. Tennison welcomed tieth anniversary weekend occurred in J. Johnson announced her resignation to 5,804 passengers. As in the past, visitors September; and even the volunteer accept a position at the Smithsonian In- to the grounds and those participating in recognition event for 1990 followed this stitution. Other personnel changes are museum events are added to the official theme. The museum's letterhead and reported later. counts: Patuxent Family Discovery Day postal cancellation proclaimed "Twen- Continued progress during 1990 was (May 5} and Patuxent River Appreciation tieth Anniversary Year," as did the the result of the dedicated work of the Days (October 13 and 14) brought many masthead of the Bugeye Times. Each of museum's staff, its Board of Governors, additional thousands to the museum the four issues of the newsletter featured a corps of hard-working volunteers, and grounds; over eight hundred attended the an article on some aspect of "The Calvert the support of museum members and Waterside Music Festival on May 26; and Marine Museum at Twenty." Museum many contributors. All this effort, how- many visited CMM during the Solomons members, local residents, and visitors ever, was only possible because of the Christmas Walk weekend in December. could not help being aware that CMM continued financial base provided by the By a conservative estimate, 125,000 peo- was celebrating its growth over the past Calvert County government, as well as ple either visited the exhibit buildings, twenty years. the interest of the county's elected Com- used the grounds, or were served through The year 1990 marked the first full year missioners and the staffs of county of- our outreach programs. in the new exhibition building, with the fices. Some projects were made possible Events and activities of the museum first permanent exhibit — "Maritime by grants from the federal government, were generally well covered in local Patuxent: A River and Its People" — in the state of Maryland, and private newspapers, and also in a variety of other place; work progressed in the estuarium organizations. Taken as a whole, the ac- forms of the media. Three books publish- area on the second permanent exhibit — complishments of 1990 represented the ed carried descriptions of CMM along "Estuary Patuxent: A River and Its Life"; combined efforts of all elements of the with similar museums: Naval Institute weekend hours in the summer were ex- museum community and did honor to Guide to Maritime Museums of North tended; a more formal program for the twentieth anniversary. America, Sea History's Guide to museum volunteers was adopted; and an American and Canadian Maritime admission fee to the museum was an- Museums, and William Shellenberger's Bugeye Tiwea

Cruising the Chesapeake: A Gunkholer's SPECIAL EVENTS June 21 at a dockside reception attended Guide. General articles mentioning The museum's attractive auditorium by museum members and county staff. CMM appeared in The Alexandrean, increasingly was used for various events: The boardwalk around the boat basin Fail/Winter; the University of Maryland's a woodwind concert, a chamber music was enjoyed by 150 CMS members at the College Park Alumni Association festival, classic films presented by Saps annual picnic during a pleasant summer magazine; the Maryland Association for at Sea Cinema, volunteer training evening on August 19. Ice-cream sun- Environmental and Outdoor Education's programs — all of these in addition to daes, lighthouse visits, the third annual Newsletter for April; the "So Much, So lectures described in the "Education" fiddler-crab race, and Tenn/son rides with Close" brochure of the Southern section of this report. bluegrass music were all part of the Maryland Tri- County Council; Maryland Lighthouses were the featured activity picnic events. Travelgram, April; Sea History Gazette, during April. An "All Hands on Deck" The major twentieth anniversary February; Maryland Magazine, Spring; event on April 7 combined the efforts of festivities took the form of a weekend Recreation News of the League of Federal staff and volunteers to scrub and polish celebration in late September with Recreation Associations, Inc., July; the the Drum Point Lighthouse inside and music, a raffle, special tours, and an Chesapeake Bay Magazine for October; out. A special Wm. 6. Tenn/son cruise on evening box-supper cruise on the the Baltimore Sun for August 20; and April 21 took passengers to the original Tenn/son to St. Leonard Creek. The most unexpectedly, in an early 1990 Drum Point site and past three other weekend's highlight was the black-tie issue of The News, an English-language lighthouses, with on-board narration by "Bugeye Ball" dinner dance, held at the newspaper published in Mexico City. noted lighthouse author F. Ross Holland. Solomons Holiday Inn. The "Charting the Chesapeake" exhibit The Solomons Post Office set up shop in The thirteenth annual Patuxent River was mentioned in the Chesapeake Bay the museum's lobby on April 28 with Appreciation Days (PRAD) festival was Magazine in October and in the commemorative lighthouse stamps, chosen as the "Fall Event of the Season" Southern Maryland Times in November. along with a Drum Point Lighthouse by the state office of tourism. Special The ever-popular image of the Drum pictorial cancellation created for the promotions, a poster featuring CMM's Point Lighthouse appeared on the cover occasion. master woodcarver "Pepper" Langley, of Bay Sa//or in May, the Washington Patuxent Family Discovery Day on May increased publicity, and pleasant weather Post's "Washington Home" section in 5, a new event tying together a family made for a most successful weekend August, the Southern Maryland Times in learning experience with participation in event. December, a brochure for the Solomons Patuxent Discovery Day, was well- CMM again recognized the holiday Holiday Inn, and the Southern Maryland received. Canoe and fossil trips, toy season with its Members' Yule Party on Christian Yellow Pages for 1990/91. The sailboat making, touch tank, T-shirt the evening of December 7, coinciding lighthouse even appeared on a large printing, and shell creations emphasized with the Solomons Christmas Walk billboard at the northern Maryland the hands-on theme of the day. Another activities, The Yule Party was planned to border on Interstate 95. Americana in May event, International Museum Day, allow members to enjoy the walk while August mentioned CMM in an article offered half-price museum memberships receiving private benefits in the form of about marine artist John M. Barber; an and free admission in honor of the hayrides, lighthouse tours by candlelight, exhibition catalogue from Carmen's contributions of museums to their and seasonal entertainment, while Santa Framecrafters included the Robert communities. That same weekend saw a Claus appeared at the J. C. Lore Oyster Picardat poster for CMM's twentieth reception during which artist Robert House. The year to come was toasted anniversary; and Steamboat Bill had a Picardat, ASMA, signed copies of a with CMM's official drink: a cup of CMM ad for the Brian Hope print of the poster he designed to recognize the Weems Steamship Line eggnog. Weems steamboat at the Solomons CMM's twentieth anniversary. Retiring In addition to official museum events, wharf. Dining & Diversions, Summer, director Ralph Eshelrnan was honored on a number of outside groups visited CMM had an item on the Wm. B. Tenn/son. The museum also appeared in a tourism video about Solomons Island. The distribution of a new brochure on the museum, developed late in the year through the joint efforts of the museum's exhibits department and the county's tourism office, will help attract visitors to the county.

CMM photo by Paula Johnson PRAD poster. state tourism officials present original artwork to CMM's acting director Paula Johnson, while local officials watch. Kepotl 1990 for tours or to hold programs. Among year. Another major change was in the Historical Society for museum concept these were the Southern Maryland development office: Kay Musial left planning. He was also active in local Chapter of the Archeological Society of CMM in June and was replaced by civic and service organizations. Of Maryland in May; Prince George's Coun- Patricia A. Tower. special pleasure was a White House cil for the Social Studies, also in May; the John S. Dickson was hired as aquarist reception for museum directors in Washington Map Society came in Oc- in September and M. Lynn Warren as recognition of successful IMS applicants. tober to view CMM's special exhibit on museum educator in late October. Dr. Eshelman spoke before the Charles "Charting the Chesapeake"; the Deann F. Lesemann was appointed as County Historical Society, the St. Mary's Washington Ship Model Society held a bookkeeper; Rhoda E. Switzer as photo County Historical Society, the Calvert two-day conference in early November; cataloger; Leslie Moore as specimen County Historical Society, and at CMM. and the Chesapeake Bay Commission cataloger; Laura Dowel I, Sue Hamilton, Maritime history curator Paula Johnson toured CMM in November. Deborah Mohler, and Elizabeth O'Neill chaired a session on documenting mari- as exhibit interpreters; and Susan F. time resources at the annual meeting of Chabot, Deborah Coursey, Janet L. the American Association for State and ADMINISTRATION AND STAFFING Hearn, Jean Hooper, Philis A. Hurley, Local History in September; she attend- There were no significant changes in and Cecilia Mistretta as information ed meetings of the Council of American administrative structure in the museum clerks. Two new salespersons — jean Maritime Museums in Philadelphia and during 1990, although there were a Murray and Colette Wallace — served in the American Association of Museums in number of staff changes. Two new posi- the museum store. It was not possible to Chicago. She consulted on traditional tions were authorized by the county for support any interns during the year. boats in connection with the Maryland the museum — the aquarist and the Three staff members were honored by Historical Trust's Smith Island project; educator — and these were filled. Calvert County for their contributions: with the Reedville, Virginia, Fishermen's Receipt of the Institute of Museum Ser- Paula Johnson was recognized in June by Museum; and as consultant and panelist vices (IMS) grant for 1990/91 made it the Calvert County Commission for for the Maryland Museum Assistance possible to fill the position of photo Women for outstanding contributions to Program (Maryland Department of Hous- cataloger, and new positions for book- the workplace; Jimmy Langley was nam- ing and Community Development). She keeper and specimen cataloger were ed "Employee of the Month" for January spoke at a graduate seminar at George established, all using IMS funds. With the 1990, and Alan Manuel received the Washington University; to a Girl Scout decision to charge admission fees to the same recognition for February. group in Redwood Falls, Minnesota; the museum, the position of information Professional and personal develop- Charles County Historical Society; and clerk was established and six such clerks ment were not overlooked. Two trips to the American Studies Department of were hired before the end of the year. were organized for staff: CMM senior the University of Maryland, Baltimore Overall supervision of the museum staff were given a VIP tour of the Patux- County. continued under the county's Depart- ent Wildlife Research Center, Bowie, The curator of estuarine biology, Ken- ment of Economic Development, but Maryland, followed by a canoe trip down neth Kaumeyer, served as the museum's policy guidance continued to be provid- the Patuxent River from Clarks Landing second member on the SEARCH com- ed by the museum's Board of Governors, to Hills Bridge; seven staff went on a mittee. He is a member of the American as established in 1979 by county resolu- fossil expedition to Pope's Creek, Association of Zoological Parks and tion. The board met seven times during Potomac River, Maryland, to gain hands- Aquariums, the Estuarine Research Fed- the year, with additional committee on experience with paleontology field eration, and the National Marine Edu- meetings. Primary concerns were the ap- work. cators Association, the annual con- pointment of a museum director and the Director Ralph Eshelman served on the ference of which he attended in Hilo, raising of funds for the completion of the Maryland Cultural Heritage Museum Hawaii, in August. estuarium exhibit. This same board Commission and helped lobby suc- Michael Gottfried, curator of paleon- serves the Calvert Marine Society — the cessfully for its first state appropriation; tology, was active in the Society of museum's fundraising and membership he was vice president and later president Vertebrate Paleontology, and moderated arm. of the Council of American Maritime a session at its annual meeting in Oc- The major personnel change was the Museums; served on the Board of tober; attended a Symposium on New retirement of Director Ralph E. Eshelman Trustees of the National Colonial Farm, Paleontological Faunas in West Germany on June 30 after sixteen years as head of the board of the Maryland Humanities in September; assisted in mentor pro- the museum. A search effort began in Council, the Board of Directors of grams for Calvert County schools; and April, but it was not until late October CHESPAX and SEARCH; was Southern presented lectures at several meetings. that an appointment was made of a new Maryland Representative on the Two of his publications appeared during director — C. Douglass Alves, Jr. From Maryland Historical Trust; was active in the year, one in Nature and the other in July through December Paula J. Johnson, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, the journal of Vertebrate Paleontology; curator of maritime history, served as ac- the National Maritime Alliance, the Joint two more are in press and two in ting director. The position of curator of Board on Science and Engineering manuscript form. paleontology was filled in early April by Education for Greater Washington, D. C. The curator of exhibits, Curt Bowman, Michael Gottfried. Paula Johnson an- Area; attended annual meetings of the was active in the Council of American nounced in November her leaving to Association of Science Museum Direc- Maritime Museums to which he was ap- take a position at the Smithsonian Institu- tors, American Association of Museums, pointed as CMM's alternate represen- tion, so the curator of maritime history and the Small Museums Conference; and tative and on a planning committee to position became vacant at the end of the served as consultant to Prince George's organize the annual CAMM meetings to Bugeye Time* be held here April 1991; he served as a and The Organized design consultant on the development of Woman Seminar of a museum/visitor center for Smith Island the Business Wom- in conjunction with the state of en's Training Institute, Maryland; was active in the National held in Silver Spring. Association for Museum Exhibition (NAME); and was named to the Calvert County Cultural Arts Council. The EDUCATION curator and the exhibits technician, The year 1990 Denise Weller, attended a NAME marked the first full workshop on interactive exhibits. year of operation of The curator of education, Craig DeTam- the Discovery Room, ple, was invited by the South Dakota with 37,989 visitors School of Mines and Technology's making their way Museum of Geology to assist with col- through this popular lection activities along the Missouri River facility. An innova- in South Dakota. tion during the year Museum registrar, Robert Hurry, con- was the initiation of tinued to serve as a member of the Coun- contract programs cil of American Maritime Museum's ad where tuition charg- hoc computer committee; remained the ed paid for the costs secretary/treasurer of the Southern of the program, in- Chapter of the Archeological Society of cluding staff. There Maryland, Inc.; served until March on the were contract pro- Calvert County Historic District Commis- grams on Coast sion; maintained memberships in nine Guard captain's li- other organizations. He attended two cense preparation work-related conferences: the annual and on building a CAMM meeting in Philadelphia and the sailing skiff. These National Institute for the Conservation of programs proved very popular and will in Maryland," "The Search for Prehistoric Cultural Property's annual meeting in be repeated in the future, as well as ad- Man in Kenya," "Ghost Ships of the Washington, D. C. Two classes were suc- ding new ones. Chesapeake," a report on last year's trip cessfully completed: an overview of an- As the result of a suggestion from to the Fiji Islands, and a program on tiques held at St. Mary's College, and a CMM's ad hoc education committee in the Titanic and its role in cultural con- course on computer data base manage- 1989, the museum held its first "Retro- sciousness. ment at the Calvert County Campus of spectives on Afro-American Contribu- Outreach programs also decreased, the Charles County Community College. tions to Regional Maritime Culture" in largely due to the demands placed on Patricia Tower, director of develop- February. The success of the event was the volunteer docents, allowing little time ment, was enrolled in the Fund Raising in large measure due to the organiza- for programs outside the museum. Management Program at the Goucher tional abilities of Sybil Cook, then with Teacher training programs increased College Center for Continuing Studies' Calvert County Community College. again this year with two sessions of the Professional Programs, and will complete Also following up on the work of the ad sciences project with St. Mary's College the ten-course certificate program in 1991. hoc education committee, CMM form- as well as a continuation of the MEES498 Museum boatwright George Surgent ed the Volunteer Council, to improve the program with the Chesapeake Biological attended a lines-taking class at the Beau- volunteer experience for our volunteers Laboratory. Training programs also in- fort, North Carolina, Maritime Museum. (see also the "Volunteers" section). cluded CHESPAX and the Prince Dee Danzig, museum store manager, Visitation at the Drum Point Light- George's Community College. attended the annual conference of the house continued to increase in 1990, as Programs funded by generous grants Museum Store Association in Washing- did attendance in the Discovery Room, from the Town Creek Foundation were ton, D.C. but oyster house attendance dropped popular. Organized by interpreter Ann Volunteer librarian Paul Berry served somewhat, due in part to the inability to Caspar!, monthly "Young Salts," for on the Calvert County Historic District staff all three locations during the spring children from four to six and their Commission. He attended a study con- and fall. There was a slight drop in parents, dealt with fossil whales, wading ference on "Legal Problems of Museum recorded attendance at school programs birds, crabs, fish body shapes, otters, Administration" in Houston, sponsored because of lighthouse maintenance and saltmarsh animals, charts, sharks, and by the American Law Institute, and also scheduling conflicts. oysters. The Patuxent Environmental and attended the Philadelphia CAMM There was an increase in public atten- Maritime Heritage summer program conference. dance at movies and lectures. This year's went on cruises on the Wm. B. Jennison Administrative assistant Virginia programs included a movie on the wreck and the skipjack Dee of St. Mary's. The Allman attended workshops on Lotus and rescue of a schooner in 1880, a talk students did beach seining, water quali- 1-2-3 at the Charles County Community on the sailing yachts built by M. M. Davis ty testing, and learned about habitats of College; a U. S. Department of Transpor- and Son, "Maryland in the Age of the bay animals. tation Drug Testing Seminar in Baltimore; Dinosaurs," "Striped Bass Management Education department staff participated 1990 at various special events that included in August. The curator also designed the Exhibits and curation staff continued Maryland Day at Historic St. Mary's City, mechanical and biological systems need- to work on the permanent "Maritime Patuxent Family Discovery DayatCMM, ed to operate each aquarium. By year's Patuxent" exhibit, with installation of the Children's Day at Jefferson Patterson Park end, the curator and aquarist had install- fiber optic map, exhibits on shipyard and Museum, Patuxent River Apprecia- ed salt water intake pipes in the boat caulkers and shipyard riggers, and addi- tion Days, Chesapeake Appreciation basin, built support stands, raised each tions to photographs and scrapbooks Days, and the Solomons Christmas Walk. aquarium into place, and installed the about Solomons. Some corrections and Staff members also judged a science fair plumbing of each aquarium life support changes were made to the exhibit based at Our Lady Star of the Sea School in system. An opening of the estuarium is on comments by visitors. The long-term Solomons. still planned sometime in 1991. temporary exhibit, designed to serve un- Paleontology Exhibit: A work team was til the permanent exhibits are in place, organized to develop the design, content, is being revamped to reflect the opening EXHIBITS and funding for the third permanent ex- of the "Maritime Patuxent" exhibit. Although the creation of the museum's hibit, "A Window in Time: Maryland in In addition to "Charting the Chesa- exhibits is primarily the responsibility of the Miocene." The curator of paleon- peake," there were five other temporary the exhibits department, it involves ex- tology and the curator of exhibits will co- exhibits mounted by the exhibits staff in tensive cooperation with most of CMM's supervise the project with assistance the maritime hall mezzanine gallery or units. Under the direction of the curator from the exhibits, education, and de- the changing exhibits area of the new of exhibits, assisted by the exhibits tech- velopment staffs. Work has begun on building. These included: "Capturing the nician, museum cabinetmaker Alan design, funding, and supplemental fabri- Spirit of the Chesapeake Bay," works by Manuel, other staff, and several volun- cation assistance. To further this effort, the contemporary photographer, Robert teers, the exhibit department's efforts the curators of paleontology and educa- Grieser; Commander E. C. Tufnell's ranged from exhibits and graphic design, tion visited the Tyrrell Museum of Pale- nautical watercolors from CMM's collec- to creation of texts and signage for ex- ontology in Alberta, Canada, and the tion; "Louis J. Feuchter: Chesapeake Bay hibits and for the building, to the design New Mexico Museum of Natural History Artist 1885-1957," watercolors in CMM's of lighting and display systems, and to the in Albuquerque to view their exhibits collection depicting Chesapeake Bay installation of exhibit displays having and consult with their exhibits, educa- sailing watercraft; "A Solomons' Christ- varying time periods. tion, and curatorial staffs. mas: Children's Art Exhibit," children's Estuarium Exhibit: The next permanent Other CMM Exhibits: The year's ma- Christmas art contest sponsored by exhibit to open, "Estuary Patuxent: A jor new exhibit effort was "Charting the Calvert County Kiwanis Club; and River and Its Life," occupied most of the Chesapeake, 1590-1990," a joint venture "Treasure from the Cliffs: Collecting time of the CMM curator of estuarine with the Maryland State Archives, fund- Fossil Whales," one of the museum's first biology. The exhibits department provid- ed by a grant from the Maryland temporary natural history exhibits. ed consultation on graphics and other Humanities Council. CMM's team re- Other Design Projects: The exhibits details, made several trips to related searched, designed, and produced a department staff engaged in a number of aquariums in the southeast, and provid- major exhibition based predominantly other projects, including the design and ed some assistance with mounting the on the Huntingfield Collection of charts production of the museum's new aquariums. Because of the nature of this on loan from the state archives. The brochure; installation of both interior and complex exhibit, implementation has in- curator of maritime history and Russell exterior signs in the exhibition hall and volved both museum staff and outside Morrison of the Huntingfield Corpora- on the museum grounds; design for il- contracts. The estuarine biology curator tion — the source of the donation of the luminating the lighthouse and entrance worked on exhibit text and graphic layout charts to the state archives — wrote the signs; consultation on the repainting of with the assistance of Lyons/Zaremba, exhibit script; the curator of exhibits the lighthouse; design, fabrication, and Inc., a design consulting firm in Boston. designed, supervised, and worked on installation of lighting and hanging This task has been nearly completed, production; the cabinetmaker fabricated systems for the maritime hall and chang- with only the introduction and several the structures with assistance from ing exhibits galleries; design, fabrication, graphic panels remaining. A wildlife il- volunteer Paul Adams; the exhibits tech- and installation of new bookcase/display lustrator, Duane Raver, was engaged to nician produced graphics including units and lighting for the museum store; paint original artwork of each plant and labels, banners, photomounts and cut- creation of a paleontology exhibit for the animal species to be exhibited in the outs; modelmaker Jimmy Langley let- state's new Grain Memorial Travel Infor- estuarium. When completed early in tered the title panel and fabricated instru- mation Center near Newburg; and such 1991, the artwork will be used to produce ment mounts and electronics; and the miscellaneous efforts as the design of a the backlit identification labels at the registrar assisted in framing the charts. pin for the museum store, graphics for base of each aquarium. Historic navigation instruments were the Waterside Music Festival, an otter The aquarium tanks, custom designed loaned by the Smithsonian Institution, poster for an estuarium fundraiser, a in 1989, were delivered in February and and several modern navigational in- stamp for PRAD, and graphics for the installed with the help of the fabricator, struments were provided by Zahniser's, Bugeye Times, membership, develop- museum staff, and the U. S. Navy. Habitat Inc. Although this exhibit, produced en- ment, education, staff business cards, inserts for the aquariums were then tirely within CMM, is temporarily at the and the postage imprinter. designed by the curator, Lyons/Zaremba, museum, it will be moved to the state ar- and a contractor, Genesis Studios of chives in May 1991 where others may Brockton, Massachusetts, where the in- enjoy the work produced by CMM's serts were built. These were set in place talented staff. 10 Bugeye T

CMM p/ioto by Paula Stierhoff. Johnson Two small craft and seven boat models "Charting the were added. Kenneth and George Kir- Chesapeake": Russell chnerof Kirchner's Boat Yard donated the Morrison (right) describes yawl boat from the Mattie F. Dean, a charts in CMM's exhibit. schooner built in 1884. Mr. Owen Grover donated his twenty-six- foot oyster skiff, built locally by Ruby Dixon in 1948. An unidentified schooner model was con- tributed by Mr. Bunky Hippie, and six boat models built by the late Roy Em- mans were donated by Mrs. Edith Emmans. The museum's art collection was enhanced by the addition of three original paintings. Mr. H. Graham Wood contributed a mixed media painting of the steamboat St. Mary's at Parkers Wharf, painted by Joseph Saunders Bohannon. Mrs. Anna Weems Ewalt donated an oil painting of Rousby Hall COLLECTIONS cataloged. The curator of paleontology by W. A. Hill. Mr. Robert Picardat The registrar's office handled 229 tran- developed a cataloging system during presented his original water-color of the sactions in 1990. Additions to the perma- 1990, with curation proceeding with Drum Point Lighthouse and boat basin nent col lections included 130 gifts, thirty- volunteer assistance from Wallace Ashby in commemoration of CMM's twentieth five purchases, and eighteen field collec- and Dawn Craft. anniversary. Purchases included the 1864 tions. Also, thirty-one incoming loans A number of significant contributions print, "Bird's-eye View of Annapolis"; a and fifteen donations not entering the were made to the collections. Mrs. map of Maryland with an inset of permanent collections were transacted. Lucille Hahn donated original photo- Baltimore, taken from A General Atlas, Each transaction consisted of at least one graphs and archival material pertaining Baltimore, 1823, by Fielding Lucas, Jr.; item, some contained hundreds; the total to her father, Joseph T. Smith, a long-time and "Map of the States of Maryland and number of objects added to the CMM steamboat captain on the Chesapeake Delaware," byj. Denison, published by collections was 1,139. The fastest grow- Bay. Mr. Richard Fischer contributed the Thomas & Andrews, Boston, and taken ing collection was the archives which ac- business records and related archival from Morse's Geography, 1796. counted for nearly half of the items materials from the J. J. Bafford Store in CMM's paleontology collection receiv- received. In addition to 270 paper items, Solomons. A set of original training ed some outstanding specimens. Mr. 280 photographs were donated and 136 manuals used at the U. S. Naval Am- Wallace Ashby contributed a large and were loaned for copying. phibious Training Base at Solomons dur- impressive fossil sea turtle humerus. Mr. The photo cataloger, assisted by volun- ing World War II was donated by Mr. Ron Ross donated a very rare fossil tiger teers, succeeded in processing, catalog- Dave Stream. Mrs. Gladys Bowers con- shark dentition containing six teeth still ing, and computerizing all recently tributed archival materials, including an in a piece of jaw. Mr. Michael Conlin donated photographs and made signifi- original 1932 M. M. Davis & Son design added a fossil rhinoceros tibia to our col- cant progress on the backlog of photo- plan for a cruiser and two Solomons lection of Miocene land mammal fossils. graphs. Volunteers were also active in Island Yacht Club Regatta programs. Ail these specimens were collected in assisting in the reorganization and cata- Several documents and ledgers pertain- Calvert County by their respective loging of boat plans, personal papers, ing to Chesapeake Bay sailing craft were donors. and business records in the CMM received from the estate of the late Estuarine biology's modern shell col- archives. Dorothy E. R. Brewington, via Mystic lection grew with separate contributions The estuarine collections specimen Seaport Museum. made by Mrs. Anna Weems Ewalt and cataloger continued the process of Mrs. Edna P. Huntington donated a Mrs. Evelyn Parker. In addition, the Inter- organizing the estuarine collections, variety of artifacts associated with the national Museum of Airlines donated a assigning catalog numbers, and recor- development of the Huntington Drone, large collection of shells, corals, and ding the information on cards. Work was a popular fishing lure invented by her preserved marine specimens from the completed on the shell collection and husband. Messrs. Glenn Langley and Joe estate of the late William Holliman. started on the preserved fish and in- Charles each contributed artifacts related CMM received requests for photo- vertebrate collections. The museum also to the production of Cruis-Along boats. graphs from numerous individuals and owns a very comprehensive herbarium Mrs. Gladys Bowers donated rigger's organizations, including the National which remains to be inventoried and tools used by her father as well as ar- Park Service's Maritime Alliance, the In- cataloged. Volunteer Pam Rasmussen tifacts from the Elliott Rooming House terstate Commission for the Potomac began development of a computerized and the Solomons School. A beautiful River Basin, Calvert County's Historic cataloging system. quilt, hand sewn by Annie Johnson of District Commission, Island Publishing The museum's fossil collection (largest Solomons in the late nineteenth century, Company, Southern Maryland Times, in Maryland) has not been previously was given to the museum by Mr. Hugh Walking Magazine, Potomac News, 1990

Ca/vert Independent, The -4/exanc/rean, history of the Chesapeake Ranch Club first draft of a University of Alaska Recreation News, the Washington Post, area, changes in the shoreline around Museum-sponsored fossil small mammal the Washington Times, Bay Sailor, Cove Point and around Solomons Island, analysis of ice-age caves from along the Washington'tan magazine, and Vision the sunken submarine (S-2) at Point Yukon/Alaska border of Porcupine River. magazine. Twenty-eight photograph re- Patience, information about Bodkin Point Michael Gottfried collaborated on pro- quests were handled by the curator of at the entrance to the Patapsco River, jects with the paleontologists at the Na- maritime history while thirty-five were clamming, and the Navy's Amphibious tional Museum of Natural History. handled by the registrar. Training Base at Solomons. There were several requests, in person or by tele- phone, for boat plans, including the DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS Army "T" boats and Cruis-Alongs, both Priorities in museum development for The museum library continued to oc- built by the Davis shipyard or its suc- 1990 continued to be, primarily, funding cupy space in the East Annex where cessors. The interest in plans for Cruis- for the estuarium and paleontology ex- assisting researchers was somewhat dif- Alongs, in fact, took much time for the hibits. Sources of non-county support ficult, usually requiring advance appoint- registrar. Phone inquiries came from were many and varied, from the $75,000 ments. Only with the competent support Florida, Maine, Maryland, Ohio, New Institute of Museum Services grant to the of the registrar was it possible for the part- York, and Tennessee, and asked — in ad- proceeds from a Zahniser's employees' time volunteer librarian to help answer dition to boat plans — for information flea market to help restore the Wm. B. requests that might otherwise have been about a steam launch of 1876, the James Ten n/son. unanswered. Adams Floating Theatre, and the The "Sitting in on the Future" cam- The library's research collections were Maryland naval militia. paign, initiated to help meet the 1989 strengthened by a few donations and Work continued on a major research National Endowment for the Humanities several purchases, but there were fewer task of the library: the compilation of the matching grant, continued to generate donors than in the past two or so years. record of vessels built in southern Calvert revenue — $2,735 in 1990. On-going Interesting purchases included Diego County and on the Patuxent. Two hun- sales of artistic prints and posters brought Garcia de Palacio's Nautical Instructions: dred and twenty-seven vessel records in $4,250. Receipts from both efforts A.D. 1587 (in a 1988 translation); William have now been created in the computer went toward the estuarium. Pratt's New American Coast Pilot, 1887; record. The Baltimore Gas and Electric Com- Thomas Scharf's two-volume Chronicles There were no new publications issued pany completed its pledge to the of Baltimore (reprint of 1874 edition); and by CMM in 1990, although work pro- estuarium in September when John several volumes relating to mapping. gressed well on two works prepared by Smith of BG&E presented a check for Some twenty books were given to CMM CMM research associates. David C. Hol- $40,000, Other support for the estuarium by the United States Coast Guard as part ly's book, Tidewater by Steamboat: The included completion by the Chesapeake of its bicentennial observations, some of Saga of the Weems Line on the Patuxent, and Potomac Telephone of its pledge which were reprints of earlier publica- Potomac, and Rappahannock, was ac- with a payment of $1,750, and the second tions, but some also prepared for cepted by the Johns Hopkins University payment of $5,000 by the Southern distribution to recognize the bicentennial Press, with publication expected for fall Maryland Electric Cooperative on its of the Lighthouse Service. of 1991. Geoffrey M. Footner's The Last three-year pledge. Access to the library's holdings was Generation: A History of a Chesapeake Events were a major source of revenue. provided by initial cataloging of 239 Ship Building Family was in the hands The annual Waterside Music Festival was, titles, and thirteen titles were recatalog- of the book designer, with publication as usual, a great success with proceeds ed. Cards for the library catalog were expected during 1991. netting more than $12,600. Thanks to the prepared again by computer printer and The membership newsletter, Bugeye generosity of Zahniser's, Inc., which new catalog entries were incorporated Times, honored the museum's twentieth sponsored the event for the third year in into booklists, circulated throughout anniversary in the four issues of its fif- a row, all proceeds from ticket sales ac- CMM, and copies sent to SEARCH teenth year. A new monthly newssheet, crued to the museum. To celebrate the members. A few volumes of the most im- The Anchor, was started under the editor- museum's twentieth anniversary, an portant sets of magazines were bound, ship of Lucy Tonacci to keep in touch energetic committee of board members but no other conservation efforts were with the museum's volunteers. The Fossil and volunteers, ably chaired by Linda undertaken. The museum registrar con- Club's quarterly, Ecphora, appeared four McGilvery, presented the first annual tinued to handle archival and other non- times. "Bugeye Ball," a black-tie dinner dance book materials and to see to their pro- Requirements of exhibits and other held at the Solomons Holiday Inn in per storage. tasks of operational concern tended to September. The ball netted just under The museum library was used by both reduce the research activities of the $5,500, and was largely underwritten by staff and outsiders, of whom twenty-eight museum's staff, and there was no funding corporate and individual sponsors: were registered and some of whom made to support any museum interns in BG&E, Patrick M. Buehler, Matthew repeat visits. Users came from Delaware, research. Some staff, however, did use Gambrill (Calvert Marina), Eugene Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, their own time for professional work. Chaney Foundation, Pat Collins (Heritage and Virginia, in addition to Maryland, Ralph Eshelman's research efforts includ- Toyota), Laurence W. B. Cumberland, and researched a variety of topics: the ed a trip to the Netherlands Antilles to John Simpson (Solomons Holiday Inn), Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad, continue his research on island bio- John Gott (Reliable Oil), SMECO, islands in the Chesapeake, the Cove geography and paleozoogeography of Zahniser's, Inc., Bette Bumgarner, and Point and Drum Point lighthouses, the fossil vertebrates, and he completed a Audrey Davenport (Penwick House). 12 Bugeye Timed

Proceeds from both Waterside Music MUSEUM CLUBS Patuxent Small Craft Guild. Members Festival and the "Bugeye Ball" benefit the CMM Canoe Club. Club trips for the of the guild performed many important estuarium. year included: the Rapidan and Rap- services for the small craft collections of The museum was successful once pahannock rivers in Virginia, Black the museum, combining over 680 hours again in obtaining a General Operating Walnut Creek in Prince George's Coun- of volunteer time with some 110 hours Services grant from the Institute of ty, the lower part of Hunting Creek, and of staff time. In addition to routine Museum Services. CMM has been Parkers Creek, both in Calvert County. maintenance and repairs to the boats in awarded this IMS grant for ten of the past Members assisted at Patuxent Family the basin (the utility skiff, the Wonder- twelve years. More than 1,300 museums Discovery Day and provided canoe rides. ful, the Marie Theresa, and the the submit proposals annually, but only 390 CMM Fossil Club. Members of the draketail), club members did the follow- were awarded grants in 1990. In CMM Fossil Club participated in several ing: built a twelve-foot sailing skiff; pur- November, CMM submitted another re- events, including the Montgomery Coun- chased a fourteen-inch band saw for quest for funding from IMS for 1991/92. ty Gem and Mineral Show, Patuxent small craft work; moved two engines, a Also in November, the museum submit- Family Discovery Day. Calvert Marine donated Cruis-Along, and other items to ted a proposal to the newly funded Museum's Twentieth Anniversary a CMM indoor storage area; conducted Maryland Historical and Cultural Weekend, Calvert Cliffs State Park, and a class in building a small skiff (five boats Assistance Program. The 1990 legislature Patuxent River Appreciation Days. At built by participants in two weekend ses- approved $80,000 to be dispersed to these events members displayed fossils sions); repaired and painted a small-boat museums that are not art museums. they had collected, demonstrated fossil trailer; helped move a donated yawl boat Museum membership grew: 230 new preparation, and answered questions to the small craft exhibit; put a fire hose individual, family, and corporate from the public. An exhibit containing rub strip around CMM's floating dock; members joined the museum to bring fossils from Calvert Cliffs was displayed caulked and painted the Pep; built a lif- the total to 1,650. The "Year-End Appeal" at the White Oak Library, Montgomery ting boom for boat basin use; and started made a healthy showing with 269 donors County, Maryland. Several members gave measuring and taking lines off the giving over $17,000. Peter and Zelma talks on fossils to school groups in draketail. They were also active in pro- Margelos made a very special "Year End" Calvert, St. Mary's, Prince George's, and grams with the public at Patuxent Fami- gift of $2,500. Total revenue from Montgomery counties. ly Discovery Day (toy boat building); St. membership dues and "Year-End Ap- Spring and fall business meetings, as Mary's City Maritime Heritage Festival; peal" was almost $67,000, a $3,500 in- well as field trips, were held at Matoaka Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival, St. crease over 1989. Cottages, St. Leonard. In May, a meeting Michaels; and Patuxent River Apprecia- Grants and gifts for special projects was held at the Naturalist Center at the tion Days (toy boat building and exhibit over the year included $5,000 from the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural raffle for skiff). The fundraising activities Town Creek Foundation for the "Young History with David Weishampel as the {skiff raffle and toy boat building) netted Salts" and Patuxent Environmental and guest lecturer. In the fall, CMM's curator $600 for future use in small craft projects. Maritime Heritage programs for children of paleontology presented a lecture on Contributors of materials and services aged four to six and ten to twelve. Town "Fossil Fish in the Baltic" at the museum. directly related to small craft activities in- Creek has funded these programs for six In conjunction with this talk members of cluded the Trueman Lumber Co., Chris years. the club helped sort and identify fossils Washburn's Boat Yard, Sobstat Sails, and The Maryland Humanities Council owned by CMM for use with educational Zahniser's, Inc. supported the "Charting the Chesa- activities. Solomons Island Model Boat Club. peake" exhibit with a grant of $10,000. Numerous field trips were held The club held twenty meetings, with a PRAD {Patuxent River Appreciation throughout the year: Purse State Park, total attendance of two hundred. In ad- Days) gave $950 to the museum for the Maryland; Stratford Hall, Virginia; Lee dition, the club had twelve race days. freshwater marsh trail. The Solomons Creek, North Carolina; Jones Wharf, One proud accomplishment was a dona- Civic Association gave $500 for Maryland; Langley Bluff, Maryland; and tion of $1,000 to the museum for the children's exhibits. Zahniser's, Inc., a behind-the-scenes look at the paleon- estuarium. Club members participated in employees held a flea market and gave tological section at the Smithsonian's PRAD, the Alexandria Waterfront Festival, the proceeds to the museum. These Museum of Natural History. and in races at Breton Bay, Chesapeake funds were designated to the VYm. 6. Ten- Most CMM educational docents are Ranch Club, and the Chesapeake Bay n/son for needed major repairs to the club members. Last year they lectured Maritime Museum. hull. Memorial gifts and in-kind gifts school groups, led school field trips, Southern Maryland Shipcarvers' brought additional support from friends, helped with CHESPAX, and went to Guild. Over the past year the club met new and old. schools to give hands-on talks. Fossil twenty-five times, each meeting attend- Museum friends, volunteers, members, Club members also donated and pre- ed by some ten members, a total of 750 and visitors again gave generously of pared paleontology teaching material. man-hours. Members of the club par- their time and support, and it is always Most of the 45,000 sharks teeth given ticipated in Patuxent Family Discovery a pleasure to say once again a "thank away by the Discovery Room were given Day, the Members' Picnic, Twentieth An- you" for all that is done for CMM. by club members; club members niversary Weekend, and PRAD. They also donated fossil books to the Discovery attended an event at the Chesapeake Bay Room and the library; and they wrote ar- Maritime Museum. ticles for the Bugeye Times and Ecphora, the club's newsletter. Atwuo£ Repoti 1990 13

CMM photo by staff at the center exit from the maritime Paula lohnson hall (handicapped access is also available Patuxerit Small Craft at the southeast door). The materials for Guild: George Surgent this ramp were purchased with a dona- and joe Herbert, tion from a member of the museum's Board of Governors. Handicapped access to the maritime hall mezzanine gallery will receive study in the coming months. One serious problem in the new building developed during the year: minor water entry on the floor of the lowest exhibit level during heavy rains. This may require attention before the per- manent paleontology exhibit is installed in this area. Considerable attention was given by the curator of estuarine biology to the needs of the estuarine exhibit. Although much of the structure of the area for this exhibit was installed during building construction, some of the sup- porting plumbing and tanks required VOLUNTEERS tion of National Volunteer Week. modification as work progressed on this During the year, 118 volunteers con- Of most significance in 1990 was the complex exhibit. (A fuller description of tributed a total of 11,379 hours of service formation of the CMM Volunteer Coun- work in this area is in the "Exhibits" sec- to the Calvert Marine Museum. Although cil, developed through the efforts of an tion of this report.) the number of hours is some ten percent ad hoc committee of several volunteers Some further improvements were below the previous year, the decrease is and staff. This organization has the made on the museum grounds. Perma- explained by greater demands on the following objectives: to recruit and pro- nent directional signs were installed at museum staff, allowing less time to work mote the effective use of volunteer ser- critical points, and interpretive signs with volunteers, and also by reduced ef- vices for the Calvert Marine Museum; to placed along the marsh walk. Two fort to recruit volunteers. It is hoped that act as an agency through which shelters for vending machines were built the creation of the CMM Volunteer volunteers may contribute to the ideals by staff next to the Woodworking Shop Council, described later, will help alter and purposes of the museum; to serve as and near the lighthouse area. The reloca- both of these conditions and result in the link between museum staff and tion of a fence at the rear of the Calvert greater volunteer participation in 1991. volunteers in determining and filling Marine Society property adjacent to the The job market value of volunteer con- specific needs for volunteer assistance; parking area made possible the creation tributions for 1990 was estimated at and to foster a feeling of unity among the of a small, shaded picnic area. This area about $96,000. volunteers. Since all museum volunteers was leased to the museum by the socie- The museum's twentieth anniversary will become members of the Volunteer ty for a dollar a year. A demonstration was the theme of volunteer recognition Council, it will be the means by which streetscape project of the county, exten- for 1990. Instead of a single recipient, they may take a more active role in ding from Lore Street to the south end of four special "Twentieth Anniversary Vol- operation and direction of the volunteer the museum's property, vastly improved unteer Achievement Awards" recogniz- program. the appearance of the frontage on ed Judge Perry C. Bowen, Clara Dixon, Solomons Island Road, with landscaping, Anna Weems Ewalt, and LeRoy "Pepper" paving-stone walks, curbs, and parking Langley for their key roles in the history FACILITIES AND GROUNDS insets at appropriate intervals. The and success of the Calvert Marine During its first full year of operation, museum's vehicular entrance was further Museum. Thirty-four volunteers earned the new exhibition building proved to be improved by the addition of lighting for certificates of appreciation for contribu- quite suitable for its purposes. With the the museum signs. ting over one hundred hours of service, permanent maritime history exhibit in The greatest disappointment of the with Paul Berry topping the list at 1,152 place, and with other areas in use, the year was the lack of action to renovate hours. The chairperson of the Bugeye building was popular with staff, museum the Solomons school for museum ad- Ball and Twentieth Anniversary Week- members, and visitors. A few lingering ministration uses. Although some pro- end, Linda McGilvery, received a bugeye construction problems were addressed — gress was made in preparing drawings carving as a special "thank-you" for her some successfully, some not— and a cer- and specifications, these were not com- leadership in this anniversary commem- tain amount of fine tuning, especially of pleted. This matter should be resolved in oration. the air-handling system, occurred during 1991. In the meantime, the museum of- Volunteers attended monthly "Weigh the year. Improved display lighting was fices remain crowded in the North An- Anchor" information programs, many of installed in the maritime hall gallery, the nex building, but some minor modifica- which were videotaped by volunteer changing exhibit area, and the museum tions made use of this space more effi- Paul Grisso to create a volunteer train- store. A second point for handicapped cient. Similarly, several activities remain- ing library. A one-day trip to Washington, access between the building and the boat ed in the East Annex building where pro- D. C., on May 9, was taken in observa- basin was provided by a ramp built by blems with the heating system and leaks 14 Bugeye Timid in the roof were encountered in 1990. The long-range space needs will be under- county contract was issued in fall 1990 heating plant was replaced, but the roof taken. for a complete painting of the Drum Point leaks continued, despite an effort at repair. Museum maintenance staff — super- Lighthouse, partially painted in 1986, and The museum was notified by the county visor George Nichols, assisted by Darwin this work will be completed early in 1991. that the East Annex would be available for Wilson, Timothy Smith, and Steve only three years, so other arrangements Wallace — have worked diligently to keep Editorial Note: CMM's annual report is produced must be made to house the activities that up the appearance of the museum in alternate years as a separate publication, including full financial reports and lists of museum staff and are there. For the most part, these are to buildings and grounds, aided frequently members. Financial reports for fiscal year 1990 (en- be accommodated in the Administration by community service workers and with ding lune 30) may be obtained by writing to the Building when completed, but a study of support from the county government. A museum.

HIGH SCHOOL. . . CCont. from page 1) awarded a one-year contract for $600 to White. The first graduating of class of 1927 transport the Coster students. had as its motto "Paddle Your Own Canoe," The school for elementary and high school But bus transportation plagued the a fitting description of the efforts that the grades was ready for occupancy by Board of Education for the entire first year local citizens had made to provide educa- September 8, 1925. of operation of the new school. There was tion for their children. With land purchased and the contract mud in Mill Bridge Road and Soilers Wharf As early as May 1935 there were signs awarded for construction, the next big pro- Road. Even the school boat children had of the impending closing of the Solomons blem to be solved was that of transportation. problems: the Board of Education minutes High School. The superintendent reported Between February and May 1925, much of for February 9, 1926, reported that "Clay be- to the school board "that the enrollment in the Board of Education's time was spent in ing the foundation of the ground, the the high and elementary schools at discussions on the feasibility and methods passage of the children from boat to school Solomons was so low as to endanger the of boat transportation for school children building has been very much impeded by continuance of a high school there." In April from Olivet, Rousby, and Mill Creek (later the mud. Gravel as a walk was authorized." 1936, the superintendent further reported to be named Dowel I), and the land transpor- Then in February 1928 Cove Point that the enrollment at Solomons High tation of children from Preston and Coster citizens became involved in the action at School was only thirty-four, about the same schools. In May 1925 a contract was made Solomons. Attendance at the Cove Point as it had been in 1935. By the end of the with Captain Isaac "Ike" Hill to use his con- school had fallen so low by February that school year in 1937, parents were asked to verted brogan, lames Aubrey, to transport it was impossible to keep school open indicate a preference for the high school children by boat for $1,750 per year for five longer and still comply with state law. Over their children should attend in 1937-38. Of years. Within the same month, a contract the objections of the parents, the school was the forty-eight parents polled, only twenty- was awarded to J. C. Lore, Sr., to transport declared closed on June 10, 1928. Mr. John nine replied, with twenty-two indicating a children from Soilers and Lusby, with stops Dare contracted for the route from Cove preference for Solomons and seven for at the Trueman house [where Coster Road Point Lighthouse to St. Paul's church in Ber- Calvert County High School in Prince met former State Route 4] for Coster and tha for $475.50. Frederick. The board decided to wait for the Preston children. When the time came in 1935 for the September opening before making a definite When it seemed that there were no third renewal of the boat contract, the board decision. With thirty-two students enrolled other major problems to be overcome, the decided to accept alternate bids for a bus at that time, the requirement was met for a citizens of Rousby decided that they did not route for the Olivet and Mill Creek students. two-teacher, four-year high school. want to have their children going off to a Eight citizens offered bids on either the boat In the early months of the 1938-39 consolidated school, so they petitioned the route or a bus route, with the award being school year, however, the number hovered Board of Education to continue their school; made toj. C. Lore and Sons for a bus route. at the thirty minimum, but finally fell below the protest was denied. Then the Olivet peo- Undoubtedly the deciding factor in the in February 1939. Although school board ple wanted out, but the board decided that change from boat to bus was the building minutes do not record the discussions bet- it would carry through its original project for of hardtop roads into those communities in ween February and July 25, 1939, on that lat- one year or longer and would therefore close 1931 and 1932. The Rousby children, ter date a contract for $1,350 per year for six the school at Olivet until it was decided to however, continued to be transported by years was awarded to Charles A. Gray to pro- reopen it. Not to be outdone, Coster boat until 1941. vide transportation between Solomons and residents voiced their dissatisfaction to the The Solomons School opened in 1925 Prince Frederick for the high school superintendent on the closing of their with six classrooms (two designated for the students. school, citing the failure of the board to pro- high school), a spacious playground and The graduation of five girls from the vide suitable transportation. To keep the athletic field, transportation, a ram providing stage of the Episcopal Parish Hail on June Coster parents satisfied with their school's a water system for the indoor plumbing, but 8, 1939, brought to an end the eighteen-year closing, the board offered for those who liv- no electric power. The two-teacher, four-year life of the high school in the Solomons ed more than one mile on the Coster Road accredited high school was led first by school. The high school ended where it from the Trueman house ". . .the sum of 15 Douglas Bivens, assisted by Anna Noll. Later began—upstairs in the parish house. Use of cents per day for each child . . . brought to teachers included Emmy Lou Patton, Harry the Solomons school as an elementary the juncture of the Coster Road and the State R. Hughes, Virginia Bell (later Mrs. Joseph school continued until the late 1960s when Road and attend school at Solomons." It was C. Lore, Jr.), Frances I. Gruver (Mrs. Herbert it was abandoned by the Board of Education. not until the middle of September 1925 that Stevens), Wallace V. Smith, Verna Bafford A few years later, the building became the the Coster people resolved their transporta- (Mrs. Preston Lore), Irene Hutchins (Mrs. exhibition building of the Calvert Marine tion problem. Mr. John H. McCready was Elliott King), Henry Rembert, and Margaret Museum. Sfrtutg 1991 15

YEAR-END APPEAL CONTRIBUTORS FOR 1990

The Board of Directors of the Calvert Marine Society, the museum director, and staff thank all of the following members and friends who contributed to the 1990 Year-End Appeal. These contributions of over $17,000 will help museum projects not otherwise budgeted.

Ms. Christiana Alexander • Mrs. Frances Allis • Mr. & Mrs. James J. Francis King • Mr. & Mrs. James J. King • Jerome & Yvonne Knaebel Allman • Mr. Charles Andrews/Ms. Elin Quigley • Mrs. Anne O. Andrick • Mr. & Mrs. Herman F. Koch • Mr. & Mrs. Philip D. Korn - Mr. & Mrs. • Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Arend • Mr. & Mrs. joe Arendes • Arrow Thaddeus C. Kraemer • Mr. & Mrs. Paul E. Kraft • Mr. Kenneth Kroehler Genera!, Inc. • Mr. Wallace L Ashby • Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Avram • Mr. • Mr. & Mrs. Steven T. Kullen • Mr. & Mrs. Warren Kunz • Cdr. Peter & Mrs. Donald Bachman • Mr. & Mrs. C. D. Bare • Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. Lawson, II • Mr. Daniel Layton • Mr. & Mrs. Wynn Lee • Mrs. Sarah F. Barnard • Mr. Richard C. Barrett • Mrs. Isabelle Berezoski • Bernard V. Leese • Mr. Michael Leonard/Ms. Mary Baluss • Mr. & Mrs. Don A. Curley Assoc, Inc. • F. W. & Barbara Bernhardt • Mr. & Mrs. William Lesemann • Mr. & Mrs. Lester N. Lester • John & Doris Lewis • Dr. & Bernheisel • Mr. & Mrs. Paul L. Berry • Ms. Barbara Bickelhaupt • Mrs. Louis F. Libelo, Jr. • Mr. & Mrs. C. A. Lidie • Ms. Lauren Liebrecht Colonel & Mrs. Robert N. Bierly, Jr. • Mr. & Mrs. Doyle Bigsby • Mr. • Mr. & Mrs. Bernard A. Lietz • Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Loveless • Mr. & & Mrs. James A. Bosweil • Mr. & Mrs. J. Arthur Bowen • The Honorable Mrs. Joe Luton • Mrs. Barbara MacFarlene • Mrs. Lisa Mandell • Mr. & Mrs. Perry G. Bowen, Jr. • Mr. & Mrs. John C. Boyd • Mr. & Mrs. Alan Manuel • Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Marcotte • Mrs. Anna Marcus • Mr. Michael S. Buchko • Mr. Dwight Bues • Ms. Deborah J. Burdette • Mr. & Mrs. Peter A. Margelos • Mrs. Margaret G. Markel • Mr. & Mrs. Myron & Mrs. William S. Bushell • Mrs. James H. Buys • Pat Cahill • Ms. G. Marlay • Mr. & Mrs. John A. Marshall • Colonel & Mrs. Leonard M. Eleanor Caputo • Ms. Elsie M. Carper • Gather Marine, Inc. • Mr. Mason • Mrs. Mace! H. McGilvery • Mr. & Mrs. William H. McGilvery, Norbert Chandler • Mr. Frank Chaney • Mr. Robert D. Cheel • Ms. III • Mr. & Mrs. William H. McGilvery, IV • Mrs. Sally V. McGrath • Diane Childress • Ms. Christine B. Clarke • Ms. lloa B. Clayton • David Mr. Warren McKay • Captain & Mrs. Robert D. McWethy • Mr. & Mrs. & K. H. Cockey • Mr. & Mrs. Robert Coffin • Mr. & Mrs. Melvin A. Ralph D. Meilinger, Sr. • Mr. & Mrs. J. Paul Menehan • Mr. Andrew H. Conant • Ms. Brinson Conerly/Mr. Paul Perks • Mr. & Mrs. John Metz • Lt. Colonel & Mrs. Donald B. Miller • Drs. Robert & Kathleen Connolly • Mr. & Mrs. Frank Costello • Mr. & Mrs. David Coughlin • Miller • Lawrence & Lucy Miller • Mr. Timothy A. Miller • Lt. Colonel Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel Coulon • Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Cridlin • Mr. & Mrs. George E. Mineur, Jr. • Mr. & Mrs. M. P. Monroe • Mr. & Mrs. E. Scott Jo Bruce Crozier • Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cudd • Mr. Ronald H. Culver Moore • Ms. Margaret G. Moran • Mrs. Amelia T Morsel! • Dinata • Mr. & Mrs. Laurence W, B. Cumberland • Charles & Faye Dammann Moulton • Mr. Carl W. Neutzel • Ms. Jennie S. Nicholas • Mr. & Mrs. • Mr. & Mrs. George A. Dankers, Jr. • Ms. Doris M. Darrah • G. Thomas Jack Northam • Mr. Charles O'Brien • Ms. Dorothy L. Ordwein • Mr. Daugherty • Mr. & Mrs. James W. Davis • Mr. Michael K. Davis/Ms. & Mrs. G. S. Oursler, Jr. • The Honorable George W. Owings, III • Mr. Elizabeth A. Petersilia • Mr. & Mrs. Louis C. DiGiovanni • Ms. Pauiette & Mrs. Nathaniel Parks • Mrs. Jefferson Patterson • Mr. & Mrs. Francis L. Dininny • Miss Clara M. Dixon • Mrs. Margaret Dobi • Mr. & Mrs. Paul • Ms. Shirley Paulson • Mrs. Virginia Peddicord • Mrs. Ruth Henry L. Dodson, Jr. • Philip & Namie Domras • Mr. & Mrs. Robert Peterson « Mr. & Mrs. W. Lee Phillips • Dr. & Mrs. Austin P. Platt * M. Douglass • Mr. & Mrs. Arthur W. Dowel I, Jr. • Mr. & Mrs. William Donald & Ann Polz • Mr. & Mrs. Herman E. Popka • Mr. & Mrs. B. M. J. Dry • Captain William T. Dutton • Mr. & Mrs. Ralph H. Dwan, jr. • Pouncey • Mr. Theodore Pratt, Jr. • Mrs. Eleanor Price • Mr. & Mrs. Horace & Joan Eltonhead • Dr. & Mrs. Ralph E. Eshelman • Mr. & Mrs. Robert Purple • Mr. Harvey E. Pyles, Jr. • Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Quinlan • Wallace A. Eslinger • Mrs. Mary Evans • Mr. & Mrs. G. Walther Ewalt Mr. & Mrs. Bob Ray • Peggy & Claire Richardson • Mr. & Mrs. Henry • Mrs. George L. Ewalt, Jr. • Mr. & Mrs. Charles Fadeley • Mr. Richard E. Riecks • Mr. & Mrs. Calvin W. Roberts • Mrs. John F. Roberts • Mr. J. Fanning • Ms. Christine). Ferrandino • Mr. & Mrs. Elliott Finley • Mr. Victor Roming • Mr. Sheldon Samuels • Mrs. Marjorie Scheibel • Mr. & Mrs. John G. Fletcher, Sr. • Mr. Victor T. Fortwengler • Mrs. Clarence Robert Schick • Schluderberg Foundation, Inc. • Ms. Mary Lou Scrudato E. Fothergill • Mr. & Mrs. Lurman Foxweli, Sr. • Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. • Mr. Richard Seaman • Mr. James C. Sharp • Mr. & Mrs. C. T. Sharpless Freeman • Mrs. Frances Gallegos • Mr. & Mrs. W. E. Garapick, jr. • Mr. • Dr. Frank E. Shaw • Mr. Roy Shields • Mr. & Mrs. Michaei Shisler • & Mrs. Donald Carl Gatewood, Sr. • Mr. & Mrs. W. Gordon Gemeny Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Showalter* Mr. & Mrs. William Simpich • Dr. & Mrs. • Mr. & Mrs. Charles Godwin • Mr. Frederick A. Goettel • The Bruce H. Smith • Donald & Sarah Smith • Mr. & Mrs. James Smith • Honorable & Mrs. Louis L. Goldstein • Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Gondolf • Drs. Sterner, Spitzer & Jeschke • Mr. & Mrs. Edward A. Sprague • Ms. Mr. & Mrs. Eugene B. Gorrell • Mr. Michael Gottfried/Ms. Pamela Mildred 8. Stevenson • Mr. H. Warren Stewart • Mr. & Mrs. John F. J. Rasmussen • Mr. Joseph H. Cribble • Mr. & Mrs. Albert C. Grosvenor Stinson • Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Sullivan • Mr. V. Wayne Swartwood • • Mr. Garner T Graver • Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Gudiness • Mr. & Mrs. Mr. & Mrs. Raymond T. Tate • Mrs. Veda H. Taylor Barnes • Mr. George James Hager • Mr. King Hall • Mr. Thomas L. Hance • Ms. Angela C. Tilghman - Mr. & Mrs. Wellstood W. Tipton • Wilton & Dot Todd Harkness • Mrs. Edith Marsh Harrison • Frank & Judith Herndon • • Ms. Martha W. Tongue • Mr. Thomas O. Tongue • Mr. John C. JoAnne & Michael Hildebrand • Mr. & Mrs. M. Kiplinger Hine, jr. • Mr. Townsend, Jr. • Mr. & Mrs. Charles Tulip, Jr. • Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tyler & Mrs. Neil Hoffman • Mrs. Virginia H. S. Hoffmaster • Mr. & Mrs. F. • Mr. & Mrs. Alan Ullberg • Mrs. Ethel B. Vann • Mr. & Mrs. Fletcher Ross Holland • Mr. & Mrs. William J. Hopkins • Mrs. Roy C. Howard Veitch • Mr. & Mrs. R. W. jack Voigt • Mr. & Mrs. Richard Walchli • • Mr. William L. Hudson • Mr. & Mrs. Phillip S. Hughes • Mr. & Mrs. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Warren • Mr. & Mrs. John Whitmore • Mrs. Virginia William G. Hupfeldt • Mrs. Ailene Hutchins • Mr. Amos Hutchins, Jr. Whittington • Mr. & Mrs. William D. Wiard • Mr. & Mrs. Ralph S. Wicke • J. E. Rice Insurance Agency, Inc. • Mr. & Mrs. J. Merton Jarboe • Mr. • Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Williams, III • Mr. & Mrs. Gordan Page Williams & Mrs. C. Vernon Jarvis • Mr. & Mrs. Robert Jeffries • Ms. Betty Johnson • Mr. & Mrs. John W. Williams, Jr. • Dr. & Mrs. Robert Williams • Mr. • Mr. & Mrs. jack Johnson • Paula Johnson/Carl Fleischhauer • Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Williams, Jr. • Mr. Darwin Wilson • Mr. & Mrs. Raymond T. Johnson, jr. • Mr. & Mrs. Walter R. Johnson • Mrs. Madeline George Winterhalter • Mr. & Mrs. G. Keith Witheridge • Mr. Bartley A. Johnston • Mr. & Mrs. Carl Jones • Mr. & Mrs. Donald Jones • Ms. Wood • Mr. & Mrs. Gary Wood • Mr. George B. Wood • Mr. & Mrs. Gloria Jones • Mr. & Mrs. Robert Jordan • Mr. & Mrs. Joseph T. Keiger Edgar Woodburn • Mr. & Mrs. John A. Yacovelle • Mr. & Mrs. William • Mr. & Mrs. S. D. Keim • Ms. Josephine G. Khan • Colonel & Mrs. L. Yates • Mr. & Mrs. Philip L. Yeats • Mr. & Mrs. A. W. Zahniser, III 16 Bugeye T

VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT— Dede King Volunteer Council President, Museum Store Volunteer Layne Bergin, volunteer/events coor- the structure, staffing, and aims of this in- dinator, spoke recently to Dede King stitution. This is why the orientation re- about volunteering and about the new quirement is essential. It is the quickest, Volunteer Council. easiest, and hopefully, most interesting Layne: "You've been volunteering at way of learning what we need to know. the museum for five years now. What dif- Any volunteer who feels they are already ferences do you see the new Volunteer knowledgeable we'd love to have as Council making in your experience trainers or just for their input (critical or here?" otherwise) at the session." Dede: "It's too soon to say. We are still Layne: "What other thoughts do you feeling our way in the role of volunteers want to share?" in the museum and the interaction of the Dede: "As the museum, or anything for Volunteer Council with the staff. And that matter, grows in size and stature, it we've got some problems to be ironed CMM photo by Paula iohnson also must look to more formally organiz- out." ing its duties and responsibilities. The Layne: "One of the requirements of Volunteer Council was established to ad- Volunteer Council membership is that dress this need. The jobs of docent, everyone attend a six-hour orientation, greeter, store salesperson are still there, even volunteers who have been with us but specialized and more technical jobs for many years. The orientation covers are surfacing which also need doing. If CMM history, museum policy, emergen- WANTED: you are willing, there is no talent that cy management, and a site tour, as well can't be utilized somewhere at the as basic volunteer information. There has SPECIAL VOLUNTEER museum. been some confusion and even resistance The museum's exhibits department is ***** to this." looking for an individual with experi- Are you interested in the volunteer pro- Dede: "As we grow in understanding ence in the use of typesetting equipment. gram? Call Layne Bergin to request an ap- of our role as volunteers in the museum, Please call Layne Bergin for information plication form and future orientation or to volunteer. hopefully, we can all learn more about dates.

MUSEUMS FEES IN 1991 Members are reminded that beginning in January 1991 the museum instituted admission fees for its exhibit areas. These fees are $3.00 for adults; $2.00 for children and seniors. Members of the Calvert Marine Society, however, enjoy free admission, but be sure to bring your CMS membership card. Rates for the Wm. B. Tennison cruises in 1991 have been changed. Adults will now be $4.00 each, children $2.00 (under 5 years old free with paying adult). The charter fee remains $125 per hour (ten percent discount for CMS members). See calen- dar for details of cruises.

NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION PERMIT NO. fCALVERT MARINE MUSEUM! i i i i i ••*•• i~'i i SOLOMONS P.O. BOX 97 MARYLAND SOLOMONS, MD 20688