Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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THE TOWER LIGHT Why Should I Think I'm Great? I can stand up tall on tiptoe Arms stretched very high But I cannot reach the sky. I hear the organ's full rich tone And know my voice is but a reed Which cannot reach another's need. I feel the sod beneath my feet. Within that sod there's wealth untold I have no power to unfold. Why should I think I'm great? ELIZABETH MCINTYRE. oze Maturity A child I Was, and full of faith in life, Real faith in God, and man, and you, who held Unknowingly, the strings to open up my heart To all the beauties of a golden world. With soul as trusting as a mother's eyes, I placed into your waiting hands my love. Real love it was, pure, true, and full of hope That I might make my very life your own. You smiled and all my baby dreams came true. I breathed those days of ecstasy unknown Since that sad night so many years ago, When you kissed my cheek and left me there alone. She's just a childf' I think I heard you say- But God was kind-for I grew up that day. AN ALUMNA. 9:0 Writing is like laughter. To be genuine it must come from within a man. The power to write well cannot 'be handed over to us by the best teachers, it cannot be extracted from any or all of the books in the library. It is simply the expression of ourselves, the externaliza- tion of our minds, imaginations, hearts. 7

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THE TOWER LIGHT Youth My eyes lingered on that face! I knew she once had dreams Of happiness unmarred By petty things-or scarred by Life. And yet she stands here! Dreams tumbled about her feet! She has but an empty shell, But one could not tell by her face. Visions have clouded. g Life has not proved too kind. Yet perhaps she's happier Than I with these dreams of mme, awaiting Life. 9:0 , Age She was old! Silver hair, Sweet face, Hearing almost gone. Yet, there throbbed a heart I knew had done its part for others. She drifted back. Seemed quite sad. Her life had been Just one of little things. Rejoice! The big things are for self. The little things bring wealth To others. Life Love's warm tender glowg Intelligence's lightening of timeg Friendship's ever sweet understanding, And Eternity's whispering softly of the Divine All are Life. 6

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THE TOWER LIGHT Some Eastern Shore Families T is very noticeable that in the more southern counties of the Eastern Shore, estates, manors, and grants are connected more conspicuously with families even than in the upper counties. t Dorchester county is the largest county in land area on the Eastern Shore. This section has several old families and family manors surviving. In 1740 'Henry Hooper built a home at the junction of the Choptank and Warwick Rivers. He called it Warwick Manor. The home- stead was inherited by Henry Hooper, the son. He divided the estate and sold it outside of the family. The original Col. Henry Hooper who built Warwick Fort Manor House, as it is now called, is the ancestor of the Maryland families of that name. Above Cambridge on Shoal Creek, Col. Thomas Ennalls was given a tract of land. He called his property Eldon. Descendants of Thomas Ennalls are branches of the Goldsborough, Hooper, Steele and Bayard families. The oldest dwelling remaining in Cambridge is The Point. It has been added to by people who have lived there. For many years it was in the Goldsborough family. James Steele bought it from W. Goldsborough. It passed into the hands of Mrs. Eliza Hayward, widow of William Eccleston. Glasgow has been the ancestral home of the Tubman family. The old estate is now owned by Mr. Robert E. Tubman of Baltimore. Hambrook is the tract which was given to one branch of the Henry's. Families of Dorrington, Hambrook, Caile and Steele have been associated with the property. In 1662 Stephen Gary received a grant which he called spogot. It has been continuously in the family and it is now owned by three Radcliffe brothers, the eighth generation descended from Stephen Gary. In Wicomico county the Ben Davis house is noted. The manor is said to have been the parsonage of Green Hill Church. The property of course was in the Davis family. Next oldest to the Ben Davis house and the Green Hill Church is property belonging to members of the Handy family. Cherry Hill has been the home of the Somers and Gunby families. These families have intermarried and retained the old homestead. Col. Isaac Handy was a very prominent gentleman of his day. He was the forefather of the Somerset family of that name. Somerset, Worcester and Wicomico were considered originally as the Eastern Shore. Beckford,', in Somerset, is on the tract patented to William Stevens. It was sold many times. It was in the Dennis- Jackson family for many years. In 1886 H. F. Lankford bought the place. 8