MORTIMER H. NEUFVILLE, UMES interim president for the 2011-12 academic year, is proof you can go home again professionally. He was a senior administrator in Princess Anne between 1983 and 1996, when he held these posts: • Associate director – Maryland Agriculture Experiment Station• Associate vice president for academic affairs• Acting vice president for academic affairs• Vice president for academic affairs A Tuskegee…Read more The Interims
The 745-acre University of Maryland Eastern Shore campus at its 125th anniversary had grown an astronomical 4,556 percent since its founding in September 1886. That kind of expansion during the first 125 years resulted in transformations and reconfigurations that often left older alumni in awe. What remains constant is the legacy of people who shaped the institution’s foundation. One way they…Read more Where the streets have special names
The institution that evolved into the University of Maryland Eastern Shore was in its 10th year of educating Blacks as Princess Anne Academy when the inaugural Olympic Games of the modern era were held in Greece in 1896. Nine world-class student-athletes – all of them in track and field – competed…Read more Faster. Higher. Stronger.
Social turmoil fueled by the Civil Rights movement of the early 1960s touched Princess Anne as it did many college communities across America. One student-crusader behind civil unrest that spilled into town from Maryland State College in that era was John Augustus Wilson, who a decade later recast himself as a charismatic change agent in…Read more A different kind of ‘Johnny Reb’
Four dozen buildings where students learn and live and where faculty teach and conduct research were scattered across 745 acres at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore on the 125th anniversary of its founding in 1886. When its first educator-administrator, Benjamin O. Bird , and his wife, Portia Lovett Bird, arrived in Princess Anne in late August 1886 to take charge…Read more Olney
There is no better example of how the University of Maryland Eastern Shore nurtures and appreciates the performing arts than Starletta Seawell of Philadelphia, Pa. Better known to stage, film and TV audiences as Starletta DuPois, the 1968 alumna forged a distinguished career as an award-winning actress who has performed with some of America’s best-known artists….Read more Un raisin au soleil
By the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s centennial in 1986, the institution had risen above lingering doubts about its role as a four-year college in the state’s public higher education system. The credit, most affiliated with UMES agree, goes to Dr. William P. Hytche, who was at the half-way point of his two-decade tenure as its chief…Read more 100 and Counting
Alumni of what is known today as the University of Maryland Eastern Shore are fiercely loyal and maintain life-long connections to an institution that opened doors for them to become productive adults. Archives are sketchy about how formally organized they were prior to World War II. But in 1947, there is curious evidence former students appeared to be unified. An Oct. 25, 1947 football program for a game between the…Read more Alumni Association
When the time came for Frederick S. Jewett and his business partner William H.T. Coulbourne to educate their families, the patriarchs of a flourishing black-owned seafood company in St. Michaels, Md. sent their children south to Princess Anne Academy. Coulbourne’s step-daughter, Cornelia Marguerite, enrolled first and finished her studies in 1915. She was the first of three generations to graduate…Read more Elwood Small Jewett
Eldon Galway Marksman practiced medicine from his rural office on the outskirts of Princess Anne for more than 40 years, including nearly two decades as campus physician for Princess Anne Academy, as the school was known in the early 20th century. A native of Grenada, Marksman was born Oct. 20, 1892 to John and Roselia Clarke…Read more Eldon G. Marksman, M.D.
