Deborah Doreen Beckward (1950-2024) is a 1968 graduate of Fort Hill High School where she was active in Pep Club, Cheerleading, Tri-Hi-Y and Powder-Puff Football.
Beckward to perform one-woman play
June 26, 2007
City Native Trains Youngest Gymnasts
When it's half-time during the televised NBA playoff game today between the Washington Bullets and the Atlanta Hawks part of the entertainment will be furnished by the dance group trained and choreographed by a former local woman.
Kia Corthron, 1961 -
(The following narrative on Kia Corthron was revised/updated in Spring 2014 at the request of the Maryland Women's Heritage Center as part of an upcoming Fall 2014 exhibit on Women in the Arts.)
Fulton Myers Drum and Bugle Corps, Baltimore Street, 1946
This mid-1940's era photograph depicts the Fulton Myers Drum and Bugle Corps. They are standing in front of the downtown Cumberland City Hall.
The gentleman behind the middle majorette is Mr. Harry Fisher who is credited with starting the Drum and Bugle Corps. The second majorette from the left is Jean Beckward.
"Peggy" Gilmore Smith - Flowers for Marian Anderson
Man doesn't miss a beat
81-year-old a musical fixture
MARY ANN SNYDER
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FROSTBURG — His repertoire includes musician, businessman and humanitarian. At age 81, Lucius "Pete" Harper is retired, but he still keeps toes tapping in area nursing homes.
"It makes me happy to make someone else happy," said Harper. "I feel compelled to sing and play music. To bring happiness to people confined to wheelchairs and in nursing homes just makes me happy."
The Roy Rogers On Memory Lane
James Darr's life Comes Full Circle With a Gig at a Fast-Food Joint
LA VALE, Md—It may be the only Roy Rogers restaurant in America with a lounge act.
It may be the only lounge act in America with a star who's 91.
The gentleman on the piano is Major Thomas Lee. Jim Darr is on the bass fiddle, while the man in the background is Vincent Denmark.
Even some of America's most famous entertainers of the era, because they were African-Americans, were barred from staying in the city's mainstream hotels. As such, such notable musicians as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, and others often stayed at the Davis Tourist Home while on tour. These stays were often a week at a time when their bands came into town to play the Cadillac Lounge, Crystal Park, and other venues.