Entries by mike
Retiring Members Recognized, New Board Sworn-In
At the December 14, 2015 BDC Board of Director’s Meeting, the BDC recognized it’s retiring board members Barry Gray, Harry Lenderman and Cynthia Rossetti. Gray and Lenderman both served one 4-year term from 2011-2015, while Rossetti served three terms from 2003-2015. All members are greatly appreciated for their time and efforts given to the project […]
Tome School Activities Report
The follow activities report was presented in public session at the Board of Director’s meeting on September 21, 2015. Tome Tours We began hosting the tours in May and continued to have them held one day per month to encourage folks to safely access the campus. Each tour was taken around the entire campus and […]
BDC Hosts Tome School Alumni Event
On Sunday August 30, 2015 the BDC hosted a Tome Alumni Tour and Luncheon. This event came about from interest from the Tome School in North East to connect the former alumni and current students to the history found at the National Historic Tome School for Boys. Initially, we projected to have 50-75 participants attend, […]
Tome Tours a Great Success
The BDC would like to express our greatest thanks to everyone who made the Tome School tours this summer a smashing success! We hosted almost 150 individuals through various tours, with a variety of folks participating from young history buffs for former NAPS officers! Thank you again for your continued support of Tome School and […]
Final Summer Tour of Tome School
The final summer tour for the Tome School will be held on Saturday August 22 at 10AM. If you would like to attend, please sign-up using this link http://vols.pt/FtN4s7 or email Toni Lozzi at tlozzi@bainbridgedev.org . Participants are asked to wear closed-toe walking shoes as we will be on and off of the bus and […]
Tome Tour Scheduled for July 26
The next tour of the National Historic Tome School for Boys will take place on Sunday July 26th at 10AM. Unfortuantely, due to scheduling issues, we cannot offer the 1PM tour this day. We will be holding more tours in August, September and October. If you would like to participate in the July tour, please […]
Remnants of the “wealthiest secondary school in America”
BY Erika Quesenberry Sturgill, CECIL WHIG “PORT DEPOSIT — As time passes, the story of what was originally known as the Jacob Tome Institute of Port Deposit, which grew to add the now defunct Tome School for Boys and later became The Tome School in North East, has become cloudy and overlapped…” CLICK HERE FOR […]
Bainbridge Hosts Sustainable Growth Commission
This past Monday, May 11, 2015, the Bainbridge Development Corporation (BDC) was pleased to host the Sustainable Growth Commission (SGC) at the Donaldson Brown Center for their bi-monthly commission meeting. The SGC is an entity of the Maryland Department of Planning that the State developed in 2010 to make recommendations on growth issues within the […]
BDC Hosting Monthly Tours of Tome School
The BDC is excited to announce that we will be hosting tours of the Tome School each month of the summer. The tour will be bused back with several stops and options to get off of the bus and walk the Tome campus. Our first date is Saturday May 23, 2015. The times provided are […]
