2007
Daniel A. Hall

 

 

 

Appointed as a Cecil College trustee in 1975, Daniel A. Hall has had the longest tenure of any board member in the College's 39-year history. During his 32 years of devoted service to the board of trustees, he held the positions of chair and vice chair.

A lifelong resident of Cecil County who grew up in Calvert, Dan graduated from Calvert Agriculture High School in 1941. He earned his bachelor's degree in English and education from Washington College in 1950 and his master's in adult education from George Washington University in 1970. Mr. Hall played four years of baseball at Washington College and is an avid sports fan who has been a passionate supporter of the Cecil athletic programs as an avenue for students to reach their educational goals.

In 1999 the JoAnn Hall Memorial Scholarship, which is awarded to a female varsity athlete at Cecil, was established in honor of his wife. JoAnn also made her mark in the community as the first female mayor of Rising Sun. Dan's dedication to Cecil's sports teams, and the College as a whole, was recognized in 2002 with the naming of the Daniel A. Hall Golf Tournament. The annual competition benefits the Seahawks' athletic programs. The tournament was renamed in memory of Mr. Hall in 2007 to the Daniel A. Hall Memorial Golf Tournament.

Mr. Hall taught history and English at Chesapeake City High School for one year and also coached the school's basketball and baseball teams. He was a U.S. Marine artilleryman during World War II who fought in the Marshall Islands Invasion and the Battle of Okinawa. Dan spent 33 years as an instructor in the Ordnance School at Aberdeen Proving Ground teaching officers advanced courses in topics such as management and ammunitions.

Mr. Hall resided on a farm in Colora where he owned racehorses since the early 1980s. He is survived by his son, Dick and his wife, Patti Hall and grandchildren Erin and Michael.

2006
Mary A. Maloney

2005
Ralph Young

2004
Patricia D. Folk

2003
Phyllis Kilby

2002
Laura Lu Herman

2001
Jim Redford

2000
Virginia Astfalk

1999
Debra Ordway

1998
Harry Stackler

1997
Mary Beyer Halsey

1996
John Blaha

1995
Charles Samuel Dixon

1994
Rosemary Nash Hoffman

1993
Leon A. Ordway

1992
Linda Saubier

1991
Joan M. Renner

1990
George W. Lutz, III

1989
Rodney E. Kennedy

1988
Johnny Lough

1987
Pierre L. LeBrun II