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1960 Austin Healey

Bert & Sandy Shirey from Rising Sun posing with their 1960 Austin Healey, Sprite. Bert lovingly restored this vintage vehicle, but the only thing in doubt is how he gets in it (Bert is 6 ft. 1 inch). Sandy told me he has a tougher time getting out!

Wiley Sisters

Left: Margaret Wiley Eckman (at an older age) - Margaret is the Grandmother of Allan Eckmann, of Rising Sun, MD. Below Right: Bessie Wiley - Margaret's Sister

Below: Sisters - Margaret & Bessie Wiley (at a young age)

Bob Litzenberg

At Left: Bob Litzenberg Sr. built and opened a restaurant (this is back view of restaurant) across from Triumph Explosives on Blue Ball Rd. The business thrived until the end of the war. Here he poses with his son, Bobby, with a nice local buck he took, and later butchered. "My dad was an uncommon man and he could do anything he put his mind to," said Bobby Jr. of Elkton Maryland. See story about Bob Litzenberg on pages 20-21.

At Right: Bob Litzenberg Sr. with his champion Beagle, "Litzenbergs Betty". Mr. Litzenberg had a kennel of Beagles and would show them in field trials all over the East coast. This was before he joined the army in WWII. See story about Bob Litzenberg on pages 20-21.

North East High School Class of 1951

Dear Cecil Soil Magazine,

I recently received this photo (picture below) from my Uncle J. Victor McCool and Cousin Alice Davis McCool. The school. then North East High (presently North East Middle School, where I am a proud teacher of some of Cecil County's finest 6th Grade Social Studies students). The teacher in photo standing left of students, is my Aunt Lavina Cook McCool.

Building: Is presently North East Middle School, but at the time of the photo was North East High School.

If you choose to include this photo in Cecil Soil.I have shirt size XL.

Sincerely, Geoffrey E. McCool Elkton, Maryland

The Class of 1951
N. E. H.S. - The Homeroom Class of Lavina Cook McCool

The students are...
Top Row: Ernest Lake, Joe Reynolds, Henry Passi, Zeb Gambill, Summerfield Dean, Arthur Miller, Bob Keller
Middle Row: Walter Rackovith, John Crothers, Cecil Holmes, George Spence, Eddie Gorrell, Chester Patchell, Girl standing...Janet Jackson
Bottom Row: Gert McMillian, Faye Weaver, Peggy Hammer, Nancy Wood, Shirley Tuoiumen, Edna Keithley, Florence Wood

This information was provided by the hard work of Marion Wells and Nancy Ball of North East, Md. Nancy Ball is 4th from left, bottom row (maiden name Wood).

May 2, 1923

Right: Virginia Allison Ott Powell stands on a Kissel car while mother,
Virginia Brown Ott, peers from behind the car.

— Photograph by B.A. Arnold Elkton, MD
— Photo courtesy of Virgina Allison Ott Powell