Letters to the Editor

December 01, 1998

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I read about Michael Miller, the prisoner who scored 310 on his GED at MCTC, with great interest. As the only master degree graduate ever from any Hagerstown prison, I offer him my heartiest congratulations.

However, I read with dismay about MCTC's boast that it has the highest number of GED graduates of any institution in the Maryland Division of Correction. What rankles me is that The Herald-Mail apparently lacks copy and proof editors, since your reporter never discovered that MCTC, with the highest number of GED students of any institution in the Maryland Division of Correction, should also naturally have the highest number of GED graduates! What news is it to say that the biggest school has the most graduates?

What's really disturbing is that The Herald-Mail has ignored the Maryland Correctional Institution's education program. As early as July 17, 1998, The Herald-Mail knew MCI inmate George Spiegel earned a 342 on his GED setting what is believed to be a modern day record for the highest score ever in any Division of Correction school over the past score of years or more! Was there ever any article, or was the letter to the editor printed?

Further, by the letters of September 6, 1997; October 11, 1997; January 27,1998 and February 3, 1998, numerous Herald-Mail reporters and senior administrators were advised that our MCIH school had set many other records! With all due respect, the Chicago Bulls of prison education in Maryland are right here at MCIH. Again, was there ever any article, or were any of these letters to the editor acknowledged?

Perhaps in the future The Herald-Mail should employ a copy editor who either checks the facts given your reporters, or checks the facts against past data and correspondence in your files!

Doug Arey

MCI-Hagerstown

Calling all coats

To the editor:

Recently I went to REACH, the cold-weather shelter for the homeless and told officials there that I would be gathering coats for the homeless. I also went to my pastor at St. Matthews' Church at Beaver Creek and told her that I was going to gather coats.

She announced it at the church, and some people brought me coats.

Because I didn't want to give people dirty coats, I asked local dry cleaners to help me out, and I wish to thank the following businesses for doing so:

Professional Cleaners, 55 W. Franklin St.; Keefauver's Cleaners, S. Potomac Street; Fountain Head Cleaners, Fountain Head Plaza; Nu-Look Cleaners, Dual Highway and Anderson Cleaners on East Washington Street.

If anyone wants to donate a coat, you may bring them to Trinity Lutheran Church, at the corner of North Potomac and Randolph streets, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call (301) 393-0970.

Betty Mumma

Hagerstown

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