Shepherd College

Shepherd College women win, men lose WOMEN'S BASKETBALL BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - Shepherd College overcame a four-point halftime deficit to rally past Bluefield State 69-54 on Thursday in West Virginia Conference play. Cassie Murray scored a game-high 36 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Shepherd (14-4, 10-1). Makia Staves scored 11 points and had 10 rebounds. SHEPHERD (14-4) Oller 2-4 0-1 5, van Norden 1-7 0-0 3, Siemer 0-3 2-4 2, Windle 0-4 2-2 2, Murray 11-20 0-0 26, Reese 0-0 3-4 3, Hamilton 1-1 1-1 3, Cowans 3-8 3-3 9, Staves 5-9 1-2 11, Schwandt 1-1 0-0 2, Caple 0-1 0-0 1, Chaney 0-1 0-0 0, Westervelt 1-3 1-2 3. Totals 25-62 12-19 69. BLUEFIELD (6-10)

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - The 1999 graduation dates for Berkeley County (W.Va.) Schools are as follows: HEIGHT="6" ALT=" " NATURALSIZEFLAG="0" ALIGN="BOTTOM"> Martinsburg High School, 7 p.m. Friday, June 4, at Shepherd College HEIGHT="6" ALT=" " NATURALSIZEFLAG="0" ALIGN="BOTTOM"> Hedgesville High School, 10 a.m. Saturday, June 5, at Shepherd College HEIGHT="6" ALT=" " NATURALSIZEFLAG="0" ALIGN="BOTTOM"> Musselman High School, 7...

Alfonso Ruiz isn't sure how his mother did it. As a single mother, she would see her three boys off to school, work as many as three jobs, have dinner on the table, oversee homework and see them off to bed. Then, as they drifted off to sleep, she would hit the books. “She was the little engine that could. She just managed to keep on going,” Ruiz said. Susan Ruiz, 55, of Hagerstown, stayed home with her four children when they were young. But when she divorced in 2000, she needed to find a way to support her family.

"Carry the Tiger to the Mountain. " Shepherd College, Frank Center for the Creative Arts, Shepherdstown, W.Va. $16 to $30. Wednesday, July 8, at 8 p.m. (pay what you can preview) Friday, July 10, at 8 p.m. (opening night) Saturday, July 11, at 2 p.m. Thursday, July 16, at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 18, at 8 p.m. Sunday, July 19, at 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 22, at 8 p.m. Friday, July 24, at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 25, at 2 p.m. "Interesting Times.

Golliday-Arch Melissa Anne Arch and Christopher Douglass Golliday were married Saturday, May 31, 2003, at Byron Memorial Park in Williamsport. The bride is the daughter of Lou and Marsha Taylor of Falling Waters, W.Va., and Duane and Darese Arch of Hagerstown. The bridegroom is the son of Douglass and Anna Golliday of Bunker Hill, W.Va. The bride attended Wilson High School in Reading, Pa., received an associate's degree from Hagerstown Community College and a bachelor's degree from Shepherd College.

Thumbs up to the organizers, participants and volunteers involved with the Washington County Junior Olympics, held for the 39th year last weekend at Boonsboro High School. The event gave more than 500 students from 25 elementary schools a sense of community while stressing the value of daily exercise. Thumbs up to Kristi Edwards and Morgan Davis, Shepherd College students whose ingenuity is helping fellow students find employment that pays a working wage and fits around their class schedules.

OCT. 8, 1928-DEC. 5, 2008 PINE KNOLL SHORES, N.C. - Dr. Howard Newton Carper Jr., 80, of Pine Knoll Shores, N.C., and Shepherdstown, W.Va., died Friday, Dec. 5, 2008, at Carteret General Hospital, Morehead City, N.C. Born Oct. 8, 1928, in Winchester, Va., he was the son of the late Howard Newton and Goldie Griffith Carper. He graduated from Shepherd College with a bachelor of science degree, received his master of science degree from James Madison University and his doctoral degree was conferred by American University.

OCT. 5, 1925-DEC. 15, 2008 SHENANDOAH JUNCTION, W.Va. -- Marian Lillian Creamer, 83, of Shenandoah Junction, died Monday, Dec, 15, 2008, at Care Haven Center in Martinsburg, W.Va. Born Oct. 5, 1925, in Martinsburg, she was the daughter of the late Marion L. and Sarah Kidwiler Childs. Her husband, Charles W. Creamer, preceded her in death. She was a library assistant at Shepherd College. She attended St. James Lutheran Church in Uvilla, W.Va. She is survived by two sons, Charles Creamer of Millville, W.Va.

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. - Leslie Wolfe broke her scoring slump with 17 points to help the Shepherd College women's basketball team tie a school record with its sixth straight win on Saturday in a 77-53 West Virginia Conference win over West Virginia Wesleyan. Shepherd (10-5, 7-1) matched the school record for consecutive wins, which was set in 1986-87 and 1990-91. Shepherd has won eight of its last nine games. The Rams took control of the game early. starting when Chapman hit a 12-footer at the 12:35 mark for a 15-13 advantage.

Over the centuries, the 18th-century log house being renovated on the Shepherd University campus has been a private home, a sorority house, a day-care center, a home-economics classroom, and, until last month, a storage unit. The university has spent about $68,000 on renovations so far. The one-and-a-half story frame house is believed to have been built between 1772 and 1793 by Femetghe and Clarkson Freeman. It's on East High Street between Snyder and Knutti halls. It's easily recognized by its peeling yellow paint.

Alfonso Ruiz isn't sure how his mother did it. As a single mother, she would see her three boys off to school, work as many as three jobs, have dinner on the table, oversee homework and see them off to bed. Then, as they drifted off to sleep, she would hit the books. “She was the little engine that could. She just managed to keep on going,” Ruiz said. Susan Ruiz, 55, of Hagerstown, stayed home with her four children when they were young. But when she divorced in 2000, she needed to find a way to support her family.

Thumbs up to the organizers, participants and volunteers involved with the Washington County Junior Olympics, held for the 39th year last weekend at Boonsboro High School. The event gave more than 500 students from 25 elementary schools a sense of community while stressing the value of daily exercise. Thumbs up to Kristi Edwards and Morgan Davis, Shepherd College students whose ingenuity is helping fellow students find employment that pays a working wage and fits around their class schedules.

The wall in front of Shepherd University's McMurran Hall Sunday was again graced with the unwanted flotsam of daily living in open defiance of an edict earlier this month by the McMurran Hall Board of Trustees and university officials that evicted the community Really Really Free Market. Two maverick downtown businesswomen, Lillian Potter-Saum, owner of The Local Source at 133 1/2 W. German St., and Maria Allen, owner of Maria's Taqueria at 111 W. German St., said they reopened the market on their own to protest the closing and to show support for the volunteers who established it five years ago. Robbie Glenn, a 24-year-old Shepherd student, organized the market with three friends as a community service and greeting place where residents could drop off or pick up unwanted household and other goods.

William Weber Grove, 86, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., died Friday, March, 29, 2013, at the Extended Care Unit of War Memorial Hospital in Berkeley Springs. Born Oct. 6, 1926, in Berkeley Springs, he was the son of the late Herbert William and Tursea Alegra Weber Grove. William was a member of Mount Zion United Methodist Church. He was a graduate of Shepherd College and held a master's degree from West Virginia University. He served in the U.S. Army CIC for two years during the Korean War. He retired from Morgan County Schools after 25 years as a teacher and administrator.

Jesse Louise (Widmyer) Hunter, 99, of Great Cacapon, died Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. Jessie was the wife of the late William Henry Hunter, whom she married in 1938. She was born Oct. 11, 1913, the daughter of the late Carol G. and Bertha Waugh Widmyer. Educated in the local school district, she went on to attend Shepherd College, Shippensburg College and West Virginia University. She was the past president of the United Women of Trinity Asbury Church, president of the junior and senior Woman's Clubs, Morgan County Historical and Genealogical Society, and Region II Reading Council.

The detour through the Bavarian Inn was closed and traffic was resumed Wednesday from Shepherd Grade Road to the stop sign on W.Va. 480 (North Duke Street) for the first time since last spring when construction began on an underpass linking Shepherd University's East and West campuses. Students will begin using the underpass when they return to classes after the Christmas break in January, Dan Yanna, the university's director of facilities management, said Wednesday. Workers are finishing the concrete walkway and steps leading out of the tunnel onto the west campus.

William S. “Bill” Higgins Jr. was one of those people who made friends wherever he went. He lived his life with humor and a positive spirit that attracted people. “He wanted to get to know people,” said only child Amy Higgins Ryan of Hampstead, Md. “In airports, I'd bury my nose in a book. He'd get to know people, he'd know their life story,” said Susan “Susie” Higgins, Bill's wife of 43 years. Bill met people through work, church, volunteer activities, when out for dinner, in the neighborhood - anywhere people were.

More than 100 people joined Blue Ridge Community and Technical College leaders Friday to celebrate the completion of an $18.2 million campus project with ribbon-cutting and flag-raising ceremonies. Staged in front of the college's new 55,000-square-foot academic/administrative building on the 46-acre campus, the celebration highlighted a milestone in the growth of the school, which expects about 4,400 students to enroll for the fall semester. “This has been a long time in the making,” Blue Ridge CTC President Peter G. Checkovich said.

Over the centuries, the 18th-century log house being renovated on the Shepherd University campus has been a private home, a sorority house, a day-care center, a home-economics classroom, and, until last month, a storage unit. The university has spent about $68,000 on renovations so far. The one-and-a-half story frame house is believed to have been built between 1772 and 1793 by Femetghe and Clarkson Freeman. It's on East High Street between Snyder and Knutti halls. It's easily recognized by its peeling yellow paint.

In 2009, I wrote a column titled “Should we be afraid of the dark?” It was a story about a doctor's dilemma in keeping patients alive, after the quality of life is gone, only for them to suffer more. A few days after I wrote this column, I received a call one morning from a Frances Cruger, who told me she enjoyed my column and shared a story with me of how her daughter, Leslie, had suffered with breast cancer for three years and had died in 2003. It was a story of a mother's deep love for her daughter.