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Rear left to right Naomi Carter, unknown, Lucile Sharps, unknown, Agnes Gross, Barbara Seldon, front Pauline Gray, Betty Green, Shirley Anderson, Jean Gray Matthews, Dessie Thomas Rev. Dessie Carter

At Lakeland Park

Dignitaries at groundbreaking for Spellman House

Lakeland Rd

University of Maryland

Demolition Contract #4

In 1956, Rev. Preston Britton and members of Embry AME Church were the Annual Ushers Day guests of Macedonia United Methodist Church in Odenton, MD. Britton gave the sermon, and Embry's Youth choir performed under the direction of Dessie Randall Thomas.

Den Mother's Card for Agnes Gross with Lakeland's troop. Right is a photo of her Mother in Law Rosie Gross. Mrs. Rosie Gross is seated in her home on Pierce Ave

Barricade at city line on 54th Avenue in Lakeland would be discussed at worksession on 2 July 1985.

Citizen's Award Program Julia Pitts second from right

George and Jeanette Brooks built this house in 1955 on Lakeland Road. It was a new and modern home for a growing family. They lived here for only about twenty years, as the house fell victim in the late 1970s to urban renewal project in the community.

Janet Randall and Jacqueline Randall

Lakeland’s American Legion Post was named for John Henry Seaburn, a North Brentwood resident who served and died overseas during World War I. The post was active from 1940 until the 1970s. With the coming of urban renewal efforts, their meeting place, Lakeland Hall, was demolished. The post disbanded and members joined other area posts. Members of Lakeland’s post are pictured here circa 1960.

Sunday School picnics were a summer highlight for Lakelanders. Everyone would pack a lunch and meet on the third Saturday in July at an amusement park or beach for a day of fun in the sun. The community’s two churches regularly came together for the outing. In 1962, the Embry A. M. E. Sunday School outing took place at Carr’s Beach in Annapolis, Maryland. From left to right are John Webster; Mary Weems Braxton; and Wilmer, Delphine, and Maxine Gross. (Courtesy of the Gross family.)

Baby

City of College Park 25th Anniversary celebration

Lakeland High School in two images top 1930 bottom 1938

Woman holding dog with young. Girl petting dog in Lakeland Park.

The Embry Youth Choir was organized in 1979 under the guidance of the pastor, Rev. Dessie L. Carter. Pictured are, from left to right, Talaya Boardley, Kimberly Gillens, Sharon Seldon, Linda Kim Lockerman, Monique Thomas, adviser Jean Gray Matthews, Reverend Carter, Lisa Gray, Kamille Gillens, Karon Seldon, Dean Matthews, and Paul Thomas. Members not shown are Lisa Carter, Barrett Matthews, Denise Penn, Nicole Thomas, and Pamela Tolson.

Presentation of research report

During Saturday event at College Park Community Center

album page

4908 Navahoe Street Grace & Vardell C. Nesbitt Block 16 E. 45' of lot 7 & 7 &E 10' of lot 6 Project Parcel 20-5

Snack time at Lakeland Elementary School's kindergarten class during the 1965-66 school year. One class member, Maxine Gross reports "there was always milk and graham crackers".

Violetta Sharps, Miss Lakeland 1963, greets the crowd during that year’s Elks Day Parade. Among the groups marching that day was Lakeland’s own majorettes. This parade was one of many that took place over the years in the Lakeland community. The Elks’ parades promoted healthy competition between lodges throughout the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Captured in the photo below, marching down Lakeland Road, is one of several marching bands invited to participate. (Courtesy Pearl Lee Campbell and James Edwards III.) .

During service in US Army

Willie C. Sellers, Jr. is photographed here with his wife, Salena, on the day of his graduation in 1995. A firefighter, he was awarded a bronze medal for rescuing several people from a burning building on March 4, 1996.

At Embry AME Church

In the 1940s and 1950s much of the organized entertainment in Lakeland was provided by social clubs. The Counts’ escorts are, left to right (first row), Evelyn Giles Tyner, Mary Weems Braxton, Mary Walls Weems, Bernice Lancaster Walls, Julia Mack Carroll, Mary Douglas Tolson, and Dorothy Mack Allen; (second row) Pearl Brooks Briscoe, Gertrude Walls Corprew, Florence Wethers, Mary Brooks Brewer, and Elizabeth Mack.

Four Lakeland youngsters they are left to right rear Hattie Adams Wiliams, Mary Day front Maize Adams, Elmore Adams

Workers in a University of Maryland kitchen

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Lakelander yearbook

During 1970s themed heritage event for youth