Attendants of the celebrations - childhood friends who left and returned, multigenerational family members, etc. Some attended Lakeland schools and still live in Lakeland.
Mr. Jacobs arrived in CP in 1972 UR had already started by the time he was elected to the city council The contract with Weiner divided up LL and was mostly his by contract Weiner stalled on building after the infrastructure had be in place CP council wanted $5,700 per house from Weiner Weiner tried to void the contract several times The senior center was built first, then the high rise and the thirdly the town houses East side could not be used for housing because of the flood plain WMATA and CP disagreed on where to put a station CP voted in 1976 to reject a metro station Mr. Jacobs then breaks down how the metro line was built through Lakeland, using soil from lake Artemisia (expanding the lake) to raise the metro tracks, Dervy Lomax is mentioned. The final development of UR was the community center The funding for the community center came from the fact that a sentence was piggybacked on a bill in congress to forgive CP's debt to the federal government Student housing qualified LL for urban renewal, in that student salaries lowered the average income to qualify for urban renewal funds Lakeland residents were given right of first refusal, which was uncommon in UR across the country Each tract of land had height restrictions that Mr. Weiner was developing on LL civic association met quarterly and councilmen regularly attended UM was guilty of persuading UR by association Leonard Smith was a community watchdog of UR CP officials viewed the tunnel as an improvement UM architecture department may have had early input in UR but none when he arrived The purpose of the high rise housing was to take pressure off of rented single family housing in CP, this did happen as they intended Mr. Weiner stalled because he was waiting for a better economic climate This interview was recorded over the telephone.
portrait
Scrapbook page of wedding pictures. Collection of photos, wedding of Vickie lee fields, related to the Hamlette family at 1st Baptist
City of College Park presentations
Mrs. Lomax, next-door neighbor and longtime resident of the community. This photo is likely from her 30s.
His wife, Virginia C. Smith, is pictured making a cake in the top right photo. She is pictured again in the middle left with her dog. In the lower four photos is donor's youngest sister, Vanessa H. Smith.
Description of Project (cont'd Design Review Panel; Types of Proposed Renewal Action; Clearance and Redevelopment; Rehabilitation and Conservation)
Birthday celebration for James Henry Gray
Contains the following: - Cover of 'The Plain Truth." Headline - Are you getting all the news that's on TV? This is the October issue, from 1986. - A table of contents and a letter from the publisher about Nancy Reagan's war on drugs., - "Nuclear war and the Book of Revelation." An illustration of the Four horsemen of the apocalypse., - Continuation of previous article - compares effects of nuclear war to the apocalypse as described in the Book of Revelations. Second page is a new article - "Television News... Little Breadth, Almost No Depth." It describes how TV provides a bit of information, but not nearly enough for people to be well informed by it., - "From the telecast ... The Seven Major Mysteries." Taken from a telecast by Richard Ames. There is also an inset booklet titled "Are We in the Last Days? You can know for sure!", - "The World Tomorrow." List of various radio and TV stations readers can turn to to hear telecasts from people who work with the magazine., - Chapter 13 of a serial by Herbert W. Armstrong's 'Mystery of the Ages.', - "But why sex?" An article asking why sex exists., - "What Are You Doing About that Hole in Your Head?" Asking readers what they're missing in their life., - "Kingdom of God" article continued, from the serial., - Attached is a booklet advertising a Bible Studies course at The Ambassador College., - "News Overview" - various snippets about AIDS, gambling, the economy, and earthquakes. , - "Nuclear War and the Book of Revelation" and the "Letter from the Publisher." - There are also "Letters to the Editor.", Back cover of the magazine, with various blurbs about the featured articles.
At Lakeland Elementary School
Awarded to Carl Cager Amateur Athletic Union of the United States MDCCCLXXVIII with bar pin
The directory continued, and the rightmost page begins the advertisement section.
College Park City Council with Mayor Gullett. Dervey Lomax is far left There is another copy of this image in the archive from another collection
During Friday evening youth event at College Park Community Center Heritage Weekend
Section D: Project Proposals. Statement of Special Conditions.
Event attendees
Front cover of the yearbook, reading "The Lakelander."
The backs of two invitations to various Lakeland Jr Sr High's 1950 class reunions. One is dated for the 35th reunion in 1985 and one for the 40th reunion in 1990. Both were held at the Ramada Inn. The envelope of one invitation - the handwriting is Bettye Queen's.
Track and field medal awarded to Lakelander, Carl Cager by University of Pennsylvania
Photo taken early 1980s. Neither girls ever lived in Lakeland; they grew up in Washington, D.C.
Many departments at the University of Maryland provided stable employment for Lakelanders. The lower lefthand image shows, left to right, Pauline Gray and Etelka Lomax preparing meals in the kitchen at the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. Other Lakeland residents, including Saxoline Campbell, Dorothy Holman, and Hazel Thomas, also were employed as cooks and kitchen-service staff for sorority and fraternity houses.
Mayor and council members. Dervey Lomax is far left.
Lakeland Heritage Weekend Youth Night event
University of Maryland event
Seen doing solid waste removal
Haliburton and Essex family photos.