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project and a number of people were responsible for

finding the money for lights. Opening night found the field of students, relatives, and friends waiting for the switch to be thrown. How many can name those responsible for the fundraising for this project? Jeff Cauley managed a Minor League team, worked with Little League and Babe Ruth. After the required money was raised and the big opening day arrived for the first games ... there was no press box. Jeff and son Bill picked up a card table, grabbed some chairs, and the Wayne Hills borrowed Sonny's towers and brought their own speaker system and - presto - a press box was ready in time for the kick-off. Lertie Powers announced, Bud Reynolds relayed the plays from the sidelines to the improvised "press box." The spectators never guessed the amount of hustling that went on behind the scenes, but they had a well-announced game. Who lists the women who cooked the food and who knows who sold those sandwiches five years ago? The volunteer drivers who picked up kids who had no other way to practice ... from Virginia as well as Maryland ... the parents who packed their station wagon with stem to stern kids ... are surely on that unpublished list in the sky of "those who helped." Who finally provided the press box? the concession stand? the score board? They keep working year after year without recognition - just the reward of seeing an event run smoothly. So let's hear it for the behind-the-scene, unsung heroes that make things click: Hip, Hip, Hooray! What would sporting events be in Brunswick without them?

Do You Know ... That after the Brunswick Armistice Day Parade there was always a football game with the Army, Marine Corps, or some other military branch. They always sent their fourth string, and we still lost. That Albert Orrison was mayor of Brunswick when Maple Avenue was concreted on two sides with dirt in the middle for horses, and also when Maryland Avenue was opened from Potomac Street to Hahn's Cafe (Petersville Road). That Vern Thomas was the only person that could sit on the seat ofa bicycle (one-geared) and pump up the dirt middle of Maple Avenue. That when someone said "Blacksnake coming down the track," it meant that a coal train was moving on the railroad. That the term "turn around" referred to any job from a terminal, such as Brunswick, to a given destination and return, usually on the same day. That the Alumni Association is preparing a time capsule to be buried at the B&O Station. The capsule will be opened in 2090. That the area's first swimming "pool" was provided through the YMCA by Mr. Bickle, who arranged for Little Catoctin Creek to be dammed and who provided needed facilities.

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