Maryland’s Hall of Fame

May 5, 2008

The Garden State may not have an actual Hall of Fame, but that didn’t stop it from inducting fifteen prominent New Jerseyans into one last night. The awards ceremony was aimed at improving the state’s reputation. (The honorees included Bruce Springsteen, Meryl Streep, Sen. Bill Bradley, Yogi Berra, Toni Morrison and Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, if you’re interested).

Reading the story today got me thinking about contenders for Maryland’s Hall of Fame (no, we don’t have one, either).

The Daily Record has a couple of similar awards: Maryland’s Top 100 Women (past winners include Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Kendel Ehrlich), Influential Marylanders (this year’s honorees include Attorney Billy Murphy, Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum, Constellation’s Mayo Shattuck).

And, our Associate Editor Paul Samuel pointed out, Maryland’s Chamber of Commerce has a Business Hall of Fame, which this year inducted three: Lockheed Martin VP Linda Gooden, Karen Oertel, president of W.H. Harris Seafood Inc., and Afro-American newspapers Publisher John J. Oliver Jr. In total there are just about 25 members of the Business HOF, which has only been around for eight years. Who else do you think ought to be inducted into it?

What if you took away “Business” - who’d be a Marylander worthy of a statewide HOF? Cal Ripken? Ed Norton? Tom Clancy (lives in Anne Arundel Co.)? Annie Liebovitz (raised in Maryland)?

JACKIE SAUTER, Web Editor

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