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Monday, January 28, 2013

Oak Hill Elementary Home to Super Ravens Fan

The school’s custodian Mike Duvall wears purple everyday and leads the students in Ravens cheers.

If you were to walk by the cafeteria at Oak Hill Elementary on a Friday you would hear cheers and yells of excitement and witness a sea of purple. If you stayed for the dismissal you would hear a Ravens cheer performed by eager students along with a loyal and loveable custodian. Dubbed by parents, students and teachers as a die-hard Ravens fan, 11-year custodian Mike Duvall leads the charge of Ravens excitement at Oak Hill “I wear purple every day, 24/7. I even sleep in my Ravens jersey,” Duvall said. It’s apparent just from the atmosphere at Oak Hill that students and teachers feed off Duvall’s enthusiasm. Principal Deneen Houghton, who is also clad in Ravens attire including fuzzy purple boots, says Duvall is largely responsible for all …

Friday, January 20, 2012

Ravens Nest 10 Gives $10K to Charities

The Severna Park fan club not only roots on its team, but also donates to local charities.

There's more to the Ravens Nest #10 of Severna Park than "purple fever" —their other color could be green, $10,000 dollar's worth—donated to five local charities on Wednesday night in a ceremony at Bill Bateman’s in Park Plaza. Each nonprofit received $2,000. Accepting the check for the Muscular Dystrophy Association was Tricia Gibbons and her family. Gibbons' brother died of the disease in 2004. The donation will be given to the Johns Hopkins Hospital where a foundation is set up in his honor. The Special Olympics Maryland, Anne Arundel County, represented by Gregg Meade, area director, accepted the donation while praising the Nest for its help, especially since the organization's biggest fundraiser, the golf tournament, didn't happen …

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