{"id":3656,"date":"2021-02-01T12:21:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2025-07-25T13:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:59:04","slug":"warren-dorsey-m-ed-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/warren-dorsey-m-ed-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Dorsey, M.Ed. &#8217;71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ed1651\">Warren Dorsey, M.Ed. \u201971<\/span><\/strong>, has seen miracles. One hundred years ago, he was born on the family farm, the ninth of 12 children. The Dorseys lived in Sykesville, which was a highly segregated, rural part of Carroll County, MD, at the time. \u201cIt was a struggle,\u201d Dorsey says. \u201cWhat we ate depended upon what we could raise on the land we owned.\u201d Everybody had to work.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey\u2019s mother, Carrie, was the engine that kept the family going, sometimes literally. \u201cShe walked with us often,\u201d says Dorsey. \u201cI remember vividly as she looked to the heavens and said, \u2018Children, there\u2019s going to be a better day.\u2019\u201d She believed it always.<\/p>\n<p>Carrie had a dream for her children to go to school. Her first child was born in 1904, the same year the first school for Black children was created in their community. Like all of his siblings, Dorsey started at the one-room school when he was six years old and continued to fifth grade. \u201cI hadn\u2019t learned a whole lot, mainly because the teacher didn\u2019t teach us a whole lot,\u201d says Dorsey. \u201cEverybody liked her, but she was a lousy teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3676\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3676\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3676 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/02\/warren-web-1-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"Childhood picture of Warren Dorsey\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/02\/warren-web-1-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/02\/warren-web-1.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorsey at around seven years old, standing in front of the schoolhouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1931, Dorsey was sent to a larger school\u2014this one with two teachers. It was four miles away, and the county sent no bus. \u201cWe walked many a day, most of the time,\u201d he says. When he entered the school for the first time, one of the teachers stood there, an imposing figure looming before him. And here was Warren Dorsey, a fifth-grader who could hardly read. Yet \u201cshe had the belief that every kid could learn. She also had the belief that she could teach them,\u201d Dorsey says. \u201cBy the end of the year, little Warren Dorsey from this little old school in Sykesville could read. And that was a miracle, the first real miracle in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He read what he could from the school\u2019s small library, and a world bloomed in Dorsey\u2019s mind. \u201cI found out there was a world outside of the little community where I was born,\u201d he says. \u201cPeople did all kinds of things, there were all kinds of commodi\u00adties available in the outside world, and there were people of different cultures. That was the most illuminating event in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey finished seventh grade in 1933, ready to take on high school. One had just been built for Black students, but it was up in Westminster, nearly 20 miles away from where most of the county\u2019s Black residents lived. Dorsey had just about given up on the idea of high school when one of the teachers rallied parents to buy a bus together. Dorsey and his sister Mae would each need 50 cents a week to contribute for gas. An older sister in Baltimore sent them the money, and the two of them walked three miles every day to a highway where they\u2019d pick up the bus.<\/p>\n<p>There were again only two teachers for the entire school. \u201cBut as luck would have it,\u201d says Dorsey, \u201cwe hit the jackpot, because the two teachers, by anybody\u2019s standard, were master teachers, and kids who finished under them, among all of the negative circumstances, were able to go on to the next level and succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3677\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3677\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3677\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/02\/warren-web-2.jpg\" alt=\"WW II photo of Warren Dorsey\" width=\"500\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/02\/warren-web-2.jpg 753w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/02\/warren-web-2-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorsey during World War II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dorsey himself went on to Morgan College, now Morgan State University, a historically Black college in Baltimore, and studied microbiology. When he graduated, he was awarded a scholarship for graduate school through a fund set up by Julius Rosenwald, the head of Sears, Roebuck and Company. Dorsey was set to attend Iowa State, but WWII was underway, and he was drafted into the Army in 1943.<\/p>\n<p>After the Army, Dorsey got a job as a microbiolo\u00adgist at Fort Detrick. \u201cIt is true that the research was in biological warfare,\u201d he says, but he was amazed at all the opportunities for research available to him. He spent 25 years there, while raising his family in nearby Frederick, MD, before retiring in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey had a successful life. Still, something scratched at the back of his mind, a memory that refused to be buried. Way back in Sykesville, the summer before he left for Morgan, Dorsey was doing work for a white farmer a few miles from his family\u2019s farm <strong>[Note: There is a use of a racial slur below.]<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCome September, I was working in the field. We were getting in hay. The gentleman that owned the farm, a white gentleman, who regarded us as just nothing, really, he came to the field. I go, \u2018I\u2019ll be leaving at the end of the week.\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe wanted to know, \u2018Boy, what are you leaving for?\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI said, \u2018Well, I\u2019m going to try to go to college.\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c\u2018Go to college? For what? You don\u2019t need any college to pitch hay. What\u2019re you going to do?\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI said, \u2018Well, I thought maybe I could become a teacher.\u2019 That was one of the few opportunities that was a solid, professional career for African Americans. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd he looked at me, and he said, \u2018Boy, you know very well that a n&#8212;&#8211; ain\u2019t got sense enough to teach.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More than 30 years later, Dorsey still had that man in the back of his mind. He knew he still had so much he wanted to do.<\/p>\n<p>In 1970, Dorsey applied to Goucher College\u2019s Master of Education Program and became the first Black man to graduate from Goucher. \u201cGoucher helped me achieve that level to prove in my mind, even though the farmer was probably dead long ago, that yes, I had sense enough to teach,\u201d says Dorsey.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey became an elementary school teacher. He believed he could have the most impact on the most students by teaching younger ages, a time of great wonder in his own life. Eventually, he became a principal before retiring, again, in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey lived his mother\u2019s dream. He was a boy who couldn\u2019t read, who had no way to get to school each day, who had people more powerful than him doubting him, insulting him, sending him to war. But little Warren Dorsey learned how to read, and found his way to school, and held fast to the knowledge that he was worthy: \u201cI have the satisfaction of knowing that I beat whatever odds that life threw at me and succeeded.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3678\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3678\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/02\/warren-web-5-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"Warren Dorsey\" width=\"500\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/02\/warren-web-5-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/02\/warren-web-5-768x706.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/files\/2021\/02\/warren-web-5.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorsey in 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Dorsey was the first Black man to graduate from Goucher. 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