page_title: Baltimore City College
section_title: Notable faculty members
hierarchical_section_title: Baltimore City College / Notable faculty members
caption_attribution_description: English: I took this picture in the spring of 1984 while watching a City baseball game.
context_page_description: The Baltimore City College, known colloquially as City, City College, B.C.C. and nicknamed "The Castle on the Hill" is a public magnet high school in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Opened in October 1839 as "The High School", "City" is the third oldest active public high school in the US. A citywide college preparatory school with a liberal arts focus, The Baltimore City College has selective admissions criteria based on entrance exams and middle school grades. The four-year City College curriculum includes the IB Middle Years Programme and the IB Diploma Programme of the International Baccalaureate curriculums since the mid 1980s.
  It is located on a 38 acres hill-top campus in Northeast Baltimore bordered by 33rd Street, The Alameda, and Loch Raven Boulevard. The school's main building is a National Historic Landmark and has a Baltimore City Landmark designation. According to the Maryland Historical Society, "The rough stone granite and limestone trim Collegiate Gothic architecture style structure is the highest point within the city limits.
context_section_description: Blanche F. Bowlsbey, first female teacher (1935–1955)
  Ed Burns, Edgar Award-winning writer for The Corner and The Wire
  Pierre Davis, first African-American teacher (1956), first African-American principal (1971)
  Mellasenah Morris, Dean of Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University (2008–present)
  McFadden Newell, first principal of Towson University
  ZZ Packer, author, Guggenheim Fellow
  Eugene Parker (coach), first African-American coach (1956–1986)
  George Petrides, longest serving faculty member (1972–2018)
  George L. P. Radcliffe, U.S. Senator
  Henry E. Shepherd, superintendent, Baltimore City Public Schools; president, The College of Charleston (1882–1897)
  Robert Herring Wright, first president, East Carolina University
  George Young, NFL executive, General Manager New York Giants
caption: Coach Eugene Parker, 1984
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