Staff, students and community members celebrated the opening of Theodore G. Davis Middle School in a formal ceremony held Friday, April 11, at the school.
The ceremony included student musical performances, speeches, presentations by elected officials, comments by the Davis family, information about the school time capsule and a traditional key passing.
Davis Middle School opened on August 27, 2007. It is 128,000-square feet, and was designed as a two-story building. The $26.3 million cost of the school was funded by the Charles County Commissioners and the state of Maryland. Wendell Martin is the first principal of the school. The school is located off Davis Road and houses more than 1,000 students. It is the last of three schools to be built on the Waldorf site which also contains North Point High School and William A. Diggs Elementary School.
The school was named after Theodore G. Davis, who was a Charles County Public Schools teacher. He began his career at a one-room school in Doncaster in 1926 and transferred to Nanjemoy High School when it opened in the early 1930s. Mr. Davis taught English, mathematics, civics and American history. He also coached girls’ volleyball and softball teams.
Davis served as acting principal at Nanjemoy High School and retired from the school system in 1964. He began driving a school bus to the Nanjemoy School upon his retirement. Mr. Davis was born on Dec. 7, 1905, and died on Jan. 26, 1991, at the age of 86.
The building was designed by SHW Group, Inc. and the construction management firm was Scheibel Construction.