History teacher Linda Moore retires after more than three decades with...

Herald & Review (Decatur, IL);  June 3, 2006 ;     495 words ......almost her entire career at Stephen Decatur. Moore and her husband both...on the faculty when the new Stephen Decatur High School opened in 1975, and she was there when Stephen Decatur became a middle school in 2000...

Herald & Review, Decatur, Ill., Bob Fallstrom column.(Column)

Herald & Review (Decatur, IL);  August 28, 2007 ;     540 words ......was, well, WOW! Consider: --Stephen Decatur High School won the state basketball...performance. --In football, Stephen Decatur scored 265 points and powered...led by Phillips, lost only to Stephen Decatur. Phillips was unstoppable, scoring...

Preserving Prime Real Estate; Award-Winning Architects from Hillier...

U.S. Newswire;  May 10, 2002 ;     470 words ......enemy, and on March 22, 1820, Stephen Decatur died in a duel at the age of...But today, 182 years after Stephen Decatur's death, he remains largely...architectural firm Hillier is readying Stephen Decatur's home for the rigors of 21st...

A Rage for Glory: The Life and Times of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN

Naval War College Review;  January 1, 2005 ;     657 words ......Life and Times of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN. New York: Free Press...in his biography of Commodore Stephen Decatur. This finely written narrative...American Revolution in 1779, Stephen Decatur spent his youth steeped in the...

Stephen Decatur: Pistols at Dawn

The Washington Post;  March 31, 1995 ;     567 words ......NEWS sweeps Washington. Commodore Stephen Decatur is dying, shot down in the prime...with a cashiered naval officer. Decatur dies from a belly wound after lingering...diffidently marked at crepe-draped Decatur House. On the one hand, the National...

War of words led to Decatur's death.(NEWS)

The Virginian Pilot;  September 26, 2004 ;     700+ words ......duel between James Barron and Stephen Decatur, two naval officers who had nursed...personal correspondence. The Stephen Decatur House Museum in Washington has...are samples: Barron letter to Decatur, June 25, 1819: If you were in...

Exhibit Marks 200th Anniversary of Decatur

AP Online;  February 17, 2004 ;     379 words ......man-of-war. For his heroics, Lt. Stephen Decatur Jr. was named a full captain...Making of an American Hero: Stephen Decatur in Tripoli," an exhibit that...display are portraits of Decatur and his father, the charts of North Africa that young Decatur used, pictures of the scene...

Rocket man Ron Spencer has Decatur roots.

Herald & Review (Decatur, IL);  June 22, 2006 ;     563 words ......The valedictorian of the 1985 Stephen Decatur High School graduating class...NASA. His physics teacher at Stephen Decatur High School, Michael Scott...one of Spencer's teachers at Stephen Decatur, said she knew even then that...

Decatur, Stephen

The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana;      79 words ...00-00-0000 Decatur, Stephen Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820) Naval officer. Decatur became a national hero during the wars against the BARBARY PIRATES, when he boarded and scuttled a captured American frigate. His reputation for bravery grew in the...

Letter by Stephen Decatur and painting by Thomas Chambers related to the...

Social Education;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......was a battle that Commodore Stephen Decatur described in a letter to Secretary...celebrity of its American hero, Stephen Decatur. Artist Thomas Chambers conveyed...document: The letter from Commodore Stephen Decatur to Secretary of the Navy Paul...

Old Mill dethroned by Stephen Decatur

Maryland Gazette;  February 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Standing in the way, however, was a Stephen Decatur team that moved up in class...Old Mill built a 16-3 lead, Stephen Decatur won six of the next seven bouts...Had Russell been able to pin Stephen Decatur's Bryce Smith, the Patriots...

Old Mill dethroned by Decatur

Capital (Annapolis);  February 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Standing in the way, however, was a Stephen Decatur team that moved up in class...Old Mill built a 16-3 lead, Stephen Decatur won six of the next seven bouts...Had Russell been able to pin Stephen Decatur's Bryce Smith, the Patriots...

Bradley B. Decatur, CONTOOCOOK -; Hobbies included motorcycling, kayaking,...

Concord Monitor;  April 14, 2005 ;     126 words ...CONTOOCOOK -- Bradley B. Decatur, 37, died Monday, April 11, 2005, at home. He was born...Winchester, Mass., the son of Bradley B. and Edith B. (Barnaby) Decatur. He worked as an auto body technician for Wilson Auto...sister, Tammy Shine of Canterbury; two brothers, Robert Decatur and Stephen ...

The 200 Year Legacy of Stephen Decatur, 1798-1998

Sea Power;  October 1, 1998 ;     214 words ...THE 200 YEAR LEGACY OF STEPHEN DECATUR, 1798-1998, by Ben Birindelli...early American naval hero Stephen Decatur and the histories of the...into 13 chapters that cover Decatur's illustrious (but short...the ships named after him. Decatur received his warrant-dated...captain in the U.S. ...

Stephen Decatur celebrates successful students with breakfast.

Herald & Review (Decatur, IL);  November 3, 2006 ;     312 words ......seventh-grader was one of 188 Stephen Decatur Middle School students celebrating...Project Success and $100 from Stephen Decatur Boosters. That's always a challenge...to hear it was a new idea to Stephen Decatur. He said he's committed to getting...