The Sandy Spring Odd Fellows band rehearses in the early 1950s. They are, from left, Charlie Campbell, Leslie Gaines, Russell Bacon, Robert Awkard, George Awkard, George Cook, Herman Askins, and Edgar "Cotton" Thomas. The band leader is Herbert Stith, musical director at Rockville's Carver High where the group rehearses. Founded decades ago, the Sandy Spring Odd Fellows provide assistance for widows, orphans, and the poor, particularly through baskets of food and clothing given at Thanksgiving and Christmas. The old Odd Fellows Hall, next to Sharp Street Church, has been abandoned and is being considered as an historic site.

Baseball's Hall of Fame inducted Sam Rice in 1963 for his batting and fielding with the Washington Senators, including the World Series victory over the Giants in 1924. The next year, when the Senators lost the Series to Pittsburgh, Rice stirred a famous controversy: Leaping into the bleachers for a fly ball, he disappeared from sight, then emerged holding ball in glove. Pittsburgh claimed loudly but unsuccessfully that he picked up the ball from the bleachers floor. At his death Rice left a letter that broke years of silence: He made the catch.