James C. Pine

James C. Pine, a retired teacher, and son of Frank Woodworth and Mabel Edna Durand Pine, died of natural causes at the Heron Point retirement community in Chestertown, Maryland. He was 101 years young. Mr. Pine was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in 1904, where his father was the head of the English Department at the Hill School. The family moved to Baltimore in 1912 when his father became headmaster of the Gilman Country Day School. He attended Gilman and graduated with the class of 1921. He then attended Yale University where he received his bachelor’s degree in history in 1926. His first employment was with the Southern Railway in Atlanta, Georgia from 1926-1929 where he was a member of the First Traffic Class. He subsequently moved back to Baltimore in 1929 and became a member of the Gilman faculty, where he taught English, French, history and debating and public speaking. He was head of the History Department at Gilman from 1940-1969. He directed the Public Speaking Program from 1940-1970. In the early 1940’s he attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He was a past president of the Teachers Association of Independent Schools of Maryland. He was a life long member of the Roland Park Presbyterian Church where he was a deacon. In 1940, he married Elizabeth Kent Heiner, daughter of Brigadier General Gordon Graham Heiner and Elizabeth Cloyd Kent Heiner. Following his retirement from Gilman he worked with the Baltimore Council for International Visitors, where he was the research editor the Bicentennial Ethnic Directory and escort for State Department sponsored visitors to Baltimore. He was also a member of the tutorial program of the Brown Memorial Church and a volunteer in Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland. He is survived by his two sons, Dr. Frank W. Pine of Parkton, Maryland and Robert G. Pine of New York City; a grandson, Colin Kent Pine of Beijing, China, and two granddaughters, Jenifer Durand Pine of Savannah, Georgia and Olivia Mary Pine of New York City. A memorial service will be held at 3:30PM on Monday, January 9 at the Roland Park Presbyterian Church, 4801 Roland Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland. Donations will be accepted to the Frank and Mabel Pine Scholarship Fund at the Gilman School, 5407 Roland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21210.

James C. Pine

January 4, 2006