BALTIMORE — Mary Meyer was sitting in her shorthand class at Mercy High School in Northeast Baltimore one Monday morning nearly 58 years ago when something happened that she still calls one of the biggest thrills of her life.
As her elderly teacher read a passage aloud for the 40 students to write down, Mary, then 17, saw the classroom door swing open and the school principal, Sister Michelle Carroll, enter with a slender young man. It was startling enough that any male she didn’t know would be walking the halls of a strict, girls Catholic school in 1964. But this one also sported long hair, a tightly tailored black suit with a narrow tie, pointed black boots and dark sunglasses.
Mary’s eyes went wide.
