Dr. S. Goldsborough Tyler, Jr. and Catharine A. Tyler Education Scholarship

Dr. and Mrs. Tyler were both devoted educators. Dr. “Goldy” Tyler excelled as a multi-sport athlete while attending Salisbury State College, earning 12 letters in soccer, basketball and baseball before graduating in 1941, and was among those inducted into the inaugural class of the Salisbury Athletic hall of Fame in 1985. Dr. Tyler continued in sports after college, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals farm teams in the Eastern Shore League,. He was inducted into the Eastern Shore Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996. Dr. Tyler served as a Maryland State Trooper before joining the U.S. Navy during WW II. He taught for many years as a Physical Education teacher, then served as a Principal in Dorchester County, MD. The last few years of his career Dr. Tyler joined the faculty in the Department of Education at Salisbury State College in 1968. He retired in 1980. Mrs. Catharine Tyler graduated from Pocomoke High School and later received her Bachelor’s Degree in education from Salisbury State Teachers College, now Salisbury University and later her Master’s Degree from the University of Maryland. In the early 1950’s, she opened Sunny Day Kindergarten in Cambridge, which continues to this day as a ministry of the First Baptist Church of Cambridge under the name Sunny Day Christian Preschool. Beginning in the 1960’s, Catharine opened and supervised a day care center in Cambridge for the Dorchester County Department of Social Services, and later worked as a Child Care Specialist, licensing group child care centers with the Maryland Health Department. She retired from Maryland State service in 1980.