Carver High School & Junior College Carver High School & Junior College
"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."
— George Washington Carver, 1864-1943

History of Carver

Change came slowly.

Yet for many African Americans, born into segregation, the glimmer of new opportunities was unmistakeable. Since the first elementary school for African American children opened in Montgomery County, Maryland in 1866, at least 40 more had opened by 1927, the result of sheer determination and hard work on the part of a community to which education was once denied. Now, more than 60 years after the end of slavery, the dream of having a high school would become a reality. For the first time, African American students would not have to leave Montgomery County to complete their education.

Scarce resources meant that the new Rockville Colored High School would be a modest facility. Another 24 years would have to pass before a high school equal to the ones for White students would be built, a school that would inspire students as much as did its namesake, George Washington Carver.

"Carver is more than a building. It is a monument in the Black community."
Bessie Hill Corbin
— Bessie Hill Corbin Carver physical education teacher, 1951-56

Opportunities and obstacles

Rockville Colored High opened in the fall of 1927 with 40 students — 22 girls and 18 boys in Grade 8 — in a long yellow three-room building. Some people thought the school, with all its windows on one side, looked like a "chicken house," according to the records of Professor Noah Clarke, chairman of the United Trustees of Montgomery County, the group of African American community leaders who lobbied the county Board of Education for permission to establish the school. But, to its founders and students, Rockville Colored High School looked like something entirely different. It looked like opportunity.

Each year, the school added a grade so that by 1931, Rockville served students in Grades 8-11, the highest grade available to students at that time.

Though the promise embodied in the new school was real, so too were the obstacles. Irregular attendance was not uncommon, as students stayed out to fulfill farm chores in the then-agrarian county. Money was a persistent problem. In fact, the community itself raised a good part of the funds to build the school, and additional funds were provided by the Rosenwald Fund, created by philanthropist Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck and Company to improve opportunities for African Americans. Scant funds and a shorter school term also meant that the African American schools often closed earlier in the spring and opened later in the fall than the White schools.

But the biggest discouragement may have been the long and arduous commute for many students. Passing by White high schools much closer to their homes, some students traveled well over 20 miles to reach the Rockville school, located near what is now the intersection of North Washington and Beall streets, in the midst of a thriving business and residential neighborhood for African Americans. Once again the community, led by the United Trustees, dug into its pockets and bought a used Model T bus. The seller of the bus was the county Board of Education. A year later, the community purchased a second bus from a Baltimore company, and later yet the Board gave the school a third bus. The United Trustees continued to pay for the drivers and the maintenance, however, and students paid a monthly fee to ride the bus. Depending on how far they lived from the school, students paid up to $6 a month for bus service, a hardship for many students and another deterrent to continuing their education.

The problems for the schools intensified during the Great Depression as businesses shuttered their doors and jobs vanished. In 1930 the Board agreed to provide a $2 monthly allowance to offset the cost for each student who rode the bus. In 1933, the Board took over the costs of the maintenance of the buses and the salaries of the drivers.

Despite the deepening shadow of the Depression, the Rockville school showed steady progress during its early years. By 1931, it had expanded its curriculum, hired more staff, and added some sports. However, the seemingly contradictory challenges of student retention and rapidly increasing enrollment remained. Of the 40 eighth graders who entered Rockville in 1927, only 9 completed Grade 11. At the same time, the growing enrollment burdened the already-minimal facilities.

By 1931, the Board rented additional space in a nearby building from the Order of Galilean Fisherman, an organization dedicated to community service, to supplement classroom space. The high school also started holding chemistry classes in the basement of Rockville Colored Elementary School next door. Finally, in 1932, under community pressure, the Board approved the establishment of a new high school to replace Rockville Colored High. This time, the Board would pay for the school, though the United Trustees were instrumental in getting the project approved.

Lincoln High School opened in 1935 on an 8-1/2-acre lot on Stonestreet Avenue in the African American community of Lincoln Park in Rockville. Although the much larger building resolved, at least temporarily, the space problems of the old school, it was not quite the "brick building" that the United Trustees had requested. Piece by piece, an old abandoned wooden building in Takoma Park was dismantled and reassembled on the Lincoln Park site and reclad in red bricks. Nonetheless, the "new" school was still cause for celebration. The six classrooms allowed a broadening of the academic offerings and accommodated more students and staff. That first year, 236 students in Grades 8-11 could choose from three curricula—academic, general, and vocational—and a wide variety of extracurricular activities.

"Sometimes you'd try to do your homework on the bus because when you left home in the morning, it was dark. When you got home in the evening, it was dark. It was a daunting task just to get to and from school five days a week."
Christine Clarke
— Christine Clarke 1956 Carver graduate

Strides toward equality

Barely had the "newness" of Lincoln worn off when a critical event would profoundly improve the education of African American students and crumble a major inequity in the county's segregated school system. In 1937, pressured by a lawsuit brought by William B. Gibbs, Jr., principal of Rockville Colored Elementary School, the Board abolished its practice of paying African American teachers less than their White counterparts. Although the out-of-court settlement set no legal precedent, it encouraged teachers in other Maryland counties to press for equal salaries. The passage of time would show the case to be historic in another way as well. Among the NAACP lawyers representing Gibbs was Thurgood Marshall, who would later be the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

About that time, another important change would deeply affect the education of African Americans in the county: the Board mandated that African American schools be open for the same term as the White schools.

Such major improvements heralded not only the slowly changing attitudes in the county but also the gathering force of people willing and able to challenge inequities through legal means. Yet, as significant as these successes were, one grim truth remained: African American students were taught in substandard schoolhouses, where desks, books, and other supplies were castoffs from the White schools. Even these items were in meager supply. Teachers were often forced to improvise when materials were not available — or even create their own materials.

"There weren't that many occupations [open to African Americans]. Teaching was one of the opportunities. I was privileged to have worked in a new school that offered all the amenities. Carver provided more than academics. It had one of the best vocational departments I had ever seen."
Joan Taylor Kelly
— Joan Taylor Kelly Carver art teacher, 1955-58

Progress over problems

With its enrollment still rising despite the same high dropout rate that dogged Rockville, Lincoln expanded its course offerings as well as its facilities. Quonset huts were placed behind the school for additional, albeit inferior, classroom space, and the Board turned once again to the Fisherman's Hall, renting it for basketball practices and games.

Still, the pace of progress, though at times slow, continued. In the fall of 1943, another momentous decision edged the education of African American and White students closer together: the Board added Grade 12 to Lincoln High School. Besides the additional year of education, this action meant that another inequity fell into history, as White schools had added Grade 12 some time earlier. As formidable as the remaining inequities were, the winds of change were not to be calmed.

In 1948, faced with the dilapidated condition of many of the African American elementary schools, Superintendent of Schools Edwin W. Broome embarked on a plan to replace the substandard schools with new consolidated schools. By that time, Lincoln High School had reached a critical point, with a still burgeoning enrollment way over the school's capacity and an instructional and athletic program spread out over the original building, the Quonset huts, and the old Fisherman's Hall. Following appeals from the Federation of Parent-Teacher Associations, which replaced the United Trustees in 1936, the Board approved one of its most ambitious plans yet: the building of a new high school, complete with the county's first junior college for African American students, a facility that would be on par with modern White schools. Such an inspired edifice, a pivotal project in the quickening march toward equality, deserved an equally inspiring name. In a contest at Lincoln, students and staff selected the name of an African American who surmounted untold obstacles to achieve success and international acclaim as a scientist and educator: George Washington Carver.

"We had very little to work with at Lincoln. We tried to teach home economics in a separate building, a little hut, really, with no running water. We taught from a textbook. At Carver, we had everything we needed. The equipment we had to work with was, for us, tops."
Daisy Wright Myles
— Daisy Wright Myles home economics teacher at Lincoln High School, 1945-51, and Carver High School, 1951-1960

Carver: A modern facility

From its opening in 1951, George Washington Carver High School and Junior College was unlike any other county school for African American children. Built to modern standards, Carver shined. Former students remember the gleaming floors and pastel walls, unmarred even years later, so proud of the school were its students and staff. Carver was also unique in that it served only Grades 10-12, rather than being a combination junior/senior high school as Rockville and Lincoln had been. Upon Carver's opening, Lincoln became a junior high school, serving Grades 7-9.

Located on what is now the corner of Hungerford Drive and Mannakee Street in Rockville, Carver had eight classrooms off a main corridor on the first floor; offices for the principal, vice principal, and counselor; a nurse’s room; and a small school store where students could purchase basic school supplies. Large science and home economics laboratories and a library filled the second floor. The initially limited library collection was greatly expanded in 1953 with the purchase of more than 12,000 volumes from the defunct Chevy Chase Junior College. The third floor housed staff lounges; in later years some of this space was used for special education instruction.

On the ground floor, a cafeteria, still in operation today, provided dining tables and lunches, and a band room allowed instruction and rehearsal space for the school band.

In 1952 a new two-story building, connected to the main school by a covered walkway, added a gymnasium/auditorium with a stage and a girls’ locker room on the top level, and vocational classrooms and shops and a boys’ locker room on the lower level.

Carver High School offered instruction in four curricula — academic, commercial, general, and vocational. Academic courses included English, mathematics, social studies, science, and French. Commercial courses included business education and practices, stenography, and typing. The general curriculum included the basic courses required for high school graduation in Maryland and various electives. A comprehensive vocational program offered courses in auto mechanics, cosmetology, tailoring/dry cleaning, and building trades. Carver was one of only two high schools in the state to offer cosmetology and tailoring/dry cleaning. Years later, many of these vocational programs were replicated at the Edison Career Center in Wheaton.

At its peak, the high school enrolled about 425 students. However, as at the two previous secondary schools, Carver's dropout rate remained stubbornly high. Of the 143 students entering Grade 10 at Carver in 1954, for example, only 59 completed Grade 12. Although some students dropped out to work, others wearied of the long commute which, given the distances and circuitous bus routes, could mean traveling for more than three hours. Because of this, some students chose to attend high school in Washington, D.C., Frederick County, or other jurisdictions, often boarding with relatives or friends.

When the doors of Carver opened, so too did the doors to higher education. George Washington Carver Junior College, officially established in 1950, began offering courses at the Carver facility in 1951. A part-time faculty, many of whom also taught at the high school, held classes for about 125 students, who could earn credits toward a college degree or hone skills for the workplace. Classes were held in the evenings and on weekends when the high school was not in session. The first baccalaureate service for six graduating students of Carver Junior College took place on May 31, 1953, at the school. Carver was the first, and only, college for the county's African American students, who at that time were denied admission to the all-White Montgomery Junior College.

Carver High School also offered another unique opportunity for its students, many of whom had difficulties finding employment in the limited job market for African Americans at that time: a chance to come back. Graduates who were not yet 18 years old could return to the school in the fall for additional classes. It was a chance to improve their skills and explore other subjects by taking courses outside their chosen curriculum. It was also a way for the Carver staff to continue to nurture and protect the younger students before they had to face an often unwelcoming world.

Building Evolution Timeline

Timeline

  • 1896: The U.S. Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson confirms the doctrine of "separate but equal," which in practice was certainly separate, but hardly equal.
  • 1922: The county sets a school term of 161 days for African American schools and 190 days for White schools. Previously, African American schools closed whenever the funds ran out.
  • 1926: The first of 15 "Rosenwald" schools is built for African American students in the county with money from a fund established by philanthropist Julius Rosenwald.
  • 1927: The first county secondary school for African American students, Rockville Colored High School, opens for students in Grades 8-11. Prior to this, students who wanted to continue their education beyond Grade 7 had to go to another jurisdiction.
  • 1935: Lincoln High School replaces Rockville Colored High School to serve Grades 8-11.
  • 1937: The Board of Education agrees to abolish the practice of paying lower salaries to African American teachers than to White teachers. The county also equalizes the length of the school year for all schools about this time.
  • 1944: The first group of students completes Grade 12 at Lincoln High School. Previously, the county offered education only through Grade 11 for African American students.
  • 1951: The county opens George Washington Carver High School and Junior College, the first college for African American students in Montgomery County. Upon the opening of Carver, Lincoln becomes a junior high school for Grades 7-9.
  • 1954: The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, declares the segregation of public schools unconstitutional.
  • 1955: The Board adopts a policy on integration, and, assured by the state superintendent that the U. S. Supreme Court decision supersedes any state laws that prohibit integration, MCPS superintendent Forbes H. Norris gives the order to begin implementing the policy.
  • 1956: Poolesville citizens argue against integration of their school before the Board. Parents who refuse to send their children to the newly integrated school relent after Superintendent Forbes H. Norris threatens to take them to court for failure to comply with state attendance laws.
  • 1957: The Board adopts the integration plan for 1957-58, which affects students in kindergarten through Grade 9 in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Montgomery Blair, Northwood, Wheaton, and Walter Johnson attendance areas.
  • 1959: Margaret T. Jones is appointed the first African American principal of an all-White school, Bannockburn Elementary. Gerald G. Reymore is the first White principal of Rock Terrace Elementary.
  • 1960: Carver graduates its last class before closing as the last African American school in the county. All undergraduate students are assigned to integrated schools for the next year.
  • 1961: Carver reopens to house the central administrative offices for the Montgomery County Public Schools, a function it serves to this day.
  • 2003: George Washington Carver High School and Junior College is designated a Rockville Historic District.

Academics

Carver offered instruction in four curricula:
Academic, Commercial, General and Vocational

Carver offered instruction
in four curricula:

Academic

Courses included English, mathematics, social studies, science, and French.

Academic

Commercial

Courses included business education and practices, stenography and typing.

Commercial

General

The general curriculum included the basic courses required for high school graduation in Maryland and various electives.

General

Vocational

A comprehensive vocational program offered courses in auto mechanics, cosmetology, tailoring/dry cleaning, and building trades. Carver was one of just two high schools in the state to offer cosmetology and tailoring/dry cleaning. Years later, many of these vocational programs were replicated at the Edison Career Center in Wheaton.

Vocational
After High SchoolAfter High School

Carver High School also offered another unique opportunity for its students, many of whom had difficulties finding employment in the limited job market for African Americans at that time: a chance to come back. Graduates who were not yet 18 years old could return to the school in the fall for additional classes. It was a chance to improve their skills and explore other subjects by taking courses outside their chosen curriculum. It was also a way for the Carver staff to continue to nurture and protect the younger students before they had to face an often unwelcoming world.

Academics at Carver Junior CollegeAcademics at Carver Junior College

When the doors of Carver opened, so too did the doors to higher education. George Washington Carver Junior College, officially established in 1950, began offering courses at Carver in 1951. A part-time faculty, many of whom also taught at the high school, held classes for about 125 students, who could earn credits toward a college degree or hone skills for the workplace. Classes were held in the evenings and on weekends when the high school was not in session.

The first baccalaureate service of six graduating students of Carver Junior College took place on May 31, 1953, at the school. Carver was the first, and only, college for the county's African American students, who at that time were denied admission to the all-White Montgomery Junior College.

Activities

An array of extracurricular activities made Carver the center of students' social as well as academic lives. Each year, Carver inducted top-performing students into the school's chapter of the National Honor Society. A Student Council, with representatives from each grade level, met regularly.

Clubs

Clubs

Students could join a variety of school clubs in such areas as science, mathematics, library, debate, dramatics, photography, dance and cosmetology.

Other activities included the Newspaper Staff, Yearbook Staff, Choral Club, Future Teachers of America, Future Farmers of America, New Homemakers of America, Safety Patrol, Charm Club, Finance Committee, and Assembly Committee. A Hi-Y club for boys and a Tri-Hi-Y for girls, civic leadership groups of the YMCA, emphasized the importance of serving one's community decades before Maryland mandated student-service learning.

Clubs

Sports

Sports included teams for football, baseball, track, cheerleading, and girls' and boys' basketball. However, competition with other schools was complicated by the fact that Carver teams could play only other African American teams. This meant long drives to other counties, and sometimes other states, to compete.

Clubs

Band

An award-winning band gave concerts and marched with the Carver majorettes in Rockville's annual Memorial Day parade. Among its social events, Carver had school dances, an annual prom and, as part of May Day festivities, the crowning of the school May queen.

The People

Unlike most of the other African American schools, which were at least partially if not fully supported by the community, Carver was built and operated with county funds. Adhering to a long tradition, however, the African American community steadfastly supported the school and its activities. The Parent-Teacher Association Council, an African American group, provided a scholarship for a Carver student and contributed to Carver and other schools in numerous ways. Community members often attended sports events and other activities.

Students

Students

At its peak, Carver high school enrolled about 425 students. However, as at the two previous secondary schools, Carver's dropout rate remained stubbornly high. Of the 143 students entering Grade 10 at Carver in 1954, for example, only 59 completed Grade 12.

Although some students dropped out to work, others wearied of the long commute, which given the distances and circuitous bus routes could mean traveling more than three hours. Because of this, some students living far from Rockville chose to attend high school in Washington, D.C., Frederick County or other jurisdictions, often boarding with relatives or friends.

Students

Administrators

  • Dr. Parlett L. Moore

    Principal, Lincoln HS, 1938-1951;
    Principal, Carver HS
    Dean, Carver Jr. College, 1951-1956

  • Mr. Silas E. Craft

    Principal, Carver HS
    Dean, Carver Jr. College, 1956-60

  • Mrs. Genevieve Swann Brown

    Lincoln HS staff member,1936-49;
    Lincoln HS vice principal,1949;
    Carver HS vice principal, 1951-52

  • Miss Mable D. Thomas

    Lincoln HS math teacher, 1948-51;
    Carver math and English teacher, 1951-1955;
    Vice Principal, 1955-1960;
    Vice Principal, Robert E. Peary HS, 1960-1978;
    1944 Graduate of Lincoln HS

Students

Staff

The teachers, as well as the principal and vice principal, lived in the local community — some of them had grown up in Montgomery County — and typically knew many if not all of their students' families.

In fact, faced with limited options in the segregated housing market of Montgomery County — some of the teachers boarded with students' families.

As an integral part of the community, Carver attained an importance that reached beyond its educational function.

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Reflections

The first year I came to Carver High School, I worked in the workshop. I took the, under Mr. Silvey, we took wood shop. And then I went to auto mechanics for the second two years of my school here.

ADVILLE A. BELL

I grew up here in Rockville in the Lincoln Park area of Rockville. I went to Lincoln Park Junior High School and then from there on to Carver High School. I graduated in 1957.

REGINALD E. COLEMAN

I worked at Carver when it was first built, 1951. I was health and physical teacher and taught some science.

BESSIE H. CORBIN

I grew up between Poolesville , Maryland , in the community of Jerusalem , as well as Rockville.

CHRISTINE CLARKE

I grew up in Rockville. I graduated from Carver in 1956. We were very lucky because we lived about 10 minutes away. So we could walk to school everyday. And we did walk to school everyday. You didn’t miss any days. You went to school everyday.

GERTRUDE ELAINE CRUTCHFIELD

I grew up in a small town, Rockville, Maryland . I grew up on a street called Martins Lane , but it was named Haiti . I grew up maybe ten minutes away from Carver High School where I attended high school. I grew up on the land that was bought by my great-great grandmother who was a slave to the Beall family in Rockville.

WARREN GORDON CRUTCHFIELD

I graduated from Carver in 1954, the first class to do all three years at Carver.

KERMIT HAWKINS, JR.

I graduated from George Washington Carver High School in 1955. I worked at Carver from 1957 until 1960. I was the administrative secretary.

MARYLAH CLARK MARTIN

I grew up in Rockville . I lived across the street from elementary school that I attended. That was Rockville Elementary.

ANNABELL MOTEN OWENS

I graduated from Carver High School June 8th, 1955. It was a brand new school. It was only a couple years old when I came over here.

CYRUS GLENN TAYLOR

I was employed as a business education teacher and I taught all of the courses in business – business law, business economics, shorthand, typewriting, all of the business courses.

GEORGE B. THOMAS, SR.

I worked in Carver the entire time it was open from 1951 through 1960. For the first few years I was a teacher of mathematics and English, and from 1955 to 1960 I was assistant principal.

MABLE D. THOMAS

G.W. Carver (c. 1864-1943)

George Washington Carver was born about 1864 near Diamond Grove, Missouri. He earned a Bachelor of Science in 1894 and a Master of Science in 1896 from Iowa Agricultural College. As an agricultural chemist, he was appointed director of agriculture for the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute for Negroes, where he worked until his death in 1943.

Among his many accomplishments, Carver discovered 325 uses for peanuts, more than 100 uses for sweet potatoes, and hundreds more for other plants. His work contributed to rural economic improvement in the South by offering alternatives to the soil-depleting traditional crops of cotton and tobacco.

The recipient of many honors, Carver was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts of London, and received the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP in1923 and the Roosevelt Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Southern Agriculture in 1939. In his honor, the George Washington Carver Museum opened at Tuskegee Institute in 1941, and the area near Diamond Grove was designated a national monument in 1943.

"He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world."
- Epitaph on the grave of George Washington Carver.

Visiting Carver

The building today is called George Washington Carver Educational Services Center.
In 2003, Carver was designated a Rockville Historic District, capping a years-long effort by community members to gain recognition for the school and its unique role in county history.

Visit the Exhibit:

The Carver exhibit is in the lobby of Carver Educational Services Center and can be visited during business hours at:

Carver Educational Services Center
at the Montgomery County Board of Education
850 Hungerford Drive
Rockville 20850

Please call the Public Information Office to coordinate 301-279-3853


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Directions:

Take Interstate 270 north, toward Rockville and Frederick. Proceed to Exit 6A, Maryland 28 East (W. Montgomery Avenue). Follow the sign on the exit ramp to Nelson Street/Montgomery College (go straight at the traffic signal at the end of the ramp). Follow Nelson Street 1.2 miles to the first traffic light, at Mannakee Street. Turn left onto Mannakee Street. Proceed for 1/10 mile to the Carver Educational Services Center on the right. Pass the first set of driveways at the rear of the building and turn right into the next driveway (a flagpole by the semicircle).

Proceed to Exit 6, Maryland 28 (W. Montgomery Avenue), and follow the signs toward 6A-Rockville Town Center. Turn left onto Nelson Street at the first traffic light. Follow Nelson Street 1.2 miles to the first traffic light, at Mannakee Street. Turn left onto Mannakee Street. Proceed for 1/10 mile to the Carver Educational Services Center on the right. Pass the fist set of driveways at the rear of the building and turn right into the next driveway (a flagpole by the semicircle).

Turn west onto Mannakee Street. Proceed to the Carver Educational Services Center on the left. Turn left into the second driveway (a flagpole by the semicircle).

Follow the signs marked "PARKWAY, DULLES AIRPORT." You will be headed toward the George Washington Parkway. Once on the George Washington Parkway, go approximately 12 miles until you see the signs for 495 to Maryland. Take 495 North to 270 toward Frederick. Stay in the right lanes. Take Exit 6A (Rockville-Route 28). At light (Route 28), cross over 28 onto Nelson Street. Follow Nelson Street to traffic light (Mannakee Street). Turn left on Mannakee. We are the building one block on the right (across from Montgomery College). Pass the first set of driveways at the rear of the building and turn right into the next driveway (a flagpole by the semicircle).

Take the Dulles Access Road to I-495 North. Take 495 North to 270 towards Frederick. Stay in right lanes. Take EXIT 6A (Rockville-Route 28). At light (Route 28), cross over 28 onto Nelson Street. Follow Nelson Street to traffic light (Mannakee Street). Turn left on Mannakee. We are the building one block on the right (across from Montgomery College). Pass the first set of driveways at the rear of the building and turn right into the next driveway (a flagpole by the semicircle).

Take I-95 South to I-495 toward Silver Spring. Stay on I-495 West exit, exit number 27-25, toward US-1/COLLEGE PARK/SILVER SPRING. Keep right at the fork in the ramp. Merge onto Capital Beltway. Take the I-270 North exit, exit number 35, towards Frederick. Take Exit 6A (Rockville-Route 28). At light (Route 28), cross over 28 onto Nelson Street. Follow Nelson Street to traffic light (Mannakee Street). Turn left on Mannakee. We are the building one block on the right (across from Montgomery College). Pass the first set of driveways at the rear of the building and turn right into the next driveway (a flagpole by the semicircle).

Take the Red Line to the Rockville station, then walk down the stairs to the buses. To the left are Ride-On bus #46 and Metrobus Q-2. To the right is Ride-On bus #55.

Take either Ride-On bus #46 (to Rockville-Montgomery College) or #55 (Dorsey Mill-Germantown), or Metrobus Q-2 (Shady Grove).