Cameron D. ”Cam” Baird, who taught English for almost 3 a long time at St. Paul’s Faculty for Boys and coached baseball and football, died of more than one organ failure and sepsis Would possibly 31 at Mercy Scientific Heart. The Timonium resident used to be 52.
“He used to be an overly first rate and sort, sort man, who took his process very severely,” stated Kent W. “Skip” Darrell, an established arithmetic instructor and trainer at St. Paul’s.
“He used to be a well-liked English instructor and the youngsters discovered him inspiring, and he comparable rather well with scholars,” Mr. Darrell stated. “He used to be additionally well-respected via the school. The opposite day, we had a last rite for the school and personnel and we held a second of silence for Cam, which used to be adopted via a status ovation.”
Ted Watson had the good thing about being one in every of Mr. Baird’s scholars, who later joined him on St. Paul’s college.
“He used to be simply an implausible instructor and a straight-shooter. He used to be a kind of academics who may just dish it out if some knucklehead used to be disruptive or uncooperative at school,” he stated. “He wasn’t afraid to take them on and cause them to a greater pupil. He used to be stern, however worrying. It used to be difficult love, however extra love than difficult.”
Cameron Dugan Baird, son of Brent Baird, an funding banker, and Ansie Baird, a poet, used to be born and raised in Buffalo, New York.
In Buffalo, he attended The Park Faculty, Elmwood Franklin Faculty and graduated in 1989 from the Nichols Faculty.
He earned a bachelor’s stage in English literature in 1993 from Williams School in Williamstown, Massachusetts, the place he performed varsity soccer, and a grasp’s stage in literature in 1998 from the Johns Hopkins College.
Mr. Baird started his educating profession within the English division within the higher faculty of St. Paul’s in 1998.
“I really like operating with higher faculty scholars as it wasn’t till my very own senior yr in highschool that I found out the significance of keeping up sturdy relationships with academics,” Mr. Baird stated to a St. Paul’s e-newsletter. “If you find yourself your paintings each day, no person will ever omit your efforts.”
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Mr. Baird taught Shakespearean performs to his scholars via turning them into individuals in a court docket trial.
“He targeted my lifestyles when it got here to finding out Shakespeare. He had us do a courtroom case for ‘The Tempest,’” recalled Mr. Watson, who — since 2020 — has been the director of educational construction on the Woodberry Wooded area Faculty in Virginia.
“We had two groups of attorneys and we needed to turn out the possession of the island, whether or not it used to be Prospero’s [the protagonist] or Caliban’s [his servant], and we needed to mine the ebook for quotes, and we got here to understand the play in detail as a result of we so sought after our staff to win,” Mr. Watson stated. “It used to be a great, and probably the most memorable, reviews I had at St Paul’s and the rationale I so love Shakespeare.”
When Mr. Watson joined the varsity’s college, Mr. Baird turned into his mentor.
“I might pass to him if I used to be having hassle a couple of pupil and he’d mentor me,” he stated. “He would give me just right recommendation and didn’t beat across the bush.”
Along with his school room tasks, Mr. Baird coached varsity and junior varsity football and baseball, and used to be given the Alec Schweizer ‘98 Award for the Development of Educating and Training.
For years, he used to be commissioner of the once a year St. Paul’s Turkey Bowl, a slightly soccer event and sizzling canine consuming contest held the day after Thanksgiving that raised scholarship price range for college students.
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He additionally performed goalie for the once a year faculty-student hockey recreation.
Mr. Baird used to be the adviser to The Track, the varsity’s literary mag, and used to be an organizer of the King’s Imaginative and prescient Day Movie Pageant, named after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
He additionally used to be co-leader and organizer of the once a year junior commute, which introduced scholars in combination within the outside for 2 days of bonding and mirrored image.
Beside his deep hobby in Shakespeare, fresh poetry and track, he used to be a Buffalo Expenses fan. A canine lover, he loved touring in another country and gazing British tv comedies.
“Certainly, Mr. Baird’s efforts have left an indelible mark on our group and on generations of St. Paul’s graduates,” in step with a commentary to the varsity’s college, personnel and scholars pronouncing his loss of life. “His affect, hobby, and beliefs have made us a more potent, kinder, extra ingenious group, and we can be perpetually thankful.”
A memorial carrier might be held at 11 a.m. June 17 within the chapel at St. Paul’s Faculty for Boys, 11152 Falls Street, Brooklandville.
Along with his spouse of 28 years, Sarah Platman, a lifestyles trainer, he’s survived via a son, Ollivander J. Baird of Timonium; a daughter, Charlotte A. Baird of Hunt Valley; his father, Brent Baird of Buffalo; his mom, Asnie Baird of Buffalo; his stepmother, Ann Baird of Buffalo; and 3 sisters, Cynthia Stark and Sarah M. Baird, either one of Buffalo, and Bridget Baird of Windfall, Rhode Island.
