Charles "Chip" Voros

Charles (Chip) Voros passed away peacefully at home at his farm in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, on Monday, August 3, at the age of 67. He is survived by his beloved wife Sharon, his two stepsons John and Ulric Dahlgren, their wives Jessica and Nasrin, two step-grandchildren Nadia and Ulric, his brother Gary, his wife Bianca and two stepchildren, three nephews Brent, Craig, and Chris, and their wives Jenny, Sharon and Jamie, four grandnephews Nicholas, Brandon, Henry and Elliott, and two grandnieces, Jocelyn and Chloe. He was born in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, on November 30, 1947, and graduated from Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School in 1965. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology in 1969 and joined the U.S. Navy in 1970. After serving two years as an enlisted man, he went to OCS and was commissioned in 1972. After obtaining a master's degree in National Security Affairs from the Naval Post-Graduate School, he taught political science at the United States Naval Academy 1986 to 1989, where he met and married Sharon Perl Dahlgren in 1989. He served as weapons officer on the battleship New Jersey, and retired with the rank of Commander in 1993. After earning a master's degree in education from Marymount University, he began a second successful career in teaching, first at Tayac Elementary School in Fort Washington from 1993 to 1998 and then at Indian Creek School in Crownsville, Maryland from 1998 to 2014. Students from his 5th grade classes still remember him very fondly and Upper School students who took his courses in AP European History, Great Conversations, and AP Art History loved him for his wit, his generosity, his vast knowledge, and his determination to push them to excel. The funeral will be on Saturday, August 15, 2015, at 1 p.m. at Saint Thomas' Episcopal Church, 14300 St. Thomas Church Road, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, 20772.