How a local gathering place brings together so many Tiger grads
Through many recent challenges, Towson’s Charles Village Pub perseveres
By Rebecca Kirkman on June 24, 2021
Note: A longer version of this story appeared in TU Magazine.
Back in her undergraduate days, Shelby Sirkis ’06 and her friends would meet at Charles Village Pub & Patio in uptown Towson most weekends. Known to locals simply as CVP, the pub on West Pennsylvania Avenue has been a favorite for generations of TU students, faculty and staff since it opened in 1985.
For Sirkis, though, the place holds more than collegiate nostalgia. One night in 2004, she and her friends were hanging out by the pool table on the second floor when she got up the courage to introduce herself to Jason Dorich ’05, an upperclassman who had caught her eye around campus. They started talking and hit it off.
Seven years later, Sirkis and Dorich married. In the decade since, the Timonium couple has returned to CVP for occasions big and small. They hosted private parties at the pub to celebrate Dorich’s 30th birthday in 2012, as well as the first birthdays of their three children—Colby, 7, Madison, 4, and Jordy, 2.
It’s a story familiar to many: The Tiger watering hole has a way of bringing people together.
In fact, CVP’s current co-owners Eric Wagner ’94, Melony Wagner ’97 and Rick Bielski ’84 met working at the pub in the 1990s.
Learn more about their story from the Spring TU Magazine and keep your eyes peeled in the coming weeks for the Summer TU Magazine.