Academic Affairs

The Rev. James Donald Freeze, a Jesuit priest and former provost of Georgetown University, died Sunday of Alzheimer's disease complications at his order's suburban Philadelphia retirement home. He was 74. Born in Baltimore and raised on Abell Avenue, he attended the Cathedral School and was a 1950 graduate of Loyola High School. He then entered the Society of Jesus and was ordained to the priesthood in 1968. After studying at a Jesuit seminary in Wernersville, Pa., he received a master's degree in philosophy from Weston College, now the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, in Massachusetts.

Duke Albrecht of Bavaria,91, who survived Nazi concentration camps in World War II, died of natural causes Monday at the family's castle on Starnberg Lake, southwest of Munich, Germany, the royal household said. The head of the house of Wittelsbach, Duke Albrecht was heir to the throne of the Bavarian kings when Germany's collapse at the end of World War I in 1918 ended his family's 738-year reign. In 1933, the Nazis forced him to give up his forestry studies because he refused to join a Nazi organization.

Carolane Williams Occupation President of Baltimore City Community College, which has three campuses and 80 satellite learning centers. In the News Williams is taking steps to rebuild the college's reputation after a series of critical reports spotlighted the campus's low graduation rate and students' remedial education needs. She says she will create new departments that will focus on student achievement and teaching excellence. Career Highlights Before starting her BCCC job in July, Williams was president of Broward Community College's North Campus in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Before she took the helm of the school, Williams held leadership positions in academic affairs, student services and continuing education.

Q**You recently said people with Type O blood are universal donors. Isn't it true that the use of O, Rh positive blood in an Rh negative recipient, can create problems?A**That's correct.Type O individuals are universal donors only with respect to the AB blood group antigens. Recipients of a blood transfusion, especially those who have had prior transfusions, may have produced antibodies against one or more of the many other antigens that can be present on the red cells of the transfused blood and lead to serious reactions.

Q. I would like to know the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Can it be detected by a blood test or other laboratory test?A. Symptoms of Parkinson's disease start most commonly in the late 50s or early 60s and affect about 1 percent of those over 60.It begins with insidious and slowly progressive symptoms of three types: tremor, muscle rigidity and slowed movements. Often, one of the first manifestations is an intermittent "pill-rolling" tremor of one or both hands while at rest.Muscles become stiff and the face develops a masklike and expressionless appearance.

Kristina M. Johnson is provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the Johns Hopkins University. Johnson received her doctorate in electrical engineering at Stanford University and has served in a number of academic and administrative positions at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; the University of Colorado and Duke University. Johnson found these books personally appealing for a variety of reasons: "The Great Hunger in Ireland" / by Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald Woodham-Smith / Penguin Group / $17 I read this as part of an Anglo-Irish course booklist I read while teaching at Trinity College, Dublin.

Rev. J. K. McCormack, 72, teacher at LoyolaThe Rev. John K. McCormack, who taught for 22 years at Loyola College in Baltimore, died of pneumonia Thursday at Loyola Center, the Jesuit residence at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He was 72.Born in Washington, Father McCormack graduated from Gonzaga High School in 1942 and entered the Society of Jesus that August. He studied theology at Woodstock College and was ordained in 1955.He earned a doctorate at Gregorian University in Rome in 1960 and taught psychology at the Jesuit seminary in Shrub Oak, N.Y. He came to Loyola College in 1967 and spent 22 years as a faculty member, assistant prefect of studies, dean of studies for the evening college and assistant to the vice president for academic affairs.

Tai Sophia Institute appoints new vice president Mary Ellen Petrisko, a resident of Annapolis, has been appointed academic vice president of the Tai Sophia Institute for the Healing Arts. A former vice president of academic affairs at the University of Maryland University College and deputy secretary of Higher Education at the Maryland Higher Education Commission, Petrisko will be responsible for oversight of the institute's academic programs. Tai Sophia Institute offers graduate education and advanced degrees in acupuncture, botanical healing and applied healing arts.

Thelma B. Thompson, vice president for academic affairs at Norfolk State University in Virginia, has been named president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Thompson, a long-time liberal arts dean at Norfolk State and vice president for the past four years, replaces Dolores R. Spikes, who resigned last summer for health reasons. Jack "Jackie" Thomas, an English professor and executive vice president, has been heading UMES on an interim basis. Thompson has been managing a $40 million budget at Norfolk State, where she is responsible for 39 undergraduate and 14 graduate programs.

UPDATE:   Baltimore police say they have charged a 20-year-old Washington man in the shooting Friday at   Morgan State University . Keith Robertson, of the 4900 block of G St. SE, has been charged with attempted first-degree murder, assault and handgun charges, according to the department. Police said he provided a confession in the afternoon incident that wounded a student on the semester's last day of classes. The man injured in the incident is Tyrell Okoro, a 20-year-old member of the football team from Queens New York, said Morgan spokesman Clinton R. Coleman Jr. Okoro is a sophomore offensive lineman, according to the university's website.