Administrative Assistant

Sheila Joy Jacobs, a retired Maryland Department of Human Resources administrator and movie and theater buff, died Oct. 5 of metastatic cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 67. Sheila Joy Zaba was born and raised in Forest Park. After graduating in 1961 from Forest Park High School, she went to work for the state Department of Human Resources. During her 30-year career, Mrs. Jacobs held various positions, including assistant to the director of the office of Project Independence Management, administrative assistant to the director of the Social Services Administration, and administrative assistant to the deputy secretary of Employment and Social Services.

Florence J. Micherdzinski, a retired Bendix Corp. executive assistant and an avid gardener, died Friday of an intestinal blockage at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. She was 88. Florence Januzak was born and raised in Buffalo, N.Y., where she graduated in 1943 from Villa Maria Academy. After graduating from high school, she worked as a secretary for New York state government in Buffalo, until moving to Washington in the late 1940s. In 1953, when the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare was established during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mrs. Micherdzinski became the administrative assistant to Oveta Culp Hobby, who was named to head the department.

COLLEGE PARK - Mike Locksley is 42 years old, a father of four and a $500,000-a-year offensive coordinator. Mike Locksley is also well versed in the art of freestyle rap. Just not well enough, apparently. "My kids will tell you I'm awful at it," Locksley said Tuesday, chuckling heartily before repeating once more for emphasis: "Awful at it. " He knows enough to know what he likes, though, and what he doesn't. So when he strolled through the Maryland locker room after one practice this spring, his first back in College Park in a decade, and heard defensive back Jeremiah Johnson's lyrical barbs aimed at his offense, he turned to the sophomore.

BaseballAngels: Agreed to terms with IF Andy Stankiewicz on minor-league contract.Braves: Signed P John Rocker, P Micah Bowie, IF Wes Helms, IF Mark DeRosa and C Pascual Matos to one-year contracts.Brewers: Invited P Kyle Peterson, P Jim Converse, P Steve Falteisek, P Jeff Granger, P Reggie Harris, P Rod Henderson, P Ryan Henderson, P Hector Ramirez, P Tim VanEgmond, P William Van Landingham, C Alex Andreopoulos, C Jorge Brito, IF Brandon Cromer, IF Luis Ortiz, IF Eddie Zozsky and OF Todd Dunn to spring training.

Animal control The agency needs volunteers for hands on interaction with animals, showing animals to prospective clients, assisting customers, answering phones, filing, photography and multimedia tasks. Applicants must be 18 or older, able to meet the 16-hour-per-month requirement of volunteer service hours and prepared to comply with all volunteer policies at the agency. Information: 410-222-8900. Bello Machre A nonprofit that provides homes for adults and children with developmental disabilities has a number of volunteer opportunities available.

Maryland is still mum on the apparent hiring of Mike Locksley as Randy Edsall's new offensive coordinator. The names I heard Wednesday when word got out that Gary Crowton was the first coaching casualty of Maryland's 2-10 debacle were Locksley as well as former UConn offensive coordinators Joe Moorhead and Norries Wilson, who was recently fired as head coach at Columbia. At least one former Washington high school coach who knows Locksley from his years working for Ron Vanderlinden and Ralph Friedgen at Maryland believes the former New Mexico coach would be a "great fit" despite the troubles he had on and off the field in Albuquerque.

Brenda Brewington, an ecclesiastical administrator at St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Ellicott City who had taught earlier in its preschool, died Thursday in her office in a double shooting that also claimed a pastor's life. She was 59. "Brenda had a big, infectious laugh and was the loudest cheerleader at any track meet in Howard County and a few other counties as well," said her sister-in-law, Lisa Brewington of Centerville, Va. "She was a world-class mom, to her own boys and to so many other young people.

Elsie Entwisle, a retired senior departmental administrator at the Johns Hopkins University, died March 11 of leukemia at Gilchrist Hospice. She was 84 and lived in Parkville. Born Elsie Marie Miller in Pigtown, she and her two brothers were raised by their grandparents after their mother died of tuberculosis when Ms. Entwisle was 4. She graduated from Southern High School and then went to work at Domino's Sugars and the old Baltimore City Traffic Court. In 1946, she met the Rev. Willard M. Entwisle, who came to Baltimore to lead what was then St. Paul's Chapel on Washington Boulevard and who would become her husband.