Anne Arundel Community

Dance performance -- The Anne Arundel Community College Dance Company will present Random Acts at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Pascal Center for Performing Arts, 101 College Parkway, Arnold. Tickets are $10 for general admission; $7 for senior adults, AACC employees, and children younger than 12; and $5 for AACC students. Group rates are available. 410-777-2457.

Anne Arundel Community College's Kauffman Theater at the Pascal Center for Performing Arts is proving to be fertile ground for people searching for entertainment bargains. The center offers such options as dance troupes, jazz ensembles, world-class guitar concerts and performances by the AACC Concert Band. The major spring concert season kicked off last weekend with classical concerts by the college's Symphony Orchestra and the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers. If these opening classical concerts signal the caliber of what lies ahead, music fans are in for a treat.

Suzanne Lanks and Robert J. Whitney, students at Anne Arundel Community College, recently received honorable mention in the "Marylanders at Work" Community College Photography Contest.The contest was for students at the state's 17 community colleges. Works will be displayed at the Department of Economic and Employment in Baltimore.

Since it's an odd-numbered year, it must be Severn's turn to win the annual girls lacrosse showdown with neighborhood rival Severna Park. Over the past six years, Severn has won in the odd-numbered years and the Falcons in the even ones. However, the Admirals' defense had more to do with their 11-6 win Thursday night at the Anne Arundel Community College Tournament than the date did. In the battle for local bragging rights, the No. 12 Admirals (3-2) kept Severna Park's offense from sustaining any rhythm after the No. 8 Falcons rallied from two goals down to tie midway through the first half.

The Alumni and Friends Association of Anne Arundel Community Collegeseeks a recent graduate to reward with a scholarship this June to attend the University of Baltimore.The association's Wilson Scholarship honors Theodore Halber Wilson, 1940-1961 president of the University of Baltimore.Candidates for the estimated $3,200 scholarship must have earned an associate in arts degree from Anne Arundel Community College between December 1985 and May 1990. Other requirements include a 3.25 grade point average in a program that matches university programs; ability to enroll for the fall 1991 semester; no degree beyond associate inarts; and submission of a 250 word essay on "What Will the Wilson Scholarship Mean to Me?"

Scott Jackson scored five goals and Mike Ford and Adam Pitarra each added four to lead second-seeded Essex Community College (8-2) to a 19-11 victory over top-seeded Anne Arundel Community College (10-4) in the Region XX championship game at Catonsville Community College yesterday.The Knights scored nine of the last 10 goals to win.* North Carolina 14, Stony Brook 6: Jason Sanders and Spencer Deering each had two goals and one assist to help No. 7 North Carolina (9-6) over host Stony Brook (7-7)

The Anne Arundel Community College board of trustees voted unanimously last night to cut four academic programs from the curriculum.Effective this fall, students will not be allowed to sign up for manufacturing, engineering, and systems engineering degree programs. The systems engineering certificate program was also cut from the school. Students already in those four programs will be permitted to complete them.College officials said they decided to target the four programs that were eliminated because they were among the most expensive per student and have had low enrollment in recent years.

Jennifer Stuckert of Odenton and Patricia DeWitt Rayfield of Severna Park, both students at Anne Arundel Community College, are among some 200 interns from 41 states selected to work at the White House this spring.*Ty Roberts, son of Jim and Priscilla Roberts of Woodley Road and a member of the Archbishop Curley High School Concert Band and Jazz Ensemble, has been accepted as a member of the 1994 Spirit of America National Honor Band Performing Tour of Europe.*Troy L. Simmons, a student in Baltimore City Community College's Emergency Medical Services Program, has been awarded the First Sergeant Vernon Z. Scholarship by the Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter No. 451.@

Anne Arundel Community College will start offering four-year degree programs this fall at its new satellite campus at Arundel Mills, officials said yesterday. The bachelor of science programs, taught by faculty from the University of Maryland's University College, are business administration, information systems management and management studies. The $10.7 million Arundel Mills facility is scheduled to open this fall to serve students in the western part of the county. The community college is working to form similar partnerships with other universities, officials said.

Six members of the Anne Arundel Community College cross country team will compete Saturday in the NJCAA national championship meet in Tempe, Ariz.Five runners on the men's team, which recently won the Region XX Division II title, will make the trip, and Chesapeake graduate Janine Macmillan will be the lone women's representative.The men are Broadneck graduates Doug Murphy, Marc Mallonee, Dave Taylor and Joe Dugan, and Northeast grad Neil Gilligan.When asked how he expected the Pioneers to finish, coach Jim Fontaine said: "I have no idea.

Anne Arundel County police and Broadneck High School officials say they are cracking down on "the pit," an area near the school in Cape St. Claire where residents have complained of loitering, fights and illegal drug use. More than a dozen people, mostly teenagers under age 18, have been charged or issued citations so far in February, police said. Following a videotaped fight after school dismissal on Feb. 8 in which police say one teenager acted as the referee, four juveniles were charged.

Anne Arundel Community College students Marcelle Lee of Severna Park and Dustin Shirley of Odenton had never taken a digital forensics course at the school until this past summer, but they are fast learners. The duo recently won the community college division of the U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) Digital Forensic Challenge, a competition that challenges students to analyze digital clues related to cybersecurity and counterterrorism. The win marked the second consecutive academic year that a team from Anne Arundel Community College has won the international competition.

The Anne Arundel Community Action Agency studied a long list of nominees as it prepared to induct the first members into its Hall of Fame. In its nearly 50-year history battling poverty, many staff members and volunteers have kept the agency going, and a few made sure it survived. The final decision fell to the History Committee, which nominated five for the initial honor. "Oh, we have great stories and many great nominees who made significant contributions," said Kinaya Sokoya, chief executive officer of the Annapolis-based agency.

Many in the area know that Anne Arundel Community College has an exceptional women's lacrosse team, but not everyone keeps up with its success. And if ever there's been a season to follow the team, this is it. "Sometimes teachers or my friends' parents will ask, 'Hey, what's your record?'" said AACC goaltender Brittany Kincer of Glen Burnie, who adds that she prefers not to boast about the team's prowess. "I'll say, 'We're doing pretty well.' And they'll say, 'Well, what's your record?

Thomas E. Florestano, a long-serving president of Anne Arundel Community College, died March 31 of Parkinson's disease complications at Ginger Cove Health Center. He was 79 and had lived in Annapolis. "Tom did a great deal to bring our community college into national prominence," said former Anne Arundel County Executive Robert Neall. "He was local. He knew the county and he knew our needs. He was a mentor and a friend. " Born in Annapolis and raised on Monticello Avenue, he was the son of Ernest Florestano and Lena Lorea.

Anne Arundel Community College has hired Maryland native Dawn Lindsay, who now heads Glendale Community College in California and has an extensive background in local academia, as its next president. Lindsay, 52, will be the sixth president in the school's 50-year history, replacing Martha A. Smith, who will retire from the position after 18 years on Aug. 1. AACC officials said that Lindsay has signed a three-year contract worth $234,500 annually, with required annual evaluations.

Anne Arundel County police have charged a 28-year-old Annapolis man with three counts of indecent exposure in connection with several incidents at Anne Arundel Community College last month. Jacob Lee Bovia, of the 900 block Vanburen St., also faces two counts of disorderly conduct. Between Feb.16 and Feb. 22, the police and the college's public safety officers received several complaints of a man who had exposed himself, while in his car, to several women on the college's main campus in Arnold.

For years, Danielle Oldham checked housing listings, hoping that she, her husband and their two young daughters could find a place in the Anne Arundel County community of Piney Orchard. She researched the area meticulously, scanned county development plans and talked to residents before the family finally bought a town house there in January. Then Oldham got a certified letter with some brow-furrowing news: Her dream home lies less than 1,000 feet from the site of a proposed rubble landfill.