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Group offers workshop on starting a business Service Corps of Retired Executives Chapter 390 has openings for its one-day workshop, "How to Start and Manage Your Own Business," scheduled for July 18 in Annapolis. Six key steps in starting up will be presented by six experienced speakers during the program from 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the second-floor Chesapeake Room of the Heritage Office Complex, 2664 Riva Road. The fee is $35, and class size is limited to 27 people. The SCORE chapter offers free counseling in Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's counties, in addition to the workshops, for people already engaged in or thinking about starting a small business.

Like many in the area, Deborah Harari's first knowledge of Baltimore International College occurred when she was stuck in traffic on South Calvert Street and saw the students in their school uniforms -- white chef's outfits -- standing around the school's downtown buildings. Planning to go to law school and not too enthusiastic about it, Harari decided to check the place out. These white-jacketed people were learning to do for a living what she did for fun -- cook. "I wanted to do something with my life that would let me wake up and be happy all day," says Harari, who has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from the University of Baltimore and should get her associate's degree in baking and pastry this year.

Donald Edwin Heck and Jeanne W. "Bee" Heckwill be honored in a memorial service at 10 a.m. Sunday in Theresa Hall Chapel at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, 4701 N. Charles St. The Hecks were killed in the October crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 off Nantucket, Mass. Mrs. Heck, who with her husband lived in Chestertown, earned her bachelor's degree from the college in 1957.

Kenneth W. Blakeslee Sr., 92, Western Electric managerKenneth Worthen Blakeslee Sr., a retired Western Electric Co. manager, died June 30 of heart failure at Union Memorial Hospital. He was 92 and lived in Original Northwood.He joined the benefits department at Western Electric's Point Breeze plant in 1929 and retired in 1971 as a section manager.Born on 20th Street and raised in Homeland, Mr. Blakeslee was a 1925 graduate of the Friends School and received a bachelor's degree in political science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1929.

Judith S. Miller, 73, SSA administratorJudith S. Miller, a retired administrator at the Social Security Administration, died Tuesday of cancer at Georgetown University Medical Center. The former West Baltimore resident was 73.Mrs. Miller, who had lived in Washington since 1989, joined SSA in the early 1940s and helped set up the federal agency's first computer system in the 1960s. She instructed SSA employees in using computers. She retired in 1971.The former Judith Shemer was born in East Baltimore and earned a bachelor's degree from Loyola College in the late 1950s.

Stanley Reehling, 75, food company executiveStanley Reehling, a retired wholesale food company executive and decorated World War II veteran, died Tuesday of cancer at his Mount Washington residence. He was 75.A longtime Laytonsville resident, Mr. Reehling retired in 1991 from Orval Food Co., where he was a national account manager. From 1969 to 1983, he was director of sales development for Kane-Miller and was president of two subsidiary canning companies. He also had been director of sales for Quality Kitchen Corp.

South Carroll High School has announced its teachers of the month for September and October, selected by the Student Government Association.Kathleen Brunnett was the September teacher of the month. She is in her fifth year at South Carroll High, teaching English II and world literature. She has a bachelor's degree from Shippensburg University, a master's degree from Western Maryland College and teaching certificate from Towson University.Brunnett was teacher of the month in December 1997 and has been nominated twice for the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce's Teacher of the Year award.

Names in the newsCarolyn M. Stein has been appointed manager of International Paper's Odenton plant. She directs daily operations at the facility, which makes high-pressure laminants. Stein has a bachelor's degree in pulp and paper technology from the State University of New York and was a mill manager in Ukiah, Calif.Pub Date: 9/28/98@

Asher Achinstein, 97, economist, adviserAsher Achinstein, an economist and former member of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, died in his sleep Friday at home in Cross Keys. He was 97.From 1951 to 1970, Mr. Achinstein worked in the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress, producing research and speeches on economic issues for members of Congress.In 1954, he was appointed to a two-year term on the President's Council of Economic Advisers.The New York City native earned a bachelor's degree from City College of New York and a master's degree and doctorate in economics from Columbia University.

Four Western Maryland College faculty members were promoted to full professor this month, Dean and Provost Joan Develin Coley has announced.They are Charles Neal, political science/interdisciplinary studies; Vasilis "Bill" Pagonis, physics; Pamela Thompson Regis, English; and D. Sue Singer, economics/business.Neal, who came to WMC in 1978, teaches courses on judicial process, political theory and American political behavior. He also is the pre-law adviser and directs the college's team each year at the Harvard National Model United Nations.