Baltimore And Annapolis

Carson W. Clark Sr., 83, who retired from Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. after 34 years as a storeroom clerk, died of pneumonia Monday at his Severn home.The lifelong Severn resident was a graduate of Anne Arundel County public schools and enjoyed fishing and gardening.No services are planned for Mr. Clark, who is survived by his wife of 56 years, the former Olwin P. Griffith; two sons, Carson W. Clark Jr. of Glen Burnie and Paul W. Clark of Pasadena; two sisters, Gladys Ringgold and Doris Kalvoda, both of Severn; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Volunteers. The people who go about the business of helping others, and get no reward except a thank you and perhaps a parking validation.There's the woman who spends every Tuesday afternoon shelving books in the school library, fighting the urge to change the Dewey Decimal System to something that makes sense; the man who spends three evenings a week and every Saturday trying to impress upon 8-year-olds that it isn't appropriate to make a beeline directly...

William A. Gieseking dies; was engineer for BaltimoreServices for William Andersen "Andy" Gieseking, an engineer with Baltimore's Department of Public Works, will be held at the Schimunek Funeral Home, 9705 Belair Road in Perry Hall, at 11 a.m. tomorrow.Mr. Gieseking, a resident of Perry Hall, died Monday at Peninsula General Hospital Medical Center in Salisbury after suffering a heart attack while visiting Ocean City. He was 51.A city employee for 27 years, Mr. Gieseking started as a draftsman and became an engineer after earning his bachelor's degree in engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 1976.

"The spinnaker has to come down - now!" Skipper Jim Stone bellows. Crewmate Jan Koekemoer, a 260-pound rugby player turned professional sailor, grabs the line at the aft end of the huge, white sail. Three more of us join in. "Release!" the skipper shouts. The instant the spinnaker is freed - so we can reel it aboard lest it land in the water - is the moment we know the untamed, Volvo 60 ocean-racing bronco we are sailing is clearly in charge. The force of the billowing sail flings Jan across the deck like a puppet on a string, his hands and face pinned against the huge, beam-like boom below the mainsail.

One thing that happened in Vegas last week certainly won't stay in Vegas: The lobbyists Lisa Harris Jones and Sean Malone were married there before about 100 well-wishers, who included some of Maryland's top government officials - including the wedding officiant, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Malone, a one-time top aide to Gov. Martin O'Malley, and Jones, perennially among the state's highest-earning lobbyists, joined professional forces five years ago and on Tuesday were married in Las Vegas by Rawlings-Blake.

Traffic is likely to be impacted in Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties today by the funeral procession for Forrest "Dino" Taylor, a veteran Baltimore City police officer who died Aug. 29, according to Maryland State Police. Taylor, 44, of Annapolis, was injured in the line of duty in a crash at a stoplight in Mount Vernon on Feb. 18. He died after complications from surgery stemming from the injuries he sustained in the crash, police said. Taylor was a 17-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, and is survived by his wife and two children.

The Rev. Theodore M. Heyburn, a retired Redemptorist priest who led churches in Baltimore and Annapolis, died Nov. 12 of complications from diabetes at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. He was 77. Father Heyburn, the son of a longshoreman and a homemaker, was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was in the eighth grade when he began religious studies at St. Mary's Seminary in North East, Pa., and then entered the Redemptorist novitiate at Ilchester. He professed his vows in 1955 and made his final profession in 1958.

The triumph of the hometown football team was a hard act to follow, but thousands of Marylanders showed that an afternoon playoff win was a mere prelude to a night's worth of New Year's celebrations capped by waterfront fireworks at midnight. "I'm cold but I had a good time," said Ed Adams of Perry Hall as couples embraced around him at 12:01 this morning at the Inner Harbor. "This is the real millennium change and the mood's great." In Baltimore, thousands thronged the Inner Harbor to dance and skate away the cold and to admire a fireworks extravaganza that organizers promised would outdo last year's display.

Hattie Harrison, the matriarch of East Baltimore politics who often greeted colleagues as "Baby" and was known for her signature curled hair and Southern cooking, will be remembered at a funeral at noon Feb. 9. Mrs. Harrison died of heart disease complications Monday at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was 84. Appointed to the House of Delegates representing the 45th District in 1973 and re-elected thereafter, she was the oldest member of the General Assembly. She was also the longest-serving member of the House of Delegates and the first African-American woman to chair a major committee, Rules and Executive Nominations.