Baltimore Branch

After infighting that prompted the national office to intervene, members of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP will today either return incumbent President G. I. Johnson to a second, two-year term or elect former state Sen. Larry Young to the top post. The election will be held from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the United Baptist Missionary Building, 940 Madison Ave. The Baltimore election was held Nov. 21 but was suspended by Nelson Rivers, director of national field operations, after Young learned that his name was not on the ballot.

The Baltimore branch of the NAACP requested Friday that city and school leaders hold a three-hour public hearing solely devoted to parent testimonies about school bullying. In an e-mail to school and City Council officials, Marvin Cheatham, president of the chapter, said that a recent bullying panel hosted by the organization pointed to an "urgent necessity" for such a hearing to understand how pervasive the issue is in city schools. Cheatham also said that recent reports of bullying and cheating in city schools indicates the need for a partially elected school board that answers to the public.

The Baltimore branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is asking for volunteers, and particularly men, to help distribute reward fliers on Saturday following a recent string of rapes in the city. "This could be our mother, sister, daughter, grandmother, niece, aunt - you get the message," branch President Marvin L. Cheatham wrote in an e-mail. He promoted a $2,000 reward for information leading to an indictment in the rapes. Organizers plan to gather at noon on Saturday at Knox Presbyterian Church at 1300 N. Eden St. - Matthew Hay Brown

Head of city NAACP branch says he'll resign Saying he needed to give "a real serious wake-up call" to the leadership and the membership, the president of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP said he will step down after more than two years in the post. Marvin "Doc" Cheatham said yesterday that he would leave the civil rights organization on July 24. He said that the Baltimore branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been fortunate in that it has received a number of awards for its work, but that exposure has led to more requests for help.

The Baltimore branch of the NAACP, beset with a lingering deficit and lagging corporate donations, appealed yesterday for support in the wake of the turmoil surrounding the ouster of the Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.Five days after the NAACP fired Dr. Chavis as its executive director, the local chapter of the civil rights group set out to court donations and new members.A somber George N. Buntin Jr., executive director of the Baltimore branch, discussed the deficit and called for both financial and volunteer assistance during the mayor's weekly news briefing.

The challenger in the race for president of the NAACP's Baltimore branch declared yesterday that he had won the election held last Friday, which has been criticized this week by members upset that it was taking nearly a week to finalize results. People who participated in the vote count at the NAACP's national headquarters in Northwest Baltimore on Wednesday said Marvin "Doc" Cheatham defeated three-term incumbent G.I. Johnson 214-136. Cheatham said he thought he had won. Johnson said yesterday that he had not heard the official results and that he had not determined whether he would challenge them if he loses.

William E. Pascoe IIIFederal Reserve executiveWilliam E. Pascoe III, vice president of the Baltimore branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, died June 14 of a heart attack at his Homeland residence. He was 52.He began his career in 1963 with the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond, Va., and in 1971 came to Baltimore as general manager of check collections. He rose to become second in charge of the Baltimore branch.Ronald B. Duncan, senior vice president of the bank and a friend for 30 years, said, "He was known for his gentleness, personality and sense of humor.

Since her childhood growing up near Chesapeake City, Enolia P. McMillan has lived by the work-ethic values she learned helping tend the family farm.There were wood and water to haul, eggs to be collected, and stray livestock to be retrieved -- endless chores in the day-to-day struggle to wrest a livelihood from the earth."

Leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urged Maryland voters Monday to cast ballots in favor of same-sex marriage, saying it is a civil rights issue, not a theological one. Benjamin Jealous, national president the organization, drew on the history of civil rights, and that of his own family, to make the case for marriage equality. "This is a question of what side of history do you want to be on," he said. He referred to the marriage of his parents, an inter-racial couple.