Board Of Trustees

Frank P. Bramble Sr., Willard Hackerman and Sheila K. Riggs were elected this month to the Maryland Science Center's board of trustees, said Robert D.H. Harvey, the board's chairman."

Eleanor E. Jaeger, a homemaker and former department store sales associate who was a longtime active church member, died Sunday of complications from a broken hip at the Knollwood Nursing Home in Millersville. The Annapolis resident was 99. The daughter of a roofer and a homemaker, Eleanor Esther Plumhoff was born in Baltimore and raised on Maple Avenue in Overlea. She was an Eastern High School graduate and married John Roedel Jaeger Jr., a research chemist, in 1936. He died in 1967.

The names of two Western Maryland College Trustees were inadvertently switched in an article in Tuesday's Carroll County edition.Priscilla C. Caskey is a partner at the Whiteford, Taylor and Preston Law firm in Baltimore. Carol Armacost Carter is an Associate vice president at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.+ The Sun regrets the errors.Eight people have joined the Western Maryland College Board of Trustees, bringing the voting membership to 35.New members are:* Susan B. Aldridge, class of 1978, of Seabrook, a fund-raiser for United Way of Prince George's County and former executive of Maxwell Communications Corp.

Richard D. Norling of Darlington and Cordell E. Hunter Sr. of Havre de Grace were appointed to the Harford Community College Board of Trustees by Gov. Martin O'Malley this week. O'Malley also reappointed the board chairman Bryan E. Kelly and board members Doris Carey and John Haggerty. Richard Norling is the statestat Director for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the former chair of the Harford County Trial Courts Judicial Nominating Commission. He also formerly served as chair of the Budget Advisory Board to the Harford County Council in 2000-2002.

Janet Jeffery Harris, who devoted much of her life to her alma mater, Goucher College, and became the first woman to head its board of trustees, died Friday at age 90 of natural causes at her Towson home. A Baltimore native, she was the daughter of Nellie French and Elmore B. Jeffery, a founder of the now-defunct Equitable Trust Co. She graduated from Girls' Latin School in 1926. "I never really wanted to go to Goucher in the first place," Mrs. Harris said in a 1981 interview with The Sun, explaining that she was made to enroll by her millionaire father, a Goucher trustees chairman who died a few months before the 1929 stock market crash.

Harford Community College's newest trustees are coming on board just in time to select a new college president.Ralph H. Jordan Jr. of Abingdon and Dr. Lehman W. Spry Jr. of Havre de Grace received confirmation last week of their appointments by Gov. William Donald Schaefer to the college's board of trustees. They were sworn in Thursday at the Harford County Courthouse.Mr. Jordan and Dr. Spry will participate in the interviews of four candidates vying for the presidential post vacated by former HCC president Richard J. Pappas in August.

The Harford County board of library trustees will take on a new look later this month when three of its seven voting members are replaced.In a special session last week, the board voted to recommend to County Executive Eileen M. Rehrmann the appointment of three new members and the reappointment of trustee David Robinson to a second five-year term.The terms of board members Marlene Magness of Bel Air, Dennis Pelletier of Havre de Grace and Mr. Robinson of Whiteford expired Friday. All three were eligible for another term, but Ms. Magness and Mr. Pelletier did not seek reappointment, though they agreed to serve until the new members are confirmed.

David Rakes stepped down from the Howard Community College board of trustees last night because of his candidacy to represent District 2 on the Howard County Council. Maryland governors appointed Rakes to six-year terms on the college board in 1994 and in 2000. Rakes was vice chairman of the board from 1995 to 1997 and from 1997 to 1999. Two weeks ago, Rakes won the primary to become the Democratic nominee for the council seat, which represents east Columbia. "I am working as hard as I can to become a member of the Howard County Council, and therefore am not able to devote the time to the board that I believe it deserves," Rakes said in a statement.

Two nationally known members of Boston University's board of trustees have resigned amid the crisis gripping the university over whether Daniel S. Goldin will be allowed to take the president's office. Kenneth Feld, owner of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, a founder of the Hollywood studio DreamWorks SKG, both resigned last week, BU confirmed yesterday. The two were among the highest-profile members of the board and represented some of its deepest pockets.

Howard Community College welcomed two new trustees last week, bringing the school's governing board back to its full strength of seven trustees plus the college president. Katherine K. Rensin, a retired speech and language pathologist and vice president of the college's educational foundation board, is filling a seat vacated in June last year by Joan Athen. Athen left to take a position as community college specialist with the U.S. Department of Education. Louis G. Hutt Jr., an accountant, lawyer and partner with Bennett, Hutt and Co., will complete the term of David A. Rakes, who left the board in September to successfully pursue a seat representing District 2 on the Howard County Council.

Jayne Miller , WBAL-TV's chief investigative reporter, might be taking on a new role shortly as a member of the board of trustees of Penn State University. The troubled school is expected to publish a ballot online later today with a slate on nominees for the board that runs the school, and Miller will likely be on it. The 1976 journalism graduate has been nominated by 50 Penn State alumni. "I really would like to do it," Miller said Wednesday morning when asked in a telephone interview whether or not she will serve on the board if alma mater calls.

Richard Ruff "Dick" Stanfield, founder and president of Edrich Lumber Inc. who had been active in community affairs, died Feb. 15 of heart failure at Northwest Hospital Center. The longtime Windsor Mill resident was 77. The son of farmers, Mr. Stanfield was born in Baltimore and raised on the family dairy farm at McDonogh Road and Church Lane in Randallstown. After graduating from Milford Mill High School in 1952, Mr. Stanfield earned a bachelor's degree in 1956 from the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Judith Claibourne Ensor, associate judge for the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, has been elected president of the Board of Trustees of St. Paul's School for Girls. Ensor will oversee the governance of SPSG and lead the school's strategic planning efforts. An alumna of the school, she has been a supporter since graduating in 1979. "I am tremendously thankful for the incredible education I received at St. Paul's School for Girls," she said. "To this day I credit SPSG not only with completely preparing me for college and law school, but with helping me to develop important practical life skills as well as a life-long love of learning.

Until Aug. 21, few people - including state lawmakers and longtime attorneys - had ever given much thought to the Office of the Public Defender Board of Trustees or even knew it existed. But that day, the three-member panel fired the state's chief public defender, Nancy S. Forster, a decision that thrust it into the spotlight and made it an immediate target of reform. This month, a Senate committee in Annapolis will consider how to reshape the governor-appointed board. Lawmakers and national experts say the board's small size leaves it vulnerable to political whims, from which defenders of the poor are supposed to be shielded.

After five years of contention, Howard Community College is putting Belmont, its secluded 18th-century estate in Elkridge, up for sale. The unanimous decision by the college's board of trustees comes as college leaders confront a growing demand for money to expand the main campus in Columbia. With the state cutting operating funds, tuition increases are likely even as more students seek financial aid. "There is concern this might not be the end of cuts for the year," Howard Community College President Kate Hetherington told the board of trustees at a meeting Wednesday night.

NEXT WEEK the board of trustees of Baltimore County's community colleges will decide whether Chancellor Daniel J. LaVista, hired 1 1/2 years ago to reorganize the three-college hTC system, stays or goes. Regardless of the outcome, the colleges' troubles aren't likely to change. If he remains, the bitter three-way struggle between him, the faculty and the board could seriously threaten the institution. If he departs, only the nature of the colleges' turmoil will be altered, not the underlying cause.

An article in yesterday's Anne Arundel edition of The Sun incorrectly spelled the name of Kathleen Clarke Ruttum, a speaker at a hearing on the St. Mary's Parish school reorganization.The Sun regrets the error.About 350 parents, teachers and students at St. Mary's schools in Annapolis packed into a Senate hearing room last night to protest changes that they said are abrupt, unjustified and will harm the schools and their 1,500 students.Opponents said a restructuring recommended by a Schools Committee Report was harsh and unnecessary to solve a simple communication problem between the high school and elementary school.

Certifications *Shane Silverman and Serena Lehn have been designated as Certified Kitchen Designers by the National Kitchen & Bath Association. They are employed by Annapolis-based Kitchen Encounters. On the board *Barbara Bozzuto was selected to chair the board of St. Agnes Hospital. She will oversee the budget process, medical staff credentialing, fundraising, CEO performance evaluation and guide board consensus. *Pamela Berman, a Baltimore attorney, was elected president of the Contemporary Museum's Board of Trustees.

The Officers, Board of Trustees and Staff of Beth El Congregation express a deep sense of loss on the passing of our Member MOLLIE EISENBERG. Her affiliation with our synagogue was a meaningful expression of loyalty to our faith.