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For the second straight year, Marylanders have won the highest number of medals in the NAACP's national scholastic competition.Ten Maryland high school students received honors in New York last week at the 22nd Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), competing against about 850 teen-agers in 12 categories, including the sciences, arts, math, entrepreneurship and film.This year's theme, "Year of the Black Scientist," celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Percy L. Julian, who headed Howard University's chemistry department.

For the second straight year, Marylanders have won the highest number of medals in the NAACP's national scholastic competition.Ten Maryland high school students received honors in New York last week at the 22nd annual Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), competing against about 850 teen-agers in 12 categories, including the sciences, arts, math, entrepreneurship and film.This year's theme, "Year of the Black Scientist," celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Percy L. Julian, who headed Howard University's chemistry department.

Surge Dance Company plans a gigantic project for its 1998-1999 season: a full-scale production of Carl Orff's theatrical cantata "Carmina Burana" with 30 dancers, a full chorus, soloists and percussion ensemble.The work will be choreographed by Ken Szrzesz, artistic director of Surge, which is the modern dance company in residence at the Carver Center for Arts and Technology. The musical forces will be under the direction of Douglas Byerly.The piece will premiere at First Night Dover in Delaware on Dec. 31 and then will be given Jan. 8-10 at the Carver Center.

TOWSON -- Three subcommittees of the Baltimore County school system's Acts and Threats of Violence Task Force are scheduled to meet tomorrow.The task force was formed this summer in response to recent violent incidents in schools, and it is scheduled to report its findings to the superintendent by Oct. 15.Meeting tomorrow are two panels examining incidents and their aftermath. A third panel, which will study conditions before the incidents, meets Friday. All meetings are open to the public and will begin at 3 p.m. in the Greenwood Administration Building, 6901 Charles St.Police to lead campaign for United Way in countyTOWSONTOWSON -- The county police will lead the Baltimore County government's 1998 United Way Communitywide Campaign, officials said last week.

Surge Dance Company, in a short and pleasing program given this weekend at the Carver Center for Arts & Technology in Towson, showed there's nothing fearsome or off-putting about modern dance.All Surge's dances are easy to read, though by this I don't mean simple-minded. They relate meaning and movement in a legible, accessible way.Linda McDevitt's "Why Look Back," to music of New Age string players Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor, complements its score with gently folk-flavored movement. It was danced by a quintet of women who circle, break apart and reunite in a series of ritual figurations: a round dance of friendship and support.

A story in the Arts section on June 22 implied that the Surge dance company, now at the Carver Center for Arts and Technology in Towson, replaced a company called Kinetics. However, while Kinetics has suspended operations as a performance troupe, it still offers dance classes at the Howard County Arts Center in Ellicott City.The article also characterized the Ballet Theater of Annapolis as the only professional ballet company in Maryland. The National Ballet, based in Bowie, pays its soloists a stipend and can be regarded as professional.

A calendar item in yesterday's LIVE section about a benefit with host Jon Miller omitted that the event would help raise funds for the theater program at Carver Center for Arts and Technology. The show takes place at 8 p.m. today at Goucher College, Dulaney Valley Road, Towson. Call 410-887-2775.Pub Date: 4/25/97

An undetermined amount of cash is missing and at least one city employee is facing disciplinary action as a result of a continuing investigation at the municipal vehicle impoundment lot on Pulaski Highway, Kurt Kocher, a spokesman for the Department of Public Works, said yesterday.Kocher, who said that the investigation was being conducted by the agency and Police Department, declined to say how much money was missing but sources put the amount at more than $1,300.Earlier this year, a municipal employee pleaded guilty to charges of stealing $21,000 from impoundment lot receipts.

Five Baltimore-area artists, all high-school seniors, earned cash awards totaling $7,000 in ARTS Week '96, the final judging phase last month in Miami of the 1995-'96 Arts Recognition and Talent Search program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.Randolph Stewart Albright, of Reisterstown and Carver Center for Arts and Technology, received $3,000 in the Level I Photography competition. Elizabeth Ann Burger, of Towson High School, was awarded $500 in Level IV Visual Arts.

A proposal to give former Baltimore Comptroller Jacqueline F. McLean $32,865 in back pay will be considered today by the city Board of Estimates.The city withheld Mrs. McLean's pay three years ago when she went on leave at the beginning of a corruption scandal. Mrs. McLean, who was convicted of stealing tens of thousands of public dollars while in office, resigned without receiving her last paycheck.City Solicitor Neal M. Janey has concluded the city has no right to continue to withhold the money from her paid leave because she was sentenced and has since repaid the stolen money with interest.

The new building for the Carver Center for Arts and Technology will aim to foster connection between academic and specialized subjects and have an "environmentally sustainable design" that maximizes natural light, according to a schematic design briefing on the project. Superintendent Joe A. Hairston referred to the construction project in his report to the Board of Education during its meeting last night. Construction will take place while the existing Towson-area building remains open.

Doctor to pay $300,000 to settle billing claim A Towson obstetrician-gynecologist has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle allegations that he submitted false claims for federal health benefits, the U.S. attorney for Maryland announced yesterday. Dr. David C. McCarus, 55, was accused in a complaint filed by the federal government of falsely billing Medicare, the Federal Health Employees Health Benefits Program and TRICARE from 2000 to 2004 for services that were not covered, including treatment of such cosmetic conditions as varicose veins, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

Middle River man charged in stabbing A Middle River man has been charged with attempted first-degree murder in the stabbing of a Sun newspaper deliveryman, county police said yesterday. Robert Wesley Heier, 39, of the first block of Wilbur Road is accused of attacking William Shull, 64, of the 1500 block of Hopewell Ave., police said. Shull was stabbed about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday in an attempted robbery while he was delivering newspapers in the first block of Stemmers Run Road, police said.

Walking the halls at the Carver Center for Arts and Technology, Principal Joseph Freed stops every few feet to point out a drawing or painting and list the honors its artist has won. There is the sketch, meticulously detailed, of the school boiler room, and there is the painting of a woman in a bathtub. The artists were both national award winners. The Towson magnet high school has long been viewed as an artistic powerhouse. Yesterday, that reputation was solidified with the announcement that seven of 25 finalists in a national visual arts competition are Carver students -- a feat that competition organizers said is unprecedented.

Friends of 'Camp' You couldn't fill an evening with more warm fuzzies than they did at the Camp benefit screening and party. First, you had a packed house of 485 in the Charles Theatre to watch the Baltimore IFC Films premiere of the heartwarming independent flick about a summer drama camp. Next, it was all to raise money for three organizations close to the heart of most of those attending -- the Baltimore School for the Arts, Carver Center for Arts and Technology and the Maryland Film Festival.

Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center If the first "Eubie Award Gala" felt like family, there were a couple of good reasons. First, some of those gathered at the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center are on its board. These are folks who have worked for years building the center's varied arts programs, finding it a permanent home on Howard Street and developing a strong family feeling in the process. Second, many of the guests are family of the night's award winner -- Eric Anthony, the Baltimore native son who is appearing on Broadway in the hit musical "Hairspray."

In Baltimore City Man, woman found fatally shot near Clifton Park identified A man and woman found fatally shot in a car near Clifton Park on New Year's Day were identified yesterday by city police, but investigators released few details about the killings -- the first of 2003. The victims -- Dennis Dunlap, 26, of the 2000 block of Kennedy Ave. and Tresha Letez Jackson, 23, of the 2600 block of Aisquith St. -- were found dead in the car with multiple wounds about 1:45 a.m. by officers responding to a report of a shooting in the 2100 block of Cliftwood Ave. near North Chester Street, police said.

"I know that it's muggy and you're tired, because your energy shows it," director Ken Skrzesz tells the group of children. "But you've got to focus." The children are enrolled in the Musical Theater Summer Intensive 2000 camp in Towson, and Skrzesz is rehearsing them for the two performances today that mark the finale of the two-week camp. The shows, at the Carver Center for Arts and Technology, are sold out. When Skrzesz talks about musicals, people listen. He has performed more than 20 roles in musical theater and directed or choreographed more than 40 musicals and operas.

For the second straight year, Marylanders have won the highest number of medals in the NAACP's national scholastic competition.Ten Maryland high school students received honors in New York last week at the 22nd Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), competing against about 850 teen-agers in 12 categories, including the sciences, arts, math, entrepreneurship and film.This year's theme, "Year of the Black Scientist," celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Percy L. Julian, who headed Howard University's chemistry department.

For the second straight year, Marylanders have won the highest number of medals in the NAACP's national scholastic competition.Ten Maryland high school students received honors in New York last week at the 22nd annual Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), competing against about 850 teen-agers in 12 categories, including the sciences, arts, math, entrepreneurship and film.This year's theme, "Year of the Black Scientist," celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Percy L. Julian, who headed Howard University's chemistry department.