Chevy Chase

The U.S. Justice Department announced yesterday that Chevy Chase Federal Savings Bank and its mortgage subsidiary agreed to an $11 million settlement of the nation's first discrimination suit brought against a lender for refusing to serve minority neighborhoods.Under the settlement, the privately owned Chevy Chase and its B. F. Saul Mortgage Co. subsidiary agreed to offer low-cost mortgages to residents of majority-black areas in the District of Columbia and Prince George's County, expand its presence in those neighborhoods and try to hire more blacks for lending positions.

Range, Bryan Voltaggio's fourth restaurant, is a triumph of style in harmony with substance. Dinner at Range, which will last for hours but feel like minutes, is wall-to-wall pleasure, from the first hand-crafted cocktail to the last bonbon from the in-house chocolatier. There's a lot going on, and Range is as big as its name. The restaurant, open seven days a week for lunch and dinner, occupies the top level of the newly renovated retail atrium inside the Chevy Chase Pavilion.

Arthur G. Lambert, a senior partner in a Chevy Chase law firm and civic activist who had helped found a Bethesda hospital, died of heart disease Thursday at his home in Chevy Chase. He was 92.Mr. Lambert was the senior partner in the firm of Lambert and Furlow, and had held the same post in predecessor firms since he left the Department of Justice and resumed practice in Washington in 1933.From 1926 until 1929, he practiced with his father in Washington, then became assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia before serving as a special assistant to the assistant attorney general.

South River junior forward Kacie Longo consistently scored goals in the regular season, contributing at least one in all but two of the team's 14 games. In the Class 4A playoffs, where the No. 4 Seahawks (17-2) meet four-time defending champion Bethesda-Chevy Chase for the championship Friday night at UMBC, however, Longo has been on fire. She scored four goals against North Point in a 7-2 victory in the 4A East regional semifinal. When the Seahawks trailed No. 6 Arundel, 2-0, in the regional championship, she tied the game with two scores in the second half and the team advanced with a 3-2 overtime win. In the state semifinal round, she poured in three more as the Seahawks beat Bowie, 4-0. It all adds up to 27 goals this season for Longo, who also has six assists.

Maryland had two towns make Worth magazine's "250 Richest Towns" list, as Potomac and Chevy Chase were ranked 124th and 223rd, respectively.The rankings -- based on median home sales prices in 1997 and 1998 -- report that Potomac's median home sales price was $509,091 during that period, while Chevy Chase's was $370,000.The median home sales price is the level at which half the homes sold for more and half sold for less.Jupiter Island, Fla., topped the list with a median home sales price of $1.7 million, moving up from No. 2 in 1998.

I am not unsympathetic to people who are utter failures.I realize not everyone can be a success, just as not everyone can be handsome, just as not everyone can be me.Which is what I tried to keep in mind as I watched the first week of Chevy Chase's new talk show.As I am not a TV critic, I am under no obligation to review new shows.But when certain debuts go beyond mere failure and enter the range of debacle -- Joe McGinniss' new biography of Ted Kennedy, for instance -- they take on wider societal implications that the rest of us may learn from.

Chevy Chase Federal Savings Bank, which lost $3.5 million in the first three quarters of its current fiscal year, has been found by federal examiners to have insufficient reserves on hand to meet a federal capital requirement.According to a Securities and Exchange Commission document filed Tuesday, the Montgomery County thrift had more than $330 million in risk-based capital on June 30, a little more than $27 million below the required amount. Risk-based capital, the strictest of three capital requirements, involves money set aside to protect against losses from bad loans.

ACTUARY Doug Hoylman, a 47-year-old crossword puzzler from Chevy Chase, won third prize Sunday in the 14th annual American Crossword Puzzle Contest in Stamford, Conn.Hoylman solved the standard size 15 by 15 square puzzle, created especially for the finals by Trip Payne, in 12 minutes, 21 seconds. Winner Jon Delfin, a 36-year-old musician from New York City, completed the puzzle in 10 minutes, 16 seconds. It was Delfin's third consecutive victory at the national tournament, according to competition director Will Shortz.

Gosh darn it, miracles do happen! If Chevy Chase can make a decent movie, maybe there's hope for us all. But perhaps it helps a bit that the Chevyman is invisible during 90 percent of the running time. If you can't see him . . . how can you hate him?Actually, in "Memoirs of an Invisible Man," Chase tries something new: acting. Gone is the familiar exaggeration of the "Saturday Night Live" persona, the smug, pratfalling, smarmy narcissist, so intent on letting the audience know how much better he is than the material.

Ever worry that real Baltimoreans are starting to disappear? Will designer malls and good taste destroy this city's character?Nah.It can't happen here. Never.Here's an imperfect list of some signs and methods that will perpetually separate Baltimore from Chevy Chase:Take it for granted that your order of French fries comes with brown gravy.Never pull into a parking space when you can double park and annoy other drivers.Brag about how you haven't been back to Washington since you went there on a Cub Scout trip.

Dorothy R. "Dot" Lamborn, an educator who assisted her husband during his tenure as headmaster at McDonogh School, died of complications from a fall Sept. 20 at Bassett Healthcare, a Cooperstown, N.Y., hospital. The Potomac resident was 95. The daughter of a lawyer and a homemaker, Dorothy Rundle was born and raised in Pittsburgh. She was a 1934 graduate of Edgewood High School. Because her family owned a summer home at Sherwood Forest in Anne Arundel County, she enrolled at Goucher College, and then transferred to Stanford University, where she earned a degree in mathematics in 1938.

Stewart D. Nozette of Chevy Chase was a gifted scientist privy to America's top secrets. On Wednesday, he admitted trying to sell those secrets to a foreign government. With his guilty plea to attempted espionage, the astrophysicist was rebranded a would-be traitor. Nozette, 54, stood in an orange prison jumpsuit in the District of Columbia's federal court as he conceded that he had accepted $11,000 in cash in 2009 in exchange for passing classified materials about U.S. satellite defense systems to a person Nozette believed was an Israeli intelligence officer.

Tennis Capra falls in final in bid for U.S. Open Madison Keys , at 16 the youngest competitor in the U.S. Open Wild-Card Playoff at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, rallied to defeat Beatrice Capra of Ellicott City, 3-6, 6-4, 6-0, in the women's final Sunday. Capra, who trained at College Park's Junior Tennis Champions Center as a youngster, was the defending champion and went on to win two rounds at the Open. She was disappointed she didn't finish off Keys after playing steadily in the first set. "I just starting thinking about it in the second set and I got tight," Capra said.

The most challenging match of Taylor Neudecker's undefeated season was her last. Neudecker, a junior from North Carroll, captured the state girls singles title Saturday with a grueling 6-4, 7-6 (6-5) win against Bethesda-Chevy Chase's Taylor Newman at the University of Maryland. "Most likely … that was my hardest match," Neudecker said. The pair was tied 5-5 in the tiebreaker when Newman hit a shot just wide, eliciting a roar from Neudecker's cheering section and tears from Newman.

A Chevy Chase developer has won a national competition to build a $150 million office complex in Northwest Baltimore to house 1,600 employees of the U.S. Social Security Administration. The new center, expected to open by 2014, will replace the aging Metro West complex on Greene Street in West Baltimore. The U.S. General Services Administration announced Thursday that it had selected the JBG Companies of Chevy Chase to develop the project, one of the largest and most expensive planned for Baltimore over the next several years.

Margaret W. Fowler, a World War II nurse who later edited a pair of literary anthologies, died Wednesday of Parkinson's disease at the Broadmead retirement community. She was 87. Margaret Williamson, whose father owned Veneers LLC in Cockeysville and whose mother was an educator, was born in Baltimore and raised in Towson. She was a 1940 graduate of Bryn Mawr School and earned a bachelor's degree in English literature in 1945 from Wellesley College. Mrs. Fowler served as a Red Cross nurse in the Philippines and Japan near the end of World War II. While serving in Japan, she met Army Lt. James Randlett Fowler.

GREENBELT -- Customers with Giant Visa credit cards will keep their rebates at least until Jan. 15.At a U.S. District Court hearing yesterday, M&T Bank NA voluntarily agreed to continue its credit card program with Giant Food Inc. until the middle of next month, when Chevy Chase Bank of Maryland might be ready to take over the program.M&T had told the Landover-based grocery store chain it would drop the 7-month-old program because it was losing money. M&T senior vice president and general counsel Richard A. Lammert said in the courtroom yesterday that the bank is losing $25,000 to $35,000 a day.Most of the 65,000 customers who have Giant Visa cards are using them for convenience and paying off the balances every month, Lammert said.

Catherine S. Rykowski, a retired Hutzler's department store sales associate who earlier had been a secretary, died in her sleep Dec. 26 at Oak Crest Village retirement community. She was 91. Catherine Sawecki, the daughter of a city police officer and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised near Patterson Park. She was a 1935 graduate of Eastern High School and attended Strayer's Business College. During the late 1930s and early '40s, she was employed as a secretary for the Southern Supply Co. Inc. She was married in 1943 to Edward Rykowski, an Army officer.