Club Of Baltimore

Doyle joins HCC's board of trustees Kevin Doyle of Elkridge has been appointed to a six-year term on Howard Community College's board of trustees. A federal employee for more than 32 years, Doyle was president of the board of directors of the Social Security Child Care Centers and testified before Congress on the need for quality child care. He is a past president of the Greater Elkridge Community Association and past co-chair of the Route One Revitalization Task Force. He was elected to the Democratic Central Committee, serving from 2002 to 2006 and is a member of the Howard County Board of Appeals.

Alice Elizabeth Matthews, a Baltimore public school teacher for 27 years and an active churchwoman, died Friday from complications of Alzheimer's disease at home in Glen Burnie. She was 91.Her entire teaching career was spent with first- and second-graders at Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School in the 1200 block of Argyle Ave. in West Baltimore.In retirement, she had a second career -- she was the grandmother of Damon Evans, who starred in the television comedy "The Jeffersons." She traveled around the country and the world to see her grandson -- now an opera tenor -- perform in roles in "Carmen Jones" and "Porgy and Bess."

The temperatures here high and the Soccer Club of Baltimore boys were hot, winning four Maryland Cups yesterday at Essex Community College.All state boys' and girls' champions in age groups from under-12 to under-20, plus runners-up in the girls under-17 and under-18 divisions, advanced to the United States Youth Soccer Region I tournament July 2-5 in Erie, Pa. Regional titlists in under-16 to under-20 age groups go to the national championships July 30-Aug....

150 years ago in The Sun Nov. 15: Stealing a Coat -- Some knave yesterday walked into the establishment of Mr. Edwin S. Tarr and soon afterwards walked out again with a coat more upon his back than he had when he went in, having walked off with the overcoat of the proprietor.100 years ago in The Sun Nov. 15: Lieut. Herman G. Dresel, of the United States Navy, committed suicide in the lavatory of the Carrollton Hotel about 10: 15 o'clock yesterday morning by shooting himself through the brain.

Robert S. Jones, 82, Bethlehem Steel salesmanRobert S. "Footsie" Jones, a retired salesman, died of cancer Thursday at Joseph Richey Hospice in Baltimore. He was 82 and lived in Rodgers Forge.Mr. Jones, a native of Bandon, Ore., was a salesman for Bethlehem Steel Corp. for 19 years and retired in 1979. He also had been a salesman for Maryland Ship Building & Drydock Co. and Stone Container Corp. in Philadelphia.After arriving in Baltimore in 1940, he worked at the Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point shipyard as a shipbuilder for six years.

Peter J. Basilone, 78, Balto. Co. register of willsPeter J. Basilone, register of wills for Baltimore County and a former state legislator, died Thursday of liver cancer at his Towson residence. He was 78.The Democrat did not seek re-election for health reasons.In 1978, he was appointed register of wills by the three Orphans' Court judges, replacing J. Louis Davis, who had resigned. He was elected to a full term later that year.He represented the county's 7th Legislative District in the House of Delegates from 1974 to 1978.

ALTHOUGH HUMBLED EARLY by the Blizzard of '96, this year turned out to be bountiful on Maryland's social scene for those who like to hobnob with community movers and shakers and scope celebrities. In some cases, stargazers didn't even have to be at a party; they may have been lucky enough to see their favorite celebrity at a local restaurant or boutique.January, February, MarchThe fetes included a Snow Ball at Harford Mall for the Patrick Hart Foundation. ... Lighthouse and flowerpot hats accessorized black-tie garb at the 10th Madhatter's Ball at L'Hirondelle Club.

AS PART OF its continuing mission to accentuate the positive about the city, the Advertising Club of Baltimore saluted the new wave of Inner Harbor developers at a recent luncheon."

The majority owner of the Baltimore Orioles, Peter Angelos, received well-deserved accolades at a recent luncheon where he was given the Pillar of Sports Award by the Advertising and Professional Club of Baltimore.Although Ad Club president Brent Gunts was elected last summer, this was the first luncheon meeting over which he has presided. He's excited about his term as president, a role his father, Edward Lyell Gunts, filled twice in the club's history. The younger Gunts' term had a rather trying beginning, however, when his first vice-president and friend, Bill Boucher, passed away, and the November luncheon to honor Angelos at the Omni Hotel was canceled because the hotel had labor problems and Angelos would not cross the labor dispute line.

It's been along hot summer for the Advertising & Professional Club of Baltimore members who served on the nominating committee. Here's the scoop as told to me.Several years ago, longtime Ad Club member Clarisse Mechanic invited Towson attorney/entrepreneur Michael Hodes and his wife, Lois, to become members. A short time later, the Hodeses agreed to become the club's first husband-wife president and vice president, and in that capacity, they feel they helped breathe new life into an old club.

Henry V. Rieger Sr., a retired Baltimore advertising executive and former Catonsville resident, died Nov. 21 of complications from a stroke at Salisbury Rehabilitation and Nursing Home on the Eastern Shore. He was 96. Born in Locust Point and raised on McKean Avenue, he was a 1930 graduate of City College. After graduating from the old Baltimore School of Commerce, Mr. Rieger began his advertising career in 1932 as an office boy for the old Hub department store. He worked his way up to advertising director and promotion manager at the department store at Baltimore and Charles streets.

My witty neighbor Sebastian has a term for it: al desko. That gives it some much-needed panache, but in the end, it's still just you and your ham-and-swiss-on-rye, at your desk and on the job rather than out for a midday meal at a restaurant with friends or colleagues. Chalk it up as yet another sign of a dying civilization, but polls show that nearly 60 percent of workers lunch al desko these days. And that sad fact, I'm convinced, is why Baltimore's Ad Club is going to be celebrating its 100th anniversary next year as an exhibit at the Maryland Historical Society, rather than as a living, breathing and lunching group.

Carter Burwell Roulette, a financial adviser and a Morgan Stanley vice president, died Friday of undetermined causes at his home in Sparks. He was 35. "We are waiting for the results of an autopsy to determine the cause of death," said his father, the Rev. Philip Burwell Roulette, retired rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Glyndon and a Rodgers Forge resident. Mr. Roulette was born in Baltimore and was raised in the St. John's rectory. He was a 1985 graduate of Calvert School and attended St. Paul's School and Franklin High School.

Robert E. Werner, a retired movie theater manager who later worked in sales, died of heart disease Friday at Union Memorial Hospital. The Timonium resident was 85. Born and reared on Magnolia Avenue in Northwest Baltimore, he was a 1940 Forest Park High School graduate. He attended the Johns Hopkins University. He managed the old Uptown, Avalon and Pimlico theaters and as well as real estate in the Pimlico area from 1940 to 1960. He also trained motion picture projection operators for the federal government.

FOR MANY BALTIMOREANS, THE NEW year doesn't really start until the first Saturday in January. That's when the Rotary Club of Baltimore throws its annual Oyster Roast -- this year, its 84th. Folks line up outside the Fifth Regiment Armory long before the doors officially open at noon. Once those doors open, and the 2,000-plus guests come pouring in, the lines inside begin. Many are at the 12 oyster-shucking stations. Unless you're like Rick Hornig, Electric Motor Repair industrial salesman.

Charles G. Tildon Jr., the civic activist whose vision of racial equality and educational opportunity carried him to the presidency of Baltimore City Community College and beyond, died yesterday at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Towson after a three-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 81. Mr. Tildon, who chaired the political action group Marylanders Organized for Responsibility and Equity (MORE), was also a founder of BLEWS, the Black/Jewish Forum of Baltimore - one of many community interests that kept him active after he retired from his college post in 1985.

Richard Edward Costello Sr., a retired sales manager for the old Western Maryland Railway, died of congestive heart failure Saturday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 84 and lived in Timonium. Born in Baltimore and raised on Linwood Avenue, he was a 1941 graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School, where he played baseball and soccer. He served in the Navy in the Pacific during World War II aboard the USS Akutan, a ammunition transport vessel. After the war, he joined the Western Maryland Railway as a stenographer.

Doyle joins HCC's board of trustees Kevin Doyle of Elkridge has been appointed to a six-year term on Howard Community College's board of trustees. A federal employee for more than 32 years, Doyle was president of the board of directors of the Social Security Child Care Centers and testified before Congress on the need for quality child care. He is a past president of the Greater Elkridge Community Association and past co-chair of the Route One Revitalization Task Force. He was elected to the Democratic Central Committee, serving from 2002 to 2006 and is a member of the Howard County Board of Appeals.

W. Thomas Gisriel, a retired attorney whose specialty was real estate and savings and loan law, died of heart failure Wednesday at the Blakehurst Retirement Community in Towson. The former Homeland resident was 81. Mr. Gisriel was born and raised in Baltimore and graduated from Loyola High School in 1943. His studies at Loyola College were interrupted when he was drafted into the Navy in World War II and was assigned to radio communications. After the war, he returned to Loyola where he played basketball and earned his bachelor's degree in 1948.

They were a group of prominent African-American educators - deans of Morgan State College and city schools administrators - pillars of their community searching for advice on how to grow their meager savings. In 1931, in the face of the Great Depression and segregation that kept blacks virtually shut out of Baltimore's mainstream banks and investment houses, the men stepped out on their own, pooled their money and founded an elite investment club. Seventy-five years later, the Club of Baltimore, as it is simply known, still meets in all its tradition and regalia.