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Brad Best, who turned a small Catholic school known for lacrosse into a county football power, and Mike Codd are switching football positions at St. Mary's High in Annapolis.With increasing duties as the Saints' athletic director, Best resigned yesterday as head football coach after 10 seasons and elevated his longtime assistant Codd to head coach, a position Codd held once before.Best compiled a 59-41 record (.590) with the Saints and won Maryland Interscholastic Association A Conference tri-championships in 1995 and 1996 and a C Conference tri-championship in 1990.

Brad Best, who turned a small school known for lacrosse into an Anne Arundel County football powerhouse, and Mike High in Annapolis. With increasing duties as the Saints; athletic director, Best resigned yesterday after 10 seasons and elvated his longtime assistant Codd to head coach, a position Codd held once before.Pub Date: 2/10/99

A Severna Park optician's plans to build a home on the Severn River received another setback when a state appeals court refused to overturn the decisions of a lower court and county zoning officials.The Court of Special Appeals ruled that Circuit Judge Raymond G. Thieme Jr. was correct when he upheld a county Board of Appeals decision to deny a variance to F. Nicholas Codd to build on Sullivan Cove.Codd said yesterday that he would appeal the ruling to the Court of Appeals or scale back the size of the proposed house and reapply to the Board of Appeals.

F. Nicholas Codd wants to build his dream house on stilts over a cove on the Severn River. The county says that won't happen even in his wildest dreams.Now, in a case being closely watched by environmental and property rights advocates, an Anne Arundel circuit judge will have to decide whether the county Board of Appeals confiscated the land when it denied Mr. Codd permission to build.Experts say it could be the first case in the state of land confiscation by regulation."I think that you can find that this case is confiscatory," Kathryn Dahl, attorney for Mr. Codd, told Judge Raymond G. Thieme Jr. yesterday.

On a quarter-acre lot on Sullivan's Cove optician F. Nicholas Codd has chosen to build his dream home, and the Severn River Association (SRA) has chosen to draw a line in the marsh.Some environmentalists say they fear that letting Mr. Codd build his home on piers there could be the death knell for the state's Critical Areas law. Property rights advocates say that forbidding Mr. Codd to build could lead to the first case in Maryland in which the government might be forced to compensate a land owner for environmental reasons.

The Anne Arundel County Board of Appeals has decided to prohibit a Severna Park optician from building a house on stilts in a quarter-acre marsh along the Severn River.Conservationists hailed the decision yesterday as a vote for environmental shoreline protection, but F. Nicholas Codd, who owns the property on Sullivan Cove, said he is considering appealing to Circuit Court.He has pursued his dream of building the house for six years, he said, and he is not ready to give up."The next step is to get their final vote and read the written opinion," Mr. Codd said.

Environmentalists fighting Arnold optician F. Nicholas Codd's house on stilts in a marsh on the Severn River won a battle last week when the Anne Arundel Board of Appeals ruled against Mr. Codd. But they may end up wishing they had backed off a few months ago when the county's zoning administrative hearing officer ruled in Mr. Codd's favor. This latest victory could end up setting back the environmental movement, not advancing its cause.Even state Sen. Gerald Winegrad, the General Assembly's most influential environmental voice, saw that this was the wrong case for environmentalists to press.

The owner of a Sullivan Cove marsh who wants to build a house on stilts above his land says he will probably ask a judge to overturn the county Board of Appeals' rejection of his plans.F. Nicholas Codd, a Severna Park optician, said he is "90 percent" sure he will appeal to Circuit Court the written opinion issued last week.Mr. Codd, whose family has owned the quarter-acre lot for 32 years, has tentative approval from some state and federal agencies to build a 1,720-square-foot house on a platform above the marsh.

An Arnold optician's plan to build a home over a portion of Sullivan's Cove Marsh won the approval of a county hearing officer yesterday, prompting opponents to predict it could topple Maryland's environmental protection laws."

A former running back from Temple University whose promising football career was ended by a knee injury was the coach and Kelly Oliver was the quarterback, the year St. Mary's of Annapolis completed an unbeaten season with a 27-6 romp over Wroxeter.It was 1978, one year after an 8-2 campaign, and Mike Busch, now a state delegate, was coach of the Saints' football team. The 1978 season was the best at 9-0-1 (with the tie a 21-21 tussle with archrival Severn).That was the last year the Saints' football team went through an entire season without losing.

Joseph B. Codd, who memorized the names of the Baltimore Orioles season ticket holders and their seat locations during his five decades in the club ticket office, died of pneumonia Tuesday at his Oak Crest Village retirement home in Parkville. He was 93. Born in Baltimore, he was raised above a bar his father owned at Hoffman and Ensor streets. He attended St. Paul's Parochial School and Loyola High School. After serving in the Army in Germany during World War II, he worked in real estate with his sister, Marie Codd, who had a flourishing sales and rental business in the Mount Vernon section of downtown Baltimore in the 1940s and early 1950s.

On October 8, 2005, GLORIA JEAN CODD, loving wife of William T. Codd Jr., devoted mother and mother-in-law of Allen and Joyce Codd and Carl Codd and friend Orenda Love; sister of Kenneth, Frank, Garland " Warren" and John "Jack" Shamer and Evelyn Bankerd; grandmother of Ryan, Katie and Holly Codd, predeceased by sister Shirley Lowe. Funeral services will be held Wednesday October 12 at 1:30 P.M. at Jeffrey N. Zumbrun Funeral Home & Monument Company, 6028 Sykesville Road, Eldersburg, MD 21784.

On August 4, 2004, JOHN J., SR., beloved husband of the late Alice C. Codd (nee McCrink), devoted father of John J. Codd, Jr. and his wife Ellen, Patricia A. Heineman and her husband Walt, Karen M. Behrens and her husband Gary; dear brother of May Schellinger and the late Nicholas J. Codd, Jr; also survived by eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.Friends may call at the WITZKE FUNERAL HOME OF CATONSVILLE, INC, 1630 Edmondson Avenue (1 mile West of Beltway exit 14), on Thursday from 7 to 9 P.M. and Friday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Further visitation will be held at the St. Gabriel Catholic Church, 6950 Dogwood Rd, Baltimore, MD 21244 on Saturday from 9 to 10 A.M., at 10 A.M. a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated.

On August 4, 2004, JOHN J., SR., beloved husband of the late Alice C. Codd (nee Mc Crink), devoted father of John J. Codd, Jr. and his wife Ellen, Patricia A. Heineman and her husband Walt, Karen M. Behrens and her husband Gary; dear brother of May Schellinger and the late Nicholas J. Codd, Jr; also survived by eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. Friends may call at the WITZKE FUNERAL HOME OF CATONSVILLE, INC, 1630 Edmondson Avenue (1 mile West of Beltway exit 14), on Thursday from 7 to 9 P.M. and Friday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Further visitation will be held at the St. Gabriel Catholic Church, 6950 Dogwood Rd, Baltimore, MD 21244 on Saturday from 9 to 10 A.M., at 10 A.M. a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated.

On August 1, 2004, ETHEL M. YINGLING (nee Codd); beloved wife of the late Raymond E. Yingling SR.; devoted mother of Raymond Edward "Eddie" Yingling Jr. and his wife Sandy and Thomas Howard Yingling and his wife Janet; loving sister of Doris Kwedar and William Codd. Also survived by her grandchildren Craig, Christopher and Jessica Yingling and her great-grandchildren, Brett Hampton and Kassandra and Chase Yingling. The family will receive friends Wednesday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m., at Mac Nabb Funeral Home, 301 Frederick Road, Catonsville (at Beltway exit 13)

One of the industrial workhorses of Baltimore's waterfront will soon get a new life as a focal point of the burgeoning Harbor East community. The E. J. Codd Co. building at 700 S. Caroline St., longtime home of a company that makes boilers and machinery, was sold recently to a group that plans to turn it into Baltimore's newest office and retail center. Struever Bros., Eccles & Rouse, known for its conversions of such historic structures as the former Bagby Furniture Co. building on Exeter Street and the American Can Co. complex on Boston Street, intends to invest $10 million to rehabilitate the original Codd building, which dates from 1881, and two additions completed in the early 1900s.

Teddy Edwards, 78, a deft and soulful saxophonist who was a mainstay of the Southern California jazz scene and played what is said to be the first recorded bebop solo on tenor saxophone, died of prostate cancer Sunday in Los Angeles. A fixture in Los Angeles jazz for more than a half-century, Mr. Edwards was relatively unknown elsewhere, although he had a following in Europe. Unlike Dexter Gordon, his friend and a fellow Los Angeles tenor saxophonist, he never felt the urge to move to New York.

St. Mary's, No. 3-ranked Broadneck and Northeast are Anne Arundel County's only remaining undefeated football teams, each at 4-0. St. Mary's, somewhat of a surprise this fall after losing several skilled players to graduation, outlasted No. 14 Cardinal Gibbons, 13-10, in overtime in southwest Baltimore Friday night. Broadneck beat No. 11 Old Mill, 14-13, and Northeast routed Queen Anne's, 30-8. Quarterback Marc Parreco plunged in from the 1 to give St. Mary's the win over the defending Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference champion Crusaders.

Brad Best, who turned a small Catholic school known for lacrosse into a county football power, and Mike Codd are switching football positions at St. Mary's High in Annapolis.With increasing duties as the Saints' athletic director, Best resigned yesterday as head football coach after 10 seasons and elevated his longtime assistant Codd to head coach, a position Codd held once before.Best compiled a 59-41 record (.590) with the Saints and won Maryland Interscholastic Association A Conference tri-championships in 1995 and 1996 and a C Conference tri-championship in 1990.

Brad Best, who turned a small school known for lacrosse into an Anne Arundel County football powerhouse, and Mike High in Annapolis. With increasing duties as the Saints; athletic director, Best resigned yesterday after 10 seasons and elvated his longtime assistant Codd to head coach, a position Codd held once before.Pub Date: 2/10/99