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Virginia L. Brown, Seniors Outreach Program manager, was named winner of the October Employee Excellence Award at the New Community College of Baltimore. Ms. Brown was awarded a $500 prize. Melissa Klapper, currently enrolled in the college's International Studies Program in Israel, has been named a National Merit Scholar and has received a $2,000 scholarship.*The Maryland College of the Air Consortium has presented Anne Arundel Community College professor Stephen F. Steele with an Excellence in Distance Teaching Award.

Antique bottle show Interested in antique bottles? The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club presents its 24th annual show and sale Sunday at the Essex campus of the Community College of Baltimore County. Visitors can pore over more than 300 tables brimming with bottles, jars, stoneware, tins, breweriana and more. Dealers have come from 25 states and four countries to present their collectibles. Attendees are invited to bring their old bottles for free appraisals. There will also be educational displays, food concessions and more.

Gardner Pond, a longtime professor of liberal arts at the Essex campus of the Community College of Baltimore County, died Saturday of a heart attack at his home in Baltimore. He was 65.A politics and philosophy professor who taught at Essex for 36 years, Dr. Pond played a major role in guiding the growth of the school over three decades.During his tenure, the eastern Baltimore County school mushroomed from a tiny institution with temporary buildings to a modern campus with more than 10,000 students.

In Baltimore County Community college plans open house in Dundalk tomorrow DUNDALK - The public is invited to an open house at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Dundalk campus of Community College of Baltimore County, 7200 Sollers Point Road. The open house will be held at the bookstore lobby of the college community center and will showcase the learning opportunities available on campus. People interested in traditional two-year degrees and those interested in continuing education are encouraged to attend.

Ruth Naomi Ingrassia, an adviser to international students for more than 30 years at the Community College of Baltimore County, died of ovarian cancer Wednesday at Harbor Hospital. The Glen Burnie resident was 68. The eldest of five children, Ruth Naomi Guy was born and raised in South Baltimore. She attended Southern High and met her future husband, Donald I. Mangum, at age 15. The couple married a year later and raised three children in Brooklyn Park before divorcing in 1974. In 1976, she married Frank Ingrassia and began her work at the Community College of Baltimore County that year.

College-bound students looking for help in filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid can go to one of more than a dozen centers around Maryland at 2 p.m. Feb. 12. College Goal Sunday is being held by the Delaware-D.C.-Maryland Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators as a way to help high school students fill out the forms. Many colleges and universities require students to fill out FAFSA to qualify for federal grants and loans, as well as many scholarships. There are several new sites this year, including one for Spanish speakers in Baltimore.

The president of a Massachusetts community college will be named chancellor of the Community College of Baltimore County today. Sandra Kurtinitis, head of the 13,000-student Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, Mass., will succeed Irving Pressley McPhail, who stepped down from his position in late June. Kurtinitis signed a three-year contract worth $190,000 annually. "I am both honored and humbled by the opportunity to bring leadership to the largest community college in Maryland," she said in a statement yesterday.

Council will discuss 2 development plans The Baltimore County Council is scheduled to discuss today legislation designed to allow redevelopment plans to move forward in Towson and Dundalk. One bill would change the zoning of about 10 acres between Burke and Susquehanna avenues in Towson to allow the construction of 160 residential units as part of the Towson Manor Village project. Plans by the developer, the Bozzuto Group, call for a mix of single-family houses, apartments and townhouses.

Charles B. Reisenweber, a former art teacher and coach who owned and operated a graphics firm, died Sunday at his Catonsville home after a heart attack. He was 54.He retired in 1991 after teaching realist painting and printmaking in Baltimore County schools for 30 years. That year he opened Custom Graphics in Catonsville.From 1965 to 1991, he coached football and lacrosse at Catonsville Senior High School, leading the football team to state championships in 1986 and 1991.A former football center at Western Maryland College, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1961, Mr. Reisenweber was known for being an enthusiastic and demonstrative coach.

Dr. Sidney Kobre, a former newspaperman, professor, author and noted journalism historian who helped establish the Community College of Baltimore, died Thursday of cancer at his Pikesville residence. He was 87.The author of 16 books, he was perhaps best known for his work, "The Development of American Journalism" and "The Development of the Colonial Newspaper," published in 1944. His last book, "A Gallery of Black Journalists," written with his wife, Reva, was published last year.Maurine Beasley, a journalism professor at the College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park, said that Dr. Kobre "was a most eminent scholar and was a revered figure in the field of journalism history.