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Gilbert Cummins, 91, founded plating companyGilbert Cummins, the founder of a Baltimore gold and silver plating company who was active in Jewish community affairs, died Sunday of pneumonia at Sinai Hospital. The Northwest Baltimore resident was 91.In 1930, he established Gilbert Cummins Co. on Water Street in downtown Baltimore. The company later moved to Frederick Avenue and Curtis Bay before Mr. Cummins retired and closed it in 1990.Mr. Cummins was a member and former president of Beth Jacob Congregation in Northwest Baltimore and a member of Suburban Orthodox Congregation in Pikesville.

A nationally known anti-abortion activist, who was a key figure in a February Supreme Court decision that established that demonstrators may confront clinic patients and staff until asked to back off, will become pastor of a Catonsville church next month.The Rev. Paul H. Schenck will become rector and senior pastor of Bishop Cummins Memorial Reformed Episcopal Church on Frederick Road the first week of July.Schenck gained a national reputation as a confrontational anti-abortion leader during demonstrations in Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y., along with his identical twin, the Rev. Robert Schenck, an Assemblies of God minister.

NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks slid yesterday after weaker-than-expected earnings from Texas Instruments Inc., Cummins Engine Co. and Monsanto Co. sapped optimism that corporate profits will exceed analysts' forecasts this year.The decline ended the biggest three-day rally in the Dow Jones industrial average since February 1993, an advance helped by dazzling earnings reports from International Business Machines Corp. and Caterpillar Inc.Rising Treasury bond yields also hurt stocks. Investors were concerned that President Clinton might scuttle budget talks in his State of the Union address, sending bond yields higher and raising corporate borrowing costs.

BOSTON -- The gray-haired white woman and the brown-skinned woman with the short black hair sat side by side, mother and daughter, on top of a picnic cooler.So much has happened, they kept saying. "We'll never catch up," said the mother, Geraldine Nephew Cummins.Her daughter, Barbara Williams, was born 33 years ago in Boston, the result of a rape. Back then, Cummins said, she felt so ashamed of having been raped and so afraid of raising a half-black child in the all-white housing project where she lived that she gave her baby up for adoption.

On a narrow wooden pier jutting out into the Magothy River, Michelle Powell Cummins sifts through the gravelly silt at the bottom of a wooden tray like a prospector panning for gold.But she's looking for oysters, not nuggets. Ms. Powell Cummins is one of Maryland's few oyster farmers. She doesn't expect to find gold in the Magothy. But she'd like to make a little money with her oyster patch.In the tray, her oysters are almost microscopic, hard to see on the crushed shell on which they're "set," but there are thousands of them.

Baseball* 18-and-under boys -- Tight games were the order of the week for the Dayton Raiders, as the Howard County team split two one-run games and won another by two runs.The team began the week with a 7-6 win over Reisterstown. After taking a 4-0 lead in the first inning on RBI singles by Greg Hylock and Mike Cudzilo, the Raiders extended their lead to 7-0 with a three-run third, capped by Kevin Curtin's single to center scoring two.Reisterstown fought back with four runs in the fourth and two more in the sixth, but Dayton then shut the door.

Donald J. RaschSecurity specialistDonald Joseph Rasch, a retired industrial security specialist, Air Force special agent and composer, died of pneumonia Wednesday at Anne Arundel Medical Center, 12 years after he had developed Alzheimer's disease. He was 59.He retired in 1985 after working in industrial security at the General Motors parts warehouse in Baltimore for 20 years.In the 1950s, he spent 12 years as a special agent in the office of special investigations for the U.S. Air Force. He worked at various locations, including Andrews Air Force Base.

Services were held Tuesday at Bishop Cummins Memorial Church for two children who died in a Dec. 20 house fire in Southwest Baltimore.Hermon Kibrom, 2, and Filmon Kibrom, 6, died after a fire broke out in the family's Cape Cod-style home in the 5000 block of Parkton Street. Fire Department officials said the blaze began when sparks from a fireplace ignited the living room rug.Hermon and Filmon were born in the United States to an Eritrean couple who had fled civil war in their homeland 11 years ago and endured life in a Sudanese refugee camp for four years.

The suspicions of a Pikesville appliance dealer, angry about losses incurred by his wife's trust account at Maryland National Bank, have led to a $3.2 million award by the state's high court for thousands of trust customers.Largely upholding a lower court decision, the Maryland Court of Appeals has ordered the state's largest bank to pay the money because the bank "did not act as a prudent investor."The decision stems from a class-action lawsuit filed against the bank, a unit of MNC Financial Inc., in 1983.

Clear skies and a slight breeze combined to provide the perfect autumn afternoon Wednesday for the kickoff of an 18-month oyster aquaculture science project at Gibson Island Country School.For most of us, the only time we come in contact with these delicious mollusks is downing a few on the half-shell at a roast or consuming them fried orstewed. We hear about the effects of pollution and DMX on the oysterharvest and lament their passing. But it is rare to get to observe them in their habitat.

Dignity Players' current production of Vanishing Point introduces us to three of the 20th century's most fascinating female adventurers and achievers: Amelia Earhart, Aimee Semple McPherson and Agatha Christie. With book and lyrics by Liv Cummins and composer Rob Hartmann, and from a concept by Scott Keys, Dignity's East Coast premiere production of this unusual musical continues this season's theme celebrating the strength and accomplishments of women. Vanishing Point opened last weekend at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis, where it will continue through Sunday.

Ben Cummins of Baltimore purchased two Nintendo Wii game consoles during pre-Christmas shopping: one to give his 7-year-old daughter, Lauren, the other to trade for two tickets to Tuesday's Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana concert at 1st Mariner Arena. Cummins, who last week had yet to tell Lauren that he was trying to secure tickets for her and her mom, wasn't picky about seating for the eagerly anticipated concert. "I'm just trying to get them in the building," he said. Yet since he advertised the console-for-concert trade on Craigslist on Dec. 20, he's had no takers.

On July 28, 2007, ANNA MARGARET (nee Finnerty); beloved wife of the late David T. Cummins, Jr., loving mother of David Cummins, III, Anna Sisolak, John Cummins, Sr., Charlotte Muehlberger and the late Elizabeth Weaver; cherished grandmother of 11 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren. A Funeral Service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc., 7922 Wise Ave., Friday, 10 A.M. Interment Oak Lawn Cemetery. Friends may call Wednesday and Thursday 3-5 and 7-9 P.M.

On March 23, 2007 ALBERT E. CUMMINS, beloved husband of Margaret G. (nee Plunket) devoted father of Margaret E. Cummins and Susanna A. Beer, father-in-law of the late Carl R. Beer, dear brother-in-law of Marion Maser and her husband Irvin, Regina Farabaugh and her late husband Vincent and the late Gladys Huber and her husband Wilfred, Sara Jane Price and her husband Earl and Bernard J. Plunket, Jr., brother of Audry Czarski, Elizabeth Mewshaw, Denise Raspa...

On July 5, 2006, BROWNIE (nee Harrison); beloved wife of the late Gilbert Cummins; beloved mother of Arnold Cummins, Frances Goldstein and Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Cummins). Also survived by their loving spouses, ten grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and many kind and loyal friends. Funeral Services and interment were held in Israel.

On June 8, 2006, CAROLINE JULIE CAVILL (nee Seiler); wife of the late William E. Cavill, Sr.; mother to William Cavill, Jr., Kathleen Neumann, Mark Cavill and Judith Schuffler; mother-in-law to Francine Cavill, Margaret Cavill, Ronald Neumann and Michael Schuffler, Sr.; sister of James Seiler and the late Theodore Seiler; grandmother to Stephanie and Ryan Cavill, Christine and Daniel Neumann, Matthew and Melissa Cavill and Michael, Andrew, Joshua and...

It might be the only event that brings together a plumber, a fruit smuggler, a Shakespearean actor and the black knight from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. But that kind of gathering is common when members of Havre de Grace High School's Improv Club turn on the spotlight. With a format that mimics the popular TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway? hosted by comedian Drew Carey, the students play games built around over-the-top scenarios and topics. At a recent practice, the students worked on a storytelling game in which they lined up and were picked randomly one after another to ad-lib parts of a story that included Cleopatra and her army (naturally)

Renovations are to begin this month on an aging apartment complex on Dundalk Avenue in an area where work has begun on a streetscape improvement project. Cummins Apartments, which will be renamed Portside Apartments, is to receive a new clubhouse-style community center, air conditioning and locked foyers, said an official with the development company that purchased the complex. "It's going to be a new place," said Jane Willeboordse, executive director of Dundalk Renaissance Corp., which is working with an Annapolis-based developer on the rehab project.

On September 22, 2005, JOAN A. Mc DONOUGH (nee Mainolfi), beloved wife of E. Patrick Mc Donough; devoted mother of Terry Mc Donough and Brian Denton, Jeanne and Chris Oswald, Tim and Angie Mc Donough, Tom and Karen Mc Donough, Jenny and Neil Cummins and Connie and Jay Staab, dear daughter-in-law of Thelma C. Mc Donough, loving grandmother of Steven, Phillip, Michelle and Juliet Denton, Alex Smith, Tommy and Kelly Oswald, Mark, Meghan and Jeffrey Mc...

On Monday, July 4, 2005, SARA FAYE EMERICK, 77, of Main Street, Fairhope, PA, formerly of Baltimore, MD, died at her residence. Born on August 25, 1927 in PA, she was a daughter of the late Homer W. and Salena C. (Mc Kim) Cummins. Surviving are Fred W. Cummins, her husband; a son, Keith M. Chipps; daughters, Cheryl E. Norris, Dawn C. Emerick, Carla A. Le Cain, and Susan C. Pfeil; brothers, Blair, Earl, Arthur "Joe," Robert "Bob," Wilford "Bill," Arlo, and Richard; sister, Ruth Goodson; nine grandchildren and five great- grandchildren.