Dame Of Maryland

Imagine you are Catholic and you are having a birthday party and you invite the pope. And he comes.That is the happy coincidence -- some might say miracle -- that has occurred for the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, which is celebrating its 100th year as the oldest Roman Catholic college for women in the United States.Pope John Paul II was scheduled to be in Baltimore last October, but fatigue and poor health caused him to put off his visit until now, when the streets around Notre Dame's north Baltimore campus are decorated with blue and white centennial banners.

Mildred Otenasek, a pioneering force for women in Maryland Democratic politics and a much-loved professor and mentor at her alma mater, Notre Dame of Maryland University, died Nov. 19 at her home in Roland Park. She was 98. A diminutive, soft-spoken woman with a fierce intellect and a determination to both succeed and blaze a path for the women who would follow her, Mrs. Otenasek became a driving force in politics, including a stint as the first female member of the Democratic National Committee for Maryland.

SEEKING TO expand its facilities for science education, the College of Notre Dame of Maryland this month will begin construction of a $7 million addition to its Knott Science Center.The college will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the 40,000-square-foot addition at 2 p.m. Sept. 26.When complete in mid-1999, the building will provide additional classrooms and laboratories for the college's biology and chemistry departments. It will be linked to the original science center, which was dedicated in 1967.

Born 200 years ago on Oct. 22, Franz Liszt changed music history. Even if the Hungarian-born pianist/composer had not done so, people would probably still remember him, if only for his romances. There was the dancer, Lola, who got so mad when Liszt tired of her that she followed him from city to city, finally crashing a banquet given in his honor and boogieing on a table in front of a startled crowd. And Olga, who, likewise faced with Liszt's waning affections, disguised herself as a gardener and burst into his villa ready to stab him. She settled for one more bout of lovemaking that night, but soon hounded him again, this time with a revolver and poison.

A NUN with a long history of involvement in private religious education takes over this week as the new executive director of one of Baltimore's primary advocates for public education, the Fund for Educational Excellence.Sister Rosemarie T. Nassif, SSND, who resigned last summer after four sometimes stormy years as president of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, thinks her career move is perfectly logical. "I'm an advocate of education, public and private," says Nassif, 55. "I've seen how education transforms people.

Kathleen Feeley enters the classroom smiling. And why not? It's a new term at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Sister Kathleen is about to spend the next 14 weeks immersed in a melange of three abiding passions: theology, literature and teaching.She walks into Room 18 in the Fine Arts building smiling, and smiles through much of the 75-minute honors English class, through questions and responses and group readings. At 69, after a two-year stint as Baltimore City special-education administrator, the former college president has returned to the work that called her to the School Sisters of Notre Dame 52 years ago."

An incorrect telephone number was provided in some editions Thursday for information about a lecture series at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. The correct number is 532-5371.) The Sun regrets the error

An article in Sunday's TODAY section incorrectly reported when a scholarship created in the name of art historian Ruth Nagle Watkins was announced. The College of Notre Dame of Maryland announced the scholarship March 3.The Sun regrets the error.Pub Date: 3/15/96

On January 23, 2006, HENRY JOHN MARIKLE, beloved husband of the late Wanda Mildred Marikle (nee Shellow), dear father of Mary Ann Soltys of Juneau, AK and Helen Marikle Passano. Loving grandfather of Mary Louise Soltys-Gray, Catherine Passano Mc Donnell, Tamara Ann Passano and Sarah Rebecca Passano. Adored great-grandfather of Alain Thomas Soltys-Gray, Emma Nelson Mc Donnell and Abigail Alden Mc Donnell A Memorial Mass will be offered Friday 10:30 A.M. at the Marikle Chapel of the Annunication of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.

On July 4, 2003, RAFAEL D. HIRTZ, beloved husband of the late Mary Hirtz (nee Johnston), devoted father of Susan Greif and her husband Peter of Bethesda, MD and David Hirtz of San Fransisco, CA; dear grandfather of Catherine and Laura Greif. A memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Rafael Hirtz Fund, Renaissance Institute, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, 4701 N. Charles Street. Baltimore, MD, 21210.

Barbara S. Dannettel, a former Comcast public relations director who later was on the board of Stevenson University, died Dec. 13 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The Sparks resident was 69. Barbara Smith, the daughter of an engineer and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised in Guilford. She was a 1959 graduate of the old Mount St. Agnes High School in Mount Washington. She earned an associate's degree from what was then Villa Julie College in Stevenson, and a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1984 from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.

The College of Notre Dame will be known as Notre Dame of Maryland University starting next fall, school officials announced Tuesday at an on-campus pep rally. President Mary Pat Seurkamp said the new name, chosen by a unanimous vote of the board of trustees Oct. 30, is a nod to a long tradition of all-women's undergraduate education and to Notre Dame's evolution into a more complex institution that offers doctoral degrees in education and pharmacy. "We needed a name that pointed to the best of both worlds," she said.

Sister Mary Coralie Ullrich, a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame whose career at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland spanned half-a-century, died May 23 of colon cancer at Villa Assumpta, her order's Woodbrook motherhouse. She was 96. Helen Marie Ullrich, whose father owned Crescent Oil Co. and whose mother was a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised in the 2900 block of Riggs Ave. After graduating from Notre Dame Preparatory School in 1931, she enrolled at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1935 in chemistry.

From his job at a drug company in San Diego, Patrick Donohue could see how much the nation needed pharmacists. So the Baltimore native made a practical decision to go back to school and train for a career that seemed recession-proof. What he didn't realize is that he'd also get to be a pioneer. When Donohue and 69 others start courses at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland today, they will become the first class of the first school of pharmacy at an American women's college. Notre Dame will become the second institution in Maryland to train professional pharmacists.

Sister Mary Agnes Klug, a retired chemistry professor at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, died in her sleep Thursday at her order's retirement home in Woodbrook. She was 100. Born Dorothy Agnes Regina Klug in Baltimore and raised in Govans on Beaumont Avenue, she was a 1927 graduate of Notre Dame Preparatory School. After graduating from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland in 1931, she entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame. She initially was known as Sister Mary Agnesita. She later used her baptismal name.

Past Life, a pilot filmed in Baltimore last month, has been picked up as a series for next season by the Fox television network, but the procedural drama likely will not be made here. While the official announcement of the pickup and location for filming won't be made until Monday at Fox's upfront presentation in New York, it appears that the series will be produced on location in Atlanta. Jack Gerbes, director of the Maryland Film Office, said Friday that he had met with Warner Bros.

Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley delivered a stern warning yesterday at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland's commencement: Beware the "box people." These are the people, he said, who form a "thin little crust of society" that stifles enthusiasm and creativity. They lurk in city agencies and newspaper editorial boards, prepared to give "four automatic answers" when confronted with innovative ideas. O'Malley told the college's 553 graduates that they're likely to hear these responses as they enter the workplace or continue their careers: "That won't work in Baltimore.