Dandridge

On June 7, 2007 ROBERT COLEMAN DANDRIDGE; loving father of Martin Robert Dandridge; brother of Shirley Roberts and J. B. Dandridge and a host of other relatives and friends. Memorial Services wil be held at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Saturday at 11 a.m.

The renovation at the Charles Theatre is right on schedule, says the venerable theater's co-owner John Standiford. The steel base for the new stadium seating went in last week, and Standiford says an opening date for the three new theaters should be nailed down soon.Standiford is especially excited about the theater's new concession stand, which was designed by Maryland Institute, College of Art graduate Jon Maxwell."It's really going to be nice," Standiford says. "The top is going to be concrete, and he's casting metal for the front and doing a cherry section for the bar, where we'll serve coffee and beer and wine."

Two years after her ouster as the longtime president of the Baltimore Teachers Union, Irene B. Dandridge is attempting to make a comeback. She's trying to get on the ballot for Tuesday's union election.Dandridge, who has filed suit to block the election and is in the midst of a petition drive to sanction her candidacy, is hoping to regain a post she held for 17 years. She lost it in 1996 after accusations that she mismanaged the finances of the city's largest municipal union.Next week's election is a crowded contest, with five candidates on the ballot for the job of representing the city's 7,200 teachers.

Two years after her ouster as the longtime president of the Baltimore Teachers Union, Irene B. Dandridge is attempting to make a comeback. She's trying to get on the ballot for Tuesday's union election.Dandridge, who has filed suit to block the election and is in the midst of a petition drive to sanction her candidacy, is hoping to regain a post she held for 17 years. She lost it in 1996 after accusations that she mismanaged the finances of the city's largest municipal union.Next week's election is a crowded contest, with five candidates on the ballot for the job of representing the city's 7,200 teachers.

Members of the Baltimore Teachers Union head to the polls today to elect a president and other officers, one day after an appeals court rejected a former BTU president's attempt to stop the election.Former president Irene B. Dandridge, who claims she was improperly excluded as a candidate, said she isn't giving up her fight to reclaim the job she held for 17 years, despite yesterday's ruling."We do have some options," Dandridge said. "One is to go to the international union [American Federation of Teachers]

Baltimore Teachers Union members head to the polls today to elect a president and other officers, one day after an appeals court rejected a former BTU president's attempt to stop the election.Former president Irene B. Dandridge, who claims she was improperly excluded as a candidate, said she isn't giving up her fight to reclaim the job she held for 17 years, despite yesterday's ruling."We do have some options," Dandridge said. "One is to go to the international union [American Federation of Teachers]

Baltimore Teachers Union members voted yesterday to keep Marietta English as president and elected executive board members backed by her and Lorretta Johnson, who heads the BTU teacher aide chapter."

An attempt to make peace within the fractious Baltimore Teachers Union has set the stage for the BTU's former president to challenge the union's power structure that once embraced her.The peacemaking effort came in the form of a letter that BTU President Marietta A. English sent Feb. 2 to Irene B. Dandridge, agreeing to accept Dandridge's check for union dues covering October through January.In court filings, Dandridge maintains that the acceptance of the check reinstated her as a member of the BTU and makes her eligible to run Tuesday against English and four other candidates for the union's top position.

Sharon Dandridge thinks of her taxi service for the elderly as her offspring. She's had to sacrifice for her year-old business and give more than she gets in return.Remembered Pleasures, the single-van business Dandridge hopes will fulfill a need for transportation in Howard County, just breaks even now. And Dandridge still longs for the regular paychecks she received when she drove tractor-trailers.But "I was as far as I could go with that company," Dandridge said. "That's not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

For her efforts as the charismatic head of the Cambridge Non-Violent Action Committee during the battle for civil rights in the early 1960s, Gloria Richardson Dandridge was called "Glorious Gloria." Others said she was like a second Harriet Tubman.The strong-willed housewife, who fearlessly pushed aside the bayonets of the National Guardsmen sent to maintain law and order, rose to national prominence as a civil rights leader who led marches and was arrested as she sought to promote civil rights for Eastern Shore blacks.

The nickname for athletic teams at Iowa State University is "the Cyclones." The nickname for athletic teams at the University of Iowa is "the Hawkeyes." So I made a mistake in a recent column about former U.S. Naval Academy wrestlers Lloyd Keaser and Wayne Hicks. The column said "an assistant Iowa State coach asked Hicks to work out with some 112-pound high school kid the Hawkeyes were thinking of recruiting." It should have said an assistant Iowa State coach asked Hicks to work out with some 112-pound high school kid the Cyclones were thinking of recruiting.

It must be an unwritten axiom: When you meet people who are considered larger than life, you expect them to be physically larger than what they are. So I was taken aback when Gloria Richardson Dandridge opened the door to her Manhattan apartment for me in October. She was still slender, as slender as I'd seen her in those pictures taken back during the 1960s, when she led civil rights demonstrations in Cambridge and served as chairwoman of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, better known as CNAC.

Robert Coleman Dandridge, a retired Maryland State Police sergeant who spent his career at what is now Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, died of cancer Thursday at Northwest Hospital Center's hospice. The West Baltimore resident was 75. Born in Baltimore and raised on Mount Street, he sold the old Baltimore News-Post at the age of 8. At 10, he purchased bags for a penny each and sold them for 3 cents to Hollins Market customers. At age 14, he worked as a busboy at a West Baltimore hotel until it was discovered that he was too young to have a work permit.

On June 7, 2007 ROBERT COLEMAN DANDRIDGE; loving father of Martin Robert Dandridge; brother of Shirley Roberts and J. B. Dandridge and a host of other relatives and friends. Memorial Services wil be held at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Saturday at 11 a.m.

On May 6, 2007, WILLIAM A. TUERKE, III, 75, former president of Tuerkes-Beckers, Inc., at the Odyssey Hospice in Las Vegas, NV. Family members were with him at his passing. He is survived by four sons, William A. Tuerke, IV of Baltimore, MD, John Tuerke of W. Friendship, MD, Timothy Tuerke of Las Vegas, NV and Thomas Tuerke of Baltimore, MD and four daughters, Susan Dell of Hedgesville, WV, Cheryl Kouba of Mamer in Luxembourg, Elizabeth Tuerke-Bohle of Dayton, OH and Deborah Tuerke Force of Baltimore, MD. He is also survived by a step-mother Audrey O'Meara of N. Palm Beach, FL, two step-sons, Clay Coatney of Reston, VA and Raymond Steele of Strasberg, VA and two step-daughters, Kim Walker of Dandridge, TN and Georgana Baker of Charlestown, WV as well as 17 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.

ROCKVILLE -- As the prosecution moves toward the expected testimony of Lee Boyd Malvo as early as Monday, a ballistics expert testified yesterday that all but two of the people hit by sniper's bullets during the 2002 Washington-area shootings could only have been shot by the .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle found in John Allen Muhammad's car at the time of his arrest. Bullets taken from the bodies of eight people who died and three who were wounded were fired from the Bushmaster, ballistics expert Walter Dandridge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told the jury.

On March 2, 2006, EARL P. DANDRIDGE, beloved husband of Irene (nee Brown) devoted father to Robin and loving grandfather to Lauren Dandridge and Victoria Johnson. Also survived by a sister Shirley Roberts and brothers Robert and John Bruce Dandridge and many other family and friends. A Memorial Service is scheduled for Wednesday, March 8 at Union Memorial United Methodist Church, 2500 Harlem Ave., Baltimore at 6:30 P.M. Repass immediately following services at the church. Friends and relatives may call at the family home 10525 Dickens Way, Woodstock, MD. Interment private

On December 31, 2004, JAMES MELVIN DANDRIDGE; beloved husband of Arveta B. Dandridge. On Monday, friends may call at the NEW VAUGHN C. GREEN FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Road from 3 to 8 P.M. On Tuesday, Mr. Dandridge will lie in state at the Friendship Baptist Church, 6000 Loch Raven Blvd. The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 7:30 P.M., with services to follow. On Wednesday, Mr. Dandridge will lie instate at the Adams United Methodist Church, 937 Bay Yard Road, Lothian, MD. The family will receive friends from 10:30 to 11 A.M., with services to follow.

On February 19, 2004 JAMES S. DANDRIDGE JR., devoted brother of Shirley Roberts, Robert, Earl and H.B. Dandridge, step-father of Joyce Quay and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Ave., on Monday after 8:30 A.M. where the family will receive friends on Tuesday at The New Metropolitan Baptist Church, 1501 Mc Culloh Street at 10:30 A.M. followed by funeral services at 11:00 A.M. See:www.marchfh.com.

Ann D. Dandridge, marketing director for National Historic Seaport of Baltimore, died of lung cancer Monday at her Roland Park home. She was 60. Born Ann Davis Dandridge in Baltimore and raised in Stevenson, she was a 1962 graduate of Garrison Forest School. She earned an associate's degree in communications from Centenary College for Women in Hackettstown, N.J., in 1964. She also studied at the University of Maryland, College Park and the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Ms. Dandridge began her public relations career with the Maryland Constitutional Convention that was held in Annapolis in 1967.