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River Hill lacrosse coach Keith Gonsouland knew senior Daniel Hostetler was special after playing a one-on-one basketball game against him when Hostetler was an eighth-grader. "Even though I was bigger and stronger than him, he played so hard," Gonsouland recalled. "As I remember, he fouled me every time I posted up. That impressed me, because he kept coming at me and didn't quit. That desire to compete is what makes him exceptional and sets him apart in all of the sports that he plays."

On June 26, 2007, DANIEL JOSEPH BIEDRONSKI, SR.; beloved husband of Victoria G. Biedronski; devoted father of Charmaine Brengle and her husband Lin, Cheryl Fisher and her husband Jon, and Daniel Biedronski, Jr.; dear brother of Ted Biedronski, and Dot Perzan; loving Pop-Pop of Rachel Biedronski, and Madison and Ryan Fisher. A Christian Wake Service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc., 7922 Wise Ave. on Friday at 7:30PM. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Our Lady of Hope Church on Saturday at 10AM.

Daniel Michael Hipsley, a retired Catonsville attorney, insurance broker and business owner, died Sunday of a heart attack at his Ellicott City home. He was 81. Born in Baltimore and raised on Payson Street, he was a 1943 graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School, where he played varsity baseball. He also played on a local semipro team. During World War II, he served as a Marine Corps radio specialist in the South Pacific and fought at Okinawa and Mindanao. He attained the rank of sergeant.

On July 6, 2007, JOAN DECKELMAN EADER of Pylesville, MD, beloved wife of Daniel David Eader, devoted mother of David Daniel Eader, loving sister of George A. Deckelman, Judith Lloyd, Freda Fahey and Elizabeth Brooks. Services will be held at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Bel Air, MD on Wednesday July 11, 2007 at 11:00 A.M. Friends may call at the family owned McComas Funeral Home, P.A., Bel Air, MD on Monday July 9, 2007 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. and on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. Those who desire may contribute to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 572, Bel Air, MD 21014.

What it's about: Kevin Costner plays Mr. Brooks, the successful owner of a chic Portland, Ore., box company, with a comely wife (Marg Helgenberger), a smart, pretty daughter (Danielle Panabaker) and a compulsion to kill. Rated: R The Scoop: Mr. Brooks has a walking, talking id named Marshall (William Hurt), but it's hard to dramatize a split personality when you start with zero personality. Grade: C The Valet What it's about: Daniel Auteuil plays a married captain of industry who thinks the only way he can hang on to his business position and his supermodel mistress is to have her pose as the live-in lover of a fellow who parks cars at a restaurant.

On August 20, 2007, DANIEL N. JAKUBIAK; devoted father of Christopher Jakubiak and his wife Elizabeth, Michael Jakubiak and his wife Sheila, Michelle Chavis and her husband Michael, and Brian Jakubiak and his wife Michelle; loving grandfather of Natalie and Anna Jakubiak, Andrew and Jada Jakubiak, Michael, Mark and Madison Chavis; dear brother of Chester Jakubiak, Helen Cesenaro and Elizabeth Taylor. Relatives and friends are invited to call at the SCHIMUNEK FUNERAL HOME OF BEL AIR, INC., 610 W. McPhail Road (at Route 24)

Mayor Martin O'Malley says his appointment of Col. Ronald L. Daniel as Baltimore's new police commissioner was "a life or death" decision.That is easy to understand.The city's homicide toll just exceeded 300 for the 10th consecutive year -- a distressing milestone for the newly installed mayor, who campaigned on a law-and-order platform.Colonel Daniel offers strong credentials. In his 26-year career in Baltimore, he has overseen day-to- day management of the department, headed its personnel office and special operations.

Col. Ronald L. Daniel was named Baltimore's police commissioner formally yesterday and immediately promised to begin an aggressive assault on crime in the city.At the same time, Daniel said he wanted to reassure residents that a variety of new policing tactics will be directed against criminals and not law-abiding citizens."There is no need to fear the police," Daniel said in an interview yesterday. "We will aggressively attack crime, not citizens."Daniel was introduced as the city's top cop by Mayor Martin O'Malley at a noon news conference yesterday attended by 100 City Council members, state legislators, police officers and downtown business leaders.

THE LAST thing the next police commissioner of Baltimore, Ronald L. Daniel, wants to hear this morning are words from the last commissioner, who sent him to Siberia and never imagined he would return. But maybe a little arithmetic will give us all a sense of perspective as Daniel comes in from the cold.The last commissioner was Thomas C. Frazier, now departed against his will. One autumn day a couple of years ago, he sat in his office and began calculating the mathematics of a city's self-destruction.

A Baltimore police colonel who was ousted from his command after calling his boss a racist has returned to the headquarters building after more than two years of mayor-imposed exile to a small City Hall office.Col. Ronald L. Daniel, a 25-year veteran, was named acting commander of the Human Resources Bureau on Monday, filling in for Col. Victor Gregory, who is on extended sick leave. He supervises the personnel, training, fiscal and professional standards divisions.Daniel declined to comment yesterday.

On October 14, 2009 SAUL A. SCHAPIRO father of Simone Schapiro and Zoe Schapiro; son of Daniel and Jeannette Schapiro, brother of Carol S. Kekst and Benjamin S. Schapiro. Relatives and friends are invited to memorial services Sunday 11 a.m. at Joseph Levine & Son, 7112 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA. In lieu of flowers, contributions in his memory may be made to The American Liver Foundation, www.liverfoundation.org/donate. www.levinefuneral.com.

On September 12, 2009 DANIEL, JR. Husband of Lucille Bradley. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 East North Avenue on Wednesday after 8:30 A.M. with family hour from 5 to 7 P.M. Funeral services and Interment in Rougemount, NC on Friday.

Daniel S. Sullivan Jr., who practiced law in Towson for 70 years, died Aug. 30 of natural causes at the Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Center in Houston. He was 96. Mr. Sullivan was born and raised in Baltimore and graduated in 1931 from City College. He earned a bachelor's degree from Catholic University of America and his law degree from the University of Maryland in 1936. Mr. Sullivan, who maintained a general law practice in the Carrollton Building on East Joppa Road in Towson, practiced from 1936 until retiring in 2006.

On August 17, 2009, DANIEL GENERAL JENNINGS. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, TODAY after 10 AM. The family will also receive friends on Monday at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, 2201 Garrison Boulevard at 10 AM with funeral service to follow at 10:30. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church.

OCEAN CITY - Fishing records are as permanent as an ice cube on a city sidewalk in August. In a blink of an eye, marks that once seemed unreachable are gathered in and tossed away. That's not the case in other sports. Sometimes, it takes a plugger like baseball's Pete Rose years to grind out the hits to pass Ty Cobb's long-standing benchmark of 4,191. And challengers to Ted Williams' .406 season average (the last such mark above .400) and Joe DiMaggio's record hitting streak of 56 games - both set in 1941 - learn every year just how formidable those numbers are. Mother Nature has a lot to do with fishing records.

On August 15, 2009, ROBERTA CELESTE LANDERS (nee Haase); beloved wife of the late William S. Landers, Sr.; devoted mother of Cathy Mathis and her husband Tom, Deborah Bardroff and her husband Dave, William (Bill) S. Landers, Jr. and his wife Tracy, and Daniel (Dan) Landers; dear sister of Marion Linthicum. Also survived by six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue, on Thursday at 8 p.m. Interment private.

The average middle-class child aquires trophies, medals and ribbons like so many Christmas toys - and they are often treated similarly, briefly prized and then forgotten. Rare is the tweener bedroom that does not display a trove of awards, most of it the bounty of organized sport. But in 10-year-old Daniel's bedroom, there's a somewhat uncommon specimen. There, over by the rotating aquarium night light and next to the dog-eared decks of Pokemon cards, is a bronze-colored trophy featuring a chef in apron and kerchief triumphantly holding what appears to be a carving knife and fork.

Any number of arts organizations in Baltimore have come and gone over the decades, while the Young Victorian Theatre Company keeps chugging along, to the appreciation of Gilbert and Sullivan fans throughout the area. The troupe's 39th season opens this weekend with The Pirates of Penzance, which gently skewers social class distinctions, inept and blustery military and police, and slavish devotion to duty. The libretto finds Gilbert in particularly witty form. Sullivan's score is full of charm and sophistication, reaching a height of cleverness in an Act 1 number that combines a waltz for the operetta's love couple with a different tune and meter for lady choristers chattering away in counterpoint.

On May 22, 2009, MARION R. (nee Oliphant), beloved wife of the late Francis Thomas; devoted mother of Merle Rosenfeld, Mary Ann Zaledonis and her husband Edward, Dianne Weindl, Penny Hodges and her husband Jack, Edward Thomas and his wife Jennifer, and the late Walter Thomas; cherished grandmother of Louie, Stacy, Daniel, Erin, Cameron, and the late Daniel; dear great-grandmother of Morgan, Collin, Payton, and Ryelin. Funeral arrangements by the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue.

On December 17, 2008, ROBERT; son of the late William and Hilda Daniel. He leaves to mourn two sons, Robert and David; three daughters, Regina and Chelsey Daniel and Desiree Nischuck; ten grandchildren; one great-grandchild; three sisters, Nancy Walters, Joyce Downs and Angie Shiflet and a host of other relatives and friends. Family will receive friends 3 to 5 and 6 to 9 P.M., Friday evening at the Wesley Chavis Jr., Funeral Home, 2007 Eastern Avenue. Wake 10:30 A.M. Funeral 11 A.M., in the above chapel on Saturday.