Elizabeth

Jeff and Corinne Plank , of Baltimore, announce the birth of their daughter, Whitney Elizabeth Plank , on Oct. 4. Her grandparents are Mike and Sissy Plank, of Ellicott City; Mary Anne and Tom Williams, of Perry Hall; and Susan and Harold Campbell, of Abingdon.

Elizabeth E. "Libby" Chapman, a homemaker and former longtime Roland Park resident, died Sept. 23 at the Blakehurst Retirement Community in Towson of complications from dementia. She was 100. The daughter of Swepson Earle, author of "Chesapeake Bay Country," and Mabel Earle, a homemaker, Elizabeth Swepson Earle was born in Bel Air and raised in Roland Park. After her mother's death, she was raised by her father and Georgia Earle, her stepmother. After attending the Stuart Hall School in Staunton, Va., Mrs. Chapman worked during the 1930s and early 1940s as a buyer for the old O'Neill & Co. department store that stood on the southwest corner of Charles and Lexington streets.

Last week, reader Bucky contributed this Top 10 list of Food Quotations on Dining@Large (baltimoresun.com/diningat large): Somewhere along the way, I started jotting down quotations that struck me as insightful or funny or potentially useful for staff meeting arguments in a little spiral-bound notebook that I carried around with me in my briefcase. ... I went into my collection of quotations (now stored on Microsoft Word) and dug out some of my favorites that would meet the pesky "food-related" requirement.

Elizabeth M. Solter, an accomplished equestrian and teacher who had been a member of the U.S. Equestrian Team and went on to a successful career as a rider, died Sept. 12 of breast cancer at Amberly Farms, her farm in Berlin, Worcester County. She was 47. "I saw Elizabeth come up through the ranks and hit the heights, and it was a joy to watch. She just had natural ability," said Tommy Serio, one of the top riders and trainers in the country, who was a longtime friend and competitor.

If Elizabeth Large isn't hungry for dessert after dinner, very soon she will not order it. The longtime Baltimore Sun restaurant critic plans to retire and start dining out like a civilian. "It will be nice to be able to order exactly what I want and not order more than I want because I need to test it," said Large, who announced Tuesday that she will retire at the end of the month, nearly 37 years after her first restaurant review. In that span, Large has seen exotic cuisine, small plates and big names come to a restaurant scene once dominated by crab fluffs and sour beef and dumplings.

On May 11, 2008, Elizabeth A memorial service will be held in Salisbury, MD at the Bounds Funeral Home, 705 E. Main St., Salisbury, MD 21804 on Friday, May 30 at 11 a.m.

On MARCH 1, 2008 ELIZABETH (nee Leonard) of Baltimore. Funeral arrangements are being handled by THE JOHNSON FUNERAL HOME, P.A. Notice of services will be posted on Tuesday.

On September 24, 2005, ELIZABETH CHESONIS, passed away in Colorado. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hospice of Larimer County, CO, c/o Bohlender Funeral Chapel, 121 W. Olive St., Ft. Collins, CO 80524.

Elizabeth C. Bellavance, an educator, social activist, and patron of the academic and arts communities who was also an outspoken advocate for the Eastern Shore's Hispanic community, died July 24 of cancer at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Va. She was 77. "Liz was an extraordinary, extraordinary woman. I used to call her the Grand Dame of the Eastern Shore," said Kim Propeack, a lawyer who is the political and communications director for Casa de Maryland.

Mary Elizabeth Dyer Corrin, a code-breaker during World War II and former teacher at two Towson-area elementary schools, died June 30 of lung cancer at the Blakehurst retirement community. She was 92. The daughter of Navy Vice Adm. George C. Dyer, Mrs. Corrin was born in Manila in the Philippines; by the time she graduated from high school, she told her family later, she had attended 22 different schools. While her family was stationed in Hawaii, Mrs. Corrin traveled by boat and train to attend Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in math.

Paging Elizabeth Warren: This is your moment.   In 2007, Democrats were delirious with rage about the Iraq war. Hillary Clinton, the "inevitable" presidential front-runner, had voted for the war and refused to apologize for it. Other leading candidates, including Joe Biden, John Edwards and Chris Dodd, voted for it too. This left a huge opening for a credible antiwar candidate. Barack Obama, inexperienced and underqualified, nonetheless jumped into the vacuum. The rest, as they say, is history.

Elizabeth A. "Betty" Baker, the longtime church secretary at Aisquith Presbyterian Church, died Saturday of cancer at Good Samaritan Hospital. She was 78. The daughter of the Rev. Edward G. Conrad, pastor of Aisquith Presbyterian Church, and Elizabeth A. Brooks Conrad, a teacher, Elizabeth Ann Conrad was born in Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. She was raised in Lansdowne, Pa., and Baltimore, where she had lived since 1949. She graduated in 1953 from Eastern High School and attended business school for a year.

Grace Elizabeth Crowder, a homemaker who canned vegetables from her farm, died of stroke complications Tuesday at Providence Place Assisted Living in Chambersburg, Pa. The Mount Airy resident was 86. Born Grace Elizabeth Dieter in Baltimore, she was raised in East Baltimore and attended city public schools through the sixth grade. As a young woman, she worked at Montgomery Ward on Washington Boulevard. Family members said that her mother died of cancer when she was 9 and that her father was frequently absent.

Elizabeth P. "Betsy" Johnson, a homemaker and former educator who had lived in Stoneleigh for many years, died Feb. 5 of influenza at the William Breman Jewish Home in Atlanta. She was 92. Mrs. Johnson, who had a home in Devon Hill in North Roland Park, had lived in Atlanta for the past three years after breaking a leg, family members said. The daughter of an attorney and a homemaker, Elizabeth Pruitt was born and raised in Hickory, N.C., where she graduated in 1938 from Hickory High School.

Joseph L. McCarthy, a former social worker who established, sponsored and coached baseball and soccer teams to keep East Baltimore youths away from drugs and crime, died Tuesday of congestive heart and kidney failure at Genesis Loch Raven Center. The longtime Parkville resident was 78. The son of Joseph McCarthy and Angela McCarthy Gardina, Joseph Leo McCarthy was born in Baltimore and raised in Waverly. "His father died when he was 14, and he was raised by my father, Vincent Gardina, a city courthouse clerk, and my mother, who was a C&P Telephone Co. operator," said his half brother, Vincent J. Gardina, the former Baltimore County councilman who is now director of the county's Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability.

Elizabeth T. Clark, who was deputy head of Baltimore City's Department of Legislative Reference for more than two decades, died Jan. 18 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at St. Agnes Hospital. The 50-year Catonsville resident was 89. The daughter of Galen Taylor, a West Point graduate and career Army officer, and Gertrude Taylor, a homemaker, Elizabeth Ann Taylor was born in Watertown, Mass. Because of her father's work, she spent her youth in Philadelphia and Washington, where she graduated in 1942 from Woodrow Wilson High School.