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 K. "Bitze" Glaser, an ordained Presbyterian deacon who was active in the affairs of Govans Presbyterian Church, died Wednesday at Roland Park Place from complications of dementia. She was 95. The daughter of a Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. worker and a homemaker, Elizabeth Lyle Kane was born and raised in Northwest Baltimore. She was a 1934 graduate of Forest Park High School and Baltimore Business College. She was married in 1940 to H. Donald Glaser Sr., a consulting engineer, who had been president and chairman of the board of Henry Adams Inc. He died in 1985.

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 McKenrick Winstead, an award-winning knitter and Bryn Mawr School graduate who established a scholarship fund there, died Tuesday of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 73. Mrs. Winstead, who went by the nickname Libby, was born in Baltimore in 1939. She was the eldest of three girls. Her father, a lawyer, served in the armed forces during World War II. During his absence, the girls and their mother moved to Pennsylvania to live with relatives. In early 1946, Mrs. Winstead's family returned to Baltimore, settling on North Charles Street near the city-county border.

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 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.

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 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.

Susan Elizabeth "Susie" Mudd, the former publisher, editor and owner of the free magazine Music Monthly, which for nearly three decades reported on Mid-Atlantic rock bands and musicians as well as other music, died April 5 of cancer at Sinai Hospital. The longtime Lauraville and Lutherville resident was 56. "Whether Susie realized it or not, she had made her mark on the Mid-Atlantic music scene," said Paul Manna, who worked for Ms. Mudd as a columnist and later in advertising sales.

One of Elizabeth Catlett's linotypes could horrify viewers by depicting the aftermath of a lynching, the rope around the victim's neck held taut by the murderers' boots. And in the next room, a statue by Catlett of a mother and child would flood viewers with the memories of a maternal embrace. Catlett's sculptures and prints became symbols of the civil rights movement while championing the dignity and humanity of ordinary people. At the time of her death Monday at age 96 in her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, she was widely considered one of the most important African-American artists of the 20th century.

Elizabeth S. Day, a church musician and retired Baltimore County public school teacher, died March 30 at Johns Hopkins Hospital of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. The Turners Station resident was 91. Born Elizabeth Scott in Pleasantville, N.J., she was a 1939 graduate of Pleasantville High School. She learned music as a child and played with the United Service Organization entertaining military personnel during World War II. After moving to Baltimore in the early 1950s, she earned a degree in music theory at what is now Morgan State University.

Carolyn Elizabeth Cates, a retired quality-control inspector and mixed-media artist, died of complications from cancer March 24 at Seasons Hospice in Randallstown. The Columbia resident was 75. Born Carolyn Edwards in Baltimore and raised in Dundalk, she was a 1954 graduate of Sollers Point High School. She earned a bachelor's degree at what is now Morgan State University. Ms. Cates worked at Westinghouse, later Northrop Grumman, as a quality-control inspector. She retired in 2002.

Mary Elizabeth "Becky" Lipp, a homemaker who studied genealogy, died of pneumonia March 24 at the Charlestown Retirement Community. She was 101 and had lived in Govans. She was born Mary Elizabeth Barrett while her mother was traveling on a railroad train in Wilmington, Del. She was raised on a family farm in Fauquier County, Va., and moved to Baltimore as a young woman. She lived with cousins on Abell Avenue and worked nearby at the old Crown Five and Ten Cent Store on Greenmount Avenue in Waverly.

South River goalie Elizabeth Duswalt made a big impression in her first varsity start Wednesday night at Broadneck. The junior, who spent last season on JV, made a terrific save on Kacy Koolage's free-position shot with 40 seconds left to preserve an 11-10 victory for the No. 11 Seahawks against a tough Anne Arundel County rival on the opening day for public school spring sports statewide. "I knew I hadn't been playing my best the whole game," said Duswalt, who finished with four saves.

Elizabeth M. "Betty" Dugan, a volunteer and World War II veteran, died Feb. 29 of heart failure at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. The former longtime Ruxton resident was 90. The daughter of a Baltimore businessman and a homemaker, the former Elizabeth Mitchell was born in Baltimore and raised in Guilford. After graduating from Notre Dame High School of Maryland, she graduated from Fairfax Hall Junior College in Waynesboro, Va. In her youth, she was an accomplished equestrian and was skilled in dressage, hunter-jumper equitation and cross-country eventing.

Elizabeth L. "Bobbi" Phillips, who co-founded and operated a West Baltimore funeral home, died of congestive heart failure Dec. 28 at her home. She was 93. Born Elizabeth Lattimore in Baltimore and raised on Schroeder Street, she was a 1936 Frederick Douglass High School graduate. She earned a diploma at the old Cortez Peters Business School on Eutaw Place. She also attended the University of Maryland, College Park and Morgan State University. "She was a woman of amazing fortitude, natural beauty, dignity, strong character, modesty, unrelenting strength and quietness, and calmness of spirit," said Doretha "Dottie" Hector, a co-owner of the funeral business, who worked closely with her for the past 30 years and now runs the business.