NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | April 13, 2012
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.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Mary Carole McCauley and Baltimore Sun reporter | April 9, 2012
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.
NEWS
By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun | April 5, 2012
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.
NEWS
By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun | April 4, 2012
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.
NEWS
By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun | March 27, 2012
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.
SPORTS
By Katherine Dunn, The Baltimore Sun | March 21, 2012
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.