Endowment

GWENDOLYN BORING (nee Richards) of Sarasota FL, formerly of Baltimore MD died March 3 2006. She was born September 12, 1927 in Baltimore County. A widow of the late Weldon Boring, she is survived by sons Steven, Gary, and Ken Boring, daughter-in-law Susan Boring and grandson Trent Boring, and one sister Alice Cooper. She was a Registered Nurse and earned her degree in Health Administration. Memorial services will be held April 22, noon, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 3975 Fruitville Road, Sarasota.

On January 4, 2006, RICHARD HEBER PEMBROKE, JR. Beloved husband of the late Elizabeth Smith Pembroke. Dear father of Richard P., Ann E. and Susan V. Pembroke. Friends may call at the Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc., 6500 York Rd. (at Overbrook) on Saturday 6 to 9 P.M. Service and Interment private. Please omit flowers. Contributions may be made to Stellafane Endowment Fund, P.O. Box 448, Chester, VT 05143

BOSTON -- Yale University's David Swensen, who oversees the school's $15.2 billion endowment, produced the highest returns among managers at the richest U.S. universities, beating his competitors at Stanford and Harvard with investments in hedge funds, real estate and private equities. Swensen's fund rose 22.3 percent in the fiscal year that ended June 30, followed by Stanford University's 19.5 percent and Harvard University's 19.2 percent, according to a Bloomberg survey of the 25 largest college endowments.

With its endowment growing in size and complexity, the Johns Hopkins University is turning to a former French professor with a knack for investing in more than just stocks and bonds to manage its portfolio. In hiring Kathryn Crecelius, who handled alternative investing for the last seven years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hopkins joins a club of schools with the biggest pots of money and lofty ambitions to make more. Hopkins has moved more slowly than some others among the top 25 university endowments in investing in nontraditional areas such as real estate and hedge funds to improve returns.

On June 22, 2005, HORTENSE B. RENE; beloved wife of the late Mitchel L. Rene; devoted mother of Carmen R. Weissner and her husband Bernard and Rita R. Gribbell and her husband James. Also survived by ten grandchildren, twenty-one great-grandchildren and nine great great-grandchildren. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at Holy Rosary Church, Friday, June 24, at 10 A.M. Interment Lorraine Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, those desiring may make memorial contributions to Pickersgill, Inc., Hortense Rene Endowment Fund, 615 Chestnut Avenue, Towson, MD 21204.

On June 2, 2005, CHARLES ROBINS HALL of Westminster, devoted husband of Virginia, father of Charles, Richard and Karen, grandfather of Melanie, Brittany and Kourtney. Services and interment in Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery Chapel, on Friday June 10, 2005 at 1 P.M., with full military honors. Contributions may be made to the Chares and Virginia Hall Endowment Fund, to benefit Resident Assistance in care of Carroll Lutheran Village, 300 St. Luke Circle, Westminster, MD 21158. Arrangements by Fletcher Funeral Home, Westminster, MD.

The musicians of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra either went on strike Monday or were locked out, depending on whom you ask. Either way, their stage was abandoned, and 33 horn and double-bass players who have been showing up this week for scheduled auditions were left stranded. The development followed an 85-3 vote to reject a management contract offer. It was a minor-key coda to a season of labor unrest last fall in four of the nation's Big Five orchestras - in Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland and New York.

If anyone knows how to begin an ambitious project, Dana Gioia thinks, Virgil does. In medias res. "In the middle of things." Rocking back on his heels, his arms crossed over his chest like a gladiator, Gioia for a moment silently contemplates the implications of that phrase. Then, he spells them out for employees of the National Endowment for the Arts, who are holding a noon-hour meeting of their book club. This session is devoted to contemplating the wonders of the great Roman poet's 2,085-year-old masterpiece, The Aeneid.

On September 26, 2004, VIOLA L. (nee Demme); beloved wife of the late Harry Herbert Schneider The family will receive friends in the LEMMON FUNERAL HOME OF DULANEY VALLEY INC., 10 W. Padonia Road (at York Road) Timonium-Cockeysville on Wednesday, September 29, 11 A.M. to 1 P.M. at which time Funeral Services will be celebrated. Interment Sherwood Episcopal Church Cemetery. Expressions of sympathy may be directed in Mrs. Schneider's name to Christ Lutheran Church, 701 S. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21230 and/or the Staff Assistance Fund Endowment (The SAFE Fund)

In a corner Reservoir Hill house-turned-after-school-hangout one recent afternoon, an 11-year-old girl known as Goofy is looking serious. Between chatter with friends and instruction by a local artist, Cieara Henson is focused on putting the final touches of paint and glaze on a clay tile she has made. It will go in a garden in her neighborhood that she helped create. She is working on the project with about a dozen girls: Monique, Robin, Jericka and others. None of them has likely given a thought to a man from Seattle named James E. Casey, who lived from 1888 to 1983.