Executive Board

The fate of the county's public transportation could be decided at a meeting today of the Carroll Transit System executive board.Two of the options the board will consider today are closing the nonprofit agency or scaling back services, said Linda Boyer, executive director.The board meets this morning and will send its recommendation to the full board of directors when that panel meets Feb. 17.Mrs. Boyer said she had hoped to know today whether the county would be willing to provide a loan and mechanics to help the agency.

Brenda J. Clayburn, a founder and later president of the City Union of Baltimore who was also a longtime city Police Department supervisor, died Sunday of undetermined causes at her Northwest Baltimore home. She was 63. "She had recently been sick, and we are waiting the results of an autopsy," said her daughter, Shirley Y. Cooper, who lives in Baltimore. "I was very saddened to learn of the passing of Brenda Clayburn. Brenda was a strong advocate for the thousands of city employees she represented, and she cared deeply for their welfare," Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said in a statement Monday.

Four executive board members of the Miss Maryland pageant are retiring, decisions they made after an ugly controversy rocked the beauty contest last year and entangled them in a lawsuit alleging that the pageant was rigged.Among those leaving is Charles Skinner, executive director of Miss Maryland since 1977, who said yesterday that he "has run out of gas" and wants to pursue other interests. He denied that his retirement has anything to do with last year's controversy or the lawsuit, filed by an angry contestant.

McCormick & Co. Inc. has appointed an Eli Lilly and Co. executive to its board of directors, the Hunt Valley spice and flavoring company said Wednesday. The appointment of Jacques Tapiero, a Lilly senior vice president and president of emerging markets, took effect Sept. 24. Tapiero has led Lilly's emerging markets unit since 2009, developing business strategy in China, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, South Korea and Turkey. He joined Lilly in 1983 and has had more than 25 years of international business experience with the Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical company.

Brenda J. Clayburn, a founder and later president of the City Union of Baltimore who was also a longtime city Police Department supervisor, died Sunday of undetermined causes at her Northwest Baltimore home. She was 63. "She had recently been sick, and we are waiting the results of an autopsy," said her daughter, Shirley Y. Cooper, who lives in Baltimore. "I was very saddened to learn of the passing of Brenda Clayburn. Brenda was a strong advocate for the thousands of city employees she represented, and she cared deeply for their welfare," Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said in a statement Monday.

Auto racing2 Thunder -- Named Ed Kennedy equipment manager.OlympicsInternational Olympic Committee -- Re-elected president Juan Antonio Samaranch, 73, of Spain to another four-year term. Re-elected Anita DeFrantz of the United States to a four-year term on the 11-person executive board. Elected Marc Hodler of Switzerland, president of the international ski federation, vice president. Elected Keba Mbaye of Senegal to the executive board for one year.SoccerWichita Wings (NPSL) -- Re-signed F Chico Borja and G Nat Gonzalez to one-year deals and G Kris Peat to a two-year deal.

A Baltimore police sergeant was indicted Wednesday on charges of misconduct and violating state wiretap statutes for secretly recording a conversation with a judge, the city State's Attorney's Office announced. Sgt. Carlos M. Vila, who has served on the executive board of the Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police, is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges Oct. 10. He could not be reached for comment Wednesday. According to the state's attorney's office, he recorded part of an April telephone conversation with Maryland District Court Judge Joan B. Gordon without her knowledge and played it a month later at the Southeast District Police Station.

Dennis L. Yeagle, director of job services for the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation and longtime volunteer firefighter, died of a heart attack Monday at his Lutherville home. He was 57. Mr. Yeagle was born in Baltimore and raised in Timonium. He was a 1964 graduate of Dulaney High School and earned his bachelor's degree in political science in 1968 from the University of Maryland. Mr. Yeagle, who began working for the state in 1970, also served six years in the Maryland National Guard.

Name: Dana YooSchool: Mount Hebron High SchoolHome: Ellicott CityAge: 17Accomplishments: She is president of the Student Government Association and co-founder of Junior States of America at her school. She acts as a student liaison for the PTSA executive board and sits on the executive board of the Howard County Association of Student Councils. She is active on the Human Relations Committee and Class Board, and in the National Honor Society.She also is involved in the Red Cross blood and canned-food drives, and the Adopt-A-Highway program.

Harford Memorial elects Arfaa staff presidentDr. H. A. Arfaa, president-elect of the Harford County Medical Association, was elected president of the medical staff at Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace. He also was named chairman of the medical executive committee at Harford Memorial and is a member of the board of directors of the Upper Chesapeake Health System.He also is a representative of the Harford County Medical Association Legislative Committee of Med Chi in Annapolis.Dr.

Carol M. Herndon, a longtime volunteer and advocate for the developmentally disabled, died Sept. 8 of complications from cancer at PowerBack Rehabilitation in Lutherville. She was 82. The daughter of a surgeon and a homemaker, Carol Mae Smith was born and raised in Norfolk, Va. She was a 1947 graduate of the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and earned a bachelor's degree in 1951 from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Mass. After spending a year in France on a Fulbright scholarship, Mrs. Herndon studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.

A Baltimore police sergeant was indicted Wednesday on charges of misconduct and violating state wiretap statutes for secretly recording a conversation with a judge, the city State's Attorney's Office announced. Sgt. Carlos M. Vila, who has served on the executive board of the Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police, is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges Oct. 10. He could not be reached for comment Wednesday. According to the state's attorney's office, he recorded part of an April telephone conversation with Maryland District Court Judge Joan B. Gordon without her knowledge and played it a month later at the Southeast District Police Station.

When ESPN's cameras broadcast NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA head honcho DeMaurice Smith -- who were flanked by a group of players and owners that included Ravens cornerback Domonique Foxworth -- as they held a press conference that officially declared the end of the lockout, I grabbed my voice recorder and held it up to the television in case Foxworth said something of note for our serious Ravens reporters. Instead, Foxworth gave reporters a silly sound bite that only made sense for this blog.

Barbara S. Dannettel, a former Comcast public relations director who later was on the board of Stevenson University, died Dec. 13 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The Sparks resident was 69. Barbara Smith, the daughter of an engineer and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised in Guilford. She was a 1959 graduate of the old Mount St. Agnes High School in Mount Washington. She earned an associate's degree from what was then Villa Julie College in Stevenson, and a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1984 from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.

WASHINGTON -- Paul D. Wolfowitz's chances of remaining World Bank president grew more uncertain yesterday after the governing board for the multinational aid agency expanded its probe into his role in a job promotion and pay raise his girlfriend received. The bank's 24-member executive board, which could oust Wolfowitz, expressed "great concern" about the controversy and created its second "ad hoc group" to look into the matter. The first one, which reported earlier this month, served as an information-gathering panel.

WASHINGTON -- Paul D. Wolfowitz, while serving as deputy secretary of defense, personally recommended that Shaha Ali Riza, his female companion, be awarded a contract for travel to Iraq in 2003 to advise on setting up a new government, says a previously undisclosed inquiry by the Pentagon's inspector general. The inquiry, as described by a senior Pentagon official, concluded that there was no wrongdoing in Wolfowitz's role in the hiring of Riza by Science Applications International Corp.

A tentative agreement between Broadway producers and Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians has been announced in New York, ending, for the moment, the threat of a strike that could have closed nine Broadway musicals and kept 11 more from arriving this season.The agreement, announced Tuesday and subject to the approval of the executive board of the union and ratification by its members, is said to involve some reduction in the number of musicians that producers are required to hire for Broadway shows.

South Carroll High School seniors Kendra Pulis and Jeremy Wingate have been selected by the faculty as students of the month for October.Kendra is the daughter of Richard and Donna Pulis of Linton Springs. She is Varsity Club president, goalie of the 1994 varsity soccer team and member of the all-county and All-CMC first teams and all-state second team for soccer.A member of the National Honor Society, she has been on the executive board of the class of 1995 for four years and is involved in the Student Government Association and Students Against Drunk Driving.

The executive board of a union that represents about 10,000 state and university workers in Maryland has dismissed its executive director, but he is contesting the decision. Ron Bailey, executive director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 92 for the past two years, confirmed yesterday that the union's executive board voted not to renew his contract at a meeting Oct. 11. The contract expired Tuesday. Bailey said he will take the issue to arbitration because the board failed to honor a clause requiring that he be given 90 days' notice before termination.