Executive Committee

After a 14-month effort to revitalize a local branch of the NAACP, Carroll County has earned an official sanction from state leaders of the organization.Herbert H. Lindsey, state conference president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said Wednesday that he has put in motion a process "that will result in the reactivation of the dormant branch into a vital community service.""The executive committee of the Maryland State Conference has determined that the requirements have been met for revitalizing the Carroll County branch," Lindsey said.

Local delegate to speak to League of Women VotersThe Carroll County League of Women Voters will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Westminster branch library, 50 E. Main St.Republican Del. Nancy R. Stocksdale will discuss issues that may come up in the 2000 legislative session. The public is invited and prospective members, both men and women, are welcome.Information: Rosemary Hanger, 410-857-9445.County Democrats elect new executive committeeThe Carroll County Democratic Central Committee met Sept.

An excerpt from a Chicago Tribune editorial Monday: THERE were some stinging disappointments during Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright's recent talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. The main one was her failure to break the stubborn impasse between the two sides, which has left the Middle East peace process on life support.While meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Mrs. Albright scolded them for their failure to make the decisions needed to breathe life back into the peace process.

Hiring a chief executive to spearhead the Baltimore-Washington area's bid for the 2012 Olympics is taking longer than expected.Business and civic leaders knew it was ambitious but had hoped to fill the position by this month. They now say it may be the first of the year before someone is in place."We're still a long way from really having anyone come in as our CEO and president," said John Morton III, president of NationsBank Corp.'s Mid-Atlantic Banking Group, and volunteer chairman of the Washington-Baltimore Regional 2012 Coalition.

SMILES AND good wishes accompanied the election Saturday of Julian Bond as NAACP board chairman. But by making one of his first acts the reinstatement of a tainted executive committee member, Mr. Bond may have set back an organization still trying to restore public confidence.Many were surprised when Mr. Bond nonchalantly included James E. Ghee on his list of executive committee members. Mr. Ghee, a Farmville, Va., lawyer, was one of four board members with ethics problems asked to resign last year by the departing board chairwoman, Myrlie Evers-Williams.

EPIPHANY EPISCOPAL Church will hold its 18th annual rummage and bake sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the church grounds on Morgan Road off Route 175 in Odenton.Baked goods, toys, jewelry, books, clothing, household items and white elephants will be available, along with a boutique.The Epiphany cookbook and stationery also will be for sale.Hot dogs and lemonade will be on sale, and a wandering magician will entertain.Information: Dorothy Merritt, 410-674-2880, or Helen Donovan, 410-551-6187.

PeopleDr. Mary P. Hogan, a Columbia obstetrician and gynecologist in practice with Drs. Esposito, Mayer, Hogan & Associates P.A., has been elected president of the professional staff at Howard County General Hospital. She will oversee the hospital's nearly 600-member medical and dental staff, preside at executive committee meetings, serve as ex-officio member of clinical departments and medical staff committees and be a member of the hospital's board of trustees. She succeeds Catonsville neurosurgeon Dr. Charles J. Lancelotta, who served a one-year term.

What's the worst problem facing Baltimore children today? The question was posed to the Youth Executive Committee of the Safe and Sound campaign.Justin Brown, 16, says it's a shortage of nurturing parents or guardians. Anisha Downs, 17, says it's the absence of uniformly good public schools.Terrell Boston-Smith, 14, says it's so many poor sections, not far from affluent places such as the Inner Harbor and Guilford. Katrina M. Scott, 16, says it's low self-esteem of adolescents caused by adults portraying them as lost, without goals and drug-driven.

The Campaign for Hannah More School has received $110,000 from Alonzo G. Decker Jr., chairman of the executive committee of Black & Decker Corp. and honorary chairman of the capital campaign.The $4.3 million campaign is raising money for a new career and technology center, which is under construction, and for the addition of middle school and administrative wings. The career center will be named for Decker.Hannah More is an independent school with 100 middle and high school students who have severe emotional disabilities.

The United States will almost certainly not nominate a candidate for the 2008 Summer Olympics, but organizers of Baltimore's bid say they will remain in the running for 2012.The executive committee of the U.S. Olympic Committee voted unanimously yesterday not to pursue a bid for 2008, deferring to what officials said was the near certainty that another country would win.In addition to Baltimore, seven cities had applied to be host of the Games: Washington, Cincinnati, Seattle, Houston, New Orleans, New York and San Francisco.

More than two weeks after Maryland Republicans met behind closed doors and voted to express "no confidence" in leader James Pelura, the state GOP chairman insists he's not going anywhere. And, he says, he has the votes to ensure that he isn't forced out. "I am not resigning," Pelura declared in an interview. While the executive committee, made up of 30 statewide and county officers, voted against Pelura during a July meeting, the only way to remove the party chairman is by a two-thirds' vote of the much larger state convention.

The NFL Players Association is about to find out what it's like to go into high-stakes negotiations without Gene Upshaw. Upshaw carried the union fight for 25 years as its strong-willed executive director, participating in collective bargaining negotiations as far back as 1977. His death, from pancreatic cancer Wednesday, went shock waves through the NFL and left a leadership void in the union. "The new guy will have to do what he can, but he can't be Gene Upshaw," said Stan White, a former Baltimore Colt and long-time union activist.

The NAACP's national board is poised to select a new president and CEO. But a rift among members threatens to shake up the plans, as some complain they have been shut out of the process to choose a new leader for the Baltimore-based civil rights organization. Calling itself the "Leadership of Conscience," a group of about a dozen NAACP board members expressed its objections at the board's annual meeting in New York last weekend. During board elections, the group waged an unsuccessful effort to unseat Chairman Julian Bond.

Restaurant group chooses Kreuzburg Paula Kreuzburg has been named interim president by the executive committee of the Restaurant Association of Maryland's board of directors. An adviser to former President and Chief Executive Officer Marcia S. Harris, who died recently, Kreuzburg has been a member of the association's staff since 1997. She served as chairman of its board of directors in 1993 and 1994 while managing her family's restaurant, Mrs. K's Toll House, in Silver Spring. A search committee has been formed, and a national search firm will assist the committee in evaluating candidates to fill the position.

Members of the Anne Arundel County chapter of the NAACP moved closer to ousting the group's leader last night, circulating a petition at the monthly meeting asking for his resignation. Already faced with a no-confidence vote by the chapter's executive committee, Wayne Jearld, in office since January, has previously vowed to hang on to the post for the rest of his two-year term. In a letter drafted last week, members of the executive committee listed more than a dozen examples of Jearld pointedly criticizing board members and other community leaders.

The president and chief executive officer of Associated Black Charities has quit after being threatened with firing, just 18 months since he took over the leadership at the Baltimore-based social services agency, according to internal memos. Gary Officer resigned July 13, said board Chairman Nathaniel E. Jones Jr., who insisted yesterday that Officer "was not asked to resign" and that the departure was voluntary. But documents obtained by The Sun reveal that Jones demanded Officer either quit or face a termination vote by the full board of directors.

Malcolm Delaney, who has transferred from McDonogh to Towson Catholic, has received a waiver from the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association, making him eligible to play basketball this season. Delaney, who started in the sport as a freshman at McDonogh last winter and also played football, received the waiver from the MIAA's executive committee after his appeal was heard Wednesday night. MIAA rules stipulate that a student-athlete who transfers within the 28 private high schools that constitute the association, as Delaney did, must sit out sports for one year unless he receives an exemption.

Two nationally known members of Boston University's board of trustees have resigned amid the crisis gripping the university over whether Daniel S. Goldin will be allowed to take the president's office. Kenneth Feld, owner of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, a founder of the Hollywood studio DreamWorks SKG, both resigned last week, BU confirmed yesterday. The two were among the highest-profile members of the board and represented some of its deepest pockets.

The Maryland Republican Party's executive committee voted yesterday to sever ties with a Hispanic group headed by Jorge Ribas, a Montgomery County veterinarian who had rankled party leaders with his criticism that the Ehrlich administration had failed to name enough Hispanics to high-level positions. Eric M. Sutton, executive director of the Maryland Republican Party, said committee members voted unanimously to back a rival Hispanic Republican organization that is to be headed on an interim basis by Luis Borunda, a Baltimore County sign company owner.

The board of the Ford Foundation, one of the country's largest private charitable foundations, has decided to keep its chairman despite allegations by federal regulators that he participated in an accounting fraud when he was chairman and chief executive of Xerox Corp. The decision came after the chairman, Paul A. Allaire, agreed to pay a $1 million penalty and forfeit $7.6 million in bonus pay and gains made on stock sales at Xerox and interest on those sums. He was also barred from serving as a director of a public corporation for five years as part of the settlement reached last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which said he and five other Xerox executives allowed the company to overstate its profits by $1.4 billion over four years.