Farmville

Washington. -- Tuesday I got a $10 million shock that reminded me just how indelible the passions of racial prejudice are in America. I read that a 76-year-old Georgia tycoon, J.B. Fuqua, had donated ten million bucks to ''bring people together'' in racially traumatized Prince Edward County, Virginia.My astonishment was that Mr. Fuqua gave the money to the Prince Edward Academy, a veritable social cancer for two generations. He gave a fortune to a little private academy that symbolizes the ultimate in white resistance to Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court decision that outlawed racial segregation in public schools!

A memorial service for Princess Cross Tanner of Severna Park will take place 7:30 p.m. today at the Barranco Funeral Home in Severna Park.Mrs. Tanner, 76, died Aug. 20 at North Arundel Hospital of cardiac arrest.The Virginia native lived locally for 34 years and was a charter member of the Anne Arundel Genealogical Society. She also belonged tothe Fort Severn Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution and the William H. Murray Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Eugenia M. Nesbitt, a retired registered nurse and longtime Catonsville resident, died of heart failure Jan. 3 at Charlestown Retirement Community. She was 90. Eugenia Cameron McClung was born and raised in Lexington, Va. She attended what was then Longwood College in Farmville, Va., before entering the old Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, and graduated in 1938. She worked as a pediatric nurse for several years at Hopkins before contracting pulmonary tuberculosis. After recovering at a sanatorium at Saranac Lake, N.Y., she resumed her career in 1940 in pediatric nursing at Union Memorial Hospital.

Caitlyn McFadden scored six goals as the No. 2 Maryland women rallied from a first-half deficit to drop host and No. 18 Penn State, 17-9. The Terps (2-0) trailed by three halfway through the game but scored 14 second-half goals, including four from McFadden. Maryland opened the second half with 11 unanswered goals, beginning with Laura Merrifield 's unassisted score with nine seconds elapsed. McFadden, Lacrosse Magazine's National Preseason Player of the Year, tied the score with two goals, and Brandi Jones found the net to give Maryland the lead with 27:01 remaining.

Charles Stokes, a retired oil company salesman and the oldest living alumnus of St. Paul's School, died Thursday of complications from a fall at Glen Meadows Retirement Community in Glen Arm. He was 88.Born in Farmville, Va., Mr. Stokes was sent to Baltimore by his parents to study as a boarder at St. Paul's School, then on Franklin Street, where Tio Pepe's restaurant is today.In 1923, the school moved to Mount Washington, and Mr. Stokes was a member of the school's first accredited class that graduated in 1927.

College soccer scholarships in Anne Arundel County are rare, even at schools like Chesapeake, which has a rich tradition in the sport. So, when the Cougars' Chris Saul signed a national letter of intent two weeks ago to accept a full Division I scholarship to Longwood University in Farmville, Va., it was noteworthy. Saul is just the third Chesapeake soccer player to receive a Division I scholarship. A two-time second-team All-State forward, Saul scored six goals and had eight assists to finish his three-year varsity career with 23 goals and 18 assists.

Maggalean G. Henson, 62, mortician, business owner Maggalean Gilmore Henson, a Baltimore mortician and former District Court commissioner, died of cancer Saturday at her Northwest Baltimore home. She was 62. A native of Conecuh County, Ala., she came to Baltimore as a child and was raised on East Biddle Street. She was a 1958 graduate of Dunbar High School, and earned a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1964 from what is now Morgan State University. She later earned a degree in mortuary science from then-Catonsville Community College, and began her career in the late 1970s as an apprentice and mortician working for the Carlton C. Douglass and March funeral homes.

While many have persuasively argued that the fiscal cliff defense cuts would hurt innovation and slow our economic recovery, few offer concrete examples of how these catastrophic cuts would endanger our national security. Iran's drive to acquire nuclear weapons provides the perfect example. Intent on testing America's resolve to stop its nuclear program, Iran will accelerate its uranium enrichment if the U.S. cannot credibly threaten to use military force. Cutting warships, fighter jets, intelligence technologies, and other critical capabilities - as would happen if we go over the fiscal cliff - would encourage Iran to run out the diplomatic clock until it has built a nuclear ballistic missile.

Sylvia L. Hennessey, a former bookkeeper and volunteer, died of ovarian cancer July 24 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The longtime Bel Air resident was 65. Sylvia Campbell was born and raised in Lenoir, N.C. She was a 1961 graduate of Lenoir High School and earned a bachelor's degree in English from Longwood College in Farmville, Va., in 1965. During the 1960s, she taught high school in Richmond, Va. After moving to Bel Air in the early 1970s, she became secretary and treasurer of Albert Gunther Inc., a hardware supplier.

A memorial service for the Rev. Jesse Woodrow Myers, a professor emeritus at Montgomery Community College who also had served as chaplain at the University of Maryland, will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church, 611 Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd., Severna Park.Dr. Myers, who was 74, died Monday at his home in Arnold after a lengthy illness.He retired in 1987 after serving as director of humanities, director of educational resources and professor of psychology at the college.