Fathers And Sons

The two coaches sat together under the shade of UMBC's Stadium Complex. The coaches, men with more than 60 years of experience between them, occasionally glanced down at the women's lacrosse practice in motion, talking to pass the time. The reality is that Pete Caringi II, UMBC's soccer coach, and Don Zimmerman, the school's lacrosse coach, share more in common than a profession. Both men have earned their reputations through the respected programs they have built, through the wins and championships they have achieved and the countless number of athletes they have coached.

Federal investigators began examining Monday the wreckage of a two-seater, home-built airplane that crashed Sunday in Virginia, killing a man from Davidsonville and his son from Westminster, the father of 10 children. On Saturday, experimental airplane owner and pilot Barry Raymond Newgent, 73, and his passenger and son, Thomas Barry Newgent, 51, were bound for the Virginia Regional Festival of Flight, a weekend air show. The other small airplanes in a group of four traveling from Maryland arrived safely.

Tim Russert, host of NBC's Meet the Press, has agreed to terms with Miramax Books for a memoir about "fathers and sons." Russert's representative, Washington attorney Bob Barnett, said about 10 publishers competed for the book. Financial terms were not disclosed, but a source close to the negotiations said the deal was worth about $3 million. Barnett's other clients include former President Clinton, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, whose memoirs will be published by Miramax next year.

This NFL offseason represents the 10-year anniversary of the inception of the "Rooney Rule. " The rule, named after Pittsburgh Steelers' Chairman Dan Rooney, requires teams to interview minority candidates for all head coaching and senior football operation positions. Initially, the rule showed some signs of success, but the coaching moves from this offseason have even Dan Rooney's son, Steelers' President Art Rooney II, wondering "whether we are really reviewing minority coaches in a satisfactory manner.

AND SO, Father's Day rolls around again, a day that has always held a special significance for me and, until a few years ago, for Tom Francis Richissin, my dad. My father died a bit more than six years ago, when I was 31. He was a pretty good father. He coached his sons in baseball, football and basketball. He was a police officer, an honest one, a man of integrity. He put food on the table and kept enough order in a chaotic house that my four brothers and I were expected to be home to eat supper together, as a family.

(Ivan Turgenev)(1818-1883)A Russian novelist, Turgenev sat on the editorial board of the newspaper the Contemporary.For his 1860 novel "On the Eve," he was accused of plagiarism. He demanded that three literary men judge the case, and he was cleared of the charge.His book "Fathers and Sons" was also surrounded in controversy and caused Turgenev to leave Russia. He retaliated in part with "Smoke."Turgenev's last attempt at a novel was "Virgin Soil," which also met with much criticism.-- Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia

"Fathers and Sons," essays by Todd Richissin, photographs by Jim Graham (Running Press, 144 pages, $27.50) What could be more appropriate for Father'd Day -- to give or get -- than this enchanting, joyful, painful, redeeming and provocative collection of tone poems to the intricate relationships between fathers and son? Todd Richissin is a Sun reporter and a colleague about whom I offer not even the pretense of objectivity. Marvelous, moving photographs by Jim Graham illustrate and amplify his interview/essay/reflection pieces on 30 fathers - many justly famous and others superbly ordinary - and a great number of their sons.

The friction between fathers and sons is a frequent theme in Arthur Miller's plays, and beginning tomorrow, a real-life father and son will square off in Paragon Theatre's production of Miller's 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Death of a Salesman. Herman Kemper plays the weary, troubled title character, Willy Loman; Greg Kemper plays his son, Biff, and ML Grout is Willy's wife, Linda. Rounding out the cast are Maria-Helena Diaz, Chris Graybill, Leo Knight, Dave Manning and Mark Poremba.

A GOOD MAN: FATHERS AND SONS IN POETRY AND PROSEEdited by Irv BroughtonBallantine Books280 pages. $20Virginia Woolf once said that a woman writing thinks back through her mothers. The observation may be true but only to an extent. A woman writing -- like a man writing -- thinks back through her mothers, her fathers, her sisters, her brothers, all her literary forebears."A Good Man: Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose" is predicated on a belief similar to Virginia Woolf's: that a man writing thinks back through his fathers.

In the title essay of his book ''Fathers Playing Catch with Sons,'' the poet Donald Hall writes:''Baseball is fathers and sons . . . the generations, looping backward forever with a million apparitions of sticks and balls. . . . Baseball is fathers and sons playing catch, lazy and murderous, wild and controlled, the profound archaic song of birth, growth, age and death. This diamond encircles what we are . . . joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.''Yeah, yeah. And what about the daughters, bub?

The two coaches sat together under the shade of UMBC's Stadium Complex. The coaches, men with more than 60 years of experience between them, occasionally glanced down at the women's lacrosse practice in motion, talking to pass the time. The reality is that Pete Caringi II, UMBC's soccer coach, and Don Zimmerman, the school's lacrosse coach, share more in common than a profession. Both men have earned their reputations through the respected programs they have built, through the wins and championships they have achieved and the countless number of athletes they have coached.

Owings Mills ophthalmologist Marc Honig and his son, Evan, could have simply donated some money to help the disadvantaged in Honduras. They could have collected some old eyeglasses, or solicited their colleagues and fellow students for help, or tried to convince big corporations to hand over cash and equipment. In fact, they've done all of that — and more. This weekend, the Honigs are beginning a week-long stay at a makeshift medical clinic in a small Honduran village. They and some 40 other doctors and students will volunteer their time, screening and treating thousands of villagers from the surrounding area, bringing healing to a corner of the world desperately in need.

Autopsies showed that deaths of a father and his two teenage sons found in a Kent County manure pit Thursday were accidental. Maryland State Police said Glen W. Nolt, 48, Kelvin R. Nolt, 18, and Cleason S. Nolt, 14, all of Peach Bottom, Pa., died of suffocation during a farming accident. Their bodies were recovered from a pond of liquid manure at Centerdel Farm, a 200-acre dairy farm in the 12000 block of Vansant Corner Road in Kennedyville. Multiple injuries contributed to Cleason Nolt's death, police said.

Mike Dodson will be following a family tradition when he enlists next month in the U.S. Navy. His grandfather, James Dodson, served in the Navy during World War II. His uncle, James Jr., was on a Navy ship that was part of the blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Last weekend, Dodson and his father, Steve, carried on another tradition - fishing together in the Maryland Saltwater Sportfishermen's Association's Chesapeake Bay Fall Classic. Steve Dodson, 52, figured it would be the last time they fished in a tournament together before his 21-year-old son left to pursue a military career.

John David Hiteshew Sr. and John David Hiteshew Jr. — both known as David — spent four years walking and exploring hundreds of miles of Maryland railroad trackage to document the industrial infrastructure and physical characteristics of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the nation's first common-carrier railroad, which began building westward from Baltimore in 1827. They were armed with walking shoes, notepads and a digital camera used to photograph trackage, alignments, curves, grades, tunnels, culverts, bridges — both stone and steel — yards, signals and wayside structures affiliated with the railroad.

Nicholas Walters never served in the military, but he was indelibly shaped by the stories he heard from his father, Sanford Walters, a Towson resident who served in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970 as a U.S. Army lieutenant. "He's someone who has always been committed to the veterans," Nicholas said of his dad. "It doesn't matter how old I get, he's someone I'm always going to look up to and respect his opinion and experience. " It troubled Nicholas to hear about the treatment his father got when he returned home and re-entered civilian life during those tumultuous times in the early 1970s.

WASHINGTON -- Larry Hogan says that when he was sworn in as a member of Congress for the first time, he turned to his 12-year-old son standing next to him on the House floor and said, "You raise your hand and take the oath. That way, we'll get two congressmen."More than a quarter-century after that ceremony, the two Hogans are trying to turn that fantasy into reality. Mr. Hogan and his son, Larry J. Hogan Jr., now 37, could be taking the oath side-by-side as Republican members of the House in January 1995, though it would take a couple of upset victories to put them there.

Yeats, an Irishman himself, said it best: "The worst are full of passionate intensity." So it was in 1974 when the worst of the Irish -- IRA terrorists -- detonated a bomb in a British pub killing five people. And so it was that the worst of the English -- the Security Services -- reacted savagely with laws suppressing individual rights, which permitted them to sweep up in a sloppy but vast net virtually anyone with a brogue.One such was a flaky youth named Gerry Conlon, then 20, a Belfast refugee who was quickly browbeaten into confession and spent the next 15 years in dismal British prisons.

Heading home after a tough day at work, Jeremy Haugh is beat — too tired, he knows, to run. Someone else has other ideas. Routinely, Haugh said, as he pulls his SUV into the driveway of the family's home in Charlottesville, Va., 8-year-old Jeremiah awaits, on the porch, flapping his arms excitedly in the air. That's the best he can do to tell his father he's ready to go. Haugh shrugs, smiles and hugs his son. Moments later, having changed...

Milton Tillman Jr. and his namesake son, who co-ran Four Aces Bail Bonds in Baltimore, will be sentenced Friday in federal court for tax fraud, after a judge last week denied their request for a delay. Prosecutors plan to request a 51-month prison term for the elder Tillman, according to a plea agreement, and a year-long term for the younger man, to be served through community-based detention so he can keep the bail bonds company running. Both men pleaded guilty in December, with Tillman Jr. admitting to filing a false tax return, wire fraud and unlawfully engaging in the insurance industry, while Milton Tillman III pleaded guilty to one count of failing to file a tax return.