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Each of the 860 students at Mount Airy Elementary wore decorated patriotic T-shirts Monday to mark building supervisor Mike Winand's return home from Saudi Arabia.Students colored transfers with fabric crayons, which were ironed into the shirts by parent volunteers.In other school news:* The Maryland State Police demonstratedfor fifth-graders the use of drug-locating dogs at Westminster Elementary Monday.* Gail Coppersmith, Ivy Allgeier and William Pearre's first-grade classes at Westminster Elementary visited the Carroll County Public Library yesterday.

On July 1, 2004, STEVEN H. SZYMAN; devoted husband of Gail (Jones) Szyman; beloved father of Brandon J. and Ian M. Szyman; son of James Szyman and the late Sondra (Adelberg) Szyman Magidoff; brother of Lawrence Magidoff and Donna J. Ray. Also survived by a grandmother Lorraine Adelberg. Funeral Service will be held 10:30 A.M., Tuesday, July 6, 2004 at J. J. Hartenstein Mortuary, Inc., 24 Second Street, New Freedom, PA. Interment in Bowser's Cemetery, New Freedom. Friends may call at the mortuary on Monday, July 5 from 7 to 9 P.M.

Face it, Gail and Robert Daniels were not members of the Internet generation and did not care to be. You want to explore the world, slap on a trailer hitch and hit the road. Who needed a computer? "Our daughter had a computer at her house," explained Gail, "so we kept putting it off." But the Brave New World calls everyone at some point, it seems, and on June 14, the Danielses' call came. Unbeknownst to Gail, 10,000 miles away from their modest home in Pasadena, somebody with a computer had scattered a flurry of e-mails abroad, quietly zeroing in on their private past.

Suddenly, on October 4, 2005, THOMAS SCHENUIT TRAVERS; beloved husband of Tracy Lynn Robinson-Travers; devoted father of Thomas Schenuit Travers, Jr., Ryan Grady Travers, Autumn Gail Travers and Trayton Slater Travers; loving son of Oliver S. and Mary Jean Travers (nee Schneuit); dear brother of Robert Slater Travers, Jean Marie Goodwin and Joan Elizabeth Ottenritter. The family will receive friends at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc., 1050 York Rd., (beltway exit 26A) on Thursday from 4 to 6 P.M. A Memorial Service will be held at St. Johns Episcopal Church in Butler on Friday, 11 A.M. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Thomas Schenuit Travers, Scholarship Fund of Boys Latin School, 822 W. Lake Ave., Baltimore, MD 21210.

Gail Goldsmith was so afraid that she violated her Jewish beliefs and picked up the telephone on the Sabbath to call 911. Her husband had just used their 2-year-old daughter as a weapon to beat her, according to an account she gave police, and the child was bleeding from a wound on her right forearm. At an emergency hearing in Baltimore Circuit Court yesterday, Jason Goldsmith, 38, was ordered held without bail. He is charged with first-degree assault and second-degree child abuse in the June 30 incident at the family's home in Northwest Baltimore.

I'VE HEARD that good things come to those who wait. The adage proved true for a lifelong Glen Burnie resident who also happens to be my sister. When Gail Ehrlich (then Gail Koros) took a cruise with friends in 1979, she knew what she'd be coming home with -- a great tan and some terrific memories. But she had no idea what she'd be leaving behind.While jumping the waves that lapped onto Bermuda's pink sand beach, she felt her school ring slip from her finger. Maybe it was the thrust of the water or maybe it was the lubrication from the suntan oil, but the ring was gone.

OYSTERBACK, Maryland -- Everyone's got someone in their life like Sailor. He is one of those hard-luck cases without a mean bone in their bodies, the ones who have no luck at all, mostly because they can't leave the booze or the drugs alone.Guys like Sailor, you always end up rescuing from themselves, but it never makes any nevermind. These guys can't help themselves; they'll be all right for a long time, then they'll go on a massive bender for three, four, five days, a real toot! Even when they're high as kites, they're never mean; they're just so happy to be there that it can break your heart.

Baltimore's own costume-gal-to-the-stars is off to Gay Paree -- by way of London. Catherine Incaprera is wrapping up her work as costume supervisor of the Civil War prequel to Gettysburg -- Gods and Generals -- which is finishing its shoot in Maryland. Then she'll be checking out fall fashion shows in London and doing more research for her next project as assistant costume designer for the next Merchant / Ivory pic. Catherine says it's an as-yet-untitled "contemporary light comedy" starring Meryl Streep and Natalie Portman that begins filming mid-March in Paris.

Gail Siemer seems too nice to be throwing elbows around on the basketball court and snapping a little angrily at her Chesapeake-AA coach for some picks to help set her free from the double- and triple-teams she faces every game."

Some 800 to 1,000 of Baltimore's beautiful twenty- to fortysomething-year-olds turned out at the Meyerhoff last weekend for the BSO's "Symphony Rocks." The evening began with a concert that featured Mayor Martin O'Malley and Ravens kicker Matt Stover as guest "conductors." Later, guests could take a shot at conducting themselves, with a virtual conducting computer game that was one of several entertainment stations set up in the lobby during the party afterward. This wasn't a fund-raiser, notes event chair Sharon Nevins, but more of a friend-raiser.