Garrison Forest School

Submit announcements regarding H.S. sports To submit an announcement, E-mail sports@baltimoresun.com. The announcement must include a valid E-mail address and phone number for verification. Coaching [ Garrison Forest School is seeking a qualified candidate to fill the position of varsity girls lacrosse coach for Spring 2005. Prior coaching/playing experience is required. Send resume and references to: Kim Chorosiewski, Director of Athletics, Garrison Forest School, Owings Mills, Md. 21117.

Marianne Bodenheimer, a retired teacher of foreign languages at area private schools, died of heart and lung failure Sunday at a retirement community in Hightstown, N.J. She was 93. She was born and raised Marianne Schmidt in Nuremberg, Germany, and earned a doctorate in romance languages from the University of Munich in 1936. Dr. Bodenheimer fled the Nazis and settled in Baltimore in 1938. In 1942, she married Alfred Bodenheimer, a Johns Hopkins Hospital laboratory assistant. He died in 1966.

The National Merit Scholarship Corp. has announced the semifinalists for this year's National Merit Scholarship Program, 43 of whom are students from schools in Baltimore County. The Towson area had the most semifinalists with 16: Michael P. Benz and Gregory J. Bittle from Calvert Hall College High School; Anna Gorovoy, Kate A. Poole and Zachary M. Wilson from the Carver Center for Arts and Technology; Bernard J. Arnest from Loch Raven High School; Nicholas P. Ackerman, Timothy J. Aucott, Zachary S. Nevin and Robert C. Utz from Loyola Blakefield High School; and Thomas D. Beckwith, Rebecca R. Borsetti, Krista L. Gray, David R. Kreis, David K. Romney and Elena M. Vanko from Towson High School.

In Baltimore County Tractor-trailer crash kills driver, snarls evening I-95 commute ARBUTUS - The driver of a tractor-trailer was crushed to death yesterday when his rig jack-knifed, struck a car and tipped over into a ditch, turning the evening rush hour into a nightmare for motorists caught in the ensuing traffic jam as police shut down portions of Interstate 95 near Arbutus. The driver of the car, John T. Clendenin, 40, of Bowie, said last night he heard a loud boom and saw the tractor-trailer coming toward his Honda Accord in the southbound lanes below the juncture at Interstate 195. "I knew we were going to collide," he said.

Saying that drinking has become so prevalent it's almost a rite of passage for Baltimore-area teens - one condoned by some parents - the leaders of nine prominent private schools have launched a wide-ranging campaign against alcohol and drugs. In an unusual show of unity, the leaders of the Gilman School, the Bryn Mawr School, St. Paul's School and other schools say they want to change a weekend culture in which drinking, drug use and rowdy partying have become all too common. They are challenging parents to prohibit the use of alcohol by their children and to stop providing havens for teen-agers to drink.

When Nancy Laufe Eisenberg came to Baltimore two years ago to head St. Paul's School for Girls, it seemed to her that an important piece was missing at the private day school. Though it had long been affiliated with Old St. Paul's Episcopal Church in downtown Baltimore, the school had never had its own chaplain. But that changed this school year, when Eisenberg named not one, but two women to share the new office of chaplaincy. Nicki Magee Ridenour, a longtime religion teacher, and Caroline R. Stewart, a newly hired educator with a degree in pastoral and spiritual care, were installed at the end of last month as the first two chaplains in the school's history, which can be traced to 1799.

Kim Rehman says it is costing her "a small fortune" to buy two sets of textbooks for her daughter, Amber, a 10th-grader at Garrison Forest School. But it's less expensive to buy duplicates than to take her daughter to a doctor or physical therapist frequently because of muscle spasms. The Rehmans, who live in Owings Mills, blame the weight of Amber's backpack - nearly 30 pounds of books and belongings - for the back pain that she has experienced since sixth grade. "It was too much weight for her to carry around," Rehman said.

When the girls entered the room and saw the man wearing thick padding to protect his groin, they laughed nervously. Their laughter subsided almost immediately, however, when instructor Donna Chaiet slammed her kneecap hard into the man and yelled, "No." Chaiet and her partner, Dave Ayala, the man in the bulky, diaper-like protection, had a message for the girls of private Garrison Forest School yesterday - and it didn't have anything to do with polite mixers or the varsity polo team. "You can all deliver a knockout blow to an adult male," Chaiet told a group of eighth-graders, one of three classes participating in a week-long self-defense and confidence-building course at the school in Owings Mills.