Gaudreau

Margaret V. Gaudreau, a retired organist at Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church in Towson, died of an infection Saturday at Charlestown Retirement Community. She was 89. Born Margaret Vaillant in Fitchburg, Mass., she was a 1938 graduate of Vassar College, where she majored in piano composition and performance. At age 12, she began accompanying her father, who sang on a Boston radio station. She moved to Baltimore nearly 65 years ago to teach music at Garrison Forest School. In 1940, she married architect Paul L. Gaudreau.

On December 17, 2005, MARGARETVAILLANT GAUDREAU, a resident of Charlestown Retirement Community; devoted wife of the late Paul L. Gaudreau; beloved mother of Margaret G. Sullivan and John V. Gaudreau; grandmother of Kathleen E. and Megan V. Sullivan, Kristin and Laura Gaudreau and Sean Mc Monigle; special great-grandmother of Gabriel and Cyrus Berger and Oscar Walter. Friends may call at the family owned Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home Inc., 6500 York Road (at Overbrook Road), on Monday, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. at Our Lady of the Angels Chapel, Charlestown, on Tuesday, December 20 from 10 A.M. to 11 A.M., at which time, a Funeral Mass will offered.

Neither rain nor lightning delay nor tough Severn defense could stop No. 5 St. Mary's from winning the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A1 Conference lacrosse championship last night at Johns Hopkins Homewood Field. Kelly Gaudreau scored the game-winner with six minutes left to lead the Saints over their Anne Arundel county rivals, the No. 4 Admirals, 7-6. The game that was tied four times proved a fitting close to a season in which more than half of the A1 Conference games were decided by a single goal.

BOYS PLAYER OF THE YEAR Andrew Gaudreau St. Mary's, senior Four years ago, Gaudreau's high school career began with a fortuitous twist. Slated to be the Saints' No. 2 singles player, Gaudreau was promoted to the top singles position when Alabama-bound Millie Begovic underwent surgery to repair an injured wrist. Since then, Gaudreau hasn't looked back in compiling a 46-0 record in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association's B Conference. He went 13-0 this season and became the league's first player to win four consecutive conference championships.

Andrew Gaudreau had trouble sleeping Thursday night, but who wouldn't, knowing that the next day a tennis victory could place you among your school's most elite athletes? The St. Mary's senior finished off four years of league play with a 44-0 record by defeating Beth Tfiloh's Ben Friedman in straight sets at yesterday's Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association's B Conference individual championships. His 6-4, 6-4 win was his third ever against Friedman, who led 2-1 in the first set and never trailed by more than two games.

St. Mary's senior Kristen Gaudreau found herself all alone at the far post in the first half yesterday against visiting Garrison Forest, and she pounced on the chance to give the No. 7-ranked Saints an early lead.For the No. 5 Grizzlies, who spent significant time inside St. Mary's scoring circle, a chance like that never came.Instead, company was always nearby as the Saints' defense denied and denied some more, protecting a lead that would turn into a well-earned, 1-0 win.St. Mary's improved to 9-2-3 overall and remained unbeaten in the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland's Applebee Division with a 3-0-1 mark.

Kristen Gaudreau scored twice, on assists from Kelly Busick and Jamie McGraw, and the ninth-ranked St. Mary's field hockey team upset second-ranked and host Severna Park last night, 2-1.The Saints' defense shut down the Falcons' Erin Shaklee, Anne Arundel County's leading scorer.St. Mary's improved to 8-2-2, and Severna Park slipped to 11-2."We just played really, really awesome hockey tonight. We connected on our passes and didn't give up at all," said ninth-year Saints coach Patti Lavell.

Paul L. Gaudreau, the former president of a Baltimore architectural firm who spent the past two decades working with students with special needs, died of cancer Sunday at Charlestown Retirement Community, where he had lived since 1992. He was 81.The former Ruxton resident retired in 1975 from Gaudreau Inc., an architectural firm founded on North Charles Street in 1932 by VTC his father, Lucien E. D. Gaudreau. The firm designed many area churches, schools and government buildings."There are two things that he was most proud of -- the Loyola College Chapel, which is contemporary Gothic designed in the neoclassic style, and his work designing the renovations at St. Elizabeth School," said his brother, William L. Gaudreau Sr., president of Gaudreau Inc. "The Loyola College Chapel was described in 1949 at its dedication as being a 'prayer in stone.

Now it's more than 40 years later and Bill Gaudreau, president of a Baltimore architectural firm involved in diversified projects all over the country, is able to evaluate objectively what making a decision to enroll at Notre Dame meant to him in shaping his career and his life.Gaudreau hadn't planned attending Notre Dame and only went there to visit at the urging of Ed Hargaden, his coach at Loyola High School, who wrote a letter of recommendation. The Naval Academy, Maryland and Columbia, among others, were interested in this standout young quarterback and vigorously recruited him.His preference was Columbia.