Gibson Island

Rescue workers searched Monday for a 27-year-old man from Philadelphia who fell off a sailboat near Gibson Island during an afternoon squall. According to Sgt. Brian Albert, public information officer for the Maryland Natural Resources Police, emergency workers responded to a call shortly after 1 p.m. Monday about a man missing in the waters off Gibson Island and searched for him until 8:30 p.m. Albert identified the missing boater as Jason...

Del. Steve Schuh was elected Friday to chair the Anne Arundel County delegation to the General Assembly. Schuh, a Republican from Gibson Island who is also a candidate for county executive, takes over from Del. Nic Kipke, a Pasadena Republican. Kipke was named House minority leader.

Before the first witness could be called, a trial focusing on allegations of housing discrimination at Gibson Island was halted yesterdaywhen a tentative settlement was reached.Attorneys in the case yesterday refused to discuss details of the deal, saying it will not befinal until today. Officers of the Gibson Island Corp., the organization that bought the island 50 years ago for $150,000, were to meet last night to approve the settlement, the group's attorney said.The plaintiffs in the case -- white residents alleging a "subtle but extremely effective" system of discrimination against minorities at the private enclave -- said the settlement will allow all propertyowners to use the pool, golf course, marina and other facilities rented to the Gibson Island Club.

Rescue workers planned to continue searching waters near Gibson Island in Anne Arundel County on Wednesday for a missing man who was tossed from a boat in the area during a squall Monday, according to a Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police spokesman. The man, identified as Jason Wesley Ryman, 27, of the Philadelphia area, was on a sailboat with three others when the squall caused the boat to tip, said Sgt. Brian Albert, the spokesman. Ryman and his girlfriend were both thrown from the boat, Albert said.

A Pasadena man apparently drowned yesterday after jumping from his powerboat to swim in Main Creek near Gibson Island, said a spokesman for the state Natural Resources Police.David A. McPherson, 41, of the 8100 block of Forest Glen Drive, was returning home from a party about 3: 45 a.m. when he decided to go for a swim in the creek, a tributary of the Patapsco River, said NRP spokesman Richard McIntire. McPherson jumped into the nearly 10-foot-deep water and failed to surface, he said.Three other people on board could not operate the boat and drifted for some time before they reached a pier and asked the occupants of a house to call police, McIntire said.

A judge yesterday cleared the way for a trial centering on three white Gibson Island residents' allegations of systematic racial discrimination at the private enclave.The residents, alleging a "subtle but extremely effective" system of racial discrimination in housing atthe bay-front community, are pursuing a legal tack known as a "derivative suit." In such a suit, a shareholder sues on behalf of the corporation, charging its officers with breaking the law.In this case, the residents, who, as property owners, are shareholders in the Gibson Island Corp.

A county judge has ordered the parties in a dispute over alleged racial discrimination at Gibson Island back to the negotiating table.The order, issued yesterday by Circuit Judge James C. Cawood Jr., comes two weeks after lawyers for the officials from Gibson Island's community association went to court seeking dismissal of a complaint filed by three island residents who allege systematic racial discrimination on the private enclave.The judge dismissed parts of the three residents' $8.2 million suit, including the portion alleging "de facto segregation," but he gave the plaintiffs 45 days to amend their segregation claim by specifying which laws would be violated under the club's alleged practices.

The race committees and hospitality committees at the Gibson Island Yacht Squadron were busy last weekend with the annual Love Point-Swan Point Cup regatta.Co-sponsored this year with the Sailing Club of the Chesapeake, the regatta is one of Gibson Island's larger events of the year.The two-day event, now subtitled GIYS/SCC Spring Series, brought about 40 PHRF and Multihull competitors to one course and 11 J/35s to share a separate course with a five-boat Melges24 class both days.With racing moved to an afternoon start on Saturday for both courses, the PHRF fleet sailed a 7.5-mile course (multihulls had a course change that brought their distance to 7.7 miles)

Beverly Hills 90210 has nothing on Gibson Island 21056. The exclusive Anne Arundel County enclave on the Magothy River is more expensive than the fabled home of Hollywood stars, according to a new list of the 150 priciest ZIP codes, housing-wise, compiled by Forbes magazine. The median price of a home on Gibson Island last year was $1,626,000, ranking it No. 14 on the Forbes list - $43,134 more than No. 15 Beverly Hills. Baltimore County's Stevenson, 21153, was No. 26, with a median price of $1,317,188.

Why is Richard Carson causing trouble in paradise? Why is this white anesthesiologist a plaintiff in a suit alleging a "subtle but extremely effective" system of racial discrimination exists on exclusive Gibson Island?"

Rescue workers searched Monday for a 27-year-old man from Philadelphia who fell off a sailboat near Gibson Island during an afternoon squall. According to Sgt. Brian Albert, public information officer for the Maryland Natural Resources Police, emergency workers responded to a call shortly after 1 p.m. Monday about a man missing in the waters off Gibson Island and searched for him until 8:30 p.m. Albert identified the missing boater as Jason...

Nancy Lee Thompson, a homemaker who enjoyed entertaining family and friends, died Sunday of Alzheimer's disease at her Lutherville home. She was 85. Born in Baltimore, the former Nancy Lee Schenuit was the daughter of Frank G. Schenuit, the founder in 1912 of Schenuit Industries Inc., which manufactured aircraft tires, and Hilda Koester, whose family owned the E.H. Koester Bakery Co., which produced Koester's bread. Mrs. Thompson was raised in Roland Park and spent summers at a family home on Gibson Island.

A handful of Baltimoreans recall their favorite celebrations. "My best New Year's Eve was when I and a friend went to London to the Millennium Dome for what was essentially a huge rave. … It was also the dumbest thing I ever did. We arrived about 20 minutes before midnight and had only a bit of time to get drunk, dance really hard and try to find the perfect spot before midnight arrived. " Aran Keating, 28, artistic director, Baltimore Rock Opera Society "Over the years I have spent New Year's Eve in many cities: Paris, Firenze, New York, San Diego, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.

Charles Erwin Brookes, the retired chief of W.R. Grace's Davison Chemical division, died of a heart attack Nov. 1 at the Bay Medical Center in Panama City, Fla. The former Gibson Island resident was 86. Known as Charlie, he was born in Orange, N.J. His son, Stephen Brookes of Washington, D.C., said his father came from a "family of very modest means. " At one time his parents addressed envelopes for a business by hand to make ends meet. At age 12, Mr. Brookes won a scholarship to the St. Mark's School in Southborough, Mass.

Wyatt Cameron "Cammy" Slack, a retired Maryland National Bank executive and Korean War veteran, died July 1 of respiratory failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Blakehurst retirement community resident was 83. The son of a physician and a homemaker, Mr. Slack, who never used his first name, was born in Baltimore and raised in Guilford. He was a 1946 graduate of Gilman School and earned a bachelor's degree in 1950 from Princeton University. Mr. Slack joined the Marine Corps after college, rising to captain as an artillery specialist while serving at Quantico, Va., Fort Sill, Okla., and Camp Lejeune, N.C. He remained a Marine reservist until his discharge in 1958.

Alberta B. Gamble, a homemaker and artist, died March 19 from complications of a stroke at Roland Park Place. She was 83. Alberta Bergh, the daughter of a chemist and a professor of music, was born in Grand Rapids, Minn., and raised in Coral Gables, Fla. She was a 1947 graduate of the University of Miami, where she earned a degree in both music and zoology. Mrs. Gamble did postgraduate work at the Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland Institute College of Art. She was married in 1947 to Dr. James Lawder Gamble Jr., who had been a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and died in 2002.

Get out of fall yard cleaning chores and take the family to any one of several events in the Pasadena area this weekend.The parish of St. Jane Frances in Riviera Beach will kick off its annual fall festival at 5 p.m. today. Festival hours are 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. today, noon to 11 p.m. tomorrow, and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.There will be carnival rides for all ages and midway games for adults and kids. For budget-minded families, Sunday has been designated unlimited-ride day. Pay one price and you can let the kids ride all afternoon.

Clear skies and a slight breeze combined to provide the perfect autumn afternoon Wednesday for the kickoff of an 18-month oyster aquaculture science project at Gibson Island Country School.For most of us, the only time we come in contact with these delicious mollusks is downing a few on the half-shell at a roast or consuming them fried orstewed. We hear about the effects of pollution and DMX on the oysterharvest and lament their passing. But it is rare to get to observe them in their habitat.

Perhaps a herd of goats will help Gibson Islanders solve a mystery that was created when an ancient tulip poplar that blew over six years ago during Tropical Storm Isabel revealed several handmade bricks in its extensively tangled root ball. Earlier this year, a Gibson Islander out for a stroll with his dog was greeted with a present of a handmade brick when his dog exited the thick underbrush. A quick glance and the passer-by realized that it wasn't a typical run-of-the-mill Home Depot brick; it turns out it harks back to the 18th century.

Doris B. Smith, a homemaker and former physical education teacher, died Thursday of complications from dementia at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville. She was 100. Doris Buker was born and raised in Winchester, Mass., and attended Radcliffe College. She later earned a bachelor's degree in English from Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College, in 1961. Mrs. Smith met her future husband, S. Yeardley Smith, at Love Point while both were sailing on the Chesapeake Bay. They married in 1933.