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A new report by advocates for welfare recipients says city social workers have fallen down on the job of helping many of their clients get ready for the work force -- at a time when state officials are considering reducing the number of Baltimore caseworkers nearly 25 percent.The report, by the Family Investment Program Legal Clinic, which provides free legal help to thousands of welfare recipients, urges legislators to lift the limit of five years' cash assistance for welfare clients who might not have gotten the help they need in Baltimore since welfare reform began four years ago.The report says some Baltimore workers, who handle an average 175 files each at any one time, don't know how to help recipients with criminal records get charges expunged so they'll be more employable.

Constance Gilchrist Edwards, 99, a retired art needlework instructor, died Thursday in her sleep at Keswick Multi-Care Center.Mrs. Edwards, who lived all her life in Baltimore, was a knitter who made hundreds of sweaters and afghans for family and friends. In the 1950s, she taught the craft in the art needlework department of Hutzler's store in Towson.She grew up on Mount Royal Terrace north of North Avenue and attended the Bryn Mawr School before graduating from the New School in Baltimore.

MARYLAND HAS a new state reading chief.Michele Goady, section chief and specialist in reading and communications skills, is fourth on the bureaucratic ladder of the state Department of Education, behind a branch chief in language development and early learning, an assistant state superintendent for instruction and, of course, Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick.Goady, 44, is bright, energetic and full of ideas for helping to improve reading instruction. But you're not likely to see much of her. Hers is an inside job, focused on Maryland educators.

The Rev. Charles Waters Gilchrist, a two-term Montgomery County executive who left politics to become an Episcopal priest ministering to the poor, died Thursday night of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 62."His death was very peaceful," said his daughter, Janet Lydia Gilchrist, 28, of Pinos Altos, N.M. "He was surrounded by family."A Democrat, Mr. Gilchrist was Montgomery's second county executive and served two terms, from 1978 through 1986, when the county was becoming a center for high-technology industry in the state.

Isiah Pressey, a retired Baltimore police officer, died Nov. 23 of a heart attack at his Waverly home. He was 74.He retired 15 years ago after 25 years in the Eastern District. During his retirement, he was a security officer at Johns Hopkins Hospital.Born in Hampton, Va., he attended Hampton University and Morgan State University.He served in the Navy during World War II.In 1979, he married Viola Henderson, who survives him.Funeral services will be held at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Mount Sinai Baptist Church, 922 E. Preston St.He also is survived by three daughters, Deborah Ponder, Chanel Sharon Moore and Mahalia Young; two stepsons, Robert Gilchrist and Michael Gilchrist; six stepdaughters, Deborah Chester, Charlene Hawkins, Wendy Lomax, Gail Gilchrist, Karen Gilchrist and Anitra Zeigler, all of Baltimore; two brothers, Jimmy Pressey of Hampton, and Wilton Pressey of Austin, Texas; a sister, Mable Jackson of Hampton; and 18 grandchildren.

WHEN HE LEFT Maryland politics for the Episcopal Church, friends said Charlie Gilchrist had always been more priest than politician.He explained his abrupt change as if it were not such a change at all, just a different community need."

Early autumn and the icons of our besieged literary culture appear with fiction of the highest quality. The sublime Ellen Gilchrist offers her new collection "Flights of Angels" (Little Brown, 325 pages, $24), every story a gem. Gilchrist can bring you to tears on a dime: see "While We Waited for You to Be Born." Humor abides. So we hear from the mother of three teen-age boys: "I knew wild. I was born wild and I was still wild so they couldn't fool me, except that they were fooling me and would keep on doing it."

CHICAGO -- The spiritual odyssey of Charles W. Gilchrist, from high political office in Maryland to an inner-city ministry here, is about to take a new turn.The two-term Montgomery County executive is coming back to Baltimore right after this week's Democratic convention. He will join the New Song ministry in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood Oct. 1."It's a wonderful time for us to be going home," he said. "We had always wanted to get back to the Baltimore-Washington area and Baltimore just seems to have the right scale."

In "Starcarbon," as in her National Book Award-winning "Victory Over Japan and her "Net of Jewels," Ellen Gilchrist offers us the voice of the modern world. Her perspective and tone are comic, always ready to resume the minimalist view when her characters come close to ruining their own or others' lives."Starcarbon" continues the story of the Hand family. The characters are parodies of 1990s losers, consumed by immediate need but willing to struggle.There is Helen, the smothered mother who leaves her husband and five children, only to seek pregnancy and marriage with another man. Then there is Olivia, the long-lost, half-American-Indian daughter of Daniel, the family alcoholic.

It was Monday morning, and Ian Gilchrist was patiently trying to explain to a visitor how his space-age invention works and why anybody would want to buy one.The invention, a "3-D space digitizer," is a futuristic contraption that can translate the strokes of a cursor or stylus into images in a computer. The process uses a complex mathematical algorithm worked out by Mr. Gilchrist to translate points on paper into a computerized image, much as conventional two-dimensional digitizers already do.But unlike conventional digitizers, the Gilchrist invention can track points in space.

Charles A. Miller Jr., Donations may be made to the Gilchrist Hospice Care, 555 W. Towsontown Boulevard, Towson MD 21204.

COLLEGE PARK - More than seven months after Maryland ended relationships with two highly touted men's basketball recruits, coach Gary Williams and athletic department officials are offering conflicting accounts of what happened and why. Kathleen Worthington, a senior associate athletic director, yesterday questioned Williams' statements about forward Gus Gilchrist and guard Tyree Evans, who were to have been integral parts of Maryland's recruiting class....

The news that the NCAA is allowing Maryland transfer Gus Gilchrist to play basketball at South Florida beginning in mid-December came as a big surprise to Maryland senior associate athletic director Kathy Worthington. In an interview yesterday afternoon, Worthington said she spoke with an official at the NCAA yesterday and "they are not holding Gus accountable for the ACC sit-out rule. ... I think they are taking a very liberal interpretation of that rule." ( For more, go to baltimoresun.

On November 1, 2008, GORDON "Scott" BAUBLITZ, beloved husband of Dorothy Lee Baublitz, devoted father of Brian Baublitz and his wife Nicole, cherished grandfather of Hunter Baublitz. Visitation for family and friends will be held in the HUBBARD FUNERAL HOME, INC., 4107 Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore, on Tuesday, November 4th from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M., with the funeral service at 6 P.M. In lieu of flowers contributions to: Gilchrist Hospice Care, 555 West Towsontown Blvd., Towson, MD 21204, will be appreciated.

While former Maryland recruit Gus Gilchrist awaits an NCAA ruling on his eligibility for the coming season at South Florida, his longtime trainer-adviser, Terrelle Woody, is getting started on a new job at the Tampa, Fla., university. According to the Tampa Tribune, Woody, who doesn't have a college degree, was hired as the men's basketball team's video and conditioning assistant. He won't get benefits from the school, coach Stan Heath said. (For more, go to baltimoresun.com/recruiting)

The good news is that no matter how many ways you dissect it, Gus Gilchrist's transferring out of Maryland before ever playing a game cannot be filed under S, for "Stuff Gary Williams Has Done to Wreck the Program." This can't, shouldn't, reflect on him, even if it piles on one of the more miserable springs he has experienced in College Park. Try to use it to fuel the fire raging in some quarters against Williams, and you'll come up dry. Yeah. That's the good news. Too bad it can't overshadow the bad news.

COLLEGE PARK -- Less than two weeks after junior-college transfer Tyree Evans asked for his release, the University of Maryland granted another potential college basketball star a similar request yesterday. Gus Gilchrist, a talented 6-foot-9, 235-pound forward who, like Evans, was expected to play a major role next season, asked for his release so he could possibly play immediately at another school outside the Atlantic Coast Conference. Because of ACC rules, Gilchrist had to sit out the first semester of games because he had initially signed to play at Virginia Tech.

On May 12, 2008 Eleanor B. Brown Service and interment private. The family suggests memorial contributions in her name to Gilchrist Hospice Center 555 W. Towsontown Blvd. Towson, Md. 21204

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Four years ago and about 90 miles to the north, a sophomore point guard who was alternately praised for his talent and criticized for his temperament led a Maryland basketball team on the NCAA bubble to a magical weekend that ended with the school's third Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship. John Gilchrist is long gone from College Park but not completely forgotten. Several times this season, fans on Internet message boards have likened Maryland's current point guard, 6-foot-6 sophomore Greivis Vasquez, to Gilchrist.

On December 21, 2007 LOUIS C. SMIGLE, beloved husband of Joan B. Smigle (nee Bunting), devoted father of Barbara Hann and her husband George and Kathryn Smigle, loving grandfather of Joseph and Sean, and brother of Gerard Smigle and his wife Kinuko. Friends may call the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc. 1050 York Road (beltway exit 26) on Thursday from 3-5 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Friday at 10am at Immaculate Conception Church. Interment Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens Mausoleum.