Gladden

On March 11, 2006, WENDELL L. GLADDEN; beloved husband of the late Edna Agnes Gladden; devoted father of Patricia Schindhelm and Donna Gladden; loving brother of Leslie T., Walter R. and Gerald W. Gladden. Funeral Services and interment will be private. Arrangements are by the Haight Funeral Home & Chapel, Sykesville.

I have to applaud Sen. Lisa Gladden for her creative assertion that if future female correctional officers are hired on the basis of having a college degree they would be immune to the sexual advances of male inmates ("Guards protected from discipline, FBI says," April 25). Apparently, Senator Gladden feels that a woman who is better educated than a male inmate who is high school drop-out would be immune to his charms. "If you had college graduates, four-year graduates, do you think they're going to be messing around with a guy who dropped out of high school?"

On December 7, 2005, ROBERT STREETT, JR. of Severna Park, MD; husband of the late Marlyn Placide Gladden, father of Robert Mark Gladden, Gary Matthew Gladden and Timothy Paul Gladden and grandfather of Ashley Marie Gladden. A Memorial service will be held Saturday, December 17 at 12 noon from the family owned Kurtz Funeral Home, P.A., 1114 Baldwin Mill Road, Jarrettsville, MD. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Salvation Army.

Naval Petty Officer Alonzo M. Gladden Jr. had been back home for only four hours last October when an unknown person opened fire on him - killing him shortly after he dropped off his grandmother in South Baltimore. Months later, his killing remains unsolved, and city police have turned to Baltimore's Guardian Angels for help with the case. On Sunday, standing amid broken liquor bottles at the corner of Hollins Ferry Road and Patapsco Avenue, the volunteers and Gladden's relatives passed out fliers and held up signs asking passing motorists for leads in the case.

On September 5, 2005, MARLYN PLACIDE, of Severna Park, MD., wife of Robert S. Gladden Jr., mother of Robert Mark Gladden, Gary Matthew Gladden and Timothy Paul Gladden. Grandmother of Ashley Marie Gladden and sister of Patricia A. Amend, Harry V. Placide and Eugene E. Placide. Memorial Service will be held Sunday, September 18 at 12 noon at the Old Brick Baptist Church, Jarrettsville, MD. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Hospice of the Chesapeake. Arrangements by Kurtz Funeral Home, P.A., Jarrettsville.

On April 4, 2007, GEORGE "Vennie" GLADDEN, III, devoted father of Robert and Laurie Gladden, loving son of Catherine B. Gladden (nee Barton) and the late George V. Gladden, Jr., dear brother of Nancy Oldewurtel and her husband Edward, Barbara Brulinski and her husband Robert and Joseph Gladden and his fiance' Bobbie Wilson. Also survived by six grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. A funeral service will be held at the Connelly Funeral Home of Essex, 300 Mace Avenue on Saturday at 9 A.M. Visiting hours on Friday at 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Interment Gardens of Faith Cemetery.

On December 29, 2003, EDNA AGNES, of Sykesville, beloved wife of Wendell Lisbon Gladden, devoted mother of Patricia Schindhelm and Donna Gladden. Funeral Services and Interment will be private. Arrangements are by the Haight Funeral Home and Chapel, Sykesville.

With the season for legislating over in Maryland as of last Monday, the season for raising cash for campaigns has begun. For the next nine months, until the General Assembly convenes in Annapolis Jan. 8, candidates for the legislature, governorship and other statewide offices will be making an all-out push to fill their campaign chests before next year's session puts a damper on such activity. Lawmakers and statewide officials are forbidden by law to raise money during the annual 90-day session.

The night before Robert Gladden Jr. took his father's gun to Perry Hall High School, he texted a friend about the plan, but begged him to keep it a secret. "I am going to bring a shotgun and 21 shells, ill let your imagination do the rest," the 15-year-old Gladden said in a message sent around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 26. "And I trust you not to tell anyone about this so please don't. " The friend kept silent, according to newly released investigative documents, and Gladden kept his word.

With no thanks to the Democratic state senator who represents the area, the Baltimore County community of Perry Hall is safer from gun violence than it was six months ago. We can say that much. Sen. Kathy Klausmeier might have voted against the important gun control bill that her colleagues in the Maryland Senate passed on Thursday, but Bobby Gladden has gone to prison, and that means his former fellow students at Perry Hall High won't have to worry about seeing him with a gun in the cafeteria again.

After an emotional day of testimony, Robert W. Gladden Jr., the 15-year-old charged in the Perry Hall High School cafeteria shooting, was sentenced Monday to 35 years in prison. Baltimore County Circuit Judge Robert E. Cahill Jr. went beyond state sentencing guidelines to put Gladden away until he is at least 50 years old, citing continued fear in Perry Hall along with a national concern for school safety that has grown stronger since the Newtown, Conn. school massacre. Kathleen Watkins, a school administrator, told the court that the school is still working to get past the shooting that injured Daniel Borowy, a 17-year-old special needs student, on the first day of school.

Regarding your report on the guilty plea of alleged school shooter Robert Gladden Jr., I am a firm believer that before judges and prosecutors send a defendant to jail, they should spend some time incarcerated themselves to experience the conditions a prisoner faces ("Gladden pleads guilty in shooting," Feb. 20). Mr. Gladden, a minor, made his plea in adult court. This is a travesty of justice for a 15-year-old who was never given a break in life. After following his case, it appears to me that he is a troubled teen who desperately needs help.

Perry Hall High School student Robert W. Gladden Jr. pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted murder in a shooting attack on a schoolmate last August, bringing an abrupt end to his trial in Baltimore County Circuit Court. Gladden, 15, had told investigators that he wanted to kill himself when he fired his father's shotgun in a crowded lunchroom on the first day of school. Now he could be imprisoned until he is 55. Returning to court two weeks after failing to convince a judge that he should be tried as a juvenile, Gladden formally admitted Tuesday to shooting 17-year-old Daniel Borowy, a special-needs student at the public school.

Officer Gary Gephardt heard a loud pop from the Perry Hall High School cafeteria, which he thought could be firecrackers, an exploding milk carton or a gunshot. As teens spilled out of the cafeteria, he drew his service weapon with one hand and blocked fleeing students with the other as he headed into the room. There he found two staff members restraining the alleged shooter and a student lying wounded on the floor, the officer testified Friday in a Baltimore County court hearing.