Hackney

On December 31, 2005, LINDA MARIE HACKNEY (nee Harrison) beloved wife of Edgar Hackney, devoted mother of Jack Seekford, Paul Seekford, Patricia Schaffer, Jeanne Miller and Sandra Hackney, loving grandmother of Erin and Amanda Seekford, Cody and Nicole Seekford, Crystal and Justin Hill, Amanda and Stephanie Miller and Kristen Edwards, dear sister of Jack R. Harrison. A funeral service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue on Thursday at 10 A.M. Interment Holly Hill Memorial Gardens.

Newcomer Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant adds some balance to Harbor East, which has been dominated by high-end establishments. This is the third big opening, following Townhouse Kitchen and Bar and Ouzo Bay, on this stretch of Lancaster Street, where the border between Fells Point and Harbor East gets a little fuzzy. Gordon Biersch is an attractive option for visitors, families, office workers and just plain folks. It is arguably the most recognizable brand on the block.

LONDON -- The chattering classes had themselves a bit of a giggle when the inner-city borough of Hackney -- poor, cockney, multicultural and the erstwhile home of "the loony left" -- announced the appointment of a tourist director.London tourist routes generally fall within a well-trodden territory marked roughly by Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, Harrod's luxury department store, West End theaters, St. Paul's Cathedral and the Tower of London.One old guide says the most interesting place in Hackney is a former swamp.

Carol Hackney, a land preservation activist, has lived on two farms named Cold Saturday Farm in Carroll County -- one is her home on Oakland Road in Eldersburg, and the original was her childhood home a few miles away in Finksburg. Hackney's parents had bought the first Cold Saturday Farm at auction. Her father, H. Hamilton Hackney, was a judge in Baltimore's juvenile court who retired in 1943. He was from Pittsburgh, and her mother, Alice, was from New York City, but they met in Wyoming.

WILMINGTON, Del. -- Se Ri Pak, who had played the first two rounds nine strokes under par, never found that touch yesterday.Meanwhile, Lisa Hackney made a late rally and joined her atop the LPGA Championship leader board.Pak, who was the sole leader through two rounds, never got anything going and came in with a 1-over-par 72 and a 54-hole total of 205 at DuPont Country Club.Hackney, who had Friday's low round of 66, made four birdies in six holes on the back nine yesterday to finish with a 69 for 205.When Pak made what turned out to be her only birdie of the day on the sixth hole, and playing partner Lisa Walters bogeyed, the two-shot swing suddenly gave Pak a four-shot lead on the field.

Alex. Brown Inc. announced yesterday that it has taken a small equity interest in a new investment management firm created by Richard C. Hackney Jr., who is leaving Alex. Brown to establish Hackney Capital Management L.P.Mr. Hackney, who was president of Alex. Brown's Flag Investors Emerging Growth Fund, is majority owner of his new firm.Five years ago, Baltimore-based Alex. Brown helped broker Nathan A. Chapman Jr. leave the firm and set up his own, now a successful minority-owned brokerage with offices in about a half-dozen cities.

An article in the Dec. 18 Sunday Sun about title insurance agents reported incorrectly that William Hackney, a former lawyer in Glen Burnie, was convicted of stealing client money from an escrow account. In fact, earlier this year, in a civil proceeding in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, Mr. Hackney signed a confessed judgment in which he acknowledged responsibility for $450,000 found missing from his title company's escrow account.The Sun regrets the errors.

A 70-year-old disbarred lawyer was sentenced in Anne Arundel Circuit Court yesterday to three years in prison for stealing $645,000 from a client to help shore up his failing title company.William Hackney of the 200 block of Tenth St., Brooklyn Park, admitted taking the money from the estate of Virginia Shipley Murphy, which he represented after she died in 1989.He used the money to run the Central Maryland Title Co., the company he operated from 1965 to 1994, said Assistant State's Attorney Warren W. Davis III.John S. Smith, Hackney's Glen Burnie lawyer, said he used the money only to shore up the title company, which at its peak conducted about 200 property settlements a month and operated offices in Annapolis, Severna Park and Glen Burnie.

Carol Hackney, a land preservation activist, has lived on two farms named Cold Saturday Farm in Carroll County -- one is her home on Oakland Road in Eldersburg, and the original was her childhood home a few miles away in Finksburg. Hackney's parents had bought the first Cold Saturday Farm at auction. Her father, H. Hamilton Hackney, was a judge in Baltimore's juvenile court who retired in 1943. He was from Pittsburgh, and her mother, Alice, was from New York City, but they met in Wyoming.

WASHINGTON - Jailed financier Martin Frankel and an associate, John A. Hackney, were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday with securities fraud in looting the assets of 10 insurance companies. Hackney pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge and to money laundering for his involvement in the alleged $200 million fraud against several Southeastern insurance companies, the U.S. attorney's office in Connecticut said. In a filing in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport, Conn.

In an effort to build interest in Finksburg, its leaders and some of its longtime residents are offering a look at its past. The Finksburg Planning Area Council, an unofficial liaison group between the community and Carroll County, will host a "light-hearted, roundtable exchange" of stories at its monthly meeting Thursday, said Jim Johnson, council president and a retired construction worker who has lived in the area for about two years. "If the Finksburg community wants to know where it is going, it has to know where it has come from," Johnson said.

On December 31, 2005, LINDA MARIE HACKNEY (nee Harrison) beloved wife of Edgar Hackney, devoted mother of Jack Seekford, Paul Seekford, Patricia Schaffer, Jeanne Miller and Sandra Hackney, loving grandmother of Erin and Amanda Seekford, Cody and Nicole Seekford, Crystal and Justin Hill, Amanda and Stephanie Miller and Kristen Edwards, dear sister of Jack R. Harrison. A funeral service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue on Thursday at 10 A.M. Interment Holly Hill Memorial Gardens.

A lane lined with red maple trees winds past a 250-year-old stone farmhouse, a chicken coop and a barn nearly as old as the home. Morgan horses graze in the lush pastures and slurp water from clear ponds, helping to complete an idyllic South Carroll County scene that has been safeguarded from development through a preservation easement. From this homestead, Carol Hackney, 74 and a lifelong farmer, bristles at the sight of surveyors' flags and stakes. She said she has tried unsuccessfully over the years to buy the neighboring land.

Showtime has an advertising slogan to promote its slate of Black History Month programming in February: "Strong. Spirited. Real. The Stories on Showtime." Keep the Faith, Baby, a docudrama starring Harry Lennix and Vanessa Williams, in the story of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. is none of the three. And it makes me kind of mad. One goal of Black History Month is to use television is to tell a mass audience stories about the African-American experience - especially stories that the mainstream media might not have told well, or told at all. I suspect that Powell's story, which primarily took place in 1940s, '50s and '60s, was filtered through the racist culture and journalism of the time.

WASHINGTON - Jailed financier Martin Frankel and an associate, John A. Hackney, were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday with securities fraud in looting the assets of 10 insurance companies. Hackney pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge and to money laundering for his involvement in the alleged $200 million fraud against several Southeastern insurance companies, the U.S. attorney's office in Connecticut said. In a filing in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport, Conn.

WILMINGTON, Del. -- Se Ri Pak, who had played the first two rounds nine strokes under par, never found that touch yesterday.Meanwhile, Lisa Hackney made a late rally and joined her atop the LPGA Championship leader board.Pak, who was the sole leader through two rounds, never got anything going and came in with a 1-over-par 72 and a 54-hole total of 205 at DuPont Country Club.Hackney, who had Friday's low round of 66, made four birdies in six holes on the back nine yesterday to finish with a 69 for 205.When Pak made what turned out to be her only birdie of the day on the sixth hole, and playing partner Lisa Walters bogeyed, the two-shot swing suddenly gave Pak a four-shot lead on the field.

The Columbia Festival of the Arts' First Annual Visual Arts Competition may also be the last, at least as presently constituted.The multimedia art show, which opened at the Columbia Mall Monday, has run into controversy over its banning of nudes. And it has been scaled back from a four-week to a two-week show (closing June 22) because the mall needs to reclaim the space to prepare it for a new tenant.As a result of these problems, both the show's organizer, Wendy Bush Hackney, and the festival's managing director, Lynne Nemeth, have indicated a show under the same conditions will not be back next year.

WASHINGTON -- Now that University of Pennsylvania President Sheldon Hackney has been given unanimous endorsement by the Senate committee considering his nomination to head the National Endowment for the Humanities, he appears to have clear sailing for confirmation -- amid complaints that he has unnecessarily been dragged over the coals.Hackney is, after all, a highly regarded member of academia who on paper is eminently qualified for the job, which oversees a multimillion-dollar budget of federal grants to schools, libraries and scholars of all sorts.

AFTER A valedictory speech on July 23, National Endowment for the Humanities chairman Sheldon Hackney will ride off into the sunset.His resignation becomes effective in August. NEH hasn't had to endure the abuse of the National Endowment for the Arts, whose survival is once again in doubt, but Mr. Hackney and his agency have taken their lumps, too.There was strong criticism of funding a "National Conversation." Grants were provided to schools, libraries and community groups two years ago to hold discussions on subjects ranging from ethics to ethnicity.

A 70-year-old disbarred lawyer was sentenced in Anne Arundel Circuit Court yesterday to three years in prison for stealing $645,000 from a client to help shore up his failing title company.William Hackney of the 200 block of Tenth St., Brooklyn Park, admitted taking the money from the estate of Virginia Shipley Murphy, which he represented after she died in 1989.He used the money to run the Central Maryland Title Co., the company he operated from 1965 to 1994, said Assistant State's Attorney Warren W. Davis III.John S. Smith, Hackney's Glen Burnie lawyer, said he used the money only to shore up the title company, which at its peak conducted about 200 property settlements a month and operated offices in Annapolis, Severna Park and Glen Burnie.