Hall Of Fame

R. Delaine Hobbs, president of Mount Airy Town Council and a member for 31 years, was one of 26 elected officials inducted into the Maryland Municipal League Hall of Fame.The honor goes to city and town government leaders who have served 20 years or longer.Hobbs, 62, said his first run for office came after he nominated a friend for the council and the friend returned the favor.Hobbs said the reward of elected office is "just seeing Mount Airy a better place for my kids and everyone else."

Michael D. Sullivan, president and chief executive officer of Merry-Go-Round Enterprises Inc. was installed in the Apparel Industry Hall of Fame during the American Image Awards gala Wednesday, Nov. 14, in New York.The American Image Awards, sponsored by the Men's Fashion Association and the Wool Bureau, recognize individuals of personal and professional distinction. The event raised millions of dollars in new clothing donations for the Clothing Bank/New Clothes for the Homeless, a New York City charity.

WASHINGTON -- The National Inventors Hall of Fame selected Gertrude Belle Elion last week to be honored for her pioneering research at Burroughs Wellcome Co. that led to the development of drugs to combat leukemia, septic shock and tissue rejection in patients undergoing kidney transplants.The recognition makes Ms. Elion, 73, the first woman to take her place alongside innovators such as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Edison in the Hall of Fame since the organization was begun in 1973.

NEW YORK -- Earl Banks of Morgan State was one of 13 men inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame last night.The party at the Waldorf-Astoria before 2,000 guests, each paying $350 a ticket, highlighted the accomplishments of Banks and coach John Ralston of Utah State and Stanford."

Bill James is a man with a mission. His latest baseball epic isn't a truckload of stats, obscure facts or funny anecdotes. It's an argument. He is out to tear down the Baseball Hall of Fame -- or its selection process, anyway -- and replace it with a radically different one.Cooperstown, N.Y., like the rest of the country, was taking a beating from the Depression in 1934 when townspeople thought of building a baseball museum to draw visitors. The baseball establishment went for the idea, and the first election was held in 1936, three years before the doors opened.

Former Rep. Helen Delich Bentley, a longtime advocate for the U.S. shipping industry and the Port of Baltimore, will be recognized tonight for her work when she is inducted into the International Maritime Hall of Fame in New York. Bentley, a port consultant, is being honored for a career during which she served in the House of Representatives from 1985 to 1995, chairwoman of the Federal Maritime Commission from 1969 to 1975; maritime reporter and editor for The Sun from 1945 to 1969 and producer and director of the 1950s television series The Port that Built a City, among other accomplishments.

Formal recognition for former Harford Community College sports stars is about to become a reality.A class of 12 will be inducted when the college celebrates the opening of its Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday. The ceremony will be the centerpiece of a bull roast scheduled for the Susquehanna Center from 7 to 11 p.m.The inaugural group consists of Kathy Kahoe Cooper (field hockey, basketball, softball); Bonnie Kreamer Fry (field hockey, volleyball, basketball, tennis); Carol Hinch (field hockey, softball)

It has been a source of continuing aggravation. Demeaning. Frustrating. Thirty-five years of franchise residency for the Baltimore Colts and then, in absentia, all that remains, to go with the joy of past achievements, is an enormous bundle of pain and regret. A team that meant so much to a city and to history now means so little.There should be more than a perishable memory, which will continue to fade with the passing of time, to mark the spot of a team that contributed in so many definable ways to the success of the NFL and its contemporary appeal.

No longer does lacrosse, the oldest of American games, hav to apologize for its Hall of Fame. A building offering a rich tone of elegance, recognizing excellence, has been opened on the campus of Johns Hopkins University to appropriately showcase such treasures as memorabilia, equipment and the deeds of players who made distinguished contributions.Hopkins, which for 25 years housed the Lacrosse Hall of Fame, has played an important role from the outset. It first provided space in the Newton White Athletic Center for what served as a modest residence for lacrosse's highest place of honor and now has made available the leased-property for a building on University Parkway, adjacent to historic Homewood Field.

Officials of the Westminster Rotary Club announced the creation of the Carroll County Sports Hall of Fame yesterday in a news conference at Carroll Community College, where the hall of fame will be.The five charter members -- Charles Duppins, Charles W. Havens, Earl Hersh, George L. Stem and the late Herbert E. Ruby Jr. -- will be inducted during a benefit banquet on Jan. 19 in the college's atrium."