Hank

On December 27, 2003, HANK MARTIN transformed. Viewing Friday, January 2, 2004, 12 noon to 7:45 PM-Estep Brothers, 1300 Eutaw Pl, 410-728-2800.

A good crowd filled the gym at Bel Air High School Wednesday evening for a basketball game between faculty and students that raised well beyond the $1,000 goal for the Matt Rutherford Foundation that awards scholarships to BAHS seniors. All proceeds from ticket sales, raffles and other donations at Wednesday's game benefited the scholarship program established in memory of Matt "Hank" Rutherford, a Bel Air High senior who died in a car accident in December 2007. Raffles, the half-time show, the entrance fee to the game and to play netted $1,227, according to information provided Chris McDonough, a teacher at Bel Air High School. Concession money goes right to Bel Air High Boosters, which then makes a donation to scholarship fund at the end of the school year.

On February 22, 2006 GORMAN "HANK" TRICE of Abingdon, MD beloved husband of the late Mary Trice (nee Knight); devoted father of Steve Trice, Paul Trice, Sandra Gephardt, Linda Gull, and Sheree Trice. Also survived by nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Services will be held at a later date. Memory tribute may be sent to the family at mccomasfuneralhome.com.

Herman G. "Hank" Tillman Jr., a retired Air Force colonel and pilot who flew in World War II, Korea and Vietnam and was one of Maryland's most decorated veterans, died Sunday of liver failure at his Chester home. He was 89. He was born in his immigrant grandparents' Anne Arundel County farmhouse, and later moved with his family to a home at Pontiac Avenue and Sixth Street in Brooklyn. After graduating from Polytechnic Institute in 1940, he attended the Johns Hopkins University at night and worked at Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.'s engineering department during the day. "As a kid, he was fascinated with flying.

On December 28, 2007, MATT "Hank" RUTHERFORD of Bel Air, MD, beloved son of Kevin Wade Rutherford and Mary Michele "Chele" Schirmer, loving brother of Andrew T. Rutherford. Also survived by grandparents, Margarette L. Rutherford, Claudette Keeney and David L. Brown. Services will be held on Thursday January 3, 2008 at 10A.M., in the Cook Auditorium at Mountain Christian Church in Joppa, MD. Interment will be in Bel Air Memorial Gardens, in Bel Air, MD. Friends may call at the church on Wednesday January 2, 2008 from 6 to 9 P.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in memory of Matt "Hank" Rutherford to the Bel Air High School Athletic Department, 100 Heighe St., Bel Air, MD 21014.

On November 23, 2003, HANKMcCARTHY, 68, of Sanibel, passed away Sunday morning while staying at Hospice. Hank retired from Snap-On Tools and played the drums back in the 50's and 60's for many well-known orchestras in Baltimore. After retiring he became a distinguished golfer known as "Dead Eye" at Beachview Golf Course. He also loved working with his hands-in Wood working. Hank is survived by his wife Rosa, sons, Jay, Patrick and Michael; stepchildren, Darlene, Johnny and Dixie. Memorial Services will be held at Oakland United Methodist Church, 5969 Mineral Hill Rd, Sykesville, MD at 2 PM December 23. Any memorial Donations may be made to Woodbine Developmental Center C/O Michael McCarthy, 1175 DeHirch Avenue, Woodbine, New Jersey 08720.

Sandwiched between knots of chatting teen-agers, Hereford High School teacher Hank McGraw is on the lookout for rambunctious behavior and PDAs -- "public displays of affection." "Let's move it," he calls to two students who linger near an open locker. Hall duty is something of a novelty to McGraw. So is teaching students the finer points of literary criticism. But he is doing both after spending 27 years as a top administrator for Baltimore County public schools. McGraw and 10 other administrators returned to the classroom this year because of a revision in state law that allows them to work full time and collect their school pensions.

Good morning--Orioles fans-- Although the death of Hank Bauer is sad, it sure does bring back great memories of 1966.

"Straight Man," by Richard Russo. Random House. 432 pages. $25.Richard Russo's novels are the literary equivalent of comfort food -- the macaroni-and-cheese and meatloaf of fiction. His books are never too spicy or challenging, and their predictability is leavened with enough humor to make them familiar but not too boring. In his first three novels, "Mohawk," "The Risk Pool" and "Nobody's Fool," Russo thoroughly mined the thematic veins of drunks, disappointing fathers, and constrained lives of quiet desperation in small-town upstate New York.

A loud noise broke the stillness of the night. Crack! It was louder than one hundred firecrackers on the Fourth of July. CRACK! I heard it again, this time louder than before. It was coming from Miller's cave. At the first hint of dawn, I headed toward that sound.There in the corner of the cave, where I'd left it, was the egg. And pushing its way out, like I've seen so many baby chicks do, was a tiny dragon poking through that shell with its snout.It was love at first sight."Hey there, li'l feller, welcome to the world," I sang, soft and low. As I stroked his nose, a sweet little purring whimper came from him. As I touched skin to scale, I knew I was his girl and he was my dragon.

Maryland, like the rest of the country, is aging. The state's 65-and-over population increased by more than 18 percent in the past 10 years to 707,642, according to the U.S. census. This group will only grow as baby boomers — those born between 1946 and 1965 — turn grayer. One of the most vocal advocates for older Americans is the AARP, which represents members who are 50 and older. While Social Security and Medicare have remained priorities for the organization, in Maryland it also focuses on more local issues such as lower electricity rates and reliability standards for utilities.

Rams Head Live will greet the new year with a blast from the long, long ago past: a performance by Dru Hill, the Baltimore R&B group that's better known these days for their clips on "I Love the 90s. " The group will be on the road promoting their back catalog. Sisqo, Jazz, and Nokio haven't released a new album since last summer, when "InDRUpendence Day" came out. It seems they haven't worked on anything else since;  their official Twitter page is still plugging the 2010 album.

I am not going to go off on this one. You can look at the video below and come to your own conclusions. The one overwhelming thought I do have is how there is absolutely no escaping politics and conflict in these polarized and deeply troubled economic times. The video shows singer Hank Williams Jr. on the "Fox and Friends" morning show talking politics. Now, right there was where the problem started. Williams is not schooled in TV politics talk, and should have never waded into those treacherous waters.

Henry F. "Hank" Schoenfeld, a Baltimore insurance executive and philanthropist who enjoyed flying family and friends in his twin-engine Beechcraft Baron, died Sept. 11 of pancreatic cancer at his Stevenson home. He was 82. Mr. Schoenfeld, the son of a salesman and a homemaker, was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and spent his early years there and later in Munich, which coincided with the rise of Nazism. "They knew trouble was coming. His father, who sold clothing, was finally told by his customers that they could not longer buy from a Jew," said a daughter, Judy Schoenfeld Morrison of Pikesville.

Hank's Tavern & Eats is the fun beer-drinking cousin in the Chef Geoff family of restaurants, a group of white-tablecloth establishments in D.C. and northern Virginia. It opened in 2008 in University Town Center, one of those walkable developments that combine residences, movie theaters, retail shops and restaurants without feeling like a movie-set Main Street. A large bar dominates the cavernous space, and plenty of televisions along the walls are tuned in to sporting events, but Hank's isn't one of those sports bars serving nothing but gloppy dips and deep-fried everything.

If there is anything more futile than coveting a man's soul, it is pretending to be that man.I wanted to be the poet Charles "Hank" Bukowski.I tried to be Bukowski.Now Hank is dead, and I've stopped trying.This month, leukemia took Hank away at 73. His family came to America from Germany when he was 3, landing first in Baltimore. They settled in Los Angeles. It was here that Hank suffered his father's stern discipline, without escape, until finding solace in a bottle at age 13. Like Los Angeles, booze would both corrupt and create his writing all his life.

This is a story about technology and matrimony, which often coexist uneasily. The basic facts are true, but the names and a few details have been changed because my wife threatened to strangle me if I told everything. The tale involves Hank and Sandy, a happily married couple who suffered from a failure to communicate. Or rather, their PC did. Hank had installed security software on their home computer at the request of his office. The program, which apparently had never been tested anywhere, made Hank's computer so secure that it couldn't communicate with anybody, including their Internet service provider.