Headmistress

Caroline G. Ober, first athletic director at St. Paul's School for Girls and a former Roland Park resident, died April 5 of complications from a stroke at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. She was 90. The daughter of the manager of the Gary Manufacturing Co., which produced cotton duck cloth, and a homemaker, Caroline Fischer Gary was born in Baltimore and raised in Roland Park. Mrs. Ober attended Bryn Mawr School and graduated in 1939 from Garrison Forest School.

North Carroll branch library will have several programs for children next month."Makin' Music," for infants to age 3, will be offered Nov. 6. Registration begins today."

With less than two weeks remaining until the unofficial end of summer, area school are busy preparing for the first day of classes.At Northeast High School, Principal Joseph Carducci and faculty members have planned an orientation starting at 7 p.m. Thursday for new students and parents."

Sister Patricia McCarron, SSND, headmistress of Notre Dame Prep School, announced the following Harford County seniors have been named Commended Students in this year's 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program, which the National Merit Scholarship Corporation conducts. Honored are: Julia Bellantoni and Sarah Fetcho,both of Bel Air. About 34,000 commended students throughout the nation have been recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2012 competition for Merit Scholarship awards, commended students placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2012 competition by taking the 2010 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

A former English teacher at an exclusive Greenspring Valley girl's boarding school has been charged with molesting a student there, Baltimore County police said yesterday.Steven M. Neumeister, 42, was arrested Friday afternoon after returning to St. Timothy's School to visit former colleagues and students.He was charged with felony child abuse, battery and sexual abuse, accused of touching and fondling a 16-year-old girl, said police spokesman Bill Toohey. He was released on $5,000 bond, Toohey said.

The Howard County Commission for Women has selected six women for induction into the Women's Hall of Fame for 2001. Selected were county residents Joan Athen, Sharon Bedke, Lucille Clifton, Doris Ligon, Patricia Rouse and Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps. Phelps was headmistress of the Patapsco Female Institute from 1841 to 1856. Joan Athen is founder and president of Maryland Therapeutic Horsemanship Association. Sharon Bedke, who has taken in 178 abused, addicted or abandoned youngsters as foster children, works with Dorsey's Search Women's Foundation.

Kathleen Jameson, the head of Oldfields School in northern Baltimore County since 1997, will leave at the end of the 2002-2003 school year. "I love Oldfields," Jameson, 52, said in announcing her resignation this week. "I have enjoyed my time here immensely. I believe that the school is well-positioned for the next phase in its history." She said she announced her decision early so that the board of trustees would have time to search for a replacement. Jameson is the sixth head of Oldfields and the first woman to lead the private school for girls since the founding headmistress died in 1904.

Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson has received its first $1 million gift, a pledge that will enable the 124-year-old girls' school to build a classroom wing, as well as enrich its scholarship and faculty development funds.The family of the late Leroy E. and Irene B. Kirby initially pledged $600,000. Their daughter, Pat Kirby of Ruxton, pledged an additional $400,000 if the school could raise $2.1 million for the classroom wing by April 30."It's a tremendous expression of confidence in our school," said headmistress Sister Christine Mulcahy, who announced the gift after the challenge was met this week.

County Executive Ken Ulman and the Howard County Commission for Women will host the 12th Women's Hall of Fame ceremony at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Banneker Room of the George Howard Building, 3430 Courthouse Drive, Ellicott City. This year, the commission has selected four Howard County women for induction into the Women's Hall of Fame: Evelyn Bolduc, Pamela Mack, Ann Mech and Jane Walker. The commission also will honor the late Jeanne M. Simons with the Women's Hall of Fame in History Award.