Helms

Carol Helme Brewster, a former Philadelphia socialite and renowned equestrian who during her marriage to former Maryland Sen. Daniel Baugh Brewster owned Worthington Farms, where the couple hosted the annual Maryland Hunt Cup and feted celebrities from the worlds of politics, film and business, died Thursday of complications from a stroke at the Brightwood retirement community in Lutherville. She was 92. Carol Helme Leiper, the daughter of a wealthy and socially prominent lawyer and businessman, and a homemaker, was born in Philadelphia and raised in Chestnut Hill, Pa. Mrs. Brewster's father, James Gerhard "Gerry" Leiper Jr., was a talented equestrian, a master of foxhounds and co-founder of Andrew's Bridge Hunt in Pennsylvania.

INDIANAPOLIS -- There's a truck in the parking lot of the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center, the Indianapolis Colts' practice facility, advertising the team's schedule on the back panel. Next to the schedule is not the face of the near-certain Hall of Fame quarterback nor the visages of the perennial Pro Bowl defensive end, wide receiver or tight end. It's the face of Jim Caldwell. In his first year as the head coach of the Colts, Caldwell has joined Peyton Manning, Dwight Freeney, Reggie Wayne and Dallas Clark as the faces of the franchise.

Don Shea , who guided the Oakland Mills boys soccer program to eight state titles in 18 seasons before stepping down in 2003, will return to coach the Scorpions next fall. Shea has remained at the school as a social studies teacher and now gets the chance to coach alongside his son, Trevor , who is the program's junior varsity coach. "Obviously, his resume speaks for itself," Oakland Mills athletic director Troy Stevenson said. "All along, he has been teaching at the school, so the kids like him and respect him. Coming back, there's a high level of excitement, and he brings instant credibility back to the program.

Jay Winer says he knew his son Jason had found his passion in 1987, after a weekend of watching the teenager play Puck in a Friends School of Baltimore production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." In attendance for each of four performances, Winer and his wife, Sharyn, noticed that their son's speech and movements became slower with each staging of the play. The slowdown reached the point where after the final night's curtain, Winer asked his son if he was OK. "And you know what he said?"

Jay Winer says he knew his son Jason had found his passion in 1987, after a weekend of watching the teenager play Puck in a Friends School of Baltimore production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." In attendance for each of four performances, Winer and his wife, Sharyn, noticed that their son's speech and movements became slower with each staging of the play. The slowdown reached the point where after the final night's curtain, Winer asked his son if he was OK. "And you know what he said?"

With a new executive director taking over for the first time in more than three decades, now, traditionally, would be the time to consider new directions that Catholic Charities might take. But Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien, who chairs the board that oversees the organization, is planning to take an "if it ain't broke ..." approach as William J. McCarthy Jr., former Sun Trust Bank Greater Baltimore president, succeeds Harold A. "Hal" Smith as executive director. "I don't think that there's a Catholic Charities program throughout the country to match ours," says O'Brien, spiritual leader of the area's 500,000 Catholics.

Under their own power. That didn't seem possible when the five teenage girls stepped aboard Unicorn in Atlantic City, N.J., just five days earlier or when they stood their first nighttime watch or when they wrapped their hands around the smooth, wooden wheel of the 118-foot schooner. It certainly seemed beyond the horizon when they took their first tentative climbs into the rigging more than nine stories above the deck. But there they were Friday - alongside veteran officers and deckhands, raising and trimming the sails, responding to commands from the helm and bringing the tall ship into the Inner Harbor - under their own power.

SEATTLE - -A copy of the study stayed in Andy MacPhail's briefcase during his early months as the Orioles' president of baseball operations. If nothing else, it served as a reminder of what needed to be done to turn around an organization that had fallen on hard times, and how difficult the task was going to be. In 2007, Baseball America published a report that tracked player development in each organization and the number of homegrown players who graduated...

The sun was bright and hot, but the waters of the Chesapeake Bay were icy as the Brendan Sail instructors launched a small sailboat at Annapolis Sailing School in Edgewater. "Yeee-oww," Riggs Brusnighan, 15, howled as he waded into the shockingly cold water to scrape off the winter's rust. Classes start soon in America's sailing capital, and there is no time to waste. They say every child who grows up in Annapolis should learn to sail, and there are probably enough sailing schools here to accommodate them all. But the Brendan Sail Training Program is different.

The provost of Towson University, James P. Clements, was named the president of West Virginia University yesterday. Clements, 44, has been the chief academic officer at Towson since 2007 and a faculty member since 1989. The grandson of a coal-miner, he was selected unanimously by West Virginia's board of governors yesterday afternoon. He was introduced as the new president at a news conference at the university's Morgantown campus. "He is an accomplished and bright educational leader, and besides that, he's just a good guy," said Carolyn Long, chairwoman of the university's board of governors.