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On June 30, 2005, CARRIE HERNDON. Friends may call at the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 East North Avenue, on Wednesday after 8 A.M., where the family will receive friends on Thursday at 11:30 A.M. Funeral Services will follow at 12 noon. See www.marchfh.com

With a flick of his wrist, a U.S. Naval Academy baseball player from Orlando, Fla., tossed an upperclassman's hat atop the Herndon Monument on Monday, leading his 2016 classmates to launch into cheers of "Plebes no more!" amid roars from onlookers. "I was considering jumping and making it a little more dramatic," said Patrick Lien - who is a catcher, not pitcher, on the Navy team, "but I didn't want to fall and make a scene. " The Herndon climb was itself a scene: hundreds of plebes, or freshmen, charged a slickened, 21-foot tall granite obelisk at the service academy in Annapolis.

On May 2, 2003, ELMANUS, devoted father of Melanie Blake and her husband Cary of Baltimore, MD, stepsons Tyrone Jackson of Baltimore, MD and Kerim Broadbent of California; loving brother of Doris Herndon-Jones of Jacksonville, Fla., Sarah Gee of Baltimore, MD and Curlene Allen of Randallstown, MD; loving grandfather of Michael Saxton, II and Markel Herndon; loving and devoted companion to Natalie Byrd of Washington, DC. He is also survived by a host of...

Michael Phelps' latest love interest is 22-year-old Sarah Herndon, according to an interview with the waitress/model from California (the same description as his previous flame, Megan Rossee, whom he dumped just after Christmas). He and Herndon met in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, just before Christmas; fished for lobster in the Bahamas after the holidays and had an evening of sushi and "Zero Dark Thirty" back in Baltimore. Here's a report. By Hugo Daniel For Coleman-Rayner Michael Phelps charmed his latest love interest on a romantic lobster fishing trip - jumping into the water and joking, "This is my home, too, you know.” Sarah Herndon was whisked to the Bahamas by the Oympic champion for a romantic five-day break of fishing, snorkeling and tropical sunsets.

On September 25, 2005, CHARLES WILBERT HERNDON, Ornamental Tree and Shrubery Expert and beloved son of the late Harry and Mabel Herndon; loving brother of Billie Delores Harris and May Irene Ayers. Also survived by nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews. Family and friends are invited to attend an Graveside Service on Saturday at 10 A.M. at the Lorraine Park Cemetery. Those desiring may meet at the Burgee-Henss-Seitz Funeral Home, Inc., 3631 Falls Rd at 9:15 A.M. on Saturday to follow the hearse to the cemetery.

Ann Kniffin Herndon, a psychiatric social worker, died Thursday of a heart attack at her Village of Cross Keys home. She was 72. Known professionally as Lynn Kniffin, she had a private social work practice in individual and family psychotherapy in Roland Park for more than 30 years. She also supervised social work and medical students in psychotherapy at the University of Maryland's School of Social Work, and taught at the extension division of the Baltimore-Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis.

When Elmanus Herndon retires as acting state commissioner of corrections next week, he will leave behind a host of controversies -- including lingering questions about mistaken releases of two inmates -- and much disappointment with overcrowded prisons and tight budgets."

Charles Allan Herndon Jr., a pioneering broadcaster whose evening weather forecasts were a fixture of 1950s and 1960s Baltimore television, has died of complications from Alzheimer's disease. Mr. Herndon died Tuesday at Oak Crest Care Center in Parkville. He was 78. In a career that spanned more than 30 years in radio and television - and the law - Mr. Herndon was best known for the nightly weather appearances on WBAL-TV that were sponsored by the Atlantic Refining Co. For the broadcasts, he dressed in a tan-colored Atlantic service station attendant's uniform, bow tie and black-visored cap. He always ended the weather segment with a crisp salute and, looking directly into the camera, uttered the line that has since passed into local broadcasting history: "Atlantic.

The Ravens are making progress in restocking their depleted secondary. Denver Broncos cornerback Kelly Herndon, a restricted free agent, said yesterday that the Ravens made him an offer and his agent could deliver a counterproposal as early as today. "Everybody knows about the Baltimore defense," Herndon told the Rocky Mountain News. "They're always top in the league. I have a lot of respect for how they play football." A two-year starter with the Broncos, Herndon is considered a second- or third-tier talent.

The names of local NFL hopefuls Jason Corle and Warner Herndon went unheard on TV during the draft, but that doesn't mean their weekend was a lost one. Corle of Towson and Herndon of Morgan State signed free-agent contracts with NFL teams immediately after the draft, meaning they will be in rookie minicamps next month. The Buffalo Bills signed Corle, a running back, and the Seattle Seahawks picked up Herndon, a cornerback. "Warner's bigger and faster than the guys we already have here at his position," said Stump Mitchell, an assistant coach at Seattle and Herndon's former coach at Morgan State.

Carol M. Herndon, a longtime volunteer and advocate for the developmentally disabled, died Sept. 8 of complications from cancer at PowerBack Rehabilitation in Lutherville. She was 82. The daughter of a surgeon and a homemaker, Carol Mae Smith was born and raised in Norfolk, Va. She was a 1947 graduate of the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and earned a bachelor's degree in 1951 from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Mass. After spending a year in France on a Fulbright scholarship, Mrs. Herndon studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.

They are plebes no longer. It took two hours, 10 minutes and 13 seconds Tuesday for the freshman class at the U.S. Naval Academy to have one of its own knock a plebe's "dixie cup" hat from the top of the greased Herndon Monument and replace it with a midshipman's hat, symbolically morphing the group into 4th-class Mids. Andrew Craig, 19, of Tulsa, Okla., achieved the goal in the noisy and slippery event that drew between 800 and 1,000 plebes, officials said. Tradition holds that the student who caps the monument will be first in the class to reach the rank of admiral, though that has yet to happen.

The Naval Academy's traditional Herndon climb — a scramble to replace the hat at the top of a 21-foot-tall, lard-coated obelisk — may slip-slide away. Vice Adm. Jeffrey L. Fowler, departing superintendent of the Naval Academy, said Wednesday that the greasy climb that signals the end of freshman year every spring has an uncertain future. Though the traditional competition will take place later this month, there have been concerns about injuries as the plebes trample and tumble over each other to replace the plebe "Dixie cup" hat at the top with an upperclassman's hat. Some plebes have been hurt, but none seriously, as the midshipmen step on faces, heads and shoulders.

Mark Alan Kusiak, vice president of General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in Herndon, Va., and an avid bicyclist, died of brain trauma Monday at George Washington University Hospital in Washington. The former Brooklyn resident was 45. "He was found injured on Sept. 13 on the grounds of the Washington Monument after a biking accident," said his father, Clement F. Kusiak of Linthicum. "The medical examiner ruled Mark's death an accident. Based on information from an observer, he said he fell from his bike after hitting a curb."

Delayn Partlow had a question. Looking at the empty seat beside him, Delayn put up his hand yesterday morning at Hilton Elementary School. He wanted to know whether his friend, Siedah Fields, 5, was coming to school. No, replied Patricia Barrett, the children's kindergarten teacher. Speaking quietly but clearly, Barrett told Delayn and the rest of the class that Siedah would not be coming back because she had died in a fire. "At first he just looked at me," Barrett recalled later, "and then his eyes teared and he started to cry."

online See a photo gallery of the Herndon Monument climb at baltimoresun.com

In making points about his team's strengths, Morgan State coach Stump Mitchell surprised even a player he was praising.Out of nowhere, while introducing quarterback Donald Green and strong safety Warner Herndon, he told those at a luncheon last week that Herndon, a junior, was thinking about leaving school after this season to go to the NFL.It was almost enough to make Herndon choke on his dessert during the media luncheon for the Towson-Morgan State game...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Belmont. Belmont? Is that a hotel, or a British luxury sedan? A cigarette, or maybe a backup singer in an old doo-wop group? No, this Belmont is in the NCAA men's tournament, just like North Carolina and Georgetown, its first-round foe today (approximately 2:45 p.m., chs. 13, 9) in the East Regional at the Lawrence Joel Coliseum. Unlike the Hoyas, Tar Heels and other haughty contenders, these Bruins are a bear of a different color. For the second straight year, they're a No. 15 seed, but the Belmont Bruins aren't the wide-eyed group that got blitzed by UCLA, 78-44, in their first NCAA tournament appearance last March.

Before he entered the Quantum Opportunities Program, Darwin Ajin said he was about to quit school. Ajin, 16, is a junior at Herndon High School in Virginia. His parents are immigrants from Guatemala who moved to the Washington suburb. Two years ago, before he joined QOP, Ajin said he was making F's and D's in all his subjects. He noticed some of his friends went to QOP, located in an apartment complex three miles from the high school, to get help with their homework. One of his teachers asked Ajin if he wanted to be part of the program.