Hogan

Schoolteacher Jeffrey Hogan returns to the classroom today. It won't be in Baltimore City. Hogan will be introduced to his new class of fifth-graders at Sandy Plains Elementary School. Near Dundalk. In Baltimore County. Hogan was offered that job one week ago today, and he accepted it. Two days later, a Baltimore City school official called Hogan and offered to reinstate him as a city schoolteacher, thereby reversing Hogan's October dismissal. It was too late. What it all means is that Govans Elementary School, the city school where Hogan taught first-graders for more than four years, unnecessarily lost a prized first-grade teacher.

The Rev. Peter E. Hogan, a member of the Josephite Fathers who was the order's archivist and an acknowledged expert on African-American Catholicism, died Wednesday at Mercy Medical Center of heart failure. He was 83. "He was as delightful a character as he was scholarly," said the Rev. Michael Roach, pastor of St. Bartholomew Roman Catholic Church in Manchester and a longtime friend. "He knew the history of blacks and the Catholic church and was without peer." Father Hogan was born and raised in Natick, Mass.

Glenelg runner Ed Hogan no longer looks over his shoulder in competition.He now carries the torch as the Gladiators' premier long-distance runner.But his brother, Gerard, a Class 2A cross country and indoor-outdoor track champion (one-mile and two-mile), commanded the spotlight until his 1992 graduation."When he was leading, I could stay in second and follow the leader," said Ed, a senior. "Now, I think I'm my own person, but everyone asks me, 'What's it like without [Gerard] running?' "It has been like this: Hogan captured the Howard County and Class 2A state cross country championship last fall and was named The Baltimore Sun's Howard County Male Runner of the Year.

State Sen. Patrick J. Hogan, an authority on higher education and a strong pro-slots voice in the General Assembly, will resign from the legislature to become head of government relations for the University System of Maryland, he said yesterday. The move leaves a scramble to fill his Montgomery County Senate seat and the significant possibility that he will be replaced by a Democrat who does not support expanded gambling. Hogan was a Republican when he was elected in 1994, switched parties and became one of the top lieutenants of Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Sam Snead turns 80 today. Byron Nelson was 80 on Feb. 4. Ben Hogan reaches 80 on Aug. 13.That God chose to put them all on Earth must mean he loves golf.That he put them all here in the same year must mean he likes to see the sparks fly when greatness is rubbed against greatness.At a time when the professional game was trying to get its legs under it, in a period when the Jones-Sarazen-Hagen triumvirate had played out all its good shots, along came Snead, Nelson and Hogan, and golf took off on the wings of their glory.

Almost everything has gone right for the Glenelg boys cross country team this season. Almost.The Gladiators, led by Hogan brothers Gerard and Edward, won the 21-team Westminster Invitational at Western Maryland College Wednesday. It was the team's third straight invitational championship.The only thing that wasn't perfect was that senior stalwart Gerard Hogan for the first time failed to win the individual title. Among 147 runners, Hogan finished second, 19 seconds behind winner Brian Harris (16 minutes, 26 seconds)

When the Maryland General Assembly took up landmark legislation governing Internet commerce last year, there was little doubt who would be asked to lead the effort in the Senate and House of Delegates. In the Senate, Patrick J. Hogan took to the floor to explain its complicated provisions to his mostly low-tech colleagues. In the House, Del. Kumar P. Barve became the chief advocate of the legislation called the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act. The bill passed - along with several other technology measures championed by the two lawmakers - putting Maryland in the forefront of the states in adapting their laws to the 21st-century economy.

Glenelg swept the boys and girls team titles at the Howard County Indoor Track Championships yesterday at the 5th Regiment Armory.Glenelg's Gerard Hogan won the 1,600-meter and 3,200-meter runs and anchored the winning 3,200-meter relay to lead the boys team past runner-up Howard and third-place Atholton."

Today's session of questions without answers starts with what is probably a first.* Is Broadneck volleyball player Jen Hogan the first county student-athlete to receive an appointment to the Naval Academy as a junior?"

Ben Hogan, the flinty-eyed Texan who was perhaps the most creative shotmaker in the history of golf and one of its most accomplished players, died yesterday morning in Fort Worth, Texas. He was 84.He had been in poor health since undergoing surgery for colon cancer two years ago, then contracting bronchitis soon afterward, according to Valerie Hogan, his wife of 62 years. She said he entered All Saints Hospital in Fort Worth on Thursday morning after suffering a fall at home.Although he was a very private man who preferred in recent years to remain close to his home in Westover Hills and his office at Shady Oaks Country Club, Hogan's influence on the game nonetheless was profound, and his legacy far-reaching.