James Wilson

James H. Wilson -- Baltimore County schools' latest booster for minority achievement and multicultural education -- demands respect. If you give him a little, he'll return it to you, twofold.It's a management philosophy that served Wilson well during his four-year tenure as principal at Woodlawn High School, where he improved the academic achievements of a large student body that is 90 percent black, and where he improved the school's image in the community's eyes."If you build a respectful relationship with every child in a school building, and if you are positive and set goals for those children, then they will perform," said Wilson, who took over in September as assistant to the superintendent for minority achievement and multicultural education.

The longeurs experienced at the Shanghai Quartet's appearance Sunday evening in the Shriver Hall series were partly the consequence of a less-than-stimulating program and partly because the players sounded somewhat below their best form.The only unfamiliar work on the program was Zhou Long's "Poems from Tang," which consists of four movements that are actually short tone poems inspired by the works of four poets of China's Tang dynasty. In a program note, Zhou, a composer in his early 40s, explained that he has tried to combine "ancient Chinese and Western musical traditions in a coherent and personal statement."

Tucked between Greenmount Avenue and North Calvert Street along University Parkway in the center of Baltimore is a small city neighborhood that residents say provides a mix of suburban life and the conveniences of an urban setting. Oakenshawe offers single-family homes, rowhouses and semidetached dwellings that often are in high demand among city real estate shoppers. Residents have watched home prices double in this neighborhood during the past five years to an average of $234,269, according to the 14 sales recorded during the past year and compiled by Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc. No homes are on the market in the neighborhood, and some real estate agents report that potential buyers are waiting for homes to go on sale there.

Lemuel Wilson never had the words to communicate with others -- he let his photographs speak for him. His pictures were of families, of togetherness, of life and the way he felt it should be.The scores of snapshots he clicked every month were his "feelings from the heart," and depicted everyday people doing everyday things -- shopping, walking, gathering in the park, working, riding the bus, said a brother, Warren Wilson of Baltimore.Lemuel Wilson, 54, who died Monday of a heart attack at his home in West Baltimore, never wanted pictures of people posing or looking unnatural, although he occasionally photographed weddings and family gatherings.

Michael Johnson's 28-yard touchdown pass to Warren Smith with three seconds to play completed a 20-point run by No. 7 City, lifting the Knights (8-2) to a 26-20 victory over Poly in their 108th annual meeting at Memorial Stadium yesterday.An interception by James Gee, who has nine for the year, set up the Knights' game-winning drive at their own 43 with 1: 26 to play as City avoided a fourth straight loss to Poly (5-5). City trails the series, 53-49-6.Smith's effort made up for being burned on a third-period, 69-yard touchdown pass from Poly quarterback Timmy Frazier (6-for-15, 110 yards)

"Moral Judgement," by James Q. Wilson Basic Books. 112 pages. In the limerick, the Young Maid From Darjeeling throws her newly born babe at the ceiling: "When asked why she did/She replied, 'To be rid/Of a strange, overpowering feeling.'"The American courtroom might be the ideal place for the Maid to plead her case these days, with its parade of hired experts eager to diagnose compulsive traumatic syndromes and uncontrollable impulse disorders. In one case a West Virginia mother went on TV to beg for the return of her baby, which she said had been kidnapped, then confessed she'd beaten and drowned it because it wouldn't stop crying.

James Frederick Wilson could recite the alphabet when he was 2 years old and could read a restaurant menu by the time he was 4. He loved to dance and was good at math.On Jan. 16 of next year, he would have been 29 years old. But he died last year of an AIDS-related illness.Tomorrow, Pat Wilson will remember her son during an ecumenical candlelight vigil in Oakland Mills to commemorate World AIDS Day, which this year has as its theme the effects of AIDS on the families of those with the disease.

On August 23, 2003, JAMES A. WILSON, beloved husband of the late Anne Mary Wilson (nee Taylor); devoted father of Richard W. Wilson and the late James A. Wilson, Jr. and Donald E. Wilson; loving grandfather of Tracy M. Ridenour and Richard D. Wilson; dear great grandfather of Brittany E. and Michael B. Ridenour and Kristina P. Wilson. Friends may call at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc. 1050 York Road, (beltway exit 26A), Tuesday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. where a funeral service will be held Wednesday 9 A.M. in the Funeral Home chapel.

On Saturday, February 5, 2005 MRS. MARIE (nee Wilson) KEIM; beloved wife of Julius E. Keim; devoted mother of Deborah Stinneford and D. Carlyn O'Neill; grandmother of Ryan and Todd Stinneford and Shannon O'Neill; great grandmother of Jordan Bard; sister of Mary Scott, Norma Carmen and James Wilson. Friends may call at the LOUDON PARK FUNERAL HOME, 3620 Wilkens Ave., on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 from 6 to 8 P.M. Funeral Services will be held 1 P.M. Wednesday, February 9, at the funeral home.

Devon Blackwell has a history of attention deficit disorder, but things have improved so much that he isn't sure why he even needs to be here at the East Baltimore Medical Center. The 17-year-old from Baltimore has improved at school, developing a love of physics. He's getting along well with his guardian. He's looking forward to attending trade school next fall. Yet here he sits, in a paper robe on an exam table near Johns Hopkins Hospital, speaking with his new physician.