Janice

South Carroll High School senior Janice Geldmacher and sophomore Keith Long were selected as Students of the Month for October.Janice is the daughter of Robert and Monica Geldmacher of Mount Airy. She is president of the National Honor Society and has a 4.0 grade point average. She was a semifinalist in the Maryland Distinguished Scholar competition.She plays soccer, runs track, is treasurer of the Varsity Club and has been involved in the school's music program. Janice plans to major in engineering in college.

"My husband makes me feel like everything is my fault," says Janice, 30, the mother of a 5-year-old. "I can't hold my own in an argument with him. He misinterprets everything I say."When Janice first met Henry he seemed to be the most caring and charming man in the world. But these days Henry reacts with hostility to everything she says, and he's a master of the backhanded compliment. "Last week, I had my hair cut in a stylish new way. Henry said, 'Why'd you cut your hair? It looked so much better the other way.' Of course he never told me I looked good in the old style.

Janice Hoshall has come up with a solution for the no-shows and late-arrivers for league night bowling: Keep it all in the family.Janice Hoshall, Christine Hoshall, Dennis Hoshall, Mike Hoshall and Matt Smith make up the Untouchables.All the team members live in Carroll County. Smith and Christine Hoshall live in Sykesville, and Janice, Dennis and son, Mike, live in Finksburg."Matt is our [Dennis and Janice's] nephew," Janice said. "And a family team isn't unusual for our family. At one time both mom and dad bowled with us."

Dreams run their course, too, especially when they involve such long working hours. So the former Maryland couple who made the national media rounds nine years ago when they won a Maine inn through a contest have decided to call it quits. They're giving away the 11-room Center Lovell Inn and restaurant as they got it -- in an essay competition. After more than 20 years in the restaurant business, Janice Cox says she and her husband, Richard, need a break. "It's not so much the inn, it's being in the restaurant business so long," says Janice, former manager of the now-defunct Busch's Chesapeake Inn, a 300-seat restaurant near Annapolis.

Sometimes, the drone of a familiar airplane awakens Janice Beam.It's a sound her mind can't erase."It's different than jets," Janice said, as she sat in the livingroom of her new Ferndale home. "I know nothing about jets, but I know that sound."When it takes off, sometimes it sounds like it's going to hit the house. It brings back the sound of ambulances. It justjars something in your body."The sound belongs to Centre Airlines' twin-engine Beechcraft cargo plane. On July 19, 1989, an aircraft similar to that one slammed into the basement of the Beams' one-storybrick rancher after lifting off from Baltimore-Washington International Airport.

Unitas and Berry. Moore and Marchetti. Even now, the names quicken the pulse as they roll off the tongue.Forty years ago, the Baltimore Colts edged the New York Giants, in sudden death for the NFL title in what is unabashedly called The Greatest Game Ever Played.Tonight, 28 members of that championship team plan to huddle for a sentimental reunion at Martin's West.The '58 Colts are back, racing the clock one last time."If we don't do something now, there may not be many guys around for the 50th," said Ordell Braase, who helped organize the anniversary affair.

From morning to bedtime for six years, Margaret helped Janice raise her daughter - preparing breakfast, picking her up at school, ferrying her to medical appointments and bathing her. The lesbian couple's relationship then soured, and their war over Janice's adopted child has landed in Maryland's highest court, where it has the potential to spell out the legal standing of thousands of people who help raise their partner's child. The Court of Appeals is being asked today to decide if Margaret was a parent in practice - even though by law she has no ties to the girl, named Maya - and if that could trump the legal mother's right to control who has access to her child.

MARTHA J. PLAYER, 84, loving wife of the late Daniel E. Player, died April 5, 2006 at Catonsville Commons nursing home. She is survived by her son, Daniel, daughter-in-law, Janice, granddaughters, Brenda Nichols and Michelle Schneider, grandsons-in-law, Richard Nichols and Charles Schneider, great-grandchildren, Brittney and Keith Nichols, sister, Lula Bulko, and brother James Kiser. The immediate family will have a private funeral service. Friends and family are welcome to attend a memorial service on Saturday, April 8, 2006.

On March 10, 2004, MARGARET JANICE (nee Lunak), beloved wife of Ronald C. Dehne, devoted mother of Bridgette Dehne and Veronica Purkey and her husband John, loving grandmother of Nicholas, Taylor, and Breanna Purkey, dear sister of Joan Carmichael. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. Services and Interment private. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to St. Jude's Childrens Research Hospital, P.O. Box 3704, Memphis, TN 38173-0704.

Editor: Thank you for publishing the tribute to Ms. Janice Paulshock just prior to Mother's Day. Those of us who know the Paulshock family would agree that both Janice and Robert are truly inspirational. Despite their enormous challenges they faced as a family they have raised three wonderful children as evidenced in Brooke's tribute. Brittany and Bobby are equally as talented as their sister, Brooke, but more importantly each one of them are kind and hardworking young adults. Janice's and Robert's sacrifices and commitment to make sure their children did not miss much during their difficult time is a testament to their strong family network.