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The Rev. Francis Charles Bourbon, a Jesuit priest, former Loyola College faculty member and Baltimore City Fire Department chaplain, died Tuesday of pneumonia at Lankenau Hospital in suburban Philadelphia. He was 80. Born in Baltimore and raised on Belvieu Avenue, he was a 1944 Loyola High School graduate. He entered the Jesuit order that year and was ordained a priest June 23, 1957, by Archbishop Francis P. Keough. He joined the Loyola College faculty in 1959 and became dean of men and a theology teacher.

Kazuo Sakamaki, 81, who was taken prisoner of war in his midget submarine by U.S. forces right before Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, has died in Tokyo, a veterans group said yesterday. Sakamaki, the first Japanese to be taken prisoner in World War II, died Nov. 29, but his death was not announced then at the request of his family.Gordon Teter, 56, president and chief executive officer of Wendy's International Inc., died Saturday in Columbus, Ohio. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.

Loyola Blakefield has named a Baltimore native and a 1971 alumnus as its next president to replace the Rev. James F. McAndrews, who has led the Towson school since 1979.The appointment of the Rev. John M. Dennis, a Jesuit priest, was announced by the school's board of trustees yesterday. Dennis, 44, will take over July 1 at the Catholic middle and high school for boys.Since 1996, he has been a fund-raiser at St. Ignatius College Preparatory School in Chicago. From 1992 to 1996, he taught mathematics and religion and was director of community service at Loyola Blakefield, where he was known as "Father Jack."

Rev. Daniel J. McGuire, who for three decades worked closely with Loyola College presidents during the school's transformation into a regional university, died of a brain tumor at the Loyola Center Jesuit Infirmary at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia Friday. He was 79.Father McGuire was the special assistant to the president for both the late Rev. Joseph A. Sellinger, and the college's current president, Rev. Harold Ridley."He was a Jesuit and a priest through and through," said William Baird Jr., who has known Father McGuire since Baird was a student at Loyola High School in the 1950s.

When Vincent P. Quayle speaks, he could be the Irishman from Rockaway Beach, N.Y., the ex-priest from the Jesuit order or the resolute housing activist from the 1960s and 1970s.Often all three at once.While many of the 1960s revolutionaries have died, faded or retooled, Quayle is in his 28th year of championing low-cost housing for poor and middle class people. He has no thought of leaving his pioneering St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center."How can I?" asks Quayle. "My whole life has been a gift to me: my family, my church, my education.

The Rev. Frank Ernst has been a Jesuit priest for nearly 40 years, yet when asked about any dramatic spiritual events in his career he answers softly: "None that I can remember."Looking back, the 69-year-old product of St. Brigid's parish in Canton thinks that perhaps the whole of his career -- the day-in and day-out effort to fulfill a decision made as a teen-ager -- is quiet spiritual drama in itself."There were times when I felt I was at a dead end. Sometimes I think: 'Should I have been a priest?

This season, St. Frances has played in tournaments in Canada, Washington, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Ohio.And even with the area's No. 3 ranking, St. Frances still felt ithaven't received the respect it deserved in the city.That changed last night.In its first meeting with East Baltimore neighbor Dunbar, St. Frances ran past the No. 5 Poets, 63-47, in the Southeast bracket first-round game at the First National Bank Charm City Classic at the Towson Center before an estimated crowd of 2,800.

Leo Plowden McLaughlin,84, a former Jesuit priest and the one-time president of Fordham University during the 1960s, died Thursday at an infirmary on the school's Bronx, N.Y., campus. He took up the presidency at Fordham University in 1965 and during his four years opened up the curriculum beyond the traditional theological courses, encouraged academic experimentation, fought for higher teacher salaries and took control of the university out of Jesuit hands.Pub Date: 8/19/96

Brother F. E. BarthPainter, decoratorBrother Frederick E. Barth, S.J., a painter and decorator who took care of buildings at Jesuit facilities -- including Loyola College in Baltimore and Loyola High School in Towson -- died Friday of cancer at Loyola Center, the Jesuit community residence at St. Joseph University in Philadelphia. He was 76.Brother Barth, a Philadelphia native, joined the Society of Jesus in 1940. He worked at Loyola College from 1947 to 1949 and again in 1954 and 1955. He was assigned to the high school in 1949 and 1950.

In mid-1971, a group of three men, each equipped with a walkie-talkie, appeared at the auction of the old Emerson Hotel in downtown Baltimore. Without announcing their affiliation, they quietly purchased (for a song) many of the hotel's beds, bureaus and chairs. The next day a truck hauled them to Loyola College, where they were used to equip dormitories.The Emerson Hotel caper was one of many engineered by the Rev. Joseph A. Sellinger, Loyola's president since 1964. "You have to be something of an operator to be successful in this business," President Sellinger said later.

William E. Schaffner, a Jesuit educator who later was chaplain at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, died of pneumonia Sept. 15 at Manresa Hall Jesuit Community in Merion Station, Pa. He was 91. Father Schaffner was born and raised in Wheeling, W.Va. After graduating from Central Catholic High School in Wheeling, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1935 and professed his vows in 1937. He studied at the Novitiate at St. Isaac Jogues in Wernersville, Pa., from 1937 to 1939, and for the next two years, he studied philosophy at the St. Ignatius Jesuit Retreat House at Inisfada in Manhasset, N.Y. Father Schaffner completed additional philosophical studies at West Baden College in West Baden Springs, Ind., from 1940 to 1942.

The Rev. Hugh A. Kennedy, a Jesuit priest who in his 45 years in the administration of the his religious order was known as its Maryland "corporate memory," died of pneumonia Sept. 6 at Manresa Hall in suburban Philadelphia. The longtime Roland Park resident was 90. Born in Braddock, Pa., he was a graduate of St. Vincent's College Prep School in Latrobe, Pa. Friends said he developed a lifelong affection for Gregorian chants and church music while being taught by the school's Benedictine priests.

Joseph M. Healy, a former Jesuit priest who was associate director of institutional programs at Loyola College, where he also taught theology and philosophy, died Aug. 13 of esophageal cancer at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The longtime Charles Village resident was 75. Mr. Healy, the son of a copy editor and a telephone operator, was born and raised in Jersey City, N.J. After graduating from St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City, where he was an honors student, Mr. Healy enrolled at St. Peter's College, also in Jersey City, earning a bachelor's degree in 1955 in marketing.

An economics professor from Loyola University in New Orleans traveled to Baltimore's Loyola last week to give a lecture, and everybody's been apologizing ever since. Everybody, that is, but the professor, Walter Block, who chalks up the flap to political correctness. Block said he knew he'd step on toes, since, by his account, he started off with a bit about how the Jesuit order has been "hijacked by a bunch of Marxists and liberation theologians." "I imagine that didn't go down too well with the Jesuit audience," he later told me by phone.

I wished a happy birthday to an old family friend, Anne von Schwerdtner, last week. We've been Charles Village neighbors for decades, and in the way things happen in Baltimore, our mothers were great pals, too. My admiration for Anne began when I was about 4 years old. She secured a calendar from the Western Maryland Railway and had the picture portion framed for me. This scene of diesel engines at Port Covington on the Patapsco Middle Branch still hangs...

The Rev. Francis Charles Bourbon, a Jesuit priest, former Loyola College faculty member and Baltimore City Fire Department chaplain, died Tuesday of pneumonia at Lankenau Hospital in suburban Philadelphia. He was 80. Born in Baltimore and raised on Belvieu Avenue, he was a 1944 Loyola High School graduate. He entered the Jesuit order that year and was ordained a priest June 23, 1957, by Archbishop Francis P. Keough. He joined the Loyola College faculty in 1959 and became dean of men and a theology teacher.

The Rev. James Donald Freeze, a Jesuit priest and former provost of Georgetown University, died Sunday of Alzheimer's disease complications at his order's suburban Philadelphia retirement home. He was 74. Born in Baltimore and raised on Abell Avenue, he attended the Cathedral School and was a 1950 graduate of Loyola High School. He then entered the Society of Jesus and was ordained to the priesthood in 1968. After studying at a Jesuit seminary in Wernersville, Pa., he received a master's degree in philosophy from Weston College, now the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, in Massachusetts.

On July 13, 2006, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Rev. ROBERT C. BAUMILLER, SJ, PH.D, beloved son of the late Bernard J. and Margaret F. Baumiller (nee Sullivan) and devoted brother of Dorothy Ann Flannery of Davie, FL, Harriet B. Perrelli of Towson, MD and the late Bernard J. Baumiller, Jr., also survived by many nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the Chapel of Loyola Blakefield, Chestnut Avenue at N. Charles St., Towson on Wednesday, July 19 from 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 7:30 P.M. Family and friends will assemble Thursday July 20 at 10 A.M. at the family owned Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc., 6500 York Rd. (at Overbrook)

On November 7, 2005, GLEN ROCK, beloved husband of Patricia D. Rock, devoted father of Agnes, Lee, Donald, Brian, and James Rock. Loving brother of John, Robert, and Leo Rock, and the late Mary Catherine O'Neill. Also survived by 8 grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at the Church of The Nativity, 20 East Ridgely Road on Friday November 11, at 2 PM. Interment private. In lieu of flowers contributions to the Jesuit Seminary and Mission Bureau 5704 Roland Ave 21210. Arrangements by family owned Henry W. Jenkins & Sons Co.

Loyola College has named the Rev. Brian Linnane, a member of its board of trustees and an assistant dean and professor at a Jesuit college in Massachusetts, as its next president. Linnane, 49, has worked at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., for more than a decade. He was introduced as Loyola's new president at a news conference at the North Baltimore campus yesterday. He will take office next month. "I've always been very impressed with Loyola, and I think it's a very blessed place," Linnane said.