Johnston

No. 8 Lehigh is 9-1 for the first time in program history and has reeled off a school-record eight consecutive wins, and a pair of Baltimore area players have contributed to the team's success. Senior attackman Adam Johnston, a Street native and St. Paul's graduate, has scored 11 goals. Junior midfielder Brian Hess, an Owings Mills native and McDonogh graduate, has chipped in three goals and two assists. “I think it's pretty cool,” said Johnston, who is tied for second on the team in goals despite making just three starts.

With 69 goals and 79 points in three years, senior attackman Adam Johnston has been a consistent scoring threat for Lehigh. Johnston, a Street native and St. Paul's graduate, has scored 27 goals in each of his last two seasons since becoming a full-time starter, and Mountain Hawks coach Kevin Cassese said the team has relied on Johnston's versatility. “Adam's been a four-year starter for us, he's played a variety of roles,” Cassese said Wednesday during a conference call organized by the Patriot League.

It's nearly impossible to adequately put into perspective all of the contributions to Harford County made by Imogene B. Johnston, who died Oct. 26 at the age of 92. Mrs. Johnston was a major architect both of the county charter and the eventual transition to home rule government in Harford County in the period 1968-74, though undoubtedly she herself would have considered her contributions to be modest ones. In reality, she was the glue that held a lot of things together in those early days of a new government that was birthed with considerable pain and confusion.

Imogene B. Johnston, long active in Harford County Republican Party politics and a community activist, died Oct. 26 at Senator Bob Hooper Hospice in Forest Hill of complications from a fall. She was 89. A daughter of a coal-mine supervisor and a homemaker, the former Imogene Rollins Bane was born and raised in Beckley, W.Va. She was a 1940 graduate of Mark Twain High School in Crab Orchard, W.Va. While attending West Virginia University where she earned a degree in business, she met and fell in love with Drexel M. Johnston.

Former Confederate Gen. Joseph Eggleston Johnston caught a cold while attending the funeral in New York City for his former Civil War adversary, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, in 1891. A month later, he died in Washington and was buried in a non-military ceremony in Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery. Historians have ranked the native Virginian as second only to his 1829 classmate at West Point, Robert E. Lee, in battlefield prowess during the Civil War. "Much was expected of him, and much he was destined to perform.

Last Sunday, The Sun ran a story on the revitalization efforts in Johnston Square ("Is this house worth $475K?" June 19). As executive director of Mi Casa, Inc., the not-for-profit developer for this project, I believe the development on Preston Street makes sense for taxpayers of Baltimore and Johnston Square. This neighborhood is at the hub of Station North, Mount Vernon, downtown, Fells Point and the East Baltimore Development Initiative. It is a linchpin in the long term development of near east Baltimore that could reinvigorate commercial activity.

The public housing unit Susan Batchelor shares with her teenage daughter on a blighted East Baltimore block has new kitchen cabinets, modern appliances and central air. After years on a waiting list, Batchelor is delighted with the renovated two-bedroom apartment she now calls home. "I love it, I really do," she says. A widow who works as a teacher's assistant, she also loves her low rent: $475 a month, utilities included. But whether it's such a bargain for taxpayers is debatable.

Wendy J. Johnston, a longtime Carroll County elementary school educator, died Monday of breast cancer at her parents' York Springs, Pa., home. She was 47. Wendy Jane Weaver, the daughter of a career naval officer and a homemaker, was born in Bremerton, Wash. After graduating from Westminster High School in 1981, she earned a bachelor's degree in education from Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College. She also held a master's equivalency in education, also from Western Maryland.