Mahan

On December 26, 2003, CAROLYN COPE MAHAN; beloved wife of Thomas A. Mahan; devoted mother of Ann Mahan Heisey, and her husband Rick, Michelle Mahan Haak, and her husband Gerry; sister of Stanton Cope, the late Robert and Richard Cope; dear grandmother of Amy Haak and Joseph M. Mallia, Timothy J., Michelle S., and Thomas W. Haak, Kristin E. and Eric R. Heisey, Katherine A. and Melissa A. Haak; great-grandmother of Kaitlyn M. Mallia. Friends make call family owned RUCK TOWSON FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1050 York Road, (beltway exit 26A)

On August 7, 2003, BETTY WILSON (nee Mahan) of Plymouth, MI and formerly of Forest Hill, MD; beloved wife of the late Mason A. Wilson; devoted mother of Susan A. Stoel and her husband Carl; loving daughter of the late James A. Mahan and Louisa Poole Mahan; sister of the late James A. Mahan, Jr., Steven Jerome Mahan, Louise Mahan Wilson and Mary Natalee Mahan. Also survived by her grandchildren, Jeff Sims and his wife Jeni, Jason Sims, Margaret Duncan, M.D., and her husband Stuart, Katy Stoel and the late Mark Stoel and great-grandchildren Caleb Sims, Amanda, Gabriella and Drew Duncan and a friend Julia Waldenberger.

Annapolis will brim with military parades, concerts and air shows next week as thousands of people descend on the state capital for the Naval Academy graduation. Fears about terrorism have led to tighter security at the campus gates, but the public will still have ample opportunity to participate in the week of pageantry leading up to Friday's graduation ceremony. Visitors will be permitted to walk onto academy grounds to watch a raft of shows and rituals, from crisp dress parades to the annual rite of passage that has freshmen climbing a lard-slathered obelisk.

Mainly, it was a victory. An offensive explosion it wasn't, but neither was it another tie.And so Severn head-coach Renie Sotiropoulos was delighted after a deflected shot gave the top-ranked Admirals a hard-earned, 1-0 win over ninth-ranked St. Mary's yesterday.Severn, which had scored just two goals in its last four games -- all ties -- was still the leader in the Association of Independent Schools A Division Applebee League at 1-0-2, 5-0-4 overall."I was bracing myself for another tie," said Sotiropoulos.

WHOEVER RULES the waves rules the world." It has been a century now since Adm. Alfred Thayer Mahan, U.S. Navy, plied his great sea power thesis.Looking aft, it's solid history. But it's also a telescope to national policy today.Mahan's two volumes, "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History and Upon the French Revolution and Empire," spanned the great years of fighting sail, 1660-1812.In them he showed that the flag follows trade on a watery globe to insure national security and prosperity.

Every generation of children reinvents a love affair with the garden -- finding its secret hiding places, studying its bugs, bringing home its flowers.Landscape architect Catherine Mahan and nursery owner Marion Mullan have watched this happen with their own children."As a kid, I always looked to find trees you could get underneath," Ms. Mahan said. Now, she continued, she watches her son Wilson, 14, and daughter Annie, 8, lay claim to the spaces underneath tall hollies in their back yard.