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On November 11, 2006 BYRON G. MCCLEARY devoted son of Gloria and David McCleary. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Friday after 8:30 a.m. The family will receive friends at the Koinoia Baptist Church, 5738 Belair Road on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. Funeral services will follow at 10:30 a.m.

It could well have been Howard County's Kangaroo Kids auditioning for television's "America's Got Talent" several weeks ago instead of a rival team from the Midwest. The Colorado-based precision rope jumpers waited 10 hours to perform on the popular summer program, but errors soon set off the dreaded triple buzzers from the judges. In less than a minute, they found themselves trooping back off the stage beneath three illuminated red X's, said local coach James McCleary. He commiserated with the other team's bad fortune as if his own team had been axed.

She is 47, more than 30 years removed from her finest swimming moment as the leadoff member of the U.S. 400-meter freestyle relay team that won a gold medal in the 1963 Pan American Games in Brazil.And does Elizabeth McCleary Primrose-Smith still swim?"When I can, if there's a pool nearby I can fall into before or after work," said Primrose-Smith, whose typical workday as an international sports planning administrator is 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.Yesterday, the woman known in her youth as Liz McCleary was inducted into the Maryland Swimming Hall of Fame at a luncheon at the Timonium Holiday Inn.Her aunt, the late Anna McCleary Marriott, the state's first swimmer to qualify for the Olympics, in 1924, and Tami Paumier, who won the 100-meter breaststroke in the 1979 Pan American Games, also were inducted.

A Rosedale man lost his license plates this week after he was found to have accumulated more than $10,000 in unpaid tolls and penalties on Maryland roadways, the Maryland Transportation Authority said yesterday. John Russell Bright III, 50, was also charged with driving with a suspended registration. The motorist was caught up in the fourth of a series of Maryland Transportation Authority Police enforcement exercises aimed at cracking down on chronic toll violators who breeze through E-ZPass lanes without paying.

Juanita Proctor McCleary, who left her Southern hometown as a teen-ager but never lost the charm she took from the region, died Thursday at an assisted living facility in Salisbury of complications from Alzheimer's disease. She was 95. Born in Columbia, S.C., Juanita Proctor never graduated from high school, running away at 16. She ended up in Baltimore where she worked as a secretary at what would become Legg Mason. There she met Standish McCleary Jr. He went on to become a prominent vice president of the company, and the two were married in the early 1930s.

John William McCleary, the strict but gentlemanly tennis coach at what is now Towson University for four decades, died in his sleep Thursday at Blakehurst Life Care Community. He was 93.Mr. McCleary, who also taught European history at the York Road school, was known as a demanding coach during his tenure from 1947 to 1988. For about 30 years, he was head coach."He was a very strong-willed person who expected a lot out of his athletes," said his brother, Standish McCleary of Guilford. "He was a taskmaster who was adamant about making people do what they were were supposed to do."

Christopher R. McCleary, the man widely credited with transforming Digex Inc. of Beltsville from a small regional Internet service provider into a company with a national reach, is stepping down.McCleary, 45, said yesterday that he would resign from the company by the end of the year. His posts at Digex -- president and chief executive officer -- are being eliminated by Digex's new parent, Intermedia Communications Inc.The Tampa, Fla.-based telecommunications company, which bought Digex in July for $150 million, said the president and CEO posts at Digex are being eliminated as part of the merger.

It's that time of year again, when summer has finally wound down. Soon, we'll all retreat indoors as darkness falls too early and it gets too chilly.No wonder we have Halloween: we need one last blast of fun and naughtiness before we retire decorously to home. No running indoors, no playing ball, no loud music, no water battles: how boring life inside seems.We have Christmas and Hanukkah to look forward to, but let's face it, we have to think to others then.It's nice, but not the same as playing water tag with food coloring.

Standish McCleary Jr., a retired senior vice president of Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc. who had a 73-year career at the Baltimore investment firm, died Thursday of congestive heart failure at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Berlin. He was 91 and lived in Key Biscayne, Fla., and in Ocean City. Mr. McCleary was known for tenacity and common sense during his years with Legg Mason and its predecessor firms. He retired June 8 after a series of ailments. Forty years ago, when people commonly traveled into Baltimore to see their broker, his vision led him to recommend that Legg & Co. open an office in the rapidly expanding suburbs.

Tracy McCleary, a saxophonist who led the house band in Baltimore's principal black theater and accompanied Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole during a musical career that spanned six decades, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at St. Agnes HealthCare. The Edmondson Village resident was 89. From 1948 to 1966, Mr. McCleary led his 12-man group, Tracy McCleary and His Royal Men of Rhythm, seven days a week, four shows a day at the old Royal Theater in the 1300 block of Pennsylvania Ave. in the heart of the city's African-American entertainment and business district.

It took just a few minutes for Jann Tamburello's practiced hands to prod and pull the lump of clay on her potter's wheel at the Columbia Association Art Center into a smooth, round bowl. But before it is complete, the bowl will have dry a little bit, have its base formed and edges trimmed, be fired in a kiln for 12 hours, be covered in glaze, be fired for 18 more hours and come out intact. Before the art center opens its doors for "Empty Bowls: A Community Event to Help Fight Hunger in Howard County" on Feb. 3, that process has to happen more than 300 times so every guest can select an original bowl to take home.

On November 11, 2006 BYRON G. MCCLEARY devoted son of Gloria and David McCleary. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Friday after 8:30 a.m. The family will receive friends at the Koinoia Baptist Church, 5738 Belair Road on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. Funeral services will follow at 10:30 a.m.

GAME TO WATCH No. 1 Connecticut at No. 22 Indiana, tomorrow, 1 p.m., chs. 13, 9 -- After sweeping the Maui Invitational, Connecticut played 10 of its next 11 on one its two home courts, and lost the only road game in the bunch, at Marquette. Now the Huskies are in the midst of a stretch in which they are playing seven of 10 on the road, a monthlong test that will conclude at No. 4 Villanova and No. 11 West Virginia. Hoosiers guard Marshall Strickland and Huskies big man Josh Boone were teammates at South Carroll High.

On December 14, 2005 JOSEPH FRANCIS MCCLEARY beloved husband of the late Clara L. Mc Cleary (nee Ruhmann); devoted father of Bobbie L. Coonin, Patricia L. Frawley and Joseph F. Mc Cleary, Jr.; loving grandfather of Nicole Gribben, Shannon Webster, Kelly Mc Cleary and Joseph F. Mc Cleary, III; loving great-grandfather of Ava Cecilia Gribben; dear brother of Patricia Rossi. Services and interment private.

Kathy and Keith Simpson and their two children have traveled to places such as Australia, Canada, New Orleans, Detroit and Disney World (six times). They got there by jumping. The Simpson children, Scott and Amy, joined Kangaroo Kids, a precision jump-rope team in Howard County, at a young age. They quickly found success that has led them and their parents to competitions out of state. Scott is now a ninth-grader at Hammond High who plays in the school band, is on the JV soccer team and still finds time for jump-rope practices.

WHEN HE became co-coach of the Kangaroo Kids two decades ago, Jim McCleary saw teaching kids to jump rope skillfully, which is what the Kids are about, as an exercise thing. It was aerobic, good for you and a fun way to get kids off their duffs and into fitness. World travel, snorkeling in Australian waters, experiencing aboriginal culture -- they never occurred to McCleary. Neither did being known as a world-class coach in rope jumping. But here the longtime Howard County physical education teacher is this weekend, back home after 13 days Down Under, having guided the U.S. national team in world championship competition that attracted 360 jumpers from 15 countries.

Doug Humphrey just demoted himself and hired his new boss.The founder of the Digital Express Group in Beltsville announced yesterday that satellite company executive Christopher McCleary will become the new chief executive officer of the fast-growing Internet access provider.Mr. Humphrey will revert to his role as chief technical officer."For the company to go to the next level, you really have to have someone who has management experience," said Mr. Humphrey.Mr. McCleary, 46, is leaving his position as vice president and general manager of American Mobile Satellite Corp.