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Frayda Salkin, McDonogh School archivist, took a ride down Interstate 81 this past Monday with Gen. Robert E. Lee to Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. Well, sort of. What Salkin was delivering in a locked, fireproof box was the last letter written by the Confederate general turned college president, on Sept. 28, 1870. Lee had assumed the presidency of Washington College (now Washington and Lee) six months after the surrender of his forces at Appomattox Court House, Va., in 1865.

Robert Francis Lindsey Sr., a Baltimore businessman who had been a star athlete at McDonogh School and Washington and Lee University, died Tuesday of lung cancer at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. He was 53. Mr. Lindsey who was born in Easton, came to Baltimore in 1968 to attend McDonogh School, then a military school, in Owings Mills. "He was the school's last lieutenant colonel and first student body president. He also won every athletic award at McDonogh," said a son, Robert F. Lindsey Jr. of New York City.

Accolades to athletes line the corridors at Calvert Hall College. Photos of buff boys in gym shorts and tank tops smile down at visitors.Team sports are big here, always have been. But a long-awaited $5 million project to build a football stadium, track, baseball diamond, practice fields and four tennis courts could add new luster to Calvert Hall's athletic program, said Brother Kevin Patrick Strong, president of the Roman Catholic high school in Towson."We have a history of being very strong competitors," said Strong, who presided over a ground-breaking ceremony in January.

Lee/Jackson birthdaysCelebrate the birthdays of two Civil War generals and honor the thousands of Confederate soldiers who served Saturday at the Lee/Jackson Monument downtown. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was born Jan. 21, 1824, and served as Confederate general during the Civil War along with the commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army, Robert E. Lee, born Jan. 19, 1807. In tribute, wreaths will be laid at the monument, a march of Confederate and Federal re-enactment troops will proceed through the street, and period music will create the mood.

Dorothy C. Liebno, 77, worked at McDonogh SchoolDorothy C. Liebno, who worked for 17 years at McDonogh School and was active in Methodist church affairs, died of cancer Tuesday at St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 77 and a lifelong resident of Sudbrook Park.Mrs. Liebno began her career at the Owings Mills school in 1970 and was assistant to Headmaster Lud Micheau until retiring in 1987."She was one of the finest ladies I ever knew in my life," Mr. Micheau said. "She always found something nice to say about anyone.

Building windows march along in regular order everywhere, but do they march this elegantly anywhere but in Paris?Their fine proportions and their lovely balconies make this the place one wants to live - but with a lot better furniture than one has now, most likely. The photograph, called "Les Fenetres" (The Windows) is by Guy L. Loraine, who's sharing a two-person show with photographer Richard M. Caplan at the Tuttle Gallery of McDonogh School. Loraine's "Views of Paris" concentrates on the quiet places of Paris, and Caplan in his "Photography by Design" concentrates on making the objects he photographs into strong design statements.

John Nash Alexander, 85, insurance executive, singerJohn Nash Alexander, a retired insurance executive and an enthusiast of barbershop quartet singing, died Sunday of cancer at Glen Meadows Retirement Community in Glen Arm. He was 85.A former resident of Riderwood and Rodgers Forge, he retired in 1978 after 20 years as an insurance manager at American Mutual Liability Insurance Co. in Towson. Earlier, he had worked for the New York Life Insurance Co.Mr. Alexander was a past president of the Dundalk chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing.

Japanese music at TowsonThe Towson University Asian Arts and Culture Center will present Japanese Folk Music and Dance from Aomori, a concert of performing arts from the northern region of Japan.Featured instruments include the shakuhachi, a bamboo flute and the shamisen, a three-stringed banjo-like instrument.Shamisen master Yamada Chisato will perform alongside singers, dancers and other musicians.The Japanese Folk Music and Dance program will be performed on Sunday at 2 p.m. in Towson University's Fine Arts Center Concert Hall at the corner of Osler Road and Cross Campus Drive.

Defending champion Deerfield (Mass.) Academy couldn't make it back to the National Prep Tennis Championships that begin today at McDonogh School, but the seven-team field is still loaded, with at least three squads given an excellent chance to take the first-place trophy.As usual, host McDonogh, runner-up to Deerfield in the inaugural tournament last spring, is potent, having put away its sixth straight Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference title already this season.Dwight School of New York and returnee Greenhill School of Dallas -- featuring last year's top individual finisher, Justin Gagnon -- are the other expected front-runners.

Marita Davison awoke one recent morning to a picturesque landscape. From her dormitory room at McDonogh School, she saw horses on a far-off, snow-covered hill. Icicles sparkled on corral fences and hardwood trees."It's like a fantasyland," Marita, a 16-year-old senior, said of the wintry scene. "Everyone here is really proud to have such a beautiful school."For more than a century, a bucolic setting has helped form the Owings Mills school's identity. It is an important asset -- important enough to inspire McDonogh the prep school to become McDonogh the developer.

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped down from their Apollo 11 moon lander 40 years ago tomorrow, they seemed to move in their bulky spacesuits with an unlikely ease. Only a handful of the millions watching them on TV that night knew that many of the spacewalking skills and tools developed during the missions leading up to the historic landing had their origins in a 75-foot swimming pool at the McDonogh School in Owings Mills. Three years earlier, at a time when U.S. astronauts were failing miserably in their first attempts to move and work effectively outside their spacecraft, it was a pair of Randallstown researchers -- Sam Mattingly and Harry Loats -- who persuaded NASA that underwater training was the best way to simulate the challenges of getting the job done in outer space.

Philip H. Lohrey Sr., a retired insurance broker and former University of Baltimore wrestling coach, died Friday of complications from a stroke at Stella Maris Hospice. The Timonium resident was 80. Born in Baltimore and raised near Patterson Park, he was awarded a scholarship to McDonogh School after his father died when he was 11. He graduated from the Owings Mills school in 1946 and attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and earned his bachelor's degree from Loyola College in 1949.

On May 29, 2009, PHILIP H. LOHREY, a resident of Stella Maris, Timonium, MD, beloved husband of Betty J. Lohrey for 58 years and devoted father of Philip H. Lohrey, Jr. of Cockeysville, MD, Patrick X. Lohrey of York, PA, Peter L. Lohrey of Lynhurst, NJ, Paul C. Lohrey and his wife, Tamara of West Chester, PA and David M. Lohrey and his wife, Kim of West Simbury, CT. Also survived by 12 grand A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Stella Maris...

J. Paul Bright Jr., a former partner in the Baltimore law firm of Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver and a World War II veteran, died Dec. 31 of complications of a stroke at Roland Park Place. He was 86. Mr. Bright was born in Ventnor, N.J., and raised in Wilmington, Del. He was a 1941 graduate of McDonogh School and attended Dickinson College for two years before enlisting in the Army in 1943. A cryptographer, he served in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. He was discharged in 1945 with the rank of staff sergeant.

At 94, E. Carey Kenney's brush is as busy as ever, and the celebrated Pikesville artist who headed the art department at McDonogh School for 33 years before retiring in 1980 is afraid his wife might divorce him if he keeps on painting. "I've got a double garage and two rooms in the house filled with paintings. Some of them are completed and others are nearly completed," Kenney said with a laugh the other day. Kenney is excited that McDonogh School, where he began teaching in 1947, is publishing E. Carey Kenney's McDonogh this month.

A 16-year-old McDonogh School student was charged with first-degree murder in the death yesterday of his mother in their Towson home, Baltimore County police said. It is the second time in three months that a county teen has been accused of killing a parent. Lewin Carlton Powell III was arrested and charged as an adult last night with killing Donna Rosemarie Campbell-Powell, 39, an employee of the county Office of Budget and Finance, according to Baltimore County court documents. Powell was also charged with the attempted murder of his father, who goes by the same name.

Robert Francis Lindsey Sr., a Baltimore businessman who had been a star athlete at McDonogh School and Washington and Lee University, died Tuesday of lung cancer at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. He was 53. Mr. Lindsey who was born in Easton, came to Baltimore in 1968 to attend McDonogh School, then a military school, in Owings Mills. "He was the school's last lieutenant colonel and first student body president. He also won every athletic award at McDonogh," said a son, Robert F. Lindsey Jr. of New York City.

Carroll County : Westminster House fire causes $550,000 damage A house fire caused more than $500,000 in damage yesterday in a Westminster neighborhood near the Wakefield Valley Golf Course, fire officials said. The fire, which began on the rear deck of a two-story frame house in the first block of Golden Eagle Court, was discovered shortly after noon, the state fire marshal's office said. The fire also damaged three nearby houses and a van, authorities said. Deputy Chief Fire Marshal Allen Gosnell said the fire, which took 30 minutes to control, caused about $550,000 in damage.

When Stephanie Dennis learned yesterday morning that her teenage son's school bus had been in an accident, she rushed to the scene and saw a cluster of rescue workers and police cruisers. It didn't take long for the workers to spot Dennis and other parents who had arrived at the intersection, in the Gwynn Oak area of Baltimore County. "They immediately approached us and said those words that you always want to hear - `All the kids are OK,'" said Dennis, of Catonsville. "Once you hear that, then your mind is put at ease.

Frayda Salkin, McDonogh School archivist, took a ride down Interstate 81 this past Monday with Gen. Robert E. Lee to Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. Well, sort of. What Salkin was delivering in a locked, fireproof box was the last letter written by the Confederate general turned college president, on Sept. 28, 1870. Lee had assumed the presidency of Washington College (now Washington and Lee) six months after the surrender of his forces at Appomattox Court House, Va., in 1865.