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Education symposium to hear Ulman Howard County Executive Ken Ulman will speak at an educational symposium, organized by the Young Professionals Network of the Howard County Chamber of Commerce, to be held from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday on the Columbia campus of the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. Local educators, business people and professionals will discuss leadership, image management, community participation and careers and business in Maryland. The event is to kick off the academic year at the business school's Professional Career Services.

BaseballAstros: Purchased the contract of P Joe Slusarski from Triple-A New Orleans.Brewers: Activated P Jeff D'Amico. Fired assistant GM Fred Stanley and scouting director Ken Califano.Reds: Activated 1B Hal Morris.Rockies: OF John Cangelosi retired.BasketballMavericks: Named Kiki Vandeweghe assistant coach.CollegeAmerica East: Named Boston University's Allison Merkle (Catholic) women's soccer Rookie of the Week.Loyola: Brianne Higgins and Kristin Longo were named to first-team collegiate honor roll by US Rowing.

Bryn Mawr Mawrtians1997 record: 12-6Coach: AnneMarie MerowTop players: Sarah Cook, Sr., M; Elizabeth Knight, Sr., F/M; Teresa Sherry, Jr., F; Sarah Isaacs, Jr., D; Nadia Chornodolsky, -- Jr., M; Katie Mack, Jr., F.Outlook: The Mawrtians lost just three seniors and they should be a team to reckon with in the Catholic League B Division. In addition to returning a skilled, balanced squad, Merow has added some solid freshmen. The midfield is solid all over, Sherry (22 goals) will pace the attack and Isaacs and returning keeper Charlotte Elder anchor the defense.

Catholic girls soccer coach Jerry Dieter has just one problem with senior Allison Merkle -- she can't be in two places at once.For two years, Merkle dominated the midfield for a powerhouse Cubs team that was ranked as high as No. 4 in the nation. She helped the Cubs win the Catholic League A Division championship and earn the final No. 1 ranking last fall, but much has changed.Few starters remain on a young team that has been lacking in confidence and offensive punch. Before Tuesday's 3-1 win over Institute of Notre Dame, the Cubs were winless and had scored only once.

Carroll Community College is competing for part of the $3 million that Gov. Parris N. Glendening has set aside to promote technology training for employees in private businesses.Because the business that drives Carroll County is agriculture, the college is focusing its grant proposal on serving farmers, said Karen Merkle, vice president for extended learning and innovative technology at CCC.The college is developing the application with community colleges in Howard, Frederick, Montgomery and Washington counties, and the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service.

Carroll Community College was awarded a $325,000 grant yesterday to establish a regional center that will provide high technology training to the agricultural industry in Carroll, Howard, Washington and Montgomery counties.The grant is part of a $2.8 million statewide initiative announced by Gov. Parris N. Glendening to promote technology training for employees in private business.The "advanced technology centers" will be based at community colleges throughout Maryland.Glendening approved the funding yesterday for nine centers that will offer courses at 19 community colleges.

BaseballMajor League Baseball: Arizona Diamondbacks won coin toss and will make second and third selections in expansion draft Tuesday. Tampa Bay Devil Rays will get first and fourth choices. Arizona will have all odd-numbered picks rest of draft.BasketballMagic: Promoted Stephen Giles to scouting coordinator.Nets: Placed G Lucious Harris (broken bone in his right hand) on injured list. Activated F Jack Haley from injured list.WNBA: Signed F Cindy Brown.CollegeBig South: Named UMBC junior outside hitter Lisa Cline volleyball Player of the Year, UMBC's Megan McNamara to first team and teammate Lanne Baker to second team.

Deale woman killed in automobile collisionA Deale woman was killed Monday when the car in which she was riding ran a red light at Bay Front and Solomons Island roads and struck another car, county police said.Elizabeth Lenhart Merkle, 68, of the 6000 block of Melbourne Ave. was killed instantly. Her son, William Wayne Merkle, 43, of the same address, who was driving, was not injured.The driver of the other car, Donald Raymond Winchell, 48, of the 1700 black of Quantico Court in Edgewater, suffered hip and internal injuries, officials said.

Mario Russell is sitting at the piano in Marjorie Liss' fourth-floor studio at the preparatory school of the Peabody Institute listening intently to the viola part in the piece he is working on with fellow student Paula Merkle."

A Lothian man who was begging for gasoline on a Texaco station parking lot Monday morning was arrested after a police officer looked into his car and saw what was described as a beer can that had been turned into a pipe.Officer William Merkle went to the station at Route 408 and Route 4 in Waysons Corner about 2 a.m. to check on a report about a man begging for gasoline. He saw a 1982 Cadillac Seville idling near some pumps. As he neared the car, he saw the pipe in a cup holder on the car's floorboard, police said.

Advertising * MGH announced the appointments of Robyn Bowers as media assistant, Katie Beach and Rusty Walters as word-of-mouth account coordinators, and Christopher LaRoche as traffic coordinator for the Owings Mills-based marketing communications agency. Education * John Hopkins University appointed Alison G. Milligan as senior director of its engineering for professionals program. She was formerly an engineering manager with LSI Logic Inc. Legal * McGuire Woods LLP announced that Jessica D. Fegan joined the law firm as an associate in the business and securities litigation department of its Baltimore office.

Incubator client gets federal pact Information Technology Corp., a client of the Center for Business and Technology Development's NeoTech Incubator, has signed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar contract with the U.S. Department of Labor. The company will help with Web site support and development, designing additions and modifications to the Labor Department Web site and supporting and improving its searchable databases. The contract is expected to stimulate significant growth for the company, which was established in 1999.

Inside the coffee lounge at Merkle Inc.'s soon-to-be-old Lanham headquarters is a countdown clock for the company's move to Columbia. It's T-minus 16 days and ticking. The move couldn't come fast enough for the database marketing company, which hired more than 80 employees since the beginning of the year to accommodate new business. Merkle expects to hire as many as 90 additional people by the end of the year as well as add 20 percent more employees annually for the next four years. By 2012, Merkle's work force in Howard County could more than double to 900. The company now has about 1,100 employees nationwide.

On September 21, 2007, ADELINE MERKLE (nee Kilmer), beloved wife of the late Harry J. Merkle, loving mother of Carol Clapp, Gerald Merkle, Paula Burke, Donna Button and the late Ted Merkle; cherished grandmother of nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Memorial service will be held at the First Lutheran Church of Gray Manor, Sunday, September 30 at 2 P.M. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the First Lutheran Church of Gray Manor, 212 Oakwood Road, Dundalk, MD, 21222.

Education symposium to hear Ulman Howard County Executive Ken Ulman will speak at an educational symposium, organized by the Young Professionals Network of the Howard County Chamber of Commerce, to be held from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday on the Columbia campus of the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. Local educators, business people and professionals will discuss leadership, image management, community participation and careers and business in Maryland. The event is to kick off the academic year at the business school's Professional Career Services.

On February 27, 2007, GRACE EDNA MERKLE; sister in-law of Adeline Merkle. Also survived by nieces, nephews and other family members. Service and interment are private.

Howard County is getting a new corporate headquarters in Columbia's Gateway Office Park, and a better computer system for registering children for summer recreational programs. Those two very different announcements represent County Executive Ken Ulman's macro vs. micro appeal in his first State of the County speech yesterday to about 300 people at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon at Turf Valley. Moving Merkle, a database marketing firm, is planning to make Columbia home. pg D1

Merkle Inc., a Lanham-based database marketing agency, said yesterday that it would move its headquarters to Howard County and hire more than 550 employees over the next five years - bringing its local work force to about 900 by 2012. The company has about 350 workers at its Lanham headquarters who will be relocated and about 1,000 employees nationwide. Merkle also has offices in Hagerstown, Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle. "We've been located in [Prince George's]

On June 27, 2006, ADDIE LEE (nee Rittenhouse) GOURLEY MERKLE, of North Fort Myers, FL and Timonium; wife of the late John F. Gourley, Jr. and Frederick W. Merkle; devoted mother of John F. Gourley III (Janice) of N. Fort Myers, Frank Rittenhouse Gourley (Lavania) of York, PA, Thomas Lee Gourley (Sylvia) of Englewood, FL and Donald C. Gourley of Baltimore; stepmother of Gretchen Merkle Hodgin of San Francisco, Frederick Merkle, Jr. and Curtis Merkle, both of Maryland and Jeri Merkle of Oregon.

On June 27, 2006, ADDIE LEE (nee Rittenhouse) GOURLEY MERKLE, of North Fort Myers, FL and Timonium; wife of the late John F. Gourley, Jr. and Frederick W. Merkle; devoted mother of John F. Gourley III (Janice) of N. Fort Myers, Frank Rittenhouse Gourley (Lavania) of York, PA, Thomas Lee Gourley (Sylvia) of Englewood, FL and Donald C. Gourley of Baltimore; stepmother of Gretchen Merkle Hodgin of San Francisco, Frederick Merkle, Jr. and Curtis Merkle, both of Maryland and Jeri Merkle of Oregon.