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May 5 is more than just the date of Adele "Deli" Strummer's appearance at College of Notre Dame. It's also the anniversary of her release from a Nazi concentration camp. Strummer has since worked as a medical researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. She is also president of the Zarhar Remembrance Fund. Join Strummer on Saturday as she recalls her experience as a Holocaust survivor. Pianist Nancy Roldan and violinist Jose Miguel Cueto will also perform.

Freshman midfielder Michael Kimmel scored one minute into the four-minute, sudden-death overtime period as third-seeded Johns Hopkins defeated Notre Dame, 11-10, in an opening-round game of the NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament last night at Homewood Field. Kimmel beat midfielder Taylor Clagett from behind and right of the goal to pull out the win for the Blue Jays, who advanced to the quarterfinals Saturday at Princeton University. Kimmel, out of Loyola High, didn't have one of his better games this season, but he had his biggest goal.

Julia Bouchelle Notre Dame Prep, midfield An under-17 national pool player and the Blazers' focal point, the four-year standout brings incredible ball skills, good vision and experience. Ali Brennan McDonogh, defense A dominating presence at center back, the 5-foot-11 junior, who had four goals and seven assists in 2006, will have an impact in all facets with her high ball skills and athleticism. Amanda Carta St. Vincent Pallotti, goalie Defense will be the Panthers' foundation and the starting point is with Carta, who went 16-2-1 and allowed just nine goals in the team's run to the Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference title game.

COLLEGE PARK -- For a half, the Notre Dame women's basketball team played third-ranked Maryland about as close to the scouting report as could be expected, taking away its interior game and transition offense, daring the Terps to win the game from the perimeter. Maryland took the dare and beat the 23rd-ranked Fighting Irish, 75-59, last night to earn a berth in tomorrow's Preseason Women's National Invitation Tournament championship game against No. 4 LSU at Comcast Center. LSU@Maryland Preseason WNIT final, tomorrow, 3 p.m.

Patricia L. Geritz, an administrative assistant who danced with the Chanticleer Lovelies as a young woman, died Feb. 4 of complications from bowel surgery at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Towson. She was 74. Born Patricia Lilly, she was raised in Homeland and attended Notre Dame Preparatory School from kindergarten until she graduated from high school in 1950. She would walk the mile from her home to the school's former location at what is now the College of Notre Dame of Maryland campus.

So, what makes the Hunt Valley Antiques Show Preview Party so young and fresh, even in its 37th year? "We do!" said event co-chair Kathleen Jensen with a laugh. She may have been joking, but she may also have been right. She and co-chair Cara Shea Kohler headed up the 60-member committee that put together this annual fundraiser for Family and Children's Services of Central Maryland. With many of the organizers younger than 40 years old, the combo of young and old proved to be the ticket.

When Navy linebacker Ram Vela took a flying leap over a Notre Dame blocking back with less than a minute to go in regulation of Navy's 46-44, triple overtime victory last Saturday, he became a YouTube star and a role model for an NFL linebacker. It isn't what he planned. "I just wanted to make the play," Vela said. "I had missed a sack [by inches] earlier in the game. I felt like I'd let the whole team down. I thought I had lost the game for us and the weight of the world was on my shoulders."

On January 22, 2007, HELEN HULSHOFF (nee Polianski); beloved mother of Barbara A. Cohn, Joan M. Fitzpatrick and Mary R. Stitz. Also survived by seven grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Service and interment private. Contributions may be made to the School Sisters of Notre Dame, 6401 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21212. Arrangements by the family owned Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc.

At a college in a small town in Ghana where students don't have textbooks, or books of any sort actually, the American professor faced a quandary. Some of the books she kept for them, in a makeshift, bricks-and-boards library in her office, were getting too old and tattered for lending out, but how could she throw them away? So she piled them under a sign saying that any of her students with perfect attendance could take one to keep. "Each one was more worn than the next -- no cover, raggedy, dog-eared -- and yet students would take 20 minutes to pick through them," Sister Kathleen Feeley said.

From the beginning, we're hooked by the Darwinian nature of sports. We trust that at the final buzzer, the best team will be the one left standing. It's this simple and unalienable truth that keeps us coming back for more, that encourages us to wave foam fingers and build our entire week around three hours of weekend couch time. I love that the best competitor reaps the rewards, and I like that after the season the soil is tilled and every team has the chance to start anew. But I should probably make a confession: While I love the idea of parity in sports, too often, the practice of it puts me to sleep.

Capitals 4, Flyers 2 Semin, Ovechkin lead Caps to fifth consecutive victory Alexander Semin returned from a two-game absence with a tiebreaking goal and an assist, Jose Theodore stopped Darroll Powe's penalty shot later in the third period, and the host Washington Capitals beat the Philadelphia Flyers, 4-2, on Tuesday night. Alex Ovechkin scored two goals - including an empty-netter in the final minute - and Nicklas Backstrom had four points for the Capitals. The Southeast Division leaders rallied from a 2-0 deficit to stretch their winning streak to five games.

As strong, cold winds whipped across the grass playing field at Notre Dame Prep on Wednesday, the No. 8 Blazers field hockey team did all it could to get the home team victory. But No. 2 Garrison Forest refused to give way. In the end, after regulation and a 10-minute overtime, the sides settled for a scoreless tie. "It was a hard game," said Grizzlies goalie Emily Cain, who was under heavy attack most of the contest. "In overtime, you can put the most heart into it. It's a big field.

WNBA Toliver leads Sky past Fever, helps Chicago near playoffs Kristi Toliver (Maryland) came off the bench to score 19 points, Candice Dupree and Mistie Bass had 15 points each and the host Chicago Sky beat the Eastern Conference-leading Indiana Fever for the first time in four meetings this season, 86-79, on Thursday night. "Anytime you can get that kind of contribution from the bench and then your starters come along [and] finish the game for you, that's a huge thing," said Chicago coach Steven Key, whose team closed in on a postseason berth.

Navy (0-0) at No. 6 Ohio State (0-0) When: : Noon TV: : ESPN Radio: : 1090 AM, 1430 AM Line: : Ohio State by 21 1/2 Series record: : Ohio State leads 3-0-0 Last meeting: : 1981 Liberty Bowl, Ohio State, 31-28 Come to pass? : While preparing for Navy's triple-option offense during spring practices, the Buckeyes studied the scheme instead of focusing on the personnel. The Midshipmen lost many of their offensive skill players, including four of their top five rushers and their top wide receiver.

From his job at a drug company in San Diego, Patrick Donohue could see how much the nation needed pharmacists. So the Baltimore native made a practical decision to go back to school and train for a career that seemed recession-proof. What he didn't realize is that he'd also get to be a pioneer. When Donohue and 69 others start courses at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland today, they will become the first class of the first school of pharmacy at an American women's college. Notre Dame will become the second institution in Maryland to train professional pharmacists.

Two days after he was waived by the New York Jets almost a year ago, Bryan Mattison found a new home with the Ravens. And as ecstatic as he was to continue his NFL career, a small part of Mattison was reluctant to make the move - and it had nothing to do with AFC rivalries. Bryan Mattison is the son of Greg Mattison, then the Ravens linebackers coach and now the defensive coordinator. That relationship gave Bryan Mattison pause. "It was great, but then you think to yourself - not ever questioning whether you're going to do it or not - 'Now I'm going to have to deal with this and deal with that,' " Mattison, 25, recalled.

Pamela B. Mitchell, a retired businesswoman and recovering alcoholic, died from lung cancer July 3 at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The longtime Towson resident was 65. Pamela Bobbett was born in Baltimore and raised in Northwood. She was a 1961 graduate of Eastern High School and earned a bachelor's degree from Western Maryland College in 1965. She later earned a master's degree in business from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland in 1993. From 1965 to 1980, Mrs. Mitchell was employed as a vocational counselor and later was a training staff development officer for the state of Maryland.

Sister Helen Fish, a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame and a licensed addictions counselor who as a recovering alcoholic used her own addiction to help inspire others to regain their lives, died of pneumonia June 19 at St. Joseph Medical Center. Sister Helen was 76. She was born Helen May Fish in Baltimore and raised in Govans. She attended the Institute of Notre Dame and then worked briefly as a clerk for Penn Lumber Co. before entering the School Sisters of Notre Dame in 1953.

Sister Melmarie Gentry, a retired teacher who was a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, died of pneumonia Wednesday at St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 85. Born Mary Eleanor Gentry in Baltimore, she attended parochial schools at the SS. Philip and James, St. Bernard and Blessed Sacrament parishes. She graduated from the Institute of Notre Dame and attended St. Agnes Junior College before entering the School Sisters of Notre Dame in 1943. She took the religious name Melmarie. Sister Melmarie taught mathematics at the junior high and secondary levels in Baltimore, Frostburg, Catonsville, Hagerstown, Annapolis and Cumberland.

Daniel Walsh Wilson, who grew up working in his family's New Jersey dairy and later established a career in insurance sales, died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Cockeysville resident was 75. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 1955, he worked in the family business until it was sold. Mr. Wilson moved to Cockeysville in 1968 and took a job with Metropolitan Life Insurance before joining the John Hancock Insurance Company. He retired in 1997.