Nursing Home

Elizabeth S. Cissel, whose career as a private school educator spanned more than 30 years, died Tuesday at a Belfast, Maine, nursing home from complications of a fall. The former longtime Roland Park resident was 90. The daughter of an insurance executive and a homemaker, the former Elizabeth Short was born in Salisbury and raised in Ednor Gardens. She was a 1939 graduate of Notre Dame Preparatory School and Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., which was then a two-year college.

Editor: On Aug. 20, 2011 at 11 a.m., several members of Ames UMC met at the church to join Pastor Thomas J. Blake for "Back to School Prayer" at several Harford County Schools. It was the vision of Rev. Alicia Blake (the late wife of Rev. Blake), thus making it an extra special blessing to be able to pray for our schools and for all involved in and around our schools as well as honor her dream!  Before leaving the church, we gathered in the church vestibule, and prayed asking for God's anointing for our first Back to School Prayer.

David Lucien Gaudreau, a retired engineer and builder, died of congestive heart failure July 12 at his Naples, Fla., home. He was 93. Born in Braintree, Mass., he was the son of architect Lucien E.D. Gaudreau, who moved to Baltimore in the 1920s as a project architect for the construction of St. Mary's Seminary in Roland Park. Mr. Gaudreau was a 1937 graduate of Calvert Hall College High School, where he earned 10 varsity letters in football, baseball, basketball and swimming.

Timonium-based Mid-Atlantic Health Care LLC, which owns and operates six senior care facilities in Maryland and one in Delaware, said Friday that it bought five skilled nursing centers in Philadelphia from the NewCourtland Network for $75 million. Mid-Atlantic officials said the acquisition includes 1,200 beds, or a quarter of the Philadelphia market, and makes Mid-Atlantic one of the largest nursing companies in the region. Mid-Atlantic plans to retain NewCourtland's 1,200 employees and honor a 3 percent pay increase workers were expecting.

What a disservice your article did to the many wonderful community colleges that were sneered at in "'Cooling out' poor, minority kids in community college" (May 9). I am sure there are millions of people who disagree with you. I know many students who attended community college and then went on to successful careers. I was talking to a young lady recently who is an aide in a nursing home. She enrolled in Cecil Community College to become a registered nurse. But she was not complaining about how the educational community is unfair to her as a poor, white woman.

Dorothy Marie Arnold, a homemaker who earlier had worked in the credit department of Sears Roebuck & Co., died March 18 of dementia at a nursing home in Oldsmar, Fla. The former longtime Joppa resident was 89. Dorothy Marie Rohleder was born in Baltimore and raised on Wolfe Street. She graduated from Eastern High School in 1937. When she was 16, she married Joshua E. Arrington Sr., whom she later divorced. During World War II, she worked as a riveter at the old Glenn L. Martin Co. plant in Middle River.

A 22-year-old Howard County man — stabbed last year during a domestic dispute in Southwest Baltimore — died last week, police said. Charles Hopson of the 4900 block of Blue Wing Court was found lying in a driveway of a home in the 1100 block of Cooks Lane on March 31, 2010. He was placed on life support and moved to a nursing home, where he died from his injuries on March 5. Detective Kevin Brown, a city police spokesman, said investigators believe the stabbing was domestic-related and they have a suspect.