Office Manager

Carroll Lutheran Village appoints office managerPatricia Morrill of Westminster has been hired as office manager for Carroll Lutheran Village.Her duties will be to organize her staff's workload, supervise clerical staff and receptionists, order supplies and materials and oversee her department's budget.Former secretary to the Village chaplain, Morrill has six years' experience as a support staff member and office manager.She is married to the Rev. John Morrill, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church.

Susan Stephens, 18, has learned a bitter lesson in the 18 months since she graduated from Walkersville High School.Stephens, of Union Bridge, was one of at least 23 people bilked by William Virgillio III of Baltimore County, who pleaded guilty yesterday in Carroll County Circuit Court to an employment swindle. Prosecutors said he stole more than $11,000 from victims lured to his Westminster office with promises of jobs paying $13 an hour and more.Virgillio, 29, and Darcelle C. Callow, 25, were indicted by a Carroll County grand jury in February.

William 'Neil' Taylor, 74, office managerWilliam C. "Neil" Taylor, a longtime office manager, died of respiratory failure Dec. 24 at the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation and Extended Care Facility. He was 74.For 20 years, the Baltimore native was a general manager for Raymond Geddes & Co., a school-supply firm. He retired in 1985. Earlier, he was a manager for Garrett Buchanan Paper Co.Mr. Taylor, who graduated from Calvert Hall College high school in 1941 and attended Loyola College, was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Army Air Forces and was a pilot from 1943 to 1946.

LEESBURG, Fla. -- Kevin Kent, director of international relations for a California software company, was cruising the Internet when he found it.He was searching electronic bulletin boards for bargains on Macintosh computers. He discovered what he wanted in a posting by Matt King's Mac Outlet in Leesburg.What Mr. Kent didn't find out until much later is that he had placed his $10,000 order with a business run by a 13-year-old kid."Whoa, I knew he was relatively young, but I thought maybe a college student," Mr. Kent said.

Sue Pakulla appointed sales office managerSue Pakulla of Ellicott City has been appointed sales office manager in Eldersburg for O'Conor, Piper & Flynn.Ms. Pakulla is certified in real estate brokerage management and as a career development specialist. She is a member of the Carroll County Board of Realtors.Bob Berndt joins Saval FoodsBob Berndt has joined Saval Foods in Dorsey to coordinate its expansion from deli to full-line food service distribution.He spent more than 5 years as the vice president and owner/partner in General Foods.

New positions* Duron Inc., Maryland-based makers of paints and wall coverings, announced the appointment of Thomas K. Schwartzbeck as chief operating officer and executive vice president.* Baltimore International Culinary College appointed Daryl Burchfield food and beverage director of its Mount Vernon Hotel and Washington Cafe. Named assistant innkeeper at BICC's Government House was Dawn Welsh.* Catholic Charities selected Gayle V. Economos director of communications.* Historic Inns of Annapolis named Tina Lutzi manager of the Treaty of Paris Restaurant.

Dale Buntin has been appointed loan originator for the National Mortgage Corp.'s Anne Arundel County office.Ms. Buntin was assistant vice president and branch manager for the Second National Federal Savings Bank in Edgewater.She began her banking career with First Virginia Bank and Maryland National before joining Second National in 1984. She was promoted to manager in 1986.Midshipman's picture in professional bookBeau Simmons' photograph of a midshipman will appear in a book titled "Professional Photography of America," published by the Professional Photographers' Association.

In the review of the movie "Glengarry Glen Ross" in Maryland Live, the actor Alec Baldwin was identified incorrectly as Alex Baldwin.The Sun regrets the errors.You have to know the territory and David Mamet knows iwell: self-doubt, desperation, flaming greed, hunger, terror, and, finally, the will to close in for the kill. The hunter-gatherer's operative mind-set, be he a cave man stalking a mammoth, a Marine sniper stalking an enemy general, or a salesmanstalking a recalcitrant victim.Thus the real estate office of his "Glengarry Glen Ross" is less a warren of desks and files than some sort of primal glade.

In some unique offices throughout the county, it's not uncommon for a single receptionist to answer five or six consecutive phone calls for five or six quite different companies.One call might come in for an insurance agent, another for an international business consultant, yet another for a regional sales manager of a major corporation. The receptionist handles several phone lines, each in the name of theindividual company.The concept of executive suites -- one of shared office space andservices -- blossomed in the mid-1980s.

Sometimes it comes in the form of an epiphany, a sudden revelation of what matters. Other times, it's a matter of evolution, the gradual realization that this is what must be.Either way, any way, some people find themselves deciding, in a nation that prizes material well-being, that they are going to do without it.What we're talking about here is people who have it within their grasp to make a nice, comfortable middle-class or upper-middle-class living, but...

Dorothy C. Toler, a retired office manager and former Catonsville resident, died of congestive heart failure May 7 at St. Agnes Hospital. She was 86. Dorothy Cratch was born and raised in Washington, N.C., where she graduated from high school. After her 1942 marriage to Dumay Toler, the couple settled in Baltimore, where her husband attended the Maryland Institute College of Art. During the 1940s, she was a buyer for Hochschild Kohn department store. She left in 1949 to raise her family.

Elizabeth B. Green, a retired secretary and office manager, died May 4 of pneumonia at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. She was 83. Elizabeth Belknap was born in Baltimore and raised on Beechdale Road in Roland Park. She was a 1944 graduate of Garrison Forest School. Mrs. Green was employed as secretary and office manager for the Boy Scouts of America in Baltimore for 26 years. She retired in the early 1990s. She was an active communicant of St. David's Episcopal Church where she had been a member of the Altar Guild and choir mother for the Boys' Choir.

Kenneth David Mitchell, a retired office manager and World War II veteran, died Friday at a nursing home in Davis, Calif. The former longtime Idlewylde resident was 88. Mr. Mitchell, who had moved to Davis five weeks ago, was born in Kelso, Wash. When he was an infant, he moved with his family to Mannasota Avenue in Northeast Baltimore. He was a 1938 graduate of City College and attended Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College. During World War II, he enlisted in the Army Air Forces and served with the 5th Air Force in Italy as a bombardier and navigator aboard B-24 Liberator bombers.

$39.99 for Sony PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Rated Everyone ** (2 STARS) Let us state the obvious: This game isn't for everyone. In fact, baseball fans, unless you've memorized cold the science of everything from Rule 5 drafts to the difference between someone who's designated for assignment and out of options, the first version of MLB Front Office Manager probably isn't for you, either. It's not for lack of trying. On the surface, Manager appears to have everything a good general manager simulator needs.

Charles L. Hammond Jr., a retired office manager and senior buyer who had fought during World War II with the famed Devil's Brigade, died Monday of complications of heart disease at Carroll Hospice's Dove House in Westminster. He was 88. Mr. Hammond, the son of farmers, was born and raised in Reisterstown. As a teenager, he became a noted cattle judge and traveled all over the country judging Holsteins, relatives said. After graduating in 1937 from Franklin High School, where he had been a varsity pitcher, he pursued a professional baseball career.

Ann Louise Peace, a retired office manager, homemaker and volunteer, died of heart failure Aug. 28 at Pickersgill Retirement Community in Towson. She was 88. Ann Louise Thomas was born in Baltimore and raised on Canterbury Road. After graduating from Bryn Mawr School in 1938, she attended the old Hawkins Office Training School on North Charles Street, and went to work as a typist for the Baker-Whiteley Towing Co. During the 1960s and 1970s, Mrs. Peace returned to work as an office manager for the Thomas and Thompson Co., the East Baltimore Street drugstore that had been founded by her family in 1872.

Dorothy S. Childs, a former office manager and longtime Towson homemaker, died of pneumonia Sunday at St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 88. Dorothy Sands was born in Baltimore and raised in Cedarcroft. She was a 1936 graduate of Western High School and attended the University of Maryland in College Park. During the late 1930s, she worked in the payroll department of the old Glenn L. Martin Co. in Middle River and then took a job in 1940 working with a team of scientists on the Manhattan Project, which led to the creation of the atomic bomb.

A former office manager for a Columbia law firm pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing almost $706,000 from the company - one of the largest embezzlement cases in county history, according to the state's attorney's office. Christine McClain-Sloane, 41, used company checks to pay for personal expenses for six of the 11 years she worked at Nagle and Zaller PC, the Howard County state's attorney's office said. McClain-Sloane pleaded guilty to two counts of felony theft scheme, and Howard Circuit Judge Diane O. Leasure revoked her bail.

Warren V. Strader, a retired office manager and former Woodbine resident, died of lung disease Sunday at Fairhaven Retirement Community in Sykesville. He was 85. Mr. Strader was born and raised in Gregory, W.Va. He graduated from Doddridge County High School in 1941. From 1942 to 1945, he served in the Army as a private in an infantry unit. After World War II, he attended West Virginia University and earned a bachelor's degree in 1949. Mr. Strader was an industrial arts teacher in Howard County public schools from 1950 to 1953 and then worked for five years as a salesman in Washington for International Harvester.

Jacqueline C. Boyle, office manager of Transamerica Life Insurance Co.'s Weinberg Brokerage Group for 38 years, died of cancer complications Thursday at her Lutherville home. She was 61. Born in Baltimore and raised on O'Donnell Street in Canton, she was a 1964 graduate of Patterson High School and began her work in the life insurance industry as a brokerage clerk. "During her 38-year career, she processed many billions of dollars in life insurance pollicies," said her employer, Peter Weinberg.