Park Country School

Emily Province Mink, daughter of Thomas Mink of Ruxton, MD and Sallie Mink, of Ruxton, and David Jerome Frank, son of Jerome John Frank and the late Mary Jane Spigelmire Frank, were married at Old St. Paul's Church in Baltimore, MD on September 20, 2003. Father Michael Wallens officiated and a reception followed at The Maryland Club. The maid of honor was Lindsay Walker. Bridesmaids were Anne Chemers, Eleanor Cordi, Cameron Proctor, Rachel Reily Della-Croce, Elizabeth Frank Kohart, sister of the groom, Maggie Shoemaker and Liza Shoemaker, stepsisters of the bride.

On Wednesday afternoons, Bryn Mawr School sophomore Lindsay Hamilton can be found in the Roland Park branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library helping Masuma Islam with her homework. Sitting at a small table in the basement, Lindsay goes over Latin, math and other assignments with Masuma, who attends Roland Park Middle School. Lindsay also teaches her organizational skills and memory tricks. "I'm more comfortable asking Lindsay questions," said Masuma, 11, a sixth-grader from the city's Remington neighborhood who has been working with Lindsay since October.

A group of 25 students of color left Baltimore yesterday and headed for Atlanta, the first stop on a five-day bus tour of historically black colleges and universities throughout the South. The trip, the first of its kind for students from area private schools, was organized by Kaliq Simms, an English teacher at Roland Park Country School in North Baltimore. She said she wanted to give the students, who are used to being in the minority, a different perspective on education. "The primary goal is to expose them to the black colleges," Simms said.

The Roland Park Community Foundation is considering the purchase of 18 acres of Baltimore Country Club land that has long been coveted as the last expanse of open space in the neighborhood. A deal would be the culmination of a lengthy campaign by community officials who believe the parcel - which includes tennis courts and a popular sledding hill - should be protected. David Koch, chairman of the foundation, said the neighborhood had long been interested in keeping the acres, considered "green space," free from commercial development.

Tom Stoppard's 1966 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead gets a nontraditional production this weekend and Aug. 2-3 by the Invisible Theatre Company, a 3-year-old troupe founded by five alumnae of Roland Park Country School. The play tells the story of Hamlet from the point of view of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two old school friends of the Danish prince who are minor characters in the Shakespeare work. Rather than cast both as males in this production, director Edie Catto has cast one male (Jonas Grey as Rosencrantz)

Although she is just 15, Peyton List is leading a double life. Since Nov. 26, she has been spending part of every week in New York playing the role of teen-ager Lucy Montgomery on the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns. The remainder of the week is spent at Roland Park Country School, hanging out with friends and taking classes. Peyton said she is splitting her time between the Big Apple and Baltimore because she wants to keep her acting life separate from her school life. "I love my job and am grateful for the opportunity to act," she said recently.

Sections of Northern Parkway and Roland Avenue will be closed today to allow work crews to set into place pedestrian bridges linking Gilman School, Bryn Mawr School and Roland Park Country School, weather permitting. Northern Parkway between North Charles Street and Roland Avenue will be closed from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. while the bridge linking Bryn Mawr School and Gilman School is set into place, school officials said. Roland Avenue between Deepdene Road and Northern Parkway will be closed from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. for a similar bridge project linking Gilman School and Roland Park Country School.

In Nancy Theobold Wehr's younger days, single-sex education for girls was just coming into vogue. Women's colleges had cropped up all over the East, and private institutions such as Roland Park Country School were founded as proper places for the city's wealthier set in a new "country" suburb to prepare their daughters for the rigors of college. Wehr was in the school's vanguard, enrolling at age 6. When Roland Park Country School celebrates its centennial with a parade Saturday, Wehr, 97, will be in the lead as the school's oldest living alumna.

Elizabeth P. Webb, 99, Roland Park school aide Elizabeth P. Webb, the retired executive assistant to the headmistress of Roland Park Country School, died of undetermined causes Tuesday at the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville. She was 99. The former Roland Park and Sudbrook Park resident had lived at Fairhaven since 1991. She was the last surviving member of Roland Park Country School's Class of 1921 and the oldest alumna of the school. From 1926 until retiring in 1968, Mrs. Webb was a familiar presence to generations of students at the North Baltimore girls school.

Roland Park Country School has survived wars, depressions, fires, social changes, rock 'n' roll, and four relocations during its 106-year history. Currently, its student body numbers some 706 girls who, in their blue uniforms, fill classrooms from kindergarten to 12th grade. Once an exclusive North Baltimore WASP academic preserve, the school includes students from numerous racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds who daily arrive from 86 ZIP codes. And today, , the school finds itself caught up in a major building boom that will increase its building size by 33 percent.