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The search continues for people to blame in the death of Wayne Martin Rabb Jr. The 15-year-old was fatally shot Feb. after he was chased from the parking lot of a video store.As fate would have it, Rabb was a student at Northern High School. He had been beaten nearly unconscious in front of the school Jan. 16. Police and school officials believe the first beating and Rabb's shooting might be linked. A former Northern student was arrested last week and charged with killing Rabb.So the answer's simple: Blame the school.

As he stood at the altar of the Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation, Bishop John L. Rabb choked up, then dabbed at tears with his handkerchief. A hymn-filled service Saturday at the North Baltimore cathedral marked Rabb's retirement after more than a decade as bishop suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. In that role, Rabb has been one of the top leaders in the diocese, overseeing ordination of clergy and education. As visiting and retired bishops, clergy and parishioners from all over Maryland jammed the church on University Parkway, Rabb gave up the responsibilities of his office in a ceremonial handing over of his diocesan crozier, or staff, to Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton, Episcopal bishop of Maryland.

HAGERSTOWN -- Here in its geographic heart, members of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland gathered yesterday to witness the ordination of the Rt. Rev. John Leslie Rabb as their bishop suffragan.With the field house of St. James School transformed into a cathedral and filled with hundreds of the faithful, Rabb received the symbols of his office of bishop: a Bible, a ring, a cross, the holy oil called chrism, the pointed cap known as a miter and the shepherd's staff.Rabb wore a cope, a ceremonial cape used by bishops, that he designed in hues of blue and green that recalled "The Canticle of the Sun," a poem by St. Francis of Assisi.

John L. Rabb, bishop suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland for 12 years, is planning to step down on Jan. 1. "I am responding to what God is calling me to in a new season of ministry," Rabb, the second-highest-ranking Episcopal official in Maryland, told clergy and lay members of the diocese at the opening of their 226th convention Friday. "I will be doing a combination of teaching, continued work in ministry development, preaching in a different venue, my Franciscan studies and writing," Rabb said.

With a "decisive majority," the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland elected yesterday an Atlanta-based pastor who once led a Baltimore County parish to be its next suffragan bishop -- the diocese's second-highest post.The Rev. John L. Rabb, a former rector at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Arbutus, will replace Charles L. Longest, who retired in October after eight years in the post. Rabb is expected to take office in September.Rabb, 53, a native of Chicago, is known for his work on social issues in urban and suburban areas.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Free associate with REITs and you instantly think of the elite and grandiose world of real estate tycoons backed by Wall Street -- big-time operators who sit in mahogany boardrooms with gold-dipped chandeliers, pay cold cash for multimillion-dollar properties, and hop the company jet to visit their investments.All of that brings a chuckle to David Rabb, president of David Rabb Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT). His REIT is so tiny that it's barely known outside of a small circle of 200 investors, virtually all of whom Mr. Rabb knows by name.

On Saturday, October 2, MORRIS J. ALLIKER; beloved husband of the late Mollie Hollander Alliker; beloved father of Stanford Alliker of Cherry Hill, NJ and Melinda Rabb of Weston, Mass; father-in-law of Esta Rudman Alliker and James Rabb; beloved brother of Mildred Roskes and Bernice Cohn, both of Baltimore, MD; brother-in-law of the late Herman Roskes and Aber Cohn; adored grandfather of Benjamin and David Alliker, Daniel, Samuel and Sophia Rabb; great-grandfather...

On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, MOLLIE HOLLANDER ALLIKER, beloved wife of Morris J. Alliker; loving mother of Stanford Alliker, of Cherry Hill, NJ, and Melinda Rabb, of Newton, MA; mother-in- law of Esta Rudman Alliker and James Rabb; loving sister of Dr. Morton Hollander; sister-in-law of Ruth Hollander, Mildred Roskes, and Bernice Cohn; adored grandmother of Benjamin and David Alliker, and Daniel, Samuel, and Sophia Rabb; loving great-grandmother of...

A 16-year-old former Northern High School student was arrested yesterday and charged with the slaying of a schoolmate, the outcome of a month of violence among rival teens that spilled from school to the neighborhood and began over a carton of milk.Marcus Chambers was arrested at dawn at his home in the 5400 block of Belle Vista Ave., in Northeast Baltimore, and charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the slaying of a 15-year-old Feb. 6 near a neighborhood video store, said police spokesman Robert W. Weinhold Jr.Chambers was among 50 of Northern's most disruptive students who were thrown out of the school last month in an attempt by the administration to gain control over an unruly student body.

It was a month ago yesterday that Wayne Martin Rabb Jr. got "banked" outside Northern High School -- beaten and stomped so viciously by a group of fellow teens that he was left lying semiconscious, choking on his own blood.Today, 15-year-old Marty Rabb is dead, the victim of a Friday afternoon shooting that police suspect is an outgrowth of the January incident.There were signs that led parents and teachers to worry that the brewing conflict between Rabb and other students at the school was escalating to a dangerous level.

Lillian Elizabeth Springmann, an elementary school teacher whose career spanned nearly three decades, died of pneumonia Nov. 28 at Franklin Square Hospital. The former longtime Parkville resident was 97. Miss Springmann was born in Baltimore and raised on North Port Street. She was a 1929 graduate of Eastern High School and earned her teacher certification from the old Maryland State Normal School, now Towson University, in 1931. In the 1940s, Miss Springmann began attending night school at the Johns Hopkins University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in education in 1952.

On April 30, 2005, BERTHA MONDELL SHAPIRO (nee Myers), beloved wife of the late Alvin Mondell and Emanuel H. Shapiro; beloved mother of Gerald P. Mondell and Carol L. Zimmerman; loving mother-in-law of Linda H. Mondell and Steven Zimmerman; devoted sister of Evelyn Rosen, Robert Myers and the late Max E. Myers, Rose Brafman, Dorothy Citrenbaum and Belle Stanley; loving grandmother of Scott R. and Anne Mondell, Annie Richard, Aron Zimmerman and Michaelann Zimmerman...

On Saturday, October 2, MORRIS J. ALLIKER; beloved husband of the late Mollie Hollander Alliker; beloved father of Stanford Alliker of Cherry Hill, NJ and Melinda Rabb of Weston, Mass; father-in-law of Esta Rudman Alliker and James Rabb; beloved brother of Mildred Roskes and Bernice Cohn, both of Baltimore, MD; brother-in-law of the late Herman Roskes and Aber Cohn; adored grandfather of Benjamin and David Alliker, Daniel, Samuel and Sophia Rabb; great-grandfather...

On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, MOLLIE HOLLANDER ALLIKER, beloved wife of Morris J. Alliker; loving mother of Stanford Alliker, of Cherry Hill, NJ, and Melinda Rabb, of Newton, MA; mother-in- law of Esta Rudman Alliker and James Rabb; loving sister of Dr. Morton Hollander; sister-in-law of Ruth Hollander, Mildred Roskes, and Bernice Cohn; adored grandmother of Benjamin and David Alliker, and Daniel, Samuel, and Sophia Rabb; loving great-grandmother of...

Teaching as a rite of passage. That's the narrative that drives The First Year, a brilliant and moving little documentary that follows five new teachers through their first year in the Los Angeles public school system. It will leave you in awe at the dedication of some teachers and howling in anger at the insensitivity of some of the folks with whom they work. I say "little" because in the sea of huge, multi-part documentaries of which PBS seems so enamored, The First Year stands out like a small, perfectly sculpted and polished stone.

A Columbia man who was to leave for college next week was killed and four people were injured early yesterday when their car went out of control and struck a tree near Governor Warfield and Little Patuxent parkways, Howard County police said. The driver of the 1992 Honda Accord, Ade Wole Ruffin, 19, of the 5600 block of Thicket Lane, was pronounced dead at the scene by Howard County Fire and Rescue. Passengers Maurice Alfred Johnson, 21, of the 6500 block of Frietchie Row; Etienne Tolbert, 17, of the 11000 block of Avalanche Way; Varney Diggs, 18, of the 5600 block of New Country Lane; and Ruffin's cousin Waliyyuddin Rabb, 16, of the 5600 block of Thicket Lane were flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center with serious injuries.

On April 30, 2005, BERTHA MONDELL SHAPIRO (nee Myers), beloved wife of the late Alvin Mondell and Emanuel H. Shapiro; beloved mother of Gerald P. Mondell and Carol L. Zimmerman; loving mother-in-law of Linda H. Mondell and Steven Zimmerman; devoted sister of Evelyn Rosen, Robert Myers and the late Max E. Myers, Rose Brafman, Dorothy Citrenbaum and Belle Stanley; loving grandmother of Scott R. and Anne Mondell, Annie Richard, Aron Zimmerman and Michaelann Zimmerman...

HAGERSTOWN -- Here in its geographic heart, members of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland gathered yesterday to witness the ordination of the Rt. Rev. John Leslie Rabb as their bishop suffragan.With the field house of St. James School transformed into a cathedral and filled with hundreds of the faithful, Rabb received the symbols of his office of bishop: a Bible, a ring, a cross, the holy oil called chrism, the pointed cap known as a miter and the shepherd's staff.Rabb wore a cope, a ceremonial cape used by bishops, that he designed in hues of blue and green that recalled "The Canticle of the Sun," a poem by St. Francis of Assisi.