Rebecca

On March 27, 2007, DELORIES M.; beloved wife of Walter Bowling; dear mother of Sheila Hartman and Jennifer Godman; sister of Dorothy Happel, Sue Piquette, Jean Bichell, John and Tom Tierney; grandmother of Amanda and Michael Hartman Jr., Samantha, Earl, III and Rebecca Godman and Jennifer Hanner. Friends may call at the family owned GONCE FUNERAL SERVICE, P.A., 4001 Ritchie Highway, on Saturday and Sunday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Services on Monday, at 1 P.M. Interment in Meadowridge Memorial Park.

At Rebecca Poag's All Peoples Dining Room on Pennsylvania Avenue, patrons could get a helping of oxtail stew for less than a dollar, a bowl of beans for a quarter and perhaps the city's best short ribs meal for a buck and a half.With each meal came a dose of Mrs. Poag's southern hospitality. As owner of the West Baltimore restaurant, she tastefully blended good times and good food for more than 25 years.Mrs. Poag, who lived in West Baltimore for more than 60 years, died Saturday from complications of a stroke at Liberty Medical Center.

RESERVE the Barcalounger and pour me a tall, frosty mug of 1 percent milk. It's time for my kind of spectator sport -- the 1999 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee, which will be held today and tomorrow in Washington.Words are, ironically, almost insufficient to describe my love of spelling bees. In a sports-obsessed world, they are a non-athlete's sweet delight.They are pinnacles of studious achievement, showcases of familiarity with Latin roots, rare public rewards for people given to reading the dictionary for fun.And the world series of spelling bees is the Scripps Howard.

TILGHMAN ISLAND -- The Chesapeake Bay's oldest working skipjack is lying beneath 14 feet of water near the mouth of the Choptank River.A portion of the mast and the outline of the 113-year-old Rebecca T. Ruark are visible above the heaving waves on Harris Creek. The bow is buried in sand and muck. Loaded with nearly three tons of lead ballast that shifted to the starboard side, the ship will remain pinned to the bottom until calmer winds allow an Annapolis marine salvage company to retrieve the 52-foot sailing vessel for repairs.

Rebecca E. Carroll, retired city schools deputy superintendent who wrote eloquently about segregated Baltimore and racism, died yesterday of pancreatic cancer at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She was 81 and was a resident of Morgan Park in Northeast Baltimore.Born in Baltimore, she began her career as an elementary school teacher and ended it as the second-in-command of the entire system. She was offered the superintendent's post but declined and chose retirement in 1981.Over the years, she also was principal of two elementary schools, an area supervisor, area director and assistant superintendent before she became deputy superintendent.

Westminster High School has announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 1998-1999 academic year.Ninth-grade students earning all A's on their report card were: Jonathan Bentz, Nicole Biden, Daniel Bodrogi, Edward Bupert, Chelsea Carr-Epstein, James Cole Jr., Kelly Cooper, Shannan Finch, Mark Foley Jr., Lisa Forton, Paul Guevara, Melissa Gunther, Jessica Hall, Jonathan Hively, and McKenzy Hunter.Also, Jill Janocha, Brittany Johnson, Karen Klima, David Long, Tiffany Manley, Stephani McCullah, Mark McCusker, Rebecca Mills, Katee Myers, Johanna O'Connell, Matthew Redmond, Tirza Ridgely, Rebecca Robidart, and Elizabeth Rodgers.

Catherine Farrar and Rebecca Lubitz, seniors at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, slide off their coats and ease themselves into tiny chairs in the children's reading room at the Central Library of Howard County.They help their pint-sized charges -- first-graders Nereida Vasquez and Janet Diaz -- settle down at a round table littered with children's books.Work is about to begin in a typical session of the Reading Partners tutoring program, which pairs Howard County high school students with children from families where English is not spoken at home.

In 1865, people in the North set out to help educate the many former slaves. In Connecticut, the Hartford Freedmen's Aid Society sent Rebecca Primus, 29, to Royal Oak, in Talbot County, Maryland. This bright young African-American teacher went home after four years, the sponsors having disbanded -- but not before building a schoolhouse. Grateful townspeople named her frame building the Primus Institute.Starting before the Civil War, Primus had been friends with Addie Brown, a housemaid (she worked a while at Miss Porter's School in Farmington)

Schools and literacy programs seek volunteers to help children and adults improve reading skills and to assist in related projects.Among them are:South Baltimore Learning Center, 28 E. Ostend St., which seeks volunteers 18 or older, with a high school or General Educational Development diploma and able to commit at least a year to the program tutoring adults in basic reading, spelling and math. Volunteers also are needed for a career mentoring program to help job-seeking students with resume and interview skills.

The current show at Baltimore Clayworks, called "High Style/Low Fire," brings together the work of several artists from across the country who are known for their low-fire ceramics. The show contains both functional and sculptural pieces, executed with a variety of glazing and firing techniques. The artists are Woody Hughes of New York, Elyse Saperstein and David Stabley of Pennsylvania, Lanse Stover of Massachusetts, Gail Busch and Rebecca Reagan Boatman of Texas, Sandra Richardson of Washington state and Mary George Kronstadt of Washington, D.C.The show is at Baltimore Clayworks, 5706 Smith Ave., through Feb. 28, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays.

On Saturday, as 4,000 runners hit the streets in the Under Armour Baltimore Marathon, a more compelling race will take place half a world away. There, in a salute to the run back home, an Ellicott City man will head a small band of U.S. soldiers on a 13-mile chase through the rocky hills of northern Iraq - amid dangers unknown, and in 100-degree heat. Leading the pack will be Timothy Kirby, 36, an Army captain from Howard County who is part of an elite Border Transition Team stationed in Sulaimaniyah, in the mountains of Kurdistan.

Suddenly, on September 6, 2009, Karie Rebecca Dietz Visiting at the E.F. Lassahn Funeral Home, P.A., 11750 Belair Road (Kingsville) on Saturday 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm. Funeral services will be held at St. John's Episcopal Church on Sunday at 3:00 pm. Interment St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery. Donations may be made to the Humane Society of Harford County, 2208 Connelly Road, Fallston, MD 21047.

On September 3, 2009, JAMES R., beloved husband of the late Doris H. ISENHART (nee Manning); devoted father of Melissa A. Nickel and her husband Wayne B. Nickel; dear companion and best friend of Alice Scarborough; loving grandfather of Erica Lee and Rebecca Lynn Nickel; dear brother of William Isenhart. Funeral services will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue, on Wednesday at 10 AM. Interment Gardens of Faith Cemetery. Friends may call Monday and Tuesday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 PM. In lieu of flowers, the family will appreciate contributions to the Shriners Hospital for Children - Philadelphia Unit, c/o Boumi Temple, PO Box 9695, Baltimore, MD 21237.

O n August 24, 2009, JOHN C.; devoted father of Ryan J. Magee and wife Jan, Sherrie A. Jones and husband Brian; beloved son of Rebecca Magee; dear grandfather of Justin Magee; brother of Carolyn Scott and Richard Magee; uncle of Chad, Todd and Shawn Glenn and Victoria Magee. Funeral services will be held at the Lassahn Funeral Home (Overlea), 7401 Belair Road on Friday, 7:30 P.M. Interment private. Visiting Thursday 6 till 9 P.M., Friday 2 till 5 P.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the American Heart Association.

On August 11, 2009, EDWARD A.; beloved husband of Grace E. Bearman (nee Winkler); devoted father of Rebecca Anne Talbott, Robert Lingard Bearman and Allison Marie Bearman; dear brother of Robert John Bearman, Jr., and Valerie Estep. Relatives and friends are invited to visit at the Schimunek Funeral Home Inc., 9705 Belair Road (at Forge Road) on Friday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Cremation service to follow will be private. In lieu of flowers, the family request donations to Gilchrist Hospice Center.

Etta Rebecca Phifer, a retired Baltimore public schools English teacher who founded social organizations, died Tuesday of complications from a stroke at her Forest Park home. She was 104. Born Etta Rebecca Burwell in Baltimore and raised on Druid Hill Avenue, she was a 1922 graduate of the old Colored High School on Dolphin Street. She was a classmate of Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Supreme Court justice. She earned a bachelor's degree from Howard University. She taught seventh-grade English at Booker T. Washington Jr. Junior High School for many years and retired nearly 40 years ago from Frederick Douglass High School, where she taught French as well as English.

On April 22, 2009, ANNA "Rebecca" ALLEN. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Monday after 8:30 A.M., where the family will receive friends from 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. The family will also receive friends Tuesday, 10:30 A.M. at Judah Worship Center, 2000 Frederick Avenue. Funeral services will follow at 11:00 A.M.

On April 11, 2009, DAVID B. DAWSON, beloved husband of Rebecca L. Dawson All services and interment are private.

On April 3, 2009 GENEVA REBECCA SMITH TAYLOR. On Monday friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Baltimore National Pike from 4:00 to 8:00 P.M. On Tuesday Mrs. Taylor will lie instate at St. Matthews Church, 6205 Cardiff Avenue where the family will receive friends from 10:30 to 11:00 A.M. with services to follow. Inquiries to (410)233-2400

Not for the reasons he cites do I wish Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke proves correct - that small banks will have a big role in recharging the economy. "If community banks are prudent but opportunistic in extending credit to strong borrowers, they will help the economy recover while benefiting from that recovery themselves," Bernanke said. Community banks should be able to make loans that big institutions, ensnared in all those complex security thickets, are still avoiding, and they could come to the rescue when local businesses or families need help with credit.