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On July 29, 2007, ROLAND RICHARD QUINN, Sr., of Rising Sun, MD. Beloved husband of T. Nancy Bonds Quinn. Devoted father of seven children. Loving brother of three sisters. Also survived by 15 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Services will be held at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Aberdeen, MD, on Thursday, August 2, 2007 at 1 P.M. Interment will be in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA. Friends may call at the family owned McComas Funeral Home, P.A., Abingdon, MD on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 8600 LaSalle Road, Suite 314, Chester Building, Baltimore, MD, 21286.

Arlana Roland is the top player on the Bel Air girls basketball team, and Bobcats coach Calvin Skelton does not mind saying it. "When teams prepare for us, the first thing they decide is how they are going to stop Arlana," Skelton said of the 6-foot-2 junior forward-center. "And then they worry about the rest of it. Arlana is spectacular. She can do it all. She has already been a two-time All-Harford County pick." Roland averages a team-leading 12 points a game and is an excellent shot-blocker in addition to being a team co-captain with senior center Lydia Oliver.

I ADMIT it: I cut through.To get from Northeast Baltimore to Roland Avenue to my daughter's school, I drive through residential streets in Homeland and Roland Park. Anyone who has tried to negotiate Northern Parkway or Cold Spring Lane knows how sclerotic Baltimore's east-west arteries are. So people cut through.This commuter traffic does not please residents of Homeland, to whom apparently, we motorists on our way to school and work are a crowd of bashi-bazouks galloping over the hill to plunder their houses and slaughter their cattle.

Ida Mae was a saucy old gal. She still looked like a '30s film star in a feather boa and pillbox hat, even when time started to pass her by.She rebuffed boys who tried to breed her and scared off enemies with a distinctive squawk. And when she grew old and sluggish - sleeping away the day and losing weight - her dear friend Gwen Roland took to the Internet to try to save her life."She has a distinct voice, sort of a complaining tone, and she is always vocal," Roland wrote in August to the members of an e-mail discussion group.

A restored 19th-century building will be dedicated today as the Taneytown Job Center, where needy residents can go for counseling, food stamps, Medicaid or job assistance.The multiagency facility is intended to make it easier for northwest Carroll residents to obtain social services without having to travel to Westminster, where most of the county's agencies are located."The concept is to be where we're needed," said Peggie J. Roland, coordinator of the center and an employee service adviser for the Carroll County Department of Social Services.

Roland Park Country School is sponsoring "Blacks in Film," a series of four early- and mid-20th century films featuring all-black casts, at 7: 30 p.m. Thursdays next month at the school, 5204 Roland Ave.2 The series is free. Information: 410-323-5500.Pub Date: 1/20/98

Irene McC. Briant, 76, appraiser, antiques restorerIrene McC. Briant, a former appraiser and antiques restorer, died of a heart attack Sunday at Union Memorial Hospital. The Roland Park resident was 76.Born Irene McComas in Manchester, England, she came to the United States in 1930, living in Texas before moving to Baltimore in the 1930s.She retired in 1977 after working 25 years as office manager for Rocchi Construction Co. in Timonium and began a second career as a free-lance appraiser and restorer of ceramics, glass and porcelains, and gold leafing on picture frames.

He's the one in the fatigue jacket at the intersection of Cold Spring Lane and Roland Avenue, the panhandler with the cane and the buckled cardboard sign that suggests, among other things, that he's a hungry, homeless Vietnam vet disabled by a drunk driver. His presence is a sore point for some people, and I've been hearing a lot of remarks, some of them hostile, about the guy for the last month or so.He stands at the head of the median strip on Roland Avenue, shuffling his feet, face exquisitely glum, hands at his sides.

Being confined to the house weighs heavily on Charley Eckman, who, to use one of his most inimitable phrases, would rather be "romping and stomping." Cancer is a difficult foe, as he knew it would be, but he keeps dealing with the problem and won't back down."

Baltimore, which has been on the losing end of many economic contests recently, won one yesterday when a California-based printing company announced it would move its corporate headquarters here.Treasure Chest Advertising Inc., the nation's largest printer of advertising circulars, currently based in Glendora, Calif., will bring about 25 executives and support workers to downtown Baltimore by October, said company President Donald E. Roland.The privately held company, with 4,000 employees and 17 printing plants nationwide, had sales of more than $900 million in the fiscal year that ended June 30, Mr. Roland said.

Cinematic tributes to great cities used to be called "symphonies of the street." Cedric Klapisch's "Paris," a multicharacter tapestry of the City of Light, is more like an eclectic pops concert. It pulls together diverse residents of the city, from produce vendors to academics, and trains a loving eye on their unique environments and the urban landscapes they all share. The old symphonies of the street often stayed in the street. Klapisch takes us inside a savory bakery, a bristling open-air market and an august yet inviting academy, as well as chic and untidy flats, hospital rooms, terraces and plazas.

Samuel L Thomsen, Jr.(November 25, 1920 - September 28, 2009), the husband of the late Mary Miller Thomsen, died peacefully in his Roland Park home. Served in the U.S. Coast Guard during WW II and retired from Black and Decker, Mfg. Inc. Survived by sons S. Locke Thomsen, III; Francis Jordan Thomsen, III and Laurence Thomsen, VI; eight grand children and a great grandson. Donations can be made to The Fire Museum of Maryland, 1301 York Road, Lutherville, Md. 21093

In memory of ROLAND "DINKY" THARLE son of Edwin and Thelma Tharle past away September 12, 2009 at 10:55 P.M. Leaving his wife Laverne of 42 years, his daughter Alesia MacEwen and husband James, his son Wayne and wife Lisa and six grandchildren, sisters Darlene Horner and Barbara Baroch. WE LOVE YOU

Charles Edgar Evans Jr., a retired Aberdeen Proving Ground engineer, died of complications after heart surgery at Keswick Multi-Care Center. The Otterbein resident was 84. Mr. Evans, the son of a Baltimore firefighter and a homemaker, was born and raised in Hampden. He left Polytechnic Institute to enlist in the Navy, where he served aboard a submarine tender in the Pacific during World War II. After the war, he attended evening school at Poly and was awarded his diploma in 1954. He also held a degree from the Maryland Institute.

On July 3, 2009, VERNA R.; devoted mother of David T. Tomlin, III. Memorial services will be held on Wednesday at 11:30 A.M at Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 3800 Roland Avenue. Professional services provided by the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, 4300 Wabash Avenue.

Ann Miser, a retired Baltimore businesswoman and longtime Roland Park resident, died of respiratory failure Thursday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She was 74. Ms. Miser was born in Baltimore and raised on Blythewood Road. She was a 1952 graduate of Eastern High School and attended Maryland Institute College of Art and Earlham College. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ms. Miser toured Europe before teaching art at Sudbrook Junior High School in Bellmore, N.Y. In the late 1950s, she returned to Baltimore and became an office manager at Kelly Girl Services Inc. In the early 1960s, she established Lady Baltimore Offices Services Inc., a temporary office service agency.

On May 13, 2009, ANTHONY ROLAND GROSS, formerly of 448 Roundview Road. Visitation at THE DERRICK C. JONES FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 4611 Park Heights Ave. on Thursday, May 21, 2009, 2 until 7 P.M. Family will receive friends on Friday, May 22 at 10 A.M. with funeral service to follow at 10:30 A.M.

Bundled in warm clothes, 13 Edgewood High School ninth-graders recently spent their school day on a boat on the Chesapeake Bay. For five hours, the students learned about how they affect the bay. "We want the kids to make the connection, not just between the land and the water, but the water and the way we treat the land," said John Tapscott, an educator with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. The 13 students were part of a three-week program called "A Day on the Chesapeake Bay." It operates under the auspices of the foundation and was opened to ninth- and 10th-grade biology students at the county's public high schools.

Roland Harry Goldstraw, a retired printer and World War II veteran, died of complications from a stroke Aug. 11 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The longtime Catonsville resident was 81. Born in Baltimore and raised on Monastery Avenue, Mr. Goldstraw enlisted in the Army after graduating from what is now Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School in 1945. He served in Europe as a motorcyclist, jeep and truck driver. He was discharged in 1947 with the rank of sergeant.. Mr. Goldstraw worked as a printer for Baltimore Business Forms from 1950 to 1975, when he went to work at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington.

On January 30, 2008, DORIS MAY; beloved wife of the late Roland Schmelyun, Sr.; devoted mother of Gloria Timanus, Sandra, Dumler, Brenda Offeneacker, David and Roland Schmelyun, Jr. She is also survived by seven grandchildren, six great-grandchildren. Sister of Dennis Hoffman, Sharon Treadwell and the late Junie Hoffman and Elaine Koeph, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the Ambrose Funeral Home, 1328 Sulphur Spring Road on Wednesday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. where Funeral Services will begin at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday.