Schiller

On September 20, 2003 MURIEL SCHILLER (nee Wilson); loving wife of the late Milton Schiller; beloved mother Duffy Askin of Baltimore, MD and Leslie Philip of Manhasset, NY; devoted mother-in-law of Dr. Frederic B. Askin; beloved sister of Frances Fleit and the late Ethel Wilson, Evelyn Robbins and Henry Wilson; loving grandmother of Jennifer Lauren Askin and Carey E. Baddour; loving great grandmother of Lauren Bryant Baddour. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROTHERS INC., 8900 Reisterstown RD. at Mt. Wilson Ln. on Monday, September 22, 1 P.M. Interment Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery, Berrymans Ln. Please omit flowers.

Thunder Hill Elementary students will soon receive hands-on knowledge about the banking industry through a new partnership that will set up a miniature bank in the school. The Oakland Mills branch of Columbia Bank will teach students the importance of personal financial planning while helping them gain an appreciation for how math is used in daily life, said Mary Schiller, manager of the school system's Partnerships Office. "Now we hear more and more about financial literacy," Schiller said.

On July 20, 2004, BERTRAM HARTIG; beloved husband of Anne F. Schiller; devoted father of Lee H. Schiller, of Chicago, Carol L. Hafford and Brian W. Schiller. Also survived by six grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. Services at Evans Chapel of Memories-Parkville, on Friday at 12 noon. Interment Parkwood Cemetery. Visiting Thursday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M.

Gorfine, Schiller & Gardyn PA, an Owings Mills certified public accounting firm, merged yesterday with the accounting division of Smart and Associates in Towson, the firm formerly known as Grabush, Newman & Co. PA. Gorfine, Schiller & Gardyn gained about 20 people in the transaction, expanding it to more than 75 employees. It will retain its name and location at the corporate campus in Owings Mills. No employees will be laid off, said W. James Schiller, a founding partner.

Former Baltimore interim schools chief Robert E. Schiller is one of three finalists to become superintendent of public schools in New Orleans.If hired, Schiller -- who spent a year in Baltimore coordinating the state's takeover of city schools -- would be returning to familiar ground.A decade ago, Schiller, 52, spent two years as Louisiana's deputy education superintendent. In an interview yesterday from his home in Stuart, Fla., Schiller said he is interested in the challenge of once again supervising a city school district.

Days after granting Robert E. Schiller a contract extension that will keep him in Baltimore through December, some city school board members now privately acknowledge a long-term and perhaps permanent interest in their interim chief executive -- despite a state law that forbids it.Some of the nine board members want to see the interim chief serve at least through June -- the end of the fiscal year and six months longer than the law allows. Others would like him to sign on as the school system's chief academic officer after a permanent chief executive is found.

Baltimore City's public schools remain an academic and financial disaster, according to interim schools chief Robert E. Schiller.But since the new city school board took the reins in June, nearly 300 teachers have been hired to reduce elementary school class sizes, and a focused curriculum is in the works; the district's special education department has been reorganized; and a yearly budget process that regularly spun out of control has been tamed.Yesterday,...

Robert E. Schiller will waste no time getting his arms around the problems confronting Baltimore's public schools. But then, that's his reputation.Named yesterday as interim chief executive officer by the new school board, Schiller will meet with key school officials all day today, before reporting to work full time Monday. He plans to meet with union representatives in the next week to assess negotiation possibilities and begin meeting with staff to start getting ready for school openings in the fall.

NO ONE SHOULD misunderstand the mission of longtime educator Robert E. Schiller, who became the interim chief executive of Baltimore City public schools yesterday. He will have plenty on his plate -- from getting the system of 108,000 students ready for a new academic year in September to negotiating a new contract with unionzed teachers. But his real job is to be the tough guy who does the dirty work so that when a permanent CEO is appointed, that new chief does not have to squander initial goodwill by making necessary but unpopular moves.

Dr. Douglas Lowy of Bethesda and John Schiller of Kensington invented a vaccine to thwart HPV, the most common sexually transmitted disease in America and the leading cause of cervical cancer. Their work is saving thousands of women's lives annually, but their role in discovering the vaccine is not and might never be well-known. Lowy and Schiller are federal employees, inventors on government-owned patents that have been licensed to drug companies for the testing and sale of the vaccine.

On January 7, 2006, M. LEONA (nee Otto). Devoted mother of the late Nancy Schiller Hagert; dear sister of Adaline Otto Blucher, the late Roland and John Otto and Edna Otto Walton. Funeral Services will be private. Inquiries may be directed to Lassahn Funeral Home, 410-665-2000.

The three finalists for Anne Arundel County schools superintendent, announced yesterday, include a former interim CEO of Baltimore schools whose last two leadership posts ended in controversy; the chief of a 5,500-student school district in Pennsylvania; and a midlevel Montgomery County administrator. From a field of 20 applicants, the school board selected Robert E. Schiller, retired state schools superintendent of Illinois; Dana Bedden, superintendent of William Penn District, Pa.; and Kevin Maxwell, community superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools.

On Sunday March 12, 2006 DR. CHARLES BRUCE MORLEY, DVM. Beloved husband of Georgianna (Barkman) Morley; father of Lynn Schiller (Scott), Leah Andrews, Karen Jacobs (Steven), Kevin Morley (Melissa) and the late Dale Morley; brother of Scott Morley (Ruth) and Donald Morley. Also survived by 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Friends may call on Thursday, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9pm at Donaldson Funeral Home, P.A., 313 Tolbert Avenue., Laurel, MD where memorial Services will begin at 7pm. Interment St. Mary's Cemetery at a later date.

On Saturday, February 19, 2005, IRVIN H. SCHILLER; beloved husband the late Edna Schiller (nee Kennard); loving father of Muriel Kugel, Harriet Dorman and Jacqueline Cohan; cherished grandfather of twelve; loving great-grandfather of nine. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS., INC., 8900 Resiterstown Road at Mt. Wilson lane, private at the convenience of the family. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be directed to Susan Cohan Kasdas Colon Cancer Foundation, 201 N. Charles Street, Suite 2404, Baltimore, MD (21201)

On February 14, 2005 SHIRLEY HOLINSKY (nee Schroeder); beloved wife of the late Hyman Holinsky; loving mother of Susan Schiller, Terry Holinsky, Lynn Creel and Ralph Greenblatt; dear mother-in-law of Jim Schiller, Cindy Holinsky and Constance Mc Quire and the late Virgil Creel; adored sister of the late Leona Goldberg and Cecelia Platt; loving grandmother of Rona Sindler, Sharon Harris, Ron and Sue Holinsky, Andrew, Rachel and Jennifer Holinsky, Molly...