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F. Hooper Bond, a former law firm partner and Talbot County school board member, died Tuesday of complications from pneumonia at Memorial Hospital in Easton. He was 78. Born and raised in Baltimore's Mount Washington neighborhood, Mr. Bond graduated at 16 from St. Paul's School in 1944. He then enrolled at the Johns Hopkins University. In 1946, Mr. Bond enlisted in the Army. He was based at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, according to his family. After a brief stint in the Army, Mr. Bond returned to Hopkins to finish his studies and joined the campus ROTC program.

Thomas E. Cinnamond, a retired trial attorney and former chairman of the law firm of Semmes, Bowen & Semmes who specialized in railroad and industrial injury cases, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The longtime Homeland residentwas 85. Born in Baltimore and raised on East 30th Street, he was a 1939 graduate of Loyola HighSchool and earned a bachelor?s degree in business administration at Loyola College. He played varsity basketball and tennis in both schools.

In the heart of Park Heights, an experiment has begun to divert lawyers from courtrooms and boardrooms and into communities that surveys show rarely turn to the legal profession for help with their everyday problems.Using a $350,000 grant from the Open Society Institute in Baltimore, billionaire financier George Soros' philanthropic organization, the University of Maryland Law School's clinical program has launched a nonprofit "demonstration office" to funnel the needs of regular folks -- from the development of special-education plans for children to zoning disputes and employment litigation -- to lawyers who need the work.

J & K Graphics expands, moves to new locationJ & K Graphics and Printing has announced that it has moved its offices because of expansion.The new address is 4510 Lower Beckleysville Road, Hampstead.The 5-year-old company, owned by Kathy Rampolla, specializes in printing, embroidered garments and promotional items.Information: 410-239-2345.Bank appoints Wetstein as senior vice presidentFarmers & Mechanics Bank has appointed H. Wendy Wetstein to senior vice president and manager of the trust and investment management group.

The Downtown Partnership of Baltimore yesterday named former Baltimore Development Corp. executive Michele L. Whelley as executive vice president.She will serve as acting president of the nonprofit alliance of downtown business leaders during the absence of president and chief executive Laurie Schwartz, the partnership said.Mayor Martin O'Malley has appointed Schwartz deputy mayor of economic and neighborhood development.Whelley, who will assume her duties Jan. 1, was executive vice president and chief operating officer of the BDC from 1994 until April of this year.

The University of Maryland School of Law will get $2.5 million from the France-Merrick Foundations to help enlarge and renovate its buildings, university officials announced yesterday.The gift -- the largest single financial commitment in the law school's 182-year history -- launches a campaign to raise about $10 million in private funds for the project.Administrators and alumni called the donation an important step in the university's effort to improve the law school. Last year, the Maryland General Assembly approved preliminary planning funds for a $38.2 million building, including space for the University of Maryland School of Social Work, with the provision that the school raise $9.8 million.

Robert Hedeman, a prominent attorney and certified public accountant, died Monday of cancer at his Towson residence. He was 52.He was an assistant state's attorney in Baltimore for seven years before he and Kathleen O'Ferrall Friedman, now a Baltimore City Circuit judge, formed a firm in 1977 in Towson.In 1986, he became a certified public accountant, and his practice included business planning, taxation and health law."A highly professional attorney, he was always courteous, loyal to his clients and prepared," said Judge Friedman.

Maryland's two law schools have joined most of the others in the nation in asking U.S. News & World Report to stop publishing its annual ranking of law schools, a practice the schools' deans say has "many serious problems."Deans of 164 of the nation's 180 accredited law schools signed a letter of protest circulated on the eve of today's release of the magazine's annual evaluation of graduate and professional schools."The overall impact of the rankings is very destructive," said Donald G. Gifford, dean of the University of Maryland School of Law, whose institution was placed in the second "tier" of law schools, between 51st and 80th best in the country, this year.

Rick Minogue had a good idea but nowhere to take it.In 1995 Minogue, a Cockeysville-based house painter who also dabbled in songwriting, designed an ergonomic keyboard -- intended to ease the stress of computer use. But he found out after meeting with several lawyers that it would cost about $10,000 to seek a patent to protect his invention.Max Oppenheimer, then a partner at the Baltimore law firm of Venable, Baetjer and Howard, had a proposition. Overseeing the project, he would assign the legal work to students in his intellectual property law clinic at the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore.

Hirschell P. Martin, 77, veteran, NSA administratorHirschell P. Martin, a decorated World War II combat veteran and former National Security Agency administrator, died Sunday a heart attack at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. He was 77 and lived in Glen Burnie.Mr. Martin retired in 1977 from the NSA, where he had worked as an administrator for 32 years.Born and raised in Kittanning, Pa., where he graduated from high school, Mr. Martin came to Baltimore in 1941 and worked as a clerk for Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.He enlisted in the Army in 1942, and served with the 80th Infantry Division at the Battle of the Bulge and later helped liberate several concentration camps.

The fight over the fate of Towson Catholic High School escalated Tuesday when the alumni association filed suit against the school's parish and its pastor over the abrupt closing of the school. The group is seeking an injunction to keep the school open at least another year. "This closing is a slap in the face to the alumni and to anyone who ever loved this school. We were ready to remedy this through various options, but we could not get the archdiocese to the table," said alumni association president Paul Mecinski, who announced the lawsuit at a rally last night.

The decision to close Towson Catholic High School and the resulting outcry from students, parents and alumni has revealed a long-brewing disconnect between the school and the parish that has been its home since 1922. Only 17 of the 163 students who were enrolled for the fall are parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church; 86 percent live outside Towson. With the school facing a $650,000 deficit that included $160,000 in unpaid tuition from last year, parish officials announced last week that they would close what some described as a money-losing ministry that they could no longer afford to subsidize.

Law firm addition The Annapolis law firm of Hyatt & Weber has added Mark Rosasco to its practice. Rosasco focuses on personal injury and medical malpractice law. He is a graduate of Loyola College, earned his law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law and is a resident of Arnold. Founded in 1979, Hyatt & Weber is a full-service law firm offering a range of legal services in real estate, land use, litigation, business law and related matters to individuals and businesses.

Howard police identify pedestrian who died Howard County police released the identity Monday of the pedestrian struck and killed over the weekend while attempting to cross U.S. 29 near U.S. 40. Lowell Tusong Keys, 34, of Catonsville was struck about 1:22 a.m. Saturday in the slow lane of southbound U.S. 29 by a Toyota 4-Runner driven by Roland Ronald Ward of Ellicott City. Ward was not injured. The victim was wearing dark clothing, police said. Don Markus Fulbright picks Notre Dame senior Cassandra Bales, a senior at the College of Notre Dame, has been named a Fulbright teaching assistant in Indonesia during the 2009-2010 academic year, the college announced last week.

A German architecture firm with a reputation for creating visually striking buildings that are also environmentally friendly has won an international competition to design a $107 million law school for the University of Baltimore. Behnisch Architekten of Stuttgart, in partnership with Ayers/Saint/Gross of Baltimore, heads a team that was selected over architects from France, Britain and the United States to design the new John and Frances Angelos Law Center, planned for the northeast corner of Charles Street and Mount Royal Avenue.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Thompson of Timonium are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter Jessica Ann to Sean Patrick McCarthy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard McCarthy of Edgewater. The couple wed on May 24, 2008 in Rehoboth Beach, DE. Jessica, a 1997 graduate of Dulaney High School, received her B.S. in Physics from Salisbury University in 2001. She is currently employed as an Electrical Engineer for NASA Wallops Flight Facility. Sean is a 1997 graduate of St. Mary's High School and a Salisbury University graduate with a B.A. in History.

Is giving a student an alarm clock part of the answer to truancy in Baltimore? Experience tells us that it can be. But make no mistake: There's no simple answer to this vexing problem. There are, however, a number of things that we know can help. In the University of Baltimore School of Law's Truancy Court Program, we work with students every week who are in danger of joining the thousands of city children who do not attend school. Since 2005, we have learned a few things about what connects truancy, suspension, dropping out, crime and violence.

The University of Baltimore's School of Law and a university in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, Iraq, have signed the first formal partnership between law schools in the two countries, officials announced yesterday. Under the agreement, UB law students might one day study in Iraq - where the rule of law was enshrined in the Code of Hammurabi more than 4,000 years ago. However, for security reasons, the first step will more likely be to bring Iraqis here for graduate legal study and research, said the law school's dean, Phillip J. Closius.

The consumer has got to be made aware that the high price they are paying does not necessarily reflect supply and demand, but rigged markets by hedge funds and big banks that are profiting greatly from this kind of trading."

F. Hooper Bond, a former law firm partner and Talbot County school board member, died Tuesday of complications from pneumonia at Memorial Hospital in Easton. He was 78. Born and raised in Baltimore's Mount Washington neighborhood, Mr. Bond graduated at 16 from St. Paul's School in 1944. He then enrolled at the Johns Hopkins University. In 1946, Mr. Bond enlisted in the Army. He was based at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, according to his family. After a brief stint in the Army, Mr. Bond returned to Hopkins to finish his studies and joined the campus ROTC program.