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The Baltimore Sun named three current executives as senior vice presidents yesterday to serve as top aides to new publisher Michael J. Davies, who said the promotions were designed to create a more efficient senior management team.Diana Zinda, 34, previously the newspapers' advertising director, was named senior vice president for advertising and marketing.James Shaw, 41, chief financial officer of The Sun and The Evening Sun, was named senior vice president and business manager.The company's finance, administration, plant and facilities, and suburban zone operations will report to him.John Patinella, 43, the newspapers' circulation director, is now senior vice president for circulation and will assume responsibility for packaging operations.

Herbert Christian Forrester Jr., a retired railroad vice president, died of coronary artery disease Thursday at Mays Chapel Ridge Assisted Living. The former Cockeysville resident was 88. Born in Baltimore and raised in Windsor Hills, he was the son of attorney Herbert C. Forrester and Mary Davis, a legal secretary. He was a 1942 Forest Park High School graduate. He enlisted in the Army's Air Corps during World War II. Trained as a pilot, he served until 1945. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in transportation at the University of Baltimore, where he also taught from 1962 to 1964.

B. Carter Randall, former senior vice president of Equitable Trust Co. and an original "Wall Street Week" television show panelist, died Tuesday of emphysema at Altamonte Hospital in Orlando, Fla. He was 72.Mr. Randall, a handsome man who bore a strong resemblance to the Duke of Windsor, was an expert in the field of trust management."He was a courtly, courteous, urbane, soft-spoken gent of the old school," said Julius Westheimer, a Sun financial columnist and Baltimore stockbroker, yesterday.

In February, APG Federal Credit Union honored Susan Kemen, senior vice president of consumer lending, with an award presentation for 30 years of dedicated service to the credit union, and Barbara Poff, senior member service operation specialist, with an award presentation for 25 years of service. In 1983, Kemen was hired as a part-time teller at APGFCU's Aberdeen Proving Ground branch. Over the years, she was promoted to collection department manager, consumer loan manager, senior vice president branch operations and most recently to senior vice president of consumer lending.

John Patinella, president and chief executive officer of the Baltimore Sun's Community Newspapers subsidiary, has been appointed general manager and senior vice president of The Baltimore Sun Co. Patinella, a 31-year Sun veteran, will take over the position July 31. He will report to Publisher Michael E. Waller and be responsible for most of The Sun's primary business departments, including circulation, operations, information technology, advertising, marketing...

Host Marriott Corp. announced yesterday that its executive vice president and chief financial officer resigned from the Bethesda-based hotel company, less than two months after being passed over for the top post there.Matthew J. Hart's departure for a job as senior vice president and treasurer of the Walt Disney Co. follows the same path taken by Stephen F. Bollenbach in April. Mr. Bollenbach, the former nTC chief executive of Host Marriott, left to become Disney's chief financial officer.

James T. McGill, executive vice president of the University of Missouri system, has been appointed senior vice president for administration at the Johns Hopkins University, Hopkins officials announced yesterday.McGill, 54, will take the post Jan. 1 as Hopkins' top financial and business officer and chief adviser to President William R. Brody on nonacademic matters. He succeeds Eugene S. Sunshine, who left Hopkins last summer for a similar position at Northwestern University.Among his other duties, McGill will oversee reforms enacted to ensure that the university's contracting programs are pure.

Dr. Deirdre Coll, an associate professor in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, was named the director of breast imaging at the university's medical center. Dr. Harold Goll was recently named president of the Maryland Society of Anesthesiologists. He serves as chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, where he has worked for nearly 20 years. The society represents Maryland anesthesiologists and advocates for policy that sustains safety in anesthesia care.

New positions* Trigen-Baltimore Energy Corp., which provides steam, hot and chilled water and electrical energy services to downtown Baltimore, named James J. Abromitis as president. He succeeds M. O. Hill, who has retired.* McCormick & Co., the Hunt Valley-based international spice and flavorings house, appointed Robert J. Murphy vice president of European operations.* Velsicol Chemical Corp. named David Boswell plant manager for its Chestertown operations.* BGE, the Baltimore Gas & Electric Co., named Sharon S. Hostetter marketing manager in its marketing and sales division.

Westminster Bank names Rill senior vice presidentM. Lynn Rill has been hired by Westminster Bank as senior vice president and senior loan officer.Rill He has 16 years experience in banking. The Carroll County resident is a graduate of Western Maryland College and Loyola College.He is active in the community with the Home Builders Association, YMCA, Carroll Lutheran Village and Boy Scouts.

Dennis W. Kreiner, a former Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Co. senior vice president, died of complications from diabetes Monday at his home in Phoenix, Baltimore County. He was 66. Born in Baltimore, he spent his early childhood in the Latrobe Homes in East Baltimore. He later lived with an uncle, William Kohler, a chief district courts commissioner, and an aunt, Margaret Kohler, a hairdresser, who lived on Cedarcroft Road in the Idlewood neighborhood of Baltimore. Mr. Kreiner attended St. Matthew School in Northwood and was a 1964 Loyola High School graduate.

Charles L. Hayes, former secretary and senior vice president of Monumental Life Insurance Co., died Feb. 3 of cancer at the Brookshire Hospice in Hillsborough, N.C. The former Towson resident was 85. Charles Lawton Hayes was born and raised in Cherryville, N.C., where he graduated in 1944 from Lowell High School. After serving in the Navy during the waning days of World War II, Mr. Hayes enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and earned a bachelor's degree in business in 1949.

Maryland Public Television said Wednesday that Steven J. Schupak, its senior vice president, has been named chief content officer. Schupak, who joined MPT in 2003, oversees the development, production, licensing and national distribution of the station's programs, among other responsibilities. Schupak is responsible for the station's local productions, including "Outdoors Maryland" and "State Circle. " During his tenure, MPT has earned 26 Emmy Awards and other industry honors for its productions.

From texting to browsing the Web to eating in the car, driver distraction has become a growing problem on the roadways. In 2010, more than 3,000 people died in accidents believed to have been caused by distracted driving, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In December, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended a nationwide ban on using smartphones while driving, including the use of hand-held devices for non-emergencies. It's against the law to talk on a hand-held phone while driving in Maryland.

Aberdeen Proving Ground Federal Credit Union, Harford and Cecil counties' largest credit union, has hired Keith C. O'Neil Jr. the senior vice president of information technology. O'Neil brings more than 14 years of progressive technical and management expertise to APGFCU. As a key member of the executive management team, he will help lead the credit union's information technology efforts to provide world-class member service and drive innovation. He will also be responsible for developing and implementing a strategic technology plan to enable growth consistent with the credit union's mission.

Wallace Gordon Burns Sr., a retired bank executive who enjoyed collecting books, died Monday in his sleep at his home in Zellwood, Fla. He was 90. Mr. Burns, the son of a carpenter and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised near Druid Hill Park and Pigtown. He was a 1937 graduate of City College. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps for four years at Turner Field in Albany, Ga., where he was crew chief on B-25 Mitchell Bombers. Mr. Burns began his banking career in 1937 when he went to work as a teller for Provident Savings Bank, eventually rising through the ranks to senior vice president.

Basir, six others join board of Leadership Howard County Nasser Basir, chief executive officer and president of Planned Systems International Inc. has joined the board of Leadership Howard County. Also joining the board are Janice L. Biennas, senior vice president, M&T Bank; Lynn C. Coleman, vice president of administration and finance, Howard Community College; Edward A. Ely, vice president and director of land sales, the Rouse Co.; Valerie J. Gross, director, Howard County Public Library; Michael J. Russo, senior vice president, Citizens National Bank; and Susan S. Porter, president, inSITE Training & Development.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's annual gala has retained its status as the kickoff event to Baltimore's social season - and the party to see and be seen at. Hundreds of formally dressed folks swirled under a tent just outside Meyerhoff Symphony Hall to enjoy cocktails, a vast dinner buffet and lots of catching up before heading into the hall for a concert by the BSO featuring pianist Lang Lang. "It's fabulous as always. This is always my favorite event," said Susie Schapiro, Ed-Psych Solutions director, at the gala with her fiance, David Nevins, Nevins & Associates president.