Sociology

Drs. Jose and Maria Ruiz of Clarksville, MD are happy to announce the marriage of their daughter, Maria Teresa Ruiz to Christopher Jason Zaneski, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester and Kathleen Zaneski of Sykesville, MD on April 22, 2006. The ceremony was held at Saint Louis Church in Clarksville and the reception was held at Turf Valley Resort in Ellicott City. The bride holds a BS in Biology and Information Systems and works as a software developer in Rockville. The groom holds a BA in Sociology focused on Criminal Justice and works as an insurance broker in Columbia.

Name: Dina ComuzziHonored by The Carroll County Sun for: Scoringsix goals for the Western Maryland College field hockey team in a 7-1 win over Goucher last weekend and coming back Wednesday and scoringthe winning goal in a 1-0 victory against Dickinson CollegeAge: 21Residence; hometown: Cherry Hill, N.J.Education: Senior at Western Maryland College majoring in sociology; graduate of Cherry Hill East High SchoolFamily: Father: Gene, employed at theKYW television...

Joyce Anne Causey, a retired Social Security Administration supervisor who later became a real estate agent, died of cancer Nov. 5 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The longtime Cedarcroft resident was 76. Miss Causey was born and raised in Tarboro, N.C. She earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C.. in 1955. After earning a master's degree in sociology from North Carolina State University, she worked briefly as a social worker before taking a job with the SSA in North Carolina.

Loomis Dean, 88, a Life magazine photographer who captured famous images of Ernest Hemingway, British playwright Noel Coward and Pope Paul VI, died Dec. 7 of complications from a stroke in Sonoma, Calif., said his son-in-law, Timothy Gaughan. He had retired to the California wine country. During a six-decade career, Mr. Dean shot 52 covers for Life. He also worked as a still photographer on film sets, including James Bond films starring Sean Connery. Mr. Dean, the son of a grocer and a schoolteacher, was born in Monticello, Fla., and studied engineering at the University of Florida.

MIGNON N. LIEBERMAN died of natural causes July 1, 2007 at her home in Phoenix, AZ. Born Mignon Newman in Baltimore, MD, she graduated from Western High School and, what is now known as, Towson University. While attending Towson University, she met her future husband, Sidney Lieberman D.D.S. They married in June of 1938. Together they opened Dr. Lieberman's dental practice on Eutaw Place, which subsequently moved to Park Heights Avenue. Before the birth of her two sons, she taught elementary school for Baltimore City School System.

Academic, activity and leadership awards were presented to freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and nongraduating seniors, including nine students from Carroll County, at the annual Spring Awards Ceremony at Western Maryland College. Erin M. Clarke of Finksburg, an English major, was given the Jean Alpaugh Award for Interdisciplinary Study. The award is given to a student with appreciation for cross-cultural experiences and whose proposal for off-campus study will most benefit the scholarship and interdisciplinary interests of the late Jean Alpaugh, who graduated in 1990.

HERE is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth. The etiology of this madness deserves a great deal more study than it has got. There must be causes behind it; it arises and flourishes in obedience to biological laws and not as a mere act of God. What, precisely, are the terms of those laws?

William Manning Rountree, 78, a veteran diplomat who served under six presidents and was an ambassador to Pakistan, Sudan, South Africa and Brazil, died Friday in Gainesville, Fla. He also was assistant secretary of state for Near East, South Asia and African affairs in his 38 years of government service. He was a top aide to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and was awarded the State Department Superior Service Award for helping negotiate the admission of Greece and Turkey into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

William W. O'Connor, a retired sociology teacher and activist who opposed the Vietnam War, died of cancer Aug. 28 at his Charles Village home. He was 83. Born in Baltimore and raised on Aiken Street, he was a 1940 graduate of City College and earned a bachelor's degree from Loyola College. He served in the Army Signal Corps in Germany during the U.S. occupation. Mr. O'Connor taught at a private school in Brussels, Belgium, and at Baltimore's Brehms Lane Elementary School. He retired in 1980 from what is now Baltimore City Community College, where he taught sociology and social issues as reflected in the daily news.

In more than a decade of academic work, Brandy M. Britton earned a doctorate in sociology from the University of California at San Francisco, established an expertise in women's studies and founded the Institute for Women and Girls Health Research out of her Ellicott City home. Howard County police allege that she also ran another business from her tidy beige house: a prostitution service with hourly rates of $300 and up. The former University of Maryland, Baltimore County assistant professor of sociology and anthropology was charged this week with four counts of prostitution.