Stockbroker

Hedy Hill, a stockbroker who led a successful effort to save the Woman's Industrial Exchange in the late 1990s, died of complications from an infection Sunday at Manor Care Ruxton. The Timonium resident was 69. Born Margaret Hedy van Reuth in Baltimore and raised in the Belvedere Square area, she was the daughter of Arthur van Reuth, an engineer, and the former Margaret Opitz, a volunteer. She was a 1960 Eastern High School graduate and earned a degree in business at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was a member of the Kappa Delta sorority.

William Mc. Brewster, a retired Baltimore businessman and lifelong Brooklandville resident, died May 3 of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 81. The son of the owner of the Baugh Chemical Co. and a homemaker, William McIIvaine Brewster was born in Baltimore and raised in Brooklandville. After graduating from the Gilman School in 1949, he attended Princeton University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1953. He later graduated from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

Ralph A. Nattans, a Baltimore native whose family owned the old Read's drugstore chain, died Sunday of heart failure while visiting family members in Burke, Va. The Boynton Beach, Fla., resident was 87. Born in Baltimore and raised in Reservoir Hill, he attended the New York Military Academy at Cornwall-on-Hudson before earning a degree at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a law degree from the University of Baltimore. He was a relative of Arthur R. Nattans, a former president of the old Read Drug and Chemical Co., whose stores were located throughout Baltimore before their sale in 1976 to Rite Aid Corp.

Hedy Hill, a stockbroker who led a successful effort to save the Woman's Industrial Exchange in the late 1990s, died of complications from an infection Sunday at Manor Care Ruxton. The Timonium resident was 69. Born Margaret Hedy van Reuth in Baltimore and raised in the Belvedere Square area, she was the daughter of Arthur van Reuth, an engineer, and the former Margaret Opitz, a volunteer. She was a 1960 Eastern High School graduate and earned a degree in business at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was a member of the Kappa Delta sorority.

William Joseph Doyle, a stockbroker, died Sunday of a heart attack at his St. Michaels home. He was 48 and formerly lived in Catonsville. He sold stocks and bonds for Wachovia Securities and had earlier been a salesman for Alex. Brown & Sons. Born in Catonsville, he was a 1972 graduate of Cardinal Gibbons High School, where he played football and lacrosse. He earned a degree from the University of Maryland, College Park and had a master's degree in finance from the University of Baltimore.

George Louis Dickey, a Baltimore native and former stockbroker for BT Alex. Brown Inc., died Oct. 13 of non-Hodgkins lymphoma in Sausalito, Calif., where he had lived for the past year. He was 29.Although he had a somewhat strait-laced career, Mr. Dickey was known for his sense of adventure.He scuba dived whenever possible and dabbled in sky diving. He tried his hand at bungee jumping and preferred skiing on the advanced slopes. He also enjoyed mountain climbing and mountain biking.He took any dare, friends and relatives said.

Philip J. Peters, a retired stockbroker and history buff, died of respiratory failure Wednesday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 78. Born in Baltimore in 1928, Mr. Peters spent some of his boyhood in Petersburg, Va. He graduated from Polytechnic Institute in 1946 and the University of Maryland, College Park in 1951. He played lacrosse and met his future wife, the former Mary Elizabeth Herr, at the University of Maryland. A member of the Army ROTC, Mr. Peters was stationed after graduation at Indiantown Gap, Pa., and Fort Benning, Ga. He was deployed to Fort Meade in 1952, according to his family.

Henry Miller, a retired stockbroker, portrait painter and businessman, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at Sinai Hospital. He was 90 and lived in Lochearn.Mr. Miller cut a distinctive figure in Baltimore in the 1930s and 1940s. He often sported a flamboyant beard and mustache, which turned heads on the city's streets, according to a 1941 article in The Sun.He included paintings of his whiskers in a one-man show of portraits at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1941, and they were a trademark throughout his life.

Edward K.H. Battye, a retired Baltimore stockbroker and collector, died of cancer Saturday at his Upperco home. He was 70. Mr. Battye was born in Yorkshire, England, and came with his family to Baltimore before World War II. He was a 1952 graduate of McDonogh School and served in the Army from 1953 to 1956. He earned a bachelor's degree in business from the Johns Hopkins University and became a stockbroker for the old John C. Legg Co., a predecessor to Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc., and retired from Legg Mason Inc. in 1998.

A 38-year-old stockbroker was convicted of second-degree murder yesterday for killing his girlfriend in her Glen Burnie apartment by stabbing her two dozen times, slashing her throat and smashing her on the head with a hammer.Thomas General Jr. of the 1600 block of N. Capitol St. in Washington was convicted by a jury that deliberated three hours before finding him guilty of murder in the death of Mary Gadson in her apartment in the 7800 block of Tall Pines Court on June 5 but also finding that the crime lacked the premeditation required for a first-degree murder conviction.

Richard N. Dixon, a conservative Democrat who served as Maryland's state treasurer for six years, died Thursday after suffering a stroke Tuesday, Treasurer Nancy K. Kopp announced. He was 74. Mr. Dixon was the first African-American to win election by the General Assembly to the powerful post of state treasurer, which gave him a seat on the Board of Public Works and led to his election as chairman of the state pension system. Before being chosen as treasurer in 1996, Dixon served 14 years in the House of Delegates — the last Democratic legislator to be elected from conservative Carroll County.

Kenneth S. Battye, a retired Baltimore stockbroker and a lifelong proponent of the "value theory" of investing who had a career at Legg Mason that spanned 55 years, died Nov. 16 of complications from dementia at his Lutherville home. He was 97. Mr. Battye, who was the son of a stockbroker and a homemaker and raised in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, learned a lasting lesson about the value of earning and saving money at an early age. He was about 10 years old when he and his life savings — a pocketful of change that had taken him six months to save — quickly vanished.

Stockbroker Bruce Alderman's client returned home from a trip just in time to watch the stock market shed the most points ever in a single day and to hear that his bank, Wachovia, was being acquired by Citigroup. Yesterday morning, the client rang up his broker, telling the receptionist that the call was "urgent." "I want to make sure I'm OK," the man told Alderman, president of Chapin Davis brokerage in North Baltimore. Alderman looked up the man's account, telling him his portfolio was down about 1 percent after the market plunge.

Word this week that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger broke his leg skiing set inquiring minds to wonder: How could that happen? The man is an expert skier, a movie star athlete, an Austrian, for heaven's sake. Turns out the Terminator got a ski pole caught in one of his skis as he was waiting to make a final run. So when he took off, he just tripped and fell over. Ouch! Ain't it just always the dumb stuff that gets you? The odd step off a curb, the slip on the ice, the horse that runs easily over hill and muddy dale only to dump her rider in a frantic bid to escape an odd-shaped hay bale.

Chris Gardner recalls the words he heard most from the man living with his mother when he was growing up: "I ain't your daddy." The man punctuated his declaration liberally with profanity. Gardner, in fact, was almost 30 when he met his biological father. He had already made a solemn promise to himself "that when I [grow] up and have a son of my own, he would always know who I was and I would never disappear from his life." Gardner kept his promise, even through a year of homelessness, and wrote about his triumph over life on the street with his young son in The Pursuit of Happyness (Amistad, 2006)

Edward K.H. Battye, a retired Baltimore stockbroker and collector, died of cancer Saturday at his Upperco home. He was 70. Mr. Battye was born in Yorkshire, England, and came with his family to Baltimore before World War II. He was a 1952 graduate of McDonogh School and served in the Army from 1953 to 1956. He earned a bachelor's degree in business from the Johns Hopkins University and became a stockbroker for the old John C. Legg Co., a predecessor to Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc., and retired from Legg Mason Inc. in 1998.

A memorial service for Frank D. Mead, a retired stockbroker who was a trustee of St. Paul's School for 25 years, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Old St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Charles and Saratoga streets.Mr. Mead, who was 85 and had homes at Roland Park Place and in Naples, Fla., died Jan. 22 at a Naples hospital after a stroke.He began teaching mathematics and geography at St. Paul's School in 1929 and, in the 1930s, was the athletic director, coached basketball and football teams and introduced lacrosse.

Philip J. Peters, a retired stockbroker and history buff, died of respiratory failure Wednesday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 78. Born in Baltimore in 1928, Mr. Peters spent some of his boyhood in Petersburg, Va. He graduated from Polytechnic Institute in 1946 and the University of Maryland, College Park in 1951. He played lacrosse and met his future wife, the former Mary Elizabeth Herr, at the University of Maryland. A member of the Army ROTC, Mr. Peters was stationed after graduation at Indiantown Gap, Pa., and Fort Benning, Ga. He was deployed to Fort Meade in 1952, according to his family.