Stoneleigh

A year of advocacy was punctuated with celebration Wednesday morning, June 6, as construction of a 200-seat addition to Stoneleigh Elementary School began with a ceremonial groundbreaking. "Less than a year ago, we were saying, 'What are we going to do?' " said Juliet Fisher, a member of the advocacy group, Stoneleigh United. "'How are we going to get something done?' And a year later, here we are. " While those who were responsible for securing the funds - County Executive Kevin Kamenetz, Superintendent Joe Hairston, Dels.

Barbara B. O'Brien, a retired Baltimore County Public Library cataloger and an avid baseball fan, died Sunday of complications from Parkinson's disease at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. She was 88. Barbara Burnham was born and raised in Hartford, Conn., where she graduated in 1941 from South Windsor High School. She was a 1945 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Vermont, where she earned a bachelor's degree in economics. She was working in Washington as a secretary when she met and married Edward J. O'Brien Jr., a salesman, in 1947.

Robert Alexander "Sandy" Goll, a retired city public school educator who was active in Scouting, died March 12 of sleep apnea at his Rodgers Forge home. He was 63. The son of a manufacturing executive and a homemaker, Mr. Goll was born in Baltimore and raised in Stoneleigh. After graduating from McDonogh School in 1967, he earned a bachelor's degree in 1973 from Norwich University in Northfield, Vt. Mr. Goll taught mathematics for 30 years at Roland Park Middle School and Chinquapin Middle School, from which he retired in 2007.

William John Nauman Jr., a retired Verizon quality manager, died Nov. 17 of a brain tumor at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 78. The son of a Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. lineman and a homemaker, he was born in Baltimore and raised on Beaumont Avenue in Govans. He attended the old Mount Washington Country School and graduated in 1951 from Polytechnic Institute. He served in the Marine Corps from 1955 to 1962, where he was a member of the ceremonial presidential honor guard in Washington, and attained the rank of corporal.

Kudos to elected officials and the Stoneleigh community for deciding to make the "180-day field trip" move to the Carver Center for the Arts and Technology. This plan begs the question — why are we spending taxpayer dollars to update and expand the already overcrowded, antiquated Stoneleigh Elementary School? If Carver solves the problem and can accommodate more students, shouldn't Baltimore County taxpayers keep Stoneleigh students at this new location … permanently? Who knows what the total cost is to taxpayers for not only the Stoneleigh addition, but also the relocation of students back to this facility?

At Stoneleigh Elementary School south of Towson, classrooms are too crowded to hold all the students, so many classes are held in portable trailers parked outside. It's a common problem in Baltimore County's York Road corridor, where trailers are being used at eight of the 12 elementary schools from Stoneleigh to the Pennsylvania line. Now, county school officials are poised to offer some creative solutions — including moving Stoneleigh students more than a mile away to a school on the other side of Towson, and building a new school in Mays Chapel.

The Stoneleigh Sharks finished with 1,290 points to capture their fourth straight Free State Swim League Trophy Meet championship on July 18. They were followed by the Campus Cabana Seahorses (981.5), York Manor Makos (8965), Hampton Hammerheads (867), Valley Gators (502.5), Pine Ridge Piranhas (3871), Woodcroft Waves (339), Hillcrest Heat (308) and Towson Golf and Country Club (47). Results from the top five finishers at the local pools are listed below. Stoneleigh 15-18 girls-Marley Swisher, 2nd 100-yard freestyle, 4th 50 butterfly; Samantha Briggs, 5th 100 free; Isabella Salvatori, 2nd, 100 breaststroke, 3rd 100 individual medley; Molly Farrugia, 2nd 50 backstroke, 4th 100 breast 13-14 girls-Margaret McElroy, 3rd 100 free and 50 fly; Anna Sillars, 4th 50 breast; Elle Henderson, 3rd 50 back, 5th 50 breast 11-12 girls-Marsie Salvatori, 1st 50 breast and 100 IM; Lindsay Wiglesworth, 5th 50 breast; Maia Faraone, 5th 50 back; Caroline Stringfellow, 5th 50 fly 9-10 girls-Lillian Lowenthal, 1st 100 IM 7-8 girls-Madeline Till, 5th 25 free; Kate Merlo, 1st 25 breast and 25 back; Camryn Joseph, 2nd 25 back; Fiona Schwanke, 5th 25 breast; Paige Bollinger, 4th 25 back; Riley Gerbereux, 5th 25 back; Ellie Scherer, 2nd 25 fly; Ellie Rhea, 4th 25 fly 15-18 boys-Will Kimball, 1st 100 free, 2nd 50 back; Ken Vinyard, 5th 50 fly 13-14 boys-Louis Lowenthal, 1st 100 IM, 2nd 50 breast; JD Rogers, 5th 100 IM; Andrew Stringfellow,...

The Stoneleigh Sharks scored a 286-173 victory over the Pine Ridge Piranhas in a Freestate Swim League contest July 6. The victory helps the Sharks stay tied atop the Red Division of the FSL with the Hampton Hammerheads. Both teams have one loss on the season, although Stoneleigh prevailed in the dual meet between them. York Manor, which topped Stoneleigh a couple of weeks ago, fell to Campus Cabana and is now one game off the lead. The top-three individual Stoneleigh finishers against Pine Ridge were: GIRLS Cristiani Salvatori-1st, 15-18 100-meter freestyle; 1st, 100 individual medley Marley Swisher-2nd, 15-18 100 free; 2nd 100 IM Margaret McElroy, 1st, 13-14 100 free; 1st, 100 IM Emma Jablow, 3rd, 3-14 100 free; 2nd, 100 IM Marsi Salvatori-1st, 11-12 50 free; 1st, 50 breaststroke Lindsay Wiglesworth-2nd, 11-12 50 free Siena Twiss-3rd, 9-10 50 free Laney Cornelius-1st, 7-8 25 free; 2nd, 25 breast Madeline Till-2nd, 7-8 25 free Amelia Rhea-1st, 6&U 25 free; 2nd 25 backstroke Samantha Briggs-1st, 15-18 50 breast Anna Sillars-1st, 13-14 50 breast Alexandra Roseborough-2nd, 13-14 50 breast Lindsey Dowdy-2nd, 11-12 50 breast Elizabeth Swift-1st, 9-10 25 breast Beri Pinkett-3rd, 7-8 25 breast Natalie Marx-2nd, 11-12 100 IM Genevieve Schwenke-3rd, 11-12 100 IM; 3rd, 50 back Hannah Rhea-2nd, 9-10 100 IM Molly Farrugia-1st, 15-18 50 back; 1st, 50 fly ...

York Manor's 254-245 upset victory over Stoneleigh — the Sharks' first dual-meet loss in six years (also to the Makos) under coaches George Kennedy and Brian Loeffler — could have a ripple effect across Freestate Swim League pools for the rest of the season. That's because York Manor had already lost to Hampton, making each regular-season meet before the season-ending Trophy Meet all the more important. The Makos made sure it happened, rallying in the relays to prevail in the Sharks' pool for head coach Dani Korman and assistants Jeni Zeigler and Andrew Hogan Trailing by 16 points at the end of backstroke, York Manor came back to win eight of the 10 butterfly events to take a two-point lead.