Sunderland

Larry Wayne Braswell, 57, X-ray technician for stateLarry Wayne Braswell, a retired Maryland state employee, died Monday of an aneurysm at Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, N.C., where he resided. He was 57.He was a mobile chest X-ray technician and air-quality-control sample-taker for the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for 27 years. He retired in 1989 and moved to Gastonia, where he was a security guard at Dixie Yarns.Born in Gastonia, he moved to Rosedale as a child and attended Kenwood High School.

A group of Aberdeen Proving Ground employees braved the heat yesterday to protest the potential loss of up to 558 jobs because of the Army's decision to privatize some nonmilitary work at the Harford County base.The rally, organized by the Vietnam Veterans of Aberdeen Proving Ground/Edgewood Area, drew about 100 people who held signs and waved to honking drivers outside the base's gate on Route 24.Clint Smith, one of the organizers of yesterday's protest, said the group wants to draw attention to the disruption for workers at Aberdeen, which is among the county's largest employers.

A $4,000 grant from Wal-Mart will help Carroll County attract more business and industry.The county Department of Economic Development will use the grant, payable over two years, to create a Web site on the Internet. The professionally designed home page will feature graphic images and information on local industrial sites."This gives us another dimension to offer brokers and site locaters," said Jack Lyburn, county economic development director. "We used to compete against other counties, but today our market is becoming international.

Shirley S. Sunderland, 61, 'Pearl of South Baltimore'Shirley S. Sunderland, a Procter & Gamble Co. worker for 29 years and a singer known as the "Pearl of South Baltimore," died July 9 of a brain tumor at Harbor Hospital Center. She was 61.She began working in 1964 as an assembly-line worker at Procter & Gamble's Locust Point plant, retiring as a safety inspector in 1993.Mrs. Sunderland, a tall woman with red hair and green eyes, "always had a song in her heart," said a daughter, Terry Burton of Laurel.

"Short and round" is how Kenny Hunter describes himself when he began wrestling for Randallstown's Optimists in the fifth grade. The pudgy youngster had been inspired by his older brother, Cordell, then an upper weight at Mount St. Joseph.Seven years later, Hunter is still throwing his weight around, but little of it is baby fat. At 6 feet 3, 240 pounds, he is the state's top-ranked heavyweight for Mount St. Joseph and bench-presses 315 pounds.Gaels coach Paul Triplett knew he had something while watching Hunter go 30-0 as a jayvee wrestler during his freshman and sophomore seasons.

Dave Sunderland wasn't sure which sport he would play in college -- football, wrestling or lacrosse.But after signing yesterday to play football with Lehigh University, the 6-foot-4, 245-pound Mount St. Joseph senior plans to finish this wrestling season and isn't sure he'll play lacrosse this spring."

Ned WhittConstruction foremanNed Whitt, a retired construction foreman, died Wednesday of pneumonia at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The Arnold resident was 76.Mr. Whitt retired in 1980 after working as a foreman on such projects as the Liberty Dam. He spent his career working for several area construction companies.Born and reared in Warrior, W.Va., he was educated there. He went to work in the coal mines in Harmon, Va., when he was 17.He moved to Baltimore in 1940 and went to work as a welder at Bethlehem Steel Corp.

Last year, Dave Sunderland was a timid, inexperienced lanky junior of 225 pounds who was often intimidated by larger, more mature opponents.Over the summer, he gained plenty of confidence, plus 15 pounds of muscle, with a strict training regimen, and is staring down the demons of his past.The 6-foot-5, 240-pound Mount St. Joseph heavyweight did it twice in the Dec. 29-30 California University of Pa. tournament, which featured 29 teams.In his quarterfinal bout, Sunderland faced a 6-5, 270-pound Florida wrestler who had easily pinned Sunderland in a summer camp two years ago.Sunderland beat him this time, 6-0.In the championship bout, Sunderland faced Illinois state champion Bo O'Rourke, who so manhandled Sunderland as a junior that Sunderland defaulted with an injured shoulder.

A 93-year-old woman has filed a civil suit against the operators of a nursing home for taking her to a Laurel dinner theater, where she fell and broke her hip.Agnes Sunderland, who lives at Harmony Hall in Columbia, also is seeking damages against the operators of the closed Petrucci's Dinner Theatre, where she fell off a platform and broke her right hip in February 1991.Ms. Sunderland is seeking $350,000 in damages against Harmony Hall and the dinner theater operators, contending that they were negligent for permitting the incident to happen, according to the lawsuit she filed in Howard Circuit Court on Dec. 13.Before the incident, Ms. Sunderland went to a health club to swim several times a week, said her attorney, Allen Greif of Towson.

Johnson-Yang worth more than all the Dans & DavesYears from now, when we look back on the 1992 Olympic decathlon competition, we'll probably recall how a sneaker company's plans went awry.Last night, during its prime-time show, NBC recalled the 1960 decathlon, a matchup between American Rafer Johnson and Taiwan's C. K. Yang. It was a story of heated competition and friendship. No mention was made of commercials that promised "To be settled in Rome."Sure, it's probably better that the pretense of amateurism has left the Games and that reality has taken hold.

Wesley Myers used Craigslist to sell his $8,000 Honda motorcycle and watched as the man who came to buy ended up stealing it. The victim's mother, Barbara Myers, used Craigslist to get the bike back a few days later. The middleman was a Baltimore County police detective who uses the Internet swap-shop to hunt for tips on everything from stolen cars to stolen tractors, finding a treasure-trove of pilfered vehicles popping up for sale in the unregulated world of cyberspace. "People steal and post it on Craigslist," said Cpl. Steve Sunderland of the Baltimore Regional Auto Theft Team.

A leading government Alzheimer's researcher told a federal judge in Baltimore yesterday that he had no good explanation for why he improperly accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in undisclosed fees from a drug manufacturer while helping to control government-sponsored research with the same company. Before the judge imposed the agreed-upon sentence of two years of probation, 400 hours of community service and a restitution payment of $300,000, Pearson "Trey" Sunderland III, chief of the geriatric psychiatry branch of the National Institute of Mental Health, said the conviction "humbled me in a way I've never experienced before."

Scientist made deal with drug firm A senior government scientist originally from Baltimore pleaded guilty yesterday to accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in undisclosed fees from the same drug manufacturer whose public-private research collaboration he oversaw. As part of his agreement with federal prosecutors, Pearson "Trey" Sunderland III, chief of the geriatric psychiatry branch of the National Institute of Mental Health, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, is expected to receive a sentence of two years' supervised probation and must forfeit $300,000 in illegal proceeds and reimbursements.

On October 25, 2006, EARL W.; beloved husband of Bonnie Sunderland; devoted father of Stephanie Bittner and husband John and Dina Sunderland; loving grandfather of Sara Bittner. Friends may call at the E. F. Lassahn Funeral Home, P.A., 11750 Belair Road (Kingsville), on Friday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral Services will be held at the Aisquith Presbyterian Church, 7515 Harford Road, on Saturday at 11 A.M. Interment Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Aisquith Presbyterian Church, 7515 Harford Road, Baltimore, MD 21234 or to the Hospice of Baltimore, Gilchrist Center, 555 W. Towson Town Blvd.

On July 26, 2006, IRIS FAYNE (nee Clatterback); beloved wife of the late Quinn E. Brawner and devoted mother of Carl Brawner, Thelma Clark, Brenda Patterson, Kathy Fisher, Quinn Brawner, Jr., Laurie Daufes, Michael Brawner and the late Deborah Sunderland. Also survived by many grandchildren and many great-grandchildren. Friends are invited to call at the Burgee-Henss-Zeitz Funeral Home, Inc., 3631 Falls Road on Thursday and Friday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9pm. A Service will be held at the funeral home at 8pm.

WASHINGTON -- A senior scientist at the National Institutes of Health exercised his right against self-incrimination yesterday, refusing to answer questions from a congressional subcommittee probing conflicts of interest at the agency. Dr. P. Trey Sunderland III, who remains chief of the geriatric psychology branch at the NIH's National Institute of Mental Health, had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees from Pfizer Inc. while collaborating with the company in his official role.

On March 27, 2006, JOHN THOMAS WILSON; beloved husband of Judith A. Wilson (nee Sunderland); loving brother of Denise Jones and her husband Lawrence; devoted step-father of Fred, Amy, Timothy, Ellen, Chandler, Julia and Debra Christian; brother in-law of Roger Sunderland and his wife Joyce; uncle of Jada, Lawrence, Jr. and Brock Jones, Dana and David Wilson and his wife Monique; grandfather of Sandra, Melissa, Jessica, Justin, Hunter, Wyatt, David, Jr.,...

Grace L. Sunderland, a former educator and homemaker, died of heart failure Sunday at the Asbury Village retirement community in Gaithersburg. The former longtime Towson resident was 99. Born and raised Grace Lyons in Calvert County, she graduated in 1926 from the first three-year teacher training program from what was then the old Maryland State Normal School in Towson, now Towson University. She taught for seven years, the first five in a wooden, one-room school near Owings in Calvert County.

On Sunday, December 11, 2005 GRACE L. SUNDERLAND of Asbury Methodist Village, Gaithersburg, MD; beloved wife of the late Owen L. Sunderland; mother of Lowell E. Sunderland; grandmother of Janetta Sunderland, Steven Sunderland and Kent Sunderland; sister of Laura Stauffer. Graveside Services and Interment will be held 2 P.M. Wednesday, December 14 at Mt. Olive Methodist Cemetery, 5111 Old Court Rd., Randallstown, MD. The family suggests expressions of sympathy be in the form of memorial contributions to Asbury Foundation, 201 Russell Ave., Gaithersburg, MD 20877.

Philip Merrill Hildebrandt, a retired career Coast Guard officer and pilot who spotted icebergs, died of stroke complications Wednesday at the Larkin Chase Center in Bowie. A resident of Sunderland in Southern Maryland, he was 81. Born in Baltimore and raised in Waverly, he was a Polytechnic Institute graduate. He entered the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., where he won the McMillan Cup for sailing. During World War II, Mr. Hildebrandt served on a cutter in the Philippines and off Japan.