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James Newton, 75, a retired federal government printer and administrator who taught adults at night school, died of respiratory failure July 23 at his home in West Baltimore. He had Parkinson's disease.Mr. Newton received a teaching degree in 1937 from what is now Coppin State College, and taught in city schools for a number of years.After marrying Elizabeth Cook in 1944, he became a printer at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington. He retired in 1984 as a personnel administrator.

Joanne F. Neil,: of Sykesville, is Piney Run Park's Volunteer of the Year. She has served as a member of the park's Recreation and Conservation Council since the park opened in 1975.Organization's comments: "Joanne's willingness to volunteer hours of her time has enriched the Nature Center's programs. She has led bread-baking demonstrations, taught wheat weaving and works each year at the Country Christmas workshop," said Deanna Hofmann, park naturalist. "She also shares her time at fishing tournaments and for seven years has been chairperson of the food committee at the Apple Festival."

Sister Mary Consilio Wilson, O.S.P., a teacher and parochial school administrator for 45 years -- many of those at the St. Frances Academy in Baltimore -- died Aug. 2 of heart failure at Bon Secours Hospital. She was 82.Sister Consilio was a member of the Oblate Sisters of Providence -- an order founded in Baltimore inthe early 1800s -- and lived at themotherhouse in Catonsville. Sheentered the convent in 1937 andprofessed her final vows in 1940.She began teaching in 1941 at the old St. Pius V school, then on Harlem Avenue in West Baltimore, where she taught all levels in grade school.

Eighty-three county teachers were honored for their "star" qualitiesMonday night and six were singled out for special honors."We need many more like you," Francis M. "Skip" Fennell, a professor of education at Western Maryland College, told the teachers. "All of you arestars."The teachers were recognized at an annual dinner sponsored by theCarroll County Chamber of Commerce. About 350 people attended the banquet at Friendly Farm restaurant.For the last three years, the Chamber has solicited nominations for "Outstanding Teacher" awards.

Services for Wilson R. Toula Jr., a Baltimore native who had retired as a professor of technology at the Tidewater Community College in Portsmouth, Va., will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Cvach-Rosedale Funeral Home, 1211 Chesaco Ave.Mr. Toula, who was 44 and a resident of Suffolk, Va., died Wednesday of cancer at a hospital in Virginia Beach.He taught at the Portsmouth school from 1978 until 1989, when he retired because of his illness. He conducted courses in various industrial skills he had developed at the request of local industries.

Joseph Seivold Sr., 93, music teacher, violinistJoseph Seivold Sr., a music teacher and violinist whose renditions of his native Bohemian music were popular with audiences for 35 years at the Peabody Book Shop and Beer Stube, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at Meridian Nursing Center-Multi Medical in Towson. He was 93.Mr. Seivold, who was born near Budapest and immigrated to Baltimore in 1909 with his family, never forgot Hungarian gypsy music.As a boy in Lansdowne, he taught himself to play the violin and studied piano.

David J. Carey, a retired teacher whose enthusiasm illuminating historical events and the personalities behind them earned him accolades and admiration from students and faculty during his years at Pikesville High School, died of lung cancer Tuesday at Sinai Hospital. The Reisterstown resident was 70. Mr. Carey was born and raised in Marion, Iowa, and after graduating from high school in 1953, he earned a bachelor's degree with honors in journalism from the University of Iowa in Iowa City in 1957.

The windows were a gift or maybe a bribe -- or maybe a bonus -- for falling in love with such a dotty old house.The place was a wreck. A showoff, too. So it tried real hard to be more. But it lacked so much -- good heat, stable floors, solid walls, enough space, a low interest rate.But it had windows. More glass and bays and bows than people on a budget had a right to expect. And in unlikely places, such as the window inside a bedroom closet, its only view a strawberry patch planted by the children next door.

BOSTON -- Long, long ago, I wrote a column describing my mother this way: "My mother is someone who will listen to your problems until you are bored with them." Reader's Digest wanted to use it, and a fact-checker called me for my mother's telephone number. She actually wanted to ask my mother whether it was true. I told this tale for years as a funny story about fact-checkers. But now, of course, I know it was really a story about my mother. About Edith Weinstein Holtz, who died last week at age 92, just two days after Thanksgiving, on what would have been the 70th anniversary of her wedding.

Joseph Edward Armstrong, a retired Western Electric Co. department head and former Anne Arundel County educator, died of heart failure Tuesday at Charlestown Retirement Community, four days after his 98th birthday. Born and raised in Annapolis, in a house on Franklin Street that his father had built, Mr. Armstrong was a 1923 graduate of Annapolis High School. As a teenager, Mr. Armstrong played saxophone in a band with friends. They performed at tea dances at the Naval Academy, where his father taught mechanical drawing.