Temple University

John Chaney recruited Aaron McKie from one of Philadelphia's most impoverished neighborhoods, just a short walk from Temple University's inner-city campus.He recruited Huey Futch from Naranja, Fla. -- just outside Homestead -- and the ravages of Hurricane Andrew.And once, as legend has it, he recruited a 7-footer named Eddie Geiger out of a car wash. That was back in the late 1970s, before Temple, when Chaney still coached at what is now Cheyney (Pa.) University.When Chaney brings his 24th-ranked Owls to the Baltimore Arena for a nonconference game against Maryland tomorrow, you can glimpse all their distinctive trademarks.

As a former college baseball coach, I implore Towson University President Maravene S. Loeschke to reconsider her decision to drop the school's baseball and soccer programs ("Ire grows after Towson president cuts two teams," March 24). We all know there are other, fairer solutions that would allow the school to be in compliance with Title IX, but they require more effort on her part. I have coached baseball for 27 years at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, Lafayette College and Penn State University, and I cherished my relationship with Towson University coaches Billy Hunter and Mike Gottlieb.

Regina Friend will don her son's ceremonial cap Thursday morning and take footsteps that were supposed to be his. The mere idea of those steps gives her chills, but she will take them. Her only child worked 41/2 years to earn a diploma from Temple University, and she will collect it, proud as any other parent in the room. "He's not here to accept it," the Cockeysville resident said. "So as his mother, and I'm still his mother, I need to get it for him. " Last August, Roswell Friend — Dulaney High graduate, college athlete, selfless friend, soon-to-be Temple alum — went for a run over a Philadelphia bridge and never came back.

Aberdeen High School senior Jimmia McCluskey signed her letter of intent last week to attend and run track at Temple University in Philadelphia. McCluskey will major in physical therapy. Pictured in the front row from left are Tonia McCluskey (mother), Jimmia McCluskey, Jimmie McCluskey (father) and in the back row from left are Coach John Mobley, Athletic Director Tim Lindecamp and Coach Kyree Edwards.

Aberdeen High School senior Jimmia McCluskey signed her letter of intent last week to attend and run track at Temple University in Philadelphia. McCluskey will major in physical therapy. Pictured in the front row from left are Tonia McCluskey (mother), Jimmia McCluskey, Jimmie McCluskey (father) and in the back row from left are Coach John Mobley, Athletic Director Tim Lindecamp and Coach Kyree Edwards.

As a former college baseball coach, I implore Towson University President Maravene S. Loeschke to reconsider her decision to drop the school's baseball and soccer programs ("Ire grows after Towson president cuts two teams," March 24). We all know there are other, fairer solutions that would allow the school to be in compliance with Title IX, but they require more effort on her part. I have coached baseball for 27 years at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, Lafayette College and Penn State University, and I cherished my relationship with Towson University coaches Billy Hunter and Mike Gottlieb.

Philadelphia police as well as dozens of friends and relatives were searching Sunday for Roswell Friend, a 22-year-old recent graduate of Temple University who went missing last week after going for a run. A native of Cockeysville who attended Dulaney High School, Friend was last seen around 7 p.m. Thursday. Police searched his home near the university and found his wallet and car keys. Only his house keys were missing. Unabyrd Wadhams, a family friend, said Friend was an athlete at Dulaney and also at Temple, where he ran cross country.

Once again, Kinetics Dance Theatre has reinvented itself. Since last August, choreographer Anne-Alex Packard has held the artistic reins for the Howard County-based dance company. The company's recent debut performance at the Baltimore Museum of Art demonstrated that Packard has friends in high places willing to help the choreographer put her best foot forward.Kinetics' newly reconstituted company of eight women relied heartily on guest artists to pull the performance together. Overall, this established a rocky sense of accomplishment with Packard's dances almost lost in the shuffle of personalities.

Lenora Howze has been named vice president of advertising at The Sun, the newspaper's publisher and chief executive officer, Michael E. Waller, announced yesterday. Howze, 40, an employee at the newspaper since 1990, was formerly the director of classified advertising. Waller said she was chosen for her accomplishments in the classified department as well as in her other positions, which included classified telemarketing manager, a sales manager in national advertising and division manager in advertising marketing.

The families of two teenagers who say they were illegally strip searched for drugs at an Eastern Shore high school last year filed suit against the school system yesterday with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union. Heather Gore and Jessica Bedell, now both 17, were carrying no drugs and are seeking unspecified damages and policies barring strip searches in Kent County schools, said Deborah A. Jeon, legal director for the ACLU of Maryland. "We think the search of these girls went far overboard, and it shouldn't happen again," Jeon said.

Nathaniel M. Pigman Jr., a retired statistician and teacher, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure Oct. 15 at the Gilchrist Hospice Care in Columbia. He was 92 and had lived in Columbia and Edgewater. Born in Bremerton, Wash., he moved with his father, who served in the Navy, throughout the Pacific area as a child. He earned a bachelor of arts at the University of Virginia, where he also attended law school and was admitted to the Virginia Bar. Family members said he never practiced.

After Regina Friend's son Roswell committed suicide last year, she was at least relieved to know that the loans he took out to pay for his Temple University degree were forgiven. But now, the Cockeysville woman has learned she faces a hefty tax bill on those canceled loans. "I thought I was done," she said. Then in June she spoke to her tax preparer, who told her that she will owe an estimated $14,000 to the Internal Revenue Service and the state comptroller on the loans she took out for her son. "I don't think there will ever be closure for what happened.

Regina Friend will don her son's ceremonial cap Thursday morning and take footsteps that were supposed to be his. The mere idea of those steps gives her chills, but she will take them. Her only child worked 41/2 years to earn a diploma from Temple University, and she will collect it, proud as any other parent in the room. "He's not here to accept it," the Cockeysville resident said. "So as his mother, and I'm still his mother, I need to get it for him. " Last August, Roswell Friend — Dulaney High graduate, college athlete, selfless friend, soon-to-be Temple alum — went for a run over a Philadelphia bridge and never came back.

Philadelphia police as well as dozens of friends and relatives were searching Sunday for Roswell Friend, a 22-year-old recent graduate of Temple University who went missing last week after going for a run. A native of Cockeysville who attended Dulaney High School, Friend was last seen around 7 p.m. Thursday. Police searched his home near the university and found his wallet and car keys. Only his house keys were missing. Unabyrd Wadhams, a family friend, said Friend was an athlete at Dulaney and also at Temple, where he ran cross country.

Benetta Thomas-Jones still remembers the day she first realized the importance of keeping her family's history alive. "My daughter was home in the summer 2006 from North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., and I was talking about Aunt Pat and Aunt Bobbie," recalls Thomas-Jones of the conversation with her daughter Janay. "She looked at me and said, `I don't know who those people are.' She did not know my family." That mother-daughter chat motivated the 47-year-old personnel security specialist at Fort Meade to take on the challenging task of planning her family's summer reunion in Baltimore.

Once you start seeing her splashed on magazine covers without much clothing, you know Janet Jackson is about to come back with a new project. In the past two months, she has posed topless on the cover of Vibe and in a black two-piece lingerie set on the front of King. The performer has been announcing her periodic returns in such a way for more than a decade now. Soon after her "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl halftime show 2 1/2 years ago, Jackson released Damita Jo, a leaden and ridiculously pornographic waste of studio time.

Nathaniel M. Pigman Jr., a retired statistician and teacher, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure Oct. 15 at the Gilchrist Hospice Care in Columbia. He was 92 and had lived in Columbia and Edgewater. Born in Bremerton, Wash., he moved with his father, who served in the Navy, throughout the Pacific area as a child. He earned a bachelor of arts at the University of Virginia, where he also attended law school and was admitted to the Virginia Bar. Family members said he never practiced.

Ted McGhee caught the entrepreneurial bug during the weekend of AFRAM, the yearly black festival held in downtown Baltimore, in 1982. The following Monday, he went to his job of six years, packed up everything in a cardboard box and quit.What had caught his attention was a "jewelers rolling mill," a 500-pound machine with which he and a friend could turn dimes into flat, sailboat-shaped charms for earrings and bracelets. While that particular project fell through, it served as an introduction into the world of being his own boss.

The families of two teenagers who say they were illegally strip searched for drugs at an Eastern Shore high school last year filed suit against the school system yesterday with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union. Heather Gore and Jessica Bedell, now both 17, were carrying no drugs and are seeking unspecified damages and policies barring strip searches in Kent County schools, said Deborah A. Jeon, legal director for the ACLU of Maryland. "We think the search of these girls went far overboard, and it shouldn't happen again," Jeon said.

Label this another Howard County soccer success story. Sarah Hobart needed only 12 games to post more shutouts (four) than any other freshman goalkeeper in the history of Davidson (N.C.) College. The four shutouts by the Wilde Lake alumna have led a 5-1 Wildcats surge since an 0-6 start by the Southern Conference team, which faced during that period, among others, perennial powers Duke and South Carolina. Three of Hobart's shutouts came in one week, earning her honors as Southern Conference Player of the Week for the period ending Oct. 2. The first-team All-Howard County choice in 2000 has 63 saves in 12 games.