Tepper

On April 3, 2005, HEATHER BROOKE TEPPER, passed away due to a rare childhood cancer. She was at home surrounded by her family. Heather battled her disease with courage and determination. Throughout her brief 18 years, Heather touched many hearts with her signature smile, wonderful sense of humor and amazing spirit. She loved her family and friends dearly and made friends of all ages wherever she went. Heather graduated from Glen Burnie High School in 2002, a goal she set for herself, while battling her disease.

On April 3, 2005, HEATHER BROOKE TEPPER, passed away due to a rare childhood cancer. She was at home surrounded by her family. Heather battled her disease with courage and determination. Throughout her brief 18 years, Heather touched many hearts with her signature smile, wonderful sense of humor and amazing spirit. She loved her family and friends dearly and made friends of all ages wherever she went. Heather graduated from Glen Burnie High School in 2002, a goal she set for herself, while battling her disease.

Maryland's new football coaching staff lost its most experienced member yesterday when assistant head coach and defensive coordinator Lou Tepper resigned, less than a month after he had joined the Terps.Tepper was not available for comment, but head coach Ron Vanderlinden said that several factors led to his departure, which was agreed to Monday. Tepper, 51, spent the previous five seasons as the head coach at Illinois, and he had second thoughts about being an assistant."Lou told me, 'Right now, at this point in my life, I don't want to be an assistant coach,' " Vanderlinden said.

THE LAST PLACE I saw Vicki Tepper was that rowhouse off Loch Raven Boulevard. While men from the March Funeral Home quietly removed mourners' chairs from the little living room, Tepper consoled the grandmother of an 11-year-old boy named John-John who had just died from the effects of AIDS. Tepper went to a lot of funerals in those days. It was six years ago, but it feels longer. Tepper, 45, is director of the Pediatric AIDS program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She has 175 children, infants to 18-year-olds, under her treatment there.

Maryland football coach Ron Vanderlinden knew two weeks ago that former Illinois coach Lou Tepper was the right man to run the Terrapins' defense, and yesterday Tepper agreed with him.Tepper signed on as Maryland defensive coordinator and assistant head coach, and was joined by two new assistants. Vanderlinden also named Rubin Carter interior defensive line coach and Sean Payton as either the receivers or running backs coach. The Terps still have five coaching vacancies, including an offensive coordinator.

Lou Tepper needed nearly three weeks to accept an offer to become Maryland's assistant head coach and defensive coordinator in football, and one day to realize that he made a mistake."

Maryland football coach Ron Vanderlinden had hoped to have several assistant coaches on board by now, but he has made only one hire, and his staff probably won't be completed until after the bowl games are played."

THE LAST PLACE I saw Vicki Tepper was that rowhouse off Loch Raven Boulevard. While men from the March Funeral Home quietly removed mourners' chairs from the little living room, Tepper consoled the grandmother of an 11-year-old boy named John-John who had just died from the effects of AIDS. Tepper went to a lot of funerals in those days. It was six years ago, but it feels longer. Tepper, 45, is director of the Pediatric AIDS program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She has 175 children, infants to 18-year-olds, under her treatment there.

Tepper Isn't Going Out, by Calvin Trillin. Random House. 215 pages. $22.95. If you live in Manhattan and park your car on the streets -- as opposed to paying usurious fees to a garage -- this curious comic novel by Calvin Trillin may be right up your alley. If you're not (and this effectively eliminates some 260 million Americans), it may be considerably less appealing. Murray Tepper is a mild-mannered senior citizen with a strange fixation for parking. He knows all the parking regulations -- Lower East Side, one-hour parking, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. including Sunday; East 78th Street, no parking 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Friday, etc. Once he finds a prime spot, he sits there for hours in his car, reading the newspaper and making annoying little hand gestures that signify "I'm not going out" to motorists who covet his parking space.

Now Philadelphia is on the verge of joining the National Professional Soccer League.The 12-team NPSL has received an expansion-team application from a group headed by Philadelphia businessman Ed Tepper that wants to begin play in the 1996-97 season. League acceptance is expected to be a formality."After the success of our neutral-site game in Philadelphia last October, it was just a matter of time before Ed and his group formally applied," said NPSL commissioner Steve Paxos.Tepper staged the Spirit-Chicago Power game Oct. 22 at Philadelphia's CoreStates Spectrum before 9,371.

Tepper Isn't Going Out, by Calvin Trillin. Random House. 215 pages. $22.95. If you live in Manhattan and park your car on the streets -- as opposed to paying usurious fees to a garage -- this curious comic novel by Calvin Trillin may be right up your alley. If you're not (and this effectively eliminates some 260 million Americans), it may be considerably less appealing. Murray Tepper is a mild-mannered senior citizen with a strange fixation for parking. He knows all the parking regulations -- Lower East Side, one-hour parking, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. including Sunday; East 78th Street, no parking 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Friday, etc. Once he finds a prime spot, he sits there for hours in his car, reading the newspaper and making annoying little hand gestures that signify "I'm not going out" to motorists who covet his parking space.

Lou Tepper needed nearly three weeks to accept an offer to become Maryland's assistant head coach and defensive coordinator in football, and one day to realize that he made a mistake."

Maryland's new football coaching staff lost its most experienced member yesterday when assistant head coach and defensive coordinator Lou Tepper resigned, less than a month after he had joined the Terps.Tepper was not available for comment, but head coach Ron Vanderlinden said that several factors led to his departure, which was agreed to Monday. Tepper, 51, spent the previous five seasons as the head coach at Illinois, and he had second thoughts about being an assistant."Lou told me, 'Right now, at this point in my life, I don't want to be an assistant coach,' " Vanderlinden said.

Maryland football coach Ron Vanderlinden knew two weeks ago that former Illinois coach Lou Tepper was the right man to run the Terrapins' defense, and yesterday Tepper agreed with him.Tepper signed on as Maryland defensive coordinator and assistant head coach, and was joined by two new assistants. Vanderlinden also named Rubin Carter interior defensive line coach and Sean Payton as either the receivers or running backs coach. The Terps still have five coaching vacancies, including an offensive coordinator.

Maryland football coach Ron Vanderlinden had hoped to have several assistant coaches on board by now, but he has made only one hire, and his staff probably won't be completed until after the bowl games are played."

John-John was 11 years old and still speaking of hope when he died the other day. He knew death was coming. He told his grandmother, Ethel Jackson, "I just talked to the angels. They said I'm gonna be all right." He meant they'd look out for him. He meant they were waiting for his arrival. They'd been waiting since John-John was born.His mother, Zena Cummings, strung out on drugs the last 13 years of her life, had passed on to John-John the virus that leads to AIDS. She was HIV-positive when pregnant.

Carl and Beth Robinson dropped to their knees as Daisy romped into the room. They hugged and petted the sleek black greyhound; her whip-like tail wagged in dignified response.Daisy was among eight racing greyhounds who had just completed a nine-hour rescue run from New Hampshire to Lutherville to begin new lives as family pets.The lean-bodied dogs, some of whom were still racing only two weeks ago, had faced certain death simply because they could no longer chase a mechanical rabbit around a racetrack fast enough.

Carry a torch Defensive coordinator Lou Tepper was named interim Illinois football coach yesterday after John Mackovic resigned as football coach and athletic director to become coach of the Texas Longhorns.Illinois officials said a permanent replacement might be announced today.Tepper, Mackovic's top assistant, took over the team yesterday as the Illini prepared to meet UCLA on Dec. 31 in the John Hancock Bowl in El Paso, Texas."I see us as being a strong passing team, but I also feel that I will have a stronger run bent than John," Tepper said.

Like many explorers, Theo Richmond began with the outline of a map.When he embarked on writing "Konin: A Quest" he carried a street map of Konin, his ancestral town in eastern Poland, with the intention of re-creating Jewish life as it was before World War II. The map acquires its own meaning during the course of the book, and the process of filling it in took Mr. Richmond to Britain, Eastern Europe, Israel and the United States to interview Konin survivors."I...

Now Philadelphia is on the verge of joining the National Professional Soccer League.The 12-team NPSL has received an expansion-team application from a group headed by Philadelphia businessman Ed Tepper that wants to begin play in the 1996-97 season. League acceptance is expected to be a formality."After the success of our neutral-site game in Philadelphia last October, it was just a matter of time before Ed and his group formally applied," said NPSL commissioner Steve Paxos.Tepper staged the Spirit-Chicago Power game Oct. 22 at Philadelphia's CoreStates Spectrum before 9,371.