Towson High

The Towson High School JV Boys Soccer Team completed a perfect season — a 9-0 record — with the team's recent 1-0 victory over Eastern Tech High School in the Baltimore County Championship. The lone goal was scored by sophomore midfielder Peter Wieczorek. The JV Generals, led by first year coach Phil Sheehey and captained by sophomores Alex Harrison, AJ Bosse and Henri Colombat, surrendered only a single goal over the course of the season. Team members, in addition to Wieczorek, Harrison, Bosse and Colombat, include Kyle Dixon, John Booher, Clark Benassi, Jack Thorne, Stephen Palo, Matthew Hayden, Aiden Devaney, Zakir Bulmer, Colin Roche, Wyatt Young, Ryan Lightfoot-Johnson, Noah Schweitzer, Julian Salmon, Cameron White, Jack Ware, Andrew Cianos, Adam Cines, Riley German, Jack Jahries and James Miller.

The inaugural class of the Towson High School Athletics Hall of Fame, featuring Michael Phelps (2003), Randy Dase (1972), Sue Beeler (1958), Billy Jones (1964), Jaimee Reynolds (1998) and Jack Thomas (1970), will be honored April 19 at halftime of the Hereford-Towson boys lacrosse game. At 5:15 p.m., five minutes before the opening faceoff of the varsity game, a flagpole and plaque will be dedicated to Mike Godzik (1965), who died in 2008 and in whose name an annual award is given to a boys lacrosse player.

Towson High School's production of "Alice in Wonderland," begins a three-day performance run on Thursday, Nov. 15, at the school, 69 Cedar Ave. Based on a 1947 Broadway script, the play by Eva Le Gallienne and Florida Friebus combines both of Lewis Carroll's novels, "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass. " Performances run Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15-17, with shows each night at 7 p.m. in the Towson High auditorium. Tickets are $8 and will be available at the door.

At a recent Baltimore County Board of Education meeting, a change in the wording of certain documents has allowed the school system to remove school libraries and department heads in alignment with plans to increase funding for new technology. School Superintendent Dallas Dance has begun his crusade to fix one of the best school systems in the nation. I truly wish the best of luck to a school system that has given me a spectacular public education, but Mr. Dance's attempt to cut libraries and department heads to save money seems misguided.

Veteran Assistant Principal Stan Neumann knew just what to do when he was confronted in the Towson High School hallway Thursday afternoon by two naked, masked runners streaking toward him."I yelled, 'STOP!' " he said."We've got 1,000 kids here," Mr. Neumann explained yesterday. "I was worried that some little girl or female teacher would walk into the hall and get run over. Someone could get hurt."When neither of the young runners slowed at his command, Mr. Neumann grabbed the nearest one around the waist, taking an unintentional elbow to the forehead, which caused a small scratch, he said.

Merva J. Filler, a retired Towson High School educator who later became secretary of the Baltimore chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, died Aug. 14 of Alzheimer's disease at Madonna Heritage, a Jarrettsville assisted-living facility. She was 82. Merva June Dye, the daughter of an electrician and a homemaker, was born and raised in Martinsburg, W.Va. After graduating from Martinsburg High School in 1945, she earned a degree in secondary education with majors in mathematics and science from Shepherd College in 1949.

Every day, students at Towson High School walk in past a big yellow sign that says the school is a "drug-free" zone. When they go to the front office, they trek across a huge floor mat that urges them to "say no to drugs and alcohol."But the students, teachers and administrators don't think their school is free of drugs and alcohol. That's just the goal."There is no high school in America that is free of drugs and alcohol," said Samantha Lane, a 17-year-old Towson junior.But because of its commitment to the goal, Towson is being honored today at the White House as one of 56 schools nationwide chosen as a model for others to follow.

The salary will not make him a rich man. The hours will make him a tired man. And the phone bills could make him a poor man.Welcome to the story of Chas Maloy's first job.Maloy, a member of Towson High's state championship lacrosse teams in 1988 and 1989, started all four years at Franklin & Marshall and graduated last spring with a degree in sociology.His burning passion, however, remains for the game of lacrosse. And when he found a chance to travel to London to teach the sport, he grabbed it like a loose ball.

At Towson High, they've raised the question. Kimmie who? Towson students figure Kimmie Meissner, a Fallston High student, is a nice little skater and all, but have you seen what swimming's Michael Phelps has been doing in Australia this week? Five gold medals. Four world records. In your face, Fallston. "This gives Towson more `rep,'" said Eric Pool, a sophomore at the Baltimore County school, whose alumni include Phelps. "We don't brag about Michael, but the fact is that someone really skilled and special went to school here.

As if performing a ritual, Andrew W. List would grab his lacrosse stick each evening and whack a ball against a wall for nearly an hour. Lacrosse was his passion, and he planned to earn a spot on the Towson High School varsity team this spring."

Towson High School's production of "Alice in Wonderland," begins a three-day performance run on Thursday, Nov. 15, at the school, 69 Cedar Ave. Based on a 1947 Broadway script, the play by Eva Le Gallienne and Florida Friebus combines both of Lewis Carroll's novels, "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass. " Performances run Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15-17, with shows each night at 7 p.m. in the Towson High auditorium. Tickets are $8 and will be available at the door.

A slew of area senior athletes made official college commitments Nov. 14 at their respective schools. Included in the list are Roland Park Country School's Emma Guarino (University of Michigan), Erika Brager (Jacksonville University) and Haley Hauser (Bucknell University). Towson High's Sam Stark (Millersville University), Hannah Hicklen (University of Cinncinatti) and Sara Beach (Michigan) are also among the elite. As are Calvert Hall's Stephen Kelly (University of North Carolina)

Lacrosse Towson High sophomore Hicklen orally commits to Florida Towson High sophomore goalie Haley Hicklen has orally committed to Florida, which is coming off its first appearance in the NCAA tournament semifinals in only its third year of existence. As a freshman, Hicklen was a member of the Under Armour All-America Underclass Team, the Women's Division National Tournament team and the National Schoolgirls Baltimore Metro Team. She won a national championship with the US Lacrosse under-15 team and received two varsity letters as a freshman (volleyball and lacrosse)

The Towson High School JV Boys Soccer Team completed a perfect season — a 9-0 record — with the team's recent 1-0 victory over Eastern Tech High School in the Baltimore County Championship. The lone goal was scored by sophomore midfielder Peter Wieczorek. The JV Generals, led by first year coach Phil Sheehey and captained by sophomores Alex Harrison, AJ Bosse and Henri Colombat, surrendered only a single goal over the course of the season. Team members, in addition to Wieczorek, Harrison, Bosse and Colombat, include Kyle Dixon, John Booher, Clark Benassi, Jack Thorne, Stephen Palo, Matthew Hayden, Aiden Devaney, Zakir Bulmer, Colin Roche, Wyatt Young, Ryan Lightfoot-Johnson, Noah Schweitzer, Julian Salmon, Cameron White, Jack Ware, Andrew Cianos, Adam Cines, Riley German, Jack Jahries and James Miller.

Kip and Harrison Hart sit at the kitchen table in their Towson home, along with their mother, Barb Cox, and their South African "brother," Phinius Sebatsane, pondering how they're going to handle the massive amount of donations filling the dining and living rooms. Through the doorway looms 1,400 pounds of donated lacrosse shoes, uniforms and equipment, coming from Friends School and Hereford High, as well as other schools around the country. In Wisconsin, the St. John's Northwestern Military Academy collected another 2,500 pounds of donations, packed in 50-pound boxes.

Towson High School held its 2012 commencement at the Towson Center at Towson University on June 2. The following are members of the Class of 2012: Sarah M. Alaoui, Cristina Eugenia Aldana, Damon Allen Alford Jr., Ehson Aligholizadeh, Benjamin Jackson Amann, Jenna Marie Anderson, Balal Arif, Jacob Armstrong, William Arrington, Emine Baris Atayurt Amber Janelle Bailey, Hannah Elizabeth Bailey, Peyton Levi Bailey, Biswas Baral, Ellis Barchette-Fackler,...

With school kids peeking from their classrooms, actress Kathleen Turner repeatedly ran her car over a Towson High School math teacher in the school's parking lot.But what sounds like a tabloid newspaper's dream story was a bit of movie madness: The teacher was a dummy, and the scene part of two days of filming at Towson High last week for director John Waters' latest movie, "Serial Mom."In another scene, according to Principal Louis J. Sergi, the filming moved indoors to a ground-floor classroom, where Ms. Turner was to confront the teacher during a parent conference.

Last spring, the Hayden administration took the long-planned $25 million renovation of Towson High School off Baltimore County's six-year capital budget.Yesterday, County Executive Roger B. Hayden put it at the top of the list.Mr. Hayden fielded a phone call last week about the school on his radio talk show. He also has received letters complaining about the school. On Friday, he toured the school to see for himself.The result is an offer to put money for a consultant and initial planning for the project in the county's capital budget for the fiscal year starting July 1. Construction money would come the next year.

Kelly Dalla Tezza, a Fulbright scholar who planned a career in the U.S. Foreign Service, died Friday in an automobile accident in Morocco. She was 22 and lived in Parkville. Family members said she had a flat tire while driving on a road near Rabat and lost control of the vehicle. "She was the most fearless person I have ever known," said a close friend, Ashleen Williams of Bahrain, who is also a Fulbright scholar. "She was willing to go anywhere and do pretty much anything.

A 22-year-old student from Parkville who planned a career in foreign service died Friday in a car accident in Morocco near Rabat, her family said. Kelly DallaTezza, who was born in Baltimore, was in northern Africa and had recently participated in a Fulbright conference on women's political roles in Bahrain. Her family said she had been accepted for graduate study at Harvard University and the Johns Hopkins University, among other schools. She was the daughter of Chester and Meg Doxzen DallaTezza and had been salutatorian of her 2007 class at Towson High School.