University Of Baltimore

Joseph Carrington Howard, who grew up as a member of Payne Memorial A.M.E. Church and later served as a deacon there, died of a heart attack Monday in Washington. He was 83. Mr. Harrington was raised in Northwest Baltimore and graduated from Frederick Douglass Senior High School in 1941. After receiving a bachelor's degree in sociology and romance languages from Howard University, he graduated cum laude from its School of Religion. He later earned a doctorate from Syracuse University. At the University of Baltimore he taught religion and served as assistant to the president in the early 1970s.

Hoping to enliven midtown Baltimore with new residences and shops while providing much needed parking for the University of Baltimore, the university and a private developer are proposing a $75 million luxury apartment project at West Mount Royal Avenue and West Oliver Street. The Fitzgerald would have approximately 280 market-rate units and 14,000 square feet of street-level retail and wrap around an 1,100-space garage that could be used by students, faculty and the public, said Toby Bozzuto, executive vice president of Bozzuto Development Co. The project in the Midtown-Belvedere neighborhood would be the first step in a larger vision to enhance the area around the university through redevelopment, Peter Toran, vice president of planning and university relations, said yesterday.

Joel R. Kruh, a Baltimore attorney who enjoyed playing sports, died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack while driving on the Baltimore Beltway. The longtime Owings Mills resident, who was pronounced dead at St. Agnes Hospital, was 61. Mr. Kruh was born in the Bronx, N.Y., and was 6 years old when he moved with his family to Crawford Avenue in Northwest Baltimore. He was a 1964 graduate of City College, where he was a track star, family members said. While attending law school at the University of Baltimore, where he earned his law degree in 1975, Mr. Kruh drove a taxi, taught driving and was an insurance adjustor.

Veteran firearms examiner Joseph Kopera routinely brought to court an oversize wooden bullet as a prop, taking it apart and showing jurors precisely how lead projectiles and the weapons that fire them worked together in so many murder cases. He liked to walk around the courtroom, explaining the path of bullets, the pump-action mechanism of some firearms and how an accused gunman could have stuffed a sawed-off shotgun into a seemingly too-small shopping bag, just as prosecutors alleged.

Sylvan Ribakow, a certified public accountant and former partner in a Baltimore accounting firm, died Wednesday of heart failure at Sinai Hospital. The former Pikesville resident was 90. Mr. Ribakow was born in Baltimore and raised near Easterwood Park in Northwest Baltimore. He was a 1935 graduate of City College and earned a degree in accounting from the Baltimore College of Commerce, now the University of Baltimore. During World War II, Mr. Ribakow, who was classified 4-F by the Selective Service System because of a bad back, was an accountant at Austin Baking Co. in Baltimore.

A gunman grabbed Joseph Ensey as he was going to a friend's apartment in Northeast Baltimore and put a gun to his head. "Give me all the money you have or I'll blow your head off," Ensey quoted the robber as saying. The two men struggled, and the attacker prevailed, firing from his .22-caliber handgun, hitting the former cross country and track star at North Harford High School twice in the back. One of the bullets nicked Ensey's spine and left him paralyzed. He was 30 years old. That was three days after Christmas 1991.

Movies that reach out and grab you are coming to the Enoch Pratt Free Library this summer, beginning tomorrow with a 2 p.m. screening of the 3-D version of Jack Arnold's 1954 horror classic, Creature From the Black Lagoon. Funny-looking 3-D glasses will be provided. Admission is free. The film will be shown in the Wheeler Auditorium of the central library, 400 Cathedral St. Information: prattlibrary.org/calendar. Baltimore `Pride' "Film Baltimore," the University of Baltimore's salute to movies made in and about Charm City, concludes Thursday with an 8 p.m. screening of Sunu Gonera's Pride (2007)

Baltimore mayoral candidates will meet tonight in a public forum at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the first of at least four debates to be held before the Nov. 2 general election.But Republican mayoral contender David F. Tufaro is complaining that his Democratic opponent, City Councilman Martin O'Malley, is backing out of neighborhood forums in which the two had been scheduled to meet.Though O'Malley has agreed to the four joint appearances, he has declined to join Tufaro in six other forums sponsored by neighborhood organizations, Tufaro said.

Bernard E. Eberwein, 81, Alex. Brown partnerBernard E. Eberwein, a retired limited partner at Alex. Brown & Sons investment bankers, died Wednesday of heart failure at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Lutherville resident was 81.He joined Alex. Brown in 1934 and was a trader, manager of the firm's over-the-counter department, vice president and limited partner. He retired in 1986.Born in Baltimore, Mr. Eberwein lived near Clifton Park as a young man and graduated from Polytechnic Institute and the University of Baltimore.

Richard M. Foose Jr., a retired architect who designed several notable local buildings, died Wednesday of cancer at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. He was 69 and lived in Timonium.An award-winning designer, he helped create the 1969 Loyola-Notre Dame college library, a 1973 addition to the Harford County Courthouse and the 1971 renovation of the University of Baltimore's academic center at Charles Street and Mount Royal Avenue.Before his retirement in 1993, he designed buildings for two Baltimore firms -- Fisher, Nes and Campbell, and Meyer Ayers Saint.

William Franklin Cecil III, a former air traffic controller who later became a lawyer and an assistant state's attorney assigned to the Baltimore Firearms Investigation Enforcement Unit, died Friday of brain cancer at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. He was 59. "Bill was one unique individual. If he had an opinion, you knew about it. He was a fighter in the courtroom and a fighter in life," said Baltimore State's Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy. Mr. Cecil, the son of an insurance company executive and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised on Putty Hill Avenue.

On August 15, 2009 LINDA JENKINS BROWN of Glenwood, MD, surrounded by family and friends after a courageous battle with cancer. Linda, a native Baltimorean, began her career as a teacher with the Baltimore school system and retired after 31 years as Chief, Policy and Program Development Division, Office of Civil Rights, Federal Highway Admin. During her distinguished career, Linda received numerous awards including the Secretary of Transportation's Meritorious Achievement Award, the Administrator's Superior Performance Award and being chosen to represent her agency at the United Nations Non-Governmental Forum for the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.

J. William Hinkel, a former member of the House of Delegates and a retired Baltimore County Circuit Court judge who was the first administrative judge of the Baltimore County District Court when it was established in 1971, died Monday of cancer at a hospital in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The former Towson resident had lived in Myrtle Beach for the past five years and was 77. John William Hinkel was born and raised in East Baltimore. He was a 1950 graduate of City College and earned an associate's degree from the University of Baltimore in 1956.

Taking another cue from the West Coast tech scene, Baltimore will be the site of its own BarCamp "unconference" next week at the University of Baltimore. Organizers have scheduled the event June 20 at the university's Thumel Business Center. Following the BarCamp format, the event will not have a pre-set agenda. Instead, those who show up that morning will determine the day's program by suggesting and voting on topics. Such events usually attract artists, designers, activists and people who work in technology and the Web. "You don't have some gatekeeper telling you what you're going to see," said Mike Subelsky, an organizer and independent software developer.

Frederick L. Bierer, a retired Baltimore bankruptcy lawyer who nearly a decade ago rescued the city's annual Flower Mart from extinction, died Friday at Seasons Hospice at Northwest Hospital Center of complications after brain surgery. He was 61. Mr. Bierer was born in Baltimore and raised in Pikesville. He was a 1966 graduate of Pikesville High School and earned his bachelor's degree in 1970 and his law degree in 1973 from the University of Baltimore. He was 15 when he began working after school and on weekends at Jene's liquors, his parents' store in the 1800 block of Greenmount Ave. "His wit, enthusiasm, and energy bonded him easily with all the people he met, regardless of their social strata, which portended his future as a lawyer and community activist," said Darren Margolis, his law partner.

Philip H. Lohrey Sr., a retired insurance broker and former University of Baltimore wrestling coach, died Friday of complications from a stroke at Stella Maris Hospice. The Timonium resident was 80. Born in Baltimore and raised near Patterson Park, he was awarded a scholarship to McDonogh School after his father died when he was 11. He graduated from the Owings Mills school in 1946 and attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and earned his bachelor's degree from Loyola College in 1949.

Lucy A. Garvey, the first woman to serve as an assistant state's attorney in Baltimore and who became the first woman appointed to the post of master of chancery for what is now the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, died Sunday of cancer at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. She was 86. Lucy Ann Garvey, the daughter of Irish immigrants from County Clare, was born in Baltimore and raised on South Morley Street in Irvington. Master Garvey was a 1940 honors graduate of Western High School, where she was awarded the Peabody Award.

Joseph I. Pines, a retired Baltimore Circuit Court judge and volunteer, died Thursday of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Arden Courts, an assisted-living facility in Pikesville. He was 87. Judge Pines, the son of a grocer, was born Joseph I. Pinas in New York City. In 1947, he changed his name to Pines. In 1925, he moved to Baltimore with his family and settled on East Biddle Street. His father established a grocery store on Orleans Street and later moved to Liberty Heights Avenue in Northwest Baltimore, when he opened a store.

Joseph A. Ciotola Sr., former longtime administrative judge of Baltimore's District Court and a decorated World War II veteran, died Saturday of heart failure at his Catonsville home. He was 88. Judge Ciotola's career spanned 15 years - from 1976 when he was appointed by Gov. Marvin Mandel to the District Court - until he was forced to step down in 1991 because he had passed the mandatory retirement age of 70. "I got to know Judge Ciotola in my first job out of law school as a prosecutor, and I tried many a case in front of him," Gov. Martin O'Malley recalled yesterday.

Salary: $84,000 Age: 55 Time on the job: 15 months How he got started: After moving from Detroit to Baltimore to take a teaching position, Doran found that his job had been given to a recently laid-off teacher. So instead he went to work for a nonprofit organization as its director of camping and recreation. He then worked part time for another nonprofit, the Maryland Center for Independent Living, while attending the University of Baltimore to earn his master's degree in public administration.