University Of Baltimore

NEARLY 20 years after the University of Baltimore's leaders expressed the desire to turn a former bank headquarters into a campus administrative center, the university appears likely to gain control of the building.Baltimore attorney and Orioles owner Peter G. Angelos heads a group that has a contract to buy the former Loyola Federal Savings and Loan building at 1300 N. Charles St., the building that university President H. Mebane Turner wants to turn into an administrative center so he can free up space in other campus buildings.

IN HIS nearly three decades as president of the University of Baltimore, H. Mebane Turner has acquired all manner of strange and unusual buildings to demolish or fix up for campus use, from the Pat Hays Buick showroom to the former Odorite cleaning supplies emporium.But none is more attractive or has a more colorful history than the building Turner is eyeing now: the former Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, on the northwest corner of Charles and Preston streets.The University System of Maryland Board of Regents has recommended that state legislators allocate $5 million so the University of Baltimore can buy the five-story building and convert it to a campus administrative center, freeing space in other buildings for student-related activities.

The University of Baltimore's new dean of the Robert G. Merrick School of Business has little in common with the fraternity of mostly older white men who head America's accredited business schools. At 43, Anne M. McCarthy, who assumed her position last week, is younger than many of her peers. Most recently an associate professor at Colorado State University, she has never held the position of department chairman or associate dean, once traditional steppingstones to the dean's office. And she takes more interest in scrappy start-up businesses than in the corporate behemoths that drive research at many prominent business schools.

THE University of Baltimore announced Monday that it will establish an Athletic Hall of Fame and induct at a May 8 ceremony such luminaries as Richard Edell, who led the UB men's soccer squad to a national championship in 1975. It seemed an odd thing to do. The university eliminated varsity sports 21 years ago, a cost-saving move that embittered many alumni. And because the present and past are forever linked in sports, UB's decision to drop intercollegiate athletics dimmed the memory of more than a half-century of competition in baseball, basketball, golf, lacrosse, soccer and wrestling.

The credit for the photos shown in Sun Magazine's Way Back When feature on Sunday should have read: Courtesy of YMCA Collection, University of Baltimore Archives.The Sun regrets the errors.

On September 19, 2008, JAMES E. BEVERLY of Severna Park, No funeral services. Contributions may be made in his name to University of Baltimore Foundation, Merrick School of Business, 1420 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.

"People from Baltimore are always different," Jack Hubbar was saying yesterday from the St. Louis Cardinals' clubhouse in Busch Stadium.Maybe Baltimoreans are different, and maybe we're not. In Jack Hubbard's case, there's no question. He is different.More significantly, the route he took to baseball's big leagues was not just different. It was unique.Hubbard, who grew up in Hamilton, played for coach Ed Baublitz at City College, then at the University of Baltimore under Otts Bosley. He tried out for the Leone's-Johnny's amateur team, but was cut every year by manager Walter Youse.

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