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Mary C. Maffezzoli, a retired social worker and former administrator at St. Vincent's Center in Timonium, where she worked diligently trying to make better lives for the abused and neglected children who lived there, died of pancreatic cancer Friday at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. She was 64. The former Mary Concetta Cellini was born and raised in Trenton, N.J. While she attended the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, where she earned a bachelor's degree in history in 1964, her future husband, Dr. Richard D. Maffezzoli, was an undergraduate at the Johns Hopkins University.

Editor's note: Entranced by the paintings of the unconventional artist Vincent van Gogh (for whom her mother works as a housekeeper), Claudine watches his world spin out of control when painter Paul Gauguin comes to visit.Soon there was another painter at the Yellow House. His name was Paul. Eagerly Claudine followed the painters to an orchard one noon. They set up their easels near the apple trees and began to paint. Soon she saw that Paul also used vivid colors, though his were deep rather than bright.

Fred Flintstone was there. So were Uncle Sam, the Grim Reaper and Marilyn Monroe. An alien from a far-off planet dropped in. Even Miss America 1994 made an appearance.It seems nobody wanted to miss Loretta Metzler and Randy Bruner's wedding. Seven years in the planning, the costumed affair was held, appropriately enough, on Halloween. Loretta and Randy chose a Halloween episode of one of their favorite television series, "Beauty and the Beast," as the theme for their wedding, deciding the day would be complete only if they dressed the part.

THE TELEPHONE call arrived at 11 o'clock the night of Dec. 14, 1935, at the St. Vincent Infant Home on Reisterstown Road, with a man's voice tersely declaring: "A baby has been left on your doorstep."Then the phone went click, and the voice died away, the last human link to a child abandoned in the first days of his life. At St. Vincent, two of the nuns, Sister Celestine and Sister Louise, went to the front porch, and then the back. No child was there. They called Baltimore police, who dispatched an officer named John Fritz.

Perry Hall's string of 13 consecutive Baltimore County cross country championships came to a controversial end yesterday at Hereford High School just after Dulaney's Gene Vincent won his third straight county title.Meet officials ruled that two of the Gators' top-three finishers in the boys race ran off course, automatically disqualifying both and allowing Dulaney to squeak out a five-point victory.Head referee Gil Stange was forced to disqualify Andy Hart, who crossed the line fourth, and John Kappes, who was seventh, after several officials saw them and Woodlawn's Clevon Jones run on the wrong side of a soccer goal near the one-mile mark.

Perry Hall's string of 13 consecutive Baltimore County cross country championships came to a controversial end yesterday at Hereford High School just after Dulaney's Gene Vincent won his third straight county title.Meet officials ruled that two of the Gators' top-three finishers in the boys race ran off course, automatically disqualifying both and allowing Dulaney to squeak out a five-point victory.Head referee Gil Stange was forced to disqualify Andy Hart, who crossed the line fourth, and John Kappes, who was seventh, after several officials saw them and Woodlawn's Clevon Jones run on the wrong side of a soccer goal near the one-mile mark.

TAMPA, Fla. -- Vinny Testaverde leans over the stroller and picks up the smiling baby. This is Vincent Jr., 7 months old and a small miracle. Dad lifts his child -- in those big, strong quarterback hands -- and knows there could have been two of them. But this little boy is perfect, and Testaverde holds Vincent Jr. over his head and smiles into the child's trusting eyes.Testaverde, the Ravens' Pro Bowl quarterback, seems an unlikely candidate to share details of his personal life. A private man who endured a career full of criticism before finally being accepted in Baltimore, he guards his family closely.

WINCHESTER, England -- Say it ain't so, Bruce Grobbelaar.Born in South Africa, raised in Zimbabwe and revered in Liverpool, the star soccer goalkeeper with a mustache and a ponytail is spending his time these days sitting in a Winchester court behind a bunch of lawyers in flowing silk robes and powdered wigs.Grobbelaar is on trial -- and so is England's favorite national game.The man who led Liverpool to six league titles and one European championship over 14 seasons is accused of taking cash from an Asian betting syndicate to give up goals and fix match results.

A 2-4 finish by Jason Santucci and Greg Fisher and top 20 performances by teammates Josh Davis (13th) and Ross Bair helped the Westminster Owls hold off Lake Braddock (Va.), 64-69, for the large schools boys' team title at the Bull Run Invitational at Hereford High yesterday.Santucci ran the hilly 3.1-mile course in 16 minutes, 57 seconds, but was no threat to Dulaney's Greg Vincent. Fisher was two seconds behind his teammate, finishing in 16: 59.Vincent cut six seconds off the track record, scorching the course in 16: 21. The time was nearly a minute better than his second-place finish in last year's Class 4A state meet.

Kelly Coogan of C. Milton Wright and Dulaney's Greg Vincent both had little trouble winning in yesterday's 17th Westminster Invitational at Western Maryland College.Coogan sprinted to an early lead and never looked back, winning easily in 19 minutes, 26 seconds. Jill Krebs of South Carroll took second in 20: 33."Starting fast is what I planned to do," said Coogan. "I thought that would put me in the lead right away."Vincent (16: 37) needed to work a bit harder in the boys race. He stayed in a pack during the first part of the run, but surged ahead at about halfway and rolled to a 20-second victory over South Carroll's Steve McClearn.

Vincent Landau Upon his request he was cremated. Though there will be no funeral, a private memorial service will be held in the future. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Vince's memory to the Kline Hospice House, P.O. Box 1799, Frederick, MD 21702.

It didn't take long for Vincent Woodward to make his presence felt at Mount View Middle School in Marriottsville. Within months after his arrival as a sixth-grader, Vincent was elected school president. Nor did it matter to the rest of the students that Vincent, who would have entered eighth grade in the fall, had a form of dwarfism. Many who had grown up with him had long been won over by his indomitable spirit and magnetic personality. If they thought of him being different, it was because he was more mature, more grounded and generally more fun to be around than most of his peers.

On February 19, 2009 JENNIE (nee Farace), beloved wife of the late Vincent Cirincione and loving mother JoAnn Ritmiller and husband William, Concetta and Nancy Cirincione, dear sister of Lillian Cirincione and Adelina Maurer and the late Sadie, Albert, Rose, Joseph, Josephine, Vincent, Annie and Marie; devoted grandmother of Anthony and Michael Ritmiller. Also survived by three great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Relatives and friends may call at the family owned MARZULLO FUNERAL CHAPEL, P.A., 6009 Harford Road on Saturday Sunday

Barbara J. Vincent, a postal worker who enjoyed cooking, died Friday of cancer at a sister's Pikesville home. She was 62. Ms. Vincent was born in Baltimore and raised in Somerset Homes in East Baltimore. She was a 1964 graduate of St. Frances Academy and studied at the Community College of Baltimore City. Since 1968, Ms. Vincent had worked at the main U.S. Post Office on East Fayette Street, where she was a registered mail clerk. Ms. Vincent, who had lived in Windsor Hills, enjoyed cooking for family and friends.

On December 16, 2008, LORRAYNE CATHERINE VINCENT. On Sunday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Baltimore National Pike from 2 to 8 P.M. On Monday, Mrs. Vincent will lie in state at Sacred Zion Full Gospel Baptist Church, 346 N. Denison Street, where the family will receive friends from 10:30 to 11 A.M with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 233-2400.

Jon Vincent expects more visitors to his blackfriday.info Web site this Thursday and Friday than he had all of last November. The Boston-area resident suspects that mostly has to do with shoppers hungering for bargains in a bleak economy and partly to do with people becoming more comfortable with searching and shopping online. "Traffic has doubled since last year," said Vincent, 28, who reserved the blackfriday.info domain name in 2004 after trying to help his parents shop online. He also created the Web coupon site keepcash.

Total creative freedom is a luxury that Derek Bellomo never took for granted - not the day he purchased a piece of land in southwest Baltimore County's historic Oella and not even when his dream was realized. A burnt-out house with the original fieldstone foundation wedged into a rugged hillside was all that remained on the 30-foot-by-140-foot property for which he paid $80,000 in March 2007. (Construction, design and furnishings would easily total four times that amount, according to Bellomo.

Suddenly on August 13, 2008, VINCENT "Jimmy" D., of Pikesville; beloved husband of Helen M. Arena (nee Bowers); devoted father of James R. Arena and his wife Sherry, Theresa "Terry" M. Berry and her husband Steven and Joseph V. Arena and his wife Anne; dear brother of Mary E. Longo, Rose M. Mettle, Elizabeth A. Klein; loving grandfather of Julia, Ashley, Avery, Jessica, Alyssa and Domenic. Also survived by numerous nieces and nephews. Friends may call at LORING BYERS FUNERAL DIRECTORS INC., 8728 Liberty Road (2 miles west of beltway exit 18B)

On July 27, 2008, CLARENCE W. VINCENT, SR., of E. 31st Street. On Wednesday, friends may call at HARI P. CLOSE FUNERAL SERVICE, P.A., 5126 Belair Road from 4 to7 P.M. On Friday friends may call at Rising Sun Baptist Church, 1901 Register Street. Family Hour 11:30 A.M and Celebration 12 noon. Services entrusted to HARI P. CLOSE FUNERAL SERVICE, P.A.

On July 27, 2008, CLARENCE W. VINCENT, SR., of E. 31st Street. On Friday, friends may call at Rising Sun Baptist Church, 901 Register Street. Family Hour 11:30 A.M. and Celebration 12 noon. Services entrusted to HARI P. CLOSE FUNERAL SERVICE, P.A., 5126 Belair Road.