Woodlawn High

Woodlawn High School ninth-graders who gathered yesterday for an assembly on anger management instead got an up-close lesson in violence, when a shoving match grew into a melee that led to two arrests - including one student's mother - and 11 suspensions. As students on stage acted out peaceful ways to resolve conflict, one student's mother confronted a group of girls who had been bothering her child, authorities said. Screaming quickly escalated into pushing and hitting, and school officials dialed 911 as the crowd of 750 students erupted into "chaos," said Woodlawn Principal C. Anthony Thompson.

T he Woodlawn High students were divided into three groups stationed at chalkboards, writing out questions. • What year was the microscope created? • What do you view microorganisms on? • And finally: Describe the similarities of prokaryotes and eukaryotes. "That is an excellent question," said James Martin, drawing the attention of the 25 students in his class. The teens - all black male freshmen - were giving one another "critical thinking" problems in various subjects as part of a semiweekly, in-class tutorial.

A trio of defensive backs who played their high school football in Baltimore County were chosen in the middle rounds of the two-day NFL draft that ended yesterday. Domonique Foxworth, a cornerback who played at Maryland and Western Tech, was taken by the Denver Broncos at the bottom of the third round late Saturday night, the 97th selection overall. Vincent Fuller, a safety who starred at Virginia Tech and Woodlawn High, was taken by the Tennessee Titans early in the fourth round yesterday, the 108th pick overall.

Whizzing through Woodlawn High School's parking lot at 30 miles per hour, Kenneth Byrd is having the time of his life -- despite the fact that he's piloting a solar-powered vehicle so small that he barely has room to breathe.As the top driver for Woodlawn's "Road Warrior," Kenneth will be directing the first entry from a Maryland high school in Solar Bike Rayce USA. Kenneth -- as well as a pit crew and cheering section of 21 other Woodlawn students -- leaves today for the 1998 competition in Topeka, Kansas, and will race Sunday.

Buffalo Bills linebacker Carlton Bailey, a Baltimore native from Woodlawn High, was named recipient of the NFL's "Extra Effort" Award for October.Bailey spends each Tuesday of the season visiting Buffalo-area high school football teams to talk about the importance of education, setting goals and planning beyond high school.

When Ezio Ross was the varsity quarterback for his Miami high school in the early 1970s, he played for the championship one year before 40,000 fans. It's not surprising then that Ross, whose son is the Woodlawn High School varsity quarterback, was more than a little disappointed when only a handful of spectators would turn out to see the Woodlawn High football team play. "To come up to Maryland and see 20, 30 people in the stadium, ... it was ... interesting," said Ross, a regional vice president for Primerica Financial Services.

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Marcus Garvey Gillespie, a father of eight who became a substitute teacher at Woodlawn High School after retiring as a carpenter, died of cancer Monday. He was 72.Mr. Gillespie began his career as a forklift operator at Bethlehem Steel, where he worked for 15 years. The longtime Baltimore resident then worked as a carpenter at both the Liberty and Harbor campuses of Baltimore City Community College before retiring in 1993.He is survived by his wife, Kaye Thompson Gillespie; three sons, Marcus G. Gillespie Jr. and Robert Gillespie, both of Delaware, and Rickey Gillespie of North Carolina; and five daughters, Carolyn Gillespie and Rosina Gillespie, both of Baltimore, and Jacqueline Williams, Lenora White and Sylvia Thomas, all of Delaware.

Eve Kristine Belfoure, a survivor of Nazi labor camps who was a language teacher at Woodlawn High School for 25 years, died Friday of heart failure at Northwest Hospital Center in Randallstown. The Woodlawn resident was 79. "She had seen the absolute worst in life, people executed in front of her eyes," said her son, Charles Belfoure of Westminster. "But she had an amazingly cheerful disposition and outlook on life." Born in Krakow, Poland, the former Eve Vetulani was forced to work in labor camps after the Nazi occupation of her country in 1939.

A Woodlawn High School student is pitting the First Amendment against the school's dress code in an effort to obtain a federal court's permission to wear a graphic anti-abortion T-shirt to school.Jeffrey M. Baus, 17, testified yesterday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore that he should have a constitutional right to wear the T-shirt, which displays a drawing of a dismembered and bloody fetus."It's part of my right to free speech," he said, "and I would like for people at my school to realize what abortion really is. It's murder, and it must be stopped."