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Warren Hunting Smith, 93, who devoted more than 50 years at Yale University to editing the letters of 18th-century English author Horace Walpole, died Sunday at his home in Geneva, N.Y.Pub Date: 11/27/98

Dr. William Dewey Blake, a retired University of Maryland School of Medicine professor who was chairman of the department of physiology, died of cancer Sunday at his Bath, Maine, home. The former Bolton Hill resident was 94. Born in Summit, N.J., and raised in New Haven, Conn., he was the son of Dr. Francis Blake, Yale University's department of medicine chairman who was also an internist. His mother, Dorothy Blake, was a homemaker. After graduating from the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, he earned a degree at Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Conrad Russell, 67, a liberal historian and politician, died Thursday in London after a long illness. Mr. Russell - son of the philosopher Bertrand Russell - represented the Liberal Democrats party in Parliament. Conrad Russell, who had been estranged from his father for many years, gained a reputation as a defender of the disenfranchised. In 1997, he admonished Prime Minister Tony Blair for saying he never gave money to beggars. Mr. Russell also taught history at Yale University and the University of London, specializing in the 17th century and the English Civil War. He wrote several books, including The Causes of the English Civil War and The Fall of the British Monarchies.

Any high school graduate who thinks that college is merely a next step should walk a mile in Gabe Acheson's shoes. When the Park School graduate arrived Thursday at Yale University, he'd walked nearly 400 miles, fulfilling a promise he'd made in his application to the Ivy League school, and to himself, to not just embark on a new adventure but create one. Acheson set out from his Rodgers Forge home on July 29, with a 35-pound backpack, an optimistic...

On April 15, 2006, WILLIAM BLODGET WELLING, age 82, of New York City. Welling was a an Editor, Writer, Author and Photo Historian. Welling authored " Collectors Guide to Nintenth Century Photographs" (Macmillan, 1976) and "PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICA; THE FORMATIVE YEARS 1839-1900" (T.Y. Crowell, 1978). A graduate of Groton School and Yale University. A WWII Army veteran. Brother of Lindsay H. Welling, Jr. of Maryland, NY; uncle of Donald and James Welling and Carol Welling Mc Veigh. Memorial Service at Ferncliff Chapel, Hartsdale, NY on Saturday, April 29, at 1pm. Bon voyage, Welling.

Professor to promote Greek classicsOld books have something to offer today's students, says a University of Pennsylvania scholar who will speak about the value of studying Greek classics in a free public lecture at Anne Arundel Community College April 8.Sheila Murnaghan, associate professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania and formerly of Yale University, will address "Revisiting the Greek Classics: New Reasons for Reading Old Books."The...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The Yale University Art Gallery has received $10 million from Teresa Heinz in memory of her husband, Sen. John Heinz 3rd of Pennsylvania. It is the largest gift in the gallery's 160-year history.Heinz graduated from Yale College in 1960 and was a member of the gallery's governing board before his death last April in a plane crash. His father, Henry J. Heinz 2nd, a member of the Class of 1931 and longtime chairman of H.J. Heinz Corp., permanently endowed the directorship of the museum in 1982.

CHARLES LAZARUS, 93 Headed chain of stores Charles Lazarus, the last member of his family to lead the Lazarus chain of department stores, died Monday after a brief illness at home in suburban Gahanna, Ohio, his son Stuart Lazarus said. The chain, founded in 1851 by Mr. Lazarus' great-grandfather as a one-room men's clothing store in Columbus, grew to more than 40 stores in five states in the Midwest. The family's influence declined when Federated Department Stores Inc. moved Lazarus' headquarters to Cincinnati in 1986.

The Yale Whiffenpoofs, an all-male group, and Yale's Whim N' Rhythm, an all-female group, will present an a cappella concert at 8 p.m. tonight in Merrick Hall of Goucher College.Sponsored by the Yale Scholarship Fund of Maryland, the choruses are made up solely of senior students from Yale University who will sing traditional, popular and jazz tunes.A reception will follow the concert for all students, alumnus, parents and friends.The concert is a project of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Baltimore City Department of Parks and Recreation.

BARBARA WARD GARNER, died of cancer of May 2, 2005. She was the daughter of Dr. Arthur Ward and Elizabeth Chipman. She was born on July 3, 1918 in Akron, Ohio, but was raised in various locations in New England, including Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. After finishing high school in Winchendon, Massachusetts, she obtained her bachelor's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. During World War II she worked at a radar laboratory at Harvard University, where she met and then married her husband, Dr. Wendell R. Garner.

Dr. Stephen Schenkel has been appointed chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mercy Medical Center. Board-certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine, Schenkel is a member of the Department of Emergency Medicine of the University of Maryland, where he also serves as an assistant professor. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University, and his master's in public policy and medical doctorate from Harvard University. He is on the board of the Maryland chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

CHARLES LAZARUS, 93 Headed chain of stores Charles Lazarus, the last member of his family to lead the Lazarus chain of department stores, died Monday after a brief illness at home in suburban Gahanna, Ohio, his son Stuart Lazarus said. The chain, founded in 1851 by Mr. Lazarus' great-grandfather as a one-room men's clothing store in Columbus, grew to more than 40 stores in five states in the Midwest. The family's influence declined when Federated Department Stores Inc. moved Lazarus' headquarters to Cincinnati in 1986.

Yale University went looking for a new chaplain to serve a campus long dominated by Protestants but now filled with people of all faiths. It found what it was looking for in Baltimore, of all places, and New Haven isn't sure it's ready for someone quite so exotic. The chaplain is a layperson. A woman. And - they're really going out on a limb here - a Catholic! She is Sharon Kugler, who has been chaplain at Johns Hopkins since 1993 and will leave for Connecticut in July. The 48-year-old married mother of two couldn't make more waves if she were a transgendered Wiccan.

Steven Knapp Occupation Provost of the Johns Hopkins University In the news After a dozen years at Hopkins, 10 of them as chief academic officer, Knapp will leave Baltimore to become the 16th president of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., officials announced last week. Knapp will start his new job in August. Knapp was also instrumental in securing a $50 million donation from the W.P. Carey Foundation, which Hopkins announced last week. The money will establish a business school.

On April 15, 2006, WILLIAM BLODGET WELLING, age 82, of New York City. Welling was a an Editor, Writer, Author and Photo Historian. Welling authored " Collectors Guide to Nintenth Century Photographs" (Macmillan, 1976) and "PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICA; THE FORMATIVE YEARS 1839-1900" (T.Y. Crowell, 1978). A graduate of Groton School and Yale University. A WWII Army veteran. Brother of Lindsay H. Welling, Jr. of Maryland, NY; uncle of Donald and James Welling and Carol Welling Mc Veigh. Memorial Service at Ferncliff Chapel, Hartsdale, NY on Saturday, April 29, at 1pm. Bon voyage, Welling.

BARBARA WARD GARNER, died of cancer of May 2, 2005. She was the daughter of Dr. Arthur Ward and Elizabeth Chipman. She was born on July 3, 1918 in Akron, Ohio, but was raised in various locations in New England, including Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. After finishing high school in Winchendon, Massachusetts, she obtained her bachelor's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. During World War II she worked at a radar laboratory at Harvard University, where she met and then married her husband, Dr. Wendell R. Garner.

Paul Rudolph,78, an architect whose career epitomized the turbulence that engulfed American modernism in the 1960s, died Friday in New York.The cause was mesothelioma, or asbestos cancer, according to Ernst Wagner, a close friend.As chairman of the School of Architecture at Yale University from 1957 to 1965, he wielded enormous influence over the direction of American architecture at mid-century. His buildings, often executed in concrete with a textured finish that resembled corduroy, were widely studied and imitated.

A FEW centuries from now, an archaeologist sifting through the remains of the former Baltimore, Md., United States of America, will come upon an amazingly preserved set of minutes from the city Board of Estimates.This will be a breakthrough. It will be so helpful in explaining Baltimore government back in the 20th century.The minutes of May 20, 1992, for example:". . . The president asked: 'About these ballpoint refills. We are paying $10,000 to buy refills for ballpoint pens?'"Ms. Ella Pierce, city purchasing agent: 'Well, bear in mind that this is going into our warehouse, and this covers all of the refills that are used by any city agency that has city pens -- the orange and black pens, that have the inserts.