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NEW YORK - After the first meeting of a screenwriting class she was taking at New York University last fall, Wendy Giman sidled up to the instructor, but not to ask a question about the syllabus or homework. Instead, Giman wanted to reveal the truth about herself. She was, she told the instructor, no ordinary student, but rather a union organizer with the American Federation of Teachers, taking his class to gain access to part-time faculty members such as him. "I waited until after the other students left ... and fully identified myself.

Ericka Marie Arciniega and William Parker Baxter III of Denver, Colorado were married on May 30th in the garden of the Gonzalez-Alvarez House in St. Augustine, Florida. The groom's father, the Reverend William P. Baxter, Jr. officiated at the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Rose and Edward Arciniega of San Antonio, TX. The groom is the son of Susan and Mr. Baxter of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, formerly of Owings Mills, MD. where Mr. Baxter was the longtime Rector of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Garrison Forest.

In New Hampshire, the faithful still show up at the edges of J.D. Salinger's property, no matter how many damning memoirs are written about him. In the Florida Keys, normally blase journalists become ga-ga over the prospect of bone-fishing with Carl Hiaasen. And in Oxford, Miss., so many fans found their way to the home of John Grisham that he finally pulled up stakes and moved to Charlottesville, Va. -- allegedly after he awoke one morning and found someone getting married outside his house.

Dr. Charles Beattie, a leader in anesthesiology education who taught at several institutions during his career, including the Johns Hopkins University, died at his North Baltimore home May 25 of hydrocephalus and complications from parkinsonism. He was 68. Dr. Beattie was born and raised in Louisville, Ky. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Louisville in 1962 and 1963, and earned a doctorate in nuclear engineering from New York University in 1971.

NEW YORK -- Strip away tradition, ivy-covered walls, fancy laboratories, gray-muzzled scholars, and what's left at the foundation of all great universities is the same thing: money. That's the stuff that made Harvard, Yale and Princeton great. It's what Stanford spent lavishly in the '60s to build a world-class faculty and its reputation. And it is the stuff that in a relatively short time has transformed New York University from a mediocre commuter school into one of the United States' premier private universities.

James Pilgrim, a fine arts consultant who organized international shows as a Metropolitan Museum of Art administrator in New York, died Friday of complications from lung cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 61 and lived in Brooklandville. Mr. Pilgrim, who did financial work for museums, held a number of administrative positions with the Metropolitan, and from 1978 to 1988 was its deputy director. He held curatorial posts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington in the early 1970s.

Michael Heidelberger, a biochemist credited with discovering that antibodies are proteins, died of a stroke Tuesday in New York. He was 103. Mr. Heidelberger began his research career in 1912 at the Rockefeller Institute and became an adjunct professor of pathology at New York University in 1964. Mr. Heidelberger's research in the 1920s and '30s led him to discover that antibodies are proteins.

Dr. Charles Beattie, a leader in anesthesiology education who taught at several institutions during his career, including the Johns Hopkins University, died at his North Baltimore home May 25 of hydrocephalus and complications from parkinsonism. He was 68. Dr. Beattie was born and raised in Louisville, Ky. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Louisville in 1962 and 1963, and earned a doctorate in nuclear engineering from New York University in 1971.

John Crittenden Sawhill, president and chief executive of the Nature Conservancy and former federal "energy czar" under Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, died May 18 of complications from diabetes at a hospital in Richmond, Va. The Georgetown resident was 63. An outspoken conservationist and economist, he was born in Cleveland and raised in Ruxton. He was a 1954 graduate of the Gilman School and earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1958.

NEW YORK -- New York University (5-0, 2-0) broke a halftime tie by shooting 53 percent from the field and defeated Johns Hopkins, 68-55, in a University Athletic Association Conference game yesterday.Johns Hopkins (1-5, 0-2) committed 28 turnovers and shot 39.1 percent in the second half.The Blue Jays' Greg Roehrig led all scorers with 24 and added a team-leading 11 rebounds.Chris Murray led NYU with 17 points.

Dr. Satish B. Parekh, a Baltimore businessman who was active in civic and cultural affairs, died of a stroke Wednesday at Sinai Hospital. He was 68. Dr. Parekh was born and raised in Rajkot, India, and earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1958 from St. Xavier's College in India. In 1959, he earned his master's degree in economics, finance and strategies from New York University, and his doctorate in economics, also from NYU, four years later. While attending graduate school, he worked as an economist for the National Industrial Conference Board in New York City.

Two events this week signal the start of summer in Annapolis: Naval Academy Commissioning Week and the opening of Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre. The outdoor theater across from City Dock opens its 41st season of three shows tonight: Godspell, which runs through June 23, followed by Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd in July and Thoroughly Modern Millie in August. At Godspell rehearsal on Saturday morning at West Annapolis Elementary School, director Douglas Kotula said his love for New York City inspired him to stage the production on a New York subway car. Jesus appears as the conductor and Judas as a Wall Street entrepreneur with the disciples stereotypical New Yorkers.

NEW YORK -- In New York City, air pollution levels have typically been monitored by inanimate objects, at more than a dozen locations around town. But in the South Bronx, from 2002 to 2005, air pollution monitors went mobile. They went to the playground, to the gritty sidewalks, even to the movies. A group of schoolchildren carried the monitors everywhere they went. The instruments, attached to the backpacks of children with asthma, enabled researchers at New York University to measure the pollution the children were exposed to, morning to night.

Thanks to Spring and Cherry Blossoms Cecile Strauss Hanft and Charles Howard Critchlow were married last evening [Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 6:30 pm] in an interfaith ceremony at the Yale Club of New York. Cantor Kerry Ben-David, Cantor Emeritus of the Scarsdale Synagogue, officiated with Father Mark Lane of the Brooklyn Oratory also participating. The couple first met at an annual Welcome Spring party given by mutual friends and again a few weeks later at an annual Cherry Blossom party given by other mutual friends.

NEW YORK - Ariel Goldberg sits on a bench in Washington Square Park, examining the photographs she snapped four years ago. She was a freshman at New York University then, newly arrived and an aspiring photographer who wanted to shoot pictures of every aspect of her first year in college. Her eyes move over the photos portraying a typical freshman existence: the dorm room, the cafeteria, the roommate Rachel. But then, the sequence of pictures twists horribly into something else. Mundane college life is gone; in its place, strangers staring upward, crowds huddled in shock, skyscrapers aflame.

Those who know the story first-hand have dwindled to a precious few. For more than 40 years, Maryland taxpayers paid for the graduate education of hundreds of African-American teachers, lest they breach the walls of segregation at the University of Maryland. From the mid-1930s until 1957, the teachers boarded trains in Baltimore for weekend and summer study at some of the finest schools in the land, including New York University, Columbia University, Oberlin College and the University of Chicago.

Ericka Marie Arciniega and William Parker Baxter III of Denver, Colorado were married on May 30th in the garden of the Gonzalez-Alvarez House in St. Augustine, Florida. The groom's father, the Reverend William P. Baxter, Jr. officiated at the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Rose and Edward Arciniega of San Antonio, TX. The groom is the son of Susan and Mr. Baxter of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, formerly of Owings Mills, MD. where Mr. Baxter was the longtime Rector of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Garrison Forest.

H. Sherwood Lawrence, 87, a highly respected immunologist who conducted early research on the rejection of transplanted organs, died Monday in New York City. For more than 50 years, Dr. Lawrence was on staff at New York University's medical school. He served as a lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II, taking part in the invasions at Normandy and Okinawa. From 1964 to 2000, he was co-director of medical services at Bellevue and New York University hospitals, and he directed NYU's AIDS research center from 1989 to 1994.

H. Sherwood Lawrence, 87, a highly respected immunologist who conducted early research on the rejection of transplanted organs, died Monday in New York City. For more than 50 years, Dr. Lawrence was on staff at New York University's medical school. He served as a lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II, taking part in the invasions at Normandy and Okinawa. From 1964 to 2000, he was co-director of medical services at Bellevue and New York University hospitals, and he directed NYU's AIDS research center from 1989 to 1994.