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William Henry Zeidler Jr., a retired electrical engineer and decorated World War II fighter pilot, died of heart failure Wednesday at Sinai Hospital. The Roland Park resident was 87. Mr. Zeidler was born at home on William Street in Federal Hill. He was a 1937 graduate of Polytechnic Institute where, as a shortstop on the baseball team, he was named to the 1936-1937 all-state team. In 1939, he began his career with the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. Two years later, he left to enlist in the Army Air Forces.

Kathleen M. Zeidler, a retired legal secretary and homemaker, died Friday of complications from Alzheimer's disease at a Kensington assisted-living facility. The longtime Roland Park resident was 85. The daughter of a veterinarian and a homemaker, Ruth Kathleen Fallon was born in Baltimore and spent her early years here before moving with her family in 1929 to Cincinnati. The family later moved to Thurmont and in 1943 settled in a home on Crest Road in Mount Washington. She was a 1944 graduate of St. Joseph High School in Emmitsburg and studied at what is now Notre Dame of Maryland University and Strayer Business College.

John F. Zeidler, a retired heating and air-conditioning executive, died Monday of heart failure at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 79 and lived at Edenwald, the Towson retirement community.The former Lutherville resident was one of the first residents of Edenwald when it opened in 1986 and quickly became a popular figure to residents and employees, earning the title "Mr. Edenwald."He was known for his warm smile, neat mustache, conservative dress and the straw hat he wore in warm weather.

William Henry Zeidler Jr., a retired electrical engineer and decorated World War II fighter pilot, died of heart failure Wednesday at Sinai Hospital. The Roland Park resident was 87. Mr. Zeidler was born at home on William Street in Federal Hill. He was a 1937 graduate of Polytechnic Institute where, as a shortstop on the baseball team, he was named to the 1936-1937 all-state team. In 1939, he began his career with the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. Two years later, he left to enlist in the Army Air Forces.

At a time when many local architectural firms are shrinking or fighting to avoid layoffs, the Zeidler Roberts Partnership is moving aggressively to increase its presence in Maryland.This month, the Toronto-based firm is officially launching a permanent Baltimore office at 1025 St. Paul St. to compete for work in the health care field and other design markets.It will be the first permanent U.S. office for the 112-year-old firm, which has temporary "project offices" in Philadelphia and West Palm Beach, Fla., as well as satellite offices in London and in Suhl, Germany.

Catherine Leroy, 60, a photojournalist whose stark images of battle helped tell the story of Vietnam in Life magazine and other publications, died of cancer Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif. The French-born Ms. Leroy was 21 in 1966 when she took a one-way ticket to Saigon to document American troops in Vietnam. A year later she was the only accredited journalist to take part in a combat parachute jump with the 173rd Airborne during Operation Junction City. Her 1967 photo Corpsman in Anguish portrays a young Marine, his face wrenched in torment, hunched over the body of his friend while smoke from the battle rises behind them.

Unable to agree on fees in a "worsening economic climate," planners of the Inner Harbor's Christopher Columbus Center parted ways yesterday with the showpiece project's superstar British architect.Directors of the Christopher Columbus Center of Marine Research and Exploration voted unanimously yesterday to hire a new designer for the $164 million project's "construction phases," effectively replacing London architect Richard Rogers.Chairman Stanley Heuisler said the board was unable to come to terms with Mr. Rogers on a fee schedule and was afraid the final design would be too expensive to build.

One of the most-coveted architectural commissions in Baltimore this year has gone to a group headed by the Zeidler Roberts Partnership of Toronto.The University of Maryland Medical System reviewed proposals from 25 design teams before selecting the Canadian-led group to design an $83 million, 149-bed clinical tower for the northwest corner of Lombard and Greene streets -- the largest single component of a $210 million capital improvement program that the...

Browning-Ferris Industries will hold a grand opening and dedication from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. today to mark the completion of its newest Maryland investment, a $4 million regional recycling plant in Howard County.The 42,000-square-foot Elkridge Recyclery, off U.S. 1 in Elkridge, will use technology developed by Aluminum Co. of America to process up to 300 tons of recyclable material a day. Its opening will result in the addition of 30 jobs to BFI's 115-person work force in Howard County.William D. Ruckelshaus, former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and now chief executive officer of BFI, said recycling is one of the fastest-growing parts of the company's business.

When the board of the Christopher Columbus Center announced in December that it was replacing architect Richard Rogers with the Zeidler Roberts Partnership of Toronto, it gave up on the dream of bringing that visionary British architect's work to Baltimore. But it did so in order to cling to another dream, that of a world-class research facility that would help to preserve this country's lead in the emerging field of marine biotechnology.Given current economic realities, getting the center built had to take priority over dreams of a spectacular, pace-setting design that would inevitably carry with it a higher price tag and unpredictable cost-overruns that could alienate the public funding sources essential to the project.

Catherine Leroy, 60, a photojournalist whose stark images of battle helped tell the story of Vietnam in Life magazine and other publications, died of cancer Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif. The French-born Ms. Leroy was 21 in 1966 when she took a one-way ticket to Saigon to document American troops in Vietnam. A year later she was the only accredited journalist to take part in a combat parachute jump with the 173rd Airborne during Operation Junction City. Her 1967 photo Corpsman in Anguish portrays a young Marine, his face wrenched in torment, hunched over the body of his friend while smoke from the battle rises behind them.

John F. Zeidler, a retired heating and air-conditioning executive, died Monday of heart failure at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 79 and lived at Edenwald, the Towson retirement community.The former Lutherville resident was one of the first residents of Edenwald when it opened in 1986 and quickly became a popular figure to residents and employees, earning the title "Mr. Edenwald."He was known for his warm smile, neat mustache, conservative dress and the straw hat he wore in warm weather.

New positions* ESS Ventures Inc. announced that Laurin Talley Ensslin has been named vice president of sales and marketing for the Greenbelt investment firm.* Coleman Research Corp. appointed Thomas G. Lightner vice president and general manager of its computational engineering division in Columbia.* The Hunter Group, the Baltimore-based national human resources information management firm, has named Christine Grochmal, Christine Smith and Jane Budson as senior consultants.* Zeidler Roberts Partnership Inc. announced that Jen HeinrichMammen has joined the company as project designer.

At a time when many local architectural firms are shrinking or fighting to avoid layoffs, the Zeidler Roberts Partnership is moving aggressively to increase its presence in Maryland.This month, the Toronto-based firm is officially launching a permanent Baltimore office at 1025 St. Paul St. to compete for work in the health care field and other design markets.It will be the first permanent U.S. office for the 112-year-old firm, which has temporary "project offices" in Philadelphia and West Palm Beach, Fla., as well as satellite offices in London and in Suhl, Germany.

Browning-Ferris Industries will hold a grand opening and dedication from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. today to mark the completion of its newest Maryland investment, a $4 million regional recycling plant in Howard County.The 42,000-square-foot Elkridge Recyclery, off U.S. 1 in Elkridge, will use technology developed by Aluminum Co. of America to process up to 300 tons of recyclable material a day. Its opening will result in the addition of 30 jobs to BFI's 115-person work force in Howard County.William D. Ruckelshaus, former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and now chief executive officer of BFI, said recycling is one of the fastest-growing parts of the company's business.

Browning-Ferris Industries will hold a grand opening and dedication from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. today to mark the completion of its newest Maryland investment, a $4 million regional recycling plant in Howard County.The 42,000-square-foot Elkridge Recyclery, off U.S. 1 in Elkridge, will use technology developed by Aluminum Co. of America to process up to 300 tons of recyclable material a day. Its opening will result in the addition of 30 jobs to BFI's 115-person work force in Howard County.William D. Ruckelshaus, former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and now chief executive officer of BFI, said recycling is one of the fastest-growing parts of the company's business.

New positions* ESS Ventures Inc. announced that Laurin Talley Ensslin has been named vice president of sales and marketing for the Greenbelt investment firm.* Coleman Research Corp. appointed Thomas G. Lightner vice president and general manager of its computational engineering division in Columbia.* The Hunter Group, the Baltimore-based national human resources information management firm, has named Christine Grochmal, Christine Smith and Jane Budson as senior consultants.* Zeidler Roberts Partnership Inc. announced that Jen HeinrichMammen has joined the company as project designer.

For all its success as a people magnet, Baltimore's Inner Harbor has always been an either-or kind of place. Unless they live there, most people go either for business or pleasure; very few go for both at the same time. And the harbor front has become a repository of buildings that address one need or the other almost exclusively.The lines began to blur several years ago when the Gallery at Harborplace complex at Pratt and Calvert streets opened, with large spaces reflecting both sides of the Inner Harbor -- offices for business, and a shopping gallery and hotel for leisure time.