Friday, April 6, 2012
Dr. Michael Pipkin, the longtime chairman of the hospital's emergency department, died Thursday following a battle with esophageal cancer.
Dr. Michael Pipkin, the longtime Emergency Department chairman at Medstar Franklin Square Hospital Center died Thursday following a long battle with esophageal cancer. Dr. Pipkin joined the hospital in 1999 before becoming associate chair of the emergency department in 2002 and chairman in 2004, according to Franklin Square’s website. Hospital officials also have credited him through the years for being instrumental in the development of Franklin Square’s new patient tower, which opened in November 2010. Dr. Pipkin was diagnosed with cancer not long after that opening. Last May, Franklin Square dedicated the hospital’s emergency department in his honor. More than 200 people, including hospital employees and members of the Baltimore County …
Friday, March 9, 2012
Memorial service is set for 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Lutherville.
A memorial service will be held Saturday for longtime Baltimore County Public Schools educator and administrator G. Wayne Burgemeister. Burgemeister, who died March 1, was principal of Sparrows Point High School from 1970 to 1977. Share your memories of Mr. Burgemeister in comments. He started his career as a physical education teacher at Kenwood High School in 1951, according to information supplied by school system spokesman Charles Herndon. After being drafted into two years of military service in November 1952, Burgemeister returned to Kenwood and resumed his duties as a physical education teacher. He held a subsequent teaching post at Dundalk High before being promoted to vice principal at Kenwood in 1965. He served at Kenwood until …
Friday, February 24, 2012
The longtime Essex business owner, community activist and grandfather of state Sen. J.B. Jennings was 82.
James Jennings, the longtime owner of Jim Jennings Transmission and an Essex community activist for decades, died Thursday. He was 82. Jennings had been in declining health for several years, said his grandson, State Sen. J.B. Jennings. He retired from the business, which has been in Essex for 54 years, about 25 years ago. "Everyone in Essex knows Jim Jennings Transmission and everyone knew my grandfather," Sen. Jennings said. "He will be missed." James A. Jennings was born on June 22, 1929 in Wilkes County, N.C. He moved to the Essex-Middle River area in 1950 to take a job as a machinist at the Glenn L. Martin factory. In 1958, he founded Jim's Automatic Transmission Services on Martin Boulevard. Sen. Jennings said his grandfather moved …
Monday, December 19, 2011
Smith, who spent 26 years on WBAL's airwaves, died after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Longtime WBAL Radio host Ron Smith has died following a brief, public battle with pancreatic cancer, the station announced Monday evening. Smith died in hospice care at his Shrewsbury, PA home surrounded by his wife and family, according to the station. He was 70. Smith's family will hold a private funeral, with a public memorial service to be announced. The Baltimore Sun has published an obituary of Smith, who spent 26 years at WBAL Radio and several years as an anchor on WBAL-TV. From 2008 until this October, he also wrote a column in the Sun. Smith was born Dec. 2, 1941 in Troy, NY. His experience included time in the Marine Corps and early broadcasting jobs in Haverhill, MA and Albany, NY. In October, Smith announced on his morning …
Thursday, October 6, 2011
The Apple co-founder and inventor died Wednesday at 56.
Tom Kelliher's job would have been much harder without Steve Jobs. Kelliher, an associate professor of computer science at Goucher College, spent many years teaching people how to use computers and found himself often "telling people that it wasn't them, it was the computer." "What Steve understood, what he was all about was creating beautiful, useful, easy-to-use devices that really became a part of people's lives," Kelliher said. "He understood that technology should adapt to people, not the other way around." Jobs, the Apple co-founder and tech luminary, died early Wednesday. He was 56, and fought a much-publicized battle with pancreatic cancer. "Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich…
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Friday, September 23, 2011
Lauren Nicole Turner was killed in a car accident.
Lauren Nicole Turner, a Morgan State University sophomore and member of the Maryland Army National Guard, turned 22 on Sept. 23, 2010. But what started as a shopping trip that Thursday morning at the White Marsh IKEA ended in a fatal car accident. On the one-year anniversary of her death, friends and former classmates of Turner have planned a memorial service at the Morgan State University Chapel at 8 p.m., Friday. Turner died after her blue Volkswagen Beetle collided with a light pole in the White Marsh Mall Sears parking lot, police said. Chavonda Andrews, a childhood friend of Turner and Morgan State junior, has been helping to arrange a rememberance for Turner. "I just wanted to have something positive in honor of her," Andrews said. "…
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Jerry Leiber, 78, died in Los Angeles on Monday.
Three thousand miles from Baltimore’s Riggs and McKean avenues, where it all started, Jerry Leiber died of heart failure Monday in Los Angeles, at 78. Mark this as the day the music died. The national newspaper obituaries got the headline stuff right: how the young Leiber teamed with Mike Stoller to become songwriting godfathers of early rock 'n' roll, and how their music brought the rhythms and comic street smarts of black musicians like the Coasters and the Drifters to the first generation of young white rock 'n' roll fans. They wrote “Hound Dog” for Big Mama Thornton, and Elvis Presley turned it into one of rock’s early anthems. They wrote “Yakety Yak” and “Charlie Brown” for the Coasters, and produced “There Goes My Baby” and “Spanish …
Monday, May 30, 2011
Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens adds 10 veterans to the Circle of the Immortals.
About 3,500 veterans are buried at the Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, and 10 more have been added over the last year. On Memorial Day, their graves were decorated with American flags and flowers. Their families were honored with service awards. Decorated military officials—including Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown—spoke kind words about them. A crowd of hundreds gathered at the Timonium cemetery Monday to remember the nine men who died in the line of duty while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. The nine men honored on Monday were: Air Force Msgt. Tara R. Brown, of Bowie, MD, was killed on April 27, 2011. She will be honored at the 2012 Memorial Day ceremony. The men and woman of the …
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Moses Galloway can be traced back to Revolutionary War time.
A couple of months ago while doing a column on name origins, I made mention of a gentleman by the name of Moses Galloway as the person for whom Galloway Creek is named after. In the time since that column, I have become more fascinated with that name and the individual attached to it. I have researched old land records, marriage records, and genealogical sites to find out as much as I can, and I will continue my research as long as time permits. Perhaps the basis of my curiosity lies with a newspaper article from 1918 that was discovered by Baltimore County Historian John McGrain and reproduced in a book entitled “Our Struggles” by Louis Diggs. The article itself was authored by O. H. Frizche and appeared in the June 13, 1918 edition of …
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
From the State House in Annapolis to the Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, from director John Waters to former County Executive Jim Smith, Patch covered the former governor's final tour of Maryland.
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9:04 am on Monday, April 30, 2012
I worked with Dr. Pipkin for many years at Franklin Square. I had personal experience of his care with my grandmother I will never forget! He was so tender and caring. He was a true inspiration and very special person. His dedication was unlike any other I've seen. His name will carry on not only in the Emergency Department dedicated to him but in the hearts of those who knew and loved him. Rest … more ›