Dr. James Karns, taught at UM Medical School
A memorial service for Dr. James R. Karns, retired clinical professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and retired medical director of the Monumental Life Insurance Co., will be held at 11:30 a.m. today at St. John's Episcopal Church in Salem, N.J.
Dr. Karns, who was 76 and had moved to Salem after his retirement in 1982, died Feb. 28 after a heart attack while on vacation in Port St. Joseph, Fla.
A specialist in internal medicine, he had been president of the medical board at University Hospital, chief of clinical medicine at Maryland General Hospital and president of the trustees of the University of Maryland Medical School.
He had chaired the Baltimore and Maryland affiliates of the American Society of Internal Medicine and served on the board of the Medical Alumni Association of the University of Maryland.
Born in Cumberland, he earned a pharmacy degree at the University of Maryland before his graduation in 1940 from the medical school, where he won the university's Gold Medal.
After his internship at University Hospital, he served in Australia as a captain with the Army's 42nd General Hospital and its subsidiary, the 3rd Portable Surgical Hospital. His decorations included the Bronze Star and a Presidential Unit Citation.
He became a resident at University Hospital in 1946. The next year, he became an instructor in medicine and director of the medical school's student health service, holding the latter post for 20 years.
Dr. Karns was medical director of the Maryland Life Insurance Co. from 1949 to 1962 and, from 1971 to 1982, of the Monumental Life Insurance Co.
From 1968 to 1982, he served on the medical advisory board of the Motor Vehicle Administration.
A fellow of the American College of Physicians who had been certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, he was a member of the Baltimore City Medical Society, the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, the American Medical Association and the University of Maryland Hospital Medical Association.
He published professional papers concerning heart disease, emphysema and tuberculosis.
He lived in Ruxton before moving in retirement to New Jersey, where he and his wife had restored her family home. He enjoyed hunting water fowl and upland birds, and was a golfer who belonged to the Maryland Country Club.
He is survived by his wife, Dr. Elizabeth Acton; and a son, James A. Karns of Jacksonville, Fla.
The family suggested memorial contributions to the trustees of the Endowment Fund of the University of Maryland Medical School.
A Mass of Christian burial for Sister Mary Eileen Caulfield, R.G.S., retired bookkeeper at the Good Shepherd Center, will be offered at 9:30 a.m. today at the center, 4100 Maple Ave., Halethorpe.
Sister Mary Eileen, who was 81 and lived at the center, died Wednesday at St. Agnes Hospital after an apparent heart attack.
From 1971 to 1987, she was the bookkeeper at the Roman Catholic center, which treats girls who have emotional or behavioral problems.
Born Helen Theresa Caulfield in Baltimore, she entered the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in 1934.
She supervised a laundry and kitchen at an institution operated by her order in Washington during the 1930s and 1940s. Then, for about 20 years, she was assistant group leader at a home for girls in Batesburg, S.C.
For about five years before moving to the Halethorpe center, she supervised the kitchen at the old House of the Good Shepherd on Calverton Road.
She was known among the sisters for her sense of humor. She wrote poetry, was an Orioles fan and had a strong interest in nature.
Her survivors include many nieces and nephews.
Dorothy F. Leonard
Chancery secretary
Dorothy F. Leonard, a retired secretary in the chancery office of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, died Feb. 28 of cancer at her home in the Eudowood Towers Apartments in Towson.
Mrs. Leonard, who was 77, had worked for the chancery for eight years before retiring in the mid-1970s. In the late 1970s, she worked for a time for the late Cardinal Lawrence Shehan, helping him to prepare his memoirs for publication.
The former Dorothy Finke was a native of Baltimore and a graduate of St. Paul's Business School. She had worked part time for several companies before beginning the archdiocesan employment.
She was an accomplished bridge player who had won master's points in regional tournaments.
A resident of Ednor Gardens for many years, she had been active in the Sodality at Blessed Sacrament Church. She was also active in the Auxiliary of Villa Assumpta, the motherhouse of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
Her husband, William A. Leonard Jr., is a retired civilian employee of the Army.
In addition to her husband, survivors include a son, William G. Leonard of White Hall; three daughters, Patricia A. Reese of Catonsville, Kathleen L. O'Neill of Damascus and Dorothy E. Leonard of Chase; a sister, Helen Humphreys of Towson; and seven grandchildren.
A Mass for Mrs. Leonard was offered Monday at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church.
Anne Phillips Scharf
Teacher, writer
Services for Anne Phillips Scharf, a former city school teacher, world traveler and writer, will be held at 10 a.m. today at the Sterling Ashton Funeral Home, 736 Edmondson Ave. Mrs. Scharf died Monday at Baltimore County General Hospital after a stroke. She was 85.
Born in Baltimore, she was a graduate of Eastern High School and Goucher College, where she majored in education.
From 1930 to 1946, she taught in the city school system, primarily kindergarten. She worked in schools in Forest Park, Highlandtown, Curtis Bay and South Baltimore.
She wrote numerous articles for professional journals. One was "Children of the Unemployed," published in 1934 in American Mercury magazine.
She retired from teaching when she married attorney Frederick Scharf, who died in 1978.
Survivors include a sister, Mary Peake Phillips of Sykesville; and a godson, Joseph Francis Angelozzi of Catonsville.
Herbert B. Campbell
Baltimore firefighter
Services for Herbert B. Campbell, a retired Baltimore fireman who died Monday after a heart attack while working with the Middle River Volunteer Fire Company, will be held at 11 a.m. today at the Arbutus United Methodist Church, Shelbourne Road and Maple Avenue.
Mr. Campbell, who was 63 and an Ellicott City resident, had been riding on the company's aerial ladder truck, responding to a kitchen fire, when he took ill.
He joined the volunteer company nearly 10 years ago. He had been with the city Fire Department for 33 years.
After a brief assignment on a fireboat, he spent most of his career with Truck 12 at Liberty Heights Avenue and Garrison Boulevard. Decorated several times, he was the driver of the truck when he retired.
Firefighting runs in his family. A great-grandfather was chief engineer in the Baltimore Fire Department and a grandfather and an uncle were captains. His father, also a member of the city department, died in 1940 from injuries suffered in a fire. Mr. Campbell's son is a member of the Middle River Volunteer Fire Company.
Mr. Campbell was a member of the Ben Franklin Lodge of the Masons, the York Rite, Boumi Temple and Southern Maryland Shrine Club.
The Baltimore native attended the Polytechnic Institute. He served in the Navy during the Korean War.
His survivors include his wife, the former Mary Jane Matthews; his son, Kenneth Brantley Campbell Sr. of Cockeysville; and two sisters, Irma Tatum and Virginia Ferguson, both of Baltimore.
Roger M. Herriott
Authority on viruses
Roger M. Herriott, an expert on viruses who was a retireprofessor and chairman of biochemistry at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, died Monday of cancer at his home on Highland Avenue in Towson. He was 83.
Dr. Herriott was named a professor emeritus in 1975 but continued to do research and writing until his death.
He had headed the department at the Hopkins school since joining the faculty there in 1948.
Studying a virus that infects bacteria, he suggested that the virus could inject the bacteria with DNA as if it were a hypodermic needle, a discovery that had applications to viruses that infect human and animal cells. He introduced instruction on DNA to the Hopkins school in the early 1950s.
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he was a graduate of Drake University and held a doctorate from Columbia University.
After completing his studies at Columbia, he joined the Rockefeller Institute in Princeton, N.J., working in a research group headed by Nobel laureate John H. Northrop that was studying pepsin, a digestive enzyme.
Before taking the Hopkins post,he did World War II research into the action of mustard gas on such biological materials as cells, enzymes, viruses and DNA.
He spent summer months at a farm in Northfield, Vt., enjoying his wood lot, orchard and garden.
Dr. Herriott is survived by his wife, the former Cynthia Walker; a daughter, Alison Wilder of Rochester, N.Y.; a son, Jon Herriott, associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle; six grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.
Arrangements for a memorial service at the Hopkins school were incomplete. The family suggested memorial contributions to the Union Memorial Hospice Program.
Services for Thelma Banks Cox, a former assistansuperintendent in the Baltimore school system, member of the Maryland Board of Higher Education and board president of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, will be held at 12:30 p.m. today at St. James Episcopal Church, 829 N. Arlington Ave.
Dr. Cox, who was 63 and lived on Dolfield Avenue, died Monday at Sinai Hospital of complications from a liver infection.
She retired in 1983 after 33 years in the city school system. She was named a regional superintendent in 1973.
In 1970, she became a member of the State Council for Higher Education, which later became the state board on which she served until 1988.
In 1974, she chaired a task force of the council that recommended fiscal autonomy for the state colleges and the renaming of Morgan State College as a university.
In 1981, she became the first black to head the Girl Scouts board, remaining until 1986 and establishing the Thelma Banks Cox Academic Achievement Award for Girl Scouts, the first of which will be presented in June.
She started the Cox Foundation Fund for grants to high school students and the African-American Heritage Society, which arranges tours of landmarks associated with black people and projects.
She founded Citizens for Political Awareness and the Lena King Lee Political Forum.
Born in Cambridge, the former Thelma Banks received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from Morgan. She earned a doctorate at the Center for Minority Studies in Washington, D.C., which is affiliated with the Union Graduate School of Cincinnati.
She chaired the Conference of Minority Members of Governing Boards of Higher Education and was a charter member of Women Together.
Dr. Cox had been president of the Baltimore alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority and was a life member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Morgan State University Alumni Association.
She had also been on the boards of the Girl Scouts nationally, the Maryland unit of the American Diabetes Association and New Directions for Women.
Her other interests included writing poetry.
Among her honors were a citation and a silver bowl from the State Board of Higher Education, a listing on the Distinguished Honor Role of Outstanding Women of Delta Sigma Theta and a distinguished service award from the Alumni Association of Virginia Union University.
She is survived by her husband of 42 years, Leonard Cox, and her father, Charles Banks, both of Baltimore.
Services for Margaret Louise Dyer, a retired secretary in the Baltimore chapter office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who had been active in Republican politics, will be held at noon today at Faith Baptist Church, Bond Street and Ashland Avenue.
Mrs. Dyer, who was 77 and lived on Windsor Gardens Lane, died Sunday at Liberty Medical Center of complications from a paralyzing neurological disease.
She retired nearly 10 years ago, having been secretary to two presidents of the local NAACP. She also worked for the Board of Supervisors of Elections and as a bookkeeper and auditor at the Archer Laundry.
In 1971, she was named Republican candidate for citcomptroller by the local Republican State Central Committee at the request of Dr. Ross Z. Pierpont, who was running for mayor.
Mrs. Dyer, though unsuccessful, received more votes than did Dr. Pierpont in the general election.
A delegate to several Republican National Conventions, she also ran unsuccessfully in 1979 for a 2nd District seat on the City Council.
The former Margaret Louise Parker was a native of Baltimore and was educated at the Dunbar and Douglass high schools.
A member of the Order of the Eastern Star, she was grand worthy matron of Myra Grand Chapter, matron of Gethsemane Chapter, Loyal Lady Ruler of Queen Esther Assembly, most ancient matron of Rosa J. Richardson Court and treasurer of Jerusalem Court. She also was a member of Emmanuel Circle.
In 1974, she received an award for leadership from the grand master of the Maryland Lodge of the Prince Hall Masons.
Among other honors were her 1957 public service award from the Afro American newspapers and a 1985 award from the NAACP for dedicated service.
She is survived by her husband, Martin Dyer; a daughter, Alma M. Lawson, and a son, Martin A. Dyer, both also of Baltimore; and five grandchildren.