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Jane Allan Bowie, former executive director of Network 2000 who earlier had worked in banking and insurance, died Monday of amyotropic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at her Lutherville home.

The printed Santas, silver bells and snowy villages were tucked away in cabinets at downtown Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library for longer than anyone can remember. Now, for the first time in decades of safekeeping, some 450 cards, historic and otherwise, are now on display.

Tonight (Friday) is a first Fridays celebration, 5 to 9 p.m. at the merchants and restaurants in downtown Havre de Grace.

Geraldine G. M. Dell, an artist who was active in various cultural and educational institutions, died Oct. 9 of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 65.

In honor of Constitution Day, Harford Community College is hosting a lecture by Robert Ginsberg, Ph.D. on "The Bill of Rights: How It Has Endured" on September 17 at 12:30 PM at the Hays-Heighe House located on campus. Free pocket Constitutions will be available, along with light refreshments. The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Richard Harold Morrow Jr., a physician and Johns Hopkins public health official and who had worked in Ghana and Uganda, died of pancreatic cancer Aug. 17 at his home in the Bare Hills section of Baltimore County. He was 81.

Dr. Gary S. Hill, an internationally renowned renal pathologist and the former chief of pathology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, died Tuesday from lung cancer. He was 74.

Georg H.B. Luck, a retired professor of classics whose career at Johns Hopkins University spanned two decades, died Sunday from complications of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 87.

It's the last First Fridays of the year tonight in HdG

Rebecca D. Dorsey, the Baltimore-born chanteuse, died Sept. 14 of ovarian cancer at her home in Sea Cliff, N.Y. She was 54.

Melville French Heath II, an avid traveler and self-trained guitarist who grew coveted peonies in Cockeysville and taught French and Spanish at private schools in the city along with Baltimore and Cecil counties, died April 12 of a heart attack.

The setting of Lyric Opera Baltimore's production of Charles Gounod's 'Faust' will include a Vegas-y night club and Lady Gaga look-alike

Norman Henley, a retired Russian language and world literature teacher and academic editor, died of congestive heart failure at the Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville. He was 96 and had earlier lived in Remington and Charles Village.

The Rev. James J. McNamee III, a retired Episcopal priest who had pastored St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Annapolis, died Friday of cancer at his home in the Ambassador Apartments in Tuscany-Canterbury. He was 76.

Elinora Bowdoin Bolton, a former French teacher who had been a celebrated 1940s women's tennis player, died of heart failure in her sleep Tuesday at the Keswick Multicare Center. The former Howard County resident was 93.

Prince George's County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. William Hite Jr. received the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms) June 24 at the residence of the French Ambassador.