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The Sun Saturday, September 27, 1997 Page 3b Charles Edward Scarlett 88, shipper restored Whitehall MarylandObituaries By Fred Rasmussen SUN STAFF jfJ -t-i. If' J'f- i 1 Colonial masterpiece: Mr. Scarlett spent 40 years restoring Whitehall, between Meredith and Whitehall creeks near Annapolis. It was built between 1 764 and 1 765 for provincial governor Horatio Sharpe. A vigorous man and avid horseman, he continued riding Muddy Run, his favorite hunter, daily until he was in his mid-80s.

JED KIRSCHBAUM SUN STAFFr Mourning; John Lightner, Rocco C. tears during the memorial service honoring Rocco. MiimHM 1 Charles Edward Scarlett retired chairman of Ramsay, Scarlett Co. whose 40-year avocation was the painstaking restoration of Whitehall, a historic home built for one of Colonial Maryland's last governors, died of a stroke Sunday at Anne Arundel Medical Center. He was 88.

The Scarlett family's maritime roots date to the 1840s, when English ancestor William Patterson built the famous steam passenger vessels Great Western and Great Britain. The venerable Baltimore steamship agency's predecessor firm of Patterson, Ramsay Co. was founded in 1880 by Mr. Scarlett's grandfather. His father, Charles E.

Scarlett was company president from 1926 until his death in 1940. Mr. Scarlett was born and raised in Guilford, graduated from the Gilman School in 1927 and earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1931. He began his waterfront career in 1935 as a timekeeper for Baltimore Stevedoring a subsidiary of Ramsay, Scarlett. He later shared management of Ramsay, Scarlett with a brother, William D.

G. Scarlett, who retired in 1970 as president and died in 1974. Mr. Scarlett ended his 53-year career in 1988, when he retired as chairman of the board. "Charles was a very influential port figure who could be very tough," said Helen Delich Bentley, a former congresswoman and federal maritime commissioner who described him as a "decent and highly respected individual." Mrs.

Bentley recalled that during the 1950s, when Mr. Scarlett was president of the Steamship Trade Association of Baltimore, he challenged New York's domination of the shipping business. "He worked hard to try and preserve Baltimore's advantages, especially when the shots in those days were being called from New York and all Baltimore was getting was pieces of business. He fought some very difficult and tough battles for the port." As a leader of the Citizens Committee for Saving the Constellation, he played a pivotal role in the historic vessel's return to Baltimore in 1955. But it was his purchase in 1946 of Whitehall, a Colonial masterpiece on 115 acres between Meredith and Whitehall creeks near Annapolis, that became an overwhelming lifelong interest.

"For Maryland, it is a treasure of immense historical and cultural value," said Joseph M. Coale III, a Cash's stepbrother, holds back 1 11 11 I i aaI 1i rv I In slain students ence. "You could teach a lifetime andi may not ever get a Maishan," said Pearl McCready, an adviser at; Northern High who has beent teaching for 29 years. "This is ai child who was self-motivated, who, was self-directed." "He was the backbone of ME-. SA," said 16-year-old Rhonda.

White, referring to the Math Engineering and Science Achievement, club at Northern High. "He always; said, 'Don't be like me, be better than I'll never forget him." And many will never forget, Rocco, the starting quarterback; on the Vikings, Northern High's, football team. "We pray before every game, and give him a moment of silence," said Corey Rideout, 17, the Vikings' wide receiver. "Some of the guys keep his obituary in their lockers. He should have been here with us, to share our victories.

His death makes us play even harder. We dedicate every game to him." The parents of both victims attended the service yesterday and were presented with plaques honoring their sons. But none of the family members spoke during the ceremony. Tenesha Thomas, 18, Maishan's fiancee, addressed the students on behalf of both families, encouraging them to "look to the Lord for guidance, reach beyond this school and embrace all the world has to offer." lived in Westminster. Mr.

Sweeney retired in 1982 from the restaurant cleaning products supply company he founded in the early 1970s. Earlier, he was a salesman. A Philadelphia native, Mr. Sweeney moved to Baltimore after serving in the Army during World War II. He lived in Randallstown and Reisterstown before moving to Westminster in 1 985.

He was a member and longtime choir soloist at the Church of the Open Door, at 550 Baltimore Blvd. in Westminster, where services will be held at 11 a.m. today. He was a former member of Arlington Baptist Church and Gregory Memorial Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife of 32 years, the former Marguerite Harris; a son, Donald Sweeney of Silver Spring; three daughters, Caroline Allen of Marriottsville, Eileen Royce of Edgewood and Janice Schaefer of Winston-Salem, N.C.; two stepsons, George Weih of Reisterstown and Richard Weih of Bel Air; five stepdaughters, Lisa Weih of Westminster, Jan Carman of Randallstown, Ann Clark of Odenton, Susan Maether of Dubuque, Iowa, and Tracey Murray of Glendale, 24 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Virginia E. Lehneis, 84, homemakers Virginia E. Lehneis, a longtime Catonsville homemaker, died at her home of heart failure Sept. 14. She was 84.

Mrs. Lehneis, an active member of the Second Lutheran Church, also enjoyed the outdoors and drawing. She was born VirginiaEdel on West Lombard Street and educated in city schools. Her marriage to Horace Lehneis ended in divorce. She is survived by her two sons, Nils Lehneis of Lutherville and Kirk Lehneis of Beavercreek, Ohio; a sister, Margaret Erbe of Ellicott City; and two grandchil--dren.

Services were held Sept. 17. Charles Edward Scarlett Jr. "was a very influential port figure who could be very tough. trustee of the Maryland Historical Trust and former president of Historic Annapolis Foundation.

"It was a wonderful example of historic preservation before restoration earned the national credibility that it now enjoys." The mansion, an outstanding exv.iple of Palladian architecture, was constructed between 1764 and 1765 and enlarged in 1769 for provincial governor Horatio Sharpe. In 1773, Sharpe returned to England. At his death in 1790, he bequeathed the house to John Ridout, his secretary and friend whose descendants lived there until 1929 "He first fell in love with Whitehall when he saw a picture in a newspaper while a student at Princeton," said Mr. Scarlett's daughter Kathleen S. Burnett of the Woodbrook section of Baltimore County.

"It eventually became his mistress." "Sifting through debris in the basement, he found fragments of moldings which he took to England and had hand-carved in 18th- century wood," she said. He brought back period locks and matched chips of original paint in repainting rooms. The research was of such a magnitude that it encompassed resources on both sides of the Atlantic. It was not until the mid-1960s that Mr. Scarlett's family was able to occupy the mansion, which he furnished with 18th-century antiques.

Gardens followed the original landscaping plan. He also removed a second-story addition, returning the house to its 1769 appearance. Other interests included Edgar Allan Poe, about whom Mr. Scarlett wrote a number of scholarly articles. He helped establish the Poe Museum in Richmond, Va.

Mr. Scarlett was Swedish consul in Maryland from.1954 to 1983. He was a member of the Elkridge Club, Ivy Club, Maryland Historical Society, Bachelors Cotillon, Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club and Marlborough Hunt Club. Mr. Scarlett's 1934 marriage to the former Kathleen Staige Davis ended in divorce.

In 1959, he married Marie E. duPont-Levering. In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Charles E. Scarlett III of Wheaton, two other daughters, Patterson S. Swindell of Roland Park and Lucy Landon Scarlett of Brentwood, a stepson, Ernest D.

Levering of Up-perco; a stepdaughter, Elise D. Hensen of Camden, S.C.; eight grandchildren; and a great-grandson. Services are private. Katherine J. Thompson, 39, computer consultant Katherine J.

Thompson, a former Baltimorean and computer consultant, died Wednesday of hepatitis at Good Samaritan Hospital in Johnstown, Pa. She was 39. Mrs. Thompson, who was known as Kitty, lived in Tokyo with her husband, James F. Thompson, a civil engineer, and had recently returned to Johnstown for a vacation.

The Thompsons were married last year. She was born Katherine Jackson in Baltimore and raised in the Woodbrook section of Baltimore County. She was a 1976 graduate of Garrison Forest School and earned a bachelor's degree in music from Bryn Mawr College in 1980. Mrs. Thompson formerly worked in Washington as a computer programmer and computer consultant.

She enjoyed classical music, dogs and spending time with her six nieces and nephews. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. today at Westmont Presbyterian Church in Johnstown. In addition to her husband, she is survived by her mother, Patricia M. Jackson of Baltimore; and three sisters, Carol J.

Winstead and Jay J. Clifford, both of Ruxton, and Patricia J. Gill of Princeton, N.J. Hugh Sweeney, 77, founded cleaning products supply firm Hugh McMichael Sweeney, a retired co-owner and founder of Pine Heights Commercial Kitchen Service died of a heart attack Wednesday at Carroll County General Hospital. He was 77 and COLLECTED How WILL up on your Day.

Please call I (4 10) 396-45 1 5 about leaf or call I Gregory Kane Givens of history demand a second, skeptical look il XT 1 1 I l-i jAa-at 1 I i s9 memorial for Memorialjrom Page 1b scholarship fund is being established in his memory. Maishan was remembered yesterday as a peer leader and scholar who excelled at math and sci- Officer burned in accident at gas pump Crash, from Page 1b dpi nn1irp "Tt. is snsnpptpri that they were returning the gas can just before the accident." The Citgo station had some damage. The gas pump was destroyed, and an overhead canopy and light covers were melted. Capt.

Allan Graves, public information officer for Anne Arundel County FireEMSRescue, said the accident caused a small fuel leak that did not create a hazard. v-s ui iiaai uuuo'uiaiui mio uiiib was not called in," Graves said. Sgt. Kevin Novak, a Baltimore County police spokesman, described the injured officer as a vet eran but provided no further information about him pending notification of relatives. No one else was injured, police said.

City policewoman lauded by law fnfnmment tfrniin A Sun Staff Writer Baltimore Police Officer Loret-ta L. Young has been named officer of the year by the Mid-Atlantic Association of Women in Law Enforcement for her work arresting prostitutes and their customers. Young, a four-year veteran assigned as an undercover officer in Central District's vice unit, made 120 arrests last year, most of them in prostitution-related of- fenses, and has a 98 percent conviction rate. Her supervisor, Sgt. Craig Gen-' tile, noted that Young often helps people she has arrested get into drug and counseling programs.

"Officer Young sees the value in vice enforcement as a community nuisance abatement, as a health issue," Gentile wrote. He noted that Young, who of- ten has to work without a protective vest or a weapon, despite standing 5 foot 2 inches tall, has been in several dangerous situa tions. Once she was pulled into a car by a man who was under the influence of drugs and repeatedly hit her, Gentile said. "Police Officer Young may work in an area of 'low-profile' crimes," Gentile wrote, "but her work as a decoy is often dangerous she is a prime target for a street robbery or other violent crime." Indispensable. 7 he Sun's 1996-1997 Maryland Business Almanac $18.95 Call 41051662 Correction J.

Donald Paulus: The obituary for J. Donald Paulus in yesterday's editions incorrectly identified his high school. He was a 1944 graduate of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. The Sun regrets the error. More obituaries on next page.

LEAVES BE COLLECTED pick-up in their area, (410)887-2000. BALTIMORE CITY AND BALTIMORE COUNTY'S GUIDE TO RECYCLING HOW WILL LEAVES BE Kane, from Page 1b the family name of Banneker. Of this union Benjamin Banneker was born. "Banakee the grandfather it was said knew how to 'read the thereby knowing when and how to plant his crops. He was also mechanically inclined and built an ingenious irrigation system, making the family farm one of the most prosperous of its time.

Because of this, young Benjamin's parents were able to send him to a Quaker school where he learned to read, write and further his education. Much of young Banneker's knowledge about reading the stars and astronomy he learned from his grandfather." Dunn has done more than challenge the standard version of Benjamin Banneker's life. He has challenged the entire way all of us black and white have come to view history. Consider: Dunn's sources claiming that Banneker's grandfather knew astronomy and had enough knowledge of agriculture and mechanics to build an irrigation system. Several historians have debunked the old school history of Africa i.e., the claim that Africans were savages and that New World slavery "civilized" them and claimed that the slaves brought to the Americas were quite skilled in several areas, agriculture among them.

Much has been written about why today's Africa is so poor. It might be because African leaders of old sold off a very valuable labor resource. The matter of Banneker's grandfather refusing to change his African surname, Anglicizing it instead. Was Banakee the only one to do this? Perhaps not. Historian William McFeely, in his biography of Frederick Douglass, offered a theory about Douglass' original family name of Bailey.

McFeely said Bailey may have been an Anglicized form of the West African Fulbe name Belali. What about the last name Kane? Is it of European origin? There are many black Kanes on Maryland's Eastern Shore, from AND RECYCLED IN BALTIMORE CITY? AND RECYCLED IN BALTIMORE COUNTY? I Residents should check their MAYOR'S MONTHLY CLEAN-UP 0c and one" collection sehedu.e for information whence my father, Maurice Kane, and his father, Dorsey Kane, hailed. Historian William Loren Katz said the language of an Eastern Shore Indian tribe was found to be not Native American, but Mandingo. Kane is a common surname among the Muslim Mandingo people of West Africa. Did those black Eastern Shore Kanes adopt their surname from a white master of the same name, or was it handed down to them from a Mandingo ancestor named Kane? The traditional "white devil" school of history some black folks have come to cherish says that we were stripped of our names, religion, culture and language.

But several recent books have argued that some African Muslim slaves clung to their religion in spite of the best efforts of their masters to get them to change it. Similarly, some Africans may have kept their names in spite of pressures to change them. What about these European women as indentured servants? Banakee married one, as did my great-great-great-grandfather Owen Smith. Smith married a French indentured servant in 1852 in either Calvert or St. Mary's County.

Common history books tell us white indentured servitude ended long before 1852. Common history books are obviously wrong. One woman who called me from Los Angeles said her area of study was trying to determine how and why slaves from certain parts of Africa ended up in certain parts of the United States. Free black men marrying white women who were indentured slaves, the woman said, was common in Calvert and St. Mary's counties in the mid-1850s.

What was going on in Europe that so many white women ended up as indentured servants in Maryland in the 1 850s, and what does it teach us about the sexism of the time? Much of what we have been taught about history is nonsense. Let's all of us of all races look at what we are taught closely so we can separate the bogus from the real. Daggcu leaves win oc piciteu scheduled Monthly Clean-up the Bureau of Solid Waste at foryour scheduled Clean-up Day. yk. BAGGED LEAVES Bagged Leaves will be collected on your second trash collection day, beginning October20, 1997 thru December 19, 1997.

jfr LEAF VACUUMING Leaves will be vacummcd from heavily wooded communities. Bagging is not necessary. Please call your Community Association for your neighborhood's scheduled date. M. COMMUNITY PITCH-IN -M CALL 396-4511 Bagged leaves will be collected from a location of your choice.

I1NTERESTED IN SOME REALY GOOD DIRT? Head over to tlic Catonsville Wal-Mart I next Saturday, October 4th between 9 a.m. and 4p.m. I (Rt. 40 West at Rolling Road) I The Baltimore County Recycling Division has I arranged for the manufacturer to make the top-selling "Earth Machine" available to you I at the wholesale price of $35. Dirt-Chcap Compost Bins-One Day ONLY! Only S3S (normal retail price is $85!) (cash and checks only) I For additional information about recycling, please call the Baltimore City Office of Recycling at (410) 396-5916 or the Baltimore County Recycling Division at (410) 887-3188 1.