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4B MARYLAND THE SUN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4. 1990 OBITUARIES Woman is convicted of misusing dues Arthur Houghton dies; Shore philanthropist priation of funds. He scheduled her sentencing for June 1 9. Ms. Pollard became president of the Twin Lakes Homeowners Association Inc.

in February 1987. She was forced out in January 1989, after refusing requests from her neighbors to examine the books, according to the prosecutor, Cliff Robinson. Investigators who were called In found that Ms. Pollard had written $5,300 in checks to her own benefit from the account and had deposited $11 ,248 in checks payable to the association in another, secret account. i draw foundation's fire tit By Robert A.

Erlandson Baltimore County Bureau of The Sun 11 A 50-year-old Randallstown "woman, former president of her 44-JiOme community association and head of her local NAACP chapter, fates up to five years in prison for 'defrauding her neighbors of more than $13,000 in dues to both organizations. Baltimore County Circuit Judge -Joseph F. Murphy Jr. convicted Shirley Pollard of the 8200 block of -Vosges Road Monday of misappro City schools SCHOOLS, from IB Yesterday, Charlene Cooper Boston, associate superintendent in charge of community relations for the school system, said the letter from the foundation did not threaten rTV no' thcriisc0' "jfta- wm Mil Tax protest picks up steam in Baltimore Co. By Robert A.

Erlandson Baltimore County Bureau of The Sun The Baltimore County property tax protest picked up more steam last night as scores of people lined up at Hereford High School to sign petitions for charter amendments to sharply limit tax increases and to return to county commissioner government. David Boyd, head of Property Taxpayers United, predicted that the 10,000 signatures needed to place both proposed amendments on the November election ballot will be gathered easily, probably by the May 1 meeting at which he plans to report on the progress of the petition drive. John O'Neal, a close ally of Mr. Boyd, said he has spoken personally with leaders of 30 community organizations from Towson to Hunt Valley and they all have asked for the charter amendment petitions. Mr.

O'Neal said he expected 1 30 such groups to Join the drive. "We're getting stronger every day," Mr. Boyd said. "People don't get this worked up unless it's serious and if they the county executive and council don't listen, then we should get them out," Joseph Ingolia, mastermind of the charter amendments, told last night's cheering audience of more than 400 people. Merely obtaining enough signatures to place on the ballot an amendment to overturn charter government "would say to the council, 'We want you to do something about property taxes.

Come out of your holes and do Mr. Ingolia declared. This would be leverage, and if they have any sense they'll come and talk," he said. He criticized editorial assertions that a return to a board of commissioners would be inefficient. County voters overwhelmingly approved the change from commissioner to charter government in 1956.

Under the old system, the commissioners' law-making powers were limited, and all major legislation affecting the county had to be enacted by the General Assembly. The first seven-member council was elected in 1957. The tax amendment petition would prohibit the council from increasing property taxes more than 2 percent a year, using the 1989-1990 collection as the base. An increase above 2 percent would be subject to referendum and, under the proposal, would have to be approved by two-thirds of the county's registered a U-C from which she paid personal bills. Mr.

Robinson said Ms. Pollard also obtained 29 checks totaling $480 from neighbors, payable to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, saying they would become members of a new NAACP chapter. None of the residents received NAACP memberships, Mr. Robinson said. The national headquarters of the NAACP said that the chapter was chartered In February 1988 and that Ms.

Pollard was president. "private" because it was between the foundation and the superintendent, and she refused to make it public. Mr. Mizell said the task the foundation has set for the five school systems is a difficult one to reform middle schools by making expectations higher for children, by making what they're taught more challenging and by providing more help for them. "We're talking about whole school change," he said, "and no matter where you are.

the reality is that running the institution becomes the imperative. The central focus may not be improving achievement." In its grant application, Baltimore made a compelling case for the need for reform. The school system said that 41 percent of its sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders had scored below the 40th percentile in reading on the California Achievement Test. As of June 1988, about 32 percent of the students had failed one grade and 1 1 percent were two or more grades behind. Two middle schools, West Baltimore and Calverton, are developing new programs under the grants.

Much of the $400,000 is being spent on training teachers at the two schools, and the teachers have begun to develop new programs of their own. "For once we've been able to do something for the staff." said Sheila Kolman, principal of West Baltimore Middle School. She said that by concentrating on new techniques, such as cooperative learning in which youngsters work together In small groups, the school already has made a dent In reducing class failures. Calverton teachers have been working on a new career education class and character education. Richard Holley, the principal, said the school has prepared a course in how to study, which all sixth-graders will take next year.

1 1 mm Arthur Amory Houghton a businessman, bibliophile and philanthropist who helped restore scores of historic buildings on Maryland's Eastern Shore and helped found the Wye Institute, died yesterday in Boca Grande, after a brief illness. He was 83. A native of Corning, N.Y., and great-grandson of the founder of the Corning glass works, he was president of the Steuben Glass subsidiary for 40 years. He was a past chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and he belonged to more than 100 organizations. Mr.

Houghton put together one of the finest private libraries in the world. It included a first-edition Gutenberg Bible. He retired in 1980 as a life director of Corning of which he had been a vice president and assistant to the president. But his greatest achievement at Corning was his stewardship of its Steuben Glass division, which he took over in 1933 and headed as president until 1973, when he was named its chairman. During this time, Steuben crystal became world-renowned.

It is represented in the collections of many public museums. Mr. Houghton raised a herd of Black Angus cattle, which numbered more than 600 before he donated it to the University of Maryland in 1978. In addition to his key role with the Wye Institute a foundation to Louise Dohme Leser Headed museum panel Louise Dohme Leser, former head of the Women's Committee of the Baltimore Museum of Art, died March 13 after a short illness at Broadmead. She was 90.

Ms. Leser was a member of the Mount Vernon Club. A native of Baltimore and a daughter of a founder of the Sharp and Dohme she was a graduate of the Bryn Mawr School and a member of the Class of 1921 at Smith College. Felix Agnus Leser, her husband, died in 1951. He had been director of the Baltimore Zoo.

Her survivors include a daughter, Frederika Fulton Leser of New York City; and three sisters, Frances Dohme Cockey of Sun City, Dorothy Dohme Fraser of Santa Fe, N.M., and Emily Dohme Post of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Services were private. The family suggested contributions to the Broadmead Residents Association. Jack Plotkin Owned tire company Graveside services for Jack Plot-kin, retired owner of a tire company in South Baltimore, will be held at 12:30 p.m. today at the Arlington Cemetery of the Chizuk Amuno Congregation, 4300 N.

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He is survived by his wife, the. former Nina Rodale; three children-by a previous marriage, Sylvia Bige-low Garrett of Easton, Arthur Houghton III of Washington andHol-lister D. Haggard of Aiken, S.C.; and nine grandchildren. r-r. Services for Mr.

Houghton will be' held at 11:30 a.m. April 21 at pid Wye Church. Mr. Plotkin lived in the Thirty-Nine Hundred Apartments on. North Charles Street.

He died yesterday at the age of 88 at Union Memorial Hospital after a heart attack He owned Plotkin's Tire Sales for 40 years before his retirement, in iy4. ll inciuaea a recapping anu retreading plant. For a time, he owned a turniture ana appliance- business at the same location. The Baltimore native naa president of the board of Levtndate, a board member of the Jewish Convalescent Home and a fund-raiser for the the American Heart Association; At Chizuk Amuno, he served on the board and was a member of the brotherhood. Mr.

Plotkin belonged to the Wood-holme Country Club. He Is survived by his wife of 62- years, the former Fannye Jacobson: a daughter, Rodney Kleini' JCive; grandchildren: and three, great; grandchildren. Deaths elsewhere Reginald S. Alexander, 75. a politician, sports enthusiast and longtime member of the International Olym pics Committee, died Saturday 4n a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, where; he was born and of which he was mayor in 1954.

When Kenya gained independence from Britain in 1963.. he; served four years in Parliament. He was in the Royal Air Force during; World War II. MICHAEL F. GILLIGAN John Leopold of Pasadena has ibeen campaigning for the post forhlpre than a year and is expected to announce his candidacy soon.

He is'al-so the leading fund-raiser among all likely candidates, with more than $161,000 as of November. Robert R. Neall, a former, State delegate who currently serves as Maryland's drug-control czarUSalso a likely Republican candidate. iia ntv f-J 7" jL EfeME SAVINGS i Sale Prices Good April 4 Through WED THl) I FRI I SAT I SUN I MON I TUE 4 5 6 7 CLOSED 9 10 Councilman Gilligan enters race for Arundel's executive METSHC i-a- i Selected Sofas GILLIGAN, from IB vember, Mr. Gilligan has raised $145,823 with $86,429 on hand, giving him the second-largest war chest of any of the likely candidates for county executive.

However, The Sun Poll conducted last year by KPC Research of Charlotte. N.C.. found that few county voters had heard of Mr. Gilligan. A poll conducted by Anne Arundel Community College in November yielded similar results.

The primary contests for county executive are expected to be particularly crowded this year since the incumbent, Mr. Lighthizer, is serving the last year of his second term and cannot run for a third. While Mr. Gilligan is only the second official candidate to enter the race for the county's highest office, more are expected in the coming weeks. Patricia Aiken, 67, a staunch environmentalist and former state from the Annapolis area, filed as a Democratic candidate earlier this year.

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