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LET SUNDAY DECEMBER 16, 1984 THE SUN THE G. HOTZ, SR. Susan Moran and Lynn Sagun keep maternal watch over a fish at Broadneck High School. Fish are used to teach res responsibility By Michael J. Clark flushing it down the toilet.

who finished out the week. She ended Anne Arundel Bureau of The Sun ANNAPOLIS Maryann Orme thinks goldfish watching is a pretty good way to teach high school students the responsibility of child care. So, the Broadneck Senior High School teacher asked her child development class to spend a week in the company of the creatures. That meant that each of the 26 girls and two boys in her class received a goldfish to be carried el everywhere in the school hallways, in classes, in cars, on dates and even to physical education classes. The students' only relief was that they could farm the goldfish out to a boy friend, girl friend or parent.

But the respites were not to exceed 12 hours. The students kept the fish in wide-mouthed jars in most cases. There were instances when water sloshed out, while driving, and when a jar fell and broke, during physical education class. During the week-long activity, six of the goldfish died, but that was primarily because they were either overfed or because the water in the freshly cleaned bowl was too warm or too cold for the fish, throwing them into a state of shock, Mrs. Orme said.

"The purpose of the course is to educate those who want to be parents in the future or who want to teach young children during their ca-reer," Mrs. Orme said. She added that her 28 students would later be assigned to work with preschool children, as part of their course work. "Some of the students were not ready for that responsibility. Some of them just couldn't wait to give back the fish, while others kept them," the teacher at the Arnold high school said.

Keeping track of a goldfish during class in a high school didn't go swimmingly all the time, said 17- year-old Karen Judy. Boys in some of her classes tried, at various times, to steal her fish or threw staples and erasers in the mayonnaise jar the fish called home, she said. Cathy Urlock, 17, said her boy friend helped her watch her assigned goldfish, and, after he left for Marine Corps boot camp, she wrote to tell him that the goldfish had died. "It was a lot of responsibility," said 15-year-old Michelle "I do intend to have children later, but I will not have any Mrs. Orme said the goldfish watchers generally were an overprotective group.

"When a death happened, it was very traumatic," the teacher said. anything, these goldfish were overloved." After the week-long exercise, which ended recently, she said the students evaluated their assignment and there was considerable discussion equating the responsibility of fish-watching with caring for children. The care of goldfish, Mrs. Orme said, also proved a more rewarding experience than the egg-watching she required of previous child-development classes. When raw, infertile eggs were the vogue in the class, the student would carry them around in a small "crib" they built.

Often, they drew faces pasted human hair on them. "We were not meeting our goals with the eggs," Mrs. Orme said. "They had to learn the responsibility for something that i is dependent on you. I changed it 1 to goldfish this school year because the eggs were not dependent enough." Gina Massimino, 17, wrote in her class diary about how the death of "Louey," the goldfish in her care, had made her feel "so sad." The teenager said she parted with her dead fish by saying "a prayer" and CO MARYLAND 9D OBITUARIES Odell Brock, 39, dies of cancer; was former owner of Odell's disco Funeral services for Odell Brock, the former owner of Odell's, one of the more popular discotheques in Baltimore, will be at noon tomorrow at Bethel A.M.E.

Church, 1300 Druid Hill avenue. Mr. Brock, who also owned several other clubs and lounges in the city in recent years, died Thursday at his home in the Village of Cross Keys after a long bout with cancer. He was 39. Mr.

Brock was born and educated in Baltimore, but moved with his family to Catonsville when he was a teenager. He graduated from Catonsville Senior High School in 1963 and attended Morgan State University. He worked for Brock Fuel Oil and Oil Burner Service, a familyowned business, from the time he was in junior high school until he opened his first club, the Carousel discotheque, in 1972. He opened the Carousel, in the 1800 North Charles street, with partner David H. Richeson, who renamed the club Gatsby's after Mr.

Brock sold his interest in it. Dorsey's Back in the Sun Magazine. In 1976, just before disco music swept the nation, Mr. Brock opened Odell's, the popular discotheque in the first block East North avenue. He sold the club earlier this year because of his declining health.

Mr. Brock and Mr. Richeson teamed up again in 1978 to open The Ritz, a disco and jazz supper club on Light street, at the site of the old Playboy Club. The club later closed. That same year, Mr.

Brock and others opened a lounge called D'joint, on Liberty road, which also But, the teenager had better luck her diary with a joyful statement: For home delivery 1329-A Belair Rd. with a replacement fish, "Zippy," "Zippy is alive." call 539-1280. Bel Air, Md. STORES, inc. TOY WED.

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Mr. Brock is survived by his wife of 12 years, the former Jacqueline Brooks Moore; three daughters, Patrice Rebecca and Monica Brock; his parents, Dorothy and Odell Brock, three brothers, Ralph Don L. and Eric Brock, and three sisters, Rebecca Thompson, Joyce A. Roberts and Joan E. Jackson, all of Baltimore.

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