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A funeral Mass for Sister Miriam Regina Brosnan, C.S.C., 80, will be offered June 9 at Holy Cross Church, Garrett Park. Sister Miriam Regina died June 6.

Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore, a member of MedStar health, has earned the Gold Seal of Approval from the Joint Commission for Primary Stroke Centers.

Growing up with two grandfathers and two uncles who served in the U.S. Army, Kyle Hanratty, valedictorian for the 2007 graduating class at The John Carroll School, Bel Air, hopes to carry on the tradition. The 18-year-old applied and was accepted to the United States Military Academy at West Point, the United States Naval Academy and the United States Air Force Academy.

A priest who graduated from St. Rose of Lima School, Baltimore, in the 1960s was recently elected superior general of the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity.

Two articles on the passing of Father John Delclos, one in The Baltimore Sun, mentioned that he was an “emotional preacher.” In my opinion that can be misleading.

A funeral Mass was offered June 2 at Immaculate Conception Church, Elkton, for Sister Cecilia Mary Grimes, O.S.F. Sister Cecilia Mary died May 30. She was 76 and had been a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 54 years.

The Archdiocesan Holy Name Union awarded (11) $500 tuition grants to students who will attend Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

The winner of the $500 Father Henry J. Hughes Scholarship Awards are:

Thank you for the recent section, “Remembering World War II” (CR, May 24). All those who served in that war deserve our gratitude. Sadly, there are two groups whose time in uniform during that war has been often unrecognized: women and racial minorities.

Wow! I opened the paper when it arrived today to read about the Catholic high school girls who made the IAAM All Stars.

HONG KONG – One of two Chinese priests jailed for “illegal exit” after a trip abroad was released provisionally for medical treatment in mid-May, about one and a half months before the end of his sentence.