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*****June 7, 2001*****

Michael John Norman Sr. 
  Michael John Norman Sr., 45, a resident of Waldorf, died on Monday, June 4, 
2001, as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. 
  Mr. Norman was the founder and owner of Nortec systems, a commercial security 
company in Waldorf. 
  He is survived by four children, Michael and his wife, Gina, of Deale; 
Michelle, Cathy, and Russell of Derwood; and two grandchildren, Matthew and 
Kaitlin, of Deale. He is also survived by six brothers and sisters, Lane Norman 
of Germantown, Dax Norman of Marriottsville, Jonathan Norman of Baltimore, 
Valerie Walker of Gambrills, Ayn Norman of UAE, Valaree Dickerson of 
Poolesville, and many nieces and nephews. Also surviving are his father and 
stepmother John and Gail Mesa Norman of Frederick and his mother, Janice 
Virnstein, of Laurel. He is also deeply mourned by his fiancee, Susan Hatfeild 
and her children, Jena and Joshua. 
  Friends may call at Gasch's Funeral Home, P.A., 4739 Baltimore Ave., 
Hyattsville, on Thursday, June 7 from 4 to 7 p.m. A graveside service will be 
held at Fort Lincoln Cemetery on Friday, June 8, at 12:30 p.m. 


*****June 21, 2001*****

Adrienne Mindel
  Adrienne Rauchwerger Spivack Mindel, 81, a history professor who retired in 
1990 after 20 years at Hood College in Frederick, died of a respiratory ailment 
June 14 at her home at Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg.
  Dr. Mindel was a classic 1950s mother in many ways, eager to find a 
professional niche but unable to do so for many years. She worked as a secretary 
at the United Nations before taking staying home to raise her daughters. She 
worked part time as a research assistant to Roscoe Drummond, a columnist for The 
Christian Science Monitor and The New York Herald Tribune. She also spent a year 
teaching third grade at Woodley Hills Elementary School in Fairfax County, Va., 
before winning a fellowship in 1964 from the American Association of University 
Women and at age 44 embarking on what eventually became a career as a college 
professor.
  She received a master's degree in international relations and a doctorate in 
history, both from American University.
  She was associate editor of Contemporary Affairs magazine, a contributing 
editor to China and U.S. Far East Policy, and a member of the Maryland 
Commission for the Humanities. She also belonged to the Virginia Gildersleeve 
International Fund for University Women, the Maryland chapter of the National 
Coordinating Committee for Promotion of History, the American History 
Association, French History Studies Association, Southern Association of Women 
Historians and Temple Beth El in Alexandria. She was active in the Democratic 
Party in Northern Virginia in the early 1960s. She is listed in Who's Who of 
American Women.
  Hood College held an exhibit of her artwork beginning March 22, 1996, at the 
Gambs Gallery on the campus. After she retired in 1990, she resumed her 
painting.
  Dr. Mindel was born in Bayonne, N.J., on Feb. 15, 1920, the first daughter of 
Joseph Rauchwerger and Blanche (Vitriol) Rauchwerger.
  She graduated from Great Neck High School in Great Neck, N.Y. She attended the 
University of Michigan and received her B.A. from New York University where she 
transferred after marrying Robert G. Spivack. He died in 1970.
  Survivors include her husband of 26 years, Dr. Joseph Mindel of Gaithersburg; 
two daughters from her first marriage, Lorna Spivack Galvan of the Bronx, N.Y., 
and Miranda Spivack Herm of Bethesda; a stepdaughter, Judith Mindel of West Palm 
Beach, Fla.; and four grandchildren.