Drexel Hill

Terrance Calvert found his passion in dance. And through his patient tutelage, he was able to inspire the same passion in others, especially the kids who came within his purview. He had a knack for giving them the same self-confidence and purpose that he discovered through dance. "Once he found dance, he found his passion," said his mother, Linda Calvert. "A passion for dance and for life. " A future in entertainment seemed assured for this talented young man, who had already auditioned in New York City for road tours.

Mike Moreken of Drexel Hill has no bells on his toes, but he is getting plenty of sunshine on them. Moreken shed his shoes so he could spend his day off barefoot in the park - Ridley Creek State Park, that is. But thunderstorms lie ahead for the area.

Second-seeded Audrey Reinsel progressed to the quarterfinals of the women's Eastern States Tennis Championship with a 6-3, 6-0 victory over Susan Ricker yesterday at the Idle Hour Tennis Club in Drexel Hill. Top-seeded Donna Gottshall drew a first-round bye and is to play Brenda Johnson today. Johnson came from one set down to defeat Kristin Amrein, 4-6, 6-2, 6-0.

Maria D. Amoroso, 71, a former electroencephalographer at Haverford State Hospital, died Wednesday at her home in Drexel Hill. Miss Amoroso worked at the hospital as an allergy technologist and an electroencephalographer, doing electrical brain scans, for 22 years until she retired in 1985. She also worked as a histology technician at Temple University Medical School and was an EEG instructor at the Osteopathic Medical Center School of Allied Health in Philadelphia. Miss Amoroso held a patent in encephalography.

Richard J. Gentile, 65, of Drexel Hill, an Upper Darby councilman and former insurance executive, died Wednesday at Delaware County Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Mr. Gentile was director of public property management for Delaware County, a position he took in 1987. Before that, he was a vice president of Philadelphia Life Insurance Co., where he had worked for 25 years. Mr. Gentile was elected to the first of three consecutive terms on the Upper Darby Council in 1985.

John E. "Pop" Banes, 81, of Drexel Hill, a retired postal worker who owned Pop's Barrell Inn in Upper Darby for 20 years, died of leukemia, Friday, Jan. 6, at Delaware County Memorial Hospital. Mr. Banes delivered mail for the Postal Service in Philadelphia for 34 years, primarily in Overbrook. To support his large family, he worked one or two other jobs, including tending bar and catering, his daughter Eileen Coleman said. In 1979, he became proprietor of Pop's Barrell Inn. He operated the bar for more than a decade after retiring from the Postal Service in 1988.

Fran Schecter and Donna Gottshall won the Eastern States Open women's doubles tennis championship with a 6-3, 6-2 triumph over Jenni Stewart and Shari Bucklin yesterday at the Idle Hour Tennis Club in Drexel Hill. Top-seeded Schecter and Gottshall won the first three games of the match, were tied at 3-all and then took the next three games for the set. They kept their momentum, winning four straight games to take a 4-0 lead in the second set. Second-seeded Stewart and Bucklin then rallied to win two games, but Schecter and Gottshall beat them two straight to take the match.

A complete listing of this season's Home Run Payoff winners (unless noted with a monetary value, all winners receive Phillies Gift Packs): OCT. 23  ? HUGHIE LOYLE, Drexel Hill, Pa.; STACEY HANLIN, Philadelphia; ANTHONY REIL, Philadelphia; AMY AUSTIN, Hatboro, Pa.; CHRISTINE STYLES, Dagsboro, Del. OCT. 21 ? TIMOTHY GREEN, Philadelphia; BOBBY BERTELE, Philadelphia; BO BOBERSKYI, Philadelphia. OCT. 20 ? PHILIP STARK, Glenside, Pa.; DAVE KICINSKI, Philadelphia; BRUNHILDE PAHLKE, Philadelphia; JOE CLARK, Laurel Springs, N.J.; KAREN KLEIN, Runnemede, N.J.; CATHERINE PETKEVIS, Egg Harbor City, N.J.; BILL SEEDES, Cape May Court House, N.J.; JUNE CAISON, Philadelphia; ATTOH MOLITCHIA, Lindenwold, N.J. OCT. 19 ?

William Vincent Kays, 87, of Drexel Hill, a retired foreign military sales expert and workers' compensation field inspector, died Friday, Jan. 27, at home of lung cancer. Mr. Kays grew up in Massachusetts and North Philadelphia. He graduated from Roman Catholic High School in 1942. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps as a radio technician. On D-Day plus six, he landed in Normandy with seven other airmen, charged with securing airfields and setting up control towers.

Willie C. Jones, a singing deacon at the Holy Temple Church of God in Christ since 1923, died Wednesday. He was 92 and lived in West Philadelphia. "Son of a sharecropper, grandfather Jones and his wife, Cassie, were part of the great migration of African Americans who moved from the South to the North in the quest for a better life," said a granddaughter, Renee Wearing. Jones grew up in Georgia. In the early 1920s, he and Cassie began the northbound trek which took them to West Philadelphia.

Terrance Calvert found his passion in dance. And through his patient tutelage, he was able to inspire the same passion in others, especially the kids who came within his purview. He had a knack for giving them the same self-confidence and purpose that he discovered through dance. "Once he found dance, he found his passion," said his mother, Linda Calvert. "A passion for dance and for life. " A future in entertainment seemed assured for this talented young man, who had already auditioned in New York City for road tours.

MICHAEL LEIGHTON was one collective-bargaining-agreement loophole away from rejoining the Flyers on their bench last night, almost as unlikely as the way he fell into their lap in December 2009 before leading them all the way to the Stanley Cup finals that spring. Ilya Bryzgalov, who reported to the Wells Fargo Center yesterday morning with flulike symptoms, was sent home and Phantoms backup Jason Bacashihua was recalled on an emergency basis to backstop Sergei Bobrovsky last night against Toronto.

William Vincent Kays, 87, of Drexel Hill, a retired foreign military sales expert and workers' compensation field inspector, died Friday, Jan. 27, at home of lung cancer. Mr. Kays grew up in Massachusetts and North Philadelphia. He graduated from Roman Catholic High School in 1942. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps as a radio technician. On D-Day plus six, he landed in Normandy with seven other airmen, charged with securing airfields and setting up control towers.

MARIE GALLAGHER, who as its principal helped save Little Flower High School from closure in the early 1990s, hopes she can replicate her magic and protect her alma mater, St. Hubert's Catholic High School for Girls, from shuttering. Back in 1991, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia held public meetings to hear appeals of closure decisions, including Little Flower's, Gallagher said yesterday. The genders donate differently to charities, said Gallagher, a 1965 graduate of St. Hubert's who now serves as president of its advisory board.

John E. "Pop" Banes, 81, of Drexel Hill, a retired postal worker who owned Pop's Barrell Inn in Upper Darby for 20 years, died of leukemia, Friday, Jan. 6, at Delaware County Memorial Hospital. Mr. Banes delivered mail for the Postal Service in Philadelphia for 34 years, primarily in Overbrook. To support his large family, he worked one or two other jobs, including tending bar and catering, his daughter Eileen Coleman said. In 1979, he became proprietor of Pop's Barrell Inn. He operated the bar for more than a decade after retiring from the Postal Service in 1988.

A Drexel Hill man died after being hit trying to cross the Schuylkill Expressway on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. Joseph McHenry was hit by a white Toyota Tundra going about 50 m.p.h. after trying to climb over the highway's center concrete median and walk across the eastbound travel lanes, state police said. He was carrying a full gas can on his right shoulder and was struck in the right travel lane in Upper Merion Township, flipping over the hood of the pickup truck. McHenry was taken to Bryn Mawr Hospital, where he later died.

It took more than three years for a Delaware County woman and her landlord to reach a settlement in a sexual-harassment suit. But after the settlement, it took the landlord just four months to throw the woman out of her apartment, according to a complaint filed with the state Human Relations Commission. In a ruling described as unusual, the commission found that Ingrid D. Luderman had been evicted from her Drexel Hill apartment in retaliation for suing Drexelbrook Associates. Luderman was forced to move to Radnor Township, pay a higher rent, and commute farther to Upper Darby High School, where she teaches Spanish, the commission said in announcing the decision Wednesday.

The Rev. William David Thompson, 82, of Drexel Hill, an accomplished preacher who taught public-speaking techniques to others, died Monday, March 28, at home of pulmonary fibrosis. Dr. Thompson was a professor of preaching at Eastern Baptist Seminary from 1962 to 1987. While teaching, he was also interim pastor at several area Baptist churches, and from 1983 to 1990, he was pastor of First Baptist Church of Philadelphia. After leaving First Baptist, Mr. Thompson established Speakers Services.

Dr. Vincent J. Buono, 93, of Drexel Hill, a dentist for 44 years, died Friday, March 25, at St. Francis Country House in Darby. Dr. Buono had a dental practice in Overbrook for five years before moving his office to his new home in Drexel Hill in 1954. He served generations of families, his wife, Philomena DiSanta Buono, said. He could converse with his patients on almost any subject, his wife said, and children would stop in on their way home from school just to say hello. Dr. Buono was a dental examiner for the Philadelphia School District and the Upper Darby School District.