All Saints’ Episcopal Church
March 2011
The Bell Tower
Reisterstown Parish
A Letter from Father David I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a Holy Lent, by self examination and repentance, by prayer, fasting, and self denial, and by the reading and meditating on God’s Holy Word. (Book of Common Prayer page 265) Dear All Saints’ family, The season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, March 9th with the reminder that one day we all will return to dust, and that we all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. This should be no surprise to us, but they are themes which
Vision Statement: All Saints’ strives to be a place where people come to know Jesus Christ, are transformed to His glory, and become witnesses to God’s unchangeable word.
many people choose not to think about. Lent invites us to return to the Lord, to be reconciled to God, and gives us the assurance of His forgiveness and mercy. All of us love Easter when we celebrate the days of Jesus’ passion and resurrection,
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and the observance of a Holy Lent puts our Easter celebration into perspective. As the liturgy of Ash Wednesday says, “the whole congregation is put in mind of the message of pardon and absolution set forth in the Gospel of our Savior, and the need which all Christians continually have to renew their repentance and faith.” Traditionally, Christians throughout the centuries have practiced special spiritual disciplines to emphasize the serious nature of the season and to strengthen our relationship with God. Some of the traditional disciplines are: fasting from meals or specific foods, additional prayer time at various times during the day, the read‐ Inside this issue:
ing of devotional books, or a plan to read and meditate on the scriptures. Other disciplines can include doing service at church or an outside organization as a sac‐
Letter from Fr. David
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ALSo Tour
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Stewardship Corner
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Messages from God’s Older Children
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Easter Remembrance Form
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Announcements
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Blessings,
Calendar of Events
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Closing
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Fr. David
Fr. Hanna Obituary
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rificial offering in the name of our Lord. All of us should be engaged in some form of discipline that will bring us into a deeper understanding of our calling as God’s people. We will be asking people to share how their Lenten disciplines help them grow closer to the Lord during our Lenten services. I hope that in our sharing we will encourage one another and discover ways to prepare for our Easter celebration. Therefore in the name of the Church, I invite you to the observance of a Holy Lent.
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Page 2 Put the Fun in Fund Raising, a novel way to help All Saints’ This Spring, as we begin Sea‐
day trips which will be not
near‐full seating, so be sure to
son #8 (would you believe?)
only FUN, but also a way of
inform your family, friends,
of ALL SAINTS’ ON TOUR,
contributing to the church’s
and work associates!
we have been blessed by the
general coffers. Listed below
Please contact Neal Haynie
volunteerism of Vestry mem‐
is a variety of suggested tours today with your preferences
ber Ray Leonard in helping
– some by carpool, some by
and comments….in person,
with plans. Ray has consider‐
charter bus – to interesting
by phone (410‐833‐4331) or
able experience in organizing
sites within easy reach. Most, email (hayneal@verizon.net).
tours and in fundraising, skills
if not all, will include a lunch
We also need to know if you
which will give our excursions
stop. The final list depends
are free to tour on weekdays,
better focus and scope. Now, upon the interest of parish‐ ioners and your invited all we need is your help in selecting and signing‐on for
weekends, or both.
friends. For bus trips we need
Suggested ALSo Tours A
“Remember the Civil War” – Balto. Commemoration, B &O Mus., MD Hist. Soc. etc. – Apr. 15‐17
B
“Gettysburg, A Time to Reflect” – Gettysburg battlefield and new visitor center.
C
“Preview of 1814” – Visit to Fort McHenry and the newly opened exhibit center.
D
“Working Baltimore” – Tour of the always evolving Baltimore Museum of Industry
E
“The Lafayette Trail” – Tour of Historic Havre de Grace (sites suggested by Lee Parsons)
F
“Mr. Washington’s Home” – Return to Mt. Vernon and its new visitors’ center.
G
“Family Fun!” – A day at either King’s Dominion (VA) or Hershey Park (PA)
H
“Autumn Special” – Ride the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, Cumberland to Frostburg
I
“Sailing the Potomac” – Cruise and lunch aboard the Odyssey on DC’s famous waterway
J
“Joseph” – Sight‐and‐Sound Theater musical experience in Lancaster (PA) – April to Oct.
K
“Miracle of Christmas” – Sight‐and‐Sound Theater in Lancaster (PA)
L
“Pershing’s Own” – U.S. Army Band Christmas Show, DAR Concert Hall (DC) ‐ December
M
“South Pacific” – Hippodrome Theatre (Sat. or Sun. matinee) ‐ October
N
“La Cage Aux Folles” – Hippodrome Theatre (Sat. or Sun. matinee) ‐ November
O
“The Lion King” – Hippodrome Theatre (Sat. or Sun. matinee) – December/January
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” Dorothy Parker
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Stewardship Corner Dear Parish Family, It is with great enthusiasm that I announce to you that we are beginning this month the Evergreen Plan for Stew‐ ardship. Evergreen is our very success‐ ful stewardship program that we began using six years ago. We, as a parish family, will reflect on and prayerfully con‐ sider over the next few weeks
our financial commitment to Christ and to all his great works through the church. All Saints’ is blessed by having so many people that make a serious financial commit‐ ment.
the joy that we receive from our giving. Over the next few weeks you will be hearing more details. In the meantime I ask that you take a moment now to pray for the success of our upcoming program.
Evergreen is a time when we can and do personally share For the stewardship commit‐ with each other the impor‐ tee, tance of our commitment and David Waite
Junior Warden Change As of December 31, 2010 John done to keep our worship
ate interest in making our
Rogers completed eight years space and fellowship space in
campus beautiful. He often
of service to us as Junior War‐
tip top shape. We have en‐
came on his day off to correct
Christ -- a new
den. This is one of the most
joyed working with you.
areas that had been over‐
sense of purpose
Find -- together in
time consuming volunteer
We are very fortunate to have looked or not completed. We
jobs that has to be done here
a fine replacement for John in are looking forward to work‐
at All Saints’ Church. Thank
Lee Meads. When Lee joined
ing with Lee.
you John for all the “behind
the congregation several
Erik Ewertz
the scenes” work you have
years ago he took an immedi‐
Sr. Warden
and life in your church.”
Children in the Parking Lot Recently, on two separate
to the playground or have
see dangerous behavior in
occasions, young children
them accompanied by an
the parking lots please ad‐
were almost hit by passing
adult. The parking lot cross‐
dress it immediately. The last
cars in our parking lot. They
walk and the lines which de‐
thing anyone wants is an
were darting in between
fine parking spaces will be
accident within our own fam‐
parked cars. This must stop.
repainted as early in the
ily on our own property.
Parents of children under
Spring as weather permits.
Thank you.
high school age please talk to Meanwhile, as an old African
In His and your service,
your children. Have your chil‐
proverb states: “It takes a
Erik Ewertz
dren walk in the crosswalks
village to raise a child”. If you Sr. Warden
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Page 4 Special Notes from God’s Older Children CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUPS
St. Johns Hospital: 410‐337‐1109 They meet 1st Thursday of each month at If you are a caregiver the Baltimore County Department of Aging has support groups for 7:00pm in Chaplin’s office. you. Call 410‐887‐4724 for the one closest to you, or see the short list, to the right, of some Northwest Hospital: 410‐601‐9355 They meet 6:00pm‐7:30pm. Call for the date of the caregiver support groups in the area. Kernan Hospital: 410‐448‐6307 Call for time and date. Jewish Community Services: 410‐843‐7306 They meet 1st & 3rd Monday 10:00 am or call 410‐661‐6720 for a once a month meeting time and date.
Know the Signs of a Heart Attack and Stroke HEART ATTACK WARNING SIGNS •
Chest discomfort (can feel like pressure, squeezing, fullness, or pain) that lasts more than a few minutes, or that goes away and comes back.
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Pain or discomfort in one STROKE WARNING SIGNS or both arms, the back, Sudden: neck, jaw or stomach. • Numbness or weakness Shortness of breath with of the face, arm or leg, or without chest discom‐ especially on one side of fort. the body. Breaking out into a cold sweat, light headed, or nausea
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Confusion, trouble un‐ derstanding or speaking.
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Trouble seeing out of one or both eyes.
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Trouble walking, loss of balance or coordination or dizziness.
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Severe headache with unknown cause.
Put aside you donation for this years Rummage Sale It’s that time of year again to clean out closets and drawers. Please put aside your donations of gently used or new clothing and linens to the All Saints’ Rummage Sale. Beginning May 1, we will be accepting adult and children’s clothing and ac‐ cessories (jewelry, shoes, purses, etc.) linens, lawn and garden items, and toys. The Rummage Sale is Saturday, June 4th from 9 am to 2 pm. Set‐up is
Wednesday, 6/1, Thursday, 6/2, and Friday, 6/3, from 9 am to afternoon. Please sign up to volunteer. We can always use help to sort and display our donations on the set‐up days and helpers on Sale Day. You can get in some shopping, too. QUALITY ITEMS AT BARGAIN PRICES! Contact Mary Thayer at 410‐375‐6326. Thank you, Mary Thayer
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We Gave our Burdens on the Mountain Top
Jesus asks us to give Him our burdens
It has been six months since the
alter to give to God.
my yoke is easy and my burden is
Men of All Saints’ enjoyed their
Just as some of our burdens are
light.”
retreat at the Bolgiano’s cabin.
very large, so were the rocks we
In our symbolic action of placing
One of the highlights was the
chose to represent them. Carry‐
our burdens in rocks and placing
“leisurely” hike up and down the
ing these further up and down
them at the altar of Christ we
mountain. It provided beautiful
the mountain was not only physi‐
changed, just as God intended.
vistas and playful games, but it
cally difficult but emotionally
Hebrews 4: 22‐24 “… to put off
also provided unforeseen chal‐
difficult. We live with our bur‐
your old self, which is being cor‐
lenges. Part of the journey was
dens, worries and sins so long
rupted by its deceitful desires; to
physically tough, part of the jour‐
that without them our identity
be made new in the attitude of
ney was intimidating and danger‐
can become cloudy. It is hard for
your minds; and to put on the
ous, and part of the journey was
men to relinquish this control,
new self, created to be like God in
emotionally rocky.
but Jesus specifically asks us to
true righteousness and holiness.”
Upon reaching the mountain top
give him our burdens. Matthew
I want to remind the men that
we were rewarded with time to
11:28‐30 Jesus says “Come to
made the commitment to “be
rest and pray. For some, the hard‐
me, all you who are weary and
like God” to be reminded of their
est challenge was about to begin.
burdened, and I will give you
commitment this Lent, for which
The men on the mountain chose
rest. Take my yoke upon you
of us have gone back to that
to take their heaviest burden,
and learn from me, for I am gen‐
mountain and taken back our
their greatest obstacle, their sin‐
tle and humble in heart, and you
rock…?
place it in a rock and carry it to an
will find rest for your souls. For
Jonathan Stenner
EASTER MEMORIALS & THANKSGIVINGS FORM
Easter Memorials & Thanksgivings Remember friends and loved ones this Easter season by contributing to the purchase of Easter Sunday flowers or by giving to the Rector's Discretionary Fund.
SUBMIT THIS FORM WITH YOUR CHECK
Given by:__________________________________ Phone: _________________ Select: { } Easter Flowers: Payable to ALL SAINTS’ ALTAR GUILD $____________ (Notation Line: Easter Flowers) Choose one: □ In Loving Memory of □ In Thanksgiving for Print Names: Use Christian names only Example: John and Mary Doe ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ { } Rector's Discretionary Fund Payable to ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH $____________ (Notation Line: Rector’s Disc. Fund) Choose one: □ In Loving Memory of □ In Thanksgiving for Print Names: Use Christian names only Example: John and Mary Doe ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Please submit separate checks if contributing to both funds. Thank you.
ON OR BEFORE: Sunday, April 10, 2011
All Saints’ Episcopal Church 203 E. Chatsworth Ave. Reisterstown, MS 21136
Phone: 410-833-7000 E-mail: allsaints@verizon.net
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Page 6 Chaplain Training Wayne Gadow spoke to the May 9th to the 13th at Men’s Fellowship Breakfast
Winfield Bible Church for a
recently about his training
week long Chaplain Train‐
and experiences as a Chap‐
ing Session.
lain in the Westminster.
The cost for training is
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If God has been speaking to $300. You can find more your heart about becoming
information on their web‐
a Chaplain, I.F.O.C. Interna‐
site http://www.ifoc.org/
tional Fellowship of Chap‐
training/basic.php
lains will be in the area on
NOTE FROM PARISH OFFICE: If your birthday or anniversary is not listed, we may not have correct information on file. Please provide the appropriate information to the Parish Office so we may update our records. Thanks!
Special Birthdays March Birthdays Helen Eder – March 1 Izabella Mace – March 1 Toby Long – March 2 Donna Bandzwolek – March 4 Kathleen Wright – March 5 Marc Sommerville – March 7 Mike Toohey – March 9 Robert Henshaw – March 10 Allison Grimes – March 14 Kerry McNamara – March 14 Kim Ruby – March 16 Tim Hemler – March 18 Kaitlyn Myers – March 18 Tirzah Stenner – March 22 Kevin Hemler – March 23 Steven Yount – March 23 Mark Bosley – March 26 Tony Sacra – March 28 Ainsley Stenner – March 29 Gabrielle Loretani – March 30 Thomas Bajkowski – March 31 Heidi Conley – March 31 Katherine Henshaw – March 31 Anne Pearsall – March 31
Mr. Gordon Harden, Sr. will celebrate his 93rd birthday on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 (1000 Weller Circle, Apt. 214 Westminster, MD 21158-4341)
Mr. Frank Friedel will celebrate his 95th birthday on Sunday, March 13, 2011 (845 Klees Mill Road Westminster, MD 21157-8229)
Mrs. Mary Merriken will celebrate her 85th birthday on Saturday, March 5, 2011 (22 Wabash Avenue Reisterstown, MD 21136-1117) Special Anniversaries Sally and Gerald Kalbach will celebrate their 52nd wedding anniversary on Monday, March 21, 2011 (111 Hanover Road, Reisterstown, MD 21136-1020) Deaths Nancy Phelps Alden Phelps’ mother died January 21, 2011 (Alden & Beth Phelps 4208 Falls Run Road Randallstown, MD 21133-1208)
The Rev. Frederick J. Hanna former All Saints’ Rector died February 25, 2011 (Obituary on page 9-10)
Note from the Parish Office: If you know of anyone who will celebrate their 80th birthday or older– or who will have a 50th wedding anniversary or higher, please call the parish office to make sure we are aware of the information. Thank you.
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March 2011 Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
1 10:00a Bible Study
2 9:30a Cemetery Committee Meeting
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4 6:00p Missions Conference (Pastors & Ministry Leaders)
5 9a – 3p Missions Conference, GH 6:00p Youth for Truth 30-hour famine
9 ASH WEDNESDAY Services 10a & 7:30p
10 10a-3p Franklin Garden Club, GH
11 7:00p Community Concert to benefit Compassion Intl., Grace Lutheran Church, Westminster
12 10:00a Ministry Leaders Meeting 7:00p Movie Night, Groff Hall
Lent 2
Lent 1
Last Epiphany
7:00p Women/FH 7:00p Men’s Fellowship 8:30p A.A. 6 World Mission Sunday 11:00a Young Adults Youth for Truth 30-hour famine ends 7:30p Alanon 8:30p A.A.
8 SHROVE TUESDAY 10:00a Bible Study 7:00p Vestry Planning 5:00p Pancake Supper NO Women/Men Group
8:15p Choir Reh. 7:00p Vestry
Daylight Savings Spring Clocks Forward
8:30p A.A. 13 11:00a Young Adults 12:00p Youth for Truth 12:30p G.O.C. 7:30p Alanon 8:30p A.A.
14 15 Bell Tower Deadline 7:00p Prayer meeting, GH 10:00a Bible Study Prayer Room 7:00p NO Women 7:00p Men’s Fellowship 8:30p A.A.
16 6:00p Lenten Soup 7:00p Lenten Study 7:00p Youth Study 8:00p Choir Reh.
17 7:30p Catonsville Kennel Club
20 11:00a Young Adults 12:00p Youth for Truth
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23 6:00p Lenten Soup 7:00p Lenten Study 7:00p Youth Study 8:00p Choir Reh.
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30 6:00p Lenten Soup 7:00p Lenten Study 7:00p Youth Study 8:00p Choir Reh.
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7:30p Alanon 8:30p A.A. . 27 11:00a Young Adults 12:00p Youth for Truth
Lent 3
7 7:00p Prayer meeting, GH Prayer Room 7:30p R.O.G./GH
7:30p Alanon 8:30p A.A.
22 10:00a Bible Study
7:00p Prayer meeting, GH Prayer Room 7:00p NO Women 7:00p Men’s Fellowship 8:30p A.A. 28 7:00p Prayer meeting, GH Prayer Room 7:30p Catonsville KC Board
29 10:00a Bible Study 7:00p NO Women 7:00p Men’s Fellowship 8:30p A.A.
Mar 11: 7:00pm Compassion Intl. benefit concert, Grace Lutheran Church, Westminster
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Mar 12: 10:00 am Ministry Leaders Meeting
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Mar 12: 7:00pm Movie Night Groff Hall
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Mar 19: Rev. Fred Hanna Memorial Service
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Mar 26: Men’s Fellowship Breakfast
19 1p-3p Prayer Shawl Workshop, FH 2:00p Fred Hanna Memorial Service, Emmanuel Church
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26 8:30a Men’s Breakfast 10:00a Clean-up day at the Cemetery
Schedule of Special Events
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Lenten Soup and Study Every Wednesday Night March 16‐April 23 6:00 PM Sunday Services 7:45a Holy Eucharist (Quiet) 9:00a Holy Eucharist (contemporary family) 9:15a Children’s School 11:00a Holy Eucharist (traditional)
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Rev. Frederick J. Hanna, Obituary as taken from the Baltimore Sun Rev. Frederick J. Hanna, All Saints Episcopal rector, dies He had worked for repeal of Maryland's miscegenation law during the 1960s The Rev. Frederick J. Hanna, former rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Reisters‐ town who was an outspoken champion of civil rights in the 1960s, died Friday (February 25) of pneumonia and renal failure at the Carroll Hospice Dove House in Westminster. He was 86. The son of a steamship captain and a homemaker, Mr. Hanna was born in Baltimore and raised in Walbrook Junction. He was a 1943 graduate of City College. Mr. Hanna had been a factory worker in Baltimore and an interior decorator in San Fran‐ cisco before deciding to enter the Episcopal priesthood. In 1956, he entered Bexley Hall Episcopal Seminary in Gambier, Ohio. He was ordained an Episcopal deacon in 1955 and a priest in 1956. Mr. Hanna, who had studied at St. Augustine's College in Canterbury, England, earned a bachelor's degree from the Johns Hop‐ kins University in 1969 and a master's degree in divinity from Bexley Hall in 1970. From 1956 to 1959, he was vicar of the Episcopal Church of the Redemption in Locust Point, and from 1959 to 1970 was associate rector at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Mount Vernon. It was during his years at Emmanuel, when he was minister of social services, that he began working and counseling at‐risk inner‐ city youths, many of whom were homeless, drug addicts or runaways. Mr. Hanna called them the "disconnected," who came to the church seeking shelter, a meal or someone to talk to. "And when they come to me, it's often the last resort," Mr. Hanna told the Sunday Sun Magazine in 1967 of his social ministry. "I'm almost afraid to say this, but for some kids, being disconnected for a short period is the best thing for them. They need to find themselves, to show they can conquer something on their own," he said in the interview. "For many it's a walk through the woods, and they come out on the other side all the better for it. Some never leave the woods. Dope, sex, perversion, stealing — they're all the more attractive and sometimes necessary when you're disconnected," he said. During those years, he also coordinated drug abuse programs for the Baltimore health department. "He was a strong supporter of civil rights. Hard as it is to believe now, Maryland in the mid‐1960s still had a miscegenation law, which forbade marriage between a white and a brown person," said the Rev. Annette Chappell, an old friend who is the current rector of the Episcopal Church of the Redemption. The former JoAnn Kovacs, who was a communicant of Episcopal Church of the Redemption, fell in love with a Samoan enter‐ tainer, Meki To'alepai, whom she had met in 1963 when he was performing in the Hawaiian Room at the old Emerson Hotel. When the interracial couple decided to get married and went to apply for a marriage license in Baltimore, they were turned away because of the state's miscegenation law. "I was white and he was brown, and we couldn't get married in Maryland because of the miscegenation law," Mrs. To'alepai re‐ called recently. "Father Hanna took us to Washington and married us in the National Cathedral on Feb. 19, 1966. It was great of him to want to do that for us," she said. "He was the one who suggested we fight this law. We said 'yes,' because we wanted to help people like us." The couple's attempt to marry earned them national headlines, as did their subsequent campaign to overturn the law. "The law was repealed in March 1967, several months before the Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia ended all race‐based restric‐ tions on marriage," said Ms. Chappell. "The couple recently celebrated their 45th anniversary, and Mr. To'alepai is now a deacon in the Episcopal Church," she said. In 1970, Mr. Hanna became rector of All Saints Episcopal Church, where he worked until retiring in 1989. He was active in civic and ecumenical affairs in Reisterstown, where he was one of the founders of the Reisterstown Community Crisis Center to support the needy and troubled. ...Continued on page 10
...Continued from page 9 He had been a member of the Baltimore County Planning Board and had actively supported the construction of Interstate 795 in order to reduce congestion in the Reisterstown‐Owings Mills area. Mr. Hanna was a frequent contributor of letters to the editor of The Baltimore Sun in which he wrote widely in support of Planned Parenthood, expansion of drug treatment programs and helping terminally ill patients end their lives. His work brought him honors such as the John F. Kennedy Quality of Life Award and the Sidney Hollander Foundation's Award of Distinction for his civil rights leadership. The Hannah More School in Reisterstown established the Frederick J. Hanna Scholarship for outstanding students. "Before I became a priest, I was a parishioner at All Saints’, and the word I hear used more than anything was that he was a sweet, sweet man," Ms. Chappell said. "He was gentle, kind, pastoral and interested in people." Ms. Chappell added that Mr. Hanna "had no spare time. His church time and personal time just blended together." The Rev. Eric Zile, who is pastor of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Essex, was a member of All Saints when Mr. Hanna was pastor there. "He was like a second father to me during the 1970s when I was a teenager and needed direction. He was there for me when I got in trouble," recalled Mr. Zile, who credited Mr. Hanna as being an influence and the reason he decided to become an Episcopal priest. "When you needed comfort and solace, Fred was the man you went to. Often, he was a lone voice speaking out against injustice," he said. "He married me and buried my child. He was such a great man, and the world is a lesser place without him." A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. March 19 at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 811 Cathedral St. Mr. Hanna is survived by several nieces and nephews. fred.rasmussen@baltsun.com