STORK REPORT
Luca T omas Delacour, pictured here with uncle Matt Off utt, was born on August 30 to Arnaud Delacour and Fair Hill Training Center-based T oroughbred racehorse trainer Leigh Off utt Delacour.
COMINGS AND GOINGS
Welcome back to Marjorie Smith; after a few years in Ocala, Florda, Marjorie has moved back to Maryland, and now is settled in Reisterstown. Her two Arabian Sporthorses are in Brooklandville. Welcome to Dr. L. William Valentino,
DVM (pictured) from New York, who has joined Wolf Creek Equine as a surgeon and orthopedic specialist.
Maryland Will Miss Shirley Geis, the 82-year-old mother of far-
rier Dean Geis, founder of the Spur & Stirrup 4-H Club and one of the driving forces behind the Maryland 4-H Foundation’s Sallie Rob- ertson Memorial Endowment Fund, who died on September 19. To read more about Shirley, please see page 10. Donations in memory of Shirley Geis for the support and perpetuation of the equine programs (such as hippology, horse bowl, and horse judging) may be made to the Maryland 4-H Foundation, Inc., 8020 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740. Devoted show dad and husband Henry L.
Cole, Jr. of Lutherville died on September 19. Although he was not a rider himself, he was a devoted show dad to daughters Julie Lanaham, Molly Cole and Paige Cole as well as show husband to wife Joanne Cole. His sons Timo- thy Cole and Benjamin Cole also survive him. Shirley M. Harris, 76, of Woodbine died on October 10 after a short battle with cancer. She was a loving and devoted mother to trainer Mi- chelle Harris Markward. “My mom supported me all through my equestrian career,” Michelle explained to us. “She worked ex- tra hours when I was a little girl so that she could save up the money for me to go to a one-week horse camp ev- ery year. When I moved to Woodbine in 1999 and opened my own training barn, she was there every day,
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helping feed and clean stalls. My mom devoted herself to everything our family did, helping with our household, running errands, taking care of the kids and us too! She was an active part of the training barn, becoming everyone’s ‘mommom’ and she became fast friends with the local farmers who supplied us hay, straw, shavings and grain.” Patsy Albers of Chesapeake City died at her home on October 12. She was 76. She was the inaugural U.S. Dressage Federation Volunteer of the Year in 2004 and was the USDF Region 1 Advanced Young Rider coordinator and the FEI Director of Dressage at Devon. She may be best known as the secretary of the Dressage Festival of Champions in Gladstone. She is survived by her husband Robert and her two sons and two daughters. Doris W. Wagner, 86, of Carroll County
ON THE MEND
A speedy recovery to… … Savannah Fulton of Finksburg, who broke her collarbone when she and her horse fell on cross-country while competing at the Seneca Horse Trials, … FEI dressage judge Linda Zang, who broke her leg while leading a horse at her farm in Davidsonville, ... Jennifer Sponseller Webster, Jt.-MFH of the New Market-Middletown Valley Hounds and associate publisher of T e Equiery, who is recovering from surgery to repair her collar bone, which broke in four places after she and a horse she was schooling parted ways; we expect her to be back–more or less–in “full swing” by next deadline! But no whip cracking; … apprentice rider Silvia Zapico, who broke fi ve ribs and her right ankle in a fall while riding Smart N Smokin at Laurel Park; ... Mary Beth Jaff ee of Frederick, the smiling face in the secretary’s stand at the Maryland Horse trials, who scored a moderate concussion in mid-October but gamely came to the October 21 Starter Horse Trials to work; ... Lisa Kurr of Mt. Airy, who broke her tibia while out foxhunting in October.
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died on September 11. She was a founding member of the Carrollton Hounds with her late husband, former MFH G. Everett “Pud” Wagner. She was instrumental in the design and planning of the fi rst adult daycare center in Carroll County and was later employed with Experienced Works as a fi eld operations assistant. She was later an assistant project director with the Family & Chil- dren’s Services of Central Maryland. She was also an ac- complished artist and published poet.
Doris W. Wagner
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