Services will be held this morning for Bernice Friendland, a long time civic leader and champion of women’s rights; she was 12 days shy of her 100th birthday.She was one of the first women to chair the Allegany College of Maryland Board of Trustees and earned a Master’s Degree in her 70’s.Tributes have been pouring in from community leaders, including David Jones, the newly installed President of Allegany College of Maryland. Friends are being received at the B’er Chayim Temple on Union Street from 10 to 11 a.m. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Burial will be in Eastview Cemetery.