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Shala Nyx
Shala’s early career began in London’s prestigious West End. Her work in television and film includes popular hits such as Charlize Theron’s The Old Guard (Netflix), Knock Down Ginger (BFI), Unlike (Channel Four), Henry VI, Casualty and Eastenders (BBC). She has also played leading roles on stage nationally, and has created, written and featured in her own productions for theatre and activism, in Wipe These Tears, The People’s Tribunal: Afghanistan Sessions and Sisterhood, An Act of Resistance (CPT).
She recently starred in Two Billions Beats (Orange Tree), Kabul Goes Pop (Brixton House), A Thousand Splendid Suns (national tour), Cookies (Theatre Royal Haymarket), The Heresy of Love (Bristol Old Vic), and Her (one woman show, national tour).
As a voiceover artist, Shala provides the voices for some of the world’s leading animation series, games and documentaries. She takes the title role in the games Harmony ,The Fall of Reverie (Don’t Nod), and also features in Cyberpunk 2077, Lord of the Rings: Gollum, Assassin’s Creed, and Diabolo IV. She is the motion capture artist in the colossal Warhammer franchise games. Shala also provides voices for the animation series Octonauts (Netflix), Corpse Talk, Milli and Lou (YouTube), and for Channel Four's Despatches.
Shala trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Claire Nielson
Claire is best known for her work in British comedy. She is globally recognised for her guest star role as Mrs Hamilton in the ‘Waldorf Salad’ episode of Fawlty Towers, for her numerous roles in The Two Ronnies’ sketches, and her regular appearances on The Dick Emery Show. She played opposite Richard Briars in Monarch of the Glen, and her extensive TV credits include Upstairs Downstairs, Z‐Cars, The Brothers, and Taggart. Claire was a member of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop and has appeared at theatres across the UK, including The Globe, The Garrick, Birmingham Rep and Hampstead Theatre. Film credits include her portrayal of Barbara Grant in Kidnapped, opposite Michael Caine and Trevor Howard. Claire has also directed in London at Riverside Studios, The Gate, and for the RSC Festival at The Other Place and The Swan. She trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and has a degree in English Literature from King’s College, Cambridge.
Diane Keen
Diane is an actor and producer. She is principally known for her starring roles in some of the most iconic sitcoms on British TV, including her portrayal of Fliss Hawthorne in Granada’s The Cuckoo Waltz. For a decade she played Julia Parsons in the long‐running BBC One soap Doctors, and her TV credits encompass many of the UK’s greatest shows: The Professionals, The Sandbaggers, Brookside, the entire series of Ruth Rendell Mysteries, A Touch of Frost, and The Morecambe and Wise Show. She starred in The Sweeney feature film, and many other films, including the Oscar‐winning Nowhere in Africa. Her extensive theatre experience includes Alan Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends, The Vagina Monologues, and Beautiful at the Adelphi Theatre, in which she played Genie, mother of Carole King. She also performed in a successful season at the Old Vic. Diane's many tours include premiering the dramatization of Susan Hill's ghost story The Small Hand, in which she played the Narrator and four other main parts. Her numerous awards include Best Actress in The National Television Awards, Best Single Episode in The British Soap Awards, and Best Actress on TV in the TV Times Awards.
Travis Leete
Travis studied at Yale Divinity, and law school, and worked as a policy attorney in a Texas non-profit focused on criminal justice reform. Drawn by his love of the ocean and surfing, he then returned to California to follow his true passion and become an actor. His TV work includes the Wild West Chronicles, directed by Michael Owed, and Jesus, directed by Trevor Lee Georgeson. Film includes The Venus Project, directed by Eve Mavrakis, The Survivors Story, directed by Lorien Haynes and Barbara Van Schaik, Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men, also directed by Lorien Haynes and Barbara Van Schaik, and Indigo, directed by Saffron Burrows. Travis continues to train at The Studio, LA.
Paul Greenwood
Paul shot to fame as the young policeman PC Michael “Rosie” Penrose in the sitcom Rosie and is also well known for his portrayal of Inspector Yelland in the drama series Spender. He has appeared in scores of TV shows, including the title role in Captain Zep, as Mr Lucas in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, and as Ian Palmer in The Bill. For eight years he was a leading player at the RSC, starring as Polixenes with Jeremy Irons as Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, as Antipholus of Syracuse with Zoë Wanamaker as Adriana in The Comedy of Errors, and as Captain Goodlack with Simon Russell Beale and Imelda Staunton in The Fair Maid of the West. Film work includes Hammer Film Production Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter and Mike Leigh’s Peterloo. Paul trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Melissa Greenwood
Melissa is an actor and producer whose career spans theatre, TV and film. She played the iconic role of Sophia in the BBC’s Sophia and Constance and was Kitty in Poirot. For ATV she appeared in In Sickness and in Health, and she has also taken numerous roles in Casualty. Theatre includes Vanity Fair for Cheek by Jowl, Swallows and Amazons for Theatre Clwyd, and a range of Number 1 tours, notably in the title role of Sleeping Beauty at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon. Film work includes an appearance in London Suite, directed by Jay Sandrich. A stint in Southern Africa saw her work with the Botswana National Theatre and The University of Botswana, devising and directing plays that toured the country, raising awareness of AIDS and women’s rights. She is also the founder and director of Melissa Greenwood Coaching, which offers training courses and role play to blue chip companies around the world.
Niall Bishop
Niall is an actor from the West of Ireland. He is a co‐founder of Time Productions and host of the You Need to be Yourself You Can’t be No‐one Else podcast. In theatre, he is best known for the award‐winning revival of Abi Morgan’s Tiny Dynamite at the Old Red Lion in 2018, as well as performing in Riot Act’s acclaimed contemporary production of League of Youth. On screen he appeared in the final episode of the final season of Game of Thrones and is due to play a leading role in the much anticipated online series #honesty. Niall has also appeared multiple times in the Irish crime drama Red Rock. He trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Moe Bar‐El
Moe was born in Iran and moved to London at the age of ten. He landed his first professional job in 2016 when he played the lead role of Shapur Zamani in the award‐winning French TV series Le Bureau Des Legendes. He is now probably best known on screen for his recent portrayal, alongside Keeley Hawes, of Rhamat Suleiman in ITV's Honour, and of Karim in Apple TV's Tehran. For his role as Kareem in Richard Molloy’s Every Day I Make Greatness Happen at Hampstead Theatre, Moe was nominated for the Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre Award at the 2019 Olivier Awards. His 2019 achievements continued in the San Francisco tour of The Jungle for the Curan Theatre. He also starred in Marion Bott’s Moormaid at the Arcola Theatre, and in 2020 was cast in Welcome to Iran, Nadia Fall’s co‐production with the National Theatre. He trained at Identity School of Acting.
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Every couple needs a little fantasy to keep their marriage sparkling. But behind the gingham curtains, things start to unravel, and being a domestic goddess is not as easy as it seems…
Following sold-out seasons at the National Theatre and in the West End, Laura Wade’s Olivier Award-winning comedy embarks on its first UK tour.
How happily married are the happily married?
BAFTA-winner Jessica Ransom (Doc Martin, Armstrong and Miller, Horrible Histories), Diane Keen (Doctors, The Cuckoo Waltz) and Neil McDermott (EastEnders, The Royal) lead the cast in this thought-provoking new comedy by Laura Wade (Posh/The Riot Club) about one woman’s quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife.
Home, I’m Darling received its World Premiere at Theatr Clwyd in 2018, before running at the National Theatre and transferred to the Duke of York’s theatre in the West End, winning the 2019 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.
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Time: 7:30pm & 2:30pm
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Paul Greenwood (born 2 August 1943) is a British film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for his role as PC Michael Rosie Penrose in the shortlived sitcom The Growing Pains of PC Penrose and its successor Rosie, and as Inspector Yelland in Spender. He has appeared in over twentyfive
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Paul Greenwood: Destroying the Myths
Paul Greenwood (born 2 August 1943) is a British film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for his role as PC Michael "Rosie" Penrose in the short-lived sitcom The Growing Pains of PC Penrose and its successor Rosie, and as Inspector Yelland in Spender.
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Paul Greenwood Destroying the Myths
Career
Filmography
References
Career
He has appeared in over twenty-five television productions and also in several films; he has also appeared in theatrical productions including the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the musical "The Wizard of Oz". In 1973, he was a guest on each edition of the 10-part variety series It's Lulu broadcast on BBC1.
Greenwood is well known for appearing as PC Michael "Rosie" Penrose in all twenty-seven episodes (1977–1981) of Rosie, a comedy television series. His film roles include Sex and the Other Woman (1972), the Hammer film Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1973), the film version of The Lovers (1973) and Pete Walker's Frightmare (1974).
His other television roles include the title role in Captain Zep – Space Detective (1983), a children's television series; and Mr. Lucas in three episodes (1985–1987) of the comedy television series The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾.
Filmography
Actor
2004
Doctors (TV Series) as
Charles Webster / Julian Travers
- Performance Anxiety (2019) - Charles Webster
- Having It All (2004) - Julian Travers
2018
Father Brown (TV Series) as
Charlie Coulter
- The Angel of Mercy (2018) - Charlie Coulter
2017
Witless (TV Series) as
Clement
- Episode #2.2 (2017) - Clement
2015
Inspector Lewis (TV Series) as
Father Placid
- Magnum Opus: Part 2 (2015) - Father Placid
2001
Holby City (TV Series) as
Bill Wickers / Jerry Holbrook
- U-Turn (2015) - Bill Wickers
- Starting Over (2001) - Jerry Holbrook
2014
500 Miles North
2012
The Archers (Podcast Series) as
Kevin Townsend
- Episode #1.16704 (2012) - Kevin Townsend
2008
Midsomer Murders (TV Series) as
John Temple
- Talking to the Dead (2008) - John Temple
2007
Casualty (TV Series) as
Alan Cordery
- The Fires Within (2007) - Alan Cordery
2003
Magic Grandad (TV Series) as
Uncle Tom
- Toys: in 1953 (2003) - Uncle Tom
1999
Jack of Hearts (TV Series) as
Tom Haines
- Episode #1.4 (1999) - Tom Haines
1996
The Bill (TV Series) as
Ian Palmer
- Trust Me (1996) - Ian Palmer
1996
Bob's Weekend as
Organist
1996
Our Friends in the North (TV Mini Series) as
Ray Bennett
- 1974 (1996) - Ray Bennett
1995
Pie in the Sky (TV Series) as
A.C.C. Clive Ingelby
- Hard Cheese (1995) - A.C.C. Clive Ingelby
1992
Heartbeat (TV Series) as
Harry Cottis
- Rumours (1992) - Harry Cottis
1991
Spender (TV Series) as
Superintendent Yelland
- Well Well Well (1991) - Superintendent Yelland
- Tough (1991) - Superintendent Yelland
- Dance Girl Dance (1991) - Superintendent Yelland
- Iced (1991) - Superintendent Yelland
- The Candidate (1991) - Superintendent Yelland
- Double Jeopardy (1991) - Superintendent Yelland
- Half a Ton of Heartaches (1991) - Superintendent Yelland
- The Homecoming (1991) - Superintendent Yelland
1989
The fairy queen (La reine des fées) (TV Movie) as
The Duke
1987
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (TV Series) as
Mr. Lucas
- Episode #1.5 (1987) - Mr. Lucas
1985
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ (TV Series) as
Mr. Lucas
- Episode #1.3 (1985) - Mr. Lucas
- Episode #1.1 (1985) - Mr. Lucas
1983
Captain Zep - Space Detective (TV Series) as
Captain Zep
- The Warlords of Armageddia (1983) - Captain Zep
- The Tinmen of Coza (1983) - Captain Zep
- The G & R 147 Factor (1983) - Captain Zep
- The Plague of Santos (1983) - Captain Zep
- The Lodestone of Space (1983) - Captain Zep
- Death on Delos (1983) - Captain Zep
1977
Rosie (TV Series) as
PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Caught in the Act (1981) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- An Informer for Engelbert (1981) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Big Night at Freezi-Pops (1981) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- The Eight Foot Goat (1981) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- You're Beautiful Miss Parkinson (1981) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Arresting Gordon by Instalments (1981) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Tune on a Silent Dog Whistle (1981) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- A Day in the Country (1979) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Turn Left at the Parrot (1979) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Looking for Herbie (1979) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Happy Birthday, Mr Chizlehurst (1979) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- The Worm That Turns Us All (1979) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Free Sample (1979) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Those Wonderful People in the C.I.D. (1979) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Our Intrepid Birdmen (1978) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Further Complications (1978) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Complications (1978) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- The Eyes of the Law (1978) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Wilmot and an Even Worse Case of Big Cyril's Second Wife (1978) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Wilmot Gets a Bad Case of Big Cyril's Second Wife (1978) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Mirror, Mirror on the Floor (1978) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- The Cheese and Wine (1977) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Wholesale Fish (1977) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Sunday (1977) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- I Wish They Wouldn't Call Me Son (1977) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- A Smile from Antonio (1977) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
- Woman Pressure (1977) - PC Michael 'Rosie' Penrose
1981
...All the Marbles as
Mud Wrestling Emcee
1980
Heartland (TV Series) as
Andy Day
- Working Arrangements (1980) - Andy Day
- The Sponge Man (1980) - Andy Day
1978
The Devil's Crown (TV Series) as
Geoffrey
- If All the World Were Mine (1978) - Geoffrey
1976
Cilla's World of Comedy (TV Series) as
Kenny Norton
- Home and Away (1976) - Kenny Norton
1975
The Growing Pains of P.C. Penrose (TV Series) as
PC Penrose
- Among Those Appearing (1975) - PC Penrose
- It's Quiet Midweek (1975) - PC Penrose
- The Melody Lingers On (1975) - PC Penrose
- Always a Spectator, Never a Player (1975) - PC Penrose
- For the Love of Billy (1975) - PC Penrose
- The Peeper (1975) - PC Penrose
- Fabulous Eyelashes He's Got (1975) - PC Penrose
1974
Coronation Street (TV Series) as
Andy Simpson
- Episode #1.1451 (1974) - Andy Simpson
- Episode #1.1450 (1974) - Andy Simpson
- Episode #1.1445 (1974) - Andy Simpson
- Episode #1.1444 (1974) - Andy Simpson
1974
Frightmare as
Graham Heller
1974
Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) as
Maurice / David Turner
- It's Only Me: Whoever I Am (1974) - Maurice
- Happy Ever After (1974) - David Turner
1974
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter as
Giles
1973
The Lovers! as
Trainee Manager (Party)
1973
Special Branch (TV Series)
- All the King's Men (1973)
1972
Sex and the Other Woman as
Chris (uncredited)
1972
A Day Out (TV Movie) as
Edgar Appleton
1972
Z Cars (TV Series) as
PC Riley
- Goss (1972) - PC Riley
- Sweet Girl (1972) - PC Riley
1972
ITV Playhouse (TV Series) as
Frank
- Seventeen Percent Said Push Off (1972) - Frank
1970
Crossroads (TV Series) as
Paul Stevens
- Episode #1.1495 (1971) - Paul Stevens
- Episode #1.1366 (1970) - Paul Stevens
- Episode #1.1304 (1970) - Paul Stevens
1970
The Wednesday Play (TV Series) as
Cass Cassidy
- No Trams to Lime Street (1970) - Cass Cassidy
1968
The First Lady (TV Series) as
Jameson / Dave Woodward
- The Whips Are Out (1969) - Jameson
- Worked Out (1968) - Dave Woodward
Music Department
-
Rosie (TV Series) (composer - 27 episodes, 1977 - 1981) (singer - 27 episodes, 1977 - 1981)
- Caught in the Act (1981) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- An Informer for Engelbert (1981) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Big Night at Freezi-Pops (1981) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- The Eight Foot Goat (1981) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- You're Beautiful Miss Parkinson (1981) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Arresting Gordon by Instalments (1981) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Tune on a Silent Dog Whistle (1981) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- A Day in the Country (1979) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Turn Left at the Parrot (1979) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Looking for Herbie (1979) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Happy Birthday, Mr Chizlehurst (1979) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- The Worm That Turns Us All (1979) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Free Sample (1979) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Those Wonderful People in the C.I.D. (1979) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Our Intrepid Birdmen (1978) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Further Complications (1978) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Complications (1978) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- The Eyes of the Law (1978) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Wilmot and an Even Worse Case of Big Cyril's Second Wife (1978) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Wilmot Gets a Bad Case of Big Cyril's Second Wife (1978) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Mirror, Mirror on the Floor (1978) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- The Cheese and Wine (1977) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Wholesale Fish (1977) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Sunday (1977) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- I Wish They Wouldn't Call Me Son (1977) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- A Smile from Antonio (1977) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
- Woman Pressure (1977) - (composer: theme tune) / (singer: theme tune)
Thanks
2005
Courting Controversy (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
Self
2005
Courting Controversy (Video documentary short) as
Self
1988
Children's Royal Variety Performance (TV Special) as
The Scarecrow
1979
Star Turn (TV Series) as
Self
- Nationwide v Rosie (1979) - Self
- Rosie v Nationwide (1979) - Self
1973
It's Lulu (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #3.10 (1973) - Self
- Episode #3.9 (1973) - Self
- Episode #3.8 (1973) - Self
- Episode #3.7 (1973) - Self
- Episode #3.6 (1973) - Self
- Episode #3.5 (1973) - Self
- Episode #3.4 (1973) - Self
- Episode #3.3 (1973) - Self
- Episode #3.2 (1973) - Self
- Episode #3.1 (1973) - Self
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Diane Keen is a 77 year old British Actress. Born Diane Elaine Keen on 29th July, 1946 in London, England, UK, she is famous for her roles as Lucy in the ITV anthology series Love Story, Claire in the 1968 comedy film Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, Fliss Hawthorne in the Granada sitcom The Cuckoo Waltz, Sally Higgins in the 1980 drama TV film The Shillingbury Blowers, Jenny Burden in the ITV crime drama series The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, and Julia Parsons in the long-running BBC medical soap opera Doctors. Her zodiac sign is Leo.
Diane Keen is a member of the following lists: 1946 births, English television actors and English television actor stubs.
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The actor Robin Nedwell, who has died of a heart attack aged 52, was blessed and cursed with looks that suited the market, but only for a very short period. His impish face, with big eyes perfect for reacting to sexual innuendo, was a comic gift during the saucy seventies, so much so that he was grabbed straight from drama school to play the skirt-chasing Duncan Waring in the TV sitcom Doctor in the House and its several sequels. He was typecast as a likely lad long after the sex comedy era was over, but towards the end of his short career he was granted his often-expressed wish to be taken more seriously when he worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Born in Birmingham of Quaker parents, Nedwell was brought up in Cardiff and always considered himself Welsh. A backstage theatre job convinced him to become an actor, and in 1966 he enrolled at London's Central School of Speech and Drama. It was there that he was spotted by one of the Monty Python team, Graham Chapman, who was then a writer for London Weekend Television on Doctor in the House.
Inspired by Richard Gordon's 1952 book of the same name, the sitcom, shown between 1969 and 1970, starred the already established Barry Evans, and made a star of Nedwell. The programmes, consisting almost entirely of tit and bum jokes, were extremely popular, both in Britain and around the world, but Nedwell refused to sign for the first sequel, Doctor at Large, preferring to take a supporting role in the BBC's more sophisticated sex comedy The Lovers (1970-71), and to appear in rep in Cheltenham and Sheffield.
He was persuaded to return to the role of Duncan Waring by the offer of top billing in the second sequel, Doctor in Charge (1972-73). There followed Doctor at Sea (1974) and Doctor on the Go (1975-77). In 1974 Nedwell and other cast members toured Australia and New Zealand in the play Doctor in the House. It was such a success that in 1977 they returned for another play, Doctor in Love, and in 1979 yet another TV series, Doctor Down Under.
There was little time during the seventies for Nedwell to undertake any other work, although he did manage small parts in minor films, such as Vault of Horror and Stand Up Virgin Soldiers, and played the title role in Gogol's The Government Inspector, both for the opening of Cardiff's Sherman Theatre in 1973 and for a BBC television schools broadcast three years later. This, he maintained, was one of his favourite roles. Nedwell's last memorable appearance in TV comedy was in the 1980 TV movie The Shillingbury Blowers and its spin-off series Shillingbury Tales. During production he had a well-publicised romance with his co-star, Diane Keen, but in 1982 married restaurant manager Heather Inglis.
The same year Nedwell complained, 'Only an idiot would still think of me as Duncan Waring from the Doctor series. But it would help if producers took me more seriously.' He gradually vanished from television, working instead as a touring stage actor. By the end of the eighties, he was the subject of 'Where are they now?' columns. 'I'd love a new TV series, if anyone out there is listening,' he told a reporter in 1990. All that transpired, in 1991, was the BBC's attempt to revive the Doctor formula. Alas, Doctor at the Top, which survived only one series, simply served to confirm the end of an era.
Nedwell continued to work in the theatre, mostly in light comedy (often on foreign tours for actor Derek Nimmo's company), but also in musicals - Brigadoon at the Victoria Palace in 1989, and The Sound of Music at Sadler's Wells in 1992. During the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1995-96 season, he appeared in The Devil Is an Ass, The Taming of the Shrew and Richard III. He was due to start work later this week on a new comedy drama series for children's television. Those who saw Nedwell's later work enjoyed a versatility for which too few casting directors gave him credit.
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Diane von Furstenberg, a name synonymous with elegance, reinvention and resilience, finds herself once again in the spotlight with the Tribeca Festival premiering the documentary Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge. Directed with a keen eye for the intricacies of an extraordinary life by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Trish Dalton, the film offers an intimate portrait of a woman who transformed not just fashion, but also the concept of feminine power and independence.
The film opens with von Furstenberg, now in her 70s, perched on the edge of a sink, both feet in, facing the mirror to apply makeup. This unconventional choice sets the tone for a documentary that does not shy away from von Furstenberg’s unrepentant embrace of her age. Her attraction to wrinkles, as she candidly shares, is a testament to her acceptance of every phase of life, and being true to herself.
The documentary delves into von Furstenberg’s early life, beginning with World War II. Born in Brussels to a Holocaust survivor, she was a “miracle baby.” Her mother, shaped by the traumas of war, instilled in the designer a sense of confidence from a young age. This tough love, while seemingly harsh, prepared her for a world that was anything but gentle. With her mother’s lessons in tow, von Furstenberg left the confines of Brussels to the liberating experience of boarding school, where her sexual fluidity in the 1960s led to her expulsion. This period of rebellion and self-discovery laid the foundation for a life characterized by bold choices and fearless exploration. She met and eventually married Egon von Furstenberg, a German prince, who introduced her to a world of wealth and privilege. As a middle class Jewish girl, von Furstenberg navigated this new world with an ease that surprised her.
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Von Furstenberg’s foray into fashion began almost by accident. What started as a casual hobby quickly transformed into a full-fledged career after she showcased her clothing samples to fashion columnist Diana Vreeland. The whirlwind success that followed saw von Furstenberg juggling the roles of a businesswoman, wife and mother, a balancing act that took its toll — which the film chronicles showing her numerous lovers, her wild partying days, and her complex relationship with her children. Despite her success as a businesswoman, her personal life was marked by distance from her kids, a consequence of her relentless drive and socialite lifestyle.
The moment that transformed von Furstenberg’s career is her recollection of seeing Richard Nixon’s daughter in a simple yet elegant top and skirt combo, inspiring her to create the now-legendary wrap dress. This affordable and stylish garment became a status symbol, empowering countless women during a pivotal era for women’s rights and entry into the workforce. The wrap dress’ significance in the 1970s cannot be overstated, as it embodied the newfound voice of women and fashion during that time. Despite moments where she considered abandoning her fashion career, von Furstenberg’s resilience saw her through. The late ’90s resurgence of her signature designs after being embraced by the influencer generation revitalized the DVF brand for the modern era.
Through archival footage and meticulous research, there is a lot to learn from and about von Furstenberg with her unique style of personal connection to the people around her, and the refusal to ever see herself as a victim. Personal anecdotes provide a rich tapestry of her journey. Her unapologetic attitude and fierce independence are central themes throughout the documentary, with testimonials from friends and admirers such as Oprah Winfrey, Marc Jacobs, Anderson Cooper, Gloria Steinem, Hillary Clinton and Fran Lebowitz, and more. While the film could benefit from a tighter edit to maintain its pacing, it nonetheless offers a wealth of insight into von Furstenberg’s enduring legacy.
Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge is a celebration of life. It captures the designer’s ongoing journey of self-discovery and reinforces her belief that there is always more to accomplish, and that life should be lived to its fullest. This film is a fitting tribute to a woman who has never ceased to inspire, innovate, champion women’s causes, and live by her mantra “see the woman, not the dress.”
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Diane Keen (born 29 July 1946)[1] is an English actress, known for her portrayal of Fliss Hawthorne in the Granada sitcom The Cuckoo Waltz (1975–1980), Rings On Their Fingers (1978–1980) and Julia Parsons on the BBC soap opera Doctors (2003–2012). She also appeared in Nescafé advertisements from 1980 to 1989.[2]
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Born in London, Keen grew up in East Africa, principally Tanganyika and later Kenya, where her father was a civil engineer.[3] She attended boarding school and returned to Britain at the age of 19,[3] where she became a secretary for The Ivy League's fan club; this led to her releasing a 45 r.p.m. single of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" (credited as Dee King) on the Piccadilly label in 1966.[4]
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Keen was a regular on television during the 1970s and early 1980s, starring in long-running sitcoms such as The Cuckoo Waltz, Rings on Their Fingers, Shillingbury Tales and You Must Be the Husband, and in two runs of the Thames Television children's historical costume drama The Feathered Serpent. She also guest-starred in many shows, including The Morecambe and Wise Show, and featured as Laura Dickens in the spy drama The Sandbaggers.
Keen had a part in the film Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968) as Claire, Judy Geeson's university student friend, and appeared in an episode of Budgie as Barbara, a friend of Budgie's girlfriend. She appeared in the 1977 spin-off film of 1970s TV detective series The Sweeney. Keen starred as Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary ("Sissi") in episode one of the 13-part series Fall of Eagles (1974), and played Hilda in The Professionals series 1 episode Killer With a Long Arm in 1978. In 1980, she appeared as widowed restaurant owner Christina in Series 1 episode The Dessert Song of Minder. She went on to star with David Jason in A Touch of Frost.[5]
Keen starred for ten years in a series of advertisements for Nescafé coffee[2] and made an appearance in an episode of Taggart.[6] In the next decade, she became a regular in the Inspector Wexford series, playing the wife of Wexford's D.I.[7] Roles in Brookside and several other TV shows followed, including New Tricks.[8]
Keen has appeared onstage, including in the Alan Ayckbourn play Absent Friends at the Bristol Old Vic, and in two acclaimed tours of Same Time, Next Year.[9] In 2013, she co-starred in a British tour of The Vagina Monologues.[10]
Soap opera roles
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Keen was a series regular in the BBC soap opera Doctors, playing practice manager Julia Parsons from 2003 to 2012.[3] She reprised this role in March 2020 for a short stint.[11] She also played Sandra Gould in Crossroads from 1968 to 1971, and the receptionist at the Feathers Hotel, Connelton in Emmerdale in 1972.
Personal life
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Keen has one daughter, Melissa, by her marriage to Paul Greenwood, which ended in divorce in 1979. Her granddaughter, Siena Pugsley, played the role of her on-screen granddaughter in Doctors.[12]
In 2023, Keen announced via her Twitter (X) account that she had suffered a “Catastrophic Stroke” and that she was lucky to be alive.[13]
Selected filmography
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Popdown (1967) – Miss 1970
Crossroads (1968–1971) – Sandra Gould/Stevens
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968) – Claire
Toomorrow (1970) – Music Student (uncredited)
The Sex Thief (1973) – Judy Martin
Public Eye (TV series) They All Sound Simple at First (1975) – Nina
The Cuckoo Waltz (1975–1980) – Fliss Hawthorne
Sweeney! (1977) – Bianca Hamilton
The Sandbaggers Series 1, Episodes 4–7 (1978) – Laura Dickens
Rings on Their Fingers (1978–80) – Sandy Bennett
The Shillingbury Blowers (1980) – Sally Higgins
Silver Dream Racer (1980) – Tina Freeman
Killer Waiting (1984) – Kate Greenwood
Thirteen at Dinner (1985) – Jenny Driver
The Detectives (TV Series) '"D.C. of Love" (1995) – Mary
Jekyll & Hyde (1990) – Annabel
Nowhere in Africa (2001) – Mrs. Rubens
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1977 film by Woody Allen
For the High Sheriff of Derbyshire, see Annie Hall (high sheriff).
Annie HallDirected byWoody AllenWritten by
Woody Allen
Marshall Brickman
Produced byStarringCinematographyGordon WillisEdited byMusic bySee soundtrack
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release dates
Running time
93 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish[1]Budget$4 millionBox office$44 million
Annie Hall is a 1977 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, and produced by Allen's manager, Charles H. Joffe. The film stars Allen as Alvy Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the eponymous female lead, played by Diane Keaton in a role written specifically for her.
Principal photography for the film began on May 19, 1976, on the South Fork of Long Island, and continued periodically for the next ten months. Allen has described the result, which marked his first collaboration with cinematographer Gordon Willis, as "a major turning point",[2] in that, unlike the farces and comedies that were his work to that point, it introduced a new level of seriousness. Academics have noted the contrast in the settings of New York City and Los Angeles, the stereotype of gender differences in sexuality, the presentation of Jewish identity, and the elements of psychoanalysis and modernism.
Annie Hall was screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival on March 27, 1977, before its official release in the United States on April 20, 1977. The film received widespread critical acclaim, and was nominated for the Big Five Academy Awards, winning four: the Academy Award for Best Picture, two for Allen (Best Director and, with Brickman, Best Original Screenplay), and Best Actress for Keaton. The film additionally won four BAFTA Awards, including Best Film, Best Direction (for Allen), Best Screenplay (for both Allen and Brickman) and Best Actress in a Leading Role (for Keaton), in addition to the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical (for Keaton). The film's box office receipts in the United States and Canada of $38,251,425 are fourth-best of Allen's works when not adjusted for inflation.
Regarded among the greatest films ever made, it ranks 31st on AFI's list of the 100 greatest films in American cinema, 4th on their list of the greatest comedy films and 28th on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". Film critic Roger Ebert called it "just about everyone's favorite Woody Allen movie".[3] The film's screenplay was also named the funniest ever written by the Writers Guild of America in its list of the "101 Funniest Screenplays".[4] In 1992, the Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".[5]
Plot
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Comedian Alvy Singer is trying to understand why his relationship with Annie Hall ended a year ago. Growing up in Brooklyn, he vexed his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, but he was precocious about his innocent sexual curiosity, suddenly kissing a classmate at six years old and not understanding why she was not keen to reciprocate.
Annie and Alvy, in a line for The Sorrow and the Pity, overhear another man deriding the work of Federico Fellini and Marshall McLuhan. Alvy imagines McLuhan himself stepping in at his invitation to criticize the man's comprehension. That night, Annie shows no interest in sex with Alvy. Instead, they discuss his first wife, whom he kept at a distance for no good reason. His second marriage was to a New York writer who did not share his enthusiasm for sports and was unable to reach orgasm.
With Annie, it is different. The two of them have fun cooking a meal of boiled lobster together. He teases her about the unusual men in her past. They had met playing tennis doubles with friends. Following the game, awkward small talk leads her to offer him a ride uptown, and then a glass of wine on her balcony. There, what seemed a mild exchange of trivial personal data is revealed in "mental subtitles" as an escalating flirtation. Their first date follows Annie's singing audition for a nightclub ("It Had to be You"). After their lovemaking that night, Alvy is "a wreck," while Annie relaxes with a joint.
Soon, Annie admits she loves Alvy, while he buys her books on death and says that his feelings for her are more than just love. When Annie moves in with him, things become very tense. Eventually, Alvy finds her arm-in-arm with one of her college professors, and the two begin to argue about whether this is the "flexibility" they had discussed. They eventually break up, and he searches for the truth of relationships, asking strangers on the street about the nature of love, questioning his formative years, and imagining a cartoon version of himself arguing with a cartoon Annie portrayed as the Evil Queen in Snow White.
Alvy attempts a return to dating, but the effort is marred by neurosis and an episode of bad sex that is interrupted when Annie calls in the middle of the night, insisting that he come over immediately to kill a spider in her bathroom. A reconciliation follows, coupled with a vow to stay together, come what may. However, their separate discussions with their therapists make it evident there is an unspoken and unbridgeable divide. When Alvy accepts an offer to present an award on television, they travel to Los Angeles with Alvy's friend Rob. However, on the return trip, they agree that their relationship is not working. After losing Annie to her record producer Tony Lacey, Alvy unsuccessfully tries rekindling the flame with a marriage proposal. Back in New York, he stages a play of their relationship, but he changes the ending: now she accepts.
The last meeting between Annie and Alvy is a wistful coda on Manhattan's Upper West Side after they have both moved on to someone new. Alvy's voice returns with a summation: Love is essential, especially if it is neurotic. Annie sings "Seems Like Old Times," and the credits roll.
Cast
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Woody Allen as Alvy Singer
Diane Keaton as Annie Hall
Tony Roberts as Rob
Carol Kane as Allison Portchnik
Paul Simon as Tony Lacey
Janet Margolin as Robin
Shelley Duvall as Pam
Christopher Walken[a] as Duane Hall
Colleen Dewhurst as Mrs. Hall
Donald Symington as Mr. Hall
Joan Newman as Mrs. Singer
Tracey Walter as Actor in Rob's T.V. Show
Mordecai Lawner as Alvy's father
Marshall McLuhan as himself
Truman Capote has a cameo in the film. Alvy is making quips about people walking by. He says "There's the winner of the Truman Capote look-alike contest" as Truman Capote walks through the frame.[7] Several actors who later gained a higher profile had small parts in the movie: John Glover as Annie's actor boyfriend, Jerry; Jeff Goldblum as a man who "forgot [his] mantra" at Tony Lacey's Christmas party; Beverly D'Angelo as an actress in Rob's TV show; Christopher Walken as Annie's brother, Duane; and Sigourney Weaver, in her film debut, in the closing sequence as Alvy's date at the movie theater. Laurie Bird also appears, two years before her suicide.
Style and technique
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Technically, the film marked an advance for the director. He selected Gordon Willis as his cinematographer—for Allen "a very important teacher" and a "technical wizard," saying, "I really count Annie Hall as the first step toward maturity in some way in making films."[8] At the time, it was considered an "odd pairing" by many, Keaton among them. The director was known for his comedies and farces, while Willis was known as "the prince of darkness" for work on dramatic films like The Godfather.[9] Despite this, the two became friends during filming and continued the collaboration on several later films, including Zelig, which earned Willis his first Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography.[9]
Willis described the production for the film as "relatively easy."[9] He shot in varying styles; "hot golden light for California, grey overcast for Manhattan and a forties Hollywood glossy for ... dream sequences," most of which were cut.[10] It was his suggestion which led Allen to film the dual therapy scenes in one set divided by a wall instead of the usual split screen method.[9] He tried long takes, with some shots, unabridged, lasting an entire scene, which, for Ebert, add to the dramatic power of the film: "Few viewers probably notice how much of Annie Hall consists of people talking, simply talking. They walk and talk, sit and talk, go to shrinks, go to lunch, make love and talk, talk to the camera, or launch into inspired monologues like Annie's free-association as she describes her family to Alvy. This speech by Diane Keaton is as close to perfect as such a speech can likely be ... all done in one take of brilliant brinksmanship." He cites a study that calculated the average shot length of Annie Hall to be 14.5 seconds, while other films made in 1977 had an average shot length of 4–7 seconds.[3] Peter Cowie suggests that "Allen breaks up his extended shots with more orthodox cutting back and forth in conversation pieces so that the forward momentum of the film is sustained."[11] Bernd Herzogenrath notes the innovation in the use of the split-screen during the dinner scene to powerfully exaggerate the contrast between the Jewish and the gentile family.[12]
Although the film is not essentially experimental, at several points it undermines the narrative reality.[13] James Bernardoni notes Allen's way of opening the film by facing the camera, which immediately intrudes upon audience involvement in the film.[14] In one scene, Allen's character, in line to see a movie with Annie, listens to a man behind him deliver misinformed pontifications on the significance of Fellini's and Marshall McLuhan's work. Allen pulls McLuhan himself from just off-camera to correct the man's errors personally.[3] Later in the film, when we see Annie and Alvy in their first extended talk, "mental subtitles" convey to the audience the characters' nervous inner doubts.[3] An animated scene—with artwork based on the comic strip Inside Woody Allen—depicts Alvy and Annie in the guise of the Wicked Queen from Snow White.[3] Although Allen uses each of these techniques only once, the "fourth wall" is broken several other times when characters address the camera directly. In one, Alvy stops several passers-by to ask questions about love, and in another, he shrugs off writing a happy ending to his relationship with Annie in his autobiographical first play as forgivable "wish-fulfillment." Allen chose to have Alvy break the fourth wall, he explained, "because I felt many of the people in the audience had the same feelings and the same problems. I wanted to talk to them directly and confront them."[8]
Production
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Writing
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The idea for what became Annie Hall was developed as Allen walked around New York City with co-writer Marshall Brickman. The pair discussed the project frequently, sometimes becoming frustrated and rejecting the idea. Allen wrote a first draft of a screenplay within a four-day period, sending it to Brickman to make alterations. According to Brickman, this draft centered on a man in his forties, someone whose life consisted "of several strands." One was a relationship with a young woman, another was a concern with the banality of the life that we all live, and a third an obsession with proving himself and testing himself to find out what kind of character he had. Allen himself turned forty in 1975, and Brickman suggests that "advancing age" and "worries about death" had influenced Allen's philosophical, personal approach to complement his "commercial side".[15][16] Allen made the conscious decision to "sacrifice some of the laughs for a story about human beings".[9] He recognized that for the first time he had the courage to abandon the safety of complete broad comedy and had the will to produce a film of deeper meaning which would be a nourishing experience for the audience.[2] He was also influenced by Federico Fellini's comedy drama 8½ (1963), created at a similar personal turning point, and similarly colored by each director's psychoanalysis.[16]
Brickman and Allen sent the screenplay back and forth until they were ready to ask United Artists for $4 million.[16] Many elements from the early drafts did not survive. It was originally a drama centered on a murder mystery with a comic and romantic subplot.[17] According to Allen, the murder occurred after a scene that remains in the film, the sequence in which Annie and Alvy miss the Ingmar Bergman film Face to Face (1976).[18] Although they decided to drop the murder plot, Allen and Brickman made a murder mystery many years later: Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), also starring Diane Keaton. The draft that Allen presented to the film's editor, Ralph Rosenblum, concluded with the words, "ending to be shot."[20]
Allen suggested Anhedonia, a term for the inability to experience pleasure, as a working title,[21][22] and Brickman suggested alternatives including It Had to Be Jew, Rollercoaster Named Desire and Me and My Goy.[23] An advertising agency, hired by United Artists, embraced Allen's choice of an obscure word by suggesting the studio take out newspaper advertisements that looked like fake tabloid headlines such as "Anhedonia Strikes Cleveland!".[23] However, Allen experimented with several titles over five test screenings, including Anxiety and Annie and Alvy, before settling on Annie Hall.[23]
Casting
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Several references in the film to Allen's own life have invited speculation that it is autobiographical. Both Alvy and Allen were comedians. His birthday appears on the blackboard in a school scene, and "Alvy" was one of Allen's childhood nicknames;[24] certain features of his childhood are found in Alvy Singer's;[25] Allen went to New York University and so did Alvy. Diane Keaton's real surname is "Hall" and "Annie" was her nickname, and she and Allen were once romantically involved.[26] However, Allen is quick to dispel these suggestions. "The stuff that people insist is autobiographical is almost invariably not," Allen said. "It's so exaggerated that it's virtually meaningless to the people upon whom these little nuances are based. People got it into their heads that Annie Hall was autobiographical, and I couldn't convince them it wasn't".[27] Contrary to various interviewers and commentators, he says, Alvy is not the character that is closest to himself; he identified more with the mother (Eve, played by Geraldine Page) in his next film, Interiors.[28] Despite this, Keaton has stated that the relationship between Alvy and Annie was partly based on her relationship with the director.[29]
The role of Annie Hall was written specifically for Keaton, who had worked with Allen on Play It Again, Sam (1972), Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975).[29] She considered the character an "affable version" of herself—both were "semi-articulate, dreamed of being a singer and suffered from insecurity"—and was surprised to win an Oscar for her performance.[29] The film also marks the second film collaboration between Allen and Tony Roberts, their previous project being Play It Again, Sam.[9]
Federico Fellini was Allen's first choice to appear in the cinema lobby scene because his films were under discussion,[18] but Allen chose cultural academic Marshall McLuhan after both Fellini and Luis Buñuel declined the cameo.[30] Some cast members, biographer John Baxter claims, were aggrieved at Allen's treatment of them. The director "acted coldly" towards McLuhan, who had to return from Canada for reshooting, and Mordecai Lawner, who played Alvy's father, claimed that Allen never spoke to him.[30] However, during the production, Allen began a two-year relationship with Stacey Nelkin, who appears in a single scene.[30]
Filming, editing and music
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Principal photography began on May 19, 1976, on the South Fork of Long Island with the scene in which Alvy and Annie boil live lobsters; filming continued periodically for the next ten months,[31] and deviated frequently from the screenplay. There was nothing written about Alvy's childhood home lying under a roller coaster, but when Allen was scouting locations in Brooklyn with Willis and art director Mel Bourne, he "saw this roller-coaster, and ... saw the house under it. And I thought, we have to use this."[25] Similarly, there is the incident where Alvy scatters a trove of cocaine with an accidental sneeze: although not in the script, the joke emerged from a rehearsal happenstance and stayed in the movie. In audience testing, this laugh was so sustained that a much longer pause had to be added so that the following dialogue was not lost.[32]
Editor Ralph Rosenblum's first assembly of the film in 1976 left Brickman disappointed. "I felt that the film was running off in nine different directions," Brickman recalled.[33] "It was like a first draft of a novel... from which two or three films could possibly be assembled."[34] Rosenblum characterized the first cut, at two hours and twenty minutes,[35] as "the surrealistic and abstract adventures of a neurotic Jewish comedian who was reliving his highly flawed life and in the process satirizing much of our culture... a visual monologue, a more sophisticated and more philosophical version of Take the Money and Run".[35] Brickman found it "nondramatic and ultimately uninteresting, a kind of cerebral exercise."[36] He suggested a more linear narrative.[37]
The present-tense relationship between Alvy and Annie was not the narrative focus of this first cut, but Allen and Rosenblum recognized it as the dramatic spine, and began reworking the film "in the direction of that relationship."[38] Rosenblum recalled that Allen "had no hesitation about trimming away much of the first twenty minutes in order to establish Keaton more quickly."[36] According to Allen, "I didn't sit down with Marshall Brickman and say, 'We're going to write a picture about a relationship.' I mean the whole concept of the picture changed as we were cutting it."[37]
As the film was budgeted for two weeks of post-production photography,[20] late 1976 saw three separate shoots for the final segment, but only some of this material was used.[39] The narration that ends the film, featuring the joke about 'we all need the eggs', was conceived and recorded only two hours before a test screening.[39]
The credits call the film "A Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production"; the two men were Allen's managers and received this same credit on his films from 1969 to 1993. However, for this film, Joffe took producer credit and therefore received the Academy Award for Best Picture. The title sequence features a black background with white text in the Windsor Light Condensed typeface, a design that Allen used on his subsequent films. Stig Björkman sees some similarity to Ingmar Bergman's simple and consistent title design, although Allen says that his own choice is a cost-saving device.[40]
Very little background music is heard in the film, a departure for Allen influenced by Ingmar Bergman.[40] Diane Keaton performs twice in the jazz club: "It Had to be You" and "Seems Like Old Times" (the latter reprises in voiceover on the closing scene). The other exceptions include a boy's choir "Christmas Medley" played while the characters drive through Los Angeles, the Molto allegro from Mozart's Jupiter Symphony (heard as Annie and Alvy drive through the countryside), Tommy Dorsey's performance of "Sleepy Lagoon",[41] and the anodyne cover of the Savoy Brown song "A Hard Way to Go" playing at a party in the mansion of Paul Simon's character.
Soundtrack
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"Seems Like Old Times" (1945) - Music by Carmen Lombardo - Lyrics by John Jacob Loeb - Sung by Diane Keaton (uncredited) accompanied by Artie Butler (uncredited)
"It Had to Be You" (1924) - Music by Isham Jones - Lyrics by Gus Kahn - Sung by Diane Keaton (uncredited) accompanied by Artie Butler (uncredited)
"A Hard Way To Go" (1977) - Written and performed by Tim Weisberg
"Christmas Medley" (Traditional Christmas songs: "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" (uncredited), "O, Christmas Tree" (uncredited) and "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" (uncredited)) - Lyrics by Ernst Anschütz - Performed by the Do-Re-Mi Children's Chorus
"Sleepy Lagoon" (1930) - Composed by Eric Coates - Performed by Tommy Dorsey
"Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, Molto Allegro" (1788) (uncredited) - Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Release
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Box office and release
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Annie Hall was shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival on March 27, 1977,[21] before its official release in the United States on April 20, 1977.[42] The film ultimately earned $38,251,425 ($192 million in 2023 dollars) in the United States and Canada against a $4-million budget, making it the 11th highest-grossing picture of 1977.[42] On raw figures, it currently ranks as Allen's fourth-highest-grossing film in the United States, after Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters and Midnight in Paris; when adjusted for inflation, the gross figure makes it Allen's biggest box office hit.[43] It played for over 100 consecutive weeks in London and grossed over $5.6 million in the United Kingdom.[44] It was first released on Blu-ray on January 24, 2012, alongside Allen's film Manhattan (1979).[45] Both releases include their original theatrical trailers.[45]
Reception
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Critical response
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Annie Hall met with widespread critical acclaim upon its release, with major praise directed towards the film's script and the performances of Allen and Keaton.
Tim Radford of The Guardian called the film "Allen's most closely focused and daring film to date".[46] The New York Times' Vincent Canby preferred Annie Hall to Allen's second directorial effort, Take the Money and Run, since the former is more "humane" while the latter is more a "cartoon".[47] Several critics have compared the film favorably to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973),[47][48][49] including Joseph McBride in Variety, who found it Allen's "most three-dimensional film to date" with an ambition equal to Bergman's best even as the co-stars become the "contemporary equivalent of ... Tracy-Hepburn."[48]
More critically, Peter Cowie commented that the film "suffers from its profusion of cultural references and asides".[50] Writing for New York magazine, John Simon called the film "unfunny comedy, poor moviemaking, and embarrassing self-revelation," and wrote that Keaton's performance was "in bad taste to watch and indecency to display," saying that the part should have been played by Robin Mary Paris, the actress who appears briefly in the scene where Alvy Singer has written a two-character play nakedly based on himself and Annie Hall. Simon's review of Annie Hall "It is a film so shapeless, sprawling, repetitious, and aimless as to seem to beg for oblivion. At this, it is successful."[51]
The film has continued to receive positive reviews. In his 2002 lookback, Roger Ebert added it to his Great Movies list and commented with surprise that the film had "an instant familiarity" despite its age,[3] and Slant writer Jaime N. Christley found the one-liners "still gut-busting after 35 years".[49] A later Guardian critic, Peter Bradshaw, named it the best comedy film of all time, commenting that "this wonderfully funny, unbearably sad film is a miracle of comic writing and inspired film-making".[52] John Marriott of the Radio Times believed that Annie Hall was the film where Allen "found his own singular voice, a voice that echoes across events with a mixture of exuberance and introspection", referring to the "comic delight" derived from the "spirited playing of Diane Keaton as the kooky innocent from the Midwest, and Woody himself as the fumbling New York neurotic".[53] Empire magazine rated the movie five out of five stars, calling it a "classic".[54] In 2017, Claire Dederer wrote, "Annie Hall is the greatest comic film of the twentieth century [...] because it acknowledges the irrepressible nihilism that lurks at the center of all comedy."[55]
The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited Annie Hall as one of his favorite films.[56][57]
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 97% based on 128 reviews, with an average rating of 9.10/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Filled with poignant performances and devastating humor, Annie Hall represents a quantum leap for Woody Allen and remains an American classic."[58] Metacritic gave the film a score of 92 out of 100 based on 20 critical reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[59]
Critical analysis
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Love and sexuality
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Sociologists Virginia Rutter and Pepper Schwartz consider Alvy and Annie's relationship to be a stereotype of gender differences in sexuality.[60] The nature of love is a repeating subject for Allen and co-star Tony Roberts described this film as "the story of everybody who falls in love, and then falls out of love and goes on."[9] Alvy searches for love's purpose through his effort to get over his depression about the demise of his relationship with Annie. Sometimes he sifts through his memories of the relationship, at another point he stops people on the sidewalk, with one woman saying that "It's never something you do. That's how people are. Love fades," a suggestion that it was no one's fault, they just grew apart and the end was inevitable. By the end of the film, Alvy accepts this and decides that love is ultimately "irrational and crazy and absurd", but a necessity of life. Christopher Knight believes Alvy's quest upon meeting Annie is carnal, whereas hers is on an emotional note.[62]
Richard Brody of The New Yorker notes the film's "Eurocentric art-house self-awareness" and Alvy Singer's "psychoanalytic obsession in baring his sexual desires and frustrations, romantic disasters, and neurotic inhibitions".[63]
Jewish identity
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Singer is identified with the stereotypical neurotic Jewish male, and the differences between Alvy and Annie are often related to the perceptions and realities of Jewish identity. Vincent Brook notes that "Alvy dines with the WASP-y Hall family and imagines that they must see him as a Hasidic Jew, complete with payot (ear locks) and a large black hat."[64] Robert M. Seltzer and Norman J. Cohen highlight the scene in which Annie remarks that Annie's grandmother "hates Jews. She thinks they just make money, but she's the one. Is she ever, I'm telling you.", revealing the hypocrisy in her grandmother's stereotypical American view of Jews by arguing that "no stigma attaches to the love of money in America".[65] Bernd Herzogenrath also considers Allen's joke, "I would like to but we need the eggs", to the doctor at the end when he suggests putting him in a mental institution, to be a paradox of not only the persona of the urban neurotic Jew but also of the film itself.[12]
Woody Allen persona
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Christopher Knight points out that Annie Hall is framed through Alvy's experiences. "Generally, what we know about Annie and about the relationship comes filtered through Alvy, an intrusive narrator capable of halting the narrative and stepping out from it in order to entreat the audience's interpretative favor."[66] He suggests that because Allen's films blur the protagonist with "past and future protagonists as well as with the director himself", it "makes a difference as to whether we are most responsive to the director's or the character's framing of events".[67] Despite the narrative's framing, "the joke is on Alvy."[68] Emanuel Levy believes that Alvy Singer became synonymous with the public perception of Woody Allen in the United States.[69] Annie Hall is viewed as the definitive Woody Allen film in displaying neurotic humor.[70]
Location
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Annie Hall "is as much a love song to New York City as it is to the character,"[71] reflecting Allen's adoration of the island of Manhattan. It was a relationship he explored repeatedly, particularly in films like Manhattan (1979) and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).[9] Annie Hall's apartment, which still exists on East 70th Street between Lexington Avenue and Park Avenue is by Allen's own confession his favorite block in the city.[72] Peter Cowie argues that the film shows "a romanticized view" of the borough, with the camera "linger[ing] on the Upper East Side [... and where] the fear of crime does not trouble its characters."[73] By contrast, California is presented less positively, and David Halle notes the obvious "invidious intellectual comparison" between New York City and Los Angeles.[74] While Manhattan's movie theaters show classic and foreign films, Los Angeles theaters run less-prestigious fare such as The House of Exorcism and Messiah of Evil.[73] Rob's demonstration of adding canned laughter to television demonstrates the "cynical artifice of the medium".[73] New York City serves as a symbol of Alvy's personality ("gloomy, claustrophobic, and socially cold, but also an intellectual haven full of nervous energy") while Los Angeles is a symbol of freedom for Annie.[71]
Psychoanalysis and modernism
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Annie Hall has been cited as a film which uses both therapy and analysis for comic effect.[75] Sam B. Girgus considers Annie Hall to be a story about memory and retrospection, which "dramatizes a return via narrative desire to the repressed and the unconscious in a manner similar to psychoanalysis".[76] He argues that the film constitutes a self-conscious assertion of how narrative desire and humor interact in the film to reform ideas and perceptions and that Allen's deployment of Freudian concepts and humor forms a "pattern of skepticism toward surface meaning that compels further interpretation". Girgus believes that proof of the pervasiveness of Sigmund Freud in the film is demonstrated at the beginning through a reference to a joke in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, and makes another joke about a psychiatrist and patient, which Girgus argues is also symbolic of the dynamic between humor and the unconscious in the film.[76] Further Freudian concepts are later addressed in the film with Annie's recall of a dream to her psychoanalyst in which Frank Sinatra is smothering her with a pillow, which alludes to Freud's belief in dreams as "visual representations of words or ideas".[76]
Peter Bailey in his book The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen, argues that Alvy displays a "genial denigration of art" which contains a "significant equivocation", in that in his self-deprecation he invites the audience to believe that he is leveling with them.[77] Bailey argues that Allen's devices in the film, including the subtitles which reveal Annie's and Alvy's thoughts "extend and reinforce Annie Hall's winsome ethos of plain-dealing and ingenuousness".[77] He muses that the film is full of antimimetic emblems such as McLuhan's magical appearance which provide quirky humor and that the "disparity between mental projections of reality and actuality" drives the film. His view is that self-reflective cinematic devices intelligently dramatize the difference between surface and substance, with visual emblems "incessantly distilling the distinction between the world mentally constructed and reality".[77]
In his discussion of the film's relation to modernism, Thomas Schatz finds the film an unresolved "examination of the process of human interaction and interpersonal communication"[78] and "immediately establishes [a] self-referential stance" that invites the spectator "to read the narrative as something other than a sequential development toward some transcendent truth".[79] For him, Alvy "is the victim of a tendency toward overdetermination of meaning – or in modernist terms 'the tyranny of the signified' – and his involvement with Annie can be viewed as an attempt to establish a spontaneous, intellectually unencumbered relationship, an attempt which is doomed to failure."[78]
Accolades
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Academy Awards 1. Best Picture, Charles H. Joffe 2. Best Director, Woody Allen 3. Best Actress, Diane Keaton 4. Best Original Screenplay, Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman Golden Globe Awards 1. Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, Diane Keaton BAFTA Awards 1. Best Film 2. Best Direction, Woody Allen 3. Best Actress in a Leading Role, Diane Keaton 4. Best Screenplay, Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman 5. Best Editing, Ralph Rosenblum and Wendy Greene Bricmont
Annie Hall won four Oscars at the 50th Academy Awards on April 3, 1978, and was nominated for five (the Big Five) in total. Producer Charles H. Joffe received the statue for Best Picture, Allen for Best Director and, with Brickman, for Best Original Screenplay, and Keaton for Best Actress. Allen was also nominated for Best Actor.[80] Many had expected Star Wars to win the major awards, including Brickman and executive producer Robert Greenhut.[9]
The film was also honored five times at the BAFTA awards. Along with the top award for Best Film and the award for Best Editing, Keaton won for Best Actress, Allen won for Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay alongside Brickman.[81] The film received one Golden Globe Award, for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical (Keaton), in addition to four nominations: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (the latter three for Allen).
In 1992, the United States' Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in its National Film Registry that includes "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" films.[5] The film is often mentioned among the greatest comedies of all time. The American Film Institute lists it 31st in American cinema history.[82] In 2000, they named it second greatest romantic comedy in American cinema.[82] Keaton's performance of "Seems Like Old Times" was ranked 90th on their list of greatest songs included in a film, and her line "La-dee-da, la-dee-da." was named the 55th greatest movie quote.[82] The screenplay was named the sixth greatest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America, West[83] while IGN named it the seventh greatest comedy film of all time.[84] In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted it the forty-second greatest comedy film of all time, and the seventh greatest romantic comedy film of all time.[85] Several lists ranking Allen's best films have put Annie Hall among his greatest work.[86][87][88]
In June 2008, AFI revealed its 10 Top 10—the best ten films in ten classic American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community and Annie Hall was placed second in the romantic comedy genre.[89] AFI also ranked Annie Hall on several other lists. In November 2008, Annie Hall was voted in at No. 68 on Empire magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.[90] It is also ranked No. 2 on Rotten Tomatoes' 25 Best Romantic Comedies, second only to The Philadelphia Story.[91] In 2012, the film was listed as the 127th best film of all time by the Sight & Sound critics' poll.[92] The film was also named the 132nd best film by the Sight & Sound directors' poll.[92] In October 2013, the film was voted by the Guardian readers as the second best film directed by Woody Allen.[93] In November 2015, the film was named the funniest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America in its list of 101 Funniest Screenplays.[94]
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
1998: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – #31[95]
2000: AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – #4[96]
2002: AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions – #11[97]
2004: AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs:
"Seems Like Old Times" – #90[98]
2005: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
Annie Hall: "La-dee-da, la-dee-da." – #55[99]
2007: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – #35[100]
2008: AFI's 10 Top 10:
No. 2 Romantic Comedy Film[101]
1992 – National Film Registry.[102]
In 2006, Premiere magazine ranked Keaton in Annie Hall as 60th in its list of the "100 Greatest Performances of All Time", and noted:
It's hard to play ditzy. ... The genius of Annie is that despite her loopy backhand, awful driving, and nervous tics, she's also a complicated, intelligent woman. Keaton brilliantly displays this dichotomy of her character, especially when she yammers away on a first date with Alvy (Woody Allen), while the subtitle reads, "He probably thinks I'm a yoyo." Yo-yo? Hardly.[103]
Legacy and influence
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Although the film received widespread critical acclaim and numerous awards, Allen himself was disappointed with it, and said in an interview, "When Annie Hall started out, that film was not supposed to be what I wound up with. The film was supposed to be what happens in a guy's mind ... Nobody understood anything that went on. The relationship between myself and Diane Keaton was all anyone cared about. That was not what I cared about ... In the end, I had to reduce the film to just me and Diane Keaton, and that relationship, so I was quite disappointed in that movie".[104] Allen has repeatedly declined to make a sequel,[105] and in a 1992 interview stated that "Sequelism has become an annoying thing. I don't think Francis Coppola should have done Godfather III because Godfather II was quite great. When they make a sequel, it's just a thirst for more money, so I don't like that idea so much".[106]
Diane Keaton has stated that Annie Hall was her favorite role and that the film meant everything to her.[107] When asked if being most associated with the role concerned her as an actress, she replied, "I'm not haunted by Annie Hall. I'm happy to be Annie Hall. If somebody wants to see me that way, it's fine by me". Costume designer Ruth Morley, working with Keaton, created a look which had an influence on the fashion world during the late-70s, with women adopting the style: layering oversized, mannish blazers over vests, billowy trousers or long skirts, a man's tie, and boots.[108] The look was often referred to as the "Annie Hall look".[109] Some sources suggest that Keaton herself was mainly responsible for the look, and Ralph Lauren has often claimed credit, but only one jacket and one tie were purchased from Ralph Lauren for use in the film.[110] Allen recalled that Lauren and Keaton's dress style almost did not end up in the film. "She came in," he recalled in 1992, "and the costume lady on Annie Hall said, 'Tell her not to wear that. She can't wear that. It's so crazy.' And I said, 'Leave her. She's a genius. Let's just leave her alone, let her wear what she wants.'"[111]
The film's script topped the Writers Guild of America's list of 101 funniest screenplays ever, surpassing Some Like It Hot (1959), Groundhog Day (1993), Airplane! (1980), and Tootsie (1982).[112] James Bernardoni states that the film is "one of the very few romantic comedy-dramas of the New Hollywood era and one that has rightly taken its place among the classics of that revered genre", likening the seriocomic meditation on the couple relationship to George Cukor's Adam's Rib (1949), starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.[14] Since its release, other romantic comedies have inspired comparison. When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Chasing Amy (1997), Burning Annie (2007), 500 Days of Summer (2009) and Allen's 2003 film, Anything Else, are among them,[92][113][114][115][116] while film director Rian Johnson said in an interview for the book, The Film That Changed My Life, that Annie Hall inspired him to become a film director.[117] Karen Gillan stated that she watched Annie Hall as part of her research for her lead role in Not Another Happy Ending.[118] In 2018, Matt Starr and Ellie Sachs released a short film remake starring senior citizens.[119][120]
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If you sat watching the BBC's "I Love The 1970s" and exclaimed over items being shown "I could swear that was 1968!" or "Wasn't that 1981?" chances are you were right.
If you look at certain '70s fan sites and think a lot of the material written about is actually from the '80s, you are almost certainly correct.
If on-line encyclopedia articles which state that pop culture of 1983 is really 1977, or similar, have you wishing for reality, then '80s Actual is for you.
There is a huge drive in the media and on-line to negate the 1980s, to attribute that decade's innovations and fond memories to other decades, and basically to present it as a completely vapid ten years, not worthy of examination.
I'm not sure why. Perhaps it's just comforting to have a decade people can scapegoat and declare "HORRIBLE"?
This blog is based on actual memories, media footage (thank you, YouTube!) and snippets of newspaper and magazine articles from the 1980s. If you read it here, I think you can rest assured it's accurate, though I can take no responsibility for the newspaper reports from the decade!
The '80s Actual blog examines the decade's news stories - from the emergence of Lady Diana Spencer into the public eye in 1980, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Was it simply "The Greed Decade" as many like to claim? I think not - the '80s saw the emergence of yuppies, but also Red Wedge, the Greenham Common Peace Women, and increasing concern for the environment. It may be convenient to scapegoat the '80s as the cause of all known ills, but the reality of the decade was far different - absolute bedlam, as Right fought Left, idealism fought corporate ambition. The election of Ronald Reagan as American President in 1980, and his second victory in 1984, had a far more decisive effect on the international political landscape than the three successive general election victories of UK Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher in 1979, 1983 and 1987.
Fashion came fast and furious - deelyboppers, ra ra skirts with lycra leggings, Swatch watches, pixie boots, jelly shoes, shoulder pads, blonde highlights, hair gel, hair mousse, men in pink, goths, shell suits, New Romantics, donkey jackets, leg warmers...
Musically, the 1980s saw the beginnings of House Music, the exciting and still evolving world of synths taking centre stage, the evolvement of Rap music into the fully-fledged Hip Hop scene, Band Aid and Live Aid, great Indie, startling Acid House, and Raves...
At the amusement arcades, Space Invaders ran rampant and we first met Pac-Man...
And there was so much more! The decade truly had something for everyone - and provided a welcome escape for a while from the long-running and boring saga of flared trousers as fashion, begun back in the 1960s!
It was a brilliant decade for telly - bringing us such wonders as A Very Peculiar Practice, Inspector Morse, Spitting Image, Hot Metal, The BeiderbeckeTrilogy and Edge of Darkness.
The 1980s also saw the creation of The Simpsons, Twin Peaks, and other wonderful (often groundbreaking) American TV shows like Kate & Allie, Cheers, The Golden Girls, Married... With Children, The Cosby Show, Roseanne, and Hill Street Blues.
The '80s gave us some wonderful UK TV ads. Remember Ted Moult advertising double glazing at the Tan Hall Inn with "Fit The Best - Everest"? Remember the Weetabix gang? Remember theScotch video tape skeleton ("Re-record, not fade away"?). Remember the romantic yuppie couple in the coffee ads? And what about "Lotta Bottle"?
In fact, the '80s totally transformed our telly viewing, bringing us Channel 4 and Sky TV.
The '80s were a fascinating time for science and technology!Video recorders became widespread, the Sony Walkman arrived, the firsthand-held mobile phones hit the streets (expensive analogue bricks!), the ZX Spectrum, Game Boy and the World Wide Web (Thanks, Sir Tim Berners-Lee!) were invented, the first computer mouse eeked its way into our homes and Sir Alec Jeffreys accidentally discovered DNA fingerprinting. It's all here!
There are also also '80s Actual sister blogs taking us back to the '70s and '60s - The Real 1970s and Spacehopper.
The view of the 1980s presented here is from an English perspective - much of the original '80s material used is from England, but I hope this blog will prove useful and enjoyable to people in the other nations of the UK and much further afield.
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A junior at Standford University, Lettie Cabot ’19 recently took home gold in the women’s four at the 2021 World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Racice, Czech Republic. Rowing for Great Britain, Lettie (3), along with teammates Amelia Standing (b), Holly Dunford (2), and Daisy Bellamy (s) held off the United States by 1.86 seconds for the win. Lettie was also a member of the 2019 Under 19 National Team, an accomplishment she now proudly shares with sister Imogen Cabot ’22, who was recently selected to the 2021 Under 19 National Team.
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Lettie Cabot ’19 rowing for Winsor during her senior year.
Cabot Wins Gold at Worlds
A junior at Standford University, Lettie Cabot ’19 recently took home gold in the women’s four at the 2021 World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Racice, Czech Republic. Rowing for Great Britain, Lettie (3), along with teammates Amelia Standing (b), Holly Dunford (2), and Daisy Bellamy (s) held off the United States by 1.86 seconds for the win. Lettie was also a member of the 2019 Under 19 National Team, an accomplishment she now proudly shares with sister Imogen Cabot ’22, who was recently selected to the 2021 Under 19 National Team.
Alumnae Board 2021–2022
PRESIDENT Erica Mayer ’91, P ’25
VICE-PRESIDENT Ashley Marlenga Herbst ’01
SECRETARY Miwa Watkins ’83
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Des Allen ’98 Hillary Brown ’80, P’17 Susan Holzman ’67 Elizabeth Flint Hooker ’95 Jennifer Inker ’83 Lindsay Mullen Jeanloz ’00 Danielle Johns ’05 Ruth Chute Knapp ’60, P’86, GP’21 Katherine McCord ’02, Co-Chair, Alumnae Giving Jillian Campbell McGrath ’02 Johanna Mendillo ’96 Julia Broderick O’Brien ’56, P’87 Jennifer O’Neil ’93 Julie Rockett Paulick ’92 Elizabeth-Anne Finn Payne ’94 Mary Noonan Quirk ’05 Lacey Rose ’06 Nancy Adams Roth ’66 Catherine Frankl Sarkis ’82, P’23 Ann Bainbridge Simonds ’66 Rebecca Stevens ’05 Meg Weeks ’04
EX-OFFICIO
LIFE MEMBER Allie Flather Blodgett ’52
PAST PRESIDENT Audrey McAdams Fenton ’93, P ’26
CO-CHAIR, ALUMNAE GIVING Caitlin Crowe ’89
CO-CHAIR, ALUMNAE GIVING Julia Livingston ’66, P’85, ’07
CO-CHAIR, YOUNG ALUMNAE COMMITTEE Mary Aidan Hanrahan ’11
CO-CHAIR, YOUNG ALUMNAE COMMITTEE Kerry Noonan ’07
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF YOUNG ALUMNAE AND LEADERSHIP GIVING Samantha Lovewell
DIRECTOR OF ALUMNAE ENGAGEMENT Elisabeth B. Peterson ’80, P’11
Entrepreneur Talks Business
Students Advocating Gender Equity (SAGE) welcomed Unique Hodge ’18, who recently co-founded Oak Systems while working on her undergraduate degree at Harvard. Oak Systems uses an algorithm to offer personalized hair product recommendations to Black Unique Hodge ’18 women based on their responses to an online assessment, and also incorporates an add-on that searches for products offered by Black-owned businesses.
Unique says it was a business club that led her to the Harvard Innovation Labs Venture Program, and eventually, to Oak Systems. Her advice to students inquiring about starting a business: be creative and be authentic if you want people to believe in you, and trust that you can do it. “You’re in the same boat as everyone else. It’s important to remember that. No one really knows what they’re doing! Just jump in, and learn along the way.” She also credits Winsor for planting the seeds for her success. “Winsor taught me that I can do what I put my mind to. Winsor instills that belief in yourself, and that’s crucial to starting a company.”
ASIAM ASSEMBLY EXPLORES ASIAN CULTURE
Affinity group AsIAm led an all-school assembly
Crystal Yang ’20 to encourage appreciation of Asian culture in honor of Lunar New Year. A panel of Winsor alums joined from as far away as London. “It’s been hard to try to find the same sort of place [in college] that AsIAm offers at Winsor,” noted Crystal Yang ’20, who, along with alums Erin Simshauser ’17, Katie Tsai ’19, and Audrey Wu ’20, encouraged students not to take for granted the small community, opportunities for cultural exposure, and affinity groups at Winsor.
OVERHEARD “Maybe we will manage to hold onto that knowledge, that being in a classroom together is not a given nor to be taken for granted. That would definitely be a
silver lining.” —SARA MACAULAY, ARTS FACULTY
ALUMNAE SPRING BOOK CLUB 2021
Alums gathered from across the country on Zoom to discuss the new and very popular The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. Set during The Great Depression, the novel tells the story of protagonist Elsinor “Elsa” Martinelli and her journey through the Dust Bowl storms of Texas to migrating for refuge and the empty promises of work in California all while enduring being mom to two. Alums discussed themes that resonated especially during crises a century later, the weights that affect how women walk through the world, and what courage really means.
Circle of Excellence
WINSOR The Fall 2020 issue of the Winsor Bulletin was named BULLETIN | SPRING 2020 a Council for Advancement and Support of Education(CASE) 2021 Circle of Excellence Award winner, an award honoring institutions worldwide. A special thanks to Patricia Elam Walker ’71, BOLD AND UNAFRAID who wrote the powerful Patricia Elam ’71 tells the story of Winsor’s first students of color PAGE 24 cover story; Celyn Brazier, whose original art graced the cover; 2communiqué, for elevating the design of every issue; and all the writers, photographers, and members of the Winsor community who contributed.
YAC Pizza Party
Young Alumnae Committee hosted alums from classes ’17, ’18, ’19, and ’20 for our first on campus gathering in quite some time! It was great to have alums back at Winsor.
Wine Tasting with a Twist
In February, over 130 Winsor alums from all over the country joined Hadley Douglas ’92 and husband TJ, founders of Urban Grape, for a virtual version of the anticipated annual alumnae wine tasting that usually takes place in their Boston store. In honor of Black History Month, the event featured wines from Black-owned wineries, which make up less than 1% of all wines, but 10% of Urban Grape sales thanks to the couple’s commitment to raising awareness and promotion. It was a wonderful way to celebrate the winemakers, and for alums to learn more about wine, the Urban Grape mission, and the industry.
Assistant Director of Young Alumnae Engagement and Leadership Giving Samantha Lovewell and Director of Alumnae Engagement Beth Peterson ’80, P’11 organized the unique event, ensuring the wines and pairing snacks arrived in time for all the virtual attendees to enjoy together. Following the tasting, alums joined break out rooms, and by the close of the evening, all were in agreement that a new Winsor tradition had just begun!
CLASS NOTES
1949
Susan Conant Holden
This has been a sad and miserable year for so many people. I have been fortunate to keep busy with my children, grandchildren and patriotic societies. I am still the Recording Secretary for two of them (thanks to Winsor) which have been held virtually or on zoom and are a bit of a challenge especially when they decide to have a joint meeting. There is always yard and house work and projects. I am so lucky and thankful to be able to live in my home.
1951
Catharine-Mary Donovan
It’s hard to believe that 70 years have passed since entering Winsor and to see the changes that have been done since my time there so long ago. Thanks to all my classmates who have contined to respond to my requests for the Annual Fund. It is much appreciated. 2020 has been a year of years: adjustments both for those at home and for those still working. It’s been a year of challenges especially for those keeping us safe. My prayers go out to the thousands and thousands who have left us and to the various people involved who have sacrificed so much for the sick and the dying. Hopefully there is an end in the tunnel.
1951
Margaret Lawrence Drinker
After 50 plus years of living in the Boston area we moved to a condominium in Vermont to be closer to several of our children. Six years later we moved a few miles “down the road” to a retirement community in New Hampshire (Kendal at Hanover). Five of our six grandchildren and one great grandchild now live in Boston. My husband, Phil, died in 2017. We had 64 years of a wonderful life together!
1951
Ann Underhill Rosenbaum
I am amazed to find myself 87 years old. The good news is that seven years ago I survived a large sarcoma in my right thigh, and have been well and quite mobile since then. Of course, I have all my faculties, am active in two book groups and a political action group (Women On Watch). My husband, Hal, and I live in a condo in Stamford, CT. So I still cook, etc., which has been a good thing during the pandemic. We have both had completed Pfizer vaccinations. We miss seeing our children (daughter in NY State and son in Concord) and grown grandchildren, but hope we will be able to soon. I wish my classmates well, and hope you have escaped the virus. It was great knowing you at Winsor.
1952
Mary Lane Connolly Cairns
Delightful time at ALLIE’s, great to be together! Looking forward to our 70th and can’t believe it in 2022!
1953
Natascha Simpkins Halpert
Living life quietly here with my beloved, staying close to home in our apartment as we remain safe so far and comfortable. Getting our vaccinations, doing our writing, expecting our third great grandchild, no special news otherwise. How the years fly
by! Two years until our 70th. How strange is that!
1953
Suzanne Ellis Stoyer
As if the Covid epidemic was not enough for 2020–2021, we were hit by Hurricane Sally which played an unexpected and unwelcome visit in mid-September. The weather report was not as accurate as usual so we were not as well prepared as we should have been. While our living area remained livable, the wind and storm surge destroyed much of everything else. We recover slowly.
1956
Ann Chapman Churchill
I moved with Jerry to Kendal at Hanover a Quaker continuing Care Facility in 2016. We were close to the Churchill Tree Farm in Vermont where all the family visit often. Jerry passed away 3 years ago. During the pandemic, I moved with a daughter to the farm and walk, garden and quilt. I serve on the Vestry of my church and a Social Justice
Mary Lane Connolly Cairns ’52, Allie Flather Blodgett ’52, Jill Johnson Whiting ’52, Jack Whiting, and Nancy Paige Parker ’52
Committee. I am grateful to be in reasonable health and await the time when I can be more socially active.
1958
Mary Eliot Jackson
Life is firmly here: I sold my 1810 house in Royalston, live in a 1960 condo in Cambridge, don’t drive, but happily see kids and grands. I remain concerned about effects of racism and have reconnected with Joyce Allen-Beckford, P’ 98, my co-chair of Winsor’s first Diversity Committee. I found Movement Voter Project an epiphany - something to do in a blue state to get rid of Trump. MVP finds, vets, and supports unrecognized grassroots groups and helps them understand that their civic responsibility to vote from the lowest levels up will help them achieve what they want for themselves, i.e., what Stacey Abrams did in Georgia to elect Biden, Warnock, and Ossoff to break Trump and O’Connell’s grip. Also helped the Boston Athenaeum move out a disastrous directress and hire her smashing replacement, Leah Rosovsky; learned about More than Words; and Jim O’Connell’s Health Care for the Homeless.
1960
Eleanor Canham Shanley
A quiet year, although no lack of grandchildren, plus two local daughters to keep me busy and amused. We all gathered in Wareham in July—4 daughters, their husbands, seven grandchildren. A great time was had by all. Heading to Woodstock shortly for six days of Spa delights while my daughter skis (and Spas). Cannot wait for a change of venue! Love to you all.
1960
Elise Cutler von Koschembahr
SO sorry to miss our 60th Reunion last spring—thanks to Covid. I celebrated my 80th Birthday last month; and I am still grateful to hope that I have a sound mind in a sound body - especially after receiving my double dose of Moderna vaccinations! Peace and blessings to you all!
1961
Gayle Zelermeyer Golden
JFK encouraged us to”ask what you can do for your country.” Those inspirational words propelled me into a fulfilling career as a social worker. Working in medical, educational and private practice settings, I helped people face challenges and develop their own capacities to find resilience. I now realize that acknowledging the accomplishments of others is another way to fulfill the mandate to serve. I honor the contribution of my courageous immigrant ancestors, the values of love and faith learned from my parents and the joy I have as the wife of a gentle and loving husband for 51 years, mother of a wonderful son and daughter-in-law and grandmother of an ebullient grandson. I am grateful for the sacrifices my parents made to send me to Winsor. The quality of the faculty and opportunity to study with intelligent and congenial classmates were incredible gifts.
1961
Molly Morse Holmes
Best to all my amazing classmates from 1961 and special thoughts for those who have moved on from here. So hard to believe that 60 years have passed by and that I have lived through all of them. In life you
are given a test that teaches you a lesson.” And what lessons I have learned. I love being the Mother of two and Grandmother to three. They have taught me so much about how I show up in the world with understanding and love. I got divorced in 1996 and that is when I really received my chance to become me. I had my work cut out for me. I now spend my days helping others, never feeling alone and so grateful for my life. I am blessed by the results of all the work I have done and continue with my Singing and Sports which is now golf. Take care everyone. Love, Florel Morse Holmes
1962
Sarah Cannon Holden
Monthly ZOOM meetings with classmates have been a positive experience for all of us. We share past, present and future experiences, commitments and dreams. We are learning to know each other all over again and in a deeper and richer way. Try it! The Class of 1962 is full of active, thoughtful and intelligent women. Each of us is thriving in our own particular way. We are glad to be back together where we are working through some of the difficult conversations of our day.
1969
Averill Babson
I find it uplifting and super interesting to be meeting up with a younger class in their experiences with racial justice and inclusion. Other than that, and reading and ZOOMING, I have been hibernating in NH or Maine or CT with family. I am a grandmother now of 2 boys in Maine (Henry 2 years and Theo 4 months) and have been helping during the pandemic as much as I am able to- and have had one shot so far! Be well all!
1971
Kate Pratt Lapping
I am still living in Western Massachusetts and very involved with the Vipassana Meditation Center in Shelburne. Because of the pandemic we had to close the center temporarily to regroup and figure out how to hold ten day courses safely. With the help of a student who is also an infectious disease specialist, we managed to open after a few months, albeit with fewer students(from 150+ students to only 38 per course!). It has been a wild ride! For information about the meditation courses visit: www.dhara.dhamma.org
1978
Nancy Rappaport
I am adapting to the times and trying to support educators and parents through the pandemic, giving lots of Zoom talks! (www.nancyrappaport. com) you can check them out search covid). Had opportunity with virtual psychiatry to spend time in Colorado with my family, a huge relief. Hope everyone is safe.
1981
Eve Berman
Forty years ago I predicted that I would be psychoanalyzing Freud’s gorgeous great grandson. Remember our prediction page in the year book? Well, I was both on target and off. I am working with adolescents in a therapeutic manner, but it turned out I would have been more interested in Freud’s gorgeous great granddaughter. I am in my twenty-first year as the school counselor at The Walnut Hill School for the Arts, an international boarding school for high school artists. As you might imagine, it’s been an interesting year supporting the mental health of teens this year, both masked and in-person, and remotely over Zoom. Luckily for me I did meet the gorgeous great granddaughter of someone. Donna has brought sports back into my life, as well as the outdoors. I’ve learned how to ski and mountain bike and love every minute of it! I hope everyone is well. I remember so much of my three years at Winsor and truly remember so much about each member of the class of ’81.
1981
Eiblis Goldings
What a year! Before I knew what was happening, I added a new pup (2.5yo) to my family. (This made the Pandemic Porch Photo Picture an added challenge!) Sweet Pea has lived up to and beyond her name. Training has been rewarding, and she is full of joy now. We love walking in woods
Eiblis Goldings ’81 (dressed for zoom meetings) in a Pandemic Puppy Porch Photoshoot with new pup: Sweet Pea (Lab Mix), and Decker (left), Ohna (right).
NEWSMAKER: LISA MONACO ’86
DOJ Swears In Lisa Monaco
On April 21, 2021, Lisa Monaco was sworn in as the 39th United States Deputy Attorney General. As the Department of Justice’s No. 2 official, Lisa will be a critical member of the Biden administration as it confronts the nation’s most pressing safety concerns, including the rise in domestic extremism and increasing threats of foreign cyber attacks.
An expert prosecutor, Lisa first joined the Department of Justice (DOJ) as an intern 26 years ago. Over the course of her impressive career, Lisa served as counsel to Janet Reno when she was attorney general, and was a federal prosecutor in Washington when she joined the Enron task force, helping lead the prosecution of five former Enron executives. In 2006, she became counselor and then chief of staff to then F.B.I. Director Robert S. Mueller III. In 2011, she assumed the role of head of the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, and in 2013, went on to the White House to serve as President Obama’s top homeland security adviser.
Lisa’s ability to build consensus has always been an essential component to her continued success. In an April New York Times article, Ken Wainstein, Lisa’s predecessor as the head of the DOJ’s National Security Division, said of Monaco, “Good ideas die all the time because people don’t go to the right congressman or cabinet secretary and get buy-in. That’s the kind of thing that Lisa is masterful at.” A release from the DOJ on the day she was sworn into office captured Lisa’s dedication to the new role. “DAG Monaco reiterated her commitment to reaffirming the Department’s foundational mission and core values, pursuing the Constitution’s promise of equal justice, and ensuring the safety of all who call America home.”
and fields in the Boston area—get in touch if you want to join us!
1981
Amy Linenthal Halliday
Time has been doing strange things during the pandemic, or maybe it just does strange things as the years pass. It amazes me that Paul and I have lived in Charlottesville for nearly twenty-one years, longer than either of us has lived anywhere else. Our nest is empty now, as our sons (Arthur, George, and William) find their way in the world. For the past five years, I’ve been leading a team of writers and editors in the marketing function of the Boston Consulting Group, a job I’ve done remotely all along. Every day, I call on the skills our teachers urged us to practice: listening carefully, reading critically, asking the right questions, speaking up. Honing these is a life’s work! Choral singing is a through-line for me. Fingers crossed that by the time you’re reading this, we’ll be singing— and doing many other fun things— again.
1981
Rachel King
To today’s students, the Class of 1981 is one of those distant classes of “older women”—but when we see each other (on Zoom) this spring, you will all look as beautiful and fresh-faced to me as you did when we graduated! The last forty years of my life in a breathless list: Brown 1985 … Columbia (Master’s) 1988 … Nonprofit communications and fundraising career … Children: Hannah (b. 1997) and Matthew (b. 1999) … Converted to Judaism (2002) … Divorced 2005 … Remarried 2012. Today, I am executive director of a Jewish history organization in Boston; my kids are launching into their adult lives; and I am married to a man who makes me laugh and think. Life is really good. I am forever grateful to Winsor for my love of learning, my passion for good
literature, my writing ability, and my feminism. The sisterhood and empowerment I experienced there sustains me to this day.
1983
Catherine Livingston
After graduating from Wellesley College, I taught Biology and Physics in the Brighton High School in Boston. I am now teaching Biology at The Lawrenceville School while earning my Masters of Science in education from the University of Pennsylvania as part of the Teaching Fellows Program.
1986
Lynn Harris
Well, it’s been...a year. Could not have gotten through it without the support of Juliet Siler Eastland and Emily Abedon, and so many other awesome classmates on Facebook. One other highlight: I opened GOLD Comedy on a new platform, where we can truly be *the* online comedy world for young women + non-binary folks who want to nerd out about comedy together. Let’s hope 2021 is funnier than 2020! (The bar is low.) Love to all.
1994
Marie MacLean Riley Woollacott
Grateful for the Colorado outdoors as my family and I hunker down, work from home, stay engaged in school and cohabitate to a degree we never thought possible! I’ll only say, online school for my 8th grader is a far cry from the rigor of Winsor academics!!! Essays, theorems, and late night studying?? More like, eating all day, sleeping while class ‘plays’ and not changing clothes!! Here’s to a brighter future soon!!! Resilience!!!
ALUMNAE CREATORS
ADCOLOR Receives Emmy® Nomination
For over two decades, Tiffany Warren ’92 has been a leader in the field of diversity, championing diverse professionals in the creative industries, and garnering tremendous industry respect. The founder and president of ADCOLOR, and current executive VP, chief diversity & inclusion officer for Sony Music Group, can now add an Emmy® nomination to a long list of prestigious accolades.
In September 2020, ADCOLOR partnered with The Apollo Theater to bring Grammy Award-winning HaitianAmerican rapper, musician, and actor Wyclef Jean to the Main Stage to perform his iconic debut album, “Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival.” The historic, virtual ADCOLOR 2020 After Dark production kicked off The Apollo Theater’s all-digital fall 2020 season, and was streamed free of charge on the Apollo’s Digital Stage and as part of ADCOLOR Everywhere. The production garnered an Emmy® nomination for ADCOLOR in the Entertainment - Long Form Content category.
In an interview for Harlem World Magazine in September, Jean said. “I’ve been wanting to do a complete performance of The Carnival for a while now, and I’m excited that I’m able to combine energies with the Apollo and ADCOLOR to pull it off. All three of us are here to celebrate culture, diversity, and the Black American experience, and we’re ready to provide a historic performance that does just that.” In the same piece, Tiffany shared, “It’s truly a remarkable moment for our organization to partner with the Apollo, and it’s all the more iconic with Wyclef doing his first-ever complete performance of The Carnival. I’m here for it, and I know our community will be too.”
1996
Amanda Katz
My spouse, Kara Swisher, and I welcomed a baby girl, Clara Jo Swisher Katz, in October 2019. She joins my two stepsons, Louie (18) and Alex (15). We moved to Washington, DC, in Feb. 2020—friends who are here, feel free to drop me a line!
2001
Claire Pasternack Goldsmith
What a year of tragedy and injustice—littered with silver linings and reason to hope. Brian and I and our children (Eliza, 4 years old and Teddy, 2 in May) baked a lot of challah— when we weren’t connecting into Zoom preschool or singing about excavators. I grew more in my field of online learning this year than I had in the prior ten, as my little corner of education became front and center. I was thrilled to volunteer on our friend Pete Buttigieg’s campaign for President, lead strategic planning for a national professional association, join the board of our synagogue here in LA, and become a Trustee at Winsor. Other than Paris (nothing’s changed), the first place I want to visit is Pilgrim Road. My Winsor classmates are still my best friends. We must empower and educate the women of the future; we will need their leadership.
2006
Laura Gaylord Resch
Still living in Shaker Heights, Ohio with my husband Garner and daughter Regan. Working in preventive conservation at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Wish we had the opportunity to gather this spring on Pilgrim Road to celebrate the 15th reunion for the Class of 2006- will have to go big
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1. Ali (Pearlman) Michel ’96 with her family in Palo Alto, CA. 2. From left: Scott, Sophie, Emma, and Alyssa Penwell ’96. Maldives, December 2020. 3. L to R: Ben, 7, Nick, Callie, 9, and Emily (Young) Williams ’96 spent a lot of time outdoors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here they are enjoying a hike in their hometown of Andover, Mass. 4. Elizabeth Lewis ’96 with her husband, Dave, and daughters, Alexandra (now 9) and Stella (now 5). 5. Haley Moulton ’11 Dartmouth White Coat Ceremony 2016
PMI! grants enables children of incarcerated parents to participate in team sports
NEWSMAKER: ALEX HORVITZ ’11
Increasing Access to Sports
Put Me In! (PMI!) increases access to recreational and competitive sports for Children of Incarcerated Parents (CIPs) and one of Winsor’s own, Alex Horvitz ’11, is a founding member and serves as their marketing & communications lead.
Put Me In! invests to close the opportunity divide for CIPs. PMI! funds annual financial aid grants of $1,000 per year per enrolled CIP to support participation in sports through targeting enrolled CIPs during middle school and supporting them through high school. PMI! identifies CIPs and their caregivers through referrals and collaboration with community-based organizations (“CBOs”), government agencies, and other non-profits serving CIPs and system-impacted families.
Alex shared the inspiration behind PMI!:
Playing sports at Winsor helped define the person I am today. I remember in middle school going from dryland training at 6 AM, to soccer practice after school, to my evening swim practice after that. I rushed from a swim meet to an indoor lacrosse game every Saturday during the winter months. In high school, I was a tri-varsity athlete and captain of my varsity lacrosse and swim teams.
Winsor gave me confidence; sports gave me a sense of self. Sports also helped me develop tangible skills that I have used and will continue to use throughout my life – leadership, teamwork, strategy, and focus.
I say this recognizing that the reason I could have these experiences was because I grew up with two parents who supported and encouraged me, and my family had the money to pay for league fees and equipment. This is not often the case, particularly for children of incarcerated parents.
Head to putmein.org to learn more about what we do. for year 20! This year I have enjoyed connecting with alum’s from various classes as we work together to make Winsor and the wider world a more just and equitable place to be.
2006
Curry Wilson
In February of 2021, I closed on my first home in the Denver area, finally planting some roots in a city after living in multiple places over the past 15 years. My dog, Camden, and I are absolutely loving having a space to call our own!
2007
Mary Catherine Quinn
My husband and I welcomed our first child in January! We had a boy and his name is TJ. It’s been an exciting start to 2021!
2007
Denee Reaves
I am now a Wealth Coach working with people, especially women, to change their mindset and behaviors with money in order to live their lives to the fullest. I do this through my company, Focused Work, and am currently in the process of receiving official certification as a coach.
2014
Rachel Scholz-Bright
I am thrilled to share that I graduated from Georgetown Law this May! I will be moving back to Boston this summer, and am excited to start my legal career as an associate at Ropes & Gray.
2016
Natalia Lindsey
I received a Fulbright grant to live in Spain during Spring 2021.
ARRIVALS AND ADOPTIONS
1996
Amanda Katz
and Kara Swisher a daughter, Clara Jo Swisher Katz October 2019
2005
Stephanie Brenman-Reed
and Elizabeth Brenman-Reed a son, Holden James Brenman-Reed March 2021
2007
Mary Catherine Quinn
and Tony Vorlicek a son, TJ January 2021
2008
Paige Beaton Coulier
and Pieter Coulier a son, Noah Beaton Coulier August 2020
IN MEMORIAM
1939
Elizabeth Billings Roitman
1940
Faith Killiam Warner
1941
Margaret Waite Arnold Gertrude Trumbull Burr Ann Williams Wardwell
1942
Alice Hedge Brewer Eleanor Jones Dorsey Marion Ware Jolliffe Phyllis Darling White
1943
Emlen Lowell Wheeler
1944
Ruth Cunningham Cross Isobel Parke
1945
Martha Davis Barnes
1946
Barbara Beatley Anthony Sheila Paine
1947
Constance Walker Haddleton Elizabeth Storer Paynter Patricia Ross Pratt
1948
Josephine Hornor Belknap Emily Weston Frankovich Mary Eaton Lee
1949
Elise Faulkner Jones
1950
Alicia Gardner Sinclair Pollie Thompson Frothingham Nancy Stevens Fuller Judith Thompson Sapers
1951
Ann-Elisa Wetherald Black Phoebe Barnes Caner Sandylee Weille Maccoby
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Anne King Palmer
1956
Barbara Elliott Niles
1957
Mary Rhinelander McCarl Judith Prien Turzanski
1958
Judy Bishop Friend
1959
Judith Innes
1960
Kathleen Emmet Darman Anne Thompson Vaughan
1961
Carolyn Mitton Ford Louisa Shaw
1963
Gabriella Burrage Haroutunian
1965
Anne Harwood
1967
Astrid Glynn
FROM THE ARCHIVES
City Living
“There is excitement right outside our door,” reflected one student on how strongly Winsor’s identity connects to its urban location. With the Longwood MBTA station a short walk from campus, students travel by “T” on visits around the city, viewing Boston as an extended classroom. Starting 50 years ago, sixth graders studied Boston intensively, taking weekly field trips to discover Boston past and present. Many graduates fondly remember exploring neighborhoods and cultural institutions in and around the city while becoming veterans of public transportation.
Virtual Alumnae Day 2021
Ellen Pinderhughes ’71 was selected by her classmates to deliver this year’s 50th reunion address. The following is extracted from her remarks.
REMEMBERING AND REFLECTING
“We came of age in a troubled world — on the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, during the Black Power Movement, as the Women’s Liberation Movement was underway, during the Vietnam War.
And now, as we celebrate our 50th reunion, again we find ourselves in a troubled world. The country is reckoning with four centuries of violent and systemic discrimination that has privileged some and marginalized others... As Winsor, its students, and alums transact with this reality, we all must consider Winsor’s history.”
OUR TIME AT WINSOR
“We were such a diverse class… and yet we didn’t know how diverse we were. We were Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, agnostic, straight, lesbian, from varied income backgrounds, of different ethnicities, though White and Black...
Although expected to fit the ‘Winsor girl’ mold (and I could never), our class found ways to assert our interests and ourselves... Our class has — to this day — been the only class to vote to wear what we wanted [at Commencement]. For many of us, the choice was something other than white. Our Commencement picture reflects the
diversity whom we were and would become, but were not able to fully express in all its complexity while at Winsor and be affirmed.
I wonder how many of us here today know the historical significance of our action. I didn’t until days ago. After our vote, which signaled a moment of reckoning, Winsor was able to reimagine itself...Winsor listened to, accepted, and attempted to understand our protests, and redefined its decades-old self-image that it proudly presented yearly at Commencement. Never again has the entire school been white. WE did that!!!
RECKONING AND REIMAGINING
Through my lens, Winsor’s last 57 years — since Patricia Elam Walker ’71 and I walked through its doors as its first Black students — has been a complicated history. Winsor has certainly evolved and progressed. Critical changes, including affinity groups and the student-led Board for Equity and Inclusion, signal Winsor’s aspiration to be more inclusive and equitable. Creative, determined admissions processes have helped Winsor reflect more of the diversity in Greater Boston.
This complicated history also includes the inability to acknowledge and incorporate awareness of some of Winsor’s mistakes, notably a failure in 1996 to disseminate the alumnae/ student panel video on being Black at Winsor from the 1960s to 1990s. See Reflection, Discussion and Connection story for more on the video, which is now available to view on the Winsor website.
As Winsor reckons with the current reality of its hidden voices, we once again are in a moment full of possibility for reimaging and redefining Winsor. Students will only be equitably supported in their pursuits of self-exploration and expression through a full historical accounting of Winsor’s history. We must bring the decades-old hidden voices of Winsor into the light – perhaps lit by the Winsor lamp.
REFLECTION, DISCUSSION, AND CONNECTION: THE 1996 PANEL
In July, alums and members of the Winsor community virtually joined Head of School Sarah Pelmas, former Director of School Carolyn McClintock Peter, and former Director of Admission Pamela Parks McLaurin ’71, P’12 for a viewing of the recorded 1996 panel discussion among alums and students of the experiences of Black students at Winsor from 1964 to 1996. The viewing was followed by a moderated conversation.
The event, created in partnership with Independent Trust, the network designed to build connections, engage, and support the professional goals of independent school alums of color, was facilitated by Gloria Fernandez Tearte. Independent Trust will be inviting BIPOC alums to a meeting later this fall.
“To move forward in our critical DEI work, we must examine where we came from and how our history influences who we are as a school and community today; this video and the lived experiences of our alums are an important part of that history,” said Sarah Pelmas. “More importantly, reflecting on the past and how it influences our present can help us to continue to evolve to create greater equity and inclusion within our community.”
The recording of the event is available on the Winsor website, under Alumnae News.
ALUMNAE PROFILE
Class of 2020 Spotlight
Sarah Albert-Rozenberg
Since Brown’s Covid plan did not allow freshmen to begin a full courseload until January 2021, I spent my fall semester in Paris. During my time there, I visited with family, took a freshman seminar class through Brown, privately tutored Chemistry and Writing, and worked as a teaching assistant for Harvard Medical School’s MEDscience program. I then had my first semester on campus at Brown in the spring, during which I started completing some pre-med requirements. Outside of classes, I joined an a cappella group (The Ursa Minors), the Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment (BRYTE) organization, which is similar to Winsor’s Greenwood program, and the executive board of Brown’s chapter of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA). This summer, I am working as a counselor at Camp Kinderland, where I have been going since I was eight. Between the end of my semester and the beginning of camp, I resumed my teaching position at Harvard MEDscience and helped develop and write curriculum for their summer program. I also continued volunteering as a French interpreter and translator for the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project, for which I began volunteering as part of my ILE.
Indi Aufranc
Since graduating from Winsor last year, I finished my freshman year at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD where I’m currently pursuing a BA in international studies! After a remote first semester, I moved onto campus in January and was able to meet a lot of my classmates and explore the city. I’d also joined a student-run podcast earlier in the year (the Hopkins Podcast on Foreign Affairs– check us out on Spotify!!!) that I became more involved with in the spring and am continuing to work on this summer as Chief Marketing Officer. I’m spending this summer in Seattle, WA interning at a food blog and media company and staying with my extended family. Next semester, I’m looking forward to being an orientation leader, moving back on campus, and having a more normal year than the last one!
Danya Dubrow-Compaine
Like many people in my grade, I decided to take a gap year this year. I spent September-May living in Israel, first in Jerusalem and then in Tel Aviv. While I was there, I interned at the Jerusalem Press Club, worked at a local garden, and volunteered at a women’s community center for Eritrean refugees. I started taking Brazilian Ju Jitzu classes and even became a waitress for a few weeks at a restaurant that had just opened. I also had the chance to travel around the country and cross more than a few items off my bucket list: rappelling, SCUBA diving, and skydiving to name a few. As someone who is interested in studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in college, my time spent there was invaluable. Against the rules of my program, I went into the West Bank to volunteer with a Palestinian shepherd and talk to Palestinians living in Ramallah. I was also there to experience the most recent flair up in violence and had to run to bomb shelters on multiple occasions. After two weeks at home, I packed up again and moved to spend six weeks living in Aix-en-Provence, France on the Saltonstall scholarship. During my time here, I’m taking classes on psychopathology and media and conflict and using my free time to explore as much as I can (currently on a train to Paris as I write this). This year has been an amazing whirlwind of experiences, and I can’t wait for the adventure to continue when I start college in the fall.
Tina Gong
While not originally intending to, I ended up taking a gap year because of the pandemic. I spent my gap year exploring new and interesting fields by taking some cool online classes in subjects not offered at Winsor, like digital painting, concept art illustration, and computer science! In my free time I began regularly exploring Boston’s variety of (both new and old) restaurants (in a covid-safe manner), creating lots of art, watching movies, sharpening my cooking skills, and taking care of my plants at home. This fall, I will finally be on campus as a freshman at Harvard! I’ll be fencing for the Crimson team and am interested in studying computer science, physics, and maybe a touch of philosophy and art at Harvard.
Briggs Negron
I am currently in my sophomore year at NYU and have begun to complete required courses for my major in political science and am working with the program You Can Too, a mentorship program in which we mentor black and hispanic kids applying to college. As a You Can Too mentor I connected with my mentee in Texas via zoom and helped her design her resume, understand the common app, and navigate other college application resources. While clubs and sports were mostly closed or held only via zoom last year, a couple of clubs I am looking forward to joining in the coming in-person school year are the Puerto Rican Association (Pra), possibly some form of student government, and the BIPOC LGBTQ+ club Sisters. I also want to join the crew team when sports open up again in the fall and take advantage of all the in-person resources NYU has to offer!
Michelle Pu
I had a great first year at Tufts University! I am planning to double major in Biology and Child Studies and Human Development on the premedical track. During school, I mentored with the organization Strong Women Strong Girls and am now a member of the executive board. I was also a member of Tufts EMS-AID, which collected and distributed medical supplies to hospitals in Venezuela. This summer, I’m an intern at The Price Center, which serves people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. I’m also volunteering for Horizons for Homeless this summer and next semester. In my free time, I’ve been taking care of my 75 plants, drawing, and playing volleyball. Next year, I will play club volleyball, volunteer, and mentor. This past year has been an amazing and challenging growth experience and I’m looking forward to next semester!
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Sarah Albert-Rozenberg Indi Aufranc Michelle Pu
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Tina Gong
Eva Shin
Eva Shin
After graduation, I spent the summer working at a beekeeping company, helping with the Summer at Winsor basketball program, and spending time with my family! Beekeeping was supposed to be my ILE but didn’t work out due to COVID, so I was really excited that I had the opportunity to work there over the summer. I got to drive all over the state checking on people’s backyard beehives and then harvesting the honey. In the fall, I was lucky to get to attend Haverford College in person (although like many, all my classes were virtual). Between COVID, a campus-wide strike for racial justice, a concussion, and trying to acclimate to being out of state without the option to travel home due to the pandemic, it was certainly an unusual and challenging freshman year. Fortunately, I had a great roommate (whose grandmother taught at Winsor!) and had the opportunity to play lacrosse, a welcome change from spending so much time in my room. I’m happy to be home and to get to see friends in person for the first time in more than a year, and I’m looking forward to a more normal sophomore year!
Shantel Teixeira
Though this past year certainly defied all expectations, I learned so much about myself as an emotional being and dug into areas of my craft as a musician that I never thought I’d encounter before. Spending the entirety of my first year at Berklee College of Music in my bedroom and studying an aural art form through a computer screen felt so unnatural, but I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of having my exploration of the vast world of music as my primary focus. I also had the privilege of becoming a member of Treble Threat, Berklee’s only all-women & non-binary a cappella group! Though we never had the opportunity to sing in the same room, we were surprisingly able to accomplish so much in a virtual setting. I actually recently became President of the group as well so I am definitely looking forward to leading the group and performing in-person this upcoming year! Apart from college life, I’ve also released my first piece of original music and featured in a powerful song and music video with an artist friend of mine! Wishing all of us a more fruitful and promising year ahead :)
Shantel Teixeira
Ifeanyi Umunna Hi Class of 2020!
Since we graduated, I have interned for a congressional campaign, completed my first year at American University where I’m majoring in political science, and am presently interning at the Baltimore Office of the Public Defender. Although my freshman year was remote, next year, I’ll be an RA for our on-campus Black Affinity Housing and a TA for my Leadership certificate program. I also serve on the executive board of our Black Student Union. On a fun note, I also learned how to make whipped cream from scratch! I hope everyone is well!
Anahita von Andrian
Since graduating, I have moved to New York City to study Film & Television Production at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and run my freelance corporate, commercial, and personal creative content production company. I directed a multi-phase creative “social-first” ad campaign for MUZE Music Inc, a platform for individuals to book live entertainment online over Zoom, directed
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Audrey Wu
and produced three short silent experimental films, and wrote eight scripts (one of which is currently in production). I also helped create the pilot episode of Art Majors, a majority LGBTQ+ crew & cast TV show pushing for queer representation in the TV and media industry, as assistant director, executive producer, assistant editor, and graphics animator. I have spent a lot of valuable time this past year on my peer’s sets as a director of photography and continue to pursue independent creative visual projects through various mediums - photography, multi-dimensional animation, digital imaging, editing etc. Because the nature of filmmaking is so incredibly collaborative, I ran into plenty of challenges given the pandemic and social distancing. Navigating the exhausting and expensive road to ensuring COVID-19 precautions and standards were practiced on all
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sets, big and small, required a higher level of organization, which I’d argue beneficially resulted in more precise filmmaking. Creating and collaborating on films this year was not for the faint of heart, but it wasn’t impossible, and in a way, forced me to develop as a creator in ways I may not have sans-pandemic. It will be interesting to see how I will apply and grow on these skills during the next academic year, hopefully post-pandemic.
Audrey Wu
Hello! I’m writing from London, currently pursuing a degree in composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
I’ve spent my past few weeks finishing up a new work, “receive | repeat | restore | redeem,” commissioned by The Halfmoon ensemble, who premiered my music at the Roslindale Substation on Wednesday, June 23. This is part of a multimedia piece called “PrintWorks” that opened the annual summer concert series by SoHIP (Society for Historically Informed Performance).
One of my other major projects this year was a work for full orchestra, recorded text, and fixed media titled “IN HONOR OF ETHEL.” The piece pays homage to British composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth, a notable figure in the history of classical music — and whose music I played in Winsor’s Community Ensemble under the baton of Ms. Rice!
The work is a part of a larger initiative, the Illuminated River project, which is a massive art installation that lights up the bridges across the Thames River. We’ve been asked to write music to celebrate the project as a collaboration between the Guildhall School and the City of London.
50TH REUNION
Class of 1971
1st row L-R: Mary Barnes, Elizabeth Nardi, Martha Gergely Picciotti, Elizabeth Colten, Patricia Elam, Anstiss Miller Wynn, Miss Wing, Barbara Gardner, Miss Dresser, Priscilla Olive Motley, Laura Potter Cahn, Hope Coolidge, Andrea Casner Stephens, Franny Wheeler-Berta. 2nd Row L-R: Sara Lacy, Catherine Rogers, Marie Ryburn Foster, Elisabeth Wright Wigglesworth, Barbara Clark McCartney, Cynthia Sortwell, Elizabeth Swartz, Ellen Pinderhughes, Pamela Parks McLaurin, Marilyn Dawson, Alice Agoos, Mary Sullivan, Amy Rappaport Arambula, Louise Riemer, Virginia King Greenwood, Augusta Mixter Edwards, Ellen O’Donnell Broggi, Margaret Quine McGovern. 3rd Row L-R: Kate Pratt Lapping, Susan Dean, Sarah Wilson, Patricia Green Dunn, Joy Beane Brieant, Barbara McLean O’Neil, Lucy Bradshaw, Martha Rhodes, Emily Feinberg, Nancy Braasch Allen, Susan Lafferty, Jennifer Slingerland Skeele, Luisa Hunnewell, Diane Souvaine, Andrea Frost Young, Pamela Jenney Taft, Linda Alles, Karen Gordon Mills, Wendy Harding French Alice Agoos
Fifty years ago, my graduation speech focused on friendship. I still believe that friends are the best part of my Winsor experience though I also appreciate how many opportunities have come my way thanks to Winsor instruction. Milestones: college, moving to New York for graduate school, writing jobs, marriage to Patrick Ryan, two children, Molly and Solomon; 28-years living in a NYC suburb with multiple volunteer commitments; co-founding a newsletter/conference business with my husband; surviving working together for 20 years and selling the business; becoming a Florida resident (while insisting I was too young); writing a children’s book (based on a Class VII French assignment); starting another blog/newsletter with my husband (looking into having my sanity checked); becoming a grandmother; spending much of the last four years bemoaning the state of our country; thankful to visit our children on the West Coast, even last summer; hopeful we are making progress.
Joy Beane Brieant
After Winsor, I did a PG year at Andover, then Barnard College and Fordham Law School. Married to Charles Brieant; we have three children, the youngest, Emily, is a sophomore at Stanford, so I am still working. I have had a varied career path, starting out in a federal clerkship, moving on to a large law firm for 12 years, then eight years in academia, and nine years in judicial education. I am currently enjoying work as a court attorney referee in Westchester Surrogate’s Court, as well as continuing as an adjunct at Pace Law School. I clearly remember walking into the Winsor vestibule for my interview with Miss Knapp (!) when I was in 4th grade and deciding then and there
that I would go to Winsor. I had no idea about private schools and vaguely thought my parents might be sending me to a private school because there was something wrong with me, but I have never (before or since) been so certain of a decision. My eight years at Winsor were occasionally bumpy; especially in the lower school, I questioned whether I belonged. I value the excellent education, and I think often (and fondly) of our classmates.
Laura Potter Cahn
Overall adulthood has been very good to me. I recently retired from my dream job-staff attorney with the Juvenile Rights Practice of the Legal Aid Society. It turns out thirty-eight years representing abused and neglected children in Brooklyn Family Court was enough. I have been married thirty-seven years to a man who can be best described as a true soul mate. We have three sons, two daughters-in-law and two grandchildren. I have been able to indulge my passion of travel to unusual places including Mongolia, Madagascar, Greenland, Patagonia, Laos. We had a trip planned for Cambodia but covid got in the way. I am glad that Winsor is addressing the huge problem of racism in this society. I do worry, however, that perpetuating a system of small elite prep schools, no matter how integrated, actually does more to exacerbate rather than ameliorate systemic racism.
Hope Coolidge
Four years at Williams College (first admitted class of women, so immediately a sharp contrast to Winsor), emerging with a degree in Russian area studies/history, and the man I would marry about 10 years later. We spent a year in Mark’s hometown of Louisville, KY, where I worked for the Lost Cause Press selling microfiche to universities. Then back to the Boston area and a job as business manager at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Then a Simmons MBA, followed by a variety of finance/CFO positions at some great nonprofits - National Consumer Law Center, Danforth Museum, Royal Oak Foundation in NYC, Central Square Theater, Boston Public Library Foundation. Now CFO at Star Island (based in Portsmouth, NH, so mostly remote). Two great children born somewhere between ISGM and the MBA: Emily, a learning technology specialist at the Harvard libraries, and Clayton, a structural engineer at SGH. We’ve traveled all over as a family, most recently to visit Mark’s family in France, with a side trip to Mont St Michel, a place I’d always wanted to see. Mark and I live on a dirt road in Sherborn, MA and spend a lot of time in the White Mountains of NH.
Patricia Green Dunn
It’s hard to believe that its been 50 years post Winsor! I am feeling blessed and content with the path I have traveled since graduation. I continued my education at Pine Manor ’73, Colby College ’75 and received an MBA from Babson College in ’77. Married Steve Dunn in 1978 (Belmont Hill ’70, Brown ’74). We raised 3 children in Wellesley and Needham. Somehow they followed in our footsteps: Melissa- Winsor ’98, Colby ’02, Rob- Belmont Hill ’01, Colgate ’05, Cornell ’10, and Scott- Belmont Hill ’03, Brown ’07. During the children’s school years, I was an active volunteer in their schools as well as with the Friends of Dana Farber and my garden club. I became interested in floral design and after many classes and workshops I joined Winston Flowers in their Wellesley location for 10 years. Steve joined a firm in Manhattan in 2005, and after a lifetime in Boston, we moved to Greenwich,CT. I became interested in garden design and studied to become a Certified Landscape Designer. I have been practicing on my own for the past 11 years. Steve retired at the end of 2019 and we now live full time in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. We have 4 beautiful grandchildren that bring us great joy. When I’m not working, I like to stay active and enjoy tennis, pickleball and golf.
Patricia Elam-Walker
First of all I still don’t understand how this happened. How it is our 50th reunion and how when I look in the mirror do I now see my mother even though I still feel 30ish on the inside? (My body would probably beg to differ, though.) But here we are at our 50th reunion. I have to say it was wonderful to see everyone (even on Zoom) and hear some of what people have been up to all these years. I have been back to visit and speak at Winsor a few times and I’m pleased with the strides it has made in terms of diversifying the faculty, staff and student body. I know it still has further to go and I’m glad younger folks are holding Winsor’s metaphorical “feet to the fire”. Pam McLaurin and I took gap years after Winsor, were roommates and only applied to colleges that began with “A” and were in the front of the college handbook. She went
to Antioch and I went to Adelphi. A big LOL but it turned out fine for us both. Even though I loved writing I couldn’t see the path forward so I did what many scared writers do—went to law school. Practiced for 16 years in Boston and Washington, DC where I ended up raising my three incredible children. Justin, 38, is an actor, writer and producer in LA; Denzel, 32, is a basketball golf coach at a private high school in VA; and Nile, 28 is a professional dancer currently working with a dance company in Seattle. They amaze me with how smart, creative and wise they are. And they are thoughtful, caring people doing good in the world. What more can you ask? No grandchildren, though, only grandpets. Oh and along the way, I’ve had three marriages. The one I’m in now is my last, I promise. He’s a lawyer I met when I was in law school some 40 whatever years ago. I wouldn’t date him then cause he was too nice. Lol again. We reconnected some 14 years ago and have been married 8 years. We live in Takoma Park, MD after I dragged him kicking and screaming from Boston. He’s retired but still teaching law, drawing cartoons and taking stunning photographs as he jogs and bikes around town. I teach fiction and creative non-fiction to my brilliant Howard University students and have begun writing children’s books, partly in honor of my mom, a children’s librarian. The first, Nana Akua Goes to School came out last summer and the second, Dream Street, will be published in September. I’m also finishing another adult novel, writing plays, essays and short stories. I love my life, want to stay healthy and travel to see more of this world. I just pray for enough time to do it all!
Emily Feinberg
I am fortunate to continue to have productive work and family close by. I have remained in Boston (Jamaica Plain) and work at BU Medical School doing mental health services research focused on improving primary care systems for vulnerable families. I also work as a pediatric nurse practitioner at a local health center. My kids live within walking distance. I get to see them and the 4 grandkids very often. Two years ago, my spouse who was also my best friend and colleague, died of pancreatic cancer after a brief 6 months. I never expected grief to be so difficult and could not have made it through without support of family and friends (including Winsor classmates). I love to escape to the woods to cross country ski and hike. Last winter (preCOVID), I squeezed in an amazing trip to Yellowstone National Park. The election was a high point of an otherwise hard year. It was great to engage the whole family in get out the vote efforts. I am so relieved by the change in country’s direction and impressed by the incredible work done by voting rights activists. I am encouraged about our collective reckoning with the racism and am cautiously optimistic about the future.
Marie Ryburn Foster
After almost 40 years of living in Annapolis, MD where our 4 children were raised, my husband Malcolm and I bought a 2nd home in Damariscotta, Maine - 5 miles away from his family’s summer home and near to his siblings. We are now both retired and divide our time between Maine and Annapolis, often stopping on the long drive to visit our son and 1 & 3 year old grandsons who live in the Boston area. We spend as much time as possible either on the water or in our gardens, and look forward to the time when we can visit with friends and family in a Covid free world!
Wendy Harding French
Gosh, I can’t believe 50 years have past. I must say I have lived a great life. I have been married for 47 years to Jim French. (Ha ha, remember how poorly I did in French.) We live in Southborough MA, and have raised six children, two boys, and four girls. The boys work as landscapers, two girls are nurses, one a teacher, and one a nanny. We did it. Love having a big family. They all live near, except for one who is in NC, living by the beach, where we tend to go for our vacations. The oldest got married 4 year ago, and the fifth one got married two years ago. Last Fall we were blessed with our first grandchild, a boy, who lives about 1/2 hour away. It is so nice to see him a lot, especially during these turbulent times. During the years, I have watched other people’s children for extra cash, and cashiered at BJ’s. Otherwise, I was a stay at home mom raising my children. Jim and I became Christians 40+ years ago, and have been very active in our church over the years, and made most of our friends there. Strange watching Church on Facebook and Zooming Bible Studies. We love to grow vegetables, read thrillers, and go camping.
Virginia King Greenwood
After leaving Winsor, I attended Penn, where, as a sophomore, I began dating Rick, the man I later married. We were in DC for a few years after graduation. I worked first as a volun-
teer, then as paid staff, for Legal Aid as a paralegal and manager of the Family Branch office. We moved to Providence RI after marrying in 1978 for Rick to attend Grad School at Brown. Vowing never to work domestic relations again, I had several menial jobs before ending up back as a paralegal, doing Domestic Relations again and worked for the same attorney, at two different firms until my retirement. Rick and I had three kids, Molly, Sam and Lucy, and I now have three grandsons. I lost Rick to cancer in 2014 and still miss him terribly. However, I live in one of the most beautiful and serene places on earth (Little Compton, Rhode Island) am very active in my new community and have taken several great trips with Jennie Slingerland Skeele and Margaret Quine McGovern and since Covid we’ve been zooming regularly.
Luisa Hunnewell
50 years ago, a lifetime since we graduated, but it’s gone so quickly. After Winsor, college, business school (no business background, but could write a coherent argument thanks to Winsor and managed to get through) and then long stints at Chemical Bank and Willowridge Partners (an investment business I built from the ground up with my brother-in-law). A couple of years in Madrid, but basically have lived in NYC where I married, and we brought up two wonderful children. Over the years I was lucky enough to convince my husband that Wellesley would be a good ultimate home. We’ve just retired and moved back, across the street from where I grew up. Retirement so far is not what we expected, but it ultimately will be. We are blessed with health, family and friends, trips to visit our children and new granddaughter in California and hopefully further explorations as things open up. We have lots to do and learn in taking care of a big garden and look forward to becoming more involved in a variety of different Boston organizations with interests ranging from horticulture to social support networks - all things I missed in an all too busy work environment.
Susan Lafferty
At commencement in 1971, wearing my non-white dress proudly, I watched the 50th reunion class file in and wondered what I would be like when I celebrated my own. Now I know. Here are the highlights: Graduated Bard College 1975. After a brief stint in advertising, I joined the training program at Filene’s in Boston. After my first horrendous day, which was also the blizzard of ’78, I spent the next week at home wondering if I had made the wrong choice. That marked the beginning of a 37-year career in the fashion world. Along the way I managed to I marry, move to Connecticut, have three children, run the Boston Marathon, resume my career in NYC, lose a husband to cancer, become a single parent, move to Martha’s Vineyard to recalibrate, return to Connecticut, re marry, relocate to the Berkshires, and reinvent myself for this next chapter. Fashion and design still play a major role in everything I do- gutting and renovating two houses in Stockbridge, writing a blog and speaking in public. I am now a Realtor, a grandmother of three and wonder if I am really as old as Miss Dresser.
Kate Pratt Lapping
How to compress 50 years into 200 words? After graduating I ended up in India after an overland journey full of misadventures (my passport stolen in Afghanistan in the middle of winter was one of many...). I heard about Vipassana meditation courses from some of the other western hippies and it was like a fire had been lit. I sat my first course in Dalhousie in 1972 and found a wonderful tool for the rest of my life. Fast forward to 1982 when a group of us founded the first Vipassana Meditation center in the US, located in Shelburne, Massachusetts. The property had an old house and barn on 8 acres of land and we didn’t have a clue what we were doing! But we were all young and enthusiastic and somehow it all worked out. Now the center has facilities for 155 people, with 10-day residential courses every two weeks. Barry and I married in 1982 and we are the head teachers for this center as well as one in Delaware. It has been a satisfying life so far! If anyone is interested you can see the center at: www.dhara.dhamma.org and I’d be happy to give you a tour.
Margaret Quine McGovern
Following college, I moved to New York City for a few crazy years in advertising, before driving cross-country to San Francisco, where I still live. Worked some more in advertising before making a switch. Had a wonderful 7 month back-packing trip in New Zealand with Jim, and got married in Vermont after we returned. We have a son Grant (35) and daughter Ashley (32). I have been working for Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute for about 20 years, supporting a couple of research teams and
coordinating the Institutional Review Board. Traveling has been a passion, internationally and our National Parks. I’ve enjoyed being in a flute choir for a number of years. I have kept up with a few close Winsor friends, notably Sarah Wilson, Jennie Slingerland Skeele and Ginny King, and Jeannette Herrmann. I really wish we could all be getting together in person for our reunion. It was such a special time ten years ago.
Pamela Parks McLaurin
When my second life at Winsor ended in June 2020 after 18 years as Director of Admission & Financial Aid, I decided to spend time becoming a better artist. A juried review of five of my sculptures earned me membership into the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) along with an invitation to join the Massachusetts chapter (NAWAMA). I showed pieces in two group exhibitions this past fall in the SOWA art district galleries here, in Boston. My husband Bill and I hope to move to Savannah, Georgia by the end of 2021 where we bought a home, sight unseen, in 2019. 9,000 artsy fartsy students study at SCAD contributing to Savannah’s wonderfully eclectic (and quite ‘blue’) southern city. Our daughter, Evan Joy ’12, will continue teaching health full-time at Winsor.
Barbara McLean O’Neil
Writing, reading and art have been life-long pleasures for me. Perhaps it began with handwritten notes passed in secret in the Winsor School library, or memorizing The Lake Isle of Innisfree for a seventh grade assignment. Singing Handel’s Messiah, two glee clubs joined one winter evening. Reviewing lists of Latin vocabulary with a friend as we trudged home from school. English essays returned with teacher comments; “Give more detail.” And so I did, and still do. With a colleague, I created a library at the newly formed Atrium School and taught literature, folklore and research to young students. I made books by hand with my two daughters, sewing bindings with waxed thread, and filling the pages with writing and drawing. Now I do the same with my three year-old granddaughter. Over the years, I have developed my own writing practice, studying with many teachers. I now lead writing groups locally, prodding others to share their authentic stories. I run a yearly retreat, Deepening the Writing Life, gathering writers from across the country in Taos, New Mexico. In 2020, my writing classes on Zoom brought us closer in a year of isolation. David and I have lived in the same place for forty years. Roots deep in Lincoln soil.
1 Martha Gergely Picciotti
After graduation from Winsor I received a BA in arts focusing on architecture from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. This was followed by a move to Los Angeles where I earned a master’s degree in architecture from the UCLA School of Urban Planning and Architecture in 1981. For the next 3 years I remained in Los Angeles working for various architectural firms with a focus on residential design. In 1984 I decided to escape from the city life of Los Angeles and moved to Mammoth Lakes, California to ski and practice architecture. I met my husband Ron on the slopes and joined him in Ventura, California where he was working for Chevron Oil Company. We were married in 1987 in the house I grew up in Nahant. From 1985 to 1993 I worked for several architectural and development firms in Santa Barbara and obtained my California architectural license in 1987. In 1993 I founded my own practice based in
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1/2. Pam McLaurin sculptures; Head is named “Act III” and the hands are “Stop! #MeToo”
Ventura specializing in custom residential architecture. We purchased a vacant lot on the Ventura hillside in 1999. Together with my husband acting as owner/builder I designed and Ron supervised the construction of our house with attached office overlooking the Pacific coastline. We love it here, although I will always be an east coaster at heart. Ron works with me in the practice. We have two cats and no children. I stay busy with my work as an architect, my passion developing the Ventura Botanical Gardens, practicing yoga and making pottery - I always wished Winsor had a ceramics studio. My life is full and fulfilling.
Ellen Pinderhughes
How to distill 50 years’ highlights into 200 words- here goes...My Winsor years were so formative not just in excellent academic preparation, but also in navigating White spaces, which I have done through most of my academic and professional career. Early career: day care
3. Ellen Pinderhughes ’71
teacher and director, psychologist/ therapist. Professor in academia since 1989: Cleveland State, Vanderbilt and Tufts Universities, with some administration as department chair and interim Chief Diversity Officer. At Eliot-Pearson Dept. of Child Study and Human Development, I study cultural processes in/contextual influences on parenting in families facing challenging circumstances. Teaching focuses on promoting understanding of our social identities and systemic marginalization in culturally sensitive interactions and research. Also teach in Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Program. Love mentoring young professionals. My personal update: lived in Colorado, Connecticut, Ohio and Tennessee, am now in Brookline with my husband, Bernard Greene (now retired, Chair of Brookline’s Select Board). My children have been highlights of my life as I loved each of their developmental stages. Olivia lives in Brooklyn with her partner; she’s an international lawyer. Marshall lives in Boston with his wife and attends UMass part-time. Love meditating, yoga, sunrises and sunsets, walking, swimming, movies and reading. Treasure my friendships.
Martha Rhodes
Oh, rather than look back at the year, I’d rather look ahead—more poems to write, students to teach, friends to get together with—after too long apart—a move out of—but an inch away from NYC, more trips around this troubled but hopefully healing country. We are, at this writing, doing well in our NYC loft in Tribeca. We will move to a house we own in NJ, ground level rather than walk up (though I will miss our loft). A garden—for this New Yorker, that’s something to really look forward to. And a splendid view of Manhattan which I have grown to love, though I am, in my blood, always a 10-miles-southwest- of-Boston Bostonian. Let’s get together in 2022 for real. Sick of this virtual stuff.
Jennifer Slingerland Skeele
My “Winsor” numbers: 50 years since graduating, 8 as a student, 44 (and counting) teaching English (from class III to seniors), and another 12 as a Winsor parent while daughters Kate and Anna attended. Have I had any non-Winsor years? Six: four in college, two post college before returning to Winsor to teach and learn ever since. Winsor’s English Department became “home” when I had Judy Robbins. After I married Charlie in 1975, I’ve loved watching our two daughters grow up, and now, at last, I’m relishing perhaps my favorite role as Granny to Kate’s kids, Henry (8) and Eliza (5) and Anna’s kids Zoë (3), and Ava (1.5). I have found and done what I have loved most, filling my years with teenagers, books, and new ideas. I’ve also done some traveling (though not enough), some skiing (again, not enough), and am now embarking on learning to sail our small sailboat. Ginny and Margaret, my nearly lifelong friends, have become my spring break trip buddies. We look forward to more travel when the world re-opens. Winsor, it turns out, has done more than start my life; it has been, in large measure, my life, for which I am grateful.
Cynthia Sortwell
“Oh the places we’ll go and the paths we’ll travel.” I could never have imag-
ined my life 50 years post graduating from Winsor. After a year in Paris and graduation from Boston University, I was fortunate enough to have gotten into medical school at Washington University followed by a residency in Pediatrics in Rochester NY, and then to practice in Portland Maine. After four years of ear infections and a curiosity about the mind, I went back and trained as a child and adult psychiatrist both on the west coast and here in Portland, Maine where I continue to practice. In my thirties, I was extremely fortunate to meet my spouse, Jessie who was up for adopting an infant from Cambodia now a 22 year old adult. My family is the thing that I am most grateful for, as they are loving, generous and forgiving. I will say that I’ve never lost my love of the outdoors or of physical activity which keeps me sane. The years at Winsor with the small classes and caring teachers were such a solid and important foundation to the rest of my life.
Mary Sullivan
A quick recap of 50 years. A wonderful husband, two terrific daughters, and now a son-in-law, a grandchild, and another on the way. Throughout these years school, work, and family have brought me across the country from Alaska to Detroit to Montana to Philly to Kentucky. Visiting children and various nieces and nephews has meant sleeping in the desert of Wadi Rum, walking through the markets of Arusha, Tanzania, and visiting health clinics in the KwaZulu Natal of South Africa. What a big, gorgeous world.
My career path was set early by a wonderful father who urged me to go to law school at age 16, and by Miss Elma Lewis, founder of the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts in Roxbury, who came to the school in the late ‘60s and urged those of us who were interested in social justice to go out and work with the white communities from which we came. And so, after working for a few years after getting out of college, I became a labor lawyer. I worked with the building trades unions here in Greater Boston to expand the training programs and their membership to include more women and people of color, and represented employees in employment discrimination cases, among other things. After nearly three decades of that work a lucky star appeared, and my application to the bench was accepted by Governor Deval Patrick. I have served on our state intermediate appeals court for a decade and will retire upon reaching mandatory retirement age in two years. Perhaps then this pandemic will be over and I can board an airplane again to travel the world again.
Our years at the school were difficult ones both in the world at large and within the walls of Pilgrim Road. Like many of you I have not returned, except for the presentation organized by Ellen at our 25th reunion, as moving and important and event as one could attend. But I made lifelong friends. And the education we received, from teachers like Sylvia Sherman (RIP), Nancy Leverich (RIP), and Judy (Wortham) Robbins rivaled any class I took anywhere, including those I took at Amherst College as a five college visiting student. They gave me the career and the life I now have. They taught us to think and they taught us to write. What rare gifts.
Frances Wheeler-Berta
Hello all! I feel compelled to write given the weighty and dubious distinction of 50 years - Long story short, my professional and civic life has been focused on advocacy; I worked for 25 years as teacher/counselor and administrator at an alternative high school and also co-founded a non profit that supports teens in the mid coast Maine community I’ve called home (and where we raised our family). Fast forward to 2015 when I found myself in Tucson, working with asylum seekers at Casa Alitas, a shelter that provides food, clothing and goodwill. It is an extraordinary place and one where we experience the best of humanity each day. I’m glad to be in touch with a few classmates online and wish all of you the very best! Sending much love to you all.
Sarah Wilson
After college, I worked at the Opera Company of Boston’s costume shop, in the North End, where women still chatted with one another out of their windows. Moved to Chapel Hill, NC, a place full of old time and bluegrass musicians, where I took up fiddle and the guitar. Day and nightlong music parties at old farmhouses in the country, and camp-out festivals throughout the South, where jamming was the main activity. I am still playing music. After nursing school, I worked as an RN at Duke University Hospital, on psychiatry and surgery floors. After my MSW, moved to Seattle and worked at community mental health and family counseling agencies and as a psychiatric social worker in the ER. Major obsessions were aikido and the fiddle. I had six years of training with a gifted aikido
teacher, then left, with a few others, in the wake of his improprieties. We renovated a new practice space and started our own dojo, now thriving. Later, I moved to San Francisco. In 2016 I lost my sister Anne, Winsor ’66, who died from multiple autoimmune disorders. I’m partnered with a man I knew through music, a widower and father of three. Lately I’ve been “orthopedically challenged”, but I hope soon I can get back to hiking. I am hugely relieved to have a new president in place.
Anstiss Miller Wynn
After my father died in late 1971, I took a year in between Winsor and college to gather my wits, focus on new goals, really, to find myself. That took an awfully long time. However my journey through a decades-long sampling platter gave me experiences that eventually turned into resume builders and stories to tell my students, children and grandchildren. I developed an interest in agriculture during my senior year at Winsor. I pursued that topic with college education in small steps, interspersed with life experiences and jobs. I married, had two sons, and owned a sheep farm in upstate NY for a few years. I also worked in a large animal clinic. Eventually, as a newly single mother, my interests turned to education. When my youngest entered 1st grade, I transferred into Cornell and graduated in 1991 with a degree in Agriculture, General Science and Biology education. We moved to Indiana in 1991. I married again 1992. I worked as an education programs manager at the Indianapolis Zoo, ran a small business with my husband, then finally arrived at what I really wanted to do - public school teaching. I taught middle school science until 2018 and loved just about every minute. I retired on schedule to help manage my mother’s increasing needs. I continued to present special projects in the schools and take some long-term subbing up until 2020. My husband and I live on acreage on the Big Walnut Watershed in west central Indiana. We raise bees and flowers, garden, hike, drive tractors and enjoy visits from grandchildren.
25TH REUNION
Class of 1996
Sarah Melvoin Bridich
Although still a New Englander at heart, Denver definitely feels like home at this point. My husband, Jeff, and I have spent over 15 years here and our kids (Ben and Maya, ages 12 and 11) consider themselves Coloradans. When we first came out West, I was a high school administrator and history teacher. As the kids arrived, I pivoted back to grad school (in Ed Leadership); since graduating, I have worked in a non-profit, conducted research on education leadership, taught as an adjunct professor, served on multiple non-profits Boards (charter school, independent school, and non-profit) and am currently exploring the intersection between civic engagement and education. I also spend a great deal of time shuttling the kids around town (and am thankful that this is even possible) and watching Rockies baseball games. While it would be lovely to connect in person, I am grateful that we can gather virtually.
Liese Fritze Brown
It’s hard to believe that we graduated 25 years ago. After Winsor, I took a gap year to travel around the world. Then it was onto college where I rowed for two years, played squash for two years and met my husband Dave. Two months after graduation, I was a third grade teacher in the South Bronx as part of the New York City Teaching Fellows. And here I am twenty years later...a third grade teacher! I’ve worked in public, charter and private schools in NYC and LA, where we currently live. Thankfully, my school schedule allows us to get back to the east coast for the summer so we can connect with family and friends. Our three kids think that 60 degrees is cold and that swimming outdoors all year is normal. Lucky them! Hope we see one another at an in-person reunion soon.
Catherine Connolly
After graduation, I earned my BS from Reed College, MS from NYU, and MBA from Simmons SOM. I am now the VP, Development at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, where I oversee fundraising efforts, community engagement and benefits, and the plans for an upcoming campaign. Previously, I was the Director of Development at Milton Academy, where I am proud to have managed the most ambitious campaign in the school’s history. Earlier, I was the CDO at Horizons for Homeless Children in Roxbury, MA and the DOD at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. When at Winsor, I lived in Jamaica Plain, and I still do! My husband, Sander Cohan, and I have lived there together since 2004. We welcomed son Peter in 2010 and
First row (L-R): C. Connolly, R.Bobruff, M. Mohiuddin, K. Chisholm, D. McHenry, A. Dickinson, K. Robison, E. Hubbard, E. Springer, S. Casseus, S. Flier, K. Werbe-Bates, S. Ragovin-Polonsky, A. Katz, J. Topalian, A. Fenlon, M.White-Hammond, S. Holiday. Second row (L-R): A. Bradley, S. Rothberg, J. Frashure, L. Walsh, M. D’Ambra, A. Light, N. Seiler, H. Collins, C. Pagitsas, A. Lee, Mrs. Bezan, Mrs. Peter, N. King, A Day, S. Boxer, M. Pagano, A. Sarango-Petruccelli, A. Chick, E. Hart, E. Botsford, E. Young. Third row (L-R): S. Tobin, S. Melvoin, S. Boardman, E. Sousa, D. Croffy, J. Harding, C. Murphy, C. Morgan, M. Cleary, J. Holzman, E. Brownell, J. Mendillo, A Pearlman, E. Lewis, L.Fritze, A Cherkerzian, A. Penta, Z. Vilakazi, B. Wong, S. Grice, V. Galvanek-Goldman, N. Abdulrazak, K. Stone, H. Smyth, L. Pitarys
Louis in 2013. Most recently, our sheepadoodle Popper joined the gang just in time for pandemic therapy in March 2020. We also enjoy our home in the Berkshire woods.
Abigail Day
To sum up 25 years in a paragraph... After college, I moved to Chicago where I started my career working for an MEP firm as an HVAC engineer and project manager. I worked in a variety of buildings in the Chicago area including the Sears(Willis) Tower. I left Chicago in 2008, drove across the country for 2 months touring baseball stadiums, national landmarks and returning to Massachusetts in time to help my sister Caroline ’92 plan her wedding. I started a new job in Boston (same type of firm) right before the 2008-2009 collapse. I learned a lot at that firm about what to do and what not to do in a company. I quit that job in early 2019 to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. I fell into my current job at Vantage Technology through my network. It’s been an amazing ride over the last 18 months starting a new job, being promoted to Design & Engineering Business Leader and a pandemic. I’m looking forward to a summer of seeing family, friends and being outside.
Sarah Flier
I majored in Biology and Philosophy at Brandeis and met my now husband on the first day of my 4 years on the varsity fencing team. After college, I moved to NYC for medical school and then residency at Mount Sinai. I returned to my roots for GI training
at BIDMC and have been on faculty since graduating in 2010. Today, I clinically focus on patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and direct both Quality Improvement and the GI Fellowship Training Program for my Division. I also have multiple teaching roles at Harvard Medical School including co-director of one of the pre-clinical GI courses. I am certainly never bored but often sleep deprived! My most rewarding endeavor, however, is being mom to Penelope (9) and Linus (5.5). Even on the most exhausting days, their warm hugs and keen observations about the world keep me grounded, happy and hopeful for the future.
Katherine Flynn
After attending Winsor, I graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon. I then earned a BA in Sociology from Stanford and an MA in Sociology from Duke, where I met my husband, Corey. I then worked in several industries (real estate, university administration). In 2013, I returned to school, this time for a law degree. I now work as a federal prosecutor. Corey and I live in South Carolina with our daughters Natalia (17) and Alexandra (14).
Jennifer Harding Fritz
I have been living in Washington DC for the past 15 years with my family, where I work in residential real estate for Sotheby’s. My three children are 12, 9 and 6 now. We travel to Boston often to see family and friends. During Covid, it has been fun to do a virtual book group with my Winsor friends. I am in frequent touch with Meghan Cleary Hamilton, Sarah Boardman Pendergast, Molly D’Ambra (who I see often in DC), Erin Sousa Guden and Christina Morgan. Hope everyone is doing well and looking forward to connecting this spring.
Meghan Cleary Hamilton
I live in Dedham with my husband Peter and our three children, Henry (9.5), Gus (8), and Georgia (2.5). After graduating from Williams, I worked in investment banking before realizing that I really wanted to be back in a school community like Winsor. I have worked at Noble and Greenough School for the last 16 (!) years where I am Associate Director of College Counseling. I love helping kids and families, and I feel really lucky to be part of such a strong community. In my free time, I love cheering my kids on at their sporting events and spending time together as a family. I also connect with Winsor girls any chance I can—Jennifer Harding Fritz, Sarah Boardman Pendergast, Molly D’Ambra Michael, Christina Morgan Cahoon, and Erin Sousa Guden. Our text chain has gotten me through the Pandemic. Can’t wait to reconnect with everyone at Reunion!
Lydia Walsh Kogler
Twenty-five years have flown by! I met my husband in business school and after graduation moved to Manhattan to work for American Express in product marketing. Jordan and I spent five wonderful years exploring the city, before moving back to Boston. We were able to work remotely for AMEX and wanted to be closer to my parents as we started our own family. We have three children (Jack 8, Caroline 7, & Liza 3) and we live in Belmont. I am currently home raising our kids and busy with PTA, coaching, and Town Meeting activities. It will be nice to see classmates via Zoom for our reunion, but I am eager for a time when we can all gather in person again safely.
Elizabeth Lewis
I live in Washington, DC, with my husband, David Fahrenthold, and two daughters, Alexandra (9) and Stella (5). We have lived in DC (except for two years) since college, and it now feels like home, though we get to Boston often to see my parents. I recently joined Blackstone as a Managing Director of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance). Prior to that, I led external engagement on climate change and impact investing for the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group. I have spent my career in sustainable and impact investing. I serve as a Harvard Alumni Association Committee Member; for several years I co-chaired the Harvard Schools Committee for our area - a big job that allowed me to connect with this city in new and rewarding ways. I also serve as a Trustee of the Nature Conservancy’s MD/DC Chapter, on the Winsor Corporation, and as Vice President of the Stella P. Holt Foundation. I hold an AB in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. I feel fortunate that my education (Winsor included!) prepared me so well for my work and for the world we live in. I continue to be grateful for the friendships, education and opportunities Winsor provided me and hope to see class-of-1996ers in person soon!
Adrienne Penta Lissner
While 25 years has passed, I have stayed close to Winsor, completing two terms on the Board of Trustees last year. In my professional life, over the past 13 years I have held various positions at Brown Brothers Harriman after leaving law firm life in 2008. My most rewarding role by far has been founding and managing the BBH Center for Women & Wealth for the purpose of supporting women as they create and manage wealth. The financial services industry has not always done a good job for women, but Winsor taught us that all women should have a seat at the table! Personally, I live in Charlestown with my ever-supportive husband Dan, 6-year-old daughter, 9-year-old son and our excessively friendly labradoodle puppy. I feel fortunate to remain close with several Winsor friends and look forward to connecting with others during this reunion year.
Johanna Mendillo
Hi everyone and happy 25th! I live three traffic lights away from Winsor with my family. After Cornell, I came back to Boston and worked on Boston Harbor and the Harbor Islands for a few fun years. Then, I went to Harvard and got my Master’s in Education. I have been teaching middle school science at the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science (one of the three Boston Exam Schools) for the last 16 years. I try to take everything wonderful about Winsor that I experienced, and the leadership qualities Winsor nurtured in me, into both my teaching and my advocacy at the faculty and district-wide level... particularly important this year! I still love the Red Sox, still love to travel, sing, and bake, still bike on Block Island every chance I get, and have enjoyed passing down BU Hockey fanaticism to my kids!
Molly D’Ambra Michael
After studying International Relations in college and moving to New York City in 2001, I was inspired by the September 11th attacks to go into counterterrorism as a federal government analyst. I’ve spent a lot of the past two decades between the federal government and the New York Police Department in this field. My most exciting adventure, however, has been having identical twin girls, Aliza and Zoey. I’ve been lucky enough to keep in touch with Winsor classmates. As the years go by, I feel increasingly thankful for the nurturing, challenging environment that we all shared on Pilgrim Road.
Alexandra Pearlman Michel
After MIT, I attended Stanford where I met my husband, Raphael. I started my career in San Diego at HP and since then have worked at startups in Product Management and Product Design. Raphael and I moved back to the SF Bay Area after we got married in 2006 and have been living in Palo Alto for over 13 years. We speak English and French at home with our daughter Sophie (12), and son Remy (9). And our goldendoodle, Koda! I fundraise and volunteer at the kids’ school and pre-pandemic, coached the kids’ softball & baseball teams. I developed a vegan protein bar throughout 2020 and launched the brand, Zuda Bar, this past winter while working fulltime at an enterprise SaaS company. It’s a fun challenge but I’ve been too busy. I look forward to slowing things down this year and also reconnecting with my Winsor classmates!
Arden O’Connor
First, I hope that your families are safe and healthy. This past year has brought laughter (the purchase of a THIRD, crazy puppy), sadness (loss of my aunt to COVID), returns to childhood (quarantined with my parents for 10 mos) and gratitude for friends, family and a job that I love. After switching jobs three times in three years after business school, it’s a miracle that I still run O’Connor Professional Group ten years later (celebrating our anniversary this July). The work continues to be challenging, interesting, rewarding and my team has made me into a better leader. I’m moving into a new home this summer in preparation to have a child on my own, a decision I made in the last two years. It’s not the journey to parenthood I imagined—we didn’t discuss (frozen embryos and surrogates in my Catholic Sunday school), but I am very excited about it. I look forward to our reunion! Love, Arden
Chrissa Pagitsas
Since graduating from Winsor, I’ve lived in and around the Washington, DC area with frequent travel abroad. While I landed in the energy and consulting fields serendipitously after college, they served as the foundation for my career in sustainable financing, energy efficiency and environmental, social, governance (ESG). Most recently I founded and led the Green Bond business and ESG strategy at Fannie Mae. Now I am writing a
book on Chief Sustainability Officers at global corporations and consulting independently on sustainability and ESG. At home, Lee and I have two boisterous boys, Cosmo and Felix, and have muddled through pandemic parenting as best we could! It’s been wonderful being in touch with Winsor friends over the last 25 years and I look forward to in-person reunions soon.
Alyssa Chick Penwell
After leaving Winsor in 1996 and graduating from Georgetown in 2000, I moved to England to pursue a master’s degree at Oxford. Although a one-year program, I am still in London 20 years later. While living in England, I married my husband (a native Californian), qualified as an English solicitor, and had two wonderful daughters - Emma (9 years) and Sophie (8 years). I continued to work after having the girls and am now Global Head of Funds-Legal for a Swiss-based asset management firm. Back in 1996, I never could have predicted that my life would go in this direction. To those lucky girls still at Winsor, my advice to you is actively seek opportunity, take risks, travel the world, and for God’s sake, listen to your parents—they are so much wiser than you give them credit for!
Katherine Stone Sonnenborn
Hello class of 1996! I live in NYC with my husband Jonah, and our three children Stella (10), Tait (8) and Noah (5). After falling in love with art history at Winsor, I studied the subject at Dartmouth and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and went on to a career in museums and the visual arts. I am currently in my ninth year as co-director of Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, a residency program for emerging visual artists from around the world.
Susannah Barton Tobin
A quarter-century sure sounds like a milestone! With the way time plays tricks on us, though (never more so than in the pandemic), it could have been yesterday that we left the courtyard as Winsor graduates. In one way or another, I’ve spent these last twenty-five years in education (first as student and now as teacher, administrator, advisor). I’ve thus grown only more appreciative of the superlative education we all received on Pilgrim Road and how much work went into providing it. And, as ever, I’m grateful beyond measure for the friendships that began in homeroom and persist to this day. So many alums in the Class of 1996 and others have helped make this challenging world better through their commitment to truth, science, and equality. I think often of Winsor’s worthy goal of educating competent, responsible, generous-minded young women and still work on living up to it.
Sasha Polonsky Tulgan
After two decades of living outside of MA, I’ve finally returned to the Boston area and I can’t wait to take my kids to Head of the Charles (especially when social gatherings return in force). Ben (5) and Sid (3) are loving living five minutes away from their cousins and their aunt Rachel (Polonsky) Sundet ’99. I am enjoying working at Harvard Law School and eating a ton of Mamaleh’s cuisine. I look forward to reconnecting with classmates this spring—and before long, in person!
Zamile Vilakazi
After 20+ years of living and working in New York City, I moved to the Boston area in 2019 with my husband and two daughters (currently 7 and 2). I returned to begin a new role as Head of Integrated Production at Arnold - a Boston based ad agency. My time in NY was (almost) everything I had hoped it would be when I settled there after college. I spent my junior year away from Spelman on exchange with BU in Madrid, and also at NYU. I fell in love with both cities, but decided a domestic life was the one for me. I’ve spent my entire career in advertising. My job as a broadcast producer allowed me to travel around the country and the world making ads for just about every type of product you can imagine, and also enabled me to get my SAG card. I’ve shot campaigns for giant brands as well as small non-profits, and have enjoyed (almost) every one. I am no longer at Arnold, but I’m so glad that the opportunity brought me back home. Still based in Boston, I’ve been Head of Production at an agency headquartered in Atlanta since September 2020. In the 25 years since I left Winsor, I’ve been able to keep in touch with some of you, and look forward to reconnecting with many more. Stay Healthy and well.
Mariama White-Hammond
I went from Winsor to Stanford and back to Boston in 2001 to become the Executive Director of a youth social justice arts organization, Project HIP-HOP. In 2014, I left PHH to go to BU School of Theology and was ordained an elder in the AME Church in 2017. Now I pastor New Roots AME Church, a multiracial, multiclass, LGBTQ+ affirming congregation
in Dorchester. Always the activist I have continued to be engaged on many justice issues with a heavy focus on ecological justice. I’ve been married to Turahn Dorsey since 2007. We have a consulting practice and are owners in a cooperative farm in NH. I love knitting, gardening, scuba diving, jam-making, canning and candle-making. I have finally accepted that I can’t make a 26 hour day and am working to lean into the beauty of sacred Sabbath.
Emily Young Williams
I’m happily living in Andover, Mass., with my husband, Nick, and our two children: Ben, 7, and Callie, 9. I’ve worked in the communications and advancement offices at Brooks School for the past 12 years. Hope all of our classmates are doing well!
Hilary Smyth Wirtz
So amazed that 25 years have passed—hello to classmates near and far! After college, I stayed in the Boston area and worked in and around the city in advancement first at Harvard and then at Milton Academy and Concord Academy. I married my husband Mike in 2004 and we have two children Charlie (9) and Frances (7) and a rescue pup, Hudson. Five years ago we moved to Tarrytown, NY and live on campus at Hackley School where Mike is Head of School. We stay connected to New England through my job working remotely for New England Conservatory of Music and spending time at our house on Cape Cod. And we remain firm Red Sox fans even in NY!
1st Row (L-R) W. Wang, E. Garcia, A. Mitchell, S. Levitova, J. Smith, S. Gonzalez, L. Ferrara, L. Kokotailo, P. Stoddard, E. Lucas, L. 2nd Row (L-R) L. Abrams, D. Howland, J. Hyman, Susannah Ryan, S. Brock- Wilson, Rachel Friis Stettler, M. Ferguson, Kate Grant, L. Lu, C. Downs. 3rd Row (L-R) M. Hanrahan, S. McEvoy, K. Bulger, K. Subramanyam, M. He, H. Yu, G. Olson, R. Bernstein, A. Michalowski , L. Mitchell, J. Callahan, V. Simmons. 4th Row (L-R) H. Moulton, H. Galvin, E. Claro, C. Nockleby, R. Benjamin-Pollack, S. Eyuboglu, S. Coleman, M. Johnson, A. Horvitz, A. Navarro, G. Guarino. 5th Row (L-R) A. Edwards, P. Lev, C. Evans, M. Chin, A. Jin, C. Gu, Y. Inam, J. Rando, W. Lu, H. Murray, E. Kania, E. MacLean, E. Gangemi, C. Farkas
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Class of 2011
Zoe Bulger
I have been Boston-based since 2015 (although on the other side of the river in Cambridge and now Somerville). Professionally I am pursuing a career focused on racial equity and systems change, including time at The Bridgespan Group, City of Chicago Mayor’s Office of Equity in Racial Justice, and the Harvard Kennedy School. If you are working in the social sector loosely defined, I’d love to connect! When not working, I spend my time running (on trails nearby Boston as much as I can) (some things don’t change!) and hosting loud, wine-filled dinner parties (at least pre-COVID).
Sarah Coleman
I just finished my first year of Business School at Columbia University. This summer I will be heading to Chicago to intern with the Boston Consulting Group, specifically to focus on consumer packaged goods and food and beverages. Prior to business school, I was a multi-asset trader at JPMorgan in the Private Bank responsible for ultra high net worth client accounts and relationships. Out of undergrad I worked at Berkshire Capital, a boutique M&A advisory firm in NYC. I graduated from Columbia College in 2015 with a bachelor
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Prior to this autumn, I’d only met Diane Janes once before. But after we collaborated at the Windermere authors’ evening, we bumped into eac...
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Prior to this autumn, I’d only met Diane Janes once before. But after we collaborated at the Windermere authors’ evening, we bumped into each other again at a lunch held three days later by the Northern Chapter of the Crime Writers’ Association.
Diane’s novel Moonshadow was short-listed for the CWA’s Debut Dagger in 2006and I very much look forward to its appearance in print. Meanwhile, she has published Edwardian Murders, an attractively produced true crime book. I'm keen on true crime - hence my interest in Crippen, and hence Dancing for the Hangman, and Victorian and Edwardian murder cases have a special appeal for me.
The book highlights a 1908 case that I’ve read about in the past. It concerns the shooting of Caroline Luard at an isolated summerhouse at Igtham in Kent. Shortly afterwards her husband, Major Charles Luard, committed suicide. Two years later, a man called Nisbet was murdered, and one John Dickman was convicted of the crime and duly executed. There have been suggestions that Dickman was also responsible for Caroline’s murder.
It’s a convoluted and fascinating case and I was glad to swop books with Diane so as to have the chance to study her research and theories. I've belatedly made a start on Edwardian Murders, and so far I've found it very interesting.
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Actress Diane Keaton was born Diane Hall in 1946 in Los Angeles. After graduating from high school, she attended community college but dropped out after a year and moved to New York City. There she changed her surname to Keaton, her mother’s maiden name.
Her first collaboration with director Woody Allen began in 1969 when she starred in his production of the play Play It Again, Sam, which earned her a Tony nomination. The two went on to make eight films together and are still close friends. In fact, in 2014, responding to the subject of sexual-abuse allegations brought against Allen by his daughter Dylan Farrow, Keaton told the New York Daily News, “I’m Woody’s friend and I’ve been Woody’s friend for 45 years and nothing’s going to change that.”
Her breakthrough role came in 1972 in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, in which she plays Kay Adams Corleone, wife of Michael Corleone (played by Al Pacino), who is part of a Mafia crime family. The movie won an Academy Award for Best Picture that year, but Keaton is probably best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in Annie Hall in 1977 (which also costarred and was written and directed by Allen). Throughout her career, she’s been nominated for and has won numerous acting awards for her roles in many films, including Reds, Marvin’s Room, and Something’s Gotta Give. In June 2017, she was honored with the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award. After receiving the award, in lieu of the speech she had written, the unconventional actress sang “Seems Like Old Times” to the audience, a song Allen had once given her to sing. She has written two best-selling memoirs, Then Again (in 2011) and Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty (in 2014), and has also published books on architecture and design.
Despite her romances with Hollywood icons Allen, Pacino, and Warren Beatty, she has never married. When asked during a 2010 interview with Katie Couric why she hadn’t married, she said, “I think the reason I didn’t get married was because I would have to compromise too much. . . . I wanted to try more adventurous things for myself.”
But the love affair that “completely changed” her is the one she’s had with her children. Keaton’s father’s death gave her a keen sense of mortality and awakened her maternal instinct relatively late in life, she told More magazine in 2001. So, at age 50, Keaton adopted her daughter, Dexter, and five years later she welcomed son Duke. Calling motherhood “the most completely humbling experience that I’ve ever had” in an interview with Film Monthly, she also said being a mom makes her a better person. “I think it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in. I mean, we can all sit here and talk, but it’s another thing to act that way in your life. So, I think that children are completely challenging and completely intoxicating. You really have to be your best self, always, and be honest.”
At age 72, Keaton shows no signs of slowing down. You can catch her in her latest movie, Book Club, costarring Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen, in theaters now.
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Of the many hundreds of actors and actresses who have appeared in Crossroads over the years, many have already been established stars; others have gone on to stardom thanks to their start on the programme.
Jon Finch, now an established film star, was a raw, inexperienced actor when he made his TV debut in episode 947. He played a weird and rather offbeat character called Gareth Leyton, and played the role with great assurance. When he left Crossroads, Jon went on to find international stardom.
Another young actor now in the superstar bracket who started out in Crossroads is Malcolm McDowell. He made his very first TV appearance on the programme in episode 643, way back when he was just twenty years old. Can you remember the part he played? Crispin Ryder, a PR consultant. After Crossroads, Malcolm went on to appear in TV series like Z Cars and Dixon of Dock Green, then into films like A Clockwork Orange, If and Oh, Lucky Man.
Another young actor who appeared opposite Noele Gordon in the series, this time one with a famous father, was Andrew Ray, son of Ted.
Actors aren’t the only people who have appeared on Crossroads. When someone was needed to play Monsieur Fabrice, who was demonstrating hair styles at Vera Downend’s salon, the choice was an obvious one. Teazy Weazy Raymond had become a star of TV in the fifties, creating hair styles in a variety series called Quite Contrary. Who better to play Monsieur Fabrice? Incidentally, Teazy Weazy’s wife, Rosalie Ashley, also appeared in the series for a while. She played Jane Mortimer, who died during a brain operation.
When a sequence of magic was needed in one episode, Clifford Davis, New Faces panellist and TV critic was called in. Clifford is also a professional magician, and was asked if he could suggest a way of levitating Diane, played by Sue Hanson. To create the stage illusion on TV would prove very difficult, so Clifford and the production team decided to use trick camera work instead. After Clifford’s spot at the magic convention that was being held at the motel, actor Alan Haines took over and, thanks to trick camera shots and angles, seemed to make Sue float in the air. Millions of viewers were fooled, and the producer decided to end the show with a bang – with a shot of Amy Turtle floating in mid-air!
The popular comic Don McLean started out as an actor, and appeared on Crossroads, playing a member of Benny Wilmot’s group, Georgie Saint and the Dragons. From that he went on to find fame as a comic – remember him on Crackerjack?
Another comic who landed a dramatic role in Crossroads was Stan Stennett. He had to play a gunman on the run who held a couple hostage, and made such a success of the part that he went on to be offered many more serious acting roles.
Do you remember when Ken Dodd made his TV debut as a straight actor? Yes, it was on Crossroads, too. He played the part of a hotel guest, and started off playing the scene straight, but then his famous sense of fun got the better of him, and soon it was jokes all the way. The technicians were laughing so much that they could hardly carry on__
Another face you might remember is that of Diane Keen. She appeared in Crossroads for a long time, playing the part of cheeky Cockney waitress Sandra Gould. In the series she was supposed to have a crush on the motel manager, played by Paul Greenwood – and Diane and Paul ended up getting engaged during the series! Diane went on to appear in The Fall of Eagles, playing Empress Elizabeth of Austria, and in The Cuckoo Waltz, as Fliss.
Wendy Padbury, who appeared in Dr Who as one of the time traveller’s assistants, also started out on TV in Crossroads. She was only seventeen at the time, and played the part of a fourteen-year-old from a broken home, Stevie Harris, who was fostered by Meg.
Diane’s life at the Crossroads Motel has had its fair share of ‘ups’ – and more than its fair share of ‘downs’. In fact Diane could be called the ‘problem child’ of the Motel. In ten years she has gone through crisis after crisis. . . .
At first everything seemed set for Diane Lawton. She got married to Vince Parker, the kind, dependable postman. But she was restless, wanted something more from life, and sadly the marriage broke up, despite all Vince’s efforts. After this, several affairs followed, most of them with unhappy endings. Diane seemed to drift, her job as waitress being the only steadying influence in her life.
Other traumas followed, and Diane took to drinking for a while … then there was the saga of Frank Adam, the movie star who fathered her illegitimate child Nicky. Frank took him to America and, despite all her efforts, Diane has seen little of her son since.
Sue Hanson, who plays Diane, agrees that all these experiences could well have soured Diane, but she believes that they have only made her wiser and stronger. Sue’s life, of course, has been quite different. After Drama School she went on the stage at the famous Mermaid Theatre, and later starred in a rock and roll film. There was a stint with the stage version of The Boyfriend, some TV work … and then Crossroads. Although it’s very hard work, Sue loves being part of the Crossroads team, and she finds the character of Diane very stimulating. “Everything I can’t be, I try to put into Diane,” she says. “I try to make her very complex and above all interesting!”
Another difference between Diane and Sue is that Sue is very happily married. She met Carl Wayne, who was a member of the group The Move, in 1968. They live in Birmingham, within easy reach of the ATV studios and Sue’s parents, who live in Lancashire (Sue was born in Preston). It’s also an ideal centre for Carl, who tours, playing nightclubs.
So, what now for Diane? She does seem to have settled down rather now that she’s a frequent visitor to her uncle Ed’s farm. After a long stay there to sort out her problems she is still very attached to the place, and the atmosphere there seems to help. There’s Benny, too – the backward labourer she has taken ‘under her wing’. Sue believes that Benny is a kind of substitute for the son that Diane never sees, and that the protective friendship, with Diane teaching Benny to read and write, has done Diane a world of good. So perhaps it won’t be too long before the girl with the unhappy beginnings finds a happy ending.
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In Memoriam 2023
Alfred William Stadler (1937-2023)
Former professor and chair of the Department of Political Studies at Wits, Alfred William Stadler, "Alf" (BA 1960, BA Hons 1962, PhD 1971), died on 29 December 2023 at the age of 86. Alf was a public intellectual, providing analysis and commentary on election results and political events; he acted as an expert witness for the defence of his students who were charged with “terrorism” by the apartheid regime; and, for a time, he chaired the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism.
Alf was born in Durban in 1937, the son of a former dairy farmer, who worked for the South African railways and who died when Alf was 10. The family relocated to Johannesburg; Alf recalled the train ride to the Reef as deeply depressing: the cold, dry and treeless khaki veld of the Rand were a stark contrast to the sub-tropical forests and rolling cane fields of Natal. In Johannesburg, Stadler’s mother washed and ironed clothes in exchange for backyard accommodation.
As a student at Highlands North Boys High, Alf's academic performance was mediocre. His principal suggested that he take up a less intellectually demanding trade of some kind. But he had long nurtured a keen interest in English literature. As a youngster he checked out books such as James Joyce’s Ulysses from the local library, much to the librarian’s chagrin. When he left school he studied metallurgy, but he dropped out after a short stint at a steel foundry where dodging projectile lumps of iron ore were not infrequent hazards. He then enrolled in a BA and studied English and Politics. Politically conscientised, he joined the Communist Party, joking wryly about his failed attempts to mobilise residents of Alexandra Township and avoid arrest.
At the time, the Political Studies Department was managed by Godfrey “Copper” LeMay, and Alf was one of a few PhD students. LeMay held supervisory sessions at the Wits cricket nets to practice Alf’s batting, and hosted “seminars” at the Devonshire Hotel bar in Braamfontein. Following LeMay’s retirement in 1966, Alf was appointed acting head of the department but was only granted full professorship and the chair in 1981. By the early 1980s, he had transformed the department.
During his tenure, Alf purposefully appointed young intellectuals with wide ranging interests and potential. Committed to mentoring early career academics, he granted junior staff time off from lecturing so they could pursue their research and publish. When he joined the department in the early 1980s, Prof Tom Lodge described the atmosphere as a “considerate and hospitable setting for an apprentice lecturer”.
In his inaugural lecture at Wits, Alf stated: “I want to raise questions about how people without power, wealth or even votes act politically, and try to estimate the effects they produce on political structures”. His research and writing focused on historical uprisings and mini revolts in South Africa, such as the bus boycotts and squatter movements on the Reef. “Birds in the cornfield: Squatter Movements in Johannesburg, 1944-1947" is still listed as essential reading on the Abahlali baseMjondolo, the socialist shack dwellers movement of South Africa’s, website. His book, the Political Economy of Modern South Africa (Routledge 1987 and 2022) was favourably reviewed and is still frequently cited. Much to Alf's delight the book was recently republished. The reconfiguration of what defined political studies at Wits led to the introduction of new curricula, notably an honours level course taught by Alf and Prof Lodge called “Direct Action and Popular Protest” that explored the political agency of people who lacked resources.
In recognition of his talent for leadership, Alf was also appointed caretaker head of the Department of Music; he proudly showed off his new office that was outfitted with a baby grand piano and a music system.
At home, his family remember that he was constantly busy: an accomplished carpenter he built bookshelves, constructed dry walling, and fitted out the family kitchen all from scratch; he was a great cook — no meal was complete without recitations from Robert Carrier, Elizabeth David and Larousse Gastronomique, inspiring future feasts; he loved opera, was an avid reader, and refused to own a television set.
He leaves his wife, Jenny, his daughters Josie and Cathy, his son Jonathan (BA 1989, BA Hons 1990, MA 1995), his sister Francis, and his seven grandchildren.
Source: Jonathan Stadler
Mark Finkelstein (1966-2023)
Mark Finkelstein (BCom 1987, LLB 1989) a lawyer, admired for his teaching of martial arts and voluntary efforts, died of cancer on 27 December 2023 in Johannesburg. His death came a few weeks before what would have been his 58th birthday. He was first diagnosed with cancer four years ago, and despite pain, continued to work and maintained his good humour.
Finkelstein was born and grew up in Johannesburg. He matriculated at Highlands North Boys High School, and then went on to study at Wits. As estate agents, his parents often found new homes and moved with Finkelstein, his older brother Oscar and sisters, Lani and Aviva.
Finkelstein said he was a lawyer by profession, but his passion was teaching Krav Maga, Hebrew for close combat, an Israeli developed self-defence system. For more than 20 years he volunteered for the Community Security Organisation, which protects Jewish institutions and events.
One of the greatest influences on Finkelstein’s life was the late Mickey Davidow, a Judo sensei. Finkelstein represented Transvaal and won several national titles in Judo. In a tribute to Davidow, who passed away two years ago, Finkelstein wrote that in his own martial arts instruction, he followed his sensei’s “kind and calm encouragement of students, while being specific in any criticism.”
His teaching went beyond martial arts and he lectured on how “The Art of War” written by Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese general, could be used as a tool for fighting addiction, in thinking about business, and daily life. He had begun to write a book on “The Art of War” and fighting addiction. Finkelstein also spoke to groups about his fight against cancer.
Finkelstein had a hectic schedule, but found time to give of himself. He regularly visited the elderly parents of friends who had emigrated. He paid attention to his children in teaching them, exercising with them, and taking up their interests. He frequently took the family for hikes in nature reserves, and on holiday at his favourite places in Mozambique.
He leaves his wife Cheryl and five children.
Sources: Finkelstein family and SA Jewish Report
Conrad Mueller (1949-2023)
Professor Conrad Steven Mueller (BSc 1975, BSc Hons 1976, PhD 1989) a pioneer of computer science at Wits and in South Africa died on 23 November 2023. He was born in Johannesburg in 1949 and matriculated at King Edward VII High School.
After completing his honours degree, he spent a short time in industry, and completing his master’s degree at Rand Afrikaans University (now the University of Johannesburg), he returned to Wits in 1981 in response to a call to help a new division as it was emerging into an independent Department of Computer Science. He spent the next 33 years at Wits, rising through the ranks to associate professor. He served as Chair of the Governing Committee and then Head of School for about 10 years.
Prof Mueller quickly proved himself to be an extremely dedicated teacher in a tough environment. Wits, as an established research university, considered Computer Science to be an upstart new discipline, particularly as few members of staff had PhDs in the early days.
Prof Mueller’s great strength was the time and interest that he put into the people around him. As a teacher he is fondly remembered for the one-on-one work that he did with students. In the 1980s and 1990s it was common to find a queue of students outside his office getting help. He would spend hours with students helping them debug terrible code, and more importantly teaching them and fostering independent thinking.
Prof Mueller mentored young members of staff, advising them on teaching strategies and how to deal with various teaching and administrative problems. He could always be relied on to read drafts of research papers critically and constructively and was happy to listen to research problems and talk through possible solutions even for projects outside of his area of expertise. He was always prepared to take on administrative tasks, large and small, and sheltered the younger members of staff from that work. This nurturing mentorship launched several academics into their own successful careers.
He had to be tough to protect and help build computer science as a discipline. Yet in the end, the new department met with some great successes, particularly students who went on to become industry leaders.
He was an old-fashioned scholar – he read widely and deeply and had an open sense of enquiry. He taught a wide range of computer science courses from first year to honours. He made important contributions to computer science education research. His research passion was computer architecture – he recognised early the limitations of the von Neumann architecture and proposed alternative models and programming styles. He completed his PhD in the late 1980s under Judith Bishop – Towards removing sequential ordering in programs and continued work on this theme for the rest of his life.
As a son of German and Swiss immigrants who had seen the rise of fascism in Europe, Prof Mueller was brought up to oppose apartheid. He was a member of Mervyn Shear’s “Peacekeepers”, a group of academics who in the 1980s would put themselves between the police and students to restrain police violence, and active in the anti-apartheid Union of Democratic University Staff Associations.
After he reached mandatory retirement age, he taught at Tshwane University of Technology and continued to supervise postgraduate students at the University of South Africa. He was also elected to the Wits Executive Committee of Convocation and was one of the Convocation members of the University Council. He gave great service to the University and could be relied upon to take on unglamorous jobs. He showed commitment and personal courage during the Fees Must Fall protests.
Prof Mueller was a great personality and someone who was a good friend as well as a colleague. He was also a pioneer of good coffee. The departmental wine club, Turing Tipplers, held his sense of taste and smell in high regard. He often entertained colleagues at home and would show immense kindness to new members of staff, putting them up and even schlepping them around town. In cases of personal crises, he was always willing to help. His unusual turns of phrase – Conradisms as his staff irreverently called them – can’t be repeated (though they never fell on flat ears). You had to be there to appreciate them.
His sense of what was right meant that he sometimes would not compromise. He could not resist the temptation to argue or disagree with positions that he thought were wrong. As a result, he could drive his colleagues to distraction and was the bane of generations of Deans and Vice-Chancellors. But his sincerity and passion left Wits a better place.
He is survived by his partner Judy Backhouse (PhD 2009) and sisters Ann-Christine Andersen (BA 1967) and Dr Jane Mueller (MBBCh 1969).
Sources: Adapted from The South African Computer Journal by former colleagues Scott Hazelhurst (BSc 1985, BSc Hons 1986, MSc 1988) Bob Baber, Yinong Chen, Philip Machanick (BSc Hons 1981, MSc 1988) and Sarah Rauchas
John Steele Chalsty (1933-2023)
John Steele Chalsty (BSc 1953, BSc Hons 1954, MSc 1955, DCom honoris causa 2005) business leader, former chairman and chief executive officer of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Inc and founder of the Wits Fund in the US, passed away peacefully at the age of 90 in his home on 12 November 2023.
Chalsty was born in 1933 and began his academic journey at Wits, completing honours and master’s degree in chemistry and physics. He is remembered for his sporting prowess as a member of the Wits Rugby First XV. In 1954 the team beat Pretoria University 12-0. After receiving the Stanvac Scholarship in 1955, he travelled to the US to study at Harvard University.
In a 2007 interview he said: “I had turned in work at Wits on a PhD in chemistry and thought I could pick it up at Harvard," he recalls. It wasn't so easy, however. "I heard I would have to start all over again. Another four years of chemistry was appalling. I looked around for something to do and discovered the business school. I found I had somehow stumbled into the right career."
In 1957, he earned his MBA from Harvard Business School, graduating with high distinction as a Baker Scholar. He worked at Standard Oil of New Jersey (now Exxon) for around 12 years in various roles in the US and Europe. In 1969 he joined Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) as an oil analyst, rising through the ranks to become president and chief executive in 1986 and chairman in 1996. Under his leadership, DLJ transformed into one of America's most successful investment banks. He was widely known for a collegial style that earned the respect and admiration of his employees and peers.
Chalsty also served in leadership roles with other prominent institutions, including vice chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, president of the New York Society of Security Analysts, and board member of Occidental Petroleum, Metromedia International Group, Inc, and Sappi Global.
In 1992, he met Nelson Mandela, two years after his release from prison. “He had come to the United States trying to enlist people to go to South Africa and watch the polls,” Chalsty said. Mandela was worried about fraud and wanted to ensure the election was administered fairly. “I met him at a luncheon in New York City.” The encounter was brief and mostly at a distance, but it revealed Mandela’s practical side, Chalsty said. “The remarkable thing about this man was that he was undoubtedly one of the most saintly figures I’ve ever seen, but at the same time he was an extremely able politician.”
In 1995 he was chairman of the New York Host Committee for the 50th anniversary of the United Nations.
A dedicated philanthropist, Chalsty held prominent positions in organisations such as Lincoln Center Theater, American Ballet Theater, New York Philharmonic, Overcoming Obstacles, Teagle Foundation, New York City's Economic Development Corporation, Harvard Business School, Columbia University, and Saint Barnabas Medical Center.
When he stepped down as CEO of DLJ his colleagues commemorated his nearly thirty years of distinguished service to the firm by establishing the John S and Jennifer A Chalsty Fellowship at the Harvard Business School. The fellowship is used to support black South African MBA students.
He did not forget his beginnings and remained a supporter of South Africa. He helped to establish the University of the Witwatersrand Inc. (the Wits Fund) in the United States, an entity that continues to be of vital importance to the University. The Chalsty name is proudly emblazoned on one of the outstanding meeting spaces on West Campus, associated with the Mandela Institute and the School of Law, because of his pivotal and founding donation to the Institute.
Chalsty’s many achievements and generosity were widely recognised, including with honorary doctorates from Wits in 2005 and the Medical University of South Carolina in 2015. He received the Ellis Island Foundation's Medal of Honor. He was also honoured by the Citizens Committee for New York City and by the President's Medal for Excellence awarded by Boston College to individuals who have distinguished themselves through personal of professional achievements which exemplify the ideal proclaimed in the University's motto, “Ever to Excel”.
He had “an imposing physical presence”, was described as “incredibly generous, humble and unpretentious,” with a “dry wit”.
He is survived by his wife Jill Siegal Chalsty; his daughters Susan Neely and her husband John Neely, and Deborah Chalsty; his grandchildren John Harrison Neely and his wife Jacqueline Neely, Meghan Bowman and her husband Stephen Bowman, and Timothy Neely; and his great-grandchildren Henry and Penelope.
Sources: Wits archives, The Post and Courier and Dignity Memorial
Thomas Lodge (1951-2023)
Respected former Wits academic and lecturer, Professor Tom Lodge, died at the age of 72 on 8 November 2023. He was a dominant figure in charting South Africa’s modern political history, in particular the history of its anti-apartheid liberation movements. At the time of his death he was Professor Emeritus in Peace and Conflict Studies at University of Limerick in Ireland.
Born in Manchester, Professor Lodge was the son of Roy and Vera Lodge (née Kotasova). He was schooled in Nigeria, North Borneo (later part of Malaysia) and England, travels dictated by his father’s British Council work, which, according to his brother, Robin, provided an early impetus for his later interest in developing countries heading towards independence. He joined University of York as an undergraduate student in 1971, obtaining his PhD at York in 1985.
He first came to South Africa in 1976 as a research fellow of York’s newly opened Centre for Southern African Studies, visiting Soweto in the company of a local Anglican priest. He returned home two days later, he would recall, “to read that Soweto was in flames”. Two years later he was employed as an assistant lecturer in the Wits Politics Department.
Professor Lodge closely studied South Africa’s anti-apartheid movements in opposition and then, after 1994, in power. He also followed political developments in post-apartheid South Africa, analysing, among many other things, corruption and election results. His work on the ANC, PAC and other liberation movements, based on rich fieldwork, established him as a key political and social historian. He was a member of the Wits Politics Department for 25 years and published key texts on South African black opposition politics, South African post-apartheid politics, the figure of Nelson Mandela and, most recently, the South African Communist Party.
In 2005, he left South Africa and took up the position of professor of peace and conflict studies at the University of Limerick, before becoming dean of arts there in 2012. He retired to Saint Seurin de Prats, near Bordeaux in France, in 2021, but continued to travel to South Africa, where he served on several trusts and commissions. At the time of his death, he was close to finishing a work on Walter Sisulu.
In a tribute, colleague Professor Daryl Glaser, described Prof Lodge as “kind, humble, understated and good humoured.” His lecturing style was “unusual” with “little eye contact but lots of fascinating detail delivered in a mellifluous voice.” In the 1980s students flocked to his lectures and he rarely locked his office door. In response to the suggestion that students might help themselves to his impressive book collection, he replied ‘I wish’.
He is survived by his wife Carla and their two sons, Kim (BAS 2002, BArch 2005) and Guy (BA 2004, BA 2005).
Sources: The Guardian, Prof Daryl Glaser (BA 1982, BA Hons 1983, MA 1989), Wits archives
Gladwyn Leiman (1944-2023)
Former director of cytopathology at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, Professor Gladwyn Leiman (MBBCh 1967) passed away in Vermont, United States, on 1 October 2023.
Professor Leiman’s distinguished career began at Wits and after her surgical and medical internships at the Johannesburg General and Baragwanath hospitals, she was appointed medical officer and subsequently an associate professor in the Cytology Unit of the Department of Anatomical Pathology in the School of Pathology of the South African Institute for Medical Research in 1971. Professor Leiman gained international acclaim for, inter alia, her “Project Screen Soweto” programme, which led to a significant reduction in cervical cancers by monitoring cancer precursors and establishing family planning protocols in Soweto.
In 1999, the refurbished laboratory at the South African Institute for Medical Research was renamed the Gladwyn Leiman Cytopathology Centre. She was a sought-after speaker among the international obstetrics and pathology communities, travelling and lecturing extensively in the US, Canada, Australia, England, India and the Middle East. She was recruited as the director of cytopathology and as a professor of pathology at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington. Here, her fine needle aspiration skills brought her recognition as an excellent diagnostician, teacher and clinical researcher.
At the International Congress of Cytology in Paris, Professor Leiman received the 2012 Maurice Goldblatt Award: “For her lifelong love and dedication to clinical cytology; for her very special relationship to underserved areas of the world and her willingness to bring knowledge and expertise to people deserving improved medical care; for her academic rigour and achievements in publishing and teaching.” She was awarded honorary membership of the Indian Academy of Cytologists and the South African Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. In 1996 she was named as a Light Source Personality of Cytopathology by the International Academy of Cytology.
On retirement she said: “My future plans are to resurrect my right brain, and re-enter the worlds of literature, music and history, which were my major interests before I deviated to medical school. In particular, I want to reengage in Holocaust studies and genealogy, which have been constant unofficial pursuits throughout my life.”
Professor Leiman’s family said she “rarely spoke about her accomplishments” and “was at once highly gregarious and intensely private”. Fellow alumni described her as an exceptionally kind, caring and compassionate person and a loyal friend. She “provided the glue” that held her Wits Medical Class of 1967 together for more than 50 years.
She is survived by her two brothers Russell and Darryll and their families.
Sources: Cancer Cytopathology and Dr Helen Feiner, née Katzew (MBBCh 1967)
Claude Hakim (1942-2023)
Dr Claude Hakim (MBBCh 1956) was a distinguished member of a remarkable class. After his internships he spent seven years in London with appointments at Charing Cross and Hammersmith hospitals.
Dr Hakim emigrated to Australia, arriving in Sydney in 1979, where he went into private practice in obstetrics and gynaecology. He was French speaking and fluent in five other languages, which he used daily in his practice.
He enjoyed travelling with his wife Roslyn and they visited France almost yearly. He was a gourmet and enjoyed fine wines, which he collected. He was truly a “bon vivant”.
He attended Athlone Boy’s High, where he was an outstanding rugby player and eventually school captain. An abiding vision, when Roosevelt High played Athlone, was Hakim running 25 yards to score under the posts, with four of the opposing team hanging onto him.
Dr Hakim was a skilled surgeon and his patients “thought the world of him”. He will be remembered as a loyal friend, who “was a kind and thoughtful person”.
He is survived by his wife Ros and sons Jean-Marc and Daniel.
Source: Dr Roger Pillemer (MBBCh 1965)
Werner Kirchhoff (1931-2023)
A land surveyor of distinction and a pioneer of South African satellite geodesy, Werner Kirchhoff (BSc Eng 1957) died at the age of 92 in August 2023.
Werner, born in Germany in 1931, was the son of Peter Kirchhoff and Margarete Bose. Two years later his family left Germany for South Africa, settling in Johannesburg in 1934. During Werner’s time at Pretoria Boys’ High School, he became fascinated with the way the land surveyors at the school measured angle and distance. This led him to study surveying at Wits.
Werner was influenced by his father in developing a special interest in astronomy. His early post-graduate surveys established whole degree lines of longitude and latitude in the Zambian (then the Northern Rhodesian) bush from basic astronomical field observations by precision navigation from stars. The USA’s Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory originated the project and Werner became associated with this institution in 1958 as an honorary observer for the International Geophysical Year.
In 1959 he was asked to join the observatory staff and to be involved with satellite tracking and later managing the Smithsonian Institution’s precision satellite photographic observation station at Olifantsfontein. He was awarded a medal for his observations.
He married Anna-Maria in 1961 and the couple had four children: Peter, Elizabeth, Teresa and Christopher (BSc Eng 1987).
Returning to South Africa in 1970, Werner established his own land surveying practice. He saw the application and benefits in the construction industry of laser instruments to achieve greater speed and accuracy in surveying.
When the family returned from the US he served for several years as chairman of the Parktown Association. In 1997, following his retirement, he took up new interests in heritage and collecting Africana. In 2014 Werner re-discovered the beacon (dating from 1919) on Oxford Road, about 100 metres south of Glenhove Road.
His last few months were spent at an old age home where he peacefully passed away in his sleep.
Sources: Kathy Munro (BA 1967), The Heritage Portal
Doreen Mantle (1926-2023)
Doreen Mantle (BA 1948) died aged 97 in her London home on 9 August 2023. She was best known for her role as Jean Warboys, the annoying friend of Victor Meldrew’s wife, Margaret, in the BBC series “One Foot in the Grave” (1990-2000).
She was born in Johannesburg on 22 June 1926 to English parents, Hilda (née Greenberg) and Bernard Mantle, who ran a hotel. The family moved to England, returning to South Africa in 1930, shortly after the birth of her brother, Alan (BSc Eng 1953).
Mantle was schooled at Barnato Park for Girls and obtained a BA Social Science degree at Wits in 1948. Her stage career started while performing with the University Players, the Johannesburg Repertory Society, the Munro-Inglis Company and the National Theatre. She was also active in radio in the early 1950s in shows devised by Ian Messiter, who later in the UK, would create BBC Radio 4’s “Just A Minute”.
Shortly after graduating, Mantle worked as a social worker in the townships around Johannesburg, witnessing first-hand the social injustice of apartheid. She followed this with work for Legal Aid South Africa. Here she was able to provide support for activists during the growing resistance to the government. In later years she would reflect on these experiences in her one-woman show “My Truth and Reconciliation”.
Mantle met Joshua Graham-Smith, a computer engineer, at the theatre and they married in 1952. Aware that she was being investigated by the authorities for her activism and not wanting to bring up children under apartheid, the couple emigrated to the United Kingdom. “I wanted to see new places, to get away from parochial views and to change the world,” Mantle said.
In the United Kingdom she established herself as a prominent actress in stage, television and film. She carved a niche in the hearts of the British as the catalyst for surreal plot twists. The series writer of “One Foot in the Grave”, David Renwick, recalled: “No one else could have played Mrs Warboys as she did and the honesty that she brought to every line, however bizarre, was what made the character so funny and legitimised even the maddest of moments. There was never the remotest suggestion that she was playing comedy: in her hands it was all utterly real.”
Her fame led to appearances in shows such as a “Weakest Link” sitcom special in 2002. Asked by the host, Anne Robinson, for her most memorable moment, she replied, deadpan, as in the mode of her character: “I was rolled down a hill and mounted by a dog.” The studio audience roared with laughter.
She toured Britain and performed at the National Theatre in The Voysey Inheritance. In 1979 she was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a supporting role for her performance in “Death of a Salesman”.
A highly intelligent woman of strong opinions, she worked closely with Richard Attenborough at the Actors’ Charitable Trust and latterly campaigned for visually impaired elderly people, of which she was one.
She is survived by her sons Quentin and Nicholas and her brother Alan.
Sources: Wits archives, The Guardian, Alan Mantle
Jani Allan (1951-2023)
Isobel Janet Allan (BA FA 1975, PDipEd 1977) better known as Jani Allan, the former columnist, died at the age of 70 on 25 July 2023 at the Chandler Hall Health Services Hospice in Pennsylvania, United States. Voted the “Most Admired Person in South Africa” in 1987, she was a glamorous trendsetter, concert pianist, model, teacher and waitress. Her career nosedived after a 1991 British documentary The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife by Nick Broomfield alleged she had been sexually involved with right-wing leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging Eugene Terre’Blanche.
Allan was born in 1951 and adopted as a one-month-old by John Murray Allan and his wife Janet Sophia Allan (née Henning). John was Scottish and came to South Africa for the climate. He was chief sub-editor at The Star newspaper in Johannesburg. He died eight months after the adoption.
In her memoir Jani Confidential (Jacana, 2015) Jani described her childhood as “a parade of gymkhanas and piano recitals”. She wrote: “My mother was an antique dealer. She had horreur de vacui – horror of empty spaces. Persian carpets were layered upon each other at our Bryanston home.”
At the age of 10, she made her debut with the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra. A year later, she won the Trinity Cup of South Africa, tying with Greta Beigel, a 21-year-old pianist. Professor Jacob Epstein and Professor Adolph Hallis, celebrated concert pianists, were among her mentors.
She initially applied to do a music degree, but enrolled for a degree in fine arts instead at Wits. She said she yearned “to be a hippie and wear tie-dyed clothing and hand-tooled leather sandals”. She prolonged her time at Wits by enrolling for a post-graduate high school teaching diploma. She told WITSReview her favourite lecturer was Robert Hodgins: “Robert used to tell us that painting was ‘a bit like surfing’ in that a good deal of the time is spent bobbing about, waiting for the right wave to come along. He explained that there are paintings that stem from memory and from a sombre look at the human condition. There are paintings about the construction and confusion of contemporary urban life, but there are also paintings about the pleasures about being alive, pleasures that crowd in upon the pessimism everywhere and refused to be ignored … A painting of my life at Wits would be such a painting.”
She met her first husband, Gordon Schachat (1982-1984), on campus. Apparently when he saw her walking down the steps at the Great Hall, he decided then and there to marry her. The marriage lasted two years. She also married Dr Peter Kulish (2002-2005). Her partners included Stanley B Katz (BCom 1972) and Mario Oriani-Ambrosini.
Her first job was teaching history of art at Greenoaks School. Later she taught art and English at Bryanston High School. She started writing classical music reviews for The Citizen newspaper and moved to the Sunday Times. The editor, Tertius Myburgh, hired her on the strength of her music reviews. Within a week, Leslie Sellers designed the logo for her debut column, “Just Jani”. He dropped T from Janet as it would not fit. Her first column appeared in March 1980. Weeks later, she was in Corfu to interview Roger Moore on the set of the latest James Bond series, For Your Eyes Only. In her decade-long tenure at the newspaper, she became the country’s most famous and influential writer and columnist. Her column later became “Jani Allan’s Week”, detailing her busy social diary. In later years it morphed into a straight interview profile column, “Face to Face”.
Of her hometown, Johannesburg, she wrote: “Johannesburg has never been a place for the fastidious or the over-sensitive. It is hideous and detestable, luxury without order, sensual enjoyment without refinement, display without dignity”. And “In South Africa acquisitiveness is not so much a virus as a chronic disease of epidemic proportions. Money is what death was to Keats. A preoccupation.”
In a surreal twist of fate, Allan’s last job was as a waitress in a fine-dining restaurant in the small town of Lambertville, in New Jersey. She became a US citizen and lived in “a small ground-floor apartment, against a steel traffic barrier and a parking lot”, according to a 2013 article. She was simply known as “Juliette” – her mother’s childhood nickname – and shared her living space with her beloved Pomeranians, whom she described as “spirit guides in fur coats”.
She said in a SABC interview in 1995. “I think that my whole life, looking back at it, I was so rooted in worldly things, in worldly values, fame, fashion and fortune and all the things that are just transient.”
Sources: Wits archive, Mail & Guardian, News24 and Gareth Davies
David Charles Limerick (1939-2023)
Emeritus Professor David Limerick (BA 1960) died at the age of 84 on 13 July 2023 in Brisbane, Australia. He was born in Venterspost, where his father was mine manager, and matriculated at Krugersdorp High School. He completed a BA in psychology in 1960 at Wits and worked at the Institute of Personnel Research designing nonculture-specific IQ tests.
He married Brigid Murray (BA 1961, MEd 1972) and moved to Scotland in 1965 to undertake a PhD at Strathclyde on leadership, strategy, structure and culture. Thereafter he returned to Wits and, in 1975, aged 36, was appointed professor and head of Wits Business School.
In 1976, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard. In 1978, he emigrated to Australia, accepting a position at the University of Melbourne Business School. Within a year he was recruited by the innovative, new, multi-disciplinary Griffith University in Brisbane, as the foundation professor in organisational behaviour. He established the Graduate School of Management there and retired in 1996.
Professor Limerick’s research was published in key academic journals and culminated in his book, with a colleague: “Managing the New Organisation” (1993, 1998, 2002). His visionary views on organisational behaviour made him a highly sought-after management consultant, speaker and visiting professor at universities and organisations across the globe.
He was widely recognised as a forward thinker who offered groundbreaking insights on collaborative individualism, punctuated equilibrium, autopoetic models of change and interpretivist grounded models of self, leadership and change.
He is survived by his wife Brigid, daughter Tracey, son Michael, and six grandchildren.
Source: Professor Jennifer Kromberg (PhDMed 1986)
Charles Kimberlin Brain (1931-2023)
Dr Charles Kimberlin “Bob” Brain, pioneer in the field of palaeontology, died on 6 June 2023. He had dedicated his life to unravelling the mysteries of our shared human story and his most significant achievement was his work at the Swartkrans Cave in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site. Here, he made a series of discoveries that shed light on early hominin behaviour and evolutionary development, including the oldest evidence for the controlled use of fire by hominins, dating to about one million years ago. His influential book, The Hunters or the Hunted? An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy (University of Chicago Press, 1981) revolutionised the field of palaeoanthropology. In it he developed the study of taphonomy: how organisms decay and fossilise.
Dr Brain was born on 7 May 1931 in Harare, Zimbabwe (then Salisbury) and he matriculated from Pretoria Boys’ High School in 1947. After obtained his Bachelor of Science degree and doctorate in zoology and geology from the University of Cape Town, he started his career at the Transvaal Museum (now the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History) in Pretoria, conducting research on rock layers of fossil hominid-bearing cave deposits. His systematic investigation revealed that each deposit had a distinct age and represented a unique climatic condition. Demonstrating his approach, Dr Brain assumed the role of curator in the Department of Lower Vertebrates in 1957, where he published several papers focusing on frogs, snakes and lizards. In 1968 he was promoted to director, a position he held for 23 years until his retirement in 1991. In 1980 he obtained his doctorate, titled “Studies in African cave taphonomy”, from Wits.
Wits awarded Dr Brain an honorary doctorate in 1981. He received other honorary degrees from the universities of Cape Town, Natal and Pretoria. His contributions to the field were also recognised with awards such as the Gold Medal of the Zoological Society, the Senior Captain Scott Memorial Medal of the South African Biological Society, the Achievement Award of the Claude Harris Leon Foundation and the John FW Herschel Medal of the Royal Society of South Africa.
He is survived by his wife Laura and four children Rosemary, Virginia, Tim and Conrad (PhD 1994).
Sources: Wits archive and Genus
Barry Dwolatzky (1952-2023)
A much-loved Wits alumnus and “Grand Geek” of digital innovation, Emeritus Professor Barry Dwolatzky (BSc Eng 1975) died on 16 May 2023 after a short illness.
His relationship with Wits spanned more than 50 years and at the time of his death he was director of innovation strategy in the office of Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Innovation – a position he described as his “dream job”. Even after retiring, he worked alongside Wits University’s deputy vice-chancellor, Professor Lynn Morris (BSc 1981, BSc Hons 1982), to establish the Wits Innovation Centre, which was launched on 17 April 2023.
Affectionately referred to as “Prof Barry”, he grew up in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg, living a relatively “insular childhood”. In 1971 he enrolled for an electrical engineering degree at Wits, going on to pursue a master’s degree, which he later converted to a doctorate. In his second year, he joined a student organisation, the South African Voluntary Service, which built schools and clinics in rural parts of southern Africa. The experience changed him profoundly, as he witnessed first-hand the reality of apartheid South Africa – villages filled with malnourished children, run by women and abandoned old men who’d had their lives sucked out in the mines. “I realised for the first time: how much my privilege and their underdevelopment were part of the same coin,” he said at the launch of his memoir Coded History: My Life of New Beginnings in 2022.
It was the beginning of a life as a political being, with a strong ethical compass. He left South Africa in 1979 to pursue research at the University of Manchester’s Institute of Science and Technology and at Imperial College in London. He worked as a senior research associate at the GEC-Marconi Centre in the UK, work which entailed software research and development projects. On his return to South Africa in 1989, his impact as senior lecturer was pronounced. He identified the importance of programming and information technology in engineering as well as introducing a software stream, which became distinct from the electrical engineering stream. He was made full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering in 2000.
Prof Barry demonstrated skills as an innovator and strategist and was the major driving force behind the establishment of the Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering in 2005. In 2013 he spearheaded the Tshimologong Digital Precinct. The centre attracted support from government and a range of local and international companies, including IBM. He was named “South African IT Personality of the Year” in 2013. He became Tshimologong’s first director and was honoured for this visionary project with the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Academic Citizenship in 2016.
He received an award for Distinguished Service to IT from the Institute of IT Professionals of South Africa in 2016. In his acceptance speech Prof Barry said: “One of the things that I try to teach my students is that the hardest thing to manage is a software project, because you will be managing something invisible. This whole industry is invisible, yet it is the underpinning factor in the current fourth industrial revolution...” He loved young people and said: “Young people have the creativity and energy, the drive and the reason to build a new South Africa, a new Africa, and a new world. I believe in the future of our country. This is also the point of a university – to prepare people for the future.”
His life had many health challenges – he received a diagnosis of leukaemia in the 1987s and faced its recurrence in 2020. Yet, as a friend, Janet Love (BA 1988, PDM 1994), said, “he was able to do things – rather than dwell on a pile of lamentations”. He was generous with his time, listening attentively with kindness to everyone who crossed his path. Vice-Chancellor Zeblon Vilakazi used the Yiddish word “tzadik” to describe him: a wise, righteous leader respected for his sense of justice and wisdom and whose life’s work was shared among many.
He is survived by his wife, Rina King (BSc Eng 1981, PGCE 2008), and his children, Leslie (MA 2022) and Jodie (BA 2019, BA Hons 2020).
Sources: Wits archives, view memorial service
Winfried Franz Bischoff (1941-2023)
Sir Winfried Bischoff (BCom 1962) the former chairman of Lloyds Banking Group, Citigroup and JP Morgan Securities and CEO of Schroders, died after a short illness on 25 April 2023 at the age of 81.
Born in Aachen in Germany in 1941, he arrived in South Africa after his father had set up an import/export business in 1955. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Wits in 1962 and went on to attend New York University. Sir Winfried’s father nudged his son into a career in banking on the grounds that he’d “come across many bankers when building his business and none of them seemed to be very good,” Sir Winfried said.
He started his career at Chase Manhattan in New York. In 1966 he joined Schroders, which was a small investment bank and asset manager, and stayed for 34 years. At 29, he moved to Hong Kong to start the company’s Hong Kong operations. His first big deal was to help list Li Ka-shing’s property and manufacturing business. He returned to London in 1984 and was named Schroders’ chief executive at the age of 42. “Hong Kong was the making of my career,” he told the Financial Times in 2019. “Among candidates who’d remained in London during the 1970s, there was a sense of negativism. That’s why I think they skipped a generation and chose me.”
In the 1980s Schroders’ shares “were among the best-three performing investments” on the London Stock Exchange in the 1980s. Valued at £112m in 1984, Schroders was worth £4.5bn by 2000, when Bischoff took the call to sell its banking business to Citigroup.
He was awarded a knighthood in 2000 for his services to banking, and applauded across Wall Street, steering Citi through the early days of the US subprime mortgage crisis, acting as chief executive at the end of 2007 and serving as chair until 2009.
In 2009, he returned to the UK as chair of Lloyds Bank, which was reeling from its ill-advised takeover of HBOS and taxpayer bailout, which sparked public fury. He removed the chief executive and recruited António Horta-Osório in 2011, who shrank and de-risked the combined group.
Soon afterwards he became chair of auditing watchdog the Financial Reporting Council, but had to endure a series of accounting scandals amid corporate collapses. He also chaired JPMorgan Securities, the European arm of the US company, from 2014 until 2020.
“Much loved husband of the late Rosemary. Loving father to Christopher and Charles and devoted grandfather to five grandchildren,” his family shared in a statement after his death.
Sources: FT, Reuters and Moneyweek
Beryl Unterhalter (1928-2023)
Described as “one of those selfless souls who were the backbone of our country and Jewish community”, Dr Beryl Unterhalter (MA 1956) died on 4 April 2023 at the age of 95.
Dr Unterhalter excelled at school and majored in social work at Wits. She went on to train social workers, teach at a primary school, and lecture in social work at the University. She became a pioneering influence in the field of medical sociology.
During apartheid, she was an active member of the Liberal Party alongside her husband, Jack, who led the party in the Transvaal and worked as a civil-rights lawyer. The couple raised three children, Elaine (BA 1973), an academic in London, Karen (BA 1974), an educator based in Toronto, and David (LLB 1984), a Gauteng High Court judge.
She was “a woman of action”, with many projects on the go. She worked in early childhood education in Soweto; ran literacy programmes with young children and adults, collaborating on literacy and computer classes for domestic workers; and offered her skills to the volunteer organisation University of the Third Age (U3A). She told WITSReview in 2016: “When I retired from lecturing in sociology at Wits, I wanted to learn rather than teach. I wanted to pursue my interests in English literature, poetry and philosophy. I found my intellectual home in U3A. Among the group leaders were retired university staff who provide stimulating discussion in small groups with like-minded third-agers.”
After her death, her son David said: “People talk a great deal about the value of giving, but there are those who actually do it as opposed to thinking about it. My mother’s great virtue was that she was a doer of boundless energy and effort.”
Sources: Wits archive, SA Jewish Report
Shulamith Behr, née Ruch (1946-2023)
Honorary research fellow and former senior faculty member of the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London, Dr Shulamith Behr (BA FA 1969, BA Hons 1972) died on 7 April 2023 at the age of 76.
She was born in Johannesburg on 21 December 1946, into a family of Lithuanian Jewish heritage, and was the youngest of three sisters. She graduated from Wits in 1969, receiving the Henri Lidchi Prize as the top undergraduate student in history of art. She went on to lecture at Wits for seven years, when Professor Heather Martienssen was head of the department.
Dr Behr completed her studies in art history and theory at the University of Essex before joining The Courtauld’s faculty in 1990, as Bosch lecturer in German art. She held the post of senior lecturer in 20th century German art until her appointment in 2012 as honorary research fellow. As a specialist in the study of German Expressionism she admitted to having had a long “fascination with materials and print production in the works of the twentieth century”.
Her publications encompassed the contribution of women artists to German and Swedish modernism. Her richly illustrated “Women Artists in Expression: From Empire to Emancipation” (Princeton, 2022) explored how women negotiated the competitive world of modern art in Germany. Their stories challenge predominantly male-oriented narratives of Expressionism and shed light on the divergent artistic responses of women to the dramatic events of the early 20th century. Commentators have praised this work for “dismantling” the canonical histories of modernism as well as painting a clearer image of how women Expressionist artists were regarded during their lifetimes.
She was a supportive scholar and she published and edited numerous books, book chapters, reviews and catalogue contributions. She curated four exhibitions, ran 12 research seminars and conferences, made 22 guest contributions to conferences and symposia, several of these as keynote speaker, and gave 27 public lectures across the world. She taught hundreds of BA and MA students and supervised 20 students to completion of their PhD degrees.
There were numerous recognitions of Dr Behr’s excellence in research, such as fellowships at Wolfson College, and at the Centre for Research in the Arts, University of Cambridge as well as a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship.
Dr Behr was described as “a woman before her time, who combined many fine qualities: the rigor and joy of academia as an inspiring teacher and outstanding researcher … Behind her softness and loveliness was an iron will and determination that saw her not only through the many trials in her life, but also through much of her final illness.”
She is survived by her husband Bernard (BCom 1968) and her sons Elijah and Gabriel and their wider family.
Sources: Bernard Behr, Burlington magazine and The Courtauld
Tiego Moseneke (1962-2023)
Former president of the Wits Black Students’ Society (BSS) Tiego Moseneke (BProc 1989) died on 19 April 2023 in a car accident at the age of 60.
He was born on 8 November 1962 in Atteridgeville in Tshwane, the fifth son of school teachers Karabo and Samuel Moseneke and youngest brother of former Wits Chancellor and Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke (LLD honoris causa 2018).
Moseneke attended primary school in his home village of Pheli and high school in Mamelodi. His grades were filled with distinctions, which ensured an easy entry into Wits on a scholarship from Anglo American for a BCom degree, but this was later changed to law. As a result of the Group Areas Act, he lived at the Mofolo Salvation Army Students’ Residence, and later moved to Glyn Thomas House, on the grounds of the Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Valuable study time was lost during the daily two-hour commute by bus and after-hour access to libraries “was a pipe dream”.
Absorbing the influence of many student activists at Glyn Thomas, he went on to be elected president of the Black Students Society in 1983 – among others such as David Johnson (BA 1984), Firoz Cachalia (BA 1981, BA Hons 1983, LLB 1988, HDipCoLaw 2003), Chris Ngcobo (BA 1987) and Themba Maseko (BA 1988, LLB 1993).
When the BSS was banned, Moseneke’s resistance to apartheid morphed into active membership of and participation in the United Democratic Front. His activism came at great cost. He was arrested frequently and bore the brunt of violent encounters with the security police. According to the Moseneke family he was detained under emergency regulations for two years continuously and he had frequent asthma attacks while in detention.
With the dawn of democracy, Moseneke was a member of the first Gauteng ANC executive after the unbanning of the party and continued in other senior roles. He set up a law practice, founded the New Diamond Corporation, which partnered with De Beers in diamond mining and exploration, and later New Platinum Corporation, which was sold to Jubilee Platinum. He was founder and chair of the Encha Group, an investment house, at the time of his death.
Moseneke was passionate about intergenerational dialogues between past and current student leaders. He was a founding chairman, along with other Wits alumni, of the South Africa Student Solidarity Foundation for Education, a fund started by a group of former student leaders in April 2016. It led the way in supporting the Masidleni Daily Meal Project under the Wits Food Bank, which provides meals to students from disadvantaged backgrounds and aims to combat hunger and food insecurity on campus.
At his memorial service, held at Wits on 31 May 2023, former Wits SRC members spoke fondly of him: “He stressed innovative ways of addressing the annual fees crisis. Most importantly, he gelled well across generations. I never felt less wise when conversing with him — yet every moment was an opportunity to learn from him,” said Mpendulo Shakes Mfeka, SRC President 2021/22. “When we were slandered, shunned and demonised as hooligans, Tiego reached out a protective brotherly arm, provided a listening ear and empathetic words of comfort,” said Shafee Verachia, SRC President 2013/2014.
He is survived by his wife Koketso and children Didintle, Mooketsi and Pako.
Sources: Wits archives, Moseneke memorial
Andrew Robertson (1943-2023)
Dr Andrew “Andy” Robertson (BSc Eng 1966, GDE 1977, PhD 1977) the founder of mining industry geotechnical and environmental engineering services company Robertson GeoConsultants and co-founder of engineering consultancy SRK Global died on 29 March 2023 at the age of 79.
Dr Robertson was born in 1943 in Pretoria, South Africa, where he was exposed to mining from a young age. In 1966, he graduated with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering as well as a doctorate from Wits.
In 1974 he, along with Oskar Steffen (BSc Eng 1961, MSc Eng 1963, PhD 1978), and Hendrik Kirsten (BSc Eng 1963, MSc Eng 1966, PhD 1986), formed Steffen, Robertson & Kirsten (SRK) in Johannesburg, the only consulting firm in Africa to specialise in mining geotechnics at the time.
Four years later in 1977, Robertson moved to Canada to start the first international branch of what became SRK Consulting. Several offices in the United States were formed under his guidance. In these early formative years of the company, he provided strong guidance and mentorship to many young engineers and geoscientists. Many went on to develop distinguished careers within SRK as well as other consulting or mining companies. Today, SRK has over 1600 employees worldwide in 40+ offices.
In addition to SRK, Dr Robertson developed several other companies that serve the mining industry. He supported the development of Gemcom in 1981, the mining industry’s first PC-based exploration database as well as ore deposit modelling, and open pit mine planning software system. In 2012, Gemcom was sold to Dassault Systèmes, owner of GEOVIA.
In 1989, he launched InfoMine, with the vision of making mining information more widely available. He spearheaded the digital strategy that became the cornerstone of the company and under his leadership, InfoMine expanded to include EduMine.com (training), CareerMine (recruitment), and Mining.com (news).
In 1995, he founded Robertson GeoConsultants, a specialised, international mining consultancy based in Vancouver, BC. His consulting practice included serving on several peer-review panels and independent review boards for some of the highest and most challenging tailing dams in the world.
From the 1980s to 2000, Dr Robertson worked on foundational research for the testing, prediction, and control of acid rock drainage (ARD). He was a contributing member of the British Columbia ARD Task Force from 1985 to 1990, which published some of the industry’s first ARD guidelines. He wrote or contributed to industry technical guides on mine waste management, uranium mill waste disposal, and guidelines for the rehabilitation of mines. These guidelines established the foundation for environmental best practices in the industry.
His interest in raising industry standards was a pervasive theme through his work. He was instrumental in pioneering the use of failure mode and effects analysis —one of the first systematic techniques for failure analysis—and multiple accounts analysis for engineered solutions in the mining industry. In the late 1990s, he published several papers that are still referenced today in the mining industry.
During his career, Dr Robertson worked tirelessly to protect the environment, communities, water quality, and water supplies. He leveraged his background in rock mechanics, geotechnical engineering, and geochemistry to raise the bar for environmental stewardship within the industry and for the work products he delivered.
Dr Robertson was passionate about improving the design, construction, operation, and closure of tailings dams. To make tailings dams safer, he advocated for improving the technology used for the design, construction, and long-term stability of tailing dams; for fiscal responsibility in the construction and operation of these dams; and for governance so today’s designs account for the needs of future generations and changes in societal expectations.
Beside his brilliant mind, business acumen, and ability to spot talent, he was also admired for his humility, kindness, and generosity. He was always willing to share his knowledge through publications, courses, and countless meetings and discussions. His legacy will live on in all the engineers and scientists he has mentored over his remarkably long and successful career.
Source: SRK Global
Barry Orlek (1949-2023)
Dr Barry Orlek (BSc 1971, PhD 1976) died on 11 March 2023, at his home in Epping, England, after a long battle with myeloma.
He was born in Vereeniging, matriculated from General Smuts High in 1966, and obtained a bachelor of science degree in industrial chemistry in 1971 as well as his doctorate in organic chemistry in 1976 from Wits.
In 1977 he moved to the United Kingdom to take up a postdoctoral position at City, University of London, under Professor Peter Sammes, where he undertook research on the chemistry of beta-lactamase inhibitors. He joined Beecham Pharmaceuticals (now GlaxoSmithKline) in 1981, working as a medicinal chemist on several different drug discovery research programmes until his retirement in 2008.
During his retirement he spent many hours pursuing his passion for photography – both behind the lens and at exhibitions in the UK and abroad. It’s a passion he shared with his wife Ilana. He maintained strong ties with South Africa, visiting every year to see family and friends and to spend time in the bush.
He leaves his wife Ilana and sons Jonathan and Alex.
Source: Orlek family
Cecilia Sentson (1966-2023)
Cecilia Sentson (BSC 1989, BCom 1990) was born on 31 May 1966 and died on 12 May 2023, days before her 57th birthday.
She started her primary school career at St Theresa’s Convent in Coronationville in 1972, where her love of learning and reading was nurtured. She proceeded to St Barnabas High School and matriculated in 1983.
She studied at Wits, completing a BSc in information systems and thereafter pursued a BCom honours degree. She was awarded a scholarship to study towards an MBA at City University in the United Kingdom.
On her return to South Africa, she was appointed as senior lecturer in the school of computer science and applied mathematics for several years.
She was employed by Gemini Consulting as a strategy consultant, by Coca-Cola Group as its head of Information Technology Strategy and executive for Africa and the Middle East.
Her entrepreneurial journey started several years ago and involved the establishment of many ventures which culminated in the creation of her company which she aptly named Neland Consulting, in honour of her maternal grandmother.
She had a larger-than-life personality.
Felicity Eggleston (1937-2023)
Felicity Eggleston, previous assistant registrar at Wits from 1981 until retiring in 1997, passed away peacefully on the 8 May 2023 aged 86 years.
Felicity was fiercely loyal to Wits, pouring over her alumni magazines as they arrived. She was much valued and respected by top management and vice-chancellors, touching their lives as well as those of SRC representatives and students.
She joined the University at the end of the MacCrone era and listened to farewell speeches for him, Professors Bozzoli, du Plessis, Tyson and lastly Professor Charlton. During her tenure she saw student numbers double in size and Wits expand onto West Campus. She had a strong sense of justice and had multiple memories of picketing along Jan Smuts Avenue in protest against government discriminatory action, with staff linking arms on the university perimeter, their backs to the police and students on the inside.
She started working at Wits in 1968 as secretary to the deputy academic registrar and stayed at Wits in various capacities until her retirement in 1997 having served Wits for almost 30 years.
1969 senior clerk and personal assistant to academic registrar
1972 secretary of faculty of arts for 5 years
1977 invited back to central administration to oversee 10 Faculty offices, and then ran the senate secretariat for many years.
1978 Appointed senior administrative officer
1981 (Senior) Assistant Registrar (Academic)
1990 Head of Faculty Administration and Senate Secretariat
Following her retirement, she started work as registrar of St Augustine's College in Jan 1998, establishing the new Catholic university which opened 13 July 1999. She retired 11 years later after seeing her first students graduate in 2011/2012. She also assisted the Sandton Democratic alliance in 2010.
She played hockey for KZN as a university student, was a birder, climber, hiker, campaigner, feminist, inveterate traveller. Her travels included:
Climbing mountains in UK, Europe (including the Matterhorn), Namibia and many Magaliesburg and Drakensberg peaks;
Numerous solo travels in Europe in the late 1950s, early 1960s. Here she had numerous temporary jobs including honing her skills working with the Co-coordinating Secretariat of National Student Unions in Holland, Geneva World University Service and living in and working for the Translation Bureau of the Turkish State Planning Organisation for a year;
Machu Picchu as part of a base camp expedition then on to travelling through South America for three months;
Botswana numerous times resulting in her involvement in Okavango conservation for a period; and
Numerous archaeological trips locally as well as Ethiopia, Tunisia and Egypt.
She hosted wonderful dinner parties with a vast circle of friends including work colleagues who became dear friends. Indeed her friendship circle was so wide she seldom needed to stay in a hotel whilst travelling anywhere! She was gentle kind, courteous and “proper” lady who always managed to smile and had a positive attitude towards everything even in her later years.
She leaves a nephew and three nieces. Two of her nieces, their spouses as well as a great nephew and niece are also Wits graduates.
Source: Caroline Reuss, née Harte (BSc Nurs 1987)
Joseph Pamensky (1930-2023)
Joseph Leon Pamensky – or “Papa Joe” (CTA 1953) – died on 8 March 2023, in Johannesburg after a long battle with dementia at the age of 92.
Pamensky was born in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha) on 21 July 1930 to jewellery store owners Samuel and Freda Pamensky. He attended Grey High School, excelling in maths and playing first team cricket, where he opened the innings and kept wicket.
Pamensky studied as a chartered accountant at Wits and played club cricket for the university and, later, at Pirates in Johannesburg. Dr Ali Bacher (MBBCh 1967, LLD honoris causa 2001) remained a life-long friend and colleague.
Pamensky served on the Wits All Sports’ Council as a student and was elected to the Transvaal Cricket Union’s junior board as a 23-year-old in 1953 before being elected to the full board two years later. On the Transvaal board, he served as vice-chairperson, chairperson, treasurer – and, eventually, president. His election onto the South African Cricketers’ Association board followed in 1967. He was one of the drivers of the negotiations which lead to the formation of the South African Cricket Union in 1976 and was its president until 1991. He was one of the “main drivers of the short-lived unity process in the mid-1970s and, as honorary president, was supportive of Dr Bacher becoming Transvaal cricket’s first full-time chief executive in 1981.
During the 1980s, with the national team banned from international competition after the cancellation of the proposed tour to Australia in 1971/2, Pamensky, Bacher, and fellow administrator Geoff Dakin initiated the controversial “rebel tours”. This resulted in English, Sri Lankan, West Indian, and Australian tours to the country.
In 1987, Pamensky received the Order of Meritorious Service Gold Medal by the South African government. He was also a member of the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants (Chartered Accountant of the Year 1984) and an honorary life member of Melbourne Cricket Club as well as Cricket South Africa and Gauteng cricket.
Seven years ago, Pamensky was diagnosed with dementia. He had remarried after the death of his first wife Pamela, nèe Goldberg, 14 years ago.
He is survived by his second wife Jackie, children Kevin (BA 1986), Martin and Beverly.
Sources: Archives, Cricket South Africa, South African Jewish Report
Mark Pilgrim (1969-2023)
Veteran South African broadcaster Mark Pilgrim died on 5 March 2023 at the age of 53, after battling stage four lung cancer.
He was born in England and moved to South Africa at the age of nine, matriculating from Sasolburg High School. He started his studies at Wits in 1987, completing two years towards a bachelor of commerce degree, which he never completed. Instead, his interest in radio was sparked on the campus radio station Voice of Wits. This followed many successful years at various radio stations such as 5FM, 94.7 and KFM.
In 2014 he joined a new station Hot 91.9 FM in Johannesburg, and in 2015 won the MTN Radio Award for Best Weekend Radio Show. In 2019 he won the Liberty Radio Award for the Best Daytime Show in South Africa and in 2021 he was inducted into the South African Hall of Fame for his contribution to the industry.
The radio DJ won multiple awards throughout his career and the South African radio industry honoured Pilgrim by inducting him into the Radio Awards Hall of Fame in July 2021.
He married Nicole Torres in 2007 and after almost 13 years together, divorced in 2020. They had two children, Tayla-Jean and Alyssa, together.
Pilgrim also ventured into TV in 2001 when he was host of the first season of Big Brother South Africa. In 2002 he returned to host the second season, and in 2003 he hosted the first season of Big Brother Africa. He worked as an MC and motivational speaker and was an advocate for positivity, inspiring others with his own experiences. He published his autobiography, Beyond the Baldness (Tracey MacDonald Publishing, 2015) and from 2013 to early 2016, he wrote a monthly column about parenting from a dad's perspective for Living and Loving magazine.
Pilgrim was diagnosed with aggressive stage 3 testicular cancer, which spread to his lungs and kidneys, in 1988. He was 18 years old. After 33 years in remission, he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. In June 2022 he revealed that the cancer had spread to his femur, the base of his spine, and his lymph nodes. He launched a YouTube video series chronicling his treatment.
He was discharged from hospital, two months later, in time to ring in the new year with his fiancée, Adrienne Watkins.
Sources: News 24 and Wits archives
David A Lipschitz (1943-2023)
Dr David Lipschitz (MBBCh 1966, PhD Med 1973) affectionally known as "Dr David," passed away on 6 March 2023 surrounded by his family. He was born in Johannesburg, the eldest of four children. Ever the entrepreneur, he once dug up all the plants in his father's garden and attempted to sell them on the roadside. Luckily, he moved beyond his mischievous ways and went on to study medicine at Wits.
Following in his father's footsteps, Dr Lipschitz emigrated to the United States in 1972,
training as a haematologist at the University of Washington and doing the seminal research in the development of the serum ferritin assay, a tool that is still used to help evaluate iron levels in blood. After stints at Montefiore Medical Centre and Kansas University Medical School, he joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as director of the Division of Hematology/Oncology.
Dr Lipschitz flourished in Little Rock. He began research on the effects of nutrition on aging, which led to a lifelong focus on the unique medical needs of older people. In 1995, he assumed the position of director of the Centre on Aging at UAMS. Under his leadership, UAMS received $30.2 million from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to establish the Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics and the Institute on Aging. He went on to facilitate the development of a state-wide network for geriatric care, ensuring that every older Arkansan had access to high quality medical care.
While Dr Lipschitz was an exceptional leader in medical research and administration, his greatest passion being educating his patients and the public about healthy aging. He often said, "Everything you've been told about growing older is wrong!" Through his weekly newspaper columns, radio shows and television segments, he empowered people to live each day to the fullest. Well before "body positivity”.
He never missed an opportunity to crack a corny joke, hum a made-up tune, or dance as if no one was watching (though clearly everyone was!). This voracious appetite for life also meant he was never afraid to put a fork on someone else's plate – resulting in a whole generation of speed eaters. He was endlessly devoted to his three French bulldogs, Barkley, Mochi, and Peaches. They were expertly trained to sleep in a pile on his lap while he watched murder mystery shows for hours.
But most of all he loved his family, his wife, Francie, who he said was the most brilliant mother and physician in the world; his six children, Andrea, Elan, Howard, Riley, Forbes, and Evan; and his grandchildren.
Source: Arkansas Gazette
David L James (1927-2023)
David Leslie James, known as “Dave” (BSc Mech Eng 1950, BSc Elec Eng 1952) was born in 1927 and he lived his early childhood in mining company towns on the Witwatersrand such as Robertson Deep, Sub Nigel and Vogelstruisbult.
He went to primary school at Pridwin Preparatory School and later became a boarder at Michaelhouse in Natal, which he enjoyed, especially being set free to wander around the countryside on a Sunday. His family owns a letter he wrote to his mother at the time: “Dear Ma. Please send a small frying pan, some tins of bully beef and some small blocks of jellified methylated spirits. Love, David.”
In 1945 he started an engineering degree, but quit after about a month when he found the syllabus replicated what he had done the year before in sixth form and joined the war effort, stationed at the naval base in Saldanha Bay. The following year he resumed his studies at Wits, where he met his wife, Jenepher, in 1948, at a tennis party. He graduated with a BSc Mech Eng in 1950, and then with BSc Elec Eng in 1952. He started his master’s degree, working under the supervision of Costa Rallis (BSc Eng 1947, MSc Eng 1948, PhD 1963, DSc honoris causa 2003. He married Jenepher (DipArch 1967) in February and they went to live in the married students’ quarters at Cottesloe. That’s where they met many of the people who became lifelong friends, like Tony and Joy Eagle and Dorothea and Gerald Zeffert (DipArch 1954).
James worked for the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research briefly and then joined the Physics Department at Wits, where he worked as a lecturer for about 40 years, mainly teaching students in electrical engineering. He was much loved and much appreciated by his students, one of whom observed that he was “one of the last of the old school of dedicated university teachers, unappreciated and undervalued by the authorities, who rendered enormous service to the generations of undergraduates they taught”.
In his leisure time he built boats, took groups of students and his family on skin diving and camping holidays in Mozambique, and eventually – after retirement – politely turned down an offer by the Physics Department to continue as a lecturer, and completed the building of a boat which he then sailed to the Comores, Madagascar and up the east coast of Africa as far as Kenya. A former Wits colleague described James as a “cross between Scott of the Antarctic and a slightly older version of a hippy – a sort of glorified tramp. Never happier than when sailing somewhere, travelling across the most inhospitable terrain of Lesotho or camping on some beach on which no-one has previously set foot.”
After restoring the Stillbay holiday house that had belonged to his grandfather, he and Jenepher spent the last years of their retirement there.
He kept in touch with his old friends, especially John Crawford (BSc 1959) and Eddie Price (BSc Hons 1960), both of whom predeceased him.
He died on 14 February 2023. He leaves Jenepher, four children – Deborah (BA 1975, BA Hons 1980, MA 1988, PhD 1994), Nicholas (BSc Eng 1981, GDE 1985), Simon (PDipEd 1986) and Melissa (BA 1986, BA Hons 1987) – and nine grandchildren.
Source: Deborah James
Phil Levinsohn (1939-2023)
Chairperson of the Press Council of South Africa Judge Phillip Levinsohn (LLB 1963) died on 21 February 2023 at the age of 83 after a brief illness. He practised as advocate of the Durban Bar from 1971 and took silk in 1988. After a respected career at the Bar, he was appointed as judge of this division in 1990. In 2006 he was appointed as Deputy Judge President of the division, a post which he held until his retirement on 23 August 2009. He contributed widely and followed the affairs of the Bar both locally and nationally and served for many years on the National Bar Examinations Board throughout his time and into retirement.
He was described as "a gentle, caring man who was a fierce defender of media freedom and a passionate believer in fair media coverage as espoused by the Press Code
He is survived by his wife Phyllis, and children Deborah, Jacques, Gideon, and Adam.
Sources: The South African Judiciary, News24
Brian A Lieberman (1942-2023)
Professor Brian Abraham Lieberman (MBBCh 1965) passed away on 20 February 2023.
Professor Lieberman was born in Johannesburg and educated at Grey College in Bloemfontein from 1955-1959, and he obtained his degree in medicine from Wits in 1965. He moved to London in 1971 to take up a post at St Mary's Hospital. There he specialised in laparoscopic sterilisation, on which he published a number of research papers from 1974 onwards including in the Lancet in 1976.
Professor Lieberman took up a post at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in September 1978. Inspired by the early work of fertility pioneers he established the world's first publicly funded IVF unit at St Mary's in 1982. He founded the Department of Reproductive Medicine and remained medical director until his retirement in 2007. He also established the private Manchester Fertility Services clinic in 1986 and remained a director until 2009.
Professionally, Professor Lieberman made extremely important contributions to the field of IVF from the early days onwards. He was a leader in the development of clinical practice in IVF, fertility preservation, embryo research and embryonic stem cell biology. He founded the National Egg and Embryo Donation Society, the forerunner of the National Gamete Donation Trust. Professor Lieberman wrote over 100 academic papers and numerous textbooks and chapters over a research career from 1969-2011. He was made an honorary professor at the University of Manchester in 2006 and an honorary member of the British Fertility Society in 2018.
He was instrumental in the careers of many in reproductive medicine. To his enormous credit, he placed great value on the expertise of others and particularly enjoyed surrounding himself with people who in his words “know things that I don't”. In that respect he was an excellent leader.
Professor Lieberman had many interests outside of academia, including a long-standing interest in African art and travel in the African continent, including an overland trip to climb Mount Kenya to raise money for charity. He was a keen sportsman, representing his school at rugby, cricket and swimming. In later life, he became an avid golfer and is now buried as close as possible to the eighth hole at his golf club. He was an avid Manchester United fan, and a season ticket holder.
He is survived by his wife, Bernice, and three children.
Source: Professor Daniel Brison
Peter Davey (1953-2023)
Independent non-executive director of mining company Implats, Peter William Davey (MBA 1990), passed away on 7 February 2023 after a short illness. He was a respected mining engineer with substantial production experience in South Africa's deep-level platinum and gold mining industries.
He was employed at the company in the 1970s after completing his Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering from Cardiff University in 1976. He completed his Master of Business Administration at Wits and began his second career in the finance industry. He worked at some of the world’s leading investment banking and audit institutions based in Johannesburg and London, where he specialised in mining equity research and sales, for more than 25 years.
Davey had in-depth knowledge and a broad personal network across both the South African and global mining industry and financial sector and was highly respected by the executives in the global mining companies he researched and the investor base he advised. He remained abreast of societal and industry challenges and he was an avid reader and regular participant at industry conferences and forums.
Implats chairperson, Thandi Orleyn, said: “Peter embodied an unparalleled combination of technical and financial experience, impeccable ethics, deep compassion, and a personal commitment to driving Implats to excel in the broader aspects of social and environmental performance. We will miss his diligence and our debates, and we mourn the loss of a deeply respected and trusted colleague.”
Davey is survived by his wife, Jo, his children Richard and Katherine (BCom 2002), and their families.
Source: Implats
Carmela Heilbron (1940-2023)
The last remaining Holocaust survivor in KwaZulu-Natal, Carmela Heilbron, née Heyman (BA 1962), died on 13 January 2023. According to the Wits archive, she was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1940. She had a traumatic childhood, growing up in the Kovno ghetto during World War II, and was smuggled out with the help of the Catholic Church. Heilbron, like many children, was handed over the Red Cross at the end of the war. She reunited with her mother and sister, who had been sent to Auschwitz, and the trio moved to Tanzania. Most of her immediate family died during the Holocaust.
The Wits archive indicates she matriculated from Ndola Government School in Zambia in 1956 and studied at Wits between 1957 and 1961.
In 2008, Heilbron became a guide at the emerging Durban Holocaust & Genocide Centre and continued to volunteer there until 2014. Her experience is recorded in the digital record of experiences of 34 Holocaust survivors who found refuge in Portraits of Survival Volume 1: The Holocaust. In it she says: “Take a good look at what’s happening around you. Don’t ever turn around and say it’s not there because it’s not affecting you. The important message is to take action. Speak up, because when you don’t speak up, it just compounds itself into a hideous situation.”
She married Lew Heilbron and had two children. Her daughter, Mandy, passed away at the age of 36. She is survived by her husband, son Steven and her grandchildren.
Sources: Wits archive, SA Jewish Report, Durban Holocaust & Genocide Centre
Marie-Joséphine Whitaker (1925-2023)
Marie-Joséphine Whitaker, who died in London on 11 January 2023, was professor of French at Wits from 1978 to 1988. An international authority on the work of the French poet, essayist and dramatist Paul Claudel, she was honoured by the French government for her role in disseminating French culture in southern Africa.
Professor Whitaker was born Marie-Joséphine Polakiewicz in what was then eastern Poland and is now south-western Ukraine, and used to describe herself as “Polish by birth, French by culture”. Forced to flee in 1940 from the Russian occupation of eastern Poland, she embarked on an epic refugee journey with her mother and sister, ending in Cape Town, where she read for her bachelor’s and master’s at the University of Cape Town. As a graduate student she met her husband, Frank Whitaker, when he was sent to her to brush up his French after returning from war service.
Lecturing in French at UCT and bearing four children – a fifth was stillborn – did not prevent Professor Whitaker from obtaining her doctorate at the Sorbonne. She took the two youngest children with her to Paris. Her thesis on the work of the poet Arthur Rimbaud was published in 1972 as La Structure du monde imaginaire de Rimbaud. When the family moved to Johannesburg in the mid-1960s, she joined the French Department at Wits, becoming its head in 1978.
As professor, she continued to research and publish, mainly on Claudel, and hosted the biennial conference of the Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, which she helped to found. The French government, which made her Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques in 1978, promoted her to Officier in 1985.
On retirement in 1988 Professor Whitaker moved with her husband to Paris, where she was active in French academic life, publishing and being invited to lecture at French and Polish universities. She published a critical edition of Claudel’s La Messe là-bas in 2009, but after 22 years in France, age forced the couple to move in 2010 to London, where she lamented that the subject of her life’s work was almost unknown, despite WH Auden’s famous couplet:
“Time will pardon Paul Claudel,
Pardon him for writing well.”
But on hearing of her death, the writer’s grandson, François Claudel, praised her “remarkable knowledge of my grandfather’s work, that she admired and knew how to share”.
Frank died in 2014. Professor Whitaker is survived by Raymond (BA 1970), Richard (BA 1971), Christopher and Helen (BA 1978), eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Source: Raymond Whitaker
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Joan Munday (1928-2022)
Joan Munday (BSc 1948, MSc 1980) died peacefully on 29 December 2022 in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. Born in Bloemfontein, she completed her schooling as a boarder at Johannesburg High School for Girls Barnato Park. She went on to study at Wits, obtaining a Bachelor of Science in 1948. After graduating she was awarded a scholarship to conduct plant research at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens herbarium in Cape Town. In the 1950s she left South Africa for the United Kingdom, where she lived for several years, working in the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London. It was here that she began to specialise as a taxonomic botanist.
While learning German at a language school in London she met her husband Ken (HDipTax 1983), who had recently been demobilised from the British Army’s occupation of Germany, and they married in 1956. Their son Nicholas was born in London. Later they moved to Johannesburg, where they had two more sons: Martin (BA 1986, MA 1988) and Christopher (BA 1988, BA Hons 1989, MA 1993, PGDipM 1992).
In 1972 Munday returned to Wits to work as a taxonomic botanist in the Department of Botany’s Moss Herbarium. She focused her research on grasses and desert plants and completed an MSc in 1980, with her dissertation on the plant genus Monechma. Fieldwork took her around Southern Africa. She and her husband both enjoyed wildlife and had a shared passion for studying birds of prey.
While working at Wits, she provided volunteer support to the Johannesburg General Hospital’s Poison Centre helpline by identifying plants that patients had ingested. After retiring in 1988, she wrote the field guide Poisonous Plants in South African Gardens and Parks (Delta, 1988) with illustrations by the botanical artist Joan van Gogh.
Munday settled in Plettenberg Bay and when Ken died in 2019, they had been married for nearly 63 years. She is survived by her three sons and two grandchildren.
Source: Munday family
Charles Simkins (1949-2022)
Renowned economist and inaugural holder of the Helen Suzman Chair in political economy at Wits, Professor Charles Simkins (BSc 1969, BSc Hon 1970) died after a long illness on 8 December 2022, 48 hours after his beloved wife Rae Gower.
After completing an honours degree in physics at Wits in 1970, he was awarded a Rhodes scholarship, and obtained a master’s in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University. He then completed a PhD in economics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg.
Professor Simkins was involved in civil society organisations and initiatives for the greater part of his life. This activism first appeared during his undergraduate days at Wits, when he was elected to the Student Representative Council as treasurer. He was involved in helping to create a non-racial trade union movement, which led to him being banned for five years under the Suppression of Communism Act until November 1976. He was given permission to relocate to the Pietermaritzburg campus, where he created the Development Studies Research Group. It was during this time that he met and married his wife.
After his banning order was lifted, he moved to Cape Town, where he joined the Economics Department at the University of Cape Town. Later he moved to Johannesburg to join the Urban Foundation, subsequently working at Wits and St Augustine’s College. He joined the Helen Suzman Foundation in 2014, building up a research profile on a broad range of subjects such as health and land reform, infrastructure problems (including water and electricity) and constitutional issues, especially those surrounding electoral reform.
In a tribute to Professor Simkins, the historian RW Johnson said he was immediately struck by the “subtlety and complexity of his intelligence” when their paths crossed at Oxford. “He was a quiet, modest and very gentle man without political ambition”, who saw “opposition to apartheid as a moral imperative rather than a political act”.
For the last decade of his life Professor Simkins devoted himself to the care of his ill wife.
Source: Helen Suzman Foundation, Politicsweb
Louis Berman (1934-2022)
Dr Louis Berman (MBBCh 1957) was born on 27 February 1934 in Johannesburg to Isaac and Dora Berman. He was the first in his family to attend University and graduated as a physician, and went on to specialise in rheumatology in Chicago and London.
He married fellow Witsie Dr Margaret Spitz (MBBCh 1966) and the couple emigrated to Houston in the United States. Dr Berman built a thriving rheumatology practice and was much beloved by his patients and staff.
Dr Berman developed a love of the beach from his childhood in Muizenberg, Cape Town and an annual beach vacation became a family tradition. His hobbies included listening to classical music and creative writing. One of his favourite activities was taking his grandchildren to bookstores and buying armloads of books for them. He had a passion for learning and had a remarkable ability to translate the complex into the simple. He learned to play the piano by ear listening to his sister’s lessons and after retiring took piano lessons himself.
Dr Berman died on 26 December 2022 and he is survived by his three children and seven grandchildren.
Source: Jewish Herald Voice Online
Richard Enthoven (1937-2022)
Richard “Dick” Enthoven (DCom honoris causa 2021) was a distinguished, if reclusive, South African entrepreneur and philanthropist, who died on 2 December 2022 after a battle with cancer.
Born in 1937, Enthoven was the son of Dutch immigrant insurance broker Robert Enthoven, whose insurance brokerage business started in the 1950s and evolved into Hollard. Richard, in turn, was instrumental in building iconic South African and international businesses, including Auto and General, Nando’s, Direct Axis, & Beyond and Spier Wine Estate.
In 1970 he was elected as a member of the Transvaal Provincial Council and in 1974 he became a member of parliament for the United Party, but was expelled in 1975 for “disloyalty”.
He was a renowned lover of the arts and supported many South African artists, as well as building art institutions. He provided the generous catalytic funding for the Wits Art Museum as well as the Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation, a non-profit organisation whose mission is to play a role in globalising contemporary South African art. Enthoven’s passion for architectural heritage resulted in the restoration of one of Johannesburg’s important heritage sites, Villa Arcadia.
Wits bestowed an honorary doctorate in commerce on him in 2021. His favourite quote was “the gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application”, from the novel Don Quixote.
Enthoven is survived by five children and 14 grandchildren.
Sources: Wits University and News24
John Bradley (1937-2022)
Educationist, academic and friend of Wits University for over five decades, Professor John Bradley died on 28 December 2022.
Professor Bradley was born in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire and joined the Wits School of Chemistry in 1964 after completing his studies at the University of Leeds, the University of London (King’s College) and his postdoctoral fellowship at Florida State University.
In the early 1980s, out of concern for educationally disadvantaged students, he spearheaded initiatives to provide students with access to science education. These initiatives included an entry-level and a research programme in chemistry education. In 1990, Professor Bradley became director of the University’s Centre for Research and Development in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (RADMASTE), a centre which developed maths and science education resources. He moved with RADMASTE when it was relocated to the Wits School of Education in 2003.
According to colleagues, he persistently challenged them “to think big, to think contemporary, and never to be complacent” about their teaching offerings. He was one of the co-creators of the Centre for Microscience Experiments associated with UNESCO, and helped establish the UNESCO-IUPAC Global Programme in Microscience. He published widely on research emanating from this area in the past two decades.
Professor Bradley served as the president of the South African Chemical Institute, as chairperson of the IUPAC Committee on the teaching of chemistry (1996-2001), and as chair of the ministerial task team responsible for developing a national strategy for maths, science and technology education. He was a finalist in the 2018 National Science and Technology Forum Awards and received the International Organization for Chemical Science in Development’s Pierre Crabbé Prize in 2003.
He married Elizabeth Le Roux Wessels in 1962 and they had three children, Richard, Jocelyn (BA 1989, BA Hons 1990, MA 1995) and Julia.
Source: Wits University
Henry Nathanson (1927 – 2022)
Henry Nathanson (BA 1947, LLB 1949), the last surviving member of the famous law class of 1949, that included Nelson Mandela (LLD honoris causa 1991), passed away peacefully on 3 December 2022, at his home in Glenhazel.
Born in Kroonstad in 1927, he later attended high school at Jeppe Boys. He enrolled for chemical engineering degree at Wits in 1944, but, switched to law the following year, despite his excellent results.
Articled to Max Pinchuk at Wertheim & Becker, he later started his own firm of Nathanson Bowman & Nathan. He enjoyed a successful career as an attorney, notary, and conveyancer in Johannesburg, for 50 years.
He was a keen bowls player, but also enjoyed watching rugby and cricket, playing bridge, and was a keen amateur philatelist. He possessed a fine sense of humour and able to lighten up a difficult moment with a suitable amusing quip. He was very pleased to attend the 1949 Wits Law Class Reunion in 1996, that Mandela also attended.
His wife Sheila predeceased him, as did his two sons Irwin and Mark who had severe disabilities and he is survived by his daughter Anne Wilkinson.
Source: Sarel de Klerk
Gavin Norton (1961-2022)
Professor Gavin Norton (BSc 1982, MBBCh 1986, PhD Med 1993), a much loved and respected member of the Wits staff in the Faculty of Health Sciences, died on 1 December 2022.
Prof Norton joined the University as a junior lecturer in 1989. Four years later, he founded and became the director of the Cardiovascular Pathophysiology Research Programme, which subsequently grew into the Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit in 2001. An off-site satellite research group, the Cardiovascular Pathophysiology Research Unit, was set up in 2018.
He was described as “a true clinician scientist” by colleagues and made an immense contribution to the understanding of cardiovascular pathophysiology, hypertension and heart failure. Prof Norton received a South African Medical Research Council Gold Medal for excellence in research and was one of the 30 inaugural honorary fellows appointed in 2021 by the International Union of Physiological Sciences for “exceptional contributions to physiological sciences” in the form of significant original discovery and sustained excellent contribution to scholarship.
He was a formidable researcher and had a great passion for the teaching and training of students. He had a knack for explaining complex physiological concepts in simple but accurate terms and was awarded the Phillip V Tobias accolade as a distinguished teacher. His fatherlike approach to postgraduate training made him a well-loved supervisor and mentor among all his more than 50 research master’s and PhD students. His graduates are in prominent academic and industrial positions and bear testament to the quality of education he delivered.
His family said he “was a real beach bum who enjoyed swimming and surfing”. He also loved movies and had an impressive collection of DVDs of his favourite actors. Few knew he was an avid painter and sculptor and a fervent visitor to museums. His many travels across the globe made him a fountain of world knowledge and a fascinating storyteller.
Sources: School of Physiology: Prof William Daniels, Prof Angela Woodiwiss and Dr Vernice Peterson
Michael Javett (1936-2022)
Philanthropist and attorney Michael Javett (BCom 1957, LLB 1959) died on 17 November 2022 at the age of 86 at his home in Johannesburg.
After completing his law and business studies at Wits he practised as an attorney at Webber Wentzel, moving to London to join the international law firm Allen & Overy and subsequently pursued a career as a merchant banker at Hill Samuel. He returned to South Africa and established the Unisec Group that was later sold to Standard Bank. He also established Tolux SA, which has since become Brait. From 2006 he focused on philanthropy and was instrumental in establishing the Javett Foundation in 2013. The impetus behind its establishment traces back to the philanthropic activities of his parents Samuel (MBBCh 1926, MMed 1940) and Rebecca ‘Chix’. Chix was central to shaping the family’s early philanthropic activities, instilling a commitment to social change and development. Javett went on to collaborate with the University of Pretoria to form the Javett Art Centre in 2019.
He passed away a few days before the launch of Mihloti ya Ntsako (Tears of Joy) - Journeys with the Bongi Dhlomo Collection (2022), and art project which chronicled a compendium of 138 artworks produced in the 20th century by both well-known and lesser-known South African artists. He advocated for greater access of artistic education for youth from diverse backgrounds.
Javett was also a great horse racing fan. He purchased “Politician” for R5 250, and the pedigree went on to win 18 races, notably the J&B Met and Queen’s Plate, as well as the 1978 Rothmans July Handicap. Politician retired to stud having been named South Africa’s Horse Of The Year on three occasions.
His Wits-trained brother Stanley (MBBCh 1956) died in 2000 at the age of 67.
Sources: University of Pretoria, Javett Foundation and Wits archives
Ronald Jaffe (1943-2022)
Emeritus Professor of Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh and former Chief of Pathology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Ronald Jaffe (BSc 1966, MBBCh 1969) passed away on 23 November 2022.
After graduating from Wits, he completed residencies in pathology at Sheba Medical Center in Israel and Children’s Hospital in Boston and a fellowship at the Mallory Institute of Pathology, settling in Pittsburgh in the US in 1977.
Professor Jaffe was an internationally recognised expert in paediatric pathology and histiocytic disorders, served as the editor-in-chief of “Pediatric and Developmental Pathology” and was president of the Society of Pediatric Professionals in 2001. He was described by colleagues as a critical thinker with an exceptionally gifted “eye”.
He is survived by his wife Sandra, son and grandchildren.
Sources: Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Society of Pediatric Pathology
Marcus Holmes (1952-2022)
Marcus Holmes (BArch 1977) principal partner of the architectural practice, Fassler Kamstra + Holmes Architects passed away on 9 November 2022 in Linksfield Hospital after a short illness.
Holmes was born in Oxford, England but came to South Africa with his parents in the 1950s. He was educated at St Andrew’s School in Grahamstown where he obtained a First Class Matric in 1969. He originally thought he would study engineering but pursued a career in architecture instead.
Holmes will be best remembered for his work within the realm of conservation architecture where he brought together a range of skills; deep knowledge of the making of buildings, a passion for the building heritage of Johannesburg and fastidious attention to detail.
Shortly after graduating, he joined the practice of Mira Fassler Kamstra to create the firm of Fassler Kamstra & Holmes. This was changed after Mira left the practice to Fassler Kamstra + Holmes.
The partnership undertook restoration work on heritage homes and major public and commercial buildings. The practice list of projects is lengthy and included the following conservation architecture projects: Blackroofs, Dolobran, the Customs House, the Rissik Street Post Office, The Pines, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg City Hall, Johannesburg Library, Casa Bedo, Case Dobe, Prynnsberg Manor, Darjeeling House, Piccadilly Mansions, Oxford Manor, Chancellor House, Ravenscraig, Lauriston Court among others. Sadly, many were not completed.
Holmes counted the conversion of the Johannesburg City Hall into the Gauteng Legislature (1994), a vast project completed with Mira in record time as one of his proudest achievements. His exploration of the complexities of the project which arose from the drawings of John Fassler from the 1960s resulted in the commission to convert the mothballed building into A-Grade office space for the Gauteng Legislature.
Holmes was immensely knowledgeable about Herbert Baker and in his approach to restoration. As the authority on the works of Herbert Baker and with Mira Fassler Kamstra, they worked on the restoration of the following Johannesburg Baker homes – Blackroof, Kleine Schuur, Northwards, the rectory of St George’s Church in Parktown, St Margaret’s, Villa Arcadia, Bishopskop, Stone house, Dysart House, Glenshiel and the Pallinghurst Stables.
Holmes said he was happiest while physically involved in construction, taking on the role of “the master builder – architect” which he saw as most necessary for the making of fine building. He said that most architects were excluded from that opportunity. His approach to heritage restoratio
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CEPCEB annually sponsors an annual special seminar and awards ceremony where an invited, prominent scientist presents his or her work. In 2006, this seminar was titled the Noel T. Keen Lecture after one of the first supporters and members of CEPCEB, Dr. Noel Keen. Dr. Keen, who passed away in April 2002, was an eminent scholar who brought considerable recognition to UCR. Dr. Keen’s wife, Diane, generously decided to establish an endowment to help support CEPCEB’s special lecture and in 2013, the lecture became known as the Distinguished Noel T. Keen Lecture.
A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Noel spent his entire academic career at UCR. He joined the UCR community in 1968, having earned his degrees in botany and plant pathology at Iowa State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He earned a stellar reputation with research that examined how plants recognize disease agents or pests, a trait that can be implanted in other crop varieties to boost food supplies. Along with former UCR biochemists Fran Jurnak and Marilyn D. Yoder, Noel discovered a new bacterial enzyme responsible for rot in potatoes, tomatoes, apples and tropical plants.
Noel, holder of the Johnson Endowed Chair in Molecular Biology, chaired the UCR Department of Plant Pathology from 1983 to 1989. He served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals and as keynote speaker at numerous conferences. At the time of his death, Noel was also serving as President of the American Phytopathological Society (APS), an international scientific organization devoted to the study of plant diseases and their control.
His innovative work influenced the research directions of many laboratories worldwide. His research showed that plants have chemical recognition systems, much like animals have immune systems, which trigger a defense response. His work provides the scientific foundation for breeding or genetically engineering plants with disease resistance, which will reduce the use of chemical pesticides.
Noel was UCR’s 1996 Faculty Research Lecturer, the highest honor granted by the campus for research. He had more than 170 technical publications, a string of honorary titles and a legacy of training accomplished graduate students.
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DONALD L. DEL DUCA, of Islip, NY, on May 7, 2022 at the age of 87. Visiting will be Friday 5/13/22 from 2-4:30 & 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore, on Saturday 5/14/22 at 9AM. Entombment to follow at Queen of All Saints Cemetery in Central Islip. In lieu of flowers, donations greatly appreciated in Donald's name to The Leukemia Lymphoma Society https://www.lls.org
VICTOR NAVARRO, of Davie, FL (formerly of Islip, NY), on May 5, 2022, at the age of 74. Visiting will be on Thursday, 5/12/2022 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip, on Friday, 5/13/2022 at 9:45AM. Entombment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park, Pinelawn, NY
WILLIAM NUNEMANN III of Islip, NY on May 4, 2022. Beloved husband of Deborah and loving father of William. Dear brother of Joseph Nunemann and the late John James and Michael Welsh. Visiting will be Monday 5/9/2022 ffom 2-4 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Tuesday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations to AAMDS.org would be appreciated.
JACK L. GAMBARDELLA, of Bay Shore, NY, on May 2, 2022, at the age of 86. Visiting will be Tuesday, 5/10/2022, from 2-4 and 7-9pm. A religious service will take place Wednesday 11AM at the funeral home. Interment to follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery, Bay Shore, NY.
JOSEPH LOPARDO of West Islip, NY on April 29, 2022 at the age of 71. Cremation will be private. A memorial service will be celebrated on Saturday, May 14 at 1 pm at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 3 Lawrence Lane, Bay Shore, NY 11706 . In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to cancer research at mskcc.org or The Harry Chapin Food Bank at licares.org.
VIVIAN MARIE TONNA of Deerfield Beach, FL on April 29, 2022 at the age of 79. Cremation was private. Memorial visiting will be held Friday 5/6/2022 from 5-8pm. A memorial service will be celebrated at 7pm.
BARBARA CHEYNE, of Islip, NY, on April 28, 2022, at the age of 79. Visiting will be Tuesday 5/3/2022 from 11am-1pm ONLY. Cremation will be private.
MARJORIE BRINKWORTH, of Clearwater, FL, on April 23, 2022, at the age of 92. Visitng will be Thursday, 5/5/2022 from 9-11AM. Religious service will be at 11AM at the funeral home. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
HARRY S. MONROE, of Bay Shore, NY, on April 28, 2022 at the age of 83. Visiting will be Sunday, 5/1/2022 from 2-4 and 7-9PM. A religious service will be celebrated Monday, 12:30PM at New Life Community Church in Sayville, NY. Interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
ARLINE GOODALL of Bay Shore, NY on April 27, 2022 at the age of 93. Visiting will be Friday 5/6/2022 from 4-8PM. A religious service will be held a the funeral home at 7:30PM. Cremation will be private.
CAROLE E. RYAN, of Bay Shore, NY, on April 26, 2022 at the age of 83. Visiting will be Thursday evening 4/28/2022 from 7-9PM ONLY. There will be a religious service around the 7:30 hour. A Closing prayer will be offered at 10AM Friday morning at the funeral home with entombment to follow immediately at Pinelawn Memorial Park, Pinelawn, NY
VINCENT J. MIRANDO, of Islip, NY, on April 18, 2022, at the age of 79. Visiting will be Thursday from 3-7PM ONLY. A funeral mas will be celebrated on Friday morning at 10:45am at St. Mary's RC Church, East Islip, NY. Interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park, Pinelawn, NY.
LAURENCE R. STRAUB, of East Islip, NY (formerly of Islip) passed away peacefully after a long courageous battle with Parkinson’s disease on April 8, 2022 at the age of 78. He is survived by his loving wife of 56 years, Mary Jane and his four children and their spouses, Elizabeth Romero (Seth), Melissa Straub (Jodi), and Jamie Straub (Tracy) Kevin Straub (Jessica). He is also survived by his loving grandchildren, Kaeli, Jake, Kyle, Gracie, Jordan, Cassidy, Connor, Hailey, Riley, Finley and Charlotte, who will forever carry a piece of his heart. May he finally rest in peace knowing how much he was loved and cherished by those he touched with his witty humor, love of sports and his dedication to his family. Visiting will be Sunday, 4/10/2022, from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated, Monday, 4/11/2022, at 11:45AM at St. Mary's RC Church, East Islip, NY. Cremation will be private. In lieu of flowers donations to Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, Grand Central Station, PO Box 4777 New York, NY 10163, or Good Shepherd Hospice, 110 Bi-County Blvd. Farmingdale, NY 11735, would be appreciated by the family.
WAYNE THOMAS, of Philadelphia, PA, (formerly of Islip, NY), on April 5, 2022 at the age of 65. Visiting will be Friday morning, 4/8/2022, from 9:30-10:30, with a closing prayer and then burial at St. Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, NY.
JOY CRONIN of Bay Shore, NY on April 6, 2022 at the age of 61. Visiting will be Friday 4/8/2022 from 6-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Saturday 10:15am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery.
GERALD HERMGES, of Islip, NY, on April 6, 2022 at the age of 67. A private cremation was held.
CHARLES W. MASON, JR., of Islip, NY, on April 5, 2022. at the age of 76. Visiting hours will be Thursday, April 7, 2022, from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Friday 4/8/2022 9:45AM at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip, NY. Interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
NANCY SCRIMO of Lenox, MA (formerly of Islip) on April 3, 2022 at the age of 75. Visiting will be Monday 4/11/2022 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral service will be held Tuesday 10:15am at Trinity Lutheran Church in Islip, with interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
KENNETH C. MEISSNER, of Islip, NY, on April 3, 2022, at the age of 75. A commital service with military honors will be held on Tuesday 4/12/22 at 11AM at Calverton National Cemetery
JOHN R McCOLLUM of Ocean Beach, NY on March 31, 2022 at the age of 68. Visiting will be Thursday 4/7/2022 from 2-4 and 6-8pm at ALBRECHT BRUNO and OSHEA FUNERAL HOME, 62 Carleton Avenue, East Islip, NY 11730. A religious service and firematic service will be held beginning at 6:45pm. Cremation will be private.
CARLOS LUIS MEDINA, SR., of Bay Shore, NY, on March 29, 2022 at the age of 88. Visiting hours will be Monday, 4/4/22, from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A religious service will take place Tuesday, 4/5/22, at 10AM at the funeral home. Burial to follow at the Calverton National Cemetery.
RASHAWN P. JONES, of Bay Shore, NY, on March 28, 2022, at the age of 26. Visiting hours will be Monday, April 4, 2022 from 9:30-11:30AM. Religious service to follow. Cremation will be private.
PEGGY FRASER, of Bay Shore, NY, on March 27, 2022 at the age of 87. Memorial visitation will be on Friday, April 1, 2022 from 3:00PM-6:00PM. Cremation was private. In lieu of flowers, donations greatly appreciated in Peggy's name to The American Cancer Society.
PHYLLIS A. LAUDANO, of Islip, NY, on March 24, 2022 at the age of 62. Memorial visitation will be on Saturday, April 2, 2022, from 12:00PM-4:00PM. Eulogies and religious service will begin around the 2 O'Clock hour. Cremation will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations to CurePSP at www.psp.org or CurePSP, 1216 Broadway, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10001, would be appreciated by the family.
JOAN LAMARTINA of Bay Shore, NY on March 24, 2022 at the age of 91. Visiting will be Sunday 3/27/2022 from 2:30 - 6:30pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Monday 9:45am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale.
GLORIA J. CHMURZYNSKI, of Bay Shore, NY on March 13, 2022, at the age of 90. Visiting will be Thursday, 3/17/22, from 2-4:30PM & 7-9PM. Funeral Mass
Friday, 3/18/22, at 11AM at St. Patrick's RC Church, Bay Shore. Interment to follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale. In lieu of flowers, donations greatly appreciated in Gloria's name to a charity of your choice.
FRANCES GIUNTA, of Bay Shore, NY on March 8, 2022, at the age of 90. Visiting will be Sunday, 3/13/22, from 3-7PM only. A requiem mass will be celebrated, Monday, 3/14/22 at 9:30AM at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Islip. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
DR. MARY PELLICIO of Brightwaters, NY on March 7, 2022, at the age of 73. Visiting will be Thursday, 3/10/22, from 6-9PM only. Eulogies will be at 7:30PM. Cremation will be private.
MICHAEL T. MARONEY, of East Islip, NY, on March 4, 2022, at the age of 60. Visiting will be Monday, 3/7/22 from 3-7PM only. There will be a religious service, Monday, 3/7/22, at 5PM. cremation will be private.
JOHN OROSS, of Islip, NY, on March 3, 2022 at the age of 82. Visiting will be Sunday, 3/6/22 from 2-5PM only. There will be a religious service, Sunday, 3/6/22, at 4:15PM. cremation will be private.
MICHAEL GALLAHAD, of Islip Terrace, NY, on March 1, 2022 at the age of 65. Cremation will be private with a possible memorial service at a later date.
ANNETTE FABRIZI of Brentwood, NY on February 28, 2022 at the age of 93. Visiting will be Sunday, 3/6/2022, from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A religious service will take place at 7:30PM at the funeral home. There will be a closing prayer at 10AM Monday morning, followed by interment at Calverton National Cemetery.
HILDA TORSBJER of Islip, NY on February 27, 2022 at the age of 94. Visiting will be Friday 3/4/2022 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. Prayers will be offered at 7:30pm. A funeral service will be celebrated Saturday 9:30am at Trinity Lutheran Church in Islip. Interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
JEAN BARNES of East Islip (formerly of Islip and Bohemia), NY on February 26, 2022 at the age of 93. Visiting will be Thursday 3/3/2022 from 3-6pm. A funeral service will be celebrated Friday 9:45am at the funeral home. Interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
STANLEY ZABLOCKI of Bethpage, NY on February 26, 2022 at the age of 84. Visiting will be Tuesday 3/1/2022 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Wednesday 9:45am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.
CHARLES E ENTENMANN of Key Largo, FL and formerly of Bay Shore, NY on February 24, 2022 at the age of 92. Visiting will be Thursday, 3/3/2022 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. The funeral service will be private and the interment will be at Oakwood Cemetery, Bay Shore, NY.
WARREN CODY of North Babylon, NY on February 24, 2022, at the age of 88. Visiting will be Sunday 2/27/2022 from 2-6pm only. A funeral service will be celebrated Monday 10am at the First Presbyterian Church of Babylon. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
HELEN PAWSON of Bay Shore, NY on February 23, 2022 at the age of 94. Visiting will be Wednesday 3/2/2022 from 9-10:30am at the Bay Shore Church of the Nazarene, 1314 Pineacres Blvd, Bay Shore, NY. A funeral service will be celebrated at 10:30am with the interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
KATHRYN PETERMAN of Islip, NY on February 21, 2022 at the age of 77. Cremation is private. Memorial visiting will be Tuesday 3/1/2022 from 4-7pm. A funeral service will be celebrated Wednesday 10:30am at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Islip.
PETER COLE of Islip, NY on February 19, 2022 at the age of 74. Cremation was private. A memorial service will be held at a later date.
MARILYN FUCHS, of Texas (formerly of Long Island), on February 12, 2022, at the age of 79. Cremation took place in Texas. Memorial visitation will be Thursday, 2/24/2022 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be held Friday, 2/25/2022 at 9:45AM at St. Mary's RC Church, East Islip, NY.
ROBERT G. BEEBE of Islip, NY on February 11, 2022 at the age of 90. Visiting will be Thursday from 2-4:30PM & 7-9PM with Firematic Service 7:30PM. Closing prayer at 11am Friday and then interment at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Islip Fire Dept., 28 Monell Ave. Islip, NY, or Haven Hospice,m 4200 NW 90th Blvd. Gainesville, FL, would be appreciated by the family.
LOUISE MARIE BOCCALUPO, of Islip, NY, on February 7, 2022 at the age of 82. Visiting will be Monday from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A religious service will be held on Tuesday at 9:30AM at Trinity Lutheran Church in Islip. Burial will follow at the Calverton National Cemetery.
PETER W. TITUS of Brightwaters, NY on February 7, 2022 at the age of 70. Visiting will be Friday 2/11/2022 from 1-6pm, with a religious service at 5pm at the funeral home. Cremation will be private.
GERARD R. LIVIERI, of Islip, NY, on February 5, 2022 at the age of 89. Visiting hours Thursday 2/10/22 from 7-9PM. Closing prayer Friday morning 10AM with interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
LINDA E. REDINGTON, of St. Cloud, FL (formerly of Bay Shore, NY), on January 31, 2022 at the age of 79. Visiting will be Tuesday 2/8/22 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A religious service will take place Wednesday (2/9/22) at 10AM. Interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore, NY.
JOSEPH SPLENDORE, of Islip, NY, on February 3, 2022, at the age of 91. Cremation was private
REBECCA R. KIEL, of Massapequa, NY (formerly of Bay Shore), on January 26, 2022 at the age of 83. Cremation was priavte. The family will recieve friends for memorial visitation, Wednesday, 2/2/2022, from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. There will be a religious service, Wednesday evening at 7:30. In lieu of flowers, donations to the St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place Memphis, TN 38105, would be appreciated by the family.
DONNA SEPE of East Islip, NY on January 24, 2022 at the age of 64. Cremation will be private. There will be a memorial service for Donna at a later date.
VINCENT VIGNATI, of Islip, on January 21, 2022 at the age of 90. Visiting hours will be Thursday 1/27/22 from 7-9PM. Family will gather at the funeral home Friday morning 10-11AM before proceeding to Pinelawn Memorial Park in Farmingdale.
ELEANORA COOK, of Islip Terrace, on January 21, 2022 at the age of 85. Cremation was private. Interment of ashes will be at a later date.
AGNES J. RITZ, long time Islip resident, on January 20, 2022 at the age of 103. Visiting will be Tuesday, 1/25/2022, from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Wednesday at 9:45AM at St. Mary's RC Church, East Islip. Burial to follow at the Calverton National Cemetery.
JOSEPH DRIES JR of Bay Shore, NY on January 21, 2022 at the age of 89. Visiting will be Sunday 1/23/2022 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Monday 9:45am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
EDWARD CAGGIANO, on January 19, 2022, at the age of 52. Visiting will be Wednesday, 1/26/2022, from 2-4 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Thursday, 10:45AM at St. Mary's RC Church, East Islip. Burial to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
ANDREA SHAY of West Islip, NY on January 20, 2022 at the age of 46. Visiting will be Saturday 1/22/2022 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. Cremation will be private.
HENRY BORN of Islip, NY on January 19, 2022 at the age of 67. Cremation will be private.
JEAN SOLASKI of Islip, NY on January 18, 2022 at the age of 93. Visiting will be Sunday 1/23/2022 from 2-7pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Monday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment will follow at Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale.
MICHAEL A. HARROLD, of NYC, (formerly of Bay Shore, NY) on January 19, 2022, at the age of 61. Cremation was private. The family will receive friends on Monday from 4-8PM. A religious service will take place around the 7:00pm hour.
MARY BISCELLO, of Central Islip, NY, on January 17, 2022 at the age of 92. Visiting will be Thursday, 1/20/22 from 2-4 and 6-8PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Friday, 1/21 at 10:45AM at St. Mary's RC Church, East Islip, NY. Burial to follow at the Calverton National Cemetery.
MARY R. FORLANO of Islip, NY on January 15, 2022 at the age of 95. Cremation was private. Memorial visitation will be Saturday, from 2-4 and 6-8PM, with religious service at 7PM.
GINA RIZZO of Bay Shore, NY on January 16, 2022 at the age of 87. Family and friends will gather at the funeral home Saturday 1/22/22 at 9am, prior to the 10:45am Funeral Mass at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment will follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Bay Shore. In lieu of flowers, donations in Gina's name greatly appreciated to the Alzheimers Foundation.
JOAN SHARPE of East Islip, NY on January 15, 2022 at the age of 91. Visiting will be Wednesday 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Thursday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Cremation will be private.
SUSAN CARTER of Islip, NY on January 15, 2022 at the age of 63. Cremation Private.
DOMINICK CAFUOCO of Islip and Ocean Beach, NY on January 14, 2022 at the age of 80. There will be no public visiting hours on Tuesday. Viewing will be Wednesday from 9-10am with a religious service being held at 9:30am at the funeral home. Interment to follow at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn at approximately 11am.
LAWRENCE G. PFLUME, of Bay Shore, NY on January 13, 2022 at the age of 83. Visitation will be Monday, 1/17/22 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A religious service is scheduled for Monday at 7:30PM. Cremation will be private.
BLANCHE ETTINGER of Islip, NY on January 13, 2022 at the age of 103. Visiting will be Monday 1/17/2022 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Tuesday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale. In lieu of flowers, donations in her name to St. Judes Children's Research Hospital would be appreciated.
EMMA SANTANA, of Oakdale, NY, on January 12, 2022 at the age of 91. A graveside service will take place on Saturday, January 15, 2022, at Oakwood Cemetery. Burial to follow. In lieu of flowers, donations to the American Cancer Society, in Emma's name would be appreciated by the family.
DOREATHA STEPHENS of Islip, NY on January 11, 2022 at the age of 90. Visiting will be Tuesday 1/18/2022 from 9-10am. Interment will be Calverton National Cemetery.
JANE AGOLA, of Bay Shore, NY, on January 9, 2022 at the age of 83. Entombment and commital service will be at Holy Rood Cemetery in Westbury, on Friday at 12 noon.
MARIE O. SYLVAIN of Bay Shore, NY on January 6, 2022 at the age of 76. Visiting will be Saturday 1/15/22 from 10-11:30AM. Funeral Service will begin at 11:30AM. Interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park in Farmingdale.
DOMINICK CASSANO of Islip, NY on January 9, 2022 at the age of 82. Cremation will be private. A memorial service will be celebrated at a later date.
LEILA "LEE" WICKERS of Bay Shore, NY on January 8, 2022 at the age of 81. Visiting will be Tuesday 1/11/2022 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral service will be celebrated Wednesday 10am at St. MArk's Episcopal Church in Islip. Interment to follow at Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale.
YVONNE ALLEN of Islip Terrace, NY on January 7, 2022 at the age of 79. Visiting will be Thursday 1/13/2022 from 7-9pm. A religious service will be held during the wake hours. Interment will be Friday morning at Plain View Cemetery in Hicksville.
RICHARD PERRONE, of Bay Shore, NY, on January 7, 2022 at the age of 70. Memorial visitation will be Thursday 1/13/2022 from 1-5PM. A religious service will take place at the funeral home at 4PM. Cremation was private.
BETTY MARTINO of West Babylon, NY on January 3, 2022 at the age of 70. Visiting will be Sunday 1/9/2022 from 2-6pm. A funeral service will be held 5pm at the funeral home. Cremation will be private.
LAWRENCE WATERS of Islip, NY on January 3, 2022 at the age of 72. A private family viewing will be held with cremation to follow.
LUCILLE MASSA on January 1, 2022, at the age of 87. Cremation was private. Memorial Mass Thursday, 1/6/2022 at 10:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip.
LOUIS P. MAGLIARO, III on December 31, 2021, at the age of 65. Visiting will be Sunday 1/9/2022, from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. There will be a prayer service on Monday, 1/10/2022, at 10AM at the funeral home with interment to follow at St. Francis DeSalles Cemetery, Patchogue, NY.
GREGORY J. PANKOWITZ on December 30, 2021, at the age of 65. Cremation was private. The family will recieve friends for memorial visitation on Wednesday, 1/5/22, from 5-8PM with a religious service at 7PM.
LUIS TRUJILLO of Bay Shore, NY, suddenly, on December 25, 2021 at the age of 67. Visiting will be Thursday, 12/30/2021, from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A relgious service will take place at 7:30PM Thursday at the funeral home. Cremation will be private.
LOUISE VISCUSI of Islip, NY, on December 23, 2021 at the age of 77. Cremation will be private.
PATRICIA VANNONI of Bay Shore and Fire Island, NY, on December 23, 2021 at the age of 74. Visiting will be Wednesday, 12/29/21 from 4-7PM with a religious service scheduled for 6:30pm in the evening. Cremation will be private. In lieu of flowers, a donation to the charity of your choice in Patricia's name, would be appreciated by the family.
CAROL WALKER of West Islip, NY on December 22, 2021. Cremation will be private.
ELIZABETH "BETTY" MACK of Bay Shore, NY on December 21, 2021 at the age of 92. Visiting will be Saturday 1/8/2022 from 2-7pm. A funeral service will be celebrated Saturday 5:30pm at the funeral home. Cremation will be private.
DOLORES RITA PERETTI of Central Islip, NY on December 18, 2021 at the age of 82. Visiting will be Monday 12/27/21 from 2-4:30 & 7-9PM. Funeral Mass Tuesday 12/28/21 10AM at St. Joseph's RC Church in Ronkonkoma. Private cremation to follow.
MARGARET ANN HAFELE of NYC, NY, formerly of Bay Shore, on December 16, 2021 at the age of 71. Visiting will be Sunday 12/19/21 from 4-7PM. Cremation Private. In lieu of flowers, donations greatly appreciated to the Tunnels to Towers Foundation.
JOSEPH A. "TONY" McNULTY of Brightwaters, NY on December 12, 2021 at the age of 86. President of Hendrickson Fuels in Bay Shore and longtime former mayor of the Village of Brightwaters. Visiting will be Thursday 12/16/2021 and Friday 12/17/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm both days. A funeral mass will be celebrated Saturday 11am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment will follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations in Tony's name to Mercy Haven or to St. Patrick's Church Hospitality Center would be appreciated.
BARBARA PERINO of Bay Shore, NY on December 12, 2021 at the age of 75. Visiting will be Wednesday 12/15/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Thursday 10am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery.
HELEN M DUNNING of Islip, NY on December 11, 2021 at the age of 72. There will be a private family gathering held. A funeral mass will be celebrated Tuesday 12/28/2021 at 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.
LOUIS P. MAGLIARO, SR., of Bay Shore, NY, on December 11, 2021 at the age of 89. There will be a private viewing, Thursday from 10AM to 10:30AM. Interment immediately following at Calverton National Cemetery, Calverton, NY.
ERNEST BAKER of East Islip, NY (formerly of Massapequa) on December 9, 2021 at the age of 95. A graveside service will be held Noon Friday 12/17/2021 at Calverton National Cemetery.
DAVID G. BRAVO, of The Colony, TX (formerly of Long Island), on December 8, 2021 at the age of 45. Visiting will be Wednesday 12/15/2021 from 6-9pm and Thursday 12/16/2021 from 2-4pm and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Friday at 10am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore, NY. Interment to follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Coram.
ANTHONY J. RICCI, of East Moriches, NY, suddenly on December 9, 2021 at the age of 60. Visiting will be Tuesday, 12/14/2021, from 2-5 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, 12/15, at 10:45AM at St. John the Evangelist RC Church, Center Moriches. Burial to follow at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Center Moriches, NY. The family's wishes are that only vaccinated people attend. Donations in Anthony's name can be made to: SPOHNC Support for People with Head and Neck Cancer, PO Box 53, Locust Valley, NY 11560; or Bideawee. 118 Old Country Rd. Westhampton, NY 11977; or St. John the Evangelist RC Church, 25 Ocean Ave. Center Moriches, NY 11934.
JUAN PABLO MARCA of Bay Shore, NY suddenly on December 7, 2021 at the age of 42. Visiting will be Tuesday 12/14/2021 from 3-7pm. A funeral service will be held Wednesday 10am at the funeral home with interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
RAMON LUIS GONZALEZ on December 5, 2021 at the age of 85. Visiting will be Wednesday 12/8/2021 from 5-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Thursday 10am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
AGNES "NANCY" DAWSON of East Islip, NY on December 5, 2021 at the age of 84. Visiting will be Tuesday 12/7/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral service will be offered Wednesday 10am at the funeral home with interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
FRANK BAMBARA, of West Islip, NY, on December 2, 2021 at the age of 94. Visiting will be Wednesday 12/8/21 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Thursday 10am at St. Joseph's RC Church, Babylon, NY. Interment will follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
JEAN A. SEAL, of East Islip, NY, on December 2, 2021 at the age of 94. Visiting will be Monday 12/6/21, from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral service will be celebrated Tuesday 10AM at the United Methodist Church of Islip. Cremation will be private.
JIMMY YUN LEE, of Central Islip, NY, on November 26, 2021 at the age of 67. Visiting hours will be Saturday, December 11, 2021 from 4-7PM. A religious service will take place at 6:30PM. Cremation private.
KEVIN KONRAD, of Chatham, NJ, (formerly of Long Island) on November 26, 2021, at the age of 59. Memorial visiting will be Thursday 12/2/21, from 4-8PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated Friday 10am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore.
WILLIAM J. McCUE, of Islip, NY on Novemeber 23, 2021 at the age of 64. Visiting hours will be Sunday, from 2-4 and 6-8PM. A religious service will take place Monday morning at 10 at the funeral home. Burial to follow at the Oakwood Cemetery, Bay Shore, NY.
JOHN R. HIERONYMUS JR. of Bay Shore, NY on November 21, 2021 at the age of 74. Visiting will be Saturday 11/27/21 from 2-4:30 & 7-9pm. Brief prayer Saturday 7:30pm at the funeral home. Cremation Private.
VINCENZA SPILOTROS of East Islip, NY on November 16, 2021 at the age of 94. Visiting will be Sunday 11/21/2021 from 3-7pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Monday 10am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.
FREDERICK ALDEN of Islip, NY on November 16, 2021 at the age of 71. Cremation is private. A memorial service will be celebrated on Saturday 11/27/2021 at 11am at Trinity Lutheran Church in Islip.
THOMAS A. SIEGFRIED, of Islip, NY, on November 15, 2021 at the age of 63. Cremation was private. Memorial visitation will be Saturday, from 1-5 in the afternoon. There will be a religious service at the funeral home at 3pm. Services for Thomas are being streamed via Zoom which can be accessed via this link.
ELLEN M McPADDEN of Islip, NY on November 12, 2021 at the age of 77. Visiting will be Monday 11/15/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Tuesday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Cremation will be private.
LISA M. BOYCE, of Islip, NY, on November 11, 2021 at the age of 59. Visiting will be Friday, 11/19/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated, Saturday morning at 10AM at St. Patrick's RC Church, Bay Shore, NY. Burial to follow at St. Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, NY.
LAURA T. WAGNER, of North Babylon, NY on November 10, 2021 at the age of 74. Visiting will be Friday (11/19/2021) from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A religious service will be held that evening at the funeral home. Cremation will be private.
PAUL WILLIAMS, of Patchogue, NY, on November 7, 2021 at the age of 69. Visiting will be Monday, 11/15/2021 from 9-11AM. A religious service will take place at 11AM at the funeral home. Interment to follow at the Calverton National Cemetery.
GLORIA KEARNS of East Islip, NY (formerly of Islip), on November 7, 2021 at the age of 78. Visiting will be Thursday 11/11/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral service will be held Friday 9:30am at the funeral home. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
STEVEN S. SPERIN, of Bay Shore, NY, on November 6, 2021 at the age of 64. Visiting will be Wednesday, 11/10/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. There will be a religious service at the funeral home at 3PM. Cremation will be private.
ALLEN OLLENDORF of Islip, NY on November 5, 2021 at the age of 85. Visiting will be Thursday 11/11/2021 from 6:30-9:30pm. A funeral service will be held Friday 10am at the funeral home. Interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, donations to Long Island Cares, 10 David's Drive Hauppauge, NY 11788, would be appreciated by the family.
KATHERINE M. MULCAHY, of Islip, NY (formerly of Bay Shore, NY), on November 5, 2021 at the age of 91. Visiting will be Monday 11/8/2021 from 4-8pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Tuesday, 9:45AM at St. Mary's RC Church, East Islip, NY. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery. Donations to the Visiting Nurse Service and Hospice of Suffolk, Inc. in Katherine's name would be appreciated by the family.
CAROL ANN TEAGUE, of Illinois, (formerly of Islip), on November 4, 2021, at the age of 88. Commital Service Saturday, November 13th, 9:30am at Union Cemetery in Sayville, NY.
JAMES CATALDO, of Mineola, NY, on November 4, 2021, at the age of 67. Visiting will be Tuesday 11/9/2021 and Wednesday 11/10/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Thursday at 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church, East Islip. Cremation will be private.
WILLIAM MOHR JR of East Islip, NY on November 2, 2021 at the age of 84. Cremation was private. Memorial visiting will be Monday 11/8/2021 from 1-4pm.
ANNE MARQUARDT of Islip, NY on November 1, 2021 at the age of 96. Visiting will be Thursday 11/4/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Friday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
GEORGE LOY JR of West Babylon, NY on October 18, 2021 at the age of 55. Cremation will be private.
JOHN "ACE" PRECHTL, of Islip, NY on October 17, 2021 at the age of 88. Visiting will be Thursday 10/21/2021 from 2-4:30 & 7-9pm, with a religious service taking place at 8:15pm. Private cremation to follow.
WALTER D. MOULE', of Bay Shore, NY, on October 14, 2021, at the age of 94. Visiting will be Tuesday 10/19/2021 from 4-7pm, with a religious service taking place at 6:30pm. A Closing prayer will be offered on Wednesday, 10am at the funeral home. Interment to follow at Emmanuel Church Cemetery, Great River, NY.
PETER HEEBER of Massapequa, NY on October 13, 2021 at the age of 63. Cremation was private. Memorial visiting will be Tuesday 10/19/2021 from 3-7pm. A religious service will be held here at the funeral home at 6pm.
JOHN A. BARBARO, of Bay Shore, NY, on October 12, 2021 at the age of 77. Visiting will be Sunday 10/17/2021 from 3-7pm. A religious service will take place Monday morning at the funeral home. Interment to follow at St. Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, NY.
THERESA BOYSTAK, of Brightwaters, NY on October 12, 2021 at the age of 101. Visiting will be Sunday, 10/17/2021 and Monday, 10/18/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm both days. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Tuesday 10am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at the parish cemetery.
BRUCE JAMES BAXTER of Brightwaters, NY on October 10, 2021 at the age of 74. Visiting will be Wednesday 10/13/21 from 2-4:30 & 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Thursday 10am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Private cremation to follow. The Baxter family would greatly appreciate any donations made in Bruce's name to the Hospice Care Network.
THEODORE SARNICOLA of Bay Shore, NY on October 6, 2021 at the age of 99. Visiting will be Sunday 10/10/21 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Monday 10am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore, with interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
MARY META ZALETEL, of Smithtown, NY (formerly of Islip, NY) on October 6, 2021 at the age of 85. Visiting will be Saturday 10/9/2021 from 5-8PM. A religious service wil take place at the funeral home at 6PM. Cremation will be private.
CARMEN J. ROCCHIO, Jr., of Middle Island, NY, on October 5, 2021, at the age of 72. Visiting will be Saturday 10/9/2021 from 6-9pm with a religious service taking place at 7:30PM. Cremation will be private.
JEFFREY BLAKE BELFORD, of Bay Shore, NY on October 2, 2021 at the age of 37. Visiting will be Thursday 10/7/2021 from 2-4:30 & 7-9pm. A Religious service will be held at 7:30pm at the funeral home. Cremation will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations greatly appreciated in Jeff's name to the Phoenix House.
CHARLES SIRICO, of Bay Shore, NY, on October 1, 2021, at the age of 83. Visiting will be Tuesday, 10/5/2021, from 3-7pm. A religious service will be held at the funeral home at 5PM. Cremation will be private.
CALVIN MBOCK of Jamiaca, NY on September 27, 2021 at the age of 100. A graveside service will be held Thursday 9/30/2021 at 12:30pm at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
DONALD TUOHY of Holbrook, NY (formerly of West Islip, NY) on September 26, 2021 at the age of 91. Visiting will be Wednesday 9/29/2021 from 2-4 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Thursday 10am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Cremation will be private.
PATRICK A. KENNEDY, of West Babylon NY on September 25, 2021 at the age of 84. Cremation will be private.
JOHN "JACK" MENECHINO of Islip, NY on September 24, 2021 at the age of 83. Visiting will be Tuesday 9/28/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Wednesday morning at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
ANTHONY PALUMBO SR., of Bay Shore NY on September 17, 2021 at the age of 83. A funeral mass will be held at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip on Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 10:45AM. Private Cremation to follow.
DAVID RYERSON, of Islip, NY, on September 16, 2021, at the age of 65. A visitation period will take place, Sunday from 10am to 12 noon. There will be a closing prayer at 12 noon. Cremation is private.
SCOTT BARBATO of Bay Shore, NY on August 15, 2021 at the age of 56. Visiting will be Monday 9/20/21 from 7-9pm. A religious service will be celebrated at 7:30pm at the funeral home. A closing prayer will be offered Tuesday 10am at the funeral home, with interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
MARTHA OUSTECKY of Islip, NY on September 9, 2021 at the age of 73. Visiting will be Tuesday 9/14/2021 from 2-4 and 7-9pm. A religious service will be held Wednesday morning at the funeral home. Cremation will follow.
BARBARA MENDOLIA, of Bay Shore, NY, on September 8, 2021 at the age of 82. Visiting will be Monday, 9/13/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Tuesday at 10AM at St. Patrick's church, Bay Shore, NY. Burial will follow in the parish cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Pl. Memphis, TN 38105, or St. Patrick's RC Church Hospitality Center, 9 N. Clinton Ave. Bay Shore, NY 11706, would be appreciated by the family.
MARJORIE DUTTON, of Bay Shore, NY on September 6, 2021 at the age of 88. Visiting will be Thursday 9/9/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A religious will be held Thursday evening at the funeral home. A closing prayer will take place Friday at 10AM, followed by entombment at Pinelawn Memorial Park..
CHARLES VIOLA of Islip, NY on September 5, 2021 at the age of 76. Cremation will be private.
DONALD FISCHER of Islip, NY on September 4, 2021 at the age of 86. Services will be private.
JOSEPH CARLUCCI of Bay Shore, NY on September 3, 2021 at the age of 86. A funeral mass will be celebrated Monday 9/6/2021 at 10AM at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore, NY. Cremation will be private.
PATRICIA M. FARLEY of Islip, NY on August 31, 2021 at the age of 100. A funeral mass will be celebrated Saturday 9/4/2021 at 10:15AM at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Cremation will be private.
RAUL "PUCUL" BONILLA of Bay Shore, NY on August 28, 2021 at the age of 81. Visiting will be Thursday 9/2/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. Closing prayer Friday 9/3/2021 10AM at the funeral home. Interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
THELMA WALERSTEIN of Ridge, NY on August 25, 2021 at the age of 76. A graveside service will be celebrated Monday 8/30/2021 at 10:30am at Washington Memorial Park in Coram.
LEONARD CALLACCI, of Islip, NY, suddenly, on August 25, 2021, at the age of 63. A private cremation was held. A memorial mass to celebrate Lenny's life will take place at a later date.
BEATRICE HOLMBERG, of Islip, NY, on August 25, 2021 at the age of 86. A private cremation was held.
NORA ROONEY of Great River, NY on August 23, 2021 at the age of 85. Visiting will be Thursday 8/26/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral service will be held Friday morning at the funeral home with interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
JOSEPHINE KERN of Lindenhurst, NY, on August 21, 2021 at the age of 88. Visiting will be Monday 8/23/2021 from 1-4PM. Religious service will be held at 3:30PM. A Closing prayer will be offered at 10:30AM Tuesday, with interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
SUSIE VALENTINO of Bay Shore, NY on August 20, 2021 at the age of 90. Visiting will be Tuesday 8/24/2021 from 9-9:30AM. A Closing prayer will be offered at 9:30. A Committal service will be offered at Calverton National Cemetery chapel at 10:45am. Interment to follow.
RONALD J STEFFENSON of Bay Shore, NY August 12, 2021 at the age of 74. Visiting will be Monday 8/16/2021 from 2-4 and 7-9pm. A funeral service will be held Tuesday 9:45am at the funeral home with the interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
PETER McMAHON of Islip, NY on August 12, 2021 at the age of 88. Visiting will be Saturday night 8/14/2021 from 7-9pm and Sunday 8/15/2021 from 2-4 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrating Monday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.
JOAN VARLEY of Islip, NY on August 9, 2021 at the age of 90. Visiting will be Wednesday 8/11/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Thursday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
TRESSA LEWIS on August 5, 2021 at the age of 50. Arrangements are pending.
GREGORY DENNIS D'ABRAMO, of East Islip, on April 8, 2020 at the age of 77. Mr. D'Abramo was cremated last year during Covid. A funeral mass will be celebrated Friday, August 6, 2021 at Our Lady of Lourdes RC Church, West Islip, NY. His remains will be buried at Calverton National Cemetery immediatly following church services.
GERHARD HOLZHEUER of Islip, NY on August 1, 2021 at the age of 81. Cremation and services will be private.
LOIS BUSH formerly of Islip, NY and of Port Huron, MI, on July 29, 2021 at the age of 94. Cremation is private. A funeral mass will be celebrated Friday 7/30/2021 at 11am at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Islip.
KENNETH DeMAIO of Bay Shore, NY on July 28, 2021 at the age of 69. Cremation is private. A funeral mass will be celebrated Saturday morning 8/7/2021 at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment of cremains will follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
ROSEMARY KLETCHKA, of Bay Shore, NY on April 22, 2021 at the age of 91. Cremation was private. Plans for a public funeral have yet to be finalized.
CODY W. MAUSER, of North Babylon, NY (formerly of Islip), on July 25, 2021 at the age of 35. Visiting will be Monday 8/2/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM with a religious service at 8PM. Cremation private.
DOROTHEA GULOTTA, of Schenectady, NY (formerly of Long Island) on July 22, 2021 at the age of 70. Visiting will be Tuesday 7/27/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be held on Wednesday at 9:45AM at St. Mary's RC Church, East Islip, NY. Interment will be in Oakwood Cemetery, Bay Shore, NY
RAYMOND J. TRUESON, of Islip, NY on July 23, 2021 at the age of 63. Visiting will be Monday, 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A religious service will take place, Monday, 7:30PM at the funeral home. Cremation private.
CAROLE A. JACQUES of Pompano Beach, FL on July 14, 2021 at the age of 84. Visiting will be Thursday July 22, 2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. Funeral Mass Friday 11:30am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
KEVIN SCOTT STRELECKI of Islip, NY on July 13, 2021 at the age of 62. Visiting will be Tuesday July 20, 2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. Funeral Mass Wednesday 11am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.
ELLEN DIONISIO of New York, NY on July 11, 2021 at the age of 57. Visiting will be Friday 7/23/2021 from 4-9pm. Closing prayers will be offered after 9AM Saturday, with the interment to follow at Mount St Mary's Cemetery in Flushing, NY.
BARBARA ANN MENNECKE of Greenlawn, NY on July 18, 2021 at the age of 79. Cremation is private. Memorial visiting will be Saturday 7/24/2021 from 2-5pm, with a religious service to be offered at 3:30pm. In lieu of flowers, donations to Seatuck Environmental Association, 550 South Bay Avenue, Islip, NY 11751, would be appreciated.
JOAN LOMANGINO of Islip, NY on July 15, 2021 at the age of 80. Visiting will be Tuesday 7/20/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Wednesday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Entombment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
JOYCE LAPORTA of Holbrook, NY (formerly of Bay Shore) on July 14, 2021 at the age of 79. Visiting will be Friday 7/16/2021 from 4-8pm. Closing prayers will be offered Saturday 11am at the funeral home, with interment to follow at Breslau Cemetery in Lindenhurst.
JACK KENNEDY, of West Islip, on July 12, 2021 at the age of 71. Visiting will be Friday 7/16/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. Eulogies will be Friday evening. A Religious service will be held Saturday 10AM at the funeral home. Interment to follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Bay Shore.
SANDRA NICOLICCHIA, of Bay Shore, NY on July 10, 2021 at the age of 73. Memorial visitation will be Thursday 7/15/2021 from 2-8PM at the funeral home. Inurnment Friday morning 11:30AM at LI National Cemetery, Farmingdale, NY. In lieu of flowers, donations greatly appreciated in Sandra's name to the North Shore Animal League or the Suffolk County SPCA.
JAMES "GLIMPY" FALLON, of Bay Shore, NY, sadly passed away on July 6, 2021 at the age of 69. Beloved husband of Davita Schoentag. Jimmy was a legendary Baymen and will be missed by many. Visiting will take place Saturday 5-9PM. Cremation private. In addition to wake services, the Fallon family will receive guests at the family home, 10 Allen Point Road, Bay Shore, starting at 6PM.
MICHAEL C. LELIN, of Bay Shore, NY, on July 6, 2021, at the age of 63. Memorial visiting will take place Sunday from 2-3PM with a service to follow at 3PM. Cremation was private.
GEORGE F. MACK, SR., of Bay Shore, NY on July 5, 2021 at the age of 86. Visitng will be Friday, 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. Religious service will be 7:30PM at the funeral home. Cremation will be private.
ALEXANDER MARZ, JR., of Bay Shore, NY, on July 1, 2021, at the age of 87. A private cremation was held with burial of ashes at Oakwood Cemetery, at a later date.
LINDA M. LONGO, of Bay Shore, NY on June 23, 2021 at the age of 60. Visiting will be Sunday, 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A religious service will take place 10AM Monday, at the funeral home. Burial will be at Pinelawn Memorial Park, Pinelawn, NY.
JOSEPH A. IMPERIAL of Islip, NY on June 23, 2021 at the age of 75. Visiting will be Sunday 6/27/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Monday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.
VIRGINIA "GINNY" PENORO of Holbrook, NY on June 20, 2021 at the age of 63. Visiting will be Friday 6/25/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral service will be celebrated Saturday 11am at the United Methodist Church of Islip. Interment to follow at Washington Memorial Park in Mt. Sinai.
MARIE NICOSIA of Canandaigua, NY (formerly of West Islip) on June 18, 2021 at the age of 86. A funeral mass will be celebrated Tuesday 6/29/2021 at 10:30am at St. Joseph's RC Church in Babylon. Interment to follow at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery in Brooklyn.
FRANK HIERONYMUS of Bay Shore, NY on June 16, 2021 at the age of 36. Visiting will be Saturday 6/26/2021 from 2-4 and 7-9pm. Cremation will be private.
MICHAEL F. SAGGESE, Sr. of Manorville, NY, on June 15, 2021 at the age of 78. Visiting, Saturday 6/19/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A Religious service will be held 7:30PM Saturday at the funeral home. Cremation will be private.
FRANK J BUEHLER of Islip, NY on June 16, 2021 at the age of 82. Proud member of Local 28 sheet metal worker's union for over sixty years. Beloved husband of 46 years to Nancy (nee Voss). Loving father to Eric (Debbie), Keith (Stacy), Francis and Mark. Cherished grandfather to Emma, Hunter, Asha, Cessarina, and Kougar. Visiting will be Friday 6/18/2021 from 2-4 and 7-9pm. A funeral service will be celebrated on Saturday 11am at the funeral home, with the interment to follow at Emmanuel Church Cemetery in Great River. In lieu of flowers, donations in his name to the Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society, 4640 Captree Island, Captree Island, New York 11702-4601 would be appreciated.
GLENN SCOTT MACLEOD, of East Islip, NY, on June 15, 2021, at the age of 62. Cremation was private. Interment of ashes and committal prayers will be held at Pinelawn Memorial Park on Friday, June 25, 2021 at 10AM.
FRANK CASAMASSIMA of Wheatley Heights, NY on June 13, 2021 at the age of 91. Visiting will be Thursday 6/17/2021 from 3-7pm. A funeral service will be celebrated Thursday 6:30pm. A closing prayer will be offered Friday 10am at the funeral home, with interment to follow at Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery in Massapequa.
CRYSTAL CACOPERDO of Eastport, NY on June 9, 2021 at the age of 36. Cremation is private. Memorial visiting will be held on Saturday 6/19/2021 from 2-4 and 7-9pm, with a religious service being celebrated during the evening hours.
RUSSELL A KNOTH "RUT" of Islip, NY on June 5, 2021 at the age of 93. Honorary chief and 66 year member of the Islip Fire Department. Visiting will be Wednesday 6/9/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9:30pm. Firematic services will be Wednesday 7:30pm at the funeral home. A funeral mass will be celebrated Thursday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore. In lieu of flowers, donations to Good Shepherd Hospice or to the Islip Fire Department would be appreciated.
ELEANOR LEWIS, of Bay Shore, NY on June 2, 2021, at the age of 86. Visiting will be Saturday, 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A religious service will take place, Sunday, 11AM at the funeral home. Cremation will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations to Eleanor's favorite charity, St. Jude's Children's Research Hopital, 262 Danny Thomas Place Memphis, TN 38105, would be appreciated by the family.
EDWIN CORWIN of Islip, NY, had passed away on February 20, 2021 at the age of 91. Ex-Chief and 64 year member of the Islip Fire Department. Cremation will be private. Memorial visiting, with fire department and military honors, will be held on Friday June 4, 2021 from 7-9pm. A religious service will be celebrated Saturday 10am at the United Methodist Church of Islip.
DONNA RUDDY, of Islip, NY, on May 28, 2021, at the age of 84. Visiting will be Tuesday 6/1/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, 10:45AM at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment will follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
VIVIAN ANN HARRIS of Islip, NY on May 24, 2021 at the age of 84. Visiting will be Tuesday 6/1/2021 from 9:30-10:30am. A private religious service will be celebrated following the visiting at 11am. Interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
GARY GOTTLIEB, of Bohemia, NY, on May 24, 2021 at the age of 79. Visiting will be Thursday 5/27/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral service will be Friday at 10AM at St. John's Lutheran Church in Sayville. Interment burial to follow at the Calverton National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations to Paws of War www.pawsofwar.org or the Fire Island Lighthouse www.firelighthouse.com would be appreciated by the family.
JOSEPH E. PARK, JR., of Islip, NY, suddenly on May 24, 2021 at the age of 58. Visiting will be Friday 5/28/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. Religious service, 4PM, Friday at the funeral home. Closing payer, 9:30AM, Saturday, with committal and interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery, Bay Shore.
JOHN C. KIERNAN, of Islip Terrace, NY on May 18, 2021, at the age of 89. Visiting will be Friday, 2-4:30 and 7-9PM, with the Hibernian Singers at 7:30PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated at 9:30AM at t St. Peter the Apostle in Islip Terrace. Cremation will be private.
EILEEN NESKE of East Islip, NY on May 18, 2021 at the age of 92. Visiting will be Thursday 5/20/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A religious service will be celebrated on Friday at 10am at the funeral home. Interment to follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.
THOMAS BOEHM, of Queens, NY on May 10, 2021 at the age of 84. Cremation services were private.
MARIAN BEHAN of Newnan, GA and formerly of Islip, NY on May 8, 2021 at the age of 84. Visiting will be Monday 5/17/2021 from 9-10:30am with a religious service at 10:30am at the funeral home. Interment to follow at Long Island National Cemetery in Pinelawn.
BARBARA ANN SIEMSEN, of East Islip, NY, on May 7, 2021 at the age of 86. Visitation Tuesday, May 11th from 9-11AM. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery
KENNETH D. LINDSAY, Jr., of Central Islip, NY on May 6, 2021, surrounded by his loving family after a long and valiant battle with cancer. He was born to Kenneth and Mary (Simsack) Lindsay June 17th, 1955, in Southampton, New York, the third of eight siblings. In 1967 the family moved to Islip and in 1994, Ken married Cheryl Sutton, rekindling their youthful love after having gone their separate ways for some years. Ken was a diligent and hard worker, fighting against tough odds to eventually become co-owner of Babylon Plumbing Supply and a well-respected businessman. His quiet kindness, gentle manner, and generosity was an inspiration to everyone who knew him. This mellow demeanor (Cheryl calls it Zen) was belied by his passion for his super-fast, LOUD speed machines, including his beloved ‘67 Camaro, and his joy while riding his custom appointed mint Harley with his closest buddy, Steve. With his many friends, he enjoyed card games, weekly bowling outings, fine dining, and get-togethers for any occasion. Ken is survived by his wife and soulmate, Cheryl, three children, Cheryl’s daughter Sara, Ken’s daughter Nicole and son David, and five grandchildren; sisters Mary, Patricia, Nancy, and Rita; brothers Robert and Joseph; innumerable cousins, nieces and nephews, uncles and aunts; and many loving friends. A service to celebrate his life will be held on Tuesday, May 11th from 3:00-7:00 pm, with prayer at 6:30PM. All friends are welcome. In lieu of flowers his family asks that you donate to your favorite charity in Ken’s honor.
LAURA F. BULACH, of Islip, NY (formerly of Kingston, NY) on May 4, 2021 at the age of 84. Cremation was private. A memorial service will take place June 12th at Trinity Lutheran Church in Islip. A memorial service will take place at a later date in Kingston, NY also.
GRACE CORSELLO of Islandia, NY on May 3, 2021 at the age of 88. Visiting will be Monday 5/10/2021, 2-5PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated Tuesday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.
DARIEN LIBERT LOGAN of Bayport, NY on May 2, 2021 at the age of 59. Visiting will be Saturday 5/8/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. NOTHING Sunday 5/9/2021. A funeral service will be celebrated Monday 5/10/2021 at 10:30am at the Presbyterian Church of Islip, with interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
JOHN TROCCHIO of Bay Shore, NY on May 2, 2021 at the age of 91. Visiting will be Friday 5/7/2021 from 2-4 and 7-9pm. A funeral service will be celebrated Saturday 10am at the funeral home, with interment to follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Bay Shore.
RON R. MASSA, of Holbrook, NY on April 30, 2021 at the age of 73. Visiting will be Thursday May 6, 2021 from 2-4:30 & 7-9PM. Funeral Mass Friday 10AM at St. Joseph's RC Church in Ronkonkoma, NY. Interment to follow in Oakwood Cemetery, Bay Shore, nY
KENNETH E. BUSCH, of Islip Terrace, NY on April 30, 2021, at the age of 57. Visiting will be Sunday, 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A religious service will take place on Monday at 10AM at the funeral home. Interment burial will follow in the Oakwood Cemetery, Bay Shore, NY.
JULIANE VEGA, of Holtsville, NY, on April 23, 2021 at the age of 46. Visiting will be Friday 4/30/2021 from 5-9PM. Cremation will be private.
JUDITH M. LAMIA, of Islip, NY, on April 23, 2021 at the age of 41. Visiting will be Tuesday 4/27/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A religious service will take place Tuesday evening at 7:30 at the funeral home. Cremation will be private.
JOHANNA CIANO of Bay Shore, NY on April 20, 2021 at the age of 86. Visiting will be Sunday 4/25/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Monday 9:45am at St. Ann's RC Church in Brentwood. Interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
LOUISE JOAN WOLKOFF of Islip, NY on April 20, 2021, at the age of 86. A visitation period will take place Saturday 4/24/2021 ONLY from 10:30AM to 11:30AM. There will be a closing prayer at 11:30AM at the funeral home. Cremation will be private.
SCOTT MEDDIS of Bay Shore, NY suddenly on April 19, 2021 at the age of 58. Visiting will be Friday 4/23/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. Cremation will be private.
MICHAEL McGRATH of Middle Island, NY on April 18, 2021 at the age of 88. Visiting will be Wednesday 4/21/2021 from 3-7pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Thursday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Gary Sinise Foundation for Veterans would be appreciated.
ELVIS MENJIVAR of Bay Shore, NY suddenly on April 17, 2021 at the age of 27. Visiting will be Thursday 4/22/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A religious service will be celebrated Friday 10am at the funeral home, with interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
ESTHER ANTARIO, of Pittsford, NY, on April 13, 2021 at the age of 96. Visiting will be Sunday from 1-4 in the afternoon and 6-8 in the evening. A religious service will take place Sunday evening at 7. A brief prayer will be Monday at 10AM followed by burial at the Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
MARGUERITE McMAHON of Islip, NY on April 11, 2021 at the age of 60. Visiting will be Wednesday 4/14/2021 from 2-4 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Thursday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
MARGARET ENGELHARDT of Sayville, NY on April 11, 2021 at the age of 92. She will be interred with her husband in Kansas.
JAMES BURKE of East Islip, NY on April 11, 2021 at the age of 70. Cremation was private. Memorial visiting will be Tuesday 4/27/2021 from 7-9pm.
GARY AVOLIO of Brightwaters, NY on April 10, 2021 at the age of 72. Cremation will be private.
THOMAS E. ADAMS, of Bay Shore, NY, on April 6, 2021, at the age of 59. A private cremation was held.
JOSE M. MOROCHO, of Bay Shore, NY passed away on April 2, 2021 at the age of 67. Visiting will be Wednesday April 7, 2021 from 2-4:30PM and 7-9PM. A Closing prayer Thursday morning 10AM at the funeral home, with interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery, Bay Shore, NY.
DR. RONALD GARY PIRICH, passed suddenly on Wednesday, March 31, 2021, just six weeks short of his 74th birthday. Ron was born on May 13, 1947, in Johnson City, New York. He attended SUNY Binghamton, where he earned a BA in Physics, BA in Mathematics, MA in Physics, and PhD in Physics, as well as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from the University of Cincinnati.
Ron relocated to Long Island in 1977 and held various R&D positions for thirty-five years at the Northrop Grumman Corporation in Bethpage, until his retirement in 2012. While at Northrop Grumman, Ron served as a Technical Fellow responsible for research and development of enabling technologies, systems engineering and technical integration. He also served as a Mentor to a Northrop Grumman Intern on a 2011 Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Co-Advisor on a 2010 PhD Thesis at the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Graduate Center, mentored five Northrop Grumman Summer Interns, and was an active participant in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Coalition program. He was a recipient of the prestigious 2008 Sixty Over Sixty Award for his lifetime contributions to education and science on Long Island, the 2010 IEEE Technology Innovation Award, and was the 2015 winner for Patent of the Year in the category of Energy and the Environment for the Long Island Technology Hall of Fame (LITHF). Ron held nine patents, several patents pending and is the author of more than 250 technical papers and presentations. He received several NASA Technical Innovator Awards and the Best Paper Award at the 2010 Aerospace Conference. He was a Fellow of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and was actively involved in local IEEE Conferences, Chairing the Technical Program Committee for the Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference. He also served on and was Chairman of the CUNY Industrial Associates Board, as well as a member of the NYIT, Queens College and Briarcliffe College Advisory Boards. He was also the point of contact for industry/university grants to CUNY, UAlbany, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Stony Brook University and the California Institute of Technology. After retiring from Northrop Grumman, Ron served as a Senior Research Advisor for the Long Island Forum for Technology, as well as an adjunct instructor of physics at St. Joseph’s College, and most recently at SUNY Farmingdale.
He is survived by his beloved wife of 38 years, Donna Marie, and much loved sons, Christopher Ronald and Michael John, as well as cherished family members: Andrew and Carrie Pirich (brother and sister-in-law), nephew Drew Pirich (Carmela), niece Marla Gorton (Mitch), grand-nephews Spencer and Shane Gorton, and grand-niece Natalie Pirich. He is preceded in death by his parents Hilda and Andrew Pirich, Jr.
Visiting will be Tuesday, 2-4:30 and 7-9PM, with wake prayers taking place at 3PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated Wednesday, 11AM at St. Frances Cabrini RC Church, Coram, NY. Interment to follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Coram, NY. In lieu of flowers, donations in Ronald's memory can be made to the IEEE Foundation and would be appreciated by the family. Please follow the link to donate. https://www.ieeefoundation.org/how-to-give/tribute-giving
EDWIN CORWIN of Islip, NY, had passed away on February 20, 2021 at the age of 91. Ex-Chief and 64 year member of the Islip Fire Department. Cremation will be private. Memorial visiting, with fire department and military honors, will be held on Friday June 4, 2021 from 7-9pm. A religious service will be celebrated Saturday morning at the United Methodist Church of Islip.
GORDON E. HONEY, of Pennsylvania (formerly of Long Island), on March 27, 2021 at the age of 98. There will be a brief visitation on Friday, April 2, from 9-10AM. A closing prayer will take place at 10AM. Burial to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
ERIC JOEL EHRENZWEIG, of Islip, NY, on March 24, 2021 at the age of 71. Graveside service, 11AM, Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at Queen of All Saints Cemetery, Central Islip, NY.
JOYCE SCHEPPERLEY of Bay Shore, NY on March 22, 2021 at the age of 76. Visiting will be Friday 3/26/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Saturday 9:15am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
THERESA DeSANTIS of Bay Shore, NY on March 20, 2021 at the age of 102. Visiting will be Wednesday 3/24/2021 from 9-10am, with a funeral mass to follow at 10:30am at St. Patrick's RC Chruch in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
JOHN GRYN of Bay Shore, NY on March 18, 2021 at the age of 74. Visiting will be Sunday 3/21/2021 from 2-4 and 7-9pm. A religious service will be held Monday 9:30am at the funeral home, with interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
GREGORY SPARROW, of Bay Shore, NY, on March 13, 2021, at the age of 48. Visiting will be Friday 3/19/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. Cremation will be private.
LONI PATSCH of Islip, NY on March 11, 2021 at the age of 93. Visiting will be Monday 3/15/2021 from 12:30-1:30pm only, with a religious service at the funeral home at 1:30pm. Interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
SAMANTHA FERGER MULLEN of Centereach, NY on March 12, 2021 at the age of 31. Cremation will be private.
JOSEPH FIORENTINO, of Bay Shore, NY on March 11, 2021 at the age of 83. Visiting hours will be Monday 2-4:30 & 7-9PM. A religious service will take place Monday, 7:30PM at the funeral home. Closing prayer Tuesday 10AM followed by interment at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore. Donations greatly appreciated in Joe's name to the American Diabetes Association.
ROBERT J. SHEPPARD, of Islip, NY (formerly of Levittown) on March 10, 2021, at the age of 74. Visiting will be Sunday 3/14/2021 from 3:30-7PM. A religious service will take place at 10AM Monday at the funeral home. Burial and committal prayers to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
KATHLEEN COONEY of Sayville, NY on March 11, 2021 at the age of 80. Longtime owner of Ginger Peachy Tours and Travel in East Islip. Visiting will be Saturday 3/13/2021 and Sunday 3/14/2021 from 2-4 and 7-9pm both days. A funeral mass will be celebrated Monday 10am at St. Lawrence RC Church in Sayville. Interment will follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.
EDWARD P. PARZUCHOWSKI, of Islip, NY, on March 8, 2021, at the age of 78. Visiting will be, Thursday from 5-9PM. Religious service will be, 8PM at the funeral home. Closing prayer will be Friday morning at 10. Burial will foloow in the Calverton National Cemetery.
WILMAN O. BARZALLO-DIAZ, of Bay Shore, NY on March 5, 2021 at the age of 37. Visiting, Tuesday, 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. Religious service, Tuesday, 7:30PM at the funeral home. Cremation will be private.
FRANCINE ANETRELLA of Islip, NY on March 4, 2021 at the age of 48. Visiting will be Sunday 3/7/2021 and Monday 3/8/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm both days. A funeral mass will be celebrated Tuesday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.
GEORGE MONTI of Patchogue, NY on March 4, 2021 at the age of 58. A committal service will be held on Wednesday 3/10/2021 at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Bay Shore.
DEBORAH FERRIS, of East Islip, NY on December 12, 2020 at the age of 67. A memorial visitation will be held for Deborah on Saturday April 10, 2021 from 2-5PM. In lieu of flowers, donations are greatly appreciated in Deborah's name to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Long Island Cares, or the charity of your choice.
WILLIAM SHUMICKY, of Islip Terrace, NY on March 2, 2021 at the age of 70. A private cremation will take place.
RICARDO RIVERA of Bay Shore, NY on February 28, 2021 at the age of 39. Cremation will be private.
MARIE VELLA of Bay Shore, NY on February 28, 2021 at the age of 72. Visiting will be Saturday 3/6/2021 from 1-5pm only. Cremation will be private.
EDITH ENGELKE on February 27, 2021. Cremation will be private.
EILEEN GREMLI of Islip, NY on February 27, 2021 at the age of 92. Cremation is private. A memorial mass will be celebrated Saturday 3/6/2021 at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore.
JOSEPH ABBATE of Bay Shore, NY on February 24, 2021 at the age of 59. Cremation was private. A memorial service will be held Wednesday 3/3/2021 from 3-7pm.
EDWIN CORWIN of Islip, NY, on February 20, 2021 at the age of 91. Ex-Chief and 64 year member of the Islip Fire Department. Cremation will be private. A memorial service, with fire department and military honors, will be held at a later date.
WILLIAM P. MCLOUGHLIN of Islip, NY, on February 19, 2021 at the age of 51. Visiting will be Tuesday 2/23/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday, 10:45AM, St. Mary's RC Church, East Islip. Interment and committal prayers will be at Calverton National Cemetery.
JOAN KRAMER of Islip, NY on February 18, 2021 at the age of 92. A private cremation will take place. A memorial service will be planned at a later date.
JOSEPH BROSS of Islip, NY, on February 18, 2021 at the age of 81. A private cremation was held. A memorial service may take place at a later date.
CHARLES "DUKIE" HOLMES of Brightwaters, NY on February 16, 2021 at the age of 92. 72 year member and Honorary Chief of the Bay Shore Fire Department. Visiting will be Wednesday 2/24/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Thursday 10am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
CARMINE DEORIO of Bay Shore, NY on February 14, 2021 at the age of 63. Visiting will be SUNDAY 2/21/2021 from 2-5pm. A closing prayer will be offered on Monday at 9:30am and the interment will be follow at Calverton National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in memory of Carmine to: Suffolk County PAL Att: Boxing Program, 30 Yaphank Avenue, Yaphank, NY 11980. PLEASE NOTE THESE ARRANGEMENTS HAVE CHANGED BECAUSE OF HAZARDOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS
LOUIS ROUSSOS of Utica, NY (formerly of Central Islip, NY) on February 14, 2021 at the age of 68. Cremation will be private.
SALVATORE SUSCA of Queens, NY, on February 14, 2021 at the age of 81. A private creamtion was held with his ashes being scattered on the Great South Bay at a later date, as per his wishes.
LINDA ELIZABETH BRADLEY of Ronkonkoma, NY on February 10, 2021 at the age of 69. Visiting will be Saturday, 2-5PM ONLY, with a religious service to take place at 3PM at the funeral home. Cremation will be private.
JOAN STEINMULLER of Bay Shore, NY on February 11, 2021 at the age of 84. All services will be private.
RICHARD NOEKER of West Babylon, NY on February 10, 2021 at the age of 66. Visitation will be on Friday morning 2/12/2021 from 9:30AM to 11AM. A funeral mass will be celebrated at 12 noon Friday afternoon. Burial will follow at St. Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, NY.
JOHN AHEARN of East Islip, NY, on February 9, 2021 at the age of 79. A direct cremation took place. There may be a memorial mass at a later date.
BARBARA "BOBBI" KALT-COHEN formerly of Brightwaters, NY on February 8, 2021 at the age of 93. Former longtime executive of family-owned HA Kalt in Bay Shore. A graveside service will be held Wednesday 2/10/2021 at 11am at Mount Ararat Cemetery in Lindenhurst.
SEGUNDO PEREZ LOPEZ of Bay Shore, NY on February 7, 2021 at the age of 71. Visiting will be Wednesday 2/10/2021 from 4-8pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Thursday 10am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
JEREMY JAY AMOTT of Cape Cod, MA and formerly of New York, NY, on February 4, 2021 at the age of 90. Cremation is private.
MOLLY BAREHAM of Bethlehem, PA, on February 2, 2021 at the age of 87. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Friday morning at 9:45, at St. Mary's RC Church, East Islip, NY. Cremation will be private.
LOUISE LaROCCA of Bay Shore, NY on January 30, 2021 at the age of 83. Visiting will be Wednesday 2/3/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Thursday at 10AM at St. Patrick's RC Church, Bay Shore, NY. Interment will follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
GEORGE T McDONALD of New York City, NY and of Bay Shore, NY on January 26, 2021 at the age of 76. Services are private. A memorial service to celebrate George's amazing life will be held at a later date.
STEPHEN HEHIR SR of Goose Creek, SC on January 25, 2021 at the age of 74. Interment will be held at Calverton National Cemetery Wednesday February 17, 2021 at 10AM.
JOSEPHINE T. SERENITA longtime Islip resident, on January 25, 2021, at the age of 82. Recently predeceased by her husband, Salvatore. Survived by her loving children, Lisa Berry, David Serenita, and Donna Bates. She was a devoted grandmother of 10 grandchildren. Visiting, Friday, 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated Saturday, 9:15AM at St. Mary's RC Church, East Islip, NY. Entombment immediately to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
BRUNO CAMMISA of Bay Shore, NY, on January 22, 2021 at the age of 93. There will be a graveside service ONLY, Friday, 1/29, at 10AM at Oakwood Cemetery, Bay Shore, NY.
GERALDINE CROTEAU of Islip Terrace, NY on January 21, 2021, at the age of 72. Visiting will be Sunday (1/31) from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. Religious Service, Monday (2/1) at 10AM at the funeral home. Burial to follow at the Calverton National Cemetery, Calverton, NY.
KATHARINE MARX lifelong resident of Islip, on January 21, 2021 at the age of 78. Visiting will be Sunday 1/24/2021 from 1-5pm. Cremation will be private.
SAMUEL HIGHTOWER longtime Bay Shore resident, on January 17, 2021 at the age of 83. Cremation was private. A memorial mass will be celebrated on Saturday, February 6, at 10:15am at St. Mary's RC Church, East Islip.
LAURETT MEDDIS of East Islip, NY on January 19, 2021 at the age of 86. Cremation is private. Memorial visiting will be Saturday 1/23/2021 from 2-4 and 6-8pm. In lieu of flowers, donations in her name to St. Jude's Children Hospital or to the Wounded Warrior Project would be appreciated.
SHERI PELLETTIERE of East Islip, NY, on January 18, 2021 at the age of 70. A Funeral Mass will be held for Sheri at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore on Friday 1/22/21 at 11am. Interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
KAREN QUERRARD of Bay Shore, NY , on January 19, 2021, at the age of 76. Graveside service with committal prayers will be Saturday, at 11am at Locust Valley Cemetery, Locust, NY. PLEASE NOTE THESE ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN CHANGED.
JOSE GONZALEZ CARRIL of Ocean Beach, NY on January 16, 2021 at the age of 77. Cremation will be private.
WILLIAM A. GIBNEY of Bay Shore, NY on January 15, 2021 at the age of 86. A commital service will be held Monday 1/25/21 11am at Calverton National Cemetery.
AMELIA H. GLUECK of Islip, NY on January 14, 2021 at the age of 99. Cremation was private.
HOWARD ECKHOFF of East Islip, NY on January 11, 2021 at the age of 61. Visiting will be Friday 1/15/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. Cremation will be private.
MARILYN BURKE of East Islip, NY on January 10, 2021 at the age of 88. Visiting will be Wednesday 1/13/2021 from 4-8pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Thursday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
MARGARET "PEGGY" LaMON on January 11, 2021 at the age of 92. Visiting will be Tuesday 1/12/2021 from 3-7pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Wednesday 10am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at Long Island National Cemetery .
ARMAND DIESSO, of Bohemia, NY (formerly of Islip), on January 8, 2021, at the age of 92. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS A CHANGE IN THESE ARRANGEMENTS - Visiting will be Thursday 1/21/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated 9:45AM Friday 1/22/2021 at St. Mary's RC Church, East Islip, NY. Interment to follow at St. Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, NY. In lieu of flowers donations to Paws for Purple Hearts, PO Box 1209 Merrifield, VA, 22216 or Little Shelter Animal Rescue and Adoption Center 33 Warner Rd. Huntington, NY 11743, would be appreciated by the family.
ANDREA S RIGOGLIOSO of East Islip, NY on January 7, 2021 at the age of 69. Visiting will be Sunday evening 1/10/2021 from 7-9pm and Monday 1/11/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Tuesday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Entombment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
NOREEN BAYHA, of Bay Shore, NY, on January 6, 2021 at the age of 72. Services and cremation will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105, would be appreciated by the family.
RICHARD LaSALA of Shirley, NY on January 6, 2021 at the age of 78. Cremation will be private.
WILLIAM HRUSKA of Bay Shore, NY on January 5, 2021 at the age of 86. A graveside service will be held Monday 1/11/2021 at 11am at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Bay Shore. A memorial mass will be celebrated at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore.
THORA ANTOINE of Bay Shore, NY on January 4, 2021 at the age of 82. Visiting will be Sunday 1/10/2021 from 1-4pm with a religious service at the end of the visitation. Cremation will be private.
FRANCES BEATTIE of Islip, NY on January 2, 2021 at the age of 72. Visiting will be Friday 1/8/2021 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm both days. A funeral mass will be celebrated Saturday 11am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip, with the interment to follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Bay Shore.
ALLAN DONLEY of Bay Shore, NY on January 2, 2021 at the age of 53. Visting will be THURSDAY 1/14/2021 from 4-8pm. A religious service will be held at the funeral home on Friday 10:30am with interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore. PLEASE NOTE: These dates have changed from the original funeral arrangements.
CHRISTINE VAN SPRUNDEL, of West Islip, NY, on December 31, 2020, at the age of 80. Memorial visitation will take place Tuesday evening, 7-9PM with a religious taking place at 8:30PM.
MARK BEANE, of Bay Shore, NY (formerly of Islip), on December 28, 2020 at the age of 54. Services and cremation will be private. Burial of ashes will take place at a later date.
THOMAS LARSEN of Kansas City, MO (formerly of Islip, NY ) on December 13, 2020 at the age of 70. Cremation was private. His ashes will be interred in the family plot at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Bay Shore.
GAIL P. HARPER, of Sayville, NY, on December 24, 2020 at the age of 80. Visiting will be Sunday, 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. a Funeral Mass celebrating her life will take place Monday, 10AM at St. John Nepomucene RC Church, Bohemia, NY. Burial services will follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery, Bay Shore, NY.
ELIZABETH MARTIN of Easton, PA on December 22, 2020 at the age of 81. Visitation Tuesday December 29, 2020 from 6-8PM. Cremation will be private.
JOSEPH A. FERRARA of East Islip, NY on December 26, 2020 at the age of 102. Interment private at Emmanuel Episcopal Church Cemetery in Great River, NY.
ROBERT STAUCH of Ronkonkoma, NY on December 23, 2020 at the age of 84. Visiting will be Monday 12/28/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Tuesday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at Holy Rood Cemetery in Westbury, NY.
KEVIN McGONIGAL of Lake Ariel, PA (formerly of Islip, NY) on December 9, 2020 at the age of 43. Cremation was private. Memorial visiting will be Saturday 1/9/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm.
JAMES A. SPROUL, of Bay Shore, NY, on December 16, 2020 at the age of 84. Burial services Tuesday morning at Calverton National Cemetery. Procession to depart from the funeral home at 10AM sharp.
ALBERT J. PALULIS, of Bay Shore, NY on December 16, 2020 at the age of 74. Visiting Monday 4-8PM ONLY. Funeral Mass, 10AM Tuesday, St. Patrick's RC Church, Bay Shore. Burial, committal prayers and military honors to immediate follow at Calverton National Cemetery .
BARBARA ADEN, of Baldwin, NY, on December 15, 2020 at the age of 81. There will be a brief viewing period Friday morning from 9:30-10AM. A closing prayer will take place at 10am at the funeral home. urial and committal prayers to follow at Calverton National Cemetery, Calverton, NY.
ANITA INDELICATO of Charlotte, NC (formerly of Islip, NY) on December 15, 2020 at the age of 69. Visiting will be Sunday 12/27/2020 from 1-4pm. A closing prayer will be offered Monday 10am at the funeral home, with the interment Monday to follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.
DOMINICK GIORDANO of Bay Shore, NY on December 15, 2020 at the age of 89. Interment with military honors will be held on Friday December 18, 2020 at Calverton National Cemetery.
DEBORAH FERRIS of East Islip, NY on December 12, 2020 at the age of 67. Cremation will be private. There will be memorial visiting at a later date.
HENRY MERENGUELLI of Central Islip, NY on December 8, 2020 at the age of 72. Cremation will be private. Memorial visiting will be Sunday 12/20/20 from 12-3pm. His cremains will be interred at Calverton National Cemetery.
ELAINE M. HOULIHAN, of Islip Terrace, on December 5, 2020 at the age of 81. There will be a funeral mass only, Thursday 12/10/2020 9:45AM at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment will follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery, Bay Shore. Donations in Mrs. Houlihan's name can be made to either Southside Hospital, 301 E. Main St. Bay Shore, NY 11706, or St. Mary's RC Church, 20 Harrison Ave. East Islip, NY 11730, and would be greatly appreciated by the family.
DOMINICK DECRESCENZO, of Islip, NY, on December 3, 2020 at the age of 72. Visiting will be Monday 12/7/20 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. Military honors will be rendered at 7:15pm, with a religious service to follow. Cremation is private.
ROSEMARY SAVOY, of Bradenton, FL (formerly of Islip) on December 3, 2020 at the age of 77. Visiting will be Friday 12/11/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A religious service will be celebrated Saturday 9:30am at the funeral home. Interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
DORIS CHARLOTTE STRAWN, of Bay Shore, NY, on December 1, 2020 at the age of 91. Visiting, Thursday, 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. Religious service, 8PM Thursday at the funeral home. There will be a brief prayer 10AM Friday before leaving for cemetery. Burial will be at Calverton National Cemetery.
FRANCES CAMMISA, of Bay Shore, NY on November28, 2020 at the age of 79. A graveside service will take place at 10AM Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at Oakwood Cemetery, Bay Shore, NY.
KENNETH BLAIS, of Bay Shore, on November 30, 2020 at the age 67. Private cremation with a memorial service at a later date.
WILLIAM GONZALEZ, of Islip, NY on November 30, 2020 at the age of 32. Visiting on Sunday, 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. Funeral service, 7:30PM at the funeral home. We will have a brief prayer, Monday at 10AM followed by burial at Oakwood Cemetery, Bay Shore, NY.
AGNES ALVER of East Islip, NY on November 28, 2020 at the age of 85. Visiting will be Tuesday 12/1/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Wednesday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
COLLEEN M. LINDBLAD of Islip, NY, on November 23, 2020 at the age of 59. Visiting will be Friday 11/27/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Saturday at 11:30AM at St. Patrick's RC Church, Bay Shore, NY. Interment will follow in the parish cemetery.
MICHAEL M. DONLIN, of Lindenhurst, NY, on November 16, 2020 at the age of 58. Visiting, Sunday, 2-4:30PM. Closing prayer at 4:30PM. Cremation private.
CHERON CARNARVON, of Bay Shore, NY suddenly, on November 13, 2020, at the age of 34. Visiting, Saturday, 11/21, from 1-4PM. Religious service and eulogies to begin at 3PM. Cremation private.
TYLER ROGERS, of Islip Terrace, NY on November 11, 2020 at the age of 59. A private cremation was held.
AUGUSTIN VEIGA of Bay Shore, NY on November 4, 2020 at the age of 67. Cremation will be private.
REVEREND DIANE DUNNE of Massapequa Park, NY on October 30, 2020 at the age of 66. Visiting will be Monday 11/9/2020 from 2-4:30 at the funeral home, and then 6-9pm at Bay Shore Assembly of God Church. A religious service will be celebrated Monday 8pm at the church. Following a brief prayer on Tuesday at 10:30am, the interment will be held at Melville Cemetery.
CHRISTINE ENTENMANN of Singer Island, FL and of Islip, NY, on November 4, 2020 at the age of 87. Visiting will be Sunday 11/8/2020 from 12-4pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Monday 11am at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore. In lie of flowers, donations to Hospice Care Network, 99 Sunnyside Blvd, Woodbury, NY would be appreciated.
ROBERT CHESSMAN of Brightwaters, NY on November 2, 2020 at the age of 92. A mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Friday 11/6/2020 at 10am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
ERWIN K. KIRBACH, of Islip Terrace, NY on Novermber 2, 2020 at the age of 82. Visiting will be Friday, 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. Brief prayer will be offered on Saturday at 10AM at the funeral home. Burial and committal will immediate follow at Oakwood Cemetery, Bay Shore, NY.
ANNETTE GRIMALDI, of Bay Shore, NY on October 31, 2020 at the age of 98. Visiting will be Tuesday, 5-9PM. A religious service will be held at 8PM Tuesday at the funeral home. There will be a closing prayer Wednesday morning at 10 before departing for burial at Calverton National Cemetery.
MICHAEL J DOUGLAS of Islip, NY, born April 9, 1966, passed away suddenly on October 30, 2020. Beloved husband of Gretchen Douglas, Michael was the son of Robert L. and Peggy M. Douglas. Born in West Islip at Good Samaritan Hospital, Michael lived in Bay Shore, NY until he married and moved to Islip, NY. Michael is the youngest of ten children, pre-deceased by sister Kathleen Douglas who died shortly after birth in 1960. He is survived by his beloved aunt and uncle, Eileen and Doc Miller. His surviving siblings and their spouses/partners are Dr. Jeanne Wahl and Ernie Wahl, Laura and Ron Timulak, Robert and Ginger Douglas, Richy and Catherine Douglas, Kevin Douglas, Kathy Douglas, Suzanne Douglas and Todd Borgus, and Jimmy and Sheila Douglas. He leaves beloved in-laws William and Helene Linden, and was pre-deceased by beloved parents-in-law, Adolf and Carol Linden. Michael leaves 26 loving nieces and nephews and their spouses, 14 great nieces and nephews, cousins and second cousins in the US and UK, a wide and loving circle of friends, many lifelong, and numerous current and former employees. He graduated from St. Patrick’s Grammar School in Bay Shore in 1980, and Bay Shore High School in 1984, where he was a member of the lacrosse and football teams. He attended SUNY Oneonta for several years before returning to Long Island to found Douglas Messenger Service, a company based out of JFK airport that he ran for 33 years with his beloved brother and business partner, Jim Douglas. Always hard-working entrepreneurs and generous employers, Michael and Jimmy also ran a successful tent company for many years. An easy going and diligent professional, Michael received numerous business association awards for his customer service excellence.
Michael was an avid golfer and concert-goer. His civic and community engagement included membership at the Bay Shore Yacht Club, and support of many local charitable organizations. He was a devoted husband, son, son-in-law, brother, friend, and neighbor who touched countless lives during his time on this Earth.
Visiting will be Wednesday 11/4/2020 from 3-7pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday 10am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore, with the interment to follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery.
ARNO STOERMER of Cleveland, TN on October 25, 2020 at the age of 90. A graveside service will be held Thursday 11/5/2020 2pm at Queen of All Saints Cemetery in Central Islip.
ADAM GULA of Selden, NY on October 24, 2020 at the age of 33. Cremation was private, and the interment of cremains will be held at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Bay Shore.
WILLIAM RICHARDS of Central Islip, NY on October 23, 2020 at the age of 77. Cremation was private, and the interment of cremains will be held at Wahsington Memorial Park in Mt. Sinai at a later date.
GARY PAOLANTONIO on October 21, 2020 at the age of 73. A private cremation was held in North Carolina. A memorial service will be held Monday 11/2/2020 from 10-11am at the funeral home.
FRANK CARDILE of Islip, NY, on October 19, 2020 at the age of 92. A private cremation was held.
DR. RONALD CRAIG SULLIVAN of Islip, NY on October 17, 2020 at the age of 82. Cremation will be private. A funeral mass in his honor will be celebrated Saturday October 24, 2020 at 11am at St Mary's RC Church in East Islip. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FUNERAL MASS WILL BE HELD IN THE AUDITORIUM NEXT TO THE CHURCH. Masks and social distancing please.
MARGARET DALE of East Islip, NY (formerly of Gulfport, FL) on October 14, 2020 at the age of 98. Cremation is private. Memorial visiting will be Saturday 10/17/2020 from 5-8pm. A religious service will be held at 6:30pm. Her cremains will be interred with her husband at Bay Pines National Cemetery in Florida.
MARION SHU, of East Islip, NY, on October 7, 2020, at the age of 96 , peacefully at the that she shared with her eldest daughter and son-in-law Patricia and Thomas Marquardt, with her family by her side. Marion will be remembered lovingly for her independence, strong will, creativity, generosity, love of food and love of family. Cherishing her role as grandmother, she especially loved participating in the lives of her grandchildren. Marion is survived by her three daughters, Patricia Marquardt, Allyn Fritts and Donna Shu, their spouses, Thomas Marquardt, Charles Fritts, and Thomas Kane, her three granddaughters, Caroline Fritts Evers, Kathryn Fritts and Asia Kane, and her three great-granddaughters Mayla Evers, Pipi Evers, and Brooke Evers. In lieu of flowers , donations to debra of America, 75 Broad St., Suite 300, New York, NY 10004, in honor of Marion's deceaed Granddaughter, Dana Nicole Marquardt.
TIMOTHY W. FITALL, of Central Islip, NY on October 4, 2020 at the age of 71. Visiting will be Friday, 10/9/2020 from 7-9PM. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday at 9:15AM at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Interment to follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Bay Shore.
HELEN GUINEE formerly of East Islip and Bohemia, NY on September 28, 2020 at the age of 88. Cremation will be private.
GERALDINE A. MAGNANI, of Mount Sinai, NY, (formerly of Islip) on September 25, 2020 at the age of 92. Visiting will be Monday 9/28/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated Tuesday, 9:45AM at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip, NY. Interment to follow at Holy Rood Cemetery, Westbury, NY
HELEN E. TIMONEY, of Islip, NY on September 25, 2020 at the age of 86. Visiting will be Sunday 9/27/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral service will be celebrated Monday 10AM at Trinity Lutheran Church in Islip, NY. Interment to follow at Calverton National Cemetery, Calverton, NY.
SEAN A. TROESCH, of Farmingdale, NY (formerly of Islip) on September 22, 2020 at the age of 38. Cremation will be private.
GEORGE A. MULLIGAN, of Bay Shore, NY, on September 21. 2020 at the age of 76, after a long illness. George graduated from Bishop Loughlin High School and then Manhattan College with a degree in electrical engineering. He went on to recieve a PhD from RPI. He taught at the Merchant Marine Academy and at the University of Fairbanks in Alaska. He enjoyed sports, in particular tennis, golf and fishing. He travelled around the world both professionally and liesurely. He was an active parishoner of St. Patrick's and was particularly helpful in assisting the senior citizens. He was a volunteer at the Fire Island Lighthouse and would instruct visitors on it's history and operations. He was predeceased by his brother Robert and is survivied by his brother Thomas, and sisters-in law Mary and Helen and many neices and nephews. Visiting will be Thursday, 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated Friday at 10AM at St. Patrick's in Bay Shore, followed by burial in the parish cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations greatly appreciated to Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America Inc., Maryknoll NY.
MICHAEL DeLIBRO of Bay Shore, NY on September 19, 2020 at the age of 67. Visiting will be Wednesday 9/23/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A religious service will be celebrated Thursday 9:30am at the funeral home, with the interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
GERTRUDE A. SPORTIELLO, of Bay Shore, NY, on September 18, 2020 at the age of 80. Visiting will be Wednesday morning from 9-11, with a relisgious service at 11AM at the funeral home. Interment will be at Pinelawn Memorial Park, Pinelawn, NY
HERBERT A. BROWN, of Islip Terrace, NY on September 17, 2020 at the age of 74. Cremation was private. A Celebration of Life will take place Sunday, 9/20, at 3PM outside the Islip Presbyterian Church, Islip, NY. Bring a mask, a chair and wear "cheerful" clothing.
CELEMENE ZAMA, of Bay Shore, NY on September 13, 2020 at the age of 79. A religious service will be held Saturday morning at the funeral home. Interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
KATHLEEN McNULTY, formerly of Bay Shore, NY, on September 7, 2020 at the age of 59. Cremation was private. A celebration of her life will take place Sunday 9/20 on the outside patio of Irish Times in Holbrook from 12-3PM, with a prayer service to take place at 12:15. Masks and social distancing rules apply.
RACHAEL LEE of Miller Place, NY on September 6, 2020 at the age of 39. Visiting will be Saturday 9/12/2020 from 10am-12:30pm. A religious service will be offered Saturday 12:30pm at the funeral home, with interment to follow at Washington Memorial Park in Mount Sinai.
LOUIS PETRAGLIA, of West Islip, NY on September 4, 2020 at the age of 71. Funeral Mass Tuesday, 11AM at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment to follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
NANCY VETTER, of Central Islip, NY on September 4, 2020 at the age of 65. Visiting will be Monday 9/7/2020 from 3-7pm. A religious service will be offered on 10am Tuesday at the funeral home, with the interment to follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Bay Shore.
ELEANOR CARROLL, of Sarasota, FL on September 3, 2020 at the age of 96. A funeral mass will be held Friday, at 9:45AM, St. Mary's RC Church, East Islip. Burial to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
MARGARET "PEGGY" KRENN, of Brightwaters, NY, on September 2, 2020 at the age of 69. Visiting will be Wednesday 9/9/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mas will be celebrated Thursday 10am at St. Patrick's Church in Bay Shore. Interment will follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.
WENDY CASMASSIMA of Wheatley Heights, NY on September 1, 2020 at the age of 92. Visiting will be Thursday 9/3/2020 from 4-8pm, with a religious service at 7:30pm at the funeral home. A closing prayer will be offered on Friday at 10am, with interment to follow at Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery in Massapequa.
DAVID J. BARRY, Jr., of Manorville, NY, on August 25, 2020 at the age of 75. Visiting will be Sunday 8/30/2020 from 6-8PM. Cremation will be private.
JOAN FLEMING of Bay Shore, NY on August 22, 2020 at the age of 90. A funeral mass will be celebrated Thursday 11am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Interment will follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donation to the St. Patrick's RC Church Food Pantry would be appreciated.
ANTOINETTE LEOGRANDE, of South Huntington, NY, on August 20, 2020, at the age of 88. A private cremation was held. A memorial service will take place at a later date.
DONALD SHAFFER of Bay Shore, NY on August 16, 2020 at the age of 92. Cremation is private. A memorial service will be held at a later date.
JAMES JOSEPH BARDONG SR of Babylon, NY on August 15, 2020 at the age of 91. Visiting will be Thursday 8/20/2020 from 2-4 and 7-9pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Friday 10:30am at St. Joseph's RC Church in Babylon, with the interment to follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.
MARION SANDERS III of Rockaway, NY on August 12, 2020 at the age of 71. Cremation is private. A committal service will be held at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore at a later date.
YOLANDA CRUZ of West Islip, NY, on August 8, 2020 at the age of 66. Visiting will be Wednesday 8/19/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A religious service will be celebrated Thursday 11am at the funeral home. Interment will follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Bay Shore.
SALVATORE DiGANGI formerly of East Islip, NY on August 11, 2020 at the age of 83. Arrangements and cremation will be private.
THEORDORE McLAM JR of Stuart, FL on August 11, 2020 at the age of 95. Cremation will be private.
MARIO HERRERA ELIAS of Commack, NY on August 9, 2020 at the age of 74. Visiting will be Thursday 8/13/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Friday 10am at St. Luke's RC Church in Brentwood. Interment to follow at Queen of All Saints Cemetery in Central Islip.
ALBERT JOSEPH BREIG, III, of Oakdale, NY, on August 7, 2020 at the age of 77. Visiting Tuesday 8/11/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A Religious service will be celebrated 10AM Wednesday at the funeral home. Interment to follow at Calverton national Cemetery.
JOAN C. ANDERSON, of Bay Shore, NY, on August 7, 2020 at the age of 83. Visiting will be Tuesday 8/11/2020 from 10-11AM. Private interment will follow at Calverton National Cemetery.
HARRY D MOWBRAY lifelong resident of Bay Shore, NY, on August 1, 2020 at the age of 65. Cremation is private. His cremains will be interred at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
LAUREN DENNIS of Kismet and of Islip, NY on July 29, 2020 at the age of 64. Cremation is private. Memorial visiting will be Sunday 8/2/2020 from 1-4pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Monday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip.
AMIEL COSTA of Brooklyn, NY on July 28, 2020 at the age of 92. Interment with military honors will be held Monday 8/3/2020 at Calverton National Cemetery.
KENNETH M DILL of Bay Shore, NY suddenly on July 26, 2020 at the age of 31. Cremation will be private. His cremains will be interred at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
ANTONIO "TONY" MOCCALDI of Blue Point, NY (formerly of Bay Shore) on July 26, 2020 at the age of 79. Visiting will be Thursday 7/30/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral mass will be celebrated Friday 9:45am at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip. Entombment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
PHILIP DETORE, of Central Islip, NY, on July 22, 2020 at the age of 84. Cremation was private.
THERESA BUKIE BAYIM (1934-2020). Theresa is the beloved mother of Father Cyril Obi Bayim of St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Though she will be interred in her home country of Nigeria, there will be a Memorial Mass celebrated on Saturday 7/25/2020 at 10:30am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore.
VINCENT "LEFTY" GARGANO of Bay Shore, NY on July 14, 2020. Visiting will be Saturday 7/18/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral service will be celebrated Saturday 7:30pm at the funeral home. Cremation will be private.
RICHARD "RICK" CRAIN of Shirley, NY on July 12, 2020 at the age of 60. Visiitng will be Thursday 7/16/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9pm. A funeral service will be celebrated Thursday 7:30pm at the funeral home. Interment will be Friday morning at Emmanuel Church Cemetery in Great River.
KEN PROSEK, of East Islip, NY on July 10, 2020, at the age of 65. Visiting will be Monday 7/13/2020 from 2-4:30 and 7-9PM. A funeral mass will be celebrated Tuesday 9:45AM at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip, NY. Interment will follow at St. Patrick's Cemetery, Bay Shore, NY.
HILDA A. VANDERPOOL, of Bay Shore, NY, on July 10, 2020 at the age of 90. Graveside service will take place Monday, July 13, at 11AM at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
PHYLLIS L. STABILE, of Islip, NY, on July 5, 2020 at the age of 72. Visiting will be Tuesday July 7, 2-4:30 & 7-9pm. Funeral Mass Wednesday 11am at St. Patrick's RC Church in Bay Shore. Entombment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park in Farmingdale. In lieu of flowers, donations greatly appreciated in Phyllis' name to the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, or the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
JULIUS D'ANTONIO of West Babylon, NY on July 2, 2020 at the age of 78. A graveside service will be held Friday 7/17/2020 at 10am at Queen of All Saints Cemetery in Central Islip.
KATHLEEN YIRINEC, formerly of Bay Shore, NY on June 30, 2020 at the age of 64. Cremation was private.
MICHAEL SPILLANE of East Islip, NY on June 21, 2020 at the age of 75. Visiting will be Thursday 6/25/2020 from 7-9pm. Cremation will be private. His cremains will be interred at St. John of God Cemetery in Central Islip.
JAMES P TRUAX of Islip, NY on June 20, 2020 at the age of 61. Cremation is private.
OCTAVIO MANNARINO of East Islip, NY on June 20, 2020 at the age of 90. Cremation is private. A funeral mass will be celebrated at St. Mary's RC Church in East Islip, with the interment of cremains to follow at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.
SANDRA P. HERMAN, of Islip, NY on June 20, 2020 at the age of 78. A graveside service will be held at Riverside Cemetery in Saddle Brook, NJ on Monday June 22, 2020.
CARMELITE LaROCHE, of East Islip, NY (formerly of Brooklyn) on June 16, 2020 at the age of 86. A private viewing will take place Thursday 6/17/2020 with a funeral mass at St. Anne's RC Church in Brentwood, on Friday. Burial to follow at Maple Grove Cemetery, Kew Gardens, NY
HOWARD F. SMITH, of Islip, NY, on June 12, 2020 at the age of 86. There will be a private visitation with a burial at St. Patrick's Church on Monday morning.
STEPHEN M. WESTBY, of Islip, NY, on June 11, 2020, at the age of 30. There will be a private viewing with a funeral mass at St. Mary's in East Islip and burial at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Bay Shore, on Thursday .
VASILIOS "BILL" KOUTROKOIS, Islip Terrace, NY on June, 8, 2020 at the age of 84. A private viewing was held with a private cremation to follow.
MARK SHIRES of Great River, NY on June 7, 2020 at the age of 66. Cremation will be private. His cremains will be interred in the family plot at Oakwood Cemetery in Bay Shore.
RIGOBERTO "RICKY" ABAD of Bay Shore, NY on June 6, 2020 at the age of 73. Cremation will be private. A memorial service at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Islip will be held at a later date.
FLORIN ADRIAN RAPORTORU of Brentwood, NY, suddenly on June 5, 2020 at the age of 42. A private interment will take place at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
WOJCIECH CHOJNACKI, of West Babylon, NY on June 4, 2020 at the age of 43. A private viewing will take place with a private burial on Tuesday at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale, NY.
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The veteran TV actress, 77, previously explained how her family were informed that she might not make it but insisted she is 'fighting back hard' and now recovering with physiotherapy.
On Monday, Diane took to social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, to tell her fans she is still dizzy and 'shaky' but continuing with therapy.
She enjoyed a day at the beach and even posed for a beaming selfie in the sunshine.
Diane wrote: 'Hi all. Family took me down to the sea for salt air, sunshine & cheeky ice cream!! walking shaky today, dizziness quite bad.
'Face still twisted somewhat but oh what a lovely time had, out in the world with people & places I love. Worth all the hard work in Therapy!'
Diane, who also starred on The Cuckoo Waltz and Rings on Their Fingers, told last month how the stroke was a 'shock' as she responded to a message from the Stroke Association and said: 'Thank you so much. I've learnt to be patient! It's truly a shock with no warning at all.'
After sharing her first picture online since the drama she was inundated with encouraging messages from fans.
One said: 'Wishing you all the best Diane [forgive the informality .And best for the rehab/therapy you will get there.'
Another added: ' Thank you for sharing. Getting out and about is what it's all about out. Heal.'
It comes after the actress took to Twitter last month to give her fans a health update, explaining she had been absent for two months due to suffering a stroke.
Diane, who portrays Julia Parsons on the BBC soap opera, explained that she had suffered a 'catastrophic stroke' which had come on with 'no warning at all'.
She devastatingly told how her family were informed that she might not make it but insisted she is 'fighting back hard' and now recovering with physiotherapy.
She shared: 'Hi lovely followers. Sorry I've been absent for 2 months, had Catastrophic stroke, family told I wouldn't make it.
'Universe intervened & here I am! doing well and determined to get back to normal. Just come home and fighting back hard. Physio going well. Stay safe everyone.'
Diane received supportive messages from her famous friends and kind followers, who all sent her love during her recovery.
Carol Challis, the widow of Only Fools and Horses star John, commented: 'Sending you much love and positive thoughts.'
Diane, who also starred on The Cuckoo Waltz and Rings on Their Fingers, told how the stroke was a 'shock' as she responded to a message from the Stroke Association.
She said: 'Thank you so much. I've learnt to be patient! It's truly a shock with no warning at all.'
Diane starred on Doctors from 2003 until her exit in 2012, but she reprised her role in 2020 for a special extended episode to mark the show's 20th anniversary.
Speaking about her return, she told Metro at the time: 'I started it when it was quite a young programme, and we were all very unsure about what was going to happen to it and now here we are. It's just extraordinary.
'There's people here who keep delivering excellence every day, and all those wonderful guest artists that you get to meet and work with.
'So going back just to do that stint that I did, it was like going home.'
Diane has also starred as Fliss Hawthorne in the Granada sitcom The Cuckoo Waltz and also featured on Nescafé advertisements from 1980 to 1989.
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Helen Mirren's Early Life
Helen Mirren was born Helen Lydia Mironoff in 1945. Her father Anglicized the family name to "Mirren" when Helen was around 9 years old. The actress was raised in Southend-on-Sea outside of London by an English mother and Russian father, alongside two siblings, Katherine and Peter.
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Helen Mirren's Big Break
Mirren got her big break in theater playing Cleopatra with the National Youth Theater in Antony and Cleopatra in 1965.
"I loved the power and the passion of that role, and of course, it's always good to be Queen," she wrote in her 2008 memoir In the Frame.
"This was the role that launched my career," she added.
The success of the show and her performance landed the actress, who was 19 at the time, an agent and a future with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Helen Mirren on Stage
As she grew in popularity, she starred in Troilus and Cressida as Cressida in 1968 and in Macbeth as Lady Macbeth in 1974. Then after four years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Mirren joined renowned director Peter Brook and his theater company and toured the United States and Africa.
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Helen Mirren in 'Age of Consent'
Mirren's first major movie was director Michael Powell's Age of Consent (1969). The then-22-year-old actress played Cora, a beautiful Queenslander and muse of Australian painter Bradley Morahan (James Mason).
05 of 26
Helen Mirren in 'Excalibur'
In director John Boorman's extravagant sci-fi classic Excalibur (1981), the star played Morgana, King Arthur's estranged and evil half-sister.
"That one didn't leap off the page. It was quite difficult to follow and I think it was very much to John Boorman's credit that he crafted this very magical world out of what could have been a real mess," Mirren said during a 2006 interview with Venice Magazine. "Some of those scenes when we read them during rehearsal sounded absolutely embarrassing! We were all like 'My God, how can we say these lines?' But with all the other elements, it all started falling into place, especially the lighting and the beauty of the film."
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Helen Mirren and Liam Neeson
While shooting the film, Mirren met an unknown actor named Liam Neeson on set and the two began a years-long romance.
Neeson revealed on The Graham Norton Show that the first time he saw Mirren in her full Morgana costume, he "was smitten." The two dated between 1980 and 1985 and lived together for four years.
Neeson went on to marry actress Natasha Richardson in 1994 until her unexpected death in 2009 after a skiing accident. Mirren has been married to Taylor Hackford since 1997.
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Helen Mirren in 'Cal'
Starring opposite John Lynch in 1984's Cal, Mirren captivated audiences with her first serious role as Marcella Morton. She dyed her hair brown to play Marcella, who has a complicated love affair with Lynch's character Cal. Her performance won her best actress at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
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Helen Mirren in 'The Mosquito Coast'
The Mosquito Coast (1986) was one of the first times Mirren felt like she had broken through as a Hollywood actress.
"It's funny when I got that role, and I never expected to get it, with Harrison Ford, you know, in a film by Peter Weir. Hollywood movie!" Mirren recalled during an interview with 2007's Hollywood Greats. "I remember I heard about it in New York and I left the meeting and I was walking on air. I thought, 'I've cracked it. I've cracked it. I'm a Hollywood film actress.' "
"And the exact opposite happened, the film got sunk without a trace and I was back to square one," she laughed.
Mirren played Harrison Ford's wife in the film that earned $14,302,779 at the box office, seen as a commercial flop.
09 of 26
Helen Mirren in 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'
In The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Mirren played Georgia, the wife of crime boss Albert Spica (Michael Gambon), who comes to La Hollandaise to be entertained every night. Georgia grows tired of her husband and their nightly trips to the fancy French restaurant and decides to have an affair with another man at another table (Alan Howard).
Mirren's character transformation in the Peter Greenaway-directed crime drama was described as "almost frightening" by celebrated film critic Roger Ebert.
"She changes from submissive wife to daring lover to vicious seeker of vengeance. And watch the way she and Howard handle their sex scenes together, using sex not as joy, not as an avenue to love, but as sheer escapism; lust is their avenue to oblivion."
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Helen Mirren in 'Prime Suspect'
Playing Prime Suspect's DCI Jane Tennison made Mirren a household name in television. What started as a single TV drama grew into several series, ending in 2006 with Prime Suspect: The Final Act, which earned her an Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a miniseries or movie.
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Helen Mirren in 'The Madness of King George'
The massive success of The Madness of King George (1994) earned Mirren an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, a BAFTA nomination for best performance by an actress and a Cannes Film Festival win for best actress. Playing Queen Charlotte brought her presence back to film following the height of her television fame with Prime Suspect.
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Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford
After meeting Taylor Hackford at 38 and then dating for a decade, the two tied the knot in 1997 in Scotland. Mirren described her director husband as the "greatest love of her life" during an interview with AARP in 2016. She also shared why she ultimately got married, although initially, the idea of marriage "just wasn't to my taste."
"We got married in the end because we realized that we were going to be together forever," she told the outlet. "We got married, ultimately, for legal reasons more than anything else. Estate planning and other complicated things like that. And our families, we sensed, wanted us to be married. I always said I have nothing against marriage; it just wasn't to my taste, like turnips. It took me a very long time to come round to acquiring the taste. I just had to meet the right turnip."
Hackford won a Best Short Film Oscar in 1979 for Teenage Father and was nominated in 2005 for Best Achievement in Directing and Best Motion Picture of the Year for the award-winning Ray Charles biopic, Ray, starring Jamie Foxx.
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Helen Mirren's Children
Mirren and Hackford have been married for more than 20 years and share Hackford's two children from previous marriages: sons Alexander and Rio, who died in April 2022.
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Helen Mirren in 'Gosford Park'
Playing house keeper Mrs. Wilson in the Robert Altman-directed film Gosford Park (2001) earned Mirren her second Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The star-studded cast of the dramedy mystery included, Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe, Michael Gambon, Bob Balaban and more.
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Helen Mirren's Awards for 'Gosford Park'
For Gosford Park, she also won a SAG Award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role and won with her costars for outstanding performance by the cast of a theatrical motion picture in 2002.
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Helen Mirren Is Made a Dame
Mirren was appointed Dame of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth in 2003, three years before she would star in The Queen and win her first Oscar for Best Actress.
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Helen Mirren in 'The Queen'
Playing Queen Elizabeth II in Stephen Frear's The Queen in 2006 has become arguably her most famous and celebrated role. Her recognition for the part, in addition to her first Oscar, included a Golden Globe and SAG Award for best performance by an actress.
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Helen Mirren in 'Elizabeth I'
The same year she won a SAG Award for The Queen, she also won outstanding performance by a female actor for the TV miniseries Elizabeth I.
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Helen Mirren for L'Oréal Paris
In 2014, Mirren was made the newest face of L'Oréal Paris. The then 69-year-old joined Karlie Kloss and Naomi Watts as a spokeswoman for the iconic beauty brand.
"I am not gorgeous and I never was, but I was always OK looking and I'm keen to stay that way," Mirren told the Daily Mail of her new job at the time. "I have always loved the L'Oréal Paris brand, and I hope I can inspire other women toward greater confidence by making the most of their natural good looks. We are all worth it!"
In 2019, Mirren lit up the catwalk at the L'Oréal Paris show alongside celebrities Eva Longoria and Andie MacDowell. She then made a return to the L'Oréal Paris runway in 2021, sporting an edgy look during the "Le Defile L'Oreal Paris 2021" Womenswear Spring/Summer 2022 show as part of Paris Fashion Week.
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Helen Mirren in 'Phil Spector'
In 2014, the actress won another SAG Award for outstanding performance by a female actor for playing attorney Linda Kenney Baden opposite Al Pacino in David Mamet's 2013 TV movie Phil Spector.
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Helen Mirren Is Honored by USC
Outside of film and television, the Dame was honored in 2017 by the University of Southern California, alongside fellow actor-comedian Will Ferrell. During his commencement speech, Ferrell teased Mirren by acting surprised to see her receive her degree as well.
"Even now I still lose out on parts that I want so desperately," he joked during his speech. "The most painful one was losing the role of Queen Elizabeth in The Queen. Apparently, it came down to myself and Helen Mirren. The rest is history."
"Dame Helen Mirren, you stole my Oscar!" he exclaimed as the audience and Mirren laughed.
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Helen Mirren in 'Fast & Furious'
The star joined the Fast & Furious franchise as Magdalene Shaw, the mother of Deckard (Jason Statham) and Owen Shaw (Luke Evans). She appeared in The Fate of the Furious in 2017, F&F Presents: Hobbs & Shaw in 2019 and F9 in 2020.
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Helen Mirren in 'Catherine the Great'
In one of her more recent projects, Mirren took on another royal project: the role of Catherine the Great in a four-part limited series of the same name for HBO, which debuted in October 2019.
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Helen Mirren on 'Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses'
These days, fans can test their Harry Potter knowledge as host Mirren fires off Hogwarts trivia on the competition series Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses.
And for the record, if Mirren could choose a house, she would choose Slytherin "because there's a punkishness about Slytherin that appeals to me," she told PEOPLE in 2021.
"You know, the bad boys on the motorbikes kind of thing," she added.
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Helen Mirren's Life Achievement
On Feb. 27, 2022, Mirren was presented with the SAG Life Achievement Award at the 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.
In her acceptance speech, Mirren said, "Lifetime achievement, sounds so grand, I suppose I'm still alive so by that measure, I'm eligible." She went on to share her "mantra" that is behind all of her achievements so far: "Be on time and don't be an ass."
Mirren then continued "Thank you S-A-G so much for this, I hate to say SAG at my age, it's always S-A-G for me," she said as the crowd laughed.
"I am simultaneously enormously proud and yet with the understanding that I do not deserve this and there is the conflict I believe you all understand: insecurity versus ego. That cocktail I believe most actors sip in the evening as they contemplate on the gift they received the moment they decided to become an actor," she said.
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Helen Mirren Covers PEOPLE's Beautiful Issue
She's one cool cover girl! Mirren graced the cover of PEOPLE's 2022 Beautiful Issue, opening up about standards and the industry.
"There are incredibly beautiful people in the world, and it's an absolute delight to look at them, male or female. Beautiful people are a wonder to behold," shared the actress and L'Oréal Paris spokeswoman. "But most of us are not beautiful. We have other stuff, which is just as powerful as beauty. And I would like to see us celebrate those things … I love the word swagger because I think swagger means I'm confident in myself, I'm presenting myself to the world, I'm enjoying the world around me. I think what is called the beauty industry should be called the swagger industry. We're giving people swagger."
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In Country
Tales of the Vietnam War from the Veterans who lived it.
Below, you will find an illustration of the Vietnam War told by the sons and daughters of South Dakota as they lived it through personal experience, heroic actions and tragic loss.
Shortly after high school graduation, at age 18, I was drafted. I was living on my parents' farm near the little town of Seneca, South Dakota located in western Faulk County.
Time goes by so quickly. There was a time when 24 hours seemed like forever and a week could be eternity.
1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment
4th Infantry Division
II Corps
Pleiku, Ban Me Thout, Kontum
Republic of South Vietnam
March, 1968 through March 1969
• Nick Roseland, Pierre, South Dakota
I joined the Army because it would pay for two years of college and then I would serve three years of active duty. For a farm girl with three sisters it was a great way to get a college education. I have never regretted it.
I have wonderful memories of working long 12-hour days, six days a week, with one weekend off every 8 to 10 weeks. Everyone worked together, the chief nurse would come and help pass out meal trays. Since it was a draft army it was made up of everyone from every walk of life. We worked hard and played hard.
I initially joined to help take care of the soldiers who were hurt since they did not ask to be there in the first place. My hope was an assignment in Vietnam but we started pulling out forces so I was sent to Germany where we received some of the wounded. Of course, the Cold war was going on, too.
I still work as a Department of the Army Civilian as a nurse in Germany and have now been involved in assisting the soldiers in three wars and several conflicts—as an Army Nurse during the Vietnam era, an elementary school counselor for the 1st Gulf war and as a community health nurse for the 2nd Gulf war. I hope this is the last.
I met my husband in Spain during a four day pass I got after being promoted to Captain. After 28 years of marriage it was one of the best things that I “got out of the army”. The other great things I received were my education bachelor and masters degree.
Today’s army is different but so many things stay the same, I love working for the military and supporting our brave soldiers and their families.
• Kathleen S Ackermann, APO, AE
Against that backdrop, American soldiers of all races fought together. However, when not on a mission, some soldiers tended to associate with those of their own race. My experience was that soldiers of all races generally got along with each other, and that personal issues between soldiers did not necessarily follow racial lines. Nonetheless, I recall instances of racial tension between white and black soldiers in the 2/60th. This is where Adams comes in. He was barely five feet tall. He was black and hung around with other black soldiers in the battalion. Any time trouble seemed to be brewing, he had a smile and wit and wisdom that would defuse most any situation. When I heard Adams got killed I thought what a waste—more so than usual. I think Adams had a lot to offer had he lived.
• Dale Bertsch, Pierre, SD.
I joined the US Marine Corps in 1969; I just graduated from Freeman high school. There were two from our 1969 graduation class who joined the Marines. Like all new recruits in boot camp, you ask yourself, Why did I do this? and How do I get out of this mess I got myself into? My parents were against me joining the Armed Forces and especially the Marines. For a while I thought they were correct. I learned to accept my situation and to make the best of it. The training was hard, but worth it. Because of this training, I was looking forward to going to South Vietnam. The Vietnam War for me was difficult but rewarding. My experience there has stayed with me for the rest of my life. I believe I have come to terms with the war and have used this in a positive manner. I am proud to have served in Vietnam. There are very few Americans and very few servicemen who have served in a combat zone and realized this experience. Thank you.
• Allen J. Adrian, Sioux Falls, SD
I attended Army basic training, AIT, then Officer Candidate School after graduation from SDSU. I was accepted into flight school after OCS and trained in the OV-1 Mohawk surveillance airplane, a twin-engine turbo prop built by Grumman. The Mohawk conducted day and night low-level surveillance missions with installed cameras and infrared equipment. I flew missions in the I CORP region including the DMZ, Ashau Valley, Ho Chi Minh trail, and also in Cambodia. One well-remembered mission included photo recon of the Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia which had fallen into Viet Cong hands. Due to distance from our airfield, we had to fly to the Air Force base in Ubon Thailand to refuel before returning to Vietnam. Although my aircraft was hit several times, I was never shot down during my two tours in Vietnam.
The Mohawk was retired from active Army duty in 1996, but is still flying in several foreign countries and with some American historic aircraft museums. While stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington in 1969, I flew a Mohawk cross-country and landed in Pierre and visited my folks in Highmore. Watch for a Mohawk in the memorial dedication flyover in 2006. That will be the second time a Mohawk has been in Pierre. Thank you South Dakota for remembering the Vietnam veterans.
• Rod D. Anderson, Pierre, SD
In Tay Ninh Province, III Corps, RVN, we were doing an ARVN Infantry search operation on Nui Ba Dinh (black mountain), and I (MACV advisor) was riding in a UH-1D helicopter to bring in some supplies to our MACV infantry advisors; we were preparing to leave off the mountain and were just hovering when an enemy sniper opened up on us; the trajectory of the bullet missed our M-60 door gunner and went through our fuel tank and came out the other side, just missing our other door gunner. We did an emergency landing in the rice fields and then, after assessing our damage, flew to the Tay Ninh base and switched helicopters. One of the pilots was Dennis Vehee, a fellow SDSU ROTC graduate of mine.
• Larry D Birger, Sr., Jamestown, ND
Serving in Vietnam was the greatest experience of my life. I enlisted in the Air Force at the age of 17 years, 11 months. I established many life-long relationships with other airmen as well as some short-term relationships with the Vietnamese children. Four of my friends and I spent most every weekend at the beach, weather and other circumstances permitting, taking food and beverages for these children, some of which were orphans. When one or two of the children would not show up at the beach, the other children would tell us that they had died. When I left Vietnam, I gave all of my clothing and boots to our house boy.
• David S. Brandriet, Watertown, SD
It somehow seems very strange to me that I am writing this for my husband David. He should be the one writing about his experiences in Vietnam, not me.
You see, my husband died thirteen years ago. On April 19, 1993, he and seven others died in the state aircraft while on a trip to save one of South Dakota’s largest employers. Dave, Governor Mickelson, and fellow pilot Ron Becker, along with five others died on that day in Iowa.
Dave would be so excited about the upcoming celebration. He would want to share this time with fellow Vietnam Veterans, in particular his friend Jim Elkins from Watertown, SD, and his friends from the VEVA (Vietnam Era Veterans Association) group here in Pierre.
It always amazed me what Dave went through in Vietnam. He never talked a lot about it to me, but I did learn a lot from his friends after he died. Dave was a Huey helicopter pilot and was shot down and wounded on May 31, 1969. Thanks to the blessings of God and some fellow pilots who picked him and the others up that day, he survived his tour in the war. At his own request, he stayed in-country to recover from his wounds and finished his tour of duty, though he could have come home.
After the war, Dave came home to SD. We met in April 1971 and married in December of 1971. Shortly after the birth of our first daughter Kristi in 1973, he joined the SD Highway Patrol, moving us to Pierre. After being in Pierre for a short time, the patrol chose Dave to become the Highway Patrol pilot. He took flying lessons to pilot the patrol plane, a Cessna 182. He loved his job; flying around our beautiful state, all by himself in the plane. After flying for some time, he was chosen to become Governor Janklow’s bodyguard. That turned into a full-time job, so he pretty much had to give up flying for the patrol. They hired another pilot, with Dave being his supervisor and also keeping his bodyguard position.
Then the state decided that it would nice if he could fly the plane the governor flew on, since he always went along anyway. So he learned to first fly the King Air, the plane Dave really loved to fly. Then Governor Janklow traded the King Air for the MU-2, the plane in which Dave died.
Dave traveled all over the US, coming home and always having a story to tell us, whether it was just a day trip or several days. The girls and I always looked forward to his stories.
Then came that day I’ll never forget. Dave had gone on a trip, flying Governor Mickelson and others to Ohio. The day started out like any other, but ended in a grief I’ll never forget. We have survived his death, but we will never, ever forget him. We miss him every day; I especially feel bad about all that he has missed in these thirteen years he’s been gone—church confirmation and high school graduation for Cathy, Kris and Cathy’s college graduations, both of their weddings (and not meeting both sons-in-law, who are great) and the births of our two wonderful grandchildren, Ty David and Alyssa Kaye. What a joy they would be to him.
I don’t understand why he could survive Vietnam only to die in the fields of Iowa. But I guess that’s not for me to know. I just know we are very proud of his service to our country and we’re glad that he and his fellow veterans are finally getting the recognition they deserved years ago.
Mrs. David (Diane) Hansen
Kristi Hansen Turman
Cathy Hansen Stahl
• David H. Hansen, Pierre, SD
Let us never forget our mistakes of the past and let us never blame our servicemen and women for the mistakes of a nation.
• David L. Braun, Pierre, SD
I Served with Commander Coastal Surveillance Forces (CTF 115) River Flotilla One. Served in Operation SEA FLOAT III. I was in-country October 1969 until September 1970. While in Vietnam, my youngest daughter was born just three weeks after my arrival. I saw her for the first time when she was nine months old.
• Roger Brooks, Brandon, SD
I will have to come back to this with some stories and pics!
• Michael G. Castle, Sioux Falls, SD
I went into the service with Ron Jirsa from Mitchell, SD. We went to basic training together. He went to Fort Sill, OK and I went to Fort Lewis, WA and we met up again in Fort Lewis. He went to FDC and I ended up being a Medic assigned to his Battery. We left for Vietnam together on the USNS General John Pope. We landed in Vietnam together and served our tour together and came home together. He went home to Mitchell and I went home to Chamberlain. Its unusual for two men to serve their whole Vietnam experience together from the same area.
• Lawrence E. Clark, Sioux Falls, SD
In the 1960s, many young people were called to serve their country. Many of our parents had been veterans of WWII and their patriotism was reflected in the family values and carried over in our thinking.
The idea that if our country called us to serve, it was prevalent and unquestioned—and we answered the call. I remember being a college student 18 years old, and reading in the newspaper that my high school neighbor and friend, Roger Jensen, had been killed in Vietnam. That is when I felt the call to duty, and volunteered for the draft, late in 1968.
As the Vietnam War lingered on, and the media exposure, political skepticism, and rallies for peace impacted the soldiers and their thinking, it became difficult to remain focused on duty and mission. Yet, we were soldiers, young, and dedicated to serve. We saw a lot and learned a lot, and I for one feel good that I served my country, and sad that the outcome was what it was. I am proud to have served, and remain a patriotic and proud American.
We don’t always agree with decisions our leaders make, but we do have an obligation, again today, to defend our country when called upon, without question. Everyone, who has served, in Vietnam, or any other war, deserves the respect of all citizens, for putting their life on the line for freedom. Let no person ever take for granted what we have here in America, and don’t forget that many have paid the ultimate price in the past and many more continue to do so today. Celebrate and appreciate your veterans, who gave what they had to give for your freedom and the United States of America.
Lastly, don’t ever let anyone, like Jane Fonda, influence your thinking with her distorted and wicked views and unpatriotic thinking. People like her are as responsible for lost lives as the enemy themselves. As Americans, when called to serve, we do so, and are proud of it. We all would prefer peace to war, but there is a price for peace, and it needs to be protected.
• Jerome K Cleveland, Pierre, SD
Great interest and dedication should be made to the wives of all of the veterans as they were the ones who held the family together, paid the bills, raised the children and provided more support than can ever be expressed in 300 words or less. They really do need the recognition for their individual efforts and sacrifices. THANKS MOM!! YOU'RE THE BACKBONE OF THIS FAMILY!!
• Robert A. Coates, Piedmont, SD
No story, just thought I was doing the right thing and it was a way out of South Dakota. Now years later I see it wasn’t the right thing and I’m glad I had South Dakota to come back to.
• Kennedy E. David, Hot Springs, SD
I was a Fuel Specialist while serving in Taiwan. Tainan AB was a repair station for planes that were shot up over Vietnam. I refueled countless planes that were very badly bullet-riddled and needed to be repaired before they could be airworthy again and be returned to action.
• Kenneth L Erlenbusch, Pierre, SD
A little bit of humor goes a long way, but when it comes to cooking, my wife still will not let me use C4 when I cook out! My platoon acted as engineers. We were told to construct a base for artillery support. We did not have axes or saws. We wrapped C4 around the trees and detonated them and scrounged for any material we could get our hands on but about an hour after we were finished we were eating C Rations and the Army artillery people were eating steaks. Go figure!!!
Horseshoe ambushes don’t look too good, especially from the inside. Once, we had one company of NVA firing on us and two more coming up the hill from each side while we were sitting on or near buried land mines. It was the Lord Jesus who spared my life that day.
• John A Fette, Pierre, SD
This is a poem I wrote yesterday, about the Vietnam War Soldiers – I was only a baby in the middle of the war, but it still made an impact on my life. After viewing the Vietnam War Memorial website yesterday, I went home and felt inspired to write something, to let all of the veterans know how much I care. I hope you enjoy reading this.
DEDICATION TO THE SOLDIERS
Where do I begin to say
How very grateful I am
To all the sons and daughters
Who served in Vietnam
I wasn’t even born
When it started in 1961
A war that never seemed to end
Fourteen years from the time it had begun
As a child of the seventies
I didn’t know what the fighting was for
I’d hear my parents talk about it
But didn’t know it was a war
The innocence of childhood
Kept me protected from the news
And the protesters who voiced too loudly
That war wasn’t the thing to choose
I didn’t know that in another country
My cousins and uncles were in harm's way
Nor did I know that many sons and daughters
Wouldn’t make it back home to the USA
It wasn’t until I was older
And listening to a teacher tell the story
Of the soldiers who fought so hard
And served with all their might and glory
No one could really explain
Why this war had to be
Or why so many lost their lives
It doesn’t make sense to me
All I know is that I am honored
To say these servicemen gave their all
When our country said “We need you”
And duty came to call
The draft was put in place
And the young men stood in line
Not knowing where they were headed
Or when it would be their time
The war itself has been over for years
But you can still see the pain in their eyes
When they think about their friends who are gone
And they look toward the heavenly skies
I’m a mother of five sons
And I can’t imagine the pain
Of losing one of them to war
And never seeing them again
Those of you who made it back
You deserved so much more
And I want to tell you from the bottom of my heart
Just what I think you stand for
Because of you, I am still free
And other people in the world are too
You did what your President asked
And did what you were told to do
In a way, I owe you so much more
Than I can ever give
Because of you, my sons learn about honor
Because of you, so many innocent people still live
I honor you, I respect you
I believe in you and I care
I wish I could heal the wounds
That you endured over there.
I can’t change the past
Or bring back your dear friends
But I can try to make America understand
That the war in your hearts didn’t end
You still feel the sadness
And I’m sure you feel the pain
Knowing that you can’t turn back time
And bring your friends back again
All we can do is move forward
And remember those with pride
Who fought with you all those years ago
And served with dignity by your side
If ever there was a greater honor
To be seated on the thrones of Heaven
It is for our sons and daughters,
The proud, the brave and the never forgotten
Two Hundred and Seven….
• Dena Marie Boyd-McCaskell, Pierre, SD.
In my 13 month tour, I don’t ever remember sleeping. I never intentionally sat or laid down with the intent to sleep. If I did I might not hear “incoming” or a “(deleted)” coming through the wire. But of course I would nod off, one of my worst non-combat feelings during my tour was when I woke up from a dream that I was back home in my own bedroom in the comfort of my parents' house. It was so incredibly real. Then I woke up staring at the beams in the roof of the bunker we were set up in. God, that was such a low desperate feeling that morning!
• Brian R. Gage, Sioux Falls, SD
I spent approximately two years with the Strategic Air Command at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, WA in non-tact scheduling. I was then transferred to Clark AFB PI where we formed the South East Asia Military Altitude Reservation Facility in 1965. We coordinated the airspace for nine countries for the mass movement of military aircraft as well as the Arc Light Missions and the Blackbird missions in SE Asia. Sixteen years after leaving the USAF, I joined the South Dakota Air National Guard where I worked as a controller in the command post and as the training NCO prior to my retirement in 1998.
• Greg C. Hall, Pierre, SD
If you can imagine the whole 7th fleet in the South China Sea at one time it was quite impressive. There were over 50-60 ships of all sizes in a very small area waiting to see what was going to happen. On the Dubuque, the ship I was on, the people coming out to the ship in their little sanpans thought we were sinking because we had the capabilities of blow ballast and lower the ship to take other boats into our backside. I had pictures but they were taken away for confidential purposes. (At least, that’s what they told me.)
• Thomas A. Henle, Sioux Falls, SD
I was drafted from Gregory, SD after five years of college and two years of teaching high school in 1968. My training was taken at Fort Lewis, Washington and Fort Benning, GA. I was sent to Vietnam in May 1969 and was assigned to the Big Red One (mechanized) (A-2-2). Almost two months to day after arriving in Vietnam I was injured in the battle at Nui Ba Den (Black Virgin Mountain) on July 12, 1969. After spending two weeks in Japan, I was sent home to Fitzsimmons General Hospital in Denver. After spending nine months for a fractured left femur at Fitzsimmons, I was discharged from the Army on April 17, 1970. I am a very proud 50% DAV and am a life member of the DAV, VFW, and a member the American Legion. I retired from the teaching profession in 2003 and we have made our home in Broken Bow, NE, since 1978.
• Dennis E Jones, Broken Bow, NE
I have NO STORIES But I have something to say. When I got home in a medevac bus in California, we were egged at the base front gate. To you, John Q. America and Jane Fonda—thank you for caring about my pain. 37 years ago and the pain never goes away. I see you folks are doing well. Jane was put up for 'Woman of the Year'. I guess there must be payback in the next life. I know I sound angry but I did find happiness before my death though God and my children. SEMPER FI
• Tommy W. Little Sr., Winner, S.D.
Veterans should recognize these terms: Dung Lai (halt), Dua Tay Len Dau (put your hands on your head), Xay Ben Phai (turn right), Xay Ben Trai (turn left), The ACE OF SPADES (eternal damnation), and MPC (Military Payment Certificates). P.S.. I have a copy of the Pacific Stars and Stripes Volume 24, Number 31 with the headlines “VC HIT SAIGON”. The ‘Tet Offensive’ began the day before, and all hell broke loose. Cartoons in that edition included Blondie, whose 75th anniversary was 2005. My memories include Bob Hope and Raquel Welsh (both during Christmas 1967); juicy bugs in my salad at Cam Ranh Bay; Spooky (cool gunship); lots of youngsters using drugs—they just could not handle it; one of the first bevy of Huey Cobra Gunships (totally awesome); Agent Orange; the horrible smells in-country; eating a rat-meat sandwich in downtown Bien Hoa (it tasted like a dried beef sandwich); our buds from down under (Australians were our best friends); our company barber (who tortured and killed our trusted Vietnamese helpers); and, most of all, all those who looked to us to give South Vietnam their own freedom and identity.
In retrospect, I do forgive all those who spat upon me, and betrayed their country during a time of war. I do not feel I was blind to the issues, accepting my duties to my country, to my family, and to freedom. Those who repudiated their duties to their county will have to live with this, as will their progeny. As will I have to live with those things I was asked to do for the United States. Thank you for the gifts of AMERICA. Thank you for the gift of being born here. Thank you for reading this far.
• Francis T. Logan, Rapid City, SD
I was on duty in Korea when I was sent TDY into Thailand to serve at Camp Friendship to help maintain a Ghost Division. When regular troop replacements reported, I was told that I could leave. Without a passport, I was told that I could not go out through normal challenges. One night about 9pm I was called to company headquarters. I was told that there would be a plane at the dark end of the runway warming its engines at 11pm, and its door would be open. A friend took me to the area, I jumped the fence, boarded a C47 and we went out over Laos to Saigon where I caught an official military flight back to Korea to finish my tour there.
• Lawrence R. Madsen, Gettysburg, SD
I remember arriving in-country late at night. When we stopped in front of the terminal, all lights on the plane and the airport were turned off. We were in total blackout so we weren’t an easy target for mortars and rockets. We stepped from the plane and I will never forget the experience. It was unbelievably hot and humid. I was never so scared in my entire life. Twenty-two months later, I was on the ‘freedom bird’ and on my way home. I lost way too many friends and comrades.
• Clarence S. Mardian, Sioux Falls, SD
Many young men grew up fast in Vietnam. I was only one of them, and I made it back home. Many didn’t. Friends were made very fast in Vietnam, and some of those friends are now gone. To find friends from Vietnam is often difficult, but recently I had the opportunity to meet the man who save my life and never knew it. I was honored and humbled to stand, again, in front of this man and say “Thank you, Captain Hurley.” This was the first time I had seen this man in over 35 years! The event was even more saddened by the fact that it was at his father’s funeral. His father, too, was a personal hero of mine.
When I arrived in Vietnam, I was laughed at for being from Canton, SD. I knew that very few people had even heard of South Dakota, let alone Canton. I didn’t know that Jim Hurley (from Canton) had been their Commanding Officer for the past six months, and he had often talked about Canton and South Dakota. He took care of his men and it really showed in their attitude. He had been transferred to our forward fire base recently, but he was all everyone talked about. They missed him. When I was sent to our forward fire base, he met me at the chopper pad. The events that occurred after we met are not important. What was important, was the fact that I finally got to thank Captain James Hurley. It completed and laid to rest many emotions that I still carried inside. This might sound dumb, but I would like to publicly thank Captain James Hurley for being in Vietnam and saving the lives of many young men.
• Patrick J. Martin, Sioux Falls, SD
I have a lot of stories and memories of being on the USS Constellation and the short time I was in DaNang, Vietnam.
• Larry V. Ollerich, Sioux Falls, SD
Two memories:
#1......Bob Hope’s Christmas in Cu Chi. A special thank you to Mr. Hope for bringing Christmas to young servicemen away from home.
#2.....Seeing my Freedom Bird on the tarmac waiting for me to board.
• Michael V. Olson, Martin, SD
What I remember most about my experiences in Vietnam was the 27-hour flight from Travis Air Force Base and the blast of heat when the doors opened on the plane. From then on it was one day at a time. Trust was the most important. If someone directed you to go around another vehicle without seeing any oncoming traffic, you went. Trust was everywhere. The person who trusted you one day might have saved your life the next.
Another thing I remember was constantly being armed outside of the unit area. The shortage of truck and M151 Jeep parts also sticks out in my mind. The most sad part of my experience was losing two of my men to enemy related events. I might add that upon arrival in Vietnam, it was in November and very cold at night in the Central Highlands. I remember several times waking up to find that a rat had crawled up on top of my blanket and had nestled itself on my stomach for warmth. Upon my waking, the rat would scurry away and I would be wide awake all day long. I wish to thank the state of South Dakota for offering this event.
• Wenton W. Peters, Mitchell, SD
I was proud to have served my country in Vietnam and elsewhere for more than 30 years. I was honored to display the small South Dakota state flag that was sent to me from the state Capitol while I was serving in Vietnam. And I was pleased that the state legislature approved a bonus for veterans of the Vietnam era.
• Calvin L. Peterson, North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
In July of 1969 I was sent to Vietnam with a few days of special training to an area where people died on a daily basis. I was promoted fast. I risked my life on a daily basis and was told when I came home by my favorite girl friend attending USD that she couldn’t be seen with me by any of her university friends because what I did by serving was wrong.
I tried to join the VFW and the guy behind the bar said he couldn’t stop me but it really wasn’t a war. That must be why I only know of one person I killed. I didn’t sign up until years later. I was asked to join the American Legion in a small town, Wakonda, 20 miles, from my home American Legion.
I was asked in the 1980s to join the VFW by a friend and I did. When I was elected Commander I was under pressure from a couple of World War II vets to the point I resigned six months later. I stayed out of the VFW and was then asked to come back because they needed Vietnam veterans' support. They just couldn’t understand why they still to this day have only two active Vietnam vets. I have since served as Commander four straight terms and have been Senior Vice Commander ever since.
I was appointed to State Special Olympics Chairman and served for four years. A new state commander came in and assigned a Korean Vet to help me. I watched the income grow for four years. Suddenly I couldn’t be trusted by myself. I became the only chairman with an assistant. I resigned.
To this day I regret that I didn’t go to Canada. They seem to have been better accepted.
I was put in for a second Bronze Star that I never received after successfully being in charge of a four month long secret classified mission just before I came home. I was offered the chance to move to from E-5 to E-6. I didn’t and still don’t want anything from anybody relating to my Vietnam High School Class Trip. The only reason I am going to the dedication is because I have been the Chairman of the Clay County Veterans' Memorial in Vermillion for five years and probably will until I can’t go on.
• Leo F. Powell, Vermillion, SD
Still a member of the South Dakota Air National Guard and will have completed 34 years in December 2005. Currently hold the rank of Chief Master Sgt (E-9).
• Bruce A. Swan, Sioux Falls, SD
Many people do not know that the United States Coast Guard had a part in the Vietnam War. The Coast Guard had both sea-going and shore-based units. I served on a LORAN (LOng Range Aids to Navigation) monitor station near Udorn, Thailand from August 1970 to August 1971. This station was on the Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base. We were one of five stations in the SE Asia chain. LORAN was the system of navigation used by all the other services. Ours was the monitor station that kept the other ones “on time and in tolerance”. My job on the station was a LORAN and COMS watch stander. The station had a crew of about 25-30 men. We worked hard and also played hard. The friendships I made in Thailand during the War were special; we were more than friends, we were family.
• Edward D. Timm, Elkton, SD
I was a combat engineer which dealt with explosives such as booby traps, mine clearing and blowing things up as ordered. I was involved in seven counter-insurgent operations and countless search and destroy missions. Many stories but will keep them to myself—some things you don’t want to recall.
• Kenneth D. Trigg, Pierre, SD
I served as the Senior Radio Operator (O5B10) for the advisory team from October 11, 1971 until August 24, 1972. Chau Doc is on the Mekong River next to the Cambodian border about 50 miles from Phnom Penh. We had six advisory teams in the field assisting the Vietnamese Army when I arrived in 1971, but only one team remained when I left in 1972. I was given an honorable discharge on February 22,1973. I reenlisted the Army in 1979 and retired as a MSG in 2000.
• Randal L. VonEhwegen, Vermillion, SD
Though I served in the Navy during the Vietnam era, I returned to South Dakota and joined the National Guard serving in the 147th FA in Aberdeen, Webster, then in the Medical Clearing company in Winner, SD. In 1980, I went back on active duty in the Army Reserve, and have retired in Georgia. I sometimes miss South Dakota, and travel there often. But my children, and grand children are in Georgia, thus I am a misplaced “Dakotan”.
• Daniel L. Walker, Homer, GA
Entered Vietnam with MCB 5 as a steelworker. Spent three months in Tan An on a team as a welder. Then was attached to Detail Mustang in the Delta at Cau Mau building a base for the ARVN.
• Jim Pelle, Ft. Pierre, SD
I was drafted in 1967 after one year of college at Northern State University. Did training in Seattle, WA, then Ft. Sill, OK. Served in Vietnam in Army artillery, 175mm and 8 in. guns, at FSB Santa Barbara, also known as French Fort, located about 10 km north of Tay Ninh City. Extended my tour in-country so I could get out of service early. Achieved Sgt. E5, MOS 13B40 artillery gunner. Arrived back in "the world" in Oakland, CA, in June 1969. Please see my photos and poems submitted to this website.
• Larry Kleinschmidt, Sunderland, Massachusetts
I was present when Richard Rennolet was killed by the accidental explosion of a white phosphorous grenade. His name is on the Vietnam Memorial Wall located at the lake by the Capital. I think it is important to note that some good young men and women died as the result of accidents and friendly fire which are also part of the danger of being in a war zone.
• Edward Dvorak, Lakebay, Washington
After graduation from high school in 1948, Deane was accepted into the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Shortly after his commission as an Ensign in 1952, Aldern completed flight training and took on the role of Naval Aviator in March of 1954. He first served with Utility Squadron "Seven" and was later transferred to Fighter Squadron "Ninety-Four" where he served aboard the attack carriers USS Yorktown and USS Hornet in the Pacific. Captain Aldern then returned to the Naval Academy as an instructor in air navigation and military studies.
In 1961, Captain Aldern served as a flight deck officer on board the USS Enterprise on an extended deployment during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1964, he reported to Fighter Squadron "One Hundred Seventy-Four" and then Fighter Squadron "Eleven" before being assigned as operations officer of Air Wing "One" aboard the USS Roosevelt in the Mediterranean. In 1966, Captain Aldern became executive officer and commanding officer of Fighter Squadron "One Hundred Ninety-One" aboard the USS Ticonderoga, where he completed two combat tours in Southeast Asia. After further training at the Air War College in Alabama, Captain Aldern became the commander of Air Wing "Nineteen" aboard the USS Oriskany.
• Donald Aldern, San Diego, CA (Deceased)
I served in Thailand at the end of the Vietnam War as a 2nd LT assigned to the 432 Tactical Recon Wing at Udorn, Thailand (15 Jul 1973-30 Dec 1974). My duties were to provide intelligence support and hostile threat briefings to RF-4E Phantom reconnaissance aircrews flying photo recon missions over Cambodia and Laos. In the fall of 1974, I provided the initial intelligence briefings on the resupply and buildup of North Vietnamese Army forces for the final invasion of the Republic of South Vietnam in April 1975.
While at Udorn, I also served as the Chief of the Intelligence Training Branch, providing aircrew instruction on Evasion and Escape techniques, air defense threats, and aircraft recognition. In October 1973, I attended the USAF Jungle Survival School at Clark AB in the Philippines. My final career USAF assignment was as Director of Intelligence for the 28 Bomb Wing and 44 Strategic Missile Wing at Ellsworth AFB, SD. I retired in 1992 as a Lt. Colonel.
• Kenneth S. Moon, Rapid City, SD
I was a PC3 (postal clerk) and it was a huge job always getting the mail to the shipmates, especially when we functioned in and around Vietnam. The first time I went on shore to get the mail was in Chu Lai and it was only a large area of sand. In one year's time, I had the opportunity to go back to the same base to get the mail and when I stepped on shore it was hard to believe that this huge base had actually been built in so little amount of time. Getting the mail in DaNang was a lot more dangerous as we passed through danger zones to get to the base to retrieve the mail then back to our ship. When we hauled and delivered some gun boats to the mouth of the Saigon river, I then realized the dire need for the people there to have these gun boats to fight their cause.
• Jon Dahlke, Rapid City, SD
Not all days were bad in Lai Kai, Vietnam. There were some good times had by some of the men. Like the time a few of us decided we needed a little more beer, but how were we to get to Saigon to get some. The answer came when the pilot of a Huey said it was simple, we'll take the Huey. Sounds as simple as taking you dad's car, right? So several of us boarded the Huey and we flew to Saigon. We bought several cases of beer and loaded them on the Huey, then we decided to see some of the town. We found a hotel, the Mai Lin, I think, where we enjoyed a hot shower, electricity, and a hot meal. We then flew back to our camp. Did we get into a little trouble??? Yes. Would we have done it anyway?? Yes. If I could find the guys who were with me, I would tell them: Thank you for helping make the war a lot more bearable.
• Darold K. Richards, Sisseton, SD
In November 1999, I returned to Vietnam on a mission trip. There I met a young woman Vietnamese interpreter who I struck up a friendship with and we continued correspondence after returning home. The following year I returned with my wife again on the wheelchair mission. We reunited with the young woman and she gave us what was supposed to be the remains of an American soldier including one dog tag. After returning home with these items we verified the dog tag as that of an MIA. With the assistance of Argus Leader reporter David Kranz and Sen. Tom Daschle the remains were identified through DNA tests as being Luther Ritchey, Jr., a Marine from Ohio, who was reported missing in October of 1963. In 2004 his remains were returned to his family in Ohio and buried with full military honors. This was a very emotional and gratifying experience after serving in Vietnam 33+ years ago.
• Douglas Haugstad, Sioux Falls, SD
Member Legion Post 22, Gillette Wyoming, Member of Honor Guard. Would be honored to play Taps at this event.
• Gary Rye, Gillette, WY
Being in the Air Force was dramatically different, safer, and far less stressful than for many other GI's. Since I worked in administrative support functions, work weeks were 60 hours. I flew an "IBM Selectric" typewriter. Working in Personnel did, however, have some interesting and satisfying moments. The best was being able to schedule Air Force personnel on their "freedom birds". The absolute worst part of the job was being so far away from family and home. Recalling other fun parts involves remembering the Saturday night parties at the Tan San Nhut clinic. It was similar to a modern MASH. The medical staff were outrageous and outstanding and the "network" and cooperation of numerous base-wide individuals combined with their influence and access to resources allowed extensive partying. Those brief escapes seemed to provide enough diversion to make it through the next week. I obviously scheduled myself on the very first "bird" available in my set departure month.
• John Simpson, Pierre, SD
I was drafted, receiving my notice to report for a physical on July 13, 1969 at the Sioux Falls post office. The very next morning, I was standing at attention in Ft. Lewis, Washington. Eight weeks later, I was flown to San Antonio, Texas, Fort Sam Huston, where I spent ten weeks being trained as a medic. I arrived in Vietnam on Dec. 13, 1969. I was sent to the 4th infantry 3/12th to serve as a platoon medic on Dec. 20, 1969. I spent all but three days in the jungle around Plecu in the central highlands of Vietnam until after five months I was hit with shrapnel from a R.P.G. I spent the next 5 months in military hospitals. I was discharged on April 13,1971. Fast trip! If you have to go to war, going as a medic is clearly a great way to go.
• Roger Andal, Brandon, SD
The majority of my time in DaNang, Vietnam, I was assigned to the Navy's Security, Intelligence, Investigation Unit involved with the investigation and interdiction of activities as directed by the Admiral. Those activities involved a wide variety of opportunities ranging from drug use and trafficking, to black market activities, self inflicted wounds, unexplained shootings, AWOL and unusual disappearances, and anything else that might have come up. It was a rather interesting opportunity at the time.
• Edward A. Parkhurst, Sioux Falls, SD
I was in Vietnam 1967 to 1969. I was there during the 1968 Tet Offensive. For me, it is still hard to talk about it. My best friend was killed at that time. His name was Michael Kolarov. He was from Akron, Ohio. He was killed in Hua Nghia with the 101st Airborne. He is on Panel 45W—Line 53 on the Wall in Washington DC. He was killed Sept. 6, 1968. I guess I will have that with me until the day I die. To me, it's important to tell his story rather than mine. I'm still here, but he's not. Rest in peace, my friend.
• Samuel Jack, Hurley, SD
In December 1953, tired of school, I dropped out of the School of Mines in Rapid City and enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps for a 3 year “get away from school” tour. That didn’t work out as the Marines sent me to a year of electronics maintenance school. After school, I married my high school sweetheart and headed for a 3 ½ year tour at Cherry Point, NC. Liking it in the Corps, I extended my enlistment 1 year then re-enlisted for six more years. The Corps sent me back to school after which I served my first overseas tour with MASS-2 in Japan. Upon return, I was one of twelve enlisted Marines selected to attend yet another school, this a factory school on an experimental computerized air defense system. During the field testing phase of this Marine Tactical Data System (MTDS) I was selected to attend the Warrant Officer screening course which gave me an advancement from SSGT to Warrant Officer in 1963. In 1965, I was promoted to 2nLt.and two years later through 1st Lt. to Captain. In 1968-69, I was assigned Maintenance Officer duties on the MTDS on Monkey Mountain, Vietnam. After returning to CONUS, a 2 year tour in NC was served before being assigned to the USMC CommElectSchool in 29 Palms, CA.
During that tour while serving as School Director for ElecMaintSchool, I was promoted to Major. Retirement followed a year later in August 1975. My attempt to avoid school failed me but I had a very rewarding Marine Corps career because of my military schooling. My marriage has thus far survived over 50 years and we have raised two wonderful children. Semper Fi to all my Marine friends!
• Gerald D. Fabricius, Twentynine Palms, CA
Come With Me, My Brother
Come with me, my Brother; to the past which seems so near;
The past of fallen soldiers and young men overwhelmed with fear;
Fear of loss and fear of death in a place so far from home;
Compelled us all to anger; at times you feel alone;
Come with me, my Brother; tell me of your pain;
The jungle heat, the stench of blood and endless monsoon rain;
I want to know about your friends; the guy who died that day;
Talk about your demons in that place so far away;
Come with me, my Brother; abandon the lonely road;
For 30 years, you’ve held it in, that very heavy load;
Our time is short; life is dear; Brother, why can’t you see;
That through your tears, I’m here to help and try to set you free;
Come with me, my Brother; let’s go and see our parade;
Of flags, of guns, of bands and such; of heroes we are made;
What’s done is done; our time has come; the War has finally passed;
We’ll cry and hug and celebrate, our welcome home at last;
Come with me, my Brother; passing to the light;
One thing to do before we go, knowing that it’s right;
He fought and died just as we; I only wish we knew;
How to heal our wounds with Charlie; for he’s our Brother too.
Come with me, my Brother.
John G. Moisan, Fort Pierre, SD
(US Army – 1LT Signal Corps - 1969-1971)
(For my friends Joe and John)
After graduating from Washington high school in 1963, I attended Augustana and Sioux Falls College working at John Morrell and Company. I enlisted in May of 1965 in the Marines hoping my best friend Paul Evans would join me. Unfortunately he did and was killed in December of 1966. Camp Evans just outside Quang Tri was named after him, this was an unheard of honor in the Marines as he was an enlisted man.
I was sent to San Diego, CA for boot camp and qualified for the Air Wing. Then I was sent to Memphis, TN for aircraft maintenance training and stationed at LTA in Santa Anna, CA for further training as a helicopter crewman. HMM 165 was forming up with the new CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters and I was a charter member. We got orders to Vietnam in August 1966 and landed in DaNang September. I flew as a gunner and crewmember while working in maintenance control. We flew primarily around Chu Lai and DaNang with frequent trips to Khesan and some special operations into Laos and the Ho Chi Minh trail.
Luckily, I was not wounded but our squadron took many casualties. I would meet Larry Winterton who was later killed in a rocket attack. He was from Sioux Falls also. After thirteen and a half months, I received orders to Olathe, KS, where I worked as maintenance supervisor on F-8 Crusaders. My commander was Col. Darrell Bjorkland from Volga, SD. I returned to Sioux Falls College getting a BA degree in 1972. In 1973, I joined the SD Army National Guard and served in various positions in an ordnance company, and combat engineer. I eventually was promoted to Command Sergeant Major of the153rd Combat Engineer Battalion in Huron, SD, and the 109th Engineer Group in Rapid City. I retired in 1995 and at that time was working as the Superintendent at the State Veterans Home in Hot Springs. I retired from the State in 2001 and live in Rapid City where I stay involved in the veterans' community spending winters in Mesa, AZ at our winter residence.
• Loren L. Murren, Rapid City, SD
The Distinguished Flying Cross Award.
Captain Thomas George distinguished himself by extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as a C-130 pilot for the 21st Tactical Squadron at Kontum, Republic of Vietnam, on 17 May 1972. On that date, Captain George flew an emergency night resupply mission of critically-needed ammunition and supplies to the besieged defenders of Kontum. In spite of heavy antiaircraft fire and intense small arms activity, Captain George was able to offload his cargo and safely evacuate two dozen allied soldiers. The aircraft took ground fire on takeoff and battle damage inspection after successful mission termination showed ten hits. The professional competence, aerial skill, and devotion to duty displayed by Captain George reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.
• Thomas A. George, Federal Way, WA
I was assigned to Sioux Falls, SD in April of 1972 as Liaison for the South Dakota Civil Air Patrol.
After I retired from the United States Air Force, I lived in Sioux Falls, Montrose, Beresford and Mitchell and I worked in Sioux Falls, Yankton, and Mitchell. I have lived in South Dakota longer than I have lived anywhere and four of our six children were born in Sioux Falls. I am now retired and loving Mitchell, South Dakota.
• James M. Hayes, Mitchell, South Dakota
I served two voluntary tours with the 173rd Abn Bde (Sept) during the “Battle for the Highlands” and the 1968 Tet Offensive. The 173rd Airborne Brigade was the most highly decorated combat unit in the Vietnam War. The 173rd was General Westmoreland’s “Fire Brigade” which was sent to all the “Hot Spots”.
• Jerald K. Lytle, Fort Thompson, SD
In 1987, our family had a coming home party for my brother. I ordered all his medals and our whole family was there. He was very happy. As he looked at all the medals he asked how I did this. So I told him it was a lot of hard work but worth every moment. He cried and he and I became closer than ever.
My brother-in-law, another Vietnam vet, attended and he made the comment that he wished someone would do this for him too. I know that he plans to attend this event, so please welcome him home too. My brother died at age 50. I miss him everyday, 24/7.
• Terry Wayne Heminger
No stories. Very proud to have served my state and country.
- Orvin L. Hughart, Sioux Falls, SD
I joined the Marines in 1950 to serve in Korea and remained in the military until 1959. In 1965 I joined the Navy SeaBee Reserves in Sioux Falls, SD. In 1968 I went on active duty in Naval Construction Battalion MCB3. They were already in Vietnam. Since I had been in the Marines, my duty was to walk night combat patrols searching for Viet Cong. I was also a Construction Mechanic. I retired from the Navy SeaBees in April 1979.
I went on active duty because of the "war protesters" at that time. I believe in this great country and am a flag-carrying American! I'm 74 years old and would still go to war to serve the country if they would let me.
- William P. Huntimer, Dell Rapids, SD
Most of my duty was providing medical treatment for Marines coming back from Vietnam (Naval Hospital Camp Pen). The most disturbing thing that happened during my enlistment was hearing a Navy Corpsman belittling one of these brave men. Needless to say, this only happened ONCE! But, seeing the hurt in the eyes of that Marine has stayed with me for all these years. Our service men and women did a hell of job, we just didn't have a country (then) that recognized it. I'm glad to see that we do now.
- Greg S. Ingemunson, Black Hawk, SD
Our Unit in the Fifth Marines was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for being the first full-size battalion in Vietnam. Our unit was the basis for the movie named "Rumors of War."
- Paul B. Karst, Peever, SD
After the many years, recollections of the sights, sounds and smells of certain "events" in the Saigon District and IV Corps are as vivid and clear as if it was this morning. I trust that the sacrifice of everyone that the Vietnam Memorial dedication honors, including the veterans' families at home and the countless unnamed civilian casualties, will be remembered long after the event.
- Robert J. Kean, Pierre, SD
The mail going home was real slow and my mom was praying for me and all the other men and women over there. She asked the Lord to send her a robin to let her know I would make it home. When my mom was finished praying, she went to the window of our home. There in the yard were 30 robins. So now as I pray for the men and women at war. I ask the Lord to touch each and every mother and father with kids there.
- Dennis L. Kearns, Sioux Falls, SD
When I entered the Marine Corps, I already had two sisters that were Marines. Karen and I were stationed together at El Toro and Jan was already out and married to a Marine. The three of us are all Paid Up For Life members of Wm H Crippen Post #62 in Humboldt, South Dakota, even though none of us live in Humboldt. We are all proud Marines.
- Judy Ann Klima, Saint Charles, Illinois
My Army story is not one of heroics or valor but one that may ring true for many veterans, especially women. When I joined, women were trained separately from men and were not sent to combat areas, except for nurses and a few other exceptions. Like many young people, I could not wait to leave home and prove myself. After basic training and AIT, I was assigned as a medic to Valley Forge Army Hospital in Pennsylvania. I worked in an orthopedic ward and almost all of our patients had been wounded in Vietnam. I changed thousands of dressings, hung traction, rolled skin grafts, did pre-op and post-op care. I also folded probably tons of laundry, emptied urinals, took TPR's, made beds and listened...listened to the moans and sometimes screams of men in pain, listened to them talk about family back home, listened to their fears of what would be their future and listened to the joy of hearing they were going home. It was hard work, it was sometimes heartbreaking work, but most of all, it was rewarding work.
I still think of that time in my life and wonder what happened to my patients. I hope that I eased their pain a little because it was the most responsible and rewarding job I have ever had, and I tried my best to be good at it.
- Patricia A. Kroupa, Sioux Falls, SD
As I remember back, I had no fear or idea of the real world. All I knew was trust in everyone I was around. We lived together 24 hours a day and lived as one. Oh, what a black-out in my life. I was discharged at Travis AFB and told to put my civilian cloths on (for fear of trouble) and go home. I went to Aberdeen and applied for a job with AT&T because they were hiring. They asked me a few questions and then asked if I had just returned home from Vietnam. I said yes, and the man quickly told me, "We are not hiring Vietnam vets." So my new life began...
- Dennis L. Lau, Weston, MO
I was on duty in Korea when I was sent TDY into Thailand to serve at Camp Friendship to help maintain a Ghost Division. When regular troop replacements reported, I was told that I could leave. Without a passport, I was told that I could not go out through normal challenges. One night about 9pm I was called to company headquarters, I was told that there would be a plane at the dark end of the runway warming its engines at 11pm, the door would be open. A friend took me to the area, I jumped the fence, boarded a C47 and we went out over Laos to Saigon where I caught an official military flight back to Korea to finish my tour there.
- Lawrence R. Madsen, Gettysburg, SD
I am a retired career USAF officer, having served for over 30 years. I was in Vietnam from November 1969 through October 1970. I was assigned to the 8th Aerial Port Squadron at Tan Son Nhut AB, near Saigon. My duties involved supervision of the load crews for all tactical airlift originating and terminating at TSN during my 12 hour shift for around 600 flights daily. This was a dangerous and demanding duty, operating in often very difficult weather conditions, heat, and rain, where oppressive humidity was the norm, and often in blackout conditions on what was, at the time, the world's busiest airfield. We were occasionally fired on by 122mm rockets and large mortars. One of my duties was to insure all human remains returned from the fields of battle via airlift to TSN for processing at the US Army Mortuary at TSN were expeditiously handled. These remains were usually in a body bag or wrapped in a rubber "poncho", neither of which were barriers to the blood, gore and smell of recently killed humans. I helped handle over 2,000 such remains during my tour. I also flew five combat missions in 0-1E Bird Dog reconnaissance aircraft over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the spring of 1970, flying with Walt and Pterodactyl Forward Air Controllers (FACS) out of Ghia Nhia in the Central Highlands. Two South Dakotans killed in the Vietnam War were my close personal friends; Captain Chuck Lane from Tabor was my classmate at Yankton College and 1st Lieutenant Bob "Chomp" Lewis from Pierre was my childhood friend and classmate at Northern State College.
- Lawrence R. Mayes, Rapid City, SD
I spent my entire time in Southeast Asia as a field artillery fire support officer/coordinator in a daily combat environment with infantry units at platoon, company, battalion & brigade levels. In that capacity, I had the fortune of working very closely with many wonderful people who still influence my life even today. I owe my very life to many who were not as fortunate as me. Six of the commanders I worked directly with became four-star generals.
- David R. Morgan, Huron, SD
It was Christmas Eve, 1969, Camp Love, Vietnam just south and west of DaNang. The War Gods had essentially called a "time out." The officers of my battalion were gathered in a rather safe structure made from granite stone and mortar which was appropriately called the "Officers Club." On this night, we were kicking back, drinking beer and being entertained by a USO sponsored band from the Philippines. The three gals and two guys slaughtered the Christmas carols we knew and remembered but we all joined in, never-the-less, in a surrealistic celebration of Christmas Eve. Weapons, helmets and flak jackets were hung on the pegs in the wall by the door and the evening was transitioning to a pleasant state of melancholy.
All of a sudden the familiar sounds of M-16 and M-60 machine gun fire broke out in the northern sector (my sector) of our compound. The officers scrambled for their weapons and gear and returned to their respective sectors of the defensive perimeter. I'm sure the Filipino band hit the deck, but I didn't turn back to check. By the time I reached my company's position, the sky was lit up like the 4th of July. Flares hung in the sky everywhere. Tracer rounds streaked out over our wire into the valley between our compound and the FLC compound a half-mile away. My Battalion S-3 was shouting over the radio asking where the fire was coming from. Nobody knew. All of the fire seemed to originate from our side of the barbed wire and no fire was being returned. "Cease Fire, Cease Fire!" was relayed to every fox hole and every bunker until only the hiss of the remaining flares in the sky could be heard. A call out for a report of casualties was made. No casualties.
"Who started firing, first?"
No response.
"What the hell were we firing at?"
No response.
"Why in hell were we firing our weapons?"
A humble voice from a yet-to-be determined foxhole finally replied: "'Cause it's Christmas, sir."
- Monty K. Nereim, San Diego, CA
The Vietnam experience was both good and bad! I've seen many people suffer the horrors of war, yet at the same time, I made life-long friends. We as SeaBees were largely made up of skilled building tradesmen that did a lot of construction work that still is in use today, such as bridges, airports, roads, powerlines, railways and water systems. We were lucky in that much of our service in Vietnam was a contribution both to the U.S. Military and to the people of Vietnam.
- John North, Huron, S D
H.C. Nupen was awarded his first Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement during the Tet Offensive of 1968. On Feb. 1st, Nupen was in Ban Me Thuot during the enemy invasion. He was able, along with another gunship, to lift-off and see that an entire city block, containing 125 Marines, was completely surrounded and was sure to be overrun. With extremely accurate rocket launches and repeated mini-gun passes, through heavy automatic weapons fire, Nupen and the second gunship were able to drive the enemy from the area and were given full credit for saving the lives of the U.S. Marines.
Nupen's second Distinguished Flying Cross was awarded while flying in support of a long range reconnaissance patrol. The patrol came under heavy attack by hostile forces. Nupen didn't realize that the mini-guns were malfunctioning until in full attack position. Despite the malfunction, he flew in over the enemy making it look like he was going to fire and drew the attack towards him. These dry firing passes diverted the attention of the enemy away from the patrol. Learning that the hostile force was within 100 meters of the troops, Nupen made a highly accurate rocket pass that disorganized the hostiles and allowed another helicopter to rescue the patrol.
Nupen completed over 1500 sorties, including assisting in a rescue of a downed F-100 pilot in Cambodia. In 1971, the Nupen brothers initiated a memorial scholarship fund at SDSU honoring the school's graduates killed in Vietnam. This scholarship is still in existence today.
- Harlan C. Nupen
My South Vietnamese friends had next to nothing in material goods, but enjoyed life and loved their families and friends. I'm happy that we were able to help them, but they already had the most important things in life.
- Steven J. Ogden, Louisville, TN
I have a lot of stories and memories of being on the USS Constellation and the short time I was in DaNang, Vietnam.
- Larry V. Ollerich, Sioux Falls, SD
I learned about the June 9, 1972 Rapid City flood when my unit (the 560th MP company) received the June 12th edition of the Stars and Stripes. One of the guys who knew I was from Rapid City brought me a copy right away. Since my family lived next to Rapid Creek, I immediately sought help from my Commanding Officer to find out if my family was okay. The Red Cross in DaNang was notified by my unit, and two days later they relayed the message that my family had lost their home, but survived the flood by clinging to the roof of our house. I wanted to go home to help, but we were in the middle of the Eastertide offensive and no one was going anywhere. Later in August 1972, when I returned home, I was dismayed to see all the damage in Rapid City. Looking back on this, I sometimes wonder if I cheated death by being in Vietnam.
- Gary N. Overby, Tracy, CA
These memories are still hard today: Mud, mosquitoes, red ants, hot temps, humidity, rain, mud, sweat and more mud.
- Thomas L. Reecy, Dell Rapids, SD
I will never forget that day in February 1968 that the Army car pulled up in our driveway. Three weeks prior, we had been notified that Dave was missing in action. The Army was there to tell my parents the news they had dreaded: Dave had been killed. As long as I live, I will never forget the grief my parents suffered over the loss of their son. They taught my brothers, sisters and I to honor and respect the sacrifice of the American soldiers and their families. My family and I are very proud of Dave and all veterans that answered their call to duty and served this great country of ours. You will never be forgotten.
- David L. Rickels, Graham, TX
I worked the entire four years after tech school at Scott Air Force Base-Military Airlift Command hospital. Scott also happened to be the TB control center of the AF. I trained as a 902, to work beside the RNs. I worked in the labor and delivery, ob/gyn , and for a short time in the family practice clinic.
As a 902, we could apply for flight status and go on the flights supplied by our base. Our unit was part of the Operation Baby lift at the end of the war. At MAC headquarters, we had a very large runway to accommodate some of the larger planes. Some tincluded the C5 Starlifters, C130s, and, towards the end of my stay, Harriers, which while living on base, we definitely knew when they landed and taken off. Scott has a large hospital, and it wasn't unusual at that time to deliver up to 12 babies in 24 hours. Midway through my years, we were assigned one of the AF's neonatologists in our nursery. Needless to say, we got a lot of problem pregnancies and dealt with a lot of very small, critical newborns. The smallest newborn I assisted with was 1 lb. 2 oz at birth. I thank God everyday for my own healthy children. The oldest, Jamie, was born at Scott.(After getting out of the service, I had Buck, Sammie, and later Zane. I still think about these years and the experiences (yes, we saw the Thunderbirds every year). I still use the "chain of command", can still tell military time, have a memorized social security number, and still use my medical training (even on the ranch animals). After having a TB test every six months for four years, still to this day, I react to the standard TB test.
- Dawn A Rinehart, Highmore, SD
SSG Schaffer died in 2003 from illnesses related to Agent Orange.
- Dennis D. Schaffer
We arrived in Vietnam in the middle of the night and the aircraft shut off all its lights. Upon disembarking from the plane, we were instantly under a mortar attack. We were instructed to get low and run for the bunkers besides the runway. That night, I heard rockets, mortars, gunship fire, and jet aircraft taking off and landing. Flares lit up the night sky. I was scared to death. I was sure I would die my first night there.
After my one year in Vietnam, the flight out was such a relief. There was total silence on that plane until the pilot announced we were out of Vietnam air space. Then there was a roar and applause. Yes, that night and others I will never forget.
- Harlan (Harley) J. Schmidt , Tehachapi, California
I had the honor of being a pilot of a Huey helicopter, the old B and C model gunships, and the H-model. We flew the two corps area in the Central Highlands. I spent one tour from Apr 1970 to Apr 1971. It was the period of "Vietnamization" where we got to train Vietnamese pilots. Very interesting. I saw much in that short year, but only a few occasions seem to have remained with me over the years. We were covering a convoy one day, the trucks were going one way and Vietnamese refugees were headed the other way. Everything they owned was on their backs or on their bicycles. I suppose either the Viet Cong or the Americans had torched their village. The image of all those poor souls going down the road has stuck in my memory. Another occasion was when the Koreans were involved in combat. A sister helicopter was hauling back dead bodies from the combat area and unloading them at the little landing zone where we were. Rigor mortis had already taken place and the bodies were in different positions. They simply pulled them off the helicopter onto the ground. It was a stark reminder that there were actually people losing life.
One of my crew chiefs was wounded on a mission that I was also involved in. He managed to live for several weeks. I visited him several times in the hospital at Quin Honh. I took him some letters one day, but he was unable to read them. He asked me to read them. I remember that large quonset building filled with guys that were not expected to make it. Paul Nolen died the day I left Vietnam.
Vietnam was a very beautiful country. We actually had good times too. We saved lives as well as took lives. It was much better when we could save them. The task, it seems, is to remember the good times and not dwell on the bad times. Sometimes we manage to do that. Other times we are not that successful at not remembering the bad.
- Darwin L. Schmiedt, Woonsocket, SD
In 1968, after being discharged, I entered and stayed at the VA Hospital in Sioux Falls, SD for about three months as a patient. I was told at that time that I was their first Vietnam veteran.
- Earl R. Schultz, Aberdeen, SD
I attended three years of college after high school and maintained 2-S status. I took a job in Spearfish, SD and received my notice to take a physical within 30 days. 30 days later, I received my DRAFT NOTICE. All my friends were enlisting in the Navy or Air Force. I said two years would not be too long, and let myself get drafted. I was sent to Fort Lewis, WA for basic training and then to Fort McClellan, Alabama for Infantry Training, My buddies talked me into requesting Jump School in Ft. Benning, GA. I then got orders for Vietnam (it then seemed like a bad dream) until I returned to Ft. Lewis and received an early out because my time remaining in active service was less than five months. I did not get called up for reserves and did not have any contact with the Army until I received my discharge.
I did not look back on my experience or talk about it until I attended a Vietnam veterans' reunion in Ft. Collins, Colorado. I have since attended The Society of the 173d Airborne reunions in Tucson, AZ and Rochester, MN. The City of Rochester gave us a real "Welcome Home" celebration that really made me feel like that year in Vietnam was something I should be proud of. I went back to college when I got out in 1969 and did not feel comfortable with the protests and demonstrations, but accepted the freedom that those people had to express their views. When I was drafted, I believed we should be patriotic and do our duty.
Today, I have two sons that are of draft age and I hope to Hell they do not get drafted! I think it is time for this nation to take care of business at home and get rid of the war mongers that want to fight for oil. The National Guard should be at home to deal with the hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes and the flu crisis that faces this nation.
- Rickford A. Schumann, Pierre, SD
Our duty on both ships was to deliver Marines and their supplies to the shores of Vietnam. Then, most of the time, we would sit off the shore for days and then go pick up what was left. The Marines were always glad to see us and were glad to get hot food and a warm shower.
- Keith M. Senska, Woonsocket, SD
I was Life Support Supervisor at NKP Thailand. Our mission was rescuing downed pilots. We had A-1 Sky Raider Aircraft and Jolly Green Giant Helicopters.
- Tom M. Sherman, Sisseton, SD
I entered the Navy in Omaha, NE then went to San Diego, CA for boot camp. After that, I went to Memphis, TN for electronics schooling. Then I was sent to the USS Ranger and worked on the A-6 Intruder as a module repair technician. I was part of four cruises on the ship. We usually stayed on station for four weeks, then went to port for about six days. We flew combat missions about 12 hours a day and our shop worked 12 hour shifts, night and day.
- Lee B. Squires, Clear Lake, SD
My Military Story
John M. Sweet
US56566417
24 July 1968 - 10 July 1970
Service in Vietnam 12 July 1969 - 10 July 1970
My first encounter with the US Army was after I graduated from high school in 1964 and was called for my first physical. This routine continued for the next four years. During the first two years at Dakota Wesleyan University, the secretary for the local draft board, Sylvia Krick, told me that as long as I had a 2.0 GPA that my deferment would stay in place. Then in 1967, the routine changed and I was told they were giving four years of deferment for college and that would be it.
It seems there were a whole lot of guys with 2.00000001 GPA's who were in their 5th, 6th,.... years of college. I graduated from DWU on Sunday, June 2, 1968. I went home on Monday, and on Tuesday my dad and I drove over to De Smet to see what Sylvia had to say. She told me that if I didn't have my draft notice by a week from Thursday I wouldn't go in until August. I received the notice a week from Thursday and was told to report on 23 July 1968.
I had made up my mind long ago that I was going to take the draft, get in my two years, then get out and on with life. No regular Army for me. This proved to be a dangerous decision. I learned later that I was lacking in wisdom.
Growing up in rural South Dakota with a strong deference for authority and a patriotic spirit that was instilled by participating in the Cub Scouts and the Boy Scouts, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance each day in school, and by attending the American Legion Memorial Day Programs, the thought of going to Canada or even voicing objection to the war was not even considered. If the Commander-in-Chief, Richard Nixon, said that "if Vietnam falls, there will be a domino effect all across Asia" who was I to question such wisdom? So off I went, naive about the possibilities that existed.
Even at Dakota Wesleyan University, home of the liberal Democratic nominee for President, George McGovern, there was not any dissent. McGovern brought his views to campus, but they were not accepted there or anyplace else, except Massachusetts—the only state he carried in the election. So, on 24 July 1968, I went to Sioux Falls and joined a bunch of other guys for the plane trip to Fort Lewis, Washington for Basic Combat Infantry Training. Morale among this group wasn't particularly high, to say the least. The one person I knew when I got there was Richard Rasmussen, another hometown boy. His stint didn't last long. I met one guy, Chuck Gorman, who had just graduated from college that spring and knew some of my friends at South Dakota State University. Our friendship lasted until tragedy struck later.
At the beginning of basic training, we went through a place called Classification and Assignment. Here they reviewed all your test scores, education, experience, etc. in order to determine your Military Occupation Specialty (MOS) and how your skills and abilities could best serve Uncle Sam. When I reached the final station, the guy told me, "With your test scores and education I don't know where you will be placed but it won't be infantry." That was good enough for me because by then we had learned that infantry was not the place to be.
After several weeks, my friend Richard Rasmussen was having big-time difficulty with the physical training aspects of Basic. He was born with a foot problem which hampered his athletic career all through school. Why the induction center in Sioux Falls didn't catch it during his normal physical can be attributed to two things: One, Uncle needed anyone he could get, no matter their physical condition. Two, Richard really wanted to join the Army and gain from the experience, so he didn't call attention to the problem. Richard was sent home, much to his chagrin. The rest of us were jealous.
At about week seven of basic training, our orders came down. My primary MOS was 11C40 - infantry mortars and my secondary MOS was 11B40 - rifleman. Every time we marched by the Classification and Assignment Building I wanted to go in and strangle that guy who had told me otherwise. What was really depressing was that there would be 12 more weeks of combat training in an Advanced Infantry Training Company right there at Fort Lewis. I didn't see how I could take 12 more weeks of this stuff.
At the beginning of AIT, another friend from home had been drafted. Bob Whites was a high school friend that I kept in contact with during college. He was in a basic training company at Fort Lewis and I was able to visit him in his barracks on several occasions. I felt bad for anyone who was going through this with a wife at home, as Bob was.
During AIT, I signed up for a Non-Commissioned Officer Candidate Course at Ft. Benning, GA. Anything to delay the inevitable assignment to Vietnam. This was a new fast track program to get people trained to lead 81" and 4.1" mortar squads. Upon graduation, you earned the rank of E-5 (buck sergeant).
On December 13, 1968, I picked up Chuck Gorman (in a blizzard) in Tyndall, SD and we drove to Columbus, GA. We were placed in a casual company because our cycle wasn't starting until January. In the casual company we pulled KP and guard duty. We could either have off Christmas or the week after. Since I had just been home, I recruited two Basic and AIT buddies, Andy Cappelli and Chris Nelson from the San Francisco area, and we took off for Miami Beach on December 26. We had a great week in Florida during the Orange Bowl festivities. I visited my cousin, Dave Knight, who was going to graduate school at the University of Miami, along with his parents and sister who were also visiting. Chuck Gorman's brother was killed in a car-train accident near Tyndall. Chuck went home for the funeral and that was the last I saw of him.
Upon return to Fort Benning, we got back into the military groove. The time at Fort Benning was pretty much uneventful. The highlight was meeting a couple of guys that I have stayed in contact with over the past 30 years. Bill Trow from Schaumburg, IL and Dave Whelan, from Great Falls, VA. After graduation, Bill and I were assigned to Fort Polk, LA as on-the-job training drill sergeants. Bill, Mark Taylor, and myself drove my car from Fort Benning to Fort Polk. Outside of Jackson, MS, we met a hometown guy, Jim Boetel, driving down the road. I recognized him and his car immediately. We spent the day touring Vicksburg, a civil war battle ground. That turned out to be quite a reunion for Jim and I while Bill and Mark sat by in disbelief that I was able to recognize Jim and flag him down.
At Fort Polk, Bill and I were co-platoon leaders for an AIT Platoon. We actually had a pretty good time leading the platoon. We took on the leadership style that we wouldn't ask the troops to do anything we wouldn't do ourselves. We led by example and the troops respected us for that. We led the forced marches carrying the same load as the trainees while the officer types' load was a canteen on a pistol belt. One of my favorite duties was leading the physical training exercises. I picked up a lot of hardcore activities from one of the Basic Training drill sergeants I had at Fort Lewis. At Fort Polk, we visited a college friend of mine, Jim Jensen, who was stationed there. He had a place off post that was what appeared to be at one time a slaves' cabin on a large plantation. This was a great retreat for Bill and I as we would bring food and beverage on occasion and relax from the rigors of infantry training.
On Memorial weekend 1969, Bill and I went to Galveston to hit the beach. We had a great time. Bill sunburned the tops of his feet and couldn't wear his boots, therefoe spending the first three days back at Fort Polk in bed with his feet propped up. He may have had a cold pack on his head also, but that wasn't from too much sun.
Our tour of Fort Polk ended in June, and we had a couple weeks of leave before heading off to Vietnam. I gave Bill a ride to the Kansas City Airport on the way home and also brought Jim Jensen and his bride back to South Dakota.
In July, I departed from the Sioux Falls airport for San Francisco and the Vietnam departure point. Bill was already there when I arrived and he shipped (flew) out a day or so ahead of me. I caught up with him at Ben Hoa Airbase in Vietnam. One of the first guys I saw at Ben Hoa was Boyd Hopkins, a recent graduate from DWU. Bill thinks to this day that I know everybody in South Dakota.
We were standing beside each other when he got assigned to the 101st Airborne and I was sent to the 4th Infantry Division. We were both sent to units in the Central Highlands, as was Dave Whelan. Dave was also assigned to the 4th Division also. While the three of us were all in separate units, our trails did cross while in Vietnam.
The 4th Division was headquartered in Pleiku. The first night at base camp, I was put on perimeter guard duty. Three of us were assigned to a bunker. Two had to be up at all times during the night while the third one could sleep. The other two volunteered to take the whole night and told me I could stay in back and sleep. Sleep doesn't come easy your first night on duty. It soon became apparent that these two guys were dopers and spent the whole night shooting up on meth. I was glad to see the sun rise. The next morning, I was helicoptered to LZ Warrior, where Co. E, 1st Battalion of the 4th Infantry Division's 12 Infantry's heavy mortar platoon was operating. I was assigned as squad leader to a 4.2" mortar gun squad. The happiest guy that day was the guy I replaced, John Sinkular from Dallas, SD. I never saw John again, but I did see his dad years later when he was commander of the South Dakota American Legion.
One of the first things I did when I knew my assigned unit was to write a letter to my high school friend Bob Whites, who had been in Vietnam a while by now. He got bored with his assignment as a clerk typist and volunteered as a door gunner on a Huey. My letter came back a few weeks later informing me that Bob had been killed in action.
As I said, my first assignment was as a squad leader of a 4.2" mortar gun squad. We had a team of five or six guys. Our first priority was to keep the gun in firing condition and take care of the ammunition. We usually dug some kind of bunker for the ammo to keep it dry and safe. Most of our firing missions were at night against suspected enemy locations (SELS). During the day the Battalion Commander would fly around the area in a Light Observation Helicopter (LOCH) and look at what he thought were suspected enemy locations. He would plot these locations on a map. Often, these locations were fields or gardens that were thought to provide the Viet Cong with food. Other times, there may have been evidence of enemy movement in these locations or enemy ammo caches. Then we would shoot at these map locations at night. The next day, the Battalion Commander would usually report that we hit the spots, but never really knew if we had hit anything significant. Lt. Cottum, our platoon leader, complained to the Battalion Commander that these fire missions were like pissing in the ocean. There was a time when we would get dozens of map locations to drop a single round on. You would have to get almost a direct hit on whatever it was that was there to do anything. It was a whole lot of work to compute the data and aim and fire the guns at these locations and we never really knew for sure if we hit anything.
Once in awhile we would have a live fire mission, which meant we were supporting troops who were in direct contact with the enemy. The 4.2" mortar was a very effective weapon in the Central Highlands as it was a high angle fire weapon that could fire over mountains. Whereas artillery had a lower projectory, and if the target was on the other side of the mountain, artillery couldn't hit it. We were usually located on a firebase with an artillery battery. It got pretty noisy at times when we were all blasting away. The 4.2" mortar also had a very effective illumination round. We could really light things up at night, and often did, so that troops farther out from our location could see the enemy at night.
Some of the guys I remember serving with in Vietnam include the following:
Robert (Inky) Inkenbrandt, Ft. Myers, FL
Jerry Wells, Zanesville, OH
Butch Lowry, Memphis, TN
George Otto, Columbia, SC
Fidel Rodriguez, Puerto Rico
Dave Thornley, Ogden, UT
Phil Blackwell, South Carolina
Tom Wood
Dave Bode
Robert Brown, Vermillion, SD
Robert Scheitrumpf, Warren, OH
Ed (Big Man) Newcomb
Lt. Cottum, Oklahoma
After a few months on the gun squad, I was transferred to the Fire Direction Center (FDC). The FDC received the map locations of the suspected enemy locations or direct observations from forward observers. We plotted these locations on a chart and then determined what direction and angle the mortars needed to be set at. We also calculated how much charge had to be put on each round in order to propel it to the target. We then communicated the data to each gun squad. This was usually done by a phone system that we had rigged up between the FDC and the gun squads. For entertainment, the FDC jam sessions were led by Robert (Inky) Inkenbrandt of Ft. Meyers, FL.
Somehow, he had brought along an always-out-of-tune guitar to Vietnam. Many nights were spent listening to him sing Glen Campbell songs: "Wichita Lineman" and his all-time-favorite, "Ann." Audio tapes were made of these sessions and sent home. I still have the one I sent home and recently sent Inky a copy. I always thought he would be playing alongside Glen Campbell when he returned to the world, but I didn't see him when Glen was on Letterman one night. Inky went on to become a professional musician and has his own recording company, Ink-Write Productions. You can order his original music from http://www.inkwrite.com/. Be sure and check out his original recording, "Island Dreams." FDC duty was better than being on a gun squad. We were usually in a protected bunker that we constructed with sandbags. We were better protected from the weather, especially during the rainy season, as well as from any stray bullets that might have been flying around. Sometimes we made the FDC bunker big enough for several to sleep in because we were always on duty ready to receive a call for fire.
It was about this time that I suffered my greatest wound of the war—an impacted wisdom tooth. I was sent to the rear in the first available helicopter and had the tooth extracted. I was suppose to stay in the rear for a week or so, but after about a day, I couldn't stand the sitting around and requested to return to the field and the FDC. I was gung-ho.
The highlight of most days for the infantryman was mail call and chow. We were suppose to get one hot meal a day. On some firebases, a field kitchen was set up and food was prepared right there. In other cases, we had meals shipped out to us in insulated containers. (I later used the same concept in shipping food from a central kitchen to other school buildings.) When we didn't have hot food we ate C-rations. Sometimes they were a welcome reprieve from the hot food that wasn't that great.
Whether we got hot food or mail depended on what fighting was going on. We were always supplied by helicopter as we were, with one exception, in the field where there was no access to roads. The first priority for the helicopters was to take care of the fighting. The next priority was hot food, mail, and clothes. We were suppose to get several changes of clothes each week, but again, that depended on the priority of things. You always tried to hold on to an extra shirt, pants, underwear and socks.
The one time we did have supply access by road, we were securing an engineering unit that was building a road. We got all kinds of things when we had this duty. They would ship out huge pieces of ice that were about 8' x 2' x 2'. We would chip off enough to fill an ammo can or sand bag and cool pop and beer with it. This was the only time we ever had anything cold. One night things were getting a little dull so Sgt. Tom Wood decided he would start up one of the caterpillars and reminisce about his days back in the world working road construction after having some of that ice cold beer. There was no law against drinking and driving in Vietnam.
After about six months in-country, it was time for R & R. I went to Sidney, Australia for a week of rest, relaxation and high living. I spent time at the beach, the zoo, and the pubs. Spending time in the pubs was really interesting. This was where the men went to do their drinking—no women allowed. Sidney is a great melting-pot of people. In the pubs, I met men from many different European countries who had immigrated to Australia. They were very interested in asking about America and the war in Vietnam. It was interesting to hear about their reasons for leaving England, France, Yugoslavia, etc. One of the best things about R & R was eating some good food and being able to keep clean for a week. After Sidney, it was back to the platoon and the downside of my year in Vietnam. Most guys counted the days they had left. I didn't do that. Today students (and some teachers) count the days left till school is out. I don't do that either.
It was now 1970 and the negative public attitude about the war at home began to drift to the troops in Vietnam. Morale was never great, but it was now declining fast. The 4th Infantry Division was gradually pulling back to the coast of Vietnam and was supposedly scheduled to leave the country at some point in the near future. Troop morale in my unit was declining as many of us were on the downside of our tour.
Most of us didn't see much point in what we were trying to accomplish. Objectives were unclear and we just wanted to get by with doing as little as possible and then "see-ya!" Higher ranking NCO's and officers were constantly on us about not digging in properly and taking care of our own security. This would have been a good time for the Viet Cong to hit us because our state of readiness was suspect.
When March came around, I had some leave time left and there was a vacant R & R slot to Bangkok so I took it. The week in Bangkok was interesting. This was a whole different culture and probably similar to Vietnam. Even though I spent a year in Vietnam, I can't say that I really experienced the culture because I was out in the boonies all the time. I saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in Bangkok, where they served beer by the quart in the theatres. I had an interesting river cruise and spent time in the shops, which loved to see American GI's with money. I had some sport jackets custom-tailored for me and sent home from Bangkok.
The day I left for Bangkok, my unit got orders to go to Cambodia. We were really sweating going to Cambodia as this was the action that Tricky Dick said would hasten the end of the war and we were expecting a lot of action. When I got back from Bangkok, my unit had already returned from Cambodia. The whole campaign was really a farce.
The Cambodian campaign brought out the troop protestors. I witnessed one guy sitting in the road facing off with an armored personnel carrier. He was physically removed and probably dealt with under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. I don't know what the penalty would be for a soldier to protest a war. From here on out, morale was in further decline. On 27 June 1970, I received orders to return to the "world" and prepare for ETS (estimated time of separation). On about 8 July 1970, I left Vietnam and returned to Fort Lewis, Washington and was relieved from active duty "not by reason of physical disability." (This phrase on my discharge papers guaranteed Uncle Sam would have no service connected disability to pay. Sam wasn't going to recognize my impacted wisdom tooth either.) On 10 July 1970—one year, eleven months and seventeen days later from the time I stepped on that very ground for Basic Training within sight of that Classification and Assignment Building.
Upon separation, I was awarded the following: the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in connection with military operations against an armed hostile force; The Air Medal for meritorious achievement while participating in sustained aerial flight in support of combat ground forces in the Republic of Vietnam from 2 August 1969 to 25 May 1970; The Combat Infantryman Badge for participation in armed ground conflict while a member of "The Famous Fighting Fourth Infantry Division" in the Central Highlands of the Republic of Vietnam; a Certificate of Appreciation from General W.C. Westmoreland and another from the Commander in Chief, Richard Nixon; a plaque from the "Officers and Men" of the 4th Division (this always made me wonder if officers were not men); and in 1999, I received a Certificate of Recognition (which I applied for over the Internet) "for service during the period of the Cold War (2 September 1945 - 26 December 1991) in promoting peace and stability for this Nation, the people of this Nation are forever grateful" from William S. Cohen, Secretary of Defense. So as far as wars go, I am one for one—won one and lost one.
I left the SEA-TAC Airport on 10 July 1970 on the first flight for Denver. There, I spent a day or so visiting friends, Meredith and Jan Wilson. I returned to South Dakota on a Saturday afternoon and my parents met me at Joe Foss field in Sioux Falls.
During my time in Vietnam, our unit suffered no serious injuries or casualties. To say we were fortunate would be the understatement of the 20th Century. That wisdom tooth I suffered from turned out to be no good at all. It provided no wisdom whatsoever when I chose the draft over whatever the other alternatives were. Be that as it may, and the way everything turned, out I am proud to have served and say I am a Vietnam veteran. The military experience made me a stronger and better person. I feel a special relationship with others who have served. Everything is small stuff compared to war.
The friends I lost in Vietnam were not friends I served with in the Army, but friends I had grown up with: Bob Whites and two other members of my American Legion baseball team, Bill Biever and Ted Voight.
Ted Voight was the catcher in a game at Lake Preston in 1962 when I was brought in to pitch in the bottom of the 7th inning. The score was tied with no outs with the basis loaded. Ted had never caught me before and I wasn't sure if he could handle my curve ball. I struck out the first two batters with fast balls. I shook off several calls for curve balls but when I was up 0-2 on the third batter and Ted called for a curve, I threw it for a called third strike. Ted couldn't handle it and the winning run scored from third on the passed ball. I was a little upset in 1962. By 1970 I learned not to sweat the small stuff. Bill Biever played second base that game. These three and the others from the Iroquois area that served during the Vietnam era deserve a monument for answering the call of their country. They didn't protest and they didn't take other measures to avoid serving. I have a quote from a company that makes monuments and I am going to start talking it up with others. If I don't it, it doesn't look like an ungrateful society will.
In 1972, I was recalled to active duty and assigned to an infantry national guard unit out of Seattle, WA and told to report to Fort Lewis, WA for two weeks of summer training. I couldn't believe this was happening. It was deja vu all over again—my worst nightmare was going back into the Army. I went through the same procurement building to secure the same equipment I had been issued in basic training. And that Classification and Assignment Building was in sight again. We were bussed to Yakama Firing Range where the National Guard held their summer training. We were recalled because National Guard Infantry units didn't seem to attract much attention from people wanting to join the Guard to avoid Vietnam, so they called us up to get up to strength for summer training. After the first formation, one guy from South Dakota went in to Yakama and checked in to a hotel. He never showed his face again until the final formation two weeks later and was never missed. When we went to the field, another Vietnam veteran and myself fought over who would get to sleep in the cab of the truck all day. The loser would lay in the shade underneath.
My re-adjustment to civilian life occurred at South Dakota State University where I earned a Master's Degree in Education and Sam helped pay for it through the GI Bill. It was here that I met my bride of 33 years, Barb.
And from then on I lived happily ever after.......
- John M. Sweet, Delano, MN
On arriving on the Quad, my senior PO asked if I enjoyed hunting because I was from South Dakota. "Yes, I do enjoy hunting." I said. After that statement, I spent quite a few hours on the gun mount. I held the position of 1st loader and eventually gun captain on the same gun mount. Should I have kept quiet and not opened my mouth?
- Thomas F. Thompson, Sioux Falls, SD
My first contact with the Vietnam War was my freshman year at SDSU. As a cadet in ROTC, we were called upon to serve on a guard detail for a Brookings native and SDSU graduate that had been killed in Vietnam. I volunteered and was chosen to stand guard at the church where the service was to be held for the deceased. Our ROTC unit also assisted with the service at the gravesite. The somber memory you can never forget...
- Wallace C. Thomsen, Pierre, SD
Mike survived with a few an ambush. He was watching an orphan and a stray dog, both were killed.
- Michael P. Vinson
No story, but I am still in the military. Just returned from mobilization at Fort Hood, Texas for one year. Will retire 4 January 06 with rank of master sergeant with 31 years of service.
- Scott Winegar, Huron, SD
Drafted, "Vietnam Era" vet. I had a choice of advance training or continuing to teach at Fort Sill. I chose to go to Germany on tour. The entire duration was spent in southern Germany, thus out of harm's way in Vietnam. I had college friends who entered the service to be home in less than year, either shot up or K.I.A.
- Darrel F. Woods, Onalaska, Wisconsin
I'm not going to get into telling war stories, as I served with the 9th Infantry Div./Mobile Riverine Force in the Delta in 1968 through 1969. I have plenty. What I would like to comment on is the young men and women that served our country during the Vietnam conflict. We were told it wasn't a war yet. We put forth our best effort with what we were given to us by our government and carried out our mission with the orders given to us by our leaders. Sometimes with regret and loss of life, but we stuck it out, served our tour of duty and came home to "what". Our country lost a lot of good soldiers over there and I hope that this memorial gives us all a little closure so we can finally put this behind us. It's not going to heal everyone's wounds, but it's a step in the right direction. It's time for the Vietnam vets to finally stand beside our fellow comrades from other wars and be proud of our service to our country. Thank you, South Dakota, Governor Daugaard, and all the people who took the time and effort to put this dedication together. God Bless the USA!
- Don Fechner, Wagner, SD
My military experience began in front of the Custer County Courthouse in October, 1968. Three of us constituted the draft group for Custer county that month. As I recall, two of us showed up to catch the bus to Sioux Falls. Whoever the third man was, we never saw him. My parents Bill and Lorene were there to see me off, along with some of the Knights of Columbus, who looked seriously concerned—there wasn’t any smiles to send off draftees, the Vietnam War was less and less popular all the time. The war was the major campaign issue that fall, and it had been the flash point for highly-televised unrest at the Democratic convention in Chicago that summer. With riots going on in some of the inner cities, and lots of radical rhetoric, it seemed that the country was in serious internal trouble and that trouble was now affecting me on a very personal level.
Not reporting for the draft had never been a real consideration in my thinking. I knew one college classmate who had declared conscientious objector status, and he was currently being prosecuted in federal court. I couldn’t imagine taking off for Canada—I’d had five uncles in the service in World War II, and my grandfather and great-grandfather had been in the German Army prior to World War I (and before Grandpa Young emigrated). While I had no desire to continue a tradition of military service, I also had no desire to avoid what I thought of as a citizen’s duty.
I remember that long day/night bus ride across South Dakota. It seemed we stopped in one town after another, picking up a few people with each stop. Hot Springs, Pine Ridge, Winner, and some eastern South Dakota communities. By the time we arrived in Sioux Falls, the bus was full. Those who passed the physical the next day were sworn in, and I recall making that one step forward to take the oath (Oct. 23, 1968), and noting that everyone else in the room did the same. But I didn’t feel a lot of patriotism at the moment, just a lot of uncertainty. We flew out of Sioux Falls to Seattle-Tacoma before the day was out.
Our basic training was done at Fort Lewis, Washington. Stepping off the buses from the airport was a culturally disorienting experience—there were about 25 of us from South Dakota—and it looked like a thousand people came shoving off the buses from the Oakland-San Francisco area. I remember the distinct thought that they must have emptied the tenements and found the street people to fill out their draft quota from California, because those people did not look healthy or law-abiding! Later in Basic, it became obvious that California draft boards did not collect anybody who had family, means, or excuses to avoid the draft. So they took the poor, the minorities, and the uneducated to fill their numbers.
We went through Basic on an “accelerated” training cycle according to our company officers. As I recall, it was seven weeks from start to finish. Initially, the training was intimidating and depersonalizing—intentionally so. Later it became a matter of teaching combat and survival skills. Despite the fact that I was a college graduate and had an idea of the conditioning process, I gained esprit de corps just like everyone else, maybe with a little more self-pres
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La Gazzetta dello Sport claim, Napoli contacted United two days ago to express their interest and assess the current status of Greenwood’s transfer situation.
Greenwood, who impressed on loan at Getafe last season with 33 appearances, 8 goals, and 6 assists, has been the subject of intense interest from multiple clubs.
Lazio have been pursuing Greenwood with an offer of €20 million plus 50% of any future resale value, and even sent an emissary to England to negotiate.
Marseille have also tabled a €30 million bid and are awaiting the player’s response.
Additionally, Roma have expressed a keen interest in Greenwood, adding to the competition for his signature.
Despite Napoli’s recent struggles, Greenwood is reportedly enthusiastic about the prospect of joining the Azzurri under Antonio Conte. However, Napoli must offload at least two players, including Victor Osimhen, to make room for the English winger.
This creates a crowded and competitive environment for securing Greenwood’s signature.
Lazio face increasing pressure as Napoli’s entry into the fray turns the transfer battle into an auction.
Claudio Lotito’s club recently upped their offer to €22-23 million with the potential to reach €25 million, plus 50% of any future resale.
Greenwood has been offered a contract worth €3.5 million per season by Lazio, slightly less than Marseille’s offer of €4 million net.
In Rome, Greenwood would be seen as a key player for Lazio’s rebuild following the departures of Milinkovic, Luis Alberto, Felipe Anderson, and Immobile.
He has been offered the coveted number 10 shirt, although Zaccagni is also vying for it.
Roma, meanwhile, have been monitoring the situation quietly but are prepared to make a move at the right moment.
Despite his initial request to wait until yesterday, Greenwood has extended his decision period until Monday, acknowledging the rapidly changing dynamics.
Man United are likely to favour the highest bid, while Marseille’s interest remains strong despite public opposition to the signing.
Greenwood’s decision will be crucial, as Napoli’s late involvement adds significant intrigue to the saga.
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Of the many hundreds of actors and actresses who have appeared in Crossroads over the years, many have already been established stars; others have gone on to stardom thanks to their start on the programme.
Jon Finch, now an established film star, was a raw, inexperienced actor when he made his TV debut in episode 947. He played a weird and rather offbeat character called Gareth Leyton, and played the role with great assurance. When he left Crossroads, Jon went on to find international stardom.
Another young actor now in the superstar bracket who started out in Crossroads is Malcolm McDowell. He made his very first TV appearance on the programme in episode 643, way back when he was just twenty years old. Can you remember the part he played? Crispin Ryder, a PR consultant. After Crossroads, Malcolm went on to appear in TV series like Z Cars and Dixon of Dock Green, then into films like A Clockwork Orange, If and Oh, Lucky Man.
Another young actor who appeared opposite Noele Gordon in the series, this time one with a famous father, was Andrew Ray, son of Ted.
Actors aren’t the only people who have appeared on Crossroads. When someone was needed to play Monsieur Fabrice, who was demonstrating hair styles at Vera Downend’s salon, the choice was an obvious one. Teazy Weazy Raymond had become a star of TV in the fifties, creating hair styles in a variety series called Quite Contrary. Who better to play Monsieur Fabrice? Incidentally, Teazy Weazy’s wife, Rosalie Ashley, also appeared in the series for a while. She played Jane Mortimer, who died during a brain operation.
When a sequence of magic was needed in one episode, Clifford Davis, New Faces panellist and TV critic was called in. Clifford is also a professional magician, and was asked if he could suggest a way of levitating Diane, played by Sue Hanson. To create the stage illusion on TV would prove very difficult, so Clifford and the production team decided to use trick camera work instead. After Clifford’s spot at the magic convention that was being held at the motel, actor Alan Haines took over and, thanks to trick camera shots and angles, seemed to make Sue float in the air. Millions of viewers were fooled, and the producer decided to end the show with a bang – with a shot of Amy Turtle floating in mid-air!
The popular comic Don McLean started out as an actor, and appeared on Crossroads, playing a member of Benny Wilmot’s group, Georgie Saint and the Dragons. From that he went on to find fame as a comic – remember him on Crackerjack?
Another comic who landed a dramatic role in Crossroads was Stan Stennett. He had to play a gunman on the run who held a couple hostage, and made such a success of the part that he went on to be offered many more serious acting roles.
Do you remember when Ken Dodd made his TV debut as a straight actor? Yes, it was on Crossroads, too. He played the part of a hotel guest, and started off playing the scene straight, but then his famous sense of fun got the better of him, and soon it was jokes all the way. The technicians were laughing so much that they could hardly carry on__
Another face you might remember is that of Diane Keen. She appeared in Crossroads for a long time, playing the part of cheeky Cockney waitress Sandra Gould. In the series she was supposed to have a crush on the motel manager, played by Paul Greenwood – and Diane and Paul ended up getting engaged during the series! Diane went on to appear in The Fall of Eagles, playing Empress Elizabeth of Austria, and in The Cuckoo Waltz, as Fliss.
Wendy Padbury, who appeared in Dr Who as one of the time traveller’s assistants, also started out on TV in Crossroads. She was only seventeen at the time, and played the part of a fourteen-year-old from a broken home, Stevie Harris, who was fostered by Meg.
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Dianne Keaton — who has been romantically linked to some of Hollywood's biggest names including Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino and Sam Shepard — opened up to the May issue of More magazine on why she never married.
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🌟 Employee Spotlight series 🌟 We're delighted to shine the spotlight on one of our outstanding team members, Gareth Goodall 🎉 👋 Gareth has consistently demonstrated dedication, talent and passion for excellence in everything he does. He is not only an outstanding professional but also a true team player. His collaborative spirit and willingness to support others make him a joy to work with, inspiring those around him to strive for greatness. Join us in celebrating Gareth's contributions and the positive impact he has on our team and feel free to connect with him to learn more about his expertise 😎 We love having you as part of our Suprema family, Gareth! Let's take this opportunity to get to know Gareth a little better 🔽 1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. I am hard working, loyal and always up for socialising, a mad keen/frustrated golfer, always trying to get better. Into all sports and keen runner. I'm a Reading FC fan, so don't talk about football too much these days... 2. What 3 hashtags describe your personality best? #chilledout #positive #sociable 3. What inspired you to join the team at Suprema? The opportunity to work with a great team of people that I know really well, a product range that is best in class and exactly what the industry needs! 4. What is working at Suprema like? Every day is different. We work hard, but enjoy it. The team are extremely supportive, everyone is motivated to succeed for each other. 5. What are 3 random facts about you? I've run 4 of the 6 world major marathons... so far. Seen Reading FC loose in almost every ground in the country. Once organised a stag do, but never took the stag with us. 6. What is your favourite thing to do? Happiest on a golf course... and the 19th hole. 7. Favourite quote / line from a movie? "So, you're telling me there's a chance!" - Lloyd, Dumb and Dumber #employeespotlight #celebratingemployees #supremauk #dreamteam #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #teamwork
🌟 Employee Spotlight series 🌟 We're delighted to shine the spotlight on one of our outstanding team members, Gareth Goodall 🎉 👋 Gareth has consistently demonstrated dedication, talent and passion for excellence in everything he does. He is not only an outstanding professional but also a true team player. His collaborative spirit and willingness to support others make him a joy to work with, inspiring those around him to strive for greatness. Join us in celebrating Gareth's contributions and the positive impact he has on our team and feel free to connect with him to learn more about his expertise 😎 We love having you as part of our Suprema family, Gareth! Let's take this opportunity to get to know Gareth a little better 🔽 1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. I am hard working, loyal and always up for socialising, a mad keen/frustrated golfer, always trying to get better. Into all sports and keen runner. I'm a Reading FC fan, so don't talk about football too much these days... 2. What 3 hashtags describe your personality best? #chilledout #positive #sociable 3. What inspired you to join the team at Suprema? The opportunity to work with a great team of people that I know really well, a product range that is best in class and exactly what the industry needs! 4. What is working at Suprema like? Every day is different. We work hard, but enjoy it. The team are extremely supportive, everyone is motivated to succeed for each other. 5. What are 3 random facts about you? I've run 4 of the 6 world major marathons... so far. Seen Reading FC loose in almost every ground in the country. Once organised a stag do, but never took the stag with us. 6. What is your favourite thing to do? Happiest on a golf course... and the 19th hole. 7. Favourite quote / line from a movie? "So, you're telling me there's a chance!" - Lloyd, Dumb and Dumber #employeespotlight #celebratingemployees #supremauk #dreamteam #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #teamwork
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BUILDING A SUPPORTIVE NETWORK World Championships in Budapest, Anita Alvarez of the USA faced a critical moment when she found herself at the bottom of the pool. Observing the situation from the deck, her coach, Andrea Fuentes, quickly realized that something was amiss. Without hesitation, Andrea dove into the pool fully clothed and pulled Anita to safety. Anita, in an unconscious state, was unable to make any efforts to save herself. Andrea's prompt action was a decisive factor that prevented a potential tragedy. This incident serves as a powerful reminder that in challenging times, having individuals who actively watch out for us and take immediate action is crucial. Reflecting on this scenario, it prompts us to consider who plays the role of a vigilant supporter in our lives. In moments when we feel overwhelmed or incapable, who are the people that would notice, seek us out, and extend a helping hand to bring us back to the surface? Conversely, can others count on us to be that vigilant and supportive presence? Are we willing to dive in and offer assistance when they find themselves struggling in the turbulent waters of life, depleted of strength and resilience? This story underscores the significance of building a supportive network and being a reliable source of aid for those around us when they face challenges beyond their capacity to navigate alone.
Good morning, champions! Ja, even though we lost the Ruggers, we’re still champions! I mean, Kgothatso Montjane won the Wimbledon Wheelchair Doubles Title, Kearsney College Choir was crowned the champions of the Golden Voices of Barcelona competition, and The Kiffness is R23,000 away from raising R1 million to help a little hero battling Lyme Disease. See champions! It’s another Monday, and I'm here to remind you that self-motivation is the key to unlocking your true potential. It is a surefire way to becoming a champion! So let's have a real talk for a second... because we're all in this together. Some days, even the most driven individuals wake up with zero motivation. Trust me, I've been there, and today is one of those days. I believe South Africans are solar-powered… and this cold weather outside is making it even harder to find the strength to get out of bed (it is currently 2° in Jozi). But you know what? We can do this! Being motivated, being inspired, and finding those good things in life requires effort. It's not always easy, but nothing truly worthwhile ever is. It's like personal hygiene – just as we need to shower or bath every day to stay clean, we need to take care of our minds every single day. Motivation is not a one-time fix; it's a continuous process. To help us get there, I've listed 10 ways to keep that flame of motivation and inspiration burning bright: 1. Kick-Off with Positive Affirmations. 2. Surround Yourself with Positivity. 3. Set Achievable Goals. 4. Draw Inspiration from Others. 5. Embrace Failure as a Stepping Stone. 6. Take Care of Your Well-being. 7. Keep a Gratitude Journal. 8. Step Out of Your Comfort Zone. 9. Celebrate Small Victories. 10. Stay Connected to Your Purpose. Remember my friends, motivation is a daily practice. It's not always easy, but it's worth it. Embrace the challenges, find inspiration in the little things, and keep pushing forward. Together, we can achieve greatness. Wishing you a week filled with motivation, inspiration, and an abundance of good things. You've got this! Okay. Love you. Bye.
While there have been many displays of grit at this summer's Olympic Games in Paris, one in particular will remain etched in my memory -- Britain’s Tom Pidcock's mountain bike race to victory. If you missed it, here are the highlights. Pidcock had to make an unplanned pit stop on his third lap (in this 8-lap event) to replace a flat tire, which put him way behind the leaders and almost certainly out of the running for a stellar finish. With five laps to go, he jumped back in and is quoted as telling himself, “There’s no point in stressing over it, is there? That’s not going to get me back to the front.” Pidcock gave it his all. Fast forward to the final lap of the 22-mile race, and Pidcock was in the number two position, following the top-ranked mountain biker in the world. When the leader had an unlucky break, Pidcock jumped to the lead to claim the gold for Great Britain. You can check out the details here: https://lnkd.in/gxsp7q2k. I have an observation from Pidcock's surprising comeback that I believe applies to us as business leaders. With so much uncertainty in our environment, a catastrophe in the early stages of a project or career isn't always fatal. But it does require grit -- including an abundance of mental toughness -- to make a comeback. If you've got a personal comeback story, I'd love to hear about it over a cup of coffee.
Chapter 2. Clapping. ________________ * *There is a noise/a sense/ an inner something? .....to insert in the blank. I'm not sure exactly what it is? 2-1. England footballing performances... __________ Make your own noise here! .................... But wait, A win is a win. Enjoy the moment - Live in the present. We must ALWAYS celebrate our wins. A win is a great thing. I spent the afternoon with a group of some 40 others. For 90 and a bit minutes the mood had been quite different. Frustrated, challenged, opinionated. And then............... Somewhere in the 90+ something minute a single moment changed the mood of a nation. Amidst the immediate euphoria - When the jumping, punching of the air, cheering, whooping and hollering had subsided ..... A moment of calm brought with it a round of applause. It was collective. This wasn't one of those "Its time for us all to clap" moments - This was involuntary. It was spontaneous. It brought with it a smile to everyones face. Things don't always go exactly as we might think they will. The path is often not straight, and very frequently littered with potholes, a dodgy paving slab, and a wonky kerb. - But reaching the next junction is the goal. In English football terms - The checkpoint for this moment in time has been reached. Mission so far accomplished.... Lets move onto the next part of the journey. That goal was magnificent. But be it Sport, Business, or I think just life...... If we are here to accomplish a common goal (Which we all are) - then we do it together, its the only way. And what better way to do it..... than by supporting one another - and when able.... with a round of applause. ------------------------------------------ Ps - Gareth and the team - Thank you. (Sigh of relief). You got there 👏 Keep believing, Keep working, Keep enjoying. We know you CAN reach the destination.
I’m back. I was away for the week cheering for my daughter and her team in a World Cup qualifier. Only one team would qualify. And it wasn’t our team. My daughter’s the captain of the team and the most experienced. Not sure what you know about international sport, but when you play your first international game you get your “first cap”. We had eight players on our team get their first cap in this tournament. It was a long shot to qualify. But they didn’t act like it. They acted like they had just as much right to be there as all the other teams. At this level, it’s experience that wins and or loses. Skill wise, there’s not too much difference. It’s what happens to those skills under pressure that’s the challenge. It becomes a mental game more than a physical game at this point. I always learn about life when I have the honour of watching one of these tournaments. Here’s what I learned this time (to be fair, I already knew a lot of this): 1. Umpires control the game. Don’t piss them off. (Think, auditors here) 2. You can still compete when 8 of your players have food poisoning. (1. Stop making excuses; just do what you have to do. 2. Find out ahead of time which GI drugs will make it through the athlete drug tests.) 3. Weather happens. Plan accordingly. (Plan! Get snow tires!) 4. The organizing committee will sometimes change their decisions after they give permission for uniform exceptions (1. Get it in writing. 2. Bring a needle and thread. 3. Arguing with the boss is futile.) 5. You can play with a broken thumb. (Take a minute to process the pain, wrap it up, and get on with things.) 6. It’s not over till it’s over. (Anything can happen. Keep acting like you’re going to win.) 7. Skill and composure together lead to respect. 8. You can lead from anywhere. 9. Stop trying to do it on your own. That won’t work. 10. Play each minute. 11. Timing is everything. 12. Communicate on the court. 13. Build relationships with everyone - your teammates, your coaches, the umpires, the organizing committee, the other parents. You’ll always be glad you did. 14. Have fun and soak up the experience! I couldn’t be more proud of my daughter. More important to me than how well she played was how well she led a really young team in a really tough tournament with a lot of really unlucky circumstances. This mum is “lump in the throat” proud! ______ I help people communicate well and have more impact at work. Join my LI group - Building a Quality Culture | https://lnkd.in/gnWfJ8qn Do you know about 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙉𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠? Ask me if you're curious.
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You would think climbing to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro , at nearly 6,000m, would have been hard enough, but I managed to get injured before I’d even set foot on the mountain.
In June, just a fortnight before I was due to fly to Tanzania, I suffered a freak
accident. One night, I went to put my foot down on a stair and misjudged it, rolling my foot over in the process. It was throbbing like mad and when I looked next morning, I couldn’t believe it.
My foot looked almost alien. It didn’t look like it belonged to a human being!
It got worse over the next day or so, swelling up like a rugby ball and turning black. It was excruciatingly painful. But after spending a year training for the climb, no way was I going to miss it!
I avoided the doctor because I knew he’d confirm it was serious and stop me flying.
I lay around for five days with ice packs on my foot, pressure bandages and kept my foot elevated as much as possible.
I took painkillers and eventually got the swelling down.
After a few days, I could just about hobble along with sticks. When the day of the trip arrived I was still in awful pain. But I managed to get my trekking boots on and headed to Heathrow on July 9 for the 10 day trip.
I’m a patron of Lion Aid and this was a charity climb with 28 other people, including my god-daughter and her sister. The climb took seven days, up and down. It was harder than I expected. You don’t need to be a mountaineer to climb Kilimanjaro but it’s not easy. The air gets thin as you climb and most people get coughs and chest infections from the dust. At night, it’s freezing cold.
I was much slower than everyone else, about three hours behind, because of my foot. It was a very painful experience but, thankfully, I had a marvellous team of guides with me all the way.
What helped me get through the pain were my sturdy boots because they held my foot in place and meant I was able to complete the climb, albeit very slowly.
When I got home, I visited my doctor and was referred to the hospital for an X-ray which revealed I’d badly broken two outside bones on my left foot. One of them was jagged and sticking out. I was told that bones start to heal after about a week but my injury was three weeks old. They put me in an air boot for six weeks and the specialist thought it might help straighten the bone. Luckily it has and it looks much better.
But if that wasn’t bad enough, two weeks ago, I stupidly fell over in the garage and damaged my right foot. Fortunately, my daughter, Melissa, was there and rushed me to hospital. Luckily, the bone wasn’t broken but ligaments were damaged. My right foot swelled and went black but not as bad as on my left foot. My right foot is still tender.
Currently, I’m touring in the play You’re Never Too Old. I used to move around the stage but now I’m sitting all the time.
My left foot is almost better, too, although I aggravated it when I fell over in the garage. I like to keep fit and visit the gym regularly. While training for Kilimanjaro, I went up to six days a week and concentrated on lots of cardio exercises and weights.
During this period, I also discovered the joys of trekking, which I did to get my legs ready for the long ascent and descent. Going down is harder on your legs and on long treks like Africa’s highest mountain you can damage your toes.
Going to the gym has become part of my life. A sedentary lifestyle is bad at any age, especially for older people.
I also do other forms of exercise, including swimming with friends. It’s social, great exercise and gentle on your muscles and bones.
Overall, though, I class myself as healthy and am rarely ill. The only other major health treatment I’ve had was laser eye surgery about 10 years ago. Reading scripts was becoming more difficult and I had to rely more and more on my glasses with varifocal lenses. The trouble was, I found it difficult to function wearing them because I ended up constantly looking through the wrong part of the lenses.
I became very over-cautious and even nervous putting one foot in front the other. Eventually, I decided to have laser eye surgery, costing around £1,500 per eye.
I went to an exceptionally good doctor, David Allamby, who had a revolutionary machine which changed the shape of my eye from football shape to more like a rugby ball shape. My eyesight was fantastic for a long time after but as you get older your eyes change and it might be time to get them done again.
I always eat healthily. Fortunately, I don’t like the taste of sticky buns, biscuits or anything like that. I eat lots of veg, chicken, fish and a little meat. But rather than sit down for set meals, I’ll graze during the day. A typical breakfast would involve fruit, toast or a huge smoothie made from various fruit. I like spelt bran as well. I’ve started using spelt flour – which is a whole-grain, non-wheat flour – in my cooking because I feel it’s more natural for the digestive system.
I’ll also eat lots of salad and veg, including new potatoes. But whatever I make, it has to be quick because I’m not mad on cooking.
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Shala Nyx
Shala’s early career began in London’s prestigious West End. Her work in television and film includes popular hits such as Charlize Theron’s The Old Guard (Netflix), Knock Down Ginger (BFI), Unlike (Channel Four), Henry VI, Casualty and Eastenders (BBC). She has also played leading roles on stage nationally, and has created, written and featured in her own productions for theatre and activism, in Wipe These Tears, The People’s Tribunal: Afghanistan Sessions and Sisterhood, An Act of Resistance (CPT).
She recently starred in Two Billions Beats (Orange Tree), Kabul Goes Pop (Brixton House), A Thousand Splendid Suns (national tour), Cookies (Theatre Royal Haymarket), The Heresy of Love (Bristol Old Vic), and Her (one woman show, national tour).
As a voiceover artist, Shala provides the voices for some of the world’s leading animation series, games and documentaries. She takes the title role in the games Harmony ,The Fall of Reverie (Don’t Nod), and also features in Cyberpunk 2077, Lord of the Rings: Gollum, Assassin’s Creed, and Diabolo IV. She is the motion capture artist in the colossal Warhammer franchise games. Shala also provides voices for the animation series Octonauts (Netflix), Corpse Talk, Milli and Lou (YouTube), and for Channel Four's Despatches.
Shala trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Claire Nielson
Claire is best known for her work in British comedy. She is globally recognised for her guest star role as Mrs Hamilton in the ‘Waldorf Salad’ episode of Fawlty Towers, for her numerous roles in The Two Ronnies’ sketches, and her regular appearances on The Dick Emery Show. She played opposite Richard Briars in Monarch of the Glen, and her extensive TV credits include Upstairs Downstairs, Z‐Cars, The Brothers, and Taggart. Claire was a member of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop and has appeared at theatres across the UK, including The Globe, The Garrick, Birmingham Rep and Hampstead Theatre. Film credits include her portrayal of Barbara Grant in Kidnapped, opposite Michael Caine and Trevor Howard. Claire has also directed in London at Riverside Studios, The Gate, and for the RSC Festival at The Other Place and The Swan. She trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and has a degree in English Literature from King’s College, Cambridge.
Diane Keen
Diane is an actor and producer. She is principally known for her starring roles in some of the most iconic sitcoms on British TV, including her portrayal of Fliss Hawthorne in Granada’s The Cuckoo Waltz. For a decade she played Julia Parsons in the long‐running BBC One soap Doctors, and her TV credits encompass many of the UK’s greatest shows: The Professionals, The Sandbaggers, Brookside, the entire series of Ruth Rendell Mysteries, A Touch of Frost, and The Morecambe and Wise Show. She starred in The Sweeney feature film, and many other films, including the Oscar‐winning Nowhere in Africa. Her extensive theatre experience includes Alan Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends, The Vagina Monologues, and Beautiful at the Adelphi Theatre, in which she played Genie, mother of Carole King. She also performed in a successful season at the Old Vic. Diane's many tours include premiering the dramatization of Susan Hill's ghost story The Small Hand, in which she played the Narrator and four other main parts. Her numerous awards include Best Actress in The National Television Awards, Best Single Episode in The British Soap Awards, and Best Actress on TV in the TV Times Awards.
Travis Leete
Travis studied at Yale Divinity, and law school, and worked as a policy attorney in a Texas non-profit focused on criminal justice reform. Drawn by his love of the ocean and surfing, he then returned to California to follow his true passion and become an actor. His TV work includes the Wild West Chronicles, directed by Michael Owed, and Jesus, directed by Trevor Lee Georgeson. Film includes The Venus Project, directed by Eve Mavrakis, The Survivors Story, directed by Lorien Haynes and Barbara Van Schaik, Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men, also directed by Lorien Haynes and Barbara Van Schaik, and Indigo, directed by Saffron Burrows. Travis continues to train at The Studio, LA.
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Paul shot to fame as the young policeman PC Michael “Rosie” Penrose in the sitcom Rosie and is also well known for his portrayal of Inspector Yelland in the drama series Spender. He has appeared in scores of TV shows, including the title role in Captain Zep, as Mr Lucas in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, and as Ian Palmer in The Bill. For eight years he was a leading player at the RSC, starring as Polixenes with Jeremy Irons as Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, as Antipholus of Syracuse with Zoë Wanamaker as Adriana in The Comedy of Errors, and as Captain Goodlack with Simon Russell Beale and Imelda Staunton in The Fair Maid of the West. Film work includes Hammer Film Production Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter and Mike Leigh’s Peterloo. Paul trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Melissa Greenwood
Melissa is an actor and producer whose career spans theatre, TV and film. She played the iconic role of Sophia in the BBC’s Sophia and Constance and was Kitty in Poirot. For ATV she appeared in In Sickness and in Health, and she has also taken numerous roles in Casualty. Theatre includes Vanity Fair for Cheek by Jowl, Swallows and Amazons for Theatre Clwyd, and a range of Number 1 tours, notably in the title role of Sleeping Beauty at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon. Film work includes an appearance in London Suite, directed by Jay Sandrich. A stint in Southern Africa saw her work with the Botswana National Theatre and The University of Botswana, devising and directing plays that toured the country, raising awareness of AIDS and women’s rights. She is also the founder and director of Melissa Greenwood Coaching, which offers training courses and role play to blue chip companies around the world.
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Niall is an actor from the West of Ireland. He is a co‐founder of Time Productions and host of the You Need to be Yourself You Can’t be No‐one Else podcast. In theatre, he is best known for the award‐winning revival of Abi Morgan’s Tiny Dynamite at the Old Red Lion in 2018, as well as performing in Riot Act’s acclaimed contemporary production of League of Youth. On screen he appeared in the final episode of the final season of Game of Thrones and is due to play a leading role in the much anticipated online series #honesty. Niall has also appeared multiple times in the Irish crime drama Red Rock. He trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
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Moe was born in Iran and moved to London at the age of ten. He landed his first professional job in 2016 when he played the lead role of Shapur Zamani in the award‐winning French TV series Le Bureau Des Legendes. He is now probably best known on screen for his recent portrayal, alongside Keeley Hawes, of Rhamat Suleiman in ITV's Honour, and of Karim in Apple TV's Tehran. For his role as Kareem in Richard Molloy’s Every Day I Make Greatness Happen at Hampstead Theatre, Moe was nominated for the Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre Award at the 2019 Olivier Awards. His 2019 achievements continued in the San Francisco tour of The Jungle for the Curan Theatre. He also starred in Marion Bott’s Moormaid at the Arcola Theatre, and in 2020 was cast in Welcome to Iran, Nadia Fall’s co‐production with the National Theatre. He trained at Identity School of Acting.
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I first met the incomparable Diane Rodriguez on a MAP Fund peer review panel convened by the Rockefeller Foundation in the early 1990s. The two Latinas on the panel—she, the intrepid Chicana theatremaker, and me, the Cubanita presenter from Miami—quickly joined forces. It was an instant alliance!
It was a challenging time for the arts, with the country still reeling from the culture wars of the 1980s and early ’90s, and the peer review panel was floundering as to which projects to support. David Mendoza, founding executive director of the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression, said that before there was public funding through the NEA, there was no El Teatro Campesino (where our dear Diane performed for 11 years and met the man who would be her husband, José Delgado, better known as JD), no Northwest Asian American Theater (Seattle), no Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (San Antonio), no Dance Theater of Harlem, or Ballet Hispanico (New York), and no Newsweek cover for Bill T. Jones, the openly gay, HIV-positive dancer/choreographer. Diane took the lead in the discussion around cultural equity and inclusion before those terms became commonplace in our sector. To the end, these issues were deeply important to Diane. Her concern about the lack of racial, ethnic, and gender diversity in our field was heartfelt, and it was evident in her work as an artist, producer, administrator, and field leader.
She and I lived on opposite coasts, before the age of Zoom and social media, so we saw each other only occasionally. This changed in 1997, when I moved to New York to be the founding program director of the arts for the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Diane, a frequent visitor to New York, would stay at my apartment when she visited. I remember seeing her in Heather Woodbury’s Tale of 2Cities at PS 122. The cast was named Best Ensemble at the 2007 Obies, and Diane stayed with me when she was in town to receive the award. And boy, did she go to the ceremony dressed to the hilt! Real old Hollywood glamor, with a dress of champagne gold silk and a matching feather boa—and she knew how to wear it.
Since the early aughts we were in near-constant and ever deeper contact. In 2004 I invited Diane to join the Women’s Working Group, an assemblage of about 15 women in the performing arts, which meets once a year to discuss both professional and personal challenges and joys—something rare in our hyper-professional environment. Ever full of confidence and purpose, Diane traveled to our gathering in Oaxaca, Mexico, and was instantly embraced by the WWG. She would later invite Theatre Communications Group executive director Teresa Eyring to join the WWG. Notably, it was during our last WWG meeting together at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva, Fla., that the tests Diane had for for what was later diagnosed as cancer were coming to light.
Many tributes to Diane have been written by her friends and colleagues in Southern California, where I live now, focusing on the tremendous impact she’s had here. But her contributions to the field went much further, nationally and internationally. Whether chairing the TCG board of directors, serving on the NEA National Council, or seeing work in the Netherlands or Chile, Diane’s keen intellect, natural leadership, compassion, and kindness were a hallmark. She is the reason I am in L.A. (she talked me into going for the L.A. Dept. of Cultural Affairs executive director position, then put together a small group of Latinx artists and arts administrators to lobby Mayor Villaraigosa on my behalf). Had she not done so, I would not have met my husband, Kerry English. She was the matron of honor at our wedding at the Music Center, where Center Theater Group, one of the country’s leading LORT theatres, is housed, and where she worked for 24 years. As usual, she was beaming and dancing her heart out to a Cuban charanga band at the reception.
Diane, with significant funding support from the L.A. Cultural Affairs, also launched the RADAR LA Festival with the Marks (Murphy and Russell, of REDCAT and Under the Radar, respectively). Based on the awareness that L.A.’s ensemble theatres, to whom Diane was especially dedicated, were often overshadowed by the region’s film industry in the view of the world, we wanted to showcase the area’s premier companies alongside the best from the country and the world, with a special focus on Latin American and Asian artists to highlight the connectivity of Los Angeles to those world regions. Ultimately, that was what is so special about Diane: championing local artists while recognizing and celebrating artists from other worlds and other cultures.
As Diane’s health became more and more precarious, her besties surrounded her and JD to help make her passage more loving and comfortable. The outpouring of grief has been incredible. But so has the outpouring of joyful memories of how Diane matters, and how she impacted so many people’s lives. She is unforgettable, and I am truly privileged to have called her hermana.
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I recently had a chat with Doctors favourite Diane Keen to hear about the daytime soap's 2,000th episode and what has made the show so popular over the past ten years.
If you haven't yet read the main interview, click here to hear what Diane had to say.
Alternatively, read on for a bonus Q&A with the actress…
Doctors is known for its serious drama storylines but also for being slightly surreal sometimes, with dream and fantasy sequences. How do the cast feel about the more experimental episodes?
"Bewildered, sometimes! Sometimes they work and we generally feel that they often don't. But Doctors is also not afraid to touch on very controversial subjects - I don't think there's anything that Doctors wouldn't tackle, because I think we've had just about everything. We'll pick up on anything - but that's life and that's drama, and drama is life!"
The recent storyline featuring Julia and Charlie had a really strong reaction on our forum…
"Did it? I've also had a lot of reaction from the public about it. As I go about my life, people come up and they've spoken to me about it. I think they were angry with Charlie. It was a terrible thing for him to do in the situation that Julia was in - a very, very bad thing. But the viewers were also desperately concerned and worried about Julia herself, who had by that point descended into another place and really had lost it. So I think they really felt the injustice of it all - Julia was completely unable to defend herself as she didn't know how to, and I think that's one thing that did come across when people spoke to me."
Many Doctors fans think that the show doesn't always get the recognition that it deserves. Do you feel the same way?
"Very strongly, yes - I think the whole cast do. I don't know why that is, because we've delivered episodes that are every bit as good as the evening shows have delivered. I do feel that Doctors is good enough to be in an evening slot. I don't know why we're ignored, to be honest. We're not always ignored and we have had more attention than we did when I first joined the show. But as a cast, we do feel somewhat slighted and insulted by that when we think about the work that we put in and the quality of the work that's delivered. But hey, I suppose that's just showbusiness!"
Doctors also has a strong international following…
"Yes, the extraordinary thing is that we're huge all over the world! I travel a lot, and everywhere you go, people say, 'Oh, Doctors! You're in Doctors!' I mean, Dubai, Zambia - you name it, they watch Doctors! They're avid watchers. Admittedly, some of them are three years behind the British broadcasts - but it's extraordinary when you move around the world and see that this show is going out in so many different countries, and has huge fanbases in them. Here in the UK, we get shown once at 1.45pm and I understand we also get shown later on HD, which doesn't do us an awful lot of good at the moment because so few people have HD.
"But in Dubai it's shown twice a day - including in the evening at 8.30pm - and there's also a two-hour omnibus at the weekend - and yet here it's not, in its home country. I don't know why that is, but it's people who sit in offices who make these decisions."
We asked for questions on our forum, and one thing people were wondering was why Julia always seems to treat Daniel more harshly than the other doctors…
"I think she's coming round to him now - but let's face it, he did ask for it. He behaved very, very badly in the beginning and was always lying and cheating. Julia gave him more than one chance against her better judgement - firstly because she was so fond of Joe and did it for him, and secondly because she saw that Daniel was capable of being an extremely good doctor. I think the reason that she is - or was - harsh with him is because he could have absolutely wiped out her business and closed her surgery down if what he was doing got out. So of course she's harsh - she didn't trust him. But I think now she feels like she can trust him much more because he has settled down and having his little girl has made him much calmer and more reliable. And she's actually made him a partner, so that shows how much she does trust him."
Would you like to see Julia find love again?
"I would in a way, yes - of course I would. I think she was absolutely crazy to let the character played by Ray Fearon go - he said that he loved her and wanted to marry her, but Julia said, 'I don't think so' and I just thought, 'Stupid woman! How many times is someone going to say that to you?' But the writers decided that it wasn't to be! She doesn't have much luck in one way or another, does she really? She even went out with a chief of police who tried to strangle her - that's not very good! (laughs) She married the wrong man twice! I think it would be lovely for her to meet someone, find love again and have a life outside the surgery."
Is there anything else that you'd like to see from Julia?
"With the Lyme disease storyline, we saw her granddaughter and her son - I'd like to see her get closer to her son Patrick. And I'd like to see more of her with her little granddaughter, which we are doing more of. Their last encounter was horrific because Julia left her at the zoo because she was ill, but it would be nice to see more of that part of her life. All we ever really see of Julia is that she goes to PCT meetings, or she's filing, or she's telling off someone, or sticking her nose into somebody else's business! She sorts out people's lives really well, but there's got to be more to Julia's life than that, I think."
Finally, are you happy at Doctors and likely to stay for the foreseeable future?
"Oh gosh, yes! I'm very happy at Doctors. I think there's a lot more to Julia that we haven't explored yet - you always want to take a character further if you can. Every job has its ups and downs and you have your good days and your bad days - we do work fast and sometimes it can get frustrating when you can't do your job to the best of your ability because there just isn't time. But that goes for anyone on the show - the other actors and anybody on the unit - and it's probably true for any production these days, the way our industry is now. It's just a little bit faster than most on this show. But it's a very happy place to be - we're a big family and we have a lot of laughs!"
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Taggart is the oldest Crime TV series in the world. The show is famous for its gory and dark storylines. There have been 24 series of Taggart to date since its original episode Killer on September 6th 1983. The series is set and filmed in Glasgow (Maryhill district). The show can divided into three eras, the Jim Taggart Era (1983 - 1994), the Michael Jardine Era (1994 - 2002) and the Matt Burke Era (2002 - present).
Guest appearances[]
Actors appearing on Taggart episodes over the years include Dave Anderson, Isla Blair, Brad Dourif, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Linda (Muchan) Carmichael, Ian Colquhoun, Annette Crosbie, Alan Cumming, Henry Ian Cusick, Barbara Dickson, Michelle Gomez, Jill Gascoine, Hannah Gordon, Clare Grogan, John Hannah, Morag Hepburn, Celia Imrie, Jason Isaacs, Ashley Jensen, Diane Keen, John McGlynn (in 5 episodes, each as a different character), Ann Mitchell, Andrew-Lee Potts, Peter Mullan, Amanda Redman, Dougray Scott and Ken Stott. Amanda Beveridge Greg Powrie
History[]
The first ever episode of Taggart introduced the main character of Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart who was played by Mark McManus until his death in 1994. Detective Sergeant Peter Livingstone was his original sidekick, who was played by Alastair Duncan, then called Neil Duncan. Taggart's first boss was Superintendent Robert "The Mint" Murray, who only appeared in three episodes and was portrayed by Tom Watson. Afterwards, he was replaced by the character of Jack McVitie, played by actor Iain Anders. He was nicknamed The Biscuit after the well-known brand of biscuits, just as Murray had been named after the sweet of the same name. Jim was married to wife Jean (Harriet Buchan), who spent her life in a wheelchair and they had a daughter named Alison, who only appeared in a few episodes. After Duncan left in 1987, making one final appearance in 1994, James MacPherson joined the cast as Michael "Mike" Jardine, who first made an appearance in The Killing Philosophy (1987). He later rose through the ranks to become a Detective Chief Inspector himself. In 1990, Scottish actress Blythe Duff made an appearance as the then Women Police Constable Jackie Reid in Death Comes Softly. She was later seconded to CID in the next episode Rogues Gallery. The programme has changed over the years and one of those changes was that of the lead character. Mark McManus died in 1994 in the middle of filming an episode and so it was decided to carry on the show without him. That meant Jardine was promoted to Detective Inspector and he even got his own sidekick, Detective Constable Stuart Fraser, who appeared in the 1995 episode Black Orchid, which also showed the funeral of the main character, Jim Taggart. Jean Taggart, now a widower, also made her final appearance. In 1996, in the episode Angel Eyes, Fraser was revealed to be gay, Although Jardine was less than happy about it he eventually showed respect for what Stuart was and he in turn respected him. Iain Anders also continue to stay with the show until his death in 1998. His final appearance was Dead Reckoning. Afterwards, John Michie joined as Detective Inspector Robbie Ross in the episode A Few Bad Men, meaning that Jardine was finally promoted to DCI. Not long afterwards the prgramme started to go downhill a bit, and the writers under the guidance of Philip Hinchliffe, started to concentrate a bit too much on the personal lives of the characters, particularly the triangle between Ross, Reid and Jardine. The character of Brian Holmes was introduced as a minor regular and later became Jackie's boyfriend; the couple later married in the episode Falling in Love, although the marriage was never that simple and they later divorced in Haflway House. Another semi-regular was WPC Heather McIntyre, and there were hints of her starting a relationship with Michael Jardine, though nothing ever came of it. In the episode Death Trap, broadcast in 2002, a new era began once again as Mike was suspended from a murder investigation and Detective Chief Inspector Matthew "Matt" Burke was put in charge. Mike was later killed by being thrown into the River Clyde below and left to be drowned to death. The rest of the team, Jackie, Robbie and Stuart were all devastated - though Burke - revealed to be a former Special Branch officer - was less than sympathetic and didn't want them to be distracted from the job. The character of the pathologist has also changed too, although none of them has lasted longer than Dr Stephen Andrews (Robert Robertson) in the pilot episode in 1983 to until his last appearance in 2001. Next came, forensic pathologist Sheila Crombie, played by Tamara Kennedy and then Gemma Kerr by Leslie Harcourt from 2003 to 2005. The more recent pathologist is Duncan Clark, who made his first appearance in the episode Bad Medicine after the programme underwent a huge revamp. The character is played by Davood Ghadami. After DC Stuart Fraser was axed in 2009, his character disappearing without any explanation, the character of DC Mita Rahim was introduced along with Siobhan Redmond as Chief Superintendent Karen Campbell.
ITV/STV dispute[]
ITV plc, the company that controls the ITV franchises in England, Wales, and the Scottish Borders, had failed to announce whether it planned to show any new episodes of Taggart that STV produces, prompting STV to suspend production of the programme in September 2009. STV later announced, in November 2009, that it would produce new episodes of Taggart for broadcast in 2010 regardless of whether ITV plc decided to screen it. This would have resulted in Taggart only being screened in Central and Northern Scotland if ITV plc had not taken up the option to screen the new series.
However, in February 2010, it was announced that ITV and STV had put their wider commercial differences to one side to make a new series, which Scottish viewers will get to see first. The two broadcasters have co-commissioned a six-part series of the show, with pay-TV broadcaster UKTV also investing in return for repeat rights. New episodes of Taggart debuted on STV in autumn 2010 before being broadcast on ITV across the rest of the UK in 2011. UKTV's Alibi digital channel will show the episodes in 2013. Online catch-up of the new series will not be available to STV Player users until the show is broadcast on ITV1/UTV.[7]
Format and broadcast information[]
The format of the show has changed over the years. Originally the show ran as three one-hour episodes to each story (130 minutes without the adverts). This was later changed to a two-hour stand alone story, which was later shortened to 90 minutes. From 2008 onwards the show became a one-hour stand alone story for the first time since 2003. The DVD rights are held by Clear Vision.
Fans of the show have in the past been frustrated by the scheduling of the show. Although blocks or series of the show are filmed, they are often not shown together as with other series. They are usually just fitted into the schedule wherever there is a gap, meaning they are often not shown in consecutive weeks or on one set night of the week. Often months will pass between episodes of the same series being shown.
One particular example can be seen in 2008. The last two episodes of the 23rd series, "The Caring Game" and "Lifeline", were the last of the 90 minute episodes filmed before the new one hour format began. However, these were not broadcast at the time. Instead the ITV network broadcast all five episodes from the 24th series and the first episode of the 25th series, all one hour episodes. "The Caring Game", was then shown on 14 November. This meant that the episode was shown well out of sequence. In the episode, DI Ross is faced with the choice of leaving for Canada, with his ex-wife and son, or staying in Glasgow. However, viewers already knew that Ross was not leaving the programme, as numerous future episodes had already been broadcast. The other missing episode "Lifeline", was finally broadcast on 30 December of that year.
Theme music[]
The programme's theme music is "No Mean City" composed by Mike Moran. The vocals were originally performed by Maggie Bell, formerly a member of Stone the Crows. Between 1999 and 2009, the theme appeared only as an instrumental version, but the original lyrics were restored in 2010, with the tune re-recorded by singer, Karina Smillie.
Cast[]
Current cast[]
Blythe Duff as WPC/DC/DS/DI Jackie Reid (1990–present)
John Michie as DI Robbie Ross (1998–present)
Alex Norton as DCI Matt Burke (2002–present)
Siobhan Redmond as Chief Supt. Karen Campbell (2010–present)
Davood Ghadami as Pathologist Duncan Clark (2010–present)
Anneika Rose as DC/DS Mita Rahim (2010–present)
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Jeannette Allard
Burlington
Our dear mother Jeannette Allard sadly passed away on August 8, 2022, at the age of 87. She was a wonderful mother who was always there when we needed her. Her kind and loving spirit will be missed. She was born in Berkshire Vermont in 1934, to Emile Philippon and Stella Jette. She spent her youth growing up on a dairy farm near Richford Vermont and had many wonderful stories to tell of those times. She moved to Burlington in 1954. Over the years, she had many friends and was a well-loved member of the community in Burlington Vermont. Everyone that met her thought she was a sweet lady. She was predeceased by her husband, Phillip Allard who died in 1992 and granddaughter, Heather Allard. She is survived by her daughter, Deborah and Robert Daly of Shaftsbury Vermont, and sons Brian and Kristin Allard of Colchester Vermont, Bruce and Marilyn Allard and Gary Allard of Burlington Vermont, Brothers Norman and Lucia Philippon of Los Angeles, California., Albert and Nancy Philippon of Bellevue Nebraska, Robert and Suzanne Philippon of Pisgah North Carolina, Leonard Philippon of Swanton Vermont. She has ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren, three of which live in Kodiak Alaska, all of whom she loved dearly.
During her lifetime she enjoyed camping at Lake Carmi. She took great pride in her yard and gardens and spent many hours there. Some of her favorite hobbies over the years were, country line dancing, crafting, going to garage sales and playing cards with family. She spent many years as a volunteer at the Champlain Valley Fair, which she loved, ushering at concerts, and where she sold her crafts and helped out wherever she could. During her working years, she worked as a secretary at General Electric and later as a cashier for both Price Chopper and PC grocery chains. Her great joy was spending holidays with family, especially Christmas where she enjoyed decorating her home. She will be dearly missed by her family.
Graveside service info: August 11, 2022 at 1:00 PM in Lakeview Cemetery
In lieu of flowers- donations in her honor can be made to Humane Society of Chittenden County https://www.hsccvt.org/
Or the McLure Miller Respite House in Colchester Vermont
https://www.uvmhomehealth.org/donations/make-an-online-donation/
Gregory Edward Berg
Nov. 26, 1971-Aug. 3, 2022
Montgomery- -Gregory Edward Berg, 50, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022.
He was born in Boston MA on Nov. 26, 1971, the son of Richard and Katherine Berg. Greg was a loving father and friend and would help anyone to the point of giving his shirt off his back or his last dollar to help someone in need.
Greg is survived by his son, Carter, his ex-wife, Rebecca Terhune, his mother and father: Katherine and Richard Berg; his brother, Richard Berg (Robin Williamson) as well as a host of family and friends.
Greg was predeceased by his sister, Marusia Berg, paternal grandmother, Janina Zedzik, maternal grandmother and grandfather, Mieczyslawa and Gregory Scherstiuk and father -in-law, James “Jim” Terhune.
A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.
Rodney Murray
Essex Jct.- -Rodney C. Murray, 73, passed away on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022 after a hard fought battle with melanoma. He was born and raised in Burlington, the son of Chester and Thelma (LaFrance) Murray and brother to Gail Thompson.
Rod attended Burlington schools, graduating from Burlington High School, then enlisted in the U. S. Air Force. He served four years as a Fire Prevention Specialist, finishing his tour as a Staff Sergeant.
Rod graduated from Champlain College with a degree in accounting and his career spanned fifty years in public and private sectors. He truly valued his coworkers and the many clients he served over the years.
Rod’s favorite charities were the Burlington Food Shelf and Salvation Army. For 25 years he collected turkeys and delivered them there for Thanksgiving dinners. A special thank you to Home, Health & Hospice, especially Nurse Gale Smith. We are forever grateful.
When he could no longer play baseball or golf himself, he continued to enjoy watching the Yankees play. For many years he was a race fan at Thunder Road and a fan of the Lake Monsters. Sad to see a good man who enjoyed life so much leave us but we look forward to seeing him again in a better place.
Rod married Linda (LaPlant) in 1968 and, together, they raised three children: Catrina DiNapoli, Amy Goodman and Dan Murray; all of whom survive him. He delighted in his three grandchildren: Jordan DiNapoli, Isaiah DiNapoli and Graycie Elkins as well as two step-grandchildren: Caleb and Hannah Goodman. In addition to these loved ones he leaves behind his sister, Gail Thompson, her daughter, Jennifer and her sons. He also leaves Linda’s surviving siblings and their families, his two sons-in-law: Rob DiNapoli and Dave Goodman, and daughter-in-law, Charlene Murray. Rod leaves behind several close friends and extended family members, including a cousin whom he had a special bond with, Neil Abare.
Visitation will be on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022 from 12 noon to 1pm in Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home, 97 Elmwood Ave., Burlington with a Mass of Christian Burial at 1:30 pm in St. Joseph Cathedral, Allen St., Burlington. Interment, with Military Honors, will follow in New Mount Calvary Cemetery, Plattsburgh Ave., Burlington.
Those wishing may send memorial contributions to either Burlington Salvation Army, 64 Main St., Burlington, VT 05401 or Feeding Chittenden Food Shelf, 228 No. Winooski Ave., Burlington, VT 05401.
Valerie (Kent) Bernard
Valerie (Kent) Bernard, 72, born June 3, 1950, passed away suddenly on Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at her home. Valerie was born in Burlington, Vermont to Barbara (Adams) and Parke Kent of Shelburne, both now deceased.and She is survived by her daughter Laura (Bernard) Pentenrieder and Laura’s husband, Justin and their daughter Tara; her daughter Jessica Bernard and her partner, Kevin Christopher; sister Leslie (Kent) Merrick and her husband, Marvin (deceased); brothers: Chris Kent, Jon Kent and his wife Julie, and Nick Kent, along with many beloved nieces, nephews and extended family members, including Patty LaRose and Carol Adams.
Valerie especially loved the Golden Girls, poetry, garage sales, and spending time with her friends, neighbors and family. Some of her happiest moments were at the park with her daughters and granddaughter and going out to dinner and events with her friends and neighbors. Valerie looked forward to visiting with her sister and brothers each summer and treasured the time she had with the people she loved.
A memorial lunch for family and friends will be held Saturday, July 30th from 1:00-2:30 at the Shelburne Town Hall followed by a private burial with family in Shelburne Village Cemetery.
Valerie’s family would like to thank the Howard Center for the support they provided to her in her final years which allowed her to live the life she wanted.
Donations can be made to the Howard Center, 300 Flynn Ave., Burlington, VT
in acknowledgement of their services and support for people living with mental illness
Arrangements by Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home.
Marian Julia Trayah
May 6, 1926 – July 20, 2022
Colchester
Marian passed away unexpectedly from health issues at UVM Medical Center on July 20th surrounded by her loving family. Born in Clinton MA on May 6, 1926.
Marian is predeceased by her Father & Mother - Michael & Amelia (Thomas) Augis, Husband - Albert Trayah, Daughter - Jeanette Trayah and siblings: Michalina Augis, John Augis, Helen Humphrey & Betty Drusinskas.
Marian is survived by her 3 Children Joesph Trayah, Diane Barker and George Trayah.
Marian has many grandchildren and great grandchildren that were all a huge part of her life.
She helped raise her granddaughters, Nickole Duval and Misty Trayah as well as her grandson Gary Trayah.
She was a strong willed women who gave her all for her family and friends. She was a devout Roman Catholic at St. Joseph’s Cathedral, praying the Rosary and was a member of St. Joseph’s Confraternity, attending many meetings and events.
She made sure she taught her family all about their heritage of Lithuania. She knew how to speak some words and a childhood rhyme in Lithuanian. She made sure to pass that knowledge and rhyme on to the younger generation of the family. This rhyme was similar to “This little piggy”.
She worked at the UVM Medical Center (formerly know as Fletcher-Allen Healthcare) on Shepherdson 4 and McClure 5, for 27 yrs as a CNA.
Prior to that, she was employed on an array of jobs including mill jobs such as reupholstering furniture, making purses, books and much more. She even did some bartending, as well as retail.
She always gave her all no matter what she accomplished. She loved to sew and crochet making grandkids costumes and coworkers Christmas Ornaments. She was well known by coworkers for making popcorn for everyone on her shift, as a treat.
She loved horses and the Ocean.
Her kind and loving heart made huge impacts on everyone she met then and now. She loved being called Gram by everyone. Because of this, she will be greatly missed by all.
Visitation will be this Friday, July 29, 2022
at Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home, 97 Elmwood Ave., Burlington from 12 noon-1pm
followed by her Mass of Christian Burial at 1:30 being celebrated in St. Joseph’s Cathedral.
Later interment will be held next to her husband in Colchester Village Cemetery
Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 1:15pm.
Grace Saunders
Colchester- - Grace E. Saunders, Grandma Grace, 92, born January 24, 1930 and died July 20, 2022.
Grace is now with her angels and family in paradise.
Mom passed away peacefully on July 20, 2022 to be with her husband, Arthur, her daughter, Lynn, her mom and dad, Sam and Emily and a son-in-law, Donald Miner.
Grace was a wonderful wife, mother and grandma to many.
She is survived by her son, Craig, her wonderful daughter-in-law, Mary; grandchildren: Tasha and husband, Justin, Richie, Alahna, Teegan, Dillan, James, Sam and Patrick and wife, Michelle; great granddaughter, Khloe and Grace's sister, Carol Miner.
Grace was very active in the community and was always there to lend a helping hand. Grace's most proud achievement was the many years and countless hours working as a teacher's aide at Mallett's Bay Elementary School. She touched many lives there and was always affectionately knows as "Grandma Grace". Grace's crowning achievement was receiving an award from the State of Vermont for her teacher's aide work through Americore. She was presented this award from then Governor, Peter Shumlin in Montpelier.
Services will be held at
Elmwood Meunier Funeral Chapel 97 Elmwood Ave Burlington Vt
On Friday July 29th 2022
Visitation is from 6 pm to 7 pm with Services starting at 7 pm.
Joy Noel Ladue
35 of Milton Vermont passed away unexpectedly on July 9th 2022 at her home from a long battle with addiction.
Joy was born on January 6th, 1987 to Candance and Francis (Frank) Ladue in Burlington, Where she grew up and went to school. As a child Joy enjoyed visiting Grandma Judy, eating homemade bread and her wonderful fudge. She also enjoyed playing Chinese jump rope with her childhood friend Ashley. As she grew, so did her love for her parents. She was daddy’s little girl. She had a deep passion for animals, especially dogs. In her spare time she loved to fish, hike, camp and travel. Myrtle beach was her favorite place. Aside from time with her family, they were her heart. She loved time spent with them all.
Joy was a beautiful, intelligent, confident young lady with an amazing soul, Who fell into addiction. No matter what we loved and supported her. She did eventually regain control of her life for many years, as the fight within herself continued. She prevailed though. Starting her own cleaning business, that took off with flying colors. She was so happy and proud of her success. The battle she fought on a daily basis was hard, so hard she could not conquer it. Her disease finally won. If you, or someone else is fighting this battle please know there is help and people that love you. Reach out don’t be ashamed or embarrassed. No matter what there is always loved ones there to lend a hand, ear, shoulder and to give you the love and support you need.
Joy was pre-deceased in life by her paternal grandparents Judy and Richard Ladue. Her Uncle Dominic Ladue, Uncle John Ladue and her Aunt Theresa Ladue. Joy is also pre-deceased in life by her maternal Grandfather Reginald Sears.
Joy leaves behind her partner Tyler of Milton
Her parents Candance and Francis Ladue of Burlington and her brother Richard Ladue also of Burlington. Her Aunt Marjorie Ladue of New Mexico and her Uncle Richard and partner. Her Aunt Christie Delphia, Uncle Casey Sears both of Burlington. Aunt Cari Charbonneau of New York. And her Aunt Cassandra (Cj) Morgan and husband Mike of Burlington. Too many cousins to name all and an abundance of friends that she made her family.
Services will be held at
Elmwood Meunier Funeral And Cremation Center 97 Elmwood Ave Burlington Vt
On Thursday July 14th 2022 from 6 till 8pm.
A life celebration will be held at a later time. It will be made public on Facebook.
Memorials may be made to Joys Gofundme on Facebook c/o Cj Morgan.
Chester “Chet” Henry Brothers, Jr.
Colchester- -Chester Henry Brothers, Jr., 82, passed away peacefully at the McClure-Miller Respite House In Colchester
surrounded by his loving family on Sunday, July 3, 2022, after a long battle with numerous health issues. Chet was born on September 2 ,1939, in Burlington, to Chester and Frances (Labelle) Brothers. He graduated from Burlington High School in 1958. He continued his long and prosperous career in Burlington in the printing industry. Chet was well known in the Burlington area, owning multiple printing companies – employing many in the community. He had a passion for the cab industry as a dispatcher and driver for many local cab companies.
Chet will be remembered as a loving father who coached his children in multiple sports, also as an avid fisherman, spending many hours in his boats out on Lake Champlain, his love of NASCAR and his $1Bet and absolute love of the Boston Celtics. Chet was well known in the community for his generosity, caring nature to always help out and lend an ear or share a great story. Chet could fill a room with laughter with his one lines and many pranks.
Chet leaves behind his children and spouses: Randall Brothers of Rutland, Lisa Germaine and Mark of Colchester, Julie Duggan and Michael of Colchester, Melanie Brothers Egan and Kelly of Chicago, Joseph Hoffnung of Brooklyn, Nicole Sorrell and her partner, Michael Sugrue of Williamstown, Matthew Brothers and Erin of Calais; 7 Grandchildren: Ashley Prushko and her husband Chris, Bailey, Caroline, Ryan and fiancé Hannah McAllister, Jake, Nathan, and Ambrose; 4 Great Grandchildren: Katelyn, Shaunna, James, and Carter. Two sisters Beverly Tanner of Burlington and Brenda Atherton of Sheldon; brother-In-law, Jack “Butch” McSweeney, Mother of some of his children, Melodie (Maynard) Bean and several nieces and nephews, whom he had a special bond with.
He was predeceased by his sister, Annie McSweeny, Daughter-in-law, Jennifer (Hoover) Brothers, brothers-in-law: Douglas Atherton, George Forest and Malc olm Tanner and the mother of some of his children, Mary Ester Stephens.
Visitation at Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Chapel, 97 Elmwood Ave. will be held Thursday July 7th from 12-1 pm. His Memorial Service will begin at 1 pm. A Graveside Interment, will be held at Lakeview Cemetery, 455 North Avenue, Burlington immediately following
Memorial Contributions may be made McClure-Miller Respite House, 3113 Roosevelt Hgwy, Colchester, VT 05446
Go to link for donations https://www.UVM home health.org/donations/.
Robert E. Senghas
SHELBURNE – Robert E. Senghas 93, a resident of Wake Robin Retirement Community in Shelburne, died at Wake Robin on 6/26/22 of natural causes.
He was born on June 30th, 1928, in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Erwin William Senghas and Lydia Mueller Senghas.
Bob graduated from Lakewood High School in Lakewood High School in Lakewood, Ohio. In 1950 he graduated from Yale College, and he earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School (1953). In September 1952 he married Dorothy Caiger; she predeceased him in 2002 after 50 happy years together.
He served as an officer on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps for two years. Then Bob practiced law in San Francisco for five years, until he decided to become a Unitarian Universalist minister. He graduated in 1963 with a M.Div. from the Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, California; that school awarded him an honorary S.T.D. in 1984.
He served as minister in Unitarian churches in Davis, California and Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. He was the minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Burlington, Vermont (the church at the head of Church Street) from 1979 to 1989, when he retired. From 1974 to 1979 Bob was the Executive Vice President of his denomination, the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (the UUA), representing the New Hampshire Vermont District, and on the UUA Board Finance Committee.
Bob is survived by three sons: in Florida, Frederick Christian Senghas; in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, Edward Caiger Senghas and his wife Maureen Cotter; and in Vermont, Stuart Bailey Senghas and his wife Alicia Wein Senghas. He is also survived by Frederick’s children Matthew Senghas and Sarah Hall and Sarah’s husband Brian Hall and their daughter Emma, by Stuart’s children Nathan, Lydia, and Isaiah, and by the many nieces and nephews and their children. In addition, he is survived by an identical twin brother, the Rev. Richard E. Senghas of Scarborough, Maine.
He served on several boards, including Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, the Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS) in Burlington, and the Vermont Mozart Festival Board. In 1965 Bob participated in the civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama.
Since 1982 he has been a practicing Zen Buddhist, a nonresident of the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, N.Y. and a senior student of it’s abbot, the late John Daido Loori, Roshi, as well as a founding member of the Zen Affiliate of Burlington and of the Unitarian Universalist Buddhist Fellowship.
He is the author of the book Cycles of Reflection and enjoyed playing the viola, having played in the Amateur Musicians Orchestra (AMO) and the University of Vermont Orchestra as well as chamber groups.
A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, September, 10, 2022 from, 2-4pm at the First Unitarian Universalist Church at the head of Church Street in Burlington.
Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made to one’s favorite charity.
Arrangements are by Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home of Burlington.
Lila Mae (Shepard) Francis
Lila Mae (Shepard) Francis, age 99, of South Burlington, VT, passed away peacefully on Friday June 17th, 2022 in her home surrounded by loving family. Lila was born in South Burlington on April 28th, 1923 the Daughter of the late Vernon and Sarah (Blair) Shepard. She is predeceased by her Husband Albert C Francis (1992) and Son Gary Lynn Francis Sr of NH, as well as her Siblings Robert, Warren, Vinnie, Richard, Verna, Betty, Hilda, Rita, and Bertha. Mother of (Stepson) Loren (Ann) Francis of FL, Claudia (Hank) Schneveis of WI, Sharon (Michael) Charbonneau of FL, Lou Ann Francis of VT and Daughter-in-Law Lori Francis of NH. Lila leaves behind 4 Generations of Family including: 21 Grandchildren; 42 Great Grandchildren; and 34 Great Great Grandchildren as well as many Nieces and Nephews.
Lila was a housekeeper, a seamstress, and a bus girl. When she retired she became a homemaker to take care of her then 3 year old Grandson, Dennis Hookstadt.
She lived through a great depression and a great recession. Through a world war that killed more people than every other war in human history combined. The Kennedy assassination, the Cuban missile crisis. Saw the first human walk on the moon, was alive to see 17 presidents of the USA. She watched the fall of the USSR, the birth of the TV, the dawn of the Internet age. Experienced the rise and then destruction of the World Trade Center. Saw the British Empire fizzle out, and not one but 2 pandemics.
Linda (Mossey) Gomez
St. Albans- -Linda Gomez, 65, passed away into peace on May 29, 2022. Born March 13, 1957, the daughter of Jack Mossey and Betty Delorme (St. Amour). Linda enjoyed sewing, crocheting, needle point and country music. She loved putting hot sauce on everything she ate. She is survived by her sons: Earl Katon, II of Alburgh, VT, Dennis Hodgdon of Craftsbury, VT and daughter, Angel Plank of Swanton, VT, her brothers: Richard Baker (Judy) of Milton, VT, Louis Mossey of MT Holly, VT and Mark Marshall of Newport, VT, sisters: Bev Senna (James) of Colchester, VT, Diane Bisram (James) of Fort Myers, FL, Sandy Turco (Dennis) of Ludlow, VT, Deb Aldrich of Enfield, NH, Donna Mossey of Grand Isle, VT, several nieces and nephews, 5 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren and brother-in-law, Gerald Fields. She was predeceased by both parents Jack Mossey and Betty Delorme, sisters; Ruth Langlois, Liz Fields, Theresa Justice and brother, Jack Mossey, Jr.
Burial will be held at Lakeview Cemetery, North Ave., Burlington on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 11am.
Arrangements by Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home, Burlington
Roger Ballard
After joining this world on May 7, 1955, our father, Roger, passed away on June 8, 2022 after an illness. Roger was a troubled man, for sure. But if you got to know him when he was in a good spot, he was the person you'd want to be around. He'd give his shirt off his back for you and tell you the best jokes. His sense of humor was one of a kind. He was in the army until an injury abruptly ended his career. That injury set him up for the rest of his life and the choices he'd made.
He leaves behind his two daughters, Crystal Goodman (and her spouse Tim), Jennifer McSweeney (and her spouse Lloyd) and his son Eric. Roger has five beautiful grandchildren that he would be proud of today.
Due to his strained relationships with his children, we'd like to thank the staff and residents at Queen City Rehab for being there with him.
As his children, we wish we got to see the Roger you all saw toward the end.
Dad, you're finally at peace, with the rest of your family, and that's what matters to us.
Brigid A. Beebe
Brigid A. Beebe
Essex Jct.- -Brigid A. Beebe, 74, died on Monday, May 23, 2022 at McClure-Miller Respite House in Colchester.
She was born on March 11, 1948 in Rutland, the daughter of John J. and Mary E. (Moore) Beebe. She was educated in Fair Haven and graduated from The Jeanne Mance School of Nursing. She worked in Pediatrics and Long Term Care, retiring from Wake Robin in Shelburne.
She is survived by her brother, John Beebe, sister, Mary Beebe; her brother-in-law and wife, Mike and Joanne Fenton; sister-in-law, Nancy Young; nieces: Debbie Singleton, Erin Beebe and Jaime Yott, Liz Fenton and Jen Ellis; nephew and wife, John and Erin Fenton; great nieces and nephews: Kayden and Emily Singleton, Henry and Eleanor Fenton and Helen Fenton. Brigid is also survived by her Fenton Family; Janice Avery, Jerry and Mary Fenton, Gayl Sanderson and Alan Fenton.
Along with her parents, she was predeceased by her brother, Burt J. Beebe, sister, Teresa Beebe Fenton and sister-in-law, Ann Beebe.
A Memorial Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 11am in Holy Family Church, Essex Jct. Memorial Contributions may be made to either McClure-Miller Respite House, 3113 Roosevelt Hgwy, Colchester, VT 05446 or to the UVM Home Health and Hospice.
Arrangements in care of Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home, Burlington.
Donald E. Savage, Jr.
Donald E. Savage, Jr.
Burlington- -Donald E. Savage, Jr., 57, passed away peacefully in his sleep at home on Friday, April, 29, 2022.
He was born in Burlington on July 2, 1964, the son of Donald E., Sr. and Shirley (Forman) Savage. He served his country honorably in the U.S. Army during Desert Storm and in the VT Army National Guard. He was a Master Carpenter having worked for C-Store Construction for well over a decade and, recently, had started his own business, Don Savage 24/7.
Don was an amazing woodworker, creating so many beautiful things. He could complete any project needed… truly gifted. He also was an avid chef with experience in the food industry. Most of all, he was an amazing Dad, living for his son, Gage. “There is no greater bond than between a father and his son.”
Along with his son, Gage Savage, and Gage’s mom, Kelli McGovern of Colchester, he is survived by his sisters: Sandy White and daughter, Taneisha White of Winooski and Dona and husband, Robert Marcotte, Jr. and their children: Brooke and Braxton Marcotte of Colchester as well as many aunts, uncles, cousins and so many cherished friends.
He was predeceased by his parents.
A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, May 7 from 1-4 p.m. at the Burlington VFW, Post #782, 176 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington.
Those wishing may send a memorial contribution to their Charity of Choice.
Frank “Frankie” Wayne Highley, III
Frank “Frankie” Wayne Highley, III
Burlington- -Frankie, 24, passed away unexpectedly at home on Friday, April 22, 2022.
He was born on September 4, 1997 in Burlington to Mary Wright of Burlington and Paul Miller (who raised him as his own) of Winooski. Frank attended Colchester Schools where he excelled in sports. Frankie enjoyed spending time with his family. He was truly a big brother to Jayden by getting involved and playing sports with him. In addition to being a big brother to his little sister, Jessa, he was her hero and protector. Frankie was well liked and loved by anyone who knew him. His smile will never be forgotten. He had a big heart and was willing to help anyone that needed it.
Frankie leaves his mother, Mary Wright, step-father, Paul Miller (Nicole): his brother, Jayden and sister, Jessa: grandparents, Art and Darlene Thomas; many aunts and uncles: Susan and Kyle Brunelle, Joe and Tiffany, Steve and Marcie, Tabitha and Justin, Dorothy and John and Lori Ann along with many cousins and other family members.
He was predeceased by his maternal grandparents, Steve and Darlene Wright.
Visitation is on Saturday, May, 7, 2022, from 1-2pm at Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Chapel, 97 Elmwood Ave. with Memorial Services at 2pm.
Any monetary donations may be sent to: Howard Center For Substance Abuse, 208 Flynn Ave. Ste. 3J, Burlington, VT 05401 or St. Nicholas Project, Kurn Hatin School, P. O. Box 127,. Westminster, VT 05158.
our of obituaries Kevin Christopher Deeb
Kevin Christopher Deeb, 53, of 256 Northgate Road, Burlington Vermont passed away at home after a long fierce battle with Pulmonary Hypertension on April 4, 2021. Kevin was a loving husband, of 30 years, to Valerie Leavitt-Deeb and a proud father to Richard Philip Deeb.
Kevin was born to Phillip J Deeb and Mary Jane (Verville) Deeb on September 22, 1967 at Glens Falls Hospital in Glens Falls, New York.
Kevin was raised in Glens Falls, New York and graduated Glens Falls High school where he played football and baseball. Kevin continued his education studying business at Manatee Community College in Bradenton, Florida after the family moved in 1988.
In 1990, Kevin moved to Burlington, Vermont where he remained throughout his adult life. Kevin was a very hard worker holding down at least 2 jobs most of his life. Primarily, Kevin worked at IBM as a wafer test technician and at UPS as a loader. He often augmented this busy schedule with other jobs like Domino’s delivery and Elderwood Care Center.
Kevin’s true passion was people. Kevin was very sociable and well liked with a personality as bright as his red hair. Wherever he was, he easily met people and welcomed them into his life with a laugh and sarcastic humor. Co-workers enjoyed his company as he set a rapid pace with a laugh and lots of humor. You could always determine Kevin’s presence due to laugh or others laughing around him and usually made jokes at his own expense. Kevin always knew someone everywhere he went no matter if it was the doctors or the people emptying the trash bins, he welcomed everyone equally. Kevin would talk sports all day long if he could as he was a fan of Boston Sports and Nascar. Everyone in the neighborhood knew him and all the kids flocked to his door. During snowstorms he would be out snow blowing everyone’s sidewalk and parking space complaining and loving it at the same time. He would sit on the porch watching the planes fly over on Flight tracker with his binoculars and then tell you all about the flights including stories about why people may be traveling. His favorite was seeing the Green Mountain Boys in their new aircraft. He loved staring into the woods behind the house watching all of the deer’ roam by during the night and hoping at some point he would get a picture of Sasquatch.
The last few years Kevin volunteered as a sitter at Elderwood Care Center until they finally brough him on because staff and residents all looked forward to his presence. He loved interacting with the people, even though most did not realize he was struggling with a disease worse than most of the residents. He enjoyed talking football, hockey and NASCAR.
Kevin’s life was never about him; he wanted the focus on everyone else, never wanting to let on to anyone his personal struggles. Kevin would move heaven and earth for those he loved, trying to be present for every occasion, ball game or whatever was going on.
Kevin was a unicorn in many rights, battling Pulmonary Hypertension for over 20 years, mentoring, and advocating for others who were diagnosed, teaching new physicians and nurses about the disease at University of Vermont school of medicine, and was a trial patient for almost every medicine that is being used for PAH patients today. Demonstrating once again that he gave of himself for others.
Kevin was predeceased by Renee Marie Deeb his sister.
Kevin is survived by his wife Valerie Leavitt-Deeb, His son Richard Phillip Deeb who inherited the same generous spirit and love of laughter as his father, his parents, Phillip and Mary Jane Deeb of Bradenton, Florida, his sister Denee Anne Aldana of Bradenton, Florida and brother Jean-Paul Deeb of Tampa, Florida, the Leavitt and Poratti family’s as well as many aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews from the Deeb, Leavitt, Poratti and Aldana families.
Arrangements are in care of Elmwood-Meunier Funeral and Crematorium. In lieu of flowers please feel free to donate to the Pulmonary Hypertension Association. https://phassociation.org/ or contact the Deeb family.
Clifford K. Gardner, Jr.
Burlington/St. Albans- -Clifford K. Gardner, Jr. 73, passed away on Saturday, March 20, 2021 at Queen City Health & Rehab in Burlington.
He was born in Burlington on August 24, 1947, the son of Clifford K. Gardner, Sr. and Ruth (Pecor) Gardner-Moquin. He was employed as a painter for many years and enjoyed drawing and painting pictures and participating in Care Partners.
He leaves three sisters: Debbie Crosby and partner, James Blow, Pauline Reynolds and Marsha Owens; three brothers: Gary Gardner and wife, Julie, Steven Moquin and Richard Moquin; two step-brothers: Henry Moquin and wife, Lisa and Danny Moquin; several nieces, nephews, cousins and especially his niece, Christina and husband, Larry Raymond, whom he lived with for the past ten years and took special care of him.
Along with his parents, Clifford was predeceased by three sisters: Carol Groff , Marilyn and Mary Jane Gardner and two brothers: Henry Gardner and Michael Gardner, Sr. whom Clifford was very close to.
A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. Elmwood-Meunier in Charge.
Janice (Tebeau) Robar
So. Burlington- -Janice M. Robar, 85, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 at McClure-Miller Respite House, Colchester.
She was born on Dec. 26, 1935 in Burlington to Howard and Katherine (Hanley) Tebeau, then of Winooski.
She worked for her son, Paul Robar, Jr at Benways-Morf Transit for 39 years. Janice loved being around her family. She was the most caring and compassionate person, always helping anyone in need. She loved going to the bingo’s with her sister, Shirley Lafrance. She loved being a mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She was the best. She was a beautiful person inside and out.
She is survived by her son, Ron Robar of Colchester, daughter, Lois Robar, her grandsons and granddaughters: Joe Robar and wife, Melissa of Hinesburg, Carrie, Billy, Nikki, Jack, Trendan, Kevin and Robby; her great grandchildren: Jeydan, Cayden, Carter, Colby and Kellan; her favorite niece, Kim Lafrance, along with several other nieces and nephews and a very close friend of the family, Karen Lavallette.
Along with her parents, Janice was predeceased by her husband, Paul Robar, Sr., her son, Paul Robar, Jr., her daughter, Cathy Robar, her best friend and sister, Shirley Lafrance, along with nine other sisters and one brother.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, Mar. 6, 2021 at 11am in St. Joseph Cathedral, Burlington. Spring Interment will be held in New Mount Calvary Cemetery,Plattsburgh Ave., Burlington.
Those wishing may said Memorial Contributions in care of Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home, 97 Elmwood Ave., Burlington, VT, 05401 to be used at the family’s discretion.
Lois Ann Holbrook “NON”
Burlington- -Lois passed away peacefully at her residence on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. She was born on June 17, 1931 to Robert O. and Etta May (Foster) Holbrook in St. Johnsbury.
Lois graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1950. She then furthered her education with a B.A. in Education from Rockford College in 1954, as well as her M.A. as a Specialist in Education from Northern Colorado University in 1967. Lois was then employed by the Burlington School System. She was the first Director of the Early Education Center, as well as Director of Special Education until her retirement in 1985. At this time, she received the Distinguished Service Award from UVM College of Education and Social Services. Lois then spent several years working with Trinity College from 1989 to 1996. Lois spent her days and evenings volunteering at the Flynn Theatre, Sisters of Mercy, Shelburne Library, as well as at C.O.T.S. Committee on Temporary Shelter. Lois also spent several of her younger years with the Red Cross, both in the U.S. and overseas, a time in her life, she enjoyed very much.
She is survived by her sister, Sandra Holbrook of Milton, as well as Sandy’s son, Gary and his wife Tammy and their two children, Jamie and Kayla and several nieces, nephews and their families.
Along with her parents, she was predeceased by her brother, Kenneth and wife, Ruth of St. Johnsbury, her sisters: Marion and husband, Samuel Handy of St. Johnsbury and Beverly and husband, George Hopkins of Lyndonville, as well as her K-9 companion, Benji.
No Memorial Services will be held at this time. Donations may be made in Lois Holbrook’s name to C.O.T.S. A spreading of her ashes will be held at a later date in the Memorial Gardens of the Unitarian Universalist Society.
Christopher J. Williams
Christopher J. Williams
Burlington- -Christopher J. Williams, 60, passed away unexpectedly at home on Monday, Feb. 1, 2021.
He was born in Burlington on Jan. 31, 1961, the son of Rollin B. and Ruth J. (Palmer) Williams. He was a long time dispatcher and taxi driver for Benway’s Cab and later with other cab companies. He was an avid Red Sox fan and enjoyed playing pool, cribbage, pinochle and hunting. He was a former member of the Burlington Eagles Club.
He leaves his daughter, Crystal Williams, grand daughter, Nevaeh Perry, son, Christopher J. Williams, Jr., his brother, Dennis J. Williams and wife, Laurie and a niece, Jessica Cota
Spring Committal Services will be held in Ft. Ethan Allen Cemetery, Rt. 15, Colchester at a time to be announced.
Memorial Contributions may be made to the Jimmy Fund, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, P.O. Box 849168, Boston, MA 02284.
For a full obituary go to www.Elmwood Meunier.net.
Melvin A. Prim, Sr.
Melvin A. Prim, Sr.
Burlington- -Melvin A. Prim, Sr., 82, passed away at home on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021.
He was born on Feb. 3, 1938 in Burlington, the son of Chester L. and Margaret D. (Ham) Prim. He served with the US Army Reserves and was employed in construction, as a drywaller. He loved hunting and fishing.
He leaves his partner of 32 years, Theresa McGarghan and her son and wife, Michael and Kelly McGarghan, along with their children: Bradley and Stephanie; Theresa’s daughter and husband, David Peter and their children: Duncan, Silas and Josiah; his daughter, Carina Thompson and husband Patrick and their children: Heather and Amanda; his son, Melvin Prim, II and wife, Brenda and their children: Andrew and Amy; his brother, Virgil Prim and wife, Karen and extended family.
Future Services will be held at the family’s convenience.
Bradley A. Beartheaume, Jr.
Burlington- -Bradley A. Beartheaume, Jr., 56, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, at UVM Medical Center.
He was born in New Britain, CT on May 19, 1964, the son of Bradley A., Sr and Jean M. (Ploof) Beartheaume. He married Darlene Beaupre in Burlington on March 13, 1998. He was a self employed painter and was an avid picker and enjoyed garage sales and wrestling.
He leaves his wife, Darlene, 2 sons: Bradley Burns and Jeffery Savage, 3 grandchildren; step-children: David and Connie Amsden and Dawn and Todd LaValley; 5 step-grandchildren; 7 step-great grandchildren; 2 sisters: Debra Morrison and partner, Bryan Monta and Lisa Beartheaume and her partner, Johnson Soukone. He also leaves a special aunt, Marie Farnsworth, for sitting by his side with love when he was asking for her and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
He was predeceased by his parents and his in-laws: Sonny Mortise, Kevin, Terry and Leroy Beaupre and spouse, Linda; 3 sisters-in-law: Sheila Merits, Brenda Beaupre and Gloria Lafountain.
Visitation is on Wednesday, Jan. 27, from 5-6:30pm in Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Chapel, 97 Elmwood Ave. Funeral Services will begin at 6:30pm in the funeral home. Later interment will be held at 1pm on Monday, Feb. 1 in Mt. Calvary Cemetery Annex, Pomeroy St.
Dale M. McGuire
So. Burlington- -Dale M. McGuire, 61, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021 at McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester.
He was born on Oct. 30, 1959 in Burlington, the son of Vernon and Marion (Francis) McGuire. He was employed mostly in food services at various facilities in the area.
Dale is survived by his children: Dustin Stearns of Jeffersonville and Kala McGuire of Skowhegan, ME.: grandchildren: Gage and Jade Willey; his father, Vernon McGuire and siblings: Vernon, Karen, Danny, Kelly McGuire and Karena Weston.
A Graveside Service will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 at 11am in New Mount Calvary Cemetery, Burlington.
Arrangements in the care of Elmwood-Meunier, Burlington.
Richard Charles Moody
Colchester- -Richard C. Moody, 79, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2021 after a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s Disease. He was surrounded by his family.
Richard was born on March 28, 1941 in Burlington, Vermont to Frank and Anna (Drew) Moody. He graduated from Burlington High School in 1961 and shortly after began his career at IBM that spanned 30 years.
He married the love of his life, Dianne LaVAlley in 1970 and celebrated 50 years of marriage last June. Together they raised 2 daughters.
Richard is survived by his wife, Dianne of Colchester. His daughter Michelle and her partner, Jeffery Willis of Colchester, his granddaughter, Miranda Bushey and her partner, Evan Miller of Waterville, his sisters, Joyce Stone of Essex and Carol and her husband John of Richmond and many nieces, nephews and cousins and a special friend, Elizabeth Shangraw.
Richard was predeceased by his parents, Frank and Anna, his brother, Robert Moody and sadly his daughter, Lisa in 2018.
Richard will always be remembered for his sense of humor, his huge heart and his endless devotion to those he loved.
In his later years, when Parkinson’s disease robbed him of his strength and stamina, he allowed for those of us who loved him to repay the favor of what he taught us all along.
It’s time to rest my fatman, you will always be my hero.
The family would like to thank Dr. Jenn Gilwee, Dr. Jim Boyd, Nurse Laura Turner, from the VNA and a very special thank you to Liz Denton who without her help he would have never made it home.
A Private Service will be held in the spring at St. Paul’s Memorial Garden, Burlington. For Memorial Donations to Parkinson’s Disease, go to their website on Google.
Elmwood-Meunier, Burlington in charge
Wilfred L. Delisle, Sr.
North Hero – Wilfred L. Delisle, 85 passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021 at the UVM Medical Center in Burlington.
He was born to Lester Joseph and Florence Ester (Parrott) Delisle on October 1, 1935 in Montgomery, VT. He served his country honorably with the US Air Force during the Korean Conflict. He married the former Elaine Dubuque Troville on September 21, 1968.
He did farming, worked for the VT highway Dept and was a mechanic with So. Burlington Chrysler Plymouth, JCPenney’s and was also self-employed.
He enjoyed
Tinkering on anything and everything. He loved racing, wrestling, country music and dancing. He loved dogs, especially his Beauty, Bruno, Milo, Otis and Tyson. He most of all loved spending time with his family and friends.
He leaves his 6 sons and daughters-in-laws: Ronnie Tourville, Darrell Troville and his wife Leah, Tim Troville and his wife Colleen, Rick Troville and his wife Laurie, Steve Troville and his wife Sheryl, Wilfred Delisle Jr. and his wife Susan.
2 Daughters and sons-in-law: Norma Deforge Cox and her husband Randy, Doreen Legrand and her husband Philip.
Grandchildren: 21 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren
Siblings: Betty Roy, Lester Delisle, Leora Greenia, Johnny Mitchell.
And several nieces and nephews and cousins.
He was predeceased by: His wife Elaine, all brothers and sisters and his special aunt Ruby Gonyeau.
He also leaves some special family friends Steve Deforge, Amy Russin.
A graveside service will be held in Grand Isle Cemetery later in the year at a time to be announced.
Memorial Donations may be sent to: Franklin County Humane Society, 141 Fairfax Rd., St. Albans, VT 05478.
Henry C. Burawa Jr.
7/13/1965-1/9/2021
Henry Burawa was born in Astoria (Queens), NY, to Susan Majores and Henry Burawa Sr. He was raised in the city by his father, grandmother and foster parents. At the age of 8, Henry and his two younger sisters moved with their father first to Utica, NY and eventually to Vermont when he was 13. Henry lived on Alfred Street in Burlington and then at the Allenbrook Group Home. He graduated from South Burlington High School and went on to attend Job Corps in Vergennes and Southern Vermont and Bennington Colleges.
Henry’s career path as a printer at Lane Press was cut short when, at 23, he was severely injured by a drunk driver in a car accident. After spending months recovering in the hospital relearning to walk and talk, Henry went on to work several jobs including cook at Sneakers, St. Joe’s and UVM, inventory stock manager at SAS Auto, janitor at Rice High School, and crossing guard in Burlington.
Henry was proud of his Jewish heritage. He considered himself a “City Boy” and often said “I’m going to fight to be an individual”. Henry earned a black belt at Shover’s dojo, and fondly recalled being told “This little guy has a lot of Bruce Lee in him”. Henry had a unique style with his signature long hair mullet, leather pants and vest, silver jewelry, bolo tie, and perfectly shined boots. He dreamed of opening his own vintage clothing shop called “Cool Clothes for Rockers and Bluesers”.
Henry felt music in his heart and soul, particularly the blues. He loved to share his voice and guitar with friends. Among Henry’s favorite artists were Paul McCartney, the Beatles, Joe Bonamoso, Etta James, Dan Hicks, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Carlos Santana, Susan Tedeschi, Wynton Marsalis, Billie Holiday, Seals and Crofts, Grace Potter, and Journey.
Henry frequently said “My friends are my family”. And indeed Henry cherished many best friendships: Kristina Olsen - the Pooh (he was by her side through thick and thin - her bodyguard) and her boyfriend Nick Courville, Marty Connors (who he met at Bennington College and with whom he made music over the years), Rod Billings (his longest friend), Donald Goggins (a close friend since job corps), Stanley Carlson (whose company he frequently enjoyed), Maryanne Billings Charbonneau (“best mom ever”), Barry Emmons (whose woodworking skills he admired), Amanda Clark (with whom he shared fun times), and Christine Connors (who he also loved).
On holidays, Henry cooked elaborate meals to share with his friends as well as those he saw in need. He was a loyal person, always there to pick up friends when they fell. Henry had a generous and giving heart - he enjoyed visiting local thrift stores and would often thoughtfully choose unique gifts for those he loved.
Henry was predeceased by his father, grandmother, sister Nicole and godmother Elizabeth Edgar. He leaves behind his younger sisters Laura and Dawn. He is now surrounded by the many animals that he loved: Bubba, Miss Kitty, Bear Poohs, Rod’s dog Tasha, and sweet Claudia who left this world with him.
Henry wished to be an inspiration to never give up. “You put me in a corner and I’m gonna come out swinging” - “If I can do it, anyone can, I was a wreck”. Help carry on Henry’s legacy. Be loyal to those you love and kind to those in need.
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life
bringing peace, abolishing strife.
— Kahlil Gibran
Joan Luise (Unkelbach) Bruns
Joan Luise (Unkelbach) Bruns
So. Burlington- -Joan Luise (Unkelbach) Bruns passed away peacefully on December 1, 2020. She was born on February 8, 1933.
She was born in Riverhead, NY and grew up in Mattituck, NY on the eastern end of Long Island. She graduated from Cornell University School of Nursing. In 1957, she married Leonard Bruns and lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The family moved to Natick, Massachusetts in 1963 and lived there until 2000. She lived by the principle of helping others. She helped manage “A Place to Turn”, a food pantry and in 1985, she founded “Natick’s Open Door” a local soup kitchen which hosted weekly community dinners. She shopped and cooked for five years before turning the reins over to other volunteers. It is still in existence today. She served as a volunteer at Natick Service Council as Vice President for two years and Christmas Packing Chairman for 15 years, providing approximately 100 boxes of food, gifts and clothing each year for needy families.
She was active at the Fisher United Methodist Church in Natick. After moving to Vermont, she joined Faith United Methodist Church in So. Burlington and became involved in the church’s various mission activities. One of her proudest accomplishments was holding a dinner at the church that helped raise funds for the new organ there.
She loved travel and music and was a member of the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston for over 35 years. One of her great joys was attending the annual performance ofHandel’s Messiah every year. She passed her passion for travel and music along to her children and grandchildren. She was politically committted to progressive causes and stayed up to date on the news until her death. She was a proud member of Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, the National Wildlife Federation and other organizations.
She is survived by her son, Paul Bruns (wife, Kate and child, Matt) and her daughter Jean Baker (children; Grace and Jay).
She was predeceased by her son, David Bruns and her husband, Leonard Bruns, both in 2010.
If desired, memorial contributions can. Be made to Planned Parenthood or Northern New England, ACLU or the National Wildlife Federation. A Memorial Service is planned for the spring.
Gary D. Greene
Gary D. Greene
Williston- -Gary D. Greene, 73, passed away at home on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020.
He was born in San Francisco, CA on June 24, 1947, the son of Godfrey D. And Edna A. (McNaught) Greene. He grew up in Redwood City, CA, where he graduated from Woodside High School in 1966. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, and joined the MAC division where he served in Germany for 3 years. When he retired from the service he moved back home and joined PSA Airlines as a Customer Service Agent. Then, with US Air, he moved to Vermont where he lived and worked for many years. He enjoyed travelling, skiing and his family.
Among his survivors are his son, Bryce Greene and brother John G. Greene, and many friends.
In retirement Gary was challenged with diabetes and other health problems. Please donate to the American Diabetes Association in his name; 1-800-342-2383 or mail to: American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 7023, Merriefield, VA. 22116-7023.
Spring Interment, with Military Honors, will be accorded in VT. Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery, Randolph.
Lawrence E. Lapointe
Charlotte- -Larry Lapointe, 87, passed away unexpectedly at his home on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020.
He was born on July 5, 1933 in Rutland, the son of Edward and Anna (McGrath) Lapointe. He joined the VT Army National Guard and served for nearly 38 years, being discharged in 1993. He also worked in masonary with Bossey Concrete Products and Paul Salary, building fireplaces. Larry later worked at Economou Cheese Factory.
He enjoyed Star Trek, the WWF Fast Cars and was an avid fan of Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Dale Earnhardt, Sr. (#3) years and Vana White.
He leaves his daughter, Stacy Lapointe and partner, Terry Chellis; grandchildren: Cooper Baldwin and Andrea Leonard; his sister, Anna Shepard and partner, Bob Ek and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Along with his parents, he was pre-deceased by his brother, Edward “TEX” Lapointe and his stepmother,Gwendolyn (Greenough) Lapointe.
Visitation is on Monday, Dec. 28 from 5-6 p.m. at Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Chapel, 97 Elmwood Ave., Burlington. His Funeral will begin at 6p.m. Mask and Social Distancing will be required.
Spring Interment, with Military Honors, accorded by the VT Army National Guard, will be held in Resurrection Park, So. Burlington.
Those wishing may send Memorial Contributions to be used at the Family’s discretion.
Bahrija Avdibegovic
Burlington- -Bahrija Avdibegovic, 74, of Burlington, VT passed away peacefully Monday December, 14, 2020, with his wife and daughter by his side.
His family was his home and his heart. He leaves behind his loving wife of 44 years, Jasminka, their daughter and son-in-law, Mirela and Jean Roberts, who gave him his beautiful granddaughter, Vivienne and extended family in the US and Bosnia.
Bahrija was born on August 29, 1946 in Samac, Bosnia. He will be dearly missed by everyone who had the good fortune of meeting him. He always had a great outlook towards life and loved every part of it, living to love and loving to live. It was easy to notice just how caring a soul he was and a kind person he was. Bahrija just had a gift for making everyone he touched feel like family.
There are no Services planned at this time. Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home in charge.
John T. Snyder, Jr.
John T. Snyder, Jr.
Williston- -John T. Snyder, Jr., 62, passed away on December, 11, 2020 at his home in Williston.
John was born May 25, 1958 in Wilkes-Barre, PA to Jack and Bernice Snyder. After moving to VT, he attended Rice Memorial High School, graduating in 1976.
He graduated from University of Vermont in 1980 and received his MBA from Boston College in 1993. John worked in the computer industry in MA.
John is survived by his mother, Bernice of Williston, VT, children: Veronica and William of Amesbury, MA. He is also survived by his brother, James (Kelly) Snyder of Colchester, sister, Carolyn and her partner, Tony Thompson of Jericho and niece, Casey Snyder of Milton. He was predeceased by his father, Jack Snyder, in 2018.
A Celebration of Life will be planned at a later date in Wilkes-Barre, PA. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Rice Memorial High School, 99 Proctor Ave., South Burlington, VT 05403.
Elmwood-Meunier, Burlington in charge.
Misty J. Nadeau
Misty J. Nadeau
Burlington- -Misty J. Nadeau, 40, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, December 6, 2020 at UVM Medical Center.
She was born in Burlington on January 9, 1980 to George G. King and Jennifer H. O’Neil.
She leaves her daughter, Mariah Philbrook; granddaughter; Amelia Senna, her mother; Jennifer O’Neil, sisters: Amy O’Neil, Rita O’Neil, Emily King and Georgia Castleman, nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was pre-deceased by her sister, Stacey O’Neil.
A Celebration of Life will be announced at a future date.
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Alexander A. Dumas
Alexander A. Dumas
Burlington- -Alexander A. Dumas, 73, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020.
He was born on Nov. 27, 1946 in Burlington, the son of Albert and Evelyn (Goulet) Dumas.
He passed away in his sleep at home, where he was most comfortable. This fulfilled his mother’s wish, which was for Alex to remain in the family home as long as possible.
Although he was disabled, he was able to work for W.T. Grants of Burlington and later with Champlain Industries in Winooski.
Alex greeted everyone with a smile, hello and a handshake, He enjoyed car rides to visit his parents’ graves, saying a prayer for them every time. He also liked going to the airport to watch airplanes take off and land. No drive was complete without a stop for burgers and fries on the way home! Recently, he developed a passion for Nerf basketball from the comfort of his recliner in the living room. He also had a vast vinyl album collection. Although he enjoyed many different artists, The “King of Rock and Roll” was his favorite by far. He collected many Elvis memorabilia items over the year.
He leaves behind his best friend, cousin and caretaker, Arthur Ducharme, who made it possible for Alex to live in his home until the end. He also leaves behind many cousins, as well as his long time legal guardian, Paul Couillard.
Visitation is on Tuesday, from 12noon – 1pm in Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Chapel, 97 Elmwood Ave. where his funeral will be held at 1pm. Interment will follow at Fort Ethan Allen Cemetery in Colchester. Those wishing may send contributions, in his memory, to: Howard Center, 300 Flynn Ave., Burlington, VT. 05401.
Cheryl L. Greene
Cheryl L. Greene
Middlebury- -Cheryl L. Greene, 63, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020. She was born in Springfield, MA on April 3, 1957, the daughter of Richard L. And Jane F. (Murphy) Greene.
She leaves her siblings: Dale Greene of Florida, Lynn Greene of Revere, MA, Tom Greene of Shelburne, Joanne LeCours of NC and Joseph Greene of Shelburne and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Visitation will be held on Thursday in Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Chapel, 97 Elmwood Ave., Burlington from 9-10am with her funeral service at 10am. Interment will follow in New Mt. Calvary, Burlington.
Amanda Louise Dion
Amanda Louise Dion
Burlington- -5/27/1992-10-21-2020
Beloved daughter of Martin J. Dion and Sandra Remick, adoring mother of Amelia Louise Dion, laid down her sword and burdens. She has donned radiant wings and her soul is resting in the arms of Papa Butch and Gramma Arlene. All her departed loved ones are reveling in the glorious Heavenly Kingdom.
Amanda was a fierce defender of children, animals and underdogs. A deep thinker, compassionate, an empath and a visionary. She revered the natural beauty of the Earth and had a personal relationship with her higher power.
Amanda was proud of her Irish heritage and mastery of step dancing. She excelled as a dancer, gymnast, cheerleader, enjoyed all genres of music and absorbed every detail of dance performances, a true artist of many media.
Amanda earned a certificate from Barbizon USA, she worked at Hollister and nurtured her penchant for fashion and a talent for makeup artistry. A lady to her core.
Amanda graduated from Winooski High School. She completed courses at St. Joseph’s College where she was on the Dean’s list and earned credits from CCV. She spent countless hours in research. Her goal was to participate in awareness and advance treatment for childhood cancer. She was a regular donor to St. Jude’s. Amanda meticulously maintained her lovely hair and her wish, which will be fulfilled, was to donate it to wigs for children recovering from cancer.
One of her early happy places was at the stables. She was overjoyed when her dad gifted her with her horse, Remington. But her greatest profound delight was to be with her precious baby girl. Amelia was her world.
Others left to treasure her memories are her grandmother, Barb Dion, her papa, Lyle Remick, the Dion, Remick, Miller, Corley, Martin/Bailey, Tarlton, Clark and Freeman families. She leaves behind her kitties, Alice and Lucas, many friends and especially dearest Randy Zeno Family, Templin, and Daemon.
We will miss her hauntingly deep blue Irish eyes and smile, her sweet voice “thank you Mumma, thanks Dad”. Our brave Honey Girl, Bunum, Sweet Pea. May you now be at peace.
Please remember her at your Holiday meals and gatherings, which she loved. Turkey or chicken breast, mashed potatoes and frozen peas. Consider a donation in her name to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital at http://stjude.org. or mail to 501 St Jude Place, Memphis TN 38105-1942 or C/O Randy Zeno, 199 Woodbury Rd., Burlington, VT. 05408, to aid in the funding of a service dog for Amanda’s daughter, Amelia.
Her funeral will be held at St. Francis Xavier Church and Cemetery in Winooski on Tuesday, November 24 at 11am. Feel free to gather with your families in remembrance and gratitude.
Arrangements by Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home.
Robert “Bobby” Hoffman
Burlington -Robert E. Hoffman, 75, passed away on Saturday, October 24, 2020 at UVM Medical Center.
He was born in Burlington on September 23, 1945, the son of Clarence, Sr., “Tex” and Dora M. (Pratt) Hoffman. Bobby enjoyed puzzles, playing cards, spending time with his nieces and nephews and was a Tony Steward racing fan. For a time, many years ago, he did custodial work at the Fletcher Free Library.
He is survived by his siblings: Linda Fenton, Ernest and Joyce Hoffman, Pam and Jeff Juczak, David Hoffman and his niece, Debra Pariseau, among other grand and great grand nieces, nephews and cousins.
Along with his parents, he was predeceased by a sister, Kay Barron, his brother, Clarence, Jr. “Tommy” Hoffman and a brother-in-law, James Fenton.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be Celebrated on Friday at 1pm in St. Mark’s Church with interment following in Resurrection Park, So. Burlington. Visitation is on Friday from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm in Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home, 97 Elmwood Ave. Those wishing may send memorial donations to be used at the family’s discretion.
David E. Wolcott
Colchester- -David E. Wolcott, 93, passed away at McClure-Miller Respite House on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020.
He was born on Aug. 20, 1927 in Colchester, the son of Max and Florence (Cloe) Wolcott. He was stationed in Germany with the US Army during the Korean Conflict. In Civilian life, Dave was a machinist in the tool making trade. He enjoyed working with horses, the outdoors, growing vegetables, coin collecting and working on cars, always striving to “Do it Right”.
He is survived by his wife, Marion (Root) Wolcott , his children: David L. Wolcott and wife, Dee, Dana Wolcott, and wife, Barb, Melinda Wolcott, Dennis Wolcott and Lori Ann Pion; grandchildren: Angela Unwin, Eric Wolcott, Chasidy Benjamin, Justin Wolcott, Corey Wolcott, Bryant Wolcott and Leandra Pion; three great grandchildren and his brother, Eben Wolcott.
He was predeceased by his sisters: Lesley, Linda, Lida, Sylvia, Carol and Sandra and brother Elwin.
Graveside Memorial Service will be held on Thursday, Oct. 22 at 11am in Colchester Village Cemetery, Main St, with Military Honors being rendered by the VT Army National Guard.
Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home, Burlington in charge of arrangements.
Daniel “Danny” R. Bevins
Burlington- -Danny Bevins, 46, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020 at UVM Medical Center. He was born on January 10, 1974 in Burlington, the son of Donald L. & Linda M. (Barcomb) Bevins.
Daniel “Danny” was one of the most wholesome, ambitious and caring people in this world. He was a dedicated business man and he would always help his dad with his roofing business. Danny was passionate in and had a talent for drawing. He enjoyed music and he a had a strong love for cars and car audio. Any chance he could, you could find him watching the races with his Dad. Danny had a pure heart, he was smart, selfless, compassionate and cared deeply about his friends and family. He put others before himself and always had a smiling grin on his face.
Danny was a loving father, a strong son, a loyal friend, protective uncle and amazing brother. Although his time on this earth was unfortunately too short, his memory will forever live on through his family, friends and his best friend, his dog. The loss of Danny has shattered the hearts throughout all those who got the beautiful gift and joy of knowing him. He will be forever remembered, missed and loved.
He leaves his daughter, Chrisshaunna (Shaunna) Bell, siblings: Ronnie Bevins, Dawn Clarke, Sabrina McCurdy, Julie Coolidge and Tina Estes and several nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins.
Visitation hours will be on Sunday, Oct. 18 from 4-7pm,with Services at 7pm in Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Chapel, 97 Elmwood Ave. Memory donations may be sent to the funeral home to be used at the family’s discretion.
Lois (Prim) Chapman
Colchester- -Lois M. Chapman, 80, passed away on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, after a long battle with Dementia, at Elderwood at Burlington Nursing Home.
She was born on September 9, 1940 in Burlington, the daughter of Arthur S. and Daisy M. (Donnelley) Prim. Lois was an avid crafter having made hats and mittens for the preemees at the hospital and families at the Ronald McDonald House. She also volunteered with the United Way and delivered Meals on Wheels.
She leaves her husband, John Chapman; 3 children: William Goodman; Timothy Goodman and wife, Crystal and Shawn Chapman and wife, Jennifer Ashley; her grandchildren: Lucas and Nicole Goodman, Adam Goodman and Samantha Ashley-Chapman; her great grandchild: Maddox Edwards; her sister Betty Hamlin; her brother and wife, Thomas and Dena Prim and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was pre-deceased by her daughter, Angela Goodman, grandson, Timothee Goodman, sister, Dorothy White and brother, William Prim.
Visitation will be on Sunday, Oct. 4 from 1-3 pm in Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home, 97 Elmwood Ave., Burlington. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday, Oct. 5 at 11am in Holy Cross Church, Malletts Bay. Later Interment will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 1pm in Malletts Bay Cemetery. Those wishing may send Memorial Donations to the Alzheimer’s Assoc., 300 Cornerstone Dr., Williston, VT 05495. Elmwood-Meunier, Burlington in charge.
Claire M. McManus
Burlington- -Claire M. McManus of Burlington, VT peacefully departed on August 28, 2020.
Claire was born on January 25, 1945, the daughter of Rosalie M. (Girard) Shaw and William McManus.
Survivors include her son, Paul S. McManus and grandson, Patrick.
She will be laid to rest with her mother at St. Mary Cemetery, Stanton, VT. A private Graveside Service will be held.
Elmwood-Meunier in charge.
Nancy Ann (Superneau) Lavalley
Colchester- -Nancy A. Lavalley, 72, passed away unexpectedly at UVM Medical Center on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020.
She was born in Burlington on June 29, 1948, the daughter of Robert F. And Marjorie (Valiquette) Superneau.
She was married to Robert Lavalley, Sr. in 1966 at Holy Cross Church. She will be remembered as a loving wife and devoted mother and grandmother.
She leaves her husband of 56 years, Robert F. Lavalley, Sr and children and spouses: Todd & Dawn Lavalley, Scot Lavalley, Kevin & Peggy Lavalley, Robin Richardson, Robert, Jr. and Renee Lavalley; 21 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren; siblings and spouses: Robert, Jr. and Diane Superneau, Marjorie and Joe Trombley, Paul and Rhonda Superneau and Roddy and Holly Superneau and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Along with her parents, she was predeceased by her sister, Linda and her husband, Dennis Wilbert and her son-in-law, Jerry Richardson.
Visitation is on Tuesday, Sept. 29, from 6- pm in Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home, 97 Elmwood Ave., Burlington. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 1pm in Holy Cross Church, Malletts Bay. Later Interment will be on Saturday, Oct. 3 at 1pm in Malletts Bay Cemetery. Masks and Social Distancing are required.
Pennie A. McLaughlin
Burlington- -Pennie A. McLaughlin, 63, passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020 at UVM Medical Center.
She was born on Nov. 17, 1956 in Morrisville, the daughter of Edward & Beverly (Chaplin) McLaughlin. She had been employed as an LNA and later, was manager of the Sunshine Laundromat and the No. Winooski Ave. Laundromat.
She leaves her daughters: Michelle LaRose and Jennifer Payea; step-daughter, Cindy Kirby and adopted son, Donald Parent.
Visitation is on Monday, Sept. 28 from 6-7pm with her Funeral staring at 7pm in Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Chapel, 97 Elmwood Ave. Masks and social distancing required.
Betty L. (Murray) Bevins
So. Burlington- -Betty L. Bevins, 82, passed away at the St. Albans Health & Rehab Center on Monday, September 21. 2020.
She was born in Milton on August 19, 1938, the daughter of Henry L., Jr. and Gladys M. (Bevins) Murray. She was a loving mother to her six children and a nanny to many children throughout the years.
She is survived by her loving husband of 40 years, Frank H. Bevins, Jr., five remaining children: Doris Williams, Debora Williams, Doreen and husband Raymond Pretty, Sr., Sidney and wife, Debra Williams and Robert Williams, Jr., nine grandchildren and many great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was predeceased by her daughter, Darlene Williams and two brothers: Kenneth and Roland Murray.
Memorial Services will be held on Monday, Sept. 28, at 12:30 pm in Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Chapel, 97 Elmwood Ave., Burlington. Visitation is from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. Interment will follow in Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington. Social Distancing and Masks are required.
Stephen Anthony Cochones
Stephen Anthony Cochones
Georgia- -Stephen Anthony Cochones, 67, left this Earth on Sept. 4, 2020 at his home.
Steve was born on Aug. 31, 1953 in Burlington, VT, the son of Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Cochones. Steve attended Burlington High School, where he ran track and played football, graduating in 1973. Steve served in the US Navy working as a Seabee and diesel mechanic and was honorably discharged. He would often revel his brothers with stories of time spent in Sicily and the colorful characters that he encountered. Steve was a gifted cook, having worked at the Ice House restaurant in Burlington during it’s heyday. Steve was employed for many years at EB/AC Whiting Company as a machinist and at Superior Ceramics, where he retired. Steve was a quiet, kind, funny and hardworking man who loved his friends and family. He was a multitalented role model who inspired his siblings with his work ethic, sense of humor and humility. Steve loved music, building fast cars and his beautiful dog, Yeller. He was a tremendous brother, son and grandson and to use the words of our beloved, Nana Clark “he was just a good egg”.
Steve is survived by his sister, Judith Nardelli and brothers: Nick Cochones, Anthony Cochones and Raymond Cochones. He also leaves behind a large extended family.
He was predeceased by his sisters: Constance Cummings and Pamela and Candace Cochones.
Friends may gather on Friday, Sept. 25, at 12:15pm at Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Home, 97 Elmwood Ave., Burlington. A Graveside Ceremony of Christian Burial, with Navy Military Honors, will be held at 1pm in Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington.
Masks and Social Distancing will be required. Arrangements by Elmwood-Meunier, Burlington.
Frances “Fran” (Colby) Rouelle
Essex Jct.- -Fran Rouelle, 78, passed away unexpectedly at Elderwood at Burlington Nursing Home in Burlington on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020. She was born in Barre on Oct. 11, 1941, the daughter of Percy G. and Ora H. (Jones) Colby.
She married Guy A. Rouelle in Montpelier on her birthday, Oct. 11, 1960. Guy passed away in 1998. Fran worked for a time as an C.N.A. and, for most of her career, was employed as an Intake Supervisor with the VT Dept. of Social Welfare.
She enjoyed spending time with her family and her “Bingo Circle of Friends”.
She leaves her 5 children and spouses: Guy, Jr. and Angela Rouelle of E. Calais, Marie Line of Malta, NY, Mona and Ken Taylor of Balston Spa, NY, Mark Rouelle of Ayers, MA and Jeffrey and Trish Rouelle of Sheridan, OR; 4 grandchildren; her sister, Doris and husband, Thomas Goettling of Winchester, OR. Along with extended family and her companion of many years, Stan Henry of Milton, VT.
A Funeral Service for family will be held at a future time. Memorial Contributions may be sent to: American Heart Association, 12 Hurricane Ln., Williston, VT 05495.
Louis R. Young
Highgate- -Louis R. Young, 73, passed away unexpectedly at Glenn’s Falls NY Hospital on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. He was born in Swanton on Sept. 9, 1946, the son of Roland J. And Andrena M. (Garner) Young.
Before he was married, he lived in Burlington and drove for Elmwood-Meunier Funeral and Ambulance Service. Later Louie lived in Highgate and worked for Sheldon Pulp Mill.
He enjoyed puttering around in his garage and raising chickens, along with spending time with his family.
He leaves his wife, Patricia (Fassett) Young, his sons: Louis E. & Brenda Young, Eric & Wendy Young, Scott & Shelly Young and Bernie & Crystal Young; his grandchildren: Sean, Katlynn, Katie, Sarah, Erica, Myleah, Kyth, Dayla, Nevaeh, Johnathan, Bonnie, Patricia, Lindsey, Lillian, Kyle, Taylor and Brendan; his great grandchildren: Lilly, Adaline, Irylynn, Alex, Patrick, Brooklyn, Haylee Sue and Payton; his sisters: Mary Cecile Young and Mary Theresa Young; sister-in-law, Jeannie Young; the mother of his children, Leona Young and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
He was predeceased by his brother, Paul Young and grandson, Scott Young.
Visitation will be on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020 from 6-7pm with a Memorial Service to follow at 7pm in Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Chapel, 97 Elmwood Ave., Burlington.
Memorial Contributions may be sent to the funeral home to be used at the family’s discretion.
Grace (Fenton) Hamelin Richer
Colchester- -Grace A. Richer, 80, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020 in the McClure-Miller Respite House.
She was born in Burlington on July 16, 1940, the daughter of Oscar L. And Pearl A. (MacAlister) Fenton.
She graduated from Burlington High School, Class of 1959 and was immediately employed at the Internal Revenue Service. She later transferred to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, as a Budget Analyst, from where she retired in 1995. Grace enjoyed traveling with her husband, the love of her life, Norm. She also loved to cook, Barb-be-que and spend time with her family.
She is survived by her daughter and husband, Stacy (Hamelin) and Kevin Matz; step-children: Lori, Jo-May and James Richer; her brother. Richard Fenton; sisters-in-law: Linda Fenton and Linda Crossman-Fenton, her nephews and spouses: James, Jr. and Tammy Fenton, Jerry and Cindy Fenton, Richard, Jr. and Paula Fenton and Shayne and Michelle Fenton ; her nieces: Sharon Fenton and partner, Randy, Betty Ann Fenton, Martha Kennedy and husband, Matt, Erin Fenton and partner, Terrance Brown, along with many grand and great grand nieces and nephews.
In addition to her husband, Normand Richer, she was predeceased by two loving brothers: James William Fenton, and Francis George Fenton and niece, Linda “Totor” Fenton.
There are no services planned. Memorial Contributions may be sent to either: American Cancer Society, 237 East Ave., Burlington, VT 05401 or
Burlington Boys and Girls Club, 62 Oak St. Burlington, VT. 05401.
Charles “Dick” Courcy
Dick Courcy of Ocean Ridge, FL passed away on September 5, 2020 after suffering a heart attack earlier in the week. He was born on June 8, 1937 in Burlington, VT to Charles and Aurea (Blanchard) Courcy.
He graduated from Cathedral High School in 1955, where he met the love of his life, Nancy Ann (LaMothe) Courcy. They were both proud of their class’ legendary status for winning Stunt Night four years in a row! Dick was also in the ROTC and a star player in baseball, basketball, and football until he broke his neck in a playoff game his senior year; Nancy showed her undying devotion by visiting him in the hospital daily. Throughout their lives, Dick and Nancy cultivated a loving family and made many happy memories together during their almost 50 years of marriage. Dick was a Business Systems Analyst for General Electric for most of his career. Both he and Nancy retired in their mid-fifties and enjoyed sharing time between their home in Florida and their camp in Grand Isle, Vermont. He will be remembered dearly for his unfailing love and daily care of Nancy during her final years struggling with COPD and other complications. She passed in 2008 and he never remarried.
Above all, Dick was a devoted husband and father and he especially loved his role as grandfather and great grandfather. Left to cherish Dick’s memory are his three children: Cheryl Titus and her partner Allen Haskins, Chuck Courcy and his wife, Lakshmi and Cathy Belair and her husband Don; four grandchildren: Cristine and her husband, Steve Francis, Deanna Belair, Bennett Belair and Alekya Courcy and her husband Cody Nash; five great-grandchildren: Scarlette, Brianna, Grace, Kylie and Kamrynn; his sister, Phyllis DeVarney and many treasured nieces, nephews, cousins and in-laws. Dick was predeceased by his parents, his wife, Nancy and his brother-in-law, Bernie DeVarney.
The Courcy family wishes to extend their sincere and heartfelt gratitude to the caring staff at Miller 4 Cardiac Unit. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Cardiology Services at The University of Vermont Medical Center. Arrangements by Elmwood-Meunier, Burlington, VT.
Frank G. Fenton
Westford--Frank G. Fenton, 71, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 at the UVM Medical Center in Burlington.
He was born on Aug. 27, 1948 in Burlington, the son of Oscar and Pearl (MacAlister) Fenton. He graduated from Burlington High School and served for 38 years with the Dept. of Army and the VT Army National Guard. He was the current Adjatant at the Colchester American Legin, Post 91 and was a former Commander and Vice Commander among other offices. He was also a member of the Eagles and RVA. Frank loved his country and was loyal to the Military and very supportive of Veterans. He also was a beloved father who loved his family and enjoyed hunting, fishing and the outdoors.
He leaves his children and spouses: Martha and Matt Kennedy, Shayne and Michelle Fenton and Erin Fenton and partner, Terrance Brown; his loving former wife, Linda Fenton-Crossman; his grandchildren: Josh, Daniel and Andrew Kennedy and Wyatt Fenton; step children: Aimee and husband, Mike Hilliker and Keith Doolan; step grandchildren: Nathan Gibbs and Aria Hilliker; his siblings: Grace Richer and Richard Fenton, sister-in-law, Linda Fenton and several nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by his brother, James Fenton and his brother-in-law,Norman Richer.
A Tribute Service, with Military Honors, will be held at the convenience of the family.
Donations in his memory may be made to either the Colchester American Legion, Post 91, 70 Roosevelt Highway, Colchester, VT 05446 or The Wounded Warriors Project, 4899 BelfordRd., #300, Jacksonville, FL. 37256.
Gloria M. (Bisbee) Lawrence
Vergennes- - Gloria Lawrence, 78, passed away on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at UVM Medical Center in Burlington.
She was born on October, 29, 1941 in Little Rock, AR. She met and married her husband of 42 years, William Lawrence, while she was a secretary at Fort Dix, NJ. Bill passed away in 2015. After Bill left the military, they moved to this area and were employed at Twincraft Skincare in Winooski and later at Vermont Teddy Bear in Shelburne.
She was active in Project Independence Senior Ctr. In Middlebury and the Victory Baptist Church in Vergennes.
She was like a second mother to Diane Brown, whom she leaves along with Randy Sheldon.
Memorial Services will be held in Victory Baptist Church in Vergennes on Fri., Aug. 21 at 11am.
Interment will follow in Milton Villiage Cemetery.
Memorial Contributions may be made to Victory Baptist Church, Rt. 7, Vergennes, VT 05491
Arrangements by Elmwood-Meunier, Burlington.
Sharron I. (Lemieux) Fortune
Burlington- -
Sweet, strong, feisty and fierce.
A long, hard journey has come to a peaceful rest at McClure-Miller Respite House on Wednesday, July 29, 2020.
Sharron was born in Colchester on Jan. 24, 1949, the daughter of Robert F., Sr. and Ilene E. (Bergeron) Lemieux. She had been employed at Greer’s Laundry for a number of years and was a loving mother, grandmother, partner, sister and friend.
She is survived by her daughter, Tara Fortune and partner, Doug Johnson, grandson, Joshua Dacres, great grandsons, Parker and Levi Dacres; her brothers: Gary Lemieux and wife, Carol Goodrum, Greg Lemieux and wife, Sally and Robert Lemieux, Jr.; her sister: Colleen Shaw and husband, Tim and her long time partner, Bert Crowley and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Along with her parents, Sharron was predeceased by her son, Kiley Fortune.
No Services are currently planned. Those wishing may make Memorial Donations to the McClure-Miller Respite House or any local Animal Shelter.
Arrangements by Elmwood-Meunier.
Andrew J. Luchini, Jr.
Burlington- -
- Andrew J. Luchini, Jr., “Andy”, 86, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. Andy was born on Nov. 29, 1933 in Burlington, the son of Andrew, J. Sr. and Ellen (Casey) Luchini. He graduated from Cathedral High School, attended Burlington Business College, (now known as Champlain College) and served in the US Marine Corps from 1953-1956.
Andy had a passion for photography, capturing Vermont sunsets and Green Mountain Range Scenes. He enjoyed racquetball, swimming, Bruins Hockey, traveling, reading and afternoon naps.
Andy dedicated forty years of his career to WCAX TV, Channel 3. His first position was Film Technician, followed by Camera Man, Director, Senior Director and Director of Studio Service, retiring from his position as Vice President of Production in 1977.
He is survived by his children: Laura Luchini, Mark Luchini, Cathy Branon and Paul Luchini and wife, Pat; his grandchildren and their spouses: Chad and Staci, Branon, Jocelyn and Matt Lyman, Andrew Luchini, III, Krista Luchini, Britton Branon and partner, Shannon Crepeau , Jason and Nicole Luchini and Bradley Luchini; his great- grandchildren: Connor and Shaylee Branon, Brookelyn and Blake Lyman, Heaton Lussier, Carter Branon, Parker Luchini; his sisters: Linda Bergeron and husband, Marcel; many nieces, nephews and cousins; his former wife, Wendy Martinez; her children: Missy and husband, Dan Gamelin, who were always there for him and Michel and Jay Martinez, along with many of his close friends in Vermont and Arizona.
Along with his parents, Andy was preceded in death by his step-father, Al Cummings, his sister and husband, Dolores and Richard Sweeney and their daughter, Pam Chastaney and his former wife, Yvette Luchini.
Visitation is on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 from 4-5 pm with Memorial Services at 5 pm, with Military Honors, in Elmwood-Meunier Funeral Chapel, 97 Elmwood Ave., Burlington. Masks and Social Distancing will be required.
Those wishing may send Memorial Contributions to the Alzheimer’s Association, 300 Corner Stone Dr., #128, Williston, VT 05495.
Rene Grimard
Burlington- -
On Sunday, July 19, 2020, Heaven gained a new woodworker. Any printing or backyard mechanic needs can now be taken care of in the afterlife. If paradise is searching for a new Cub Scout Leader or just all around awesome father, Rene O. Grimard is now there.
Rene is survived by his wife of 58 years, Lois. Countless summers were spent on their Goldwing, going to the coast of Maine to eat lobster or
just a morning ride to the P&H truck stop in NH, for, what he thought, was the best breakfast ever. He always said the best food is served where the truckers ate.
Rene was born on May 17, 1937 in Rock Island, Que., Canada, the son of Alphonse and Aurore. Rene had one brother, Marcel (Pam) and his late sisters: Lucille and Anna (LaCount).
He was a loving father of Michael (Hi), Joanne (Richard) Cavallari, Joseph (Judy), Paul (Maria) and Peter (Maryland). It did not matter what time of the day it was if you needed his help, Dad was there. He would show up at your house, with his personal tool belt preferred, to help with any project. No matter how long it took, he was there every day! If you drove off the rode into a ditch at midnight, he would be there to help tow you out. There was an incident one time, he drove up to the Canadian Border in the middle of the night because something was forgotton by one of his traveling kids, and all it cost was a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee. When it came to his family, there was nothing he would not do. There was no time of day that he would not answer the phone.
He was a proud Grandfather of twelve grandchildren and even two great grandchildren. An uncounted number of hours were spent babysitting his grandchildren. He never refused a baby-sitting chance. If you could not make it to him, he had no problem traveling to you. “Boca”, his nickname, had no problem getting down onto the floor and playing face to face with his grandkids. There was no problem that he could not fix with a tootsie roll or a stop to the Rite Aid toy aisle.
Rene was and avid member of the community. He was always willing to go above and beyond to help anyone in need. He was a member of the Vermont National Guard in his early years. This continued into a position on the Burlington Police Force. He would often tell stories of patrolling North Street in Burlington in the early hours of the morning before shops were opened. After that, he would work as a Journeyman Pressman for the Offset House Publishing Company, which he would retire in 1999. Post retirement, Rene put in hours as a guide and bus driver at the Shelburne Museum. His wife and children were not his only family, Rene took great pride in helping raise hundreds of kids in the Burlington community. For over two and a half decades, Rene was involved in Burlington Cub’s Scout Pack 15, where he was a Cub Master. Rene was more than just a father to his children, he also shared his time and gifts with the other children in the community. He trained young boys on how to grow up to be responsible adults, just like he was raising his children. Hiking, camping, knot tying, canoeing, being an active and positive member of the community, whatever he could do to help the young scouts grow into responsible adults, he would do. For this the Boy Scouting Association awarded him many accommodations,: the Bronze Pelican, the Silver Beaver and the St. George award were just a few of the many awards that hung on his walls at his home. Many Sundays were started by loading up the family station wagon, grabbing an assortment of 8-track country music tapes and driving to visit all the aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins…too many to name. To Rene, his family was his life.
In lieu of flowers, Rene would like you to donate to the United Service Organization (USO), being in the military himself, he had children and grandchildren who served or are serving his country. He always had a special place in his heart for those who chose to go above and beyond.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, July 25, 2020 in St. Joseph Cathedral with interment following in New Mount Calvary Cemetery. Arrangements by Elmwood-Meunier.
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In 1954, "From Here To Eternity" won the best picture award at the Oscars. William Holden won best actor for "Stalag 17." Audrey Hepburn won best actress for "Roman Holiday." The best song award went to "Secret Love" from "Calamity Jane."
In 1960, Ray Charles recorded "Georgia On My Mind" in New York.
In 1961, Elvis Presley performed what would be his last live concert for eight years, at a show in Hawaii. Instead, he concentrated on his movie career.
In 1967, The Who made its U.S. concert debut in New York as part of a rock extravaganza promoted by DJ Murray "The K" Kaufman.
In 1985, the Academy Award for best picture went to "Amadeus." F. Murray Abraham was chosen over "Amadeus" co-star Tom Hulce for the best actor award. Prince won the original song score award for "Purple Rain." Stevie Wonder won best original song for "I Just Called To Say I Love You."
In 1990, drummer Tommy Lee of Motley Crue was arrested for allegedly mooning an audience at a concert in Augusta, Georgia.
In 1991, "Dances With Wolves" won seven Academy Awards, including best picture and a best director Oscar for Kevin Costner.
In 1995, singer Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam was rescued after a riptide carried him 250 feet offshore in New Zealand.
In 2001, "Gladiator" won five Oscars, including best picture.
In 2002, Halle Berry won the best actress Oscar and Denzel Washington won the best actor Oscar. Before that night, Sidney Poitier was the only African American actor to have won an Oscar in a lead role.
Also in 2002, Randy Newman won an Oscar for best original song for "If I Didn't Have You" from "Monsters, Inc." He had been nominated for an Oscar 16 times and had never won until that night.
In 2003, Celine Dion launched her Las Vegas show "A New Day."
In 2022, Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins was found dead in a hotel room in Bogota, Colombia. He was 50.
Today's Birthdays: Film critic Gene Shalit is 98. Singer Anita Bryant is 84. Actor Paul Michael Glaser ("Third Watch," "Starsky and Hutch") is 81. Musician Elton John is 77. Actor Bonnie Bedelia is 76. Actor-comedian Mary Gross is 71. Actor James McDaniel ("NYPD Blue") is 66. Saxophonist Steve Norman of Spandau Ballet is 64. Actor Brenda Strong ("Desperate Housewives") is 64. Actor Marcia Cross ("Desperate Housewives") is 62. Actor Lisa Gay Hamilton ("The Practice") is 60. Actor Sarah Jessica Parker is 59. Turner Classics Movies host Ben Mankiewicz is 57. Actor Laz Alonso ("Avatar," "Fast and Furious") is 53. Singer Melanie Blatt of All Saints is 49. Actor Domenick Lombardozzi ("Boardwalk Empire") is 48. Actor Lee Pace (film's "The Hobbit," TV's "Pushing Daisies") is 45. Comedian Alex Moffat ("Saturday Night Live") is 42. Singer-actor Katharine McPhee ("Smash," "American Idol") is 40. Comedian Chris Redd ("Saturday Night Live") is 39. Rapper Big Sean is 36. Music producer Ryan Lewis of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis is 36. Actor Matthew Beard ("The Imitation Game") is 35. Singer-actor Aly Michalka (mish-AL'-kah) of Aly and AJ ("Hellcats") is 35. Actor Kiowa (KY'-oh-wah) Gordon ("Twilight") is 34. Actor Seychelle Gabriel ("The Legend of Korra") is 33.
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New homeowners just got a sweet deal on a legendary house in Detroit, snagging Aretha Franklin's childhood home for $355,000.
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New homeowners just got a sweet deal on a legendary house in Detroit after snagging late music legend Aretha Franklin‘s childhood home for $355,000.
Records show the sale closed Wednesday, July 26, 2023, to buyers who purchased the home for less than the initial asking price, TMZ reports, of $379,000.
The three-story home in Detroit’s historic La Salle Gardens comes with six bedrooms, five bathrooms, and 6,000 square feet of living space. A spacious front yard and backyard surround the brick-covered foundation of the home. There are fireplaces and hardwood floors throughout as well as space to fit another bedroom.
The late “Queen of Soul” lived in the home from ages 5 to 18 and had fond memories from her time in the dwelling. In 2011, Franklin revisited the home and recalled her days growing up in Detroit. Franklin shared a special bond with the home and owned it despite not living in it for years.
The “R.E.S.P.E.C.T.” singer was actually born in a tiny wooden home in Memphis in 1942, but left the city when she was just two years old. In 2017, the Memphis Mayor’s office made a bid to preserve the home and turn it into a landmark, according to Architectural Digest.
Franklin’s family moved to New York from Memphis. In 1947, her father, Reverend Clarence Franklin, became pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit and moved his family of five to Michigan.
In 1952, eight days before Aretha’s 10th birthday, her mother died. At age 12, she started singing in her father’s church and would join him on the road, singing gospel in his caravan shows. By the time she turned 18 in 1960, Franklin was ready to pursue a singing career and the rest is history. Franklin died in 2018.
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It’s no secret that what made me fall in love with Memphis and made me want to stay in Memphis for so many years was the music. The people, yes, the warm climate, yes, the fantastic professional opportunities, yes, the central location, yes and the low cost of living, yes. But the music-- absolutely yes!
I‘ve always loved jazz and the blues. My father entertained me with silly songs any child would love, like Slim Gaillard- Potato Chips and “Flat Foot Floogie.” He went to an elite school in the northeast and had to listen to this “race” music secretly, as it was frowned upon.
Memphis is home to The Blues Foundation because of the rich blues musical history and heritage. Memphis and the Mississippi Delta are like Mecca for blues fans and blues pilgrims.
As long as I’ve lived here, I have noticed that Europeans were very knowledgeable about Memphis music, much more so that many Americans. Americans came to Memphis to see Graceland. But it’s always been the Europeans who were savvy on the blues, R&B, and the soul music that has its roots in Memphis. The Stax Documentary explains this.
There is the Poretta Soul Festival, in Rufus Thomas Park the third week of July, every year, in Porretta Terme, province of Bologna. Graziano Uliani, frequently comes to Memphis seeking out new local talent for his festival.
I have a vivid memory of Rufus Thomas telling me how excited he was that they were naming a park after him.
It’s the music created here in this region that draws people from all over the world, to Memphis.
In the last decade, Memphis has risen to the top of places to visit by influential travel magazines like National Geographic and Condé Nast . “Memphis is one of two destinations from the U.S. highlighted in Condé Nast Traveler's “23 Best Places to Go in 2023,” which covers 22 countries and six continents,” a Commercial Appeal story reported.
I got to know Stax artist Rufus Thomas when I first moved here from Chicago. Rufus captivated me right away and quickly became of my favorite entertainers. He was SO MUCH FUN! He was an amazing entertainer with roots in vaudeville. He could still get a crowd going with Funky Chicken and Walking the Dog, into his 80’s. I have many fun memories of seeing him perform on Beale Street. He used to say, “If you could be black for one Saturday night on Beale Street, never would you want to be white again.”
His daughter Carla, who still lives in Memphis, was also a successful Stax artist. You can still find Carla out buying flowers, or as a guest or singer at one of the many Memphis music events held over the years. Carla is Stax royalty. She had the good fortune to record with Otis Redding before he was killed in a plane crash in 1967.
Redding’s music is so soulful, it just pierces right into your heart.
As with many great artists, he died way too young at age 26. Stax music was experiencing some real success when Redding and many band members died in a plane crash.
As a photojournalist in Memphis, over the years I covered the only survivor of that plane crash, Ben Cauley. Other influential Stax artists like Booker T. and the MG’s, Isaac Hayes, Albert King, Marva Staples, David Porter, Steve Cropper and Sam Moore have all been in my camera’s viewfinder.
The documentary goes into the run of bad luck that followed Redding’s death, the assassination of MLK in Memphis and the signing of a bad contract by Stax owner Jim Stewart, who in a very Memphis way, trusted the people he was working with, and in the end, the trials of Stax record executive Al Bell.
By the time I had come to Memphis, Stax had closed. But there was an appreciation for the Stax contribution to Memphis music legacy.
The documentary helped me appreciate more deeply the people, their experience and the music that is so deeply woven into the fabric and culture of Memphis.
I covered the opening of the Stax Museum and the music programs they had for the kids of Memphis. These programs are still teaching our city’s youth about the magical musical legacy here while cultivating the next musical generation. I went to New York City to cover the Stax Kids when they played at Lincoln Center and I also was on assignment when Memphis Music, including several Stax artists, Justin Timberlake and harmonica great Charlie Musselwhite were honored at the White House by Michelle and President Obama.
Wayne Jackson , and his wife Amy, were good friends of ours. He was one of the Memphis Horns. Jackson and partner Andrew Love were on hundreds of Top Ten and Number One hits, gold and platinum records. They were considered the Rolls Royce of horn sections. Jackson fully appreciated the experience and told about it in this short video I did before he passed away. He says “Memphis was just on fire! And Andrew and I were walking right down the middle of that street. We played on hit records every day”
Memphis is just such a musical treasure box that never ceases to amaze and entertain me. Living here you run into these folks here and there. Most of them have always been very accessible.
“Indeed, many musical luminaries either hailed from or resided in the Soulsville neighborhood,” writes Alex Greene in Memphis Magazine.
Even though I felt like I knew the Stax story and many of the players and much of the music, the Stax documentary opened my eyes with more intimate details, historical glimpses, and great storytelling that helped me appreciate what the artists and producers went through, good and bad to create and capture the “Memphis sound.”
By Karen Pulfer Focht ©2024
Memphis Photojournalist
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NEW YORK — Aretha Franklin, the undisputed “Queen of Soul” who sang with matchless style on such classics as “Think,” ”I Say a Little Prayer” and her signature song, “Respect,” and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died at age 76 from pancreatic cancer.Publicist Gwendolyn Quinn told The Associated Press through a […]
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NEW YORK — Aretha Franklin, the undisputed “Queen of Soul” who sang with matchless style on such classics as “Think,” ”I Say a Little Prayer” and her signature song, “Respect,” and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died at age 76 from pancreatic cancer.
Publicist Gwendolyn Quinn told The Associated Press through a family statement that Franklin died Thursday at 9:50 a.m. at her home in Detroit.
The family added: “In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart. We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family. The love she had for her children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins knew no bounds.”
The statement continued:
“We have been deeply touched by the incredible outpouring of love and support we have received from close friends, supporters and fans all around the world. Thank you for your compassion and prayers. We have felt your love for Aretha and it brings us comfort to know that her legacy will live on. As we grieve, we ask that you respect our privacy during this difficult time.”
Funeral arrangements will be announced in the coming days.
Franklin, who had battled undisclosed health issues in recent years, had in 2017 announced her retirement from touring.
A professional singer and accomplished pianist by her late teens, a superstar by her mid-20s, Franklin had long ago settled any arguments over who was the greatest popular vocalist of her time. Her gifts, natural and acquired, were a multi-octave mezzo-soprano, gospel passion and training worthy of a preacher’s daughter, taste sophisticated and eccentric, and the courage to channel private pain into liberating song.
She recorded hundreds of tracks and had dozens of hits over the span of a half century, including 20 that reached No. 1 on the R&B charts. But her reputation was defined by an extraordinary run of top 10 smashes in the late 1960s, from the morning-after bliss of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” to the wised-up “Chain of Fools” to her unstoppable call for “Respect.”
Her records sold millions of copies and the music industry couldn’t honor her enough. Franklin won 18 Grammy awards. In 1987, she became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Clive Davis, the music mogul who brought her to Arista Records and helped revive her career in the 1980s, said he was “devastated” by her death.
“She was truly one of a kind. She was more than the Queen of Soul. She was a national treasure to be cherished by every generation throughout the world,” he said in a statement. “Apart from our long professional relationship, Aretha was my friend. Her loss is deeply profound and my heart is full of sadness.”
Smokey Robinson, who grew up with her in Detroit, said: “This morning my longest friend in this world went home to be with our father. I will miss her so much but I know she’s at peace.”
Fellow singers bowed to her eminence and political and civic leaders treated her as a peer. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a longtime friend, and she sang at the dedication of King’s memorial, in 2011. She performed at the inaugurations of Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and at the funeral for civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. Clinton gave Franklin the National Medal of Arts. President George W. Bush awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 2005.
Bill and Hillary Clinton issued a statement mourning the loss of their friend and “one of America’s greatest treasures.”
“For more than 50 years, she stirred our souls. She was elegant, graceful, and utterly uncompromising in her artistry. Aretha’s first music school was the church and her performances were powered by what she learned there. I’ll always be grateful for her kindness and support, including her performances at both my inaugural celebrations, and for the chance to be there for what sadly turned out to be her final performance last November at a benefit supporting the fight against HIV/AIDS.”
Franklin’s best-known appearance with a president was in January 2009, when she sang “My Country ‘tis of Thee” at President Barack Obama’s inauguration. She wore a gray felt hat with a huge, Swarovski rhinestone-bordered bow that became an internet sensation and even had its own website. In 2015, she brought Obama and others to tears with a triumphant performance of “Natural Woman” at a Kennedy Center tribute to the song’s co-writer, Carole King.
Franklin endured the exhausting grind of celebrity and personal troubles dating back to childhood. She was married from 1961 to 1969 to her manager, Ted White, and their battles are widely believed to have inspired her performances on several songs, including “(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone,” ”Think” and her heartbreaking ballad of despair, “Ain’t No Way.” The mother of two sons by age 16 (she later had two more), she was often in turmoil as she struggled with her weight, family problems and financial predicaments. Her best known producer, Jerry Wexler, nicknamed her “Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows.”
Franklin married actor Glynn Turman in 1978 in Los Angeles but returned to her hometown of Detroit the following year after her father was shot by burglars and left semi-comatose until his death in 1984. She and Turman divorced that year.
Despite growing up in Detroit, and having Robinson as a childhood friend, Franklin never recorded for Motown Records; stints with Columbia and Arista were sandwiched around her prime years with Atlantic Records. But it was at Detroit’s New Bethel Baptist Church, where her father was pastor, that Franklin learned the gospel fundamentals that would make her a soul institution.
Aretha Louise Franklin was born March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee. The Rev. C.L. Franklin soon moved his family to Buffalo, New York, then to Detroit, where the Franklins settled after the marriage of Aretha’s parents collapsed and her mother (and reputed sound-alike) Barbara returned to Buffalo.
C.L. Franklin was among the most prominent Baptist ministers of his time. He recorded dozens of albums of sermons and music and knew such gospel stars as Marion Williams and Clara Ward, who mentored Aretha and her sisters Carolyn and Erma. (Both sisters sang on Aretha’s records, and Carolyn also wrote “Ain’t No Way” and other songs for Aretha). Music was the family business and performers from Sam Cooke to Lou Rawls were guests at the Franklin house. In the living room, the shy young Aretha awed friends with her playing on the grand piano.
Franklin occasionally performed at New Bethel Baptist throughout her career; her 1987 gospel album “One Lord One Faith One Baptism” was recorded live at the church.
Her most acclaimed gospel recording came in 1972 with the Grammy-winning album “Amazing Grace,” which was recorded live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in South Central Los Angeles and featured gospel legend James Cleveland, along with her own father (Mick Jagger was one of the celebrities in the audience). It became one of of the best-selling gospel albums ever.
The piano she began learning at age 8 became a jazzy component of much of her work, including arranging as well as songwriting. “If I’m writing and I’m producing and singing, too, you get more of me that way, rather than having four or five different people working on one song,” Franklin told The Detroit News in 2003.
Franklin was in her early teens when she began touring with her father, and she released a gospel album in 1956 through J-V-B Records. Four years later, she signed with Columbia Records producer John Hammond, who called Franklin the most exciting singer he had heard since a vocalist he promoted decades earlier, Billie Holiday. Franklin knew Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. and considered joining his label, but decided it was just a local company at the time.
Franklin recorded several albums for Columbia Records over the next six years. She had a handful of minor hits, including “Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody” and “Runnin’ Out of Fools,” but never quite caught on as the label tried to fit into her a variety of styles, from jazz and show songs to such pop numbers as “Mockingbird.” Franklin jumped to Atlantic Records when her contract ran out, in 1966.
“But the years at Columbia also taught her several important things,” critic Russell Gersten later wrote. “She worked hard at controlling and modulating her phrasing, giving her a discipline that most other soul singers lacked. She also developed a versatility with mainstream music that gave her later albums a breadth that was lacking on Motown LPs from the same period.
“Most important, she learned what she didn’t like: to do what she was told to do.”
At Atlantic, Wexler teamed her with veteran R&B musicians from Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, and the result was a tougher, soulful sound, with call-and-response vocals and Franklin’s gospel-style piano, which anchored “I Say a Little Prayer,” ”Natural Woman” and others.
Of Franklin’s dozens of hits, none was linked more firmly to her than the funky, horn-led march “Respect” and its spelled out demand for “R-E-S-P-E-C-T.”
Writing in Rolling Stone magazine in 2004, Wexler said: “It was an appeal for dignity combined with a blatant lubricity. There are songs that are a call to action. There are love songs. There are sex songs. But it’s hard to think of another song where all those elements are combined.”
Franklin had decided she wanted to “embellish” the R&B song written by Otis Redding, whose version had been a modest hit in 1965, Wexler said.
“When she walked into the studio, it was already worked out in her head,” the producer wrote. “Otis came up to my office right before ‘Respect’ was released, and I played him the tape. He said, ‘She done took my song.’ He said it benignly and ruefully. He knew the identity of the song was slipping away from him to her.”
In a 2004 interview with the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, Franklin was asked whether she sensed in the ’60s that she was helping change popular music.
“Somewhat, certainly with ‘Respect,’ that was a battle cry for freedom and many people of many ethnicities took pride in that word,” she answered. “It was meaningful to all of us.”
In 1968, Franklin was pictured on the cover of Time magazine and had more than 10 Top 20 hits in 1967 and 1968. At a time of rebellion and division, Franklin’s records were a musical union of the church and the secular, man and woman, black and white, North and South, East and West. They were produced and engineered by New Yorkers Wexler and Tom Dowd, arranged by Turkish-born Arif Mardin and backed by an interracial assembly of top session musicians based mostly in Alabama.
Her popularity faded during the 1970s despite such hits as the funky “Rock Steady” and such acclaimed albums as the intimate “Spirit in the Dark.” But her career was revived in 1980 with a cameo appearance in the smash movie “The Blues Brothers” and her switch to Arista Records. Franklin collaborated with such pop and soul artists as Luther Vandross, Elton John, Whitney Houston and George Michael, with whom she recorded a No. 1 single, “I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me).” Her 1985 album “Who’s Zoomin’ Who” received some of her best reviews and included such hits as the title track and “Freeway of Love.”
Critics consistently praised Franklin’s singing but sometimes questioned her material; she covered songs by Stephen Sondheim, Bread, the Doobie Brothers. For Aretha, anything she performed was “soul.”
From her earliest recording sessions at Columbia, when she asked to sing “Over the Rainbow,” she defied category. The 1998 Grammys gave her a chance to demonstrate her range. Franklin performed “Respect,” then, with only a few minutes’ notice, filled in for an ailing Luciano Pavarotti and drew rave reviews for her rendition of “Nessun Dorma,” a stirring aria for tenors from Puccini’s “Turandot.”
“I’m sure many people were surprised, but I’m not there to prove anything,” Franklin told The Associated Press. “Not necessary.”
Fame never eclipsed Franklin’s charitable works, or her loyalty to Detroit.
Franklin sang the national anthem at Super Bowl in her hometown in 2006, after grousing that Detroit’s rich musical legacy was being snubbed when the Rolling Stones were chosen as halftime performers.
“I didn’t think there was enough (Detroit representation) by any means,” she said. “And it was my feeling, ‘How dare you come to Detroit, a city of legends — musical legends, plural — and not ask one or two of them to participate?’ That’s not the way it should be.”
Franklin did most of her extensive touring by bus after Redding’s death in a 1967 plane crash, and a rough flight to Detroit in 1982 left her with a fear of flying that anti-anxiety tapes and classes couldn’t help. She told Time in 1998 that the custom bus was a comfortable alternative: “You can pull over, go to Red Lobster. You can’t pull over at 35,000 feet.”
She only released a few albums over the past two decades, including “A Rose is Still a Rose,” which featured songs by Sean “Diddy” Combs, Lauryn Hill and other contemporary artists, and “So Damn Happy,” for which Franklin wrote the gratified title ballad. Franklin’s autobiography, “Aretha: From These Roots,” came out in 1999, when she was in her 50s. But she always made it clear that her story would continue.
“Music is my thing, it’s who I am. I’m in it for the long run,” she told The Associated Press in 2008. “I’ll be around, singing, ‘What you want, baby I got it.’ Having fun all the way.”
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To become the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin first had to travel through Muscle Shoals, Alabama. In her memory, we talk to Spooner Oldham and David Hood, who played on the 1967 landmark album that made her a superstar.
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In the Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century, the murders started early.
From 1955 forward, Southern white supremacists trying to stop the movement in its tracks killed dozens of black people. From Emmett Till in 1955 to Medgar Evers and the four little girls of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963 to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, no-account Kluxers rained terror on Southern blacks.
Did Southern courts bring swift justice to the martyrs’ families? Hell, no. Did every Southern news organization stand against the terrorists? Sadly, just a few.
But something else was going on in those years. Even as countless heartless crimes were committed against African-Americans, small groups of Southern blacks and whites worked together in secret to build a monument of great beauty, a cultural achievement that will stand until the end of time.
Their workshops were recording studios. The monument they built was called soul music. Blacks and whites together built resplendent musical bridges over the old divide, and did it primarily in two places: Memphis, Tennessee, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Thus, in January of 1967, a 24-year-old Aretha Franklin came to magical Muscle Shoals, in search of her groove.
After Columbia Records head John Hammond signed Franklin in 1961, he seemed unable to find the right setting for Franklin’s remarkable voice. Her early albums on Columbia cast her, for the most part, as a jazz singer, and none of them climbed higher than 69 on the U.S. albums chart. After Columbia’s final attempt, 1966’s “Soul Sister,” stalled out, Aretha Franklin moved to Atlantic Records under the direction of Jerry Wexler, one of the label’s founders. Wexler brought Franklin to Rick Hall’s FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, where she spent January and February of 1967 recording with Shoals masters like Spooner Oldham, Jimmy Johnson, Chips Moman, Tommy Cogbill, and David Hood. The result was, “I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You.” The album was released in March, and it jumped to No. 1 on the U.S. R&B album charts and No. 2 on the Hot 200. It produced Franklin’s first two hit singles: her definitive version of Otis Redding’s “Respect” and the title cut, written by Ronnie Shannon.
That album made — and still makes — perfect, beautiful, Southern sense to me. When word Franklin was gravely ill came earlier this week, I put it back on the turntable. And it reminded me, as it always has, Aretha Franklin had to come home to find the music that could do justice to her inimitable voice and would rocket her to stardom.
I know the South, technically, was not her home: Aretha grew up in Detroit. But her roots in the South run as deeply as those of any African-American family that departed our region during Jim Crow and the Great Migration. She was born in Memphis, but was only 4 when her father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin, the son of Sunflower County, Mississippi, sharecroppers, settled in Detroit as pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church.
Aretha’s singing career bloomed in that church. She recorded her first album — a gospel record called “Songs of Faith” — at New Bethel in 1956, when she was only 14 years old. Listen to that record (if you can find it), and you’ll hear just how far the threads of Southern music had traveled by the mid-20th century. Black families carried the gospel sounds of their churches with them as they dispersed across the Midwest and Northeast to escape Jim Crow, and their music remained intact in those new locations.
The conclusion is inescapable: Aretha’s musical roots were as Southern as any of you are. And if you’re a student of Southern musical culture, it must always be noted she might have never become a superstar had she not come “home” to the South.
David Hood, known most widely as the bass player in the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, played on “I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You” — but not the bass. He played trombone in the horn section. Hood would later add soulful bass lines to dozens of Aretha’s performances on record and on the stage, but he remains grateful the ’bone got him into the session.
“There was a problem in the booking of the horns,” Hood recalled earlier this week. “The ones they wanted, they couldn't get that day. And so, I got on the session that way.”
He remembers Aretha as a shy young woman who didn’t tell the musicians what she was going for, and instead just showed them.
“We'd been talking to Jerry Wexler. People were recording her wrong, and he wanted to bring her to Muscle Shoals,” Hood said. “It was to get her a little bit more funky style, but also to have her play the piano while she sang. There are some technical problems when doing something like that, but it was great. It helped the musicians find the style and get the feel that she wanted, and I think that's what made the difference. On nearly all the best cuts she ever did, she was playing the piano on as well as singing.”
In other words, she was doing the same things she’d done in church since she was a teenager: playing and singing the gospel.
“You could just pick up the feeling from her piano,” Hood said. “She grew up in a church and had that piano style and vocal style. And that's what Jerry wanted, and that's what everybody picked up on, I think.”
“I expect that was a style y’all would have felt pretty much at home in,” I replied.
“Yes,” Hood said. “Very much so.”
Aretha’s apple had not fallen too far from the tree.
Yesterday, after Aretha’s passing was confirmed, I spoke with another player on “I Never Loved a Man” — the legendary keyboardist and songwriter Spooner Oldham.
“Her dad had been a preacher — a Baptist preacher — and she sang at church as a child prodigy,” Oldham told me. “I guess he’d stack her up on the pulpit or whatever, lift her up where you could see her. So, coming to Muscle Shoals probably resonated the Southern experience in her brain, even though she had been gone forever. And then, when she was allowed to turn loose with all that Southern expression, we just played our hearts out, because we were used to that stuff. I mean, we weren't used to her — because she was top of the heap — but she brought it all out of us. I was curious because I knew she hadn't been around the South much, but she was belting that stuff out like she'd known it forever.”
And the truth was, she had known it forever. But Oldham didn’t know for sure they had recorded a hit album until Wexler called the Muscle Shoals crew to New York to put finishing touches on “I Never Loved a Man” a month after the Alabama sessions.
Between the sessions, Oldham said, “Aretha had been practicing at home with her sisters and family, singing those backup things. And then, when I first heard that re-re-re-respect, just-a-little-bit, sock-it-to-me-sock-it-to-me thing, all of that was brand new. It had never been done before. I knew something was going on then, you know. I knew it was going to turn the world around.”
Aretha Franklin did turn the world around, starting with that album’s release in March of 1967. On the first cut, she transformed Otis Redding’s pleas for a little respect from his woman into a monumental anthem for all women, who got precious little respect in those days.
For 20 more years, she consistently put singles at No. 1 on the charts, making us dance, sway, even cry: ”Baby I Love You,” “Chain of Fools,” “Sweet Sweet Baby Since You’ve Been Gone,” “Think,” “Share Your Love With Me,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Spanish Harlem,” “Day Dreaming,” “Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do),” “Something He Can Feel,” “Break It to Me Gently,” “Jump to It,” “Freeway of Love,” “I Knew You Were Waiting for Me.”
For those of us who grew up on soul music, these and many other of her songs are landmarks, caches in which we hide our own memories, touchstones we all go back to repeatedly because they inspire us, comfort us, make us dance as we did in our youth. No voice ever dominated a genre of music as completely as Aretha’s. The Queen of Soul title has no hyperbole in it.
Hood told me a story about the last time he played with Aretha, in 2011 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
“I was part of the stage band,” he said. “We were doing a tribute to Aretha show, and she was not supposed to play or sing or anything. And they had all these other artists to sing her songs — Jerry Butler, Cissy Houston, I can’t even remember all of them. But at the very end of the show, she decided she would sing. She did ‘A Song for You,’ and, my God, I just stood there behind her and tried to find what she was doing and play along with her. I didn’t have a chart or anything. That was a great moment.”
In the video from that night, you can see Hood struggle a bit as Aretha sits at the piano and renders a highly improvisational and profoundly church-like version of Leon Russell’s classic tune. You can also see a giant smile plastered on his face in that moment, as if he knew his own notes didn’t matter much because the Queen had the crowd in the palm of her hand, all on her own, even in this utterly unrehearsed moment.
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If you're in Memphis, you should definitely stop by to see the childhood home of Aretha Franklin. You can't go inside but are able to get out and view the outside.
It was a wonderful experience and honor to visit the Queen of Soul's birthplace. However, as a historic place the city should clean up the area and street."
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Aretha Franklin singer, Memphis Tennessee - Born March 25, 1942. She has been dubbed for years " The Queen Of Soul " but many also call her "Lady Soul," as well as the even more affectionate "Sister Re." As a child, Aretha moved from Tennessee to New York and then to Detroit. At age 14, she made her first recordings in a local Detroit church. She ten had her first two sons around this time. Clarence, Jr. was born when she was 15 and Edward "Eddie" was born when she was 16. She dropped out of high school soon after the birth of her second son. Her grandmother took in her sons to help Aretha move on in her career. Among her most successful hit singles from the 60's and 70's were "Chain of Fools", "You Make Me Feel (Like a Natural Woman)", "Think", "Baby, I Love You", "The House That Jack Built", and "Respect", which became her signature song. She currently lives in Detroit when she is not on tour.
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Yesterday, the world of music mourned the loss of true royalty. Aretha Franklin was an American singer, songwriter and pianist, but to millions of fans, she was an icon.
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Yesterday, the world of music mourned the loss of true royalty. Aretha Franklin was an American singer, songwriter and pianist, but to millions of fans, she was an icon.
Aretha's Parents
Aretha and her father, C.L. Franklin
On March 25, 1942, Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee. When Aretha was 2 years old, her family moved to Buffalo, New York, briefly for her father’s career as a minister. Before she turned 5, they made the permanent move to Detroit, Michigan, where Aretha remained until her death, yesterday, August 16, 2018.
Aretha’s father became her manager and she recorded her first album, “Songs of Faith”, in 1956, at the age of only 14!
Today’s Listening Example is Aretha’s Career-defining anthem, “RESPECT”. Recorded in February of 1967, “Respect” would reach No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart, win Franklin two Grammys and make her an international star. Thank you, Aretha, for sharing your talent, and the music in your soul, with all of us. You will be missed.
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A time line of major events in the life and work of Aretha Franklin:
March 1942 — Aretha Franklin is born in Memphis, Tennessee. Her father, a prominent Baptist minister with gospel-music connections, would move the family briefly to Buffalo before settling in Detroit when Aretha was 4. She would call the city home for most of her life, and would always be closely associated with its massive musical legacy.
1956 — Franklin releases her first album, a gospel collection called "Songs of Faith," recorded at her father's church when she was 14.
1961 — Franklin marries her manager, Ted White. Their troubled eight-year union is believed to have inspired her performances on many songs.
February 1961 — Franklin releases her first album for Columbia Records. She would have only minor hits in her six years with the label, which pushed her toward jazz and show tunes and away from her gospel roots.
November 1966 — Franklin signs with Atlantic Records, where producer Jerry Wexler encourages her to embrace her classic soul and gospel sound. Several classic songs immediately followed, including "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and "Chain of Fools."
February 1967 — "Respect," Franklin's career-defining anthem, is recorded. The song would reach No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart, win Franklin two Grammys and make her an international star. A month later it would be the opening track on her breakthrough album, "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)."
Read more:
Complete coverage: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, dies
June 1972 — A live gospel album, "Amazing Grace," is released amid a revival in spiritual music. It sold more than 2 million copies and is among Franklin's biggest hits.
January 1977 — Franklin sings "God Bless America" at the inauguration of Jimmy Carter.
June 1980 — The hit comedy film "The Blues Brothers" is released, with Franklin appearing and singing "Think" in one of the film's most popular scenes. It signaled that the 1980s would bring a career revival.
July 1985 — "Freeway of Love" off of Franklin's "Who's Zooming Who" album, becomes her first top 10 hit in more than a decade.
January 1987 — Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
April 1987 — "I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me)," a duet with George Michael, reaches No. 1 on the pop chart.
December 1994 — Franklin, at age 52, becomes the youngest person ever chosen for a Kennedy Center honor. In his tribute, President Bill Clinton said he and the first lady considered her among their favorite artists. "You could say that Hillary and I went to college and law school with Aretha because there was scarcely a day when we didn't listen to one of her songs," said the president.
September 1999 — She receives the National Medal of Arts and Humanities Award from President Bill Clinton, who says Franklin "brought sunshine to a rainy day and tenderness to a hardened heart."
November 2005 — President George Bush presents her with the 2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award.
February 2008 — Franklin wins her last Grammy Award — her 18th — for Best Gospel Performance for "Never Gonna Break My Faith" with Mary J. Blige. She also received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement and a Living Legend award.
January 2009 — Franklin sings "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at the inauguration of Barack Obama.
October 2014 — Franklin's cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" reaches No. 47 on Billboard's R&B chart. It's Franklin's 100th charting single, making her the first woman to reach the milestone.
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The Queen of Soul's epic musical journey included several stops in Music City.
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She was born in Memphis, and during her earliest visits to Nashville, Aretha Franklin would light up the famed R&B clubs of Jefferson Street.
Half a century later, the "Queen of Soul" would play her final Nashville shows at the city's most prestigious venues and events: the Swan Ball and the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.
The epic musical journey of Franklin — who died Thursday at age 76 — included many intersections with Music City over the years. In addition to concerts and award ceremonies, she recorded a handful of country songs and would prove to be an immeasurable influence on some of the genre's most celebrated vocalists.
Raised on an eclectic musical diet of gospel, R&B, classical and jazz, she blossomed out of her father's Detroit church to become the most distinguished black female artist of all time, breaking boundaries while placing nearly 100 hits on Billboard’s R&B chart — 20 of them reaching No. 1.
The Queen of Soul, as she was crownd in the 1960s, leaves a sprawling legacy of classic songs that includes "Respect," "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," "Think" and "Freeway of Love," along with a best-selling gospel catalog.
Her death follows several years of painstakingly concealed medical issues, which led to regular show cancellations and extended absences from the public eye.
A family statement released by her publicist Gwendolyn Quinn said "Franklin's official cause of death was due to advance pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type, which was confirmed by Franklin's oncologist, Dr. Philip Phillips of Karmanos Cancer Institute" in Detroit.
Memphis roots
Aretha Louise Franklin was born March 25, 1942, in Memphis. Two years later, her family would move to Detroit, where she began singing at her father's New Bethel Baptist Church. Her childhood home and birthplace in Memphis — a 1920s "clapboard cottage" — is still standing at 406 Lucy in South Memphis.
In the hours after Franklin's death, visitors came to the house to write tributes on the boards that covered up its windows.
"It's like a part of Memphis is dying," local resident Erica Qualy told The Commercial Appeal, leaving a purple bouquet at the door.
Jefferson Street
In 1960, Franklin made the jump from gospel to secular music, and her earliest years as an R&B singer included visits to Nashville's Jefferson Street. There was even a four-night run at The New Era Club, which she recalled during a late-night interview with The Tennessean in 1971.
Reporter Jack Hurst caught up with Franklin at the King of the Road Motel, "just before she punched the button for the elevator," he wrote.
"I like Nashville," she said. "It's a beautiful town. Nice climate."
Franklin was in town that year to headline a benefit concert for Fisk University, which she deemed a "terribly worthy cause."
The Nashville Grammys
Two years later in 1973, when the Grammy Awards were held in Nashville for the first and only time, Franklin was among the stars in attendance.
She presented an award at the Tennessee Theatre during the CBS telecast, and picked up two awards the next morning at a "champagne breakfast" at Municipal Auditorium. Those wins — for best female R&B vocal performance and best soul gospel performance — are a small portion of her 18 career Grammys.
Country connections
In the 1960s, Franklin put a one-of-a-kind spin on several country songs. Among them was Willie Nelson's "Night Life," John Hartford's "Gentle On My Mind" and "I May Never Get to Heaven," penned by Bill Anderson and Buddy Killen.
On social media, Nelson called Franklin "the greatest gift and the voice of a generation. She could turn any song into a hymn."
A few decades later, country artists were the ones covering Franklin and claiming her as an influence. Reba McEntire rocked the boat at the 1988 CMA Awards by belting out "Respect."
Faith Hill and Franklin recorded a duet for the latter's 2011 album, "A Woman Falling Out of Love," but the track was ultimately shelved. Last year, Hill and Tim McGraw opened their "Soul2Soul" tour concerts with "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)."
"The choir of angels now have the greatest voice of all time to lead, praise and join in to sing before Jesus," Hill wrote on social media Thursday.
Gospel glory
In 2012, the Nashville-based Gospel Music Association inducted Franklin into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
"Aretha most certainly brought her gospel roots into secular R&B," the hall wrote on its website, calling her "one of the finest songwriters of all time as well as one of (the) finest pianists in gospel today."
A newer Nashville institution — the National Museum of African American Music — shared its own tribute Thursday morning.
"Aretha Franklin was a true genius of American music," museum President Henry Beecher Hicks III wrote Thursday. "We hope that her journey is a peaceful one. While we look forward to celebrating her at the (museum), she will be sorely missed."
Her final Nashville performances
In 2012, Franklin performed at Nashville's Swan Ball, an annual white-tie gala known as one of the South's premier social events.
That came after two stops at the historic Ryman Auditorium in 2010 and 2011, where fans waited in the alley behind Tootsie's to catch a glimpse of the queen.
Her final Music City performance was a sold-out concert at Schermerhorn Symphony Center in 2015. Franklin, then 73, proudly proclaimed it was her 60th year in the music business, and treated an ecstatic crowd to a 90-minute set that featured “Chain of Fools,” “Think,” "Freeway of Love" and, finally, "Respect."
"She can still fill every inch of a concert hall with her powerful voice," wrote The Tennessean's Juli Thanki.
The Detroit Free Press and Memphis Commercial Appeal contributed to this report.
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Aretha Franklin was called the Queen of Soul, but long before she made her mark on the music industry, she was making her way in Memphis.
Located in south Memphis at 406 Lucy Ave., the 400-square-foot home where Franklin was born has become dilapidated, with boarded-up windows. After the legendary singer's death, there’s a renewed effort – and a fight – to preserve the home.
Vera Lee House, the current owner, says members of the community want the building restored. House says there has been talk of moving the building closer to Soulsville, which is a redeveloped neighborhood in south Memphis. The house has been unlivable for more than a decade, and discussions about what to do with the property have been ramping up.
Franklin was born in the house on March 25, 1942, but her family moved from the area about two years later.
“I turned it over to the receiver so I could keep it standing here, not [somewhere] else. When I found out they wanted to move it, I’ve really been against it because it’s not only just Aretha’s home, it’s my home,” House told Fox News.
“I raised my kids in this house. I live in this neighborhood. I don’t want everything that I’ve worked for to just leave.”
House said the taxes, which total just over $1,200, will be paid soon after a court hearing to determine the fate of the property is held this week. The court hearing was scheduled well before Franklin’s death.
Speaking of Franklin, House told Fox News about a meeting she had with the Queen of Soul when she visited the home in 1995.
“She stayed a pretty good while that day, and she talked and walked through the house and told me the things that [happened] with her family here,” House said. “She talked about the tree there, how her sisters and brothers used to climb the tree and play in it.”
A judge ordered the house to be demolished two years ago; an alternative plan to keep the building standing called for the home to be placed under the receivership of a local community corporation to develop plans to maintain it because of its historic significance.
Jeffrey Higgs, the executive director of South Memphis Renewal CDC, says there have been no decisions made as to how the preservation process will go. Higgs did note that he once took a call from Franklin herself, and she told him that she would have liked to see the home preserved.
“Everybody is looking at what’s going to happen to it,” Higgs said. “There are a variety of interests [and] people who want to see different things happen to the house. And so our efforts have and always been on restoring the house and making sure that her interests are protected as the owner of the house. … We don’t own the house, we’re just the court-appointed receiver.”
Higgs says it will cost about $200,000 to restore the property, and that it would take up to tens of millions of dollars to improve the surrounding neighborhood. He also mentioned that as the receiver of the property, his corporation would likely end up paying the outstanding taxes on the site.
“We will bring everybody together and do what’s best for the community, for Lucy [Avenue], for the city and globally because Ms. Franklin was loved by everybody,” Higgs added.
To help with the costs associated with the upkeep and restoration of Franklin’s former home, a GoFundMe campaign was started by local music industry executive Gebre Waddell, CEO of Soundways.
“A symbol as powerful as a house can be something that affects the neighborhood and affects the city at a very deep level,” Waddell said. “When you think about Memphis, you think about Graceland perhaps, the home of Elvis Presley. And with Aretha Franklin and the level of legend that we’re talking about here, the level of impact that she had, we also need to preserve her home.”
Whatever happens to the Queen of Soul’s first home, the community wants to make sure Franklin’s legacy lives on. Vera Lee House’s children have even floated the idea of renaming the street Aretha Franklin Place. House and her family hope the city of Memphis will also step in and help out with the restoration efforts.
“I’m sure that we could do something for this,” House said. “They may say nothing can be done, but I think we should come together.”
House, Higgs and the city have until Oct. 16 to come up with a plan to preserve the building, as per court orders. Higgs told Fox News any meeting for next steps would take place after Franklin’s memorial service, which is scheduled for Friday. A vigil honoring the singer will be held at her former south Memphis home on the same day.
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Aretha Franklin Birthplace Restoration Project
CLICK HERE for the latest updates.
OUR GOAL
The Aretha & C. L. Franklin Center (ACLFC) is a Community effort by thought leaders and innovators committed to restoring and preserving the birthplace home of Aretha Franklin and honoring the legacy of her father, a renowned gospel preacher. While being committed to stabilizing inner city neighborhoods and creating urban spaces that celebrate our neighborhoods.
OUR MISSION
We are intentionally preserving a legacy and expanding on the critical mass already created in South Memphis and SoulsvilleUSA. We are aligning a historical musical figure, a powerful gospel preacher and creating a space that provides economic opportunities for residents, churches, artist, musicians and youth to use this space communally. We are creating a world class lasting memorial to Memphis’ own Aretha Franklin. We are attempting to share best practices in urban gentrification by those who live in the South Memphis Community.
OUR PLAN
This plan address several major concerns of those who want to see the house renovated. Initially, the creation of a non-profit that will oversee all activity of the revitalization; create a diverse board of no more than 10 to include members of the House Family;
Financial accountability of all funds received;
Ensure the best possible repurpose/reuse of the facility is thoughtful and in the best interest of all concerned;
Respectively of those who want to see the house remain at its location at 406 Lucy. What we know: The Lucy Street community is one in great need of revitalization. Infrastructure is needed, blighted vacant housing exist; overgrown lots; and improvement needed. There are cost estimate of between $5 – $20 million dollars of investments needed to bring this street into a place that is safe, decent and affordable for anyone choosing to live, work or play.
Conversely, moving the house to a location in SoulsvilleUSA, a targeted Memphis 3.0 site. It is close to STAX Museum of American Soul Music, near the historic J. E. Walker House, the historic Metropolitan Baptist Church, the famous Four–Way Grill, the original Mississippi Blvd. Christian Church, Knowledge Quest/Green Leaf Organic Farms, LeMoyne-Owen College (the city’s only HBCU), the Firehouse Black Arts Alliance and South Memphis Alliance, in the midst of a community that has seen over $150 million in capital, social and equity investments since 1999.
Our suggestion and plan will be determined by the new non-profit and its board.
This plan has not been created in a vacuum. After careful consideration and conversation with the original homeowner-Mrs. Vera House. Reaching out to community leadership, we are utilizing the Memphis Music Magnet Plan created nine years by residents and community partners, all in an effort to be inclusive to ensure we properly honor the legacy of Ms. Franklin and her Father.
FINANCIAL PLAN
The financial plan is segmented into three phases:
1) Initially, securing the house at its current location to stabilize the house as it is in need of structural stability ( within 2 months);
2)the finances needed to restore the house;
3)and creating a fitting memorial to Aretha Franklin, either on Lucy or at New Location honoring all interest.
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Episode 168 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “I Say a Little Prayer”, and the interaction of the sacred, political, and secular in Aretha Franklin’s life and work. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.
Patreon backers also have a forty-five-minute bonus episode available, on “Abraham, Martin, and John” by Dion.
Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/
Errata
I say the Gospelaires sang backing vocals on Doris Troy’s “Just One Look”. That’s what the sources I used said, but other sources I’ve since been pointed to say that the vocals are all Troy, multi-tracked, and listening to the record that sounds more plausible. Also, I talk about ? and the Mysterians’ “96 Tears” just after talking about white rock hits, but don’t actually say they were white themselves. To be clear, ? and the Mysterians were Latino.
Resources
No Mixcloud this week, as there are too many songs by Aretha Franklin. Even splitting it into multiple parts would have required six or seven mixes.
My main biographical source for Aretha Franklin is Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin by David Ritz, and this is where most of the quotes from musicians come from.
Information on C.L. Franklin came from Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America by Nick Salvatore.
Country Soul by Charles L Hughes is a great overview of the soul music made in Muscle Shoals, Memphis, and Nashville in the sixties. Peter Guralnick’s Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom is possibly less essential, but still definitely worth reading.
Information about Martin Luther King came from Martin Luther King: A Religious Life by Paul Harvey.
I also referred to Burt Bacharach’s autobiography Anyone Who Had a Heart, Carole King’s autobiography A Natural Woman, and Soul Serenade: King Curtis and his Immortal Saxophone by Timothy R. Hoover.
For information about Amazing Grace I also used Aaron Cohen’s 33 1/3 book on the album. The film of the concerts is also definitely worth watching.
And the Aretha Now album is available in this five-album box set for a ludicrously cheap price. But it’s actually worth getting this nineteen-CD set with her first sixteen Atlantic albums and a couple of bonus discs of demos and outtakes. There’s barely a duff track in the whole nineteen discs.
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Transcript
A quick warning before I begin. This episode contains some moderate references to domestic abuse, death by cancer, racial violence, police violence, and political assassination. Anyone who might be upset by those subjects might want to check the transcript rather than listening to the episode.
Also, as with the previous episode on Aretha Franklin, this episode presents something of a problem. Like many people in this narrative, Franklin’s career was affected by personal troubles, which shaped many of her decisions. But where most of the subjects of the podcast have chosen to live their lives in public and share intimate details of every aspect of their personal lives, Franklin was an extremely private person, who chose to share only carefully sanitised versions of her life, and tried as far as possible to keep things to herself.
This of course presents a dilemma for anyone who wants to tell her story — because even though the information is out there in biographies, and even though she’s dead, it’s not right to disrespect someone’s wish for a private life. I have therefore tried, wherever possible, to stay away from talk of her personal life except where it *absolutely* affects the work, or where other people involved have publicly shared their own stories, and even there I’ve tried to keep it to a minimum. This will occasionally lead to me saying less about some topics than other people might, even though the information is easily findable, because I don’t think we have an absolute right to invade someone else’s privacy for entertainment.
When we left Aretha Franklin, she had just finally broken through into the mainstream after a decade of performing, with a version of Otis Redding’s song “Respect” on which she had been backed by her sisters, Erma and Carolyn. “Respect”, in Franklin’s interpretation, had been turned from a rather chauvinist song about a man demanding respect from his woman into an anthem of feminism, of Black power, and of a new political awakening.
For white people of a certain generation, the summer of 1967 was “the summer of love”. For many Black people, it was rather different. There’s a quote that goes around (I’ve seen it credited in reliable sources to both Ebony and Jet magazine, but not ever seen an issue cited, so I can’t say for sure where it came from) saying that the summer of 67 was the summer of “‘retha, Rap, and revolt”, referring to the trifecta of Aretha Franklin, the Black power leader Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (who was at the time known as H. Rap Brown, a name he later disclaimed) and the rioting that broke out in several major cities, particularly in Detroit:
[Excerpt: John Lee Hooker, “The Motor City is Burning”]
The mid sixties were, in many ways, the high point not of Black rights in the US — for the most part there has been a lot of progress in civil rights in the intervening decades, though not without inevitable setbacks and attacks from the far right, and as movements like the Black Lives Matter movement have shown there is still a long way to go — but of *hope* for Black rights.
The moral force of the arguments made by the civil rights movement were starting to cause real change to happen for Black people in the US for the first time since the Reconstruction nearly a century before.
But those changes weren’t happening fast enough, and as we heard in the episode on “I Was Made to Love Her”, there was not only a growing unrest among Black people, but a recognition that it was actually possible for things to change. A combination of hope and frustration can be a powerful catalyst, and whether Franklin wanted it or not, she was at the centre of things, both because of her newfound prominence as a star with a hit single that couldn’t be interpreted as anything other than a political statement and because of her intimate family connections to the struggle.
Even the most racist of white people these days pays lip service to the memory of Dr Martin Luther King, and when they do they quote just a handful of sentences from one speech King made in 1963, as if that sums up the full theological and political philosophy of that most complex of men. And as we discussed the last time we looked at Aretha Franklin, King gave versions of that speech, the “I Have a Dream” speech, twice. The most famous version was at the March on Washington, but the first time was a few weeks earlier, at what was at the time the largest civil rights demonstration in American history, in Detroit. Aretha’s family connection to that event is made clear by the very opening of King’s speech:
[Excerpt: Martin Luther King, “Original ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech”]
So as summer 1967 got into swing, and white rock music was going to San Francisco to wear flowers in its hair, Aretha Franklin was at the centre of a very different kind of youth revolution.
Franklin’s second Atlantic album, Aretha Arrives, brought in some new personnel to the team that had recorded Aretha’s first album for Atlantic. Along with the core Muscle Shoals players Jimmy Johnson, Spooner Oldham, Tommy Cogbill and Roger Hawkins, and a horn section led by King Curtis, Wexler and Dowd also brought in guitarist Joe South. South was a white session player from Georgia, who had had a few minor hits himself in the fifties — he’d got his start recording a cover version of “The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor”, the Big Bopper’s B-side to “Chantilly Lace”:
[Excerpt: Joe South, “The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor”]
He’d also written a few songs that had been recorded by people like Gene Vincent, but he’d mostly become a session player. He’d become a favourite musician of Bob Johnston’s, and so he’d played guitar on Simon and Garfunkel’s Sounds of Silence and Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme albums:
[Excerpt: Simon and Garfunkel, “I am a Rock”]
and bass on Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde, with Al Kooper particularly praising his playing on “Visions of Johanna”:
[Excerpt: Bob Dylan, “Visions of Johanna”]
South would be the principal guitarist on this and Franklin’s next album, before his own career took off in 1968 with “Games People Play”:
[Excerpt: Joe South, “Games People Play”] At this point, he had already written the other song he’s best known for, “Hush”, which later became a hit for Deep Purple:
[Excerpt: Deep Purple, “Hush”]
But he wasn’t very well known, and was surprised to get the call for the Aretha Franklin session, especially because, as he put it “I was white and I was about to play behind the blackest genius since Ray Charles”
But Jerry Wexler had told him that Franklin didn’t care about the race of the musicians she played with, and South settled in as soon as Franklin smiled at him when he played a good guitar lick on her version of the blues standard “Going Down Slow”:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “Going Down Slow”]
That was one of the few times Franklin smiled in those sessions though. Becoming an overnight success after years of trying and failing to make a name for herself had been a disorienting experience, and on top of that things weren’t going well in her personal life. Her marriage to her manager Ted White was falling apart, and she was performing erratically thanks to the stress. In particular, at a gig in Georgia she had fallen off the stage and broken her arm. She soon returned to performing, but it meant she had problems with her right arm during the recording of the album, and didn’t play as much piano as she would have previously — on some of the faster songs she played only with her left hand.
But the recording sessions had to go on, whether or not Aretha was physically capable of playing piano. As we discussed in the episode on Otis Redding, the owners of Atlantic Records were busily negotiating its sale to Warner Brothers in mid-1967. As Wexler said later “Everything in me said, Keep rolling, keep recording, keep the hits coming. She was red hot and I had no reason to believe that the streak wouldn’t continue. I knew that it would be foolish—and even irresponsible—not to strike when the iron was hot. I also had personal motivation. A Wall Street financier had agreed to see what we could get for Atlantic Records. While Ahmet and Neshui had not agreed on a selling price, they had gone along with my plan to let the financier test our worth on the open market. I was always eager to pump out hits, but at this moment I was on overdrive. In this instance, I had a good partner in Ted White, who felt the same. He wanted as much product out there as possible.”
In truth, you can tell from Aretha Arrives that it’s a record that was being thought of as “product” rather than one being made out of any kind of artistic impulse. It’s a fine album — in her ten-album run from I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You through Amazing Grace there’s not a bad album and barely a bad track — but there’s a lack of focus. There are only two originals on the album, neither of them written by Franklin herself, and the rest is an incoherent set of songs that show the tension between Franklin and her producers at Atlantic. Several songs are the kind of standards that Franklin had recorded for her old label Columbia, things like “You Are My Sunshine”, or her version of “That’s Life”, which had been a hit for Frank Sinatra the previous year:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “That’s Life”]
But mixed in with that are songs that are clearly the choice of Wexler. As we’ve discussed previously in episodes on Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett, at this point Atlantic had the idea that it was possible for soul artists to cross over into the white market by doing cover versions of white rock hits — and indeed they’d had some success with that tactic. So while Franklin was suggesting Sinatra covers, Atlantic’s hand is visible in the choices of songs like “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and “96 Tears”:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “96 Tears’]
Of the two originals on the album, one, the hit single “Baby I Love You” was written by Ronnie Shannon, the Detroit songwriter who had previously written “I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)”:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “Baby I Love You”]
As with the previous album, and several other songs on this one, that had backing vocals by Aretha’s sisters, Erma and Carolyn. But the other original on the album, “Ain’t Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around)”, didn’t, even though it was written by Carolyn:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “Ain’t Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around)”]
To explain why, let’s take a little detour and look at the co-writer of the song this episode is about, though we’re not going to get to that for a little while yet.
We’ve not talked much about Burt Bacharach in this series so far, but he’s one of those figures who has come up a few times in the periphery and will come up again, so here is as good a time as any to discuss him, and bring everyone up to speed about his career up to 1967. Bacharach was one of the more privileged figures in the sixties pop music field. His father, Bert Bacharach (pronounced the same as his son, but spelled with an e rather than a u) had been a famous newspaper columnist, and his parents had bought him a Steinway grand piano to practice on — they pushed him to learn the piano even though as a kid he wasn’t interested in finger exercises and Debussy.
What he was interested in, though, was jazz, and as a teenager he would often go into Manhattan and use a fake ID to see people like Dizzy Gillespie, who he idolised, and in his autobiography he talks rapturously of seeing Gillespie playing his bent trumpet — he once saw Gillespie standing on a street corner with a pet monkey on his shoulder, and went home and tried to persuade his parents to buy him a monkey too.
In particular, he talks about seeing the Count Basie band with Sonny Payne on drums as a teenager:
[Excerpt: Count Basie, “Kid From Red Bank”]
He saw them at Birdland, the club owned by Morris Levy where they would regularly play, and said of the performance “they were just so incredibly exciting that all of a sudden, I got into music in a way I never had before. What I heard in those clubs really turned my head around— it was like a big breath of fresh air when somebody throws open a window. That was when I knew for the first time how much I loved music and wanted to be connected to it in some way.”
Of course, there’s a rather major problem with this story, as there is so often with narratives that musicians tell about their early career. In this case, Birdland didn’t open until 1949, when Bacharach was twenty-one and stationed in Germany for his military service, while Sonny Payne didn’t join Basie’s band until 1954, when Bacharach had been a professional musician for many years. Also Dizzy Gillespie’s trumpet bell only got bent on January 6, 1953.
But presumably while Bacharach was conflating several memories, he did have some experience in some New York jazz club that led him to want to become a musician. Certainly there were enough great jazz musicians playing the clubs in those days.
He went to McGill University to study music for two years, then went to study with Darius Milhaud, a hugely respected modernist composer. Milhaud was also one of the most important music teachers of the time — among others he’d taught Stockhausen and Xenakkis, and would go on to teach Philip Glass and Steve Reich. This suited Bacharach, who by this point was a big fan of Schoenberg and Webern, and was trying to write atonal, difficult music. But Milhaud had also taught Dave Brubeck, and when Bacharach rather shamefacedly presented him with a composition which had an actual tune, he told Bacharach “Never be ashamed of writing a tune you can whistle”.
He dropped out of university and, like most men of his generation, had to serve in the armed forces. When he got out of the army, he continued his musical studies, still trying to learn to be an avant-garde composer, this time with Bohuslav Martinů and later with Henry Cowell, the experimental composer we’ve heard about quite a bit in previous episodes:
[Excerpt: Henry Cowell, “Aeolian Harp and Sinister Resonance”]
He was still listening to a lot of avant garde music, and would continue doing so throughout the fifties, going to see people like John Cage. But he spent much of that time working in music that was very different from the avant-garde. He got a job as the band leader for the crooner Vic Damone:
[Excerpt: Vic Damone. “Ebb Tide”]
He also played for the vocal group the Ames Brothers. He decided while he was working with the Ames Brothers that he could write better material than they were getting from their publishers, and that it would be better to have a job where he didn’t have to travel, so he got himself a job as a staff songwriter in the Brill Building. He wrote a string of flops and nearly hits, starting with “Keep Me In Mind” for Patti Page:
[Excerpt: Patti Page, “Keep Me In Mind”]
From early in his career he worked with the lyricist Hal David, and the two of them together wrote two big hits, “Magic Moments” for Perry Como:
[Excerpt: Perry Como, “Magic Moments”]
and “The Story of My Life” for Marty Robbins:
[Excerpt: “The Story of My Life”]
But at that point Bacharach was still also writing with other writers, notably Hal David’s brother Mack, with whom he wrote the theme tune to the film The Blob, as performed by The Five Blobs:
[Excerpt: The Five Blobs, “The Blob”]
But Bacharach’s songwriting career wasn’t taking off, and he got himself a job as musical director for Marlene Dietrich — a job he kept even after it did start to take off.
Part of the problem was that he intuitively wrote music that didn’t quite fit into standard structures — there would be odd bars of unusual time signatures thrown in, unusual harmonies, and structural irregularities — but then he’d take feedback from publishers and producers who would tell him the song could only be recorded if he straightened it out. He said later “The truth is that I ruined a lot of songs by not believing in myself enough to tell these guys they were wrong.”
He started writing songs for Scepter Records, usually with Hal David, but also with Bob Hilliard and Mack David, and started having R&B hits. One song he wrote with Mack David, “I’ll Cherish You”, had the lyrics rewritten by Luther Dixon to make them more harsh-sounding for a Shirelles single — but the single was otherwise just Bacharach’s demo with the vocals replaced, and you can even hear his voice briefly at the beginning:
[Excerpt: The Shirelles, “Baby, It’s You”]
But he’d also started becoming interested in the production side of records more generally. He’d iced that some producers, when recording his songs, would change the sound for the worse — he thought Gene McDaniels’ version of “Tower of Strength”, for example, was too fast. But on the other hand, other producers got a better sound than he’d heard in his head. He and Hilliard had written a song called “Please Stay”, which they’d given to Leiber and Stoller to record with the Drifters, and he thought that their arrangement of the song was much better than the one he’d originally thought up:
[Excerpt: The Drifters, “Please Stay”]
He asked Leiber and Stoller if he could attend all their New York sessions and learn about record production from them. He started doing so, and eventually they started asking him to assist them on records. He and Hilliard wrote a song called “Mexican Divorce” for the Drifters, which Leiber and Stoller were going to produce, and as he put it “they were so busy running Redbird Records that they asked me to rehearse the background singers for them in my office.”
[Excerpt: The Drifters, “Mexican Divorce”]
The backing singers who had been brought in to augment the Drifters on that record were a group of vocalists who had started out as members of a gospel group called the Drinkard singers:
[Excerpt: The Drinkard Singers, “Singing in My Soul”]
The Drinkard Singers had originally been a family group, whose members included Cissy Drinkard, who joined the group aged five (and who on her marriage would become known as Cissy Houston — her daughter Whitney would later join the family business), her aunt Lee Warrick, and Warrick’s adopted daughter Judy Clay.
That group were discovered by the great gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, and spent much of the fifties performing with gospel greats including Jackson herself, Clara Ward, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
But Houston was also the musical director of a group at her church, the Gospelaires, which featured Lee Warrick’s two daughters Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick (for those who don’t know, the Warwick sisters’ birth name was Warrick, spelled with two rs. A printing error led to it being misspelled the same way as the British city on a record label, and from that point on Dionne at least pronounced the w in her misspelled name). And slowly, the Gospelaires rather than the Drinkard Singers became the focus, with a lineup of Houston, the Warwick sisters, the Warwick sisters’ cousin Doris Troy, and Clay’s sister Sylvia Shemwell.
The real change in the group’s fortunes came when, as we talked about a while back in the episode on “The Loco-Motion”, the original lineup of the Cookies largely stopped working as session singers to become Ray Charles’ Raelettes. As we discussed in that episode, a new lineup of Cookies formed in 1961, but it took a while for them to get started, and in the meantime the producers who had been relying on them for backing vocals were looking elsewhere, and they looked to the Gospelaires.
“Mexican Divorce” was the first record to feature the group as backing vocalists — though reports vary as to how many of them are on the record, with some saying it’s only Troy and the Warwicks, others saying Houston was there, and yet others saying it was all five of them.
Some of these discrepancies were because these singers were so good that many of them left to become solo singers in fairly short order. Troy was the first to do so, with her hit “Just One Look”, on which the other Gospelaires sang backing vocals:
[Excerpt: Doris Troy, “Just One Look”]
But the next one to go solo was Dionne Warwick, and that was because she’d started working with Bacharach and Hal David as their principal demo singer. She started singing lead on their demos, and hoping that she’d get to release them on her own. One early one was “Make it Easy On Yourself”, which was recorded by Jerry Butler, formerly of the Impressions. That record was produced by Bacharach, one of the first records he produced without outside supervision:
[Excerpt: Jerry Butler, “Make it Easy On Yourself”]
Warwick was very jealous that a song she’d sung the demo of had become a massive hit for someone else, and blamed Bacharach and David. The way she tells the story — Bacharach always claimed this never happened, but as we’ve already seen he was himself not always the most reliable of narrators of his own life — she got so angry she complained to them, and said “Don’t make me over, man!”
And so Bacharach and David wrote her this:
[Excerpt: Dionne Warwick, “Don’t Make Me Over”]
Incidentally, in the UK, the hit version of that was a cover by the Swinging Blue Jeans:
[Excerpt: The Swinging Blue Jeans, “Don’t Make Me Over”]
who also had a huge hit with “You’re No Good”:
[Excerpt: The Swinging Blue Jeans, “You’re No Good”]
And *that* was originally recorded by *Dee Dee* Warwick:
[Excerpt: Dee Dee Warwick, “You’re No Good”]
Dee Dee also had a successful solo career, but Dionne’s was the real success, making the names of herself, and of Bacharach and David. The team had more than twenty top forty hits together, before Bacharach and David had a falling out in 1971 and stopped working together, and Warwick sued both of them for breach of contract as a result. But prior to that they had hit after hit, with classic records like “Anyone Who Had a Heart”:
[Excerpt: Dionne Warwick, “Anyone Who Had a Heart”]
And “Walk On By”:
[Excerpt: Dionne Warwick, “Walk On By”]
With Doris, Dionne, and Dee Dee all going solo, the group’s membership was naturally in flux — though the departed members would occasionally join their former bandmates for sessions, and the remaining members would sing backing vocals on their ex-members’ records. By 1965 the group consisted of Cissy Houston, Sylvia Shemwell, the Warwick sisters’ cousin Myrna Smith, and Estelle Brown.
The group became *the* go-to singers for soul and R&B records made in New York. They were regularly hired by Leiber and Stoller to sing on their records, and they were also the particular favourites of Bert Berns. They sang backing vocals on almost every record he produced. It’s them doing the gospel wails on “Cry Baby” by Garnet Mimms:
[Excerpt: Garnet Mimms, “Cry Baby”]
And they sang backing vocals on both versions of “If You Need Me” — Wilson Pickett’s original and Solomon Burke’s more successful cover version, produced by Berns:
[Excerpt: Solomon Burke, “If You Need Me”]
They’re on such Berns records as “Show Me Your Monkey”, by Kenny Hamber:
[Excerpt: Kenny Hamber, “Show Me Your Monkey”]
And it was a Berns production that ended up getting them to be Aretha Franklin’s backing group. The group were becoming such an important part of the records that Atlantic and BANG Records, in particular, were putting out, that Jerry Wexler said “it was only a matter of common decency to put them under contract as a featured group”. He signed them to Atlantic and renamed them from the Gospelaires to The Sweet Inspirations.
Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham wrote a song for the group which became their only hit under their own name:
[Excerpt: The Sweet Inspirations, “Sweet Inspiration”]
But to start with, they released a cover of Pops Staples’ civil rights song “Why (Am I treated So Bad)”:
[Excerpt: The Sweet Inspirations, “Why (Am I Treated So Bad?)”]
That hadn’t charted, and meanwhile, they’d all kept doing session work. Cissy had joined Erma and Carolyn Franklin on the backing vocals for Aretha’s “I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You”:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You”]
Shortly after that, the whole group recorded backing vocals for Erma’s single “Piece of My Heart”, co-written and produced by Berns:
[Excerpt: Erma Franklin, “Piece of My Heart”]
That became a top ten record on the R&B charts, but that caused problems. Aretha Franklin had a few character flaws, and one of these was an extreme level of jealousy for any other female singer who had any level of success and came up in the business after her. She could be incredibly graceful towards anyone who had been successful before her — she once gave one of her Grammies away to Esther Phillips, who had been up for the same award and had lost to her — but she was terribly insecure, and saw any contemporary as a threat. She’d spent her time at Columbia Records fuming (with some justification) that Barbra Streisand was being given a much bigger marketing budget than her, and she saw Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, and Dionne Warwick as rivals rather than friends.
And that went doubly for her sisters, who she was convinced should be supporting her because of family loyalty. She had been infuriated at John Hammond when Columbia had signed Erma, thinking he’d gone behind her back to create competition for her. And now Erma was recording with Bert Berns. Bert Berns who had for years been a colleague of Jerry Wexler and the Ertegun brothers at Atlantic.
Aretha was convinced that Wexler had put Berns up to signing Erma as some kind of power play. There was only one problem with this — it simply wasn’t true. As Wexler later explained “Bert and I had suffered a bad falling-out, even though I had enormous respect for him. After all, he was the guy who brought over guitarist Jimmy Page from England to play on our sessions. Bert, Ahmet, Nesuhi, and I had started a label together—Bang!—where Bert produced Van Morrison’s first album. But Bert also had a penchant for trouble. He courted the wise guys. He wanted total control over every last aspect of our business dealings. Finally it was too much, and the Erteguns and I let him go. He sued us for breach of contract and suddenly we were enemies. I felt that he signed Erma, an excellent singer, not merely for her talent but as a way to get back at me. If I could make a hit with Aretha, he’d show me up by making an even bigger hit on Erma. Because there was always an undercurrent of rivalry between the sisters, this only added to the tension.”
There were two things that resulted from this paranoia on Aretha’s part. The first was that she and Wexler, who had been on first-name terms up to that point, temporarily went back to being “Mr. Wexler” and “Miss Franklin” to each other. And the second was that Aretha no longer wanted Carolyn and Erma to be her main backing vocalists, though they would continue to appear on her future records on occasion. From this point on, the Sweet Inspirations would be the main backing vocalists for Aretha in the studio throughout her golden era [xxcut line (and when the Sweet Inspirations themselves weren’t on the record, often it would be former members of the group taking their place)]:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “Ain’t Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around)”]
The last day of sessions for Aretha Arrives was July the twenty-third, 1967. And as we heard in the episode on “I Was Made to Love Her”, that was the day that the Detroit riots started.
To recap briefly, that was four days of rioting started because of a history of racist policing, made worse by those same racist police overreacting to the initial protests. By the end of those four days, the National Guard, 82nd Airborne Division, and the 101st Airborne from Clarksville were all called in to deal with the violence, which left forty-three dead (of whom thirty-three were Black and only one was a police officer), 1,189 people were injured, and over 7,200 arrested, almost all of them Black.
Those days in July would be a turning point for almost every musician based in Detroit. In particular, the police had murdered three members of the soul group the Dramatics, in a massacre of which the author John Hersey, who had been asked by President Johnson to be part of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders but had decided that would compromise his impartiality and did an independent journalistic investigation, said “The episode contained all the mythic themes of racial strife in the United States: the arm of the law taking the law into its own hands; interracial sex; the subtle poison of racist thinking by “decent” men who deny they are racists; the societal limbo into which, ever since slavery, so many young black men have been driven by our country; ambiguous justice in the courts; and the devastation in both black and white human lives that follows in the wake of violence as surely as ruinous and indiscriminate flood after torrents”
But these were also the events that radicalised the MC5 — the group had been playing a gig as Tim Buckley’s support act when the rioting started, and guitarist Wayne Kramer decided afterwards to get stoned and watch the fires burning down the city through a telescope — which police mistook for a rifle, leading to the National Guard knocking down Kramer’s door. The MC5 would later cover “The Motor City is Burning”, John Lee Hooker’s song about the events:
[Excerpt: The MC5, “The Motor City is Burning”]
It would also be a turning point for Motown, too, in ways we’ll talk about in a few future episodes. And it was a political turning point too — Michigan Governor George Romney, a liberal Republican (at a time when such people existed) had been the favourite for the Republican Presidential candidacy when he’d entered the race in December 1966, but as racial tensions ramped up in Detroit during the early months of 1967 he’d started trailing Richard Nixon, a man who was consciously stoking racists’ fears. President Johnson, the incumbent Democrat, who was at that point still considering standing for re-election, made sure to make it clear to everyone during the riots that the decision to call in the National Guard had been made at the State level, by Romney, rather than at the Federal level. That wasn’t the only thing that removed the possibility of a Romney presidency, but it was a big part of the collapse of his campaign, and the, as it turned out, irrevocable turn towards right-authoritarianism that the party took with Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
Of course, Aretha Franklin had little way of knowing what was to come and how the riots would change the city and the country over the following decades. What she was primarily concerned about was the safety of her father, and to a lesser extent that of her sister-in-law Earline who was staying with him. Aretha, Carolyn, and Erma all tried to keep in constant touch with their father while they were out of town, and Aretha even talked about hiring private detectives to travel to Detroit, find her father, and get him out of the city to safety. But as her brother Cecil pointed out, he was probably the single most loved man among Black people in Detroit, and was unlikely to be harmed by the rioters, while he was too famous for the police to kill with impunity.
Reverend Franklin had been having a stressful time anyway — he had recently been fined for tax evasion, an action he was convinced the IRS had taken because of his friendship with Dr King and his role in the civil rights movement — and according to Cecil “Aretha begged Daddy to move out of the city entirely. She wanted him to find another congregation in California, where he was especially popular—or at least move out to the suburbs. But he wouldn’t budge. He said that, more than ever, he was needed to point out the root causes of the riots—the economic inequality, the pervasive racism in civic institutions, the woefully inadequate schools in inner-city Detroit, and the wholesale destruction of our neighborhoods by urban renewal. Some ministers fled the city, but not our father. The horror of what happened only recommitted him. He would not abandon his political agenda.”
To make things worse, Aretha was worried about her father in other ways — as her marriage to Ted White was starting to disintegrate, she was looking to her father for guidance, and actually wanted him to take over her management. Eventually, Ruth Bowen, her booking agent, persuaded her brother Cecil that this was a job he could do, and that she would teach him everything he needed to know about the music business. She started training him up while Aretha was still married to White, in the expectation that that marriage couldn’t last.
Jerry Wexler, who only a few months earlier had been seeing Ted White as an ally in getting “product” from Franklin, had now changed his tune — partly because the sale of Atlantic had gone through in the meantime. He later said “Sometimes she’d call me at night, and, in that barely audible little-girl voice of hers, she’d tell me that she wasn’t sure she could go on. She always spoke in generalities. She never mentioned her husband, never gave me specifics of who was doing what to whom. And of course I knew better than to ask. She just said that she was tired of dealing with so much. My heart went out to her. She was a woman who suffered silently. She held so much in. I’d tell her to take as much time off as she needed. We had a lot of songs in the can that we could release without new material. ‘Oh, no, Jerry,’ she’d say. ‘I can’t stop recording. I’ve written some new songs, Carolyn’s written some new songs. We gotta get in there and cut ’em.’ ‘Are you sure?’ I’d ask. ‘Positive,’ she’d say. I’d set up the dates and typically she wouldn’t show up for the first or second sessions. Carolyn or Erma would call me to say, ‘Ree’s under the weather.’ That was tough because we’d have asked people like Joe South and Bobby Womack to play on the sessions. Then I’d reschedule in the hopes she’d show.”
That third album she recorded in 1967, Lady Soul, was possibly her greatest achievement.
The opening track, and second single, “Chain of Fools”, released in November, was written by Don Covay — or at least it’s credited as having been written by Covay. There’s a gospel record that came out around the same time on a very small label based in Houston — “Pains of Life” by Rev. E. Fair And The Sensational Gladys Davis Trio:
[Excerpt: Rev. E. Fair And The Sensational Gladys Davis Trio, “Pains of Life”]
I’ve seen various claims online that that record came out shortly *before* “Chain of Fools”, but I can’t find any definitive evidence one way or the other — it was on such a small label that release dates aren’t available anywhere. Given that the B-side, which I haven’t been able to track down online, is called “Wait Until the Midnight Hour”, my guess is that rather than this being a case of Don Covay stealing the melody from an obscure gospel record he’d have had little chance to hear, it’s the gospel record rewriting a then-current hit to be about religion, but I thought it worth mentioning.
The song was actually written by Covay after Jerry Wexler asked him to come up with some songs for Otis Redding, but Wexler, after hearing it, decided it was better suited to Franklin, who gave an astonishing performance:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “Chain of Fools”]
Arif Mardin, the arranger of the album, said of that track “I was listed as the arranger of ‘Chain of Fools,’ but I can’t take credit. Aretha walked into the studio with the chart fully formed inside her head. The arrangement is based around the harmony vocals provided by Carolyn and Erma. To add heft, the Sweet Inspirations joined in. The vision of the song is entirely Aretha’s.”
According to Wexler, that’s not *quite* true — according to him, Joe South came up with the guitar part that makes up the intro, and he also said that when he played what he thought was the finished track to Ellie Greenwich, she came up with another vocal line for the backing vocals, which she overdubbed.
But the core of the record’s sound is definitely pure Aretha — and Carolyn Franklin said that there was a reason for that. As she said later “Aretha didn’t write ‘Chain,’ but she might as well have. It was her story. When we were in the studio putting on the backgrounds with Ree doing lead, I knew she was singing about Ted. Listen to the lyrics talking about how for five long years she thought he was her man. Then she found out she was nothing but a link in the chain. Then she sings that her father told her to come on home. Well, he did. She sings about how her doctor said to take it easy. Well, he did too. She was drinking so much we thought she was on the verge of a breakdown. The line that slew me, though, was the one that said how one of these mornings the chain is gonna break but until then she’ll take all she can take. That summed it up. Ree knew damn well that this man had been doggin’ her since Jump Street. But somehow she held on and pushed it to the breaking point.”
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “Chain of Fools”]
That made number one on the R&B charts, and number two on the hot one hundred, kept from the top by “Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)” by John Fred and his Playboy Band — a record that very few people would say has stood the test of time as well.
The other most memorable track on the album was the one chosen as the first single, released in September. As Carole King told the story, she and Gerry Goffin were feeling like their career was in a slump. While they had had a huge run of hits in the early sixties through 1965, they had only had two new hits in 1966 — “Goin’ Back” for Dusty Springfield and “Don’t Bring Me Down” for the Animals, and neither of those were anything like as massive as their previous hits. And up to that point in 1967, they’d only had one — “Pleasant Valley Sunday” for the Monkees. They had managed to place several songs on Monkees albums and the TV show as well, so they weren’t going to starve, but the rise of self-contained bands that were starting to dominate the charts, and Phil Spector’s temporary retirement, meant there simply wasn’t the opportunity for them to place material that there had been.
They were also getting sick of travelling to the West Coast all the time, because as their children were growing slightly older they didn’t want to disrupt their lives in New York, and were thinking of approaching some of the New York based labels and seeing if they needed songs. They were particularly considering Atlantic, because soul was more open to outside songwriters than other genres.
As it happened, though, they didn’t have to approach Atlantic, because Atlantic approached them. They were walking down Broadway when a limousine pulled up, and Jerry Wexler stuck his head out of the window. He’d come up with a good title that he wanted to use for a song for Aretha, would they be interested in writing a song called “Natural Woman”?
They said of course they would, and Wexler drove off. They wrote the song that night, and King recorded a demo the next morning:
[Excerpt: Carole King, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (demo)”]
They gave Wexler a co-writing credit because he had suggested the title.
King later wrote in her autobiography “Hearing Aretha’s performance of “Natural Woman” for the first time, I experienced a rare speechless moment. To this day I can’t convey how I felt in mere words. Anyone who had written a song in 1967 hoping it would be performed by a singer who could take it to the highest level of excellence, emotional connection, and public exposure would surely have wanted that singer to be Aretha Franklin.”
She went on to say “But a recording that moves people is never just about the artist and the songwriters. It’s about people like Jerry and Ahmet, who matched the songwriters with a great title and a gifted artist; Arif Mardin, whose magnificent orchestral arrangement deserves the place it will forever occupy in popular music history; Tom Dowd, whose engineering skills captured the magic of this memorable musical moment for posterity; and the musicians in the rhythm section, the orchestral players, and the vocal contributions of the background singers—among them the unforgettable “Ah-oo!” after the first line of the verse. And the promotion and marketing people helped this song reach more people than it might have without them.”
And that’s correct — unlike “Chain of Fools”, this time Franklin did let Arif Mardin do most of the arrangement work — though she came up with the piano part that Spooner Oldham plays on the record. Mardin said that because of the song’s hymn-like feel they wanted to go for a more traditional written arrangement. He said “She loved the song to the point where she said she wanted to concentrate on the vocal and vocal alone. I had written a string chart and horn chart to augment the chorus and hired Ralph Burns to conduct. After just a couple of takes, we had it. That’s when Ralph turned to me with wonder in his eyes. Ralph was one of the most celebrated arrangers of the modern era. He had done ‘Early Autumn’ for Woody Herman and Stan Getz, and ‘Georgia on My Mind’ for Ray Charles. He’d worked with everyone. ‘This woman comes from another planet’ was all Ralph said. ‘She’s just here visiting.’”
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”]
By this point there was a well-functioning team making Franklin’s records — while the production credits would vary over the years, they were all essentially co-productions by the team of Franklin, Wexler, Mardin and Dowd, all collaborating and working together with a more-or-less unified purpose, and the backing was always by the same handful of session musicians and some combination of the Sweet Inspirations and Aretha’s sisters.
That didn’t mean that occasional guests couldn’t get involved — as we discussed in the Cream episode, Eric Clapton played guitar on “Good to Me as I am to You”:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “Good to Me as I am to You”]
Though that was one of the rare occasions on one of these records where something was overdubbed. Clapton apparently messed up the guitar part when playing behind Franklin, because he was too intimidated by playing with her, and came back the next day to redo his part without her in the studio.
At this point, Aretha was at the height of her fame. Just before the final batch of album sessions began she appeared in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, and she was making regular TV appearances, like one on the Mike Douglas Show where she duetted with Frankie Valli on “That’s Life”:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin and Frankie Valli, “That’s Life”]
But also, as Wexler said “Her career was kicking into high gear. Contending and resolving both the professional and personal challenges were too much. She didn’t think she could do both, and I didn’t blame her. Few people could. So she let the personal slide and concentrated on the professional. “
Her concert promoter Ruth Bowen said of this time “Her father and Dr. King were putting pressure on her to sing everywhere, and she felt obligated. The record company was also screaming for more product. And I had a mountain of offers on my desk that kept getting higher with every passing hour. They wanted her in Europe. They wanted her in Latin America. They wanted her in every major venue in the U.S. TV was calling. She was being asked to do guest appearances on every show from Carol Burnett to Andy Williams to the Hollywood Palace. She wanted to do them all and she wanted to do none of them. She wanted to do them all because she’s an entertainer who burns with ambition. She wanted to do none of them because she was emotionally drained. She needed to go away and renew her strength. I told her that at least a dozen times. She said she would, but she didn’t listen to me.”
The pressures from her father and Dr King are a recurring motif in interviews with people about this period. Franklin was always a very political person, and would throughout her life volunteer time and money to liberal political causes and to the Democratic Party, but this was the height of her activism — the Civil Rights movement was trying to capitalise on the gains it had made in the previous couple of years, and celebrity fundraisers and performances at rallies were an important way to do that.
And at this point there were few bigger celebrities in America than Aretha Franklin. At a concert in her home town of Detroit on February the sixteenth, 1968, the Mayor declared the day Aretha Franklin Day. At the same show, Billboard, Record World *and* Cash Box magazines all presented her with plaques for being Female Vocalist of the Year. And Dr. King travelled up to be at the show and congratulate her publicly for all her work with his organisation, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Backstage at that show, Dr. King talked to Aretha’s father, Reverend Franklin, about what he believed would be the next big battle — a strike in Memphis:
[Excerpt, Martin Luther King, “Mountaintop Speech” — “And so, as a result of this, we are asking you tonight, to go out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis. Go by and tell them not to buy Sealtest milk. Tell them not to buy—what is the other bread?—Wonder Bread. And what is the other bread company, Jesse? Tell them not to buy Hart’s bread. As Jesse Jackson has said, up to now, only the garbage men have been feeling pain; now we must kind of redistribute the pain. We are choosing these companies because they haven’t been fair in their hiring policies; and we are choosing them because they can begin the process of saying, they are going to support the needs and the rights of these men who are on strike. And then they can move on downtown and tell Mayor Loeb to do what is right.”]
The strike in question was the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ strike which had started a few days before.
The struggle for Black labour rights was an integral part of the civil rights movement, and while it’s not told that way in the sanitised version of the story that’s made it into popular culture, the movement led by King was as much about economic justice as social justice — King was a democratic socialist, and believed that economic oppression was both an effect of and cause of other forms of racial oppression, and that the rights of Black workers needed to be fought for. In 1967 he had set up a new organisation, the Poor People’s Campaign, which was set to march on Washington to demand a program that included full employment, a guaranteed income — King was strongly influenced in his later years by the ideas of Henry George, the proponent of a universal basic income based on land value tax — the annual building of half a million affordable homes, and an end to the war in Vietnam. This was King’s main focus in early 1968, and he saw the sanitation workers’ strike as a major part of this campaign.
Memphis was one of the most oppressive cities in the country, and its largely Black workforce of sanitation workers had been trying for most of the 1960s to unionise, and strike-breakers had been called in to stop them, and many of them had been fired by their white supervisors with no notice. They were working in unsafe conditions, for utterly inadequate wages, and the city government were ardent segregationists. After two workers had died on the first of February from using unsafe equipment, the union demanded changes — safer working conditions, better wages, and recognition of the union.
The city council refused, and almost all the sanitation workers stayed home and stopped work. After a few days, the council relented and agreed to their terms, but the Mayor, Henry Loeb, an ardent white supremacist who had stood on a platform of opposing desegregation, and who had previously been the Public Works Commissioner who had put these unsafe conditions in place, refused to listen. As far as he was concerned, he was the only one who could recognise the union, and he wouldn’t. The workers continued their strike, marching holding signs that simply read “I am a Man”:
[Excerpt: Stevie Wonder, “Blowing in the Wind”]
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the NAACP had been involved in organising support for the strikes from an early stage, and King visited Memphis many times. Much of the time he spent visiting there was spent negotiating with a group of more militant activists, who called themselves The Invaders and weren’t completely convinced by King’s nonviolent approach — they believed that violence and rioting got more attention than non-violent protests. King explained to them that while he had been persuaded by Gandhi’s writings of the moral case for nonviolent protest, he was also persuaded that it was pragmatically necessary — asking the young men “how many guns do we have and how many guns do they have?”, and pointing out as he often did that when it comes to violence a minority can’t win against an armed majority.
Rev Franklin went down to Memphis on the twenty-eighth of March to speak at a rally Dr. King was holding, but as it turned out the rally was cancelled — the pre-rally march had got out of hand, with some people smashing windows, and Memphis police had, like the police in Detroit the previous year, violently overreacted, clubbing and gassing protestors and shooting and killing one unarmed teenage boy, Larry Payne.
The day after Payne’s funeral, Dr King was back in Memphis, though this time Rev Franklin was not with him. On April the third, he gave a speech which became known as the “Mountaintop Speech”, in which he talked about the threats that had been made to his life:
[Excerpt: Martin Luther King, “Mountaintop Speech”: “And then I got to Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?
Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. So I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.”]
The next day, Martin Luther King was shot dead. James Earl Ray, a white supremacist, pled guilty to the murder, and the evidence against him seems overwhelming from what I’ve read, but the King family have always claimed that the murder was part of a larger conspiracy and that Ray was not the gunman.
Aretha was obviously distraught, and she attended the funeral, as did almost every other prominent Black public figure. James Baldwin wrote of the funeral: “In the pew directly before me sat Marlon Brando, Sammy Davis, Eartha Kitt—covered in black, looking like a lost, ten-year-old girl—and Sidney Poitier, in the same pew, or nearby. Marlon saw me, and nodded. The atmosphere was black, with a tension indescribable—as though something, perhaps the heavens, perhaps the earth, might crack. Everyone sat very still. The actual service sort of washed over me, in waves. It wasn’t that it seemed unreal; it was the most real church service I’ve ever sat through in my life, or ever hope to sit through; but I have a childhood hangover thing about not weeping in public, and I was concentrating on holding myself together. I did not want to weep for Martin, tears seemed futile. But I may also have been afraid, and I could not have been the only one, that if I began to weep I would not be able to stop. There was more than enough to weep for, if one was to weep—so many of us, cut down, so soon. Medgar, Malcolm, Martin: and their widows, and their children. Reverend Ralph David Abernathy asked a certain sister to sing a song which Martin had loved—“Once more,” said Ralph David, “for Martin and for me,” and he sat down.”
Many articles and books on Aretha Franklin say that she sang at King’s funeral. In fact she didn’t, but there’s a simple reason for the confusion. King’s favourite song was the Thomas Dorsey gospel song “Take My Hand, Precious Lord”, and indeed almost his last words were to ask a trumpet player, Ben Branch, if he would play the song at the rally he was going to be speaking at on the day of his death. At his request, Mahalia Jackson, his old friend, sang the song at his private funeral, which was not filmed, unlike the public part of the funeral that Baldwin described.
Four months later, though, there was another public memorial for King, and Franklin did sing “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” at that service, in front of King’s weeping widow and children, and that performance *was* filmed, and gets conflated in people’s memories with Jackson’s unfilmed earlier performance:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “Take My Hand, Precious Lord (at Martin Luther King Memorial)”]
Four years later, she would sing that at Mahalia Jackson’s funeral.
Through all this, Franklin had been working on her next album, Aretha Now, the sessions for which started more or less as soon as the sessions for Lady Soul had finished. The album was, in fact, bookended by deaths that affected Aretha. Just as King died at the end of the sessions, the beginning came around the time of the death of Otis Redding — the sessions were cancelled for a day while Wexler travelled to Georgia for Redding’s funeral, which Franklin was too devastated to attend, and Wexler would later say that the extra emotion in her performances on the album came from her emotional pain at Redding’s death.
The lead single on the album, “Think”, was written by Franklin and — according to the credits anyway — her husband Ted White, and is very much in the same style as “Respect”, and became another of her most-loved hits:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “Think”]
But probably the song on Aretha Now that now resonates the most is one that Jerry Wexler tried to persuade her not to record, and was only released as a B-side. Indeed, “I Say a Little Prayer” was a song that had already once been a hit after being a reject.
Hal David, unlike Burt Bacharach, was a fairly political person and inspired by the protest song movement, and had been starting to incorporate his concerns about the political situation and the Vietnam War into his lyrics — though as with many such writers, he did it in much less specific ways than a Phil Ochs or a Bob Dylan. This had started with “What the World Needs Now is Love”, a song Bacharach and David had written for Jackie DeShannon in 1965:
[Excerpt: Jackie DeShannon, “What the “World Needs Now is Love”]
But he’d become much more overtly political for “The Windows of the World”, a song they wrote for Dionne Warwick. Warwick has often said it’s her favourite of her singles, but it wasn’t a big hit — Bacharach blamed himself for that, saying “Dionne recorded it as a single and I really blew it. I wrote a bad arrangement and the tempo was too fast, and I really regret making it the way I did because it’s a good song.”
[Excerpt: Dionne Warwick, “The Windows of the World”]
For that album, Bacharach and David had written another track, “I Say a Little Prayer”, which was not as explicitly political, but was intended by David to have an implicit anti-war message, much like other songs of the period like “Last Train to Clarksville”. David had sons who were the right age to be drafted, and while it’s never stated, “I Say a Little Prayer” was written from the perspective of a woman whose partner is away fighting in the war, but is still in her thoughts:
[Excerpt: Dionne Warwick, “I Say a Little Prayer”]
The recording of Dionne Warwick’s version was marked by stress. Bacharach had a particular way of writing music to tell the musicians the kind of feel he wanted for the part — he’d write nonsense words above the stave, and tell the musicians to play the parts as if they were singing those words. The trumpet player hired for the session, Ernie Royal, got into a row with Bacharach about this unorthodox way of communicating musical feeling, and the track ended up taking ten takes (as opposed to the normal three for a Bacharach session), with Royal being replaced half-way through the session.
Bacharach was never happy with the track even after all the work it had taken, and he fought to keep it from being released at all, saying the track was taken at too fast a tempo. It eventually came out as an album track nearly eighteen months after it was recorded — an eternity in 1960s musical timescales — and DJs started playing it almost as soon as it came out. Scepter records rushed out a single, over Bacharach’s objections, but as he later said “One thing I love about the record business is how wrong I was. Disc jockeys all across the country started playing the track, and the song went to number four on the charts and then became the biggest hit Hal and I had ever written for Dionne.”
[Excerpt: Dionne Warwick, “I Say a Little Prayer”]
Oddly, the B-side for Warwick’s single, “Theme From the Valley of the Dolls” did even better, reaching number two.
Almost as soon as the song was released as a single, Franklin started playing around with the song backstage, and in April 1968, right around the time of Dr. King’s death, she recorded a version. Much as Burt Bacharach had been against releasing Dionne Warwick’s version, Jerry Wexler was against Aretha even recording the song, saying later “I advised Aretha not to record it. I opposed it for two reasons. First, to cover a song only twelve weeks after the original reached the top of the charts was not smart business. You revisit such a hit eight months to a year later. That’s standard practice. But more than that, Bacharach’s melody, though lovely, was peculiarly suited to a lithe instrument like Dionne Warwick’s—a light voice without the dark corners or emotional depths that define Aretha. Also, Hal David’s lyric was also somewhat girlish and lacked the gravitas that Aretha required.
“Aretha usually listened to me in the studio, but not this time. She had written a vocal arrangement for the Sweet Inspirations that was undoubtedly strong. Cissy Houston, Dionne’s cousin, told me that Aretha was on the right track—she was seeing this song in a new way and had come up with a new groove. Cissy was on Aretha’s side. Tommy Dowd and Arif were on Aretha’s side. So I had no choice but to cave.”
It’s quite possible that Wexler’s objections made Franklin more, rather than less, determined to record the song. She regarded Warwick as a hated rival, as she did almost every prominent female singer of her generation and younger ones, and would undoubtedly have taken the implication that there was something that Warwick was simply better at than her to heart.
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “I Say a Little Prayer”]
Wexler realised as soon as he heard it in the studio that Franklin’s version was great, and Bacharach agreed, telling Franklin’s biographer David Ritz “As much as I like the original recording by Dionne, there’s no doubt that Aretha’s is a better record. She imbued the song with heavy soul and took it to a far deeper place. Hers is the definitive version.” — which is surprising because Franklin’s version simplifies some of Bacharach’s more unusual chord voicings, something he often found extremely upsetting.
Wexler still though thought there was no way the song would be a hit, and it’s understandable that he thought that way. Not only had it only just been on the charts a few months earlier, but it was the kind of song that wouldn’t normally be a hit at all, and certainly not in the kind of rhythmic soul music for which Franklin was known. Almost everything she ever recorded is in simple time signatures — 4/4, waltz time, or 6/8 — but this is a Bacharach song so it’s staggeringly metrically irregular. Normally even with semi-complex things I’m usually good at figuring out how to break it down into bars, but here I actually had to purchase a copy of the sheet music in order to be sure I was right about what’s going on.
I’m going to count beats along with the record here so you can see what I mean. The verse has three bars of 4/4, one bar of 2/4, and three more bars of 4/4, all repeated:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “I Say a Little Prayer” with me counting bars over verse]
While the chorus has a bar of 4/4, a bar of 3/4 but with a chord change half way through so it sounds like it’s in two if you’re paying attention to the harmonic changes, two bars of 4/4, another waltz-time bar sounding like it’s in two, two bars of four, another bar of three sounding in two, a bar of four, then three more bars of four but the first of those is *written* as four but played as if it’s in six-eight time (but you can keep the four/four pulse going if you’re counting):
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “I Say a Little Prayer” with me counting bars over verse]
I don’t expect you to have necessarily followed that in great detail, but the point should be clear — this was not some straightforward dance song. Incidentally, that bar played as if it’s six/eight was something Aretha introduced to make the song even more irregular than how Bacharach wrote it.
And on top of *that* of course the lyrics mixed the secular and the sacred, something that was still taboo in popular music at that time — this is only a couple of years after Capitol records had been genuinely unsure about putting out the Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows”, and Franklin’s gospel-inflected vocals made the religious connection even more obvious.
But Franklin was insistent that the record go out as a single, and eventually it was released as the B-side to the far less impressive “The House That Jack Built”. It became a double-sided hit, with the A-side making number two on the R&B chart and number seven on the Hot One Hundred, while “I Say a Little Prayer” made number three on the R&B chart and number ten overall. In the UK, “I Say a Little Prayer” made number four and became her biggest ever solo UK hit. It’s now one of her most-remembered songs, while the A-side is largely forgotten:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “I Say a Little Prayer”]
For much of the rest of 1968, Franklin split her time between recording her next album and live performance. The album was a big band jazz project mistitled Soul ’69 which was probably the least successful of her records from this period both artistically and commercially. It went to number one on the R&B albums chart, but Franklin was for most of her career, with one exception we’ll talk about later, a singles artist more than an albums one, and the singles from the record sank without trace.
She was also going through a lot of personal stress. An article in Time magazine appeared which, while overall complimentary and a puff piece by most standards, revealed more of her personal troubles than she was comfortable having made public, and became the main reason she became extremely guarded about giving interviews in the future.
Her live performances were also a source of stress at this point. Franklin had been thrilled with the opportunity to go on tour in Europe, and arranged to record a live album in Paris, a city she would come to love. When they travelled over, in May, White was still her husband and manager, and he put together the live band she would use for the tour. Nobody was happy with the band. Carolyn Franklin said of the tour “The only problem was the band. Wexler didn’t put it together. Ted did. The band lacked the fire that we’d been used to in the studio. And then the band became another point of contention between Aretha and Ted. She accused him of hiring the wrong musicians. He accused her of slacking on her singing. It got bad, even as the crowds kept getting bigger.”
Wexler said of the resulting live album “She and the band aren’t on the same page. They’re out of tune, they miss their cues, and they’re struggling to find the right groove. Naturally she was excited to be performing in Europe for the first time, and naturally it had to be thrilling for her to see the international scope of her success, but when the music’s not right Aretha’s not right. Like Ray Charles, she hears every note being played by every band member. And when a note is wrong—and, believe me, there were scores of bad notes—for Aretha, it’s like squeaky chalk on a blackboard. It hurts. When she came home, she was hurting. Here you had the premier singer of our time touring the Continent with a ragtag band suitable for backing up a third-rate blues singer in some bucket of blood in Loserville, Louisiana. It was outrageous.”
In truth, to most ears, the recordings, which were presumably sweetened in the studio afterwards as most live albums were, sound… fine. But they’re definitely not a patch on the studio versions, and Wexler refused to take a production credit, insisting instead on being credited as “supervisor”:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “Chain of Fools (live in Paris)”]
Luckily, her marriage finally ended — though even after they separated and she handed her management over to Cecil, Ted White insisted he had a management contract with her. With White’s waning influence, Jerry Wexler had the perfect solution, and it was also someone he owed a favour to. We’ve mentioned King Curtis many times before in different episodes, because he was *the* premier tenor sax session player on the East Coast of America at the time. He’d started out with Lionel Hampton’s band, but from the late fifties he played almost every important sax part on a hit record to come out of the East Coast, like Buddy Holly’s “Reminiscing”:
[Excerpt: Buddy Holly, “Reminiscing”]
The Coasters’ “Yakety Yak”:
[Excerpt: The Coasters, “Yaklety Yak”]
And all the other Coasters hits. He’d played on records by Ruth Brown, the Drifters, Ben E. King, Solomon Burke, the Isley Brothers, and Wilson Pickett. He’d played with Sam Cooke’s band on the legendary Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963:
[Excerpt: Sam Cooke, “Twisting the Night Away (live)”]
He’d played on “Boys” by the Shirelles:
[Excerpt: The Shirelles, “Boys”]
And he’d also had encounters with future stars — he’d played sax on the single Lou Reed had recorded as The Jades:
[Excerpt: The Jades, “Leave Her For Me”]
More importantly, he was a bandleader in his own right. He’d had hits with “Soul Twist”, “Memphis Soul Stew”, and his signature song “Soul Serenade”:
[Excerpt: King Curtis, “Soul Serenade”]
And he’d had Jimi Hendrix in his band the Kingpins, for a while — Hendrix had played on several of his records, like “Instant Groove”:
[Excerpt: King Curtis, “Instant Groove”]
Curtis had also supported the Beatles on their 1965 US tour, including the legendary Shea Stadium gig.
He was also, obviously, the sax player on most of Franklin’s records since she’d started working at Atlantic, and had been the one who had suggested the key change and sax solo on “Respect”.
Wexler knew he was a great musician and a great bandleader, but he also literally owed Curtis his life. In July 1968 there was a DJ convention in Miami, a promotional junket for record labels in the R&B market, which will come up a lot in future episodes. Various gangs — what the great record man Henry Stone referred to as the “Black New York Mafia” chose that moment to try to take over many of the soul record labels. Stone himself had connections with a rival set of gangsters, led by Joe Robinson, the husband of Sylvia from Mickey and Sylvia. Stone got Robinson to organise protection for various people he considered under threat, and because of that protection he later agreed to go into a business partnership with Robinson which would revolutionise music a decade or so later. The convention also played a pivotal role in a change of direction for Stax Records. So you can be sure this will come up again.
But the person who was most threatened at the convention was Jerry Wexler, who was at one point during the event actually hanged in effigy. It was King Curtis who warned Wexler in the middle of the convention banquet that his life was in danger, and he and the singer Titus Turner, who were both armed with pistols, acted as Wexler’s bodyguards to get him out of the event alive. Nobody would mess with Curtis, who as well as being armed was also six foot two, two hundred pounds, and one of the most respected figures in the business.
Wexler owed Curtis his life, and also knew that he led one of the best bands around — and the Kingpins were already used to touring with the Sweet Inspirations as vocalists (though the Sweet Inspirations would only rarely perform live with Franklin, because they soon had one of the few artists bigger than her using their services regularly in a live situation).
For the moment though, Franklin’s records would still use the Muscle Shoals rhythm section — and on several tracks a new friend of Curtis’, a session musician whose contract Wexler had bought from Rick Hall at Muscle Shoals after hearing his playing on Wilson Pickett’s version of “Hey Jude”, Duane Allman.
Allman can be heard on two tracks on Franklin’s next album, This Girl’s In Love With You — named after another Bacharach and David song, previously a hit for Herb Alpert. One of those tracks is one we heard in the most recent episode, her version of “The Weight”:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “The Weight”]
That was one of several songs on the album where Franklin was trying Wexler’s strategy of recording songs by successful white acts in the hope of a crossover — she also recorded versions of “Eleanor Rigby” and “Let It Be”, the latter of which was the first version of the song to be released, Paul McCartney having sent her a demo a while before the Beatles got around to releasing their version.
Another song on the album originally recorded by a white person was another example of Aretha working out feelings of jealousy towards a potential rival. “Son of a Preacher Man” had originally been written for her, but she’d turned the song down — something that would happen with increasing frequency. In this case her reasoning was that the song might seem disrespectful to her father, who was himself a “preacher man”. So Jerry Wexler had brought the track to the British singer Dusty Springfield, for whom he was producing a new album, Dusty in Memphis:
[Excerpt: Dusty Springfield, “Son of a Preacher Man”]
According to Wexler “There was also a little tension in that January session because I was coming off a hit album I’d done with Dusty Springfield, Dusty in Memphis. It was being called a soul classic and compared to Aretha. Aretha didn’t like me producing other chick singers. I told her that she was Dusty’s idol and Dusty was making no claims to her throne. Aretha smiled that little passive smile she’s famous for—the smile that told me she wasn’t happy.”
So of course, Franklin recorded her own version of the song:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “Son of a Preacher Man”]
Of course, what Franklin didn’t know was that Springfield was far more insecure even than Franklin, and hated the idea of being compared to someone she realised was a much better singer. For the rest of her life she would always talk about how much better Franklin’s performance was, and draw particular attention to the way Franklin phrased the words “reach me”, and copy that phrasing in her own live performances. Still though I think in this case, for once, Franklin’s version didn’t quite beat Springfield’s original.
The sessions for that album lasted quite a while, and in the middle King Curtis recorded another album of his own, which also featured Duane Allman on guitar on several songs, including Curtis’ own version of “The Weight”, and a version of “Games People Play” that won him a Grammy:
[Excerpt: King Curtis, “Games People Play”]
Around this time, King Curtis also discovered a new soul musician who would go on to become one of the most influential in the genre in the seventies, Donny Hathaway, and he produced several tracks on Hathaway’s first album, and guested on guitar, rather than his normal saxophone, on Hathaway’s version of Ray Charles’ “I Believe to My Soul”:
[Excerpt: Donny Hathaway, “I Believe to My Soul”]
According to the biography of King Curtis that I used for this episode, Curtis got Aretha Franklin to sit in on piano on that album, but Franklin’s not credited on it. I suspect that biography is misremembering a different occasion when Franklin acted purely as piano player on a session produced by Curtis, an album by Sam Moore that went unreleased until 2002 due to Moore’s heroin addiction, and on which Franklin agreed to play piano partly so she could work with Hathaway, who was playing the other keyboard on the album:
[Excerpt: Sam Moore, “Get Out My Life Woman”]
The other musicians on that, other than Franklin and Hathaway, were the members of the Kingpins — Cornell Dupree on guitar, Chuck Rainey on bass, and Bernard “Pretty” Purdie on drums.
Aretha’s next album, Spirit in the Dark, was her first not to make the top twenty since she’d signed to Atlantic, though it had two more big hits — “Don’t Play That Song” and the title track. But it was a patchwork affair, recorded in sessions in different studios with three different sets of musicians — the Muscle Shoals players she normally worked with, her own touring band, and a set of musicians Wexler had found in Florida, where he now lived. Increasingly Wexler was producing sessions in Florida and not wanting to travel, while Mardin and Dowd were producing sessions in New York.
But Franklin was dealing with things that were more important than music. Her family was going through serious problems. As well as her divorce from White, she was seriously concerned about her father. Rev. Franklin had become more radical since the death of Martin Luther King, and had started giving support to more radical elements of the Black Power movement. He was still a staunch believer in non-violence, but he would allow his church to be used by those who weren’t, including the Republic of New Africa. This was a Black separatist movement whose vice president was Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malik el-Shabazz, the activist known for most of his life as Malcolm X. The organisation was founded to call for the secession of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, and for those states to become a Black ethnostate with no white people.
Rev. Franklin didn’t agree with this view, but he thought solidarity with other supporters of Black liberation now more important than disagreements over strategy, so he let them use his church as a meeting place. On the twenty-ninth of March, 1969, they held a meeting to which some members of their paramilitary faction came armed with rifles. A police car drove past towards the end of the meeting and saw some of the armed men outside. The police approached, and while reports differ as to what actually happened, shots were fired and one of the police officers was killed. This led to the police storming the church, spraying bullets into the windows, and arresting the hundred and fifty people inside (many of whom were then held illegally without access to counsel) and confiscating large numbers of guns found on the premises.
Rev. Franklin was defiant when interviewed about this, saying “I do not denounce these people. Their goals are the same as ours, only they approach them from different directions.” He said he’d happily let them use the church again, so long as they promised not to bring guns in future.
This caused Rev. Franklin to become even more of a target for law enforcement himself. On one flight shortly afterwards, his baggage got misplaced by the airline, and when it turned up it contained small amounts of cannabis, for which he was arrested, though the charges were later dropped — he always claimed it had been planted. And he also found himself once again under investigation by tax officials.
According to Cecil Franklin “My father was sought out and victimized by government officials, both national and local, who resented his political positions and were determined to humiliate him. He fought back, he answered every charge, he eventually paid his tax bill, and, as far as his congregation was concerned, he cleared his name. But I have to say that after what happened to him in that particular season of 1969, he was never quite the same.”
Another family strain in 1969 came when Aretha’s sister Carolyn, who had written several songs for her and who Aretha was hoping would continue to just be a songwriter and backing vocalist rather than pursue stardom herself, got a record contract, leading to a flare-up of tensions between the sisters:
[Excerpt: Carolyn Franklin, “Boxer”]
Carolyn begged Aretha to write liner notes for the album, in the hopes that her famous sister’s approval would lead to sales, but Aretha kept saying she would and then not doing it, jealous of her sister. Eventually Carolyn turned to their father, who also tried and failed to get Aretha to write notes. When she wouldn’t, he wrote them himself, concluding with a claimed endorsement from Aretha that didn’t sound convincing.
There was also some tension between the sisters because Carolyn, who was lesbian, had expressed support for the Stonewall riots and considered queer rights to be the logical next step in the progression that included Black civil rights and women’s rights. Aretha would later become a vocal queer ally, but in 1969 this was a step too far for her.
Aretha did soften on Carolyn when her second solo album, Chain Reaction, came out, and she praised it privately:
[Excerpt: Carolyn Franklin, “Chain Reaction”]
But she refused to talk to the press about her sister’s new record. This time it was because of more scandal in her private life, which by this time had made the press. Charles Cooke, Sam Cooke’s brother, had come round to visit her at her home when her ex-husband had turned up, acting aggressive. Cooke had tried to protect Aretha, who was seven months pregnant at the time, and White shot him. Thankfully, Cooke survived, but Franklin was horrified by the publicity.
All of this happened in a short period from spring 1969 through early 1970, during which time she was also recording the albums Spirit in the Dark and Young, Gifted, and Black, the latter of which is often considered her greatest studio album by people who don’t think it’s Lady Soul. Both albums, like everything Aretha recorded in these first few years at Atlantic, are great, but they’re not coherent artistic statements.
As Jerry Wexler said “When you look back and see what are now considered the great Aretha Franklin albums of the late sixties and early seventies, they really aren’t albums at all. They’re compilations of singles. There was never any organizational principle. We just threw ’em together… For example, you could interchange the tunes on Spirit in the Dark with those on Young, Gifted, and Black. Mix and match as you please.”
It was in her live shows that she was making artistic statements, shows that were structured with peaks and troughs, and that had a throughline. And so it makes sense that her two greatest albums of the early seventies are two very different live albums.
The first of these came about almost by accident. Ruth Bowen was organising a tour for Franklin and Curtis, and realised there was an uncomfortable gap in California that needed filling. She persuaded Bill Graham to book them into the Fillmore West for three nights, as both a way to plug the hole and possibly a way to bring Aretha to greater prominence with the hippie market. But Graham would only pay five thousand dollars in total for the three nights, and the normal fee for Franklin and Curtis would be five thousand dollars a night.
Franklin wouldn’t budge on her fee — she didn’t want to play the Fillmore at all, seeing it as not her audience — but Bowen thought this was important. She eventually got Ahmet Ertegun to agree to pay an extra five thousand dollars in tour support from the label, because Ertegun was well aware of the importance of the hippie market. But that still wasn’t enough.
But then Jerry Wexler had an idea. They could put up the full ten thousand dollars difference, and use the shows to record a live album by Aretha. And why not record a King Curtis live album while they were at it? Almost as soon as he had the idea he regretted it — in his words he “considered the musical tastes of the flower children infantile” and had no time for people who liked Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, thinking such people could never appreciate Franklin’s music, but by that point the agreement had already been made.
Curtis put together the best possible live band he could for the tour. He used his regular Kingpins guitarist Cornell Dupree and drummer Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, but rather than Chuck Rainey, who was his second-call bass player, he got in Jerry Jemmott, his first-call player, who normally only did studio work but made an exception for this special tour. They brought in vocal group The Sweethearts of Soul, as the Sweet Inspirations were no longer available for Aretha’s live shows; the Memphis Horns who had played on so many great Stax records; and on keyboards was Billy Preston, who had recently become a minor star in his own right after performing with the Beatles, but who had originally trained with James Cleveland, the gospel musician who had also been Aretha’s mentor.
And at the shows, Ray Charles also turned up, just to listen to the music, but Aretha dragged him out on stage for a surprise duet on her “Spirit in the Dark”:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles, “Spirit in the Dark”]
King Curtis’ set was a mixture of soul classics, both his own like “Memphis Soul Stew” and others like “Knock on Wood”, and songs that were designed to appeal to the hippie crowd. The set was largely instrumental, but he had Preston sing vocals on “My Sweet Lord”, the George Harrison song that Preston had played on and just released as his own single:
[Excerpt: King Curtis and Billy Preston, “My Sweet Lord”]
They also did instrumental versions of “A Whiter Shade of Pale”, and a song that had just come out by a band of former session players that Atlantic Records had signed after Dusty Springfield had recommended them:
[Excerpt: King Curtis and the Kingpins, “Whole Lotta Love”]
Franklin’s set was similarly geared towards the white rock audience, with many of her biggest hits missing in favour of funked-up or gospel versions of “Eleanor Rigby”, “The Long and Winding Road”, “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, Bread’s “Make it With You”, and Stephen Stills’ “Love the One You’re With”:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin and King Curtis, “Love the One You’re With”]
That song, incidentally, took its title from something Billy Preston had said to Stills.
Both Curtis and Franklin’s live albums are regularly ranked among the greatest live albums in soul music history, only matched perhaps by James Brown’s Live at the Apollo, Otis Redding’s Live in Europe and Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club. There’s a four-CD box set of the complete recordings which is *well* worth tracking down (and from which I took the recordings I just excerpted, rather than the original releases).
On the last night, the last song was one she hadn’t done in the previous shows, a version of Diana Ross’ first solo hit “Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand)”, presumably chosen once again in a spirit of rivalry. That song was also used for band intros, and she said this when talking about Curtis:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin and King Curtis, “Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand)”]
Sadly, that was not to be. Rather than performing with Franklin for “many years to come”, only a week after the release of the second album from the shows, King Curtis’ one, Curtis was dead.
He’d spent the time between the shows and the albums’ release a few months later productively and as in-demand as ever, playing on everything from the theme to Soul Train to John Lennon’s forthcoming album, Imagine, on which he played on two tracks, produced by Phil Spector, with whom Curtis had worked before Spector became famous:
[Excerpt: John Lennon, “It’s So Hard”]
Aretha had toured Europe again, this time with the Kingpins backing her, and while they were there Curtis had cut another live album, this time backing Champion Jack Dupree, who was playing on the same bill on some shows and got the Kingpins to back him. He played a one-off gig with his close friends Delaney Bramlett and Duane Allman, and started recording his next solo album, Everybody’s Talkin’, engineered by his friend Gene Paul, Les Paul’s son, and he’d just bought a new mansion just off Central Park, he was earning so much money.
But the air conditioning was causing problems with the electrics in the house, causing the circuit breaker to go off. On August the thirteenth 1971, King Curtis went out onto the street — his house had two doors, and the easiest way to get to the circuit breaker to sort the problem out was to exit one door and enter the other. He was carrying a torch. A man named Juan Montanez was stood in the other doorway, arguing with a woman. Curtis asked him to move. Montanez pretended not to speak English and smirked. Curtis tried to intimidate him, using his size to try to get the man to move. Montanez continued smirking and pretending not to understand English. Curtis got so irate he ended up smashing the torch over Montanez’s head, at which point Montanez pulled out a knife and stabbed Curtis. The wound proved fatal — though before he collapsed Curtis managed to pull the knife from his assailant’s hand and stab him back. It didn’t kill Montanez, but it did mean that the police found him when he turned up wounded in the hospital.
Aretha was distraught. Bernard Purdie, who became her bandleader after that, said “It was a sad, sad time. And the strange part is that Aretha didn’t even want his name mentioned; it was like she couldn’t take the sadness. If someone happened to say anything about King, she went into her shell. I understood. She couldn’t handle it. When Aretha was around, it was better to act like it had never happened.”
Franklin immediately went round to Curtis’ house to look after his girlfriend, and stayed with her for several days, helping out and buying her dress for the funeral.
Curtis’ funeral was a mixture of the secular and the sacred, mourning and Black liberation. It was officiated by CL Franklin and eulogies were given by Cecil Franklin, himself now a Baptist minister at his father’s church, and Jesse Jackson. Almost every star of Black music who could make it was in attendance, including the Isley Brothers, Brook Benton, and Dizzy Gillespie. The Kingpins played an hour long version of “Soul Serenade” while people entered and took their seats, Stevie Wonder moved everyone to tears by singing a version of “Abraham, Martin, and John” which included a new extra verse starting “Has anybody here seen my old friend King Curtis?”, and Aretha closed the service by singing the gospel song “Never Grow Old”, which had been the first single she had ever released, when she was fourteen.
And it would be to gospel she would turn for what would be her own greatest artistic statement a few months later:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “Amazing Grace”]
It was the perfect time for Aretha to go back to her gospel roots, because in the years since she had turned to secular music, secular music had turned towards gospel, largely thanks to her old mentor James Cleveland.
After Cleveland had stopped working for Rev Franklin, he had gone on to become one of the most important people in gospel music, both as a musician himself and as a talent scout for Savoy Records, who by this time were the biggest label in Black gospel. He had recorded a string of successful records, had mentored many musicians, and had become the single most important figure in the music since Thomas Dorsey, changing the style of the music completely by introducing massed choirs.
These days the standard image of a gospel performance in the popular imaginary is a group of twenty to forty people, in robes, singing together, but up until the mid-sixties that was almost unknown in gospel music. We always say there’s no first anything here, and I’m sure there are earlier examples, but it’s generally considered that the first truly important gospel choir was Cleveland’s “Angelic Choir”:
[Excerpt: James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir, “I Stood on the Banks of Jordan”]
Before Cleveland, Black gospel music in America was small vocal groups like the Swan Silvertones or the Soul Stirrers, or solo performers like Rosetta Tharpe or Mahalia Jackson. Cleveland, a rigorous taskmaster, taught his vocalists to enunciate clearly and stay on pitch perfectly, so they could sing in unison in huge groups without the music turning into a mushy mess. The results revolutionised gospel music, especially after he had formed an organisation called the Gospel Music Workshop of America to promote that choir sound and encourage other similar choirs to form.
And then in 1967, Edwin Hawkins formed a fifty-piece choir in the Cleveland style, and recorded an album in his local church to use as a fundraiser to get the choir to a national competition. That album got picked up by the San Francisco underground radio station KSAN, and was reissued by Buddah records, a label that was mostly best known for putting out records like “Yummy Yummy Yummy” by Ohio Express and “Simon Says” by the 1910 Fruitgum Company. The single from it became a worldwide smash, becoming one of the few gospel singles to make the pop top ten:
[Excerpt: The Edwin Hawkins Singers, “Oh Happy Day”]
That song opened the floodgates for a whole lot of secular musicians to start using gospel styles in their work — though mostly the older gospel styles of those earlier groups. The Beatles’ “Let It Be” had a gospel influence, as did Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. George Harrison always said his “My Sweet Lord” was influenced by “Oh Happy Day” (though of course it’s actually closer to “He’s So Fine” by the Chiffons).
And there were many more attempts to meld rock music and gospel. There was Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the Sky”:
[Excerpt: Norman Greenbaum, “Spirit in the Sky”]
There was Billy Preston’s “That’s The Way God Planned It”, backed by a supergroup of George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, and Ginger Baker, with Doris Troy and Madeleine Bell on backing vocals
[Excerpt: Billy Preston, “That’s The Way God Planned It”]
There were the rock musicals Jesus Christ, Superstar and Godspell, and there were all sorts of weird attempts to jump on the bandwagon, like the Motown compilation Rock Gospel: The Key to the Kingdom, which as well as tracks by the Jackson Five, The Supremes, and Marvin Gaye, also contained this:
[Excerpt: Stoney and Meatloaf, “I’d Love to be as Heavy as Jesus”]
Yes, that is Meat Loaf, several years before his career took off, singing a Motown song about how he’d love to be as heavy as Jesus.
This meant that by early 1972, the idea of a secular artist recording religious music was, rather than a novelty, completely in the zeitgeist, to the point that around the same time Franklin recorded her album, the song she chose as a title track, “Amazing Grace” was a worldwide hit single for the Pipes and Drums of the Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guard:
[Excerpt: the Pipes and Drums of the Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guard, “Amazing Grace”]
The song “Amazing Grace” has a disturbing history. The words were written by John Newton, a man who had been pressganged into working on ships, serving in involuntary servitude, but had then himself voluntarily gone on to work on ships transporting enslaved people from Africa for many years. After a life-threatening storm, he had a deep religious experience and immediately became an ardent Christian — but carried on for years more taking part in the most evil activity imaginable. He did give up swearing though.
When he was thirty he became too ill to sail, though he continued to invest his money in slave ships, but slowly his conscience nagged at him, and by the time he was sixty he became an ardent abolitionist, and was one of the people whose campaigning eventually led to the end of the slave trade.
“Amazing Grace” was written between those two points, and so there’s an ambiguity to its intended meaning. The song was picked up by many marginalised groups though, including enslaved people, and usually sung set to an American folk tune (Newton didn’t publish any music with it, and the words are in common metre which meant it could be sung to many folk tunes — it fits “House of the Rising Sun” perfectly, for example).
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “Amazing Grace”]
There’s some confusion as to whose idea it was to do the album — Franklin always said it was hers, while Wexler also always claimed the credit, and both are listed as coproducers with Mardin, the first time Franklin got an official co-production credit on one of her records. The album was recorded during two actual church services — she insisted that it be recorded as part of a proper religious service — and featured Franklin’s normal rhythm section, plus James Cleveland’s choir, with Cleveland on piano for most of it.
The material was largely the gospel of Franklin’s youth — songs like the title track, “Mary Don’t You Weep”, “How I Got Over”, written by Franklin’s de facto stepmother the great gospel singer Clara Ward, who sat in the front row, and “Precious Memories”, which she sang as a duet with Cleveland:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin and James Cleveland, “Precious Memories”]
But she also included moments of the new gospel-influenced popular music, like Marvin Gaye’s “Wholy Holy”, George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord”, and, interpolated into “Take My Hand Precious Lord”, “You’ve Got a Friend”, by Carole King who had earlier written “Natural Woman” for her:
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin and the James Cleveland Choir, “Take My Hand Precious Lord/You’ve Got a Friend”]
Two weeks after the performances that made up the Amazing Grace album, Mahalia Jackson died, and Aretha sang “Take My Hand Precious Lord” at her funeral.
The Amazing Grace performances were also filmed, and you can see Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts in the crowd, which is otherwise made up of regular congregants and friends of the Franklins. Sadly, technical issues meant that the film went unreleased at the time, and when those were solved forty years later, Franklin sued to keep the film unreleased. It only got a release after her death, but it’s a stunning piece of work which everyone should watch.
The album, which the label thought they were taking a chance on as a possible commercial failure, made the top ten on the album charts, and eventually went double platinum, becoming both the best-selling album of Franklin’s career and the best selling live gospel album by anyone ever. It’s often considered the greatest gospel album of all time, and Franklin’s crowning artistic achievement.
[Excerpt: Aretha Franklin, “Climbing Higher Mountains”]
That was the peak of Franklin’s artistic and commercial success. Two months after the Amazing Grace recordings, she had her thirtieth birthday party, hosting activists like Betty Shabazz and musicians like Cannonball Adderley and Quincy Jones.
Jones was going to be the producer of her next album. Counting the live albums, the team of Wexler, Mardin, and Dowd had, together or separately, produced ten albums for her in five years, and she wanted to try something different. In particular, she was sick of those three getting all the credit for productions she felt — with some justification — she had contributed as much to as them.
But she was also at least half-aware of a truism in music which is that great singers rarely make great producers. A record producer has to be able to be dispassionate, to step back and listen to every element objectively, whereas a great singer has to put all their passion into the performance. So she looked around for other collaborators — with Atlantic’s blessing — and chose Jones.
On paper, the combination made a lot of sense. Quincy Jones, as it turned out, was yet to have the career for which he is now best known, and had not yet rocketed to the superstar level at which he remains. But he had already produced and arranged classic records for Ray Charles, Betty Carter, Peggy Lee, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard and Billy Preston, and a string of early-sixties hits for Lesley Gore.
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Aretha Franklin may have left her humble Memphis, Tennessee, roots when she was barely two years old, but the city is nevertheless desperate to save its small connection to the “Queen of Soul.". In 1942, Franklin was born in the tiny wooden home, but her family left Memphis about two years later. Now, the Memphis mayor’s office is trying to save the dilapidated structure, left vacant for years, to preserve it as a landmark. A group from the mayor's office is seeking funding sources to to assist in the preservation and future use of the historic home.
Franklin isn’t the only star whose childhood home hasn’t been deemed landmark-worthy. Plenty of stars homes, living and deceased, have not received official landmark status. Below, we visit the places where some of the most famous faces in Hollywood grew up — and the hometowns that should consider following in Memphis’s footsteps.
MADONNA
These days, Madonna’s permanent residences are in London and New York—but the pop star grew up in flyover country. Madonna Louise Ciccone lived in a two-story brick Colonial in Rochester Hills, Michigan (about thirty minutes outside Detroit) with her parents and seven siblings until she was 18. Her father and stepmother moved out in July 2001, selling the home for $270,000, but in 2008 the home burned down, reportedly due to arson. It later sold partial state for $91,700 in 2012. The property still attracts hordes of tourists to this day, despite the home not being in its original condition.
FARRAH FAWCETT
Famous for her feathered blond hair and a starring role on “Charlie’s Angels,” Farrah Fawcett got her start in Texas. Before heading to Hollywood, Fawcettlived with her parents (her father was an oil man) in this 4-bedroom, 3-bathroom house in Corpus Christi, Texas. After her 2009 death, the actress’s childhood home was remodeled with new paint, tile, carpeting, lighting and bathroom fixtures before being listed for $215,000.
More: Step Inside 37 Celebrity Dining Rooms
MARLON BRANDO
This five-bedroom, four-bathroom frame house in Omaha, Nebraska, is where legendary actor Marlon Brando grew up with his father (a pesticide and chemical feed manufacturer) mother, and two older sisters. (Fun fact: After winning an Oscar in 1973, Brando returned to the house and shocked the new owners by asking for a tour.) Public records show the 4,119-square-foot home was built in 1900 and while it has been updated and now includes a pool, it’s yet to be landmarked.
MICHAEL JACKSON
The Jackson family’s Gary, Indiana, residence was The King of Pop’s first home. And while the house has long been part of the history of Michael and the Jackson Five’s rise from poverty to International fame, the tiny 672 square foot two-bedroom, one-bath house (which housed 11 people) has never been made a historic landmark. The property is reportedly still owned by the family.
JANIS JOPLIN
Oh lord won’t you buy me … a music legend’s childhood home? In the 1940s and 1950s, Janis Joplin grew up in this Port Arthur, Texas, house. She even carved her first name into the floor of the garage in the 1,450-square-foot, five-bedroom residence. Though the homeowners did contact the Museum of the Gulf Coast about acquiring the house, the museum declined. It went on the market last year for $500,000.
More: Matthew McConaughey Keeps His Customized Airstream Trailer in Malibu
KURT COBAIN
In one of the rare cases of preserved childhood homes, Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain’s Aberdeen, Washington home is pretty much in the same condition as when he lived there. From the flowered wallpaper and shag carpeting to the linoleum floors and yellow Formica kitchen counters, the grunge icon’s mother Wendy O’Connor didn’t remodel after the musician died in 1994. Many hope the home does eventually become a tribute museum as thousands visit the nearby Kurt Cobain Memorial Park annually.
BARACK OBAMA
Other than the four years he spent living in Indonesia between 1967 and 1971, President Barack Obama was raised primarily in Honolulu, Hawaii. Though he and his family lived in multiple houses there, Obama’s first boyhood home was a pale yellow bungalow on Kalaniana'ole Highway in Makiki. The current owners bought the house without ever knowing the 44th president of the United States lived there, and, though it’s not a historical site, they say many people come by to photograph the residence.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
She started out as "Jenny From the Block" but musician and actress Jennifer Lopez went on to be one of the most famous names in Hollywood. The block where she started out was Blackrock Avenue in the Bronx, New Y ork in a five-bedroom three-bathroom townhouse in the Castlerock neighborhood. Her family sold the house in 1999 — the year “If You Had My Love” was released and hit the Billboard Hot 100. Though the fireworks set the home ablaze in 2003, it was eventually fixed and resold.
More: Kourtney Kardashian's Tips for Designing the Ultimate Kids' Rooms
This story originally appeared on Architectural Digest.
More from Architectural Digest:
126 Stunning Celebrity Homes
Inside Jennifer Aniston's Gorgeous Beverly Hills Home
Ellen DeGeneres' Amazing California Estate
Sarah Jessica Parker's Epic West Village Townhouse
Inside Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian's California Dream Homes
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The “Queen of Soul” Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee on March 25, 1942 to the Reverend Clarence L. Franklin and Barbara V. Siggers. When she was two years old her family moved to Detroit, Michigan where her father became minister at New Bethel Baptist Church. Both parents were gospel singers but her mother, later separated from Franklin’s father, died when
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The “Queen of Soul” Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee on March 25, 1942 to the Reverend Clarence L. Franklin and Barbara V. Siggers. When she was two years old her family moved to Detroit, Michigan where her father became minister at New Bethel Baptist Church. Both parents were gospel singers but her mother, later separated from Franklin’s father, died when Franklin was ten.
Living in the church parish house on Boston Boulevard and Oakland Avenue, Aretha was exposed at an early age to such music legends as Art Tatum and Nat King Cole, when they visited her father. Unchallenged by piano lessons she taught herself to play by ear. She grew up with Smokey Robinson in a neighborhood that spawned the Four Tops, Diana Ross and Jackie Wilson. Franklin’s father and gospel singer Clara Ward were major influences, according to Franklin’s autobiography Aretha, From These Roots. Franklin sang her first solo in her father’s church at age nine or ten. Her first recording, made by Chess Records when she was 16, had nine sacred songs recorded live. When she was 17, Franklin’s father decided that after five years of singing with his traveling gospel show, she was ready to pursue her singing in New York City.
In 1967, the year “Respect” hit the charts, Franklin was crowned “Queen of Soul” by Chicago DJ Pervis Spann. From there Aretha would come to have 20 number one R&B hits and garner more than 20 Grammy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Her record labels include Columbia, Atlantic and Arista among others. She never recorded for Motown Records.
Franklin had many honors bestowed upon her, such as singing at the inaugurations of three U.S. Presidents, and being the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1987. Her song “Respect,” was described as “an anthem for the Civil Rights movement,” and in February 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. presented her with an honorary award from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She sang at his funeral two months later.
Though her career continued to rise, Franklin’s personal life was somewhat troubled at times. Her marriage to Ted White ended in 1969. In 1979 her father was shot in his home and remained in a coma for five years before dying. Even with those hardships, Franklin continued to thrive, being nominated for or winning Grammy Awards over four decades. In 1980, she even made a cameo appearance in the film, The Blues Brothers.
In 1985 Aretha Franklin made a comeback with her 30th album, Who’s Zoomin’ Who? She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005. In 2008 she became MusiCares’ “Person of the Year” and she won her 21st Grammy at the 2008 50th Annual Grammy Awards.
Franklin had four sons and was married and divorced two times. She died on August 16, 2018 of pancreatic cancer and lay in state at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and New Bethel Baptist Church for three days. Her funeral service, attended by Smokey Robinson, President Bill Clinton, the Reverend Jessie Jackson and Stevie Wonder among other dignitaries, was broadcast live on Detroit television stations. The Detroit riverfront arena Chene Park was renamed the Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre in her honor.
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Efforts to preserve and renovate Aretha Franklin's Memphis birthplace are heating up in the wake of the Queen of Soul's death, with the home's current owner saying she will be in court Tuesday to make sure her interests are protected.
Vera Lee House for about 30 years has owned the dilapidated 1920s clapboard cottage where Franklin was born. She said through a spokeswoman Monday that her and her family's interests will not be overlooked as plans for making the house a shrine to Franklin's legacy move forward.
More: Efforts to preserve Aretha Franklin's childhood Memphis home has been ongoing saga
More: Memphis soul veterans mourn Aretha Franklin, recall her musical connections to the city
"They want to turn this into a Graceland, which is fine, but we want to make sure that, whatever goes down, Mrs. House has a better life as a result of that," said Patricia Rogers, a community leader speaking on House's behalf.
Rogers and members of House's family are expected to attend an Environmental Court hearing set for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. The hearing was already scheduled prior to Franklin's Aug. 16 death in Detroit.
Environmental Court has been overseeing efforts to preserve the South Memphis property at 406 Lucy Ave. since 2012, when it was declared a public nuisance because of rotting floors and a collapsing roof. Retired Judge Larry Potter saved it from the wrecking ball amid competing plans for how to honor Franklin.
Franklin's connection to the house was slim — she was born there on March 25, 1942, but her family moved to Detroit when she was 2 years old. Franklin did in later years, however, become involved in efforts to preserve the home.
Rogers said House — who at one point submitted a plan to make the home the headquarters of WLRM-AM 1380, a small blues and soul radio station — wants the home to remain in its current location regardless of how it is used. House also would like to see Lucy Avenue renamed Aretha Franklin Avenue.
Other proposals have floated the idea of moving the home, perhaps closer to the Stax Museum in Soulsville, and making it a tourist attraction there.
Judge Potter put the property into receivership and named Jeffrey Higgs of South Memphis Renewal Community Corp. the receiver.
Higgs could not immediately be reached Monday about Rogers' comment, but he said following Franklin's death that those seeking to restore the home are "in a pretty good position to move forward."
He said untangling ownership issues was among the problems that have slowed plans for the home's future, but that grant money has been secured and a plan is in place that he cannot yet discuss.
The only visible signs of progress at the house so far are a fence that was erected to secure the property and a historical marker noting the home's significance.
One issue House, who now lives the next street over from Lucy on Simpson Avenue, faces in preserving her interest in the property is paying property taxes. Rogers said just under $1,200 is owed, and a fundraising effort is afoot to raise the money. Rogers said she will bring some of the money to court Tuesday and ask for time to raise the remainder.
Mildred House, one of 12 children Vera House raised at the Lucy Avenue home, said her family is eager to see Franklin's Memphis heritage preserved as long as her family's voice is part of the process.
"We think it'll be good for Memphis, Tennessee," House said. "But it's also ours. We think this can be part of something great."
Added Rogers, "Everybody has their own agenda. This is going to be a long process, but we just want to make sure these folks (the House family) are respected."
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And now, it’s time to pay the Queen our utmost respect. After a largely private battle with pancreatic cancer, musical icon Aretha Louise Franklin has died at the age of 76. The woman who gave women a voice — the woman who is one of the best-selling musicians of all time, with a litany of accolades, including 18 Grammy Awards — has left us all.
And I am not OK.
The statement from her family is heartbreaking “In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart. We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family. The love she had for her children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins knew no bounds.”
Over the course of her career, Franklin gave us anthemic music; her sound was as unique as it was familiar, Pentecostal pipes over Southern fried basslines as she wailed about the loss of love, the longing for freedom or the very simple notion of earning (and getting) the respect she so rightly deserved. Her music transcends generation, race and cultures, but her sound remains firmly rooted in black musical traditions.
It was her music — alongside the luscious, genre-defining sounds of Motown — that helped change the world. Over the course of my career, I’ve had to report and opine and write about beloved, larger-than-life figures dying. This one is personal.
Franklin is as emblematic of Detroit as a Ford Model T fresh off the factory line. Yes, she was born in Memphis, Tennessee, but she came to my hometown when she was 4, as her father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin, took a job as pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church. Like her mother, Barbara, Franklin was gifted with a voice that could shake the rafters, and since Barbara died before she was 10, Franklin was partly reared and very influenced by women such as the gospel legend Mahalia Jackson. Her father’s status in the civil rights movement meant that folks such as Clara Ward, James Cleveland, Albertina Walker, Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke were frequent guests at her childhood home.
Franklin’s early career was rooted in gospel. The good reverend saw that his daughter’s voice would be a change agent — her spiritual vocals would help guide churchgoing black folks looking for a reprieve from their lack of inalienable rights in the 1950s. One of her most stirring recordings at that time was a rousing recording of Thomas Dorsey’s gripping “Precious Lord, Take My Hand.” The music was amazing. And it was healing. But Franklin had a bigger vision.
She’d barely turned 18 when she told her father that she wanted to go in a different direction — to follow Cooke’s lead and start making pop. Though she was a Detroiter, she never inked a deal with Motown; her dad thought Berry Gordy’s Tamla label was too green, and instead she went to Columbia Records. But her real impact came when she made the move to Atlantic.
In 1967, a year of so much civil unrest around the country and a year that changed her beloved — our beloved — Detroit forever, she found her voice. And her calling. Her voice would minister to black folks, to black women, to women everywhere.
Franklin was an icon to the world, but to us, she was a neighbor. She was accessible in ways that would blow the minds of outsiders.
I didn’t truly understand how important Franklin’s contribution was until a little over a decade ago. I was an entertainment reporter at my hometown newspaper, the Detroit Free Press. Franklin was an icon to the world, but to us, she was a neighbor. She was accessible in ways that would blow the minds of outsiders. She was a larger-than-life persona, yet very human and tangible — to a fault.
I arrived at the Free Press in 1998, right around the time when the paper was publishing a special report about how Franklin (or someone in her camp who was charged with this duty) was failing to pay outstanding local bills, mostly to mom-and pop businesses. That story was splashed across the front page, with an unflattering cutout of Franklin’s likeness.
As you might imagine, Franklin wasn’t happy and she went on a campaign. Mason in the Morning was the top black music morning radio show in Detroit at the time on WJLB, and I can still remember the interview clearly. As I drove into work one morning, John Mason, now the public address announcer for the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena, said, “You need to write an iconic story if you’re going to write about an icon.”
And I wanted to do that. My chance came in 2007. The previous year, a top editor at my paper mentioned in passing to me and my then-editor Steve Byrne that Franklin’s recording of “Respect” would turn 40 the following year. Maybe we’d do a quick story about it. Or maybe, I thought, we could do more.
Early in 2007, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I happened to be in New York that week because Jemele Hill was doing her first appearance on ESPN’s Cold Pizza, the show that would become First Take, and I was there for support and celebration. I popped over to the Waldorf Astoria because I knew Hall of Famer Franklin (the first woman to be inducted, in 1987!) would be there for a special tribute to Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, who had died in 2006.
I had backstage credentials and I wanted to see if I could get some time with her — just one quote for my would-be story. Because of the story about her failure to pay bills, she’d cut the Free Press off. No interview requests were granted. Not even to talk about her iconic song and its forthcoming anniversary. But in a room backstage at an awards show, I could be somewhat anonymous.
I raised my hand and she called on me. I’d heard a rumor that she loved the version of “Respect” that this blue-eyed soul group from Ann Arbor, Michigan, The Rationals, had recorded. A crew of white boys from Washtenaw County had taken an Otis Redding track and somehow did something to it that made Franklin and her sisters, Erma and Carolyn, take notice. It was my chance to get something from her. And I would have taken anything from her to help push whatever my story on her ended up being.
I remember her looking out at me as I asked. I purposefully coughed over my affiliation’s name because I knew the disdain she had for the Free Press. She gave me what I was looking for. It was a quick reply; she was humored. “We added the sock-it-to-me’s to it,” she said, looking down on me from a stage in that small room. I could tell for a brief moment that she was thinking of her sisters, who had died long ago: Erma from throat cancer and Carolyn from breast cancer. I saw it in her face. The memory was dancing in her mind.
I went back to Detroit with a kernel of an idea. Newspapers were trying to figure out how to elevate the work we were already doing in the digital space. Simply putting print versions of our work online wasn’t going to suffice for much longer. We needed something else. I was walking out of the office one day, passing by the photo desk, when a friend and photographer, Mandi Wright, stopped me. She’d just come back from a workshop and was eager to test out some tricks that did not involve still photography. We wanted to team up, I told her my idea and we got to work.
Somehow, a couple of newspaper journalists were going to become broadband film documentarians. Wright and I spent months working on a project that would document Franklin’s recording of 1967’s “Respect,” the civil unrest in Detroit that same year, and thusly this country in 1967. We’d tell how, in that song, women found a sororal battle cry.
When I asked my mother, a longtime Detroiter, to tell me what the summer of ’67 in Detroit was like during the thick of the riots, the summer Franklin’s song hit No. 1, I was taken aback as she shared with me how men and women were running in the streets, shouting back at police officers, “Sock it to me!” as they were trying to stay alive, clearly inspired by Franklin’s anthem, which had hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts in early June.
We never got an interview with Franklin for this project, though I did try — even showed up at an open audition she had about the biopic she so wanted on her own life. I gave her a framed, throwback photo of herself and her sisters that I’d heard she loved — but ultimately I had to treat the project as if I were doing her obituary.
We talked to everyone: producers such as Mike Powell and Paul Allen; music history professors; Ortheia Barnes, who was one of her longtime backup singers; Duke Fakir of the Four Tops; and even Franklin’s son Teddy Richards, who played in her band for years and shocked us when we saw that on his mantelpiece, unprompted by our visit to his home that day, sat Franklin’s Grammy for “Respect.”
And I, surprisingly, was able to talk with legendary producer Jerry Wexler, who coined the term “rhythm and blues” and produced Franklin for that iconic album in 1967. He told me that Franklin was also a brilliant pianist who was a cross between Thelonious Monk and Mildred Falls. We won an Emmy for that documentary. And a year later, after I’d left Detroit, I heard from Franklin herself, who loved it and wanted a DVD copy for her personal archives.
That project taught me a lot. And in some ways, it solidified the work I try to do now. Music isn’t just music. Entertainment isn’t just entertaining. Not always. And Franklin did more than just layer delicious sounds over mouthwatering melodies. It was activism. And it was important.
She was a child when she was sitting in her father’s church basement, listening to men and women who would become some of this country’s most prominent voices in the face of uncertainty for black folks. She sat at their feet while they were working to figure out a master plan. And because she came from the church, she knew the importance of voice — and how music was a ministry. That music guided church folk. It guided us. And I firmly believe that at 18, when she made the choice to try to elevate her audience and amplify her voice by switching to become a pop musician, she knew that she needed a wider audience to take in her sound.
She knew we needed it. Hers wasn’t just music about freeways of love and being one of the chains of fools for a man or taking a bridge to get over troubled waters. Her music was the music that got black folks through. And it still does. Because in the late 1960s, she was creating music that would resonate a half century later.
Sock it to me? Show me some R-E-S-P-E-C-T? You damn right, we wanted some respect. And still do.
Now that she’s gone, we’ll celebrate her legacy and thank her for the gifts that she treated us to over the years. And rightly so — the Queen deserves to be honored by her parishioners. Because this is personal. And for that, we should all give her majesty one final curtsy.
Kelley L. Carter is a senior entertainment reporter and the host of Another Act at Andscape. She can act out every episode of the U.S. version of The Office, she can and will sing the Michigan State University fight song on command and she is very much immune to Hollywood hotness.
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Aretha Franklin was featured in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 1987.
Aretha Franklin, the "Queen of Soul," was known around the world for her distinctive voice and soulful music style. Widely considered the most influential female vocalist of the 1960s,[1] she was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[2][3][4]
Aretha Louise Franklin was born to Rev. Clarence LaVaughn "C.L." (Walker) Franklin and Barbara Vernice Siggers in Memphis, Tennessee on March 25th, 1942.[1][3] [5] She had several siblings, including Cecil, Carolyn, and Erma Franklin, who later worked with her; some from both of her parents' prior relationships.[1][4] When she was very young, Aretha's family joined the Great Migration, settling first in Buffalo, New York, then in Detroit, Michigan.[5] She began singing in her father's New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, where her father's "million dollar voice" made him a celebrity preacher, attracting many famous gospel singers to his church and their home.[1] But her parents divorced when she was 6, and her mother moved to Buffalo, New York.[3] She was able to remain close to her mother via summer vacations and her mother's frequent visits, but Barbara died of a heart attack before Aretha was ten years old. It was at this time that Aretha learned to play piano by ear.[1]
Aretha dropped out of high school after having her first child at age thirteen. Her second was born two years later.[4] She married in 1961, but they divorced in 1969.[3][4] They had a son.[4] Aretha married again in 1978. They divorced in 1984.[4] The mother of four sons,[1] Aretha loved her family fiercely and insisted they brought her the most joy in her life.[3]
Aretha began her singing career in her father's Baptist church singing gospel music.[3] She was taught to play piano by ear and often accompanied herself throughout her career.[1] She recorded her first gospel album, Spirituals, at age fourteen. With her father as her manager, Aretha signed to Columbia Records in 1960. After a few years, she landed at Atlantic Records and her popularity took off.[3]
Aretha was also an outspoken supporter of civil rights, touring with Martin Luther King, Jr. at the age of 16.[3] She sang at his funeral in 1968.[1] Her cover of Otis Redding's "Respect" became an anthem of the civil rights and feminist movements.[3]
In the '80s Aretha signed with Arista Records and Clive Davis. Many of the singles she put out during those years that ended up on the radio were collaborations with other artists across the musical spectrum.[3] She later moved to RCA. Over her lifetime she had more than 100 singles on the Billboard charts, 17 of which were top 10 pop songs and 20 which were number 1 R&B hits.[4]
Aretha was the recipient of numerous awards, including the highest US civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 18 Grammy awards, as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994.[2][4] She was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She was also honored as the Greatest Singer of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine.[2] She had honorary degrees from Yale, Princeton, and Harvard.[4] In 2020, she was posthumously inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.[6]
Aretha Franklin died on August 16th, 2018 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan after years battling a type of pancreatic cancer.[1][7][3][8]
Sources
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Wikipedia contributors, "Aretha Franklin," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Wikipedia:Aretha Franklin (accessed August 9, 2021).
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Aretha Franklin Biography, www.arethafranklin.net, accessed 16 Aug 2018
↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Douglas Wolk and David Browne, "Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, Dies at 76," Rolling Stone Magazine (online), 16 Aug 2018.
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Jon Pareles, "Aretha Franklin, The 'Queen of Soul,' Dead at 76," New York Times, online, 16 Aug 2018.
↑ 5.0 5.1 1950 Census: "1950 United States Federal Census"
National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; Roll: 2599; Page: 73; Enumeration District: 85-231
Ancestry Record 62308 #177637793 (accessed 16 September 2023)
Aretha Hill (8), single daughter, in household of Clarence Hill (38) in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA. Born in Tennessee.
↑ National Women's Hall of Fame, 2020
↑ Elizabeth Chuck and Alex Johnson, "Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul, dies at age 76," NBC News, (2018); accessed 16 August 2018.
↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
Find A Grave: Memorial #192285104 (accessed 18 December 2023)
Memorial page for Aretha Franklin (25 Mar 1942-16 Aug 2018), citing Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA (plot: Main Mausoleum, Lower Level, Sect. 185-188); Maintained by Find a Grave.
See also:
"Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, dead at 76," CBC News, August 16, 2018.
Mihalcik, Carrie; Kooser, Amanda, "Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul, dies at 76." C|Net News, August 16, 2018.
Business and Financial News, Liberal News and Politics 22 April 2013 - search for Aretha
News article from DailyMail.com
Wikipedia: Aretha Franklin
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The death of Aretha Franklin is a huge loss for her family — sons Clarence, Edward, Teddy and Kecalf, and her grandchildren — but also for the city of Detroit, her fans worldwide and the music industry, where her status as a legend has been secure for decades.
She became the undisputed Queen of Soul after a string of hits recorded for Atlantic Records in the late 1960s that included “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Loved You),” “Respect” and “Chain of Fools.”
Franklin was no less than “the greatest female voice of her generation,” according to music critic/historian Dave Marsh. She earned 18 Grammy awards, and in 1987 was the first female artist inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone put her on top of the list of the best singers of all time in 2008.
The legendary John Hammond, who signed Franklin to Columbia Records in 1960, said Aretha Franklin’s was the best voice he’d heard in 20 years.
In the music world, The Queen of Soul came to symbolize Detroit as much as General Motors, Ford or Chrysler.
She was the essence of Detroit to her core, but she was not a native of the Motor City.
Aretha Louise Franklin was born March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee, to a struggling young Baptist minister, the Rev. C.L. Franklin, and his wife, Barbara Siggers Franklin. She was the third of four children born to the couple; the others were Erma, (1939); Cecil (1940); and Carolyn (1943). Her mother’s son Vaughn, from an earlier relationship, was part of the family, too.
The Franklins moved to Detroit in 1942, when C.L. took a position as pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church, located in a converted bowling alley at Hastings Street. Aretha was 3.
Hastings Street was the center of the city’s lively east-side black entertainment district, Paradise Valley. Rev. Franklin quickly became a star, singing and preaching with such fervor that when record shop owner Joe Von Battle played one of his records through loudspeakers onto Hastings, it drew as much of a crowd as any pop star’s record.
The Franklin’s marriage foundered, and Aretha suffered an early loss when her mother Barbara moved to Buffalo, New York in 1948, to be close to her parents. She took Vaughn with her but left Erma, Cecil, 6-year-old Aretha and Carolyn in their father’s care.
As an adult, Aretha was sensitive about the way her mother’s departure was framed, insisting that she hadn’t abandoned them. She and her siblings visited Buffalo often in the summer, and Barbara came to Detroit to see them often as well.
But with their father often away from the house, it fell to housekeepers and the children’s grandmother Rachel, Big Mama, to take care of them. Clearly Aretha was drawn to the maternal warmth she found from family friends, such as gospel greats Clara Ward and Mahalia Jackson. Both were frequent visitors to the Franklin home, where Jackson would stir up a pot of greens in the kitchen and shower Aretha with attention and career advice. Ward was particularly close to C.L., and Aretha confessed in her memoir that she hoped they would marry — but it wasn’t to be.
Still, it was Clara Ward’s soaring gospel voice that showed Aretha the way, and convinced her that she could and would sing in the church, too.
The Franklins first lived on Boston Boulevard, on the corner of Oakland. Aretha spoke fondly of her 1950s childhood; hanging out with friends at various North End hotspots.
“There was no place like the North End,” she wrote in her 1998 autobiography, “From These Roots,” written with David Ritz. There was the Echo Theatre, where she swooned to the classic French song “La Vie en Rose” in a movie, and loved to spin on the seats at Mrs. Wiggins’ sweetshop on the corner of Oakland and Belmont. Brother Cecil’s best friend Smokey Robinson lived just down the street, on Belmont.
Aretha attended Alger Elementary School and then, Hutchins Junior High, where she learned how to sing harmony in the glee club. She loved roller skating at the Arcadia Roller Rink and enjoyed Boston coolers at the Vernor’s store on Woodward. Cecil was a jazz buff, but Erma and Aretha loved rhythm and blues, whether it was their fellow Detroiter Little Willie John crooning “Talk to Me, Talk to Me” (a song Aretha covered later) or Harvey and the Moonglows chanting the “Ten Commandments of Love.”
Erma and Aretha would sneak off to catch Jackie Wilson or Little Willie John at the Warfield Theater, prompting their exasperated father to lock them out when they returned home late.
It was a devastating blow when Aretha’s mother died in 1952, when she was 10. Her sister Erma told biographer Ritz that Aretha seemed to suffer the most from the loss of her mother.
The free-spirted fun of childhood was interrupted again, when Aretha became pregnant in 1954 by a boy she’d met at the Arcadia — referred to as simply “Romeo” in her memoir. Aretha and “Romeo” would skate to romantic ballads such as “Teach Me Tonight” and slow dance in friends’ basements. When her pregnancy started to show, a concerned C.L. took her to the doctor. But her father wasn’t scolding or judgmental about her condition, Aretha wrote in “From These Roots.” He was “a realist…he expected me to face the reality of having a child.” She and “Romeo” discussed getting married “for a Detroit minute,” but that idea was quickly abandoned, as her father “would kill him,” Aretha mused. He had big plans for his middle daughter.
Featured soloist at age 12
Like her sisters, Aretha had a passion for music; but hers was a particular gift, even her competitive sisters acknowledged. By the age of 10 she was constantly singing and had taught herself to play the piano by ear.
By then the family was living in a handsome home on LaSalle Boulevard.
Two years later, Franklin was one of New Bethel Baptist Church’s three featured soloists. Her arresting voice and presence led to her going on the road with her father’s gospel show. She would never take up formal education again, although she would have benefited from college, and was an avid reader.
The combination of C.L. Franklin’s stirring oratory and the voice of his daughter, a youthful cross between Clara Ward and a young Mahalia Jackson, was an irresistible draw.
After Aretha’s first son was born — named Clarence, after her father — because her grandmother Rachel, Big Mama, lived with the family, she was able to resume touring with her father. At 16, she fell once again for the charms of a roller rink heartthrob — this time she referred to the boy as “Casanova.” Her father was disappointed, but briskly efficient, advising her that she needed to be responsible and take care of her children. She named the baby Eddie, after his father — the most she would reveal of his name. Like Clarence, Eddie would go by her last name, Franklin.
On the road with her urbane, sophisticated father, Franklin got to experience the chitlin circuit of the ’50s firsthand, enjoying the rhythm and blues scene at such places as New Orleans’ Dew Drop Inn. But she found the grind of the road very hard.
“We’d drive thousands and thousands of miles,” she told biographer Mark Bego. “I’ve been to California from Detroit about four times through the desert. Never again! Never again! That’s the way people traveled back then. Baby, those steep mountains with no railing!”
She made her first recording at 14, a gospel album recorded at one of her father’s gospel shows in Oakland, California. The record came out in 1956 on Checker Records and was notable for her transcendent rendition of “Precious Lord.”
Both Erma and Carolyn were professional singers as well. Erma toured with singer Lloyd Price, and recorded the original version of “Piece of My Heart,” which became Janis Joplin’s best-known song. Both sisters sang backup for Aretha from time to time. Carolyn was also a talented songwriter, penning “Ain’t No Way” and “Angel,” and helped her sister come up with the famous “Sock it to me” line in “Respect.”
The sisters were rivals over boyfriends (Erma dated Dennis Edwards of the Temptations before Aretha did) as well as music. According to biographer Ritz, Carolyn once told him that Aretha tried to steer her away from singing, and more toward songwriting. (Carolyn signed with RCA anyway and recorded an album, "Baby Dynamite," although she only had middling success).
Meanwhile, as his star as the country’s preeminent “soul preacher” rose, the Rev. C.L. Franklin was also building a reputation in politics and civil rights. It was Franklin who invited the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Detroit for the June 1963 Walk to Freedom March—meant to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the 1943 Detroit race riots. King, Franklin and UAW President Walter Reuther led 125,000 people in a march down Woodward Ave.
Aretha was also close to Dr. King and would often sing “Precious Lord,” the civil rights leader’s favorite song, at his request (she sang it for him at Cobo Hall on Feb. 16, 1968, at “Aretha Franklin Day,” which was announced by Detroit Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh).
No Motown for Aretha
Some wonder why Franklin was never a Motown artist. But the timeline, of course, wasn’t in Berry Gordy’s favor. In 1958, Gordy was still barely scratching out a living writing songs with partner Billy “Roquel” Davis. The two had heard Aretha sing, and they came up with a plan to write songs for the teenager and get her signed to Chess Records as an R&B artist. Her father thought she was too young and passed. Instead, older sister Erma Franklin became one of Gordy and Davis’ regular demonstration singers until she went out on the road as part of R&B singer Lloyd Price’s show.
By 1959-’60, when Aretha’s father thought she was ready to sign a recording contract, Gordy had launched Motown but it was still a small-time operation, located in the house on West Grand Boulevard, where he was still building a studio. Franklin wanted to see what the big labels in New York thought of his “child genius” daughter before committing to a local label.
The big labels were impressed. Aretha was signed to the crown jewel, Columbia Records, at age 19 in 1960.
She was able to leave her two sons in the hands of her grandmother Rachel and move to New York, where she was put through her paces, taking dance lessons, meeting with producers and learning everything about the city.
When her father visited her in New York they would hit the town, and go to clubs like the Village Vanguard and Village Gate to check out jazz greats such as Horace Silver, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane.
While her vocal talents were held in high esteem, her career during those Columbia years lacked a coherent focus. Aretha would tour with R&B acts like her friend Sam Cooke, but she would also be on jazz bills with artists such as Horace Silver. One of her best albums from the Columbia years is “Unforgettable,” a 1964 tribute album to Dinah Washington, the great Queen of the Blues who had died in December 1963 in Detroit. (Aretha had great admiration for Washington’s vocal abilities and personal style — she was amused when the Queen of the Jukeboxes advised her to keep her shoes in better order in her dressing room).
It took Atlantic Records, and producer Jerry Wexler to harness Franklin’s great talent into commercial success. She signed with the label in 1967 and the release of her first album "I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You" (no parentheses in the album title, only on the song) the following year was explosive.
Enduring hits of the 1960s
There was an earthy realness to Franklin that anchored her soaring, five-octave voice, and Wexler had discovered the right template that would show it off. He had Aretha play songs on the piano, and would structure the arrangement around her gospel-tinged playing and singing. Her Atlantic recordings have the soulful immediacy of gospel, but are seated firmly in a contemporary R&B setting.
Her version of Otis Redding’s song “Respect” became an enormous hit in 1967, and an anthem for both the Civil Rights movement and the women’s movement. Watching her soar to the top of the charts with his song, Redding cheerfully admitted, “That girl took my song away from me.”
Her other Atlantic hits; “Chain of Fools,” “(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman,” “I’ve Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You,” and “Dr. Feelgood,” to name a few, were some of the most enduring hits of the 1960s.
Complicated personal life
Aretha’s personal life was complicated. After her two teenage pregnancies — the results of which she insisted, were blessings — she was married to Ted White in 1961. Their son Teddy was her guitarist for some 20 years off and on, starting in the 1980’s.
The marriage to White was reported to be turbulent, although Aretha resented the press reports about her troubles, particularly a Time magazine story. After they divorced, Aretha had a son, Kecalf, in 1970 with boyfriend Ken Cunningham.
After a brief but intense relationship with Dennis Edwards of the Temptations — it led to Aretha writing the romantic song “Daydreaming” — in 1978 she married Glynn Turman, an actor — and was living in Los Angeles. (Her marriage to Turman ended in 1984, and Aretha returned to Detroit).
Even as her Atlantic years were winding down, Franklin was recording some of her best music.
Her contract with Atlantic was ending, so she called former Columbia Records chief Clive Davis, who had just established a new record company, Arista.
“She was working with producers who didn’t quite have the right handle on the material,” Davis told Billboard in 2016. “I went to her house in Los Angeles, and she cooked dinner for me. We spent the evening getting to know each other, and establishing the bond that we have.”
Davis was known for hovering over his female artists, making sure everything was just so, and fussing over the right material for them to record. One hit record he set up for Aretha was the duet “I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me),” with George Michael. Michael had begged the record mogul to get him together with her.
“Aretha had never heard of George Michael when I introduced the idea. They made the record. It went to the top of the charts all over the world [in 1987]. It just worked out perfectly. It was a win-win for both artists."
Along with Davis nurturing her career at Arista, Aretha’s cameo appearance in 1980 in the first Blues Brothers film, singing “Think” with potent, grown woman attitude, helped refresh her career and image as well.
The 1980’s were her pop years; she happily turned out hits such as “Freeway of Love” and “Who’s Zoomin’ Who,” as well as collaborating with some of her favorites, such as George Benson (“Love All the Hurt Away” in 1981).
Return to form
In the ‘90s Franklin continued to be a vital force, as artists such as Lauryn Hill wrote music for her to record (“A Rose is Still a Rose”). She filled in singing an operatic aria on live TV for the ailing Luciano Pavarotti with casual aplomb, and after a life-changing illness in 2010, she came back In concert in 2011, surprising audiences with a re-energized voice that harked back to her glory years. She even made President Obama cry at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015.
For some years she reportedly was on the outs with Clive Davis, but all that melted away when she reunited with her former record boss for her album “Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics,” in 2014, an album of covers that Davis masterminded.
It was a welcome return to form, after some false starts when she tried to release her own material on Aretha’s Records, in part because she finally had someone she trusted helping steer her a bit, again.
One of the notable cover versions she did for that album was Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep,” a song with a message of persisting despite an abusive relationship, that clearly connected with her deeply.
Still, Aretha’s personal challenges, whether the early loss of her mother or her romantic ups and downs, may have helped her tap into a human, universal pain, but she was not the haunted, sad “our lady of sorrows” described by many.
She could be feisty, and sometimes had beefs with other female singers for reasons the other party couldn’t fathom. Her deep friendships with Cissy Houston (mother of Whitney) and Dionne Warwick appeared to have high and low points.
Bettye LaVette, another product of Detroit’s North End, once remarked that if Aretha pretended not to know her at the Kennedy Center that year, there would be “a Detroit moment” between them.
Far from being a tragic figure, Aretha enjoyed her family, loved parties and fun, and was known to invite hundreds to her famous birthday and holiday parties, some in venues as large as the Somerset Collection in Troy. She was an avid and accomplished cook, and had a keen, lifelong interest in fashion and interior design.
Franklin’s own words to The Detroit News on the occasion of Ray Charles’ death, could stand as a description of her own art. “I heard someone say that he created soul, da da da da … My response was, he didn’t create soul. You can’t create soul. That's who he was.”
Susan Whitall is an author and longtime writer and contributor to The Detroit News.
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From CityLab: Following Aretha Franklin's death, Memphis, Tennessee, is debating how to best honor the humble house the singer was born in.
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This post originally appeared on CityLab. Find the original here.
Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, died on the same date that Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, passed away: August 16. Both had a connection to Memphis—Franklin was born there, while Presley died there. Much of the focus on Franklin’s death has been on Detroit, where she lived most of her life, but Memphis is hoping that its connection to the Queen is not lost.
Days after her death, Franklin’s fans lined up outside of the small wooden cottage house in south Memphis where she was born to hold vigils and pay respects. Community developers are hoping they can turn that house into a place that honors Franklin’s life. The house is equally known in Memphis for its connection to her father, Rev. C.L. Franklin, a charismatic pastor, civil rights activist, and gospel music icon in his own right.
It hasn’t been inhabited in years and half of it was extensively damaged from a fire. It was in such disrepair that the city of Memphis deemed it a nuisance property in 2012 and slated it for demolition in 2016. It was spared that year after Higgs and preservation organizations promised to come up with a restoration plan for it. Higgs said the community groups he’s been working with on those plans have finally “nailed that down,” but the main problem with moving forward is getting the Franklin family’s blessing—a prospect dimmed by the fact that now both Aretha and her father are deceased.
“Our biggest roadblock is that we have not gotten permission from anybody in the family to say, ‘OK, yes, you can use her name and likeness, and we’ll give you some pictures and memorabilia,’” said Higgs.
Among those projects is the revamped Stax Records studio—where soul legends Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, and Carla Thomas recorded—that has been repurposed into a museum, with neighboring affiliated music schools. The CDC also helped save the home of blues artist John “Peter” Chatman aka “Memphis Slim,” and converted it into an art gallery and work space for musicians called the “Memphis Slim Collaboratory.” The community development financial institution Community LIFT has been instrumental in leveraging funding to make it all happen.
The Aretha Franklin house has been a little trickier to rehab, though, and not just because of ownership issues with the Franklin name, but also with the property itself. According to Shelby County records the property is owned by a woman named Vera House, whose family has reportedly been involved in its upkeep over the years. However, a court appointed the Lemoyne-Owen College CDC as the official receiver of the property in 2016, which means it has the rights to make modifications to it.
Also, this is not the first rescue attempt for the house. In 2011, several media outlets reported that a man named Herb Jackson was raising funds through a philanthropy called The R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Foundation to turn the house into a museum. There was a website for this, arethafranklinbirthplace.com, but it no longer exists. Looking at old versions of the site from the Wayback Archive, it says the museum would:
Include a community room that would be utilized for meetings, tutoring neighborhood school children (possibly by local area college students), mentoring meetings and programs (to include local churches, government and business leaders, NBA players and other athletes). There will also be a snack area and gift shop. The most beneficial area of this project is how it would assist the community and interact with the neighborhood. It will not only bring tourism, but it will bring jobs to the area.
“Aretha Franklin rose from a small home at 406 Lucy Avenue in Memphis to become the Queen of Soul,” said Mayor Strickland in a statement to CityLab when asked about the city’s plans for the house. “Today, we mourn her loss and celebrate the spirit she brought to this world.”
But the city wouldn’t comment on any specifics beyond that. The budget for the latest Franklin house proposal is modest—roughly $150,000, said Higgs, which shouldn’t be difficult to reach in a city that has staked much of its destination appeal on its music and civil rights bona fides. Graceland is currently amidst its own multi-million-dollar expansion that is being partially funded with public money. The city seems to be pushing back a bit on that, but the Shelby County Commission voted seven to one in June to allow it to move forward.
Besides Graceland, Memphis also has the world-renowned Beale Street corridor, replete with venues that honor recording artist legends such as B. B. King, Ma Rainey, and Robert Johnson. The entertainment district recently had its own expansion with the addition of Beale Street Landing, a six-acre “multi-amenity riverfront development” that cost roughly $43 million to complete, covered in part by city and other public funds. The Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis in 1968, is now a civil rights museum that expanded in 2014 and became a Smithsonian affiliate in 2016. It would seem that a museum commemorating a family like the Franklins, who were so instrumental in the nation’s musical and civil rights narratives, would have no problem finding financial support in a city that is central to both legacies.
However, the efforts to restore the Franklin house and revitalize surrounding South Memphis neighborhoods is not connected to those city tourist enterprises, and Higgs said that’s intentional. He’s concerned that those larger-scale downtown Memphis projects are increasing housing costs and elevating risks of displacement. The plans for south Memphis, including the Franklin house, are more “strategic,” said Higgs, to ensure that low-income and long-time residents will benefit.
“We don’t need anyone coming in gentrifying us, we know how to gentrify on our own,” said Higgs. “That inner-city movement [development] is happening all around us, but we’ve been doing this work for awhile now, so we know how to do it ourselves. We want to preserve the nature of what our community was and what it continues to be.”
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On a crisp, sparkling day in January 2009, Aretha Franklin stood on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, an ample figure swathed in a spectacular ensemble of coat and hat in two shades of grey, singing My Country, ’Tis of Thee to her new president. All around her, and down the full length of the National Mall, the vast audience included African Americans with tears in their eyes, celebrating the inauguration of Barack Obama. She was facing west, as hundreds of thousands of slaves had done when they landed on a bitter shore at the conclusion of their portage from Africa. “Let freedom ring,” she sang, in the anthem’s famous exhortation, and many millions watching on television around the world could not help but share the resonance of a historic moment.
Franklin, who has died aged 76, sounded exalted that day. She almost always did, even when handcuffed to unsympathetic material. Her voice could scald or soothe, singing with equal intimacy and intensity to her God or a faithless lover. She was both the heir to the sacred tradition of Mahalia Jackson and Clara Ward, frequent visitors to her childhood home, and the lineal descendant of the very secular Bessie Smith and Dinah Washington.
But it was that quality of exaltation that raised her above a remarkable generation of church-trained soul divas. Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick, Candi Staton, Etta James, Mavis Staples, Tina Turner and many others were (and in some cases still are) great singers, but Aretha Franklin was the greatest of them all.
When, in 1967, she got hold of Otis Redding’s song Respect, originally a man’s urgent but politely phrased request for harmony in his home, she transformed it into a demand for equal rights on behalf of all women. A shout of impending triumph, challengingly direct in its unshackled power, it was also that summer’s hottest record in the discotheques, not least thanks to a supercharged interlude featuring the emphatic spelling-out of the song’s title, which she added to Redding’s original structure.
Known as the Queen of Soul, she was born into true American royalty as the daughter of one of the most celebrated of the nation’s black Baptist preachers, the Rev CL Franklin, and his wife, Barbara, a nurse’s aide and a singer and choirmistress in her husband’s church.
Clarence LaVaughn Franklin had met Barbara Siggers in Sunflower County, Mississippi, where he picked cotton while practising his preaching in small local churches. Aretha Louise – one of the couple’s four children, and named after her father’s two sisters – was born in Memphis, Tennessee, where CL Franklin had become pastor of the New Salem church; she was still an infant when they moved, first to Buffalo, New York State, and thence to Detroit, where her father became the minister of the New Bethel church. Aretha was six when her mother returned to Buffalo, accompanied by her son from a previous relationship. The remaining siblings were supervised in their father’s comfortable Detroit home by their paternal grandmother, Rachel, known as Big Mama, and a series of housekeepers, but spent the summers with their mother until Barbara died of a sudden heart attack when Aretha was 10.
The children – including an older sister, Erma, and a younger one, Carolyn, both gifted singers – grew up under the wing of a charismatic father who was among the first of his kind to spread his message via radio, recordings and national tours with his own travelling revival show. CL Franklin made friendships with many important African Americans: he marched alongside Martin Luther King and ordained the young Jesse Jackson; Ward was an intimate friend; and Aretha once came home from school to find Art Tatum, the nonpareil jazz pianist, playing the family grand.
The preacher’s offspring grew up thoroughly steeped in the sung and spoken cadences of the gospel, in churches where smelling salts were always at hand to revive those overcome by spiritual possession. “Like my father,” Aretha wrote in her autobiography, From These Roots (1999), “the church always gave me a special kind of love.”
Rejecting formal keyboard lessons as a child, she learned to play by ear and mastered the techniques of gospel piano. She was also falling under the spell of rhythm and blues. Her friends and neighbours in Detroit included Berry Gordy Jr and Smokey Robinson, later to found the Motown label; another future Motown star, Marvin Gaye, dated her older sister. But it was a newly arrived music director at her father’s church, James Cleveland, who, although barely out of his teens himself, helped to focus her early career as a gospel singer.
She was 13 when she became pregnant and 14 when she gave birth to her first son, named Clarence, after her father – who did not chastise her, perhaps remembering that in 1940, during his marriage to Barbara, he had fathered a child with a 13-year-old member of his Memphis congregation. At 16 Aretha gave birth to another son, Edward; the identity of neither father was ever revealed.
Giving up formal education after the birth of her second child, she travelled extensively as a featured member of her father’s troupe. Her first album, recorded in churches across America, displayed the girl’s astonishing range, precocious control and blazing fervour. Seeing her potential, influential friends including Gordy and the singer Sam Cooke tried to lure her over to the secular side. In New York she recorded a demo tape that found its way to John Hammond, probably the pre-eminent talent scout of the century, whose proteges already numbered Smith, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and Billie Holiday (and would later include Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen).
Hammond, whose mother was a Vanderbilt, had dropped out of Yale to become an A&R man for Columbia Records. But although Franklin’s first release under his supervision was a song called Today I Sing the Blues, her early albums were dominated by familiar show songs and bland covers of recent pop hits. She could deliver them well enough but they were not her true medium, and her potential audience knew it.
It was during the Columbia years that her sister Erma introduced her to an attractive Detroit hustler named Ted White. “He was a take-charge kind of guy,” she remembered, “and before I knew it he had become my manager.” She could also see that he drank and womanised. Nevertheless they were married in 1961 while on the road “somewhere in Ohio”. Their son, Ted Jr, was born in 1964.
Her contemporaries were the emerging stars of soul music, but as long as she remained with Columbia she was trapped in the smart, superficial world of the supper club. “I felt it important to sing songs people knew and could sing along with,” she said, a misconception that was finally broken down when she linked up with Jerry Wexler, the vice-president of Atlantic Records, a former Billboard journalist who had already played an important role in the careers of Ray Charles, the Drifters and Solomon Burke. “You’ll do good things with Aretha,” his friend Hammond assured him. “You understand her musically.”
Wexler decided that in order to bring the best out of her, he had to get her out of New York and send her south, to a place where the roots of her artistry could emerge naturally.
In January 1967 Franklin and Wexler travelled down to Alabama for a scheduled two weeks of recording at the Fame studios in Muscle Shoals, where they were greeted by the studio’s owner, Rick Hall, and a rhythm section composed, in Wexler’s words, of “Alabama white boys who took a left turn at the blues”. Sensitive to the feelings of Franklin and her volatile husband in a potentially awkward environment, the producer had asked Hall to hire a horn section including black musicians. It was an instruction the studio owner ignored, with fateful consequences.
The first day’s session went well. Inspired by the singer’s delivery, the young musicians helped her to record a rolling, gospel-drenched version of a song called I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You), written by Ronnie Shannon, a Detroit songwriter who was a friend of White’s. As with many a relaxed recording session in the south, however, drink was being taken, and one member of the horn section began baiting White, in an exchange with racist overtones. That night, at the hotel where Franklin and her husband were staying, Hall arrived to apologise but, having been drinking himself, succeeded only in getting into a fist fight with White.
The singer and her husband flew back home the next morning, the Muscle Shoals project apparently aborted. Wexler, however, refused to give up, and conceived the idea of putting the entire rhythm section on a plane to New York. There, in mid-February, at Atlantic’s own Broadway studio, the team completed the session that would become Franklin’s first single and album for the label.
Rush-released as a 45 that same month, I Never Loved a Man created a sensation. Soul music was no longer a novelty, but here was deep soul at its most profound, using gospel cadences to trigger emotional tension and release.
There was no sense of politeness in Aretha’s portrayal of a sexual love both defiant and helpless, illustrating Wexler’s reflection, many years later, that “anguish surrounds Aretha as surely as the glory of her musical aura”. In the moment it hit the airwaves, Franklin assumed her rightful pre-eminence.
It sold 1m copies, but the next release was an even bigger hit. Joined by her sisters, she made Respect into a universal feminist anthem. Now there was no stopping her. She had found her voice, her style and her audience. In 1968 she became only the second African American to appear on the cover of Time magazine, with a story that celebrated her artistry but also hinted at violence within her marriage.
For the next seven years her recordings adhered to the same template of honesty and directness, featuring sympathetic material and first-rate musicians. The string of hits included A Natural Woman, Chain of Fools, Think (which would receive a further boost 11 years later when Franklin performed it in the film The Blues Brothers), and a glowing, timeless version of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s I Say a Little Prayer.
There was a lull around 1969, the year in which she and White divorced, but she regained her momentum with Spanish Harlem, Rock Steady and Day Dreaming, and in 1971 she played at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, where the enthusiasm of a hippy audience was preserved on a live album. At the New Temple Missionary church in Los Angeles in 1972 she was reunited with the Rev James Cleveland, now a star in his own right, to make her first gospel record for a decade and a half, with her father and Ward among the congregation. Titled Amazing Grace, it sold more than 2m copies, making it the most successful gospel album of all time.
There were very few artistic missteps during this period, but in 1974, feeling the need to provide fresh stimulus, Wexler sent her to Los Angeles, where Quincy Jones produced a patchy album whose highlight was Angel, a glistening song co-written by her sister Carolyn, eliciting one of her most compelling performances. Back with Wexler, she returned to the pop charts with Until You Come Back to Me, written by Stevie Wonder. Two years later a collaboration with Curtis Mayfield delivered the last of her Atlantic successes, Something He Can Feel, hitting No 1 in the R&B chart while only just scraping into the US pop Top 30, as if to prove that her original audience retained its loyalty. But the singer and the label parted company in 1979 after an overdressed disco-styled album, La Diva, made no impact. Wexler had left Atlantic and she was being courted by Clive Davis, the president of the Arista label, who soon added her to his roster.
After White had gone she spent several years in a relationship with her road manager, Ken Cunningham, with whom she had a son, Kecalf, in 1970. They separated in 1976 and she moved to Los Angeles, where she met an actor, Glynn Turman, to whom she was married in Detroit in 1978, in a ceremony presided over by her father.
A year later the Rev Franklin was shot in his home by a burglar and fell into a coma. He survived for a further five years without regaining consciousness, and in 1982 Aretha moved back to Detroit to help care for him. At his funeral in the New Bethel church, she observed, “the choir sang like they had never sung before”. She and Turman were divorced in 1984, although they remained friends.
Her relationship with Arista, which lasted 23 years, produced the hits Who’s Zoomin’ Who and Jump to It. There was a second gospel album, recorded at her father’s church, in which she sang with her sisters for the first time in many years, and there were duets with younger white artists such as Annie Lennox (Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves, 1985) and George Michael (I Knew You Were Waiting, a No 1 hit in 1987). She made her last recording, a “diva covers” album, in 2014, and announced her retirement from touring three years later.
Emulated by many but matched by none, she won 18 Grammys (and sang Puccini’s Nessun Dorma in place of an indisposed Luciano Pavarotti at the awards’ 40th anniversary ceremony), received honorary doctorates from Berklee College of Music and the universities of Detroit and Pennsylvania, sang at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993, and was awarded the US presidential medal of freedom by George W Bush.
A fighter for racial and gender justice, she walked off a Vogue photo session in the 60s when she noticed that all the other models were white. But she could seem vulnerable, and agoraphobia and a fear of flying were said to have prevented her from touring for long periods. A lover of food, extravagant gowns and adventurous hairstyles, she used her autobiography to attempt not just to catalogue seemingly every outfit she had worn on a big occasion but also to dispel, without great success, the prevailing impression that she possessed, as Hammond warned Wexler in 1967, a withdrawn and enigmatic character.
Her sister Carolyn died in 1988, followed by her brother Cecil the following year, and Erma in 2002. She is survived by her four sons. The bejewelled grey hat she wore to sing at Obama’s first inauguration is now in the Smithsonian Institution; her music is in the hearts of millions, on permanent loan.
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Aretha passed away in 2018. Here are photos of her Memphis birthplace and inside one of her lavish Detroit homes!
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Aretha Franklin passed away on August 16, 2018.
Born in an old shack in Memphis Tennessee, she ended up owning a handful of beautiful homes, some in Detroit.
The photos below show you the inside of one of her Detroit homes and what her birthplace in Memphis currently looks like.
The Detroit house was built in 1929, and Aretha bought it in 1993. You can't get to it, since the road is blocked off by a gate, as you'll see in the photos below...but you can see the house from the gate. It's located on the very private Hamilton Road north of the Detroit Golf Club.
Whether you try to get pics of the Detroit house or roadtrip to Memphis, treat both places with respect.
Aretha Franklin's Childhood Michigan Home
MORE HOMES OF MICHIGAN'S FAMOUS:
Motown's Martha Reeves
The Michigan Home of the Man Who Gave Us “Mony Mony”
Where Eminem Lived in Michigan
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2019-04-16T01:15:00-06:00
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NEW YORK — Aretha Franklin is still getting R-E-S-P-E-C-T after death.
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NEW YORK — Aretha Franklin is still getting R-E-S-P-E-C-T after death.
The Queen of Soul received the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation honor Monday, becoming the first individual woman to earn a special citation prize since the honor was first awarded in 1930.
The Pulitzer board said the award was given to Franklin for "her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades."
Franklin died on Aug. 16 at her home in Detroit from pancreatic cancer at age 76.
The superstar musician was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when she entered the prestigious organization in 1987.
The Pulitzer board most recently awarded a special citation prize in 2010 to Hank Williams, the country music legend who died in 1953. From the arts world, other recipients include Duke Ellington, Bob Dylan, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, George Gershwin, Ray Bradbury, William Schuman, Milton Babbitt, Scott Joplin, Roger Sessions, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Before Monday, only 41 special citation prizes had been awarded since 1930, and winners have ranged from individual people to organizations and groups, including the New York Times, writers E.B. White, Alex Haley and Kenneth Roberts, and Columbia University and its Graduate School of Journalism. Franklin and the Capital Gazette newspaper received special citation honors this year.
"Aretha is blessed and highly favored even in death. She's continued to receive multiple awards — she's received almost every award imaginable and now to get the Pulitzer Prize, it's just amazing," Sabrina Owens, Franklin's niece and the executor of her estate, said in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday. "Aretha continues to bless us with her music and just paving the way for women going forward. It's thrilling. She would be so happy right now."
When Owens heard the news that Franklin won a Pulitzer, she and the family were "surprised but in another way we were not because that's just the kind of person Aretha was."
"She was just very gifted and talented, and the world is still recognizing that," she said.
Franklin's inclusion into the exclusive club re-confirms the impact her music — and voice — had and continues to have on the world. She became a cultural icon and genius of American song, considered by many to be the greatest popular vocalist of her time. Her voice transcended age, category and her own life.
Franklin was professional singer and accomplished pianist by her late teens and a superstar by her mid-20s. Raised in Detroit, she recorded hundreds of tracks and had dozens of hits over the span of a half century, including 20 that reached No. 1 on the R&B charts.
But her reputation was defined by an extraordinary run of Top 10 smashes in the late 1960s, from the morning-after bliss of "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," to the wised-up "Chain of Fools" to her unstoppable call for "Respect," transforming Otis Redding's song into a classic worldwide anthem — especially for the feminist and civil rights movements — making it one of the most recognizable and heard songs of all-time.
She sold millions of albums and won countless awards, including 18 Grammys, the National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.
She performed at the inaugurations of Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and even sang at the funeral for civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks and at the dedication of Martin Luther King Jr's memorial.
Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, though her family moved to Buffalo, New York, and then settled in Detroit. She grew up singing in the church alongside her father Rev. C.L. Franklin, a prominent Baptist minister who recorded dozens of albums of sermons and music. She joined him on tour and she released a gospel album in 1956. Four years later, she signed with Columbia Records and when her contract ran out in 1966, she joined Atlantic Records.
That's when she blazed the pop and R&B charts with a string of hits, including "Respect," ''I Say a Little Prayer," ''Think," ''Chain of Fools," ''Day Dreaming," ''(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone," ''Rock Steady" and "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)."
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The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, has died at the age of 76. Franklin was a trailblazer and history maker. Born in the birthplace of Rock and Roll, Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in the capital of Motown music, Detroit, Michigan, Franklin is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time.
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The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, has died at the age of 76. Franklin was a trailblazer and history maker. Born in the birthplace of Rock and Roll, Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in the capital of Motown music, Detroit, Michigan, Franklin is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time. She broke ground as the first female performer to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. One of her many hit songs, Respect, has been known as an anthem not just for women, but for all human beings looking to be respected and given their due. Her visibility as a strong Black woman performer in charge of her career and image was important and necessary in a field where white men at recording studios and performance venues called most of the shots. Franklin used her music and her platform not only to showcase her powerhouse singing skills, but to contribute to struggles of civil rights and social justice.
From an early age, Franklin was rooted in the Civil Rights Movement. Franklin’s father was Rev. C.L. Franklin, an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist. Known as the man with the “million-dollar voice,” Rev. C.L. Franklin was the lead organizer of the 1963 Detroit Walk to Freedom. This march was the largest civil-rights demonstration in U.S. history, occurring shortly before the historic March on Washington occurred two months later. In a 2013 interview, Aretha spoke about her admiration of her father and his work, and how he combated resistance to organizing against racism.
“Many pastors whom he invited to our home to discuss it [the 1963 Detroit Walk] were not on board,” Aretha noted. “They didn’t think it was such a good idea… He had his vision, and yes it was under his control. It was his vision of what he wanted to be, and of course it set the stage for the March on Washington,” she explained. Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who was a friend of C.L. Franklin, delivered an early version of his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Detroit march.
“It was absolutely a world statement that certainly went out to all nations that we [Black people] could not only organize, but we were healthy and wealthy in numbers that translated commercially into retail and other things,” Franklin stated. In another interview with writer David Ritz in preparation for her biography, she would state, “Daddy had been preaching Black pride for decades and we as a people had rediscovered how beautiful black truly was and were echoing, ‘Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud.’”
When discussing one of her greatest hits, Respect, Franklin often spoke about the empowering message for those that heard it. During the 1960s, as her star was gaining momentum with the hit song, Franklin made it a point to put it into her contract that she would not perform before racially segregated audiences. Franklin’s activism went beyond the lyrics of her songs, as she applied her wealth and platform to help fund many social justice campaigns.
Speaking to Detroit Free Press recently, friend and activist Rev. Jesse Jackson explained, “On one occasion, we took an 11-city tour with her and Harry Belafonte…and they put gas in the vans. She did 11 concerts for free and hosted us at her home and did a fundraiser for my campaign. Aretha has always been a very socially conscious artist, an inspiration, not just an entertainer…. She has shared her points of view from the stage for challenged people, to register to vote, to stand up for decency.”
In a 1970 Jet Magazine article, Franklin spoke on how she would be willing to post bail for scholar and activist Angela Davis who, at the time, was being held in prison on charges of murder, conspiracy, and kidnapping. The singer seemingly risked her career and reputation in speaking out in support of Davis, who was publicly known then as a member of the Communist Party USA and called a “dangerous terrorist” by President Richard Nixon.
Franklin is quoted as saying, “…Angela Davis must go free. Black people will be free. I’ve been locked up (for disturbing the peace in Detroit) and I know you got to disturb the peace when you can’t get no peace. Jail is hell to be in. I’m going to see her free if there is any justice in our courts, not because I believe in communism, but because she’s a Black woman and she wants freedom for Black people. I have the money; I got it from Black people—they’ve made me financially able to have it—and I want to use it in ways that will help our people.”
When speaking on women’s rights in connection to her music, Franklin said in a 2016 ELLE magazine interview, “As women, we do have it. We have the power. We are very resourceful. Women absolutely deserve respect. I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.”
Through trials and tribulations, Aretha Franklin’s career spanned six decades, with numerous chart-topping albums, honors, awards, and iconic performances. Respect has been a rallying cry for marginalized groups, spanning from women to workers on the picket lines demanding fair pay. She was outspoken on the stage and put in the work behind the scenes for progressive movements.
As Franklin’s friend, Rev. Jim Holley of Little Rock Baptist Church expressed to Detroit Free Press, “She used her talent and what God gave her to basically move the race forward. A lot of people do the talking, but they don’t do the walking. She used her talent and her resources. She was that kind of person, a giving person.” Aretha Franklin leaves behind a legacy that has touched the lives of many, and will continue to inspire many more to come. May she rest in power.
Compiled and written by Chauncey K. Robinson
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It’s been open to the public for 40 years, and yet Graceland remains the second most visited home in the United States, after the White House. Numbers are spiking again thanks to Baz Luhrmann’s Oscar-nominated biopic Elvis and the tragic death of his only child, Lisa Marie Presley, who was at Graceland to mark the King’s 88th birthday two days after my visit.
What is remarkable is that despite welcoming more than 650,000 people on average each year, the colonial revival house and its expansive grounds somehow retain the feeling of a family home. Perhaps it’s the fact that the upstairs, Elvis’ private refuge, and the room where he died, remains off-limits to the public.
When you enter the mansion, you see the living room, dining room, and foyer, with kitschy touches, an abundance of gold fabric, heavy blue curtains, stained glass peacock room dividers, with a “P” for Presley in the transom window. However, when you get to the back of the house and to the “jungle room,” with faux Polynesian tiki furnishings and the TV and billiard rooms downstairs, you really get a sense of Elvis. The golden yellow TV room, in particular, leaves the strongest impression of the King.
It is not the product of a professional decorator but reflects the imagination of Elvis himself. The room houses a jukebox, three inset televisions, a bar, and a lightning bolt on the wall behind the couch – a reference to Elvis’ maxim, “TCB,” which stands for “taking care of business in a flash.”
It also boasts his record collection of 2,000 albums. Pioneering rock greats Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and the Everly Brothers are represented, but so too are later bands, such as The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour.” But Elvis’s musical tastes were broad, representing the elixir of traditional forms – blues, jazz, gospel, country, soul – that produced the King and made Memphis the cradle of rock ‘n’ roll.
Graceland may be the best-known, but it is by no means the only stop for music aficionados in Memphis, a mid-sized city far from the country’s major economic hubs, yet serves as the epicentre of modern American music and culture.
Memphis is also a great jumping-off point for Nashville, just down the road, with the Country Music Hall of Fame, National Museum of African American Music, and Ryman Auditorium. Nashville calls itself Music City, but this entire region of the U.S. is music country. As a result, it’s had an outsized impact on global culture, and Graceland is only the beginning.
Blues Hall of Fame Museum
A must-see destination in Memphis for devotees of the Blues, but fascinating too for casual visitors. A series of exhibits tell the story of the blues through artifacts from Pee Wee Crayton’s Fender Stratocaster to Stevie Ray Vaughan’s kimono. Opened in May of 2015, the Blues Hall of Fame Museum also showcases hard-to-find album covers and photographs, awards, unique art, musical instruments and costumes, tour jackets and other special items.
DittyTV
Located in the South Main arts district of Memphis, DittyTV is a 24/7 music television network streaming roots rock and other musical forms. On the exterior, the hip storefront, Vibe & Dime, sells “music, merch and mojo.” This active and growing company, dedicated to handcrafted music, proves that, for all its museums and historic sites, Memphis remains a dynamic centre for American music.
Sun Records
Founded by Memphis record producer Sam Phillips, Sun Records is an American independent record label that launched in February, 1952. Initially, Phillips focussed on Black musicians, like B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, and Ike Turner. However, his recordings of Elvis Presley shook up the world. Elvis was soon joined by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and others, all recording in the simple, one-room studio, still intact and boasting the original vocal mic that launched the rock era.
Stax Museum of American Soul Music
Soul’s answer to rock’s Sun Records, Stax Records helped create the Memphis soul sound, and its artists from Booker T & the M.G.’s, Otis Redding, and Isaac Hayes are legends. This great museum captures the essence of soul, and nothing Elvis had in his garage at Graceland can compare to Isaac Hayes’s gold-plated 1972 Cadillac on display. It has a fur-lined interior, television, bar and gold windshield wipers.
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
This vast institution in Nashville, dedicated to preserving and celebrating country music, boasts 350,000 square feet of exhibition space, two theatres, an archives and an education centre. Cash is there, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, and all the greats of this distinctly American musical form. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum also showcases different pop-up exhibits, including Through Taylor Swift’s Eras that will be running until May 31, 2023.
National Museum of African American Music
Opened in 2021 in Nashville, the National Museum of African American Music integrates Black history with the astounding influence African Americans have had on U.S. music. It is an enormous subject area, covering all the genres “created, influenced, and/or inspired by African Americans,” from spirituals to hip hop, from Nat King Cole to Prince. This highly immersive experience features large touch screens, videos and galleries that allow visitors to learn about the evolution of African American music traditions, the history, influence and survival of religious music and more.
Beale Street
Every Memphis music pilgrimage is not complete without a visit to Beale Street, a cultural mecca, where blues and jazz legends, including Muddy Waters, Memphis Minnie, and B.B. King, once played. Beale Street is a major tourist attraction (witness the presence of the Hard Rock Café at 126 Beale), but A. Schwab’s dry goods store still operates, and blues music still fills the night air at places like B.B. King’s Blues Club, and Rum Boogie Café.
Aretha Franklin’s birthplace
Like the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, the Queen of Soul came from humble beginnings. The King died in Memphis, and the Queen was born there. Her birthplace, 406 Lucy Avenue, near the Soulsville neighbourhood, sits abandoned, boarded up, and behind a chain-link fence with a treble clef on the front. Although the home is not open to visitors, a sign out front informs visitors of this landmark location.
Elvis Presley’s birthplace
In contrast to Aretha Franklin’s birthplace, Elvis’s birthplace, a two-room “shotgun shack” in Tupelo, Mississippi, is immaculately preserved. The King only lived there for a few years before his impoverished parents were forced out, eventually ending up in low-income housing in Memphis. A visit to Tupelo is needed to understand Elvis’s remarkable rags-to-riches story.
Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum
Created by the Smithsonian, the Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum off Beale Street recounts the intersection of musical influences and the racial and economic factors that underpin them that altered the course of popular culture. It’s an ambitious museum with seven galleries filled with instruments and stage costumes by some of the most famous artists on the planet.
Johnny Cash’s boyhood home
There is a pattern here of music somehow transcending grinding poverty and hardship. Cash grew up in a small wooden-framed house a short drive northwest of Memphis, across the state line in Arkansas. A farmhouse in a New Deal colony, Cash’s family suffered terrible setbacks while working their cotton field, including floods and the tragic accidental death of Cash’s older brother Jack. It proved, however, to be fertile ground for one of America’s great musical geniuses.
Johnny Cash Museum
If you have been to Sun Studios in Memphis, and visited Cash’s boyhood home in Arkansas, then your journey is not complete without a stop at the Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville. It is filled with Cash memorabilia, from his gold records, handwritten lyrics, and costumes, to furniture once owned by the Man in Black.
Honky Tonk Highway
Also known by its official name, lower Broadway, and Nashville’s answer to Beale Street in Memphis, with live music until the wee hours, neon lights, and bars galore, from the Pontoon Saloon to AJ’s Goodtime Bar, this is the epicentre of Music City, the place where country greats like Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson got their start. Yippie aye oh, yippie aye ay!
Where to stay
Central Station Hotel, Memphis
With a rock and blues sensibility, this boutique hotel is ideally situated in the South Main arts districts, across the street from DittyTV, and within walking distance of the music mecca Beale Street. Incorporating an active Amtrak station, the hotel retains many of the features of the original bustling station, with neon directional signage and period passenger benches. Yet it also celebrates the musical heritage of Memphis, with the lobby boasting a wall of amplifiers and a beaded portrait of Isaac Hayes. Among its many features is a listening room, where guests can rock out, and a hip lounge with a 500-album record collection curated by a deeply knowledgeable DJ. There is also the excellent Bishop, a French brasserie with a mouth-watering menu that matches the sophisticated surroundings. Add to this splendid room with fantastic views of the beating heart of this historic city, ample parking, and a helpful, courteous staff, and you have the perfect Memphis hotel.
Placemakr Music Row, Nashville
Complete with a full kitchen and large rooms, this apartment hotel provides maximum flexibility for visitors to Nashville. Located just steps away from some of Nashville’s best restaurants, such as the Fable Lounge and Electric Jane’s, and a short drive to Broadway, this hotel is the global high street of country music. Placemakr is close to all the action and yet just far enough away to allow for a restful night. With free on-site parking, a gorgeous outdoor pool and a helpful front desk, Placemakr Music Row is a great Nashville base.
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Above is a beautiful piece of work on her life that is a great introduction for the youth.
Please share your favorite Aretha Franklin song.
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The celebrated soul singer - best-known for ’60s hits such as Respect and I Say a Little Prayer - has passed away at the age of 76.
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DETROIT — A timeline of major events in the life and work of Aretha Franklin:
•March 1942 — Aretha Franklin is born in Memphis, Tennessee. Her father, a prominent Baptist minister with gospel-music connections, would move the family briefly to Buffalo before settling in Detroit when Aretha was 2. She would call the city home for most of her life, and would always be closely associated with its massive musical legacy.
•1956 — Franklin releases her first album, a gospel collection called "Songs of Faith," recorded at her father's church when she was 14.
•1961 — Franklin marries her manager, Ted White. Their troubled eight-year union is believed to have inspired her performances on many songs.
•February 1961 — Franklin releases her first album for Columbia Records. She would have only minor hits in her six years with the label, which pushed her toward jazz and show tunes and away from her gospel roots.
•November 1966 — Franklin signs with Atlantic Records, where producer Jerry Wexler encourages her to embrace her classic soul-and-gospel sound. Several classic songs immediately followed, including "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and "Chain of Fools."
•February 1967 — "Respect," Franklin's career-defining anthem, is recorded. The song would reach No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart, win Franklin two Grammys and make her an international star. A month later it would be the opening track on her breakthrough album, "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You."
•June 1972 — A live gospel album, "Amazing Grace," is released amid a revival in spiritual music. It sold more than 2 million copies and is among Franklin's biggest hits.
•January 1977 — Franklin sings "God Bless America" at the inauguration of Jimmy Carter.
•June 1980 — The hit film comedy "The Blues Brothers" is released, with Franklin appearing and singing "Think" in one of the film's most popular scenes. It signaled that the 1980s would bring a career revival.
•July 1985 — "Freeway of Love" off of Franklin's "Who's Zooming Who" album, becomes her first top 10 hit in more than a decade.
•January 1987 — Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
•April 1987 — "I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me)," a duet with George Michael, reaches No. 1 on the pop chart.
•December 1994 — Franklin, at age 52, becomes the youngest person ever chosen for the Kennedy Center honors. In his tribute, President Bill Clinton said he and the first lady considered her among their favorite artists. "You could say that Hillary and I went to college and law school with Aretha because there was scarcely a day when we didn't listen to one of her songs," said the president.
•September 1999 — She receives the National Medal of Arts and Humanities Award from President Bill Clinton, who says Franklin "brought sunshine to a rainy day and tenderness to a hardened heart."
•November 2005 — President George Bush presents her with the 2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award.
•February 2008 — Franklin wins her last Grammy Award — her 18th — for Best Gospel Performance for "Never Gonna Break My Faith" with Mary J. Blige. She is also a Grammy Lifetime Achievement and a Living Legend awardee.
•January 2009 — Franklin sings "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at the inauguration of Barack Obama.
•October 2014 — Franklin's cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" reaches No. 47 on Billboard's R&B chart. It's her 100th charting single, and she's the first woman to reach the milestone.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The birthplace of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, was sold on the Shelby County Courthouse steps Friday at noon.
The house at 406 Lucy near McLemore and South Third Street in South Memphis had been in foreclosure and Environmental Court.
Franklin was born at the home on March 25, 1942, to parents Barbara and Rev. C.L. Franklin.
The woman who oversees Historic Clayborn Temple, Anasa Troutman, personally bought the Franklin house.
She says she wants to preserve the house and keep it right where it is as a catalyst to help improve the highly challenged and impoverished neighborhood.
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Vince Paul had known Aretha Franklin for years when he snagged her to be the headliner for his inaugural Detroit Music Weekend in June 2017.
But this time around, he told CNN, there was something very different about the legendary singer.
“There was a lot of crying, the whole weekend,” he said. “Can you imagine Aretha Franklin crying? There was a lot of crying to the point where I was weirded out.”
There will be a great deal of tears in Detroit again this week connected to the Queen of Soul as the city – her city – bids her farewell.
Franklin died August 16 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 76.
Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, has died
A star-studded, private funeral is set for August 31 at 10 a.m. at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit.
Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson, Yolanda Adams, Fantasia, Faith Hill and Pastor Shirley Caesar are among those set to perform at the funeral.
Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson among performers set for Aretha Franklin’s funeral
The ceremony will culminate a week of planned events in Detroit, which will include her body lying in state Tuesday and Wednesday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
The Detroit Free Press reported that a public viewing had been added on Thursday at New Bethel Baptist Church, where Franklin’s father, the late Rev. C.L. Franklin, formerly served as pastor.
While she was born in Memphis, Tennessee, Franklin is more closely identified with the city of Detroit, where she lived most of her life.
Paul is the president and artistic director for the Detroit Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, which is described as providing “southeastern Michigan with high quality performing arts programs and education that reflect the diverse mix of cultures that make up our community.”
He is passionate about using the arts to both highlight Detroit’s growth and encourage it.
With the city’s rich history in music – which includes everything from techno to rock and soul – Paul said he had the idea to create a festival that would celebrate the various genres and Detroit.
Having produced for Franklin a half dozen times, he said he went to her with the idea for Detroit Music Weekend in November 2016 and she loved it.
The singer was also aware that to pull off such an event, it would require a well-known artist to draw attendees, and naturally Paul wanted it to be Franklin.
“Aretha is a double-edged sword,” Paul told CNN recently. “She does things, or she doesn’t do things. It’s very definitive. You can’t talk her into it.”
When it came to the festival, the legend wanted it to be outdoor, free to the public and right in the middle of Madison Avenue with other streets blocked off for a big concert to close it out, he said.
Raising the money to put on the event, including paying Franklin’s fee, turned out to be less nerve-racking than the six months back-and-forth of whether Franklin would actually perform, Paul told CNN.
“She’s coming, she’s not coming,” he said. “She’s calling around to people, then she disappeared, then she re-emerges and she starts calling around to different people ‘Everything’s cool, everything’s on schedule.’”
Paul said it turns out she was ill. He said he had heard rumblings three years earlier that she was sick, but she was believed to have gotten better.
So when he heard a few months before the planned festival that she was ill again, he assumed that she would pull through again.
Franklin did and ended up doing what would be the last full concert of her career – three hours long, complete with 29 musicians, backup singers and dancers.
The star looked more frail than she had in the past, but Paul said she delivered to the tens of thousands of fans who turned out to support her.
“It was glorious,” Paul said. “It turned into a four-day celebration of Aretha Franklin in the city of Detroit as it should be.”
There was a tribute concert to her, with video tributes from the likes of Bonnie Raitt and Carole King, a street-naming ceremony for Aretha Franklin Way, and Franklin received the key to the city.
It all proved to be quite an emotional experience for the usually more stoic singer, Paul said.
Now that she is gone, Paul said that to him, Aretha Franklin embodied soul music.
“She personified it, she monetized it, she knew how to produce it, she knew how to arrange it where everybody liked it,” he said. “There isn’t another Aretha Franklin.”
In her honor, the Music Hall plans to rename its Jazz Cafe “Aretha’s Jazz Cafe,” Paul said.
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Aretha Franklin, American singer who defined the golden age of soul music of the 1960s. Known as the ‘Queen of Soul,’ she made hit songs such as ‘I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You),’ ‘Respect,’ and ‘Think.’ Learn more about Franklin’s life and career in this article.
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Aretha Franklin (born March 25, 1942, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.—died August 16, 2018, Detroit, Michigan) was an American singer who defined the golden age of soul music of the 1960s.
Franklin’s mother, Barbara, was a gospel singer and pianist. Her father, C.L. Franklin, presided over the New Bethel Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan, and was a minister of national influence. A singer himself, he was noted for his brilliant sermons, many of which were recorded by Chess Records. Her parents separated when she was six, and Franklin remained with her father in Detroit. Her mother died when Aretha was 10. As a young teen, Franklin performed with her father on his gospel programs in major cities throughout the country and was recognized as a vocal prodigy. Her central influence, Clara Ward of the renowned Ward Singers, was a family friend. Other gospel greats of the day—Albertina Walker and Jackie Verdell—helped shape young Franklin’s style. Her album The Gospel Sound of Aretha Franklin (1956) captures the electricity of her performances as a 14-year-old.
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At age 18, with her father’s blessing, Franklin switched from sacred to secular music. She moved to New York City, where Columbia Records executive John Hammond, who had signed Count Basie and Billie Holiday, arranged her recording contract and supervised sessions highlighting her in a blues-jazz vein. From that first session, “Today I Sing the Blues” (1960) remains a classic. But, as her Detroit friends on the Motown label enjoyed hit after hit, Franklin struggled to achieve crossover success. Columbia placed her with a variety of producers who marketed her to both adults (“If Ever You Should Leave Me,” 1963) and teens (“Soulville,” 1964). Without targeting any particular genre, she sang everything from Broadway ballads to youth-oriented rhythm and blues. Critics recognized her talent, but the public remained lukewarm until 1966, when she switched to Atlantic Records, where producer Jerry Wexler allowed her to sculpt her own musical identity.
At Atlantic, Franklin returned to her gospel-blues roots, and the results were sensational. “I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)” (1967), recorded at Fame Studios in Florence, Alabama, was her first million-seller. Surrounded by sympathetic musicians playing spontaneous arrangements and devising the background vocals herself, Franklin refined a style associated with Ray Charles—a rousing mixture of gospel and rhythm and blues—and raised it to new heights. As a civil-rights-minded nation lent greater support to black urban music, Franklin was crowned the “Queen of Soul.” “Respect,” her 1967 cover of Otis Redding’s spirited composition, became an anthem operating on personal, sexual, and racial levels. “Think” (1968), which Franklin wrote herself, also had more than one meaning. For the next half-dozen years, she became a hit maker of unprecedented proportions; she was “Lady Soul.”
In the early 1970s she triumphed at the Fillmore West in San Francisco before an audience of flower children and on whirlwind tours of Europe and Latin America. Amazing Grace (1972), a live recording of her performance with a choir at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, is considered one of the great gospel albums of any era. By the late 1970s disco cramped Franklin’s style and eroded her popularity. But in 1982, with help from singer-songwriter-producer Luther Vandross, she was back on top with a new label, Arista, and a new dance hit, “Jump to It,” followed by “Freeway of Love” (1985). A reluctant interviewee, Franklin kept her private life private, claiming that the popular perception associating her with the unhappiness of singers Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday was misinformed.
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August 17, 2018 – August 22, 2018\nPortrait Gallery\nThe Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recognizes the life of acclaimed singer and musician Aretha Franklin.... Learn more
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The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recognizes the life of acclaimed singer and musician Aretha Franklin.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1942, Aretha Franklin influenced the course of American soul and pop music. With her signature voice—unmistakably familiar for its depth, range and emotional power—Franklin rose to prominence on the American music scene after her first commercial success in the late 1960s. Merging her childhood interests in gospel singing—both of her parents were gospel singers and her father was a renowned preacher—with jazz, rhythm and blues, and pop music, Franklin came to be known as the “Queen of Soul,” belting out a string of early number-one hits, including “Respect” (1967) and “Since You’ve Been Gone” (1968).
Considered to be one of the greatest singers of her generation, Franklin is the winner of 18 Grammy Awards and was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987). In 2015, the National Portrait Gallery honored Franklin with the Portrait of a Nation Prize, timed with her celebrated performance at the inaugural American Portrait Gala for which she performed several of her hits, including “Respect,” “Freedom” and “Chain of Fools.”
In this poster, legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser uses his characteristic kaleidoscope palette and innovative geometric forms to conveys the creative energy of Franklin’s performances. This color lithographic poster was created in 1968, the same year the National Portrait Gallery opened its doors to the public.
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(1942-2018)
Who Was Aretha Franklin?
A gifted singer and pianist, Aretha Franklin toured with her father's traveling revival show and later visited New York, where she signed with Columbia Records. Franklin went on to release several popular singles, many of which are now considered classics. In 1987 she became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2008 she won her 18th Grammy Award, making her one of the most honored artists in Grammy history.
Early Life and Career
The fourth of five children, Aretha Louise Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Baptist preacher Reverend Clarence La Vaughan "C. L." Franklin and Barbara Siggers Franklin, a gospel singer.
Franklin's parents separated by the time she was six, and four years later her mother succumbed to a heart attack. Guided by C. L.'s preaching assignments, the family relocated to Detroit, Michigan. C. L. eventually landed at New Bethel Baptist Church, where he gained national renown as a preacher.
Franklin's musical gifts became apparent at an early age. Largely self-taught, she was regarded as a child prodigy. A gifted pianist with a powerful voice, Franklin got her start singing in front of her father's congregation.
By the age of 14, she had recorded some of her earliest tracks at his church, which were released by a small label as the album Songs of Faith in 1956. She also performed with C. L.'s traveling revival show and, while on tour, befriended gospel greats such as Mahalia Jackson, Sam Cooke and Clara Ward.
Children
At the age of 12, she became a mother for the first time with a son, Clarence. A second child, Edward, followed two years later — with both sons taking her family's name. Franklin would later have two more sons: Ted White, Jr. and Kecalf Cunningham.
Albums and Songs
'Aretha'
After a brief hiatus, Franklin returned to performing and followed heroes such as Cooke and Dinah Washington into pop and blues territory. In 1960, with her father's blessing, Franklin traveled to New York, where after being courted by several labels, including Motown and RCA, she signed with Columbia Records, who released the album Aretha in 1961.
Though two tracks from Aretha would make the R&B Top 10, a bigger success came that same year with the single "Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody," which crossed over to No. 37 on the pop charts.
But while Franklin enjoyed moderate results with her recordings over the next few years, they failed to fully showcase her immense talent. In 1966 she and her new husband and manager, Ted White, decided a move was in order, and Franklin signed to Atlantic. Producer Jerry Wexler immediately shuttled Franklin to the Florence Alabama Musical Emporium (FAME) recording studios.
"I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)"
Backed by the legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Franklin recorded the single "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)." In the midst of the recording sessions, White quarreled with a member of the band, and White and Franklin left abruptly.
But as the single became a massive Top 10 hit, Franklin re-emerged in New York and was able to complete the partially recorded track, "Do Right Woman—Do Right Man."
'Respect'
Hitting her stride in 1967 and 1968, Franklin churned out a string of hit singles that would become enduring classics, showcasing Franklin's powerful voice and gospel roots in a pop framework.
In 1967, the album I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) was released, and the first song on the album, "Respect" — an empowered cover of an Otis Redding track — reached No. 1 on both the R&B and pop charts and won Franklin her first two Grammy Awards.
She also had Top 10 hits with "Baby I Love You,'' "Think," "Chain of Fools,'' "I Say a Little Prayer," "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman."
Dubbed the 'Queen of Soul'
Franklin's chart dominance soon earned her the title Queen of Soul, while at the same time she also became a symbol of Black empowerment during the civil rights movement.
In 1968 Franklin was enlisted to perform at the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during which she paid tribute to her father's fallen friend with a heartfelt rendition of "Precious Lord." Later that year, she was also selected to sing the national anthem to begin the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Amidst this newfound success, Franklin experienced upheaval in her personal life, and she and White divorced in 1969. But this did not slow Franklin's steady rise, and the new decade brought more hit singles, including "Don't Play That Song," "Spanish Harlem" and her cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters."
'Amazing Grace'
Spurred by Mahalia Jackson's passing and a subsequent resurgence of interest in gospel music, Franklin returned to her musical origins for the 1972 album Amazing Grace, which sold more than 2 million copies and went on to become the best-selling gospel album at the time.
Franklin's success continued throughout the 1970s, as she branched out to work with producers such as Curtis Mayfield and Quincy Jones and expanded her repertoire to include rock and pop covers. Along the way, she took home eight consecutive Grammy Awards for Best R&B Female Vocal Performance, the last coming for her 1974 single "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing."
Career Struggles
But by 1975, Franklin's sound was fading into the background with the onset of the disco craze, and an emerging set of young Black singers, such as Chaka Khan and Donna Summer, began to eclipse Franklin's career.
She did, however, find a brief respite from slumping sales with the 1976 soundtrack to the Warner Brothers film Sparkle — which topped the R&B charts and made the Top 20 in pop — as well as an invitation to perform at the 1977 presidential inauguration of Jimmy Carter. In 1978 she also married actor Glynn Turman.
A string of chart failures ended Franklin's relationship with Atlantic in 1979. The same year, her father was hospitalized after a burglary attempt in his home left him in a coma. As her popularity waned and her father's health declined, Franklin was also saddled with a massive bill from the IRS.
However, a cameo in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers helped Franklin revive her flagging career. Performing "Think'' alongside comedians John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd exposed her to a new generation of R&B lovers, and she soon signed to Arista Records.
Her new label released 1982's Jump To It, an album that enjoyed huge success on the R&B charts and earned Franklin a Grammy nomination. Two years later, she endured a divorce from Turman as well as the death of her father.
More Albums and Songs: 1980s and On
'Who's Zoomin' Who?'
In 1985 Franklin returned to the top of the charts with a smash-hit album: the polished pop record Who's Zoomin' Who? Featuring the single "Freeway of Love," as well as a collaboration with the popular rock band The Eurythmics, the record became Franklin's biggest-selling album yet.
'I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)'
Her follow-up, 1986's Aretha, also charted well and eventually went gold, and her duet with British singer George Michael, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me),'' hit No. 1 on the pop charts.
In 1987 Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Detroit. That same year, she released the album One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, which won the Grammy for Best Soul Gospel Performance.
Following another relatively quiet period in her career, in 1993, Franklin was invited to sing at the inauguration of Bill Clinton, and the following year she received both a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Kennedy Center Honors. She would also be the focus of multiple documentaries and tributes as the decade progressed.
'A Rose Is Still a Rose'
Nearing its conclusion, Franklin reprised her former role in Blues Brothers 2000, released the gold-selling "A Rose Is Still a Rose" and stood in for Luciano Pavarotti, who was too ill to accept his Lifetime Achievement Award, with her rendition of "Nessun Dorma" commanding stellar reviews.
'So Damn Happy'
In 2003 Franklin released her final studio album on Arista, So Damn Happy, and left the label to found Aretha Records. Two years later, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and became the second woman ever to be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame.
In 2008 she received her 18th Grammy Award for "Never Gonna Break My Faith" — a collaboration with Mary J. Blige — and was tapped to sing at the 2009 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.
With 18 Grammys under her belt, Franklin is one of the most honored artists in Grammy history, ranked among the likes of Alison Krauss, Adele and Beyoncé Knowles. In 2011 Franklin released her first album on her own label, A Woman Falling Out of Love.
To support the project, she performed several concerts, including a two-night stint at the famed Radio City Music Hall in New York. With fans and critics alike impressed with her performances, she successfully proved that the Queen of Soul still reigned supreme.
'Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics'
In 2014 Franklin underscored that point with Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics, which reached No. 13 on the pop charts and No. 3 R&B.
In February 2017, the 74-year-old Queen of Soul told Detroit radio station WDIV Local 4 that she was collaborating with Stevie Wonder to release a new album.
“I must tell you, I am retiring this year," she said in the interview, adding: "I feel very, very enriched and satisfied with respect to where my career came from and where it is now. I’ll be pretty much satisfied, but I’m not going to go anywhere and just sit down and do nothing. That wouldn’t be good either.”
Death
On August 12, 2018, it was reported that a "gravely ill" Franklin was bedridden in her Detroit home, surrounded by family and friends. As news of her condition spread, more luminaries paid a visit to express their well wishes, including Wonder and Jesse Jackson.
Four days later, on the morning of August 16, Franklin succumbed to her illness, which her family revealed to be pancreatic cancer.
A public viewing was held later that month at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, with fans camping out overnight for the chance to pay their respects to the iconic singer. Her televised funeral was set to be held at the city's Greater Grace Temple on August 31, with Wonder, Khan and Hudson among the scheduled performers, and Jackson, Clinton and Smokey Robinson highlighting the list of speakers.
Movie
In January 2018, it was announced that Franklin hand-picked singer and actress Jennifer Hudson to play her in an upcoming biopic. After being pushed back several times, Respect will be released on August 13, 2021.
QUICK FACTS
Birth Year: 1942
Birth date: March 25, 1942
Birth State: Tennessee
Birth City: Memphis
Birth Country: United States
Gender: Female
Best Known For: Multiple Grammy winner and "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin was known for such hits as "Respect," "Freeway of Love" and "I Say a Little Prayer."
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Astrological Sign: Aries
Interesting Facts
Aretha Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
Aretha Franklin is one of the most honored artists in Grammy Award history, winning her 18th honor in 2008.
Death Year: 2018
Death date: August 16, 2018
Death State: Michigan
Death City: Detroit
Death Country: United States
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From CityLab: Following Aretha Franklin's death, Memphis, Tennessee, is debating how to best honor the humble house the singer was born in.
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Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, died on the same date that Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, passed away: August 16. Both had a connection to Memphis—Franklin was born there, while Presley died there. Much of the focus on Franklin’s death has been on Detroit, where she lived most of her life, but Memphis is hoping that its connection to the Queen is not lost.
Days after her death, Franklin’s fans lined up outside of the small wooden cottage house in south Memphis where she was born to hold vigils and pay respects. Community developers are hoping they can turn that house into a place that honors Franklin’s life. The house is equally known in Memphis for its connection to her father, Rev. C.L. Franklin, a charismatic pastor, civil rights activist, and gospel music icon in his own right.
It hasn’t been inhabited in years and half of it was extensively damaged from a fire. It was in such disrepair that the city of Memphis deemed it a nuisance property in 2012 and slated it for demolition in 2016. It was spared that year after Higgs and preservation organizations promised to come up with a restoration plan for it. Higgs said the community groups he’s been working with on those plans have finally “nailed that down,” but the main problem with moving forward is getting the Franklin family’s blessing—a prospect dimmed by the fact that now both Aretha and her father are deceased.
“Our biggest roadblock is that we have not gotten permission from anybody in the family to say, ‘OK, yes, you can use her name and likeness, and we’ll give you some pictures and memorabilia,’” said Higgs.
Among those projects is the revamped Stax Records studio—where soul legends Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, and Carla Thomas recorded—that has been repurposed into a museum, with neighboring affiliated music schools. The CDC also helped save the home of blues artist John “Peter” Chatman aka “Memphis Slim,” and converted it into an art gallery and work space for musicians called the “Memphis Slim Collaboratory.” The community development financial institution Community LIFT has been instrumental in leveraging funding to make it all happen.
The Aretha Franklin house has been a little trickier to rehab, though, and not just because of ownership issues with the Franklin name, but also with the property itself. According to Shelby County records the property is owned by a woman named Vera House, whose family has reportedly been involved in its upkeep over the years. However, a court appointed the Lemoyne-Owen College CDC as the official receiver of the property in 2016, which means it has the rights to make modifications to it.
Also, this is not the first rescue attempt for the house. In 2011, several media outlets reported that a man named Herb Jackson was raising funds through a philanthropy called The R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Foundation to turn the house into a museum. There was a website for this, arethafranklinbirthplace.com, but it no longer exists. Looking at old versions of the site from the Wayback Archive, it says the museum would:
Include a community room that would be utilized for meetings, tutoring neighborhood school children (possibly by local area college students), mentoring meetings and programs (to include local churches, government and business leaders, NBA players and other athletes). There will also be a snack area and gift shop. The most beneficial area of this project is how it would assist the community and interact with the neighborhood. It will not only bring tourism, but it will bring jobs to the area.
“Aretha Franklin rose from a small home at 406 Lucy Avenue in Memphis to become the Queen of Soul,” said Mayor Strickland in a statement to CityLab when asked about the city’s plans for the house. “Today, we mourn her loss and celebrate the spirit she brought to this world.”
But the city wouldn’t comment on any specifics beyond that. The budget for the latest Franklin house proposal is modest—roughly $150,000, said Higgs, which shouldn’t be difficult to reach in a city that has staked much of its destination appeal on its music and civil rights bona fides. Graceland is currently amidst its own multi-million-dollar expansion that is being partially funded with public money. The city seems to be pushing back a bit on that, but the Shelby County Commission voted seven to one in June to allow it to move forward.
Besides Graceland, Memphis also has the world-renowned Beale Street corridor, replete with venues that honor recording artist legends such as B. B. King, Ma Rainey, and Robert Johnson. The entertainment district recently had its own expansion with the addition of Beale Street Landing, a six-acre “multi-amenity riverfront development” that cost roughly $43 million to complete, covered in part by city and other public funds. The Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis in 1968, is now a civil rights museum that expanded in 2014 and became a Smithsonian affiliate in 2016. It would seem that a museum commemorating a family like the Franklins, who were so instrumental in the nation’s musical and civil rights narratives, would have no problem finding financial support in a city that is central to both legacies.
However, the efforts to restore the Franklin house and revitalize surrounding South Memphis neighborhoods is not connected to those city tourist enterprises, and Higgs said that’s intentional. He’s concerned that those larger-scale downtown Memphis projects are increasing housing costs and elevating risks of displacement. The plans for south Memphis, including the Franklin house, are more “strategic,” said Higgs, to ensure that low-income and long-time residents will benefit.
“We don’t need anyone coming in gentrifying us, we know how to gentrify on our own,” said Higgs. “That inner-city movement [development] is happening all around us, but we’ve been doing this work for awhile now, so we know how to do it ourselves. We want to preserve the nature of what our community was and what it continues to be.”
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The “Queen of Soul” Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee on March 25, 1942 to the Reverend Clarence L. Franklin and Barbara V. Siggers. When she was two years old her family moved to Detroit, Michigan where her father became minister at New Bethel Baptist Church. Both parents were gospel singers but her mother, later separated from Franklin’s father, died when
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Living in the church parish house on Boston Boulevard and Oakland Avenue, Aretha was exposed at an early age to such music legends as Art Tatum and Nat King Cole, when they visited her father. Unchallenged by piano lessons she taught herself to play by ear. She grew up with Smokey Robinson in a neighborhood that spawned the Four Tops, Diana Ross and Jackie Wilson. Franklin’s father and gospel singer Clara Ward were major influences, according to Franklin’s autobiography Aretha, From These Roots. Franklin sang her first solo in her father’s church at age nine or ten. Her first recording, made by Chess Records when she was 16, had nine sacred songs recorded live. When she was 17, Franklin’s father decided that after five years of singing with his traveling gospel show, she was ready to pursue her singing in New York City.
In 1967, the year “Respect” hit the charts, Franklin was crowned “Queen of Soul” by Chicago DJ Pervis Spann. From there Aretha would come to have 20 number one R&B hits and garner more than 20 Grammy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Her record labels include Columbia, Atlantic and Arista among others. She never recorded for Motown Records.
Franklin had many honors bestowed upon her, such as singing at the inaugurations of three U.S. Presidents, and being the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1987. Her song “Respect,” was described as “an anthem for the Civil Rights movement,” and in February 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. presented her with an honorary award from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She sang at his funeral two months later.
Though her career continued to rise, Franklin’s personal life was somewhat troubled at times. Her marriage to Ted White ended in 1969. In 1979 her father was shot in his home and remained in a coma for five years before dying. Even with those hardships, Franklin continued to thrive, being nominated for or winning Grammy Awards over four decades. In 1980, she even made a cameo appearance in the film, The Blues Brothers.
In 1985 Aretha Franklin made a comeback with her 30th album, Who’s Zoomin’ Who? She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005. In 2008 she became MusiCares’ “Person of the Year” and she won her 21st Grammy at the 2008 50th Annual Grammy Awards.
Franklin had four sons and was married and divorced two times. She died on August 16, 2018 of pancreatic cancer and lay in state at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and New Bethel Baptist Church for three days. Her funeral service, attended by Smokey Robinson, President Bill Clinton, the Reverend Jessie Jackson and Stevie Wonder among other dignitaries, was broadcast live on Detroit television stations. The Detroit riverfront arena Chene Park was renamed the Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre in her honor.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The crumbling house where Aretha Franklin was born looks no different from many others on Lucy Avenue in Memphis' Soulsville neighborhood: empty and shuttered, with plywood over the windows.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The crumbling house where Aretha Franklin was born looks no different from many others on Lucy Avenue in Memphis' Soulsville neighborhood: empty and shuttered, with plywood over the windows. A rear section has collapsed, and weeds grow all around it. No one has lived there for years.
It's a monument to urban blight, and daunting evidence of how much work it will take to fix it.
Now, however, in historic Memphis neighborhoods like Soulsville and Orange Mound, an effort is underway to reclaim the landscape of abandoned houses and trash-strewn vacant lots.
It's making Memphis a leader in the fight against the blight epidemic afflicting America's cities.
"I've become frustrated, angry, energized, charged, fired-up, all at the same time," said Roger R. Brown, pastor at Greater White Stone Missionary Baptist Church, which has bought abandoned properties and teamed with businesses to beautify the area. "We're going to address this area and make a difference."
Memphis is the first U.S. city to draft a charter document linking city agencies and community organizations to confront neighborhood blight, experts say. An innovative program enlists University of Memphis law students to sue homeowners on the city's behalf, forcing them to develop reclamation plans or give them up for demolition.
"The Memphis thing now is a model for a lot of other places, particularly because they did such a good job of establishing a collaborative group," said Kermit Lind, a lawyer who has worked with the Cleveland Municipal Housing Court. "With the charter, that is a step ahead."
Leaders in many American cities have long struggled to reduce vacant lots, abandoned buildings, uncollected litter and environmental contamination, according to a 2016 report by Joe Schilling and Jimena Pinzon. Blight can lead to school closures, drain municipal budgets and decrease property tax collections.
In recent years, several U.S. cities have launched coordinated anti-blight campaigns. Cleveland and Baltimore have used courts and data collection to rescue neighborhoods left empty by job loss, suburbanization and the Great Recession of nearly a decade ago, which set off a wave of foreclosures.
Revitalization has brought mixed results in New Orleans, which saw entire neighborhoods wiped out by Hurricane Katrina, and in Detroit, where vast swaths were turned into ghost towns by the loss of manufacturing jobs.
Experts say the Memphis Neighborhood Blight Elimination Charter, crafted by lawyer Steve Barlow with the help of Schilling and Lind in 2016, has generated momentum. Barlow outlined a plan to unify government agencies, community groups, businesses and others to help repair houses or rid neighborhoods of properties beyond saving.
Previously, groups rarely communicated, leading to scattershot, often contradictory programs.
The charter links blight remediation with the city's land use and community development plans, codes and economic development efforts.
"They're creating a new playbook," said Schilling, a senior researcher at the Urban Institute who co-authored an article with Lind about the effort in the University of Memphis law review last year.
The groups use a database to identify neighborhoods with numerous troubled properties.
Clean Memphis, which organizes neighborhood cleanups, enlists volunteers who pick up trash. Employees of Memphis-based businesses pitch in.
"There's so much work to do," said Peyton Dodson, a Watkins Uiberall employee who wore protective gloves as he filled bags with trash in the Soulsville neighborhood.
Meanwhile, Judge Larry Potter presides over Shelby County Environmental Court, where homeowners must address problems identified by code enforcement officers - from crumbling facades to plumbing and electrical problems.
Potter grills owners about their plans. Some tell him they can't maintain properties and surrender them for demolition. Potter presses others to make repairs.
"It's time to put the pedal to the metal," Potter told Lemoyne-Owen Community Development Corp. President Jeffrey Higgs, the receiver in the Franklin case, during a recent hearing.
Lind, a lawyer, used Ohio's residential public nuisance statute in Cleveland's housing court to abate blighted housing conditions. He said students sometimes assist prosecutors for credit or as part-time employees in other cities.
However, "it is unusual, if not unprecedented, for student lawyers to represent a city government" as they are in Memphis, he said.
The home where Franklin was born in 1942 and lived for two years before her family left Memphis is currently in limbo in Potter's court. It's been vacant for years, and there's no marker indicating its significance.
The house was scheduled for demolition before Memphis Heritage volunteers stabilized it, hoping to avoid demolition. Now a court-appointed receiver is raising money to fix up and move the house to "a location better suited for tourist traffic," said city attorney Kenya Hooks.
"The receiver has also been in contact with Ms. Franklin's representatives and hopes to have her on board to support the project," Hooks said.
Higgs, the receiver, told Potter on Feb. 23 he was working on a plan with the DIY Network to move the house to another spot.
"I would like to see this house saved," said the judge. "I want to see it in a secure location."
A hearing is set for March 23 in Potter's court. A spokesman for Franklin said the singer did not respond to a request for comment relayed to her.
Though Franklin's birthplace might be saved, the same can't be said of the empty houses surrounding it on Lucy Avenue. That work will take longer and be harder, and it probably won't be televised.
But those involved say they finally have a plan in place to succeed.
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TMZ is sadly reporting that the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, has passed away at the age of 76 surrounded by family & friends. RIP
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In all of music history there was never a voice like the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.
Born in Memphis Tennessee in 1942, the daughter of pastor and civil rights activist C.L. Franklin, Aretha grew up singing in her father’s Baptist church in Detroit. She learned piano by ear, and toured with her father’s gospel caravan as a teen. She signed with Columbia Records in 1960, but the label had her singing pop standards, unsure how to use her incredible voice.
It was with Atlantic Records in 1967 that Aretha established herself as a musical force with hits like “I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You,” “Chain Of Fools” and “Natural Woman.” But it was her gender changing cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect” that took her from R&B singer to cultural icon.
In the decades that followed, Aretha’s career would have peaks and valleys, and a huge commercial resurgence in the 80’s, but her legendary voice was always strong.
Her 56 year career resulted in 20 #1 R&B singles, the third most Grammys in history for a female artist, induction into the Gospel and R&B Halls of Fame, and the first woman inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
She announced her retirement from the road last year, but most shows were cancelled for health reasons. Aretha died in her Detroit home, surrounded by family and friends, at age 76.
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Aretha Franklin is celebrated by the BBC this weekend, almost six years after her death at the age of 76.
The Queen of Soul passed away in August 2018 at her home in Detroit after a battle with advanced pancreatic cancer.
Her longtime publicist Gwendolyn Quinn said Aretha was surrounded by family and loved ones when she died.
Aretha Franklin death announced
A statement issued on behalf of the family said: “In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart. We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family. The love she had for her children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins knew no bounds.
“We have been deeply touched by the incredible outpouring of love and support we have received from close friends, supporters and fans all around the world. Thank you for your compassion and prayers.
“We have felt your love for Aretha and it brings us comfort to know that her legacy will live on. As we grieve, we ask that you respect our privacy during this difficult time.”
Career highs and family lows
Aretha was the undisputed Queen of Soul with a career spanning seven decades, whose feminist anthem Respect is considered by many to be one of the greatest songs of all time.
She has sold more than 75 million records worldwide and won a large number of awards, including 18 Grammys, and she was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
The star was born Aretha Louise Franklin in Memphis, Tennessee on March 25 1942 to travelling Baptist preacher Clarence LaVaughn “CL” Franklin and mother Barbara, an accomplished singer and pianist.
Aretha’s family relocated to Detroit, Michigan while she was still an infant.
Her father led the city’s New Bethel Baptist Church, which became a centre for the civil rights movement.
Following her parents’ separation, Aretha’s mother moved to Buffalo in New York but she would frequently visit her children in Detroit. Barbara died weeks before Aretha’s 10th birthday.
Becoming a mum aged 12
At age 12 Aretha had the first of her four sons, Clarence, named after her father. He was born just before she turned 13. The baby’s father was a school friend called Donald Burk. Her second child Edward followed two years later.
Aretha’s father – known for being “promiscuous” – became famous for his emotionally charged sermons, becoming known as “the man with the million-dollar voice”.
Her childhood home was frequented by celebrities including civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr and singer Sam Cooke, while gospel singer Mahalia Jackson helped to take care of Franklin and her siblings following her mother’s death.
A 2014 biography by David Ritz, named Respect, detailed Aretha’s colourful childhood in Detroit, with claims her dad provided far more than sermons at his gatherings.
In fact, orgies were so common that fellow singer Ray Charles labelled the church a “sex circus”.
Musical career
Aretha’s love and knack for all things musical started early on in her life, when she learned how to play the piano by ear and singing in church.
Her father became her manager and she joined him on his tours of churches across the country.
She released her first studio album, Songs Of Faith, in 1956 when she was 14 years old.
At the age of 18 Aretha told her father she wanted to start singing and recording pop music.
She was signed by Columbia who released her first single on the label Today I Sing The Blues in 1960.
Respect
Her first single to land on America’s main industry chart came the following year with Won’t Be Long, but it was in the latter half of the decade that Aretha’s commercial success really soared.
She opted to move to Atlantic Records from Columbia in 1966. And, the following year, she scored her first top 10 hit with I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You).
Her album of the same name also featured her signature number, a rendition of Otis Redding’s Respect, which topped the chart.
The song became widely considered as a feminist and civil rights anthem. Today it still remains one of her most beloved songs.
The singer had a string of popular hits in the late 1960s. These included (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, Chain Of Fools, Baby I Love You, and her version of I Say A Little Prayer by Dionne Warwick.
In June 1968, she appeared on the cover of Time magazine and earned the first of her 18 Grammy awards for Respect. She would be recognised at the Grammys with a lifetime achievement award in 1994.
Aretha’s success continued into the 1970s. She had hits such as Spanish Harlem and Rock Steady.
She recorded an album of gospel material called Amazing Grace which sold millions.
The decade ended with her receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In the 1980s Aretha had left Atlantic. But she scored her first platinum-selling recorded in 1985 with her 33rd studio effort Who’s Zoomin Who?.
Duets and Aretha Franklin singing for world leaders
During her career Aretha performed duets with the likes of her goddaughter Whitney Houston, Elton John, George Michael and Frank Sinatra.
Aretha performed publicly for numerous world leaders including the Queen and at former US President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009.
Wedding belle
She was married twice, first to guitarist Theodore “Ted” White with whom she had her third son Ted White Jr. He would later perform as a guitarist in Franklin’s touring band.
Her marriage to White ended in divorce after eight years. Aretha had her fourth child Kecalf by tour manager Ken Cunningham in 1970.
In 1978 she married actor Glynn Turman at her father’s church. However, the pair split in 1984.
She was twice engaged to long-term partner Willie Wilkerson. The most recent was called off in 2012.
Aretha Franklin health woes
In recent years, Aretha suffered from ill health and was forced to cancel a number of live shows.
In 2011 she said in an interview with the Associated Press that doctors told her that surgery she had for an unspecified tumour would “add 15 to 20 years” to her life.
Sadly, seven years later, she passed away.
Catch Aretha Franklin at the BBC on BBC Two, Saturday July 13, from 9pm.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The clarity and the command. The daring and the discipline. The thrill of her voice and the truth of her emotions.
Like the best actors and poets, nothing came between how Aretha Franklin felt and what she could express, between what she expressed and how we responded. Blissful on "(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman.” Despairing on “Ain’t No Way.” Up front forever on her feminist and civil rights anthem “Respect.”
Franklin, the glorious “Queen of Soul” and genius of American song, died Thursday morning at her home in Detroit of pancreatic cancer. She was 76. Few performers were so universally idolized by peers and critics and so exalted and yet so familiar to their fans. As surely as Jimi Hendrix settled arguments over who was the No. 1 rock guitarist, Franklin ruled unchallenged as the greatest popular vocalist of her time .
She was “Aretha,” a name set in the skies alongside “Jimi” and “Elvis” and “John and Paul.” A professional singer and pianist by her late teens, a superstar by her mid-20s, she recorded hundreds of songs that covered virtually every genre and she had dozens of hits. But her legacy was defined by an extraordinary run of top 10 soul smashes in the late 1960s that brought to the radio an overwhelming intensity and unprecedented maturity, from the wised-up “Chain of Fools” to the urgent warning to “Think.”
Acknowledging the obvious, Rolling Stone ranked her first on its list of the top 100 singers. Franklin was also named one of the 20 most important entertainers of the 20th century by Time magazine, which celebrated her “mezzo-soprano, the gospel growls, the throaty howls, the girlish vocal tickles, the swoops, the dives, the blue-sky high notes, the blue-sea low notes. Female vocalists don’t get the credit as innovators that male instrumentalists do. They should. Franklin has mastered her instrument as surely as John Coltrane mastered his sax.”
The music industry couldn’t honor her enough: Franklin won 18 Grammy awards and, in 1987, became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But her status went beyond “artist” or “entertainer” to America’s first singer, as if her very presence at state occasions was a kind of benediction. She performed at the inaugural balls of Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, at the funeral for civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks and the dedication of Martin Luther King Jr’s memorial. Clinton gave Franklin the National Medal of Arts and President George W. Bush awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
Franklin’s best-known appearance with a president was in January 2009, when she sang “My Country ‘tis of Thee” at President Barack Obama’s first inauguration. She wore a gray felt hat with a huge, Swarovski rhinestone-bordered bow that became an internet sensation and even had its own website. In 2015, she brought Obama and many others to tears with a triumphant performance of “Natural Woman” at a Kennedy Center tribute for the song’s co-writer, Carole King.
Her voice transcended age, category and her own life. Franklin endured the exhausting grind of celebrity and personal troubles dating back to childhood. The mother of two boys by age 16 (she later had two more), she struggled with her weight, family problems and financial setbacks. Her strained marriage in the 1960s to then-manager Ted White was widely believed to have inspired her performances on several songs, including "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone,” ’'Think” and “Ain’t No Way.” Producer Jerry Wexler nicknamed her “Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows.”
Despite growing up in Detroit, and having Smokey Robinson as a childhood friend, Franklin never recorded for Motown Records; stints with Columbia and Arista were sandwiched around her prime years with Atlantic Records. But it was at Detroit’s New Bethel Baptist Church, where her father was pastor, that Franklin learned the gospel fundamentals that would make her a soul institution.
Aretha Louise Franklin was born March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee. The Rev. C.L. Franklin soon moved his family to Buffalo, New York, then to Detroit, where the Franklins settled after the marriage of Aretha’s parents collapsed and her mother (and reputed sound-alike) Barbara returned to Buffalo.
C.L. Franklin was among the most prominent Baptist ministers of his time. He recorded dozens of albums of sermons and music and knew such gospel stars as Marion Williams and Clara Ward, who mentored Aretha and her sisters Carolyn and Erma. (Both sisters sang on Aretha’s records, and Carolyn also wrote “Ain’t No Way” and other songs for Aretha). Music was the family business and performers from Sam Cooke to Lou Rawls were guests at the Franklin house. In the living room, the shy young Aretha awed friends with her playing on the grand piano.
“A wonder child,” was how Robinson described her to Franklin biographer David Ritz.
Franklin was in her early teens when she began touring with her father, and in 1956 she released a gospel album through J-V-B Records. Four years later, she signed with Columbia Records producer John Hammond, who called Franklin the most exciting singer he had heard since a vocalist he promoted decades earlier, Billie Holiday. Franklin knew Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. and considered joining his label, but decided it was just a local company at the time.
Franklin recorded several albums for Columbia Records over the next six years. She had a handful of minor hits, including “Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody” and “Runnin’ Out of Fools,” but never quite caught on. The label tried to fit into her a hodgepodge of styles, from jazz and show songs to such pop numbers as “Mockingbird,” and Franklin struggled to develop the gifts for interpretation and improvisation that she later revealed so forcefully.
“But the years at Columbia also taught her several important things,” critic Russell Gersten later wrote. “She worked hard at controlling and modulating her phrasing, giving her a discipline that most other soul singers lacked. She also developed a versatility with mainstream music that gave her later albums a breadth that was lacking on Motown LPs from the same period.
“Most important, she learned what she didn’t like: to do what she was told to do.”
In 1966, her contract ran out and she jumped to Atlantic, home to such rhythm and blues giants as Ray Charles. Wexler highlighted her piano playing and teamed her with veteran R&B musicians from FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The result rocked as hard as the Rolling Stones while returning her to her gospel roots.
Her breakthrough was so profound that Ebony Magazine called 1967 the year of “‘Retha, Rap and Revolt.” At a time of protest and division, Franklin’s records were signposts to a distant American dream — a musical union of the church and the secular, man and woman, black and white, North and South, East and West. They were produced and engineered by New Yorkers Wexler and Tom Dowd, arranged by Turkish-born Arif Mardin and backed by an interracial gathering of top session musicians.
“In black neighborhoods and white universities, in the clubs and on the charts, her hits came like cannonballs, blowing holes in the stylized bouffant and chiffon Motown sound,” Gerri Hirshey wrote in “Nowhere to Run,” a history of soul music that was published in 1984. “Here was a voice with a sexual payload that made the doo-wop era, the girl groups, and the Motown years seem like a pimply adolescence.”
The difference between Franklin at Columbia and Franklin at Atlantic shows in a pair of songs first performed by Dionne Warwick: “Walk On By” and “I Say a Little Prayer.” On “Walk On By,” recorded at Columbia, the arrangement stays close to the cool pop and girl group chorus of the original. “I Say a Little Prayer,” an Atlantic release, was a gospel workout, from Franklin’s church-influenced piano to the call-and-response vocals. From her years at Atlantic and through the rest of her life, she would rarely stick to anyone else’s blueprint for a song, often revising her own hits when she performed them on stage.
One of her boldest transformation came on her signature record and first No. 1 hit, “Respect,” a horn-led march with a chanting “sock-it-to-me” chorus and the spelled out demand for “R-E-S-P-E-C-T.” Franklin had decided she wanted to “embellish” the R&B song written by Otis Redding, whose version had been a modest hit in 1965.
“When she walked into the studio, it was already worked out in her head,” Wexler wrote in Rolling Stone magazine in 2004. “Otis came up to my office right before ‘Respect’ was released, and I played him the tape. He said, ‘She done took my song.’ He said it benignly and ruefully. He knew the identity of the song was slipping away from him to her.”
In a 2004 interview with the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, Franklin was asked whether she sensed in the ‘60s that she was helping change popular music.
“Somewhat, certainly with ‘Respect,’ that was a battle cry for freedom and many people of many ethnicities took pride in that word,” she answered. “It was meaningful to all of us.”
She was rarely off the charts in 1967 and 1968 and continued to click in the early 1970s with the funky “Rock Steady” and other singles and such acclaimed albums as the intimate “Spirit in the Dark.” Her popularity faded during the decade, but revived in 1980 with a cameo appearance in the smash movie “The Blues Brothers” and her switch to Arista Records, run by her close friend Clive Davis. Franklin collaborated with such pop and soul artists as Luther Vandross, Elton John, Whitney Houston and George Michael, with whom she recorded a No. 1 single, “I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me).” Her 1985 album “Who’s Zoomin’ Who” received some of her best reviews and included such hits as the title track, a phrase she came up with herself, and “Freeway of Love.”
If she never quite recaptured the urgency and commercial success of the late ‘60s, she never relinquished her status as the singer among singers or lost her willingness to test herself, whether interpreting songs by Lauryn Hill and Sean “Diddy” Combs on her acclaimed “A Rose Is Still a Rose” album or filling in at the 1998 Grammy ceremony for an ailing Luciano Pavarotti. She covered songs by Ray Charles, the Rolling Stones and Sam Cooke, but also music by Stephen Sondheim, Bread and the Doobie Brothers. At an early recording session at Columbia, she was asked to sing “Over the Rainbow.”
“If a song’s about something I’ve experienced or that could’ve happened to me, it’s good,” she told Time magazine in 1968. “But if it’s alien to me, I couldn’t lend anything to it. Because that’s what soul is about — just living and having to get along.”
Being “Aretha” didn’t keep her from checking out the competition. Billing herself on social media as “The Undisputed Queen of Soul,” she lashed out at Beyonce for even suggesting that Tina Turner deserved the title and had sharp words for Mavis Staples and Gladys Knight, among others. She even threatened to sue Warwick in 2017.
Her albums over the past two decades included “So Damn Happy,” for which Franklin wrote the gratified title ballad, and “Aretha Sings the Great Diva Classics,” featuring covers of hits by Adele and Alicia Keys among others. Franklin’s autobiography, “Aretha: From These Roots,” came out in 1999. But she always made it clear that her story would continue, and that she would sing it.
“Music is my thing, it’s who I am. I’m in it for the long run,” she told The Associated Press in 2008. “I’ll be around, singing, ‘What you want, baby I got it,’ having fun all the way.”
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KAREN PULFER FOCHT -Photojournalist
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It’s no secret that what made me fall in love with Memphis and made me want to stay in Memphis for so many years was the music. The people, yes, the warm climate, yes, the fantastic professional opportunities, yes, the central location, yes and the low cost of living, yes. But the music-- absolutely yes!
I‘ve always loved jazz and the blues. My father entertained me with silly songs any child would love, like Slim Gaillard- Potato Chips and “Flat Foot Floogie.” He went to an elite school in the northeast and had to listen to this “race” music secretly, as it was frowned upon.
Memphis is home to The Blues Foundation because of the rich blues musical history and heritage. Memphis and the Mississippi Delta are like Mecca for blues fans and blues pilgrims.
As long as I’ve lived here, I have noticed that Europeans were very knowledgeable about Memphis music, much more so that many Americans. Americans came to Memphis to see Graceland. But it’s always been the Europeans who were savvy on the blues, R&B, and the soul music that has its roots in Memphis. The Stax Documentary explains this.
There is the Poretta Soul Festival, in Rufus Thomas Park the third week of July, every year, in Porretta Terme, province of Bologna. Graziano Uliani, frequently comes to Memphis seeking out new local talent for his festival.
I have a vivid memory of Rufus Thomas telling me how excited he was that they were naming a park after him.
It’s the music created here in this region that draws people from all over the world, to Memphis.
In the last decade, Memphis has risen to the top of places to visit by influential travel magazines like National Geographic and Condé Nast . “Memphis is one of two destinations from the U.S. highlighted in Condé Nast Traveler's “23 Best Places to Go in 2023,” which covers 22 countries and six continents,” a Commercial Appeal story reported.
I got to know Stax artist Rufus Thomas when I first moved here from Chicago. Rufus captivated me right away and quickly became of my favorite entertainers. He was SO MUCH FUN! He was an amazing entertainer with roots in vaudeville. He could still get a crowd going with Funky Chicken and Walking the Dog, into his 80’s. I have many fun memories of seeing him perform on Beale Street. He used to say, “If you could be black for one Saturday night on Beale Street, never would you want to be white again.”
His daughter Carla, who still lives in Memphis, was also a successful Stax artist. You can still find Carla out buying flowers, or as a guest or singer at one of the many Memphis music events held over the years. Carla is Stax royalty. She had the good fortune to record with Otis Redding before he was killed in a plane crash in 1967.
Redding’s music is so soulful, it just pierces right into your heart.
As with many great artists, he died way too young at age 26. Stax music was experiencing some real success when Redding and many band members died in a plane crash.
As a photojournalist in Memphis, over the years I covered the only survivor of that plane crash, Ben Cauley. Other influential Stax artists like Booker T. and the MG’s, Isaac Hayes, Albert King, Marva Staples, David Porter, Steve Cropper and Sam Moore have all been in my camera’s viewfinder.
The documentary goes into the run of bad luck that followed Redding’s death, the assassination of MLK in Memphis and the signing of a bad contract by Stax owner Jim Stewart, who in a very Memphis way, trusted the people he was working with, and in the end, the trials of Stax record executive Al Bell.
By the time I had come to Memphis, Stax had closed. But there was an appreciation for the Stax contribution to Memphis music legacy.
The documentary helped me appreciate more deeply the people, their experience and the music that is so deeply woven into the fabric and culture of Memphis.
I covered the opening of the Stax Museum and the music programs they had for the kids of Memphis. These programs are still teaching our city’s youth about the magical musical legacy here while cultivating the next musical generation. I went to New York City to cover the Stax Kids when they played at Lincoln Center and I also was on assignment when Memphis Music, including several Stax artists, Justin Timberlake and harmonica great Charlie Musselwhite were honored at the White House by Michelle and President Obama.
Wayne Jackson , and his wife Amy, were good friends of ours. He was one of the Memphis Horns. Jackson and partner Andrew Love were on hundreds of Top Ten and Number One hits, gold and platinum records. They were considered the Rolls Royce of horn sections. Jackson fully appreciated the experience and told about it in this short video I did before he passed away. He says “Memphis was just on fire! And Andrew and I were walking right down the middle of that street. We played on hit records every day”
Memphis is just such a musical treasure box that never ceases to amaze and entertain me. Living here you run into these folks here and there. Most of them have always been very accessible.
“Indeed, many musical luminaries either hailed from or resided in the Soulsville neighborhood,” writes Alex Greene in Memphis Magazine.
Even though I felt like I knew the Stax story and many of the players and much of the music, the Stax documentary opened my eyes with more intimate details, historical glimpses, and great storytelling that helped me appreciate what the artists and producers went through, good and bad to create and capture the “Memphis sound.”
By Karen Pulfer Focht ©2024
Memphis Photojournalist
The Memphis Horns- “We laughed our way around the world”
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