tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27748326144861661792024-03-12T23:10:19.775-04:00OBITS - WASHINGTON STAR ALUMNIPast friends and co-workers (If you have any photos, website links, etc., please contact Phil)Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.comBlogger204125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-38053341951926984362020-06-08T17:09:00.001-04:002020-06-09T17:11:29.501-04:00Grace Bassett, reporter who chronicled urban legislation in Congress, dies at 93<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Grace Bassett, a journalist who covered District affairs on Capitol Hill for The Washington Post and the old Washington Star, most notably chronicling passage of the constitutional amendment giving D.C. residents a voice in presidential elections, died June 8 at a nursing home in Annandale, Va. She was 93.<br />
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The cause was complications from dementia, said her friend and power of attorney, Robin Renner.<br />
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Ms. Bassett worked at The Post from 1953 to 1957 and won a Washington Newspaper Guild Award for her coverage of the District’s response to the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board outlawing racial segregation in public schools.<br />
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At the Star, where she spent about a decade, her beat was urban legislation in Congress. The American Political Science Association honored her for excellence in political reporting for the two years she spent following the campaign for the 23rd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Ratified in 1961, it authorized D.C. residents to choose electors in presidential elections.<br />
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Attribution: Adam Bernstein, washingtonpost.com<br />
Full Story: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/grace-bassett-reporter-who-chronicled-urban-legislation-in-congress-dies-at-93/2020/06/09/21dee4ec-aa51-11ea-9063-e69bd6520940_story.html">Bassett</a>Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-69785150855856905352020-05-23T17:36:00.000-04:002020-05-30T17:36:48.534-04:00Joseph Volz - Journalist March 6, 1935 - May 23, 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Joseph Volz died Saturday, May 23, 2020, following a stroke complicated by diabetes; he was 85. He discovered his career as a journalist in high school while covering sports for the Newark daily newspaper. He'd like to say "I've shut down six newspapers," including the Washington Star. In more than 30 years as an investigative journalist for the New York Daily News, Washington Star, Washington Daily News, and Newark News, Joe Volz covered everything from the police force to Watergate to the Pentagon. He ended his career as a columnist for the Copley News Service and the Frederick News-Post. Joe was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with the New York Daily News for his reporting on military preparedness. Joe was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 6, 1935. He graduated from Rutgers University. While awaiting his draft notice, he took a world tour visiting New Zealand, Australia, and Tahiti.<br />
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<i>Attribution:Legacy.com</i><br />
<i>Full Story: </i><a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=joseph-volz-joe&pid=196273928" target="_blank">Volz</a><br />
<br />Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-22589180451899264252020-04-29T05:52:00.000-04:002020-05-10T05:53:24.026-04:00Calvin Duffey Cramer - Printer April 29, 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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LAKE WALES - Calvin Duffey Cramer of Lakeland, Fla., died April 29, 2020. He was 91.<br />
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Calvin was born in Washington, D.C., on June 26, 1928, the youngest of three boys (brothers Hugh H. Cramer 1920-1980 and Admiral Shannon Davenport Cramer, Jr. 1921-2012), to Shannon Davenport Cramer and Mary Eileen Hazen (née Duffey) Cramer.<br />
He graduated in 1947 from Washington's Central High School, where he was class president and lettered in football, basketball and track.<br />
After briefly attending Princeton University, Calvin returned to Washington and married his high school sweetheart, Carol Joanne Seaman in 1948. Starting as an apprentice, he worked in all aspects of the printing trade, including for <b>Washington's Evening Star</b> newspaper and in a small printing shop he ran with his best friend from high school. He played for the Union Printers basketball team in Washington's industrial leagues, and he and Carol were also youth leaders at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Kensington, Md.<br />
In 1963, Calvin took his printing skills to the U.S. Civil Service Commission. But dissatisfied with being a government bureaucrat, he made a leap of faith and took a job as director of Sky Lake United Methodist Church Camp in Windsor, N.Y., in 1970. For the next 20 years, he followed his passion for outdoor Christian education there and at other administrative positions in western and central Pennsylvania.<br />
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<i>Attribution: legacy.com</i><br />
<i>Full story:</i> <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theledger/obituary.aspx?n=calvin-duffey-cramer-lake-wales-calvin-duffey-cramer-of-lakeland&pid=196169588" target="_blank">Cramer</a><br />
<br />Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-22106180306348832222020-02-24T15:02:00.000-05:002020-03-06T15:13:39.991-05:00Peter Anthony Bozick, Sr. - White House Press Corp., February 24, 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Peter Anthony Bozick, Sr, age 94, died peacefully February 24, 2020 in Salisbury due to a fall the week before. He was an avid reader from an early age, largely self-taught, excelled in school and skipped two grade levels before high school. He graduated from Towson High School, while taking a night class at John Hopkins University. Being proficient in multiple languages, Pete enlisted during WWII and was placed into the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and trainedas a spy. He was captured by the Nazis in the former Yugoslavia and rescued shortly thereafter by British forces. He was awarded a Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service.<br />
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After the war, he attended the University of Maryland, where he met his wife Marilyn Scuderi. Before he and Marilyn were formally introduced, Pete memorably told his friend that he would "marry this girl". They married in 1949 for 65 years until her passing in 2014. Pete began a journalism career with <b>Washington Evening Star</b> newspaper, worked his way to news editor and was a member of the White House Press Corp.<br />
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<i>Attribution: Legacy.com</i><br />
<i>Full Story:</i> <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?fhid=7892&n=peter-bozick&pid=195587019">Bozick</a>Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-61808024573064465312020-01-29T05:45:00.000-05:002020-02-09T05:46:21.543-05:00Daniel Watkins Taylor - Gifted and Prodigious Writer and Photographer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Daniel Watkins Taylor, age 90, passed away on January 29, 2020, in Willow Street, Pennsylvania, where he resided for the past seven years. Born on July 3, 1929, in East Haven, Connecticut, he was the son of Robert Mitchell Taylor, MD, and Margaret Lyles Watkins Taylor. Daniel had a brother, Robert Mitchell Taylor II, late of Branford, Connecticut.<br />
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Daniel attended the Choate School, in the class of 1947, and went on to study English at Washington and Lee University, graduating in 1952. After college, he became a Lieutenant Junior Grade in the United States Navy, serving on the USS Delta and the USNS General John Pope during the Korean War. He was released from active duty in 1954.<br />
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A gifted and prodigious writer and photographer, Daniel began his career as a reporter on several newspapers from 1954-1959: The Times Herald Middletown, NY), the Hartford Courant (CT), and the <b>Washington Evening Star</b> (DC). He turned to public relations in 1959, when he began working for the Federal government in Washington, DC, as a public information consultant for the President's Committee on Scientists and Engineers (National Academy of Sciences), and then the Public Information Branch of the National Science Foundation, where his work included speech writing for the Director.<br />
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<i>Attribution: lancasteronline.com</i><br />
<i>Full Story:</i> <a href="https://lancasteronline.com/obituaries/daniel-watkins-taylor/article_413f38a9-c8d5-5472-9cc8-5022175dbb4c.html" target="_blank">Taylor</a><br />
<br />Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-14906596469868030732019-11-21T07:11:00.000-05:002019-11-22T10:26:01.552-05:00Legendary Columbia West Coast A&R exec RON OBERMAN has passed away<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-n5iU7ZwZGkpPDYq2ADCIH9oYFgch6iRYvuQ3s-ayZLX1lIqrXjJKcTo4xe6ztYW8CgmwTBlEKx05Le3v2C2ZMofhv-qjJZTmFC5eDA1cSbm18YElvLWwr2txZXUG9OuTJ6zd_0fsndXG/s1600/RonObermanphotoFacebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-n5iU7ZwZGkpPDYq2ADCIH9oYFgch6iRYvuQ3s-ayZLX1lIqrXjJKcTo4xe6ztYW8CgmwTBlEKx05Le3v2C2ZMofhv-qjJZTmFC5eDA1cSbm18YElvLWwr2txZXUG9OuTJ6zd_0fsndXG/s1600/RonObermanphotoFacebook.jpg" /></a>from Michael Oberman<br />
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Ron Oberman 8/28/1943 to 11/21/2019<br />
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Ron started as a copyboy at age eighteen in 1961. He quickly moved to the position of dictationist. From 1964 to 1967, Ron wrote the weekly Top Tunes column in addition to general assignment reporting.<br />
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In 1967, Ron went to work at Mercury Records in Chicago as Director of Publicity. Later, Ron became VP of A & R (artists and repertoire) at Columbia Records. After a long stint at Columbia, Ron became Executive VP of A & R at MCA Records. When he retired from MCA, Ron played poker. Ron passed peacefully in his sleep in Reno, NV.<br />
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from <a href="https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/191686/ron-oberman-passes-on">allaccess.com</a><br />
Legendary COLUMBIA WEST COAST A&R exec RON OBERMAN has passed away. During his storied career OBERMAN helped shape the careers of artist like DAVID BOWIE, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, THE BANGLES, TOAD THE WET SPROCKET, WARRANT, WILDERNESS ROAD, MARTIKA and many others.<br />
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OBERMAN had been suffering from dementia for the last decade. Details on services are pending.<br />
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from <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-david-bowies-adoptive-jewish-family-welcomed-him-to-america/">TimesofIsrael.com</a><br />
David Bowie didn’t start his first trip to the United States with a drug-filled party or a wild show, but instead with a quiet evening at the home of a Maryland Jewish family.<br />
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The now-iconic English rocker had just released the album “The Man Who Sold the World,” which built on the success of his popular “Space Oddity” album in Europe. But he wasn’t yet a household name in the States when his first US tour was set to kick off in January 1971.<br />
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Bowie’s North American publicist, Ron Oberman of Mercury Records, invited him to stay at his parents in Silver Spring for a night before setting out to play shows in cities from New York to Los Angeles.<br />
<br />Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-88229310593382930352019-11-15T14:17:00.000-05:002019-12-17T14:08:05.202-05:00The Rev. James M. ‘Mike’ Coram, who had dual careers as an Episcopal priest and a newspaperman, dies - November 15, 2019<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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The Rev. James M. “Mike” Coram, who had dual careers as an Episcopal priest and a Baltimore Sun newspaperman, died Nov. 15 of complications from a blood infection at Mercy Medical Center. The Columbia resident was 80.<br />
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“Mike was a straightforward reporter, and the best thing I can say about him was that he had a great wit,” said William T.M. Grigg, a former Washington Star reporter and newspaper colleague. “Then he chucked his newspaper career and went into the ministry and then came back to newspapers when he joined The Baltimore Sun.”<br />
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“Mike was a wonderful guy, and we called him ‘Captain’ in those days when we were kids in the Howard County bureau,” said Mike James, a former Baltimore Sun editor who is now national editor for USA Today. “His beat was government, but he was a jack of all trades and could cover anything.”<br />
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Anne Haddad, a North Baltimore resident, was a reporter with Mr. Coram in The Sun’s Westminster bureau, where they were staff reporters on the paper’s old Carroll Sun zoned edition.<br />
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“Mike had been a young reporter, then a priest and mental health counselor, and then an experienced reporter,” Ms. Haddad wrote in an email.<br />
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“It was a great combination. He could see through any insincerity or rhetoric, focusing on the whole picture as well as the details. He could see the forest as well as the trees,” she wrote. “And while he may have been the oldest reporter in our bureau, he was an early adopter of technology, and had home internet and email before most of us did.”<br />
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James Michael Coram, the son of William T. Coram, a painter, and Louise Coram Bivens, a homemaker, was born in Tampa, Florida, where he was raised by his stepfather, William Bivens, a career Navy officer, and his mother.<br />
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Because of his stepfather’s naval service, Mr. Coram was also raised in American Samoa, Oregon, Rhode Island and Illinois, where he graduated from Evanston High School. He then served as an information specialist with the Army from 1959 to 1961.<br />
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He began his journalism career with the City News Bureau in Chicago, a “training ground of hard knocks and take no prisoners news reporting,” according to a biographical profile of Mr. Coram, and later was a reporter for the Champaign-Urbana Courier in Urbana, Illinois.<br />
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“We used to talk about his earliest days as a reporter at the legendary City News Bureau of Chicago, the legendary training ground for young reporters such as Kurt Vonnegut and Mike Royko,” wrote Ms. Haddad. “Royko, in fact, died in 1997 still owing Mike Coram a few bucks, few enough that it just made a good story to tell. Mike Coram would never remind anyone to pay him back.”<br />
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After earning a bachelor’s degree in 1964 from American University, Mr. Coram joined the staff of The Star in Washington, where he was a general assignment reporter and covered the police beat.<br />
“When Mike was a reporter with The Washington Star, Carl Bernstein was still a young and ambitious copy boy,” Ms. Haddad wrote. "And as we all watched the Clinton impeachment proceedings, Mike recalled how President Kennedy’s womanizing was an open secret among the Washington press corps, which he pointed out was made up of nearly all men in those days, his point being that homogeneous newsrooms were never a good thing."<br />
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In 1966, Mr. Coram, feeling the call of the priesthood, left The Star and entered the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, from which he graduated in 1968. After he was ordained an Episcopal priest, he served parishes in Spotsylvania, Virginia, Fredericksburg, Virginia, Woodbridge, Virginia, and High Point, North Carolina.<br />
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“Mike said he left newspapers to become a priest because he had bigger questions and frustrations that he couldn’t answer and explore in any other way,” Mrs. Hadadd wrote.<br />
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Mr. Coram resumed his newspaper career in 1985 when he moved to Maryland and joined the staff of The Columbia Flier, and in the late 1980s moved over to The Sun’s Howard Sun. In the 1990s, he became a staff writer for the Carroll Sun, covering local government.<br />
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“Mike was able to teach us things. I’d show him my lede and he’d say, ‘This is no good,’ and would then show me how to make it better. He was our litmus test,”recalled Mr. James, a Columbia resident. “He had a big heart and we all loved him”<br />
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“I remember when our editor in the Carroll bureau, Chris Guy, told me Mike was being transferred to our staff. It was 1995 or 1996, after a round of buyouts had left us short-staffed and emotionally bruised,” Ms. Haddad wrote. “Chris had already worked with Mike in the Howard County bureau, and referred to him as the ‘father confessor’ of that bureau — literally, since he was an Episcopal priest — but also because of the depth of his experience, ethics and his emotional intelligence.”<br />
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Ms. Haddad described him as being “tall, handsome, always nicely dressed, hale and hardy, never sick, and never wearing a coat heavier than a blazer. He used to say, ‘I have the constitution of a woolly mammoth.’ ”It was Mr. Coram’s habit, Ms. Haddad said, to treat fellow reporters to meals.<br />
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“He always found a way to secretly arrange with the waiter to let him pick up the entire tab. He even did this once when he came in late and ordered nothing but soup,” she wrote. “Ordering only soup, by the way, was another bit of wisdom we learned from Mike: If the soup is good, then you could be safe ordering the rest of your meal. If it’s not good, then there’s no point ordering anything more.”<br />
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Whether it was in restaurants or at work, Mr. Coram looked out for his fellow reporters. When Ms. Haddad was meeting two anonymous confidential sources in a restaurant one day to gather information on a questionable public figure, she worried that it might be a trap.<br />
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“I asked Mike to stealthily show up and keep an eye out, which he did,” she recalled. "Everything turned out fine, by the way, but I knew I could trust Mike to pick up on anything that I might have missed."<br />
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Ms. Haddad speculated that while Mr. Coram had not planned to stay at The Sun for a decade, he found the work enjoyable, stimulating and challenging.<br />
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“And we were all glad that he did stay,” she wrote.<br />
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After taking a buyout in 1999, Mr. Coram “worked tirelessly in homeless shelters in Annapolis and Baltimore as an advocate and pastor,” the Rev. Travis K. Smith, rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Elkridge, wrote in a biographical profile.<br />
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Mr. Coram was a counselor at the Light House Shelter on West Street in Annapolis and the Project PLASE in Baltimore.<br />
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“He also offered clergy assistance to Maryland parishes, including Grace Episcopal Church,” Father Smith wrote. “Father Mike was a warm and caring priest. He touched many lives with his ministry of care and compassion.”<br />
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Mr. Coram had not retired at his death, said his wife of many years, the former Donna Geraci, a broadcast educator who had worked for the Council of Churches in Washington.<br />
He was a music lover, sports fan and avid sailor.<br />
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“When I worked in the Howard County bureau , at the end of a nice spring or summer day, Mike would occasionally invite us for a sail on his boat,” wrote former Sun reporter Jacqueline Powder in an email. “So, we would get into his Honda Civic and drive down to a marina on Kent Narrows and go for an evening sail. It seemed like Mike was his happiest on his boat, and he generously shared that experience with his colleagues.”<br />
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“He’d come in to the newsroom and say, ‘Who wants to go sailing?’ and we’d head off in a caravan to the marina," Mr. James said.<br />
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“Mike believed life is a gift, and we are to share it in love and service,” Mr. Smith wrote. “And our dearest Mike is a gift to us, and will be missed, for he was a man whose big heart keeps on beating through his life work and imprint.”<br />
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<i>Attribution: Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com</i><br />
<br />Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-31527798406441102482019-11-15T09:14:00.000-05:002019-11-22T09:15:00.165-05:00Charles Thomas Alexander - Professor Emeritus, Assistant City Editor - November 15, 2019<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdKmfdhyphenhyphenIhDiOE7_cxRXQZxnmnF0_kyQDYP8qlm8MqvmE6U9LK-Uo_oFkQV_XytJes9Wj2SIjr9zMWqXhU0H3dSaRgm-jo8hiTGs9eWoDVuzpoT-CQX9VMeyfMR2sFtfuE3GANwRKY3tNW/s1600/Alexander%252CCharlesThomas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdKmfdhyphenhyphenIhDiOE7_cxRXQZxnmnF0_kyQDYP8qlm8MqvmE6U9LK-Uo_oFkQV_XytJes9Wj2SIjr9zMWqXhU0H3dSaRgm-jo8hiTGs9eWoDVuzpoT-CQX9VMeyfMR2sFtfuE3GANwRKY3tNW/s1600/Alexander%252CCharlesThomas.jpg" /></a>Professor emeritus, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, passed away November 15, 2019 in Alexandria, VA at 91. A long-time Alexandria resident, he is survived by his wife of 68 years, Elizabeth Brown Alexander; daughters Elizabeth "Liza" Alexander Marshall (John) of Arlington, VA; Lucy Alexander Murphy (Braden) of Potomac, MD; grandchildren Charlie and Emma Marshall.<br />
Born in Minneapolis, MN on September 21, 1928 to Dr. Charles Thomas and Mary Stinson Alexander. His family home was in Mount Vernon IN. He received his BA from Duke University in 1950. After two years military service during the Korean War, Ft. Belvoir, VA, and two years studying at Boston University School of Theology, he obtained an MS from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He began his journalism career with the <b>Washington Star</b> (1956-61) as assistant city editor, followed by managing editor of the Wilmington (DE) Morning News and Evening Journal (1961-66), and editor and publisher of the Dayton (OH) Journal Herald. He returned to Washington, DC in 1975 as professor of journalism and director of the Medill News Service, retiring in 1994.<br />
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He had a lifelong love of sports, music, theater, travel and the church, serving as elder of the Georgetown Presbyterian Church for over 30 years. A memorial service will be held at Georgetown Presbyterian Church Jan 4, 2020 at 2 pm. Interment in 2020 at Christ Church, St. Simon's Island, GA. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions should be made to Georgetown Presbyterian Church, 3115 P St., NW, Washington, DC 20007.<br />
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Published in The Washington Post on Nov. 22, 2019<br />
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<i>Attribution: Legacy.com</i><br />
<i>Story:</i> <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=charles-alexander&pid=194516040">Alexander</a><br />
<br />Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-30168502608390435122019-06-07T07:10:00.000-04:002019-06-29T07:11:17.879-04:00Diane Woolley Bauer, Investigative Reporter, 1932- 2019She was a muck-raking investigative reporter, a cab driver, a U. S. Senate press aide, a merchant seaman, and a mother of four who served on Berkeley's Waterfront Commission as well as two terms on the Berkeley City Council. She was briefly hospitalized, and died surrounded by family on June 7th, 2019 after a few years of declining health. She leaves a legacy of extraordinary work both as a journalist and as a Berkeley councilmember dedicated to serving District 5's neighborhoods.<br />
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Diane Woolley Bauer's father was a writer with MGM in Los Angeles, where she was born, but had been a commander in the British Royal Navy who served in World War I. He was called back for World War II and stationed in Jamaica, where Diane spent a portion of her young life. After the war the family moved to Washington D.C. where during her college years Diane took a two-week job as a vacation replacement for what was then called a copy girl at the Washington Post and her career as an investigative reporter began.<br />
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She became the youngest reporter in Washington D.C. Then-owner of the Post, Eugene Meyer, set aside the rule requiring that reporters have a college degree to put Bauer in charge of what is now called the Style section of the Post covering "politicians, diplomats and debutantes", as she put it, doing the layout and writing an advice column for college girls under her picture and byline. It should go without saying that women were an uncommon part of such workplaces.<br />
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She continued to work part-time as a young wife and mother writing ad copy, serving as a U.S. Senate press aide and a campaign director, but excelled as a self-taught journalist. She is credited for doubling the Washington Daily News' Maryland circulation with her hard-driving public interest stories, often scooping the full-timer reporters at the Washington Post and Evening Star. When the Daily News folded into the <b>Evening Star</b> she was one of the few reporters who were kept on. She wrote, investigated, and consulted for public interest research and law firms working special assignments for Newsweek, CBS television, panels, and documentaries such as ABC's "The Paper Prison" specializing in courts, police and prisons, juvenile detention, privacy and records-keeping, and medical ethics. One of her pieces on juvenile offenders' treatment provoked a letter from J. Edgar Hoover defending the FBI's procedures; she kept the letter.<br />
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Her work was so thorough it is cited in several books on civil liberties, behavior modification, privacy, and bioethics as well as some Supreme Court cases. Her writing is credited for playing a role in highlighting atrocities and instituting reforms at Maryland's infamous Patuxent Institution where she revealed an expensive behavior modification scandal. Author Nat Hentoff wrote a story about her tireless investigative journalism, including the illumination of "a hitherto hidden plan...to form a secret intelligence unit to combat organized crime" which her writing revealed arranged to violate, among other things, privacy laws. The unit had to be scrapped.<br />
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<i>Attribution: Carol Denney, berkeleydailyplanet.com</i><br />
<i>Full Story: </i> <a href="http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2019-06-28/full_text" target="_blank">Bauer</a>Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-85131411341089140962019-05-07T07:01:00.000-04:002019-05-26T07:02:16.487-04:00Robert Pear, scrupulous chronicler of health care for the New York Times, dies at 69<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the hands of many Washington reporters, the ins and outs of Medicare and Medicaid, the Clinton administration’s failed health-care overhaul and President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act could be insufferably technical. But health policy is also intensely personal. For millions of Americans, it determines what conditions their health insurance will cover, how much insurance — if any — their grown children can afford, and how their elderly parents will pay for prescription drugs.<br />
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By all accounts, Robert Pear of the New York Times was one of the most relentlessly probing journalists on the health-care beat, enlightening readers and rankling partisans with the clarity of his reportage and his savantlike understanding of the federal government and its arcana. With a seemingly ever-present byline on Page One of the Times, Mr. Pear was a constant and authoritative presence in Washington for four decades.<br />
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He died May 7 at 69 at a hospice center in Rockville, Md. The cause was complications from a severe stroke that he suffered April 29, said his brother, Doug Pear.<br />
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<i>Attribution: Emily Langer, washingtonpost.com</i><br />
<i>Full Story:</i> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/robert-pear-scrupulous-chronicler-of-health-care-for-the-new-york-times-dies-at-69/2019/05/08/fde46794-6bbb-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5fcbebc703f3" target="_blank">Pear</a><br />
<br />Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-69463715567045241092019-04-11T06:59:00.001-04:002019-04-11T06:59:53.990-04:00The Rev. Arnold Godfrey Taylor August 24, 1925~March 20, 2019<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33aAHVSJGAMWOeuKhyIIU0G9QF8rI8p6uiSFYHmMmjdrtZ82qK8WMN8jvP47vJFe3Os2vbmbmfdqkdvChF8ipWCl9CWC5dbcqIcS9kjgjxPq-Fldbe1AKIGWM3WYi5yIiVH4go4TNTWk/s1600/TaylorArnold.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33aAHVSJGAMWOeuKhyIIU0G9QF8rI8p6uiSFYHmMmjdrtZ82qK8WMN8jvP47vJFe3Os2vbmbmfdqkdvChF8ipWCl9CWC5dbcqIcS9kjgjxPq-Fldbe1AKIGWM3WYi5yIiVH4go4TNTWk/s1600/TaylorArnold.jpg" /></a>Arnold Taylor, 93, an Episcopal priest who served as rector of Christ Church, Durham Parish, in Nanjemoy, MD, from 1971 to 1993, died March 20, 2019 in Washington, DC.<br />
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Mr. Taylor was born in Providence, R.I., and grew up both in the city and on a farm. He served in WWII as a military policeman with the 99th Infantry Division in Germany.<br />
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After earning a degree in journalism at Pacific University in Oregon, Mr. Taylor settled in 1952 in Washington, DC, where he worked at the Evening Star, advancing from copy boy to photographer to assistant picture editor.<br />
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He married Lilian Bedinger on July 3, 1954, and they had three children.<br />
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In 1965, Taylor left the newspaper business to attend Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1969.<br />
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He served first as assistant rector at Christ Church in Clinton, MD. In 1971, he was called as rector of Christ Church, Durham Parish, where he served for 22 years. He was a gifted pastor, always ready to meet people where they were. In the larger community, his contributions included organizing a Boy Scout troop and helping to establish Hospice of Charles County.<br />
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<i>Attribution: somdnews.com</i><br />
<i>Full Story:</i> <a href="https://www.somdnews.com/independent/obituaries/the-rev-arnold-godfrey-taylor/article_ffa3f208-1dbb-5e11-8edd-596ce1053f8f.html" target="_blank">Taylor</a><br />
<br />Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-39053267246071135402019-02-11T07:07:00.002-05:002019-02-11T07:07:40.279-05:00Shirlita H. Bolton, Author, Producer and Talent Agent - January 9, 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Shirlita H. Bolton, 86, of Orlando, Florida, passed away on January 9, 2019 at Cornerstone Hospice & Palliative Care. She was born on February 29, 1932 in Kingsport, Tennessee to Maurice Lee Hutchins and Alberta Jane Hutchins (Foglesong). Her parents named her Shirley Jean Hutchins. She attended Dobbins Bennett High School in Kingsport. She and her husband Herb Blizzard moved to Washington, D.C. when she was 19 years old so he could work in the construction field. He would later return to Kingsport, but Lita, as she would be known, preferred the exciting big city to small town life, and remained while the couple divorced. While working for the <b>Washington Star Newspaper</b>, she was attracted to the growing Civil Rights movement in the 1950s. She married Captain Joseph L. Stephenson, a veteran WWII Buffalo Soldier when interracial marriage was illegal in many states and disapproved of by society in general.<br />
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<i>Attribution: orlandosentinel.com/</i><br />
<i>Full Story:</i> <a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/obituaries/orl-obits-death-notices-20190210-story.html" target="_blank">Bolton</a><br />
<br />Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-76929947426985077292019-01-26T07:22:00.000-05:002019-02-02T07:23:44.078-05:00Tim Warren - Award-winning Journalist And Critic, January 26, 2019<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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TIMOTHY PHILIP MICHAEL WARREN "Tim" August 19, 1951 - January 26, 2019<br />
Award-winning journalist and critic Tim Warren died January 26, after an eight-year battle with cancer.<br />
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Tim was a multi-skilled journalist with more than 40 years experience as a writer, editor, and copy editor for several daily newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, and the Washington Star. He also served as a contributing writer for Smithsonian, Washingtonian and other magazines.Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-67349384214277241042018-12-30T07:14:00.003-05:002018-12-30T07:14:40.400-05:00Newsday managing editor Robert F. Brandt - December 28, 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In an often hard-charging newsroom world, Newsday managing editor Robert F. Brandt excelled with brilliant editing, unflappable calm, even when catastrophic events erupted around the world, while always taking care of his colleagues.<br />
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“As the night managing editor, Bob had tremendous impact; ultimately, he decided what got into the paper, and what didn’t, and how much attention a story should receive,” said Howard Schneider, a former Newsday editor and founding dean of the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University.<br />
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Brandt, who died Friday in a Maryland hospice at age 72, completely redid the paper the night TWA Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, his former colleagues recalled, killing all 230 passengers on July 17, 1996.<br />
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When he retired after serving more than 15 years as managing editor, Brandt said he was proud of his role in converting Newsday from an afternoon to a morning newspaper, in the mid-1980s when afternoon papers were struggling. He also advanced Newsday’s efforts to hire more minority staff members.<br />
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Before joining Newsday in 1981, Brandt had worked at the Tampa Tribune, Hartford Courant, Miami Herald and <b>Washington Star</b>.<br />
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<i>Attribution: Joan Gralla - newsday.com</i><br />
<i>Full Story:</i> <a href="https://www.newsday.com/long-island/obituaries/obituary-robert-brandt-newsday-managing-editor-1.25169395" target="_blank">Brandt</a>Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-18537781827985230722018-12-19T14:16:00.000-05:002018-12-22T14:17:44.967-05:00Barry Kalb, Journalist & Teacher - December 19, 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is with great sadness that we heard the news of the passing of Barry Kalb on Wednesday, 19 December 2018, at the age of 75.<br />
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Barry was a long-time lecturer at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) at The University of Hong Kong, spending close to a decade teaching the fundamentals of reporting and writing before retiring in 2014. He continued his association with HKU however, running regular English-language grammar boot camps for students.<br />
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A journalist with more than 30 years of experience, Barry started his career in journalism in 1967 at the Evening Star in Washington, D.C. After eight years, he moved to Hong Kong in 1975, briefly for NBC News, and then as a staff correspondent for CBS News. In 1979, he joined Time magazine as Eastern Europe bureau chief, based in West Berlin, and subsequently moved to Rome, New York and back to Hong Kong.<br />
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Barry took a 14-year break from journalism to pursue entrepreneurial ambitions in Hong Kong including running Il Mercato, a notable Italian restaurant in Central. In late 2002, he returned to journalism, as an editor at the Voice of America bureau in Hong Kong.<br />
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His career included coverage of many remarkable news events, including the Watergate corruption scandal in Washington, D.C., the deaths of Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong and the return to power of Deng Xiaoping in China, the beginnings of the Solidarity movement in Poland and the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in Rome, among many other stories.<br />
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<i>Attribution: Cal Wong - https://jmsc.hku.hk</i><br />
<i>Full story> </i><a href="https://jmsc.hku.hk/2018/12/barry-kalb/" target="_blank">Kalb</a>Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-46177128400659611392018-11-29T07:10:00.000-05:002018-12-03T07:22:11.971-05:00Walt Wurfel - Reporter, Press Secretary, Editor, General Manager, November 29, 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Walt Wurfel, whose career spanned the worlds of radio, print and politics in colorful ways, died last Thursday at The Kensington, a Falls Church, VA assisted living facility, where he had been living for the last year and a half. He was 81. In radio circles,<br />
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Wurfel is perhaps best known for his decade of service to the National Association of Broadcasters, where he was senior VP of Communications from 1986-1997. That put him at the center of industry lobbying efforts that contributed to passage of the landmark Telecom Act of 1996. Before joining the trade group, Wurfel was already well known on Capitol Hill, having served as White House deputy press secretary under Jody Powell during the Carter administration and as press secretary to Hubert Humphrey’s presidential primary campaign in 1972.<br />
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Wurfel’s media career ranged from show leather reporting to corporate positions in the C-suite. He was operations director of radio stations in Middletown and Utica, NY at Straus Broadcasting Group and assistant news director WTSJ-TV San Juan, Puerto Rico. A graduate of Stanford University and the Columbia University School of Journalism, Wurfel worked as a reporter for the <b>Washington Evening Star</b> and as foreign editor and then political editor at the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times. His newspaper career took him to the VP of Corporate Communications position at Gannett Co.<br />
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<i>Attribution: insideradio.com/</i><br />
<i>Full Story:</i> <a href="http://www.insideradio.com/free/walt-wurfel-who-led-nab-communications-for-a-decade-has/article_0c276f4a-f6d2-11e8-8963-4777c64e4639.html" target="_blank">Wurfel</a><br />
<br />Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-91864432567106942772018-11-10T06:57:00.000-05:002018-11-28T07:01:05.484-05:00Richard Wilson Lee - December 25, 1934 - November 10, 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dick Lee, who passed away Nov. 10 in Brookings, was former head of the journalism department at SDSU. He arrived there in 1978, when I was managing editor of this newspaper. Getting to know him was my good fortune because he was one of the best journalists, and men, that I ever knew.<br />
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He knew his craft and he knew people. His avuncular manner allowed him to form relationships with those from all walks, including some who distrusted the media.<br />
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He was well educated, with a doctorate degree in mass communications. He came from a newspaper family. He had practical experience to bolster his academic credentials, working on weekly and daily newspapers, including the <b>Washington Star</b>.<br />
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<i>Attribution:Noel Hamiel, brookingsregister.com</i><br />
<i>Full Story:</i> <a href="https://brookingsregister.com/article/lee-set-standard-for-journalists" target="_blank">Journalist</a><br />
<br />Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-42153192579634793562018-10-31T14:36:00.000-04:002018-11-21T14:37:43.240-05:00Orva Walker Heissenbuttel, "Antiques and Americana" columnist, 91<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Orva Walker Heissenbuttel, 91, Gallia County native, passed away at her home in Montross, Virginia on October 31, 2018. Born October 27, 1927 near Cora, Perry Township , she was the eldest daughter of Zelma Phillips and Jackson Tandy Walker.<br />
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During her decades in the Washington area she taught hundreds of students and eventually reached many more with her "Antiques and Americana" column for the <b>Washington Sta</b>r newspaper. She had a knack for bringing people with shared interests together, forming the American Antique Arts Association (18 chapters) and other groups devoted to Heisey, Duncan, and Imperial glassware.<br />
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<i>Attribution: Legacy.com</i><br />
<i>Full Story:</i> <a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mydailysentinel/obituary.aspx?n=orva-heissenbuttel&pid=190767103" target="_blank">Orva</a><br />
<br />Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-48690423443626057702018-10-01T16:17:00.000-04:002018-10-08T16:20:14.632-04:00Steve Guback, Award-Winning Sportswriter - October 1, 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Steve Guback died peacefully on October 1, 2018 at the age of 91. He was a former award-winning sportswriter with <b>The Washington Evening Star</b>. He also served as Director of Information for the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports for eight years. In 2016 Guback marked a 75-year career as a Sportswriter. Steve was inducted into the United States Basketball Writers Hall of Fame at the 1989 NCAA basketball championships in Seattle, WA. He also was elected to the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. During his 20 years with The Washington Star, Steve covered a wide variety of sporting activities, including NCAA basketball championships, more than a dozen Super Bowls, heavyweight championship fights, collegiate football bowl games, tennis, baseball and track. He also covered the Washington Redskins on a daily basis for more than a dozen years and worked with the Redskins for two years on special projects after the Washington Star ceased publication in 1981.<br />
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Guback was voted the Virginia/DC Sportswriter of the Year three times, served on the Professional Football Hall of Fame Selection Committee, served as president of the Atlantic Coast Sportswriters Association and was president and later executive director of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. A graduate of Indiana University, Guback was voted the Outstanding Journalism Graduate in 1950 and was one of the first recipients of the Ernie Pyle Scholarship, awarded to outstanding journalism majors in honor of the late Scripps-Howard war correspondent. He also was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, the international business administration honor society.<br />
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During World War II he served two years in the U.S. Navy. Three scholarships in his honor are awarded annually at Indiana University where he also served as a member of the University's public affairs council. Prior to joining the Star, Steve wrote for the Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch and the Winston-Salem (NC) Journal. He also contributed to numerous national publications, including Newsweek, The Saturday Evening Post, The Sporting News and TV Guide. With the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Guback handled media inquiries, special promotions, various fitness-related projects and was responsible for the Council's public service messages on radio, television and in print. He accompanied chairman Arnold Schwarzenegger on a 50-state tour promoting the need for improved youth fitness. Guback also served as an Acting Executive Director of the Council for five months under President Bush in 1989 and served on the Board of Directors of the United States Olympic Committee.<br />
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Guback was born in Wallington, NJ, and was brought up in Norwalk, CT, where he began writing sports as a high school youngster for the Norwalk Hour. He was inducted into the Norwalk High School Wall of Honor in 2001. He married the former Irene Lapish of Statesville, NC, in 1964. They made their home in Alexandria, VA, and served in leadership capacities at Aldersgate United Methodist Church where they funded the construction of the youth wing into a multi-purpose Guback Center, and also funded the renovation of Founders Hall. Since his wife's death in March, 2009, Guback resided at Greenspring Village, a retirement community in Springfield, VA. He remained active giving sports talks to various groups and video presentations to senior centers and other groups in Northern Virginia on the world-wide travels that he and his wife made over the years. He was host/founder of four TV/forum programs at Greenspring. He also established a scholarship for a student interested in a media-based career who has the opportunity to serve as an Intern at Greenspring.<br />
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<i>Attribution: Legacy.com</i><br />
<br />Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-66918026618291057852018-08-07T07:11:00.000-04:002018-08-15T07:12:20.109-04:00Clyde Day, Route Manager - August 7,2018<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOt_0zYtejCk6TxSW6JXgS8leEXS62w7co-qXy3pSYDSQLS5MH8bxG9_n8k8O687DlLxQI0HgM_7HnlPewrbC3C1k5BL7kpjqjzfkyi_TXm8w9Tlz1pagE2EdIYVk3c6ukHn-uJZGY7ia4/s1600/Clyde+Day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="242" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOt_0zYtejCk6TxSW6JXgS8leEXS62w7co-qXy3pSYDSQLS5MH8bxG9_n8k8O687DlLxQI0HgM_7HnlPewrbC3C1k5BL7kpjqjzfkyi_TXm8w9Tlz1pagE2EdIYVk3c6ukHn-uJZGY7ia4/s320/Clyde+Day.jpg" width="193" /></a>Clyde Morgan Day, 91, of Hagerstown, MD, passed away on Tuesday, August 7, 2018 in Hagerstown.<br />
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Born Saturday, October 30, 1926 in Templeton, MA, he was the son of the late Calvin Day and Ina (Harris) Day.<br />
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For over 20 years, Clyde worked for the <b>Washington Star</b> in Washington, D.C. as a route manager. In 1981, he moved to Hagerstown and worked for the Review and Herald Publishing Company until his retirement.<br />
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Clyde worked full time into his late seventies and held many part-time positions, including: bus driver, truck driver, milk route driver, and a stint at the National Zoo Snake House. The zoo experience alone made for great stories, and Clyde always amused family and friends with his wonderful and detailed anecdotes.<br />
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Clyde joined the United States Navy during World War II; serving two years. He received the World War II Victory Medal and the American Theater Medal. After the war, he attended Columbia Union College where he was one class shy from receiving his bachelor’s degree.<br />
Throughout his adult life, Clyde was a member of the Spencerville Seventh Day Adventist Church.Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-11466769376228172172018-06-23T08:42:00.000-04:002018-06-25T08:43:21.963-04:00David Moore Stack 1938-2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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David Moore Stack was born on March 4, 1938 in Mount Holly, North Carolina and died at home June 23, 2018 in Leesburg, Va.<br />
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During his life, Mr. Stack was a newspaperman and reporter for the Alexandria Gazette and the Washington Star. He then became a Communications Professional and Instructor for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. For the last 25 years, he was an advocate for those struggling with addiction.<br />
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<i>Attribution: loudounnow.com</i>Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-74743428046395124062018-06-05T07:38:00.000-04:002018-06-07T07:41:46.528-04:00Dorothy Baliles Shank, August 12, 1923 - June 5, 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dorothy Baliles Shank, 94 of Roanoke, Va., passed away peacefully at home after a brief illness on Tuesday, June 5, 2018.<br />
She was very proud to be the Valedictorian of the last class of Blue Ridge Mission School in 1941 in Woolwine and enjoyed school reunions for many years. After graduation Dorothy moved to Washington, D.C., and worked for The National Geographic Society and The Washington Star newspaper. She returned to Stuart in 1948.<br />
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<i>Full article: <a href="http://www.roanoke.com/obituaries/shank-dorothy-baliles/article_f75182ad-b923-550b-bb99-8482297dc323.html" target="_blank">Shank</a> roanoke.com</i><br />
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Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-89069448392621829462018-06-03T07:30:00.000-04:002018-06-07T07:31:33.155-04:00Star Staff Writer David G. Braaten, July 25, 1925 – June 3, 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Star Staff Writer David Braaten died June 3, 2018 of complications from a blood infection. He was 92. He worked at the Star from 1962 til he took a buyout in 1978. The pics are from the front page mockup his friends made him upon his early retirement. A copy of the whole front page hangs outside the men's room at Mr. Henry's, Dave's favorite restaurant for extended lunches.Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-27630608434247872092018-01-19T08:00:00.000-05:002018-01-22T08:06:25.517-05:00Walt Swanston-NuevaEspana, Diversity Champion, Dies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Walterene Swanston-NuevaEspana, a decades-long champion of diversity in the news media as a former print and broadcast journalist and journalism association executive, died Friday at a Fairfax County, Va., hospital in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. She was 74 and suffered a massive heart attack a week ago, said friend and fellow journalist Wanda Lloyd.<br />
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“Walt was one of the sweetest, most gentle souls, and someone who was dedicated to the success of every organization for which she worked, every project she led and every young journalist who needed her help,” messaged Lloyd.<br />
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“Over the years I traveled with Walt around the country and across the ocean, attending conferences for NABJ, AAJA, NAHJ and to many other meetings where we shared our passion for journalism. Now she is gone and journalism has lost one of its most dedicated professionals.”<br />
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The references are to the National Association of Black Journalists, the Asian American Journalists Association and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.<br />
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She had worked with all of them, as well as with Unity: Journalists for Diversity, the collaboration that consists of AAJA, the Native American Journalists Association and the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. She was Unity’s interim executive director from 2012 to 2014, having previously been executive director of Unity: Journalists of Color, which included AAJA, NABJ, NAHJ and NAJA, and spearheaded the Unity ‘94 and Unity ‘99 conventions. She had also been director of diversity management at NPR, a consultant for the American Society of News Editors and from 1993 to 1995, executive director of NABJ.<br />
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In addition, she worked for the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, directing the organization’s diversity, educational and international programs; for the Newspaper Association of America Foundation, where she directed diversity programs; and for Knight-Ridder Inc., where she was a consultant.<br />
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NPR host Michel Martin remembers Swanston’s time at that network. “From the minute I set foot in the door at NPR, Walt was a source of friendship and wise counsel,” Martin said by email. “And I don’t think I’ve ever met a person with a more diverse network of friends, colleagues, and mentees. Diversity was something she did, it was what she was, a way of life. She was a walking, talking example of how it can and should be done.”<br />
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Keith Woods, who succeeded her as diversity executive at NPR, said by email Saturday, “Walt was one of the most resilient, persistent, and, above all, empathetic people I’ve known. She believed deeply in the work of diversity, and so many of us who have done this work found themselves at one time or another following in her path. Walt was a true champion, and journalism is particularly poorer with her passing.<br />
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“I knew Walt for more than 20 years. She had a rough time at NPR and struggled to make progress in the newsroom. Still, she strongly encouraged me to follow in her footsteps and offered herself as a coach because, above all, the work she did was out of love and passion. No organization or obstacle ever beat her. I’m heartbroken to have lost her.”<br />
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NuevaEspana was known mostly to fellow journalists as Walt Swanston before she remarried in 2015, after the 2006 death of her first husband, public relations executive David Swanston.<br />
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She was hospitalized on Jan. 12 and died in the early hours of Jan. 19, according to her daughter, Rachel Swanston Breegle.<br />
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The former Walterene Jackson was born in Clinton, La., and attended segregated schools there before she, her sister Bettye Jackson and brothers Raphael “Ray” Jackson and Ruffin Lane “Buzz” Jackson were put on trains for Oakland, Calif., where they lived with an aunt and uncle so they could attend integrated schools.<br />
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When presented with the Ida B. Wells Award from NABJ in 2011, she thanked her parents for enabling her and her siblings to leave Louisiana. “None of the children ever went home to live there again,” she told the NABJ audience. Still, she regretted that the move broke up her family,<br />
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At her alma mater, San Francisco State University, she met David Swanston, and as a young journalist, worked at the San Francisco Examiner and the old <b>Washington Star</b>. Later she was a copy editor and contributor to the Washington Post’s Style, weeklies and real estate sections; a reporter and producer at Washington public television station WETA and executive editor at WUSA-TV, the Gannett-owned CBS affiliate.<br />
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<i>Attribution: Richard Prince - journalisms.theroot.com</i><br />
<i>Full story:</i> <a href="https://journalisms.theroot.com/walt-swanston-nuevaespana-diversity-champion-dies-1822282033" target="_blank">Diversity Champion</a><br />
<br />Washington Star Alumnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15634610372566365013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774832614486166179.post-80190464310207476932018-01-13T07:01:00.000-05:002018-01-18T07:06:17.651-05:00Sports Writer Charles "Charlie" J. Rayman 1933—2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Charles "Charlie" J. Rayman, 84, of Rockford passed away Saturday, January 13, 2018, at Presence St. Anne Center. Born April 16, 1933, Charlie attended the University of Maryland, where he earned his bachelor's degree in Journalism. He was a sports reporter, starting his career for the Baltimore Sun and writing later for the Rockford Register Star, retiring in 1998.<br />
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Rayman covered the Orioles for the Baltimore Sun before behind hired as the baseball writer at the <b>Washington Star</b> shortly before the Star folded. That's when he was hired by the Register Star. Rayman's main sports beats over the years at the Register Star included Rock Valley College, bowling and softball.<br />
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Charlie Rayman wasn't so much a sports writer at the Rockford Register Star as he was a sports "character."<br />
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"He was a real character both inside and outside the office," Randy Ruef, former longtime sports editor of the Register Star, said of Rayman.<br />
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He'd wear plaid shorts, knee-high black socks and sandals. You could always see him chewing on his pen, walking around carrying 10 pounds of newspapers with information for his fantasy baseball leagues. He was a fast talker. You add the look, the talk, the newspapers, the black socks, all those things combined made him so unique.<br />
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<i>Attribution: Matt Trowbridge rrstar.com</i><br />
<i>Full Story: </i><a href="http://www.rrstar.com/sports/20180117/sports-writer-charlie-rayman-real-character-dead-at-84" target="_blank">Charlie Rayman</a><br />
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