OBITS - WASHINGTON STAR ALUMNI

Alan Bruns, Reporter and Editor, on Oct. 21, 2009

Alan Martin Bruns, 82, a retired reporter and editor died Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at his home in Falls Run, Fredericksburg. He had been in hospice care since mid-September. His death was attributed to congestive heart failure.

Beloved husband of Renee Borden; loving uncle of Belle Ulander and Charles Borden. He was an editor and writer for the Washington Star for 19 years.

Mary Lou Werner started at the Washington Evening Star in 1944 as a seventeen-year-old copy girl. In 1959, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the Virginia school crisis touched off by the state's determination to oppose school integration. "Integration anywhere means destruction everywhere, " Governor J. Linsay Almond, Jr. said in January 1958 in an inaugural speech reported by Werner in the Star.

Charles William “Charlie” Barbour of Reston, a longtime editor and executive in the sports departments of two defunct Washington newspapers, died at Loudoun (Va.) Hospital Center on June 25 after a short illness. He was 89.

Deidre M. Pierce, June 19, 2009, One Of Washingtonian Magazine "77 People to Watch in 1977"

Deirdre M. Pierce of Key West, Washington, D.C. and Normandy, France died of cardiac arrest June 19, 2009 at Lower Keys Medical Center. She was stricken suddenly at her residence, surrounded by her favorite books and tchotchkes and talking to a lifelong friend. She was 63.

For 21 years (1976-1997) she was restaurant reviewer and food columnist for major Washington, D.C. publications, including the Washington Star, Washington Museum & Arts and Washington Woman. Iron-Chef winner Roberto Donna named her editor of "Il Cuoco," house organ for his nationally known hot spot, Galileo Restaurant.

As creative consultant to upscale D.C. Chanterelle Caterers, she was both hands-on chef and menu designer. A charter member of Les Dames d'Escoffier, Pierce was rather proud of two accomplishments: Picking up Julia Child in a bar in Mougins, France, and a weekend stint as guest chef at Michelin-named Priory Country House Hotel, East Sussex, England.

Accolades include: Washingtonian Magazine "77 People to Watch in 1977," the same year as her great friend Jean Carper, now of K.W.; Panorama TV's Five Most Eligible Bachelorettes (so very 1972) with interviewer Maury Povich; Baltimore's TV News at Noon for a 1979 author's tour with interviewer Oprah Winfrey.

Known in Key West for her popular weekly column, "The Night Stuff," in CELEBRATE! Newspaper (circa 1996), Pierce is also co-author of "The Food Lover's Book of Lists or the List Lover's Book of Foods" and "Literary Sands of Key West," a traveler's guide.

Two completed novels, "Dead Like a Phoenix," set in England, and "Kind of a Drag" about Key West await publication.

The 1968 graduate of Connecticut College for Women (New London, Ct) was married to Aaron Woloshin for 32 years until his death in 2005. Aaron, partner in an international environmental consulting firm, was known in Key West in his own right as a Eurocentric Bronx boy with sartorial flair.

Sometimes accused of having a showgirl complex, Woloshin was the rare man so comfortable in his own skin that he simply kvelled over his leggy wife who had a killer smile and a king-size passion for making all the world in love with night. He was her "true north;" she was his rock & roll.

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Paul Haney, voice of NASA, May 28, 2009

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. -- Paul Haney, who was known as the "voice of NASA's Mission Control" for his live televised reports during the early years of the space program, has died of cancer. He was 80.

DEWITT "Dick" SLAY (Age 80) Of Haig Point, SC, died peacefully, Thursday, April 30, 2009, at his home on Daufuskie Island, SC, after a long battle with small cell lung cancer. Dick graduated from the University of Maryland in 1950 and then worked for almost 29 years at the Washington Star in Washington DC.

Thomas Love, 75, a retired reporter and editor with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the old Washington Star, died April 28 at his home in McLean of cancer. Mr. Love came to the Washington area in 1964 to work for a chain of weekly newspapers in Northern Virginia. He later became a columnist and city editor for the Northern Virginia Sun.

Bellows built a career resuscitating underdog newspapers in New York, Washington and Los Angeles. Along the way, he helped turn Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin into stars.
By Elaine Woo, March 6, 2009

I was so sad to see the notice for Nick Blatchford in today's Washington Post. Here it is:
BLATCHFORD NICK BLATCHFORD May 6,1919 - February 1, 2009 On February 1, 2009, Nick Blatchford of Fairfax, Virginia. He was a noted journalist with the Washington Daily News and Washington Star papers, a lover of people of all walks of life, a hiker of North Woods trails, a fisherman, a husband/father/grandfather/great grandfather, a storyteller.

Abbott Combes, an editor at The New York Times Magazine who helped create its “About Men” column, died on Friday in Mount Kisco, N.Y. He was 64 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was lung cancer, said his companion, Marion McKeone.

Loren Pope, 98, an education consultant whose best-selling books advised college-bound students to look beyond the Ivy League and who as a $50-a-week journalist persuaded internationally regarded architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a home for him, has died.

Mr. Pope, the original owner of Wright's 1941 Pope-Leighey house in Fairfax County, died Sept. 23 at the Goodwin House Baileys Crossroads retirement community in Falls Church. He had congestive heart failure.

Mr. Walter, of Edgartown, the former editor and publisher of the Vineyard Gazette, died Thursday at Mercy Hospital in Springfield from complications after surgery for a facial nerve disorder. He was 61.

Walter R. Cubbage, Sr. of Neeld Estate, Huntingtown, MD. passed away at home on June 16, 2008 with his family by his side. Preceded in death by his wife of 56 years, Josephine E. Cubbage. Walt was born to Henry and Ethel Cubbage on December 24, 1917, on a farm in Stanley, VA., he was one of 11 children.

Jack Mallicote, pressman/ businessman, 80, June 5, 2008

Jack A. Mallicote, 80, a resident of Dunkirk since 1970, died June 5 at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. Mr. Mallicote was born Oct. 22, 1927, in Morristown, Tenn. He was a retired businessman in southern Anne Arundel County, and founded Mali Discount with his wife in 1982, an office supply store in Deale. He sold the business in 2007. He served in the Army from 1950 to 1952 and was discharged as a staff sergeant.

William Perkins, 85, April 28, 2008

William Perkins Sr. From Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
William J. Perkins Sr. NORFOLK - William "Bill" John Perkins Sr., 85, passed away April 28, 2008, at his home in the presence of his loving family. A native of Washington, Ind., he spent most of his life in Arlington, Va. After retiring in 1985, he made his home in Duck, N.C., and had lived in Norfolk for the past eight years.

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John "Jack" Lemmon began a distinguished newspaper career at the Washington Star.

Dick Olson, Star advertising, March 20, 2008

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Richard T. 'Dick' Olson Advertising Salesman

Richard T. "Dick" Olson, 74, a retired newspaper advertising salesman, died March 20 of lung cancer at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. He was a Chevy Chase resident.

Washington Star Alums gathered at a reception after the Memorial Service for Betty (Miles) James at Ingleside of Rock Creek, Wednesday April 2, 2008. Photo courtesy of Arnold Taylor.

National Press Photographers Association - Bernard "Bernie" Boston

Phil Kelley - November 2007

Former Star Head Copy Aide Phillip Kelley(an Institution while he was there!) has died. I do not recall when that happened, but I do know that there will be a funeral service for him in the Arlington Cemetery Columbarium on November 14. Phil served in the Army in Korea.

Dana R. Bullen - June 25, 2007

Dana R. Bullen, 75, foreign editor of The Washington Star when it closed in 1981 and then executive director of the World Press Freedom Committee for 15 years, died June 25, 2007, of cancer at his home in Alexandria.

Ann Cline - Journalist May 10, 2007

Ann Cline, 87, a reporter and editor at the old Washington Star and one of the first women to work in its newsroom, died of congestive heart disease May 10 at Collingswood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rockville. In 38 years at the Star, Ms. Cline rose from copy girl to deputy editor of the Washington Life section. She also worked for two years as a sportswriter during World War II.

He became publicity manager of WTOP radio, then public relations manager of the old Washington Evening Star newspaper. He led publicity for the Community Chest charity before it became the United Way.

Mr. Hempstone had covered the advent of Kenya's independence for the Chicago Daily News and wrote two well-received modern histories of the region. He went on to work for the Washington Star, which his mother's family once owned, and the Washington Times, where he briefly was the top newsroom editor in the mid-1980s.

Robert Menaker, 61; Longtime Washington Journalist - Novermber 8, 2006

He was a news editor at the Miami News from 1967 to 1973 and then moved to Washington to become an editor at the Washington Star. During his two years at the Star, he was a deputy sports editor, an assistant lifestyle editor and editor of the newspaper's weekly arts and entertainment tabloid.

Sachs was awarded the WHNPA Lifetime Achievement Award for Still Photography in 2001. He was a member of the WHNPA for 56 years, during which time he served as secretary, chairman of the photo contest book, and member of the Eyes of History gala committee. Among his awards are numerous first prizes in the WHNPA Eyes of History, the American Newspaper Guild Front Page Awards, and the Hearst National Photo Contest.

Betty Beale, 94, a society writer for four decades whose syndicated column gave readers a close-up, largely sympathetic nibble of Washington's upper crust, died June 7, 2006 at the Washington Home hospice. She had bladder cancer.

Glen Leach; Photographer for The Evening Star Paper - December 15, 2005

Leach, 88 a photographer who got his start with the Washington Evening Star newspaper, died Dec. 15, 2005 at his home in Rockville, MD from a degenerative brain disease.

Philip Robbins, a journalist and prominent authority on the First Amendment and freedom of the press, died of pancreatic cancer Oct. 13 at his home in Elkton, Md.

Mr. Robbins dedicated his life to journalism and the principles of a free press and the freedom of information.

Alfred P. "Al" Alibrando, 82, a retired public information officer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration - July 1, 2005

Mr. Alibrando was born in Columbus, Ohio. After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the Navy and served during World War II as an aviation radioman aboard the aircraft carrier USS Lexington. He retired from the U.S. Naval Reserve as a lieutenant.

Anna Katherine Molster - 85, Editorial Assistant for the Washington Evening Star for 40 years - April 29, 2005

Ms. Molster was born in Takoma Park and graduated from McKinley Technical High School in 1935. In 1939, she received her bachelor's degree from George Washington University, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Alpha Lambda Delta fraternity.

William M. Hines, 88, a former Washington Star and Chicago Sun-Times reporter who was considered the godfather of NASA space reporting, died Feb. 28 of complications from treatment for pneumonia at Frederick Memorial Hospital. He lived in Washington before moving to Lovettsville in 1987.

Trained as a reporter, Mr. Barron began his career as a spy in Cold War Berlin, working as a clandestine naval intelligence officer in the mid-1950s.

He moved to Washington in the mid-1960s to work for the Washington Star on the sports copy desk. He worked briefly for the Communications Workers of America before he joined the AFL-CIO in 1969 as editor of its monthly journal, moving up to director of information in 1987.

Warren E. Howard - Former WBNG Guild Leader Dies

Warren E. Howard, Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild President from 1974-1975, passed away on September 30, 2004 in Washington D.C. Howard began his career at the Washington Star in 1968 as copy editor and remained at the Star until it closed in 1981. Howard also served three years as the Guild's Mid-Atlantic Region International vice president. During his tenur there, he helped create the Guild's Human Rights Committee and served as its chairman. Howard was named Guildman of the Year in 1974.

Earl Byrd - Black Journalist with Raw Talent - August 1,1941 - August 3, 2004

Earl took to journalism right away, recalled Ron Sarro, the journeyman reporter to whom Byrd was assigned when he arrived at the Star. He liked people, so he could elicit information to tell their stories. He could empathize with them. He had a gift for writing.

He joined the Washington Star in 1970 as an editorial writer, working there for six years before returning to Arkansas as associate editor of the Arkansas Gazette. He took over the Examiner's editorial page in 1978. His work earned the Scripps Howard Foundation's Walker Stone Award in 1981.

Woody West - Longtime Washington newspaperman and former executive editor of The Washington Times - 1934-2004;

Woody West died Saturday at his home in Hagerstown, Md., of lung cancer.

"It was my privilege to work with and share a cherished friendship with Woody West for more than 40 years. As we toiled together in the newsroom of the old Washington Star, his zeal to pursue every story, get it right, report it fairly and inform readers with graceful, uncluttered prose became hallmarks of all that he was called upon to write and to edit."
- WESLEY PRUDEN Editor in Chief of The Times

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Woody West, 70, a former editorial writer at the old Washington Star and executive editor at the Washington Times, died May 1 at his home in Hagerstown, Md. He had lung cancer.

Mr. West spent 20 years with the Star, which folded in 1981. He started at the Washington Times as an editorial writer in late 1982, six months after its founding. He became managing editor in 1983 and then executive editor, the newspaper's top editor, from 1985 to 1986.

Mr. West told The Washington Post that his decision to leave the executive editorship was based on the all-consuming nature of the job. "After two or three years of six- and seven-day weeks, I'm simply running out of gas, and I don't want to have a cardiac," he said.

He added, "Now I'm going to sit on the porch and read, go out and scare a few geese in the winter."

Since 1986, he held the title of associate editor and worked part time. He edited the weekly Civil War page and served on the committee overseeing the Sunday books pages, choosing books for review and matching them with reviewers.

Wesley Pruden, the paper's editor in chief, said Mr. West took particular delight in his duties with the Civil War page, a job requiring intricate knowledge and immense diplomacy.

In short, Pruden said, "you get a number for a regiment wrong and you hear about it."

He added that Mr. West meted out favorable and unfavorable coverage of Union and Confederate forces with equanimity, maintaining the great journalism tradition that both sides "were happy and dissatisfied in equal numbers."

Mr. West was a native of Helena, Mont., and a history graduate of American University. He served in the Marine Corps from 1954 to 1957. Early in his career, he was a reporter in Nebraska at the Lincoln Star and the Omaha World-Herald.

He settled in the Washington area in the early 1960s as a reporter at the Star. After the Star ceased publication, he briefly was a Washington-based editorial writer for the Milwaukee Journal.

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Mary McGrory - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist - August 22, 1918 – April 20, 2004

Photo: National Society of Newspaper Columnists

Born in Boston's Roslindale neighborhood, McGrory began her career in journalism at the Boston Herald before transferring in 1947 to The Washington Star as a book reviewer. In 1975, she won the Pulitzer for her coverage during the Watergate scandal. She stayed with the Star until it went out of business in 1981.

Mr. Gart became editor of the Star in 1978, shortly after his employer, Time Inc., bought it for $20 million and vowed to spend millions of dollars to pull it out of the financial difficulties that it had been suffering for a decade.

Michael DeMond Davis (January 1939 to November 13, 2003) was an award winning journalist who co-authored the Thurgood Marshall Biography. He was a pioneer in African American jounralism, opening the doors for many African-American writers.
Early Life He was born in Washington, D.C., the son of John P. Davis and Marguerite DeMond Davis. Mike D. Davis grew up in the bosom of the dignified black middle class of Washington D.C. and New York New York. His father, John P. Davis was a graduate of Harvard Law School and his mother , Marguerite DeMond was a graduate of Syracuse University. John P. Davis became prominent for his work with the Joint Committee on National Recovery and the founding of the National Negro Congress in 1935. He went on to found Our World magazine in 1946, a full-size, nationally-distributed magazine edited for African American readers. He also published the American Negro Reference book covering virtually every aspect of African-American life, present and past. Mike Davis was the grandson of Dr. William Henry Davis and the Reverend Abraham Lincoln DeMond.

Charles B. Seib, the former ombudsman of The Washington Post - October 23, 2003

A former managing editor of The Evening Star in Washington and ombudsman at The Washington Post, died on Thursday at a medical center here. He was 84.

Tom Yorke, who reported and wrote about sports, people and entertainment for three Washington daily newspapers for more than 53 years, died of congestive heart failure Oct. 17 at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis.

Zang Auerbach , cartoonist, Washington Star , 1921 - February 13, 2003

Brother of the renowned NBA legend, Red Auerbach. Zang created a painting for his brother Red that shows just a hand, a cigar, and the smoke spelling out "Red." Zang Auerbach also painted the leprechaun that graces center court of the parquet at the FleetCenter.

ROCKVILLE, Maryland -- Sidney Epstein, who began his almost five-decade journalism career as a copy boy at one Washington paper and rose to editor of The Washington Star, has died. He was 81.

Jim Castelli - Religion Editor, The Washington Star - July 6, 2002

From 1974 to 1979 Castelli was federal reporter for National Catholic News Service, now Catholic News Service.

Lawrence A. Still, 78, Black Press Journalist, Howard U. Journalism Chair - 2001

A reporter who covered racial attacks in the South for JET Magazine during the '60s and later became a Howard University communications professor, died in Washington. He was 78.

In addition to her work at The Times, from 1962 to 1977, Ms. Shanahan was an assistant managing editor at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Washington Star, and she was a reporter for The United Press, the Research Institute of America and The Journal of Commerce.

Charles McAleer - Washington Star Metro for 44 years - July 2, 2001

Remembering Charlie McAleer, 82, who worked for the Star for 44 years, died July 2 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He had diabetes. A Star contingent including Ludy Forbes, Steve Aug, Tom Love, John Mathews, Sheilah Kast and Jody Beck joined Charlie’s family and Rep. Connie Morella, R-Md., at the July 5 funeral. Ludy told our group a story about how Charlie used those plastic cards that automatically dialed the telephone numbers of local police departments from his phone in the newsroom.

Sports editor at the Daily News and assistant sports editor at the Star, died in Houston. He was 62. A newspaperman for more than 40 years, Bucky also worked at the Frederick News-Post and the Houston Chronicle.

Steve Green , 60, Star Metro and Veteran Copley journalist - May 8, 2001

At the Star, he covered a zoning bribery scandal in suburban Fairfax County and a struggle to launch the Washington subway -- now a well established, but still expanding feature of the city's transportation system.

Barbara Taylor - Washington Journalist, Bluegrass Supporter - November 2000

Barbara Taylor, longtime friend of bluegrass music in the Washington, DC area and mother of Leigh Taylor formerly of Patent Pending, died of cancer in her home in Arlington, Virginia. Barbara was an assistant managing editor at the Washington Times and has been a Washington journalist since 1967.

Frank R. Getlein Dies; Evening Star Art Critic May 7, 2000

Frank R. Getlein, 79, a noted art critic with the old Washington Evening Star newspaper and the author of more than 30 books on topics ranging from contemporary culture to the painter Mary Cassatt, died of cancer May 7 at his home in Alexandria.

Mr. Getlein worked at the Star from 1961 to 1976. Although he was primarily an art critic, he also wrote about film, the theater, books, politics and life in America in general. From 1959 to 1968, he was the art critic for The New Republic magazine, and over the years he wrote for numerous other magazines.

He had a reputation for commentary that was both caustic and good- humored. A case in point was his 1971 book "Playing Soldier," …

Attribution: Washington Post http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-525814.html

Editorial Cartoonist Gibson Crockett; February 18, 2000 Drew for Washington Evening Star

Gibson Crockett, 88, a longtime political cartoonist for the Washington Star who was known to use humor and kindness to satirize the events of his time, died of heart ailments Feb. 18 at Montgomery General Hospital. He lived in Rockville.

Mr. Crockett, a native of Kingsport, Tenn., sought to improve his self-taught drawing skills when he joined the Washington Evening Star in 1933 as an apprentice to cartoonist James Berryman.

After working as a sports cartoonist, Mr. Crockett began producing illustrations for the editorial page in 1948, alternating days with Berryman. He became the page's sole cartoonist when Berryman retired in 1965.

Attribution: Washington Post www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-510251.html

Theodore W. Noyes; January 26, 1858 - July 4, 1946, Editor in chief of the Star for thirty-eight years

Theodore W. Noyes followed in his father's footsteps. As the successor to Crosby Noyes in the editor's chair at the Washington Evening Star, Theodore Noyes exhibited the same driving dedication to objective reporting and to the improvement and development of the nation's capital that had brought his father fame and the Star its position of dominance among Washington newspapers. Noyes was editor in chief of the Star for thirty-eight years, only two years less than his father, and had been long involved in the editorial leadership of the paper before his father died in 1908.

John M. McKelway, who wrote "The Rambler" column for the Washington Evening Star and then for the Washington Times and was a fixture in the lives of two generations of area newspaper readers, died of cancer June 1 at his home in Kensington.

C. Belmont Faries, 85, a retired Washington Star news editor who for 26 years wrote the newspaper's popular Sunday stamp column, died of complications from pneumonia Jan. 19 at a health and rehabilitation facility in Livingston, Mont. He had been in declining health since a series of strokes began in 1990.

Newbold Noyes Jr., 79, Ex-Editor Of The Washington Evening Star - December 18, 1997

Born: August 10, 1918
Newbold Noyes Jr., who as editor of The Washington Evening Star from 1963 to 1975 was the last member of four generations of his family to lead the newspaper, died yesterday in Sorrento, Me. He was 79. The Noyes family co-owned The Star from 1867 to 1975, when control of its parent company was sold to Joe L. Allbritton, a Houston businessman. The paper ceased publication in 1981.

Charles W. Puffenbarger; June 28, 1997, principal assistant city edito

Charles W. Puffenbarger, 70, a journalism professor at George Washington University, a retired editor at The Washington Post and a past president of the Washington Newspaper Guild, died of cancer June 28 at his home in Washington.

In a career that began nearly 50 years ago, Mr. Puffenbarger, who was known as "Puff" to friends and colleagues, worked for the Virginian Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, the Associated Press in Annapolis and the old Washington Evening Star, where he was principal assistant city editor. From 1965 until he joined The Post in 1969, he taught journalism at the University of Illinois.

Willard G. Volz, 67, Times photographer; July 26, 1995

Willard G. Volz, 67, an award-winning news photographer in Washington for more than 45 years who retired from The Washington Times, died Wednesday night at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. He had cancer. The longtime Washington-area resident, born Nov 08, 1927, affectionately called "Willie"by his friends, had a knack for relaxing his subjects with his affable manner, his peers recalled. That talent elicited numerous awards from several photojournalism organizations.

Morris (Mo) Siegel; Veteran Sportswriter Dies at 78 - June 2, 1994

Morris Siegel, 78, a sports writer and columnist for four Washington newspapers whose sense of humor and quick wit also made him a popular speaker and master of ceremonies, died of cancer yesterday at George Washington University Hospital. Most recently a sports columnist for the Washington Times, he also worked at several Washington television and radio stations during a career in the nation's capital dating from 1946. Known as Morrie or Mo, Mr. Siegel was a raconteur who could keep friends and acquaintances entertained long into the night.

After the war, he was a reporter for the Washington Star-News (later called the Washington Star), focusing on defense and foreign policy issues. When the Star folded in 1981, O'Leary joined the Reagan Administration as press secretary for National Security Advisor William P. Clark, Jr. Soon after the founding of the Washington Times in 1982, he joined that paper as a White House correspondent, became president of the White House Correspondents Association, and ended his career writing a weekly column focused on nostalgic reminiscences of the past.

Harriet Griffiths, October 17, 1992 Washington Star Editor

Harriet Eleanor Griffiths, 71, a retired reporter and editor who had worked for the Washington Star newspaper from the early 1940s until the paper closed its doors for the last time in 1981, died Oct. 17 at Alexandria Hospital. She had undergone surgery for a brain tumor earlier in the week.

She joined what then was the Washington Evening Star during World War II when the paper, like most others across the country, was losing much of its newsroom staff to war work and military service. Women, who had been restricted to work in newspaper libraries and women's sections, suddenly seemed to be covering the world.

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Eleni Sakes Epstein - Fashion and beauty editor, at the age of 65 - 28 January 1991

Eleni Epstein, fashion and beauty editor of the Washington Star for more than three decades, was born Helen Sakes to Greek immigrant parents in Washington, D.C., in 1926. She spent her formative years in Washington, D.C., and later attended George Washington University and Columbia University.

Thomas Ewing Noyes, October 28, 1989 Actor And Journalist, Dies at 67

Thomas Ewing Noyes, a Broadway producer who later became a reporter and an editorial writer and a radio commentator, died of heart disease on Saturday at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. He was 67 years old.

Mr. Noyes was a co-producer of several plays in New York in the 1950's, wrote for The Washington Star from 1964 to 1972 and was a commentator on National Public Radio, appearing regularly on its weekend evening program ''All Things Considered.''

He began his Broadway career as a supporting actor and then co-produced ''Take a Giant Step,'' a 1953 play that introduced the actor Louis Gossett, then 17 years old. His other productions included ''Portrait of a Lady,'' starring Jennifer Jones, ''Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure'' and ''Copper and Brass,'' a musical starring Nancy Walker.

Mr. Noyes, a native of Washington, was a graduate of Yale University and a Navy flight instructor in World War II. In later years, he wrote for several publications and was a board member of the National Music Theater Network.

After college, World War II naval service and his years on Broadway, Mr. Noyes returned to his native Washington in 1964. For the next three years, he was a general assignment reporter for what was then the Washington Evening Star.

Attribution: NYTimes www.nytimes.com/1989/10/31/obituaries/thomas-noyes-67-broadway-producer-and-newspaperman.html

John R. Bowden Jr.; November 24, 1988, News and Fashion Photographer

John R. Bowden Jr., 44, a former news and fashion photographer for The Washington Star who later operated his own commercial photography studio, died of an aneurysm Nov. 24 at a nursing home in Elizabeth City, N.C. After The Star closed, Mr. Bowden began to do editorial and commercial photography. He renovated an old warehouse on Capitol Hill and opened "The John Bowden Studio."

Mr. Bowden, who lived in Washington, was stricken on Oct. 23 while traveling in Culpeper, Va. He was taken to Elizabeth City last week for long-term care.

A native of Dayton, Ohio, Mr. Bowden grew up in the Washington area and attended American University. He began working part-time for an Arlington photographer as a youngster and continued through his college years.

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Crosby Noyes, 67, Dies; Ex-Reporter in Europe

AP - Published: April 10, 1988

LEAD: Crosby S. Noyes, a longtime reporter and editor for The Washington Star, died Thursday after a heart attack. He was 67 years old and lived in Bethesda, Md.

Crosby S. Noyes, a longtime reporter and editor for The Washington Star, died Thursday after a heart attack. He was 67 years old and lived in Bethesda, Md.

Irving Lowens was a polymath who possessed an extraordinary intellect and boundless energy. A musicologist of first rank, he made seminal contributions to the study of music in America.

James T. Berryman - Pulitzer Prize Winner 1950 - August 1971

Died. James T. Berryman, 69, longtime political cartoonist of the Washington Evening Star; in Venice, Fla. Berryman was working as the paper's sports cartoonist when his father Clifford Berryman, the Star's political cartoonist, fell ill in 1935. James filled in, stayed on to become half of the foremost father-son team in cartoon history.

Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, MD, 11/04. As "The Rambler", Shannon wrote about local history for the Washington Star in the teens and early 1920s. From 1912 - 1927 J. Harry Shannon, known as "The Rambler," published articles on Washington and vicinity in The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. The following files are transcriptions of articles that refer to individuals or families interred in Congressional Cemetery.

Newspaper reporter from 1913 to 1956. Worked for the Washington Evening Star, March 1924-August 1956. He was the Star's White House correspondent from April 1943 to February '54 and its national correspondent, 1954-56. Served in the Information Service of the Department of Commerce, 1957-67.

Oral History Interview with Joseph A. Fox

Photo: TrumanLibrary.org
Attribution: The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Samuel H. Kauffmann Dead; Washington Evening Star Proprietor a Well-Known Art Connoisseur (October 26, 1893 - May 5, 1960

Howard S. Fisk - Star Automotive Editor - December 20, 1961

Howard S. Fisk was employed by the Evening Star newspaper in the District of Columbia for 66 years. He was hired as a copy boy at about age 15 on August 21, 1893, and retired on August 21, 1959 as a respected reporter after one of the longest journalism careers in United States history. His death came at home after a brief illness on December 20, 1961, at age 83.

Photo: Shorpy Historic Photos

Circa 1915. "Harris & Ewing. Posing Cliff Berryman." Political cartoonist Clifford Berryman at the Washington, D.C., photo studio founded in 1905 by George Harris and Martha Ewing. Harris & Ewing glass negative.

Gladys Ames Brannigan was born June 14, 1882 in Hingham, MA. When she was seven years old, her family moved to New Hampshire. By 1900 Brannigan was living in Washington D.C., where she attended Georgetown University, earning her B.A. in 1903 and M.A. in 1904, and later studied at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. In 1910 she exhibited at the WCC, and in 1911 with the Society of Washington Artists, of which she was a member. She also worked as an artist on the staff of the Washington Evening Star. By 1921 Gladys had married Robert A. Brannigan, a patent lawyer, and was residing in New York City, where she studied at the Art Students’ League and the National Academy of Design with H.B. Snell.