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on Mar 23 2012 13:25 |  "Trudel Adler, my mother, came to the United States 1934 when she was 21 years old. She frequently wrote long letters home to her family in Germany and asked them to save her letters and they did — over two hundred handwritten pages. Trudel was an amazing young woman who grew into a fascinating warm wonderful woman, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was funny, serious, forthright, and considerate. She worked hard all of her life and gave to the world more than she ever got. The tale of the rest of her life was full of challenge,sadness and joy. These early years are more than that. They reveal the strength of character, the chutspa, the love, that helped her through all those years. Preparing her letters for this blog has been like entering a conversation with her and getting to know the young woman I never met". Thus begins the fascinating blog Leonard Grossman is writing about his mother. Read in her own words about the life of...
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on Mar 20 2012 12:42 |  Davis, Martha Gries
1934 - 2012
77, of Naples, FL passed peacefully from this world on March 13, 2012. She loved art, nature, travel and above all, her family. Married to Joseph for 56 years, loving mother of Betsy (Banks), Kathy (Guay), Mark and James, caring mother-in-law of Bill Banks, Paul Guay, Karen Davis and Geri Davis, and proud grandmother of eight: Laura, Jeffrey, Kevin, Brian, Jonathan, Jessica, Jacob and Ben. Her sister Jeannie Gries Homeier and her brother David Gries also survive her.
Born on March 21, 1934 in Akron, OH, to Lillian and Lincoln Gries, she attended Old Trail School and Katharine Gibbs School. Continuing her education, she received an Associates degree from Lasell Junior College, a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kent State University and a Masters degree from University of Denver. With her husband's successful retail career, the family lived in Denver, CO, Pittsburgh, PA, Hartford, CT, and Akron, OH and then returned to Denver before moving to Naples, FL in 2010. While raising four children, she bought and sold antiques and was founder and president of Executive Relocation Services.
Marty lived life to the fullest, always focused on making the world a better place for others. Her commitment to volunteerism was truly remarkable. She participated in the Junior League for 56 years. In Denver, she was Junior League Garden Club Founder and President, ArtReach board member, Craig Hospital board member and Foundation President, Denver Botanic Garden board member, National Repertory Orchestra board member and Summit Foundation advisory board member. She was also involved in The Denver Partnership, Children's Hospital Colorado, Cancer League of Colorado, Denver Art Museum Flower Council, and Castle Pines Garden Club.
A memorial service will be held on Sunday, April 1 at 3 pm at The Club Pelican Bay, 707 Gulf Park Drive, Naples, FL. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, http://mskcc.convio.net/goto/MarthaDavis , The Neighborhood Health Clinic, 121 Goodlette- Frank Road, Naples, FL 34102 or The Conservancy of Southwest Florida, 1450 Merrihue Drive, Naples, FL 34102 | |
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on Mar 12 2012 07:18 | HARMON S. EBERHARD, FORMER PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF CATERPILLAR INC., DIES PEORIA, Ill., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Harmon S. Eberhard, former president and chairman of the board of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT), died this morning at Americana Healthcare Center in Peoria at age 92. Born in Stockton, Calif., March 9, 1900, his career with Caterpillar spanned more than 50 years. "All members of the Caterpillar family are saddened by Mr. Eberhard's death," said Donald V. Fites, Caterpillar chairman. "He played a critical role in the building of Caterpillar and was particularly well known worldwide for his relentless pursuit of manufacturing the highest quality products. He was vigorous and decisive, but also a modest man who possessed integrity of principle and a warm consideration for others." Just out of high school, Eberhard's first job at the age of 16 was as a draftsman for The Holt Manufacturing Company -- one of the two co...
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on Feb 27 2012 13:20 |  Carolene Marks, the widow of former state Sen. Milton Marks and a political figure in her own right, died Sunday at an assisted-living facility in San Francisco. Mrs. Marks, who had suffered from multiple illnesses, was 89. Mrs. Marks, who had training as an economist and took particular interest in health issues, had formidable political skills. She was an invaluable adviser and sounding board for her husband and helped him over his long career in public office, which included serving San Francisco for 38 years in the state Assembly and Senate as a moderate Republican and then a Democrat. Marks was a dogged campaigner with a famous personal touch. He attended weddings, birthdays, celebrations and parades, but was best known for sending congratulatory messages to his constituents; he was said to have sent out 50,000 letters a year. However, the letters from Marks were the work of his wife. "She was the one responsible for clipping the notices in the papers and sending ... letters on my dad's behalf," said Mrs. Marks' son, Milton Marks III. As her husband's political career was winding down, Mrs. Marks entered the political arena herself as a candidate for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1996, before district elections. She got more than 50,000 votes in a citywide election, but finished out of the money. She then served on the city's Commission on the Status of Women and was active in health issues. She often said that one of her most important victories, however, was getting the Richmond Branch Library named in honor of her husband, who died in 1998. Mrs. Marks was born Carolene Wachenheimer in Providence, R.I., and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1943. She then went to work as an economist with the State Department in Washington on the understanding that she would lose her job when the men returned from World War II. She also served as an economist when the United Nations was formed in San Francisco in 1945 and later worked for the United Nations in New York. She returned to San Francisco and married Milton Marks in 1955. Mrs. Marks is survived by two sons, Milton Marks III of San Francisco and David Marks of Mountain View; a daughter, Caro Marks of Sacramento; and seven grandchildren. A funeral service will be held today at the Sinai Memorial Chapel, 1501 Divisadero St., San Francisco. For details call the chapel at (415) 921-3636. San Francisco Chronicle 16 February 2011
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on Feb 27 2012 13:13 | | Milton Marks, Jr. (July 22, 1920 – December 4, 1998) was a California politician who served in the California State Assembly and California State Senate, as both a Republican and a Democrat,[1] representing San Francisco for 38 years.[2] Born in San Francisco, Marks attended the city's Alamo Grammar School and the Galileo High School, where he participated in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. After graduating from Galileo as valedictorian of the class of 1937, Marks went on to earne an A.B. from Stanford University in 1941, where he had been part of the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Marks went on to the UC Berkeley School of Law and was studying with a friend, future federal judge Milton Lewis Schwartz, at International House Berkeley during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Less than a month after the attack, Marks reported to Fort Ord as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army. Serving in the Pacific Theater of Operations, including the Philippines Campaign (1944–45), he was the Assistant Defense Counsel for the Court of the Eighth United States Army during the Occupation of Japan. After completing his Army service as a Major, Marks returned to the UC Berkeley Law School but eventually transferred, graduating from San Francisco Law School in 1949.[3] Marks first ran unsuccessfully for the State Assembly in 1954 as a Republican. He was elected in 1958 as a Republican to the Assembly, serving until 1966, when he was named a city judge. When a vacancy occurred in a State Senate seat in 1967, he ran in and won the special election as a Republican, defeating Democrat Assemblyman John L. Burton, who was the younger brother of powerful Democratic Congressman Phil Burton, head of the San Francisco political machine. While still a Republican, Marks made an unsuccessful run for Congress in 1982 to unseat Phil Burton, losing by a margin of 58%-40%. Burton died unexpectedly of an aneurysm five months after the election at the age of 56 and was succeeded by Sala Burton, who would serve in the seat until her death less than four years later when she was succeeded by Nancy Pelosi, a longtime Burton family friend. He served in the Senate as a Republican until 1988, when he won re-election as a Democrat. He won his last Senate term as a Democrat in 1992; term limits forced his retirement in 1996. Marks and his wife, Carolene, had three children: Milton Marks III, who is a board member of City College of San Francisco, Caro Marks, a Federal Defender in Sacramento, and Edward David Marks, an attorney practicing in the Bay Area. From Wikipedia | |
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on Jan 29 2012 02:02 | John E. Price, 69, of Libertyville, Jan. 26, 2012, beloved father of Larissa, James, Elizabeth and Victoria; devoted son of the late Edward and Carolyn Price; dearest brother of Kathleen, Edward (Cheryl), Michael (Lydia), Daniel, Annette, Stanley (Jill), Christopher (Pegie), Richard (Julie) and the late James; adored grandfather of Anthony, Morgan, Chloe, Max, Ron and Jay; dear uncle of many nieces and nephews. Retired director of religious education from 1970 to 2006 for several parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Funeral Mass, 10 a.m., Monday, Jan. 30 at St. Joseph Church, 121 E. Maple St., Libertyville. Visitation Sunday, Jan. 29 from 3 to 8 p.m. at McMurrough Funeral Chapel, 101 Park Pl., Libertyville. Interment Ascension Cemetery. Donations for Victoria's Education may be made in the name of the Price family. Funeral info: 847-362-2626. Published in Chicago Tribune on January 28, 2012 | |
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on Jan 16 2012 07:42 |  Rick Ringbakk is an Emmy award winning Executive Producer/Director and has spent the last 17 years producing series, specials, and events that span the globe. His passion for adventure and real human stories has led him to film in over sixty (60) countries on six (6) continents. Rick's focus is unscripted television and includes mainstream reality, the Olympics, wildlife documentaries, and live performance series. In 2003 and 2004, he won prime time Emmys for his work producing the acclaimed series "The Amazing Race." He has been nominated twice for the Producer's Guild of America's prestigious Producer of the Year award. Over the course of his career, Rick has produced over 300 hours of television for CBS,NBC, ABC, FOX, CW, UPN, MTV, Discover Channel, and others. For links to some articles about Rick, cut and paste the following: http://natpemarket.com/natpemarket/index.php/speaker-bio?speaker_id_string=6052:SM8aJuPoKrhFQfWXl1Gsag** http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Rick+Ringbakk/Caprice+Willard/2012+Winter+TCA+Tour+Day+3/QlXnltsYEFE | |
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on Jan 5 2012 02:37 | HGTV announced today that top blogger Rebecca Woolf is joining the HGTV.com family to bring her fresh and widely admired sense of style to a variety of innovative digital projects in the year ahead. 4 January 2012 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hgtv-com-welcomes-top-blogger-222900567.html Congratulations again, Rebecca!!! | |
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on Dec 26 2011 02:19 | "Nothing about Norman Siegel’s death made any sense. The former publicist, now working as the West Coast editor of Photoplay magazine, went to the rooftop snack bar at the Hollywood Guaranty Building on Jan. 24, 1961, sat at a table near the edge and ordered a cup of coffee. The next moment, he was gone". The link below will take you to a review of the mysterous death of Norman Siegel in January 1961 and later that year the death of his twenty-three year old son Robert, aboard the ill-fated flight TWA 529, which crashed in September. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2011/02/editor-falls-to-his-death.html | |
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on Dec 20 2011 08:41 | "While Jews had settled in America during the early years of the colonial era, those tiny Jewish communities were mostly small collections of Sephardic merchants. Mass Jewish immigration only began after the failure of the European Liberal Revolutions of 1848, which marked a setback for Jewish equality. European Liberals had advocated a secular state in which Jews would be treated the same as other citizens. However, when Prussia and Austria crushed the liberal movement, it dashed the hopes of many Central European Jews for full citizenship. Worried about their future in the German-speaking lands, many Jews began to look to America as a new home. In fact, two-thirds of Jews living in the US on the eve of the American Civil War were recent immigrants. Nearly all of these immigrants were German-speaking." The above quote is from the same article as the one about Rabbi David Einhorn. In case Rabbi Einhorn doesn't interest you, perhaps learning some of the history behind why our ancestors started emigrating when they did and what they encountered, will interest you. http://www.longislandwins.com/index.php/features/detail/the_rabbi_who_seceded_from_the_south/ | |
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