Life In Legacy-week October 9, 2004

News and Entertainment
Vernon Alley (89) Jazz bassist who broke down many racial barriers as the chairman of the San Francisco black musicians’ union by actively working to integrate the city’s jazz clubs, who played with many famous jazz musicians including Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Ella Fitzgerald , died October 3 in San Francisco.
Alexander Stanley Allison (53) a longtime Los Angeles Times reporter and editor known for his human-interest features and mentoring ways, has died. Allison was found dead Oct. 5 in his Cypress condominium after failing to report for work. He is believed to have died Oct. 2 after a celebration of his birthday. The cause of death has not been determined.
Richard Avedon (81) Famed photographer who redefined fashion photography as an art form and achieved critical acclaim through his stark black-and-white portraits of the powerful and celebrated, who helped create the era of super models, but also was known for his unflattering shots of the rich and famous, and who worked for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the New Yorker, had retrospectives featured in prestigious institutions ranging from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the National Gallery of Art, and was reported to be reputed to be the world's highest-paid photographer, died on October 1 in San Antonio, TX, having suffered a brain hemorrhage last month.
Richard L. Berger - Film and television executive who created the Touchstone label for Walt Disney Pictures as part of Disney's effort to distinguish its films for teenagers and young adults from its juvenile fare (its first film was "Splash," starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah), and who also was an executive at CBS and helped develop the TV series "Dallas' and 'Lou Grant¡", died of lung cancer on September 29 in Los Angeles, CA. He was 64 years old.
James Chace (72) Historian and expert on foreign policy who was the author of nine books-most notably for his biography of Dean Acheson, "Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World"-and served as an editor for the New York Times Book Review and then became Henry Luce Professor in Freedom of Inquiry and Expression at Bard College in 1990. In 1992, he became editor of World Policy Journal, died October 8 of a heart attack in Paris, France.
Hildy Parks Cohen (78) Producer, writer and actress who collaborated with her husband, Alexander Cohen, and wrote the first 20 Tony Awards telecasts as well as 20 other television specials (including the Emmy Awards), who herself won two Emmy awards and appeared on Broadway, films and television, including co-starring in the daytime series "Love of Life," died of complications from a stroke on October 7 in Englewood, N.J.
Rio Diaz-Cojuangco (40) Filipino Actress, Married to Rep/Congressman. Charlie Cojuangco of Negros Occidental and former vice-mayor of Pontevedra town in the same province; younger sister of 1969 Miss Universe Gloria Diaz; died of colon cancer Oct. 3 at Stanford University Hospital in Palo Alto, California, ABS-CBN learned.
Rodney Dangerfield (82) Popular comedian who rose to fame with his self-deprecating humor and the catch phrase "I don't get no respect" which brought cult status and wide fame, who got his big break at age 44 on "The Ed Sullivan Show," and went on to became a favorite guest on shows hosted by Steve Allen, Joan Rivers, Dean Martin, Johnny Carson, and Merv Griffin, becoming one of the country's best-known comedians, who one a Grammy award for his comedy album "No Respect," starred in numerous HBO specials and movies, and appeared on the "Tonight Show" more than 70 times, died of complications from heart surgery on October 5 in Los Angeles, CA.
Hope Hale Davis (100) Author and writing teacher whose book "Great Day Coming: A Memoir of the 1930s, recounted her experiences as an early feminist and communist, who taught journal writing and autobiography at Radcliffe College for many years until very recently, died of pneumonia on October 2 in Boston, MA
Jacques Derrida (74) French philosopher known as the father of deconstruction, the method of inquiry that asserted that all writing was full of confusion and contradiction and became a code word of intellectual discourse toward the end of the 20th century, who was both one of the most celebrated and notoriously difficult philosophers of his time, died of pancreatic cancer on October 8 in Paris, France.
Donald W. Douglas Jr. (87) Former president of Douglas Aircraft Co. who was responsible for the introduction of the DC-8 and DC-9 jetliners, who headed the firm at the time of the merger with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 (Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas would merge 30 years later), died of natural causes on October 3 of Hemet, CA.
Richard Ellison (80) Emmy-winning documentary producer best known for his 13-part history of the Vietnam War called , "Vietnam: A Television History which inspired both critical praise and an impassioned televised rebuttal after it was broadcast on public television that fueled the debate on the role of political advocacy in news programming,, and who also served director of current affairs programming for PBS, died on October 8 of diffuse Lewy body syndrome, a neurological disease, in Kingston, MA.
Fernando Gallardo (62), 18 Actor who received accolades in 1975 for his work as Sancho Panza in “Man Of LaMancha,” who was also a recognized theatre director-he directed the German Hans Otho de Postdam theatre, died October 2 in Santiago, Chile of cancer.
Max Geldray (88) ? British musician credited as the world's first jazz harmonica player, who became best known as a member of the hit 1950s radio comedy show ?The Goon Show,? with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Peter Sellers, died of natural causes in Palm Springs, CA on October 2..
Bill Gillen* (62) assignment manager for News 12 New Jersey, Cablevision’s regional all-news station, He worked at eight other stations in his career, including WLS-TV in Chicago, and WDIV-TV—formerly known as WWJ-TV—in Detroit; died Oct. 1 after a long illness.
DeeDee Glass (55) The American-born Dee Dee Glass, was a campaigning filmmaker, writer and activist who worked almost exclusively in Britain. Her work illuminated the underside of society, whose least powerful members she championed. Diana 'Dee Dee' Glass, filmmaker, born October 21 1948; died of complications following treatment for leukaemia September 13.
Wally Harper (63) director, arranger, and composer on Broadway, singer Barbara Cook’s musical director and collaborator for 30 years; Harper had some 20 credits on Broadway since 1969 for musical direction and arrangements, for A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, Irene, The Grand Tour, My One & Only, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, and the original production of Nine, which won the 1982 Tony for best musical; Harper also composed the off-Broadway musical died of cardiac arrest in NYC Oct. 8, 2004.
Janet Leigh (77) Actress and wholesome beauty best known as the victim of a shower slashing in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," (for which she was nominated for an Oscar), who co-starred with Frank Sinatra in the "Manchurian Candidate¨ and also appeared in films with James Stewart and John Wayne from the 1940s to 1960s, and who was the mother of actress Jamie Lee Curtis, died on October 3 in Beverly Hills, CA. She was 77 years old.
Joyce Jillson (58) Famed astrologer and author of a nationally syndicated astrology column that has appeared in nearly 200 newspapers, who was official astrologer for 20th Century Fox studios, consulting on the best opening days for Fox Movies, and who also read the stars for the Reagan White House, reportedly advising the Reagan campaign to select George H.W. Bush as the running mate in 1980, died of kidney failure on October 1 in Los Angeles, CA.
Jacques Levy (69) Theatre director who is best known for his direction of “Oh! Calcutta” on Broadway both in its original 1969 stage but also the revival in 1976-a total of more than 7,000 performances in all, who also wrote lyrics for the musical “Fame” and songs for Crystal Gayle and Carly Simon, died as the result of cancer on September 30 in Manhattan.
Pete McCarthy (52): British travel writer, broadcaster, and comedian who made his name in the ‘90s as the presenter of Travelog, a well-informed TV series in which the amiably ironic McCarthy took to the road as an “independent traveler”; his talent for observation and deadpan humor translated perfectly onto the page, and his two travel books, McCarthy’s Bar (2000) and The Road to McCarthy (2002) were best-sellers; although he came to writing relatively late in his career, McCarthy had long been drawn to what he regarded as an “impossibly wonderful” way of earning a living; McCarthy’s Bar is an entertaining meander across the Irish Republic in which the author, son of an Irish mother and English father, searches for his identity while continually obeying the rule. McCarthy had been planning a third book when he was diagnosed with cancer in February 2004; died on Oct. 6, 2004.
Bruce Palmer (58): bassist and an original member of the rock band Buffalo Springfield; born in Canada, Palmer played with Neil Young in a band called the Mynah Birds; Palmer and Young moved to LA in 1966 and joined Stephen Stills, drummer Dewey Martin, and singer-guitarist Richie Furay to form the Buffalo Springfield. Buffalo Springfield broke up in 1968; Young continued to perform many of his songs written for the group in his solo act such as “Mr. Soul,” “I Am a Child,” and “Broken Arrow”; Palmer died in Belleville, Ontario, Canada after a heart attack Oct. 1, 2004.
Ancil Payne (83) Former head of Seattle, Washington’s KING Broadcasting who guided the company to become a media empire and a haven for aggressive and broad approach to journalism, who was a mentor to many modern journalists-including CNN’s Lou Dobbs and Aaron Brown, and who was often known to champion liberal issues such as equal opportunity, died October 2 in Seattle after a 22 year battle against cancer.
Christopher Reeve (52) Actor who was beloved for his role as Superman in three movies and who turned activist for research into spinal-cord injuries-including the controversial stem cell research-after a fall from a horse in 1995 left him paralyzed from the neck down-taking him from Congress to smaller platforms to pursue his cause and made remarkable progress, according to his physicians, in regaining some feeling and small movements, and who moved into directing- Into The Gloaming- and making guest appearances after his injury, died October 10 in Mount Kisco, New York as the result of heart-failure caused by a systematic infection from a pressure-wound (a common ailment for those with paralysis.)
Maurice Shadbolt (72): acclaimed NZ novelist and writer who wove local history, tradition, and the country’s breathtaking landscapes into his stories; Shadbolt was best known for his 11 novels and four collections of short stories; after two years in Europe, Shadbolt published his first book to acclaim in Britain—a collection of short stories entitled The New Zealanders (1959); his novels won NZ’s book of the year award four times, and Shadbolt remained the only New Zealander to have won the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award three times; employed native history, tradition, landscape, and folklore in his writing; his works have been published in the US, and his short stories have been translated into Italian, German, Danish, and Swedish; died in Wellington, NZ after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease Oct. 10, 2004.
Jack Tinsley (69): longtime newsman who guided the Fort Worth Star-Telegram to two PPs as executive editor in the ‘80s; Tinsley worked at the Star-Telegram (1959–2000) except for a 15-month stint as editor of an in-house publication for Southwestern Bell; covered the Kennedy assassination in 1963 and the ‘64 slayings of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss.; won the National Education Writers Assoc.’s top award in 1965 for a series on academic freedom in Texas; became Sunday editor in 1966; later helped to lead the newspaper into the computer age as assistant managing editor/new technology, then was assistant to the editor before serving as executive editor (1975–86); retired in December 2000 as VP for community affairs; established the Jack B. Tinsley/Fort Worth Star-Telegram Endowed Journalism Scholarship Fund at the U of North Texas, which now totaled more than $100,000; Tinsley died in Fort Worth of complications from surgery for a ruptured aortic aneurysm Oct. 12, 2004.
Rossella Uttaro (25) Italian singer, actress and Catholic activist who had spent six months in China but died two months later after suffering from very high temperatures from what was initially suspected to be SARS, but was later determined to be an unknown ailment, died near Rome on October 1.
Heinz Wallberg (81) Symphony conductor with the Essen Philharmanic Orchestra who made more than 450 appearances with the Vienna State Opera, whose concerts were featured on more than 100 recordings and 100 television programs have covered his performances, died September 29 in Essen.
Iggie Wolfington (84) Comedic actor who was nominated a Tony for his Broadway performance in “The Music Man,” who was known for his work with actors’ unions, assisting many actors who were in need of financial and medical assistance and for many years of representation for the New York-based Actors Fund of America-including a proposal to start a west-coast base of operations, died September 30 in Los Angeles of natural causes.

Sport
Ken Caminiti (41) 1996 MVP of Major League Baseball's National League who played for the Houston Astros and the San Diego Padres during his 15-years career and was a three time All-Star third baseman, who later admitted using steroids and battled cocaine addiction, and who had been serving as a spring training instructor for the Padres this season, died of a heart attack on October 10 in the Bronx, NY.
John Cerutti- (44) a former pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays who became a television announcer for the team. The left-hander spent six seasons with Toronto and signed with Detroit as a free agent after the 1990 season, pitching one season for the Tigers. He finished with a 49-43 career record. Died of natural causes; was found dead in his Toronto hotel room on Oct. 3.
John A. Kelley (97) Famed runner who was a two-time winner (in 1935 and 1945) of the Boston Marathon who made the United States Olympic team three times, ran around 1,500 races, 112 marathons, won 22 diamond rings, 118 watches, one refrigerator and no money, finished the Boston Marathon 58 times, the last time in 1992, died on October 6 in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts.
Angelo Giuliani (91) Scout for the Minnesota Twins who recruited Kent Hrbek and Tim Laudner, who was a catcher in the 1930s and 40's and was behind the plate for Joe DiMaggio's first at-bat in the majors as well as on the field in New York during Lou Gehrig's famous farewell speech and who spent more than 60 years in baseball, died October 8 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Kim King (59): one of Georgia Tech’s best quarterbacks and a radio analyst for Yellow Jackets sports for the past 30 years; known as “The Young Lefthander,” King had a standout career (1965–67) for coach Bobby Dodd, leading the team to the Gator and Orange bowls; once the school’s career passing leader with 2,763 yd, he was eighth on the school list; was inducted into the Georgia Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 1978 and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in ’96; joined the school’s radio broadcast team in 1974; at the school’s Oct. 2, 2004 home football game against Miami, Tech honored him by dedicating the Kim King Football Locker Room at Bobby Dodd Stadium; King also was finance chairman for former Gov. Roy Barnes and chairman of the Georgia Public Broadcasting board; helped to raise money for cancer research and the Bobby Dodd Charities Foundation; King died of leukemia in Atlanta six days after his 59th birthday Oct. 12, 2004.
Keith Ross Miller(84): Australian cricketer, one of the most glamorous and carelessly talented players of all time, whether as a batsman of regal grace or as a fast bowler of ferocious hostility. When he retired in 1956, his Test record of 2,958 runs (with seven centuries) at 36.97 and 170 wickets at 22.97 was unsurpassed by an all-rounder; in all matches he made 14,183 runs (including 41 hundreds) at an average of 48.90 and took 497 wickets at a cost of 22.26 each; his best years, of course, had been lost to WWII; Miller wrote several cricket books with R. S. Whittington, proved a trenchant journalist for the London Daily Express (1956–74), worked for Vernons Pools, and acted as a public relations officer (official and unofficial) for racing; was appointed MBE in 1956; married Peggy Wagner in 1946; they had four sons; died on. Oct. 11, 2004.
Mildred McDaniel Singleton (70) Top track athlete of the 1950s who won a gold medal for the high jump in the 1956 Olympics while setting a world record and was the U.S. women's high hump champion in 1953, 1955, and 1956, and who was a member of the National Track and Field Hall of Fame, died of cancer on October 5 in Pasadena, CA. She was 70 years old.
Norm Schachter (90) National Football League referee who spent 22 years with the league and refereed the first Super Bowl and the first Monday Night Football game, who was a former school principal and superintendent for the Los Angeles Unified School District, and who wrote numerous books including "Close Calls: The Confessions of a NFL Referee," which showcased his ready wit, died of natural causes on October 3 in San Pedro, CA
Justin Strzelczyk Former offensive linemen for the Pittsburgh Steelers who played with the team for almost ten years including the 1995 Super Bowl, led police on a 40 mile chase during rush hour, running on his tire rims after spike strips flattened his tires, and finally crashing head-on into a tanker truck which killed him on September 30 in Pittsburgh.

Art and Literature
Warren Armstrong (70) President of Wichita State University from 1983 to 1993 who is probably best known for his decision to drop football from the university program after a lengthy fund-raising drive to help save the program, who helped steer the university towards adding doctorates in many programs and to the development of the National Institute for Aviation Research, and who wrote a book about Chaplains who served in the Civil War, died October 1 in Grand Lake, Oklahoma.
Helen Gee (85) pioneer in sales of photos as art whose Limelight photography gallery in Greenwich Village in the ‘50s became a blueprint for the offering and selling of photography as an art form; spacious and well lit, the Limelight was started in May 1954 and supported by the adjoining coffeehouse; although a market in fine photographs was almost nonexistent, for about seven years Limelight carried on as if there were one, setting the standard for successors that came in a trickle in the early ‘70s and grew into a flood by the ‘90s; Gee mounted new shows at roughly five-week intervals and wrote the news releases; two earlier galleries—Alfred Stieglitz’s 291 early in the 20th century and Julien Levy’s in the ‘30s—had tried to sell photographs but without success. She died in NYC on Oct. 10, 2004
Willy Guhl (89) Furniture designer who designed in the Swiss neofunctional design style-most notably the “loop” chair and table, which was made of a single piece of material bent into a “loop” shape, who was one of the pioneers of “flat packed” furniture-furniture that could be assembled at home at a more reasonable price to consumers-which has since been made famous by the furniture chain Ikea, died October 4 in Hemishofen, Switzerland as the result of heart failure.
William A. Watkins (78) Expert in marine mammal acoustics who created a large database-over 20,000 sounds-of underwater calls from more than 70 species, who helped expand the field with his development of a tape-recording device that could be carried out to sea which led to many more opportunities for field research, died September 24 in East Falmouth, Massachusetts as the result of multiple myeloma.

Politics and Military
Gerard Pierre-Charles (68): - Prominent Haitian intellectual, economist and author who was involved in politics for half a century, a longtime Communist who helped found the Party of Popular Understanding (later absorbed into the Haitian Communist Party), and who began 26 years in exile when Communists faced persecution under President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, died of heart failure on October 10 in Havana, Cuba, where he was receiving emergency treatment for a lung infection.
Willis M. Hawkins (90) Former Lockheed executive and principal designer of the military transport aircraft known as the C-130 Hercules, a plane that used in military services to carry cargo and troops and one of the few planes that has remained in continuous production for 50 years, who also contributed to the design of the first missile launched underwater and served as the served as assistant secretary of the Army for research and development under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; awarded the National Medal of Science by former President Ronald Reagen. He died on September 28 in Los Angeles, CA.
Townsend Hoopes (82) Author who wrote about Lydon Baynes Johnson's efforts to de-escalate the Vietnam war in 1968, who was a former assistant secretary of defense, was Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's principal deputy for international security affairs and later was the undersecretary of the Air Force, whose book "The Limits of Intervention" was very critical of the Vietnamese Tet offensive, died September 20 in Baja California, Mexico as the result of melanoma.
Andres NazarioSargen (88) Leader of the anti-Castro group Alpha 66-the oldest anti-Castro group in Miami which was named for its 66 founding members who were exiles that created the group after arriving in Miami after being facing execution in Cuba, who claimed his organization have staged uprisings to overthrow Castro, died October 6 in Miami as the result of colon cancer.
Edward Silver (83) prominent labor lawyer who was the first chairman of New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, which monitors police conduct, died on Oct 1 at his home in Greenwich, Conn. pancreatic cancer.

Social and Religion
Yogi Bhajan (75) Spiritual leader of the Sikh religion (Sikhism originated in the Punjab in the 15th century and preaches the commonality of all religions, the virtue of hard work and a belief in one god) in the West who introduced his form of the Sikh religion with many changes unfamiliar to Indian Sikhs, including the practice that all his followers be vegetarians, who was a renown teacher of the Indian form of yoga- Kundalini yoga (it's more active than the traditional Hatha yoga practiced by many Americans)-and who met with many religious leaders including two popes, two archbishops of Canterbury and the Dalai Lama, died October 7 in Espanola, Mexico of heart failure.
Ma Chengyuan (77) Protector of Chinese art who saved many artifacts from destruction at the hands of the Red Guard during the cultural revolution (1966-1976) when teenagers inspired by Mao Tse-Tung’s call for destruction of all pre-revolutionary art stormed through homes of collectors and destroyed the work by sleeping in his office at the Shanghai Museum (where he later served as president) and took calls from panicked residents who wanted their art protected. When the Guard finally broke into the museum, he tried to disguise the art and the museum workers but was taken hostage by radicals on the museum staff and tortured, and later was sent to a labor camp for officials (he returned in 1972), and died September 25.
H. Dean Evans (75) Lifelong educator who served as Indiana's state superintendent from 1985 to 1992 and helped develop and win passage of the ?A-Plus? program, a sweeping education reform program that required student achievement exams, a school accreditation system based on performance and rewards for schools that improved, and who served on the first President Bush?s Education Policy Advisory Commission, died of brain cancer on October 2 in Indianapolis, IN.
Edward Green (30) A convicted killer was executed even though the handling of his case by Houston’s troubled police lab had been called into question by two state senators and the police chief himself, was put to death Oct. 5 despite his attorneys’ pleas that evidence relevant to his double murder trial might be in some 280 recently discovered boxes that had been mislabeled and improperly stored.
Edward McAteer (78) Founder of the Religious Roundtable, a conservative Christian group created in 1979 that was meant to involve conservative Christians in the political process, opposing abortion, pornography and communism and which was considered a key in the victory of the campaign of Ronald Regan for president in 1980 and impacting the tie between religious right and politics that still exists today, died October 6 in Memphis after a battle with cancer.
Peter Miniel (42)- Texas death row inmate executed for stabbing and fatally beating a 20-year old man with a car shock absorber and a beer mug in 1986, who only recently disclosed he had lied when he previously pled innocent to the crime, and who became the 15th Texas prisoner executed in 2004 , was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas on October 6.
Sammy Crystal Perkins (51) )- North Carolina death row inmate executed for the 1992 rape and killing of the 7-year-old granddaughter of his girlfriend, whose execution had been contested on the grounds that the lethal injection method was inhumane, was executed by that method on October 8 in Raleigh, NC.

Business and Science
Dr. Philip H. Sechzer (90) An aesthesiologist who was an expert researcher on pain who helped develop a system to allow patients to control their own pain medication delivery-called Pain-Controlled Analgesia, a system which, at the push of a button, patients with chronic pain or who are suffering post-surgery pain can deliver limited amounts of pain medication when they need it, died September 26 in Manhattan.
Gordon Cooper (77) Astronaut who once set a space endurance record by traveling more than 3.3 million miles aboard Gemini 5 in 1965, who was one of the seven original Mercury astronauts, who was the first American to sleep in space and who once manually landed a mission when the automatic system failed, died on October 4 in Ventura, California.
Maxime Faget- (83) a pioneering NASA engineer who designed the original spacecraft for Project Mercury and whose work helped create every human spacecraft the agency has launched since; died Oct. 9.
Maurice H.F Wilkins (87) Nobel Prize-winning physicist who contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA by Dr. James D. Watson and Dr. Francis H. C. Crick, and who was often at the center of controversial claims regarding the true DNA structure discoveries, died on October 6 in London, England.
Dr. Jeffrey S. Schechner (30) Professor of dermatology at Yale University who led research into how to produce better artificial skin for grafting that would last longer and promote better healing of wounds like burns, ulcers and blisters, died of a stroke on September 7 in New Haven, CT.