Joseph Hawes Wesson, youngest child of Daniel B. and Cynthia M. (Hawes) Wesson, was born September 27, 1859, and was educated in the grammar schools and Professor Stebbins’ private school in Springfield, completing his course at the age of twenty years. After leaving school he accompanied his parents to Europe, where he spent six months in travel. Shortly after attaining his twenty-first year he entered the Smith & Wesson factory, where he worked at the bench as an artisan one year, and another year in the draughting room, where he made drawings of tools and fixtures.
 Too close application to his work had a bad effect on his health, and he sought to restore lost vigor, first by a short visit to Europe, and then by a residence for a year and a half at Colorado Springs, Colorado. Finding himself again in health, he returned to the factory where he became superintendent, which position he filled until 1905, since which time his work has been of a more general character. He has been a partner in the business since 1887. Wesson has an especial bent for mechanics and to him numerous improvements in machinery are due, some of which he perfected before he was twenty-one years of age. His invention of an automatic machine for drilling pistol barrels enables one man to do the work of five by the former methods in use. With his automatic machine for drilling cylinders, two men do the work formerly done by five. Another labor-saving device of his invention is an automatic machine for drilling holes in small pieces. Besides these he had devised many improvements that are referred to by him as “little things.” In 1900 he spent three months in Europe, having the oversight of the firm’s exhibit at the Universal Exposition at Paris. He is a director of the Union Trust Company of Springfield. In political sentiment ho is a Republican, with a tendency to liberal views. He is a member of the Nayasset and the Springfield Automobile clubs. He is fond of travel in his own country and has a familiar knowledge of most parts of the United States.
 He married, June 7, 1882, Florence May Stebbins, born November 27, 1860, daughter of Professor Milan C. and Sophia (Pitts) Stebbins, of Springfield. Children : 1. Eleanor Sanford, born April 21, 1883 ; married, November 4, 1908, Flynt Lincoln, teller of the Springfield Safe Deposit and Trust Company. 2. Douglas B., born October 23, 1884, see forward. 3. Victor Hawes, born October 6, 1890; now a student in the technical department of the high school, Springfield 

At a meeting of the North Berwick National Bank last Monday, W. B. Tobey was elected a director to fill the vacancy caused by the decease of Isaac M. Hobbs. (Source: The Biddeford Journal, Apr. 27, 1883) 

At the little cottage on Oak Hill, Newton, occured one the prettiest weddings of many days. Dr. S. U. Shearman performed the ceremony, only immediate relatives present. The contracting parties were George A. Botsford and Hannah Merriam Skinner, both of Boston. Noticeable among those present were Miss Caroline M. White, Mr. Harry Botsford, Mr. Harry Botsford, Vernon V. Skinner, Esq., Master Gordon Botsford, Mr. Roy Churchill Skinner, Helen Margaret Botsford, Mr. Arthur J. Merriam, Mrs. Arthur J. Merriam, Dr. and Mrs. Edward M. Skinner, father and mother of the bride, Miss Eleanor Borsford, Edward M. Skinner, Jr., Miss Ehtel Macomber and Miss Carrie Mair Skinner. (Source : Jamaica Plain News, Aug. 4, 1906). 

Nous avons annoncé ces jours derniers l’arrestation, en flagrant délit de vol, d’un jeune homme de dix-huit ans, Georges Tarquin, dit Prudent, jardinier, né et domicilié à Angoulême. Ce jeune homme, qui a déjà été condamné, le 2 avril 1881, par le tribunal de notre ville, à huit mois de prison pour le même délit, n’a pas profité de cette rude leçon. Ses parents, qui sont d’honnêtes gens, on vainement cherché à le détourner de la voie du mal ; le prévenu s’abandonne à ses mauvais instincts, se livre à l’oisiveté et au vagabondage et se laisse entraîner jusqu’au vol.
 Vu ses mauvais antécédents, le tribunal condamne l’accusé à un an de prison. (Source : La Charente, lundi 27 février 1882, page 3) 

Raoul Vèze est un Hommes de lettres, né à Casseneuil (Lot-et-Garonne) en 1864. Il est un fin connaisseur de Giacomo Casanova auquel il a consacré de nombreux ouvrages. Il écrit aussi sous deux pseudonymes : Bagneux de Villeneuve, et Jean Hervez. (voi notice de la BnF).
 Raoul Vèze est fait chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (Ministère de l’Instruction publique et des beaux-arts) le 1er janvier 1910. 

Robert Bruce Brannon was born in Mounds, Illinois, November 12, 1900, and shortly thereafter was carried to Arkansas by his parents, where he grew up, attending public school in Newport and Walnut Ridge.
 Robert Bruce Brannon attended Arkansas College at Batesville, graduating with a B. A. degree and, pursuing his early determination, entered Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1925, graduating in 1925 with a B. D. degree. Immediately thereafter he entered the ministerial service and has held pastorates at Laredo, Hillsboro and is now located at Commerce.
 He is the first ordained minister to serve the Grand Lodge of Texas as Grand Master. 

1881 and 1891 censuses exhibit another Arthur Coes (b. abt 1876) in Saint John, New Brunswick. 

1881 Canadian Census
Census place: Cambridge, Queens, New Brunswick
Amanda Straight - Age: 31 | Birthplace: New Brunswick | Religion: Baptist 

1881 Canadian census: He was a farmer. 

2nd Lieutenenant Howard Maitland Lyons has been killed in action (27 Feb. 1917) in France. He was buried in Cité Bonjean Military Cemetery (Plot III, Row F, Grave No. 16), in Armentières.

 

Biographie succincte de Joachim Joseph LUCET

 

Source: McDormand Genealogy Web Site. 

Political Graveyard: Carleton, John P. of Bedford, Hillsborough, N.H. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1948. Still living as of 1948.

U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum: John P. Carleton was a true skiing pioneer in the north eastern United States. He captained the Dartmouth Ski Team, and later the Oxford University Ski Team, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. A lawyer he was also a veteran of both World Wars. He was on the first U.S. Olympic Ski Team, competing in Chamonix in 1924 in the cross country and nordic combined events. With Charles Proctor he was, in 1931, the first to climb and ski the Tuckerman headwall. In 1932 he competed in the Eastern Amateur Ski Association’s first downhill race on Mount Mooselauke. He also was successful in obtaining Civilian Conservation Corps funds for the development of 15 ski trails in New Hampshire.

— Register of Rhodes Scholars, 1903-1945 – p. 188
from Rhodes Trust (Oxford, England), University of Oxford Rhodes Scholarships, C. K. Allen - 1950 - 290 pages
Carleton, John Porter (New Hampshire)., b. 13 Sept. 1899. Hanover HSc. [...] Phillips Acad., Andover, Mass., & Dartmouth Coll. AB Magdalen 1922-5. Jurispr. 3rd CI. B.A. 1925.. L.T. v. Camb. 1923–5 (Capt. 1925). 1925– : Practice of Law, Manchester, N.H. ; 1928–9: Asst. Attorney-Gen. for N.H. 1939–45; Capt. to Maj., U.S. Army Air Corps; European theater; Bronze Star Medal. m. Alicia Prescott Skinner. One s. Two d. 40 Stark St., Manchester, NH

— A Genealogical and Biographical Record Concerning Amos Reed and Annie (Webb) Reed and All Their Descendants to January 1, 1955.
Worrall Dumont Prescott, 1956 (ISBN:1417300841)
Children of Dr. Elmer Howard Carleton and Louise Porter Carleton.
1. John Porter Carleton (only child).
Born, Sept. 13, 1899, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Married, Alice Prescott Skinner, July 1, 1931, Paris, France.
Alice Prescott Skinner, daug. of Ord Prescott Skinner and Alice Van Loan Carrick Skinner.
John graduated from Hanover High School; Phillips-Andover Academy; Dartmouth College, with a B.A. Degree, in 1922; Oxford University, England, with a B.A. and B.C.L. Degree. During his Junior year at Dartmouth he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is a practicing attorney in Manchester, New Hampshire and a member of the Law Firm of “McLane, Carleton, Graf, Green & Brown.” In World War I he served as a Sergeant in the US Army and in World War II was a Major in the US Air Corps, 1942-1945. Alice attended Hanover High School; Northampton School for Girls; and Smith College. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa while at Smith. She also attended University of Grenoble and Sorbonne University in France.

Children of John Porter Carleton and Alice Prescott Skinner Carleton. John a son of Dr. Elmer Howard Carleton and Louise Porter Carleton. Dr. Elmer a son of Amanda T. Perkins Carleton and Leonard Carleton.
1. Anthony Wayne Carleton
Born, Jan. 22, 1935, Manchester, New Hampshire.
He is a Senior at Dartmouth College (Class of 1956)
2. Janet Porter Carleton
Born, Jan 20, 1933, Manchester, New Hampshire.
Married, Dr. Jonathan Snow Lewis, Jr., Dec. 24, 1951, Manchester, New Hampshire. Dr. Jonathan Snow Lewis, Jr., son of Jonathan Snow and Pearl Woodward Lewis. Born Mar. 14, 1919, Concord, New Hampshire. They live in Bedford, New Hampshire. Their children: (1). Stephanie Lewis, born, May 13, 1953, Ayer, Massachusetts. (2). Jonathan Snow Lewis, III, born, Oct. 13, 1955, Ayer, Massachusetts. Janet attended Manchester High School, Manchester, New Hampshire; Saint Mary’s, Littleton, New Hampshire; Saint Mary’s, Littleton, New Hampshire; and the University of Colorado.
Dr. Jonathan attended Concord High School, Concord, New Hampshire; New Hampshire University; and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Veterinary. He served two stretches in the U. S. Army. The last being in North Africa. He held the Rank of Major.
3. Alice Prescott Carleton
Born, Sept. 5, 1941, Manchester, New Hampshire. 

Source: New Hampshire Authors — Carrick, Alice Van Leer (Mrs. Prescott Orde Skinner) (1875–); lived in Hanover, NH; antiques expert

Source: Collectors Luck in France, 1924 by Carrick, Alice van Leer.

Source: Collector’s Luck, 1937 DeLuxe edition Garden City Pub 207 pp. Collector’s Luck, 1919 possible 1st Atlantic Monthly Press Pub 207 pp.

Source: Collector’s luck in England, Little Brown and Co. Boston 1926 inscribed by author, a good copy.

Source: A History of American Silhouettes – A Collector’s Guide, Charles E Tuttle Co.

Source: Shades of our Ancestors, Little, Brown and Co. Boston 1928. Red cloth with gilt lettering and silhouette on cover. Inscribed First Edition Condition: Previous owners’ signature on front fly endpaperand spine fading. otherwise, Very Good.

Source: Interview with A. Hyatt Mayor (march 21, 1969) Simthsonian Archives of American Art
[...]
HM: Yes. A number of silhouette collections came in. There was a little Mary Martin (not the actress), another one who, out of the blue, bequeathed us her silhouette collection. I don’t know who she was, never met her, have no idea.
PC: Just a letter came one day.
HM: Just a letter came one day from the lawyer saying it’s yours if you want it. It was a very good collection. Then I was able to get Glen Tilley Morse to bequeath his collection which was the next biggest American collection. And I was able to buy a lot of the ones out of a collection formed by Mrs. Hill in Charlottesville. Those were the three greatest American collections. Then there was Alice Van Leer Carrick whose collection went to the Smithsonian. But we got three out of the four great American collections of silhouettes.
[...]

Source: New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 — Name: Alice van Lear Skinner; Arrival Date: 2 Sep 1923; Port of departure: Glasgow, Scotland; Ship Name: Columbia. 

Source: George Elder fonds:
 George Elder, the son of Catherine Curran and Alexander Elder, was born at Saint John, New Brunswick on 24 August 1850. The Elders raised no fewer than 3 other children, namely, Robert, Catherine, and Samuel. In 1889 George Elder was farming in Carleton, New Brunswick. On 16 April of that year he married Mary Jane McDougal of Carleton County. They had at least 4 children, namely, Samuel Rutherford (b. 23 July 1892), Mary (b. 26 January 1894), George William (b. 7 April 1895), and Jean McDougal (b. 16 February l897).
 By 1895 George and Mary Elder were living at Passekeag, Kings, and both were active in the local Reformed Presbyterian Church. George was employed as a colporteur or travelling salesman by the Canadian Bible Society, and he travelled widely in south-central New Brunswick selling Bibles and other religious books. In 1903 he was president of the Upham and St. Martins branch of the Bible Society, and about 1905 he was appointed for missionary work in the lumber camps of the Miramichi by the Miramichi Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church.
 About 1906, the Elders were residing at Salmon Creek, near Chipman, New Brunswick. Mary Jane Elder died prematurely on 4 October 1907. Son George William Elder married Margaret E. Vail of Belleisle Creek on 1 July 1919. On 12 November of that year his father George Elder married Jennie Straight (b. 14 February 1871) of Gagetown, Queens County. She predeceased him on 3 September 1926.
 Throughout his life, George Elder contributed poems and numerous letters to the editor to several newspapers, including the Presbyterian Witness, the Witness and Canadian Homestead, and the Telegraph-Journal. Many of his letters to the editor dealt with religious subjects. George Elder died at Belleisle Creek, New Brunswick on 11 January 1931, aged 80. 

Source: L. Caron. 

The Des Moines Register 07/17/1999:

President Clinton came to Iowa on Friday to make a passionate plea for his school reconstruction program and to raise a little political money for an ally, Sen. Tom Harkin. The president had little to say publicly about the farm crisis buffeting the state, although he met privately with a group of farmers to talk about it.
Farm Problems
During his speech at the school, Clinton made only a passing reference to Iowa’s farm problems."There are still a lot of places in the country that aren’t participating in the economic recovery," he said. "The big problem on the farm is we’ve had four years in a row of a worldwide record harvest for the first time in our history. And an economic collapse in 1997 in Asia." As a result, "prices collapse," he said.
A heckler shouted "Freedom to Farm" at Clinton, a reference to a bill Congress passed and he signed that ended many subsidy programs.
"Exactly right," Clinton said.
"The people who put in that Freedom to Farm Act acted like there would never be a bad year on the farm," he said. While offering no details, he said, "We’re working on it."
After the school visit, the president met with Harkin, Gov. Tom Vilsack, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Patty Judge and Iowa farmers to talk about the farm crisis. Clinton heard about specific farmers’ woes. Aides said the president did not offer promises.
According to the White House, Clinton met with John Whittaker, president of the Iowa Farmers Union; Wendy Wintersteen of the Iowa State Agricultural Farm Credit office; Glen Rowe, a former president of the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association; Mary Krier, who farms with her husband near Sigourney; Craig Hill, a member of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation board; Richard Mahacek, a farmer and cattle producer; and Doug Thompson, a corn and soybean farmer.

Iowa and Missouri Alumni: Each year, Cultural Homestay International host families welcome students from 39 different countries. Many of our students report that the semester or academic year they spent in America, “Changed my life.”

Five years ago, during CHI’s first year active in the Midwest, Polish student Edyta Wedolowicz came to live with Bev and Glen Rowe’s family near Dallas Center, Iowa, and to attend Dallas Center-Grimes High School. Edyta quickly became part of her host family, and participated in cheerleading and art club at school. She made friends and won hearts! After returning to Poland, Edyta came back for a semester to study at Central College in Pella, Iowa, and then completed her studies in Poland. She recently wrote to Area Program Administrator Diane Findlay to bring Diane up to date on her life. Edyta is now married, working as a dental assistant in Poland, and mother to a darling daughter. (Edyta, husband Jakub and daughter Julia pictured left). Edyta sends “best wishes for your future success with kids from all over the world,” and “best regards to all whom I met in Iowa.”

 

American Baptist Regions:
Dr. Clayton R. Woodbury, ABC of Pennsylvania & Delaware,
106 Revere Ln, Coatsville, PA 19320,
1-800/358-6999, FAX 610/466-2013, cab2644@aol.com , [PA & DE]

American Baptist News for oct. 4, 1996 :
 Dr. Clayton R. Woodbury, executive minister of the Pittsburgh Baptist Association, has been named the next executive minister of the American Baptist Churches of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Woodbury, who was elected Sept. 21 by the Region Board, will begin his new duties Jan. 1, 1997. The decision was announced by ABCOPAD President Myra Goss. Woodbury had been recommended to the Board unanimously by a region search committee. Robert Allen, former treasurer/associate general secretary of American Baptist Churches USA, has been serving as interim executive minister since the retirement of Dr. Richard Rusbuldt in September 1995. Woodbury has served since 1989 as executive minister of the Pittsburgh Baptist Association, where he previously had been associate executive minister. Since 1991 he has been an instructor at the Center for Urban Biblical Ministry.
 Ordained in 1965, Woodbury has held pastorates at First Baptist Church, Bangor, Me. (1965-1985), and First Baptist Church, North Oxford, Mass. (1965-1969). He also has been an adjunct faculty member at New York Theological Seminary (1973-1986) and director of Theological Education for Laity at Bangor Theological Seminary (1981-1986). Woodbury has held numerous positions on committees and other bodies of American Baptist Churches USA, including many as a representative of the Regional Executive Ministers Council.
 He holds degrees from Trinity College (B.S.), Andover Newton Theological School (B.D.) and New York Theological Seminary (S.T.M., D.Min.). His wife, Nancy, is assistant executive director of Fair Oaks of Pittsburgh, a retirement community. They are members of North Hills Community Baptist Church in Pittsburgh. In announcing Woodbury’s appointment in a letter sent to ABCOPAD churches, Goss noted, “I am certain that you will be encouraged by Dr. Woodbury’s sincere dedication to Jesus Christ and the Church […] please keep Dr. Woodbury in your prayers, asking both God’s blessing and leading as he assumes this new office.” The American Baptist Churches of Pennsylvania and Delaware, one of 34 regions within American Baptist Churches USA, includes approximately 280 churches and 42,000 resident members.

cab2644@aol.com  

Source: “A Real (beach) Bum”

   Say the phrase “beach bum” in Margate and the words “Christopher Cook Gilmore” come back faster than the echo of wave slapping a steel-hulled boat.
 “I take my measure of a man by how much time he spends on the beach,” Gilmore said recently. Gilmore, 58, is the son of the late Eddie Gilmore, who won a Pulitzer in 1947 for his dispatches from Moscow for the Associated Press. Christopher Cook Gilmore is a writer of note himself, having published six novels and hundreds of short stories and articles. If there is an occupation made for beach bums, it’s writer.
 But Gilmore has become many other things to support his beach habit. He is a carpenter, mechanic, substitute teacher and, occasionally, a sailing instructor for topless French women. When he’s not traveling abroad he rises at maybe 6 a.m., writes until 10 a.m. or noon and then is free to pursue that which interests him, and that which interests him usually involves something on the beach. His skills in the waves on his 14-foot Hobie catamaran are near legendary. Sometimes it’s the women walking by that interest him, and his skills with women are… well, never mind. Who knows what’s true and what occupies local storytellers? Suffice it to say that Gilmore appreciates natural beauty. “A day without love,” he said, “is a day without sunshine.”
 He has held only three “real” jobs, as an Associated Press correspondent for a year and, for two years, as a teacher in Absecon and as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, which was his way of honorably avoiding fighting in Vietnam.
 He was a lifeguard during high school, but he doesn’t count that because it wasn’t year-round. “That’s what ruined me for working during the summer,” he said. “After that I would never do anything that would keep me off the beach on a hot sunny day.”
The best he can do now is to substitute teach for Ocean City High School. “I tell them don’t call me more than twice a week and only when it rains,” he said.
 He has learned to live simply. His car is a ’71 Triumph Spitfire. He lives in a wing of his mother’s house in Margate a block from the beach. He has no children and no ex-wives, but he does have a steady girlfriend. He owns a small motorboat, a garvey. He does have a cell phone, which he sometimes uses to order subs while he’s on the beach, which he gets delivered to the bulkhead.
 Come cold weather all he needs is an airline ticket to someplace warm - Bali, or Borneo or Madagascar or maybe Southeast Asia. Sometimes he brings his Hobie. For a time he lived in a tent on a beach on St. Martin, next to the boat, which was also next to a rasta bar, where his job was to give sailing lessons to topless French girls. He has a fondness for the French language, which he attributes to his ability to consort with the natives.
“I’ve lived with a lot of French women,” he said. “I’ve lied in French, made love in French…”
 This is what being a beach bum can be like if you are really, really good - and dedicated. But this style of beach bumming cannot be pursued from an office in center-city Philly. It requires commitment, retraining and a willingness to give up the suits, the cars, the fancy houses, the kids, the spouses, the retirement, the security, the fancy boats… but, hey, we’re talking topless French women here.
 If there’s anybody who can explain what it is about the beach, it’s Gilmore.
 “It’s a Zen thing,” he said. It’s the confluence of the sea and land - where they meet, the synthesis of land and sea. When I’m there I feel the immense power of the sea. The thing is, all the problems we have happen on the land, and when we look out at the sea they vanish, and we realize the only thing that matters is the right now.”
 Thanks, Gilmore, thanks for giving us that look into a style of beach bumming that most of us will only dream about.

Source:

Christopher claims to have spent an entire winter writing short stories in a blue tent on top of a sand dune on the coast of southern Morocco - without getting a grain of sand in his typewriter. Christopher travels extensively, speaks six languages and hasn’t had a day job in years. He is the author of Atlantic City Proof, The Bad Room and Road Kills among others. He divides his time between his homes in Morocco and Atlantic City.

 

Oral history interview with Vera Sprecher and Robert Sprecher Interview March 17, 1992 (2 sound cassettes - English) 

Source: Louisiana, New Orleans Passenger Lists, 1820-1945.
Immigration (1933) Louisiana, New Orleans. Ship Name: Amer. Tivives, United Fruit Company.
Cohen, Aura Lila Mendoza | age: 21 | Housewife | Nicaraguan | b: Diriamba, Nicaragua
Cohen, Harry | age: 32 | Sergeant U.S. Army | American | b: Boston, Mass.

Source: New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957.
Immigration (1937) New York. Ship Name: Santa Inez.
Passengers embarked at Panama Canal zone (Jul. 28, 1937)
Cohen, Aura | age: 26y3m | Citizenship: Spa. Amer | bp: Diriamba, Nicaragua
Cohen, Frank | age: 4y | Citizenship: USA | bp: Perris I., S. Carolina
Cohen, Mary | age: 1y1m | Citizenship: USA | bp: Acon, Panama 

Source: United States, Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956. :
Name: Alma Gladys Palmer | Arrival Date: 20 Sep 1941 | Arrival Port: Calais, Maine | Age: 19 | Birthplace: Saint John, New Brunswick | Departure Contact: Uncle Fred W. Cameron | Arrival Contact: Mother Miss Ruby Thelma Palmer. 

Sheffield Mills Marsh dedicated to Hugh Fairn (Sept. 2, 2013 ; updated: Sept. 30, 2017). 

Source: 2008/03/25 at 12:00 AM - Liz Ford, Staff Writer, eford@smu.edu

A woman’s journey and lucky escape

 It was 1944 in The Hague, Netherlands. An abandoned doll sat lifeless in a deserted house on the city’s oldest street. Hand-knit clothes clung to her porcelain body; specks of dust grayed her hair. Suddenly, knocks echoed through the narrow street and watery eyes peered through curtains in neighboring homes. Heavy fists hammered on the wooden door. There was no answer. The Nazi soldiers came too late. The Pajgin family was gone.
 Today, Liny Pajgin Yollick sits in her Dallas home with her husband Bernard. Her right hand fiddles with a gold watch on her left wrist as her light blue eyes scan the walls. Her own paintings meet her gaze. She spends much of her time filling empty canvases with the striking colors nestled in her mind.
 Liny was 16 years old when the Germans marched to the Netherlands. Her family, like many, went underground during the initial takeover. She hid in a small air raid shelter with her mother, father and three sisters, terrified to see what was happening outside. “I hated to come out because I knew I was going see them,” she said. “It was better than living under the Germans.”
 Soon those, like Liny, who lived to see the atrocities of the Holocaust, will not be able to share their stories. Survivors and war veterans are now at least 80 years old. SMU Professor of Human Rights Dr. Rick Halperin believes that it is crucial that new generations understand the plight of the Jews and other victims in World War II. The nearly 6,000,000 people who were systematically slaughtered because of their religion cannot be forgotten. Knowledge and action are the two things humans have than can ensure a tragedy such as the Holocaust does not reoccur. “What happened in the Holocaust is not an aberration of human behavior. In every damn decade since World War II there is genocide. It’s up to us to make sure they stop,” Halperin said.
 When Liny emerged from the shelter after five days, the royal family had fled to England and new edicts had been enforced. She walked to city hall with her family and was given a star to wear. A large “J” was printed on her ID card and she was removed from school. By 7 p.m. she was indoors, dreading any knock on the door.
 Her father, Leo, hid the family’s gold coins under floorboards in the attic and returned to work every day. His wife Emma was young, smart and beautiful. She cared for her children and then went to work in the family shoe store. When Leo died of a heart attack on Dec. 7, 1941, Emma was left to provide for the family.
 Emma Pajgin would not stand idly by and watch her three daughters starve. Risking instant death, she sold shoes to Nazi soldiers on the black market, using her charm and beauty to disguise her Jewish identity. She convinced grocers to save food for her family after specified “Jewish shopping hours” had elapsed. Her daughters never went hungry. “She thought of everything,” Liny said.

 After two years of German occupation, Emma made a decision. She rounded up her daughters and gave them instructions. Liny, instead of celebrating her 18th birthday, slid on two dresses and cut a slit inside her shoe. She slipped a few gold coins in while sandwiches were prepared in the kitchen. The four women left The Hague in the morning of July 14, 1941, leaving all of their belongings behind, including her prized possession: a doll wearing clothes she knit herself.
 It was a four-week journey to Southern France. Though Jews were banned from train travel, the Pajgin women boarded. “People never think I’m Jewish,” she said. “I don’t know what you have to look like to be Jewish, but people never thought I was. That helped us.”
 The journey was hard. Afraid of being captured, the four women took separate paths and decided to meet at a small farmhouse near the Belgian border. Completely alone, Liny set off on her journey. Before long she lost her way and was forced to ask a nearby farmer for help. “He told me that everyone knew what I was doing, so I should just turn around and go home,” she explained.
 Though she was terrified, Liny kept walking. She turned from the farmer without a word and wandered the countryside until she found the farmhouse where her mother and sisters awaited her arrival. They spent days in the house under the protection of a friend. Finally, word came that the border was clear, and the women set off again. Once across the border, Liny boarded another train. “I was so nervous, I trembled the whole time,” she said.
 The four women took the stop at Antwerp, deciding to hide at an uncle’s house. The visit was short; Emma knew they needed to keep moving. For two days the women pleaded with Liny’s uncle to join them, but he could not be swayed. He remained in Antwerp with his wife and 12-year-old daughter. All three were taken from their home and killed before the war was over.
 The Pajgin women continued their journey. Bartering the gold coins for their lives, all four arrived safely in Southern France, where they remained for two months. Knowing they could not stay for long, the women took a train to Portugal. It was here the Dutch Console sent a ship to transport 75 refugees to Dutch Guiana, at that time a Dutch province and safe haven for Jews on the north coast of South America.

 The Pajgins found safety in Dutch Guiana. Liny was given an exam to complete high school, and soon after was offered a job at the Dutch Embassy in Washington, D.C. Liny Pajgin arrived in America before World War II was over.
 She was planning on returning to Europe after a few years in the United States, but Bernie Yollick changed her mind. A friend of Liny threw a party to catch the eye of the eligible Bernie, a surgeon in training. Unfortunately for the hostess, Bernie’s eye was caught by Liny. They wed three months later. The couple has been married for over 60 years. They raised two children: a daughter who graduated from Agnes Scott and a son who received his diploma from Princeton University. Mr. and Mrs. Yollick live in a Dallas home of their own design and, according to Bernie, they could not be a happier pair. “She has been through a lot and she’s such an incredible woman. We have so much fun together, and we’re going to for a long time,” he said.

 More than 100,000 Jews were killed in the Netherlands during World War II. Today, more than 70 years after the war, Holocaust survivors and their families are still fighting to regain property that was stolen. Legal battles rage and many find themselves still without the money they had before the Nazi takeover. According to Halperin, this is but one problem the war society must face.
 Brittany Gonzalez, a senior anthropology major and student of Halperin’s, wholeheartedly agrees with the professor’s teachings. She believes that humans have a higher responsibility to aid one another. Education, she says, is the first step. “I just watched ‘Schindler’s List’ for about the 10th time,” Gonzalez said. “They only way people will forget about the Holocaust is if they want to.”
 After World War II many countries vowed that another Holocaust would never take place. Halperin believes that all those who made that promise have failed miserably.
 In the Sudan hundreds of thousands are now being slaughtered. Halperin believes that if World War II should have taught people anything, it is that the largest failure of human beings is to stand idly by while others are murdered because of race or religion. “Children need to know that in order to live in a better world, you have to get involved. It can’t happen on its own – you have a responsibility to do something,” he said.
 Today a porcelain doll named Lieselotje rests on top of an old piano in a Dallas home. It is the only thing that remains of Liny Pajgin’s life in the Netherlands. Liny Yollick’s artwork is on display until March 31 at the Cerulean Gallery at 6609 Hillcrest Avenue, in front of Snider Plaza. For more information please call (214) 739-2583. 

http://www.gwenharlow.com 

51 Years Later, It Needed to Be Said
by Ingrid Yollick Alpern ’69

When my mother was 18, she escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe. When I was 18, I entered Smith College. I recently saw the safe transit permit granted my mother in unoccupied Vichy France because a man at the Dutch Consulate in Lyon had given my Jewish family Dutch identity papers marked “Protestant.” In her picture on that permit, my 18-year-old mother looks up with defiance, though she did not yet know Vichy France was handing Jewish refugees to Hitler. That image of my mother has encouraged me to express my defiance at something that happened to me as a Smith student over 50 years ago.
 The summer before senior year, I began a Smith internship in Washington, D.C. We interns were housed in homes of vacationing alumnae. Granted leave to attend a wedding, I arrived one week after my housemates. No one told me they’d already established chore assignments. So when I saw garbage piled in the bin under the kitchen sink, I dumped it in the can outside. When I saw dirty dishes in the sink, I washed them.
 Soon one of my housemates approached me before work, saying, “We want to talk to you at the kitchen table tonight.” I arrived that evening to find my housemates already seated. The spokeswoman who’d called the meeting sat at the head of the table, flanked by the other women. They looked toward her expectantly. She began. “It’s not because you’re Jewish that we don’t like you.” No one said a word.
 The spokeswoman began enumerating a list of grievances: I’d taken out the garbage days before the scheduled pickup (a schedule unknown to me). I asked why that mattered. “It will smell up the garbage can out in the heat,” someone replied. (I thought to myself: But it was stinking under the sink!) She continued: I should have known they’d each chosen chores; I should have left the dirty dishes for the Dishwasher of the Week; and so on. But most of what they said was muffled behind the one salient statement. It’s not because you’re Jewish that we don’t like you. I moved out the next day.
 Now, with my 50th Reunion behind me, I’m entranced by my mother’s look of steely defiance on the permit the Vichy government gave her because of her Protestant identity paper. And now I know what I’d like to say to the spokeswoman at that table in D.C. “If it’s not because I’m Jewish that you don’t like me, then why mention that I’m Jewish?” And to the women who flanked her I want to say, “You remained silent when she said that. Your silence made me assume you agreed. Your silence enabled her to say it.”

 My entire life I’ve looked for answers to the question What allowed it to happen? Not just the Holocaust, that carefully planned, industrialized genocide of the Jewish people. But also, what allowed a loud-mouthed bully to become a dictator? I’ve learned that silence and inaction facilitated the dictatorship and genocide in Nazi Germany. We cannot be silent in the face of prejudice or hatred against any group—from bullying on the playground, on the internet or in a social gathering to bullying by a would-be dictator.
 I had close friends at Smith and have formed new Smith friendships since graduation. But Smith students also provided my first personal encounter with antisemitism. President McCartney has made me feel safer in the Smith community with her statements that all of us are wanted and appreciated despite our differences.
 After a career as a tax attorney in Washington, D.C., Ingrid Yollick Alpern ’69 is now the public policy committee co-chair for the organization Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD).

This story appears in the Winter 2019-20 issue of the Smith Alumnae Quarterly. 

Belinda Gardner Galloway, born 8/11/1863; married Henry Town, 3/21/1889; born at Cicero, Onondaga, N. Y., 7/5/1861; foreman of the cooperage department of the Illinois prison at Joliet; entered the service of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and was stationed at Dubuque, Ia.; transferred to Jackson and Detroit, Mich.; thence to Madison, Wis., as general manager of the southern half of the state; here he remained nine years, when on 9/23/1902 he was elected by the state board of control to the position of Warden of the Wisconsin state prison at Waupun, Wis.; he was a Republican, but was elected without political influence solely upon his merits; she was a teacher, then a clerk in the office of Mr. Town at Dubuque; her business ability, coupled with her vivacity and intelligence, won his esteem, and then his love. They were married and have lived a happy life. (See engraving of Nancy Catherine (Galloway-Shinn) Levens, Mr. and Mrs. Town and their two children, p. 305.)

The children were:
1. George Galloway Town (9); b. Detroit, Mich., 2/11/1891.
2. Henry Galloway Town (9); b. Madison, Wis., 10/11/1894.

Source: The History of the Shinn Family in Europe and America, by Josiah H. Shinn. (1903) 

Biography – C. L. DAVIDSON
 Some men are born for a commercial life while others are inclined irresistibly to a professional career. Experience has demonstrated that it is highly important for an individual to follow the pursuit in which he is most interested — the one to which his talents and inclination instinctively point — and it was fortunate for C. L. Davidson, of Virden, that he yielded to his early inclination and became a dealer in horses, as he has proved unusually successful in that line. He is a native of Macoupin County, born in the town of Macoupin, November 21, 1859, a son of Isaac and Ann (Beeman) Davidson, both of whom were born in Illinois. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Davidson were nine children, three of whom died in infancy, the others being: Uewis, a resident of Hillsboro, Illinois; Sylvester, who is now living in Jersey county; C. L., of this review; Ellsworth, who was killed in a feud between cattle and sheep men in New Mexico; Nettie, the wife of Henry Whitler, of Macoupin county; and Arthur, who is living in Canada.
 Mr. Davidson of this sketch was educated in the public schools and even as a boy was especially interested in horses. He began his active business career as a stock dealer and has ever since continued buying, selling and trading horses, lhere are few men in Illinois who can claim better judgment as to the value of horses. He has been highly successful in his chosen vocation and ranks among the intelligent and reliable dealers of the state. He is also interested in farming and has owned land in Macoupin County, and is now the owner of seven hundred and fifty acres in Missouri.
 On March 29, 1898, Mr. Davidson was married to Miss Hattie Evans, a daughter of William and Louisiana (Noble) Evans, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Mississippi. Mr. Evans was one of the pioneers of Illinois and his father built the third cabin that was erected where the city of Alton now stands. In his family were eight children, namely: Isabelle, who married Clifford Rowland, of Montgomery county; Henry, deceased; Martha, the wife of James Kidd, of Virden; Mary, who is now living in St. Louis and is the widow of Joseph Baird; Albert, of Montgomery county; William, deceased; Benjamin, who makes his home at Virden; and Hattie, now Mrs. C. L. Davidson. Mr. and Mrs. Davidson are the parents of six children: Mildred, who was born January 20, 1899, and died August 30, 1903; Chester E., born December 13, 1900; Isabelle N., born December 22, 1902; George M., who was born April 29, 1905, and died April 5, 1906; Cynthia L., born February 5, 1907; and Clifford L., born January 30, 1910.
 Mr. Davidson is a second cousin of Hon. William J. Bryan but notwithstanding his relationship to the noted democratic leader he is an earnest supporter of the principles and candidates of the republican party. Fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Neighbors. He is a man of large and varied experience and, beginning upon his own account, has developed a business that has brought him a comfortable competence. His affairs have at all times been conducted according to the strictest business ethics. Helpfulness toward others is one of his marked characteristics and many have been benefited by his generous spirit and kindly disposition. Such a man never lacks friends and it is highly to his credit that he posseses the confidence and regard of all with whom he has had business or social relations.
 (Source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois: Biographical and Pictorial, by Charles A. Walker, published in 1911, Volume 2, pages 460-461.) 

Boxer Held in Death of Nahant Cop.
 A beating he allegedly inflicted nearly two weeks ago on Patrolman Peter J. Tierney of Nahant caused the arrest yesterday on a charge of manslaughter of Joseph L. Junkins, former heavy-weight boxer in the navy, when the officier died at Massachusetts General Hospital.
 Junkins was released on bonds of $2500 and will be arraigned today in Lynn court. Meantime Medical Examiner George B. Magrath has been asked by Dist.-Atty. Hugh A. Cregg of Essex County to perform an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death. This will also take place today.
 Junkins was being placed under arrest by Tierney and Patrolman George Coles in Nahant on Aug. 23, when a woman intervened in his behalf. The woman fell down and Junkins claims that it was due to a push by one of the officers. However it happened, he admitted he saw red and beat both officers.
 Coles received two broken ribs and Tierney went to Lynn Hospital for three days, recovering sufficiently to appear against Junkins, who was fined $60 for assault on both men. On Friday, Tierney suffered a relapse and in spite of an emergency operation he died yesterday. (Source: The Boston Daily Record, Sept. 6, 1934).

Manslaughter Charge Dismissed in Lynn
 A complaint charging Joseph L. Junkins, 24, of Silsbee street, Lynn, with manslaughter as the result of the death of Patrolman Peter J. Tierney of the Nahant police department, was dismissed yesterday when called before Judge Ralph W. Reeve in the Lynn district court.
 Chief Thomas H. Larkin of the Nahant police said that Junkins had been indicted for manslaughter by the Essex coutny grand jury, had been arrested on and indictment warrant, and taken to Lawrence for arraignment in the superior court.
 Junkins was arrested on a charge of drunkenness and unsigne profane language during a fight in front of a hotel in Nahant, after Tierney and Patrolmen George Coles had been severely beaten. Tierney appeared int the Nahant police court when Junkins pleaded guilty to assault upon the two men and was fined $60.
 Two days later, Tierney, 54 years old, was taken to a hospital in Boston for an emergency operation, and died within a few hours. (Source: The Boston Herald, Sept. 21, 1934).

Given 18 Months in Jail for Manslaugher
 SALEM, Feb 11 — Judge Harold P. Williams in the Superior Court today sentenced Joseph L. Junkins of Nahant to 18 months in the House of Correction for manslaughter in connection with the death of Patrolman Peter Tierney of Nahant. Junkins pleaded guilty.
 According to the evidence Tierney on the night of Aug. 23 stopped a fight in the yard of the Relay House at Nahant and was struck by Junkins.
 The next day Junkins in the Disctrict Court was fined for assault on an officer. Two weeks later Tierney died and Junkins was arrested on a manslaughter charge. (Source: The Boston Globe, Feb. 12, 1935).

 

Carleton and Solange Skinner, 4/6/2011
 For 34 years, the main allegiance Solange P. Skinner had to Tilton School was through her husband, Carlton Skinner ’30.
 Carlton Skinner, whose career included being the first civilian Governor of Guam and commanding the first integrated ship in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard, was awarded the George L. Plimpton Award in 1989 for his passion for equality and freedom. He passed away in 2004 at the age of 90.
 But in the six years since her husband death, Solange P. Skinner not only has continued Carlton Skinner’s legacy, she also has become a major supporter and advocate in her own right.
 Solange P. Skinner was among the top major donors to the just-completed Campaign for Tilton and has included the school in her estate planning, earning her a membership in the Tilton Society. In April 2009, she hosted a planned giving program at Boston’s Harvard Club led by Attorney John Brown.
 She and her husband created The Governor Carlton Skinner and Solange Skinner Fellowship, to “provide financial assistance to a student or students who exhibit a consistent sense of personal integrity, loyalty, and curiosity and who have demonstrated a commitment to fight injustice in all its forms.”
 Solange Skinner also has been a frequent guest at Tilton, enthusiastically offering “high level advice” to the schools’ administration, including how to improve student and teacher recruitment and Tilton’s development efforts.
 To honor Carlton and Solange Skinner’s commitment to Tilton, the two-story glass tower in the new academic building was named Skinner Tower.
 “It has been a pleasure and privilege to come to know Solange Skinner over the past 13 years,” Tilton Head of School James Clements said. “She is a thoughtful and lively observer of the world in which we live. She has shared her insights about adolescent development on numerous occasions.
 “In addition, Solange Skinner has exhibited extraordinary personal generosity to Tilton that has had, and continues to make, a difference in the lives of all students attending Tilton School.”
 Even without their engagement with Tilton, both Solange and Carlton Skinner made enduring impressions on the national and world communities.
 After graduating from Tilton in 1930, Carlton Skinner attended Wesleyan University and the University of California. He briefly was a correspondent for United Press International and The Wall Street Journal. He was a Coast Guard lieutenant and commanded the weather ship U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sea Cloud, which became the Navy’s first fully integrated ship.
 Skinner also commanded the U.S.S. Hoquiam, another fully integrated ship. Skinner then became a public relations office for the Department of Interior before being appointed the last Navy governor and later the first civilian Governor of Guam in 1949. He was appointed a U.S. senior commissioner for the Pacific Commission of the South Pacific Island countries.
 He later became chief financial officer for American President Lines, Colt Industries and Fairbanks-Morse before forming the Skinner & Co. financial consulting company. A plaza in Agana, Guam is named in his honor.
 Solange Skinner has two doctorate degrees in anthropology and psychology from the University of Paris - Sorbonne, three master’s degrees in philosophy, psychology and art history, a diploma in oceanic languages and has received training in psycho-analysis and group dynamics.
 She taught political science in Paris for five years and anthropology at the University of Guam. She has written 11 books and numerous political and anthropological articles.
 Solange Skinner said her continued generosity to Tilton simply is an extension of her love for academics and academic institutions.
 “For me education is important,” she said.
 She realized very early in her marriage that Tilton School was very important to her husband. The two, she said, often received numerous invitations to events at Wesleyan University and never went. Instead, they would go to Tilton.
 “I would ask Carlton ‘Why are you always going to Tilton? Why can’t we go to Wesleyan?’ And he would say, ‘Because I love my prep school.’ It was so cute.”
 Carlton Skinner came from a long line of academics and he had a passionate interest in social and political change.
 “I said, “Carlton, why did you not go into academics?” And he replied, “Because I wanted to change the world.” And he did.
 

C’était il y a 25 ans... le carambolage de Mirambeau
Le 10 novembre 1993, 15 personnes périssaient sur l’autoroute A10 en Charente-Maritime dans l’un des carambolages les plus meurtriers de France. Retour sur ce drame avec un rescapé.

Publié le 10/11/2018 à 08h00 • Mis à jour le 12/06/2020 à 13h16

 En fin de journée sur l’A10, dans le sens Paris-Bordeaux, à hauteur de Saint-Martial-de-Mirambeau, il fait nuit et il pleut. Nous sommes le 10 novembre 1993. Un camion s’arrête sur le bas côté, un autre freine et se retrouve en travers, sur les voies. C’est le début d’un énorme carambolage qui comptera près de 50 voitures et 6 poids lourds. Bilan : 15 morts et 46 blessés. Ce soir-là, Yann Méheux Driano a perdu sa femme et ses deux enfants âgés de 14 et 10 ans : « Il y a des scènes que je ne pourrais jamais oublier. Par exemple, mon fils qui me tend les bras. »
 En 2002, vient le temps des procès. Quinze personnes sont condamnées à des peines symboliques : amendes et suspensions de permis. Une page judiciaire se tourne, une autre vie commence pour Yann : « J’ai rebâti. Aujourd’hui, je continue j’ai une femme et des enfants. La vie a repris ses droits même si ça ne change rien à ce qui s’est passé.»
 Yann Méheux Driano a choisi de s’investir dans la prévention routière. Il raconte son histoire lors de stages. Mais son combat va au-delà du témoignage. Il espère encore des changements concrets dans les infrastructures routières : "Ce qu’on met en place aujourd’hui sur les routes n’est pas suffisant. Cela fait partie de mes échecs. »
 Les familles des victimes du carambolage de Mirambeau ne se voient plus beaucoup. Vingt-cinq ans après le drame, les souvenirs restent gravés dans les mémoires et sur une petite plaque, le long de l’autoroute A10.

Source: FR3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine 

Douglas Mott, Senior Pastor
Rev. Doug Mott was ordained in 1979. He was a pastor in Prince Edward Island before moving to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1982. In 1989 he became Senior Pastor of First Congregational Church of Halifax, and remains in that position today. In 1998 God did a major work in Doug’s life. The music of Keith Green literally brought Doug to his knees as he realized that, in his Christian walk, he was compromising with the world. Remembering that his call to ministry came when a pastor asked for missionaries to be sent to India, Doug went on a short term mission to Pakistan and India in 1999. The following year he met with believers in Metro who had a heart for international missions. The result was the “Jesus to the Nations" missions conference, a movement that recognizes God’s vision that this area is to be a place that sends people to the four corners of the earth with the good news of Jesus Christ. Doug chaired this conference for 12 years. Among Doug’s favourite authors are J.I.Packer, John Piper, and Eugene Peterson. He is also a big fan of A.W.Tozer. Doug’s vision is to impact Halifax with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through a Body of committed believers, reaching out to university students and the unchurched. Doug and his wife, Ann and their daughters Katie and Sarah live in Halifax. (source: Halifax, First Congregational Church, 25 Sep 2012).

Rev. Douglas Mott
Born in Gagetown, New Brunswick, Doug Mott has been the Senior Pastor of First Congregational Church for about 12 years now. After receiving his BA in Political Science at the University of New Brunswick, he travelled to Kingston, Ontario, where he attended Queens University, earing his MA in Political Studies.Doug Mott went to the University of Toronto to work for his M.Div and, after being ordained into the United Church in 1979, spent 10 years in various churches on Prince Edward Island and in Halifax until being called as Senior Pastor of First Congregational Church.
Rev. Doug Mott has a special desire for missions, especially in the area of reaching People in Islamic and Hindi regions of the world.In June of 1999 he fulfilled a long time desire and spent a month in Paskistan and India with Interserve.Currently, he is in the planning team for “Jesus to the Nations” - a set of talks and workshops directed towards spreading the gospel around the world.This conference was born in February 2000 and is a growing annual event held in Halifax.Best of all - he loves Jesus and is committed to following Him. (source: Halifax, First Congregational Church, 6 Aug 2003). 

Dr. David S. Palmer, DMD, FACP
 Born in Skowhegan, Maine, Dr. Palmer has come back home after a very enjoyable and satisfying military career. The Doc is a constant student, learning not only the newest advances in his specialty and dentistry in general, but also learning in other areas. He is a student of language, currently actively studying Arabic, and a student of music, studying guitar.
 He is a technology nut and does much of the computer work in his office. Ask him anything about computer hardware. Check out his curriculum vitae for the professional credentials, but ask Linda about anything else! His dog is Jack, and he is Papa to the World’s Most Beautiful Grandchildren. He always has coffee available for friends! Sometimes, if you promise to floss, there are donuts, too!
 Come in and meet us all. My staff are the real treasures in the office, each one a gem!

Greetings to all, from Maine! Not that I want to appear old, but my first amateur radio license was dated 1959, and was KN1SIW. Over the years since, my call has been K1SIW, KA1GGD, KA1GGD/PA in the Netherlands, KB1ZV, and again, after a long absence from radio, K1SIW. For most of my adult life I was in the U.S. Air Force, first enlisted, but I was fortunate enough to retire as a colonel. Linda, my wife of 35 years, and I have travelled much of the world. We can carry on a conversation in Greek and Dutch, from having lived in both countries. Back now where I grew up, I am practicing in the Portland, Maine area. Linda runs our office (she’s an RN, with extensive business experience). Both our kids are married, and we are grandparents to the World’s Three Most Beautiful Grandchildren. Oh, and I’m a guitar player and collector (Schecters rule) and a reformed Corvette addict. (source: eBay)

We are retiring!
Greetings, and thank you for having trusted me to provide your oral health care. Many of you have been told, at your last visit to my office, that Linda and I are retiring. It’s true -- and it’s time. As of 1 June 2013, or June 1st, 2013 for you civilians, I will cease the practice of dentistry here in Maine. We are moving to be closer to our grandchildren, while we are still young enough to thoroughly enjoy playing with them. But, Linda and I have not forgotten about you!
 Hopefully, you will be delighted at what I have prepared for you. I have transferred your dental record, including all xray images, to a dental school friend I’ve known over 30 years. Many of you have seen the gold crown he did for me when we both were dental students. That crown has lasted over three times the national average, and still is strong. This doctor is the one who has been covering for me when I went away to visit family or whatever, for the last ten years. Although I went to dental school after several years in the Air Force, this doctor went directly after undergraduate college, so he is considerably younger than I am. 

Edward D. Jacks, 86
Highland Park accountant loved flying
March 25, 2002 | By Sean D. Hamill, Chicago Tribune staff reporter.
 With World War II approaching in 1940, Highland Park accountant Edward D. Jacks applied for a Navy commission in hopes of becoming a fighter pilot. But his commission was turned down, so he continued working as a civilian, crafting budgets for military projects. The fact that he didn’t join the Navy “was frustrating to him,” but after the war, still driven by a love of flying, Mr. Jacks earned his pilot’s license, his son Jerry said. Mr. Jacks, 86, died Tuesday, March 12, at Westmoreland Nursing Home in Lake Forest after complications from Parkinson’s disease, one month after Helen, his wife of 61 years, died. Mr. Jacks, who owned several small airplanes, melded his hobby with his accounting career, flying to see clients nationwide. Mr. Jacks was born and raised in Highland Park, where his father was a pediatrician. He grew up with a fascination for flying and for motorcycles, a passion he would also pursue for the rest of his life. Four years ago, his son put a sidecar on Mr. Jacks’ motorcycle so he could still ride after his illness began to sap his strength.
 Mr. Jacks received his accounting degree from DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., and in the late 1930s joined a firm that worked for the federal government. In 1942 his family moved to Lake Forest, where in 1951 he opened his own accounting firm. “Part of the reason he did a lot of flying was so he could be home with his family,” said his son, a pilot and a partner in his father’s firm. Focusing on closely held or family-owned companies, Mr. Jacks’ firm developed a national reputation. “Eddy Jacks was the guy we leaned on to handle our accounting,” said Harvey Gossell, a former printing company executive. “Early on, the day before the taxes were due, I’d be over at his house, with all of our documents spread all over his king-size bed. We’d sweat it out, but we’d always make it.”
 Mr. Jacks was a Lake Forest alderman for one term in the 1950s, president of the local PTA and a part-time Lake County deputy sheriff. He retired from his firm five years ago, his son said. Other survivors include two sons, Edward and Robert; a daughter, Nancy Cummings; a brother, John; a sister, Lelia Harris; six grandchildren and a great-granddaughter. Services have been held. 

Énigme du contraste
Source : Correspondance générale des Oedipes, J. J. Lucet, 1803.

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Deuxième personne qui a deviné le mot de l’Enigme
Metz, 23 nivôse
 Vous m’avez bien tourmenté par votre énigme ; si j’ai deviné, je vous pardonnerai la peine que vous m’avez donnée dans un travail très-ingrat, quoique ce genre d’occupation amuse quelquefois mes loisirs. Je vous adresse le mot auquel je me suis arrêté après avoir cherché à en appliquer une vingtaine d’autres qui, convenant à une majeure partie de vers, se trouvaient diamétralement opposés aux autres. Ce mot tant recherché, tant désiré, est CONTRASTE. Si, comme j’ai lieu de le croire, j’ai deviné juste, et si sur-tout j’arrive assez à temps pour être un des privilégiés, veuillez me faire le plaisir de m’en instruire.
 DESAROLÉA, aîné, conscrit, secrétaire du capitaine chargé de l’habillement du 5ème d’hussards.

[p. 375]
 Nota. J’observe que le n°2, M. de Saroléa, conscrit, en garnison à Metz, est mon neveu ; et que ne pouvant pas, en faveur de la parenté, le priver du droit qu’il a acquis au second prix proposé, je double ce second prix : c’est-à-dire, que ledit Saroléa et M. de Marthez, recevront chacun un exemplaire des oeuvres complettes de J. J. Rousseau. Je crois devoir faire ce sacrifice pour répondre au bavardage de quelques individus, aussi sots que méchans, qui, après s’être cassé inutilement la tête à deviner une énigme dont chaque mot était un problême pour leur esprit matériel, ont jugé à propos, pour se consoler de leur ineptie, de se venger de l’auteur de leurs tourmens, en répandant contre moi les propos les plus injurieux, tendant à faire croire que j’avais destiné les prix à mes amis. L’évènement prouve le contraire.

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Affectations militaires :
21 Dec 1798 : Hussard, 5e régiment des hussards (Metz)
19 Aug 1803 : Brigadier, 5e régiment des hussards (Metz)
22 Aug 1808 : Maréchal des Logis, 5e régiment des hussards (Metz)
12 Apr 1809 : Maréchal des Logis chef, 5e régiment des hussards (Metz)
18 Feb 1811 : Sous-lieutenant (trésorier), 5e régiment des hussards (Metz)
10 Aug 1813 : Lieutenant (trésorier), 5e régiment des hussards (Metz)
11 Aug 1814 : Lieutenant (trésorier), régiment des hussards (Angoulême)
Admis au traitement de réforme le 1er juillet 1818
21 Aug 1821 : Lieutenant (trésorier), dépôt de Guingamp

Campagnes :
1806 et 1807 : Prusse et Pologne
1806, 1808, 1809, 1811 : Autriche
1812 et 1813 : Hanovre

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Carte de sûreté à Paris :
SAROLEAS; Michel Louis, 16 ans, orfèvre.
Né à Paris. Domicile : 107 rue Denis.
Date : 2 décembre 1794.

Note : Les cartes de sûreté, instaurées sous la Terreur, ont été établies à Paris entre 1792 et 1795. Elles étaient, avant l’heure, des cartes d’identité permettant aux habitants de Paris (hommes de plus de 15 ans) de circuler librement. Chaque citoyen devait se présenter accompagné de deux témoins à son Comité de surveillance (ou d’arrondissement après 1794). Celui-ci, après enquête, établissait le document en y mentionnant l’âge, la profession, l’adresse et le lieu dont était originaire le citoyen. 

Estes, David Corbin, dentist, Lake City, is among the best known and most cultured citizens of Wabasha county. Morally and politically the doctor has done much for Lake City. In the great fire of 1882 was totally destroyed the largest private natural history collection of the Northwest, the property of Dr. Estes, which had always been kept open to the public in a large room devoted to the purpose. At the same time he lost a complete scientific library. All the natural sciences received a great deal of attention from his searching mind, but since his great loss most of his study has been given to astronomy. Upon this subject he gives occasional lectures, and has more calls for this line of enlightening work than he can meet. From boyhood he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and gathered together the first Methodist society here and established the first Methodist Sunday school. He was four years justice of the peace and seven years a member of the board of education.
 His father, Dexter Estes, was an enthusiastic Henry Clay whig, and his sons followed in his political footsteps, our subject being an ardent republican. He is a member of the I.O.O.F., and now holds the highest position in the gift of the order in the state. Dexter Estes was born in Vermont and was one of the origianl Green Mountain boys of the revolution. He married Sally Thayer, of that state, and settled in Keene, Essex, New York, where David Estes was born March 5, 1825. The youth of the latter was spent on a farm, assisting his father in its tillage and in pottery work. He was a great reader, and made the most of his limited opportunities for education. Later, at Albany, he attended the academy, state normal school and medical college. It was his intention to take a full medical course, but failing eyesight compelled him to abridge his studies, and he turned his attention to dentistry. At Albany he began its practice, and there continued until his removal to Lake City. He arrived here July 10, 1857, and has steadily pursued his practice. By his manly integrity and uniform kindness he has become possessed of universal respect and regard, and yet our people will not fully appreciate his noble qualities till he is gone.
 May 2, 1849, he married Mary Ellen Dollar, born in Albany, as was her mother, Fanny Terwilliger, and her father, Robert Dollar, the latter of Irish parents. To Mr. and Mrs. Estes were born seven children, the following six of whom survive: Orphena O. (Mrs.Virgil Borst), Independence, Wisconsin; Ornilla J., teacher in Lake City schools; Tully C., Frank E., Robert D. and Charles H., at home. The third child, Fanny E., married Charles King, and died at Cincinnati. One of her two children dwells with Dr. Estes. (Source: History of Wabasha County (Minnesota), page 1038. Compiled by Dr. L. H. Bunnell. Published Chicago by H. H. Hill, Publishers, 1884. Republished Currently by Higginson Books) 

Family and Education: b. 27 Mar. 1772, 1st s. of William Charles Colyear, 3rd Earl of Portmore [S], by Lady Mary Leslie, da. of John, 10th Earl of Rothes [S]. m. (1) 26 May 1793, Lady Mary Elizabeth Bertie (d. 10 Feb. 1797), da. and h. of Brownlow Bertie†, 5th Duke of Ancaster, 1s. d.v.p.; (2) 6 Sept. 1828, Frances, da. of William Murrells, s.p. suc. fa. as 4th Earl of Portmore [S] 15 Nov. 1823.

Offices Held: Col. R. North Lincs. militia 1795-d., brevet col. 1795.

Biography: Milsington came in for Boston after a contest in 1796, standing on the interest of his father-in-law the Duke of Ancaster. On 14 Dec. 1796 he was granted two weeks’ leave of absence for his private affairs. He voted for Pitt’s assessed taxes, 4 Jan. 1798, and is not known to have spoken or opposed government. His distractions after his wife’s death proved expensive: early in 1802 he had to pay £2,000 damages for crim. con. ‘with Mrs Jackson, daughter of Colonel Bishop’. He did not seek re-election that year.

He died on the Continent 18 Jan. 1835, whereupon the title became extinct. His only son, who in 1809 became heir to the Ancaster estate once he reached the age of 25, was murdered by banditti in Italy in 1819.

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Lord Milsington was an English amateur cricketer who made six known appearances in first-class cricket matches from 1792 to 1799. He was mainly associated with Hampshire and was an early member of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Boston, Lincolnshire between 1796 and 1802.

18 January 1802, Kings Bench, London – Proceedings by Henry Jackson for damages for criminal conversation for seducing his wife Harriet Jackson, née Bishopp and getting her pregnant. Allowed judgment by default to go against him. Argued amount of damages. Damages fixed by jury at £ 2,000. Admitted paternity of child. 

Folk to Germany — Army Pvt. Donald C. Folk, son of Mr. and Mrs: Clair A. Folk, 303 South Riverside Drive; was assigned to Company A, Special Troops, stationed in Germany. Folk graduated from Ames High School in 1963 and attended Iowa State University. 

Gilmore, Eddy Lanier King, born on May 28, 1907, in Selma, Al., attended the local elementary school of his home town. In 1923, he enrolled at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. Later on he continued his studies at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he became graduated in 1928. After graduation, he offered his services, gratis, to the Atlanta Journal in Georgia in order to gain experience as a newspaperman. In 1932 he moved to the Washington Daily News where he worked for three years before joining the Associated Press in December, 1935, reporting mainly for the Washington bureau of the news agency. In April, 1942, AP sent him to its Moscow bureau. He was thus able to cover the fighting on the Rostov, Stalingrad, and other fronts, and in 1945 Gilmore became head of the Moscow AP bureau. One of his ‘scoops’ in the following time was his interview-by-mail with Stalin in 1945 on the eve of the first meeting of the United Nations held in the U.S. FOr his work he was awarded the National Headliners Club Medal in March, 1947. Eddy L. K. Gilmore was made the 1947 PPW in the “Telegraphic Reporting (International)” category for his correpondence from Moscow. (Source : Complete Biographical encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1917-2000 Volume 16. Edited by Heinz Dietrich Fischer)

GILMORE, Eddy Lanier King, 1907-1967
Journalist. Born: May 28, 1907, Selma. Parents: Eddy Lanier and Evelyn (King) Gilmore. Married: Tamara Chernashova, July 13, 1943. Children: Three. Education: Studied at Washington and Lee University, 1925-1926; graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1928. News reporter for Atlanta Journal, 1929-1932; Washington Daily News, 1932-1935; Associated Press after 1935. Worked for Associated Press in Washington Bureau, 1936-1940; London Bureau, 1940-1941 and 1954-1967; Moscow Bureau, 1941-1954. Lecture tours in America during 1953-1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, and 1966. National Headliners Club Award as best foreign correspondent, 1946; Pulitzer Prize for telegraphic reporting from Moscow, 1947.

“The capital of the Third Reich is a heap of gaunt, burned-out, flame-seared buildings. It is a desert of a hundred thousand dunes made up of brick and powdered masonry. Over this hangs the pungent stench of death… it is impossible to exaggerate in describing the destruction… down town Berlin look as like nothing man could have contrived. Driving down the famous Frankfurt Alee, I did not see a single building where you could have set up as business of even selling apples.” Eddie Gilmore, Associated Press, Berlin, June, 9th, 1945.

Associated Press Pulitzer Prize Winner 1947 - Eddy Gilmore, for news reports from Russia, especially an interview with Joseph Stalin.

Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 5R; Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4; Me and My Russian Wife.
Author: After the Cossacks Burned Down the “Y”. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1964.
Me and My Russian Wife. Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1954.
Troika. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1962.
 

Girl Nearly Hit By Train In Tiburon
 What might have been a tragic accident at an unauthorized crossing on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad tracks near Tiburon Reed School resulted in minor bruises Friday when a 10-year-old student at the school tripped as she crossed the tracks, apparently unaware that a freight train was bearing down on her. Andrea Skinner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Skinner of Edgewater road in the lagoon area of Belvedere, was pushing her bicycle across the forbidden crossing toward the school when she tripped and fell. She had enough presence of mind to roll away from the rails as the train bore down on her, completely demolishing her bike, reported Belvedere Police Chief Etogene Meyer. As soon as the train could be stopped, the crew rushed back to the spot but the youngster had vanished. “In this case, we were lucky,” Meyer reported. “We know that many youngsters have been walking across this unauthorized spot rather than take a longer, safer way to school.” Meyer joined with Reed School Principal Lloyd R. O”Connor in appealing for the help of parents in forbidding children to cross the railroad tracks avospt at authorized crossings. (Source: Daily Independant Journal from San Rafael, California. Tuesday, June 3, 1958)
 

Gorge Lewis Robertson, son of Elizabeth and Harvey Robertson was born in the state of Virginia in the year 1817, March the eighth one hundred and nineteen years ago. He was the son of a family of eight children: Judith, Millie, Lucinda, Anthony, Harvey, Tom, Cornelious and himself the youngest.
 When he was about one year old he and his parents and his brothers and sisters moved to Tennessee. He remained in the home of his father til he was a young man, when he wanted to see some other part of the country so he took his worldly posessions consisting of what clothes he had, a horse and saddle and started out on horseback.
 He stopped in Missouri near Springfield, where he met a family by lthe name of Johnson. He married the eldest daughter Emily, of Mr. & Mrs. Williamson Johnson, he being twenty nine years old and his young wife sixteen. To this union were born eleven children two sons and nine daughters, Viz Elizabeth, Harve, Benjamine, Lucinda, Jane, Armilda, Ida, and Elva beside three having died when small.
 While his oldest children were quite small his father died who was still living in Tennessee; he, George, went back to Tenn. and brought his aged mother to live with him in Mo.. The last years of her life she was an invalid, he secured a negro mammy, as they were called in those days, to care for her. She lived to the unusual age of Ninety Six years.
 During the war of 1861 between the North and South things became most unpleasant for George, as most of his wifes people favored the South and he had Northern views and seventeen of his wifes relatives were fighting for the south he saw plainly he would have to join the Confederate army or leave Mo.. They had and opportunity to leave and go out under protection of a regiment of union Soldiers; so along with several other families they left in wagons for Illinois.
 In crossing the Mississippi river he stepped out on the wagon tongue to unreign his horses to drink and he slipped off the tongue and the wagon ran over him breaking several ribs. He was disabled for a few days but he wouldn’t give up so on they went till they arrived near Springfield and near here they remained for about two years.
 About that time he heard of cheap land in Iowa, so hither they came landing in Dallas C. in Oct. 1864 settling on the land where his son Ben now lives, the old house stood west of Ben’s about a half mile. But misfortune came to him in the loss of his wife Emily in year 1868? leaving him with a large family; one daughter Elizabeth was married at this time. He struggled along as best he could, the oldest daughter Lucinda being fourteen years old at the time of her mothers death.
 A few years later he became acquainted, through a friend, John Halderman, with a widow lady Elizabeth Leak and her daughters living in Polk County. To make a long story short he married one of the daughters Sarah Jane, March 21, 1871. To this union two daughters were born Louisa Bell and Susie Dell, the latter dying at the age of three months.
 At the time of this writing June 1936, there are five daughters living, also one son: Mrs. Mary Lucinda Wilson of Granger, Ia. Mrs. Martha Armilda Stoner of Granger, Ia., Mrs. Ida C. Rowe of Dallas Center, Mrs. Elva A. Brown of Los Angeles, Califl, Mrs. Louisa B. Aldrich of Waukee, Ia and Benjamin F. Robertson of Grimes, Ia.
 George L. Robertson died Sept. 1, 1908 at age 91 years five months and 23 days. He was a member of the Methodist church for 60 years, active in religious work, a strong believer in the necessity and worth of living the Christian life. His wife Sarah followed him in death three years later on Sept. 3rd, 1911. His daughter Jane Stoner died in 1893. His daughter Elizabeth Smith in 1907. His son Harvey in 1908. At this time June 1936 as near as can be estimated there are about 250 in this Robertson family.
Written by Aunt Lou Aldrich and read at the Robertson Reunion. 

Harriott Balmer honored for scholarship work in Bethel
Source: The Mountain News (Posted on May 14, 2011 by brucesmith49)
 Kapowsin resident, Harriott Balmer, was honored this week by the Northwest Regional Chapter of Dollars for Scholars for her three decades of effort raising scholarship monies for college-bound students from the Bethel School District.
 Harriott Balmer displays her award as the Dollars for Scholars "Regional Volunteer of the Year." Specifically, Ms. Balmer was given the “Regional Volunteer of the Year Award” in ceremonies Thursday in West Seattle. Also lauded was Bethel High School senior Patrizia Galino, who received the Dollars for Scholars Regional Award for Student Volunteer of the Year. An honor-roll student, Ms. Galino is a Philippine-native who came to Bethel in 2007 and intends to become a physician.
 Ms. Balmer’s distinction goes far beyond the work of just one year, and reflects a dedicated effort to raise scholarship money for BSD grads since 1985.
 At that time, Balmer, a 1963 graduate of Bethel High School, decided to commemorate her mother, Betty Fix, with a scholarship fund designed to assist young women graduating from Bethel High School who wanted to attend a four-year college.
 “That was when Bethel High School was known as ‘Cow Pie High,’” she told the Mountain News, accompanied by her signatory full-throated laugh.
 Her mother, “Mrs. Fix,” had taught home economics at Bethel High since 1957 and was a beloved teacher to many. As a result, the fundraising effort that started as a one-day garage sale at the Graham Safeway, grew quickly.
 “By 1987, it had grown so big we decided to form BEST, the Bethel Educational Scholarship Team,” said Harriott. 

Heroic Death of Captain Revealed by Sub Survivors
 (Boston Globe–N.Y. Herald Tribune.) NEW YORK, April 24 — An heroic episode of the increasing battle which American merchant sailors are waging against submarines off the Atlantic Coast was related today by survivors of an American ship whose skipper, at the cost of his life, steered straight into a barrage of cannon-fire in a vain attempt to ram and sink an attacking U-boat. The skipper, Capt. Samuel L. Cobb of Staten Island, was mortally wounded by a fragment of shell which exploded near the bridge of the vessel. One other seaman, Victor J. Pratola, 19, of 17 Murray st., Wakefield, Mass., was killed in the attack, which took place on the night of April 16, and five were missing. Twenty-seven survivors. (Source: The Boston Globe (Boston, Mass.), Saturday, April 25, 1942) 

Hommage à Geneviève Le Cacheux
 Mais où sont les enfants ? s’interroge-t-on parfois dans le monde de la littérature enfantine. Voici une question que l’entourage de Geneviève Le Cacheux ne s’est jamais posée. Les enfants étaient bel et bien au centre de sa vie. « À l’enfant est dû tout respect » écrivait Paul Hazard dans son bel ouvrage. Cette maxime, elle l’a mise en oeuvre dans sa famille, à la bibliothèque, partout où il lui a été donné de travailler. À preuve, son désir de les écouter, de les aider à vivre pleinement leur enfance, avec notamment des lectures de la meilleure qualité.
 Geneviève Le Cacheux, une grande figure des bibliothèques publiques vient de nous quitter. Elle a participé activement à la belle aventure de La Joie par les livres.
 Alors qu’en 1964, dans notre bureau de Montparnasse, nous préparons la bibliothèque des enfants de Clamart, elle nous rend visite. Nous l’accueillons avec enthousiasme. Nous partageons la même philosophie. Nous avons emprunté pour nous former, les mêmes chemins en France et aux États-Unis. La fondatrice mécène apprécie son esprit ouvert à l’innovation, son désir d’ouvrir la profession sur le monde et sa connaissance des réalités françaises. Celle-ci s’appuie sur sa propre expérience à Caen où elle est depuis 1958, responsable du coin jeunesse de la bibliothèque municipale, d’abord dans un baraquement de fortune, puis dans « le couloir des classes » du Lycée Malherbe.
 Elle rejoint très vite notre groupe de lecture qui se réunit chaque mois. Elle participe ainsi au Bulletin d’analyses de livres pour enfants, appelé plus tard La Revue des Livres pour Enfants. Elle ne tarde pas à venir s’installer à Paris, dans un appartement minuscule où elle assure seule la rédaction de la revue. Confiante en leurs jugements, elle engage les bibliothécaires de tous les coins de France à participer aux tâches d’analyses, à la rédaction de fiches critiques. Conditions requises : être proche des enfants, attentif à leurs lectures, soucieux de qualité. C’est ce qui fait alors l’originalité de cette publication. Dans son petit appartement sont rassemblés les ouvrages envoyés par les éditeurs. Ainsi, naît modestement ce qui deviendra l’actuel Centre national de la littérature pour la jeunesse aujourd’hui intégré à la BnF. Elle en a consolidé les fondations avant de revenir à Caen pour y créer la magnifique bibliothèque municipale qui ouvrira en 1971.
 Femme de forte conviction et de grande humanité, elle a un sens aigu de la vocation des bibliothèques : elle est la première dans la profession à donner une place de choix aux publics oubliés. Première à ouvrir au sein d’une bibliothèque publique en tous points remarquable, un très large espace pour les enfants, animé par une équipe fortement motivée. Première à créer une bibliothèque sonore à l’intention des malvoyants ainsi qu’un important service audiovisuel. Première à nouer des liens avec un centre de détention. Les techniques les plus sophistiquées sont mises au service de tous. Tout ceci est pensé, préparé dès les années 60. Femme remarquable, discrète, courageuse, Geneviève Le Cacheux ouvre des voies aujourd’hui empruntées par les bibliothèques les plus dynamiques.
 En avance sur son temps, elle a, professionnellement, rencontré bien des difficultés. Elle n’en est que plus admirable. Le monde du livre pour enfants perd une alliée de toujours. Personnellement, je pleure une amie.

Source : La Revue du livre pour enfants, 2008, n° 244, p. 182. 

Il y a un an, 15 morts dans un brasier sur l’autoroute A10
L’Humanité — Vendredi 11 Novembre 1994

Le 10 novembre 1993, un violent carambolage dans lequel étaient impliqués plusieurs camions bouleversait et interrogeait la France. Le débat sur les moyens de transport était ouvert. Un an après, le gouvernement continue à privilégier la route.

 Une cérémonie commémorative a été organisée, jeudi, à Mirambeau (Charente-Maritime), un an après le carambolage de l’A10, entre Paris et Bordeaux, qui a fait, le 10 novembre 1993, 15 morts et 55 blessés. Une messe, qui a réuni quelque 200 personnes, parmi lesquelles des rescapés, les familles de victimes, ainsi que sauveteurs et gendarmes, a été célébrée à 11 heures en l’église de Saint-Martial-de-Mirambeau, village où avaient été rassemblés les corps après l’accident.
 Les rescapés et familles de victimes se sont ensuite rendus sur les lieux du drame. Une plaque commémorative portant l’inscription «Aux victimes de l’accident du 10 novembre 1993» a été déposée, ainsi que plusieurs gerbes de fleurs, dont une du ministre des Transports et une autre du préfet de la Charente-Maritime. Après la cérémonie, Me Jacques Vincens, l’avocat de l’Association de défense et de soutien aux victimes et familles de victimes de l’accident de l’A10 (ADVIFA), a annoncé qu’une cellule constituée de 6 à 7 psychologues allait être mise en place au sein de l’ADVIFA afin de venir en aide aux «personnes qui souffrent encore dans leur chair et dans leur tête». Il a également déclaré qu’il allait proposer l’intégration d’une telle cellule dans le plan ORSEC, déclenché en cas de catastrophe ou d’urgence collective.
 «Un halo rougeâtre, comme une cloche de lumière. Un enchevêtrement de voitures carbonisées. Et puis l’odeur... insoutenable.» Un an après, rescapés et secouristes sont toujours sous le choc et ont en mémoire cette vision de cauchemar. Ce jour-là, à 19 h 30, la circulation est dense. Il pleut. A la hauteur de Mirambeau, la fumée qui s’échappe d’un camion stationné sur la bande d’arrêt d’urgence provoque un accident en chaîne, mêlant 46 véhicules légers et 6 ensembles routiers. Le feu gagne la plupart des voitures. Un gigantesque brasier s’étend sur 150 mètres d’autoroute. Les sauveteurs auront les pires difficultés à extraire les victimes des tôles froissées et calcinées. Au point que le bilan de la tragédie ne pourra définitivement être établi que le surlendemain. L’identification des victimes prendra plusieurs jours. Le 13 novembre, deux conducteurs de camion sont mis en examen pour homicides involontaires: Raymond Ramirez, dont la remorque s’est mise en travers de la chaussée lorsqu’il a dû freiner, et Mariusz Pawlowsky, un chauffeur polonais qui conduisait le dernier poids lourd, celui qui a percuté par l’arrière une file de voitures déjà immobilisées ou accidentées.
 Un an après, le dossier est au point mort. L’instruction, qui a été confiée à Dominique Guiraud, juge d’instruction à Saintes, est suspendue à la remise du rapport des experts dont les conclusions étaient attendues au printemps, puis repoussées pour être transmises, peut-être, au début de 1995. Ces experts doivent décrire ce qui s’est passé, l’ordre des chocs, leur force et surtout la cause de l’incendie qui constitue la particularité de cet accident. Leur travail consiste notamment à désosser chacun des véhicules pour établir la résistance mécanique et l’énergie cinétique afin de déduire la vitesse. Quelques heures après l’accident, le ministre des Transports avait, en effet, hâtivement bouclé l’enquête.
 Selon lui, la cause du carambolage était la vitesse. Un peu comme si les automobilistes avaient volontairement choisi de mourir à Mirambeau. «Il y a un problème national qui est en chacun de nous. Nous nous transformons en prenant le volant. Cela peut conduire à une catastrophe de ce genre», avait-il dit. Mais l’émotion dans le pays avait permis d’ouvrir en grand le dossier des transports et de leur sécurité dans notre pays. La question, ni technique ni utopique, appelait, en effet, une réponse politique: celle d’un choix de civilisation. Un an après, le ministre a apporté la sienne. Celle qui consiste à continuer à privilégier la route au détriment des autres moyens de transports, en décidant de lancer un programme autoroutier sur 3.000 nouveaux kilomètres, et en engageant la SNCF à supprimer des liaisons, des gares, ou des ateliers de maintenance, comme à Vitry, dans le Val-de-Marne.
 Et, un an après, le ministre en est encore au stade des effets d’annonce. Il prépare, a-t-il précisé, des mesures destinées, selon lui, à éviter de tels accidents. Un projet de loi viserait à transformer de contraventions en délits les excès dépassant de plus de 50 km/h les vitesses autorisées, et le débridage des limiteurs de vitesse ou des chronotachygraphes installés à bord des camions. Par ailleurs, sur certains itinéraires autoroutiers les plus chargés, la circulation des poids lourds, déjà interdite le week-end, le sera aussi les jours de forte circulation. Mais des dérogations seront toujours possibles. En outre, à partir du 1er mai 1995, les poids lourds devront avoir des réservoirs de carburant renforcés, offrant une meilleure résistance aux chocs.
 Un an après, les rescapés et les familles des victimes ont cependant l’impression d’avoir été oubliés. Yann Méheux, le président de l’ADVIFA a annoncé son intention d’engager une action en référé en vue d’obtenir des indemnisations à titre provisoire pour les victimes. Celles-ci se heurtent toujours aux compagnies d’assurances et certaines se sont même vu pénaliser d’un malus.

DOMINIQUE BEGLES. 

James Lorimer Ilsley, PC, KC (January 3, 1894 – January 14, 1967) was a Canadian politician and jurist.
 He was born in Somerset, Nova Scotia, the son of Randel Ilsley and Catherine Caldwell. Ilsley was educated at Acadia University and Dalhousie University and was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in 1916. In 1919, he married Evelyn Smith. Ilsley practiced law in Yarmouth and Halifax, Nova Scotia until he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal in the 1926 election. He survived the 1930 election that sent the Liberals into Opposition.
 When the party returned to power in the 1935 election, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King brought Ilsley into Cabinet as Minister of National Revenue. In 1940, he was promoted to Minister of Finance. He held that position for the duration of World War II during a period of massive expansion in expenditure due to the war effort. He was recognized for his service in 1946 when he was appointed to the Imperial Privy Council, and given the honorific of “Right Honourable”.
 The same year, he became Minister of Justice. He served in that position until he retired from politics in 1948. The next year, he was appointed to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, and became Chief Justice of Nova Scotia in 1950. He served in that capacity until his death in 1967 in Halifax at the age of 73.
 J. L. Ilsley High School, opened in 1971 and located in Spryfield, Nova Scotia, bears his name. (Source : Wikipedia). 

Jeanne Baudray ou Ginou – Militante, engagée, maire de saint-Vivien de Médoc
 Née le 15 novembre 1923 à Saint-Vivien de Médoc
 Décédée le mercredi 13 avril 2016 à Saint-Vivien de Médoc
 Féministe, elle défend la place des femmes dans le monde rural et prend une part active en s’engageant dans la vie politique.
 Conseillère municipale de Saint-Vivien de Médoc en 1977, premier adjoint en 1983, elle devient la première femme maire du Nord-Médoc en 1994. Elle quitte cette fonction en 2008.
 Elle s’était engagée dans l’armée où de 1944 à 1946 elle fut affectée à la 3e Région aérienne en qualité de secrétaire et termina avec le grade d’aspirant. En avril 1945, elle sert de guide dans le marais médocain lors de l’offensive de la Brigade Carnot pour la libération du Nord Médoc et la réduction de la poche du Verdon.
 En 1999, elle reçoit les insignes de chevalier dans l’ordre national de la Légion d’honneur. Elle était fière d’avoir reçu de sa Majesté la Reine d’Angleterre, une distinction honorifique de Member of the Order of the British Empire pour services rendus pendant la guerre et aux commémorations pendant de longues années, récompensant son engagement dans « Frankton souvenir » où elle fut l’un des témoins et acteurs.
 Elle fut présidente d’honneur et adhérente de l’UNC – Union nationale des combattants du canton de Saint-Vivien-de-Médoc.

— https://www.sudouest.fr/gironde/saint-vivien-de-medoc/jeanne-baudray-honoree-ce-matin-4682314.php
— https://fr-fr.facebook.com/JournalDuMedoc/posts/1122286687821512/
— http://ancienscombattantssaintviviendemedoc.e-monsite.com/blog/ginou-nous-a-quitte.html
— http://resistancefrancaise.blogspot.com/2018/08/chemins-de-memoire-de-loperation.html 

Judith Wheat engaged to wed
MORAVIA — Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Wheat of Moravia, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Judith Ann, to James Morris Watson, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Watson of Kalamazoo, Mich.. A July wedding is planned.
 Miss Wheat is a graduate of Moravia Central School and Buckwell University, Lewisburg, Pa. She received her master of science degree from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is a member of the teaching staff at Mack School, Ann Arbor, Mich.
 Mr. Watson is a graduate of Kalamazoo Central High School and Western Central High Scholl and Western Michigan University. He is a junior in the School of Medecine of University of Michigan. (Source: Syracuse Herald Journal, March 23, 1966 - Page 79) 

Letter from Prescott Orde Skinner to Mitia Olga Skinner:

[Mitia Olga is Prescott’s niece. First two pages of this letter are lost. Date is unknown]
 “[…] her aunt Alice (my wife) is most attractive. They are all coming up to Hanover to pass the Christmas. Alicias’s family with her husband’s (John Carleton) family, and John Skinner and Helen with us.
 “Now as to the Skinners, I will tell you what I know. The family in the late 17th or early 18th century, sailed from Chichester, England, settling in Colchester, Connecticut. Alice got a lot of the early history of our family from my mother who got it in turn from my father. Alice will write this early period to you. The Skinners that I descend from were all professional men, mostly ministers.
 “My grandfather Joseph Churchill Skinner was a Baptist minister in Nova Scotia and then in New Brunswick. I have his portrait taken in the 1840s or 1850s; an impressive looking man, dignified in his white shirt, and the dress ot his time.
 “At the beginning of the Revolution War, my ancestors Skinners were Tories (my father was not proud of this). They, with a few other of the same attachment to England, got into a large open boat and amidst all the perils of the sea, sailed north along the New England coast to Nova Scotia. I think they settled in what is known as the Evangeline country – but Alice will tell you about this.
 “My grandfather, the Rev. Joseph Churchill was called to New Brunswick and lived and preached for many years in a town on the Washademoak Lake, about fifty miles from the City of St. John up the St. John river.
 “My father was the second of seven children, born in Nova Scotia about two months before the family left for New Brunswick (1825). My father worked hard under difficulties, and finally entered Fredericton Academy (in New Brunswick) thence to Harvard University. He studied in the Harvard Medical School under such men as Professor Stones and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. My father used to tell us a great many anecdotes about Dr. Holmes in the classroom. My father was in the 1850s or 1860s interim in Mass. General Hospital.
 “For a number of years, my father practiced in St. John, New Brunswick. He made some money there, then went to Boston in Tremont Street, near the Common where I was born, then to the South End where he bought a house and made his office there. Later he sold the house, and our family moved to Roxbury a sort of suburb of Boston.
 “The story of my father’s marriage, Alice will tell you about. My mother, the best of women, insisted on us four boys having the finest opportunities for education. Macy and I in Harvard University, Vernon in Law School, and your father in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he stood well as a student.
 “Later I studied at the University of Paris – Harvard graduate School, and taught for 38 years at Dartmouth College where I am now a professor emeritus on a pension.
 “I don’t know but I think that the Daughters of the America Revolution insist on the ancestors being a native patriot. My own sympathies are all with the American cause, and in spite of my father’s ancestrial party membership, my father from boyhood always was in sympathy with the American cause.
 “But ask me some more and I will try to answer. Your Aunt Alice and I congratulate you on your engagement most heavily. As you write it, it seems a perfect match. By the way your aunt Alice is very fond of you.
 Love – Uncle Orde.”

From the “Harvard College, Class of 1896 Fiftieth Anniversary Report”:

Prescott Orde Skinner (1908)

PRESCOTT ORDE SKINNER took his A.M. at Harvard in 1897, and continued graduate study at Harvard and in Paris until 1900, whe he was appointed instructor in French at Dartmouth College. He served as professor of Romance Languages at Dartmouth until he became emeritus in 1938.
 “After my childhood which was spent in one of the pleasanter (no longer so) parts of the South End in Boston,” he writes, “I passed eight long profitable years at the Public Latin School in Boston. After an interval of several years, I entered Harvard. My two years in the Graduate School were a great revelation to me under the inspiration of Professors Grandgent an Sheldon. there I formed lifelong friendships with other students, many of whom entered a profession similar to my own.
 “My graduate studies were continued at the École des Hautes Études in Paris under world-famous scholars. I revisited Paris and other parts of Europe off and on – long enough each time to get the foreign atmosphere, cultivate some knowledge and love of the arts, and make some lasting friends, especially in France. Then followed thirty-seven years of teaching at Dartmouth College.
 “Since my promotion (ironic user of the word) to the status of professor emeritus at the age of seventy, I have missed somewhat my old classroms, but have not suffered too much from boredom. I have always loved long walks along the open road, through fields, woods, and over hills – deambulare per amoena loca. Today the length and speed of these walks are considerably curtailed. I have enjoyed frequent sojourns with my married children and find my grandchildren most attractive.
 “Locally, I frequent our splendid Dartmouth Library, have coffee down town with old cronies, and can appreciate the restfulness of my home life in our ancient Webster Cottage. Webster roomed in this house in his freshman year.
 “As I no longer have to keep to my former professional specialties, I indulge in the most miscellaneous reading an rereading, generally but not always of a high order. I might add that I follow Harvard’s athletic activities and am still a confirmed Harvard rooter.”
 Skinner was born April 28, 1867, at Boston, Massachusetts, the son of John Skinner and Jennie Reid (Terwilliger) Skinner. “The Public Latin School in Boston,” he writes, “offered an eight-year course of study. We had Latin twice a day regularly, five years of Greed, plenty of modern and ancient history, and mathematics, English, and French in addition. From this training I gained a lifelong love for these subjects which was further stimulated by my Harvard teachers. Today I am reviewing with great pleasure the works of Horace”.
 On July 10, 1901, Skinner married Alice Van Leer Carrick at Boston, Massachusetts. Their children are: Margaret Van Leer (Mrs. Hancort), born August 12, 1902; John Carrick, born October 21, 1905; and Alicia Prescott (Mrs. Carleton), born December 10, 1909. There are five grandchildren. Skinner’s brother, Macy Millmore Skinner, received an A.B. from Harvard in 1894, an A.M. in 1895, and a Ph.D. in 1897.
 In World War II Skinner’s son, John, was a lieutenant in the New York National Guard.
 Skinner has written textbooks on his field. In 1937 Dartmouth conferred upon him the degree of Litt. D.

Source: Notes toward a Catalog of the Buildings and Landscapes of Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A.: Webster Cottage 1780 –

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Webster Cottage – Dartmouth College

[…] P.O. Skinner owned the house by 1905; Alice Van Leer Carrick (his wife) wrote The Next-To-Nothing House about the cottage and its antiques collection in 1922. The College bought the building from Skinner in 1928 and moved it for Silsby Hall to a site at 27B North Main Street across from the Gamma Delta Chi House. Now the house faced the Choate House, the other Ripley dwelling. The College moved the house again c.1966 to the site in front of Cutter Hall where it now stands, again facing the Choate House. The building now houses the Hanover Historical Society. The c.1997 faculty residence that the College attached to Cutter/Shabazz stands in line with Webster Cottage and follows its appearance.[…]”

Occidental College Library Author: Dow, Louis Henry, 1872-
Title: Quelques contes des romanciers naturalistes; Pub info: Boston, D.C. Heath & company, 1907
Add author: Skinner, Prescott Orde Descript ix, 244 p. 17 cm. 

Marin County town changes name to ‘Obama’
By Associated Press
Published: Sept. 22, 2008 | Updated: Aug. 15, 2016
OLEMA (AP) — Motorists entering the quaint, woodsy town of Olema near the sea in Marin County may notice a subtle change as they enter: it appears the burg’s name has been changed to ”Obama.”
 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama supporter and bed and breakfast owner Kelly Emery created a perfect mirror of the green sign… [continue].