With grit or grace, they left their mark
They were adventurers who tested the limits of human endurance and artists who explored the outer reaches of human creativity. Some made us smile at life's absurdities. Others changed history and how we view it. Collectively the many notable figures who died in 2007 left legacies that will long endure.
During her White House years, Lady Bird Johnson championed a host of worthy causes, highway beautification among them. Russian president Boris Yeltsin presided over the world-shaking collapse of the Soviet Union. Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated while campaigning to reclaim power.
Massachusetts congressman Robert Drinan was a force for social justice and the first Roman Catholic priest to serve on Capitol Hill. Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell also fused politics and religion, transforming the American political landscape in the process.
Photographer Bradford Washburn, founder of the Boston Museum of Science, explored and mapped some of the planet's remotest terrain. Mercury 7 astronaut Walter Schirra logged nearly 300 hours in space aboard multiple NASA missions. Legendary aviator-adventurer Steve Fossett was presumed dead after his plane disappeared in the Nevada desert.
Two of the country's sharpest political satirists, Art Buchwald and Molly Ivins, made the morning newspaper more fun to read and shall now be missed. Counterculture icon Kurt Vonnegut injected his own darkly comic view of humankind into novels including "Cat's Cradle" and "Slaughterhouse-Five."
Among the many renowned artists lost were cellist and human-rights champion Mstislav Rostropo vich and two of opera's glittering stars, Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti and American soprano Beverly Sills, whose bubbly personality made her the people's diva.
Author, playwright, and film director Ingmar Bergman created such cinematic masterpieces as "The Seventh Seal" and "Cries and Whispers." Percussionist Max Roach laid down the beat for countless jazz greats while beating the drum for civil rights. A master technician, Oscar Peterson ranked among the great jazz pianists of all time.
No contemporary author mixed prose and personality more combustibly than Norman Mailer, novelist, filmmaker, social critic, and New Journalism avatar. A gifted and intrepid reporter, David Halberstam made subjects as disparate as war and professional sports come engagingly to life. Historian Arthur Schlesinger was a jaunty chronicler of the Camelot White House in which he served and an unapologetic proponent of New Deal liberalism.
With thousands of their fellow citizens serving in conflicts overseas, Americans everywhere saluted the men and women who died in service to their country last year. May their sacrifices shine brightly in the dawn's early light of a new year that begins today.
National affairs
A nation preparing to choose a new commander-in-chief paid tribute to many who influenced its current course, among them US Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, who briefly appeared on the 1972 Democratic ticket, and US Representative Henry Hyde of Illinois, who led impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton. Famous inside the Beltway, too, were Watergate figure E. Howard Hunt, presidential aide Michael Deaver, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman William Crowe, commerce secretary William Verity, and protocol officer Pamela Ahearn.
On Capitol Hill, eulogies were spoken for former US Senators Craig Thomas (Wyoming), George Smathers (Florida), and Daniel Brewster (Maryland); and for former US representatives Parren Mitchell and Gilbert Gude (Maryland), Charles Norwood (Georgia), Steven Derounian (New York), Augustus Hawkins and Juanita Millender-McDonald (California), Frank Burke and Marion Snyder (Kentucky), Paul Gillmor and Donald Clancy (Ohio), William Anderson (Tennessee), Jo Ann Davis (Virginia), Peter Hoagland (Nebraska), Charlotte Reid (Illinois), Jennifer Dunn and Jack Metcalf (Washington), Wiley Mayne (Iowa), and Julia Carson (Indiana).
Former governors Robert McNair (South Carolina) and William O'Neill and Thomas Meskill (Connecticut) were remembered by their constituents, as were Jane Bolin, America's first black female judge, and diplomats Joseph Farland, Richard Nolte, and Philip Kaiser. Paul Tibbets, commander and pilot of the Enola Gay, was hailed along with military heroes Eugene Fluckey, Billy Walkabout, John Henebry, Silvestre Herrera, Jefferson DeBlanc, Raleigh Rhodes, and Jay Zeamer.
Crusaders for social justice and human rights bade goodbye to Yolanda King, Carolyn Goodman, Charlie Brady Hauser, and Irene Kirkaldy; antinuke leader Randall Forsberg; gay-rights leader Barbara Gittings; feminists Lorraine Rothman and Mary Crisp; social activist Vernon Bellecourt; and attorneys Richmond Flowers, Catherine Roraback, and Oliver Hill.
Also passing from the national scene were Samaritans founder Chad Varah, presidential aide Harry Dent, philanthropist Brooke Astor, televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, federal judge James Oakes, foreign aid official John Withers, Capitol Steps leader Bill Strauss, and Atlanta Olympics bombing hero Richard Jewell.
World affairs
Exiting the world stage were leaders of formidable stature if not altogether unimpeachable reputation. Austrian president Kurt Waldheim led the United Nations before evidence surfaced linking him to Nazi war crimes in WWII. Rhodesian president Ian Smith became a symbol of segregationist white rule in southern Africa. More beloved, certainly, were Jerusalem mayor Theodor Kollek, relief worker Hanley Denning, Cuban rights leader Vilma Espìn, French priest Abbé Pierre, and Indian spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy.
Mourned by their followers were prime ministers Raymond Barre (France), Pascal Yoadimnadji (Chad), Ivica Racan (Croatia), Ladislav Adamec (Czechoslovakia), Kiichi Miyazawa (Japan), Gaston Thorn (Luxembourg), John Compton (St. Lucia), and Soe Win (Burma), and presidents Alfonso López Michelsen (Colombia), Abdel-Rahman Aref (Iraq), Luis Herrera Campins, and Tosiwo Nakayama (Micronesia), and King of Afghanistan Mohammed Zahir Shah.
Also lost were human-rights icons Maria Julia Hernandez and Adrian Esquino Lisco; French Resistance heroes Alain Le Ray and Lucie Aubrac; WWII rescuer Andree de Jongh of Belgium; Afghan journalist Zakia Zaki; Chinese political leader Bo Yibo; Titanic survivor Barbara Dainton; and soldier of fortune Bob Denard.
Literary world
Dozens of literary lights died during the year. Elizabeth Hardwick was a prolific essayist and critic, cofounder of The New York Review of Books, and prominent member of Manhattan's intellectual elite. Sidney Sheldon, author of potboilers like "The Other Side of Midnight," and Ira Levin, who sired "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Stepford Wives," were accomplished playwrights, too. Madeleine L'Engle captivated young readers with "A Wrinkle in Time" and its sequels. Writers Tillie Olsen and Grace Paley were renowned for their feminist views as well as their compelling prose.
Readers will long cherish the work of novelists Mark Harris, A.I. Bezzerides, Richard Prather, Sheila Ballantyne, Philip Craig, Elizabeth Jolley, Lloyd Alexander, Robert Jordan, Paul Erdman, John Gardner, Jane Rule, and Michael Dibdin; poets William Meredith, Philip Booth, Mary Ellen Solt, Liam Rector, Sekou Sundiata, Jane Cooper, Paul Roche, Lothar-Günther Buchheim, and Emmett Williams; historians John Garraty, Eugen Weber, Norman Cohn, Gerald Feldman, Allan Berube, and Winthrop Jordan; and children's authors Nina Schneider and Clyde Robert Bulla.
Those who passed also included biographer Diane Middlebrook; theoretician Jean Baudrillard; translator Thomas Whitney; writer-editor Itche Goldberg; authors Eve Curie Labouisse, Peter Tompkins, Charles Einstein and Colin Fletcher; romance novelist Kathleen Woodiwiss; etiquette maven Marjabelle Young Stewart; diet-book author Judy Mazel; biblical scholar Bruce Metzger; French surrealist Julien Gracq; and cookbook author Peg Bracken.
Film
In Hollywood, final credits rolled on the careers of Jack Valenti, the ex-White House aide who headed the Motion Picture Association of America and devised the movie-rating system, and director Michelangelo Antonioni, who painted haunting images of alienation and malaise in films like "Blow -Up" and "Zabriskie Point." Oscar-winning actresses Jane Wyman and Deborah Kerr were cheered, too, along with producers Carlo Ponti, Floyd Westerman, and Aaron Russo, songwriter Ray Evans, cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Freddie Francis, film editor Peter Zinner, special effects artist Peter Ellenshaw, and stuntman Jack Williams.
As long as movies are screened, audiences will warmly remember actresses Betty Hutton, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Janet Blair, Lois Maxwell, Miyoshi Umeki, Laraine Day, and Mala Powers; and actors Charles Lane, Frank Campanella, Ulrich Muhe, Herman Brix, Michel Serrault, Bobby Mauch, Carl Wright, and Gordon Scott.
Also remembered will be directors Stuart Rosenberg, Bob Clark, Edward Yang, Delbert Mann, and Curtis Harrington; filmmakers St. Claire Bourne and Ousmane Sembène; screenwriters Peter Viertel, Mel Shavelson, and Bernard Gordon; producer Frank Capra Jr.; composer Herman Stein; makeup artist William Tuttle; casting director Mali Finn; costume designer Marit Allen; studio chief Frank Rosenfelt; and talent agent Freddie Fields.
Broadcasting
Television and radio create a feeling of intimacy that makes the loss of each star feel like a death in the family. Merv Griffin was one such luminary, graduating from singer and talk-show host to creator of popular game shows like "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune." Don Herbert, TV's Mr. Wizard, inspired generations of fans to love and understand science better.
In their heyday, Rat Pack member Joey Bishop and ex-news anchor Tom Snyder hosted late-night talk shows of note. Movie critic Joel Siegel was a familiar face on the tube, as were actress Yvonne De Carlo of "The Munsters" fame, actor-comedian Tom Poston ("Newhart"), announcer Bill Flemming, and televangelist Rex Humbard.
Testimonials were aired for comedy writer Mel Tolkin, bandleader Bobby Rosengarden, host Jack Linkletter, "Late Night" cult figure Calvert DeForest, syndicator Roger King, culinary star Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), broadcaster Herb Carneal, animators Jack Zander and Iwao Takamoto, comedians Stanley Myron Handelman and Richard Jeni, and writers Stan Daniels, David Shaw, and Bob Carroll.
Also gone were actors Tige Andrews, Percy Rodrigues, Ron Carey, Gareth Hunt, Dick Wilson, and Edward Mallory; actresses Alice Ghostley, Brett Somers, Carol Bruce, and Jeanne Davis Glynn; producers Judy Crichton, Martin Manulis, Ned Sherrin, Jack Kuney, and Ed Friendly; directors Andy Sidaris and Bob Clark; executives Tom Mooreand Alan Wagner; and reality TV's Anna Nicole Smith, whose tabloid-fueled life frequently seemed more surreal than real.
Theater and dance
Broadway dimmed its lights for Robert Goulet, the dashing singer-actor who soared to fame in "Camelot," and actress-arts advocate Kitty Carlisle Hart, as well as for French mime Marcel Marceau and Ballet Russe star Ruthanna Boris. Choreographer Michael Kidd gave Broadway audiences a kick with Tony-winning shows like "Can-Can" and "Guys and Dolls."
Also extolled were actors George Grizzard, Charles Nelson Reilly, Barry Nelson, Ian Richardson, William Hutt, Roscoe Lee Browne, Tom Murphy, and Michael Evans; actresses Anne Pitoniak, Ellen Hanley, and Gretchen Wyler; choreographers Igor Moiseyev, Maurice Béjart, Michael Smuin, and Glen Tetley; dancers Henry LeTang, Alfred Desio, and Vilma Ebsen; critic-biographer Sheridan Morley; playwright-director George Tabori; and producer George W. George
The arts
The arts world raised a toast to Sol LeWitt, a leading figure in the postwar Conceptualist and Minimalist movements, and cartoonist Johnny Hart, creator of "B.C." and "The Wizard of Id." Photographer Joel Brodsky shot many of the iconic rock album covers of the 1960s and 70s, while Wallace Seawell was Hollywood's shutterbug of choice for four decades. Cartoonist J.B. Handelsman delighted New Yorker and Playboy readers with his wry commentaries on modern social manners.
Prized for their creativity, too, were furniture designer Hans Wegner, clothes designer Gianfranco Ferré, jewelry designer Laurel Burch, quilter Nora Ezell, weaver Lenore Tawney, textile artist Mary Walker Phillips, folk artist Jimmy Lee Sudduth, graphic artist Roy Kuhlman, artist-illustrators Marshall Rogers, Joseph Low, and Anne Dowden, and cartoonists Brant Parker, Buck Brown, and Howie Schneider.
Also missed will be painters Jules Olitski, Elizabeth Murray, Roy De Forest, Jorg Immendorff, Fannie Hillsmith, Edward Avedisian, Ken Danby, R.B. Kitaj, Paul Brach, Herman Rose, and Dan Christensen; potters Tatsuzo Shimaoka and Mary Scheier; curator John Szarkowski; sculptor John Scott; art dealer Ileana Sonnabend; and frame maker Robert Kulicke.
Media
Glowing obits were penned for cartoonist and comic-strip artist Doug Marlette and for longtime New Yorker jazz critic Whitney Balliett. Epitaphs were composed for
Farewells were written, too, for editors James Michaels, Jack Cappon, Cole Campbell, Ben Gilbert, Richard Nenneman, Charles Maynes, D.D. Ryan, Chauncey Bailey, Bruce Wolmer, Isabella Blow, and Jack Myers; correspondents Kate Webb, Edward Behr, and Salih Saif Aldin; journalists Thomas Morgan, James Ryan, William Peters, Earl Ubell, James F, Clarity Elsie Carper, James Deakin, Inez Baskin, Douglas Kneeland, Sylvan Fox, and Ryszard Kapuscinski; columnists Raymond Cromley and Chet Currier; sportswriters George Kiseda and Alan Greenberg; publishers Neal Shine and Robert Petersen; photographers Alexandra Boulat, Ernest Withers, Fred McDarrah, Al Chang, Arnold Hardy, and Joseph Jamieson; and obit writer Hugh Massingberd.
Music
In 2007, requiems filled the air for Irish folk musician Tommy Makem, the Clancy Brothers' ringing baritone, and country music's Porter Wagoner, a Grand Ole Opry fixture. Hawaiian music icon Don Ho sounded his final notes, as did lead singer Brad Delp of Boston, R&B pioneer Ike Turner, singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, crooner Frankie Laine, saxophonist Boots Randolph, jazz greats Michael Brecker and Herb Pomeroy, folk-blues artist Eric von Schmidt, songwriter Lee Hazlewood, and composers Gian Carlo Menotti and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Gospel fans sang hymns of praise for J. Robert Bradley and James Davis, while country music buffs spun tributes to Hank Thompson, Del Reeves, and "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow. Doo-wop artists Hank Medress and Pookie Hudson died, as did R&B singers Bobby Byrd and Luther Ingram, rockabilly star Janis Martin, conga king Carlos Valdés, bluesmen Carey Bell and Weepin' Willie Robinson, heavy metal vocalist Kevin Dubrow, rap artist Pimp C, Funk Brothers keyboardist Joe Hunter, and reggae's Lucky Dube.
Classical music fans will long appreciate composers Louis Moyse, Andrew Imbrie, and John Thow. Opera's stage is barer now without Jerry Hadley, Teresa Stich-Randall, Rose Bampton, Frank Guarrera, and Régine Crespin to command it. Jazz artists Alice Coltrane, Andrew Hill, Tommy Newsom, Alavin Batiste, Peggy Gilbert, Al Viola, Art Davis, Tony Scott, Herman Riley, Bill Barber, Johnny Frigo, Joe Zawinul, and Frank Morgan bowed out, too.
Also lost were pop singers Bobby "Boris" Pickett, Teresa Brewer, Denny Doherty, Jon Lucien, and Zola Taylor; singer-actress Barbara McNair; lyricist Hy Zaret; cabaret star John Wallowitch; Tejano legend Lydia Mendoza; music producer Joel Dorn; Newport Jazz Festival cofounder Elaine Lorillard; and club owners Enrico Banducci and Hilly Kristal.
Sports and games
A banner year for Boston sports teams was tempered by the loss of Dennis Johnson, who anchored two Celtics championship teams with his clutch play, and Tom Johnson, hockey Hall of Fam er and the last Bruins coach to win a Stanley Cup. The New England Patriots paid tribute to defensive lineman Marquise Hill, receiver Darryl Stingley, and scout-general manager Francis "Bucko" Kilroy. Football coaches Eddie Robinson of Grambling and Bill Walsh of the San Francisco 49ers were hailed for their character-building leadership. Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn oversaw an era marked by league expansion and the designated hitter coming to bat. Jockey Bill Hartack and Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro thrilled race fans around the world.
Baseball tipped its cap to Phil Rizzuto, Rod Beck, Josh Hancock, Hank Bauer, Steve Barber, Clete Boyer, Lew Burdette, Vern Ruhle, Art Fowler, Ed Bailey, Clem Labine, John Vukovich, Bill Robinson, Don Nottebart, Tommy Byrne, Joe Nuxhall, Max Lanier, umpire Shag Crawford, and executive Bing Devine.
NFLers Max McGee, Dick Nolan, Jim Ringo, Ken Kavanaugh, George Webster, Johnny Perkins, Lamar Lundy, Ernie Ladd, James David, George Preas, Dewitt Coulter, Sam Dana, John Baker, Sean Taylor, Darrent Williams, Bill Willis, Ed Brown, and Ken MacAfee also died, many of them way too early.
Elsewhere, fans recalled the feats of motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel, rodeo superstar Jim Shoulders, softball legend Eddie Feigner, auto racer Benny Parsons, distance runners Veikko Karvonen and Ted Corbitt, poker champ Chip Reese, surfer Peter Davi, mountaineer Bob Bates, ski jumper Erich Windisch, and horse trainer Bud Delp.
Also gone are golfers Gay Brewer, Don Massengale, and Maureen Orcutt; NBA player Jimmy Walker; NASCAR head William France; soccer star Gino Pariani; John Ferguson, Gaetan Duchesne, Gump Worsley, and executive Sam Pollock of NHL fame; pro wrestlers Mary Lillian Ellison and Abe Coleman; basketball coach Butch van Breda Kolff; and Olympians Al Oerter, Parry O'Brien, John Woodruff, Bob Owen, Robert Taylor, Willye White, and Janice-Lee Romary.
Business
A weakening dollar and turbulent housing market dominated a year in business that saw the passing of Roger Smith, who ran
CEOs Harold Alfond (Dexter Shoe), Garry Betty (
Also passing were Asian business tycoon Nina Wang; NY Stock Exchange chairman James Needham; banker Guy de Rothschild; wine mogul Baron Elie de Rothschild; roofing executive Ken Hendricks; oil executive John Swearingen; financier William Golden; banker Preston Martin; New England Telephone chief William Mercer; talent agent Robert Lantz; and union negotiator Irving Buestone.
Science and medicine
Albert Ellis revolutionized the field of psychotherapy with his rational emotive behavior therapy. Explorer Sir Wally Herbert mapped vast stretches of the Arctic and Antarctic. Biochemist Leslie Orgel explored the origins of life in Earth. Infectious disease specialist Merle Sande was a pioneer in treating AIDS. Child psychiatrist Stella Chess and neurologist Hugo Moser were giants in their respective fields. Archeologist Gene Savoy, a real-life Indiana Jones, discovered dozens of lost Peruvian cities. Rocket pioneer Homer Stewart helped develop America's first satellite.
Honored with Nobel Prizes were Arthur Kornberg and Paul Lauterbur (medicine), Kai Siegbahn and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (physics), and Alan MacDiarmid (chemistry). Stargazers looked with reverence upon astronomers Kenneth Franklin, Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit, Ronald Bracewell, and Donald Osterbrock, astrophysicist Bohdan Paczynski, NASA scientist Philip Bowditch, and test pilot Stanley Butchart. Techies revered computer scientist Ken Kennedy, Internet pioneer Eric Wolf, and artificial intelligence whiz Donald Michie. Scientists Eva Crane (bees), Charles Remington (butterflies), and Bent Skovmand (plants) brought the natural world into closer focus, as did botanists Olga MacBryde and Richard Goodwin.
Appreciated, too, were biologists Anne McLaren, Seymour Benzer, Terry Yates, and Elizabeth Hay; psychologist Jay Haley; cardiologists Proctor Harvey and Edmund Sonnenblick; biotech pioneer Eugene Bell; public health advocate Edward Brandt; anthropologists Paul Bohannan, Priscilla Reining, and Clark Howell; physicists Wolfgang Panofsky, Carl von Weizsacker, and Ralph Alpher; chemist Stanley Miller; mathematicians Atle Selberg and Paul Cohen; and shipwreck analyst Richard Steffy.
Inventors and innovators
The world would be a duller place without inventors and innovators like the late Robert Adler, an engineer who designed the first TV remote control, and computer scientist John Backus, who invented Fortran programming language. Herbert Saffir created the hurricane intensity scale. Arthur Jones introduced gym buffs to the Nautilus fitness machine, while Vincent DeDomenico (Rice-A-Roni), Edwin Traisman (
Among other originators who left us were Jack Odell (Matchbox cars), Jack Naylor (automotive thermostat), David Shepard (optical reader), Theodore Maiman (ruby laser), Paul Lauterbur (magnetic resonance technology), Ed Yost (hot-air ballooning), Paul MacCready (human-powered airplane), Jay Monroe (Tensor lamp), Florence Melton (foam-rubber slippers), George Rieveschl (Benadryl), and J. Robert Cade (Gatorade).
Academia and education
The young minds they help trained will never forget them. Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset was a formidable public intellectual and the author of such seminal works as "The First New Nation." Philosopher Richard Rorty taught at several leading universities while producing widely read books like "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature." Visual theorist Rudolf Arnheim and political scientist Nelson Polsby influenced generations of scholars, as did Africana studies expert Elizabeth Hadley, classicist Frank Snowden, law professor Stanton Wheeler, organizational behavior guru Harold Leavitt, and historians Alfred Chandler and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
The Harvard community lost biochemist Elkan Blout, chemist Frank Westheimer, physicist David Turnbull, classicist Zeph Stewart, and John Pappenheimer. The Tufts campus said goodbye to historian Gerald Gill, literature professor G. Robert Stange, and medical professor Jack Mitus.
Presidents Calvin Plimpton (Amherst College), Stanley Ballinger (New England Conservatory), Nils Wessell (Tufts), Jack Nolan (Mass College of Arts), and Jean Paul Mather and John Lederle (UMass) made their marks on the ivory tower also, as did Brandeis scholar Charles Warner, MIT provost Francis Low, and educator F. Champion Ward, who helped devise the MacArthur Foundation's "genius" grants.
The local scene
Locally, last year marked the passing of two of Boston's most colorful and controversial political figures of recent vintage, city councilors James M. Kelly and Albert L. "Dapper" O'Neil. Radio host and political columnist Paul Sullivan lost his long battle with cancer. Harold Madison Jr., also known as Mr. Butch, was a beloved city street icon, and George Bent was a Boston sports-talk pioneer. Activists Myra McAdoo, Vernon Carter, William Mullin Eric Weinberger, Cynthia Foster, and David Bird made the city - and world - a better place in which to live.
The legal community rose to applaud Supreme Judicial Court Justices Francis O'Connor, Edward Hennessey, and Martha Sosman, US magistrate judge Robert DeGiacomo, Judge Marilyn Sullivan, Boston Municipal Court Judge Francis X. Morrissey, US District Court Judge Robert Keeton, attorneys Nancy King and Edward Hanley, and clerk of the courts Edward Sullivan. Boston chief financial officer Edward Collins, city councilor John Saltonstall, state legislator Kevin Fitzgerald, probation officer Jack Leary, and City Hall impresario Melvin Goldstein made lasting contributions to the city and region as well.
Laid to rest, too, were Emmanuel Music founder Craig Smith, BSO violinist Leo Panasevich, and music impresario Rae Anne Donlin; photographers Dick Raphael and Stanley Bauman; architects Charles Rogers and Norman Fletcher; engineer William LeMessurier; businessmen-philanthropists Oliver Ames and John Lawrence; cardiologists Mortimer Buckley and Marshall Kreidberg; pathologist Tucker Collins; educator Joseph Killory; cafe owner Josefina Yanguas and restaurateur Jack Sidell; food critic Gus Saunders; journalists Jerry Hickey and Ralph Long; MFA curator Tracey Albainy; Philanthropic Initiative head Joe Breiteneicher; and funeral director Robert Lawler.
At the Globe
In 2007, the Globe bade farewell to many cherished friends and colleagues: reporters Diane Lewis, Jeff McLaughlin, Jerry Taylor, and Kay Longcope; executive vice president David Stanger; food editor Dorothy Crandall; route driver Patrick Knight; electrician Francis Sturgis; linotype operator Frank Jakubasz; advertising art director Joseph Parrish; sports reporters Bob Monahan and Barry Cadigan; and Hall of Fame baseball writer Larry Whiteside.
May all rest in peace for the ages as a new year unfolds.
Joseph P. Kahn can be reached at jkahn@globe.com.
