Johnny Pearson, British composer, arranger and pianist, died he was , 85.

John Valmore Pearson known as Johnny Pearson, was a British composer, orchestra leader and pianist died he was , 85.. He led the Top of the Pops orchestra for sixteen years, wrote a catalogue of library music, and had many of his pieces used as the theme music to television series.

(18 June 1925 – 20 March 2011)

Early years

Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire^[1] Johnny Pearson showed talent with the piano at an early age. By nine, he had won a scholarship with the London Academy of Music. Here he spent four years under English pianist, Solomon. In his teens, he would give classical recitals, but his true love at the time was jazz. His first band was the Rhythm Makers. After World War 2, he signed up and became one of the founding members of the Malcolm Mitchell Trio, before leaving in 1954. During his time with the trio, he toured England and Europe, playing the West End and theatres.
After leaving the trio, Pearson turned his talents to British radio, as well as performing in the Peter York Concert Orchestra. By 1960, he was conducting the Romance in Rhythm Orchestra.^[2] He recorded two singles for Parlophone, "Waterfall" in mid 1959, and "Theme from an L shaped room" in 1962. He was then offered a solo album deal with Oriole Records, which first teamed him up with John Schroeder. The Oriole album, Piano Sweet - Piano Wild, had a single taken from it, "Ooh La La", released in 1962. After the Oriole releases, Johnny Pearson continued to perform with various concert orchestras until 1964.

Working with Cilla Black

In early 1964, Johnny Pearson took part in helping launch the career of Cilla Black, a rising singer who had been spotted by Beatles producer George Martin. She had released her first 45 single, "Love of the Loved", in 1963, but it had charted only modestly despite having being written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. A scout for George Martin had spotted the track "Anyone Who Had a Heart" after hearing the US singer Dionne Warwick's version. Originally the song was to have been recorded in the UK by Shirley Bassey, but George Martin saw the piece as being more suitable for Black's voice. Early in 1964, "Anyone Who Had a Heart" was recorded by Cilla Black at London's Abbey Road Studios, in an arrangement by Pearson which featured the use of bassoons. In February 1964, it entered the UK music charts, quickly reaching number 1 in the music charts of the U.K, Ireland and other parts of Europe. The Dionne Warwick version was also in the charts at the time, but Cilla Black's treatment used slightly different lyrics and a different arrangement.
Following the success of "Anyone Who Had a Heart", Pearson was invited to work on the next Cilla Black single, "You're My World", which was released in May 1964. This was also recorded at Abbey Road Studios, and again went to number 1 on the UK music charts. Pearson also worked on other Cilla Black tracks, some of which feature on the LP, Cilla Sings a Rainbow.

Sounds Orchestral

Sounds Orchestral was an idea by John Schroeder, who had moved from Oriole Records to become the label manager at Pye Records and was interested in producing and instrumental version of the US hit song "Cast Your Fate to the Wind". This had been suggested to him at the time by Pye staff member, Tony Reeves. As his project moved to fruition, Schroeder looked for a piano player. His efforts came about when he was reminded of Johnny Pearson from a few years earlier, after he heard him on Radio Luxembourg. Initially paid a session fee to record "Cast Your Fate to the Wind", Pearson was subsequently made a full partner in the Sounds Orchestral project.^[3] "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" was a number 5 hit in the UK Singles Chart in early 1965.^[4] Pearson is also known to have composed under the pseudonym 'Oscar Brandenburg', a name he shared with Neil Richardson and Alan Moorhouse. Sounds Orchestral would end up recording some seventeen albums between 1965 and 1977. Some have subsequently been reissued on CD.

Top of the Pops

Johnny Pearson first came into contact with the BBC's Top of the Pops, in early 1965. Sounds Orchestral had just charted with "Cast Your Fate To The Wind", which featured on the first Top Of The Pops show. The following year, in 1966, Pearson took charge of the Top Of The Pops Orchestra. This would be a position he would fill for the next fifteen years, finally leaving the series in late 1981.

The Carpenters

In October 1971, Johnny Pearson helped produce the BBC Television special, Carpenters: Live at the BBC, featuring the American musical duo of Karen and Richard Carpenter. It was broadcast the following month on British TV and elsewhere. In early 1973, Pearson was again contacted by Richard Carpenter to ask permission to use one of his songs, on the then forthcoming Carpenters LP, Now and Then. This track, originally titled "Autumn Reverie", first appeared on the 1968 KPM album, Gentle Sounds, and was retitled "Heather" by producer John Bettis in the Carpenters' version. Richard Carpenter apparently first heard the track as background music for a commercial for the US health food supplement maker, Geritol, and loved it straight away.^[5] "Autumn Reverie" would also feature again on the 1974 Johnny Pearson LP, Touch Me in the Morning and as background music on the British television series, All Creatures Great and Small (1978-90).

Johnny Pearson and his Orchestra

As leader of the Johnny Pearson Orchestra, he reached number 8 in the UK chart in early 1972 with "Sleepy Shores", the theme from the television series Owen, M.D.^[6] (1971-73). The Johnny Pearson Orchestra, which as a musical project was begun in 1972, ran side by side with his other projects. At the time, these projects included working on albums with John Schroeder for Sounds Orchestral and also providing library music to Britain's KPM Records.
Instead of the slightly jazzy sounding, Sounds Orchestral albums, Pearson was offered a project for easy listening and romance music, based on the success of his "Sleepy Shores" hit. This time he teamed up with music executive Larry Page, who wanted to move his label Penny Farthing into the easy listening genre. The albums were released outside the UK in Europe, Australia, Canada and the USA. In 1978, Larry Page decided to rename his Penny Farthing label to Rampage Records, to reflect a more modern outlook. One of the first singles and albums from the Rampage label, would be another of Pearson's international hits, the theme from All Creatures Great and Small.

Library and theme music

 In the United Kingdom

Pearson was a successful composer of theme music for television series. Examples of his work included 3-2-1, All Creatures Great and Small, Captain Pugwash, Monday Night Football, Mary Mungo & Midge and ITN's News at Ten (the last of which was titled "The Awakening", a piece otherwise known to American audiences as the main title theme to the 1964/1972 animated film Journey Back to Oz). He also wrote the Grampian Television start-up music "Sounds On" and the ATV startup theme "Midlands Montage", as well as music used during intervals between schools programmes on ITV.

 In the United States

In the United States, Pearson's best known composition is "Heavy Action", originally used as the theme to the BBC sports show Superstars, and subsequently adopted by ABC's Monday Night Football (the NFL's weekly nationally televised showcase) and the SFM Holiday Network. In 1989, Edd Kalehoff composed and recorded a new arrangement of this music for later seasons of Monday Night Football. His piece "Graveyard" was used in Ren and Stimpy. NFL Films has used many of his other compositions for its Super Bowl and other highlight films.

 In Australia

In Australia, his best known library music piece was "Power Drive," which was used as the theme for the 1969-75 police drama Division 4. This tune was also famous in the U.S. for use in some episodes of the 1967-70 cartoon series Spider-Man, as well as being the theme for Los Angeles station KNXT/KCBS-TV's afternoon movie series The Early Show for much of the 1970s and into the 1980s. The track "Sleepy Shores" was also used as incidental music in some of the courting scenes from the 1970s ABC TV drama series, Certain Women. Some of Johnny Pearson's library music was also used as background scene music for the Ten Network series, Prisoner.

In the Netherlands

In the 1970s, the Dutch TV series Sil de Strandjutter featured a title theme written and performed by Johnny Pearson and his orchestra. Pearson's composition "Heather", as performed by The Carpenters, has served as the background music to the "Plaat & zijn Verhaal"-section ("A record and its story") at Radio Veronica, in which a song's lyrics are translated into Dutch and read by the DJ.

The 1980s and later

In late 1981, Johnny Pearson's tenure at BBC's Top Of The Pops came to an end, as the show had itself undergone a major reorganisation. By that time he had been associated with the programme for sixteen years. He was credited on the milestone 900th Top Of The Pops episode, in July 1981; his last credit with the show, was in late August 1981. After this, Pearson continued to work on independent projects and in 1982, released the instrumental album On Golden Pond through Larry Page's Page One Records.
In 1984, Pearson assembled another orchestra, the Johnny Pearson Studio Orchestra, and contributed to John Paul Jones' motion picture soundtrack, Scream For Help. Following this, during 1985, he worked on producing music for the BBC TV production drama Maelstrom. Notable on the recordings for Maelstrom is the track "Camellia Waltz", which was treated to sound like an old 78rpm record. Other tracks by Pearson for the series came from his work with KPM. In 1987, together with business partner Adrian Kerridge, Pearson negotiated the purchase of CTS Studios, in Wembley.^[7] In 1988, he returned to the KPM record label and the recording of two new library CDs for the radio and television industry. Both were recorded at CTS Studios in Wembley, with Adrian Kerridge.
After the 1980s, Pearson made occasional live appearances as part of a quartet. In 1996, he recorded a CD of library music, for the radio and tv industry, titled Simply Piano. This was followed in 2005 by another CD titled Simply Piano 2.

 

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Dorothy Young, American actress, assistant to Harry Houdini died she was , 103.

Dorothy Lena Young  was an American entertainer who worked as a stage assistant to magician Harry Houdini from 1925 to 1926  died she was , 103.. She left the act two months prior to his death on October 31, 1926. She appeared in the 2005 television documentary, Houdini: Unlocking the Mystery.

(May 3, 1907 – March 20, 2011)
 

After his death, Young, the daughter of a Methodist minister, appeared on Broadway in Jarnegan (1928–29), Conquest (1933), and New Faces of 1936 (1936). After leaving acting, she and her second husband, Gilbert Kiamie, toured the world as the Latin dancing team of "Dorothy and Gilbert".

She was the author of two novels loosely based on her life: Diary Without Dates and Dancing on a Dime, the latter of which was made into a feature film in 1940 by Universal Studios, as well as the booklet Touring with Houdini, published in 2003.

Young, the last surviving member of Houdini's touring show, died in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, on March 20, 2011, aged 103.^[1]

Legacy

• The Dorothy Young Center for the Arts, housed at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.

 

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Pinetop Perkins, American blues musician, died from a cardiac arrest he was , 97.

Joseph William Perkins , known by the stage name Pinetop Perkins, was an American blues musician, specializing in piano music. He played with some of the most influential blues and rock and roll performers in American history, and received numerous honors during his lifetime including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and induction into the Blues Hall of Fame.
(July 7, 1913 – March 21, 2011)

Life and career

Perkins was born in Belzoni, Mississippi.^[1] He began his career as a guitarist, but then injured the tendons in his left arm in a fight with a choirgirl in Helena, Arkansas. Unable to play guitar, Perkins switched to the piano, and also switched from Robert Nighthawk's KFFA radio program to Sonny Boy Williamson's King Biscuit Time.^[2] He continued working with Nighthawk, however, accompanying him on 1950's "Jackson Town Gal".
In the 1950s, Perkins joined Earl Hooker and began touring, stopping to record "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" (written by Pinetop Smith) at Sam Phillips' studio in Memphis, Tennessee. ("They used to call me Pinetop," he recalled, "because I played that song.")^[3] However, Perkins was only 15 years old in 1928, when Smith originally recorded "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie".

Perkins then relocated to Illinois and left music until Hooker convinced him to record again in 1968.
When Otis Spann left the Muddy Waters band in 1969, Perkins was chosen to replace him.^[2] He stayed for more than a decade, then left with several other musicians to form The Legendary Blues Band with Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, recording through the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.^[2]

Although he appeared as a sideman on countless recordings, Perkins never had an album devoted solely to his artistry, until the release of After Hours on Blind Pig Records in 1988.^[4] The tour in support of the album also featured Jimmy Rogers and Hubert Sumlin.
His robust piano is fairly presented in On Top (1992), an easy-going recital of blues standards with his old Waters' associate, Jerry Portnoy on harmonica.^[2] In 1998 Perkins released the album Legends featuring guitarist Hubert Sumlin.
Perkins was driving his automobile in 2004 in La Porte, Indiana, when he was hit by a train. The car was wrecked, but the 91-year-old driver was not seriously hurt. Until his death, Perkins lived in Austin, Texas. He usually performed a couple of nights a week at Nuno's on Sixth Street. In 2005, Perkins received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2008, Perkins received a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album for Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas together with Henry James Townsend, Robert Lockwood, Jr. and David Honeyboy Edwards. He was also nominated in the same category for his solo album, Pinetop Perkins on the 88's: Live in Chicago.
The song "Hey Mr. Pinetop Perkins", performed by Perkins and Angela Strehli, plays on the common misconception that Perkins wrote "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie":

Hey Mr. Pinetop Perkins

I got a question for you

How'd you write that first boogie woogie

The one they named after you

Perkins played a brief musical cameo on the street outside Aretha's Soul Food Cafe in the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers, having an argument with John Lee Hooker over who wrote "Boom Boom." He also appeared in the 1987 movie Angel Heart as a member of guitarist Toots Sweet's band.
At age 97, he won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album for Joined at the Hip, an album he recorded with Willie "Big Eyes" Smith. Perkins thus became the oldest-ever Grammy winner,^[5] edging out comedian George Burns who had won in the spoken word category 21 years earlier (he had tied with Burns, at the age of 95, in 2004).^[6] A little more than a month later, Perkins died on 21 March 2011 at his home in Austin, Texas.^[5] At the time of his death, the musician had more than 20 performances booked for 2011. Shortly before that, while discussing his late career resurgence with an interviewer, he conceded, "I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel." Along with David "Honeyboy" Edwards, he was one of the last two original Mississippi Delta blues musicians, and also to have a personal knowledge of and friendship with Robert Johnson.^[7]

Discography (selection)

• 1976: Boogie Woogie ***KiNG***
• 1977: Hard Again (Muddy Waters)
• 1988: After Hours
• 1992: Pinetop Perkins with the Blue Ice Band
• 1992: On Top
• 1993: Portrait of a Delta Bluesman
• 1995: Live Top (with the Blue Flames)
• 1996: Eye to Eye (with Ronnie Earl, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and Calvin “Fuzz” Jones)^[8]
• 1997: Born in the Delta
• 1998: Sweet Black Angel
• 1998: Legends (with Hubert Sumlin)
• 1998: Down In Mississippi
• 1999: Live at 85! (with George Kilby Jr)
• 2000: Back On Top
• 2003: Heritage of the Blues: The Complete Hightone Sessions
• 2003: All Star Blues Jam (with Bob Margolin et. al.)
• 2004: Ladies Man
• 2007: 10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads (with Kenny Wayne Shepherd and and the Muddy Waters Band—Live) ^[9]
• 2008: Pinetop Perkins and Friends
• 2010: Joined At the Hip (with Willie "Big Eyes" Smith)

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Patrick Ahern, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1970–1994) died he was , 92

Patrick Vincent Ahern  was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York from 1970 to 1994 died he was , 92.
(March 8, 1919 – March 19, 2011)

Biography

Ahern was born in New York City, and attended Manhattan College and Cathedral College in the same city.^[1] He began his studied for the priesthood at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, and also studied at St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, and at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.^[1]
Ahern was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of New York on January 27, 1945.^[2] His first assignment was as a curate at St. Helena's Church in The Bronx.^[3] He then worked with the Archdiocesan Mission Band until 1955, when he became a curate at St. Patrick's Cathedral.^[4] He taught at St. Joseph's Seminary before serving as secretary to Cardinal Francis Spellman from 1958 to 1967.^[1] He afterwards became pastor of Our Lady of Angels Church in the Bronx.^[4]
On February 3, 1970, Ahern was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of New York and Titular Bishop of Naiera by Pope Paul VI.^[2] He received his episcopal consecration on the following March 19 from Cardinal Terence Cooke, with Archbishop John Joseph Maguire and Bishop Edwin Broderick serving as co-consecrators, at St. Patrick's Cathedral.^[2] As an auxiliary bishop, he continued to serve at Our Lady of Angels Church and was also episcopal vicar for the Bronx.^[5] He served as episcopal vicar for Staten Island and pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church from 1980 to 1990.^[1] He then became archdiocesan vicar for development.^[4]
After reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75, Ahern resigned as an auxiliary bishop on April 26, 1994.^[2]
He is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on the spirituality of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux.

Published works

• Maurice and Therese: The Story of Love, Doubleday, 2001. ISBN 9780385497404

Awards

• 2007: Eleanor and Paul Proske Memorial Award for Distinguished Service to the Poor^[6]

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Kym Bonython, Australian art, jazz and speedway entrepreneur died he was 90.

Hugh Reskymer "Kym" Bonython, AC, DFC, AFC was a prominent and active member of Adelaide society in Australia, with a very wide range of interests, activities and achievements in the fields of business, the arts, entertainment and public service died he was 90..
His occupations included radio broadcaster, pilot, speedway motorbike rider, speedway racing car driver, speedway promoter, hydroplane racer, author, concert promoter, art dealer, art promoter, art collector, jazz aficionado, jazz promoter, jazz collector, jazz musician, monarchist, euthanasia advocate, company director, board member and numerous others.
(15 September 1920 – 19 March 2011)

Biography

"Kym" was born on 15 September 1920 in Adelaide, the youngest child of Sir John Lavington Bonython and his second wife Lady Jean Bonython, nee Constance Jean Warren.^[2] (Sir John's first wife died in childbirth, aged 26). He was named "Hugh Reskymer Bonython" after an ancestor who had served as High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1619.^[3][4] Both his father, John Lavington Bonython,^[5] and his grandfather, John Langdon Bonython,^[6] had been (amongst other things) editors of The Advertiser. His father had also served as a councillor, alderman, Mayor and Lord Mayor of the City of Adelaide.^[5] Kym was the youngest of six children; he had one half-brother (John Langdon Bonython (1905–1992)), two half-sisters (Lady Betty Wilson and Ada Heath), a brother (Charles Warren Bonython^[7]) and a sister (Katherine Verco).
He attended St Peter's College, Adelaide, and upon completion entered into accountancy on the recommendation of his older half-brother John.^[4] The Second World War interrupted this: in 1940 he began training as a pilot for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Bonython served in the (then) Netherlands East Indies and New Guinea, experiencing several "death defying" near misses.^[8][4][9] He was in hospital in Darwin (with dengue fever) during the 1942 bombing^[10] - he had just evacuated and taken cover when the ward he had been in took a direct hit.^[8] During his time with the RAAF, Bonython filled the roles of aircraft captain in 1941, and chief flying instructor with the rank of squadron leader in 1943.^[9] On 1 September 1944, Flight Lieutenant Bonython (Aus.280778) was awarded the Air Force Cross (AFC),^[11][12] and on 22 February 1946, Squadron Leader Bonython AFC was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)^[13][14][15]
When he returned from service he chose not to return to accounting, deciding on a very different career path. Initially he took up dairy farming on his father's Mount Pleasant property, but in the 1950s his career changed to incorporate music, the arts, and motor racing.^[4][9]
As a child Kym Bonython developed a passion for jazz, and this influenced a number of his later pursuits. At the age of 17, in 1937, he entered the media with an ABC radio jazz show.^[9] The show continued for 38 years, finishing in 1975. His involvement in the jazz scene also extended to making and selling music; in 1952 he became a member of a jazz band as drummer – a skill he had learned as a child – and he opened his first record store in Bowman's Arcade on King William Street in 1954.^[4] His passion for music also led him to create his own concert promotion company, Aztec Services, in the 1950s, and as a promoter he brought to Adelaide some of the greats of jazz, including Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.^[16] Later, at the urging of his children, he expanded his range to rock and roll, bringing the likes of Chuck Berry to Adelaide, and he was one of the key people responsible for negotiating the addition of Adelaide to The Beatles Australian tour 1964.^[17]
Along with music, Kym Bonython had a passion for art, and he began his collection in 1945. In 1961 he opened his first gallery, the Bonython Art Gallery in North Adelaide, (which later became the Bonython Meadmore gallery), before moving to Sydney to open the Hungry Horse Gallery in Paddington in 1966.^{[4][9][18][19]} His time with his Sydney gallery ended in 1976, and he returned to Adelaide to buy back his original gallery, operating it until 1983.^[19] From 1988 Bonython managed a Sydney gallery once more, managing the BMG Fine Art for a short time.^[9][19] Kym Bonython's eye for contemporary art saw his galleries promote many Australian and international artists, including Sidney Nolan, Pro Hart and William Dobell, and he is widely acknowledged to have discovered and fostered the work of Brett Whiteley.^[16][17][19] Along with the art galleries and his personal collection (much of which was destroyed when the Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983 engulfed his Mount Lofty property, "Eurilla"^[20]), Bonython authored and published a number of art books.^[17][21]
Kym Bonython gained a reputation as a daredevil partially through another of his interests: motor racing. He raced at the Rowley Park Speedway at Bowden, which he also managed from 1952 to 1973, and also competed nationally. At one stage he was the national hydroplane champion.^[17] His life in motor sports led to many accidents, the most serious being in 1956 when, racing to defend his Australian hydroplane title at Snowdens Beach, his boat crashed; the injuries that resulted led to Bonython spending the next 14 months on crutches.^[4] Amongst his achievements in motor sports was his work to bring Formula 1 to Adelaide in 1985, in which he has been described as a "catalyst" for the event.^[1] His time in motor sports earned him the title of "the man with 99 lives" and, from Max Harris regarding Rowley Park, the "Cecil B. De Mille of Bowden".^[4][21] In his eighties, he was one of the inaugural inductees of Australia's Speedway Hall of Fame.^[8]
Bonython was also active in public life. He served on the Adelaide City Council, as had both his father and grandfather before him, and he was the chairman of the South Australian Jubilee 150 Board.^[22][1] Other boards of which he was a member included the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Musica Viva Australia and the Australia Council.^[17] Bonython was also one of Australia's leading monarchists, chairing the No Republic committee and serving as one of South Australia's delegates to the 1998 Constitutional Convention. Other causes to receive his active support included euthanasia and compulsory national service.^[21][16][23]
In 1979 he wrote an autobiography: "Ladies' Legs and Lemonade", Kym Bonython, Adelaide: Rigby, 1979.
Kym was married twice and had five children: Chris and Robyn from the first marriage, Tim, Michael and Nicole from the second.^[8][21] On his return from Milne Bay after the war he married Jean Adore Paine^[24] - they divorced in 1953.^[25] In 1957, while still on cruthes from his accident at Snowden's beach, he married former Miss South Australia Julianna McClure (Julie).^[8][26]
He died on 19 March 2011 at his home in North Adelaide, aged 90.^[1] He passed away during the running of the Clipsal 500 while an F-18 flew overhead, reflecting both his love of motor sports and his time as an RAAF pilot.^[1]
He was survived by his wife, Julie, his five children, 15 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.^[16][8]

[edit] Publications

• Modern Australian Painting & Sculpture: A survey of Australian Art from 1950 to 1960, Rigby, Adelaide, 1960.
• Modern Australian Painting 1960-70, Rigby, Adelaide, 1970.
• Modern Australian Painting 1970-75, Rigby, Adelaide, 1976, Kym Bonython & Elwynn Lynn
• Modern Australian Painting 1975-80, Rigby, Adelaide, 1980.
• Modern Australian Painting 1950-75, Rigby, Adelaide, 1980.
• "Ladies' legs and Lemonade", Adelaide: Rigby, 1979.

Honours and awards

On 1 September 1944 he was awarded the Air Force Cross.^[12] On 22 February 1946 he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.^[14]
In the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 1981, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), in recognition of service to the arts.^[27] (Both his brothers had also been given this honour the previous year.) In the Australia Day Honours of 26 January 1987, he was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), Australia's highest civilian honour, "in recognition of service to the community, particularly as Chairman of the SA Jubilee 150 Board".^[22]
He was also appointed a Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John (KStJ), and awarded an honorary Doctorate.^{[citation needed]}
Other honours included a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Adelaide Critics Circle in 2007,^[18] and the Kym Bonython Fellowship, which provides support to up and coming visual artists and was named in his honour, and was first awarded by the Adelaide Festival Centre in 2010.^[28]

	Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)	1987[22]
	Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)	1981[27]
	Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom) (DFC)	1946[14]
	Air Force Cross (United Kingdom) (AFC)	1944[12]
	Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John (KStJ)
	1939-1945 Star
	Pacific Star
	Defence Medal
	War Medal 1939-45
	Australia Service Medal 1939-45

Others

• 2007 - Lifetime Achievement Award by the Adelaide Critics Circle^[18]
• 2008 - Premier's Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008 Ruby Awards^[29]
• 2007 - Inaugural member, Australian Speedway Hall of Fame^[30][31][8]
• 2010 - Kym Bonython Fellowship named in his honour^[28]

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Guillermo Ford, Panamanian politician, Vice President of Panama (1989–1994) died he was , 74

Guillermo "Billy" Ford Boyd  was a Vice President of Panama died he was , 74. He was one of the running mates of presidential candidate Guillermo Endara during the 1989 Panamanian election campaign. During the election campaign the United States Government allegedly gave $10 million to the Endara campaign, but the election results were annulled by the Panamanian Government on 10 May.^[1][2]

(November 11, 1936 - March 19, 2011)

Ford gained international fame when a photo of an attack on him by a man hired by Manuel Noreiga, showing Ford "bloody but unbowed", appeared on the cover of Time magazine, Newsweek, and U.S. News.^[2][3] After a rally in support of Endara and Ford, men with guns, pipes, and wooden planks attacked Ford and his entourage.^[2][3] United States president George H. W. Bush called the men hired by Noriega "Doberman thugs".^[3] The iconic photo by Ron Haviv (of AFP), of Ford in his white guayabera shirt splattered bright red with blood "became one of the most famous images of 1989. It was put on the cover of Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News."^[3]
After the United States invaded Panama on 20 December 1989, a judge swore Endara in as President in the United States controlled Canal Zone and Ford was appointed as Vice President.^[2] Ford served as Vice President from the end of 1989 until 1994.^[2]
Ford died March 19, 2011 in his residency in Panama City, Republic of Panama, and he received a state funeral.^[4][5] The Panamanian National Assembly also honored him with a special resolution.^[6]

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Barrington Gaynor, Jamaican footballer died he was , 45.

Barrington Gaynor  was a Jamaican national football player died he was , 45..

(27 September 1965 – 19 March 2011)

Early years

Barrington lived in Trench Town, Kingston Jamaica until he was nine years old. While living in Trench Town, he attended Trench Town Primary School up until grade four. After moving to 9 Miles Bull Bay, St. Andrew in May 1975, Gaynor immediately transferred to St. Benedict's Primary School at 7 Miles Bull Bay. He started learning to play football at eleven years old. While learning to play football on the streets, Barrington was given the nickname Cobra by one of his friend, who just felt like giving him a name. He played his first competition in the summer of 1977. It was the Bull Bay under fifteen Corner League where his team, Lodge United, was the eventual champion.

Education

In 1978, Barrington took the Common Entrance Exam at St. Benedict's Primary School, passed and went to Camperdown High School where he would do well. At Camperdown he played Pepsi Under 13 in 1978 and went to the finals. In 1979 and 1980, Gaynor played Colts Under 15 and lost in the 1979 Colts final. He went on to play in the High School Manning Cup competition from 1981 to 1984. Camperdown won the Manning Cup, Walker Cup, and Olivier Shield in 1982. From 1982 to 1984 Gaynor was selected to the All Manning team at the end of each season. In 1984, Barrington was name footballer of the year at Camperdown High School. In 2003 and 2004 he won the Jamaica High School Alumni Competition in Bronx New York, representing his Alma Mater.
In 1988 Barrington Gaynor was awarded a four year football scholarship in the United States of America at Alderson Broaddus College in Philippi, West Virginia. Gaynor studied Computer Science and graduated in three and a half years with a Bachelor of Science degree. In 1988 Alderson Broaddus College were beaten in finals of the NAIA National Tournament and lost in Semi finals of the Tournament in 1991. Alderson Broaddus were the Area champions in 1988 and 1991 and Conference champions in 1988, 1990, and 1991. Barrington made the All American and All Conference teams in the four years he played in college. He was also selected to the 1988 NAIA National All Tournament Team. He was selected for the NAIA 1992 Senior Bowl game Chicago.

Club career

At the age of fifteen, immediately after helping the Minor League team to the semifinal, Barrington started playing senior football in the Major League Competition for Bull Bay F.C. In 1983, Barrington would make his big career move at the age of eighteen when he joined neighboring Club Harbour View. Gaynor would play for Harbour View F.C. for eighteen years where he would win many championship. While representing Harbour View with some excellent performance, Barrington was giving the nickname Cabrini, who was the Italian left full back from the 1982 World Cup winning team. While playing for Harbour View F.C., Gaynor won two Major Leagues, one President Cup, four Jackie Bell Knockouts, three Federation Cup Knockouts, three Premier League End of Round Finals and one Premier League Title. In year 1985, Barrington was named the Most Valuable Junior Player in the Premier League and in 1998 Gaynor was voted the Most Valuable Player in the Federation Cup Knockout.^[1]

International career

Barrington Gaynor got his first taste of national recognition when he was selected into the Jamaica National Under 19 Team in 1983. In 1987, Barrington would move on to make his senior National debut. Gaynor would play for his nation until 1993 and earn 63 caps.^[2] He has represented his country in 13 FIFA World Cup qualification matches^[3]. In 1991 he was appointed vice captain of the national team and was given the opportunity to lead the team on many of occasions. During his tenor as a national player, Gaynor was dub by one reporter as "the man who doesn't know how to play a bad game". With the Jamaica National Senior team, Gaynor won the Caribbean Shell Cup in 1991 and came third in the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 1993.^[4]

Coaching career

Gaynor started his coaching career at a very tender age when he coached his championship Under 10 team while he was only twelve years old. He would also coach and pick his primary school soccer team when the coach does not show up. In 1993 Gaynor got his first real coaching job, when he was hired as the assistant men's football coach for two years at William Carey College in Mississippi.
After his two year coaching stint in Mississippi, he immediately went back to his beloved home in Jamaica, to work and continue his coaching career. In 1995, he coached his former high school team, Camperdown, in the Manning Cup competition and continued to coach them until 2007. Camperdown made it to the Walker Cup Finals in 2005 and Manning Cup Semi Finals in 2000 and 2005.
Gaynor took over the coaching job at Bull Bay F.C. in 1999 and won the Syd Barlett Competition undefeated. Barrington went on to be named Kingston and St. Andrew Football Association coach of the year in 2000. The following year Gaynor's Bull Bay team's hard work paid off again when they were awarded the Major League champions. In 2001, Barrington transferred from Harbour View and went back to Bull Bay where he becomes a player coach. The Bull Bay team came second in the National A League competition and was promoted to the Premier League for the 2002/03 season. Bull Bay is the only team to ever got promoted three consecutive year on their way up to the Premier League.
In 2004 Gaynor got a coaching stint with the National Program, and travelled to Chengdu, China as an assistant coach to Wendell Downswell with the Jamaica Under 23 team. In the 2005/2006 season, he was assistant coach to Donovan Hayles at Harbour View for the Premier League. In July 2006, Gaynor went to England to complete the UEFA B Coaching course for a month. On his return from England, he coached Waterhouse F.C. in the 2006/2007 Premier League season.

Honors

In April 2008, Barrington was inducted in the Alderson Broaddus College Hall Of Fame. He is the second football player to be inducted in the Hall of Fame at Alderson Broaddus College.
In February 2009 Gaynor was honored by Camperdown High School at the Camperdown Classic Track Meet.
On 18 July 2009 he received a Special Harbour View Honor in Marimar, Florida and that day was also declared by the Marimar Mayor as Barrington Gaynor's day.

Personal life

Gaynor was married to Nyoka, and they had two daughters, Shanice and Juanell.
Gaynor started a College Scholarship Program immediately after his first year at Alderson Broaddus College in 1989. He would get various different colleges to give young football players, both boys and girls from Jamaica, a full four or two year scholarship. This scholarship program still goes on.
The Barrington Gaynor Foundation kept its first Back To School Treat in 2007 at his home in 9 Miles Bull Bay, where they cater for 1,000 children in the community and this was held again in 2008. They also donated a hundred thousand dollars in August 2008 and a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in October 2009 to the Weise Road Basic School. He did this because he was a strong believer in education and the need to give back to his community.

Lou Gehrig's disease

Barrington was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease in January 2008. In August 2008 a benefit match featuring George Weah was held for him in New York City.^[5] On 27 February 2011, Gaynor was honoured and handed several donations to facilitate medical expenses while he attended a Jamaica Premier League match between Harbour View and Boys' Town.^[6]

Death

Barrington Gaynor died on March 19, 2011, while receiving medical treatment at the Westchester Medical Center, New York, U.S.A.
He was buried on April 9 at the Dovecot Memorial Park in St Catherine after a memorial service was held at the Pentecostal Tabernacle.^[7]

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