Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer, died from lung cancer he was , 58.

Pekka Erkki Juhani Tammilehto better known by his stage name Topi Sorsakoski, was a Finnish singer died from lung cancer he was , 58.. His father was tango singer Yrjö Tapio aka Jylli Tammilehto. Sorsakoski started his career together with his brother, Antti, who had played in various bands together with Juice Leskinen, in the Kalle Kiwes Blues Band.

(27 October 1952 – 13 August 2011)
 
Some of Sorsakoski's cousins are also musicians: Seppo Tammilehto, who has played in Alwari Tuohitorvi and later had a solo career, and Juhani Tammela, who has played old dancehall music in his quintet in the 1960s. Next Sorsakoski worked as the guitarist in the band The Boys.^{[citation needed]}
In the 1980s, he started performing together with the band Agents, also singing songs earlier performed by Olavi Virta. Sorsakoski later had a solo career and also worked with the band Kulkukoirat. He returned to for a time to the Agents beginning in May 2007.^{[citation needed]}

Death

Sorsakoski died on Saturday, 13 August 2011 at Seinäjoki Central Hospital. He was 58 years old and had suffered from lung cancer.^[1]

Discography

Albums

• Hurmio (1985)
• In Beat (1986) - by Topi Sorsakoski & Agents
• Besame Mucho (1987) - by Topi Sorsakoski & Agents
• Pop (1988) - by Topi Sorsakoski & Agents
• Half and Half (1990) - by Topi Sorsakoski & Agents
• Yksinäisyys (1991)
• Kulkukoirat (1992) - by Topi Sorsakoski & Reijo Taipale:
• Iltarusko (1995)
• Kalliovuorten kuu (1997)
• Evergreens (1999)
• Muukalainen (2000)
• Luotu lähtemään (2002) - by Topi Sorsakoski & Kulkukoirat
• Jossakin... Suomessa (2005) - by Topi Sorsakoski & Kulkukoirat
• Renegades (2007) - by Topi Sorsakoski & Kulkukoirat:
• Tummansininen sävel (2011)

Compilations

• Topi Sorsakoski & Agents:

• • Greatest Hits (1988)
  • In memoriam (1992)
  • Muistojen peili (2000)
  • Muistojen peili 2 (2002)
  • Surujen kitara - 32 Greatest Hits (2002)
  • Muistojeni laulut - 30 hienointa levytystä (2008)

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Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician, National Scientist of the Philippines, died from a heart attack he was , 99.

Fe del Mundo was a Filipino pediatrician. The first woman admitted as a student of the Harvard Medical School, she founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines died from a heart attack he was , 99. Her pioneering work in pediatrics in the Philippines in an active medical practice that spanned 8 decades won her international recognition, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1977. In 1980, she was conferred the rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines while in 2010, she was conferred the Order of Lakandula.

(November 27, 1911 – August 6, 2011)

Early life and education

Del Mundo was born in Intramuros, Manila, her family home located just across the Manila Cathedral. Her father Bernardo served one term in the Philippine Assembly, representing the province of Tayabas. Three of her eight siblings died in infancy,^[2] while an older sister died from appendicitis at age 11.^[4] It was the death of her older sister, who had made known her desire to become a doctor for the poor, that spurred young del Mundo towards the medical profession.^[4]
Del Mundo enrolled at the University of the Philippines, Manila in 1926 and earned her medical degree in 1933, graduating as class valedictorian. She passed the medical board exam that same year, placing third among the examinees. Her exposure while in medical school to various health conditions afflicting children in the provinces, particularly in Marinduque, led her to choose pediatrics as her specialization.

Admission to Harvard Medical School and post-graduate studies

After her graduation from U.P., del Mundo was offered a full scholarship to any school in the United States for further training in a medical field of her choice by President Manuel Quezon.^[4] She accepted the offer and chose to go to Harvard, arriving at Harvard Medical School in 1936. She was unwittingly enrolled in Harvard Medical School, an institution which did not yet then admit female students. As recounted in her official Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation biography:

[Del Mundo] humorously relates that when she arrived in Boston and went to the dormitory assigned her in a letter from the director of the hospital housing, much to her surprise she found herself in a men's dorm. Unknowingly the Harvard officials had admitted a female to their all-male student body. But because her record was so strong the head of the pediatrics department saw no reason not to accept her. Thus, upsetting Harvard tradition, she became the first Philippine woman and the only female at the time to be enrolled at the Harvard Medical School.^[5]

Some sources cite del Mundo as the first woman ever enrolled in Harvard Medical School,^[1][2] or the first woman to be enrolled at Pediatrics at the school,^[6] or even the first Asian admitted to the Harvard Medical School.^[3] On this point, del Mundo herself would acknowledge only that she was "the first [woman] coming from [as] far [as the Philippines]".^[7] However, Harvard Medical School began to accept female students only in 1945,^[8][9][10] nine years after del Mundo was enrolled in the school.
Del Mundo remained in HMS until 1938, completing 3 Pediatric courses.^[1] She then took up a residency at the Billings Hospital of the University of Chicago, before returning to Massachusetts in 1939 for a two-year research fellowship at the Harvard Medical School Children's Hospital.^[5] She also enrolled at the Boston University School of Medicine, earning a Master's degree in bacteriology in 1940.^[6]

Medical practice

Del Mundo returned to the Philippines in 1941, shortly before the Japanese invasion of the country later that year. She joined the International Red Cross and volunteered to care for children-internees then detained at the University of Santo Tomas internment camp for foreign nationals.^[6] She set up a makeshift hospice within the internment camp, and her activities led her to be known as "The Angel of Santo Tomas".^[11] After the Japanese authorities shut down the hospice in 1943, del Mundo was asked by Manila mayor León G. Guinto, Sr. to head a children's hospital under the auspices of the city government. The hospital was later converted into a full-care medical center to cope with the mounting casualties during the Battle of Manila, and would be renamed the North General Hospital (later, the Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center). Del Mundo would remain the hospital's director until 1948.^[12]
Del Mundo joined the faculty of the University of Santo Tomas, then the Far Eastern University in 1954. She likewise established a small medical pediatric clinic to pursue a private practice.

Establishment of the Children's Medical Center

The Children's Medical Center of the Philippines in 1957.

Frustrated by the bureaucratic constraints in working for a government hospital, del Mundo had desired to establish her own pediatric hospital.^[12] Towards that end, she sold her home and most of her personal effects^[11][12] and obtained a sizable loan from the GSIS in order to finance the construction of her own hospital. The Children's Medical Center, a 100-bed hospital located in Quezon City, was inaugurated in 1957 as the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines. The hospital was expanded in 1966 through the establishment of an Institute of Maternal and Child Health, the first institution of its kind in Asia.^[5]
Having sold her home to finance the medical center, del Mundo chose to reside at the second-floor of the hospital itself.^[11] As late as 2007, she retained her living quarters at the hospital (since renamed the "Fe del Mundo Children's Medical Center Foundation"), rising daily at five in the morning and continuing to make her daily rounds even though then wheelchair-bound at 99 years of age.^[2][11]

The Dr. Fe Del Mundo Medical Center (Children's Medical Center of the Philippines, 1957)

As early as 1958, del Mundo conveyed her personal ownership over the hospital to a board of trustees.^[11] In July 2007, the Medical Center Foundation reported to the Department of Labor and Employment that it would cease operations after having incurred losses of more 100 million pesos.^[13] Reports soon emerged that a joint venture composed of the management and consulting firm Accent Healthcare and the STI Colleges had offered to lease, manage and operate the institution, thus precluding it from shutting down.^[13] Concerns over the employment status of the rank-and-file hospital employees following the takeover led to a strike that forced the temporary closure of the hospital in August 2007.^[13] In September 2007, the hospital announced its re-opening under the new management of the joint venture management firm Accent/STI Management, Inc.^[14] According to a statement released by the hospital, under the 20-year management lease agreement contracted with Accent/STI Management, Inc., the latter agreed to absorb the outstanding debts of the hospital.^[14]

Later life and death

Del Mundo was still active in her practice of pediatrics into her 90s. She died on August 6, 2011 after suffering cardiac arrest. She was buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.^[15]

Research and innovations

Del Mundo was noted for her pioneering work on infectious diseases in Philippine communities. Undeterred by the lack of well-equipped laboratories in post-war Philippines, she would not hesitate to send specimens or blood samples for analysis abroad.^[12] In the 1950s, she pursued studies on dengue fever, a common malady in the Philippines of which little was then yet known.^[12] Her clinical observations on dengue, and the findings of research she later undertook on the disease are said to "have led to a fuller understanding of dengue fever as it afflicts the young".^[5] She authored over a hundred articles, reviews and reports in medical journals^[5] on such diseases as dengue, polio and measles.^[16] She also authored "Textbook of Pediatrics", a fundamental medical text used in Philippine medical schools.^[17]
Del Mundo was active in the field of public health, with special concerns towards rural communities. She organized rural extension teams to advise mothers on breastfeeding and child care.^[11] and promoted the idea of linking hospitals to the community through the public immersion of physicians and other medical personnel to allow for greater coordination among health workers and the public for common health programs such as immunization and nutrition.^[17] She called for the greater integration of midwives into the medical community, considering their more visible presence within rural communities. Notwithstanding her own devout Catholicism,^[2][5][11] she is an advocate of family planning and population control.^[11]
Del Mundo was also known for having devised an incubator made out of bamboo,^[17] designed for use in rural communities without electrical power.^[11]

Citations

In 1980, President Ferdinand Marcos named del Mundo as a National Scientist of the Philippines, the first Filipino woman to be so-named.
Among the international honors bestowed on del Mundo was the Elizabeth Blackwell Award for Outstanding Service to Mankind, handed in 1966 by Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and the citation as Outstanding Pediatrician and Humanitarian by the International Pediatric Association in 1977. Also in 1977, del Mundo was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service.
On April 22, 2010, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo awarded del Mundo the Order of Lakandula with the rank of Bayani at the Malacañang Palace.^[18]

References

 

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Fred Imus, American songwriter and radio talk show host, brother of Don Imus died he was , 69.

Frederic Moore Imus was an American radio talk show host and the younger brother of radio talk show host Don Imus died he was , 69.. He hosted Trailer Park Bash, a weekly country music program launched on May 6, 2006, on Saturdays from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. ET on Sirius XM Radio's Outlaw Country channel. His sidekick was former western actor Don Collier. Imus broadcast his show from his trailer in Tucson, Arizona. He frequently appeared as a regular guest on his brother's Imus in the Morning.

(January 11, 1942 – August 6, 2011) Career

He attended Kent State University and served in the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.^[1] Imus also restored cars, especially 1957 Chevrolets and worked as a brakeman for Southern Pacific. In 1963, before Don went into radio, he and Fred wrote and recorded a song called I'm A Hot Rodder (And All That Jazz) for the Challenge label under the name Jay Jay Imus and Freddy Ford.^[2]
While with Southern Pacific R.R., he met fellow brakeman Phil Sweet, and in 1976 the two wrote the No. 1 country hit for Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius, I Don't Want to Have to Marry You, which was also voted "Song of the Year" by Music City News in 1977. Imus has been an on-air host at country music stations in Cleveland, Ohio, Cheyenne, Wyoming and El Paso, Texas, among others.^[3]
Because of his love of classic cars, Fred opened his own auto body shop in El Paso, Texas and with the idea from his brother Don Imus, he also sold a few shirts and hats out of his body shop with a simple mention from Don on his radio show.^[4] The store was called the Autobody Express, co-owned by Don and Fred. The Autobody Express was later moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Later, they had a store inside the Mohegan Sun Native American Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut. The company failed in 2003 and both stores closed.

Death

Fred Imus was found dead at his home in Tucson, Arizona, August 6, 2011.^[2] He died in his sleep peacefully,^[5] according to Matthew Hiltzik, a spokesman for Don Imus.^[1]

Books

• Don Imus and Fred Imus, Two Guys Four Corners: Great Photographs, Great Times, and a Million Laughs. Villard, 1997. (ISBN 0-679-45307-5).
• Fred Imus and Mike Lupica, The Fred Book. Doubleday, 1998. (ISBN 0-385-47652-3).

References and notes

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Bernadine Healy, American cardiologist, director of the National Institutes of Health (1991–1993), died from brain cancer. she was , 67

Bernadine Patricia Healy was an American physician, cardiologist, academic and a former head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She was a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, professor and dean of the College of Medicine and Public Health at the Ohio State University, and served as president of the American Red Cross. She was health editor and columnist for U.S. News & World Report. She was a well-known commentator in the media on health issues.^[1]

(August 4, 1944 – August 6, 2011)

Early years & family

Born in New York City to Michael Healy and Violet McGrath, both deceased, Bernadine Patricia Healy was one of four daughters raised in Long Island City, Queens, New York. Healy's parents stressed the importance of education. She was the top student of her high school class at Hunter College High School.
She attended Vassar College on a full scholarship and graduated summa cum laude in 1965 with a major in chemistry and a minor in philosophy. She went on to Harvard Medical School, also on full scholarship, and was one of only ten women out of 120 students in her class. After graduating cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1970, she completed her internship and residency in cardiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Hospital. After finishing her post-doctoral training, she became the first woman to join its full-time faculty in cardiology, and rose quickly to the rank of professor of medicine.
For eight years she headed the coronary care unit at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. At the medical school she served as assistant dean for post-doctoral programs and faculty development. During that time she organized a nationally covered Mary Elizabeth Garrett symposium on women in medicine which examined the opportunities and hurdles faced by women physicians roughly 90 years after the founding of the medical school in 1893, and at the same time honored Ms. Garrett, the Victorian socialite and philanthropist who made sure Johns Hopkins School of Medicine opened its admissions to women (the medical school opened its doors on October, 1893; and three of the eightenn original candidates for the M.D. degree were women) and ultimately admitted women and men precisely on the same terms. Template:A History of the University founded by Johns Hopkins, by John C. French, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1946 )

Affiliations

While at Johns Hopkins, Healy held several leadership positions in organizations such as the American Federation of Clinical Research, the American College of Cardiology, and the American Heart Association, an organization she later led as its volunteer president, and served on advisory committees to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The Age of Autism vaccine safety advocacy group named her 2008 Person of the Year.^[2]

American Red Cross

Healy was recruited away from Ohio State to become President and CEO of the American Red Cross in late 1999, succeeding Elizabeth Dole. From the outset she strove to unite the various services and volunteers under the banner "Together we can save a life."
Her tenure at the Red Cross was not without controversy. In the spring of 2001 the FDA issued a record fine to the Red Cross for mishandling CMV infected blood products.
The American Red Cross and Healy in particular, were criticized in the media, by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, and by some in Congress for designating funds for 9/11 related activities that did not directly involve victims. In mid-November, the Board redirected all of the funds dollars to those who had suffered or faced hardships at the attack site and made the change retroactive to 9/11.
Healy, who had taken controversial stands supporting the Israeli Red Cross, and auditing and financial controls of chapters, had crossed swords on these issues with a few board members and chapter heads, and resigned in the wake of these controversies.^[3][4][5][6] Dr. Healy departed the organization as president on December 31, 2001.

Government service

Presidential Advisor

President Ronald Reagan appointed Healy deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She served as chairman of the White House Cabinet Group on Biotechnology, executive secretary of the White House Science Council's Panel on the Health of Universities, and a member of several advisory groups on developing government wide guidelines for research in human subjects, and for the humane treatment of animals in research. She subsequently served on the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology during the administration of Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

NIH

Healy was director of the Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation when President George H. W. Bush tapped her in 1991 to become director of the NIH, its first woman head. She took on many initiatives during her two years at the helm, including the development of a major intramural laboratory for human genomics and recruited a world-renowned team to head the Human Genome Project, elevated nursing research to an independent NIH institute, strengthened a policy whereby the NIH would fund only those clinical trials that included both men and women when the condition being studied affects both genders.^{[citation needed]}

Women's Health Initiative

The Women's Health Initiative was a $625 million effort to study the causes, prevention, and cures of diseases that affect women at midlife and beyond. The study continues to unearth critical information, including evidence in 2002 that combined hormone replacement therapy increases the risk of invasive breast cancers by 26% and heart attack by 27% as well as an increased risk for stroke. The study's findings have resulted in a permanent 15% annual reduction in invasive estrogen positive breast cancer in post menopausal women in the U.S.; The HRT (hormone replacement) drug market in the United States simultaneously dropped by $1 billion, twelve months after the study's results were publicized, as 60% fewer women stopped filling their HRT prescriptions.^{[citation needed]}
As president of the American Heart Association from 1988 to 1989, she sought to convince both the public and medical community that heart disease is also a woman's disease, "not a man's disease in disguise". Appointed president of the American Red Cross in 1999, Healy worked to improve the safety and availability of the American blood supply while overseeing the development of a Weapons of Mass Destruction response program. In 2001 she led the organization’s response to the September 11 attacks.^{[clarification needed]}

U.S. Senate candidate

In 1994, Healy was a Republican candidate to represent Ohio in the U.S. Senate. She ran in the GOP primary, and came in second in a four-person race. Lt. Gov. Mike DeWine won and prevailed in the general election.

Cleveland Clinic

In 1985 Healy left Washington and moved to Cleveland where she became Chairman of the Cleveland Clinic Research Institute and also practiced cardiology. In addition to building major new programs in molecular biology, neuroscience, and cancer biology, she headed a large NIH-funded research program in hypertension, and was the lead investigator for the Cleveland Clinic's participation in a major clinical research study comparing angioplasty with coronary artery bypass surgery. She headed the NIH advisory board for another multi-center clinical study that showed statins could slow course of atherosclerosis in coronary artery bypass grafts. During this time she initiated a medical student program in alliance with Ohio State University that served as a precursor of the founding of the Cleveland Clinic College of Medicine in 2004.^{[citation needed]}

Ohio State University

Healy served as professor and Dean of the College of medicine from 1995 to 1999. During her tenure, the college expanded its public health programs to become a School of Public Health,re-christening the College of Medicine into a College of Medicine and Public Health.
With her efforts the medical school became designated as a National Center of Excellence in Women's Health. A new department of orthopaedics was created along with a planned development of a Musculoskeletal Institute. The James Cancer Center expanded its efforts in basic research with recruitment of Dr. Clara Bloomfield, an oncologist and leukemia researcher, and her husband Dr. Albert de la Chappelle, a world famous geneticist; together, they expanded the college's programs in cancer research and tumor genetics. Cardiovascular research and practice was grew with the recruitment of Dr. Robert Michler of Columbia University, who helped to revitalize the thoracic surgery and heart transplantation, and developed one of the earliest robotic heart surgery programs. Dr. Pascal Goldschmidt, a cardiologist and researcher, who was recruited from Johns Hopkins, helped create the Heart and Lung Institute.^{[citation needed]}

Advisory boards

Healy served on numerous medical advisory committees and boards over her career. They included committees the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine,of which she is a member, and the national Academy of Engineering; the Department of Energy, NASA, and the National Institutes of Health. She participated briefly on an Advisory board of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (an organization later shown to have been funded by Philip Morris), and served on numerous advisory groups and Boards of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, where she was an outspoken critic of smoking and its effects on the cardiovascular system.^[7]

Press

Over her career Healy served as a medical commentator and consultant for CBS, PBS and MSNBC, and has made numerous appearances on CNN, C-SPAN and Fox News Channel. Healy authored a column, "On Health", for U.S. News and World Report since 2003 on a wide array of medical topics from women's health to marijuana, coronary artery disease to cancer, tattoos to male circumcision, and medical preparedness to health reform.^[8]
Healy became the focus of controversy when she questioned the 2004 finding of the Institute of Medicine that the evidence refuting a link between childhood vaccinations and autism was conclusive. She suggested a government conspiracy against further research in a nationally televised CBS interview with Sharyl Attkisson.^[9]

Family

Dr. Healy was married to cardiac surgeon Floyd D. Loop^[10] a former CEO of the Cleveland Clinic. She and her husband had one daughter, Marie McGrath Loop. She had another daughter, Bartlett Bulkley, from her previous marriage.

Death

Dr. Bernadine Healy died from brain cancer on August 6, 2011, two days after her 67th birthday.^[11]

 

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Kurt Johansson, Swedish Olympic sport shooter died he was , 97.

Kurt Johansson is the first one on the left.

Kurt Ivar Björn Johansson was a Swedish shooter who competed at three Summer Olympic Games died he was , 97. In 1948 in London he placed fourth in the Men's Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 metres event. In 1960 in Rome he finished 19th in the same event and 15th in the Men's 50 metre rifle prone competition. Finally, in 1968 in Mexico City, he participated in the Mixed Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 metres, Mixed Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres, and Mixed Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres tournaments, placing 17th, 20th, and 26th respectively.

(25 February 1914 – 8 August 2011)

Johansson was born in Stockholm and competed out of Södermalm Liljeholmens Skf.^[1] He was a successful international competitor outside of the Olympic Games and gained a reputation at the 1947 ISSF World Shooting Championships in his native Stockholm. There he captured individual silver in the 300 m prone and kneeling positions, gold in the 300 m standard position, and bronze in the 50 m prone position, as well as team gold in the 300 m standard position and bronze in the 300 m rifle three position competition. Prior to World War II he had won bronze in the 50 m rifle three positions tournament at the 1939 ISSF World Shooting Championships. At the 1949 edition he won individual silver in the 300 m prone position in addition to team gold in the 300 m standard rifle, silver in the 50 m rifle three positions tournament, and bronze in the 300 m rifle three position event. In 1952 he earned team silver medals in the 300 m standard and three position competitions, as well as the 50 three position event. He captured only two medals, an individual silver in the 50+100 m prone and a team bronze in the 300 m three positions tournament, in 1954, prior to breaking from the international scene.^[2]
Following his experiences at the 1960 Summer Olympics, Johansson captured individual bronze in the 300 m rifle prone and team gold in the 50 m rifle prone competitions at the 1962 ISSF World Shooting Championships. In 1966 he took his final individual gold medals — gold in the 300 m rifle prone and bronze in the 300 m rifle kneeling —^[2] and was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal for his sporting achievements that year, most notably being the oldest-ever ISSF World Championship gold medalist at the time.^[3] He died on 8 August 2011, at the age of 97, in Strängnäs, Sweden.

Medal record
Competitor for  Sweden
Men's shooting
ISSF World Shooting Championships
Gold	1947 Stockholm	300 m rifle standard Individual
Gold	1947 Stockholm	300 m rifle standard Team
Gold	1949 Buenos Aires	300 m rifle standard Team
Gold	1962 Cairo	50 m rifle prone Team
Gold	1966 Wiesbaden	300 m rifle prone Individual
Silver	1947 Stockholm	300 m rifle prone Individual
Silver	1947 Stockholm	300 m rifle kneeling Individual
Silver	1949 Buenos Aires	300 m rifle prone Individual
Silver	1949 Buenos Aires	50 m rifle three positions Team
Silver	1952 Oslo	300 m rifle standard Team
Silver	1952 Oslo	300 m rifle three positions Team
Silver	1952 Oslo	50 m rifle three positions Team
Bronze	1954 Caracas	50+100 m rifle prone Individual
Bronze	1939 Lucerne	50 m rifle three positions Individual
Bronze	1947 Stockholm	50 m rifle prone Individual
Bronze	1947 Stockholm	50 m rifle three positions Team
Bronze	1949 Buenos Aires	300 m rifle three positions Team
Bronze	1954 Caracas	300 m rifle three positions Team
Bronze	1962 Cairo	300 m rifle prone Individual
Bronze	1966 Wiesbaden	300 m rifle kneeling Individual

 

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Ruth Brinker, American AIDS and nutrition activist, founder of Project Open Hand, died from vascular dementia he was Ruth Brinker, 89, American AIDS and nutrition activist, founder of Project Open Hand, died from vascular dementia. he was 89.

Ruth Marie Brinker was an American AIDS activist and founder of the nonprofit, Project Open Hand  died from vascular dementia. he was 89. She began her activism in 1985 by providing food and meals to home-bound AIDS patients in San Francisco who were too ill cook or shop..

(May 1, 1922 – August 8, 2011)




Brinker was born Ruth Marie Appel on May 1, 1922, in Hartford, South Dakota.^[1] She moved to San Francisco, California, during the mid-1950s, where she married her husband, Jack Brinker, in 1957.^[1] They had two daughters, Lisa and Sara, but later divorced in 1965.^[1]
By the mid-1980s, the AIDS epidemic was sweeping through San Francisco. One of Brinker's friends, who had AIDS and corresponding malnutrition, became too weak to cook or leave his home to go grocery shopping.^[1] Brinker, who was a grandmother at the time, and a group of her friends collaborated to provide the man with meals by dividing up the month to delivering them to his home.^[1] Unfortunately, some of the volunteers went on vacation and the man died by the time they returned to San Francisco.^[1][3]
Ruth Brinker vowed not to allow the same fate happen to others in San Francisco. She had previously worked in the food service industry and as a volunteer for Meals on Wheels, a similar predecessor which provides meals to people who cannot purchase or prepare meals.^[1] She began organizing volunteers on a larger basis to deliver hot meals to AIDS patients in the city. This led to the establishment of her nonprofit, Project Open Hand, which was founded in summer of 1985 by Brinker and seven of her friends.^[1][3] The organization began with a small grant of $2,000 dollars from a Zen study group and donated cookware.^[3] Project Open House has since expanded to provide meals and other services to the elderly and people with other chronic illnesses.^[1] In 1987 and 1988, Project Open House served 300 AIDS patients using an annual budget of $500,000.^[3] As of 2011, Project Open House provides 2,600 meals a day using $5.6 million in public and private donations.^[1] Brinker's nonprofit has been copied by "dozens" of organizations throughout the United States, according to the New York Times.^[1]
Ruth Brinker died from complications of vascular dementia at her home in San Francisco on August 8, 2011, at the age of 89. She was survived by her two daughters, one grandson and a great-granddaughter.

 

 

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Ray Anderson, American entrepreneur, died from cancer he was , 77.

Ray C. Anderson was founder and chairman of Interface Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers of modular carpet for commercial and residential applications and a leading producer of commercial broadloom and commercial fabrics  died from cancer he was , 77.. He was "known in environmental circles for his advanced and progressive stance on industrial ecology and sustainability."¹Anderson died on August 8, 2011 after a 20-month battle with cancer.

(July 28, 1934 – August 8, 2011)

Life and career

Anderson was an honors graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology in the school of industrial and systems engineering in 1956.^[4] He learned the carpet trade through more than 14 years at various positions at Deering, Milliken &Company and Callaway Mills.
Anderson founded Interface in 1973 to produce the first free-lay carpet tiles in America.^[5] Interface is one of the world’s largest producers of modular commercial floorcoverings, with sales in 110 countries and manufacturing facilities on four continents.^[6]

Environmental focus

Anderson first turned his focus toward the environment in 1994 when he read The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken,^[7] seeking inspiration for a speech to an internal task force on the company’s environmental vision. Hawken argues that the industrial system is destroying the planet and only industry leaders are powerful enough to stop it.
In 2009, Anderson estimated that Interface was more than half-way towards the vision of “Mission Zero,”^[8] the company’s promise to eliminate any negative impact it may have on the environment by the year 2020 through the redesign of processes and products, the pioneering of new technologies, and efforts to reduce or eliminate waste and harmful emissions while increasing the use of renewable materials and sources of energy.^[9][10]
Anderson chronicled the Mission Zero journey in two books, Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model (1998) and Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose: Doing Business by Respecting the Earth (2009).^[11][12] The latter was released in paperback as Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist in 2011.

Recognition and awards

Anderson was featured several documentaries and films, such as The Corporation, (2004 Canadian documentary); The 11th Hour (2007 Leonardo DiCaprio film); I Am (2011 Tom Shadyac documentary); Big Ideas for a Small Planet (Sundance Channel series) and others.
The Interface story is the focus of the documentary film “So Right, So Smart” (2009).^[13]
Ray served a stint as co-chair of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development during President Clinton’s administration, which led to him co-chairing the Presidential Climate Action Plan in 2008, a team that presented the Obama Administration with a 100 day action plan on climate.^[14] Together, he and Interface funded the creation of the Anderson-Interface Chair in Natural Systems at Georgia Tech, where Associate Professor Valerie Thomas conducts research in sustainability.^[15]
Ray Anderson received a host of accolades throughout his life, including:

• In 2007, he was named one of Time’s Heroes of the Environment.^[16]
• Inaugural Millennium Award from Global Green, presented by Mikhail Gorbachev (1996)^[17]
• Recognized by Forbes Magazine and Ernst & Ernst, which named him Entrepreneur of the Year in 1996.^[18]
• The American Society of Interior Designers Design for Humanity Award (2010)^[19]
• Lifetime Achievement Award from GreenLaw (2010)^[20]
• The inaugural Global Sustainability Prize from the University of Kentucky Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment (2010)^[21]
• River Guardian Award from the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper (2010)^[22]
• Sustainability Award from the Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future (WNSF), the first time the WNSF has honored a businessman (2010)^[23]
• Pillars of EARTH Sustainable Leadership Awards given by EARTH University in Costa Rica (2010)^[24]
• Purpose Prize from Civic Ventures (2007)^[25]
• Auburn University’s International Quality of Life Award (2007)^[26]
• George and Cynthia Mitchell International Prize for Sustainable Development (2001)^[27]

Under Anderson’s leadership, Interface was named to CRO magazine’s (formerly Business Ethics magazine) 100 Best Corporate Citizens List for three years.^[28] In 2006, Sustainablebusiness.com named Interface to their SB20 list of Companies Changing the World,^[29] and in 2006 GlobeScan listed Interface #1 in the world for corporate sustainability.^[30]
Anderson was former Board Chair for The Georgia Conservancy and served on the boards of the Ida Cason Callaway Foundation, Rocky Mountain Institute, the David Suzuki Foundation, Emory University Board of Ethics Advisory Council, the ASID Foundation, Worldwatch Institute, and the Arizona State University Global Institute of Sustainability Advisory Board. He was on the Advisory Boards of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment and the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper.^[31]
He was awarded 12 honorary doctorates from Northland College (public service), LaGrange College (business), N.C. State University (humane letters), University of Southern Maine (humane letters), The University of the South (civil law), and Colby College (law), Kendall College (art), Emory University (science), Central College in Pella, Iowa, (humane letters), Chapman University (humane letters), Clarkson University (science), and the Georgia Institute of Technology (philosophy).^[32]

 

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