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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

William Franklin Lee III, American music educator, Dean of University of Miami School of Music (1964–1982), died he was 82.


William Franklin Lee III, aka Bill Lee[1] was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, author, and music educator who was renowned for pioneering comprehensive music education, including jazz, at the collegiate level of a full liberal arts university. Lee was well known for having led the University of Miami School of Music to greater international influence across several music genres, particularly jazz.

(20 February 1929 Galveston, Texas; d. 23 October 2011 New Smyrna Beach, Florida)

He served as Miami's third dean from 1964 to 1982. In 1989, he retired from the University of Miami, but, continued to work in music education at other institutions (see below). Upon his initial retirement, the University of Miami acknowledged his contribution to his discipline and to the university by awarding him two permanent titles: (i) Distinguished Professor of Music Theory and Composition Emeritus and (ii) Composer in Residence Emeritus.
Before retiring, though, Lee served as Vice-President and Provost at The University of Miami. He also served as Past-President and Past Executive Director of IAJE.[2]
One of his sons, Will Lee (William Frankin Lee IV), is a prolific bassist and one of the original members of the bands on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman and CBS' Late Show with David Letterman, both led by Paul Shaffer.

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Academic degrees

Note on Lee at North Texas

When Lee received his masters of science at North Texas in 1950, he was a member of the largest spring graduating class in the history of university as of that date.[3] His studies at North Texas exposed him to two seminal people in music education at the collegiate level, Wilfred Bain, then the Dean of the North Texas College of Music, and Gene Hall, who, in 1947, introduced at North Texas the first college degree in jazz studies in the world. Lee began his studies at North Texas in the Fall of 1945. By his sophomore year at North Texas (1946), he was a member of the Beethoven Choir – conducted by Bain – the symphony orchestra, and the Aces of Collegeland, directed by Fessor Graham.

Honors and awards

Timeline as educator

1951-52 — Director of Bands at Kirwin High School, Galveston, TX
1952-55 — Professor of Music, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio
1953 — summer faculty, Trinity University, San Antonio
1954 — Distinguished Lecturer, San Antonio College
1952-55 — Special Music Instructor in the San Antonio Independent School District
1955-56 — Instructor of Theory and Assistant to the Dean of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
1956-64 — Professor of Theory-Composition and Director of the Music Department at Sam Houston State University, where he initiated their jazz studies program. One of his first assistants was renowned jazz educator Jerry Coker, who later followed Lee to The University of Miami.
1964-82 — Third Dean of the School of Music, University of Miami School of Music
1982-86 — Executive Vice President and Provost, University of Miami
1986-1989 — Distinguished Professor and Composer-in-Residence, University of Miami
1989-90 — Director of Fine Arts at Florida International University
1990-1994 — Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at San Antonio
1994-95 — Professor of Music, the University of Texas at San Antonio
1972-74 — co-founder and past-president of NAJE
1995-99 — Executive Director of IAJE

Family

William Franklin Lee III was born February 20, 1929, in Galveston, Texas, to the marriage of William Franklin Lee, Jr. (1906–1991), and Annie Tillie Lee (née Keis). (Lee & Keis were married in 1927 in Galveston). William Franklin Lee III married Lois Ruth Lee (née Snyder). Together, they had four children:
  1. William Franklin Lee IV (b. 1952, Bexar County, TX)
  2. Robert ("Rob") Terry Lee (b. 1953, Bexar County, TX)
  3. Patricia ("Pat") Lynn Lee (b. 1955, Travis County, TX)
  4. Peggy Ann Lee (b. 1958, Walker County, TX)

Selected published works

  • William F. Lee, Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm ed. by Audree Coke Kenton, Creative Press of Los Angeles (1980)
  • Music Theory Dictionary, compiled and edited by William F. Lee, Huntsville, Tex., (c1961)
  • Music Theory Dictionary: The Language of the Mechanics of Music, compiled by William F. Lee, C. Hansen Educational Music and Books (c1966)
  • William F. Lee III, People in Jazz: Jazz Keyboard Improvisors of the 19th & 20th Centuries: preragtime, blues, folk and minstrel, early ragtime, dixieland, ragtime-stride, blues-boogie, swing, prebop, bop Columbia Lady Music, Hialeah, FL, distributed by Columbia Pictures Publications, (c1984)
  • William F. Lee, The Nature of Music, a Guide to Musical Understanding and Enjoyment, C. Hansen Educational Music and Books, Denver (c1968)
  • William F. Lee III, MF Horn: Maynard Ferguson's Life in Music, The Authorized Biography, Sunflower University Press (1997)

Music compositions

  • Concerto Grosso, for brass quintet and orchestra
  • Earth Genesis , for string orchestra
  • Alamjohoba, for band
  • Introduction and Fugue, for band
  • Time After Time, for band
  • Suite for brass, for brass choir
  • Four Sketches for Brass, C. H. Hansen (c1969) – 4 trumpets, 4 horns, 2 baritones, 3 trombones, tuba, string bass, timpani & percussion (2 players) "Elite 23"
  • Fanfare for Ralph, for brass choir
  • Piece for Brass, for brass quintet
  • Mosaics, for brass quintet
  • Regimentation, for brass quintet
  • Nocturne, for flute and piano
  • Soliloquy, for horn and piano
  • Mini-Suite, for trumpet and piano
  • Three Reflections, for alto saxophone and piano
  • Interlude, for guitar
  • Tone Poem, for oboe, violin, viola, 2 celli
  • Two Woodwind quintets
  • Piano Pieces[4]


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Peter Roebuck, British-Australian cricketer and columnist, committed suicide by defenestration he was 55.


Peter Michael Roebuck was an English cricketer who achieved later renown as an Australian newspaper columnist and radio commentator. A consistent county performer with over 25,000 runs, and "one of the better English openers of the 1980s",[1] Roebuck captained the English county side Somerset between 1986 and 1988. During 1989, Roebuck also captained an England XI one-day cricket team in two matches.[2] His post-playing career as an erudite writer earned him great acclaim as a journalist with the Sunday Times and later as an author.[1] Roebuck committed suicide in Cape Town, South Africa, on 12 November 2011 after being asked by police to answer questions about an allegation of sexual assault.[3]

(6 March 1956 – 12 November 2011)


Early life

Roebuck was born in the village of Oddington,[4] outside Oxford, on 6 March 1956, the son of two schoolteachers and one of six children; he attended Millfield School where his mother was a mathematics teacher and his father an economics teacher. The headmaster, Jack Meyer, a former Somerset CCC Captain, had offered his parents employment at the school so that they could afford the fees.[5] Meyer was an unconventional Headmaster who wanted to encourage cricket talent. On entering Meyer's office for the interview for admission, Roebuck found an orange flying through the air towards him; he caught it, and in his book, It Never Rains, speculated whether he would have got in to Millfield if he had dropped it. He later studied law at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge, graduating with first class honours in 1977.[4] However he never practised law, finding it too confining.[4]

Cricket career

Roebuck was a right-handed batsman, often used as an opener, and occasionally bowled right-arm offspin. He played for Somerset's second eleven at the age of 13 and regular first-class cricket from 1974 until his retirement in 1991. He later played Minor Counties cricket for Devon.
In 335 first-class matches he scored 17,558 runs at an average of 37.27, making 33 centuries with a highest score of 221*, and took 72 wickets at 49.16. In 298 one-day matches, he scored 7244 runs at 29.81 while taking 51 wickets at 25.09.[6]
On the county circuit, Roebuck's nickname was Rupert. This arose when the Essex captain, Keith Fletcher, once addressed him as Rupert, in the mistaken belief that it was actually his name.[7]
In 1988 Roebuck was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year.[8]

1986 controversy

Roebuck became a controversial figure in 1986 when, at the end of his first season as captain of Somerset, he was instrumental in the county's decision not to renew the contracts of its two overseas players, Viv Richards and Joel Garner, whose runs and wickets had brought the county much success in the previous eight years.
Roebuck and his supporters argued that both Richards and Garner were now ageing, that individually and collectively their contributions had declined dramatically and that younger overseas and home-grown players should be recruited to replace them. They cited the recent performance of the team in the County Championship — namely, bottom in 1985 and next-bottom in 1986 — and their failure in one-day competitions since winning the NatWest Bank Trophy in 1983.
It should also be understood that a change in the TCCB (Test and County Cricket Board) regulations meant that only one overseas player would be allowed in each county team rather than two as previously - meaning that Somerset would not be able to field both Richards and Garner.
Opposition to the decision not to re-employ Richards and Garner came loudest from Somerset's English-born star, the all-rounder Ian Botham, who refused a new contract for himself and joined Worcestershire. In the event, under Roebuck's captaincy and with Martin Crowe of New Zealand and Steve Waugh of Australia as overseas players, Somerset improved a little in 1987, though they remained among the weaker counties for a further six seasons. After many years of bitterness and the eventual removal of Roebuck from the club, Richards was honoured with the naming of a set of entrance gates and a stand after him at the County Ground, Taunton.

Post-cricket career

Commentator and journalist

His journal of the 1983 season, It Never Rains, established him as one of cricket's finest journalists.[9]
Roebuck wrote columns for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (Melbourne) and ESPNcricinfo, as well as commentating for the ABC radio cricket coverage in Australia. He was known for wearing his trademark straw sunhat at all times, even in the commentary box.[10]
He felt there was too much nationalism in cricket writing and it should be avoided when analysing the game. He was one of the few global voices in the game without allegiance to any nation, team or player.[9]
He was one of the last journalists in cricket to acquire a laptop and mobile phone and found them quite useful.[11]
Roebuck was often critical of the Australian cricket team and, in particular, the Australian captain Ricky Ponting. Following Australia's narrow victory in the second Test against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 2007–08, Roebuck accused the Australians of "bad sportsmanship and triumphalism", describing the Australian team as a "pack of wild dogs" and claiming that Ponting has "shown not the slightest interest in the well-being of the game, not the slightest sign of diplomatic skills, not a single mark of respect for his accomplished and widely admired opponents."[12]
Roebuck was described as an astute judge of cricketers, a contrarian, and a master wordsmith, and his writing was described as lean, erudite, fluent, perceptive and vibrant.[10][11]

Philanthropy

In 2006, Roebuck established the Learning for a Better World Trust (LBW) to help students from cricket-playing developing countries to complete tertiary education.[10][13][14] He resigned from the Trust in 2008.[4] In addition to supporting the LBW Trust, Roebuck spent A$100,000 of his own money to help put African youths through high school and university.[15] Psychology Maziwisa, a Zimbabwean lawyer Roebuck had mentored and whose education he had funded, wrote a tribute in which he stated that Roebuck had over 35 Zimbabweans in his care at the time of his death, and he had spent approximately $500,000 of his own money to "realise African dreams".[16]

Personal life

Roebuck spent his last years residing in Straw Hat Farm, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, as well as Bondi, Sydney, Australia, where he owned two houses.[17][18] He grew estranged from England,[11][19] but kept in regular touch with his mother and siblings.[4] He became an Australian citizen.[20] His colleague Malcolm Knox said of Roebuck that "nothing could rile him more, after he became an Australian citizen, than to be described as an Englishman of any kind, even a former one."[21]
In 2005 Roebuck's father wrote that Peter is an "unconventional loner with an independent outlook on life, an irreverent sense of humour and sometimes a withering tongue."[15]
He was a solitary and complex man[10] who preferred to read a book while eating alone rather than spend time in the company of his colleagues.[22]

Assault conviction

In 1999, while working as a commentator in South Africa, Roebuck met three cricketers, all aged 19, and offered to coach them, inviting them to live at his home in England. He warned them beforehand that he would use corporal punishment if they failed to obey his "house rules". He caned all three men on their (clothed) buttocks at different times for misbehaviour and in 2001 was given a suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to three charges of common assault.[19] He told the court, "Obviously I misjudged the mood and that was my mistake and my responsibility and I accept that."[23] Henk Lindeque, one of Roebuck’s victims, said, "The problem was not so much that he caned us but wanted to examine the marks. That’s when I decided to get out of his house."[24] Lindeque stated that he held no ill will toward Roebuck and was saddened to hear of his death.[19]

Death

Roebuck arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, on 7 November 2011 to report on a Test Match between South Africa and Australia for The Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).[25] He was staying at the Southern Sun Hotel in Newlands, Cape Town, on 12 November, when South African Police entered the hotel, claiming to desire to speak to him about an alleged sexual assault on a 26-year-old Zimbabwean man.[26][27] The man had alleged that Roebuck had "groomed" him through Facebook, asking him to "bring [a] stick in case I need to beat you" once they had arranged to meet. At their claimed meeting Roebuck allegedly pinned the man to a hotel bed and sexually assaulted him, leaving him feeling suicidal.[27]
After requesting that he be allowed to go to his room to change his clothes, Roebuck called the ABC's Jim Maxwell in his hotel room and asked him to find him a lawyer and to then come to his hotel room.[28]
At 9.15pm, Roebuck died after falling from the sixth floor of the Southern Sun Hotel.[29] He landed on the awning outside the entrance to the hotel,[30] causing what was described by Australian cricket writer, Peter Lalor, who later saw Roebuck's body at the mortuary, as "serious head trauma".[31] Roebuck's body was taken to the Salt River State mortuary in the early hours of the next morning.[31] A statement issued by South African police stated that Roebuck had committed suicide[9] and that an inquest into the matter would be held.[32]
Students residing at Roebuck's farm in Natal, where he lived for six months of every year, stated that no corporal punishment was meted out at the residence.[33] A law graduate who speaks for the housemates at Straw Hat Farm said of the sexual assault allegation: "This is not the Peter we knew."[33]
In January 2012 Australian journalist Adam Shand published extensive research on Roebuck's dealings with the young men who lived with him in South Africa.[34]

Legacy

Roebuck was Ed Cowan's mentor and former teacher at Cranbrook School. Cowan's maiden Test century came in the First Test between Australia and South Africa at the Gabba, Brisbane, on 12 November 2012, a year to the day after Roebuck's death. Cowan dedicated the century to Roebuck's memory.[35]

Publications

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Eva Monley, German-born Kenyan film location scout (Empire of the Sun, Lawrence of Arabia), died she was 88.


Eva Monley was a German-born Kenyan location scout, production manager and film producer.[1] Monley, an expert on filming in Africa, helped many of Hollywood's best known film directors and producers film on location throughout the continent, including Steven Spielberg, Otto Preminger, John Ford, and David Lean.[2]

(April 29, 1923 – November 12, 2011) 



Monley was born in Berlin, Germany on April 29, 1923.[2] She fled Nazi Germany with her mother, eventually settling in Kenya Colony,[1] which later became the independent nation of Kenya. Over time, Monley achieved fluency in the Swahili language and became an expert on East African cultures.[1]

Film career

Monley took a position as a secretary in Nairobi.[1] While working that job, Monley was hired in her first job involving film.[1] For her first film position, Monley worked as a script supervisor and assistant for the 1950 movie, King Solomon's Mines.[1] King Solomon's Mines shot on location throughout Kenya Colony, Belgian Congo and Tanganyika (present-day Tanzania).[1] Once production had finished, Monley was hired in a similar position as assistant and script supervisor for the 1951 film The African Queen, directed by John Huston.[1] A string of behind-the-scenes positions for American and British film productions soon followed including The Snows of Kilimanjaro in 1952, White Witch Doctor in 1953, and Mogambo, a 1953 movie directed by John Ford.[1]
In addition to her work with production based in Africa, Monley worked outside of Africa as well. She worked on two films produced in India, The Rains of Ranchipur, which was directed by Jean Negulesco and starred Lana Turner, and 1956's Bhowani Junction, a George Cukor-directed film adaptation of the novel.[1] She also worked as the location manager for Lawrence of Arabia for two years.
In 1960, Monley began a five film collaboration with film director Otto Preminger as his production manager for Exodus. Monley subsequently worked as production manager for four more Preminger films - The Cardinal in 1963, In Harm's Way in 1965, Bunny Lake Is Missing in 1965 and Hurry Sundown in 1967.[1]
Monley switched to associate producer for a number of films later in her career. Her associate production credits included the 1977 horror film, The Pack; 1979's The Promise by Gilbert Cates; Champions in 1983; and Highlander in 1986.[1] She used her expertise as both an associate producer and film scout for Mister Johnson, which was shot on location in Nigeria by Bruce Beresford.[1]
Monley produced the 1993 Walt Disney Pictures and Amblin Entertainment film, A Far Off Place, which starred Reese Witherspoon.[1] The movie was adapted by the book of the same name, which was written by South African writer, Laurens van der Post.
Her numerous other credits in other production roles included Billion Dollar Brain in 1967, The Black Windmill in 1974, The Man Who Would Be King in 1975, Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa in 1985, and Steven Spielberg's 1987 film adaption, Empire of the Sun.[1]
Monley was a recipient of the British Film Institute's lifetime achievement award.[1] She donated her papers and writings related to her film work to the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.[1]
Eva Monley died at her home in Nanyuki, Kenya, on November 12, 2011, at the age of 88.


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Robert Bropho, Australian indigenous rights activist and convicted criminal, died from natural causes he was 81.


Robert Charles Bropho was an Australian Aboriginal rights activist and convicted serial child sex offender from Perth, Western Australia. He was convicted of multiple cases of child sexual abuse. A judge described his crimes as the "lowest form of abuse imaginable".[1]
Bropho was leader of the Swan Valley Nyungah Community settlement for over 40 years until its closure in 2003. He organised the protest against redevelopment of the Swan Brewery, and was involved in the repatriation of Yagan's head in 1997. He died in October 2011 while serving a six-year jail term.

(9 February 1930 – 24 October 2011) 

Childhood

Bropho was born in a bush camp at the back of the Coorinjie wine saloon at Toodyay, Western Australia, on 9 February 1930. His mother was Isobel Layland (1900–1993), who was the daughter of Clara Layland, a Nyungah woman who lived in the swamps on the fringes of Perth. His father was Tommy Nyinda Bropho (1899–1972), who was born at Argyle Downs Station on the Durack pastoral lease and was taken from his mother under the 1905 Aborigines Act and sent to an orphanage on the Swan River at the age of 7. It is believed he was named after a policeman called Brophy, who escorted him from Argyle Downs to Wyndham. Tommy's sister Jessie Argyle was the subject of the book Shadow Lines by Steve Kinnane.[2]
During the 1930s Bropho, his parents and eleven siblings camped in a swamp at Swanbourne in the western suburbs of Perth.[3] After being forced to vacate their camp, Bropho's family relocated to Eden Hill in the late 1930s. His family spent the next decade living in humpies on the edge of John Forrest National Park and around the rubbish dumps and swamps and waterways of South Guildford, Caversham and Success Hill. They survived by working in the brick kilns, carting rubbish and sewerage and picking grapes.[4] Success Hill, on the edge of Bennett Brook, was a traditional campsite and was where the Irish journalist and amateur anthropologist Daisy Bates had gathered information for her books and articles on Nyungah culture.[5]

Early activism

On 11 September 1977 Bropho, his family and members of the Anderson, Mead and Kickett families drove 3,000 kilometres across the continent of Australia to petition the Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Ian Viner for better housing conditions. On their return the Bropho family set up a public protest camp in the grounds of St Matthews Anglican Church in Guildford, a registered Aboriginal site.[6]
On 11 December 1978 Bropho and members of the Lockridge Camp set up a protest on Heirisson Island as the City of Perth prepared for its 150th anniversary. The protest was supported by the Kimberley Land Council, the Aboriginal Medical Service and Black Action.
In 1980 Bropho published Fringedweller, an account of the third world living conditions of homeless Aboriginal people.[6]
During the 1980s Bropho was involved in protests against mining and urban development, including Noonkanbah and Bennett Brook. In 1986 he won a Supreme Court injunction against plans by the State Energy Commission to excavate a sacred site at Bennett Brook.[7]

Old Swan Brewery protest

In January 1989 Bropho led a protest against the State Government's deal with Multiplex to develop on a sacred Aboriginal site[8] at the Old Swan Brewery on Mounts Bay Road. This protest received widespread media attention and gained support from the Construction, Mining and Energy Union (CMEU).[citation needed] In October 1989, despite winning a Supreme Court injunction, the protesters were arrested and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Carmen Lawrence approved the proposal.[citation needed]
In 1990 Bropho won the NAIDOC(National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee), Aboriginal of Year Award.[citation needed]

Swan Valley Nyungah Community

Bropho led the Swan Valley Nyungah Community from 1963–2003. The community was the subject of a coronial inquest and the Gordon Inquiry in 2001. The community was closed in 2003 by an Act of Parliament after widespread allegations of rape, sexual abuse, family violence and substance abuse.[citation needed]

Convictions

In 2003, Bropho was charged with raping Lena Spratt in 1975. His niece, Susan Taylor, committed suicide in 2001. The court was told during the trial that Bropho had offered Taylor and other girls money for sex before her death.[9]
In 2005, four years after the girls came forward at Taylor's inquest, he was found guilty of three counts of indecently dealing with a young girl at the camp, and was jailed for 12 months.
In 2008, he was found guilty of five counts of carnal knowledge of a girl under 13, to whom he began giving money for sex when she was 11 years old at the height of the Swan Brewery legal battle in 1990. Bropho was sentenced to three years' jail. The sentence was later doubled after the Director of Public Prosecutions appealed against the sentence.[10] Judge Peter Nisbet described his crimes as the "lowest form of abuse imaginable". Bropho told the court "I am the shadow of Martin Luther King and Gandhi." [11]

Death

Bropho died on 24 October 2011 at Royal Perth Hospital, while still serving a jail term. His death will be subject to a coronial inquiry as it occurred in custody.[12]

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Liviu Ciulei, Romanian actor, writer and director, died after a long illness he was 88.


Liviu Ciulei  was a Romanian theater and film director, film writer, actor, architect, educator, costume and set designer. During a career spanning over 50 years, he was described by Newsweek as "one of the boldest and most challenging figures on the international scene".[2]

(July 7, 1923 – October 24, 2011[1])

Biography

Born in Bucharest to Liviu Ciulley [sic], a lawyer and constructor, Ciulei studied architecture and theater at the Royal Conservatory of Music and Theatre. He made his theater debut in 1946, as Puck in an Odeon Theatre production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Soon after, he joined the theater company known as Teatrul Municipal din Bucureşti, later renamed Teatrul Bulandra, and directed his first stage production in 1957 — The Rainmaker.
In 1961, Ciulei gained an overall recognition for his version of Shakespeare's As You Like It. He was the recipient of the Directors' Award at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival for The Forest of the Hanged,[3] the film version of the Liviu Rebreanu's eponymous novel (where he also starred in the role of Klapka). In the 1980s, he was marginalized by the regime and transferred to work at Sahia film studio, as documentary filmmaker.
Ciulei was the artistic director of Teatrul Bulandra for more than a decade. During his tenure at the Bulandra he staged a wide range of classics. His Shakespeare productions include "As You Like it" "Macbeth" and "The Tempest", which was awarded Romania's Critics' Prize for Best Production of 1979. Also at the Bulandra, he staged such European classics as Gorki's "The Lower Depths and "The Children of the Sun", Buchner's "Danton's Death" and "Leonce and Lena", and Brecht's "Threepenny Opera". His productions of American classics include Williams' "A Street Named Desire", Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life", and O'Neill's "Long Day Journey into Night". Ciulei has been guest director in many theaters around the world: in West Berlin, Paris, Göttingen, Düsseldorf, Munich and Vancouver. In Sydney, he won the 1977 Australian Critics'Award for his production of "The Lower Depths". In 1974 he made his American debut at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., as director and designer with "Leonce and Lena". In 1980 he directed and created sets for the Shostakovitch opera "The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" at the Spoleto Festival in Italy: and in May 1982, he redirected the same opera for the Lyric Opera in Chicago. Between 1980-85, he was the artistic director of Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the Guthrie he has directed "The Tempest", "Eve of Retirement", "As You Like it", "Requiem for a Nun", "Peer Gynt", "The Threepenny Opera", "Three Sisters", "Twelfth Night", "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, back in his native Romania, Ciulei directed a series of stage productions that have been both publicly and critically acclaimed. He was named Honorary Director of the theater he has always loved the most, Bulandra. Besides being the costume and set designer of the majority of his own productions, Ciulei, as an architect, contributed to the rebuilding of the auditorium of Bulandra Theatre.

Family

He was first married to actress Clody Bertola.[4] He remarried, to journalist Helga Reiter-Ciulei. His son by the second marriage is film director Thomas Ciulei.

Death

Ciulei died on October 24, 2011, in a hospital in Munich, aged 88; he had been suffering from multiple illnesses.

Filmography

  • În sat la noi (1951), actor
  • Mitrea Cocor (1951), writer
  • Nepoţii gornistului (1953), actor/writer
  • Răsare soarele (1954), writer
  • Alarmă în munţi (1955), actor
  • Pasărea furtunii (1957), writer
  • Erupţia (1957), director
  • Valurile Dunării (1959), director and actor
  • Soldaţi fără uniformă (1960), actor
  • Cerul n-are gratii (1962), actor
  • Pădurea spânzuraţilor (1964), actor/director
  • Facerea lumii (1971), writer/actor
  • Decolarea (1971), actor
  • Dragostea începe vineri (1972), actor
  • Dimitrie Cantemir (1973), actor
  • Ceaţa (1973), actor
  • Mastodontul (1975), actor
  • O scrisoare pierdută (1977), writer/director
  • Falansterul (1979), actor

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Matty Alou, Dominican Republic-born American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals), died from diabetes he was 72.

Mateo Rojas "Matty" Alou [1] was a Dominican outfielder who spent fifteen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the San Francisco Giants (1960–1965), Pittsburgh Pirates (1966–1970), St. Louis Cardinals (1971–1972, 1973), Oakland Athletics (1972), New York Yankees (1973) and San Diego Padres (1974). He also played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) with the Taiheiyo Club Lions from 1974 through 1976.[2]

(December 22, 1938 – November 3, 2011)


He was the middle of a trio of baseball-playing brothers that included the older Felipe and Jesús.[3] They were the first set of three siblings to play together in the same outfield (on September 15).[4] and all bat in the same half-inning in the majors (September 10),[5] accomplishing both with the Giants in 1963. Matty had been teammates with Felipe during the prior three campaigns, and would do likewise with Jesús for the following two. Matty and Felipe later reunited with the Yankees in 1973.[6]
Alou's best years as a player were spent with the Pirates, where he won the National League (NL) batting title in 1966 and was a two-time All-Star in 1968 and 1969. He was a member of a World Series Champion with the Athletics in 1972 and a NL pennant winner with the Giants in 1962.

Playing career

Alou was born in Haina, Dominican Republic. Alou was a platoon player for the Giants for several years and was mostly unremarkable. His finest moment in San Francisco came in 1962 when his pinch-hit bunt single in the final game of a three-game tie-breaking playoff against the Los Angeles Dodgers began the rally that won the game and the pennant for the Giants. He batted .333 in the Giants' losing effort against the Yankees in that year's World Series. While he was primarily an outfielder, Alou also appeared in one game in 1965 as a pitcher, pitching two scoreless innings.[7]
After Alou was traded to the Pirates before the 1966 season, he received instruction from expert hitting instructor Harry "the Hat" Walker that helped turn him into a formidable hitter. He won the batting title with a .342 average, with his brother Felipe finishing second, and finished in the top five in hitting four more times after that 1967-1969, 1971. He also led the league in at bats twice (1969-1970), hits once (1969) and doubles once (1969). After leaving the Major Leagues following the 1974 season, he played three seasons in Japan (Taiheiyo Club Lions) and managed in the Dominican Winter League.
On June 23, 2007, the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame inducted Matty Alou into their Hall of Fame during an on-field, pre-game ceremony at AT&T Park before a game between the San Francisco Giants and the New York Yankees. He, along with San Francisco Giants shortstop Omar Vizquel were inducted in front of over 43,000 fans. Alou died in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic because of diabetes complications


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Linda Bebko-Jones, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1993–2006), died he was 65.

Linda Bebko-Jones was an American politician who represented the 1st district of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, which includes portions of Erie County.

(May 1, 1946 – November 20, 2011) 

Personal

Linda Bebko was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Villa Maria Academy in 1964.[4] She attended the Erie Business Academy from 1964 to 1965.[5] Prior to elective office, she spent time working as an alcohol and drug counselor and said that she had been an alcoholic herself in the past.[6] Later on, she was director of Women Against Sexual Harassment from 1989 to 1992 and a caseworker for Community House for Women from 1990 to 1991. Her career in politics began with a stint as an administrative assistant for Pennsylvania State Senator A. Buzz Andrezeski from 1984 to 1989, moving on to become a caseworker for former United States Senator Harris Wofford in 1990. Her husband, Tom Jones, died in 2001 after a bout with throat and neck cancer.[6]

Political career

Early career

Bebko-Jones was first elected to represent the 1st District in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1992, defeating freshman incumbent Ken Kruszewski in the Democratic primary. She went on to defeat Republican Jerry Knight, an aide to Rep. Phil English,[7] in the general election by 1,100 votes.[8] Bebko-Jones easily won the 1994 election by over 5,000 votes over Jerry Podolsky.[8] In 1996 and 2000, she ran unopposed for re-election and in 1998, she won after her GOP opponent quit the race and tried to withdraw from the ballot.[9]

2004 election

In the 2004 Democratic primary election, Bebko-Jones faced Jim Herdzik. His challenge came on the heels of a scandal involving a fire in her district office. Immediately after the fire, there were reports that it has been caused by Bebko-Jones leaving a lit cigarette in the office.[10] The fire marshal never conclusively determined the cause, only that it was accidental.[11] After the repairs were made to the office, Bebko-Jones moved out prior to lease expiration, claiming that the air inside the building was unhealthy. Eventually, her landlord agreed to a settlement with the state at the taxpayer's expense.[6][12] Herdzik even rented the former office as a campaign headquarters, highlighting the incident. On election day, Bebko-Jones won easily with 60% of the vote.[13][14]

Campaign for Erie Mayor

In 2005, she ran for mayor of Erie against incumbent Rick Filippi, who had been indicted on corruption charges.[15] Bebko-Jones ultimately finished third in the race, behind Joseph Sinnott who went on to become mayor.[16]

Retirement and indictment

Bebko-Jones was forced to withdraw from the 2006 Democratic primary when questions arose over the propriety of her nomination petitions.[6] Pat Harkins won the primary and went on to win the general election.[6] In November 2007, a state-wide grand jury was convened to investigate abnormalities in her nominating petitions for the 2006 Democratic primary. On February 28, 2007, Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett charged Bebko-Jones and her former chief-of-staff with forging nominating petitions and submitting the fraudulent forms to the Secretary of the Commonwealth.[17][18][19][20][21][22] On August 6, 2008, Bebko-Jones and her former chief of staff Mary B. Fiolek were both sentenced 12 months probation and fined $1,500. They each pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charges of forging and submitting false signatures, and criminal conspiracy. All other charges were Bebko-Jones was ordered to perform 200 hours of community service and Fiolek 100 hours.[23]
In 2007, it was revealed that Bebko-Jones, as a lame duck legislator, attended legislative training trips at the public's expense after her defeat.[24]


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