Sickan Carlsson, Swedish actress and singer, died she was 96.

Sickan Anna-Greta Carlsson was a Swedish film actress and singer died she was 96..

(12 August 1915 – 2 November 2011)

Biography

From the 1930s to 1950s, Carlsson was Sweden's most popular film actress and its highest paid, topping the salary of even the most popular male performer. She was also an accomplished singer and recording artist and performed on stage and in musical revues. She was noted for her comedic films, which peaked during World War II. Several of her films from this period include upbeat musical numbers intended to raise the morale of her war-weary audiences. The characters she portrayed in the post-war years were often more complex than those she had played previously and featured less of her singing talents. Her screen persona was that of a carefree, energetic young woman who faced everyday problems with optimism. Her films were immensely popular and often had long runs in theaters.^{[citation needed]}
Carlsson is most closely associated with two directors: Schamyl Bauman (in films from 1945 to 1955) and Hasse Ekman (1956–65). Although remembered mostly for her light-hearted roles, she was also able to portray darker characters when called upon. One of her best known dramatic outings was in 1961's Lustgården (aka The Pleasure Garden), with a script written specifically for her by Ingmar Bergman.
Carlsson stated publicly that she did not mind being typecast in comedic roles, however, and is proud to have been given parts which allowed her the opportunity to make her audiences laugh. Some of her best films include Det glada kalaset (1946), Skolka skolan (1948), Klasskamrater (1952), Sjunde himlen (1956) and Lustgården (1961).

Marriages

Born into a working-class family, she fought to be accepted in an upper-class environment and endured two broken marriages before wedding businessman Sölve Adamsson which ended with his death in 1987. Her first marriage, to Gösta Reuter, produced a daughter, Ingegärd.^{[citation needed]}

Later years

In 2005 she was awarded an Honorary Guldbagge Award at the Guldbagge Awards in Sweden. She lived in Stockholm since 2005.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

• 1992 - Kusiner i kubik (TV series)
• 1983 - Öbergs på Lillöga (TV series)
• 1973 – Anderssonskans Kalle i busform
• 1973 – Bröllopet
• 1972 – Anderssonskans Kalle
• 1965 - Niklassons (TV series)
• 1961 – Lustgården
• 1959 – Himmel och pannkaka
• 1959 – Fröken Chic
• 1958 – Du är mitt äventyr
• 1957 – Med glorian på sned
• 1956 – Sjunde himlen
• 1955 – Älskling på vågen
• 1954 – Dans på rosor
• 1952 – Klasskamrater
• 1951 – Puck heter jag
• 1950 – Frökens första barn
• 1950 – Min syster och jag
• 1949 – Skolka skolan
• 1949 – Jungfrun på Jungfrusund
• 1947 – Pappa sökes
• 1946 – Det glada kalaset
• 1945 – Flickorna i Småland
• 1944 – Hans officiella fästmö
• 1944 – Gröna hissen
• 1943 – En flicka för mej
• 1942 – Flickan i fönstret mitt emot
• 1942 – Löjtnantshjärtan
• 1941 – Landstormens lilla argbigga
• 1941 – I natt - eller aldrig
• 1940 – Gentleman att hyra
• 1939 – Landstormens lilla Lotta
• 1939 – Åh, en sån grabb!
• 1939 – Rena rama sanningen
• 1938 – Blixt och dunder
• 1938 – Bara en trumpetare
• 1937 – Ryska snuvan
• 1937 – O, en så'n natt
• 1937 – Klart till drabbning
• 1935 – Smålänningar
• 1935 – Kärlek efter noter
• 1934 – Sången till henne
• 1934 – Simon i Backabo
• 1933 – Kära släkten
• 1932 – En stulen vals

Source and references

• Carlsson, Sickan; Sickan (autobiography), Bonniers, Stockholm, Sweden, 1977.
• Holm, Crick; På tu man hand med filmidoler (chapter Sickan Carlsson), Medéns, Stockholm, Sweden, 1947.

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Robert A. Scalapino, American political scientist, died he was 92.

Robert Anthony Scalapino was an American political scientist particularly involved in East Asian studies died he was 92.. He was one of the founders and first chairman of the National Committee on United States – China Relations. Together with his co-author Chong-Sik Lee, he won the 1974 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs as awarded by the American Political Science Association. Scalapino's daughters include the renowned artist Diane Sophia and the poet Leslie Scalapino (1944–2010).^[1]

^{(19 October 1919 – 1 November 2011)}

Scalapino was born to Anthony and Beulah Stephenson Scalapino in Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1940, he completed his bachelor's degree at Santa Barbara College (now the University of California, Santa Barbara) where he was student body president in his last year.^[2] He married Ida Mae Jessen, the next year on 23 August 1941. Over time they had three children: Leslie, Diane, and Lynne.^[1] Scalapino received his master's degree in 1943 and his doctorate in 1948, both from Harvard. During World War II he served in U.S. Naval Intelligence from 1943 to 1946, where he studied Japanese.^[2][3] He reached the rank of lieutenant junior grade.
After graduating from Harvard, Scalapino remained there for a year teaching as an instructor, and then went to the University of California at Berkeley as an assistant professor in 1949. He achieved full professor status in 1956, and took emeritus status in 1990. He was chair of Department of Political Science from 1962 to 1965. He founded and was the first director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, from 1978 to 1990. He sat on the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was editor of the scholarly journal, Asian Survey, from 1962 to January 1996. Scalapino remained active into his late 80s, serving as a government consultant and testifying at Congressional hearings.
In 2010, The National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, as part of the National Asia Research Program (NARP), created the Scalapino Prize in honor of Scalapino and his contributions to the field of Asian studies.^[4] The prize would be awarded to an outstanding scholar in the field of Asian studies every two years. The inaugural Scalapino Prize was awarded to David M. Lampton in June 2010 at the 2010 Asia Policy Assembly.^[5]
He died of complications from a respiratory infection on 1 November 2011, at the age of 92.^[6]

Contents 1 Awards 2 Selected publications 3 Notes 4 Further reading 5 External links

Awards

• 1973 with Chong-Sik Lee, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for their book Communism in Korea^[7]
• 1976 honorary LL.D., Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
• 1983 honorary D.P.S., Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Korea)
• 1989 honorary D.P.S., Kyung Hee University (Korea)
• 1988 Order of the Sacred Treasure (Japan)
• 1990 Presidential Order (Korea)
• 1990 Berkeley Citation, University of California at Berkeley

Selected publications

Scalapino published 540 articles and 39 books or monographs on Asian politics and United States–Asian policy,^[8] which include:

• 1953 Democracy and the Party Movement in Pre-War Japan^[9]
• 1961 with George T. Yu The Chinese Anarchist Movement^[10]
• 1962 with Junnosuke Masumi Parties and Politics in Contemporary Japan^[11]
• 1967 The Japanese Communist Movement, 1920-1966^[12]
• 1972 with Chong-Sik Lee Communism in Korea^[13]
• 1972 Elites in the People's Republic of China^[14]
• 1975 Asia and the Road Ahead^[15]
• 1979 The United States and Korea: Looking Ahead^[16]
• 1983 The Early Japanese Labor Movement^[17]
• 1989 The Politics of Development: Perspectives on Twentieth Century Asia^[18]
• 1992 The Last Leninists: The Uncertain Future of Asia's Communist States^[19]
• 1997 North Korea at a Crossroads^[20]
• 2008 From Leavenworth to Lhasa: living in a revolutionary era^[21]

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Katherine Siva Saubel, American Cahuilla tribal leader and activist, one of the last speakers of the Cahuilla language, died she was 91.

Katherine Siva Saubel was a Native American scholar, educator, tribal leader, author, and activist committed to preserving her Cahuilla history, culture and language  died she was 91.. Her efforts focused on preserving the language of the Cahuilla people. Saubel is acknowledged nationally and internationally as one of California’s most respected Native American leaders. She received an honorary PhD in philosophy from La Sierra University, Riverside, California, and was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the University of California at the University of California, Riverside.
Saubel was an enrolled member of Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians and served as their tribal chairperson.^[3]

^{(March 7, 1920[1] – November 1, 2011[2])} 

Early life and education

Saubel, the eighth of eleven children, grew up speaking only the Cahuilla language until she entered school at age seven.^[4] Her mother, Melana Sawaxell, could only speak Cahuilla. Her father, Juan C. Siva, eventually mastered four languages: Cahuilla, Spanish, Latin, and English. While in high school, Katherine grew alarmed when she found that as she spoke Cahuilla to her friends, they would respond back to her in English. She worried that her people were losing their language. She began writing down the names and uses of the plants and herbs she learned from her mother as she gathered with her.
This notebook later became Temalpakh: (From the Earth) Cahuilla Indian knowledge and usage of plants that she collaborated on with anthropologist Dr. Lowell John Bean for ten years and was published by Malki Museum's Malki Press in 1972. Temalpakh demonstrates the depth of Saubel’s expertise in Cahuilla culture, and the second major focus of her scholarship: native ethnobotany, the study of the plant lore and agricultural customs of a people or specific ethnic group. Saubel was an expert on the unique Cahuilla uses of such plants as mesquite, screw bean, oak, acorn, datura, and others.

Further work

In 1962, Saubel worked with the professor of American linguistics, William Bright, on his studies of the Cahuilla language and as he prepared several publications. She also taught classes with Bright and with professor Pamela Munro of UCLA, and served as co-author with Munro on Chem’i’vullu: Let’s Speak Cahuilla, published by UCLA in 1981.
Starting in 1964, Saubel worked on Cahuilla language research with linguist Professor Hansjakob Seiler of the University of Cologne, Germany, to do further work on providing an authentic written translation of the Cahuilla language that had previously existed only in spoken form. Their work together resulted in the publication of both a Cahuilla reference grammar and dictionary. Saubel also published her own dictionary, I’sniyatam Designs, a Cahuilla Word Book. Her work includes several authentic transcriptions and English translations of Cahuilla folklore.
Jane Penn, a cultural leader on the Malki Cahuilla reservation at Banning, California (which was renamed Morongo Reservation), had conceived in 1958 of opening a reservation museum where she could display her extensive collection of Cahuilla artifacts and create a cultural preservation center for the reservation. With the help of Lowell John Bean, who was an anthropology graduate student at that time, and the support of Penn's husband Elmer and Katherine Siva Saubel's husband Mariano, the group obtained non-profit status for Malki Museum on the Morongo Indian Reservation in Banning, California. Saubel, Penn's relative by marriage, was asked to become the president of Malki, while Penn became its director and treasurer.The first nonprofit museum on an Indian reservation opened its doors to the public in February 1965, and continues to display artifacts from prehistoric to recent times. Malki Press, the museum's publishing arm, recently purchased Ballena Press from authors Lowell John Bean and Sylvia Brakke Vane, enabling the museum to continue to publish scholarly works on Southern California's Native Americans.

Recognition

Saubel’s research has appeared internationally in government, academic and museum publications. Her knowledge of Cahuilla ethnobotany and tribal affairs has prompted US state and federal legislative committees to seek out her testimony. Past and current governors of California have honored her, and she has been appointed to numerous commissions and agencies.
For many years, she served on the Riverside County Historical Commission, which selected her County Historian of the Year in 1986. In 1987, she was recognized as "Elder of the Year" by the California State Indian Museum. Governor Jerry Brown appointed her to the California Native American Heritage Commission in 1982. In this capacity she has worked to preserve sacred sites and protect Indian remains.
Saubel has testified as an expert on Native American culture and history to the California legislature, the United States Congress, and various boards, commissions, and agencies.
Her writings have been published by government agencies, academic institutions, and museums, and she has taught Cahuilla history, literature, and culture at UC Riverside, UCLA, California State University, Hayward, the University of Cologne, and Hachinohe University in Japan. In 2004 her book, Isill Heqwas Waxizh: A Dried Coyote's Tail, co-authored with Cahuilla, Cupeno, Luiseño, and Serrano linguist Dr. Eric Elliot, was published by Malki Museum Press.
Her awards include:

• First Recipient of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian Art and Culture Award (1994)
• California State Indian Museum – Elder of the Year (1987)^[5]:152
• The Desert Protective Council Award
• YWCA Woman of Achievement Award (Riverside County, California)
• Bridge To Peace Award
• Latino and Native American Hall of Fame (Riverside, California)
• First Recipient of the California Indian Heritage Preservation Award by the Society for California Archaeology (2000)
• Indian of the Year – California Indian Conference (2000)
• First Native American woman inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York (1993)^[6]

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Seppo Sanaksenaho, Finnish politician, Mayor of Vaasa (1997–2001), died he was 73.

Seppo Sanaksenaho  was a Finnish politician who served as the Mayor of Vaasa from 1997 to 2001.^[1]

 

^{(May 5, 1938 – November 1, 2011)}

Sanaksenaho was born in Oulu, Finland, in 1938.^[1] He earned an engineering degree from the Helsinki University of Technology, which now forms part of Aalto University.^[1] Sanaksenaho received a master's degree in engineering from Pennsylvania State University in the United States.^[1]
Sanaksenaho worked as an engineer for the cities of Porvoo and Helsinki during his early career.^[1] He served as the deputy mayor of Vaasa from 1979 to 1996, before becoming the city's Mayor in 1997.^[1]
Seppo Sanaksenaho died on November 1, 2011, at the age 73.^[1]

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Eilaine Roth, American baseball player (AAGPBL), died she was 82.

Eilaine Roth was an outfielder who played from 1948 through 1951 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 2", 123 lb., she batted and threw right-handed died she was 82..^[1]

^{(January 17, 1929 – November 1, 2011)} 

Born in Michigan City, Indiana, Eilaine Roth was the daughter of Herman and Elsie (née Kumnatzke) Roth. Younger than twin sister Elaine by fifteen minutes, Roth spent four years in the league mainly as a right fielder and pinch-hitter, while her sister was a pitcher for seven years. The twins attended Elston High School, graduating in 1946.^[2]
The Roth twins joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1948 with the Peoria Redwings. They played together for two years as the "dynamic duo" (″E″ and ″I″), because it worked well for promotion, but when the team folded before the 1951 season, Eilaine was relocated to the Kalamazoo Lassies and Ellaine joined the South Bend Blue Sox. In 1953, the sisters came together again in Kalamazoo.^[3]
Her most productive season came in 1950, when she posted career numbers in games played (107), hits (78) and stolen bases (64), while hitting a .202 average. Used sparingly in 1954, she hit .251 (52-for-207) in 79 games.^[4]
After leaving the league, Roth played slow-pitch softball in a factory league from 1954 to 1957. She later worked 21 years as an inspector for Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan.^[5]
Eilaine Roth died in Springfield, Michigan, aged 82, following complications from cancer.^[1]

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Dorothy Howell Rodham, American homemaker, mother of Hillary Rodham Clinton, died she was 92.

Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham was an American homemaker and mother of First Lady, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.  died she was 92.



(June 4, 1919 – November 1, 2011)

Dorothy Howell was born in Chicago, the daughter of Edwin John Howell, Jr. (1897–1946), a Chicago firefighter,^[4] and Della Murray (1902–1960).^[5][6] Her sister is Isabelle Howell (born 1924).^[4] Her ancestry included Welsh, English, Scottish, French, and Dutch; her paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Bristol in Gloucester, and many of her recent forebears had lived in Canada.^[5]
Dorothy's childhood has been described as Dickensian.^[6][7] The family lived as boarders in a crowded house.^[6] The parents were dysfunctional and unhappy^[8] and prone to sometimes violent fights;^[6] they moved Dorothy amongst various schools,^[3] and paid only sporadic attention to the children before divorcing in 1927.^[4] The children were then sent on a train by themselves, unsupervised (Dorothy was eight, Isabelle younger), to live with their paternal grandparents in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra, California.^[3][8][9] The sisters endured harsh treatment from their grandparents and Dorothy left home at age 14 at the height of the Great Depression, working as a $3-per-week housekeeper, cook, and nanny in San Gabriel, California.^[6][8] Encouraged by her employer to read and go to school, Dorothy attended Alhambra High School, where she joined several clubs and benefited from two teachers.^[6] After graduating from there in 1937,^[10] she moved to Chicago for a failed reunion with her mother,^[4][8] who by then had gotten married to Max Rosenberg.^[11] Subsequently, she moved into her own apartment there and took office jobs to support herself.^[3][4] She later said, "I’d hoped so hard that my mother would love me that I had to take the chance and find out. When she didn’t, I had nowhere else to go."^[6] Hillary Clinton later attributed her interest in children's welfare to her mother's life as well as her belief that caring adults outside of family can fill a child's emotional voids.^[6]
While applying for a job as a clerk typist at a textile company, she met traveling salesman Hugh Ellsworth Rodham,^[4] eight years her senior, in 1937.^[12] After a lengthy courtship, they married in early 1942.^[4] She became a full-time homemaker, raising three children, Hillary, Hugh and Tony, in suburban Park Ridge, Illinois. She encouraged Hillary to have a love for learning and to pursue an education and a career, though she had never done so herself.^[8] In contrast to her husband's staunch Republican views,^[13] Dorothy Rodham was, as her daughter later wrote, "basically a Democrat, although she kept it quiet in Republican Park Ridge."^[4]
In 1987, Rodham and her husband moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, to be closer to their daughter and granddaughter, Chelsea.^[11] An excellent student as a youth, Rodham now took college courses in subjects such as psychology, logic, and child development, although she never graduated.^[4][11] Her daughter later wrote, "I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman."^[3]

Hugh Rodham died in 1993. Dorothy Rodham remained active but valued her privacy and almost never spoke to the media,^[8] although she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2004.^[14] In 2006, she moved into the Clintons' large Whitehaven house in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C.^[8][14][15]
Starting in December 2007 she made a rare public appearance in Iowa and other early primary states to campaign for her daughter's presidential nomination bid.^[3][16] She appeared at some events concerning women's issues and also appeared in a Clinton campaign television advertisement.^[3][17]
Dorothy Rodham died on November 1, 2011, in Washington, D.C., with Secretary Clinton cancelling a foreign trip in order to be by her side.^[3]


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Sergio Montiel, Argentine politician, Governor of Entre Ríos (1983–1987; 1999–2003), died he was 84.

Sergio Alberto Montiel  was an Argentinian politician, lawyer, and professor of constitutional law at the National University of the Littoral. Monitel served as Governor of Entre Ríos Province for two nonconsecutive terms died he was 84.: He was first elected on October 30, 1983, and served his first term until 1987.^[1] Montiel served a second gubernatorial term from 1999 to 2003.^[1] Montiel supported nationalization and opposed the 1993 Pact of Olivos.<sup>[1]

(October 20, 1927 – November 1, 2011)</sup>

Montiel was born in October 20, 1927, in Concepción del Uruguay, Argentina.^[1] He died of cardiac arrest at Militar de Paraná, a military hospital in Paraná, Entre Ríos, on November 1, 2011, at the age of 84. ^[1]
He was an active freemason.


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