Lou Maletta, American media executive, founder of Gay Cable Network, died from liver cancer he was 74.

Louis Phillip "Lou" Maletta Jr. was an American media executive and LGBT rights activist. Maletta founded the Gay Cable Network in 1982  died from liver cancer he was 74..^[1]

^{(December 14, 1936 – November 2, 2011)}

Life and career

Maletta was born in Brooklyn, New York and served in the United States Army. After his discharge, he worked as a freelance photographer and travel agent. Maletta married and had a daughter with his wife before divorcing and coming out as gay. He was with his partner Luke Valenti from 1974 until Maletta's death.
Maletta's start in media came with the show Men & Film on Manhattan Cable Television, a show that evolved from showing edited gay pornography to covering events important in the community. He was inspired to start Gay Cable Network after seeing the effects AIDS had on a friend. The network went on to produce original programming, including coverage of Democratic National Conventions and Republican National Conventions between 1984 and 2000.
Andy Humm, then a GCN correspondent, recounted years afterward that Maletta's wearing of a "spandex, a black leather jacket, the Gay Network T-shirt and a cowboy hat" at a backwoods Mississippi Hardee's while en route to the Republican National Convention caught the attention of other patrons, so much so that the place went "deadly silent. I didn’t think we’d get out alive, but perhaps the locals were just too shocked to react.^[2]"
Gay Cable Network closed in 2001 upon Maletta's retirement. All 6,100 video tapes of GCN's archive were sold to the New York University's Fales Library for preservation in 2009.
Maletta was also the off-camera voice in a Calvin Klein campaign pulled in 1995 for racy content which some suggested had overtones of underage pornography.^[3] Maletta died of liver cancer in Kingston, New York.^[4]


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Stan Bergstein, American harness racing executive, died he was 87.

Stanley F. Bergstein  was an American sports executive died he was 87.. He was the executive vice president of the Harness Tracks of America from 1961 to 2011. He was the first person to be inducted into both the Harness Racing Hall of Fame and it's Communicator's Hall of Fame.

(June 19, 1924 – November 2, 2011)

Bergstein died on November 2, 2011 after suffering from health problems for a year.^[1] He died only nine months after he retired as vice president. He is survived by his two children, Al and Lisa and four grandsons. His wife, June, died in 2010, four days after their 60th wedding anniversary.^[2]
Born above a grocery store in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, to the grocer Milton and his wife Esther, on 19 June 1924 and died in his home in Tucson, Arizona on 2 November 2011 at the age of 87.
The most accurate obituary this writer has seen appears to be from the Chicago Tribune. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-11-08/news/ct-met-bergstein-obit-20111108_1_harness-tracks-phil-langley-harness-racing-hall
Also, Stan wrote a detailed article on his career before 1970 that was republished in the 9 November 2011 "Horseman and Fair World" (which is not yet available on the Internet as of this writing).
Served in WWII landing on Omaha Beach a few days after DDay. Fought across Normandy with Patton's Army. Fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Was injured and received the Purple Heart.
After returning from the war, graduated from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.
Worked in public relations for a variety of harness racing tracks in the 1940s. Also spent time as announcer and car driver, PR and other activities with the Harlem Globetrotters from approximately 1948 to 1952.
Married the model June Hanna in 1950. They had a son and daughter.
In 1961 he helped create Harness Tracks of America, a trade group representing race track owners. He originally held the title of Executive Secretary, but also ran day to day operations for the organization. He held both that position and that of Executive Vice President until his retirement in February 2011, at which time he took the position of President Emeritus.
In 1968, he additionally joined, as the vice president of publicity and public relations, the U.S. Trotting Association, the governing body of the standardbred sport. He also became editor of the USTA's award-winning monthly magazine, HoofBeats.
In the 1950s, he worked as an announcer at many race tracks around America, including Sportsman's Part and Maywood Park in Chicago, Santa Anita in Los Angeles, and numerous other tracks. He also appeared on television as both color commentator and announcer for such premiere race events as The Little Brown Jug, and The Hambeltonian, later in his career.
Bergstein was also a reader of horse pedigrees, which is a specialized skill requiring a knowledge of horse lineage. He was hired by major auctioneers, such as the late George Swinebroad and others, at the fall sales events in Lexington, Kentucky; Harrisburg Pennsylvania and other locations. Eventually he became a certified auctioneer, and ran his own sales for a couple of years in the 1970s.
He also ran a small bookstore specializing in harness horse books and magazines, out of his home, eventually compiling one of the largest private collections of books on the subject, according to Stan's knowledge of other booksellers and private collectors. He sold the bulk of the library in the 1980s to a buyer from Sweden.
In the 1970s and into the 1980s he was co-anchor on a television show on WOR-TV in New York City, broadcasting harness racing in conjunction with the State's then new Off Track Betting industry.
He ended his working relationship with USTA in the mid-1970s, but remained a close business associate with the organization until his death.
In the 1970s he created the "World Driving Championship", yearly series of races from top drivers and horses from around the world. The Driving Championship would take the drivers and horses to races in Europe, Australia, United States and Canada, among other countries.
Bergstein also created a yearly convention of the harness racing industry, managing the event. He was a keynote speaker, and also was master of ceremonies at many annual events over the decades.
Bergstein owned a series of harness horses during his life, and also was partner in a number of horse breeding operations.
Moved with his wife June to Tucson Arizona in the 1980s, moving the offices of HTA there as well.
Created a relationship between HTA and the University of Arizona's racing industry studies program,and strove to hire it's graduates to his organization. Many of his hires went on to significant roles in the harness racing industry.
Health problems and the natural aging process led him to retire from HTA in February 2011. He was still writing a number of weekly columns for various journals at the time of his death.

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Rijk de Gooyer, Dutch actor, died from pancreatic cancer he was 85.

Rijk de Gooyer  was a Dutch Golden Calf- winning actor, writer, comedian and singer  died from pancreatic cancer he was 85.. From the 1950s until the early 1970s, he became well known in The Netherlands as part of a comic duo with John Kraaijkamp, Sr. In the United States best known for having small roles in films such as Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, Soldaat van Oranje, A Time to Die and The Wilby Conspiracy.^[1]

^{(17 December 1925 – 2 November 2011)}

Biography

De Gooyer was raised in a baker family as an identical twin. In World War II he worked as an interpreter.^[2] Initially for the American 101st Airborne, later on for the British Field Security. From 1959 till 1961 de Gooyer studied at an actors school of the UFA in Berlin. During these years, he would have worked for the CIA as an informant.^[3]
In the 1950s, he started a comic duo with Johnny Kraaijkamp. Thanks to their performances on TV, the duo became extremely popular. In the Johnny & Rijk shows, De Gooyer always played the part of the feeder, with Kraaijkamp providing the laughs. They split up in the 1970s, when De Gooyer focused more on his film career.
He played in films such as Soldaat van Oranje, De Inbreker and Madelief, krassen in het tafelblad. In 1982 he won the Golden Calf for Best Actor for all his works, according to him he could have won it a year ago but because he wasn't there it went to Rutger Hauer. In 1995 he threw his Golden Calf for Hoogste Tijd out on the street after the ceremony. De Gooyer was videotaped while he threw the award out of the window because he was on the Dutch hidden-camera show Taxi (the Dutch version of Taxicab Confessions). His (current) last Golden Calf, for Madelief, Krassen in het Tafelblad was also thrown out on the street this time by Maarten Spanjer (who hosted Taxi). De Gooyer could be seen in various Dutch commercials, for companies such as Reaal, KPN and Paturain.
De Gooyer was the lead in In voor- en tegenspoed, the Dutch version of Johnny Speight's sitcom franchise (known in the UK as Till Death Us Do Part among other names and in the U.S. as All in the Family). De Gooyer played Fred Schuit (literally Fred Barge), the Dutch equivalent of Alf Garnett or Archie Bunker. He won a Golden Film in 1997 for the role.


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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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