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Monday, November 18, 2013

Bjarne Lingås, Norwegian Olympic boxer, died he was 78.

Bjarne Lingås was a Norwegian boxer died he was 78.. He became the Norwegian Champion six times in heavyweight and light heavyweight. He became the Nordic Champion in 1955. In 1954 he was on the Europe Team in the Golden Glove tournament in USA, and won his two matches. For that he received Morgenbladets Gullmedalje (The Morgenbladets Gold Medal).

(7 January 1933 – 19 November 2011[1]) 

In 1952 Lingås represented Norway in the Light Heavyweight division at the Helsinki Olympic Games, losing to Brazilian Lucio Grotone in the second round.[2]


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Marti Kheel, American ecofeminist, died from leukemia at 63.

Marti Kheeml was a vegan ecofeminist activist scholar credited with founding Feminists for Animal Rights (FAR) in California in 1982 died from leukemia at 63.. She authored several books in deep ecology and ecofeminism, including Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective,[1] and several widely-cited articles in college courses and related scholarship, such as "The Liberation of Nature: A Circular Affair", "From Heroic to Holistic Ethics: The Ecofeminist Challenge", and "From Healing Herbs to Deadly Drugs: Western Medicine's War Against the Natural World". She was a long-time vegan in diet, lifestyle, and philosophical commitments, working out her understanding of its implications in every area of our human relationships with nature and its constituents, and she found a wide audience for those deep reflections. Reportedly, she had pursued a raw vegan diet later in her life.[2] Her pioneering scholarship in ecofeminist ethics is foundational for continuing work in these fields.[3]

(August 25, 1948 – Noveber 19, 2011) 


Early life

Dr. Marti Kheel was one of six children (five daughters: Ellen Kheel Jacobs of Manhattan; Constance E. Kheel of Buskirk, N.Y.; Dr. Marti Kheel, then of El Cerrito, California; Jane Kheel Stanley of Bethesda, Maryland; and Katherine Kheel of Baltimore, Maryland ; a son, Robert J. Kheel, of Manhattan) born to Labor Mediator Theodore W. Kheel (who passed in November 2010), and journalist and civic leader Ann Sunstein Kheel, who passed[4][5] in 2003.[6]
She was born in New York City on August 25, 1948. She is described as being "drawn to other–than–human animals." She related on her website how, around 1960, when she was twelve years old, she first protested on behalf of animals when she refused to be photographed in a family photograph without her beloved cat, Booty–tat. She became vegetarian in 1973 (age 25) through a developing awareness occasioned, by a series of troubling experiences in restaurants and grocery stores, in which she became increasingly aware of the living beings who were defined as "meat" and killed for that interpretation. Four years later, she joined the grass–roots Animal Liberation Collective while living in Montreal, and explored a wide spectrum of animal abuse issues. She became a vegan as she progressively grew more aware of the horrific treatment of nonhumans on farms and in human society's systematic oppression of nonhuman persons.
She co–founded Feminists for Animal Rights (FAR) in California in 1982, to which she had relocated, hoping to bridge women's and animal advocacy movements. That same year, she developed a slideshow paralleling how women and other–than–human animals are viewed under hierarchical domination characteristic of 'patriarchal' society. Under the auspices of FAR, which she cofounded, the presentation has since been shown throughout the United States and abroad. Over the years, FAR grew into a national organization with regional offices throughout and beyond the United States with a message of 'shared oppression' that continues to inspire, although FAR is not currently active.[7]

Education

  • B.A. (History), University of Wisconsin
  • M.A. (Sociology), McGill University
  • Ph.D. (Religious studies, environmental ethics), Graduate Theological Union (2000), Berkeley, CA
Most recently she was a visiting scholar in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley.[8]

Publications

BOOK
Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. ISBN 0-7425-5201-2.
Outline, Excerpts, and Reviews of Nature Ethics:
CHAPTERS IN OTHER BOOKS
  • "Direct Action and the Heroic Ideal: An Ecofeminist Critique." In Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth, edited by Anthony J. Nocella and Steve Best, 306–318. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2006. Read excerpt.
  • "Vegetarianism and Ecofeminism: Toppling Patriarchy with a Fork." In Food for Thought: The Debate Over Eating Meat, edited by Steve F. Sapontzis, 327–341. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004. (© 2004 by Steve F. Sapontzis. All rights reserved.) Read essay. [PDF]
  • "Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology: Reflections on Identity and Difference." InReweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism, edited by Irene Diamond and Gloria Orenstein, 128–137. San Francisco: Sierra Club Publishers, 1990. Reprinted (expanded version) in Covenant for a New Creation: Ethics, Religion, and Public Policy, edited by Carol Robb and Carl Casebolt, 141–164 (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 1991), and (revised) in The Trumpeter: A Journal of Ecosophy 8, no. 2 (Spring 1991): 55–63.
  • "From Healing Herbs to Deadly Drugs: Western Medicine's War Against the Natural World." In Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism, edited by Judith Plant, 96–111. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1989. Reprinted in The Townshend Letter for Doctors 102 (January 1992): 1, 9–15, and (excerpts) in Living with Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics, edited by Alison M. Jaggar, 650–657 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994). Translated into Chinese by Wu Pei for Environment and Society 3.4 (December 2000): 55–63. Read essay. [PDF]
JOURNAL ARTICLES
  • Communicating Care: An Ecofeminist Perspective," Media Development (February 2009): 45–50. Read article.
  • "World Day for Laboratory Animals." Between the Species 3 (August 2003).
  • "The Killing Game: An Ecofeminist Critique of Hunting." Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 23, no. 1 (May 1996): 30–44. Reprinted (excerpts) in The Animal Ethics Reader, edited by Susan J. Armstrong and Richard G. Botzler, 390–399 (New York: Routledge, 2006). Read article.
  • "If Women and Animals Were Heard." Feminists for Animal Rights Semiannual Publication 5 (Summer/Fall 1990): 1, 10.
  • "Liberazione Animale Ed Etica Ambientale puo L'Ecofeminismo Accorciare Le Distanza?" [Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Can Ecofeminism Bridge the Gap?]. Translated by Paola Cavalieri. Etica e Animali 11, no. 1 (1989).
  • "Animal Liberation Is a Feminist Issue." The New Catalyst Quarterly 10 (Winter 1988): 8–9.
  • "Befriending the Beast." Creation 3 (September/October 1987): 11–14.
  • "The Liberation of Nature: A Circular Affair." Environmental Ethics 7 (Summer 1985): 135–149. Reprinted (excerpts, under the title "Nature and Feminist Sensitivity") inAnimal Rights and Human Obligations, 2nd ed., edited by Tom Regan and Peter Singer, 256–265 (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989); (excerpts) in Thirteen Questions in Ethics, edited by G. Lee Bowie, Kathleen Huggins, and Meredith Michaels, 515–523 (New York: Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich, 1992); and in The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics, edited by Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams, 39–53 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007).
  • "Speaking the Unspeakable: Sexism in the Animal Rights Movement." Feminists for Animal Rights Newsletter 2 (Summer/Fall 1985): 1–7.
  • "An/Aesthetics: The Re–Presentation of Women and Animals." Between the Species1 (Spring 1985): 37–45.

Lecture appearances

  • June 4–12, 2011 – "Gender, Flesh and Dietary Identity." Presentation at the International Vegan Festival, Malaga, Spain. More details.
  • December 1, 2010 – "Is Moral Concern for Animals 'sustainable'?" Presentation for the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies series at the University of Cincinnati, organized by assistant professor Adrian Parr and funded by the Faculty Development Council. Download / view flyer on series. [PDF]
  • October 19, 2010 – "The Contribution of Ecofeminism to Animal Ethics." Presentation at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil University website.
  • October 9–12, 2010 – "Coming Out Vegan: What Animal Activists Can Learn from the Lesbian and Gay Movements," and "The Ecology of Social Change: Lessons for Animal Activists." Presentations at Encontro Nacional de Direitos Animais (National Animal Rights Gathering), Porangaba, Brazil. More details.
About the talk: What does it mean to have a dialogue about eating animals while ignoring the voices of the animals whose bodies are under discussion? Drawing on feminist notions of epistemic responsibility, I examine what obligations humans have to understand and respond to the communications of other animals, including those raised for food. Using the ecofeminist insight that domination of external nature is connected to domination of internal nature, I explore the internal dialogues surrounding suppression of emotional connection to animals. Drawing on the feminist care tradition, I present veganism as an embodied response to the communications of other animals.
  • May 2, 2010 "Reclaiming our Kind Nature" online interview for SupremeMaster TV on ecofemininism and reclaiming our capacity for empathy. This video interview outlines how Dr. Kheel's life helped her configure her worldview of compassion and sensitivity towards others. [14:30]
  • April 7, 2010 — 8:00PM - Feminist Perspectives on Veganism," a free public lecture at Georgetown University, White Gravenor Hall, Room 206, Washington DC. Sponsored by the Department of Culture & Politics.
  • April 16, 2010 - "Religious and Spiritual Reflections on Seeing and Being Seen by Other Animals," panel presentation at "Troubling Recognition: Seeing Animals, Seeing Ourselves," the 2nd Annual "Do Unto Others" Animals and Religion Conference. Chapman University, Orange, CA. More details.
  • April 17, 2010 - "Feminism and Animal Liberation: Making the Links," presentation at the 2nd annual Animal Liberation Forum. Sponsored by Cease Animal Torture (CAT), California State University, and Long Beach University. More details.
  • February 18, 2010 — 5:00PM–7:00PM - "Author-Meets-Critic: Marti Kheel's Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective," panel presentation at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL. Sponsored by the International Society for Environmental Ethics, held in conjunction with the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association.
Other panelists included Chris Diehm, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; Chaone Mallory, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Villanova University; Adrian Parr, Visiting Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Interior Design, University of Cincinnati; Jason Kawall (panel chair), Department of Philosophy, Colgate University.
  • November 3, 2009 – 6:30 pm – "Ecofeminism and Conservation Management: A Contradiction in Terms?" Noel Fine Arts Center (NFAC), Room 221, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Sponsored by the UWSP Department of Philosophy, Office of Multicultural Affairs, and Women's Studies Department. Download flyer. [PDF]
  • May 20, 2009 – Interview with Erin Scott of the Palo Alto Humane Society on empathy and the ecology of care. This video interview outlines how Dr. Kheel's life helped her configure her worldview of compassion and sensitivity towards others. [8:27]
  • October 8–11 – Presentation on "Ethics and Ecofeminism: A Perspective on the Animal Rights Debate. 1 World Congress on Bioethics and Animal Rights ( I Congresso Mundial de Bioética e Direito Animal) Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Sponsored by the Instituto Abolicionista Animal.

Death

Marti Kheel died of acute myeloid leukemia at 63 years of age on November 19, 2011, in Greenwich, CT.[9] She was widely memorialized on the Internet, including numerous professional, topical, scholarly, and general e-mail discussion lists.


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Jack Keeney, American federal prosecutor, died he was 89.

John Christopher "Jack" Keeney"  was an American prosecutor who retired in 2010 as U.S. deputy United States Assistant Attorney General died he was 89.. At age 88, he was at the time the DOJ's oldest employee, and one of the longest-serving career employees in the history of the United States government. Upon his retirement, Keeney was the longest-serving federal prosecutor in American history.[1]

(February 19, 1922 – November 19, 2011)

 
Keeney spent decades in the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division, starting in 1951. On numerous occasions, Keeney served as Acting Assistant Attorney General.
Keeney was born in Ashley, Pennsylvania, on February 19, 1922.[1] Keeney was a pilot in the Army Air Corps during World War II, and was held by German forces as a prisoner of war. Keeney graduated from the University of Scranton in 1947.[1] He received law degrees from Dickinson School of Law in 1949 and from George Washington University School of Law in 1953.[1]
In 2000, the Justice Department named one of its buildings (1301 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.) after Keeney, an honor rarely bestowed on a living person.[1]

Death

Keeney died on November 19, 2011 at his home in Kensington, Maryland, aged 89.[2]


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Ira Michael Heyman, American lawyer and administrator, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1994–2000), died he was 81.

Ira Michael Heyman was an Emeritus Professor of Law and of City and Regional Planning, and was Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley, and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution died he was 81..



  (May 30, 1930 – November 19, 2011)

Life

Heyman was born in 1930 in New York City.[5] He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1951. After serving as a U.S. Marine Corps officer during the Korean War, he entered Yale Law School, where he became editor of the Yale Law Journal. He graduated in 1956, and from 1958 to 1959 he served as a law clerk for Chief Justice Earl Warren.
He joined the law faculty at Berkeley in 1959, and he became Vice Chancellor in 1974. He was named Berkeley's sixth Chancellor and served in that capacity from 1980 to 1990.[6][7] He returned to teaching law after leaving the Chancellorship. He was Counselor to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Interior, from 1993 to 1994; and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1994 to 2000. At Dartmouth he joined Theta Chi. During his Berkeley years he became a member of the Bohemian Grove, at which his closest associates included Caspar Weinberger.
He died of emphysema in 2011.[8]


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Saturday, November 16, 2013

Russell Garcia, American-born New Zealand composer, died he was 95.

Russell Garcia, QSM [1] was a composer and arranger who wrote a wide variety of music for screen, stage and broadcast.
Garcia was born in Oakland, California, but was a longtime resident of New Zealand. Self-taught, his break came when he substituted for an ill colleague on a radio show. Subsequently, he went on to become composer/arranger at NBC Studios for such television shows as Rawhide 1962and Laredo, 1965–67, MGM and Universal Studios and films like the George Pal, MGM films, The Time Machine (1960) and Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961), as well as his orchestrated themes for Father Goose (1964) and The Benny Goodman Story (1956). He collaborated with many musical and Hollywood stars - Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Anita O’Day, Mel Torme, Julie London, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Walt Disney, Orson Welles, Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan, Andy Williams, Judy Garland, Henry Mancini, and Charlie Chaplin making arrangements and conducting orchestras as needed.[2] Russ loved to ski so he would write on-site scores to ski-content films.'

(April 12, 1916 - November 19, 2011)

Personal life

One of five brothers, he grew up in what he said was an “ordinary” household where music was something that came out of the radio.[2] When his family noticed the five-year-old Russ standing by the radio every Sunday morning waiting for the New York Philharmonic to come on, it was obvious the child had a special interest in music. One of his brothers presented him with an old cornet he bought for $5, which Russ taught himself to play. In school he started a jazz band to play his new horn, and ended up using the band as an outlet for his compositions and arrangements of standards – all self-taught. “I’ve been able to read music since I was little,” he says. “I don’t know how, because I had lessons only when I went to high school. Call it instinct, call it a gift, I’ve never questioned my musical ability. I’m thankful for it. If I take up a sheet of manuscript paper and a pen there’s a whole orchestra playing in my head. At times I can’t write quickly enough to keep up with what’s flowing out of me.”
Garcia and his wife Gina Mauriello Garcia, a published author and singer-lyricist-writer in her own right, became members of the Bahá'í Faith in 1955.[3] In 1966, at the height of his career they sold their home and possessions, bought a boat, and on 1 June set sail. The couple knew nothing about sailing and his wife did not know how to swim and the early arrival of Hurricane Alma forced them to return with damage after only two days at sea. It was December before the boat was finally repaired and they set forth once again. This time they reached Nassau without any further complications and spent several years as "travel-teachers" for the Bahá'ís as they went around the world to places like the Galapagos Islands, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands.
When they reached Fiji in 1969, some musicians from Auckland, New Zealand invited Garcia to do some live concerts, radio and television shows and to lecture at the various universities around the country on behalf of the New Zealand Broadcasting Commission and Music Trades Association. Russell, finished with his lectures and concerts and on advice of friends, drove up to the Bay of Islands in the north of North Island. Garcia and his wife fell in love with the location and bought a house on the waters edge of Tangitu Bay in the Te Puna Inlet, east of the Purerua Peninsula near Kerikeri.[2]
They spent many years there but have moved into Kerikeri, and still working regularly, Garcia continues to compose and arrange both in the U.S. and around the world, including one of his most recent projects being his and Gina’s first opera, The Unquenchable Flame. Together, the Garcias also volunteer their services regularly to teach primary school children in New Zealand about virtues through the use of songs, raps, stories, games and creative exercises.[2]

Events and awards

Memorial Day weekend, 2003, Russell Garcia and Buddy Childers had an event Contemporary Concepts Presented - A 4 Day Jazz Festival Celebrating The West Coast Big Band Sound in Concert in Los Angeles, California. Speakers/Panelists included Russell Garcia, Buddy Childers, Pete Rugolo, and Allyn Ferguson.[4]
On 27 May 2005 the L.A. Jazz Institute honored Garcia for his more than 60 years of contributions to jazz. The evening was hosted by Tierney Sutton and guest speakers included Bill Holman (musician), Duane Tatro and Bud Shank.[5] Charmed Life: Shaynee Rainbolt Sings Russell Garcia is a recent CD release featuring his work in collaboration.[2]
Russell and Gina Garcia both received the 2009 Queen's Service Medal for New Zealand for their service to music.[6]

Professional career

When he was eleven years old, the Oakland Symphony Orchestra performed his arrangement of "Stardust". By the time Garcia was in high school, he was working five nights a week playing music and earning more than his father who was a credit manager in a large department store. After one year at San Francisco State University, he dropped out because he felt he was not learning enough and instead, went on the road with several big bands. But he remained unsatisfied, because he says “I wasn’t advancing fast enough.” He recalled, “I quit and went to Hollywood and had lessons with the best teachers I could find.” He studied composition, harmony, orchestration, counterpoint and form. He took lessons on every instrument so he could write for each with a deeper awareness, rather than just by ear as he had done in the past. He also conducted the West Hollywood Symphony Orchestra once a week for two years, a remarkable experience for a young man in his 20’s, and he says it primed him for what was to come.
His first break came in 1939, when the composer/conductor of the radio show This is Our America fell ill and Garcia was recommended to fill in. He so impressed the director, Ronald Reagan, that he was kept on for two years. Reagan was then married to Jane Wyman who recommended Garcia to NBC where he was hired as a staff composer and arranger. As word got out, he says he never had to look for work: “It’s always come to me. I do lead a charmed life.” Soon after Henry Mancini called on Garcia and his extraordinary talent of transcribing note for note, instrument for instrument, to work on The Glenn Miller Story. Charlie Chaplin hired him to do all the arrangements for Limelight, and Universal Studios contracted him to work as composer, arranger and conductor. He remained in the post for 15 years. In 1957 when an arranger/conductor was needed for a Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald record album Porgy And Bess, Garcia was hired. It is still an international best seller.[citation needed] He undertook three more albums and a concert at the Hollywood Bowl with Armstrong.
Bethlehem Records often called on Garcia’s arranging abilities since he was one of the few Hollywood soundstage and studio veterans who could easily and naturally switch from film scoring to jazz arranging without missing a beat.[2] Developing a parallel career, not only did he provide arrangements for many singers and instrumentalists, he recorded over 60 albums under his own name, as well as composing for cutting edge projects such as the Stan Kenton Neophonic Orchestra.
He has always been an innovator with his music using experimental frameworks on which newer and greater presentations could be fashioned, as he proved, assembling his unexpected and groundbreaking four-trombone band [7] with brass players Frank Rosolino, Tommy Pederson, Maynard Ferguson and Herbie Harper. Marty Paich can even be heard on some of these sessions at the piano. He used this instrumentation and sound to great success in collaborations with singers like Frances Faye and Anita O’Day, and now brings it back to us in his most recent collaboration: a recording of all Garcia originals with New York vocalist, Shaynee Rainbolt.[8]
Yet even though he loved what he was doing, in 1966 he decided to walk away from it all. “I fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II and vowed that if I ever got out of it alive, I was going to dedicate myself to world peace.” The Garcia’s decided to sail the Pacific Ocean, carrying the message of peace and the Bahá'í Faith to the remote islands of the South Pacific. Garcia said, “Not many people have the chance to follow their hearts with no financial worries. We had the “charm” working for us: we knew the royalties would see us through for some years.” They spent the next six years on their 13-metre fiberglass trimaran the Dawn-Breaker, as “traveling teachers,” anchoring in such exotic locations as Jamaica, the Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas and Tahiti.
In Fiji, in 1969, the “charm” spun again when musicians visiting from Auckland invited Garcia, on behalf of the New Zealand Broadcasting Commission and the Music Trades Association, to do live concerts, radio and TV shows as well as lecture at universities around the country, a perfect fit seeing as Garcia is also known in music circles as the author of what are considered the definitive textbooks on composition: The Professional Arranger Composer Books I and II. They have been translated into six languages and are used in universities and conservatories around the world.

His music

His Baha'i music includes the music (and non scripture lyrics) for 1960s and 1970s songs "One Heart Ruby Red" (with Donna Taylor), "Nightingale of Paradise" (with Gina Garcia), "Hollow Reed", "We Will Have One World", "The Hatin' Wall" (with Donna Taylor), "Live in the Glory" (with Dorothy Wayne), "Hidden Words", and "Into Parched and Arid Wastelands"[10]
    • Note: This discography is incomplete


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Sonny Dixon, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics), died he was 87.

John Craig "Sonny" Dixon was a retired American professional baseball pitcher died he was 87.. He played in Major League Baseball for parts of four seasons for the Washington Senators, the Philadelphia Athletics and Kansas City Athletics, and the New York Yankees. He pitched right-handed and was a switch-hitter.

(November 5, 1924 – November 19, 2011)

Signed prior to the 1941 season as an amateur free agent by the Washington Senators,[1] Dixon spent three years in the navy during World War II.[2] On June 11, 1954, he was traded by Senators to the Chicago White for Gus Keriazakos, and then dealt the same day with Al Sima, Bill Wilson and $20,000 to the Philadelphia Athletics for Morrie Martin and Ed McGhee.[3] On May 11, 1955, Dixon and cash were sent by the Athletics, now in Kansas City, to the New York Yankees in exchange for a couple of well-known players: Johnny Sain and Enos Slaughter.[4]
During his four seasons in the Majors, Dixon compiled an 11-18 career mark with a 4.17 earned run average.[5]


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Basil D'Oliveira, South African-born English cricketer, died he was 80.

Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE ,[1] known affectionately around the world as "Dolly,"[2] was a South African-born English cricketer died he was 80.. D'Oliveira was classified as 'coloured' under the apartheid regime, and hence barred from first-class cricket, resulting in his emigration to England. He played for the England cricket team in forty-four Test matches, and four ODIs. Despite his cricketing prowess, he was best known because of the "D'Oliveira affair," centred around his inclusion in the England side for a planned tour to South Africa in 1968.[3]

(4 October 1931 – 19 November 2011)


Early life

Born in Signal Hill, Cape Town, of Indian-Portuguese descent,[4] as a boy he would make his way down to the Newlands cricket ground in Cape Town, and climb the trees outside to watch the games.[5]
D'Oliveira captained South Africa's national non-white cricket team, and also played football for the non-white national side.[6]

Career

With the support of John Arlott, and the members and supporters of St Augustine's Cricket Club in Cape Town, he emigrated to England in 1960, where the journalist John Kay found him a place in his Central Lancashire League team of Middleton.[1] D'Oliveira noted his surprise at seeing white people doing menial work, and waiting on him in restaurants.[7] He joined the first-class county Worcestershire in 1964 and became a British citizen.
In 1966 he was selected for England as an all-rounder, to face the West Indians in the second Test. He made a solid debut, scoring 27 before being run out, and returning figures of 1 for 24 and 1 for 46 with the ball in 39 overs. In the third Test, he scored 76 and 54, while capturing 2 for 51 and 2 for 77 at Trent Bridge, but the West Indies cantered to a 139-run victory. He contributed a fighting 88 in the fourth Test at Headingley, although England once again lost by an innings and 55 runs. D'Oliveira was quietly efficient in the final Test as England turned the tables on the West Indies, winning by an innings and 34 runs to finish the series as 3-1 losers. Against India he hit 109 in the first Test as England won by six wickets and went on to win the series 3-0. Facing Pakistan, he hit fifties in both innings of the first Test in a series that England won 2-0.[8] He was one of the Wisden cricketers of the year for 1967.[9]
Next up was an away series against the West Indies, early in 1968. D'Oliveira didn't turn in his best showing in the five matches, scoring only 137 runs at an average of 27.4. He did a lot of bowling, but picked up only three wickets, even though he was economical. Back in England, it was time for a five-Test Ashes series. The Aussies crushed England by 159 runs in first Test as England crumbled in their second innings, despite D'Oliveira's top scoring effort of 87 not out. He was then dropped for the subsequent three Tests. He was recalled by the selectors for the final Test at the Oval and a century (158 runs in the first innings) against Australia seemed to have guaranteed his place in the side to play the 1968–69 Test series in South Africa.[1] He was left out of the touring party under the pretext that his bowling would not be effective in his native country.
However he was once again selected in June 1969 to face the West Indies, this time in a three-Test series. He followed that with a three-match series against New Zealand and then a seven-Test Ashes series Down Under in which he scored 369 runs at an average of 36.9, including 117 in the fifth Test at the MCG.
England then went on to New Zealand for two Tests, with Dolly scoring 100 in the first one and 58 and five in the second. Pakistan next visited England in 1971, and D'Oliveira enjoyed a fine series with the bat, making 241 runs at an average of 60.25. He was below-par in the three-Test series against India that followed, but was in better form for the visit of Australia in June 1972.
D'Oliveira completed his career having played 41 Tests. He scored 2484 runs at an average of 40.06, with five centuries and 15 fifties. He also captured 47 wickets at 39.55.

Playing style and personality

D'Oliveira was a successful batsman with a low backlift and powerful strokes.[1] He was also a tough competitor. When he toured Australia in 1970–71 on the night after they won the series 2–0 he pushed his forefinger into the chest of every Australian he met, saying "We stuffed you."[10] Wanting to play international cricket, D'Oliveira was somewhat cagey about his date of birth. After his death, journalist Pat Murphy with whom he collaborated on his autobiography stated:[5]
“ Basil had to lie about his age because he thought if they realised how old he was they would not pick him for England. So he came down from born in 1935 at that time, solidifying his place in the team as 1933 born and when I wrote his book in 1980 he finally conceded he was born in 1928. So by my calculation he was 38 when he first played for England in 1966 and 83 when he died. ”

The D'Oliveira Affair

Main article: D'Oliveira affair
In 1968, South African cricket officials, realising that the inclusion of D'Oliveira would lead to the cancellation of the tour and probable exclusion from Test cricket, exerted pressure on the MCC hierarchy and the decision not to pick him was felt by opponents of apartheid to be a way of keeping cricket links with South Africa open. There was dissent in the press to this course of events and when Warwickshire's Tom Cartwright was ruled out because of injury, D'Oliveira was called up into the squad.[1] South African prime minister B. J. Vorster had already made it clear that D'Oliveira's inclusion was not acceptable, and despite many negotiations the tour was cancelled. This was seen as a watershed in the sporting boycott of apartheid South Africa.[11] The D'Oliveira Affair had a massive impact in turning international opinion against the oppressive apartheid regime in South Africa. It prompted changes in South African sport and eventually in society.

Legacy

In 2000, he was nominated as one of 10 South African cricketers of the century, despite not having played for South Africa.[12] In 2004, a perpetual trophy was struck for Test series between England and South Africa, and named the Basil D'Oliveira Trophy. In 2005, he was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.[13] In the same year, a stand at New Road, Worcester, was named in his honour.
In 1980 after the end of his playing career, he wrote an autobiography with the BBC's Pat Murphy, titled Time to Declare. In it, he stated for the first time that he was glad that the proposed South African cricket tour to England in 1970 was called off, for fear of public disturbances.[5] In 2004, journalist Peter Oborne wrote a biography entitled Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket and Conspiracy, which was awarded the William Hill Sports Book of the Year[14] and was accompanied by Paul Yule's RTS award-winning documentary Not Cricket—The Basil D'Oliveira Conspiracy.

Personal life

He was married to Naomi, and their son Damian D'Oliveira also played first-class cricket for Worcestershire, while his younger brother Ivan played briefly for Leicestershire.[6] His grandson Brett D'Oliveira is currently contracted with Worcestershire and made his debut for the county in 2011.

Death

D'Oliveira had Parkinson's disease in later life.[15] He died aged 80, in England, on 19 November 2011.[16][17][18]
A farewell for D'Oliveira was written on the last 2011 issue of Time magazine by Trevor Manuel, South Africa's minister in the Presidency for national planning. It highlights the personal successes of the cricket player together with the impact he had on South African sport and society.[19]


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Dickey Betts died he was 80

Early Career Forrest Richard Betts was also known as Dickey Betts Betts collaborated with  Duane Allman , introducing melodic twin guitar ha...