Joseph Sewall, American politician, President of the Maine Senate (1975–1982), died he was 89.

Joseph Sewall was an American politician and businessperson.^[1] He served four terms as President of the Maine Senate (1975–1982), which made him the longest serving President in Maine history died he was 89.^[2]

^{(December 17, 1921 – November 23, 2011)} 

Sewall was born in Old Town, Maine, son of James Wingate Sewall and Louise Gray Sewall in the home that his great grandfather and Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, George P. Sewall, built between c.1835 and 1851. His maternal grandfather, George Gray, founded Old Town Canoe Company.^[3] He attended local schools and Bowdoin College.^[3] He was also President of James W. Sewall Co., an international forest engineering firm in Old Town, where he had also been a City Councillor and Mayor. Sewall served as President of the Maine Senate from 1975 to 1982.^[3] He was defeated in 1982 by Democrat Michael Pearson.^[4] Upon leaving the legislature, Sewall was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Maine Maritime Academy by Governor Brennan. Soon after his appointment, he was elected Chairman, a post he held for 20 years. He was also appointed by President George H.W. Bush to be a U.S. Commissioner of the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Joint Commission and a Member of the Commission on Merchant Marine and Defense by President Reagan and re-appointments by President G.H.W. Bush. Among the other members of that Commission were former U.S. Senator Jeremiah Denton and Adm. James Holloway III (Ret.). He was a Trustee of Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, and a Director of Merchants National Bank, later Merrill Bank, now People's United Bank, both also in Bangor. Sewall was a moderate Republican.^[3]
On November 23, 2011, Sewall died at the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine.^[1]

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Jim Rathmann, American racing driver, winner of the 1960 Indianapolis 500, died he was 83.

Jim Rathmann, born Royal Richard Rathmann, was an American race car driver who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1960 died he was 83..
He drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series in the 1949–1950 and 1952–1963 seasons with 42 starts, including the Indianapolis 500 in each of those seasons. Rathmann also participated in the two runnings of the Race of Two Worlds at Monza, Italy, winning the 1958 event. He had 6 victories in addition to his Indy 500 win. He also drove in 3 races in the NASCAR series from 1949 to 1951.
Rathmann and his older brother notably swapped names while teenagers. As a 16-year old going by the name of "Dick Rathmann," he wanted to start racing. In order to enter races, he borrowed his older brother's I.D. and assumed the identity of "Jim Rathmann."^[1] The name change stuck for life in public circles.
On August 15, 2007, Rathmann was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. The ceremony took place in Detroit.^[2] He died in 2011 after a seizure.^[3]

^{(July 16, 1928 – November 23, 2011)}

NASCAR career

Rathmann drove in 3 NASCAR Strictly Stock/Grand National races from 1949 to 1951, competing in one race in each of those years. He debuted in 1949 at Langhorne. Starting 13th in the race, Rathmann slid to 32nd by the end of the race. In 1950, Rathmann raced at the pretigious Daytona Beach Road Course. Starting 17th in this event, Rathmann finished a career-best 12th, two laps down. In his final race in 1951, Rathmann started a career-best 9th at Detroit. He finished 52nd in this race.^[4]

Indy 500 Win

After starting in the middle of the first row, Rathmann ran in the front the entire race. From the midway point on, Rathmann and fellow driver Rodger Ward were locked in a neck and neck duel for first. Tire wear became an issue as the race wore on and Rathmann was able to keep his wheels fresh long enough to outrace Ward to the finish. The race featured the most recorded lead changes in 500 history.


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Carlos Moorhead, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1973–1997), Alzheimer's disease he was 89.

 Carlos John Moorhead was a United States Congressman from California. Born in Long Beach, he attended the public schools of Glendale, graduated from Herbert Hoover High School (Glendale) in 1940 and earned a B.A. from the UCLA in 1943 and a J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1949 Alzheimer's disease he was 89.. He served in the United States Army from 1942 to 1945 and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel.^[1]

^{(May 5, 1922 – November 23, 2011)}

Moorhead was admitted to the California State Bar in 1949 and commenced practice in Glendale; he was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 1973, and was a member of the California Law Revision Commission. From 1967 to 1972, he was a member of the California State Assembly, and was elected as a Republican to the 93rd and to the eleven succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1973 to January 3, 1997. He was not a candidate for reelection to the 105th Congress. He died after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease in 2011.^[2]

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Gerald Laing, British pop artist and sculptor, died he was 75.

Gerald Ogilvie Laing was a British pop artist and sculptor.^[1] He lived in the Scottish Highlands died he was 75..^[2]

^{(11 February 1936 – 23 November 2011)}

Life

Laing was born in Newcastle upon Tyne^[3] in 1936. He grew up during World War II and experienced the Battle of Britain as young boy.
He attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served with the Northumberland Fusiliers as a liuetenant in Ireland and Germany. He soon realized that the military was not what he was looking for and attended St Martin's School of Art in London.^[4]
At the beginning of the 1960s, while still at St. Martin's, Laing was introduced to artists in New York City. After art school he moved there, and with his connections, his art career began to take off.

Career

Laing's career took him from the avant-garde world of 1960s pop art, through minimalist sculpture, followed by representational sculpture and then back full circle to his pop art roots.
In 1993 the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh staged a retrospective exhibition of his work.^[5]
Laing did a series of anti-war paintings, based primarily on photographs from the atrocities at Abu Ghraib. These paintings were the beginning of his return to pop art. They were followed in 2004 by a series of Amy Winehouse paintings, as well as a painting of Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss.
On 19 February 2012 a bronze sculpture by Laing, Dreamer, was stolen from Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.^[6]

Works

Notable works include:

• Brigitte Bardot (1962) painting and subsequent screen prints including dragsters and the Baby Baby Wild Things series (late 1960s)
• Callanish (1974) abstract steel sculpture for the campus of Strathclyde University to mimic the Callanish Stones
• The Galina series including An American Girl (1977)
• Sherlock Holmes (1991), Picardi Place, Edinburgh
• Axis Mundi (1995), Tanfield House, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Twickenham Rugby Players (1995), London, England
• Bank Station Dragons (1995), Bank tube station, London
• Falcon Square (2001), Inverness, Scotland
• New Paintings for Modern Times (2004–2009): a series of work drawn from the Gulf war and modern media

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Luis Fernando Jaramillo Correa, Colombian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1990–1991), died he was 76.

Luis Fernando Jaramillo Correa  worked for Goldman Sachs International as an international advisor  died he was 76.. He also served on the boards of directors of Interbolsa, S.A., Gerdau-Dicao, S.A. and Trident Gold SAS.

(24 July 1935 – 23 November 2011)

His distinguished political career in Colombia included terms as vice president, Minister of Public Works and Transport, minister for economic development, minister of mining and energy, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and minister of the interior. He also served as the 22nd Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations, in New York.
Luis Fernando earned a civil engineering degree from National University of Colombia in Medellin and also studied at the London School of Economics.

Personal life

He was born on 24 July 1935 in Barranquilla, the first-born son of Mario Jaramillo Echaverria and Helvia Correa Mejía. In 1966, he married Gladys Corridor Morales in Bogotá, and together they had three children: Luis, Mario, and Mónica.^[1][2]
He died on 23 November 2011 in Bogota.^[3]

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Ralph E. Haines, Jr., American general, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1967–1968), died he was 98.

General Ralph Edward Haines, Jr. was a United States Army four-star general who served as Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1968, Commander, U.S. Army, Pacific from August 1968 to October 1970, and Commanding General, U.S. Continental Army Command (CG CONARC), from 1970 to 1973 died he was 98.. At his death he was the Army's oldest living four-star general and its senior retired officer.^[2]

^{(August 21, 1913 – November 23, 2011)} 

Military career

Haines attended Texas Military Institute and graduated in 1930 as his class valedictorian.^[3] He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1935 with a commission in the Infantry. He later attended the Armed Forces Staff College, the Army War College, the National War College and the Army Management School. Prior to World War II he served in the Philippine Scouts and during the war he served in Italy.
Major commands for Haines included Commanding General of the 1st Armored Division at Fort Hood, Texas, from 1962 to 1963. From 1965 to 1967, he commanded the III Corps there. After his Hawaiian command, he served as Commanding General, Continental Army Command, at Fort Monroe, Virginia until his retirement on January 31, 1973.
Other important assignments for Haines were Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Force Development in Washington from 1963 to 1965. Immediately before his Hawaiian command he was successively Acting Vice Chief of Staff and then Vice Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army. General Haines' awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, and the Bronze Star.^[4]

Post military career

The Ralph E. Haines, Jr. Award, presented to the United States Army Reserve Drill Sergeant of the Year, is named in his honor.^[5] Haines was member of the Advisory Committee of the U.S. Cavalry Association.^[6] He retired to San Antonio, Texas with his wife, the former Sally Swift, who died in 2003.^[7] Haines had two sons, both West Point alumni.^[3] One son, Palmer Swift Haines, died in an aircraft crash in 2004 when the Cessna 421 he was piloting suffered dual engine failure near Austin, Texas.^[8]
Haines died in November 2011 at the San Antonio Military Medical Center of natural causes.^[9]


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Montserrat Figueras, Spanish soprano, died he was 69.

Montserrat Figueras García was a Catalan soprano who specialized in early music died he was 69..

(Catalan pronunciation: [munsəˈrat fiˈɣeɾəs], 1942  –  2011)

Figueras was born 15 March 1942 in Barcelona, Spain.^[1][3] After initially training as an actress, in 1966 she began studying early singing techniques together with her sister Pilar Figueras and developed an approach and technique for singing early music which combined historical fidelity with vitality.^[4][5]
In 1974 she and Jordi Savall, her husband since 1968, Lorenzo Alpert and Hopkinson Smith formed Hespèrion XX, an early music ensemble. Figueras and her husband were members of a newer version of that ensemble, Hespèrion XXI. They also founded the groups La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations.
Figueras also performed and recorded regularly as a solo artist. She and her husband performed with their children: daughter Arianna and son Ferran.^[6]
She died on 23 November 2011 in Cerdanyola del Vallès, surrounded by her family, after a long battle with cancer.^[7][8] The funeral was held at the Monastery of Pedralbes in Barcelona.^[9]


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