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Sunday, August 3, 2014

Wilmot Perkins, Jamaican radio personality died he was 80

Wilmot 'Motty' Perkins was a Jamaican radio personality and was the longest serving talk show host on Jamaican radio.[1]

(3 September 1931 – 10 February 2012) 

Background

He was born and raised in the parish of Portland, Jamaica and attended Calabar High School, in Kingston.[2] He died at his home just after 1 am on 10 February 2012, aged 80.[1]. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Elaine, and grandsons Jamie and Eden.[2]

Career

Radio

Wilmot Perkins began his radio career hosting the program What's your Grouse on RJR in 1960. He then took a break from the airwaves a few years later to go into farming, but returned to radio in the 1970s, as host of Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation's (JBC) popular call-in program Public Eye. He later hosted 'Hot Line' on RJR and then Straight Talk on KLAS FM 89, before hosting Perkins On Line on Hot 102 FM.
In April 2002, he took his program Perkins On Line to POWER 106 FM. With his probing interviews and keen analyses of current events, the program made for compulsive listening. Perkins On Line is spirited interaction with callers on a wide range of topics. It is described by many as "The Poor Man's University." A typical caller will often attribute his or her widening knowledge of events happening in and outside of Jamaica to the information garnered from just listening to these broadcasts.
Perkins said the program aimed to "focus public attention on the gaping hiatus between what is and what might be, and to do it within a broad framework that embraces not only the history of Jamaica, but the history of mankind."

Controversy

Some often disagreed with Perkins, but he revelled in controversy[3] and these calls added spice. He said that "if people really think about it, they might discover that 'Perkins on Line' is more profoundly positive than negative." That's why it was called the "Thinking Persons' call-in show".
Perkins was sued 28 times for libel or slander but none of the suits was tried or settled out of court. All were dropped by the plaintiffs, who included former Prime Minister Michael Manley and, most recently, wealthy businessman Gordon 'Butch' Stewart, owner of the Jamaica Observer Newspaper:
On 5 August 2009, The Jamaica Observer reported that he was being sued by Stewart for defamation.[4] The matter is currently before the Jamaican court.
On 19 July 2010, The Jamaica Observer reported that Mr. Perkins has been slapped with a second lawsuit for libel by Sandals Resorts Chairman Butch Stewart. Mr. Perkins is being sued for damages arising from the reproduction of a speech on his radio call-in show Perkins On Line on Power 106 FM. The speech was originally made in the Parliament of Jamaica by Member of Parliament Andrew Gallimore on 28 June 2005.[5]

Newspaper

Wilmot Perkins has vast experience as a parliamentary reporter, a news editor and columnist working at the Jamaica Gleaner.
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Lloyd Morrison, New Zealand businessman (Infratil), died from leukemia she was 54

Hugh Richmond Lloyd Morrison, CNZM  was a Wellington, New Zealand-based investment banker and entrepreneur. He founded H.R.L. Morrison & Co in 1988, and Morrison & Co launched the infrastructure company Infratil in 1994.

(18 September 1957 – 10 February 2012)

Early life

Lloyd Morrison came from Palmerston North. He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School. He studied law at the University of Canterbury from which he graduated with LL.B (Hons).

Business

Morrison's career began in the early 1980s as an investment analyst with Jarden & Co (now First NZ Capital) and later as a partner of O'Connor Grieve & Co. He became executive chairman of OmniCorp, a New Zealand listed investment company based in London, in 1985; the company was sold in 1988.[1]
Morrison formed H.R.L. Morrison & Co in 1988 offering a broad range of investment advisory services across sectors. In the early 1990s Morrison & Co narrowed its focus to infrastructure as major privatizations took place in Australia and New Zealand. Morrison & Co was an active investor and adviser in privatizations of Australasian airports, ports and energy businesses. In 1994 Morrison launched Infratil, one of the world's first listed infrastructure funds, with Morrison & Co retained as the Manager. Morrison & Co has offices in Brisbane, Sydney, Auckland and Hong Kong and in March 2006 was appointed to a global infrastructure mandate by the New Zealand Superannuation Fund. In 2009, Morrison & Co launched the Public Infrastructure Partnership Fund (PIP Fund), New Zealand's first fund dedicated to investing in PPPs.
Lloyd Morrison was named New Zealand Executive of the Year by Deloitte/Management magazine in 2007.[2] He was also named "Business Leader of the Year" by the New Zealand Herald in 2006.[3] In 2007 he was ranked 12th on the New Zealand Listener Power List. He was made a companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to business in the New Year Honours announced on 31 December 2009.[4] In August 2011 the Morrison Index, the first investable index was launched by NZX. It is designed to represent the strength and attractiveness of New Zealand’s listed infrastructure sector. The NZX release of February 2011 stated "NZX plans to name the indices after individuals who have made outstanding efforts to develop and advance the related sector. The Investable Infrastructure Index will be named after Lloyd Morrison CNZM, in recognition of his instrumental contribution to the New Zealand infrastructure sector at many levels, including an enormous impact on quality and efficiency, and in taking New Zealand infrastructure exports globally to Australia, the US and the UK."[5]
In 2011 Lloyd was honoured by Wellington Businesses Gold Awards with a lifetime achievement award[6] and late November he was named Visionary Leader by Deloitte/Management magazine. "The Visionary Leader award honour roll contains the names of many of our legendary business figures, and Lloyd Morrison deserves his place alongside them. From his successful battle to save the New Zealand Stock Exchange, to his patronage of the arts, and from his foundation of Infratil to his campaign for a new flag for New Zealand, Lloyd's depth of vision continues to shine through."[7]

Directorships

Other

Morrison was an active supporter of the arts in New Zealand. He founded the HRL Morrison Music Trust in 1995 as a vehicle to support and promote New Zealand’s finest musicians and composers, with a special emphasis on the production and marketing of recordings through its record label, Trust Records.[8] He was a trustee of the Chamber Music NZ Foundation and a director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Morrison was active in several high profile public campaigns. He launched a campaign to change the Flag of New Zealand in 2003,[9] and in 2008 published a discussion document titled "A Measurable Goal for New Zealand" with the intent of identifying a common goal that all of New Zealand can support and aspire to.[10] Morrison was a trustee of Pure Advantage, the organisation championing a move to a green growth economy for New Zealand to secure its share of the $6 trillion global opportunity that green growth promises by 2050. [11] In September 2011 it was announced that Morrison was one of the consortium of local businessmen who had bought the Wellington Phoenix FC the only professional football team in New Zealand.[12]

Death

In early 2009 Morrison was diagnosed as having leukaemia.[13] He died from leukaemia on 10 February 2012, aged 54, in Seattle.[14] He was survived by his wife and five children. Prime Minister John Key, who first met Morrison when they were both merchant bankers, spoke at his funeral.[15]
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Gloria Lloyd, American actress (Temptation), daughter of Harold Lloyd died she was 87

Mildred Gloria Lloyd , also known as Gloria Lloyd Roberts, was an American actress and model.

(May 22, 1924 – February 10, 2012)

She was the eldest child of the silent film comedian Harold Lloyd and actress Mildred Davis and sister of Harold Lloyd Jr. She appeared in the 1946 film Temptation, and in a number of documentaries about her father. She died at the age of 87 on February 10, 2012, in Santa Monica.[1]
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Geoffrey Cornish, American golf course architect died he was 97

Geoffrey S. Cornish  was a golf course architect, author, and a fellow of the American Society of Golf Course Architects.[2] He designed over 200 courses, including 9-hole additions, around the world.[3]

(August 6, 1914 – February 10, 2012)

Early life

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Cornish received a bachelors degree from the University of British Columbia and a Master's from the University of Massachusetts, both in agronomy. His interest in golf course architecture was aroused upon graduation in 1935, when he was hired to evaluate soils and find topsoil on the Capilano Golf Club, then under construction in West Vancouver, for Canadian architect Stanley Thompson. Cornish then continued his training for four years with Thompson before becoming Head Greenkeeper at St. Charles Country Club, Winnipeg.
During World War II, Cornish served with the Canadian Army Overseas (1941–1945). After the war, he returned to become an associate of Stanley Thompson from 1946-47. This was followed by a five-year association with pioneer turf grass scientist Lawrence S. Dickinson at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Career

During his first years as a designer, Cornish was assisted in artwork and drafting by his wife, the former Carol Burr Gawthrop. He soon established himself as a competent designer, and in 1964 took on a partner, young Penn State graduate William G. Robinson. Robinson moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1977, and established the firm of Cornish and Robinson, Golf Course Designers, Ltd. of Calgary, Alberta. They prepared the publication Golf Course Design: An Introduction, distributed by the National Golf Foundation and used in many GCSAA classes.
In 1967, Cornish became a member of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, along with Pete Dye, Robert Trent Jones, Jr., and Robert Muir Graves. He served as President in 1975. He is an honorary member of the European Institute of Golf Course Architects.[4]
By 1980 Cornish had planned more courses in the New England states than any other architect in history. He had also designed and remodeled layouts in other parts of the United States, in Canada and in Europe. He was the author of numerous articles on course design and turfgrass subjects. In 1981 he received The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America Distinguished Service Award, and in 1982 the Donald Ross Award. In 1996, he was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.
Cornish continues to write and teach. Long a contributor to a Harvard Graduate School of Design class on Golf Course Design and the University of Massachusetts' Stockbridge Winter School for Turf Managers, he has published numerous books on course architecture, including the pioneering and widely read The Golf Course, which he co-authored in 1981 with Ron Whitten, golf architecture editor for Golf Digest magazine. A second edition of this book, by the same authors, was published in 1993, with the title The Architects of Golf.
In the 1980s and 1990s Cornish and fellow golf architect Robert Muir Graves conducted scores of design seminars across the continent under separate auspices of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the GCSAA and the PGA.
Numerous awards were bestowed upon Cornish during his career. He received a Distinguished Service Award from the GCSAA in 1981, the Donald Ross Award from the ASGCA in 1982, and an Outstanding Service Award from the National Golf Foundation in 1984. In 1987 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Massachusetts. In 1991 he received the John Reid Lifetime Achievement Award from the Metropolitan GCSA. He is an honorary member of several golf course superintendents associations as well as the EIGCA. Cornish was admitted to the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame[5] in 1996.
Known for traditional golf course designs, Geoffrey Cornish, would simply lay the course out on the land instead of moving millions of yards of dirt. An example of this approach can be experienced at such courses as Bowling Green Golf Course in northern New Jersey, it lends the course both beauty and playability. Taking full advantage of the land and its natural features you enjoy the natural surroundings as well as the golf (and it takes less time to play).
Among over 200 new courses and 9-hole additions, to his credit are the Pines Course at International Golf Course in Bolton, Massachusetts, that is the longest course in the world when playing from the "Tiger" tees, so named long before Tiger Woods was born. Other notable courses include: Country Club of Ithaca, Ithaca, New York, Summerlea Golf & Country Club, Montreal, Quebec, Poquoy Brook Golf Club, Lakeville, MA, Center Valley Club, Center Valley, Pennsylvania, the New Ashburn Golf Course, Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Quechee Club, Quechee, Vermont, the Connecticut G.C. in Easton, Connecticut, Norton Country Club in Norton, Massachusetts, Hopmeadow Country Club in Simsbury, Connecticut, Stratton Mountain Golf Club in Stratton Mountain, VT, and Eastman Golf Links in Grantham, New Hampshire.

Books

  • The Golf Course (1981), ISBN 0-8317-3943-6, HarperCollins. Ground breaking research materials on the architects of golf around the world. Co-authored with Ron Whitten.
  • The Architects of Golf (1993), ISBN 0-06-270082-0, HarperCollins. With Ronald E. Whitten; updated reprint of The Golf Course.
  • Golf Course Design with Robert Muir Graves (1998) ISBN 0-471-13784-7, John Wiley and Sons. Standard textbook at college level. First Golf Design textbook to be translated into Chinese.
  • Eighteen Stakes on a Sunday Afternoon (2002), ISBN 0-907186-43-2, Grant Books (U.K.)
  • Classic Golf Design (2002), ISBN 0-471-41372-0, John Wiley and Sons
  • Golf Course Design (2006) ISBN 978-0907186588, An Annotated Bibliography and Highlights of its History, with Dr. Michael Hurdzan, ASGCA. Grant Books (U.K.)

Awards

  • 1981 GCSAA Distinguished Service Award
  • 1982 ASGCA Donald Ross Award
  • 1984 N.G.F. Outstanding Service Award
  • 1991 Metropolitan New York GCSAA John Reid Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 1992 Canadian GCSA John Steel Award
  • 1996 Golf Course Builders Association of America Don Rossi Humanitarian Award
  • 1996 Silver Medal of the British Institute of Golf Course Architects
  • 1996 Canadian Golf Hall of Fame
  • 2004 Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Massachusetts
  • Distinguished Service Award of the US National Golf Foundation

Education

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Chuck Baird, American artist died he was 64.

Chuck Baird [1] was an American deaf artist who was one of the more notable founders of the De'VIA art [2][3] an aesthtic of Deaf Culture in which visual art conveys a deaf worldview died he was 64..[4][5] His career spanned over 35 years and included painting, sculpting, acting, storytelling, and teaching.
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(February 22, 1947 – February 10, 2012)

 

Biography

Chuck Baird was born deaf and his educational career reflected on mohd's deaf identity. From the Kansas School for the Deaf, to Gallaudet University and finally the Rochester Institute of Technology, all his schools afforded him communication in ASL.[2] After being awarded his BFA from RIT, Baird worked as a set painter for the National Theatre of the Deaf (NTD), followed by a position with Spectrum-Focus on Deaf artists, a deaf artist colony in Texas, where he served as the Visual Arts Coordinator.[2] In between, he found time to work with deaf media on their Emmy Award winning series for deaf children, Rainbow's End. His art was recognized internationally in the deaf community. His first exhibition was the Deaf Artists' Exhibit: World Federation of the Deaf Conference, Gallaudet University, Washington D.C., 1975.[2][6] He held residencies at many deaf schools, teaching and creating long-lasting artworks. Among these are a 150-foot long collage/mural he created for The Learning Center for Deaf Children in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1995,[2] and a 30x10 mural at Gallaudet entitled "The Five Panels: Deaf Experiences".[7] The mural is still on exhibit and has been lauded for its importance to the deaf experience. In it, the child signs, "Are you deaf?" and the adult signs, "Deaf, like you!"[8]
In May 1989, prior to the international deaf culture festival at Gallaudet University, Deaf Way II, Baird was one of eight deaf artists who produced a manifesto for De'VIA (Deaf View Image Art).[5][9] This was a concept for deaf art that was differentiated from art by or for deaf people. Rather, it was art that contained a message about deaf life. The manifesto begins "De'VIA represents deaf artists and perceptions based on their deaf experiences. It uses formal art elements with the intention of expressing innate cultural or physical deaf experience."[10]
Baird was renowned in the deaf world. His artwork was included in a book on the subject, Deaf Artists in America: Colonial to Contemporary by Deborah M. Sonnenstrahl. He was commissioned to create plates for Dawn Sign Press, a deaf publisher[11] in Southern California. Because he was a celebrated artist in the deaf community and due to his pioneering in developing the concepts of De'Via, his death was noted by institutions in the deaf community including RIT/NTID,[12] Gallaudet University,[13] and the Texas Association of the Deaf.[14]
On his website, he featured some of his own works that were created from the De'Via perspective.[15] Many of his works include images of his own hands incorporated into ASL signs. Baird also established a foundation to support emerging deaf artists, the Chuck Baird Foundation.[16][17]
In addition to his artwork, he was renowned as an actor and ASL storyteller. He performed as an actor with the National Theatre of the Deaf from 1980-1990.[18] Some of his many ASL stories were recorded by Gallaudet University.[2]

Artist's statements

  • "The deaf theme in my work relates to my own experience as a deaf human being; my genre is De'VIA.[2]
  • "I no longer paint what people would like to see. I paint for myself. It is about my own experience, my love of ASL and pride in our deaf heritage. I sometimes create works that have no particular relation to the deaf.[2]
  • “Deaf art expresses the values of deaf culture — the beauty of sign language and its painful oppression, the joys of deaf bonding, communication breakdowns between signers and non-signers, the discovery of language and community, and the history of deaf people.”[19]

References

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Don Panciera, American football player (New York Yankees, Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals) died he was 84

Donald Matthew Panciera  was an American football quarterback, halfback, and defensive back in the All-America Football Conference and the National Football League. He played for the New York Yankees (AAFC), the Detroit Lions, and the Chicago Cardinals. He played college football for the Boston College Eagles and the San Francisco Dons.

(June 23, 1927 – February 9, 2012)

High school football

He was a two time first-team All-State quarterback honors for La Salle Academy in 1944 and 1945  died he was 84. He quarterbacked La Salle teams to some of the school's greatest seasons. As a senior in 1945 he led the Maroon to an undefeated season and a trip to New Orleans for a special high school bowl game at Tulane Stadium.

College football

He was a starting quarterback for Boston College and the University of San Francisco.

Pro football

Despite being selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 4th Round of the 1949 NFL Draft, Panciera joined the New York Yankees of the All-America Football Conference. In 12 games, he completed 51 of 150 passes for 5 touchdowns and 16 interceptions. The conference folded after the 1949 season, so in 1950 Panciera played defensive back for the Detroit Lions, recording 1 interception in 4 games. In 1952 he joined the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League. In 8 games he completed 35 of 96 passes for 582 yards, 5 touchdowns, and 9 interceptions. In 1953 he joined the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Rugby Union, but appeared in only 1 game.

After Football

After his playing days he served as an assistant coach at the University of Dayton for three years and Boston College for a year. In 1960 he began working for General Motors in New England area and in 1970 was awarded a GM dealership in Wakefield, Rhode Island.

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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Joe Moretti, British guitarist, died from lung cancer he was 73

Joseph Edward "Joe" Moretti[1] was a Scottish guitarist renowned for his work on seminal UK rock and roll records such as Vince Taylor's "Brand New Cadillac" and Johnny Kidd & The Pirates' "Shakin' All Over" died from lung cancer he was 73. He lived in South Africa until his death from lung cancer.
Moretti also worked with Gene Vincent, Vince Eager, Lesley Duncan, Nero and the Gladiators, Ronnie Jones and The Nightimers, Eddie Calvert, Johnny Duncan's Bluegrass Boys, Tom Jones, Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys, and Chris Farlowe.[1]

(10 May 1938 – 9 February 2012)

Career

Moretti moved from his birthplace of Glasgow to London in November 1958 with his wife Pina, and instantly became part of the burgeoning rock and roll scene based around the The 2i's Coffee Bar in Soho.[2][3] There he found opportunities backing up singers such as Gene Vincent, Vince Eager, Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys[4] and other skiffle acts and nascent rock n' roll outfits. It was in the 2i's, in early 1959, that Moretti discovered guitarist-singer Tony Sheridan had quit Vince Taylor's band, The Playboys, and was asked to take his place. Moretti toured with Taylor in the UK and cut the iconic "Brand New Cadillac" in the spring of 1959. Shortly after, Moretti left the band to take up with Johnny Duncan's Bluegrass Boys. The following year, 1960, Moretti was to play guitar on another session after being called into the studio by Johnny Kidd & The Pirates' guitarist Alan Caddy to play leads on two songs: UK #1 single "Shakin' All Over" and its follow-up "Restless".

Session work and uncredited appearances

Throughout the 1960s Moretti continued to tour and record with artists such as Nero and the Gladiators, Ronnie Jones and The Nightimers and Eddie Calvert. In addition, Moretti was in demand as a session musician and, along with other UK guitarists such as Big Jim Sullivan, future Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and Vic Flick, often himself having played guitar at a recording date without being credited. Moretti claims to have played guitar on hits for Jet Harris and Tony Meehan ("Scarlet O'Hara" and "Applejack")[5] and Donovan's hit record "Mellow Yellow".[6]
It is now accepted that he played guitar on at least two more UK number one records: Tom Jones' "It's Not Unusual" and Chris Farlowe's Rolling Stones cover "Out Of Time".[7]

Death

Moretti died from lung cancer in February 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa, aged 73.[1]

Partial discography

Singles

Albums


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Dickey Betts died he was 80

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