Jeffrey Zaslow, American author and columnist, died from a car accident he was 53

Jeffrey Lloyd Zaslow  was an American author and journalist and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal died from a car accident he was 53.
Zaslow was widely known as coauthor of best-selling books including The Last Lecture (2008) with Randy Pausch; Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters^[2] with Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (2009); as well as Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope (2011) with Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly. He was the sole author of numerous books, including Tell Me All About It (1990), The Girls from Ames (2009), and The Magic Room (2012).

(October 6, 1958 – February 10, 2012)

 

Early life and education

Zaslow was born in 1958 in Broomall, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia,^[3] one of the four children of Naomi and Harry Zaslow, a real estate investor.^[3] He attended Marple Newtown High School, where he was student council president his senior year. He wrote for the school paper and was in school plays while in junior high – starring in "You Can't Take It With You". After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in 1980 with a degree in creative writing, Zaslow began his professional writing career at the Orlando Sentinel.

Career

Zaslow's Wall Street Journal column, "Moving On", as well as his numerous books, focused on life transitions.^[1]
In September 2007, after he attended the final lecture of Carnegie Mellon University Professor Randy Pausch, he collaborated with Pausch on writing The Last Lecture, released in 2008. The book by Pausch and Zaslow, translated into 48 languages, was a #1 New York Times best-seller, spending more than 110 weeks on the list. Media coverage included The Oprah Winfrey Show and an ABC special hosted by Diane Sawyer. More than five million copies of the book are in print in the U.S.
The Girls from Ames is a nonfiction book about a group of eleven women friends who grew up together in Ames, Iowa, remaining friends for forty years. It was billed by the publisher (Gotham Books) as "the inspiring true story of eleven girls and the ten women they became." (www.GirlsFromAmes.com) It spent 26 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, rising as high as #3. Highest Duty was co-written by Zaslow with Capt. Sullenberger, who successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. The book debuted at #3 on the New York Times list.
In 2011, Zaslow collaborated with Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, on their memoir, Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope. In January 2012, Zaslow released The Magic Room: A story about the love we wish for our daughters, a non-fiction narrative set at a small-town Michigan bridal shop, and looked at the lives of a handful of brides and their parents who journeyed to the store’s “Magic Room.” (www.magicroombook.com)
Zaslow first worked at the Orlando Sentinel, as a writer for that newspaper's Florida magazine. He then was a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal from 1983 to 1987 and columnist at the Sun-Times from 1987 to 2001.
Zaslow gained recognition as the author of an advice column called All That Zazz^[4] at the Wall Street Journal, having won a competition (with 12,000 applicants)^[1] at age 29 to replace Ann Landers at the Chicago Sun-Times.^[5]
He was twice named by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists as best columnist in a newspaper with more than 100,000 circulation and had received the Distinguished Column Writing Award from the New York Newspaper Publishers Association. While working at the Sun-Times, Zaslow received the Will Rogers Humanitarian Award. He appeared on such television programs as The Tonight Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, 60 Minutes, The Today Show and Good Morning America.

Personal life

Zaslow married Sherry Margolis, a TV news anchor with WJBK television in Detroit, and together lived with their three daughters^[6] in West Bloomfield, Michigan. His literary agent was Gary Morris.^[4] Zaslow was an avid runner.^[7]
Zaslow died on February 10, 2012, at age 53 in a car accident on M-32 in Warner Township, Michigan^[8] while on tour for his non-fiction book The Magic Room.^[9] Former co-author Chesley Sullenberger was among those who eulogized Zaslow at his funeral on February 13.^[10]
Following his death, Zaslow was the subject of a number of written tributes, including an essay by columnist Bob Greene, titled Jeff Zaslow's last lesson, pieces by fellow journalists and by bloggers, posts on the Wall Street Journal remembrance page, and eulogies by family members on the family's remembrance page.^{[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]}
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Luis Alberto Spinetta, Argentine musician (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible), died from lung cancer he was 62

Luis Alberto "El Flaco" Spinetta  was an Argentine musician died from lung cancer he was 62. One of the most influential rock musicians of South America, together with Charly García he is considered the father of Argentine rock. He was born in Buenos Aires in the residential neighbourhood of Bajo Belgrano. During his early childhood he was already listening to all kinds of music: folklore, tango, and a little bit later, rock. In 1967, amidst the repressive political climate, he formed a band called Almendra with his schoolmates.

(23 January 1950 – 8 February 2012)

Contrasting with the backwards and authoritarian government of General Juan Carlos Onganía, Buenos Aires was undergoing a cultural blossoming based on new art expressions; the new generation, among sons of the middle class, were immersed in an effervescence that would not reappear in Argentina until 1983. Spinetta devoted himself fully to his own music. In his lyrics, there are influences of multiple writers, poets and artists like Arthur Rimbaud, Vincent van Gogh, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Carlos Castaneda and Antonin Artaud, who has his name in the album Artaud.^[2]
On 23 December 2011 he published on the Twitter^[3] account of his son Dante that he was facing lung cancer.^[4] He died on February 8, 2012 in his native Argentina, at the age of 62.^[5] His ashes were scattered in the waters of the Río de la Plata, according to his last wish, next to the Memory Park built to remember the desaparecidos of the National Reorganization Process.^[6]

Music

In 1969, Spinetta's band, Almendra, recorded their first album. They started recording and playing intensively and later it became successful almost overnight. Almendra composed its own songs and their lyrics were written in Spanish, something which was radically new for Argentina's music history. After two albums that were received with critical acclaim and continuous radio diffusion, the band split.
After a lengthy stay in Europe, Spinetta returned to Argentina and afterwards formed a new band: Pescado Rabioso. With a far more powerful sound and expressing through their songs and lyrics the tension of the streets in an increasingly violent Argentina, Pescado made their album debut in 1972. It was both a continuation of the creative stream of Spinetta and a drastic change in the style of his own music and lyrics. Later, the band recorded a second album. Although a third album, released in 1973 and called Artaud, it carried the band's name when there were actually already dissolved. Therefore, it was mostly a solo album by Spinetta himself. Partly based on the writings of Antonin Artaud, Spinetta exorcised many of the demons of his past in this album. This process would open the door to a new era in his music. In 1974 he formed a new band, Invisible. With his new band he recorded three albums: Invisible, Durazno Sangrando and El Jardín De Los Presentes. With Invisible, the new tunes were more harmonic.^{[citation needed]}

Luis Alberto Spinetta in 1977

After recording and editing a failed album in the United States in 1979, with lyrics in English and destined to the U.S. market, Spinetta returned to Argentina to record two albums with a short-lived Almendra Revival (one with original songs and the other live), and embarked on a new project: Spinetta Jade.^{[citation needed]}

The 1980s and beyond

Spinetta Jade would prove to be a successful and innovative band; Spinetta was joined by some of the greatest Argentinan musicians of those and all times to help him build the new sound he was building since Invisible. The product: a blend of jazz and rock that was unseen in Argentina and that escaped the boom of symphonic rock that reached both the world and Argentina in the early 1980s. These four albums, Alma de Diamante (1980), Los Niños que Escriben en el Cielo (1981), Bajo Belgrano (1983) and Madre en Años Luz (1984), represent a defined style as well as the footprints of Spinetta's evolution. Spinetta and Charly García (with their respective bands at the moment, Jade and Serú Giran) joined efforts and gave what was probably the most important show in the history of Argentine Rock. After dissolving Spinetta Jade in 1984, Spinetta worked on an album with Charly, but eventually they abandoned their efforts. Only two songs remain of the ill-fated effort, "Rezo por Vos" and "Total Interferencia".^{[citation needed]}
By 1982, Spinetta had restarted his solo projects, and from then on would never leave them. Kamikaze (1982) puts together a number of previously unreleased songs (one gem is an early song he composed in 1965 called "Barro Tal Vez"). In Mondo Di Cromo (1983) Spinetta's new production, from 1986 to 1993, would include four solo albums (Privé, 1986), Téster de Violencia (1988), Don Lucero (1989), Pelusón of Milk (1991), a joint album with Fito Páez, another Argentine great (La La La, 1986), and the soundtrack of the movie Fuego Gris (named after the film, 1993).
After a long hiatus, largely due to Spinetta's conflicts with recording companies, he finally opened a new period in his music with his new band: Spinetta y los Socios del Desierto. Three years (1997–1999) and four albums later, Spinetta had created yet another legend in Argentinian rock. Two studio albums, the double Socios del Desierto (1997) and Los Ojos (1999) would bring along a new sound. The band made an MTV Unplugged, Estrelicia (1998), which, because of its soft acoustics, contrasts with their live album, San Cristóforo (1998). As Spinetta said at the beginning of the first concert, "Fans de lo acústico, abstenerse" ("Fans of acoustic music, refrain"). In 1998, he selected the featured songs and artwork of a Greatest Hits album called Elija y Gane, which was edited the same year.^{[citation needed]}
The band dissolved quietly towards the end of 1999. Spinetta started a solo career, including Silver Sorgo (2001), Obras en Vivo (2002), a live album, Para Los Árboles (2003), Camalotus (2004), a single of three unreleased songs and one remix, Pan (2005) and Un Mañana (2008). In 2005, he received the Platinum Konex Award for best rock soloist of the 1995–2005 decade. A number of books and TV documentaries have been devoted to him. Argentinian writer Eduardo Berti published a book about Spinetta, which includes a long conversation with Spinetta.^{[citation needed]}

Family

He had four children: Dante, Catarina, Valentino and Vera. Dante Spinetta has a successful band that started in the 1990s (Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas).

Discography

Almendra

• Almendra (1969)
• Almendra II (1970)
• El Valle Interior (1980)
• Almendra en Obras I/II (1980, live)

Pescado Rabioso

• Desatormentándonos (1972)
• Pescado II (1973)
• Artaud (1973)

Invisible

• Estado de coma (1974, SP)
• Invisible (1974)
• La llave de Mandala (1974, SP)
• Viejos ratones del tiempo (1974, SP)
• Durazno Sangrando (1975)
• El Jardín de los Presentes (1976)

Spinetta Jade

• Alma de Diamante (1980)
• Los Niños Que Escriben En El Cielo (1981)
• Bajo Belgrano (1983)
• Madre en Años Luz (1984)

Spinetta y los Socios del Desierto

• Socios del Desierto (1996)
• San Cristóforo (1998, live)
• Los Ojos (1999)

Solo

• Spinettalandia y Sus Amigos - La Búsqueda de la Estrella (1971)
• Artaud (1973, released as an album of Pescado Rabioso)
• A 18´ del Sol (1977)
• Only Love Can Sustain (1979)
• Kamikaze (1982)
• Mondo Di Cromo (1982)
• Privé (1986)
• La La La (1986, with Fito Páez)
• Téster de Violencia (1988)
• Don Lucero (1989)
• Exactas (1990, live)
• Pelusón Of Milk (1991)
• Fuego Gris (1993, soundtrack)
• Estrelicia (1997, MTV Unplugged)
• San Cristóforo: Un Sauna de Lava Eléctrico (1998, Live)
• Elija y Gane (1999, greatest hits)
• Silver Sorgo (2001)
• Argentina Sorgo Films Presenta: Spinetta Obras (2002)
• Para los Árboles (2003)
• Camalotus (2004)
• Pan (2005)
• Un Mañana (2008)
• Spinetta y las Bandas Eternas (2010, Live)

Poetry

• 1978: Guitarra Negra Black Guitar ISBN 950-889-014-2 (For the 1995 edition of the book)]

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James Riordan, English novelist and academic died he was 75.

James Riordan  was an English novelist, broadcaster, sports historian, association football player and Russian scholar died he was 75..^[3]
Well known for his work Sport in Soviet Society, the first academic look at sport in the Soviet Union, and for his children's novels.
He claims to have been the first Briton to play football in the USSR, playing for FC Spartak Moscow in 1963.^[4]

(10 October 1936 – 10 February 2012)

Life and career

Born in Portsmouth in 1936,^[5] James Riordan learned to speak Russian during National Service training in the Royal Air Force from 1955 to 1957. In 1960, he graduated in Russian Studies at the University of Birmingham, before qualifying as a teacher at the London Institute of Education.
In 1963, Riordan studied at the Communist higher party school in Moscow; he was an avowed Communist, and was one of the few English students at the school.
His autobiography Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak includes an account of his games for Spartak Moscow; some Russian commentators have questioned these claims.^[6]
When he returned to England he became lecturer at Bradford University before moving on to the University of Surrey at Guildford where became head of the Russian Department and was awarded a personal professorship. In 1980 he was the Olympic attache for the British Olympic Association of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. He held an honorary doctorate of Grenoble University and was President (2003-5) and later Fellow of the European Committee for Sports History.

Select bibliography

Autobiography

• Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak, Harper Perennial, 2009. ISBN 0007251157

Non-fiction

• Sport in soviet society: development of sport and physical education in Russia and the USSR / James Riordan. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1977. (partially Birmingham, Univ., Diss.). ISBN 0-521-21284-7.

• Sport in European Cultures (2002)

Children's novels

• Sweet Clarinet
• The Prisoner
• When the Guns Fell Silent
• Mistress of the Copper Mountain
• War Song
• The Match of Death
• The Gift
• The Sniper
• An Illustrated Treasury of Fairy and Folk Tales
• Rebel Cargo
• The Woman in the Moon and Other Tales of Forgotten Heroines (1985) Dial ISBN 0-8037-0194-2
• The Twelve Labours Of Hercules

As editor

• Kon, Igor; Riordan, James, eds. (1993). Sex and Russian Society. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253332011.

• James Riordan (ed.). Sport under Communism. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1978. ISBN 0-7735-0505-9.
• Riordan, James & Arnd Krüger (eds.). The international politics of sport in the twentieth century. London: Routledge, 1999. ISBN 0-419-21160-8
• James Riordan & Arnd Krüger (eds.). European cultures of sport: examining the nations and regions. Bristol: Intellect, 2003. ISBN 1-8415-0014-3
• Football Stories (2004)
• Arnd Krüger & James Riordan (eds). The story of worker sport. Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics (1996). ISBN 0-87322-874-X

As translator

Chingiz Aitmatov, Jamilia, Telgram Books: London, 2012

Literary awards

Riordan's first novel Sweet Clarinet won the NASEN Award, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award. The Match of Death won the South Lanarkshire Book Award. The Gift was also shorted for the NASEN Award.^[5]
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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

• OmniCorp, Chairman 1985–1988
• Infratil Australia Limited 1995–2000
• Wellington Airport 1998–2007
• Port of Tauranga 1999–2005
• New Zealand Exchange, Deputy Chairman 2002–2005
• H.R.L. Morrison & Co, Chairman 1988–2012
• TrustPower 2002–2010
• Infratil 2002–2012
• Infratil Airports Europe, 2004–2012
• Auckland International Airport 2007–2012
• Fisher Funds Management 2008–2012

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

• Doctorate ( Honorary) University of Massachusetts Amherst 1987
• Masters degree (Agronomy) University of Massachusetts Amherst 1952
• Bachelors degree (Soil Science) University of British Columbia 1936

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