Martin Horton, English cricketer, died after a long illness he was , 76.

Martin John Horton  was an English cricketer, who played in two Tests in 1959 died after a long illness he was , 76. He was born in Worcester, England, and played the bulk of his first-class cricket for his native county.
Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, noted that Horton was, "a versatile all-rounder who could bat anywhere in the top six and who twice took more than 100 wickets in a season with his off-spin..."

(21 April 1934 – 3 April 2011)

Life and career

Horton made his debut for Worcestershire in 1952, and was an integral part of the side which won the County Championship in 1964 (for the first time in the county's history) and 1965.^[1] He passed 1,000 runs in a season on 11 occasions, scoring 2,468 runs in 1959, the year he won his two Test caps. He scored a half century against India in his first Test and took 2 for 24 in his second. He was dropped from the side, never to return. He achieved the double in 1955 and 1961, and he took 9 for 56 against the 1955 South Africans. In nearly two decades of cricket, he took 825 first-class wickets in all and scored 23 centuries with the bat.
In 1966, Horton moved to New Zealand and played four seasons of cricket with Northern Districts before becoming the national team's coach, a position he maintained for seventeen seasons. He remained there until 1983, when he returned to Worcester to become cricket coach at the Royal Grammar School, a post he held until 1996. He also became chairman of Worcestershire County Cricket Club.
Horton died following a long illness in April 2011.^[2]

 

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Kevin Jarre American screenwriter (Tombstone, Glory, The Mummy), died from heart failure he was , 56,.

Kevin Jarre was an American screenwriter, actor, and film producer died from heart failure he was , 56.

(August 6, 1954 – April 3, 2011) 

Jarre was born in Detroit, Michigan, to actress Laura Devon who subsequently married Maurice Jarre in the mid-1960s, and hence was the adoptive half-brother to French composer Jean-Michel Jarre. Of his more well-known film scripts include Rambo: First Blood Part II, Glory, and Tombstone. Jarre wrote the screenplays for The Mummy and The Devil's Own as well, while also producing The Jackal. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and a WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing Glory.
Jarre died in Santa Monica, California of heart failure, age 56.^[1]

 

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Calvin Russell, American protest singer-songwriter and guitarist died he was , 62.

Calvin Russell  was an American roots rock singer-songwriter and guitarist died he was , 62..
Born Calvert Russell Kosler, at the age of twelve he started to learn guitar and at thirteen joined a band called 'The Cavemen'. In 1989 he met Patrick Mathe of the French record label New Rose. After his first album was released, Russell started touring in Europe in 1990, and became quite popular there while remaining fairly unknown at home.^[1]
Russell died on April 3, 2011 in Garfield, Texas of cancer at the age of 62.^[2]

(November 1, 1948 – April 3, 2011)

Discography

• A Crack in Time (1990)
• Sounds from the Fourth World (1991)
• Soldier (1992)
• Le Voyageur - Live (1993)
• Dream of the Dog (1995)
• Calvin Russell (1997)
• The Story of Calvin Russell - This Is My life (1998)
• Sam (1999)
• Crossroad (2000)
• Rebel Radio (2002)
• A Man in Full (2004)
• In Spite of It All (2005)
• Unrepentant (2007)
• Dawg Eat Dawg (2009)
• Contrabendo (2011)

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Mandi Schwartz, Canadian college ice hockey player, died from acute myeloid leukemia she was , 23.

Mandi Jocelyn Schwartz  was a Canadian player with the Yale Bulldogs women's ice hockey team  died from acute myeloid leukemia she was , 23.. In December 2008 — her junior year at Yale University — Schwartz was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Her diagnosis and search for a bone marrow or stem cell transplant resulted in bone marrow drives being held at Yale and in Canada. While bone marrow drives held at Yale University did not result in a match for Schwartz, they did result in six matches for other patients on the registry who were waiting for a transplant. She underwent a stem cell transplant from donated umbilical cord blood in September 2010. In December 2010, she learned that the cancer had returned and discontinued most forms of treatment. Schwartz died in Regina, Saskatchewan, at the age of 23.

(February 3, 1988 – April 3, 2011)

Hockey career

Schwartz played minor hockey at Athol Murray College of Notre Dame in Wilcox, Saskatchewan.^[1] She joined the Yale Bulldogs after graduating high school in 2006.^[1] Schwartz attended evaluation camps for Canadian national women's ice hockey team hosted by Hockey Canada.^[1]

Illness and death

Schwartz was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in December 2008, during her junior year at Yale.^[1] She had been sick for much of the fall semester, but attributed it to stress and an initial diagnosis of anemia. She was diagnosed on December 8, 2008.^[2] She started treatment for her cancer in December 2008 and was able to briefly return to school and began practicing with the hockey team again in January 2010. In April 2010, she received word that her cancer had returned and was forced to leave school.^[2]
Doctors had decided that Schwartz's best option for treatment would be either a cord blood or bone marrow transplant. In the hopes of finding a match, bone marrow drives were organized at Yale University and at several locations throughout Canada. Drives held at Yale resulted in more than 1,600 people volunteering as potential donors.^[3] Bone marrow drives did not result in a match for Schwartz, but doctors found a suitable donor from umbilical cord blood. In September 2010, Schwartz underwent the transplant in Seattle.^[4] Her cancer went into remission after the transplant, but returned again in December 2010. Shortly after this, Schwartz decided to discontinue most forms of treatment.^[4] Rather than hoping for a cure, Schwartz continued with palliative chemotherapy designed to minimize her symptoms.^[5] On April 2, 2011, she entered a Regina hospital and died the following day.^[1][2][4]

Personal life

Schwartz was the daughter of Rick and Carol Schwartz. Her brothers, Jaden and Rylan, both play for the Colorado College men's ice hockey team. Jaden was a first round draft pick of the St. Louis Blues in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.^[4] She was engaged to Kaylem Prefontaine, whom she had met in high school. They had planned to marry in 2012.^[6]

Legacy

Yale University has made bone marrow drives an annual event on campus. The first two drives signed up over 1,600 potential donors. The 2011 drive was held in April, shortly after Schwartz's death. Shortly after the event, it was announced that the drive had unofficially signed up another 869 potential donors.^[7] Although the school's drives did not find a match for Schwartz, they have generated six other matches for patients who required a bone marrow transplant.^[8] The success of Yale's bone marrow drives is statistically unlikely, according to Sam Rubin who works in Yale's sports publicity department. Rubin stated, "Usually, it takes tens of thousands of people to get one match. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack."^[6]

 

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Gustavo Sondermann, Brazilian racing driver, died from a race crash he was , 29.

 Gustavo Sondermann was a Brazilian racing driver died from a race crash he was , 29..

(February 17, 1982 – April 3, 2011)

Career

Sondermann began racing karts at the age of sixteen and soon moved up to the Brazilian Formula Renault championship for 2002, in which he competed for two years with mixed results. In 2004 he moved to Europe to compete in the equivalent British series, and also made a guest appearance in the Formula Renault Eurocup the following year, but subsequently returned to Brazil in 2006 to compete in the national stock car championship.
He competed in the second tier of the series, known variously as Stock Car Light, Stock Car Copa Vicar and latterly as the Copa Chevrolet Montana from 2006 until 2011, winning four races in total and with a best finish of third place in the championship in 2007, a year soured by the death of his team-mate, Rafael Sperafico, in the season finale. In 2010, he competed in seven races of the premier Stock Car Brasil division, scoring six points and finishing in 31st place in the championship. He also competed in the third-tier Mini Challenge series, the GT4 Brasil Championship and the Pick Up Racing Brasil series, winning the last of these in 2008.

Death

During the first race of the 2011 Copa Chevrolet Montana season, held in heavy rain at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace, Sondermann was hit by several cars and ultimately by Pedro Boesel at the fast Curva do Café before the start-finish straight. He was extricated from his car and transferred to hospital in a coma after having had cardiac arrest, where he later was diagnosed braindead. His organs were donated.

References

• "The racing career of Gustavo Sondermann — in detail". driverdb.com. Retrieved 2011-04-04.
• Honorio, Rafael (2011-04-03). "Após acidente, Gustavo Sondermann tem morte cerebral confirmada" (in Portuguese). globoesporte.globo.com (Organizações Globo). Retrieved 2011-04-04.

 

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Larry Finch, American basketball player and coach (Memphis Tigers) died he was , 60.

Larry Finch was a player and coach for the University of Memphis men's basketball team died he was , 60.. He is perhaps most famous for leading the Memphis State Tigers to the NCAA men's basketball championship game in 1973 in a heroic loss to the UCLA Bruins, led by Bill Walton.

(February 16, 1951 - April 2, 2011)

Playing career

Finch was born in Memphis, and played basketball for Melrose High School in the Orange Mound section of Memphis. He then entered Memphis State and played basketball under famed basketball coach Gene Bartow. This decision was somewhat controversial for both Memphis' black and white communities, given the recent assassination of Martin Luther King and the resultant heightened strain on race relations in Memphis, not to mention so few local African-American prep stars had been able to wear a Tiger uniform to that point. Some had advised Finch not to go, but whether or not he saw it as an opportunity to do something even more meaningful than playing for his local university, Finch loved his hometown team. As he led the Tigers to new heights of success, at least during basketball games, Memphians had a chance to see things less in black and white and more in Tiger blue and gray.
In his senior year at Memphis State, 1972–1973, he and Larry Kenon led the basketball team to the Final Four. In the championship game, Finch scored 29 points, but lost to John Wooden's UCLA Bruins, a game where Bill Walton went 21 of 22 from the floor. Finch graduated the all-time leading scorer in Memphis history, and is currently the second all-time leading scorer for the University of Memphis.
Finch was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers in 1973, but opted to join the local American Basketball Association team, the Memphis Tams. Finch played professionally for two years with the Tams, the Memphis Sounds and the Baltimore Hustlers and Baltimore Claws.

Coaching career

In the 1980s, Finch was an assistant coach for Dana Kirk at Memphis State. Kirk was forced to leave Memphis State after violating NCAA regulations and becoming the subject of a criminal investigation, and Finch was made head coach in 1986 in order to restore order to the program. He would remain at the school, which was renamed the University of Memphis in 1994, until 1997.
Finch posted 10 out of 11 winning seasons, seven 20+ win seasons, and six NCAA tournaments. He recruited and developed such players as Elliot Perry, Penny Hardaway, and Lorenzen Wright. His 1991-92 team led by Hardaway and David Vaughn went to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament. During his tenure, the basketball players began to graduate in high numbers.
As a player, Finch was known for his shooting prowess, and his skills remained intact throughout his coaching days; he would routinely win games of H-O-R-S-E against his players and against assistant coaches in long distance shooting contests after road game practices. Even while head coach, he maintained connections to his roots; he often visited Orange Mound barbershops, often delivering Memphis State posters and other team paraphernalia.
Despite Finch's overall success, during the mid-90's more and more local blue chip recruits began leaving for other schools, specifically Todd Day to the University of Arkansas and others to the University of Tennessee. This ultimately led to fan dissatisfaction for a program that was renowned for achieving national prominence on primarily Memphis-area talent. And while there was the Elite Eight team of 91-92, there were also teams considered under-achievers, such as the highly touted 1995-96 squad which lost to 12th seeded Drexel University in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. At the same time, Finch's speech seemed to deteriorate and it was said the players ignored him.
He was fired at the end of the 1996-97 season. The firing was a public relations fiasco for the university, as he was told of the decision immediately following his final game, in one of the concession areas of the Pyramid Arena. Although much of the fan base had become disenchanted with Finch, even some of his detractors were critical of the way school officials handled it. He left as the school's all-time winningest coach, a standing he recovered in 2009 after the John Calipari-led 2007-08 unit had its entire season vacated due to an academic fraud scandal.
In 1998 he ran for the office of Shelby County Registrar and lost to the incumbent by only 127 votes despite having no government experience. He was briefly in the running for coaching positions at Tennessee State, Georgia State, and South Alabama.
In 2002, Finch suffered a debilitating stroke. People close to Finch created the Friends of Larry Finch Foundation to help offset his medical expenses. In December 2006, the Foundation released a Larry Finch tribute CD called "Eye of the Tiger", featuring performers from Memphis' diverse musical community such as Al Green, The Bar-Kays, Gary Johns, John Kilzer, and Al Kapone.

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Memphis State (Metro Conference) (1986–1991)
1986-1987	Memphis State	26-8	8-4	2nd	Ineligible due to NCAA violations
1987-1988	Memphis State	20-12	6-6	T-3rd	NCAA 2nd Round
1988-1989	Memphis State	21-11	8-4	T-2nd	NCAA
1989-1990	Memphis State	18-12	8-6	4th	NIT
1990-1991	Memphis State	17-15	7-7	T-4th	NIT 2nd Round
Memphis State:		102-58	37-27
Memphis State/Memphis (Great Midwest Conference) (1991–1995)
1991-1992	Memphis State	23-11	5-5	T-3rd	NCAA Elite Eight
1992-1993	Memphis State	20-12	7-3	2nd	NCAA
1993-1994	Memphis State	13-16	4-8	T-5th
1994-1995	Memphis	24-10	9-3	1st	NCAA Sweet 16
Memphis State/Memphis:		80-49	25-19
Memphis (Conference USA) (1995–1997)
1995-1996	Memphis	22-8	11-3	1st (White)	NCAA
1996-1997	Memphis	16-15	10-4	T-1st (White)	NIT
Memphis:		38-23	21-7
Total:		220-130
National Champion         Conference Regular Season Champion         Conference Tournament Champion       Conference Regular Season & Conference Tournament Champion       Conference Division Champion

 

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Efrain Loyola, Cuban flautist died he was , 94

Efrain Loyola  was a Cuban flautist from Cienfuegos, who had the distinction of being one of the oldest active flautists in the world, had a career that spanned over 7 decades and for a period, was a captain in the Cuban militia and fought in the War against the Bandits died he was , 94.

(December 18, 1916 – April 2, 2011)

Early life

Loyola worked as a shoeshine boy and a baker to make a living while learning and playing flute. Some of his earliest work was with the hundred-year-old Banda Municipal de Conciertos of Cienfuegos (Municipal Concert Band of Cienfuigos), which he started playing with in 1937.^[2]

Career

Among the groups with which Loyola worked were the Conjunto Tradicional de Sones Los Naranjos, the Ritmica 39 and his own band, The Efrain Loyola Orchestra.

Awards and merits

Loyola was given almost 150 acknowledgments and awards in his lifetime, including: "Worthy Member of the Writers and Artists Association of Cuba (UNEAC)",  "Distinguished Son of Cienfuegos City", "The Jagua Award" and the order of Jesús Menéndez, granted by the Cuban Workers' Organization.
Loyola was often seen in elegant suits and with a walking stick, on the main streets of Cienfuegos, with his hair straightened in the 50s style. He was also a Danzón fan and admirer of Miguelito Cuní and was considered an authority on Cuban musical history.
Loyola was leading his band regularly up until his death. He was buried in the local cemetery of his home town of Cienfuegos by friends, family and admirers.

Legacy

Loyola's son, José Loyola is the current director of the band Charanga de Oro.

Instrument

Loyola played a “Celeste” flute, named after the Cuban flautist and luthier “Celestino Dias Flores”, who maintained and standardized the wooden 5 key type needed to play charangas with the proper color after the Böehm system appeared and most manufacturers stopped making the 5 and 6 key wooden flutes.^[3]

Discography

Loyola has appeared on dozens of Orquesta Aragón records and other releases that have yet to be properly catalogued on the world wide web from their Spanish-Cuban sources.

 

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