Paul Haines, New Zealand writer.died he was 41

Paul Haines ^[1][4] was a New Zealand-born horror and speculative fiction writer died he was  41. He lived in Melbourne with his wife and daughter.

(8 June 1970 – 5 March 2012)

 

Raised in Auckland, New Zealand, Haines moved to Australia in the 1990s after completing a university degree in Otago, where he became an Information Technology consultant. He attended the inaugural Clarion Southwriters workshop in 2004 and was a member of the SuperNOVA writers group. Haines had more than thirty short stories published in Australia, North America, and Greece. In 2007, he volunteered as a mentor for the Australian Horror Writers Association.^[5]

Haines won the Australian Ditmar Award three times (Best New Talent in 2005, and Best novella/novelette for "The Last Days of Kali Yuga" (2005) and "The Devil in Mr Pussy (Or How I Found God Inside My Wife)" (2007)).^[6][7][8] He won the 2004 Aurealis Award (horror short story) for "The Last Days of Kali Yuga" and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2003 and 2004.^[9] Several of his short stories received Honourable Mentions in the annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies, ed. Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant, and Kelly Link (St. Martins).

Haines' first short story collection Doorways for the Dispossessed was published by Prime Books in 2006. It won the New Zealand 2008 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Collection and was nominated for the 2007 Australian Ditmar for Best Collection.

In 2007 Haines was diagnosed with cancer. The anthology Scary Food: A Compendium of Gastronomic Atrocity (ed. Cat Sparks, Agog! Press, 2008) was put together as part of a donation drive to raise funds to partially cover the cost of Haines' medical treatment. Authors represented include Kaaron Warren, Margo Lanagan, Robert Hood, Richard Harland, Paul Haines, Terry Dowling, Stephen Dedman, Deborah Biancotti, Lee Battersby, Lucy Sussex, Gillian Polack, Lourdes Ndaira and Anna Tambour. Haines died in March 2012.

   Paul Haines, 41, died March 5, 2012 in Melbourne, Australia of cancer. He was survived by his wife and daughter.

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Don Andrews, Australian guitarist died he was , 82

 Don Andrews was a prominent Australian guitarist, composer, session musician and music educator  died he was , 82.

 (29 May 1929 – 5 March 2012)  

Born 29 May 1929, Andrews took up the violin as a child but began studying the guitar seriously at the age of 10. His early influences included Phillip Skinner, with whom he studied the guitar in his early days, Ralph Skinner, an American arranger attached to a U.S Army Band stationed for a time in Sydney during World War II, and John Collins, guitarist with Nat King Cole. He contracted polio as a child and as such wore a leg brace.

In a career that covered more than 6 decades, Andrews became one of the most prominent guitarists in Australia in the late 20th century, accompanying many local and visiting artists both in concert and on recordings. Among the artists he worked with are Rex Stewart, William Clauson, Fred Hartley, Jay Wilbur, Bela Kanitz, The Le Garde Twins, Burl Ives, Larry Adler, Eric Jupp, Isador Goodman, Winifred Atwell and Mel Torme. In the 1960s he was a frequent accompanist on recordings by popular Australian folk performer Lionel Long.

Andrews was also well known in Australia as a guitar teacher and for his many publications on classical, jazz and popular guitar method.^[1] He also wrote the first guitar syllabus for the AMEB examination system. He opened the Academy of Guitar in Bondi NSW, and taught there along with George Golla.

In addition to his performing and teaching roles, Andrews composed music for over 30 Australian films including many documentary titles for Film Australia.^[2]

For over twenty years Don Andrews was member of staff at the Central Coast Conservatorium in Gosford, NSW, where he served as Head of Guitar Dept and had also served as Artistic Director of the Conservatorium for a period in the early 1990s. Along with fellow guitar legend, George Golla, he gave highly popular regular recitals at the Conservatorium combining their talents with duets in jazz and classical music. Don also had a long stint as resident guitarist in Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza (formally Peppers) in Terrigal.

Andrews also had an association with the Maton guitar company and in 1976 the company manufactured a custom-made 7-string semi-acoustic guitar, the DA-7, specifically for him.^[3]

Don Andrews suffered serious injuries during a fall in early 2012 - he was transferred from RPA hospital to Gosford where he died on 5 March 2012 with his wife, Monica, by his side. He was also survived by his first wife, Ayleen, his children Gail and Steen, and grandchildren, Peter, Lisa and Jamie.^[4]

   

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Joan Taylor, American actress (Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, The Rifleman),died from natural causes she was 82.

Joan Taylor was an American television and film actress.

 (August 18, 1929 – March 4, 2012)  

 

Taylor was born Rose Marie Emma in Geneva, Illinois. Her father, Joseph Emma, was from Sicily, was a prop man in Hollywood in the 1920s. After his daughter's birth, he became the manager of the Deerpath movie theatre in Lake Forest, Illinois, where Joan was brought up ^[1] and a Hollywood prop man. Her mother Amelia Berky, was from Austria, and was a vaudeville singing-dancing star in the 1920s. ^[2]

Taylor married Leonard Freeman, later the creator of Hawaii Five-O, in 1953. The couple had three daughters. After her contract for The Rifleman ran out, she retired from acting to raise her children.^[3]

When Freeman died in January 1974, following heart surgery, Taylor began managing Leonard Freeman Productions and the business of Hawaii Five-Ounder the name Rose Freeman.^[4] She attended at least one Hawaii Five-Oconvention to talk to fans.^[5]

With her children older, she found herself writing, including co-author credit for the comedy Fools Rush In starring Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek.^[6] She remarried, to television producer-director Walter Grauman in 1976; the couple divorced in 1980.^[7]

 Taylor's career began at the Pasadena Playhouse. She met Freeman there when both were involved with putting on Here Comes Mr. Jordan.^[8] In the early 1950s, she was chosen by Paramount Pictures as a member of the studio's 'Golden Circle", described as a "group consisting of a dozen unusually talented young actors for whom Paramount held high hopes." Her first film was Fighting Man of the Plains, starring Randolph Scott.^[9] Her producer had also insured the 19-year-old's legs for $100,000 against injury.^[9]

Taylor died of natural causes March 4, 2012, in Santa Monica, California.^[10]

She was survived by three daughters, two brothers and six grandchildren.^[8]

   

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John C. Reiss, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Trenton died he was 89 (1980–1997)

John Charles Reiss ^[1] was an Americanprelate of the Roman Catholic Church died he was 89. He served as Bishop of Trenton from 1980 to 1997.

(May 13, 1922 – March 4, 2012)

John Charles Reiss was born in Red Bank, New Jersey and studied at the Catholic University of America, and at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Darlington, New Jersey.^[2] He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop William A. Griffin May 31, 1947.^[3] After serving as an associate pastor, he became master of ceremonies and secretary to Bishop George W. Ahr in 1953.^[2]

In 1954, Reiss earned a doctorate in canon law from Catholic University.^[4]for his thesis entitled The Time and Place of Sacred Ordination: A Historical Synopsis and a Commentary, which was subsequently published by the Catholic University of America Press. Following his return to the Diocese of Trenton, he served as Assistant Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, and official of the Diocesan Tribunal.^[2] He was named a Domestic Prelate of His Holinessin October 1963, and pastor of St. Francis Church in Trenton in 1965.^[2]

On October 21, 1967, Reiss was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Trenton and Titular Bishop of Simidicca by Pope Paul VI.^[3] He received his episcopal consecration on the following December 12 from Bishop Ahr, with Bishops Walter W. Curtis and James J. Hogan serving as co-consecrators.^[3] Reiss was later named the eighth Bishop of Trenton by Pope John Paul II on March 11, 1980, and was installed on the following April 22.^[3] He was the first native son of the Trenton Diocese to become its ordinary.^[2]

Reiss presided at the centennial of the Diocese in August 1981.^[2] In November 1981, the Diocese was divided and the Diocese of Metuchen was established to serve the Catholics of Middlesex, Somerset, Hunterdon, and Warren counties. During his tenure as Bishop, Reiss also established the Emmaus program of priestly spirituality in 1982; implemented Renew, a process of lay spiritual renewal, between 1985 and 1987; held the Fourth Diocesan Synod (the first in 60 years) from January to December 1991; raised $38 million between 1992 and 1995 to provide financial stability for diocesan services through Faith-In-Service, a diocesan capital and endowment fund campaign; dedicated a new Morris Hall, with St. Joseph Hall Skilled Nursing Center and St. Mary Hall Residence, in 1994; dedicated Villa Vianney, a residence for retired priests, in 1995; and completed a new Diocesan Pastoral Center, tripling the size of the diocesan office building, in 1997.^[2]

After reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75, Reiss resigned as Bishop on June 30, 1997. He was succeeded by John Mortimer Smith. He died in 2012, aged 89 in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

 

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Don Mincher American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, California Angels, Oakland Athletics), President of the Southern League (2000–2011) died he was , 73,

Donald Ray Mincher  was an American Major League Baseball first baseman. He played from 1960–1972 for the original Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins, California Angels, Seattle Pilots, Oakland Athletics, the new Washington Senators, Texas Rangers and again the Oakland Athletics, all of the American League.^[2]

(June 24, 1938 – March 4, 2012)

   

During a 13-year baseball career, Mincher batted .249, hit 200 home runs, and collected 643 runs batted in. He was elected to the American League All-Starteam twice (1967 and 1969). As one of two representatives for the Seattle Pilots in 1969 (their only season in existence before they became the Milwaukee Brewers), he also holds the distinction of being the only player to ever play in an All-Star Game as a Pilot; Mike Hegan also was selected to the team as a reserve, but did not appear in the game. The following season, Mincher slugged a career-high 27 homers as a member of the Oakland Athletics.

Mincher served as the first president and general manager of the Huntsville Stars, the Double-A affiliate of the Oakland A's (1985–1998) and, later, the Milwaukee Brewers (1999–2014).^[3] He served in this role from 1985 until 2001. In 1994, Mincher and a group of local investors purchased the team from Larry Schmittou to keep baseball in Huntsville.

In 2000, Mincher was named Interim President of the Southern League, where the Stars play, when league president Arnold Fielkow left for an executive position with the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. Mincher resigned from his position with the Stars when his group sold the team to Miles Prentice in early 2001. This cleared the way for the Southern League to remove the interim tag and they made him league president beginning with the 2001 season.^[2] He served as league president until retiring in October 2011, at which point the league named him President-Emeritus.^[1]

Mincher was elected to the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 2008. Though he never played for the team, the Huntsville Stars retired his number 5 in an on-field ceremony on June 6, 2008.^[3] In 2010, he was presented with the King of Baseball award given by Minor League Baseball.

Mincher died after a long illness on March 4, 2012.^[1]

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