HONOLULU STAR- -ADVERTISER SATURDAY IN MEMORY RAY ROBINSON 1920-2017 Writer recounted lives of Gehrig, other sports heroes By Daniel E. Slotnik New York Times Ray Robinson, a longtime magazine editor who wrote well-received biographies of baseball stars from his youth like Christy Mathewson and Lou Gehrig, died Nov. 1 in New York. He was 96. His daughter, Nancy Miringoff, said he died a day after having a stroke.
For many years Robinson made a living as an editor at magazines like Seventeen and Good Housekeeping, but baseball and other sports were always his passion. Though he was never a professional baseball reporter, his life was infused with the game. His biographies include "Matty, an American Hero: Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants" (1994), about the star pitcher of the early 20th century, and "Rockne of Notre Dame: The Making of a Football Legend" (1999), about the celebrated Notre Dame football coach. His sports writing, which mixed careful research with personal recollections, was more realistic than reverential. "He could be trusted not to exaggerate a story or a fact; it was what it was, and you could trust Ray's memory," Marty Appel, author of "Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees From Before the Babe to After the Boss" (2012) and other baseball books, said in an interview Tuesday.
One of Robinson's favorite players, and subjects, was Gehrig the Hall of Fame Yankee first baseman who long held the record for consecutive games played, with 2,130, and who died at 37 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative ailment now widely known as Lou Gehrig's disease. In many articles and in the book "Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig in His Time" (1990), Robinson portrayed the famously humble and hardworking Gehrig as a human being instead of the mythical hero many see him as, without KATIE LEE 1919-2017 Loss of Arizona canyon fueled folk singer's rage By Richard Sandomir New York Times Katie Lee, a free-spirited folk singer who found her mission as a performer and writer protesting the loss of Glen Canyon's spectacular beauty to a dam on the Colorado River, died Nov. 1 at her home in Jerome, Ariz. She was 98. Her death was confirmed by Kathleen Williamson, executor of her will.
"Rivers are the lifeblood of our planet, and they need to flow," Lee said in "Kickass Katie Lee" (2016), a short biographical film by Beth and George Gage. "They don't need to be dammed every 15 feet." Eloquent and blissfully profane, Lee joined conservationists like David Brower, executive director of the Sierra Club, and writer Edward Abbey to try to stop construction of the 710-foothigh Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona, which opened in 1963. She became part of the chorus of environmentalists that ever since has demanded that the canyon be restored. The only impediment to her blowing up the dam, she would say, was that she did not know how. Her enchantment with DENOTES U.S.
MILITARY Randolph Balalio, Jr. 46, of Hana, Maui, died in Hana on October 26, 2017. He was born in Honolulu. Service over Urn: 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 11, 2017 at Faith in Jesus Church, Lower Waiehu Beach Crisanta Camagon Bonilla 81, of Honolulu, Hawaii, died in Honolulu on September 20, 2017.
She was born in San Nicolas, locos Norte, Philippines. Visitation: 9:30 a.m.; Services: 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, November 18, 2017 at St. Philomena Catholic Church, Salt Lake. Burial: 1:00 p.m.
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He was born in Pavia, Philippines. Visitation: 10:00 a.m.; Services: 10:45 a.m. on Monday, November 13, 2017 at St. George Church in Waimanalo. Burial: 1:00 p.m.
at Hawaiian Memorial Park Mortuary. FOR BREAKING NEWS: staradvertiser.com hiding his own reverence. "Suited up, Gehrig looked bovine, unathletic," Robinson wrote. "His appearance earned him the uncomely nickname of 'Biscuit But shouldn't one win points for modesty, decency and determination? I thought so, and of all the Yankees, it was Lou I cherished the most." ONE UNDENIABLY superhuman moment of Gehrig's career was his farewell speech at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939. Robinson, who was there and called the speech "baseball's Gettysburg Address," told The Daily News in 2014 that the sound system made it hard to make out all of Gehrig's words but that an almost religious solemnity descended over the stadium as Gehrig spoke.
"I have no way of knowing if 60,000 people were crying," he said, "but I had tears in my eyes." Raymond Kenneth Robinson was born in Manhattan on Dec. 4, 1920. While growing up he watched the dominant Yankee teams of the 1920s and '30s whose stars included Gehrig, Babe Ruth and, later, Joe DiMaggio as well as the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers. He began writing for local newspapers while stationed at military bases in the South. After he was discharged, he worked as an editor at various magazines.
He edited more than a dozen editions of "Baseball Stars," annual collections of short biographical essays by burgeoning writers including Jimmy Breslin, Dick Schaap and George Vecsey. Robinson's other books include "American Original: A Life of Will Rogers" (1996) and "Famous Last Words" (2003), a collection of memorable deathbed statements. He also wrote articles for The New York Times about baseball players like Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson and Cal Ripken the Baltimore Orioles shortstop who finally broke Gehrig's consecutive game record, ending his own streak at 2,632. University of Arizona and went on to have a modest career as an actress that included roles on radio shows like "The Great Gildersleeve" and "The Railroad Hour," a music series starring the singer Gordon MacRae. She found greater acclaim as a folk singer, developing friendships with stars like Burl Ives, Josh White and Ramblin' Jack Elliott.
Ives praised her once by saying, "The best cowboy singer I know is a girl, Katie Lee." BUT THE planning for the dam on Glen Canyon gave her a particularly strong motivation to sing. "My river was about to be unjustly dammed politically dammed," she wrote in "All My Rivers Are Gone" (1998), one of several books she wrote about Glen Canyon. "Songs about my river! Songs of protest! Folk songs. Holy Mother!" Last month, at a party for her 98th birthday, Lee performed her composition "Song of the Boatman." She sang: Today I know your magic call Will lead me back to the canyon wall. And the music in your rapids roar Make this boatman's song from his soul outpour.
Lee's longtime partner, Joey Van Leeuwen, whom she met on a trip to Australia in 1979, committed suicide one day after her death, Williamson said. SARAH KEALOHA DUARTE Sarah Kealoha Duarte, 77, of Kaneohe passed away November 2, 2017 in Kaneohe. She was born February 29, 1940 in Honolulu. She is survived by Husband George J. Duarte.
Sons: Allen (Corinne), Edmund, Everett (Pam) Arquero, Michael (Susie) and Mark (Diane) Duarte. Daughters: Yvonne (Toru) Mitake, Sonnett (Ivan) Francisco, Debra (Mike) Shoffit. Mother: Sarah Cordeiro. Brothers: Abraham Konaaihele, Bert Cordeiro. Sister: Yvonne Hanson.
Grandchildren: 16. Great Grandchildren: 16. Services will be held Saturday November 18th, 2017 at the Duarte Residence at 45-540 Liula St, Kaneohe. Visitation: Services 11:00 Arrangements Provided By: Ballard Family Moanalua Mortuary OREN S. YASUTOMI 67, of Pukalani, Maui passed away on October 14, 2017 in Honolulu.
He was born in Wailuku, Maui. He was a retired computer programmer with Maui Land and Pineapple Co. and VIP Foodservice. He is survived by his daughter, Angela, sisters Amy Kato, Sylvia (William) Gushi, and Nora (Gene) Tsuji. Services are pending for January 2018.
Arrangements Provided By: Hosoi Garden Mortuary C- NEW YORK TIMES Writer Ray Robinson poses by a bust of one of his subjects, Lou Gehrig. The baseball biographer, whose sports writing mixed careful research with personal recollections, more realistic than reverential, died Nov. 1 at age 96 in New York. ROBERT DE CORMIER 1922-2017 Choral director arranged music for folk and pop stars Glen Canyon began in 1953 during a visit with friends and continued when she became a river runner. She adored its rapids and the breezes that she said sounded like voices speaking to her.
She swam nude in its potholes and waterfalls. She explored its 125 contoured side canyons, each of them named (some by her), and each one a different aesthetic experience. "When they drowned that place, they drowned my whole guts," she said in an interview in 2010 at Telluride MountainFilm, a documentary festival. "And I will never forgive the bastards. May they rot in hell." HER ANGER at the federal government, in particular the Bureau of Reclamation, which built the Glen Canyon Dam, fueled her music and made her a magnet for filmmakers.
In her ballads she sang about rivers and boatmen. In her protest songs she rebuked dam builders. Eric Balken, executive director of the nonprofit Glen Canyon Institute, said Lee was an important part of the environmental movement to the end of her life. "She converted her passion for the canyon into fiery opposition to the Glen VETERAN Download the FREE Honolulu Star-Advertiser App! Star Advertiser Gloria Elizabeth Hashimoto 92, of Kapaa, Kauai, died in Garden Isle Health Care on November 7, 2017. She was born on Oahu.
Private Services have been held. Reginald Yutaka Kamihara 74, of Honolulu, died on November 1, 2017 in Honolulu. He was born in Honolulu. Visitation: Services: on Saturday, November 18, 2017 at Christ United Methodist Church. Jane L.M.
Kau 89, of Kaneohe, Hawaii, died in Kaneohe on October 31, 2017. She was born in Moloa'a, Kauai. Visitation: 9:00 a.m.; Services: 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, November 18, 2017 at Pali View Baptist Church. Richard Charles Linden 92, of Lihue, Kauai, died in Wilcox Memorial Hospital on November 1, 2017.
He was born on October 5, 1925 in New York. Private Services held. Sandra K. Nakaya 74, of Aiea, died on September 27, 2017 in Aiea. She was born in Honolulu.
Visitation: Services: on Saturday, November 18, 2017 at Diamond Head Mortuary Chapel. By James Barron New York Times COURTESY PHOTO Katie Lee Canyon Dam," Balken said in a telephone interview. "She conveyed the canyon's beauty and essence to so many people nationwide." She was often referred to as "the Desert Goddess of Glen Canyon." Once the dam was built, she did not return to Glen Canyon. The loss was too great. "What's left of my rivers, what's left of me," she said when she was 96.
"We're probably going to go together." KATHRYN Louise Lee was born Oct. 23, 1919, in Aledo, Ill. Her family moved to Tucson when she was 3 months old, and she grew up loving the desert. Her father, Zanna, was an architect and homebuilder; her mother, the former Ruth Detwiler, was a decorator. Her mother pushed her to play the piano.
Her father taught her to hunt rabbit and quail with a Remington shotgun. She studied drama at the Aulalia Christina Negronish 79, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, died in Wahiawa on November 2, 2017. She was born in Paia, Maui. Services: 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at Honolulu Central Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Inurnment: 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 15 at Mililani Memorial Park. David Nobuharu Oshiro 68, of San Rafael, California, died in San Rafael on June 12, 2017. He was born in Hakalau, Hawaii. Private Services have been held.
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Visitation 12 noon Service on Sunday November 19, 2017 at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Private Inurnment. Arrangements Provided By: Hosoi Garden Mortuary Robert De Cormier, who led a musical double life as a choral director and composer in classical music and an arranger and a conductor for folk and pop stars like Harry Belafonte and Peter, Paul and Mary, died Tuesday in Rutland, Vt. He was 95. His wife, Louise De Cormier, said the cause was kidney failure.
De Cormier spent much of his career behind the scenes, in the rehearsal rooms and orchestra pits of Manhattan. He joined forces with Belafonte as an arranger after Belafonte's album "Calypso" became a breakout hit in 1956. He became Peter, Paul and Mary's music director in the 1970s, writing out the vocal lines that Peter Yarrow, PaulStookey and Mary Travers improvised in rehearsal. De Cormier said in an interview last year that "when we got something we all liked," he put it on paper, "because if I didn't, the next day it was start all over again." Stookey called 1 De Cormier the group's "recording secretary." Yarrow called him the fourth member of Peter, Paul and Mary and said his role was invaluable GLADYS KIYOKO YOKOO Gladys Kiyoko Yokoo of Mililani passed away Sunday, October 22, 2017 at the age of 69. She was a graduate of McKinley High School in 1965, gave birth to and raised four children, and later worked as a clerical worker at Waiawa Correctional Facility for 25 years.
She was a lover of many things, but none more than the people in her life. Truly she was the happiest when with her family, friends and loved ones. We will miss your kind heart, sweet voice, and your loving presence. Gladys is survived by her daughter: Fern Davidson; sons: Cary, Chad, and Ryan Yokoo; and sisters: Ruth Migita and Nora Furuno. PAUL DENNIS YOUNG 69, died in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 2, 2017.
He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and was a retired HFD Captain. He is survived by his wife, "Skip" Carrie Jean; mother, Violet; and five brothers. Private Services. because "none of us was musically articulate enough to write it down." De Cormier worked with Peter, Paul and Mary while continuing as director of the New York Choral Society, a post he had taken in 1970. De Cormier retired from the society in 1987 and later helped found the Vermont Symphony Orchestra Chorus, but his influence on the New York group continues.
Its associate conductor, Michael A. Ciavaglia, wrote his doctoral dissertation at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music on "The Choral Music of Robert De Cormier" in 2013. Robert Romeo De Cormier Jr. was born on Jan. 7, 1922, in Farmingdale, N.Y., on Long Island.
He took up the trumpet as a child, and later joined a dance band and studied music at the University of New Mexico. His prospects for a career as a performer were dashed when his wrist was injured by a mortar shell during service in World War II, requiring 13 operations to repair the damage. De Cormier said last year that he had considered becoming a union organizer before deciding on music and entering the Juilliard School. TAMARA NATALIE MADDEN 1975-2017 Artist depicted ordinary people as royalty Associated Press ATLANTA Tamara Natalie Madden, an artist and professor of art and visual culture at Spelman College in Atlanta, has died. She was 42.
The Tom M. Wages Funeral Home outside Atlanta confirmed her death, saying she died as a result of ovarian cancer at her home in Snellville, on Nov. 4. Madden was known for her artwork focusing on the social, spiritual and cultural identity of people of African ancestry and her paintings that transformed ordinary people into royalty, the funeral home said in a statement Friday. She said the golden headpieces worn by subjects of her paintings were meant to represent mystical crowns, halos, armor and weaponry for the spiritual warriors.
Many of her pieces are in the collections of institutions such as Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Alverno College in Milwaukee; and The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit..
