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Monday, January 09, 2017LGBT community.“In order for us to all come together as a community, that was the first step. And we did that, we accomplished that. It’s been paramount to me that we send a message across the state and nation that Kokomo is a welcoming and inclusive community.”4. After decades of work, new Kokomo YMCA opensThe new Kokomo YMCA was unveiled early last year after nearly a decade of work.The Delmar E. Demaree Family YMCA officially opened in March. The facility cost $16 million. Demaree, whom the facility is named after, was part of a fundraising effort totaling $5,375,251 in pledges.The City of Kokomo also contributed to the facility, with the city contributing $12.5 million to the project, including $8.5 million in bonds, alongside various public and private donations. Mayor Greg Goodnight stressed the community-wide achievement that is the new YMCA facility.“The financing, design, location, amenities and capital plan were not just a Y project – it was truly a community-led project inspired and carried forth by both individuals and groups that stepped up and committed their personal resources and time,” he said. “They ensured that we, and all future residents of Kokomo, are able to enjoy the best YMCA, or maybe even the best private fit...
Monday, January 09, 2017John Engstead in all its vintage glitz and glamour. Engstead began his career in 1926 when he was hired as an office boy for Paramount Studios. In 1927, he was promoted to art director after arranging creative photo sessions for actresses Clara Bow and Louise Brooks. After a photographers’ strike in 1932, he assumed the position of studio portrait photographer even though he had never photographed anyone. Actor Cary Grant posed for his practice shots. In 1941, Engstead started his own business in Los Angeles as an independent still photographer until his retirement in 1982. Free with membersh...
Monday, December 19, 2016Hospital, Rainbow Tire, Pine Ridge, WesBanco, Allender Law Office, Affordable Signs, Brew Ha Ha, Buddy Turner — Attorney at Law, HD Tumbling, Houses and More Real Estate, Kingwood Shopping Center, Paramount Painting, Preston EDA, Preston Senior Center Inc., Ray Thompson State Farm, Shaffer’s Printing and Z Place to Be.
Monday, November 28, 2016A long-distance member of the local organization as well as Haubstadt Area Historical Society, Allen believes “the gathering and compilation of an area’s past is paramount to its future.”He credits Betty Ahlemen and Bonita Johnson for doing yeoman work in the Princeton Public Library’s genealogy room. “Please take up the banner for the volunteers who do this work out of love and pride of community,” he urged.Allen said he thinks most people have little regard for the achievements of their ancestors until the memories have faded away – and only then do they search for the past. “If not documented, very little can be retrieved.”Johnson and volunteers spend hours and hours preserving documents in the basement of the library, where walls are lined with shelves containing hundreds of books of donated family histories. Researchers use the library’s resources of historic records from the Gibson County Health Department and Gibson County government to help people find ancestors and learn more about their communities.Hundreds of photos and glass negatives donated for preservation are also being digitized.She also updates an area online obituary database maintained by Browning Funeral Home, providing obituaries from historic local newspapers. The size of the obituary depended on the political party of the newspaper and the political party of the deceased, she mused. One newspaper might feature a front-page obituary, while the competing newspaper of the opposite political party might carry only a small death notice for the same person.It’s often Johnson who finds the missing pieces of local historic puzzles that you won’t discover by Googling the question online. She’s the person who knows that the city of Princeton owes a tremendous debt to brave Evansville firefighters who loaded an engine aboard a flat train bed and made it to Princeton within 30 minutes to help save the downtown square from destruction by fire in the 1800s.She’s also the person who helped find documentation showing the original intended ...
Monday, November 28, 2016Los Angeles, have a screen test for “Brady Bunch” creator Sherwood Schwartz and then get back in time for the evening’s shows in Texas, Henderson was delayed by L.A. traffic and rushed onto the Paramount lot two hours late, frantically looking for a makeup artist to get her ready for the test. Finally, she found someone with a few spare minutes — on the set of “Star Trek.”“I was sitting in a makeup chair between William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and like six or eight space monsters. None of them had any idea who I was or made any attempt to be friendly, which really bugged me,” she recalled in TV son Barry Williams’ 1992 memoir, “Growing Up Brady.”Bothered by what she believed to be a shoddy makeup job, Henderson joked through the screen test about how bad she looked, and Schwartz, impressed with her comic timing, gave her the role.“Maybe I should thank that terrible makeup man because in a way, his botch job helped me get the part,” she said in the book.Henderson’s work as Carol Brady on the series, which ran from 1969 to 1974, and her slyly sexy chemistry with co-star Robert Reed made the show thrive. The pair helped broaden acceptance of blended families. Carol, a single mother of three daughters, was married to Mike Brady, a single father of three sons.Born in 1934 on Valentine’s Day, in Dale, Ind., Henderson was the youngest of 10 children of a homemaker and a tobacco sharecropper.She later joked in a 2010 interview with The Times that she came out of the womb singing. By age 2, she knew 50 songs by heart.“I don’t remember ever not singing,” she says. “My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music, spirituals. I would sing for people and pass the hat when I was 4.”She began her show business career at 17, when she attended New York’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Henderson left the school after her first year because she got a job in the chorus of the Broadway musical “Wish You Were Here,” directed by Josh Logan. She segued from the chorus to the lead role in the final national touring company of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”Logan remembered her from “Wish You Were Here” and cast her in the lead role of the 1954 musical “Fanny” with Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak.She appeared in other Broadway musicals, including Noel Coward’s final musical effort, 1963’s “The Girl Who Came to Supper.” From 1959 to 1960, she was the “Today Girl” on the “Today” show, presenting weather and light news stories. Later, she was the first female guest host of “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” in the 1970s.After her years on “The Brady Bunch,” Henderson became a commercial spokeswoman and co-produced “Country Kitchen,” a Nashville Network series.Besides her Brady clan, Henderson had children of her own. In the 2010 Times interview, she said she still kept up regularly with members of her TV family.“When I was in New York, I spent time with Eve Plumb [who played Jan]. I am always in touch with Susan Olsen [Cindy], the youngest, and Chris Knight [Peter].”Friends and fans marked her passing on Twitter. The actress who played daughter Marcia on the show, Maureen McCormick, said: "You are in my heart forever Florence." Henderson was also known as an advocate for gay rights. The actor who played her husband on the “Brady Bunch,” Robert Reed, was gay and suffered from AIDS when he died of cancer in 1992. Henderson said in a 2014 interview with Gay Star News that if the show were being made today, she hoped the Mike Brady character...
Gwen Ifill, who overcame barriers as a black female journalist, dies at 61 - Washington Post
Monday, November 21, 2016I link her to that tradition, the journalistic integrity that Cronkite symbolized.”A preacher’s daughter, Ms. Ifill (pronounced EYE-ful) grew up in a home where the church was paramount but familiarity with the news of the day was essentially a second religion. The Ifills gathered nightly to watch network newscasts, and the children were expected to be conversant in the major events of the civil rights and Vietnam War eras.Because of her father’s low pay, she noted at one time that she was probably the only Washington journalist covering the Department of Housing and Urban Development who had also lived in federally subsidized housing. Later, as her career took her from The Washington Post and the New York Times to NBC News and PBS, she reflected ruefully on her family’s struggle: “I make more money in a week than my father made in a year.”She began her reporting career in the late 1970s, with stints at newspapers in Boston and Baltimore, assertively carving a niche for herself as a political journalist at a time when black journalists and black female reporters, in particular, were rare in newsrooms and rarer still on the city hall beat. She recalled getting letters from readers (and once from a colleague) brimming with racial slurs and, in return, receiving shrugs from less-than-understanding editors.As she rose from covering Maryland politics to presidential contests in 1988 and 1992, she began showing up as a panelist on Washington public-affairs shows. But she also resisted many more such invitations, fearing that too many appearances would make her seem like a partisan pundit or self-promoting personality rather than a serious reporter well-versed in politics, international news and cultural affairs.She wrestled with job offers in broadcast — all three major networks reportedly sought her as an on-air correspondent — until Tim Russert, anchor of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” helped engineer her move to his network in 1994. “What are you afraid of?” he reputedly asked.While covering politics for NBC, she became a stalwart of Russert’s program, which established her reputation and rapport with audiences. In 1999, she took her expertise to public television, which had a noticeably smaller audience than the networks but could devote more time to what she considered the complex and important issues of the day.Her personal demeanor masked a not-entirely-unambitious side: She accepted the “Washington Week” offer only when the producers sweetened the deal to include a dual position as senior political correspondent for “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer.”In 2004, Ms. Ifill moderated a vice-presidential debate between incumbent Richard B. Cheney, a Republican, and then-Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.). She drew praise for asking a startling and revealing question about health care.“In particular,” she said, “I want to talk to you about AIDS, and not about AIDS in China or Africa, but AIDS right here in this country, wh...
Monday, November 21, 2016Robert Newman, when he applied as a messenger and who is now partner at William Morris Endeavor Hollywood talent agency. She also worked closely with Brad Grey who is now he CEO of Paramount. Robert and Brad were the first two employees of Miramax. She was also know for bringing Jewish baked goods for the staff.As the company grew from 10 to 40 to 100 to one time, almost 500 people, she would say, “Stop growing, it’s not easy to get Challah bread and Rugelach for this many people.” In addition to her sons, she is survived by her nine grandchildren Sara, Nicole, Remy, Emma, Ruthie, Jake, Lucy, India and Dash; and her great grandchildren Nathaniel, Joshua and James.Posted 11/05 at 09:52 AM Comments: Comment PolicyNo comments yet.
Monday, November 21, 2016Her door was always open to all.As important as her faith was, her family was paramount. Rose was not just Ro-Ro to her cherished grandchildren, but to their friends as well. Friends, neighbors, teachers, and acquaintances knew and loved Ro-Ro.Her children and grandchildren knew that bringing home friends any time – day or night – was not a problem. She would embrace and happily feed them – classmates, football teams, visiting friends and all.“Mrs. DiPiero was a lot of different things to different people,” said Bruno Stanziale of Rumson who grew up with Rose’s children and is still a close friend of the family.“She was a consistently calming presence for me,” he said. “She was everything that was right in a family and in a relationship … She raised so many people outside of her immediate family.”Around Rose, Stanziale said, he and others felt peaceful, and a “natural sense of belonging … She always made you feel like you belong. And she was understanding of people’s needs and challenges.”Quiet and behind-the-scenes, Rose opened her house, her kitchen and her heart to everyone. Her meatballs, many say, were legendary.“She was the architect of all the good times,” Stanziale said. “She brought everyone to her home and to her table. She was the maestro of bringing everyone together.”Visitation was held at the John E. Day Funeral Home, Red Bank. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. James R.C. Church, Red Bank at 10 a.m. on Thursday, November 3. Burial will follow at the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Middletown.Please visit the memorial website at johnedayfuneralhome.com.
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Monday, January 09, 2017LGBT community.“In order for us to all come together as a community, that was the first step. And we did that, we accomplished that. It’s been paramount to me that we send a message across the state and nation that Kokomo is a welcoming and inclusive community.”4. After decades of work, new Kokomo YMCA opensThe new Kokomo YMCA was unveiled early last year after nearly a decade of work.The Delmar E. Demaree Family YMCA officially opened in March. The facility cost $16 million. Demaree, whom the facility is named after, was part of a fundraising effort totaling $5,375,251 in pledges.The City of Kokomo also contributed to the facility, with the city contributing $12.5 million to the project, including $8.5 million in bonds, alongside various public and private donations. Mayor Greg Goodnight stressed the community-wide achievement that is the new YMCA facility.“The financing, design, location, amenities and capital plan were not just a Y project – it was truly a community-led project inspired and carried forth by both individuals and groups that stepped up and committed their personal resources and time,” he said. “They ensured that we, and all future residents of Kokomo, are able to enjoy the best YMCA, or maybe even the best private fit...
Monday, January 09, 2017John Engstead in all its vintage glitz and glamour. Engstead began his career in 1926 when he was hired as an office boy for Paramount Studios. In 1927, he was promoted to art director after arranging creative photo sessions for actresses Clara Bow and Louise Brooks. After a photographers’ strike in 1932, he assumed the position of studio portrait photographer even though he had never photographed anyone. Actor Cary Grant posed for his practice shots. In 1941, Engstead started his own business in Los Angeles as an independent still photographer until his retirement in 1982. Free with membersh...
Monday, December 19, 2016Hospital, Rainbow Tire, Pine Ridge, WesBanco, Allender Law Office, Affordable Signs, Brew Ha Ha, Buddy Turner — Attorney at Law, HD Tumbling, Houses and More Real Estate, Kingwood Shopping Center, Paramount Painting, Preston EDA, Preston Senior Center Inc., Ray Thompson State Farm, Shaffer’s Printing and Z Place to Be.
Monday, November 28, 2016A long-distance member of the local organization as well as Haubstadt Area Historical Society, Allen believes “the gathering and compilation of an area’s past is paramount to its future.”He credits Betty Ahlemen and Bonita Johnson for doing yeoman work in the Princeton Public Library’s genealogy room. “Please take up the banner for the volunteers who do this work out of love and pride of community,” he urged.Allen said he thinks most people have little regard for the achievements of their ancestors until the memories have faded away – and only then do they search for the past. “If not documented, very little can be retrieved.”Johnson and volunteers spend hours and hours preserving documents in the basement of the library, where walls are lined with shelves containing hundreds of books of donated family histories. Researchers use the library’s resources of historic records from the Gibson County Health Department and Gibson County government to help people find ancestors and learn more about their communities.Hundreds of photos and glass negatives donated for preservation are also being digitized.She also updates an area online obituary database maintained by Browning Funeral Home, providing obituaries from historic local newspapers. The size of the obituary depended on the political party of the newspaper and the political party of the deceased, she mused. One newspaper might feature a front-page obituary, while the competing newspaper of the opposite political party might carry only a small death notice for the same person.It’s often Johnson who finds the missing pieces of local historic puzzles that you won’t discover by Googling the question online. She’s the person who knows that the city of Princeton owes a tremendous debt to brave Evansville firefighters who loaded an engine aboard a flat train bed and made it to Princeton within 30 minutes to help save the downtown square from destruction by fire in the 1800s.She’s also the person who helped find documentation showing the original intended ...
Monday, November 28, 2016Los Angeles, have a screen test for “Brady Bunch” creator Sherwood Schwartz and then get back in time for the evening’s shows in Texas, Henderson was delayed by L.A. traffic and rushed onto the Paramount lot two hours late, frantically looking for a makeup artist to get her ready for the test. Finally, she found someone with a few spare minutes — on the set of “Star Trek.”“I was sitting in a makeup chair between William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and like six or eight space monsters. None of them had any idea who I was or made any attempt to be friendly, which really bugged me,” she recalled in TV son Barry Williams’ 1992 memoir, “Growing Up Brady.”Bothered by what she believed to be a shoddy makeup job, Henderson joked through the screen test about how bad she looked, and Schwartz, impressed with her comic timing, gave her the role.“Maybe I should thank that terrible makeup man because in a way, his botch job helped me get the part,” she said in the book.Henderson’s work as Carol Brady on the series, which ran from 1969 to 1974, and her slyly sexy chemistry with co-star Robert Reed made the show thrive. The pair helped broaden acceptance of blended families. Carol, a single mother of three daughters, was married to Mike Brady, a single father of three sons.Born in 1934 on Valentine’s Day, in Dale, Ind., Henderson was the youngest of 10 children of a homemaker and a tobacco sharecropper.She later joked in a 2010 interview with The Times that she came out of the womb singing. By age 2, she knew 50 songs by heart.“I don’t remember ever not singing,” she says. “My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music, spirituals. I would sing for people and pass the hat when I was 4.”She began her show business career at 17, when she attended New York’s American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Henderson left the school after her first year because she got a job in the chorus of the Broadway musical “Wish You Were Here,” directed by Josh Logan. She segued from the chorus to the lead role in the final national touring company of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”Logan remembered her from “Wish You Were Here” and cast her in the lead role of the 1954 musical “Fanny” with Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak.She appeared in other Broadway musicals, including Noel Coward’s final musical effort, 1963’s “The Girl Who Came to Supper.” From 1959 to 1960, she was the “Today Girl” on the “Today” show, presenting weather and light news stories. Later, she was the first female guest host of “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” in the 1970s.After her years on “The Brady Bunch,” Henderson became a commercial spokeswoman and co-produced “Country Kitchen,” a Nashville Network series.Besides her Brady clan, Henderson had children of her own. In the 2010 Times interview, she said she still kept up regularly with members of her TV family.“When I was in New York, I spent time with Eve Plumb [who played Jan]. I am always in touch with Susan Olsen [Cindy], the youngest, and Chris Knight [Peter].”Friends and fans marked her passing on Twitter. The actress who played daughter Marcia on the show, Maureen McCormick, said: "You are in my heart forever Florence." Henderson was also known as an advocate for gay rights. The actor who played her husband on the “Brady Bunch,” Robert Reed, was gay and suffered from AIDS when he died of cancer in 1992. Henderson said in a 2014 interview with Gay Star News that if the show were being made today, she hoped the Mike Brady character...
Gwen Ifill, who overcame barriers as a black female journalist, dies at 61 - Washington Post
Monday, November 21, 2016I link her to that tradition, the journalistic integrity that Cronkite symbolized.”A preacher’s daughter, Ms. Ifill (pronounced EYE-ful) grew up in a home where the church was paramount but familiarity with the news of the day was essentially a second religion. The Ifills gathered nightly to watch network newscasts, and the children were expected to be conversant in the major events of the civil rights and Vietnam War eras.Because of her father’s low pay, she noted at one time that she was probably the only Washington journalist covering the Department of Housing and Urban Development who had also lived in federally subsidized housing. Later, as her career took her from The Washington Post and the New York Times to NBC News and PBS, she reflected ruefully on her family’s struggle: “I make more money in a week than my father made in a year.”She began her reporting career in the late 1970s, with stints at newspapers in Boston and Baltimore, assertively carving a niche for herself as a political journalist at a time when black journalists and black female reporters, in particular, were rare in newsrooms and rarer still on the city hall beat. She recalled getting letters from readers (and once from a colleague) brimming with racial slurs and, in return, receiving shrugs from less-than-understanding editors.As she rose from covering Maryland politics to presidential contests in 1988 and 1992, she began showing up as a panelist on Washington public-affairs shows. But she also resisted many more such invitations, fearing that too many appearances would make her seem like a partisan pundit or self-promoting personality rather than a serious reporter well-versed in politics, international news and cultural affairs.She wrestled with job offers in broadcast — all three major networks reportedly sought her as an on-air correspondent — until Tim Russert, anchor of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” helped engineer her move to his network in 1994. “What are you afraid of?” he reputedly asked.While covering politics for NBC, she became a stalwart of Russert’s program, which established her reputation and rapport with audiences. In 1999, she took her expertise to public television, which had a noticeably smaller audience than the networks but could devote more time to what she considered the complex and important issues of the day.Her personal demeanor masked a not-entirely-unambitious side: She accepted the “Washington Week” offer only when the producers sweetened the deal to include a dual position as senior political correspondent for “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer.”In 2004, Ms. Ifill moderated a vice-presidential debate between incumbent Richard B. Cheney, a Republican, and then-Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.). She drew praise for asking a startling and revealing question about health care.“In particular,” she said, “I want to talk to you about AIDS, and not about AIDS in China or Africa, but AIDS right here in this country, wh...
Monday, November 21, 2016Robert Newman, when he applied as a messenger and who is now partner at William Morris Endeavor Hollywood talent agency. She also worked closely with Brad Grey who is now he CEO of Paramount. Robert and Brad were the first two employees of Miramax. She was also know for bringing Jewish baked goods for the staff.As the company grew from 10 to 40 to 100 to one time, almost 500 people, she would say, “Stop growing, it’s not easy to get Challah bread and Rugelach for this many people.” In addition to her sons, she is survived by her nine grandchildren Sara, Nicole, Remy, Emma, Ruthie, Jake, Lucy, India and Dash; and her great grandchildren Nathaniel, Joshua and James.Posted 11/05 at 09:52 AM Comments: Comment PolicyNo comments yet.
Monday, November 21, 2016Her door was always open to all.As important as her faith was, her family was paramount. Rose was not just Ro-Ro to her cherished grandchildren, but to their friends as well. Friends, neighbors, teachers, and acquaintances knew and loved Ro-Ro.Her children and grandchildren knew that bringing home friends any time – day or night – was not a problem. She would embrace and happily feed them – classmates, football teams, visiting friends and all.“Mrs. DiPiero was a lot of different things to different people,” said Bruno Stanziale of Rumson who grew up with Rose’s children and is still a close friend of the family.“She was a consistently calming presence for me,” he said. “She was everything that was right in a family and in a relationship … She raised so many people outside of her immediate family.”Around Rose, Stanziale said, he and others felt peaceful, and a “natural sense of belonging … She always made you feel like you belong. And she was understanding of people’s needs and challenges.”Quiet and behind-the-scenes, Rose opened her house, her kitchen and her heart to everyone. Her meatballs, many say, were legendary.“She was the architect of all the good times,” Stanziale said. “She brought everyone to her home and to her table. She was the maestro of bringing everyone together.”Visitation was held at the John E. Day Funeral Home, Red Bank. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. James R.C. Church, Red Bank at 10 a.m. on Thursday, November 3. Burial will follow at the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Middletown.Please visit the memorial website at johnedayfuneralhome.com.
