Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The 21-year-old West Newton resident and Boston College student tragically drowned in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. His funeral was held earlier today in Chestnut Hill.
"He was my teddy bear." As Boston College student Katherine Corteselli shared memories of her best friend Franco Garcia, young college students sat alongside professors, priests, police officers and family members, dabbing tear-filled eyes with each recollection. "He gave the absolute best hugs...what I'm going to miss the most are those hugs," Corteselli said during today's funeral Mass for Garcia. Hundreds of people -- whether they knew Garcia or not -- flooded a St. Ignatius Church in Chestnut Hill this morning to say one last goodbye to the Boston College student whose life was tragically cut short when he drowned in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. Garcia, 21, was a West Newton resident, a chemistry major and member of the school's …
Monday, April 9, 2012
Mike Wallace's hardball style was tempered by a side which some Brookline residents experienced. Share your stories.
Though he may be remembered for an aggressive interview style, Mike Wallace, journalist and Brookline native, had a softer side as well. Among Wallaces interviews are people like Alduous Huxley and Salvador Dali--to name just a few. The Boston Phoenix Blog described some of his exploits as Chuck Norries-esque, positing that he may be the journalistic equivalent of the martial arts star. However, today's Boston Globe obituary described the softer side of Brookline-native Myron "Mike" Wallace, who graduated from Brookline High in 1935 by way of the Runkle School, and summered on Martha's Vineyard. In the piece, he is described as "a pussycat" and "a good guy" by Brookline residents who met him. Wallace's Stepson, Eames Yates, told the …
Sunday, April 8, 2012
The 93-year old 60 Minutes 'icon' passed on Saturday night, CBS says.
Brookline native and Brookline High School graduate Mike Wallace is reported to have died peacefully last night at a care facility in New Canaan, Conn., where he had been living. He was 93. The hard-driving 60 Minutes anchor/reporter was born in 1918 in Brookline. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrant Frank and Zina (Sharfman) Wallace. His father was a grocer and insurance broker. The Academy of Achievement says he was born Myron Wallace. Wallace was a 1935 graduate of Brookline High, says Wikipedia, who went on to get his undergraduate degree from University of Michigan. He summered on Martha's Vineyard, and had a home in New York. CBS.com says next Sunday's 60 Minutes program, on Sunday, April 15, will be dedicated to Wallace. […
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Community benefactor and Brookline resident, Stanley Sydney, died Jan. 22.
Stanley Sydney, 80, a Brookline resident and active member of the community, died on Jan. 22. Yesterday would have been his 81st birthday. 1443 Beacon Street, a building managed by Sydney Associates, was one of those that opened its doors to people displaced by the fire at 1471 Beacon St. on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In addition, The Sydneys were big supporters of MIT's McGovern Institute of Brain Research. He was also an early benefactor of the Maimonides school's atheltics program, and a sponsor of Congregation Young Israel. Services were held last Monday (Jan. 23) at Levine Chapel, and he was interred in Rhode Island. The family has asked that instead of flowers, donations be sent to: A guest book appeared on Legacy.com with comments…
Monday, November 7, 2011
The Brookline resident died in Wayland Friday at the age of 96.
When Norman F. Ramsey passed away on Friday, Nov. 4 in Wayland, the 96-year-old physicist was best known for his Nobel Prize-winning work in atomic physics. “My early interest in science was stimulated by reading an article on the quantum theory of the atom. But, at that time I did not realize that physics could be a profession,” Ramsey wrote in his Nobel Prize autobiography. In 1989, he earned the Nobel Prize for work which led to a new way to read the electromagnetic frequencies of atoms, and from that a new standard by which to keep time: the atomic clock. And in 1981, FermiLab named its auditorium for Ramsey, who had helped found the accelerator project there. Ramsey searched for over four decades for what is called the “Neutron …
Norman F. Ramsey, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who developed a precise method to probe the structure of atoms and molecules and used it to devise a remarkably exact way to keep time, died on Friday in Wayland, Mass. He was 96.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Eleanor Bright tells the Boston Herald that with Muammar Gaddafi's death may go the possibility of ever knowing what really happened in the crash of Pan Am 103.
News that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi may have died today in Sirte has prompted response from around the world. Families of Pan Am Flight 103 passengers from around the Boston area responded in their own ways. Eleanor Bright is the widow of Nicholas Bright, who was one of 178 people from the U.S. who died that December day in 1988 when the Boeing 747 exploded over the small town of Lockerbie, Scotland. Ther Boston Herald reports that Bright believes Gaddafi being killed may mean she may never role what he may have played in the death of her husband and the other 258 passengers and crew that day, besides the 11 people killed on the ground when the plane crashed. Nicholas Bright, who was from Brookline, was 32 years old. A business …
Sunday, June 19, 2011
The Russian human rights activist, who lived part-time in Brookline, passed away on Saturday.
Yelena Bonner, widow of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov and renowned for being a "fearsome" critic of Soviet-era right abuses, died Saturday at the age of 88, after a long illness. A statement posted on the website of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation by her daughter, Tatiana Yankelevich, and son, Alexey Semyonov, says a memorial service will take place at noon Tuesday, June 21, at Stanetsky Memorial Chapel, 1668 Beacon St., Brookline. The statement said that, according to Bonner's wishes, her body will be cremated. The urn with her ashes will be interred at the Vostryakovo Cemetery in Moscow, with her husband, mother, and brother. Bonner reportedly had been splitting her time between Brookline and Moscow. Bonner was born in Soviet …
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Kaplan was also retired Trial Court judge, former selectman.
Former State Representative and involved Brookline citizen Sumner Kaplan died Tuesday at the age of 90. Kaplan was also a retired Trial Court judge and Brookline selectman. Kaplan was born in Roxbury in 1920, when Roxbury was a largely Jewish community. He graduated from Boston Latin High School in 1937. His friend, Susan Senator, said he also founded both the Brookline Community Mental Health Center and Bedside Advocates, a non-profit group dedicated to supporting patients' rights. "He will be missed outside of Brookline as well," Selectman Jesse Mermell said of him during Tuesday night's meeting. "He was very much a go-to guy for the total perspective and the infield perspective. He will leave a gaping hole at many of the schools." He …
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Fire Chief William Murphy was chief in Brookline for 5 years.
Today, former Fire Chief William Murphy passed. Murphy joined the Brookline Fire Department in 1946, and served as Fire Chief from 1974 until 1979, when he retired. He was following in his father's footsteps, also a Brookline Fire Chief. He was a resident of Brookline for 57 years, an avid Red Sox and Patriots fan, and a World War II veteran. He was married for 62 years to wife Melanie, and was known as Papa to his 21 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Services will be held on the Cape next week, in Mashpee, Mass. Burial will follow at the Mass. National Cemetary in Bourne, Mass. Instead of flowers, his family asks that you send donations to Brookline Firefighters Relief Association. Those who wish to pay their respects may do so …
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Grahame Turner
4:00 pm on Thursday, April 19, 2012
We believe the reference was to Maryann's, the bar in Cleveland Circle. So, it sounds like the latter, that he is making a statement about the influences of alcohol on students. more ›